Skinwalker · Michigan · 2019
MI-2019ID case-ad2890476eFirst-hand accountFallback locationAdded to map Oct 15, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- 2019to the year
- Where
- Michiganfallback location
- Reports
- 3 documents1 independent
The account
The narrator and a friend witnessed a creature that shifted between upright and quadrupedal forms, emitted high-pitched screams and strange noises, and ran across a pond toward them.
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Michigan, United States
mapped to state level · from the account's own words, recovered by a model pass after the extractor's window missed them
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the account's own words, recovered by a model pass after the extractor's window missed them. - When
- 2019
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source (3 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
- Added to map
- Oct 15, 2026
- Case id
- case-ad2890476e
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Source trail (3)
Down the rabbit hole → 3 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.
- Demon? Skinwalker?
Reddit · 2025-08-20
Earliest found, not necessarily the original. - Demon? Skinwalker?
Reddit · 2025-08-20 - Demon? Skinwalker? Dog man?
Reddit · 2025-08-21
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.