On April 26, 1890, an Arizona newspaper called the Tombstone Epitaph carried a very unusual headline. “Found in the Desert: A Strange Winged Monster Found and Killed on the Huachuca Desert” had been the sensational headline, which introduced the story of a group of cowboys who shot and killed something monstrous in rural Arizona.

Or so the legend goes, at least. For years, researchers have looked in vain for the newspaper article, as well as an alleged photograph which was said to have accompanied it that actually depicted the monster nailed to a barn. While some skeptics concluded that the alleged story had never appeared in the Epitaph, this week we explore the work of one late chronicler of the unusual, Mark Chorvinski, who decided to determine the story’s origins once and for all… and attempt to track down the fabled “lost Thunderbird photo.”

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Author: Micah Hanks

Micah Hanks is a writer, researcher, and podcaster. His interests include areas of history, science, archaeology, philosophy, and the study of anomalous phenomena in nature. He can be reached at info@micahhanks.com.

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