Skinwalker · Mexico
MEX-NDID case-9afe4348e2Fallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Mexicofallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports that a medium-sized black dog with human breasts hanging from its chest appeared in front of their home, causing the grandfather's gun to jam when he tried to shoot it.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Mexico
mapped to country level · from the country named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the country named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-9afe4348e2
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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.
- My Mom's Encounter with a Nahual (Mexican Skinwalker)
Reddit · 2019-04-15
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.