Mount Vernon

Three different places share this name in the archive. In Jefferson County, southern Illinois, Mount Vernon sits near Gum Creek, where a 1941 creature story began that writers came to call the Mount Vernon "Baboon." A zoo in the Mount Vernon area also surfaced in one explanation for the 1963 Tuttle Bottoms Monster. In Virginia, seven miles west of Mount Vernon, Capt. Willis T. Sperry's American Airlines DC-6 crew saw a brilliant bluish light in 1950. And in Westchester County, balloons escaping from a school party in Mount Vernon became the answer to the Chelsea Silver Objects over Manhattan in 2010.

Stories5

The Mount Vernon "Baboon" of Gum Creek

c. 1941 · Gum Creek bottom, near Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources

26Thinly documented

Queen Wilhelmina Meets Lincoln's Ghost at the White House

August 1942 · The White House, Executive Residence, Washington, D.C.

United States

Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources · 1 photos

23Thinly documented

Capt. Willis T. Sperry and the American Airlines DC-6 sighting near Mount Vernon, Virginia

May 29, 1950 · About seven miles west of Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, after departure from Washington National Airport

United States

UAP · Cigar · 13 sources

23Thinly documented

The First Tuttle Bottoms Monster Report

August 5, 1963 · Tuttle Bottoms, near Harrisburg, Saline County, Illinois

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 24 sources

7Thinly documented

The Chelsea Silver Objects, Manhattan

October 13, 2010 · West 23rd Street near Eighth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City

United States

UAP · Orb / light · 20 sources

33Partially documented