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Other / Unknown · Mercer County, Pennsylvania · 1934

PA-1934ID case-3e432728a3Added to map Oct 8, 2026
Creature
Other / Unknown
When
Sep 1934to the month
Where
Mercer County, Pennsylvaniato county level
Reports
2 documents1 independent

The account

Natives of the Pymatuning swamp area insist that strange monsters, described as survivors of an earlier geological era, roamed in the semi-tropical heart of the swamp.

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Details

Creature
Other / Unknown
Where
Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area
When
Sep 1934
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 8, 2026
Case id
case-3e432728a3

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Source trail (2)

Down the rabbit hole → 2 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.

  1. Image 6 of The Western news (Libby, Mont.), September 27, 1934
    Newspaper · 1934-09-27
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. Image 6 of The Ronan pioneer (Ronan, Mont.), September 27, 1934
    Newspaper · 1934-09-27

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