Other Flying · Montgomery County, Virginia · 2000s
VA-2000ID case-e71c74236cAdded to map Oct 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- the 2000sto the century
- Where
- Montgomery County, Virginiato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a friend saw a large, winged gargoyle-like creature on the road shoulder near Mountain Lake in the early 2000s.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Montgomery County, Virginia, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- the 2000s
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-e71c74236c
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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.
- 5 TRUE Appalachian Cryptid Encounters | Terrifying Eyewitness Stories | Paranormal Stories
YouTube · 2026-02-05
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.