This giant bird was not killed, brought to town or photographed. The writer had met two cowboys who told about seeing a similar creature around 1890, although they had shot at and chased the creature until their horses refused to go any further. He wrote to the magazine in the summer of 1970 and gave a firsthand account of a separate flying monster incident that also occurred near Tombstone. Interestingly, this reprint caused a reader to remember another strange incident. The Epitaph story was revived in a 1969 issue of Old West, further confusing the issue as to whether the photo was real or not. The original Epitaph story about the capture of a large unusual winged creature was indeed printed on Apbut It mentions no photograph. The editors of Fate even came to believe that they may have published the photo in an earlier issue of the magazine but a search through back issues failed to reveal it. Sanderson also remembered seeing the photo and in fact, even claimed to have once had a photostat of it that he loaned to two associates, who lost it. In the September 1963 issue of FATE magazine, a correspondent to the magazine named H.M Cranmer would state that not only was the story true, but the photo was published and had appeared in newspapers all over America.Ĭranmer would not be the only one who remembered the photo. Was this nothing more than a mythic legend of the west, or was there something to the story after all? While this is a different variation of the story (and size of the creature), it seems to be referring to the same incident. The creature measured about 36 feet from wingtip to wingtip." Lined up in front of the bird were six grown men with their arms outstretched, fingertip to fingertip. The newspaper said that it had been shot by two prospectors and hauled into town by wagon. Not only did he tell the story though, he went one step further and claimed that the Tombstone Epitaph had, in 1886, "published a photograph of a huge bird nailed to a wall. In the May 1963 issue of Saga magazine, writer Jack Pearl recounted this story of the Tombstone Thunderbird, along with some large bird sightings of the early 1960's. There is also an account of this story with the events taking place in the state of Texas. They are supposed to have dragged the carcass back to town, where it was pinned with wings outstretched across the entire length of a barn.Ī picture of this event may have been published in the local newspaper, the Tombstone Epitaph.
This description has some similarity to that of a prehistoric pterodactyl an animal whose existence was known at the time. It was said to have had smooth skin, featherless wings like a bat and a face that resembled an alligator. There is a story that in April 1890, two cowboys in Arizona killed a giant birdlike creature with an enormous wingspan.
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