Other Canine · 2016
XX-2016ID case-0f8a044587First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 17, 2026
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- 2016to the year
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator and two family members heard a cackling sound and saw a strange dog-like creature resembling a hyena at their backdoor before it fled rapidly.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Other Canine reports with no place (622) - When
- 2016
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 17, 2026
- Case id
- case-0f8a044587
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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.
- An encounter with a strange creature
Reddit · 2026-10-12
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
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