Shadow Person · Ryde, England · 2016
UNI-2016ID case-db32fc31c4First-hand accountAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- When
- Jun 17, 2016to the day
- Where
- Ryde, Englandto town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports seeing a tallish dark shadow figure in a park at night, which caused violent wind and knocked down tree branches before disappearing.
Trace the source trail → every document, in time order, and how they connect
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Details
- Creature
- Shadow Person
- Where
- Ryde, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Jun 17, 2016
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-db32fc31c4
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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 Ryde Bigfoot Re-visited
ukwildman · 2016-07-17
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)
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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.