Other / Unknown · Pavia, Lombardia
ITA-NDID case-17756ca155Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Pavia, Lombardiato county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
An unidentified university professor from Pavia claims to have encountered an unknown entity and taken five photos of it in the summer of 1986.
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Pavia, Lombardia, Italia
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-17756ca155
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- In 1986 an Italian professor working for the University of Pavia in Italy would have a face to face encounter with an unknown entity. But unlike so many other encounters, this professor was able to take 5 photos.
Reddit · 2024-05-13
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Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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.
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