Other / Unknown · Long Beach, California · 2024
CA-2024ID case-c15a9c2294First-hand accountAdded to map Nov 6, 2026
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- When
- May 7, 2024to the day
- Where
- Long Beach, Californiato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator and a friend heard brushing noises and saw dirt being lifted as an unseen creature darted rapidly towards them on a dark trail.
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Details
- Creature
- Other / Unknown
- Where
- Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- May 7, 2024
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-c15a9c2294
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Not sure what this was
Reddit · 2024-05-08
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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.