Other Humanoid · Athens, Alabama · 1997
AL-1997ID case-e6c322d4f9Added to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Dec 24, 1997to the day
- Where
- Athens, Alabamato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that [name] saw a strange figure standing by her Christmas tree which she initially thought was an elf.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Athens, Limestone County, Alabama, 35613, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Dec 24, 1997
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-e6c322d4f9
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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.
- Aliens from Other Worlds: Ten Shocking Encounters
Reddit · 2025-09-27
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.