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Other Humanoid · Berks County, Pennsylvania · 1879

PA-1879ID case-defa627172Added to map Oct 9, 2026
Creature
Other Humanoid
When
Oct 1879to the month
Where
Berks County, Pennsylvaniato county level
Reports
3 documents1 independent

The account

Jared Rissmiller reports seeing a yellowish-brown, hairless humanoid creature with horns and talon-like fingers in Berks County.

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Details

Creature
Other Humanoid
Where
Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words
When
Oct 1879
Account
Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by
1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map
Oct 9, 2026
Case id
case-defa627172

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Source trail (2)

Down the rabbit hole → 3 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.

  1. Image 4 of The new dominion (Morgantown, W. Va.), October 25, 1879
    Newspaper · 1879-10-25
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. Image 7 of The Camden journal (Camden, S.C.), December 4, 1879
    Newspaper · 1879-12-04

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