Creatures, legends & belief
Ningen
folkloreEvidence status
Modern internet folklore; no verified organism.
Editorial assessment of this proposition; not a numeric confidence score.
Claim or proposition being examined
Giant pale humanoid creatures inhabit Antarctic waters.
Limitations
Source demonstrates circulation of the claim, not its truth; independently authenticated evidence is required.
Catalog review date reported: 2026-10-28. This is inherited catalog metadata, not a new verification of the linked source.
An artist’s depiction of the Ningen internet legend. Illustration only—not a photograph, sighting record or evidence that the creature exists.
WikiYisus, Monstruo Ningen (1 May 2022), CC BY-SA 4.0; unchanged.
Independent 2022 own-work illustration. Not one of the separately restricted third-party figures in the Shima article.
Image source record · Reuse terms
Image rights and evidence limits
CC BY-SA 4.0: credit author and source, link license; retain same license on adaptations. No endorsement implied.
Image existence does not prove a linked claim. Consult image-specific captions and reuse conditions.
Sources and what they support
Links document the record, the claim’s circulation, an assessment, or reuse terms as labeled. A source link is not automatically corroboration.
- claim documentation and/or assessmenthttps://www.shimajournal.plate.media/issues/v14n1/10.-Greenland-and-Hayward-Shima-v14n1.pdf
- documentary target record; may differ from displayed reproductionhttps://www.shimajournal.plate.media/issues/v14n1/10.-Greenland-and-Hayward-Shima-v14n1.pdf
- documentary target record; may differ from displayed reproductionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxW8qrQSYwg
- displayed image provenance; not proof of the associated claimhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monstruo_Ningen.jpg
- image-specific reuse conditionshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- documentary source for this record; not necessarily evidence supporting its claimhttps://www.shimajournal.plate.media/issues/v14n1/10.-Greenland-and-Hayward-Shima-v14n1.pdf
- documentary source for this record; not necessarily evidence supporting its claimhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxW8qrQSYwg
Connected records
These are contextual links, not automatic corroboration.
- マリアナ海溝 ＆ UMA・ニンゲン！
Related creator video. Shima (2020), page 147, footnote 18 prints this exact YouTube URL and discusses Naokiman’s skeptical treatment of Ningen.
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