Other Humanoid · Parkersburg, West Virginia · 1966
WV-1966ID case-c01159b97cAdded to map Oct 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Nov 2, 1966to the day
- Where
- Parkersburg, West Virginiato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Woodrow Derenberger reports being blocked by a boxy foreign car and encountering a smiling man in a dark suit who asked personal questions before driving away.
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 2, 1966
- 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
- Oct 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-c01159b97c
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Source trail (2)
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- Personal, euhemerist theory
Reddit · 2026-08-09
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Personal, euhemerist theory
Reddit · 2026-08-09
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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