According to its author, Jack Pearl, the incident was reported in an 1886 edition of Tombstone Epitaph. Eventually, the story would be forgotten for many decades, only for it to re-materialise in an 1963 issue of Saga. While other newspapers later recirculated the story, they never elaborated on the men that killed the bird nor mentioned or provided any photographs of the incident. It was summarised by the newspaper as resembling a "huge alligator with an extremely elongated tail and an immense pair of wings." Its head was around eight feet long, with its thick wings about 78 feet each in length. The men measured the creature, determining it to be 160 feet in length and fifty inches in diameter. While the bird put up a fight, it was eventually killed via several blasts from Winchester rifles. After overcoming their astonishment, the men proceeded to hunt the bird via horseback for several miles.
The newspaper reported that two ranchers had discovered a "winged monster" which had been recovering from a long flight. The mystery's origins trace back to the 26th April 1890 issue of Tombstone Epitaph. Numerous images have been cited as the alleged thunderbird photo, with many subsequently debunked. Despite many people claiming to have seen the photo in question, its existence has never been proven, leading some to speculate that it is an example of the Mandela Effect. According to various reports over the years, it was killed by ranchers, who then proceeded to take a photograph with themselves in front of the bird's corpse nailed onto a barn, or onto a wall of another building. Others have described it as pterodactyl-like. The cryptid is alleged to have resembled a thunderbird, a mythological creature in Native American culture. The Tombstone Thunderbird Photograph refers to an ongoing mystery surrounding a possible unidentified bird discovered in Tombstone, Arizona and described as a "strange winged monster" in an April 1890 edition of Tombstone Epitaph. Andrew Minniear's illustration depicting what many have described the Tombstone Thunderbird photo as resembling.
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