Unnatural Phenomena

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Summary

Supplemental Materials

Organized geographically, Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America explores the history of natural phenomena in virtually every U.S. state.

Acknowledgments,

xix

Introduction,

xxi

ALABAMA,

(4)

1855 and Before: Tracks of Giant Snakes,

(1)

1870: Rain Mystery,

(1)

1882: Falling Perch,

(1)

1888-1889: Ghost Breaks Up Marriage,

(1)

1889: Scaring the Horse,

(1)

1897: Snake from Toe,

(1)

1900: Flying Cross,

(1)

1900: Shot by a Light,

(1)

1910: Rain without Explanation,

(1)

ALASKA,

(4)

1800 and After: Little Men,

(1)

1889 and After: City in the Mist,

(2)

1890: The Last Mammoth,

(2)

ARIZONA,

(2)

1893: Headless Ghosts,

(1)

1900: The Ghost Fires Back,

(1)

ARKANSAS,

(4)

1851 and Before: Hairy Giant,

(1)

1890: Merry Spirit,

(1)

1894: The Bells Toll,

(3)

CALIFORNIA,

(16)

1833: Giant Found and Lost,

(1)

1851: Raining the Unimaginable,

(1)

1859: Apparition at the Forecastle Door,

(1)

1860: "The Shape of a Huge Man,"

(1)

1868: Giant Snake on the Road,

(1)

1879: A Rain of Water Lizards,

(1)

1882: Attacked by an Enormous Snake,

(1)

1882: Flying Train, Flying Reptile,

(1)

1882: Ghost in a Circle,

(1)

1883: "A Large Mass of Glowing Matter,"

(1)

1885: Drumming in the Night,

(1)

1885: Crickets from Clouds,

(1)

1886: Big Shower of Little Frogs,

(1)

1886: Ashes and Cinders,

(1)

1886: Fireboy,

(1)

1888: Ball of Fire Too Closely Encountered,

(1)

1888 and Beyond: Phantom Giant,

(1)

1890: Raining Crabs,

(1)

1890: Serpent of Land and Water,

(1)

1891: "What Is It?"

(1)

1891: "This Unknown Creature,"

(1)

1891: Enigmas,

(1)

1891: "A Gigantic Lizard,"

(1)

1891: Boiling Water Falling,

(1)

1892: Mounted Phantoms,

(1)

1893: Astronomical Oddity,

(1)

1896: Airships Sailing and Stolen,

(3)

1897: Airship Again,

(1)

1897: Fast-Moving Light,

(1)

1897: Vampire Attacks,

(1)

1898: The Night before Last I Had the Strangest Dream,

(1)

1905: Screaming Sky,

(1)

1909: Mystery Ship over the Imperial Valley,

(1)

1912: Mysterious Ocean Thing,

(1)

COLORADO,

(2)

1878: Creek Lights,

(1)

1892: Massive Space Rock,

(1)

1895: Luminous Snow,

(1)

1897: Light in the Spring Night,

(1)

1897: "Genuine Flying Machine,"

(1)

CONNECTICUT,

(8)

1729 and After: Moodus Noises,

(1)

1855: "A Brilliant Red Ball of Fire,"

(1)

1867: South Canaan Serpent,

(1)

1882: Anomalous Ocean Disturbance,

(1)

1882: Comet Or...?,

(1)

1886: Gnome,

(1)

1886: Phantom Passenger,

(1)

1886: "Huge Sea Serpent,"

(1)

1888: "As Though by a Gigantic Plow,"

(1)

1892: Musical Thunder,

(1)

1906: Strange Flying Machine,

(1)

1908: Groton Poltergeist,

(1)

1911: Worms in a Snowstorm,

(2)

DELAWARE,

(2)

1904: Anomalous Cloud,

(2)

FLORIDA,

(6)

1844: "Nearly Equal to the Size of the Moon,"

(1)

1840's and After: Phantom Volcano,

(1)

1878: "Dumfounded at Seeing Such a Monster,"

(1)

1881: "A Monster Unlike Anything Ever Seen or Heard of Before,"

(1)

1887: "As High as a Good Sized Man,"

(1)

1890: Mermaid on the Line,

(1)

1894: Gulf Lights,

(1)

1895: "A Wicked Looking Head,"

(1)

1899: Snake in the Air,

(3)

GEORGIA,

(12)

1869: Sheet of Flame,

(1)

1875: Lightning Figures,

(1)

1880: "Wonders of a Meteor,"

(1)

1881: Ghost Machine, Phantom Engineer,

(1)

