Shadow Person · O'Donnell Heights, Maryland · 1951
MD-1951ID case-07c1b2a888Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- Jul 1951to the month
- Where
- O'Donnell Heights, Marylandto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Residents of O’Donnell Heights reported seeing a dark figure moving across rooftops and retreating into a nearby cemetery for roughly two weeks in July 1951.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- O'Donnell Heights, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 1951
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-07c1b2a888
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Baltimore’s PHANTOM OF O'DONNELL HEIGHTS: The Rooftop Mystery That Frightened a Neighborhood in 1951
pandm · 2026-10-31
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.