Skinwalker · Arizona
AZ-NDID case-b83c25f08fFallback locationAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Arizonafallback location
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator recounts a traditional Navajo Medicine Man identifying a creature as a Skinwalker that had killed a stray dog and used it to create an illusion.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Arizona, United States
mapped to state level · from a place stated elsewhere in the same document, not in this account
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is a place stated elsewhere in the same document, not in this account. - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-b83c25f08f
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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.
- Encounters with Navajo Skinwalkers (cvltnation)
Reddit · 2018-03-16
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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