Shadow Person · Virginia · 2019
VA-2019ID case-464fd56efaFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- Jun 8, 2019to the day
- Where
- Virginiato state level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator reports seeing a large-headed, thin-limbed creature that reflected no light and moved on all fours like an animal with backward-bending knees.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- Virginia, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jun 8, 2019
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-464fd56efa
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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.
- Posting all over looking for answers.
Reddit · 2019-06-13
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - I have been posting this all over looking for answers.
Reddit · 2019-06-14 - I have been posting this all over in hopes of finding an answer.
Reddit · 2019-06-14
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.