Other / Unknown · Macoupin County, Illinois · 1868
IL-1868ID case-3e15ef3ea1Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Nov 1868to the month
- Where
- Macoupin County, Illinoisto county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a hideous monster was captured and killed by hunters in the Illinois bottom near Jerseyville.
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Macoupin County, Illinois, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Nov 1868
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-3e15ef3ea1
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Image 2 of The Albany register (Albany, Or.), January 23, 1869
Newspaper · 1869-01-23
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.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.