Soldiers and Marines Encounter Shapeshifting Entities
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
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0:00 - Intro
2:44 - Navajo Encounter
7:09 - Arizona Base Encounter
12:27 - Skinwalker Guns
16:23 - Hello?
19:34 - Tales from the Grid Square
21:00 - I Know You're There
30:49 - Credits & Closing Message
34:34 - HeroFront
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Hey guys, thank you all so much for the support over the past couple weeks. Really means a lot to me and my family. Back to work!
I have been very blessed during my efforts to build this channel, and I will always do what I can to support my fellow veteran creators as much as I have been supported. So if you did want to hear me ramble on about my own personal experiences, on working with the channel, and an Airman's own creepy stories, check out the Halloween interview I did with Josh on the Hero Front Podcast: ua-cam.com/video/I6H97d9qCps/v-deo.htmlsi=qHWWxIB8VL3tYf3p
Good to see you back luke I've been trying to contact you for a voice audition if you need any voice actors I hope things are okay with you.
Yay!! So glad you are back! Happy dance!💃🕺🎶
Love you bro!!!!
Luke out of curiosity would you consider doing more episodes about WW1 mysteries like the Angels of Mons and the disappearance of the 5th Norfolk Regiment for example?
Thank you and wishing you all the best!
I have a friend who is a scientist, and a very skeptical, rational dude all around. We live out west and occasionally go camping; on one trip he was pulling out some gear and I noticed he had a little plastic baggy filled with a grey powder. I asked him what it was and in a tone that suggested he didn't want to talk about it, he replied, "white ash." Only later did I learn that ashes from the white ash tree are thought to be effective against skinwalkers. I'd love to know why my not st all superstitious friend carries a little bag of the stuff in his camping gear, but I doubt he wants to tell me. Maybe when we're good and drunk...
It's just a matter of what he's skeptical about, and what he's not skeptical about.
You've undoubtedly heard the old saying that " seeing is believing "?
Maybe your friend saw something that convinced him of their existence.
I was skeptical about UFOs once. Not anymore.
its said that if you talk about them they hunt you
We need an update on this story
@@certainlynotafurryBullshit. That’s godmodding.
@@Trilltexas214honestly
Fun fact about mountain lions, this is relevant to “Hello?”, don’t worry. They are not big cats and cannot roar as a result because they lack the vocal components for it. However, they have the ability to replicate something similar to a roar, sort of like a screech, which sounds a lot like a *screaming woman*. So when that one soldier asked if it was a mountain lion that did that noise, he might not have been wrong… until the thing said hello.
Same thing with bobcats and fishers. Hearing those things screeching and wailing in the woods at night is definitely unsettling. It’s crazy how similar they can sound to a human scream.
@@impulse_xs kinda funny how the smaller housecats sound like smaller humans (small children/babies) XD
@@thecursed01 once you hear a fisher cat fighting in the middle of the night, those terrifying noises in the woods make more sense lol
@@impulse_xs only wildlife in the forest here, apart from birds, are deer and wild boars. and i'm okay with that. boar is still dangerous, but i wouldn't want those cat/wolf/coyote or similar noises XD i'd be terrified all the time...or annoyed when i want to sleep...or both
It could have easily been a curious crow or raven that said "hello" back to them, they are known to mimic human speech from time to time and they're creepily good at it, too.
The last story about the deer hitting itself is most likely a disease called: Chronic wasting disease (CWD). CWD is a prion disease that affects deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer and moose. It pretty much reconstructs protiens in our bodies into prions and they do not work as intended. This causes the creature to not function how it would. dying on a microbial level until it becomes small areas on the body, then whole organs, and finally the brain. It causes them to pretty much lose all motor and brain function until they do not even know what is happening around them. They end up killing themselves because they are so gone, or get eaten by predetors because they aren't afraid of them anymore.
I was looking for this comment. I do remember hearing about a disease that does this to animals, but I couldn’t remember the name.
The first situation with the deer trying to kill itself is still strange though; how would the condition explain it supposedly speaking? Or maybe the soldier hallucinated from shock or was just lying. Who knows.
I've also heard they do that when they shed their antlers, hitting their heads on trees and bleeding. Time of year matches too, the spring. The rest could just be his mind playing tricks.
There was another story about CWD that played out almost exactly as this story does. A young adult and his grandfather went hunting and saw a deer bash its head into a tree, try to eat its own brain, then stand up on its hind legs and walked into a river to die.
@@kingofhearts3185Very possible. Any seasoned hunter knows that the bush will play tricks on your eyes after a while
Explain it talking in english then dude? :O
A friend of mine is Navajo. She tells me her whole family believes her uncle is a skinwalker and the way he did was killing his own brother. She’s told me some stories on why they think so and it’s pretty creepy
Really? Tell. Me abt it
@Hdhdjdudh-fv5jk 🙄 Indigenous culture isn't anti Christian. Christianity is seemingly anti Indigenous though.
If you don't mind us asking, could you tell us more and why they think so? Im so curious!
@@jamiepoujade267 Christianity is not anti indigenous, Jesus is not anti anyone. The Catholic church however is another story.
@@Hdhdjdudh-fv5jk I don't like Christianity or Islam. Hindu and Native American beliefs and legends are dope, even though I don't believe most of them. Except Native American, that shit is convincing and they are not exactly the most corrupt or dishonest culture.
Humans: imitation is the highest form of flattery
Also humans when something imitates them:
the difference is one is something human, the other isn't
There's a dark reason why humans have the "uncanny valley" feeling after all
yeah man, why do they gotta be so scared
@@Arc_5 Probably because they, oh you know, kill you.
@@argentin2306 yeah, I sometimes wonder why we, human, actually have a function where we regconise something that "human" ain't human. Like, all other liferform are not at all similar to us other than monkey-related stuff. It's an interesting thought for something that we develop to resist again something that very similar to us, but not us in the past.
19:13 Everybody getting back in the truck without investigating or asking questions is the funniest part of this whole thing while also being the smartest thing you can do in a situation like that
They Mexicaned their way out of there🤣
They did the opposite of a horror movie scene
just a case of self-preservation act
“Combat lock the doors” -LT
😂
I burst out laughing. It was hilarious lol
I am fairly desensitized to anything scary, but the “I know you’re there” story gave me shivers. Well done!
