Yeti · Chapel Hill, North Carolina · 1961
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A newspaper offering a house-broken yeti for sale is socially absurd.
- Creature
- Yeti
- When
- Jul 1961to the month
- Where
- Chapel Hill, North Carolinafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The newspaper claims to have a yeti named Tenzing for sale, describing him as docile and house-broken.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Yeti
- Where
- Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina, 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
- Jul 1961
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-f43a3f0c6d
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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.
- Image 4 of The Chapel Hill weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.), July 24, 1961
Newspaper · 1961-07-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, Ivan T. Sanderson (1961)
Early comparative study of wild-man reports worldwide.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti, Loren Coleman (1989)
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.