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  The Evening Republican, 10 November 1909: the "devil bird" follow-on scare in Spring Valley, New York. Scan

  The Evening Republican; scan hosted by Sleepy Hollow Country (Jim Logan) ·from The Jersey Devil's Phenomenal Week (1909)

  ME EVENING REPUBLICAN, COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1909. i {in order to enrich this stranger” D. EE a {4 espa {wished you to know it. she would No ene but a wor I have confided it to you herself. 1 must )) despair, and the d decline—" | ! @ daily burden of ill Mr Harper interrupted the other |…

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  The museum building at the northwest corner of 9th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, in 1890, later home of the dime museum kangaroo exhibit. Scan

  Free Library of Philadelphia, record #98008, via PhillyHistory Blog ·from The Jersey Devil's Phenomenal Week (1909)
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  James Sackville, the Bristol officer who fired at the creature, outside Bristol Borough's old town hall in 1918. Scan

  Grundy Archive, via LevittownNow ·from The Jersey Devil's Phenomenal Week (1909)
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  A 1909 report in the Argus newspaper tells of 'revolving lights' in the night sky. Scan

  Trove ·from The Kangaroo Ground Revolving Lights (1909)

  LIGHTS IN THE AIR. RED, WHITE, AND BLUE. CITY MINISTER'S STORY. The Rev. B. Cozens, chaplain to the Port Melbourne Seamen's Mission, came last night into "The Argus" office, and made the following statement about beautiful lights floating on Saturday night over the Dandenong Ranges. "I had been stay…

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  Illustration of the airship's lights, probably modern Scan

  from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  Drawing by George McDuff of the airship seen at 5 p.m., 24 July Scan

  Otago Daily Times, 31 July 1909 ·from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  Drawing of the airship by Agnes Falconer Scan

  Otago Daily Times, 31 July 1909 ·from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  Thomas Jenkins's drawing of the airship seen from below Scan

  Otago Daily Times, 31 July 1909 ·from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  Group of those who saw the Kelso airship in daylight. Back: R. Russell, Mrs Russell, Agnes Falconer, T. McDonald. Front: T. Jenkins, Cyril Falconer, A. Russell, G. McDuff. Scan

  Otago Witness, 4 August 1909 ·from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  Drawing by Thomas McDonald, who saw the propellor whirling Scan

  Otago Daily Times, 31 July 1909 ·from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  Shape indicated by Mrs Russell Scan

  Otago Daily Times, 31 July 1909 ·from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  Drawing of the airship by Thomas Jenkins Scan

  Otago Daily Times, 31 July 1909 ·from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  View of [North] Kelso and neighbourhood where airship was seen Scan

  Otago Witness, 4 August 1909 ·from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  Richard Pearse's aeroplane, the only local aviation of the period Scan

  from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  Tony Brunt's 1967 composite sketch of the 1909 airship Scan

  Tony Brunt ·from The New Zealand Phantom Airship Scare of 1909 (1909)
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  Montgomery County Sentinel headline of 2 December 1932 on the Snallygaster's return Scan

  Library of Congress ·from The Snallygaster of Middletown, Maryland (1909) (1909)

  Sleeping Snallygaster Snores Serenely In Sugar Loaf Sunday; Seven Snares Set Winged Bovalopus Frightens Ten, As Hunters Spy Him In His Den; Open Season On Monster Called And Countryside Is Appalled-Last Seen 23 Years Ago, Lives On Colored Men, Don't You Know…

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  Fort Wayne Daily News, 20 December 1909, reporting Arthur W. Hoe's sighting in Boston harbour Scan

  Fort Wayne Daily News, via Patrick Gross ·from The Tillinghast Airship: New England's Phantom Searchlight (1909)

  Mysterious Aviator. BOSTON, Dec. 30—Recent mathematicus of Wallace Tillisher, an avid sailor, flew from New York and back were given new life here today by the story of a man who was a United States immigration station, who deceived he saw a mysterious airplane pass over Boston early today. Aroused …

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  Lake Manitoba. Scan

  Superstitious Times ·from Valentine McKay's huge creature in Cedar Lake, Manitoba (1909) (1909)
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  The 1962 Manipogo photograph taken on Lake Manitoba near Meadow Portage. A separate case, not McKay's Cedar Lake creature. Scan

  Richard Vincent and John Konefall ·from Valentine McKay's huge creature in Cedar Lake, Manitoba (1909) (1909)
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  A cow moose and calf, offered as a possible explanation for lake monster sightings. Scan

  Getty Images ·from Valentine McKay's huge creature in Cedar Lake, Manitoba (1909) (1909)
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  Google Earth view of Lake Manitoba from Kinosota Front Road. Scan

  Superstitious Times / Google Earth ·from Valentine McKay's huge creature in Cedar Lake, Manitoba (1909) (1909)
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  A jumping sturgeon, offered as a possible explanation for prairie lake monsters. Scan

  Getty Images ·from Valentine McKay's huge creature in Cedar Lake, Manitoba (1909) (1909)
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  Nahuel Huapi Lake scenery Scan

