Other / Unknown · India · 1869
IND-1869ID case-59a6365813Fallback locationAdded to map Nov 2, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Mar 1869to the month
- Where
- Indiafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a large elephant encountered a strange creature on railroad tracks near Mil J sapore, India, resulting in the death of the elephant and eleven cars.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- India
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Mar 1869
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 2, 2026
- Case id
- case-59a6365813
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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 1 of The southern enterprise (Greenville, S.C.), March 24, 1869
Newspaper · 1869-03-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.