Down the rabbit hole
Other Flying · Somalia · 1832
10 documents · 1 independent account
10 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 10 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 9 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
- 9 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 10 documents
- Earliest found Vermont Telegraph (Brandon [Vt.]) Newspaper · Apr 28, 1841
- Reprint Morning Star (Limerick, Me.) Newspaper · May 12, 1841
- Reprint Southern Christian Advocate (Charleston, S.C.) Newspaper · May 28, 1841
- Reprint Liberty Advocate (Liberty, Miss.) Newspaper · Jun 10, 1841
- Reprint The North-Carolinian (Fayetteville [N.C.]) Newspaper · Jul 17, 1841
- Reprint New-Haven Daily Herald (New Haven, Conn.) Newspaper · Jul 22, 1841
- Reprint Sunbury American And Shamokin Journal (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) Newspaper · Jul 24, 1841
Image 1 of Sunbury American and Shamokin journal (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.), July 24, 1841 - Reprint The North-Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) Newspaper · Jul 28, 1841
- Reprint South Carolina Temperance Advocate And Register Of Agriculture And General Literature (Columbia, S.C.) Newspaper · Jul 29, 1841
- Reprint The Religious Herald (Hartford [Conn.]) Newspaper · May 10, 1845
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 - Other Flying · Padang, Sumatera Barat · 1841
Another trail, same creature: 10 documents · 1 independent account - Other / Unknown · Eagle River, Wisconsin · 1920
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