Skinwalker · Southern Hills, Nevada · 2020
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Sep 15, 2020to the day
- Where
- Southern Hills, Nevadato town level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report hearing hyena-esque cackling and pacing outside their window while discussing skinwalker lore, followed by finding dog prints and large human-like footprints in the yard the next morning.
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Southern Hills, Clark County, Nevada, 89148, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 15, 2020
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-84d4723f7c
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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.
- Ive been meaning to post this here for a few years. My possible skinwalker encounter in the Mojave.
Reddit · 2020-09-15
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Encounter in the Mojave
Reddit · 2020-09-15
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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