“I was laying in bed and saw a silhouetted figure walk across the cabin. I assumed it was just a counselor and ignored it until I saw the figure just walk right into a wall.”

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word cryptid as “An animal whose existence or survival is disputed or unsubstantiated, such as the yeti.”  For the following witnesses to living cryptids, there is no dispute.  In this series of National Cryptid Society’s case files, you will read what the witnesses have experienced in their own words.

Keep an open mind when reading these accounts, and also remember one’s perception and memory of an event can be influenced by the emotions felt at the time of the occurrence. The contributors to this series of articles are doing the best they can to recount what are in some cases very shocking and traumatic experiences.

If you have a personal cryptid sighting story you would like to tell us, please visit our “Make A Report” page on this site.

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NCS Case File #58: Shadow person walks through the wall of a cabin in Battle Creek, Michigan

Submitted by Josh

No date given (will update upon contact with the witness)

“I was at a school camp trip one year and one of the nights I was laying in bed and saw a silhouetted figure walk across the cabin. I assumed it was just a counselor and ignored it until I saw the figure just walk right into a wall.

I was thoroughly spooked but nothing malicious had happened and I chalked it up to my eyes playing tricks and went to sleep. The next morning I woke up perfectly refreshed and had completely forgotten the incident until I overheard a classmate ask his friend if he saw the man walk through the wall.”

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NCS Notes:

• I don’t usually include such short reports, but there is something about these sightings of “shadow people” that really creeps me out.
• Although “shadow people” are not usually thought of as cryptids, this is an unusual type of sighting that can easily cross between an unknown creature encounter and an observation of something completely paranormal.
• So far, there have been three other shadowy humanoid sightings that the NCS has collected:

• The Shadowrunner: Dark Figure Terrorizes Onlooker at the Base of the Sierra Madre Mountains, New Mexico. 

• Shadowy Figure with No Face and Red Eyes in Fennville, Michigan  

• NCS Case File #23: Slender-Limbed Shadow Creature  (possible Black Stick Man) 

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Monsters In Print: A Collection Of Curious Creatures Known Mostly From Newspapers

by Adam Benedict

This collection of over 170+ articles, direct from newspapers of the 1800s and 1900s, brings some of the most bizarre, amazing, and incredible stories of true monster encounters out of the past and into your hands! Presented with zero spin or bias, this book delivers just the facts and allows you, the reader, to decide for yourself if the stories within actually happened or not.
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