August 14, 2026

Post-Civil War

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Dossier-style illustration of a gigantic horned, horse-legged creature breathing blue flame beside a plantation fence at night in Bracken County, Kentucky, February 1866
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1866: Bracken County, Kentucky — The Blue Fire Monster

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Dossier-style illustration of shipwrecked sailors discovering a battleship-scale crashed aerial vessel lodged against a storm-battered cliff on an Indian Ocean island in September 1862
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1862: Indian Ocean — The Christine Wreck and the Twelve-Foot Crew

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Dossier-style illustration of fourteen-year-old Bernadette Soubirous kneeling before a white-robed luminous female figure in the Massabielle grotto near Lourdes, France, on February 11, 1858
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1858: Lourdes, France — Bernadette Soubirous’s First Grotto Encounter

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Two-panel dossier illustration showing blue-white fiery columns over a Saratov village at night in 1847 and a pale, beardless, yellow-green-skinned stranger walking through a village by day
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1847–1848: Saratov, Russia — The Balashov Strangers

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