Down the rabbit hole
Vampire · Americus, Georgia · 1919
8 documents · 1 independent account
8 documents tell this story. They trace back to 1 independent account.
The route
- One encounter the reported sighting this case is about
- 8 documents that tell it, as we collected them
- 1 independent account behind those documents
- 7 copies reprints or cross-posts of the same text: not extra witnesses
Copies are not confirmations: thirty papers printing one story is still one account.
Each shape is one document; open it to go to where we found it. The same graph as a list is below.
Why these records are connected
- 7 copies: the copy detector found the same words in a later document, so it sits in the same row as the account it copies.
Every document, as a list
- Account 1 8 documents
- Earliest found The Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, Utah;Chicago, Ill.) 1895-19?? Newspaper · Dec 7, 1918
- Reprint The Mount Holly News (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) Newspaper · Dec 31, 1918
- Reprint Shenandoah Herald (Woodstock, Va.) Newspaper · Jan 3, 1919
- Reprint The Daily Morning Oasis (Nogales, Ariz.) Newspaper · Jan 8, 1919
- Reprint The Idaho Republican (Blackfoot, Idaho) Newspaper · Jan 21, 1919
- Reprint The Colville Examiner (Colville, Wash.) Newspaper · Apr 5, 1919
- Reprint Americus Times-Recorder (Americus, Ga.;[Americus, Ga.?]) Newspaper · May 2, 1919
Image 7 of Americus times-recorder (Americus, Ga.;[Americus, Ga.?]), May 2, 1919, (Home Edition) - Reprint Crossville Chronicle (Crossville, Tenn.) Newspaper · Jun 25, 1919
How to read this
- Time runs left to right by publication date. Very long empty stretches are cut short (the axis shows how many years were skipped); undated documents sit in their own column.
- One row per independent account. A reprint, re-upload or cross-post carries the same text, so it stays in its account's row and never counts as a second witness.
- Earliest found (ringed) is the earliest document we hold for that account. It is not proof of the first telling: an earlier one may exist that we haven't collected.
- Arrows run from a document to a source it names. A dashed shape is a source a document cites that we haven't found yet; its link searches a public archive for it, and a hit there is a lead, not a confirmation.
About the numbers
- Only documents we've collected are counted; retellings elsewhere on the web aren't counted yet.
- Documents are matched by shared text and by the sources they name, by plain rules with no model in the loop. A match can be wrong; tell us.
Where next
- Back to the case
its summary, sources and discussion - Back to the map
opened on this case - Vampire
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