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Shadow Person · Santa Clara County, California

CA-NDID case-72e9fe7bd7Added to map Nov 7, 2026
Creature
Shadow Person
When
Date unknownno date given
Where
Santa Clara County, Californiato county level
Reports
2 documents1 independent

The account

The narrator's mother reports seeing a tall man in a black brimmed hat and trench coat standing in her lane on the freeway during a storm.

Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect

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Details

Creature
Shadow Person
Where
Santa Clara County, California, United States
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 (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map
Nov 7, 2026
Case id
case-72e9fe7bd7

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Source trail (2)

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.

  1. Has anyone else had encounters with the “Hat Man”?
    Reddit · 2023-08-13
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. Has anyone else had encounters with the “Hat Man”?
    Reddit · 2023-08-13

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