Other Flying · Padang, Sumatera Barat · 1841
IND-1841ID case-44cda59e76Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Jul 1841to the month
- Where
- Padang, Sumatera Baratto town level
- Reports
- 10 documents1 independent
The account
Natives called the creature 'Ulat tampaiig hari' (the fiery serpent) due to its burning pain and mortal effect of bite, confirming it was not imaginary.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Padang, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1841
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (10 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-44cda59e76
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 10 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 4 of South Carolina temperance advocate and register of agriculture and general literature (Columbia, S.C.), July 29, 1841
Newspaper · 1841-07-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- 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 - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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