You're obviously not desensitized to anything.
@@ahndeux No shit sherlock, that's why they said "but".
@@troysmith7164 Nah... He's not desensitized to anything. Go visit a few gore sites and come back and comment.
@@ahndeux Can you not read?
@@ahndeuxCan’t spell either. Shame.
America is truly a terrifying place if you look in the wrong places in the middle of nowhere, I may not be a Native American but I’m glad that you presented the tribe with the proper formalities and everything, this was an amazing episode and my first episode of the channel that I’ve watched
Go looking for one
@@quempire2656You go looking for one RTard
@@quempire2656 love yor username
My grandpa said he saw one back up in north eastern Utah apparently that’s where they are especially in Roosevelt I like to stay clear of that town@@quempire2656
Skinwalkers don't exist
That “I know you’re there” just made my stomach drop. I’m Blackfoot from the Canadian side and we don’t have stuff like Skinwalkers or Wendigos. (just bad spirits mostly). It still scares me all the same. Great video man, God be with you!
Amen
I thought we do dont we? Like wendigos
@@thelocalfbi6041those are called aunties lol
@@Ben_2761 there are, they’re just demons. Christ is King brother. ☦️
@@Ben_2761look up the disembodied spirits in the Bible
Honestly man, I’m just glad you’ve got through all this BS. Keep it up the great work. I’m not a veteran but I imagine this channel is an excellent place for veterans to share their stories.
As a Vet I can confirm how much I love this channel.
It brings me back to being on patrol with my squad and just talking about our experiences or legends we've heard from the locals.
I found this channel 3 days before it got deactivated.I was so disappointed, was like finding a rare gem and watching it melt in ur hand. Now he's back and I'm happy amazing channel
It does hurt that the guy that runs Ballen studios is a combat vet as well and is also an attorney. It’s not MrBallen btw
I'm afraid some Skinwalkers on UA-cam HQ got embrassed or even threatened whenver Skinwalker topic brought up as content
@@NathanPa-xo3zj skinwalkers is the latest gender not being respected by society when it comes to UA-cam.
For the "I know you're there" story, the first time I listened to this I was multitasking and missed the part about the guy being high up in a tree. I originally imagined the guy being positioned on the ground, which somehow seems more horrifying. Either way, it would make a fantastic short horror film
I actually think being up in the tree stand is worse. IF you're on ground level atleast you could potentially haul ass in the other direction back to the car but being up in a tree stand with the only way out being down means you're stuck either way and have no way of going anywhere.
I'd rather have the option to flee than to be stuck completely, altough I suppose for many it is more comforting having the high ground and having some distance between yourself and whatever is down there.
@@user-bt8xr5si9y i see what you're saying. Being trapped in a tree would be such a helpless feeling. I think being at eye-level with the thing would be scarier still, if not because you're a lot closer to the thing on the ground meaning less distance needed to get to you.
I'm actually not sure which is scarier, when I think about it.
@@SaltySteff Tricky one I must say. "i know youre there" would be actually spine chilling knowing youre high in a tree. Like that thing knew you were up there in the pitch black. But on the ground, i honestly might just accept my demise ngl like thats something said before they hunt you down
Chronic Wasting Disease with "I know your there" thrown in for scare factor. I mean, it works.. it 100% works. Its a freaky story. But seeing CWD in front of your very eyes would be a scary thing anyway
I'm skeptical about "I know you're there" for the simple reason that there was no battle buddy.
I’ve spent a lot of time training in the south western US. I’ve seen things I can’t truly explain. I once saw a Coyote that stared at me with a human understanding. When I yell at it to try and scare it off there was no reaction. It just slowly turned around and walked away. And then every night while I was on guard I’d catch it on the outskirts of our perimeter. But when I checked out the area it’d been prowling I didn’t find any coyote tracks. Just footprints. Not boot prints from other soldiers. Barefoot prints. My buddies described similar encounters with an odd coyote the whole 14 days we were out there.
Sounds like the coy was also on patrol. As an indigenous person, although I'm fearful of sk*nwalkers and bigfoot, I can't help but view them as guardians of nature, seeking to protect more than harm.
@@raynebow5289 bruh. btw why do you see them as guardians and not for example, cursed people?
@@sirfanatical8763 Check out Shanclen Shadow Productions if you're genuinely curious. It's best to understand it directly from a native Navajo.
@@raynebow5289 I'd believe that. If they didn't hurt anyone and by the sounds of it, they didn't, so maybe they were just keeping watch like a guardian would. It makes sense. If anything, I'd feel very safe, having something or someone watching my back and keeping me out of danger. It would be a huge comfort.
@@sirfanatical8763 Why do they have to be cursed people? Not eveything is about curses, ya know?
Not a skinwalker story since I'm not Navajo-completely different part of the country-but I ended up hearing a story EXACTLY like that one at the start. One comes from my great-grandmother, who told me about the time when my great-grandfather was hunting alone and shot a wolf or large canine that was stalking him. He checked the place where the beast dropped and he found a naked man with canine-looking arms and legs and a tail. He tried to pick him up, but the downed man-wolf thrashed and he decided to head back home. Apparently, it weirded him out more than anything but he continued to hunt in that same area until he was too old for that. The biggest mindblow was that, independently, that area also happened to be my own preferred hunting area too. Never saw anything like that exactly, but I have a good few stories of hallucinations I had in that area.
what kind of hallucinations?
@@chief85654 Most of my hallucinations are of sounds, but in that particular set of woods it's pretty consistently whooping laugh sounds. There's at least one incident when I was trying to rest where I had a whole episode where this herd of tall grey people just wandered through the area. I have audio-visual hallucinations fairly often, but this one was oddly persistent to that one area.
@@EksaStelmereare you trying to get caught?
@@biggiracc It's all in my head, it's fine.
@@EksaStelmere wake up
Wake up
18:48 they way he just goes "everybody back in the trucks" is a funny and legitimate reaction. Dude was not playing games that day.
Fuck this shit I’m out.
That's a real life reaction. People who have a brain will take one look at stuff like this, and immediately decide the best course of action is to get as far away as they reasonably can from whatever the hell they're seeing.
@@josephcola9662 Amen to that, brother
The voice acting of the encounters are so good and sound organic. Really adds to these stories🔥
Big fist bump to the artist. I’m an illustrator and I understand how much time and effort it takes to male just one of the pieces in this video. I appreciate the work.
