Shadow Person · Hanover, West Virginia · 1987
WV-1987ID case-c68b4fe249First-hand accountAdded to map Nov 11, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- Jul 4, 1987to the day
- Where
- Hanover, West Virginiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a large, black, bipedal shadow creature standing at the edge of the woods near a creek during a family gathering, which threw an object and screamed before fleeing.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- Hanover, Wyoming County, West Virginia, 24839, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jul 4, 1987
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 11, 2026
- Case id
- case-c68b4fe249
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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.
- Group witnesses large creature near the woods during family gathering.
oregonbigfoot · 2006-12-02
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
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