Other / Unknown · Rockingham County, North Carolina · 1855
NC-1855ID case-3d10489752Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Oct 28, 1855to the day
- Where
- Rockingham County, North Carolinato county level
- Reports
- 6 documents1 independent
The account
A farmer in Rockingham County, N.C., reports that a man named Alfred saw a snake-like creature with a human face and rattlesnake body in his still house, leaving a large mark.
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Rockingham County, North Carolina, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 28, 1855
- 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 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-3d10489752
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Source trail (5)
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 1 of The daily dispatch (Richmond [Va.]), November 15, 1855
Newspaper · 1855-11-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of The North-Carolinian (Fayetteville [N.C.]), November 24, 1855
Newspaper · 1855-11-24 - Image 1 of Shepherdstown register (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), November 24, 1855
Newspaper · 1855-11-24
Show 2 more sources
- Image 2 of Bedford inquirer and chronicle (Bedford, Pa.), November 30, 1855
Newspaper · 1855-11-30 - Image 6 of New-York dispatch (New York [N.Y.]), December 2, 1855
Newspaper · 1855-12-02
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.