You know, is very weird, my mom grew up in a very rural area in the Guatemalan border with Mexico, a place near the town called Malacatan. She was there with aunt or aunt grandma, my mind a bit fuzzy about that detail. The whole point of this is, while my mom was a child, she said an unusually large dog like creature used to sneak into the house and steal anything it liked when the kids were home alone. My mom said she wasn't scared of the thing until her aunt told her to scare the thing away because it was and evil man "disguised" as a dog. The aunt was able to catch the creature once and hit it with stick and driving it away. The scary part is, if my mind serves, the dog thing curse like a man all the way out of the house, the damn thing spoke like a man on it's way out the house like person. After that they saw the creature no more. I don't really believe in any of this stuff but i know enough to know we haven't discovered everything under the sun just yet. Anyway, that's the story. i hope someone reads it, weird happenings from Central America.
Scary, I believe it. The supernatural is real. So many cultures and nations believe in different types of entities.
@@forrestedmountains7081 yes, the odd thing is how similar the anomalous entities are. and back in the 70's in the middle of nowhere during the civil war. i don't think neither my mom of her aunt hear of the skin walkers. Anyway, i guess we'll never know for sure.
That was a Nahual
Yep. Brujo.
When we were living in Peru, my brother claims one night he awoke to some noise; when he looked outside he saw what he termed a "dogman" going through our things in our enclosed yard. He described this dogman as having a face resembling Anubis.
As a teenager maybe like 15 or 16 i snuck out with a friend to go for a walk by the river by my house. Now i lived in that green space, i know every path, every rock, and every tree. So its like 2 am and my friend and i are walking back to the house, up a hill along a main path. Down in a ravine we heard the voice of a girl say "hello? I lost my dog, can you help me?" The tone of voice wasnt right, the cadence wasnt right, it sent chills up my spine, it still does just thinking of it now. I grabbed my friend and said we need to go, he didnt really get it and shouted out something like "where are you?" To which the voice responds "i lost my dog, can you help me?" My friend shouts "are you okay?" And the voice responds "can you help me?" I heard a little rustling and i grabbed my friend and started to run back home. I told him when we got home that where that voice was coming from there was no path. I showed him later when the sun came up but that voice was coming from a bush on the side of a hill, 50 feet from any path through dense brush.
holy shit thats scary
@@joshmalloww I’ve also had some pretty intense Moments with skin walkers. These creatures are Most likely Spirits. Very intelligent Spirits. They take over dead corpses and Body’s to live in. I one time saw a Wolf walking on two legs like a Freaking Human. Its eyes Didn’t even look alive. It looked dead. At that point I KNEW that was a skin walker.
When I was a kid I walked my dog in my backyard and brought her up to the tree line, a little girl said hi to me and it made me jump, I didn't see anybody, I started to run and I didn't look back and rushed my dog back to the house, she was saying wait, wait for me or something like that, it just made no sense for it to happen, it really scared me and that area had this weird tree that was covered in vines and it always looked weird to me, was always scared of that area after that.
Was stationed at MCB Quantico previously, TBS side. There were all sorts of freaky stories from guys doing land nav and the various FEXs. Two notably:
1. There was a well-known "haunted house" somewhere out in the woods. A lot of the base is built on what was previously a rural town, and abandoned houses/rubble/old equipment/etc. litter the woods. Most houses seem to have fallen down but one specifically is still standing, up around the northeast corner in the base. Anyone who goes in there feels watched, and always report the house seemingly "breathing". There's also a locked door on the second floor where people have reported hearing talking or breathing behind. Never saw it myself but I could point it out on a map.
2. While doing land nav, guys would occasionally hear a whistle blast followed by what sounded like someone running up behind them or around them - but with nobody actually being anywhere near. Now I've heard that Quantico was used for trench-warfare training back before the Great War, so I've always wondered if that maybe had something to do with it. Never experienced this specifically but there's definitely a very eerie feeling to the forest up towards the northern edge of base, far away from Camp Barrett or the FBI Academy/ranges.
See I love these kind of stories, especially your first one. Sounds real creepy.
Unfortunately usually these stories have some major plot holes lol.
I mean if there was a locked door in the house that sounded like someone or something might be behind the door why did noone ever bother to just open the door? Sure it was locked but it being an old house out in the middle of nowhere it's probably nothing more than a standard wooden door that won't be all that strong, especially considering it's age.
It's stuff like this that makes me question why nobody ever bothered to check in any way shape or form (especially considering that it seems that this is rather well-known about).
It's bullshit
@@user-bt8xr5si9y No idea. I think someone mentioned trying to get through it but not being successful.
@@SovetskieeeeYeah see like that doesn't sound like it would happen.
I'd believe there being something behind that door before I believe they couldn't open it.
Like you're telling me that a door in an abandoned house that is probably decades old at this point is so strong that you could not open it at all?
It just doesn't make sense is all.
@@user-bt8xr5si9y Beyond me man, I'm just telling you what I've been told. Never saw the house for myself except on a map (up in TA16 for those who know quantico).
My eldest sister, not known to be a liar by any means RIP told me about an experience when she was going door to door as a Jehovahs Witness in the rurals on an indian reservation. She said the Sioux Indians would door after door tell them to leave and that the medicine man was coming and they had better run. Eventually one woman was very upset and started shouting at them and running towards them so they quickly walked to their car and began to drive away. My sister spotted an old man running quite quickly towards them in a ditch and as they were leaving anyway they started to speed away. When the old man reached the road he began running at a high rate of speed and then he morphed into a wolf and started to catch them. The dust was kicking up pretty good to a cloud and he disappeared in the dust cloud. They never went back.
ur sister is higher than the smoke dogg my g
My father was drafted for Vietnam and stationed at 29 palms. He is 77 years old.
As he has gotten older he has opened up about his experiences. One was how they had him go out in the middle of the desert with his platoon, and form a very large perimeter.
They were told not to look back, and if anyone was to approach, they were authorized to shoot to kill.
Tell more about it
That's because they were on a military base (one of the largest infantry training centers in the world) during the Cold War. The signs around the perimeter probably say "Use of deadly force authorized".
Was it maneuver practice? Or were they possibly looking for someone who had been snooping?
