Skinwalker · Mendocino County, California · 2017
CA-2017ID case-27c2a49b46First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 26, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Aug 15, 2017to the day
- Where
- Mendocino County, Californiato county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator's boyfriend suggests the unexplained voices heard in Mendocino National Forest last year were likely a Wendigo mimicking human voices.
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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
- Aug 15, 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 26, 2026
- Case id
- case-27c2a49b46
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- I believe I had a close encounter with something strange in Mendocino National Forest.
Reddit · 2018-08-15
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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.
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