Little People · South Lanarkshire, Alba / Scotland
UNI-NDID case-5c4682d304Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Little People
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- South Lanarkshire, Alba / Scotlandto county level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports a small unusual mud-covered folk called a 'brown boy' took his coat during a childhood picnic on Cairnpapple Hill.
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Details
- Creature
- Little People
- Where
- South Lanarkshire, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-5c4682d304
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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.
- Aiken Drum, ‘The Brownie of Blednoch’ and the Pictish Brown Boy
ukwildman · 2019-09-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - The Cairnpapple Mysteries. Dark Figures and Mystery Footprints.
ukwildman · 2019-12-12 - Part 1 - Cryptid Creatures, UFO's and Silver man, Mysterious Tales from the East Coast of Scotland.
ukwildman · 2020-06-01
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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