Shadow Person · Alhambra, California · 2017
CA-2017ID case-ac4af5ecc3First-hand accountAdded to map Nov 7, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- 2017to the year
- Where
- Alhambra, Californiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator reports that as a six-year-old in Alhambra, a man wearing a black hat walked from their bedroom hallway into the living room nightly and disappeared upon being noticed.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- Alhambra, Los Angeles County, California, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- 2017
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-ac4af5ecc3
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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.
- Has anyone else had encounters with the “Hat Man”?
Reddit · 2023-08-14
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.