Other Humanoid · Benton Country Fair Grounds, Arkansas · 1892
AR-1892ID case-e5b2555b65Added to map Oct 9, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Mar 5, 1892to the day
- Where
- Benton Country Fair Grounds, Arkansasto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a wild boy of about 15 or 16 years was seen running with wolves in the woods near Benton, Arkansas.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Benton Country Fair Grounds, Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Mar 5, 1892
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-e5b2555b65
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Source trail (1)
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- Image 1 of Rock Island daily Argus (Rock Island, Ill.), March 7, 1892
Newspaper · 1892-03-07
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)
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