1881: Fiery Whirlwind,

(1)

1882: "Supernatural Monster,"

(1)

1882: "A Very Large Dog with a Lamp Perched upon Its Head,"

(1)

1883: A Snake Where No Snake Should Have Been,

(1)

1883: Invisible Rappers,

(1)

1883: "Aerial Cyclone on the Wing,"

(1)

1884: "Mysterious Luminary,"

(1)

1886: A Spook in the Air,

(1)

1888: Angels, Cross in the Sky, and a Day of Terror,

(1)

1888: Subterranean Mystery Heat,

(1)

1889: "Like a Terrible Cyclone,"

(1)

1889: Hellhound on Their Trail,

(1)

1889: "A Woman Dressed in White and of Giant Size,"

(1)

1890: Perpetual Rain,

(1)

1891: Snake-Headed Fish,

(1)

1892: Fireballs All Around,

(1)

1892: The Train Passed over Her,

(1)

1892: The Moon Vanishes,

(1)

1893: Mysterious Dog-Killer,

(1)

1893: Invisible Rock-Thrower,

(1)

1894: Barking Monster,

(1)

1895: "The Most Loathsome- Looking Animal That Ever Inhabited This Earth,"

(1)

1895: Balls of Lightning Fire,

(1)

1897: A Gentle Shower from Nowhere,

(1)

1902: Goat Ghost,

(1)

1910: Elusive Illumination,

(1)

IDAHO,

(2)

1874: Beautiful Ghost, Bad Manners,

(1)

1894: Shower of Salt,

(2)

ILLINOIS,

(16)

1854: Ball-Lightning Swarm,

(1)

1859: Apparition's Cold Glare,

(1)

1867: "A Vast Monster, Part Fish and Part Serpent,"

(1)

1869: Millions of Somethings,

(1)

1870: Artifact from a Lost Civilization?,

(1)

1870: "Immensely Awful Sky Battle,"

(1)

1882: Fire-Breathing Phantom,

(1)

1883: Lake Monster in Distress,

(1)

1883: Lights, Sounds, Grisly Scene,

(1)

1883: Green Frogs in the Falling Rain,

(1)

1883-1884: Lake Michigan Monster,

(1)

1886: Mirage Train,

(1)

1888: Phantom Train Wreck, Ghostly Trainmen,

(1)

1890: Neither Venus nor Meteor,

(1)

1890: "The Bridge Is Burned!,"

(1)

1891: Balls of Fire in the Street,

(1)

1892: Collision?,

(1)

1893: Suicide Reenacted,

(1)

1893: "Mounted on a Magnificent Horse,"

(1)

1894: Ball-Lightning Destruction,

(1)

1896: Colored Snow,

(1)

1896: Giant Reptile,

(1)

1897: Airship over Chicago,

(1)

1897: Airship Wrench,

(1)

1897: Verses concerning "That Airship,"

(1)

1900-1935: The Universe according to Zion,

(2)

1902: Ghostly Woman in Black,

(1)

1902: Well-Dressed Phantom Female,

(1)

1907: Watseka Wonder,

(1)

1909: Ghost with Fiery Eyes,

(1)

1910: Airship or Balloon?,

(3)

INDIANA,

(22)

1838: The Monster of Devil's Lake,

(1)

1839: Wild Child,

(1)

1870: Rock Attacks,

(1)

1870: "The Spirit of a Beautiful Little Girl,"

(1)

1871: Through the Looking Glass,

(1)

1879: Chased by a Dragon,

(3)

1881: Phantom Boat,

(1)

1883: Ghost in the Railroad Yard,

(1)

1883: Hairy Female Biped,

(1)

1884: "A Sudden Burst of Ruddy Light,"

(1)

1886: Figures in the Night,

(1)

1887: Ghostly Giant,

(1)

1888: Flying Fish,

(1)

1890: Fainting the Dead Away,

(1)

Circa 1890: Cry from the Sky,

(1)

1891: Immense Rattler,

(1)

1891: A Shroud with Fins,

(1)

1892: Phantom Prankster,

(1)

1892: Strange Snow,

(1)

1892: "White Robed Visions Walking,"

(1)

1892: Serpent of Horse-Shoe Pond,

(1)

1892: Serpent of Big Swan Pond,

(1)

1893 and Before: On the Banks of the Wabash, and Elsewhere,

(1)

1893: Snake of Fire, Ropes of Ice,

(1)

1894: Omen in the Oats,

(1)

1894: Disappearing in Midair,

(1)

1894: Shower of Frogs,

(1)

1894: Mud Mermaids,

(1)

