Other Canine · Pearl River, Louisiana · 1936
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A strange dog snatching an infant from its mother in the woods is extreme and socially strange.
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- Nov 10, 1936to the day
- Where
- Pearl River, Louisianato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a strange dog snatched an infant from its mother's grasp in the woods and was chased away.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- Pearl River, Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 63525, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 10, 1936
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-23f97abec3
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 5 of The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.), November 11, 1936
Newspaper · 1936-11-11
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.