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Skinwalker · Arizona

AZ-NDID case-3df9f6f875First-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 28, 2026
Creature
Skinwalker
When
Date unknownno date given
Where
Arizonafallback location
Reports
1 document1 independent

The account

Witness reports a dog that appeared to be their pet but had missing ear on the wrong side and a swollen tail, which scratched marks into a door before running away.

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

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Details

Creature
Skinwalker
Where
Arizona, United States
mapped to state level · from a place stated elsewhere in the same document, not in this account
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is a place stated elsewhere in the same document, not in this account.
When
Date unknown
Account
First-hand (the witness telling it)
Backed by
1 independent source
Added to map
Oct 28, 2026
Case id
case-3df9f6f875

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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. experiences being targeted
    Reddit · 2019-10-14
    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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