Other Canine · Watauga County, North Carolina · 2025
NC-2025ID case-c8f8a729a5First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 14, 2026
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- Jul 2025to the month
- Where
- Watauga County, North Carolinato county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witness reports a stiff, thin deer-like creature standing motionless and staring at the campers before walking away with an awkward gait.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- Watauga County, North Carolina, United States
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Jul 2025
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 14, 2026
- Case id
- case-c8f8a729a5
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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.
- Skinwalker Experience While Camping.
Reddit · 2026-03-13
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.