Skinwalker · Chaffee County, Colorado · 2021
CO-2021ID case-856f7fde8bFirst-hand accountAdded to map Nov 7, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Sep 2021to the month
- Where
- Chaffee County, Coloradoto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator and a friend encountered a man-like shape running on all fours behind their vehicle in the forest, heard a child's cry for help, and later found muddy handprints on their jeep.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Chaffee County, Colorado, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Sep 2021
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 7, 2026
- Case id
- case-856f7fde8b
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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.
- crawler/skinwaler encounter in colorado
Reddit · 2022-05-27
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
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