Skinwalker · 2014
XX-2014ID case-c99b5113bcFirst-hand accountAdded to map Oct 30, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Oct 2014to the month
- Where
- Place unknownno dependable place
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The narrator and their two brothers report hearing unidentifiable cooing noises, scratches on windows, and seeing shadow figures or 'skinwalkers' that limp in the backyard for years.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- No dependable place
The account doesn't say where in words we can place, so it isn't drawn on the map; the map lists it under Cases with no resolvable place. Other Skinwalker reports with no place (295) - When
- Oct 2014
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 30, 2026
- Case id
- case-c99b5113bc
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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.
- So there’s been things happening in my backyard for years now.
Reddit · 2020-10-15
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
Books we have not reproduced: borrow them free at archive.org. Listing a book is not an endorsement of its claims.