Skinwalker · Galloway Township, New Jersey · 2015
NJ-2015ID case-d6810027d2First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 6, 2026
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- When
- Nov 2, 2015to the day
- Where
- Galloway Township, New Jerseyto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
A 16-year-old witness reports seeing a black, wrinkled, fast-moving creature with long limbs on their porch and in their yard, which screamed and ate prey before fleeing into the woods.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Skinwalker
- Where
- Galloway Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Nov 2, 2015
- Account
- First-hand (the witness telling it)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 6, 2026
- Case id
- case-d6810027d2
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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.
- [Skinwalkers] Strange creature spotted in Galloway, New Jersey
Reddit · 2015-11-03
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.