1894: Fifer's Music from Beyond,

(1)

1895 and Before: A Huge Reptile,

(1)

1895: Ghost Spurns Cop,

(1)

1895: "A Legion of Impalpable Forms,"

(1)

1896: Masonic Temple in the Sky,

(1)

1897: Airship over Indiana,

(1)

1897: The Medium and the Airship,

(1)

1897: Airship over Vincennes,

(1)

1897: "A Strange Animal Which Resembles a Man,"

(1)

1897-1898: Ghost in a Fedora,

(1)

1903: The Not-So-Real Airship Passes,

(1)

1903: A Team of Ghost Horses,

(1)

1904-1905: Swaying Lights on the Line,

(1)

1906: Airship Landing,

(1)

1913: Light in the River,

(1)

1927 and Before: Legend into Life,

(2)

IOWA,

101

(8)

1863: Men in Black,

101

(1)

1864: "In the Habiliments of the Tomb,"

102

(1)

1864: Odd Luminous Phenomena in the Heavens,

102

(1)

1867: "Chivalric Ghost,"

103

(1)

1874: Poltergeist at the Paint Station,

103

(1)

1875: Trotting Ghost,

103

(1)

1880: Captured Serpent Alleged,

103

(1)

1883: "A Literal Shower of Birds,"

104

(1)

1884: Wild and Hairy Woman,

104

(1)

1885: Bizarre Haunting,

104

(1)

1895: "Spectral Lantern,"

105

(1)

1897: Airships over Western Iowa,

105

(1)

1897: Airships over Eastern Iowa,

105

(1)

1897: Scaring the Horses,

106

(1)

1899: "Lady in Black,"

106

(1)

1901: Coal House Ghost,

106

(1)

1907: Ghost in a Mine Shaft,

107

(2)

KANSAS,

109

(6)

1873: Serpent in the Sky,

109

(1)

1875: Flying Serpent Preserved,

109

(1)

1882: Shower of Pebbles,

109

(1)

1882: Rainbow Cloud,

109

(1)

1882: "An Etching on the Darkness,"

110

(1)

1886: Ghost of an Injured Child,

110

(1)

1887: Ghost of the Narrows,

110

(1)

1891: Personal Precipitation,

110

(1)

1892: Mud Fall,

111

(1)

1894: War in the Heavens,

111

(1)

1896: Unknown Aerial Object,

112

(1)

1897: Monstrous Reptilian Creature,

112

(1)

1897: Railroad-Bridge Specter,

113

(1)

1899: Picture in a Horse's Eye,

113

(1)

1919: Multiple Balls of Light,

113

(2)

KENTUCKY,

115

(8)

Circa 1845: Knitting Needles from the Sky,

115

(1)

1857: "Dreadful Reptile,"

115

(1)

1866: "Some Demoniacal Personage,"

116

(1)

1868: Centaur on the Road,

117

(1)

1876: The Kentucky Phenomenon,

117

(1)

1879: Child Flying,

118

(1)

1880: Leaper and Flyer,

119

(1)

1886: Scenes from a Haunted House,

119

(1)

1893: Light in Winter,

120

(1)

1893: Colored Discs,

120

(1)

1896: Pink Creature,

121

(1)

1897: "A Huge Oblong Shape,"

122

(1)

LOUISIANA,

123

(4)

1866: A Strike from Above,

123

(1)

1890: Dancing Star,

123

(1)

1891: "Strange Feathered Monster,"

123

(1)

1892: Shrieks, Laughter, and Screams in the Night,

124

(1)

1897: "A Machine of Unique Invention,"

124

(3)

MAINE,

127

(4)

1853: Balls of Purple Fire,

127

(1)

1854: "The Appearance of a Miniature Human Being,"

127

(1)

1870: "By Some Unknown Power,"

128

(1)

1882: Path of an Immense Serpent,

128

(1)

1885: Captured Sea Creature,

129

(1)

1891: "Emanating from Some Heavenly Body,"

130

(1)

1896: Haunted Town,

130

(1)

MARYLAND,

131

(8)

1849: Musical Question,

131

(1)

1860: Light upon the Rail,

131

(1)

1874: Spewing Ball Lightning,

132

(1)

1879: "A Substance...That Looked Like Snow,"

132

(1)

1879: Anomalous Illumination,

132

(1)

1881: His Soul Goes Marching through the Clouds,

132

(2)

1882 and Before: A Monster Crossing the Road,

134

(1)

1883: Yellow Rain,

134

(1)

1883: Red, White, and Blue Lights,

134

(1)

