Other Humanoid · La Réunion, France · 1968
Why it's on Wait… what now?: A figure wearing a Michelin Man suit in a suspended cabin is an absurd, mundane-object incongruity.
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Jul 31, 1968to the day
- Where
- La Réunion, Franceto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
[name] reports seeing two individuals in a suspended cabin, one wearing a suit like the Michelin Man.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- La Réunion, France
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 31, 1968
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 22, 2026
- Case id
- case-dfe5b44256
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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.
- A collection of reports of bizarre entities with the appearance resembling that of the 'michelin man' ranging from the 50's all the way into the modern day.
Reddit · 2024-01-30
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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