Skinwalker · Newark, Ohio · 1926
OH-1926ID case-83ffb2a573Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Jan 1926to the month
- Where
- Newark, Ohiofallback location
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report hearing a terrifying, human-like voice mimicking women and children from a ridge, which they believed to be a Windigo luring them to doom.
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Newark, Licking County, Ohio, 43055, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen. - When
- Jan 1926
- 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 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-83ffb2a573
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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.
- Image 7 of Newark leader ([Newark, Ohio]), January 1, 1926
Newspaper · 1926-01-01
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.