Other / Unknown · Matthews Estates, South Carolina · 1921
SC-1921ID case-425cde9d3bAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Feb 6, 1921to the day
- Where
- Matthews Estates, South Carolinato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Many reports have come from country adjacent to Briar and McAlpine creeks reporting the presence of some wild creature whose tracks and cries are not those of any identified animal.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Matthews Estates, York County, South Carolina, 29732, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 6, 1921
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-425cde9d3b
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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 8 of Yorkville enquirer (Yorkville, S.C.), February 8, 1921
Newspaper · 1921-02-08
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.
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.