Skinwalker · Gallup, New Mexico
NM-NDID case-918bb525eaAdded to map Oct 18, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Gallup, New Mexicoto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A New Mexico Highway Patrol officer reports two separate encounters with a ghastly creature running alongside his patrol car at high speed.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Gallup, McKinley County, New Mexico, 87301, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 18, 2026
- Case id
- case-918bb525ea
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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.
- An anecdote from an officer in gallup
Reddit · 2021-11-08
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.