Other Humanoid · Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France métropolitaine · 1916
FRA-1916ID case-e62e513c1aAdded to map Oct 23, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Sep 1916to the month
- Where
- Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France métropolitaineto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A witness reports that Private [name] claimed to have seen a shifting, smoke-like humanoid figure approximately 20 feet tall dismembering German soldiers in their trenches during WWI.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Abbeville, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France métropolitaine, 80230, France
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 1916
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 23, 2026
- Case id
- case-e62e513c1a
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Source trail (1)
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- Monster attack in WW1 trenches.
Reddit · 2022-04-21
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.