Other Humanoid · Village of East Davenport, Iowa · 1869
IA-1869ID case-d41707060fAdded to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Aug 26, 1869to the day
- Where
- Village of East Davenport, Iowato approximate level
- Reports
- 4 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a wild boy about fifteen or sixteen years old, entirely without clothes and covered with light sandy hair, was seen prowling near Judge Grant's farm in Iowa.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Village of East Davenport, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, 52803, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 26, 1869
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-d41707060f
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 4 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 1 of The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.]), September 2, 1869, (FIFTH EDITION)
Newspaper · 1869-09-02
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of The Manitowoc tribune (Manitowoc, Wis.), October 14, 1869
Newspaper · 1869-10-14
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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