Other Humanoid · Richmond, Virginia · 1889
VA-1889ID case-fa73b97128Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 26, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Jan 1889to the month
- Where
- Richmond, Virginiafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Three men driving through Clay county report a man-sized object floating out of the woods into their wagon.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Richmond, Virginia, 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
- Jan 1889
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 26, 2026
- Case id
- case-fa73b97128
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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 3 of Richmond dispatch (Richmond, Va.), January 12, 1889
Newspaper · 1889-01-12
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.