Other Humanoid · Cheyenne, Wyoming · 1868

WY-1868ID case-6706deadd3Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026

Creature: Other Humanoid
When: Mar 1868to the month
Where: Cheyenne, Wyomingfallback location
Reports: 3 documents1 independent

The account

Witness reports an extraordinary animal described by Black people as eight feet high with hen's egg eyes and no nose, which was later encountered by a hunting party near Bear Creek.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect

We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built

Details

Creature: Other Humanoid
Where: Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming, 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: Mar 1868
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 9, 2026
Case id: case-6706deadd3

Place lookups use data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via Nominatim. All credits

Source trail (1)

Down the rabbit hole → 3 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 3 of The Cheyenne leader (Cheyenne, D.T. [i.e. Wyo.]), March 23, 1868
Newspaper · 1868-03-23
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

Request a correction or removal of this case

Discussion (0)

No comments on this case yet.