Shadow Person · Oxford, England · 2016
UNI-2016ID case-c1ff0ed3e1Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- Jan 2016to the month
- Where
- Oxford, Englandto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports [name] awoke to a large black shadow or man at the foot of her bed pulling at her sheets during sleep paralysis.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jan 2016
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-c1ff0ed3e1
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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.
- The Old Victorian House on Mouldy Road
Reddit · 2016-04-01
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.