Other / Unknown · Fort Worth, Texas · 1941
TX-1941ID case-c5fb91f6c8Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Jun 7, 1941to the day
- Where
- Fort Worth, Texasto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that strange creatures came out of the ground and walked above the ground when rain started falling at the National Open golf championship.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 7, 1941
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-c5fb91f6c8
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Source trail (1)
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 4 of McAllen daily press (McAllen, Tex.), June 8, 1941
Newspaper · 1941-06-08
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.