Other Humanoid · Tennessee · 2016
TN-2016ID case-48cad722eeFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Jun 8, 2016to the day
- Where
- Tennesseefallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports being approached by a creature making leg sounds in mountain laurel and later seeing a black-haired, black-skinned juvenile hiding in a root ball hole.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Tennessee, United States
mapped to state level · from a place stated elsewhere in the same document, not in this account
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is a place stated elsewhere in the same document, not in this account. - When
- Jun 8, 2016
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-48cad722ee
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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.
- A 7 1/2 Foot Hairy Man Thing! - My Bigfoot Sighting Episode 225
YouTube · 2026-08-29
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.