Other Humanoid · Annapolis, Maryland · 1887
MD-1887ID case-76eec75e28First-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Jun 1887to the month
- Where
- Annapolis, Marylandfallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing three unidentified creatures at Bluff Point and near Juniper Island.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 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
- Jun 1887
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-76eec75e28
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Source trail (2)
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 1 of Evening capital (Annapolis, Md.), June 6, 1887
Newspaper · 1887-06-06
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 5 of Custer chronicle (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]), July 30, 1887
Newspaper · 1887-07-30
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.