1883: The Red, White, and Blue,

134

(1)

1884: Suddenly, Hordes of Crickets,

135

(1)

1885: Ball Lightning on the Track,

135

(1)

1889: Luminous Cylinder,

135

(1)

1889: Silent Spook,

136

(1)

1894: Creature with No Head,

136

(1)

1894: Strange Stars,

136

(1)

1895: Market House Spook,

136

(1)

1898: Phantom Woman Minus Head,

137

(1)

1901: 500 Frogs,

137

(1)

1915: "Luminous Ball of Large Proportions,"

137

(2)

MASSACHUSETTS,

139

(10)

1819: Rot from the Stars,

139

(1)

1837: "Monster...from Nowhere,"

140

(1)

1841: Sky Squid,

140

(1)

1849: Sea Serpent More Than 100 Feet Long,

140

(1)

1850: Black Rainbow,

141

(1)

1855: This Train Is Bound for Plymouth,

141

(1)

1864: The Blob,

142

(1)

Circa 1869: Specter Crew,

142

(1)

1870: Red Light, Invisible Train,

142

(1)

1875: Carrying the Serpent,

143

(1)

1883: "Hydra-Headed Monster,"

143

(1)

1885: "Bright Line of Light,"

143

(1)

1886: Bug-Eyed,

143

(1)

1887: Frogs from Rain,

144

(1)

1892: Oceanquake and Luminosity,

144

(1)

1893: Floating Hand,

145

(1)

1894: Ghost in a Boat,

145

(1)

1900: Like a Horseshoe with Arms,

146

(1)

1909: Zigzagging Light,

146

(3)

MICHIGAN,

149

(6)

1858: Stomach Snake,

149

(1)

1868: Light as Bright as Day,

149

(1)

1870: "Monster Resembling a Snake,"

150

(1)

1878: Ghost in the Woodpile,

150

(1)

1884: Walled Lake Reptile,

151

(1)

1884: Fall of Chalk,

151

(1)

1884: "Rainstorm of Stones,"

151

(1)

1885: Cemetery Light,

151

(1)

1892: "Singular Whirring Noise,"

152

(1)

1894: Superior Serpent,

152

(1)

1895: Swamp Fire,

152

(1)

1897: Lights on the Water,

153

(1)

1897: Space Giant,

153

(2)

MINNESOTA,

155

(16)

1868: Monster in the Mississippi,

155

(2)

1872: "My Body Lies Buried,"

157

(1)

1872: "Awful Apparition of the Dead Man,"

157

(1)

1875: "Some Monster as Yet New to Naturalists,"

158

(1)

1881: Strange Flying Phenomenon,

159

(1)

1883 and Before: Shooting at the Serpent,

159

(1)

1887: "Countless Millions of Bugs,"

159

(1)

1889: Dirty Snow,

159

(1)

1892: Miracles at St. Michael's,

160

(1)

1897: Martians over Minnesota,

161

(1)

1897: Insect Shower,

161

(1)

1898 and After: Rune Stone,

162

(8)

Late 1800's and After: Old Oscar,

170

(1)

MISSISSIPPI,

171

(4)

1843: The Man in the Moon,

171

(1)

1876: Mystery Platform,

172

(1)

1877: Mississippi Monster,

172

(1)

1878: Rumors of a Monster,

173

(1)

1889: Giant Snake, Gold Coin,

173

(1)

1896 and Before: Otherworldly Goat,

173

(2)

MISSOURI,

175

(8)

1873: "Strange Spiritual Manifestations,"

175

(1)

1873: Rocks and Gravel,

175

(1)

1874: Talking Specter on a White Horse,

176

(1)

1877: The Dragon and the Bull,

176

(1)

1878: Shower of Fish, Lizards, and Leeches,

177

(1)

1883: Exploding Ball of Fire,

178

(1)

1887: "A White and Airy Object,"

178

(1)

1887: "Ghostly Cable Train,"

178

(1)

1890: "Pink Eyes and Yellow Wings,"

179

(1)

1890: Paralyzed by Electrical Terror,

179

(1)

1890: Fatal Electrical Anomaly,

179

(1)

1891: Eaten by a Giant Snake?,

179

(1)

1897: Airship Landing,

180

(1)

1911: Spotted Snake with Wings,

180

(3)

MONTANA,

183

(4)

1864: "A Messenger from the Celestial Regions,"

183

(1)

1867: Unknown Animal,

184

(1)

1886: A Fatal Case of Venomous Snake,

184

(1)

1901: "Huge Star Fish" Overhead,

184

(1)

