Thunderbird · Glacier National Park, Montana · 1934
MT-1934ID case-bc028521c5Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- When
- Oct 1934to the month
- Where
- Glacier National Park, Montanato approximate level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
The text recounts Blackfeet legends stating that Chief Mountain is the home of the Thunder Bird, a creature associated with storms and lightning.
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Details
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- Where
- Glacier National Park, Montana, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Oct 1934
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-bc028521c5
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 documents, and how they connect
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- Image 2 of Montana oil and mining journal (Great Falls, Mont.), October 6, 1934
Newspaper · 1934-10-06
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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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