Skinwalker · Big Bear Lake, California · 2020
CA-2020ID case-4a6cc7f915First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Sep 5, 2020to the day
- Where
- Big Bear Lake, Californiato town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator and their fiancé heard a weird howling noise at around 2am that sounded like no animal they had ever heard.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino County, California, 92315, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 5, 2020
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-4a6cc7f915
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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.
- Big Bear CA possible Skin Walker story 2020
Reddit · 2020-09-04
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.
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.