Other Humanoid · Perrysburg, Ohio · 1875
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A baboon-headed creature with human legs attacking children is a bizarre hybrid.
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Sep 16, 1875to the day
- Where
- Perrysburg, Ohiofallback location
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a strange creature resembling a baboon with human legs attacked two children in a cornfield before escaping.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio, 43551, 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
- Sep 16, 1875
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 9, 2026
- Case id
- case-fd5c92d185
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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 4 of Perrysburg journal (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]), September 17, 1875
Newspaper · 1875-09-17
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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