This reminds me of one of those curious pieces of info. As a youngster and even through today, I have always been interested in dinosaurs, forteana, mysteries, sasquach, lock ness monster, ufos, etc.
Well, there is a consensus among people who are fans of that type of stuff that there is a photograph, dating at about 1900 give or take a couple of decades. The photo memorializes a story of several cowboys out west (I think the story is Texas) who engaged a flying dinosaur, something like a Pteranodon. They shot it down with their guns and rifles, and killed it.
Anyway, there are many accounts of people seeing the photograph of the cowboys posing in front of a barn with the Pteranodon tacked up, wingspan stretched out. Most are convinced the picture is in some old books, newspapers, or newsletters of odd phenomena and mysteries, yet this photo has never surfaced.
I am very convinced I have seen this photo, and many people have the memory of it, but nobody can find it.
There have been a few theories. One, it's a powerful image that people could have read about (but not seen) and created a very vivid visualization of in their minds in their youth. So the picture doesn't actually exist but many people have basically hypnotized themselves into thinking they have seen it. Wild!
Another theory is that the picture does exist but all records of it in books, libraries, etc have been snarfed by some powerful organization who wants to keep it a secret. This campaign would have to have happened sometime in the 1970s or early 1980s.
Another theory that's really wild is that the picture is an anomaly and that while it was once part of our 'timeline' - that is, the event did happena nd a photo was taken and published in books, etc, but it's evidence of some kind of temporal mishap, and that timecops from the future went back in time and either stopped the event from happening, stopped the picture from being taken, or confistacted all photos/negatives early in its history such that it was 'erased' from our timeline, yet the mind being the amazing thing that it is, those who saw the photograph later in history (say the 1970s) 'remember' it, and when the timecops went back in time and averted the photo being taken, the picture and accounts 'vanished' from future accounts of the story. So the memory of the photo remains, yet the evidence has been erased as the impact of their timecop work rippled through time.
Still another theory suggests that the book in question and the picture is still out there, and while many 1000s of people have seen it, the book/picture/page with the picture is lost for now and may yet resurface.
For the record, I beleive I have seen the picture but can't produce it, like 1000s of others. Anybody have any memories?
I have seen that pic but have no clue as to where to search for it.
If it's out there, it will turn up on eBay sooner or later.
another possibility: the photo is a hoax, one of many hoaxes perpetrated by snake-oil salesmen and other such conmen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - remember the Gypsum Giant?
Reminds me of the "kongamato" :-)
You think maybe you're remembering a movie?
Check out this page...
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa100801b.htm
Whew, that's some sentence!
Hope you see a pair o' docs... soon :)
There was a 30's era cliffhanger serial that had a scene where some cowboys were fighting a flying dinosaur. Pehaps that is what is triggering these memories.
There was a clip from it on a recent TV show, "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?", which used it for one of their Green Screen Reporter bits.