Other Flying · Berea, Kentucky · 1906

KY-1906ID case-dbaa68583aFallback locationAdded to map Oct 11, 2026

Creature: Other Flying
When: Jan 1906to the month
Where: Berea, Kentuckyfallback location
Reports: 4 documents1 independent

The account

A Passamaquoddee tradition is recounted describing a thunder bird whose wing flaps cause lightning and a story of a hunter encountering giants identified as Thunder and Lightning.

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Details

Creature: Other Flying
Where: Berea, Madison County, Kentucky, 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: Jan 1906
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 11, 2026
Case id: case-dbaa68583a

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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 4 of The citizen (Berea, Ky.), January 4, 1906
Newspaper · 1906-01-04
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Image 6 of The evening times (Grand Forks, N.D.), January 16, 1906
Newspaper · 1906-01-16

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