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Creature record / 1873

The Bonham Sky Serpent and the Fort Scott Serpent

June 1873 · Near Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, United States
15Thinly documented Cryptid Creature 16 sources 2 videos

June 1873. A farm five or six miles from Bonham, Texas. A cloud passed over the fields. Inside it, the farmer saw something resembling an enormous serpent. It was as large and as long as a telegraph pole, of a yellow striped color. It seemed to float along without any effort. It coiled itself up. It turned over. It thrust forward its huge head. Several parties of men and boys at work in the fields watched it too. They were seriously frightened. That same June, two witnesses at Fort Scott, Kansas, described a huge serpent encircling the sun. The New York Times called the Bonham story the very worst case of delirium tremens on record. Later writers turned both into flying machines.

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Context

Fannin County, north Texas. June 1873. The town of Bonham had a newspaper, the Bonham Enterprise, and that month it printed a story from a farm outside town. On 6 July 1873 the New York Times passed it on to the rest of the country.

Sources (16, most influential first)

  1. Airshipcat: Bonham, Texas, 1873 · Patrick Gross, ufology.patrickgross.org · Research organisation · org report
  2. Sky serpents over Fannin County? · North Texas e-News· 2022-08-16 · Press, book, documentary · news
  3. The Sky Serpent Sightings: When Eyewitnesses Tell the Unbelievable · Anomalien· 2021-02-21 · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  4. Sky Serpents · Cryptomundo· 2009-08-04 · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  5. Airshipcat: Fort Scott, Kansas, 1873 · Patrick Gross, ufology.patrickgross.org · Research organisation · org report