  Getty Images, via Travelbook ·from George Garret's creature in Nahuel Huapi Lake (1910)
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  Aerial view of the Huemul Arm of Nahuel Huapi Lake, looking south-west Scan

  via Patagonia Monsters (Austin Whittall) ·from George Garret's creature in Nahuel Huapi Lake (1910)
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  Map of the 1902 lakeside colony at Nahuel Huapi Scan

  archivo.argentina.indymedia.org, via Patagonia Monsters ·from George Garret's creature in Nahuel Huapi Lake (1910)
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  A spider monkey, shown as the suggested explanation for the case. Scan

  Patrick Gross site ·from Haines's "Didi" encounter on the Konawaruk River, British Guiana (1910)
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  The 'Bombala anthropoid', Will Donald's artist's impression printed in The Sun, Sydney, November 1912. Often linked to Harper's account, though Joyner says it was based on the Bombala footprint reports. Scan

  Will Donald / Sydney Sun ·from Charles Harper's Hairy Man of the Currickbilly Range (1912) (1912)
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  Hand-tinted plate from Chant's 1913 JRASC paper; stars and meteors were added by hand Scan

  RASC Archives; Acknowledgement: Bradley E. Schaefer (LSU) ·from The 1913 Great Meteor Procession (the Cyrillids) (1913)
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  RASC archive copy of the hand-tinted JRASC plate Scan

  RASC Archives ·from The 1913 Great Meteor Procession (the Cyrillids) (1913)

  METEORIC DISPLAY OF FEBRUARY 9, 1913 (From a drawing by Gustave Hahn, Toronto). The above represents a portion of the display as observed by Mr. and Mrs. Hahn, in the vicinity of High Park, Toronto. The spaces between succeeding clusters were actually somewhat greater than shown here.…

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  Hand-tinted JRASC plate of the 1913 procession, high resolution Scan

  RASC Archives; Acknowledgement: Bradley E. Schaefer (LSU) ·from The 1913 Great Meteor Procession (the Cyrillids) (1913)
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  Gustav Hahn's painting of the procession as he saw it from near High Park, Toronto Scan

  Gustav Hahn, c. 1913 ·from The 1913 Great Meteor Procession (the Cyrillids) (1913)
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  Captain Millar's sketch of the creature, probably Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 31 May 1913 Scan

  1913 newspaper, via Malcolm Smith ·from The Dimboola sea serpent in the Great Australian Bight (1913)
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  Facsimile of the mock Fish Liars Association certificate, Herald (Melbourne), 29 May 1913 Scan

  Herald (Melbourne), 1913, via Malcolm Smith ·from The Dimboola sea serpent in the Great Australian Bight (1913)
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  Artist's redrawing of Captain Millar's sketch, Sunday Times (Perth), 25 May 1913 Scan

  Sunday Times (Perth), 1913, via Malcolm Smith ·from The Dimboola sea serpent in the Great Australian Bight (1913)
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  The Hull mansion with the Butler Building and livery stables, about 1891 to 1894 Scan

  Hull-House Photograph Collection, 0000.0132.2601, UIC ·from The Hull-House "Devil Baby" (1913)
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  The Hull-House reception room, 1910s to 1930s Scan

  Hull-House Photograph Collection, 0000.0159.1408, UIC ·from The Hull-House "Devil Baby" (1913)
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  Portrait of Jane Addams Scan

  from The Hull-House "Devil Baby" (1913)
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  Front of Hull-House, Chicago Scan

  Unverified; filename suggests a Wikimedia Commons copy ·from The Hull-House "Devil Baby" (1913)
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  Six toddlers in the Hull-House Nursery, about 1890 to 1895 Scan

  Hull-House Photograph Collection, 0000.0223.0376, UIC ·from The Hull-House "Devil Baby" (1913)
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  Pearl Curran, about 1926 Scan

  From W. F. Prince, The Case of Patience Worth (1927) ·from The first "Patience Worth" communication, St. Louis (1913)
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  The Patience Worth novels Scan

  Psi Encyclopedia ·from The first "Patience Worth" communication, St. Louis (1913)
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  William Marion Reedy Scan

  Psi Encyclopedia ·from The first "Patience Worth" communication, St. Louis (1913)
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  Patience Worth séance typescript, Volume 1, page 1 (thumbnail) Scan

  Missouri Historical Society ·from The first "Patience Worth" communication, St. Louis (1913)
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  Casper Yost, investigator Scan

  Psi Encyclopedia ·from The first "Patience Worth" communication, St. Louis (1913)
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  Pearl Curran Scan

  Psi Encyclopedia ·from The first "Patience Worth" communication, St. Louis (1913)
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  Walter Franklin Prince Scan

  Psi Encyclopedia ·from The first "Patience Worth" communication, St. Louis (1913)
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  Patience Worth séance typescript, Volume 1, page 5, with the July 8, 1913 entry (thumbnail) Scan

  Missouri Historical Society ·from The first "Patience Worth" communication, St. Louis (1913)
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  Probably a scan of Gordon Creighton's 1962 Flying Saucer Review article on the Greytown report Scan

  Patrick Gross / Flying Saucer Review ·from 1914 South African "Phantom Monoplane" Wave and the Greytown, Natal Landing Report (1914)
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  Fawcett mapping the Brazil and Bolivia frontier, 1908 Scan

  Royal Geographical Society ·from Percy Fawcett and the Maricoxi hairy men (1914)
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  Henry Costin with an Amazonian tribe, 1914 Scan

  Courtesy of Michael Costin, via davidgrann.com ·from Percy Fawcett and the Maricoxi hairy men (1914)