Down the rabbit hole
Other Flying · Napoleon, Ohio · 1890
6 documents · 1 independent account
6 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 6 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 5 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
- 5 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
- Why these documents are one case. The case matcher joined them because:
- The DeSmet leader & Democratic Northwest: a person reviewed them and joined them
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 6 documents
- Earliest found Tombstone Epitaph (Tombstone, Ariz.) Newspaper · Apr 26, 1890
- Reprint St. Paul Daily Globe (Saint Paul, Minn.) Newspaper · Jun 2, 1890
- Reprint Democratic Northwest (Napoleon, Ohio) Newspaper · Jul 10, 1890
Image 3 of Democratic Northwest (Napoleon, Ohio), July 10, 1890 - Reprint News And Citizen (Morrisville, Vt. ; Hyde Park, Vt.) Newspaper · Jul 31, 1890
- Reprint Idaho News (Blackfoot, Idaho) Newspaper · Oct 11, 1890
- Reprint The Desmet Leader (Desmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) Newspaper · Nov 15, 1890
Image 2 of The DeSmet leader (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]), November 15, 1890
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 · Cheyenne, Wyoming · 1868
Another trail, same creature: 5 documents · 1 independent account - Other / Unknown · Rockingham County, North Carolina · 1855
The next-deepest trail: 6 documents · 1 independent account
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