Other Flying · Hartford, Connecticut · 1833

CT-1833ID case-20f9777fbeFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026

The account

Witness reports seeing a serpent fly from an immense tree at a height of fifty or sixty feet and alight on another tree forty or fifty fathoms away.

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Creature: Other Flying
Where: Hartford, Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: Jan 1833
Account: First-hand (the witness telling it)
Backed by: 1 independent source (13 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 30, 2026
Case id: case-20f9777fbe

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Down the rabbit hole → 13 documents, and how they connect

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Image 1 of The religious herald (Hartford [Conn.]), May 10, 1845
Newspaper · 1845-05-10
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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