Legend or Lie? Tombstone Thunderbird

Through history many cultures have passed down legends. Legends are based on an element of truth, the rest is mythical and left up to your imagination.

[gicanunez]

Back in like 1969, my siblings ages 4, 5, and 8 swear they saw a huge pterodactyl type of bird while we lived in a small town in Mexico. They ran, but my 4 yr old brother fell down. They swear the bird dove down as if to try to get my brother, but my sisters ran back for him and ran to a house nearby. Nobody believed them.

[heru-deshet]

"Hey what's that? Don't know. Shoot it"!

[doublew]

Once the Smithsonian gets ahold of it, it never existed! Facts!

[PAXBISONICA]

Based on my own experience, I would have to lean towards believing this. I, my cousin and my nephew saw one or a "bird" larger than ANY bird I'd ever seen before in real life. It was back in 2010 in Laurel Maryland on a walking trail behind Main street. It was standing on a branch high up in the trees. It seemed to have no hair or feathers. It was kind of a grayish color. All I could think of at the moment was holy shit. If this thing comes down here we're dead. We slowly walked away back towards my apartment to get to safety. We said nobody would believe us and to this day that remains true. It still doesn't change what we saw. The creepiest part was its enormous head. You could actually see its huge eyes blink. Crazy experience.

[wealldieatthehandsoflovedones]

That guy Josh is a cool dude. He hired me to do some work when I ran out of gas there. I applied for jobs everywhere in tombstone and no one would hire me then I went in to the O.K. Corral and he was working there and put me straight to work on his apartments. Painting and coolsealing the roofs. Great guy!

[justaninja]

Most people freak out when they get attacked by a magpie; now imagine one of those things flying up behind you.

[mcgavin]

I was told by an insider to the Indian tribal police somewhere in NM that a couple were tresspassing on a reservation and came across a bird that was larger than a person. At first they just heard a huge flapping sound. Then they looked up and saw it. They were miles inside the reservation and upon returning to their vehicle they were confronted by tribal police. They were reportedly scared and had a traumatized look on their faces. The police acknowledged that what they had in fact seen was well known already to the tribe as the thunderbird.

[markburnside]

Don't care who believes or won't. My wife and I saw one or some thing like one 4 days ago in west central Colorado. We were camping along a 11, 000 ft cliff crest. It was soaring on the updraft. In three stages it got to over 1, 000ft above the cliff. The wife says "look at the size of that bird!" I says "That there ain't no bird. Looks like a giant bat but it soars like a raptor."

She says "It's a Pterodactyl!!!" and that is what we both saw. Then it did something I never seen a bird do. It scrunched up tight then straightened out into a dive and disappeared into the tree line. A couple minutes later a single engine plane flew over the same area headed easterly. That cryptid was bigger than the plane.

Thats why I found this video. Need to see if anyone else has seen anything similar.

[erosh]

Giants of all kinds were actually there in the past.
Some stories are actually real histories.

[russellsandidge]

Many years ago I saw an interview with a World War II fighter pilot that was stationed in Guadalcanal during the Pacific War. In his interview he claimed that him and some other officers and Local Natives climbed a large jungle hill looking for wild fruit that grows there. He was saying when they got to the top of the hill they heard a strange noise on the opposite slope. They went to look to see what was making the noise. The Local Natives with them got very spooked and wanted to get out of the area. he said a huge flying creature came out of some high grass. he said it was huge with at least a 20 foot wingspan. and he said there was no doubt about it that this was some type of prehistoric pterodactyl. He said when it jumped off the ground and it started flapping its massive wings and it was actually moving the grass underneath it as it flew down the grassy Hill. the other officers were also witness to this.. he describes it had a pointy Crown coming off the back of its head. He said there was no doubt in his mind that this was some type of prehistoric flying creature.

[RogueJedi]

If there was one or a few Pterodactyls left during that time, then the whole idea of seeing dragons is entirely plausible. How would you be able to draw a dragon or even an alien without seeing something like it

[feltonmclaughlin]

A Union Army unit ( do not recall) spotted, killed and had a photo taken I believe somewhere near the mouth of Red River region of Louisania in 1863 or '64.

[RasikkaaN]

In my childhood, around 1996 i think, after returning from school evening, i saw a group 4 very large birdsflying in the sky, it flies like eagle/vultures, i again again focused and watched it have large beak - looked like Pterodactyl. I showed that to my friend, in that time i doesn't have camera or mobile😐. Jurassic parl is Released in 1993, so identified its rare Jurassic era bird.
I saw this - in southern india (tamil nadu)

[kristenkelleci]

I believe this. Mostly because of the odd disappearances and mutilations in the deserts and the fact that these creatures hang out in caves where it is dark in wilderness yet explored, and hunt mainly at night when it is dark.

[santluke]

My Aunty saw one of these in Papua New Guinea 10 years ago when she walked the Kokoda trail, her guides said that there very common to see but they don't think anything of it cause there so Yous to seeing them all time

[daveybass]

That's funny because my dad was born in 1916, he told me the story about two cowboys shot it down, I've seen a picture too, but it ain't the one shown here, and it ain't no big barn like this, it's more like the size of a one car garage, a model a garage, and the bird, was like a massive vulture, but the beak had saw tooth like ridges, it wasn't no pterodactyl like this. It had feathers. But it was big. Real big.
And the picture I saw, was an actual photograph from way back then. Weird alright.
Yeah, because this dude describes the picture. It was nailed to the barn wall.

[heru-deshet]

"Well, it's dead. Let's eat it"!

[Mike]

They keep saying in the video that there is no photo, but they keep showing one?? How does that work?

[jayworldjs]

When I was about 7 years old I was living in Saugus Massachusetts in a pretty suburbanized area. I remember coming home one day it was light out I don't know whether it's morning or afternoon and I was with my mother and I looked up in the sky over our house and I saw a huge bird it must have been like 10 ft wingspan across easy. When I saw it I said dragon but my mother looked up and said it was a huge bird not a dragon but the biggest bird she's ever seen! We sat and watched it as it cruised higher up into the sky and disappeared. To this day I have the image in my head of what I saw and the only thing I could think of is that it was a Thunderbird.

[dennisk]

If this is a contrived image, it's not a bad setup, props, wardrobe, makeup and Photoshop production.