Other Flying · Glendo, Wyoming · 1920
WY-1920ID case-6417f92214Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Nov 21, 1920to the day
- Where
- Glendo, Wyomingto town level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a giant eagle with an eight-foot wingspan attacked 8-year-old Walter Spaulding in his yard, requiring the combined efforts of his family to save him.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Glendo, Platte County, Wyoming, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 21, 1920
- 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 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-6417f92214
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Source trail (4)
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 10 of Montpelier examiner (Montpelier, Idaho), November 26, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-11-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of The Pioche record (Pioche, Nev.), November 26, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-11-26 - Image 2 of Walker Lake bulletin (Hawthorne, Nev.), November 27, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-11-27
Show 1 more source
- Image 2 of Pinedale roundup (Pinedale, Wyo.), December 16, 1920
Newspaper · 1920-12-16
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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