Other Canine · Sutton, Massachusetts · 1855
MA-1855ID case-b3818b3a47Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- Jul 1855to the month
- Where
- Sutton, Massachusettsto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents2 independent
The account
Witness reports a large, fox-headed canine creature with a white stripe on its face was seen snarling at a man in Sutton and later by a young girl and two men.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 01590, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1855
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 2 independent sources
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-b3818b3a47
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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 New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.]), August 17, 1855
Newspaper · 1855-08-17
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 3 of Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.), August 18, 1855
Newspaper · 1855-08-18
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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