1915: "A Huge Black Mass" Overhead,

185

(2)

NEBRASKA,

187

(4)

1884: "Belonging to Some Other Planet,"

187

(1)

1889: "Ghost Like Object,"

188

(1)

1897: Raining Airships,

188

(1)

1920's: Alkali Lake Monster,

188

(3)

NEVADA,

191

(8)

1867: Rolling Stones,

191

(1)

1868: "Beautiful Celestial Phenomenon,"

191

(1)

1877: Turbaned Ghost,

192

(1)

1879: Mystery of the Wahhoo,

192

(1)

1879: Nature of the Beast,

193

(1)

1882: Green Storm,

194

(1)

1882-1883: Footprints in Stone,

194

(1)

1886: After the Rain,

195

(1)

1888: Fish and Frogs from the Sky,

195

(2)

1892: Ghost of the Red Barn,

197

(1)

1894: "Mysterious Visitor with a Fanlike Tail,"

197

(1)

1896: Airship Inventor,

197

(1)

1907: Sky Ship,

197

(2)

NEW HAMPSHIRE,

199

(2)

1868: Killing a Giant Water Snake,

199

(1)

1882: Vanishing Star,

199

(1)

1894: Merbeings,

199

(1)

1909: Nocturnal Lights,

199

(2)

NEW JERSEY,

201

(10)

1866: Jersey Ghost,

201

(1)

1873: No-Show Ghost,

201

(1)

1879: Attacked by Ball Lightning,

201

(1)

1885: Red Suspenders, No Head,

202

(1)

1885: Whizzing, Fast Giant Ghost,

202

(1)

1886: "Strange-Looking Object, Clad in Black,"

203

(1)

1886: "The Spirit...Was Wide Awake,"

204

(1)

1886: "Instantaneous Photography by Lightning,"

204

(1)

1887: Apparition with a Gashed Throat,

204

(1)

1889: Ball and Stars,

205

(1)

1891: Hoop-Snake,

205

(1)

1892: Mysterious Balloon,

206

(1)

1894: The Apparition on Eagle Rock,

206

(1)

1896: Shrieking Ghost,

207

(1)

1897: "Strange Meteor,"

207

(1)

1897: "In the Clouds,"

208

(1)

1899: "A Bloody, Mangled Wraith,"

208

(1)

1901: Spirit or Joker,

209

(1)

1905: A Lantern from the Sky,

209

(1)

1909: Club-Haunting Ghost,

209

(1)

1911: Canal Serpent,

210

(1)

NEW MEXICO,

211

(4)

1880's and Before: Dinosaur in the Crater,

211

(1)

1880: On the China-New Mexico-New York Line,

212

(3)

NEW YORK,

215

(20)

1815: Rising Stones,

215

(1)

1822: Mystery Light,

215

(1)

1828: Grasshopper on Her Back,

215

(1)

1840: Between the Earth and the Moon,

216

(1)

1842: Extraordinary Aerolite with Bizarre Effects,

216

(1)

1843: "Nearly as Large as the Moon Itself,"

217

(1)

1843: Fantastic Mirage,

217

(1)

1852: Mysterious Sound,

217

(1)

1855: Big Serpent in a Small Pond,

218

(1)

1858: Unmeteorlike "Meteor,"

218

(1)

1860: Snake from on High,

218

(1)

1866: "Minotaur, Man, Beast, or Demon,"

218

(2)

1868 and After: Giant,

220

(2)

1874: Blood from Nowhere,

222

(1)

1875: Balls of Fire in Church,

223

(1)

1878: Snow Worms,

223

(1)

1878: Spirit Fire,

224

(1)

1880: Sailing on Bat's Wings,

224

(1)

1882: Visions of Mary,

224

(1)

1883: Interplanetary Sword,

225

(1)

1883: Lights along the Track,

226

(1)

1885: Mountain Light,

226

(1)

1886: A Soap-Bubble Sky,

227

(1)

1886: 'A Marine Monster 100 Feet Long,"

227

(1)

1886: Ghostly Boatman,

227

(2)

1891: Fallen with the Snow?,

229

(1)

1891: Enigmatic Fog,

229

(1)

1891: Unparalleled Storm,

229

(1)

1891: "A Ball of Liquid Fire,"

229

(1)

1892: Lightning in a Ball,

229

(1)

1894: A Living Cloud,

230

(1)

1895: Toads from Clouds,

230

(1)

1896: "A Wild Unearthly Shriek of Laughter,"

230

(1)

1896: Asylum Phantom,

231

(1)

