Other Humanoid · Barton County, Kansas · 1887
KS-1887ID case-38db7a6941Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- May 1887to the month
- Where
- Barton County, Kansasto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Henry Schwier reports that a strange beast is still at large in the Clarence neighborhood, terrorizing people and causing excitement.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Barton County, Kansas, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- May 1887
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-38db7a6941
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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 Barton County democrat (Great Bend, Kan.), May 5, 1887
Newspaper · 1887-05-05
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.