Other Humanoid · Medicine Lodge, Kansas · 1904
KS-1904ID case-61f368e148Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 25, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Nov 1904to the month
- Where
- Medicine Lodge, Kansasfallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing a dark object wading waist-deep in the water that emerged as a human-shaped figure on a log or canoe before disappearing into a stream.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Medicine Lodge, Barber County, Kansas, 67104, 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
- Nov 1904
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 25, 2026
- Case id
- case-61f368e148
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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 Barbour County index (Medicine Lodge, Kan.), November 16, 1904
Newspaper · 1904-11-16
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.