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Skinwalker · Tségháhoodzání, Arizona

AZ-NDID case-d88e523905First-hand accountAdded to map Oct 21, 2026
Creature
Skinwalker
When
Date unknownno date given
Where
Tségháhoodzání, Arizonato approximate level
Reports
2 documents1 independent

The account

The narrator and his father encounter a large, dog-like creature with a distorted human-bear face on a highway near Window Rock, which screams and flees after they approach it.

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Details

Creature
Skinwalker
Where
Tségháhoodzání, Window Rock, Apache County, Arizona, United States
mapped to approximate level · from the report's own words
When
Date unknown
Account
First-hand (the witness telling it)
Backed by
1 independent source (2 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map
Oct 21, 2026
Case id
case-d88e523905

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Source trail (2)

Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.

  1. Mine and my Fathers skinwalker experience.
    Reddit · 2016-01-03
    Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
  2. Mine and my Father's skinwalker experience.
    Reddit · 2016-01-04

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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.

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