Other Flying · Sampson County, North Carolina · 1887
NC-1887ID case-9bef27a8e3Added to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Oct 1, 1887to the day
- Where
- Sampson County, North Carolinato county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that F B Phelps of Mulberry, N.C., saw a creature with an owl's head, monkey-like face, and beautiful plumage that gave an unearthly yell.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Sampson County, North Carolina, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Oct 1, 1887
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-9bef27a8e3
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Image 1 of The South western news (Dawson, GA.), October 19, 1887
Newspaper · 1887-10-19
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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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