Thunderbird reports with no dependable place
12 cases, best-documented first. Page 1 of 1.
These accounts don't say where they happened in words we can place (often a video or post that never names a town), so the map can't draw them. They are still cases, with their sources; the map lists them under Cases with no resolvable place. Why some places are estimates or missing
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
Thunderbird · 2017
The narrator and four or five friends saw a huge dark bird standing taller than their van in a clearing while driving through the Midwest.
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Witness reports seeing a massive black bird with wings spanning most of an 80-foot runway eating calf afterbirth.
Thunderbird · 2008
Witness reports seeing a bird with a massive wingspan and three lion-like tails in their backyard when they were around nine years old.
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The narrator reports that as a child sitting on their grandparents' porch swing, they saw a very large bird in the sky with visible flight feathers and believed it to be a thunderbird.
Thunderbird · 1922
[name] reports seeing a large bird flying over his gate in April 1922 with an estimated wingspread of 35 feet.
Thunderbird · 1882
Witnesses report winged crocodile-like monsters encountered by lumberjacks in Hurleton California and Missouri.
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John Keel recalled a photograph of a pterodactyl-like creature nailed to or hanging from a barn with men standing in front.
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Witnesses from the later 20th century recall having seen the Thunderbird Photo in a book about strange phenomena.
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Keel claims to have a clear memory of seeing the photograph of the Thunderbird.
Thunderbird · 1905
Anthropologist [name] recorded Shuswap religious beliefs describing a large, black Thunderbird with bright red parts.
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A Hoh elder told one witness that the giant ravens seen in the Hoh Rainforest were a Thunderbird.
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[name] recalls a photograph showing several men standing with a huge, overgrown bird.