Post by hi224 on Nov 22, 2023 19:11:27 GMT
Belled buzzard accounts gain prompence throught out Southern United States during the late 1800's to the turn of the 20th century.
Reports of buzzards with bells appear as early as the 1850s in the states of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. While sightings at first where isolated one off sightings.
It would be the belled buzzard's appearance in Brownsville, Tennessee during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 . That launched this creature to national infamy. The Brownsville spat of sighting was also the first to become widely reported on in comtempary newspapers
Following the Brownsville, Tennessee flap. Cases mysterious of the feathered feind grew rapidly. By 1885, the belled buzzard's range would expand to include the states of Maryland, Ohio,Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina Texas, and New York.
While most reports simply made mention of a sighting, those that elaborated further reinforced the belled buzzard's reputation as a harbingers of ill omen,death and disaster As quick as these animals appeared they seemed to vanish just as fast. Leaving only spooky old stories behind in rural communties .
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026788/1872-03-05/ed-1/seq-3/
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86053227/1877-02-10/ed-1/seq-3/
Reports of buzzards with bells appear as early as the 1850s in the states of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. While sightings at first where isolated one off sightings.
It would be the belled buzzard's appearance in Brownsville, Tennessee during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878 . That launched this creature to national infamy. The Brownsville spat of sighting was also the first to become widely reported on in comtempary newspapers
Following the Brownsville, Tennessee flap. Cases mysterious of the feathered feind grew rapidly. By 1885, the belled buzzard's range would expand to include the states of Maryland, Ohio,Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina Texas, and New York.
While most reports simply made mention of a sighting, those that elaborated further reinforced the belled buzzard's reputation as a harbingers of ill omen,death and disaster As quick as these animals appeared they seemed to vanish just as fast. Leaving only spooky old stories behind in rural communties .
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026788/1872-03-05/ed-1/seq-3/
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86053227/1877-02-10/ed-1/seq-3/