Other Humanoid · Charlotte, North Carolina · 1882
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Oct 1882to the month
- Where
- Charlotte, North Carolinato town level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a terrifying creature resembling a black woman with long hair and gleaming eyes has been frightening women and children in Clear Creek township for two weeks, asking for babies to eat.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 1882
- 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-5388a1249c
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 2 of The Grenada sentinel (Grenada, Miss.), October 28, 1882
Newspaper · 1882-10-28
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of The Magnolia gazette (Magnolia, Miss.), November 2, 1882
Newspaper · 1882-11-02 - Image 3 of The Butler weekly times (Butler, Mo.), November 8, 1882
Newspaper · 1882-11-08
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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