Thunderbird · Scenic, South Dakota · 1923
SD-1923ID case-e2b4458359Added to map Oct 10, 2026
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- When
- Apr 1923to the month
- Where
- Scenic, South Dakotato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Chief Flaming Arrow reports that the Thunder Bird dwelt in the Bad Lands area southwest of Scenic, S.D., which Indians call a 'bad place' and has never been visited by white men.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Thunderbird
- Where
- Scenic, Pennington County, South Dakota, 57780, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Apr 1923
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-e2b4458359
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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 The Butler County press (Hamilton, Ohio), April 27, 1923
Newspaper · 1923-04-27
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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