Other / Unknown · Orange County, California · 2025
CA-2025ID case-b1ac94ea37First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 15, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- May 24, 2025to the day
- Where
- Orange County, Californiato county level
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a knee-high, void-like black creature with stick legs and shoe-shaped feet running across the road while driving in Oconee County, South Carolina.
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Orange County, California, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- May 24, 2025
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 15, 2026
- Case id
- case-b1ac94ea37
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Source trail (3)
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.
- Has anyone seen this small black creature?
Reddit · 2026-05-24
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Has anyone seen this small black creature?
Reddit · 2026-05-26 - Has anyone seen this small black creature?
Reddit · 2026-05-26
Further reading
- The Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1976)
The New Jersey Pine Barrens legend and its 1909 flap.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil, James F. McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. (1998)
Borrow on Internet Archive - 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.
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Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.