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Other / Unknown · Appleton, Wisconsin · 1972

WI-1972ID case-b3ae34d53eFallback locationAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
Creature
Other / Unknown
When
Jul 1972to the month
Where
Appleton, Wisconsinfallback location
Reports
1 document1 independent

The account

[name] reports seeing a seven-foot tall hairy creature with red eyes, horns, and tusks in the forests surrounding the city.

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Details

Creature
Other / Unknown
Where
Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When
Jul 1972
Account
Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by
1 independent source
Added to map
Nov 10, 2026
Case id
case-b3ae34d53e

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Source trail (1)

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  1. Appleton Post Crescent, 1972-07-23
    newspaper_ia · 1972-07-23
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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