Other Humanoid · Portland, Maine · 1903
ME-1903ID case-51e8d0690aFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 24, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Jun 1903to the month
- Where
- Portland, Mainefallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a wild man who killed cubs with a club, drank their blood, and fled after being spotted.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, 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
- Jun 1903
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 24, 2026
- Case id
- case-51e8d0690a
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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 12 of The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.), June 6, 1903
Newspaper · 1903-06-06
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
Books that mention this place
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- Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
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More on this creature
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
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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