Very large, black, human-looking sihouette seen
Account
After dark, two riders on horseback were traveling on a back trail from the fairgrounds toward a friend's house. One horse alerted to something ahead, and the riders observed a very large, silent, human-like silhouette that moved diagonally into the brush. One rider greeted it, initially thinking it was a person, and they continued to the house without discussing it until morning. The next day they returned and found flattened dry grass where it had stood.
What was reported
Every kind of observation in the account. Select one to find other encounters with it.
Sightings
Described appearance
In the source's own words, field by field. Hover a field's marker to see where it was read.
- Height src
- at head level while sitting on horse
- Build src
- very large
- Other features src
- looked human
Facts & provenance
Each value names where it came from.
| Date |
October 1978
|
|---|---|
| Time of day |
after dark
|
| Place |
Hayfork/Hyampom, Trinity County, California
|
| Map point |
40.5759, -123.1236 (± 15 km)
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Hayfork CDP (GEOID 0632562), matched from nearest town 'Hayfork/Hyampom'
|
| Account type |
First-hand
|
| Witnesses |
2
|
| Figures reported |
1
|
| Witness was |
riding horseback on back trail
|
| Witness's word for it |
a black silhouette that looked human
|
| Source classification |
Class B
|
Evidence & investigation
What the source says was found or done. Claimed evidence is listed as claimed; the Anomadex has not examined it.
flattened dry grass where figure stood, observed next day
Source timeline
Every record this entry is built from, earliest known first. Records are versioned and never edited in place.
-
BFRO report #2581 Primary
The report refers to
- “a different report”Not in the Anomadex yet