Other / Unknown · Wheeling, West Virginia · 1902

WV-1902ID case-92ec0c689bFallback locationAdded to map Nov 9, 2026

Creature: Other / Unknown
When: Oct 1902to the month
Where: Wheeling, West Virginiafallback location
Reports: 1 document1 independent

The account

Witnesses report a cunning strange animal causing depredations that evaded a search by five hundred men, with some claiming to hear its cry resembling a child in distress.

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Details

Creature: Other / Unknown
Where: Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, 26003, 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: Oct 1902
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Nov 9, 2026
Case id: case-92ec0c689b

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Source trail (1)

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Image 18 of Wheeling Sunday register (Wheeling, W. Va.), October 26, 1902, (LAST EDITION, SECTION 2)
Newspaper · 1902-10-26
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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