Other / Unknown · Seneca County, Ohio · 1886
OH-1886ID case-383b780952Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Aug 1886to the month
- Where
- Seneca County, Ohioto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a strange animal seen in woods near the river, described as child-sized with monkey-like feet, reddish-brown hair, and fangs, hunting frogs.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Seneca County, Ohio, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Aug 1886
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-383b780952
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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.
- Image 5 of Democratic Northwest (Napoleon, Ohio), August 19, 1886
Newspaper · 1886-08-19
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.