1896: Floating across the Road,

231

(1)

1896: Angel Overhead,

231

(1)

1897: Lawless Airship,

232

(1)

1897: "Marvel of the Skies,"

232

(1)

1897: Leaping Ghost,

232

(1)

1898: "A Perfect Cross,"

233

(1)

1907: Missing Body,

233

(2)

NORTH CAROLINA,

235

(10)

1793: Giants in the Mountains,

235

(1)

1806, 1811: Ghost Riders,

235

(2)

1850: A Shower of Flesh and Blood,

237

(1)

1860: Illuminated Mystery Objects,

237

(1)

1874: Giants in the Earth,

237

(1)

1876: Flesh Fall,

238

(1)

1880: "The Shape of a Huge Spotted Serpent,"

238

(1)

1882: "Comet"-Spooked Horses,

238

(1)

1882: Woman or Creature?,

239

(1)

1884: A Rectangle of Fallen Flesh,

239

(1)

1888: Underground Turbulence,

240

(1)

1890 and Before: Specter in the Spring,

240

(1)

1897: "Great Sheet of Flame,"

240

(1)

1897: "A Brilliant Floating Mass,"

241

(1)

1897: Fall of Unknown Material,

241

(1)

1900: Black Cloud, Black Rain,

241

(1)

1900: Howling and Prowling,

242

(1)

1904: Sailing Snakes,

242

(1)

1908: Ghosts in Jail,

242

(1)

1913 and Beyond: Brown Mountain Lights,

242

(3)

NORTH DAKOTA,

245

(2)

1883: Field of Giants,

245

(1)

1885: "Hurled from Some Planetary Wreck,"

245

(1)

1899: Ships in an Atmospheric Ocean,

246

(1)

OHIO,

247

(22)

1825: Balls, Balls, and More Balls of Light,

247

(1)

1826: Worlds within the World,

247

(3)

1832: Fall of Slimy Material,

250

(1)

1837: Graveyard of Little People,

250

(1)

1859: Spirits,

250

(1)

1859: Image of a Rattlesnake,

251

(1)

1873: Headless Ghost, Phantom Fires,

251

(1)

1877: Rural Poltergeist,

251

(1)

1880: Supernatural Flames,

252

(1)

1881: "One of the Most Disagreeable Spooks on Record,"

252

(1)

1881: Fear of a Serpent,

252

(1)

1883: Misogynist Phantom,

252

(1)

1884: Assaulting a Ghost,

252

(1)

1884: Lights, Moans, Figures,

253

(1)

1884: Square White Light,

253

(1)

1884: "Not a Pleasant Looking Customer,"

254

(1)

1884: Light amid the Snow,

254

(1)

1885: Haunted by Fireball,

254

(1)

1887: Woman in White on the Track,

254

(1)

1887: "A Tall, White Object,"

254

(1)

1887: "Monster Reptile,"

255

(1)

1887: Hazards of Drinking from a Spring,

255

(1)

1888: Warning by a Headless Ghost,

255

(1)

1888: Rain of Stones and Broken Pottery,

256

(1)

1888: Circle of Fire,

256

(1)

1888: "Men of Gigantic Stature,"

256

(1)

1889: Unexplained Illumination,

256

(1)

1889: Snails Falling,

257

(1)

1889: Giant Snake Ate Giant Man,

257

(1)

1889-1890: The Conductor Returns,

258

(1)

Late 1800's: Flying Entity, Black Dog,

258

(1)

1890 and Before: Big Snake of Upper Sandusky,

259

(1)

1890: Swallowed a Frog,

259

(1)

1891: Figures in the Glass,

260

(1)

1891: Headless Horse Horror,

260

(1)

1892: Mystery Mist,

260

(1)

1893: "A Frightful Object in White,"

260

(1)

1894: Pale Rider,

260

(1)

1894: Late-Night Visitant,

261

(1)

1894: "Spirits of the Air,"

261

(1)

1894: Lights in the Snow,

261

(1)

1895: Sign of the Cross,

261

(1)

1895: linger-Pointing Cloud,

261

(1)

1895: "Rather Peculiar Ghost Actions,"

262

(1)

1895: Lights and Heavy Bodies Falling,

262

(1)

1897: Dangerous Visitor,

262

(1)

1897: Crazy about the Airship,

262

(1)

1897: Log-Throwing Snake,

263

(1)

1898: Over Lake Erie,

263

(1)

1898: Bullet Strikes Ghost,

263

(1)

1899: Skeleton of "Dazzling Brightness,"

263

(1)

