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  Unlabelled illustration placed beside the City of Baltimore passage; subject unconfirmed. Scan

  Frontiers of Zoology ·from Major H. W. J. Senior's sea serpent from the SS City of Baltimore, Gulf of Aden, 1879 (1879)
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  The 'Sea Serpent' as seen from the 'City of Baltimore'. Period engraving reproduced from The Graphic. Scan

  Henry Lee, Sea Monsters Unmasked (1883), Fig. 21 ·from Major H. W. J. Senior's sea serpent from the SS City of Baltimore, Gulf of Aden, 1879 (1879)
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  The Sea-Serpent, as seen by Major Senior of the City of Baltimore. The same engraving, copied from Lee. Scan

  A. C. Oudemans, The Great Sea-Serpent (1892), Fig. 46 ·from Major H. W. J. Senior's sea serpent from the SS City of Baltimore, Gulf of Aden, 1879 (1879)
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  Aerial torpedo balloon, Baltimore Sunday Herald, September 13, 1896 Scan

  Baltimore Sunday Herald ·from Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897 (1896)
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  Baltimore Sun retrospective clipping Scan

  Botetourt County Memory ·from The Mad Gasser of Botetourt County (1933)

  Precursor to anthrax hysteria: the Mad Gasser of Roanoke In early '30s, public's imagination ran wild in Virginia By MATT CHITTUM ASSOCIATED PRESS FINCASTLE, Va. — Men sat awake with shotguns across their laps. Women stuffed rags into keyholes and the cracks around windows. Police chased shadows. Th…

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  Baltimore Sun retrospective clipping Scan

  Botetourt County Memory ·from The Mad Gasser of Botetourt County (1933)

  Hysteria stops After two months, the hysteria stopped without an arrest. But it went on long enough to be classified by one sociologist as a classic case of mass delusion on the basis of "worlds" or "Worlds" Martian radio scare and, much more recently, anthrax. "If you want to know what it was like …

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  Baltimore Sun retrospective clipping Scan

  Botetourt County Memory ·from The Mad Gasser of Botetourt County (1933)

  Clipped From The Baltimore Sun Edit Share Print Download Save to Ancestry REGION ASSOCIATED PRESS Bob Willis of Fincastle, Va, holds the book "Little Green Men, Mowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panies." Willis has a chapter in the book about an event 70 years ago in which residents in Bototour and Roano…

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  Baltimore Sun retrospective clipping with a photo of an author and book Scan

  Botetourt County Memory ·from The Mad Gasser of Botetourt County (1933)

  FINCASTLE, Va. — Men sat awake with shotguns across their laps. Women stuffed rags into keyholes and the cracks around windows. Police chased up the hysteria with dozens of news stories. Local politicians offered a reward. When and where would the fiend strike next? There was a mad gasser on the loo…

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  Daily Alaska Empire clipping, 8 June 1936, '1,300 pound sea monster discovered'. A later, different case (Copalis Beach, Washington), not the Jordan River animal. Scan

  The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, A.K.), June 8, 1936, via Library of Congress Chronicling America ·from Jorda: the 25-foot 'infant' Cadborosaurus of Jordan River (1934)

  1,300 POUND SEA MONSTER DISCOVERED Crowds on Washington State Beach Examne Strange Creature ARNENDEL Waikato, June 8 — Croatia's Capitol Beach are examining the remains of a 15th- 13,500 pound monster re- vealing the burrowing animal serves, found on the beach D. W. M. Block Baltimore sociologist, a…

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  Newspaper article titled '1,300 pound sea monster discovered.' The Daily Alaska Empire (Juneau, A.K.), June 8, 1936. Scan

  Library of Congress, Chronicling America ·from Copalis Beach Sea Monster Carcass (1936)

  1,300 POUND SEA MONSTER DISCOVERED Crowds on Washington State Beach Examine Strange Creature ABERDEEN, Wash., June 8. Crowds on Copalis Beach here are examining the remains of a 12-foot, 1,300 pound sea monster resembling the legendary sea serpents, found on the beach. Dr. D. W. Black, Baltimore zoo…

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  Baltimore Sun, 2 January 1945, AP story from a US night fighter base in France. Scan

  Baltimore Sun / Associated Press, via Patrick Gross ·from Foo Fighters of World War II (1944)

