Other Canine · United Kingdom · 1940s
UNI-1940ID case-2dc61da06eFallback locationAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- the 1940sto the decade
- Where
- United Kingdomfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
[name]'s grandmother saw a huge animal with flaming red hair and powerful jaws that vanished into the trees.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- United Kingdom
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- the 1940s
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-2dc61da06e
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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.
- The Medway Route, So Many Cryptid Reports all in one Place.
ukwildman · 2019-10-17
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.