Other Humanoid · Fannin County, Texas · 1978
TX-1978ID case-8b9e8cc82fFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- 1978to the year
- Where
- Fannin County, Texasto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that three cousins saw a 7.5-foot-tall creature with long silver hair running alongside their car before disappearing onto their uncle's property.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Fannin County, Texas, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 1978
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-8b9e8cc82f
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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.
- Cousins Have Night Sighting of Creature Running Alongside Car
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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)
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.