Other Flying · Selma, California · 1891
CA-1891ID case-d5c4ba58acFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 23, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Jul 24, 1891to the day
- Where
- Selma, Californiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
[name] and Mr. [name] watched at Hog lake and saw two dragons swooping down, circling the pond, diving into the water, and catching mudhens.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Selma, Fresno County, California, 93662, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 24, 1891
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 23, 2026
- Case id
- case-d5c4ba58ac
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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.
- The Fresno Dragons (Investigating A Case of 19th Century Pterosaurs)
Reddit · 2023-01-29
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
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