Other Flying · Village of New York Mills, New York · 1909
NY-1909ID case-fac668cab1Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Flying
- When
- Jan 1909to the month
- Where
- Village of New York Mills, New Yorkto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
An animal dealer in New York claimed the 'devil' escaped from his store and offered a reward for its capture.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Other Flying
- Where
- Village of New York Mills, Town of Whitestown, Oneida County, New York, 13417, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 1909
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-fac668cab1
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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 9 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), January 24, 1909
Newspaper · 1909-01-24
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.