Thunderbird

Region: North and Central America

Lead Investigator: Agent 30

Last Updated: 8 June 2023

Mostly prevalent in folklore of the Algonquian and Iroquois peoples, but appears in myths from many other tribes.
Often confused with Rain Bird and Pamola.
Creates thunder by flapping its wings and lightning by flashing its eyes.

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History

In Algonquian mythology, the thunderbird controls the upper world while the underworld is governed by the underwater panther or Great Horned Serpent. The thunderbird creates not just thunder (with its wing-flapping) but lightning bolts, which it casts at the underworld creatures.
Countless eye-witness accounts of huge birds in the 19th-21st centuries.

Surviving Teratorns
Indigenous thunderbird stories may be based on their discoveries of pterosaur fossils.
Misidentification of large birds/raptors

ThunderBird Rock Carved Petroglyph

29 June 2021. Agent 30. West Central Wisconsin.

Thunderbird Totem Pole

22 April 2008. Agent 30.

Hoax, exposed by Jay Cooney.

Unknown Date. Unknown Creators.

Comparison between a bald eagle and the giant Teratorn bird with a wingspan of 25 ft.

1980. Kenneth Campbell.

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