Other / Unknown · New York · 1849
NY-1849ID case-7b434fcd1cFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Apr 1849to the month
- Where
- New Yorkfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a beast with curled hair resembling brown sheep wool and long strange wool on its fetlock in Allen Street.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- New York, 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
- Apr 1849
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-7b434fcd1c
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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 2 of New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.]), April 18, 1849
Newspaper · 1849-04-18
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.