Other Flying · Hillsboro, Ohio · 1906

OH-1906ID case-4cfbc3ae74Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 11, 2026

Creature: Other Flying
When: Jan 1906to the month
Where: Hillsboro, Ohiofallback location
Reports: 4 documents1 independent

The account

The text recounts a Passamaquoddy tradition where an Indian hunter follows mysterious snowshoe tracks to a mountain cave and witnesses two stone-faced men identified as Thunder and Lightning.

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Details

Creature: Other Flying
Where: Hillsboro, Liberty Township, Highland County, Ohio, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: Jan 1906
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 11, 2026
Case id: case-4cfbc3ae74

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Source trail (1)

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Image 8 of The News-Herald (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio), January 4, 1906
Newspaper · 1906-01-04
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