Skinwalker · Apache County, Arizona
AZ-NDID case-3c04f5b430Added to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Apache County, Arizonato county level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
An elder recounts a story where a woman's butchered goat skin dragged itself across the ground and glided toward washes, prompting Medicine Men to investigate.
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Apache County, Arizona, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-3c04f5b430
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Source trail (2)
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.
- Re-tell: Skinwalkers and a story of a navajo medicine men hunting them
Reddit · 2020-10-06
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Re-Tell Story/ Medicine Men and the Skinwalker
Reddit · 2021-05-25
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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