Other Humanoid · Martinsburg, West Virginia · 1845

WV-1845ID case-b5a71a7aa8Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026

Creature: Other Humanoid
When: May 1845to the month
Where: Martinsburg, West Virginiafallback location
Reports: 1 document1 independent

The account

Witness reports encountering a tall, skeleton-like figure dressed in skins with long hair and beard, which stared at him with freezing eyes before walking away into the bushes.

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Details

Creature: Other Humanoid
Where: Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: May 1845
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 8, 2026
Case id: case-b5a71a7aa8

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Source trail (1)

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Image 1 of Martinsburg gazette (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]), May 8, 1845
Newspaper · 1845-05-08
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