Other Humanoid · Hillsborough, North Carolina · 1881

NC-1881ID case-efa7d9b165Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 11, 2026Wait… what now?

Why it's on Wait… what now?: A bearded, white-haired humanoid vanishing into a hedge after witnesses knelt to pray is absurd and socially staged.

Creature: Other Humanoid
When: May 1881to the month
Where: Hillsborough, North Carolinafallback location
Reports: 1 document1 independent

The account

Witness reports seeing a tall, bareheaded humanoid with long white hair, black eyes, and a white beard that parted in the middle, which vanished into a hedge after the witnesses knelt to pray.

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Details

Creature: Other Humanoid
Where: Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, 27278, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: May 1881
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source
Added to map: Oct 11, 2026
Case id: case-efa7d9b165

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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.

Image 1 of Orange County observer (Hillsborough, N.C.;Hillsboro, N.C.), May 28, 1881
Newspaper · 1881-05-28
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