Other Flying · Napoleon, Ohio · 1890
OH-1890ID case-37ea5fafc1Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Jul 1890to the month
- Where
- Napoleon, Ohiofallback location
- Reports
- 6 documents1 independent
The account
Two ranchers report finding a winged monster with a large head and massive wings dead on the alkali desert in Arizona after shooting it.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Napoleon, Napoleon Township, Henry County, Ohio, 43545, 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
- Jul 1890
- 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
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-37ea5fafc1
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 6 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.
- Image 3 of Democratic Northwest (Napoleon, Ohio), July 10, 1890
Newspaper · 1890-07-10
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of The DeSmet leader (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]), November 15, 1890
Newspaper · 1890-11-15
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.