Other Humanoid · Desterro, Região Sudeste · 1962
BRA-1962ID case-537e053f4aAdded to map Oct 22, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- 1962to the year
- Where
- Desterro, Região Sudesteto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
A witness saw two strange creatures with rat or bat-like faces and large ears illuminated by car headlights before they jumped into the darkness.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Desterro, Iguatama, Minas Gerais, Região Sudeste, 38910-000, Brasil
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 1962
- 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 22, 2026
- Case id
- case-537e053f4a
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Source trail (1)
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- A collection of reports from the 60's to the late 90's, relaying what can only be described as little greenish men, the majority of these encounters would take place in Puerto Rico & Brazil
Reddit · 2024-01-31
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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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