Other Humanoid · Covington, Georgia · 1975
GA-1975ID case-f51781ddfeFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Nov 10, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Feb 1975to the month
- Where
- Covington, Georgiafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The author reports seeing a hairy creature back out of sunlight into a dark cave within an abandoned well during childhood.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Covington, Newton County, Georgia, 30014, 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
- Feb 1975
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 10, 2026
- Case id
- case-f51781ddfe
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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.
- The Covington news, 1975-02-06
newspaper_ga · 1975-02-06
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.