Btw i have heard that you should never look back if you think a spirit or negative entity is calling you. Looking back is a sign of confirmation to their call and you are allowing them to come with you.
that's just basic command stop overexaggerating it
@@Stranger-jx4qdand never open a door if it knocks. You just let it in.
It makes me sad that some people go out to purposely affect the people who have nothing to do with them. Stay strong and we love your content Sir.
Most of the curses that happen in my area are from people who paid them to curse a person. Happened with my family, they sent a bear and her cub to hurt us since my dad took bribes for grazing rights.
@@uBpGK Then your dad brought trouble onto himself for acting dishonorably, glad to see you admit your fathers transgression. That’s rare and should be acknowledged.
@@cjclark1208 lol well it’s not like I did it and it’s what the medicine man told me. He lost his job over that in the end. Happened 12 years ago.
@@uBpGK Wish you and your family nothing but good health and longevity, especially if you are of any native branch, I’m oddly in tune to much of the suffering that’s been inflicted for some reason and it’s heavy. Cheers my friend.
Affect
I live in Georgia and I used to go camping a lot with the boy scouts when I was a kid. There's this old bit of tribal land That was the site of a civil war battle called Chickamauga that we would go to and camp at for a few days every year. All the adults would tell us stories about ghost encounters and other spooky stories during the bonfires at night, but I would always brush them off because I didn't believe in ghosts.
Well The last time I went there, I was about 16, and we were on our last night camping and I had already packed in for the night and was fast asleep in my tent when I woke up having to pee. I'm not sure what time it was, but it had to be between midnight and maybe 3am. I got up and unzipped my tent to walk outside and piss, but as soon as I did, I noticed that the entire woods were lit up as if it was daytime, so I looked up to see the sky, but it was pitch black. I was confused as hell and wanted to wake up my friend in the tent to show him and make sure I wasn't going crazy, but I had to pee so bad that I said screw it and walked over to the nearest tree and started pissing. Thats when I heard someone call out with a "Hey!" and I looked up and about 50 yards away was the biggest, blackest buck I've ever seen just staring at me. I don't know why, but I was scared shitless. I stopped pissing immediately and ran into my tent and buried myself into my sleeping bag and spent the next hour listening for anything, but nothing ever came. I didn't even hear the buck walk away, so I was sure that thing was just staring down my tent the entire time. eventually sleep caught up to me and I passed back out.
The next morning I recounted my story to one of the scout leaders and he looked pretty unsettled by what I had told him so he told me about skinwalkers, which was something none of the adults had ever brought up before because they deemed them 'too scary' for us kids. That was the first time I'd ever heard the term, and that was the last time I ever went to Chickamauga.
My dad grew up in Page, small town on the Navajo reservation and holy hell does he have some stories to tell about this. A lot of the stories I've heard from him match with the stories in here, especially the "hello" story, almost all parts of it. That crazy scream, calling out to see if someone's hurt and then hearing our own voices right back at us. One thing they didnt mention was the saying "to speak is to invite", meaning that talking about skinwalkers invites them into your life.
I would love to hear some of your stories if you care to share. I grew up on land owned by indigenous peoples and had an unbridled fear of the woods at nightfall as a kid. However, being inside my family home didn't necessarily protect me either. I distinctly remember on several occasions between the ages of 5 and 10, hearing what sounded like my mother calling me from her bedroom. We lived in a trailer at the time and our bedrooms were on opposite ends of the house. Each time, I would go to her room and ask her if she called me, to which she'd always give me a stern look and say "no". Then she'd instruct me to not reply to what had called me. So I got really good at either not answering, or silently making my way to her room. What scares me the most is that the voice only called me at night.
Me to my fam is from page as well used to always be in Coppermine the red out there evrrytime night came I was always scared my cousins alway told there stories to freak me n my older bro out becuz we lived in phoenix grew up in the city but there were a few times some weird shit happened to us out there n my great grandma would tell stories of them but never was scared of em im not sure if its real or not but my whole family said that she was able to walk up to skinwalkers and while they were in animal form she tore the animal skin off from their face and see whole it was that was practicing dark medicine and if she recognized who they were the next day they would die or get some firm of deadly disease and eventually die within a few days
Sorry but Page isn’t small, you have to really dig deep within the rez to experience the horrors
what if you don't speak about them but just watch yt videos on them lol
Luke, I can assure you that the Navajo people to this day still believe in Skinwalkers, I live less than 50 miles from the northeastern edge of the Navajo reservation. I have many Navajo friends and aquaitennces. They typically don't like to talk about it too much. I have been on the reservation at night, and believe me, it is creepy.
What is the reservation u mentioned
@@lifeofacommoner5617 Navajo reservation
I listen to all kinds of supernatural encounters. But not the skinwalkers. They are out there. Too close for me 😳😵💫 for a possible encounter from them. They're best to be avoided.
I lived on a reservation all my life and I used to walk to school everyday when I was younger, I had to pass by a forest to get onto a road towards the school and sometimes i'd hear someone yell my name. I always just shrugged it off for some reason though, but one time when i heard my name being called i thought it could be one of my friends since their house was just around the corner, so i started heading that way. When i was just a few feet away from the house i got a really bad feeling and kinda just stood there in the driveway, i remember seeing that their car was gone so no one could've been home at that time (i think unless someone was inside but i didn't want to knock just to check) so i just turned and got to school as fast i could. Right behind my friends house was more forest, and growing up i'd always hear stories of 'monsters' trying to lure you away with voices and such. Thinking back i don't know why i was so chill walking around alone especially after hearing whatever calling my name so much so that i thought it was normal. Also that house is abandoned now and i always avoid it.
crazy i was just mentioning about how my mom heard something call her by first name extremely clearly. We live in Apache Junction near a reservation so she immediately shut the window
bro got numb to the voices
I grew up on land owned by indigenous peoples (Muscogee land shared by Muscogee/Cherokee/Choctaw/Blackfoot) and had an unbridled fear of the woods at nightfall as a kid. However, being inside my family home didn't necessarily protect me either. I distinctly remember on several occasions between the ages of 5 and 10, hearing what sounded like my mother calling me from her bedroom. We lived in a trailer at the time and our bedrooms were on opposite ends of the house. Each time, I would go to her room and ask her if she called me, to which she'd always give me a stern look and say "no". Then she'd instruct me to not reply to what had called me. So I got really good at either not answering, or silently making my way to her room. What scares me the most is that the voice only called me at night.
