Other Flying · North Carolina · 1930s
NC-1930ID case-ae39027681Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 17, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- the 1930sto the decade
- Where
- North Carolinafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The speaker's grandmother saw a ball of fire in the 1930s while her grandfather was preaching a revival.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- North Carolina, United States
mapped to state level · from a place stated elsewhere in the same document, not in this account
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is a place stated elsewhere in the same document, not in this account. - When
- the 1930s
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 17, 2026
- Case id
- case-ae39027681
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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.
- Episode 1299 The booger will get you
YouTube · 2026-10-17
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)
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.