As of yesterday, I have become--most likely--the world's greatest living authority on the Neal Island Monster! Fear my mighty research-fu
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For Pittsburgh Post articles, try contacting the Carnegie Library Main Branch. I know I have found articles there back to the early 1900's. I will dig a little here and see what I can find. I will also see if any of my researchers with GPPS can find anything.
Right now my main targets are the Pittsburgh Post article from July 8th 1893 and the Cincinnati newspaper (which exact newspaper I dunno) from "the week before" the sightings occurred. Probably from somewhere between June 20th and July 1893.
I found it very funny that I did a search on the Neal Island Monster, and this post is already on Google. It was literally the second link, that's just odd.
Heh. Well, the post showed up since I failed to set it to "friends only" as I normally do.
The name, "The Neal Island Monster" is actually my own coinage. The Mothman example shows that cryptids and monsters make more of an impact or have longer attention life-spans if they have a specific name. Since the sightings and the eventual debunking took place in the vicinity of Neal Island, I thought the Neal Island Monster sounded most appropriate.
Also considered the Parkersburg Sea Serpent, Parkersburg Monster, and a number of other monikers.
For access to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette articles dating prior to 1993 you can access microfilm copies of the newspaper editions at the main Carnegie Library branch in Oakland. For specific research projects you can contact the staff of the newspaper's information center via e-mail a request to library@post-gazette.com
Many thanks! I've just sent an email to them in hopes of acquiring this elusive beastie-article. Since I don't drive, other library collections exist solely to taunt me. argh.
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Right now my main targets are the Pittsburgh Post article from July 8th 1893 and the Cincinnati newspaper (which exact newspaper I dunno) from "the week before" the sightings occurred. Probably from somewhere between June 20th and July 1893.
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Well, the post showed up since I failed to set it to "friends only" as I normally do.
The name, "The Neal Island Monster" is actually my own coinage. The Mothman example shows that cryptids and monsters make more of an impact or have longer attention life-spans if they have a specific name.
Since the sightings and the eventual debunking took place in the vicinity of Neal Island, I thought the Neal Island Monster sounded most appropriate.
Also considered the Parkersburg Sea Serpent, Parkersburg Monster, and a number of other monikers.
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For access to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette articles dating prior to 1993 you can
access microfilm copies of the newspaper editions at the main Carnegie
Library branch in Oakland. For specific research projects you can contact
the staff of the newspaper's information center via e-mail a request to
library@post-gazette.com
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Since I don't drive, other library collections exist solely to taunt me.
argh.
Thanks again!
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