Saw a super tall shadowy figure run out from behind a tree

[Kanon]

For context I'm playing a co-op winter game, and we haven't had the strange capsule event. The thing was TALL, about as tall as the tree it ran out of. Really caught me off guard, and I haven't seen any other posts about it! Any idea if this is some new easter egg?

 

[Maher]

It's not new. You should have a new quest in your journal to find the Shadow Guy, and it's worth doing.

 

[Ereo]

At the bus stop or in the secret woods?

 

[e2c]

Try the Stardew Valley Wiki. Secrets -> Dark Creature (entry is near bottom of Secrets Page). It looks like a local version of Bigfoot.

 

[sameperson_differentfont]

It's bigfoot!!!!

 

[ISSsloth]

This is one of my favorite events in the game. If you saw where the creature ran off to, maybe you could follow it?

 

[Lew Zealand]

The great thing about Winter is sometimes things leave their footprints in the snow. I of course did not think of such things and thus never found what the thing was until looking in the Wiki.

 

[LRangerR]

A certain item that lands in the farm overnight is always immediately placed into a chest and forgotten about

 

[Guinan]

I also saw something bigger than the normal animals but it was at the Spa. Do I still find it in spring or only in winter?

 

[NetworkerC]

It's bigfoot!!!!

It’s his rarer cousin, Workboots!

 

[ISSsloth]

I also saw something bigger than the normal animals but it was at the Spa. Do I still find it in spring or only in winter?

The creature at the spa is unrelated, as far as I know. Maybe a possum, those are surprisingly large. The first creature though can only be tracked down again in winter.

 

[Kanon]

It wasn't Krobus, and it definitely wasn't the alien from the capsule, as we haven't had the event yet. It was humanoid in shape, as tall as a tree, and left no footprints. Saw it walking to the left of the screen while walking back to the farm from the mines, on the walk over the bus tunnel. It was pretty creepy! Definitely not the dark creature though

 

[FilthyGorilla]

It wasn't Krobus, and it definitely wasn't the alien from the capsule, as we haven't had the event yet. It was humanoid in shape, as tall as a tree, and left no footprints. Saw it walking to the left of the screen while walking back to the farm from the mines, on the walk over the bus tunnel. It was pretty creepy! Definitely not the dark creature though

it's a new easter egg - the bigfoot (not the possum or krobus as others are saying I don't think)

The first creature though can only be tracked down again in winter.

If you're talking about Krobus, he can be found in any season, though it's much harder to follow what to do without the footsteps in the snow that winter grants

 

[LRangerR]

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Can you do a fav and spoiler tag this?

 

[REtroGeekery]

I always call it Harry.