Other Flying · Petoskey, Michigan · 1887
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A winged monster with one blazing eye under a bed attacked with a boot-jack is a domestic, absurd encounter.
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Sep 24, 1887to the day
- Where
- Petoskey, Michiganto town level
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
A husband in Petoskey, Michigan, claims he saw a frightful winged monster with one blazing eye looking at him from under the bed before attacking it with a boot-jack.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect · 1 cited source not found yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Petoskey, Emmet County, Michigan, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 24, 1887
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-4f1ac88de3
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 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 1 of The Ketchum keystone (Ketchum, Idaho), September 24, 1887
Newspaper · 1887-09-24
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.