Other Flying · East New York, New York · 1915
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A large bird catching a pigeon in Manhattan and eating on a gargoyle for two hours is extreme and incongruous.
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Jan 23, 1915to the day
- Where
- East New York, New Yorkto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a large bird swooped down in lower Manhattan, caught a pigeon in the air near the post office, and carried it to a gargoyle on the Woolworth building where it ate for two hours while being watched by office occupants.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- East New York, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11208, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 23, 1915
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-e3385427b8
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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 7 of The county record (Kingstree, S.C.), December 31, 1914
Newspaper · 1914-12-31
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 7 of Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Ky.), January 23, 1915
Newspaper · 1915-01-23
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)
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