Other Flying · Tucson, Arizona · 1889
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- 1889to the year
- Where
- Tucson, Arizonafallback location
- Reports
- 10 documents1 independent
The account
Captain Putt reports that an enormous bird attempted to carry away a boy thrown overboard from the British ship Talisman, while its mate attacked a sailor named Banning.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- 1889
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (10 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-f4145514d4
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Source trail (6)
Down the rabbit hole → 10 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 2 of The Indianapolis journal (Indianapolis [Ind.]), June 3, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-06-03
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 4 of The Democratic press (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]), July 26, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-07-26 - Image 4 of The Sully County watchman (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]), August 25, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-08-25
Show 3 more sources
- Image 4 of Arizona weekly enterprise (Florence, Pinal County, Arizona Territory), December 15, 1888
Newspaper · 1888-12-15 - Image 4 of Audubon County Republican (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa), March 7, 1889
Newspaper · 1889-03-07 - Image 2 of Idaho news (Blackfoot, Idaho), April 27, 1889
Newspaper · 1889-04-27
Further reading
Books that mention this place
A match on the place name, not necessarily this case. Once you have borrowed a book, its link opens the search inside it on the place.
- Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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More on this creature
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.