Down the rabbit hole
Other Canine · Lewistown, Pennsylvania · 1867
11 documents · 1 independent account
11 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 11 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 10 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
- 10 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 11 documents
- Earliest found Rhode Island American And Gazette (Providence, R.I.) Newspaper · Mar 9, 1832
- Reprint The Herald (New York [N.Y.]) Newspaper · Jan 12, 1836
- Reprint The Columbia Democrat (Bloomsburg, Pa.) Newspaper · Jun 10, 1837
- Reprint Cheraw Gazette (Cheraw, S.C.) Newspaper · Jul 5, 1837
- Reprint The Granite Farmer (Manchester, N.H.) Newspaper · Mar 9, 1853
- Reprint The North-Carolinian (Fayetteville [N.C.]) Newspaper · Mar 19, 1853
- Reprint The Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, Pa.) Newspaper · May 26, 1853
- Reprint The Lancaster Ledger (Lancaster, S.C.) Newspaper · Aug 31, 1853
- Reprint Grant County Herald (Lancaster, Wis.) Newspaper · Nov 28, 1853
- Reprint New York Dispatch (New York [N.Y.]) Newspaper · Apr 14, 1867
- Reprint Lewistown Gazette (Lewistown, Pa.) Newspaper · Jun 26, 1867
Image 1 of Lewistown gazette (Lewistown, Pa.), June 26, 1867
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 Canine · Hatton, North Dakota · 1907
Another trail, same creature: 4 documents · 1 independent account - Other Flying · Indonesia · 1841
The next-deepest trail: 11 documents · 1 independent account
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