Skinwalker · Mount Bachelor, Oregon
OR-NDID case-a79d5f7116First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Mount Bachelor, Oregonto approximate level
- Reports
- 2 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator reports seeing a man-like figure crouched in a tree near their cabin and hearing hoof-like steps on the roof.
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Mount Bachelor, Deschutes County, Oregon, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words - When
- Date unknown
- 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-a79d5f7116
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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.
- One of my favorite stories, possibly Skinwalker?
Reddit · 2014-03-02
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Does anyone know the source of this old reddit skinwalker encounter story?
Reddit · 2025-01-07
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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