Other Flying · Brigantine, New Jersey · 1909
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A huge beaked, taloned bird attacking a man in his boat is strange beyond its genre.
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Sep 10, 1909to the day
- Where
- Brigantine, New Jerseyto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Captain George Doughty reports battling an immense bird with a large beak and taloned legs that nearly killed him in his boat off Brigantine beach.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Brigantine, Atlantic County, New Jersey, 08203, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 10, 1909
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-724411a558
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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 8 of Chicago eagle (Chicago, Ill.), September 11, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-09-11
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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