@@raynebow5289 That sounds horrifying. Do you still experience anything like that now? Or have any other experiences that are scary? I sometimes hear my name being called or what sounds like a distress call, but I also have minor psychosis, so I figured it might just be that. But there are times where I'm not so sure it's in my head and feel like there is something trying to lure me out of my own safety zone. I'm 29, but I am sensitive to sounds and smells, always have been. I pick up things that others would take longer to hear or smell. I tend to keep curtains closed and the blinds shut and always make sure to check if the door is locked too. I live in the countryside in England and stuff gets pretty crazy here. The fact the voices only called you at night is definitely strange and very scary. Good thing you heeded your mother's warning. Better to stay safe than get too curious.
@@ReptilianTeaDrinkerI haven't really experienced anything like that since I left my family's land, except for one time I returned home one year for the winter holidays. I had brought a relative's cat with me from out of state to have some company. One of my favorite pastimes as a kid was to walk to our family graveyard - a mound-shaped space we shared with other family groups who worked together to purchase the land after emancipation - so naturally, I began the 7min walk with the cat tagging along. Suddenly, the tabby stopped in its tracks while staring at the center of the road ahead of us. When I asked him what was wrong, he did that slow, drawn-out meow cats do when they feel threatened. Then his back hiked up with his hair all prickly. I kinda froze because I thought of all the people living on that land who told me stories of encountering strange entities and beasts on that same short strip of road. Always seeming like a guardian, or better yet, a gatekeeper to the graveyard standing in the middle of the road. These stories stretched so far across time, some of them described the road to be a wide stretch of asphalt, while others described it as a thin stretch of dirt. So when my furry friend reacted that way, I knew that three generations of other natives were telling the truth. I ended up walking to the graveyard by myself. Though I'd seen a lot of strange things as a kid, I never saw or felt any malicious energy leading up to or in the graveyard. In fact, I felt drawn to it and at peace there.
My son just introduced me to your channel and I am absolutely hooked. The storytelling flow, animation and after action report, are all so awesome. I did not serve in the military, so the way you explain aspects specific to military service is seamless and doesn't take away from the story. And as much as I love your narration, I appreciate the subtitles, which allows me to eat chips during your vids without missing a beat. I also learn something new every time I watch, history-wise, which I love.
I have to say, I really appreciated your thoroughness with this episode in particular. I'm am Ka'waika (Laguna Pueblo) Native, with many Diné friends and colleagues and your efforts to be true to their culture is inspiring. As an Indigenous person, the blanket terms used to describe or identify us in the media, or the failure to research what may be correct for one tribe, but different for others, gets old after awhile. It also causes many think we are all alike, not knowing just how many different tribes, cultures and languages we have across North America. It means more than you know and is probably appreciated by every Indigenous person watching your stories.
I'm in law enforcement and work with lots of guys who served and will definitely be recommending your channel to them! And if you ever do a law enforcement episode, I have a couple stories for you! You and your crew keep up the excellent work!
Non veteran here but found your page today and already through 4 videos. One of my new favorite channels. Keep up the awesome work.
Ever since I first read “I know You’re There,” it stuck with me and gives me chills every time I hear it!
Yea like what the absolute fuck man. That's the most terrifying horror movie plot type shit WTFFFF 😢😂
@@logang6583 that and one other story in that book made me put the book down to go get a breather. Great collection of story’s in the first volume of “Tales from the Grid Square.” Can’t wait to get the second one
For real! I’m glad I don’t have to pull security at night anymore at work because of these stories! Thankfully I went down the cryptid rabbit hole after I switched jobs for my company. Idk how I would handle being a night rover in the middle of the desert
"Screw this , we're outta here."
That's the kind of rational decision making that would end most horror movies in under 10 minutes.
I’m native and we have a lot of “deer people” stories. I heard this one where a man on the outskirts of the reservation picks up this woman and takes her to the middle of nowhere and drops her off. She leaves her purse and as he’s going to stop her and give it back, he sees a deer running towards the field and jumping a fence.
Any paranormal, supernatural cryptic, stories with military context are always just the best
HEY!! Actual Navajo here and pretty surprised to hear one of the only white tongues I've heard pronounce it pretty spot on (just with an English-speaking accent)!
I just hope this isn't a skinwalker fanfic, but will edit my comment when I've finished.
Before I do that, 'Naadlooshi' is our word for livestock or four-legged animal. They 'Ye' part refers to a person. So put them together it refers to a person who goes on all fours; like an animal. This context usually reefers to a wicked person whom uses animal skins and dark magics to shapeshift.
first story is pretty spot on. They usually work in pairs or groups depending on the situation. They always drag their dead off and away. If you're capable of wounding a skinwalker with a blessed weapon or bullet, the human form will most often die a few days after.
Second story seems pretty legit too. On of my relatives who used to drink and sleep around with women says he actually spent the night with one. One night after drinking and spending a night with this woman, he woke up. It was still night time and, not making a sound, he looked over at the woman he had slept with. It was as if she had come back into their room and she was bedding down. As she was faced away from him he noticed she was undressing, but what she was taking off was an animal skin. Her whole top half was that of a woman, but her legs and lower half was that of a sheep. As she continued to peel the sheep skin off it returned back to her human woman form. Needless to say, he stopped sleeping around with that woman and stopped drinking.
A lot of skinwalker accounts note a smell of rotten meat, most likely from the dead animal skins they adorn. Wish the teller of this story was able to recount if they could note a stench of death in the air.
Third story I can't pin down. Haven't heard a story like that myself. Might have to consult my cousin who hunts these things sometimes.
Fourth story is most likely some sort of mimic. From my personal knowledge, skinwalkers don't really vocalize unless it's the animal they are mimicking.
Fifth story is also strange. Might be a mimic or not-deer of some sort. To my knowledge, skinwalkers don't really vocalize human speech when in animal form, but they do get inside your head. There are several cryptids that may be confused with skinwalkers such as mimics, no-faces, or changelings; all pretty scary.
All in all, this vid was pretty good. Thumbs up!
Please share more of your peoples knowledge ? Thank you for sharing!
