Other / Unknown · Athens, Tennessee · 1858
TN-1858ID case-8c52196a0bFallback locationAdded to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- May 1858to the month
- Where
- Athens, Tennesseefallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A second account describes a creature seen and chased to her den, about the size of a small dog, with bones lying about.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Athens, McMinn County, East Tennessee, Tennessee, 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
- May 1858
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-8c52196a0b
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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 1 of The Athens post (Athens, Tenn.), May 21, 1858
Newspaper · 1858-05-21
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.