Other Canine · Elyria, Ohio · 1846
OH-1846ID case-b0c2a3da79Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- Feb 17, 1846to the day
- Where
- Elyria, Ohioto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports hunters in Elyria pursued and shot an extraordinary animal described as dark brindle, six feet eight inches long, three feet high, and supposed to be of the genus Wolf.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, 44035, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Feb 17, 1846
- 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 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-b0c2a3da79
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 2 of Danbury times (Danbury, Conn.), February 18, 1846
Newspaper · 1846-02-18
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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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