Yes. Dine' here. He pronounced it correctly. One of the few is a matter of fact. 😁
My man!! My heart broke when I seen all your videos were gone, but it looks like you back now. Congrats, this one of the best channels we got on the whole internet. Glad to have you back my brother!!
OH WOW SO THAT IS WHAT HAPPEN i was wondering why i didn't see that best to download videos using the Way Back. Machine to have them just in case in the future.
I’ve heard of a few skinwalker stories from my hometown in Douglas Arizona, and quite a few of them have happened out near the Sonoran desert. One story I heard was from a friend of a friend, who told me and my buddy about an experience his wife had. She was out driving past the mountains behind Douglas and saw some weird creature that “looked like a guy with wolf legs,” it noticed her and started chasing her, all while she was speeding away. The scariest part to me was that the skinwalker was able to almost match the cars speed going about 60 MPH, which I’ve also heard from other stories skinwalkers can do. She got home and started crying from how shaken up she was, and from the way the guy told us the story he definitely wasn’t messing with us.
Well if you drive at around 60 MPH and are being chased by something matching that speed, that's definitely terrifying but I'm thinking just brake check it lmao
@@user-bt8xr5si9y do not brake check the demons
@@user-bt8xr5si9y Not really - it could end up through your back screen & in your vehicle!
@@ArifGhostwriter it would hit tze back of your vehicle with atleast 60 mph which is so fast that it is incredibly unlikely that it will end up inside your vehicle as it would likely crumple thw entire rear end of your car
My uncle was hunting in central Oregon with some of his dogs when they all bolted into a canyon. All 4 of the dogs were barking and howling like crazy, and then a blood curling roar/scream came from the bottom of the canyon. All of the dogs ran back up the canyon with hair standing up and they all released that gland they have in there rear. He said he’s never heard a scream/roar like that and couldn’t explain what it was.
In that last story, I have no experience with the wilderness or deer behaviour, but I am a big fan of learning about weird things in nature and the head bashing behaviour sounds a lot like Chronic Wasting Disease or zombie dear disease, where their brain basically turns to soup. Very strange behaviours seen with it, but speaking is not one of them to my knowledge! Love these stories, thanks for sharing!
Very similarly, I recently saw a video on Chronic Wasting Disease and in one of the clips of affected deer, it showed the animal getting up on its hind legs and trying to walk. Prions do funky things to the brain. Its kinda scary for completely different reasons.
@@SixWingZombiOh damn, so it even makes them do that?? CWD is terrifying enough when it's just making them stumble around in circles... Seeing one try to walk on hind legs would freak me all the way out. I'd been wondering if those last two stories were some kind of "Skinwalker accidentally contracts CWD while in deer form and has to smash up its deer brain to snap out of it" thing. Sounds like something that could've happened in the Animorphs tbh...
Honestly, discount my word if you desire but I’ve had an suspicion that the prominence of the wasting disease and tick population boom and subsequent (red meat allergy ailment) spreading is the fault of our beloved Uncle Sam and his cronies.
@@SixWingZombi Isn't that like Creuzfeldt-Jakobs Syndrome? I believe there's a documentary about a disease called Kura in Papaua New Gineau which wa caused by cannibalism or eating nervous tissue. It's not unimaginable that the First Nations peoples saw this disease affect deer and tried to explain it with their own beliefs. If something behaves in a very weird way, you're going to need an explanation for it.
@@elleofmusic
“Accidentally contracted CWD and had to bash its brains to snap out of it”
I’ll take ‘phrases that shouldn’t be comedic but are’ for $500 Alex.
Personally, I think War Stories is the most creative, interesting channel of its nature on UA-cam! The artwork, narration, editing, and writing is top notch! My favorite by far. Glad all the issues have been resolved. Can't wait for more War Stories!
This channel and Bedtime Stories are truly two goldmines of beyond amazing storytelling.
@@chairmanm7686yes but they’ve sold out unfortunately. Which I knew was happening when bedtime stories got involved with the Top5s channel 😢
It should be probably named army stories or soldier stories, because none of those stories were during war.
As someone who's indigenous, Inuk (Inuit), I loved the way you spoke about our warmer cousins and their stories. I'm so used to the average person overselling our stories, such as the famous windigo (the one who walks), and it was such a relief to see the Navajo legend be shared respectfully.
You’re not indigenous. You came from Asia and stole the land from the pale giants. Even then it’s proven there’s been people in both Americans before the Indians.
The second you said Navajo I said aloud “those dudes saved the world”, and then you went right into it!!! Love this channel
I'm glad I found this. These stories took me back th Ft. A.P. Hill Virgina. My last duty station as an M.P., we had all kinds of weird stuff happen we never reported. The post was the site of the battle of the wilderness where 1000s perished not from battle but by a forest fire that started during the fight. Both sides stopped the battle to fight the fire. We often were sent out to dead body calls only to find a training exercise where fighting positions were being dug. It was always a clutch of skeletons who burned in the fire. One pit had Yankee and Confederate victims huddled together. The Army Archaeologists identified them by the uniform buttons. Some were hugging each other as they suffocated.
Locals saw ghosts all the time marching on and off base. I would see lights in the woods at night. I called it in the first few times. They told me to ignore it. I have more, but I hate typing on this tablet.
David Johnson 95B 87-90 Toxic Soldier, Ft. Mc Clelland A 787 100% rated.
Ft. McClellan, as in the one in Alabama??
If so, I understand the "toxic soldier" definition.
I'm sorry that Monsanto and leadership allowed that to happen to y'all. I'm quite familiar with the area.
My best friend's Dad was 490th, and my Dad worked over there as well.
McClellan is also haunted as sh*t.
I'm sure you're aware of the Lady in White.
Oh, and not many know this, but it was an M. K. Ultra facility at one point.
There was a map of all the sites shown in a documentary about the extraterrestrial (I think it was Project Blue Book).
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I live near there and never heard of this.
Also they just renamed A.P hill
@@suziecarr1566 I bet they did. So tired of that shit.
@@suziecarr1566 good
Awsome your back on... that last story shook me. I know that feeling of being frozen regardless of all the training. No one trains you for this. More story please. Thank you
I went on the confessionals podcast and did an interview with Tony as well
For the record: cougars really do make sounds that almost perfectly resemble the sound of a woman screaming, in fact, many people falsely believe they have been witness to a murder, or have themselves gone missing in the middle of the night after trying to render aide to a "woman" who was really just a cougar in heat.
