Other / Unknown · Pendleton, Oregon · 1915
OR-1915ID case-d77da17d63Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Nov 1915to the month
- Where
- Pendleton, Oregonfallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A St. Louis gentleman recalls a story about a mysterious animal called the 'What-Is-it' exhibited at an opera house, which caused chaos before the showmen disappeared with the receipts.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon, 97801, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Nov 1915
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-d77da17d63
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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 East Oregonian : E.O (Pendleton, Umatilla Co., Or.;Pendleton, OR), November 5, 1915, (DAILY EVENING EDITION)
Newspaper · 1915-11-05
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.