The Snallygaster: Maryland’s Winged, Tentacled Monster
In February 1909, the Valley Register of Middletown, Maryland, warned readers about a winged creature called the Snallygaster. The article named James Harding and Bill Gifferson in an alleged attack near the Middletown Valley and South Mountain. What survives is not a specimen or an official case file, but a sequence of newspaper pages.
This episode follows the dated record from the February 12 launch story through the February 19 Ohio extension and the March 5 Emmitsburg escalation. It then returns to the Valley Register’s 1932 revival, its report naming Charles F. Main and Edward M. L…
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