Thunderbird · Coudersport, Pennsylvania · 1940
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- When
- 1940to the year
- Where
- Coudersport, Pennsylvaniato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
[name] claims to have witnessed a huge bird on the ground near Coudersport in 1940 that was brownish, upright, and had a wingspread of 25 feet.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- Where
- Coudersport, Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1940
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 19, 2026
- Case id
- case-576eb5e36f
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Source trail (1)
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- A Possible Source for the Thunderbird Photo?
Reddit · 2024-04-13
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Further reading
Books that mention this place
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- In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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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 - 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.
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