Other / Unknown · Hartford, Connecticut · 1939
CT-1939ID case-432801114dAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Jan 1939to the month
- Where
- Hartford, Connecticutto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The Gazette scribe reports that yarns concerning the 'Glastonbury Glawackus' have aroused curiosity and spread throughout the nation, with locals offering varying reactions to the strange beast.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Hartford, Connecticut, 06117, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jan 1939
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-432801114d
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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 3 of The weekly gazette (East Hartford, CT), January 27, 1939
Newspaper · 1939-01-27
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.