1902: Prowling Ghost,

264

(1)

1902: "Dressed Entirely in Black,"

264

(1)

1905: Haunting Lights,

264

(1)

1905: "Blue Bells,"

264

(1)

1906: Bolt out of the Blue,

265

(1)

1908: Nerve-Wracking Ghost,

265

(1)

1908: "Awful Thing" in a Long Black Cape,

265

(1)

1908: A Sign from Above,

265

(1)

1909: Luminous Enigma,

265

(1)

1909: "The Coils of a Huge Snake,"

266

(1)

1909: Church Phantom,

266

(1)

1909: Flying Bucket,

266

(1)

1910: Light on the Lake,

266

(1)

1911: Unexplained Red Light,

267

(1)

1911: Out of the Sky,

267

(2)

OKLAHOMA,

269

(2)

1912: Raining Toads,

269

(2)

OREGON,

271

(2)

1869: Screaming Head,

271

(1)

1870: In the Mines,

271

(1)

1896: Airship Madness,

271

(1)

1896: "Immense Ball of Fire Flying through Space,"

271

(2)

PENNSYLVANIA,

273

(16)

1834: Eggs of War,

273

(1)

1849: Caterpillars in the Snow,

273

(1)

1857: "A Sulphurous Mass,"

273

(1)

1864: "A Beautiful White Rose,"

274

(1)

1867: Poltergeist Speaks,

274

(1)

1869: It Seemed to Inspire Terror,"

275

(1)

1872: Phantom in the Coal,

275

(1)

1873 and After: Haunted Railway,

275

(1)

1879: Brimstone Snow,

276

(1)

1880's: Giant in a Vault,

276

(1)

1881: Vision or Hallucination?,

276

(1)

1883: A Ghost, Madness, and Death,

277

(1)

1884: Headless Man with Lantern,

278

(1)

1885: "The Head in One of Its Hands,"

278

(1)

1885: "A Woman, Spectral in Appearance,"

278

(1)

1885: Phantom Freight,

279

(1)

1885: Ghost on the Heights,

279

(1)

1886: Frog in Coal,

279

(1)

1886: Slimed,

280

(1)

1887: "Monster Air Snake,"

280

(1)

1889: Spectral Driver, Horses Breathing Fire,

280

(2)

1889: Apparitional Black Dog,

282

(1)

Late 1800's: Otherworldly Reptile,

282

(1)

1890: Ball of Fire,

283

(1)

1890: Ghostly Procession,

283

(1)

1892: "Black Ghost,"

283

(1)

1892: A Monster with Heart-Shaped Scales,

284

(1)

1895: Insect-Black Snow,

284

(1)

1897: Flying Cigar,

285

(1)

1897: "Swung by an Unseen Hand,"

285

(1)

1902: Cross on the Moon,

285

(1)

1903: Raining Frogs,

285

(1)

1906: Winged Water Serpent,

286

(1)

1907: Unidentified Flying Object,

286

(1)

1907: "Volumes of Flames from Its Mouth,"

286

(1)

1908: Apparitional Ball of Fire,

286

(1)

1908: "The Ghost Answers the Telephone,"

287

(1)

1911: "A Black Snake between 12 and 15 Feet Long,"

287

(2)

RHODE ISLAND,

289

(4)

Circa 1875-Early 1880's: Ghosts on Trains,

289

(1)

1887-1888: Entity and Anomalous Light,

289

(1)

1888: "As Big around as a Barrel,"

290

(1)

1896: Ghost "as Big as an Elephant,"

291

(2)

SOUTH CAROLINA,

293

(4)

1870: "Hideous Creature,"

293

(1)

1886: Falling Stones,

294

(1)

1892: Alligator Man,

294

(1)

1897: Sky Serpent,

295

(1)

1901: "Swimming between the Rows,"

295

(2)

SOUTH DAKOTA,

297

(2)

1889: Pillars of Fire,

297

(1)

1897: "Queer Lights Floating in the Air,"

297

(1)

1903: "Some Gaseous Matter in the Air,"

297

(2)

TENNESSEE,

299

(8)

1820's: American Pygmies?,

299

(1)

1841: Blood and Flesh from a Red Cloud,

299

(2)

1853: Strange Lights in the Night,

301

(1)

1869: Pillar of Fire,

301

(1)

1876: Pygmy Skeletons,

301

(1)

1877: A Rain of Somethings,

302

(1)

1880: Into Thin Air,

303

(1)

1891: Fishes with the Snow,

304

(1)

1891: Yellow Substance,

304

(1)

