Other / Unknown · Wolverhampton, England · 1855
UNI-1855ID case-e436c7dd41Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Jan 1855to the month
- Where
- Wolverhampton, Englandto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Hoofprints appeared on vertical walls and pub roofs near Wolverhampton, with a landlady reporting similar marks burnt into rock at Pearl Quarry.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 1855
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-e436c7dd41
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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.
- A Sleek Hairy Man Who Looked Like a Centaur and a Dogman With Red Eyes, Claws and Hooves
ukwildman · 2020-02-09
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.