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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
A Civil War photo that recently surfaced shows Federal troops at Vicksburg posing with an unusual bird-like creature that some suggest may have been the Thunderbird of legend. Was it, in fact, a pterodactyl?
I wonder, because the other day there soared over my car a bird bigger than any I'd ever seen. I thought at first it was a heron or crane, but it was much larger – it looked almost like a small plane.
At the time I was driving through the so-called Bridgewater Triangle, a region of southeastern Massachusetts that since Indian days has been known for unexplained phenomena, including sightings of UFOs,ghosts, and a Sasquatch-like creature in the Hockomock Swamp.
Sightings also have been reported in the Triangle of "large birds, known in Indian folklore as thunderbirds," according to the Bridgewater Historical Society.
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