Skinwalker · Oregon
OR-NDID case-6fb47d060fFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 26, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Oregonfallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witness reports hearing a loud noise to the east resembling something large being knocked over or thrown down while taking out dogs at night.
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Oregon, 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 (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 26, 2026
- Case id
- case-6fb47d060f
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Source trail (1)
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.
- Possible Skinwalker encounter in Oregon
Reddit · 2020-07-28
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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