Skinwalker · Colorado · 2021
CO-2021ID case-a86c13e0afFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Jan 2021to the month
- Where
- Coloradofallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator and her husband report hearing the exact same call for help at the same point on an old highway in Colorado eight months ago.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Colorado, United States
mapped to state level · from the state named in the report (exact place not found)
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the state named in the report (exact place not found). - When
- Jan 2021
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-a86c13e0af
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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.
- Heard a real Skinwalker Gibber for first time
Reddit · 2021-08-24
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.