Virginia

    Carnivores

    Dismal Swamp

  1. 1902-03-12 Scared by strange beast Little Falls Herald (Little Falls, MN), p. 4 Chronicling America

    Elmer the Thing-That-Thumps

  2. 1935-07-24 ‘Monster' haunts home in weird mystery here [Part 1] [Part 2] Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), pp. 1 & 22

  3. 1935-07-25 Street traffic blocked as crowd overflows house and yard Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), p. 1
  4. 1935-07-25 2,000 visit city's “haunted house” but fail to find phantom monste [Photo 1] [Photo 2] Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), pp. 1 & 6
  5. 1935-07-25 Two report sight of ‘glaring eyes'; dog causes scare [Part 1] [Part 2] Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), pp. 1 & 14

  6. 1935-07-26 Tenant irked by 'ha’nt curious,' claims phantom is hybrid beast [Part 1] [Part 2] Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), pp. 1 & 16

  7. 1935-07-27 Cage to catch the 'monster’ awaits nocturnal thumper [Part 1] [Part 2] Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), pp. 1 & 8

  8. 1935-07-28 ‘Monster’ snared flees trap returns to ghostly ‘thumping [Part 1] [Part 2] Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), pp. 1 & 9

  9. 1935-07-29 'Thing-that-thumps' is 6 scared 'Possums [Part 1] [Part 2] Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), pp. 1 & 3

  10. 1935-07-28 Price candidacy stirs talk of ‘machine’ strife Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), p. 4-1

  11. 1935-08-06 That old monster again Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA), p. 16

  12. 2023-08-19 Elmer: the legend of Richmond's lesser-known cryptid — and the search to stop its reign of terror — Wayback Machine

    Hominids

    Lynchburg, VA

  13. 1885-01-02 No title Times and Democrat (Orangeburg, SC), p. 2 Chronicling America

    Mystery Calls

    Mount Vernon Monster

  14. 1979-05-17 Around Ridgewood — This past weekend The Ridgewood News (Ridgewood, NJ), p. 5

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