Other Canine · Elberton, Georgia · 1882
GA-1882ID case-fa12386e64Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- Jun 2, 1882to the day
- Where
- Elberton, Georgiato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
A revenue posse in Georgia observed an immense black wolf approaching a still and helping himself to beer while the officers were focused on capturing the owners.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 2, 1882
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-fa12386e64
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Source trail (2)
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- Image 1 of Huntsville gazette (Huntsville, Ala.), June 3, 1882
Newspaper · 1882-06-03
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Image 2 of St. Landry democrat (Opelousas, La.), June 17, 1882
Newspaper · 1882-06-17
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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