I also forgot to add my new theory on this subject. The Tombstone Epitaph mentions a
"ninety-two fee" and a "eight feet long" "alligator like" head. "The skin of the body was comparatively smooth and easily penetrated by a
bullet." . If you look at these features, and the other features of
this bird in the Tombstone article you can't deny that it would have been a pterosaur and not a feathery
bird as some people mentioned here. The article clearly says "devoid of feathers or hair, as was the entire body" . If so, the photograph should not
have a feathery bird in it as the bird had no feathers. But then
the article said the creature had one wing which was 78 feet long (23 meters !!!!!) and 160 feet long total (48 meters !!!). I never really took
attention to this fact but that f*cking huge ! But then, the largest pterosaur ever found has a wingspin, from tip to tip, is the Quetzalcoatlus with
a wingspan of 30ft (~10 meters). Which is more than two times as less as the creature found in 1890.
I attached a comparison of the largest pterosaur (and also the largest animal to fly) which ever lived
compared with a human :
Quetzalcoatlus compared with human
*EDIT* I just found out that the Hatzegopteryx is, according to wikipedia, the largest creautre
to have roamed the air. It has the same wingspan as the Quetzalcoatlus though so the picture attached
shows how big it was. But then, the creature found was 5 times as big as the biggest flying creature
discovered yet ! I'm a fanatical cryptozoologist but now the photograph the most people remember, mentioned a bird nailed to a barn with a couple of
men standing in front of it. If the creature really
was 160 feet long, I don't think it fits on barn wall and there would be room for 50 people to stand in front of it, shoulder to shoulder. If there
was some space between them it would be less but still, imagine it. Even for the largest pterosaur found so far has a total wingspan of 30ft, which
provides
space for 10 people shoulder to shoulder to stand in front of it. But ok, it would be possible that the writer exaggerated the length to get attention
or it would have been possible that the ranchers exaggerated the size. In the past, men exaggerated stories or made up stories to make their story
more manly. I hope you guys know what I mean. Example, some man says in the saloon that last night he beat the heck out of 3 guys and one was holding
a Bowie knife while the real story was that beat up one man without a knife. I hope you understand my second theory.
Any news on the Pierre Bertons interview with Sanderson ?
Maybe we could try to contact people who also worked for his television show. I bet there are a few of them still alive. Maybe there is a camera man
which still lives who was there when Sanderson got interviewed or showed the photograph. Just saying