Other Flying · Darlington County, South Carolina · 1888
SC-1888ID case-6eba0d584eAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- May 27, 1888to the day
- Where
- Darlington County, South Carolinato county level
- Reports
- 3 documents2 independent
The account
Witnesses report seeing a large serpent flying through the air without visible means of propulsion and emitting hissing noises.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Darlington County, South Carolina, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- May 27, 1888
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-6eba0d584e
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Source trail (2)
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 1 of The Indianapolis journal (Indianapolis [Ind.]), June 1, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-06-01
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of Shenandoah herald (Woodstock, Va.), June 8, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-06-08
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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