Down the rabbit hole
Dogman · Lamar, Colorado · 1910
23 documents · 1 independent account
23 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 23 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 22 copies reprints or cross-posts of the same text: not extra witnesses
Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.
Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.
Why these records are connected
- 22 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 23 documents
- Earliest found Western Kansas World (Wakeeney, Kan.) Newspaper · Jan 16, 1909
- Reprint Perth Amboy Evening News (Perth Amboy, N.J.) Newspaper · 2 issues of the same paper: Feb 10, 1909, Mar 27, 1909
- Reprint Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) Newspaper · Feb 14, 1909
- Reprint The Winchester News (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19?? Newspaper · Feb 17, 1909
- Reprint The Richmond Palladium And Sun-Telegram (Richmond, Ind.) Newspaper · 2 issues of the same paper: Feb 20, 1909, Mar 30, 1909
- Reprint Morris Tribune (Morris, Minn.) Newspaper · Feb 27, 1909
- Reprint Norwich Bulletin (Norwich, Conn.) Newspaper · May 14, 1909
- Reprint The Washington Times (Washington [D.C.]) Newspaper · May 22, 1909
- Reprint The Lamar Register (Lamar, Colo.) Newspaper · Jun 29, 1910
Image 7 of The Lamar register (Lamar, Colo.), June 29, 1910 - Reprint The Washington Bee (Washington, D.C.) Newspaper · 4 issues of the same paper: Nov 26, 1910, Dec 3, 1910, Dec 10, 1910, Dec 17, 1910
- Reprint The Daily Alaskan (Skagway, Alaska) Newspaper · Oct 22, 1914
- Reprint Morris Tribune (Morris, Minn.) Newspaper · Oct 23, 1914
- Reprint Perth Amboy Evening News (Perth Amboy, N.J.) Newspaper · Nov 6, 1914
- Reprint The Patriot (Indiana, Pa.) Newspaper · 3 issues of the same paper: Nov 21, 1914, Dec 12, 1914, Dec 26, 1914
- and 2 more reprints
How to read this
- Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
- One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
- Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
- Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.
About the numbers
- Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
- Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
opened on this case - Dogman · Lone Butte, British Columbia
Another trail, same creature: 9 documents · 1 independent account - Jersey Devil · Burlington, New Jersey · 1909
The next-deepest trail: 14 documents · 1 independent account
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