Shadow Person · Ballyboley Forest, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann · 1997
UNI-1997ID case-ba4e45eb34Added to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- 1997to the year
- Where
- Ballyboley Forest, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireannto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Two men in a newspaper report claimed to see four motionless, brown, ragged human-shaped figures watching them from the treeline after hearing strange sounds and finding blood-smeared trees.
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- Ballyboley Forest, Mid and East Antrim District, County Antrim, Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann, United Kingdom
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- 1997
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-ba4e45eb34
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Source trail (2)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 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.
- ballyboley 4 dark figures 1997
ukwildman · 2015-04-22
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Is Ballyboley Irelands Cannock Chase ?
ukwildman · 2016-02-18
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)
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