Other Flying · Knox County, Tennessee · 1907
TN-1907ID case-bca2400cb5Added to map Oct 11, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Jul 1907to the month
- Where
- Knox County, Tennesseeto county level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports that J. F. Witt discovered a large white bird with black wing tips and a water-holding pouch in the mountains near Zion’s Mill.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Knox County, East Tennessee, Tennessee, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1907
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-bca2400cb5
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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 3 of The commonwealth (Greenwood, Miss.), July 5, 1907
Newspaper · 1907-07-05
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 7 of The Falls City tribune (Falls City, Neb.), September 20, 1907
Newspaper · 1907-09-20 - Image 4 of The Semi-weekly leader (Brookhaven, Miss.), April 4, 1908, (SECTION ONE)
Newspaper · 1908-04-04
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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