Other Flying · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · 1898
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A strange bird body left on a statue pedestal, unidentifiable by taxidermists, is an incongruous urban object.
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Oct 1898to the month
- Where
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
C. H. Slaughter reports finding the body of a strange bird on the pedestal of William Penn's statue that taxidermists could not identify.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 1898
- 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 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-fa9da63244
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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 3 of Wood County reporter (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.), October 6, 1898
Newspaper · 1898-10-06
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)
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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.