Another thing to note: both ravens and crows are mocking birds and while they don't do it very often(in fact it's so rare that most people are surprised they even can do this), they are actually capable of mimicking a human's speech, really well in fact, about as well as a parrot can actually.
You don't know creepy until a raven looks you dead in the eye and says "come on" in a man's voice perfectly clear.
So it's entirely possible that the "hello" story was a simple case of city boys not understanding local wildlife as well as they thought they did... In fact, I'd put money on this probably being the case.
Similarly, the "skinwalker guns" story seems very sus to me, a "predator noise but faster" could very easily be describing a rattlesnake, or a cricket(some crickets make a sound that's almost identical to a rattlesnake) - the scream? probably a coyote or a wolf off in the distance.
As for the deer on it's hind legs, well, you said it yourself, it's not like a deer can't do that, plus thermal sights don't exactly give you a clear picture of what you're looking at, for all we know it wasn't even standing on it's back legs it was just taller than that particular marine thought a deer should be.
The fact it was all kicked off by a bunch of older marines messing with the boot, right after telling him skinwalker stories, that seals it for me, they either made it up in their sleep deprived heads, or they were just fucking with the boot and the joke went a bit too far.
crows and ravens have evolved so quickly that they know how to scare the shit out of would-be predators (humans) by mimicking our speech and staring right at us
@@long_chin_man Actually, anecdotal accounts of ravens "speaking" would explain a lot about many religions/myths around the world, particularly Norse Pagan and Native American mythology - many involving ravens and sometimes crows giving wisdom to(and/or sometimes causing mischief by misdirecting) people lost in the woods.
It's possible these myths evolved from real accounts of people encountering crows and ravens that chose to "speak" to them.
If so this wouldn't just indicate they've been able to do this for pretty much all of recorded history, but it would also imply they've evolved/learned to do this for reasons other than simply scaring humans away from their territory - such as warning them of predators or incoming storms.. Perhaps indicating some kind of historic cooperative relationship between man and corvid, somewhat akin to that of man and dogs/horses.
But I digress.
We don't know when they evolved the ability to mimic speech, or when they started to do it en masse, but it's likely they've been able to as long as we've known about them, as mimicry is not actually as uncommon or difficult as one might think, many creatures practice some form of it - from simple things like seagulls making calls vaguely resembling an eagle cry, to the aforementioned example of crickets in the desert which have evolved/learned to make a sound identical to that of a rattle snake shaking it's rattle.
I'll be the first to acknowledge copying a sound like a rattle is a COMPLETELY different thing to not only mimicking speech but seeming to have at least enough of a comprehension of it to understand context... But still, in theory it's not that unheard of, even if it is weird and unexpected.
In short: ravens and crows in real life are way more complex and interesting than creepypasta writers could ever make skinwalkers into as fiction..
Ravens and crows are actually BETTER than parrots at mimicking voices. Parrots naturally have a higher pitch to them, while ravens and crows can do lower pitch, realistic human voices that sounds identical to a real human
you realize this is a story told my military police right? you really think they wouldnt be able to decipher what a rattlesnake sounds like. why would a deer stand up on its hindlegs in middle of the night? that sounds just as unlikely as it would actually be skinwalker. the joke goes too far when it becomes realistic. This is MP with regular shifts, they wouldnt be sleep deprived unless they are doing specific training because there is no reason to make tired on the job.
As kids, we're told that wild animals are more afraid of us than we should be of them.
The Skinwalkers set out to subvert that.
I have a personal story to share. I live less then a mile from the southern coast of lake Ontario in NY, (yes I know, not typical skinwalker range but read on and tell me what else it could have been) one night like a month or two ago my brother and I had just finished gearing up to go take care of outside chores. I was standing outside keeping watch and my brother was inside taking care of his dog and I heard this weird reptilian-esque hissing coming from the other side of our road. We're completely surrounded by woods and fields so any sound is either an animal or something else. My brother came back outside to join me and asked if I had called for him and I said no. He told me he had heard me whisper "Hey (my brother's name)" from outside the open window in the room he was in but I hadn't said or heard anything of the sort. I instead told him what I'd heard and we both were kind of freaked out but we had obligations to attend to so we carried on. A couple nights later we were hanging out on a pretty isolated corner of our property when we heard someone talking out in an adjacent field. I remember we both distinctly heard an incredibly sassy female voice saying "umm, hellooo?" But it sounded like it had been pre-recorded, just really disturbing especially since it was the middle of the night. Needless to say we booked it. I'm 19 and my brother is almost 17 so it's not like we couldn't stand our ground if we were truly pressured, but this really didn't feel like something we wanted to do that with. Other exceptionally weird stuff happens around here but it's not related to the subject of the video, just know that the things I've detailed in this comment aren't the only experiences which influenced our decisions.
big yikes
As a Cree listener I beleive you and can say it was definitely a bad shaman. Skinwalker. I lived in Fort Erie Ontario and Niagara Falls. I am from the West where the sasquatch live. They would never let these things in their territory. The Sasquatch do rituals that keep them away.
Whoa
Don't follow things that call your name when you're out in the woods brother.
Bad news. Don't go back to those places.
@stevepalpatine2828 we never followed anything, but we did have responsibilities which needed to be taken care of. Not even eldritch horrors would take priority
I grew up in New Mexico, during the time I spent in the Dep and after eventually enlisting I had made a lot of Native American friends. One guy in particular while in Dep said his family was cursed, he was Navajo, he too said he had a skinwalker, mostly in the form of a shadow person and weirdly distorted animals constantly following him. There was a couple of times we would do workouts or runs in the NM desert and he would chant something to himself quietly and even said a few times his demons were stalking all of us. He eventually was barred from the Dep or DQ’d I’m not sure. Anyways, I’ve had a couple personal sightings of some really bizarre stuff in New Mexico out in the boonies.
So tell then
Could learn a thing or two from a man like that, hope he is still kicking and doing well. We’ve (those who came before us mostly) have brought much dishonor and bad juju for the actions of the past, some may hear a sort of phrase like “the land is tainted” or something along those lines and whether noticeable or not, I tend to believe them as the wounds unseen are the deepest of inflictions.
