Other Humanoid · Puolanka, Manner-Suomi · 1962
SUO-1962ID case-70b0c9ca94Added to map Oct 16, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Aug 1962to the month
- Where
- Puolanka, Manner-Suomito town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a strange hitchhiker with unusual physical traits and levitation abilities was picked up by two men in Northern Finland.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Puolanka, Kehys-Kainuun seutukunta, Kainuu, Manner-Suomi, Suomi / Finland
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 1962
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 16, 2026
- Case id
- case-70b0c9ca94
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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.
- Otherworldly close encounters along the roads in Finland. Part 2
Reddit · 2025-01-20
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)
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.