Skinwalker · Mendocino County, California · 2017
CA-2017ID case-093f053cfeFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- 2017to the year
- Where
- Mendocino County, Californiato county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator reports hearing unexplained male voices and feeling an intense sense of dread while driving in Mendocino National Forest, later associating the event with wendigo lore.
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Mendocino County, California, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- 2017
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-093f053cfe
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- I believe I had a close encounter with a wendigo and would love to hear from someone who knows more than I do
Reddit · 2018-08-14
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
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.
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