Skinwalker · Northwest Territories, Canada · 1899
CAN-1899ID case-8abf86cb30Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- 1899to the year
- Where
- Northwest Territories, Canadato state level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
Witnesses report that a man named [name]-toos turned into a 'windigo' with an uncontrollable craving for human flesh and was killed by two Indians who claimed self-defense.
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Northwest Territories, Canada
mapped to state level · from the report's own words - When
- 1899
- 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-8abf86cb30
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Source trail (1)
Down the rabbit hole → 2 documents, and how they connect
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- Image 5 of Akron daily Democrat (Akron, Ohio), July 1, 1899
Newspaper · 1899-07-01
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.
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