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lawrence democrat (lawrenceburg, tenn.) 1884-1925 — winged man

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1894-11-30
Location: lawrenceburg, tennessee, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: lawrence democrat (lawrenceburg, tenn.) 1884-1925 · 1894-11-30 · page 2
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1894-11-30 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “winged man”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... one thing of it a winged man with a dog's head. The matter now becamo serious; the professors were at first puzzled, and then got quarrelsome; and the re sult of their squabbling was that pain phlets and counterblasts were pub lished, and so all the world got to hear of the, bitter controversy about the "man lizard of the Amazon." One side. declared, of course, that such a creature was an impossibility, and that the bones were a remarkably clever hoax. 1 he other side retorted by challenging the skeptics to manu facture a duplicate, and publishing the promise of such large rewards to anyone who would succeed in doing o that the museum ...

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