Other Flying · Padang, Sumatera Barat · 1834
IND-1834ID case-c6d95debfeFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Jan 1834to the month
- Where
- Padang, Sumatera Baratto town level
- Reports
- 13 documents1 independent
The account
The author witnessed a serpent fly from an immense tree at a height of fifty or sixty feet and alight upon another at the distance of forty fathoms.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Padang, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 1834
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (13 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-c6d95debfe
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Source trail (5)
Down the rabbit hole → 13 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 4 of Southern Christian advocate (Charleston, S.C.), May 28, 1841
Newspaper · 1841-05-28
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 1 of Liberty advocate (Liberty, Miss.), June 10, 1841
Newspaper · 1841-06-10 - Image 2 of New-Haven daily herald (New Haven, Conn.), July 22, 1841
Newspaper · 1841-07-22
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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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