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Other / Unknown · Birmingham, Alabama · 1911

AL-1911ID case-ff1b3df269Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
Creature
Other / Unknown
When
Dec 1911to the month
Where
Birmingham, Alabamafallback location
Reports
1 document1 independent

The account

W. A. Lindsay claimed to have killed a Wialla-Polula, which he described as having the form of a large bird with powers of contraction and expansion.

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 / Unknown
Where
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, 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
Dec 1911
Account
Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by
1 independent source
Added to map
Oct 8, 2026
Case id
case-ff1b3df269

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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.

  1. Image 6 of The Birmingham age-herald (Birmingham, Ala.), December 24, 1911
    Newspaper · 1911-12-24
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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