Vampire · Americus, Georgia · 1919
GA-1919ID case-be2d02baa6Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Vampire
- When
- May 1919to the month
- Where
- Americus, Georgiafallback location
- Reports
- 8 documents1 independent
The account
A Macedonian shepherd reports finding sheep mangled about the neck and attributes the attack to vampires.
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Details
- Creature
- Vampire
- Where
- Americus, Sumter County, Georgia, 31709, 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
- May 1919
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (8 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-be2d02baa6
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 8 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 Americus times-recorder (Americus, Ga.;[Americus, Ga.?]), May 2, 1919, (Home Edition)
Newspaper · 1919-05-02
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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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