Shadow Person
XX-NDID case-c1aeeb293aFirst-hand accountAdded to map Nov 7, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator reports seeing the Hat Man twice in broad daylight, once in their living room and once outside while mowing the lawn, when they were about 16 or 17 years old.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Shadow Person reports with no place (397) - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-c1aeeb293a
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Source trail (1)
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 else had encounters with the “Hat Man”?
Reddit · 2023-08-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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)
Borrow on Internet Archive
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.