Other Flying · Yale, Michigan · 1914
MI-1914ID case-955c8dc5caFallback locationAdded to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Dec 1914to the month
- Where
- Yale, Michiganfallback location
- Reports
- 5 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a thunder bird engaged in deadly conflict with a water spirit emerging from limpid depths at the edge of a precipice.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Yale, Saint Clair County, Michigan, 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
- Dec 1914
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (5 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-955c8dc5ca
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 5 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 7 of The Yale expositor (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.), December 17, 1914, (Christmas Number)
Newspaper · 1914-12-17
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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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.