Skinwalker · Minnesota · 2021
MN-2021ID case-ac7f6e7b00First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Aug 14, 2021to the day
- Where
- Minnesotato state level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator and their fiancé heard a strange snort and a human voice saying 'hey' while looking at a meteor shower on a secluded dirt road.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Minnesota, United States
mapped to state level · from the report's own words - When
- Aug 14, 2021
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-ac7f6e7b00
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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.
- Possible wendigo/sw encounter in Minnesota
Reddit · 2021-08-21
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
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