Other Humanoid · North Island / Te Ika-a-Māui, New Zealand / Aotearoa · 2026
NEW-2026ID case-d89efef551First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Aug 12, 2026to the day
- Where
- North Island / Te Ika-a-Māui, New Zealand / Aotearoato approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports being pushed off their bike by an unseen force and then seeing a tall, grey humanoid figure with sunken eyes and an inverted face inside a thrift shop window.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- North Island / Te Ika-a-Māui, New Zealand / Aotearoa
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Aug 12, 2026
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-d89efef551
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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.
- Date: 2026 Grey skinny person with sunken/missing jaw? Location: whakatane New Zealand
Reddit · 2026-08-14
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.