Other Canine · Pocahontas County, West Virginia
WV-NDID case-b012024d26First-hand accountAdded to map Nov 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Pocahontas County, West Virginiato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator and her daughter observed a tall, mangy-looking canine-like creature with a sloping back that circled their vehicle in the woods.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Nov 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-b012024d26
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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.
- Has anyone here ever seen or encountered an animal, or creature, that you couldn't explain? True West Virginia scary stories?
Reddit · 2023-07-04
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- 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 - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
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