Skinwalker · Navajo Mountain, Utah · 1980s
UT-1980ID case-1d8c50cd69Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- the 1980sto the decade
- Where
- Navajo Mountain, Utahto approximate level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that his father and uncle, along with two native friends, saw a pitch black figure cavorting around an enormous roaring fire on top of a mesa.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Navajo Mountain, Navajo Mountain / Naatsisʼáán, San Juan County, Utah, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- the 1980s
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-1d8c50cd69
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Source trail (1)
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- Navajo Mountain Reservation, UT
Reddit · 2022-10-28
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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