1907: "More Like Angels Than Mortals,"

305

(1)

1908: Headless-Ghost Omen,

306

(1)

TEXAS,

307

(10)

1852 and After: Rock Wall,

307

(1)

1873: A Dragon in the Clouds,

308

(1)

1877: "Aerial Fireworks,"

309

(1)

1878: Falling Leaves,

309

(1)

1880's: Misty Ghost across the Track,

309

(1)

1885: A Plague of Frogs,

309

(1)

1887: Strange Storm,

310

(1)

1888: "This Weird Visitor from the Great Unknown,"

310

(1)

1897: The Landing at Beaumont,

310

(1)

1897: The Beaumont Airship,

311

(1)

1899: Dellschau and the Aeros,

311

(2)

1908: Man in a Mirror,

313

(1)

1908: "Not Less Than 200 Feet Long,"

314

(1)

1909 and After: Paluxy Tracks,

314

(2)

1913: Death of a Little Green Man,

316

(1)

UTAH,

317

(6)

1858: Sword Shape in the Sky,

317

(1)

1868 and Beyond: Monster Mammals,

317

(3)

1873: Monster in Pursuit,

320

(1)

1894: A "Uniform Hat" Cloud,

320

(1)

1894: Serpent Comes to Eden,

321

(2)

VERMONT,

323

(2)

1843: Killing a Monster Snake,

323

(1)

1907: Fiery Torpedo,

323

(2)

VIRGINIA,

325

(8)

1850: Falling Flesh,

325

(1)

1853: Cod Fall,

325

(1)

1856: Black Bugs on White Snow,

325

(1)

1856: Invisible Train,

325

(1)

1862: Sounds of Silence,

326

(1)

1863: Cloud Rolls and Mystery Soldiers,

326

(1)

1863: "Beautiful Effects of Light and Electricity,"

327

(1)

1868: The Minotaur of Prince William County,

327

(1)

1869: Poltergeist Goes on Trial,

328

(1)

1870: Vision of a "Horrid Beast,"

329

(1)

1871: Buchanan Poltergeist,

330

(1)

1882: Virginia Midland Phantom,

331

(1)

1882: Strange Meteors,

331

(1)

1887: Civil War Phantom,

331

(1)

1889: Rocks Fall,

331

(1)

1895: Falling, Sparkling Stones,

331

(1)

1904: Fall of Leaves,

332

(1)

1905: "An Ordinary Snake Attached to a Strange Looking Bird,"

332

(1)

1909: "An Automobile without Wheels,"

332

(1)

WASHINGTON,

333

(8)

1868: Night Noise,

333

(1)

1871: Rain from the Clear Heavens,

334

(1)

1892: Ghostly Headlight,

334

(1)

1893: "Marine Monster,"

335

(1)

1893: "Hateful Object,"

335

(1)

1893: It Came from Beneath the Sea,

336

(2)

1897: "Countries of Spiritual Beings,"

338

(1)

1911: Face at the Window,

339

(2)

WEST VIRGINIA,

341

(6)

1863: Phantom Processions,

341

(2)

1878: "White Horse Swimming,"

343

(1)

1884: A Murdered Man Tells His Story,

343

(1)

1893: Monster on the Ohio,

343

(1)

1895: Peculiar Light,

344

(1)

1896: Mystery Monster Bird,

344

(1)

Early 1900's: Birdman,

344

(1)

1908: Unexplained Brilliant Light,

345

(2)

WISCONSIN,

347

(10)

1835 and After: Underwater Pyramids,

347

(1)

1853: Unknown Water Animal,

348

(1)

1860: "Wonderful Freak of Nature,"

348

(1)

1867: Man Beast,

349

(1)

1881: "A Cloud of Smoke and Flame,"

349

(1)

1882: "A Big Thing Out There,"

350

(1)

1883 and After: Lake Serpents,

350

(2)

1886: Dark Day,

352

(1)

1888: The Supernatural on Trial,

352

(1)

1889: Lake's Sea Lion,

353

(1)

1890 and Before: "Ten Feet High and Six or Seven Inches in Diameter,"

353

(1)

1895: Nocturnal Enigma,

353

(1)

1896: Kite or Airship?

354

(1)

1897: "Terrific Aerial Monster,"

354

(1)

1897: Airship over Milwaukee,

354

(3)

WYOMING,

357

(2)

1888: Ghost Rider of the Rails,

357

(1)

1890 and After: Whispers,

358

(1)

1896: Raining Clay,

358

(1)

Index,

359

(10)

About the Author,

369

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Unnatural Phenomena

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