The Ancient Thunderbird Of Legend Were Real And Some Might Still Exist

People in North America have claimed to have encountered a large monstrous bird in the past

The North American region’s inhabitants claimed multiple encounters with large birds with lizard-like traits more than 200 years ago, despite the fact that these animals had been extinct for millions of years. A photograph from the American Civil War shows six Union soldiers with a huge reptilian-like bird lying dead beneath their boots in the 1864 war. The creature looked exactly like a dinosaur and could have possibly been one.

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Another account of a Pteranodon was reported in 1977

Three teenagers from Lawndale, Illinois, claim that a thunderbird or giant bird flew off with one of their friends featured in a 1977 article as well. The boys said that they had gone out hunting when they became hunted by a giant bird which caught one of the group mates- Marlon Lowe and flew off with him. However, the bird dropped him when he struck at it.

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So, are these sightings just tall tales, or could they be accounts of real monsters?

Native American legends are not the only stories about the Thunderbird. The Thunderbird is almost always listed in catalogues of mysterious animals by cryptozoologists. It has been seen many times, but no one has ever taken a good picture or video of it, and it has never been killed or caught, except maybe once or twice.

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Another account of a giant bird was reported back in the 1890s by two cowboys claiming to have shot it down

In 1890, two cowboys in the desert of Arizona heard a story about a huge flying creature and decided to see it for themselves. Upon finding it and seeing it, they carefully aimed their guns at the strange creature and shot it out of the sky. According to an article in the April 26, 1890, issue of the Tombstone Epigraph, the cowboys and their horses dragged the dead monster into town, where its 190-foot wingspan and 92-foot-long body were measured. It was said to have smooth skin, no feathers, and wings that were “made of a thick and almost transparent membrane.” Clearly, the creature’s description sounded more like a pteranodon, a pterosaur, or a pterodactyl than a big bird.

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