Shadow Person · Bloemfontein, Free State · 1940
SOU-1940ID case-7907b93fdaAdded to map Nov 5, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- Oct 1940to the month
- Where
- Bloemfontein, Free Stateto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report the Naauwpoort ghost reappeared in an abandoned house near Bloemfontein, leading to a search for hidden gold and silver coins.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- Bloemfontein, Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State, 9310, South Africa
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Oct 1940
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 5, 2026
- Case id
- case-7907b93fda
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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.
- Image 2 of The Wyandotte herald (Wyandotte, Mich.), October 4, 1940
Newspaper · 1940-10-04
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
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