Other / Unknown · Tuscaloosa, Alabama · 1831

AL-1831ID case-2aec72aed4Fallback locationAdded to map Nov 2, 2026

Creature: Other / Unknown
When: Sep 1831to the month
Where: Tuscaloosa, Alabamafallback location
Reports: 6 documents1 independent

The account

A gentleman searching for his runaway horse encounters an Irish pedestrian who claims to have seen a strange creature with a saddle on its back in a nearby wood.

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Details

Creature: Other / Unknown
Where: Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 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: Sep 1831
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (6 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Nov 2, 2026
Case id: case-2aec72aed4

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Source trail (1)

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Image 2 of Alabama state intelligencer (Tuscaloosa, Ala.), September 17, 1831
Newspaper · 1831-09-17
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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