Other / Unknown · Wiltshire, England
UNI-NDID case-a059f05ad4Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Wiltshire, Englandto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
[name] reports that she and her partner [name] heard an odd screeching noise in a lay-by near Salisbury Plains about four to five years ago, which spooked them.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-a059f05ad4
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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.
- Salisbury Screeches 2011/12
ukwildman · 2017-01-26
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.