  Great Balls Of Fire! Nazis Throw Them At Our Planes A U.S. Night Fighter Base, France, Jan. 1 (P)—The Nazls have thrown something new into the night skies over Germany—the weird mysterious "foo-fighter," balls of fire which race alongside the wings of American Beaufighters flying intruder missions o…

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  Project Blue Book index sheet, January to March 1948 Scan

  USAF / NARA via NICAP ·from The Mantell UFO Incident (1948)

  http://www.bluebookarchive.org/page.aspx?PageCode=NARA-PBB1-15 JANUARY - FEBRUARY - MARCH 1948 SIGHTINGS LOCATION January OBSERVER 1948 | Antarctic NOT IN FOLDER | NOT IN FOLDER (Photos) (Photos) 1948 | Warren, Minnesota (NO CARD) | PHYSICAL-G Other (HOAX) 110 | Abilene, Texas | | Insufficient Data …

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  Baltimore Sun, 17 October 1954 Scan

  Baltimore Sun, via Patrick Gross ·from Pournoy-la-Chétive landing: the children's "Martian in a cassock" (1954)

  But The More Paris Changes... “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.” By HENRI DE TURENNE Special Correspondent of The Sun Paris, Oct. 16 — The skies of France are as crowded with flying saucers this fall as Times Square is with people on New Year's Eve. Squadrons of saucers, plates and soup tur…

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  ExoNews featured image, probably the same 1958 Baltimore Sun rendering Scan

  Baltimore Sun (via ExoNews) ·from Loch Raven Dam car-stall encounter (Philip Small and Alvin Cohen) (1958)
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  Artist's rendering of the Loch Raven object, published in the Baltimore Sun on 15 December 1958 Scan

  Baltimore Sun File Photo ·from Loch Raven Dam car-stall encounter (Philip Small and Alvin Cohen) (1958)
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  "The Baltimore Poltergeist" by Naver and Kidd, Tomorrow Vol. 8 No. 2, Spring 1960, p. 9 Scan

  Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation collection, Coll. 331, UMBC Special Collections ·from The Baltimore Poltergeist: the exploding pitchers of the Jones and Pauls household (1960)

  The chandelier swung violently, pitchers and bottles crashed, a sugar bowl leaped, and an incense burner flew off the shelf THE BALTIMORE POLTERGEIST Michael Naver and Travis Kidd TO any outside observer, the Edgar G. Jones family would appear as a model of a closely-knit, happy household. Lodged in…

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  "What Makes a Poltergeist" editorial, Tomorrow, Spring 1960 Scan

  Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation collection, Coll. 331, UMBC Special Collections ·from The Baltimore Poltergeist: the exploding pitchers of the Jones and Pauls household (1960)

  WHAT MAKES A "POLTERGEIST" ON THE following pages, the readers of TOMORROW will find a variety of articles dealing with cases of so-called "poltergeist" activity. These narratives are presented with one aim in mind: to advance the knowledge of the human personality, as it manifests itself through su…

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  "The Baltimore Poltergeist", Tomorrow, Spring 1960, p. 10 Scan

  Eileen J. Garrett Parapsychology Foundation collection, Coll. 331, UMBC Special Collections ·from The Baltimore Poltergeist: the exploding pitchers of the Jones and Pauls household (1960)

  memories of his fire-fighting career and still keeps an especially tuned radio in the house to keep him posted on fire alarms. His wife, a small, pert woman in her sixties, has no time for such matters. To her falls the job of running the house, keeping things running smoothly. She is efficient and …

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  Project Blue Book file page NARA-PBB1-274, linked by NICAP to the Oracle case Scan

  U.S. National Archives, Project Blue Book microfilm ·from The Oracle Titan Missile Silo Sighting (1962)

  8037 1 - Dayton, Ohio 8037 2 Hauge, New York 8037 2 Liberal, Kansas 8040 3 Azusa, California 8041 6 Santa Cruz, Bolivia 8042 6 Colorado Springs, Colorado 8044 7 Hayden, Colorado 8047 7 Curacao, Netherlands Antillan 8046 7 Petersburg, Virginia 8048 7 33.53N 163.56E (Pacific) 8048 7 38.01N 173.15W (Pa…