Shadow Person · Florida · 2006
FL-2006ID case-83d990286eFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 25, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- Mar 2006to the month
- Where
- Floridato state level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a thin black nubbed leg or tail disappear behind a tree while camping in Central Florida.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
We map claims, not creatures: this is what the sources say, not proof. How a case is built
Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- Florida, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Mar 2006
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 25, 2026
- Case id
- case-83d990286e
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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.
- Posting all over looking for answers.
Reddit · 2019-06-13
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - I have been posting this all over looking for answers.
Reddit · 2019-06-14
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.