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Other / Unknown · Wahpeton, North Dakota · 1885

ND-1885ID case-32ade9d7ceFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
Creature
Other / Unknown
When
Feb 1885to the month
Where
Wahpeton, North Dakotafallback location
Reports
2 documents1 independent

The account

Mrs. [name] reports being confronted by a strange animal with large eyes and long ears in the Athenaeum library.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect

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Details

Creature
Other / Unknown
Where
Wahpeton, Richland County, North Dakota, 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
Feb 1885
Account
Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by
1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map
Oct 30, 2026
Case id
case-32ade9d7ce

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Source trail (2)

Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect

Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.

  1. Image 6 of The Wahpeton times (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]), February 26, 1885
    Newspaper · 1885-02-26
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. Image 3 of The Warner weekly sun (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]), February 27, 1885
    Newspaper · 1885-02-27

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