Shadow Person · 2023
XX-2023ID case-57a37fa4b8First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 17, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- Aug 2023to the month
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator reports a shadow figure entering their apartment through a closed window and later appearing in their bedroom, culminating in the figure touching them and leaving claw-like scars.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Shadow Person reports with no place (397) - When
- Aug 2023
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 17, 2026
- Case id
- case-57a37fa4b8
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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.
- My encounters with a shadow figure :0
Reddit · 2025-02-16
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.