Other Humanoid · Sundsvall, Västernorrlands län · 1978
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A black humanoid silhouette moving inside a glowing red object is an impossible placement.
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Sep 16, 1978to the day
- Where
- Sundsvall, Västernorrlands länto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a black humanoid silhouette move inside a glowing red object in a forest clearing, followed by hearing rustling and finding strange tracks the next day.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Sundsvall, Sundsvalls kommun, Västernorrlands län, Sverige
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 16, 1978
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 16, 2026
- Case id
- case-5312ed5673
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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.
- Strange creatures in Sweden - Part 1
Reddit · 2025-02-27
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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