Shadow Person · North Carolina · 1987
NC-1987ID case-098aa26f47Added to map Nov 12, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- 1987to the year
- Where
- North Carolinato state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A sergeant reported seeing an 8-foot tall shadow man with big eyes standing over his baby's crib.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- North Carolina, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1987
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 12, 2026
- Case id
- case-098aa26f47
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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.
- It Was In My Room - Ep. 179 - May 8, 2026
YouTube · 2026-05-08
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.