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Skinwalker · Angel Fire, New Mexico · 2022

NM-2022ID case-017f6620feFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
Creature
Skinwalker
When
Dec 2022to the month
Where
Angel Fire, New Mexicoto town level
Reports
1 document1 independent

The account

Witness reports hearing heavy, bipedal footsteps resembling a large bear while camping in Angel Fire, New Mexico, which they attribute to a spirit inhabiting an animal.

See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet

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Details

Creature
Skinwalker
Where
Angel Fire, Colfax County, New Mexico, 87710, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words
When
Dec 2022
Account
First-hand (the witness telling it)
Backed by
1 independent source
Added to map
Oct 30, 2026
Case id
case-017f6620fe

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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.

  1. Encounter with spiritual entity?
    Reddit · 2024-12-09
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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Further reading

  • "Some Kind of Power": Navajo Children's Skinwalker Narratives, Margaret K. Brady (1984)
    Folklore study of how Navajo children tell skinwalker stories.
    Borrow on Internet Archive
  • 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

Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.

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