Other Humanoid · Aroostook County, Maine · 1998
ME-1998ID case-6b947d1e92First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- 1998to the year
- Where
- Aroostook County, Maineto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a short, bearded man in burlap clothing and animal furs appeared at their campsite, spoke unintelligibly, pointed at their belongings, and then vanished instantly upon reaching the other side of the stream.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Aroostook County, Maine, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- 1998
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-6b947d1e92
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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.
- Shocking encounter while camping deep in the Maine woods.
Reddit · 2025-06-01
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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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