Case file · Cryptid
The jackalope of Douglas, Wyoming
In the early 1930s (usually dated 1932) hunters Douglas and Ralph Herrick of Douglas, Wyoming, grafted deer antlers onto a jackrabbit and sold the mount to a local hotel, launching the American jackalope.
1932 CE · 42.76, -105.38 · status: hoax
The account
They went on to make many more for shops across the West. Douglas calls itself the 'Home of the Jackalope' and once issued tongue-in-cheek jackalope hunting licences.
The sceptical view
A taxidermy joke; the horned-hare idea may partly reflect real rabbits deformed by the Shope papilloma virus.