@cjclark1208 the town I grew up in has a very dark history with racism and injustice towards the native people there's a book about it called the broken circle about the events that took place some time in the 50s there. It's really just a peek at what has gone on there. Very deep scarring and generations worth of destabilizing a culture and subjugation. You can tell its affected the tribes dearly. As far as land goes its fully charged with a type of energy or vibe, whatever you believe in. So long as you respect the land you'll be ok. He's doing alright, I keep up with all of them. Most of them moved on and had honorable careers in the Marines.
What bizarre stuff have you seen in the boonies?
@peppercat8718 my friends and I would go out to an area called choke cherry to spotlight and night hunt. One night we were way the hell out there at almost the end of the two track dirt roads and we stop the jeep to take a look around. I was driving and spotted these grey masses about 100yds to the direct front of us. Figuring these were coyotes my two friends clicked the spotlights on and got eyes on them. And just for context all of us have hunted the area for basically our whole lives. Anyways we get these things that were now running in a circles about 5 of these grey blobs. I say running but it didn't look like that it looked more like amorphous blobs rolling in a circle. There was no eye shine and no yipping and they definitely did not flee when the lights got on them. I had a buddy sitting out of the sun roof with a light tracking this blob thing to our right going in and out of the trees and it split and half went left and the other half continued to the right in a sweeping circle type thing coming in from either side of us. Windows are down and the vehicle is off so we can listen and it's silent out there and about the time we start to get creeped out we all get a really horrible feeling that if we didn't leave that instant that something bad would happen. I've never had that feeling growing up out there and being familiar with the area. Anyways we start to get out of there and a massive white owl swoops down in front of us a couple minutes after we lost sight of the group of whatever those were and it basically hops from tree to tree as we exited the area following us, every 2 300 yds it would show up in a tree off the side of the road. It had a wing span of maybe 3 to 5 feet and would always get ahead of us and then land in a tree watching us. We never saw anything like that again in that particular area and at the time I or my friends weren't really superstitious. Going back over it the look of the blobs initially looked like coyotes but in the scope it was just this grey blob looking thing.
I am now a vet. I just separated last year. I think your channel is the absolute best!
Skinwalkers are the only cryptid that gives me goosebumps hearing stories about them.
So glad you're back man. Hopefully UA-cam won't give you any more trouble. This is by far my favorite channel. Many thanks from Tennessee.
Same here! My favorite channel, shout-out from TN as well
I actually live pretty close to Fort Campbell, and I've experienced some really weird things driving around that area and my town through out the years.
@@Appalachian_Hungerinquiring mind's want to know
Heyyyy greetings from woodbury/Murfreesboro Tennessee 😁
Mr Ball-sacks is helping the dude I think. He should be right now, Ballsacks to the rescue.
Glad to see you back especially with a stories that are highly prevalent to my people Diné/ Navajo. These cursed people are real tho, growing up nearly everyone in my class has had a encounter with them most of the time their family was cursed so we had to go to a medicine man to get ceremonies done. My ex gf had one and they found some of her belongings like her ODST game wrapped with her hair inside deer skin. They usually bury that outside our houses and the medicine man comes and tells us where to dig to find them. They’re more of a nuisance rn since they only get really powerful off your fears, a medicine man I once knew straight up talked shit to one that was running around the Hogan during their ceremonies, yelling at him “TAKE OFF YOUR MASK, SHOW ME WHO YOU ARE!” After yelling at him and showing no fear it took off and he finished the ceremony.
That's legitimately scary. I don't have any native roots, but I've been fascinated by the culture and spiritual practices for a long time.
They are definitely real, also Diné from Fort Defiance
Thats crazy, I cabt think of the channel name but there’s a Diné man who is a medicine man and he talks about how to protect yourself from the darkness and he says the biggest thing is to not fear them, he was in a video on a channel Overnight and it’s the second recorded evidence of a skin-walker skin. The medicine man and his brother were able to take the skin and burn it.
sorry but thats fucking hilarious at the end 😭
@@mad_juggernaut_3547Shanclan Shadow Productions?
I think the “Hello?” story made my skin crawl the most.
I'm not native descent, Scotch-Irish in fact, but there is something I experienced while living on an 80 acre farm in NC that feels worth sharing.
Coyotes were common on the property, and had an old den up in the pasture near the clear cut path for the power lines. We'd often hear them yipping and howling nearby, communicating from one side of the property to the other. Sometimes we'd even hear them in the metal barn just up the hill, their sounds echoing like crazy. The sounds never bothered us, but every once in a while I'd get an uneasy feeling while outside by myself.
One night around 2am I wake up to the sounds of a woman shrieking coming from the tree line, then an infant screaming and crying, and a cacophony of yips, yodels, and howls. No one else mentioned the sounds the next day, so I kept it to myself, but I did not sleep for a while after that. Mountain lions hadn't been seen in the area for years, and I never found any deer remains. I still don't have a good explanation.
I've had some strange encounters, but nothing has filled me with a primal fear like what I heard that night.
Scary 😱
Funky how it’s always a woman screaming, never a man yelling. It’d certainly make my skin prickle if I heard it myself, but nature - not supernature - be scary sometimes.
Scottish, not scotch
@@PhoenixCheetah Scots-Irish is the correct term, Scotch-Irish is also acceptable for ancestry. Scottish-Irish is not.
@@aeden8008 Scottish-Irish is what is acceptable in Scotland and Ireland, no one says Scots over here.
I think it's so cool that Mr B and crew got involved to help you out and want to thank you for having made this episode free on Patreon for us all to enjoy regardless of YT and their shenanigans, please do stick with it, your stories, art and narration are incredible ❤
Good to have you back man,a downunder fan here(Ex-Indian Army)Loved all your episodes.Keep it going brother.
Thank you, brother! Any good Indian or Aussie stories on your radar?
@@WartimeStories Nah mate,Mostly UFO encounters in the outback that I have seen as documentaries in Australia but the US has a lot more.The himalayas would also have em but unsure if they are recorded properly.The Yeti episodes was brilliant.
met a guy in the marine corps who is navajo, he saw what he believes was a skinwalker he saw what looked like an animal with strange eyes go into a bush and come out as a different animal with the same eyes, when he was out with his dad on the reservation apparently it scared him enough he couldnt speak to his dad about it at the time
you should hear some of the paranormal stories around military bases and ships. had a guy at my one of my previous jobs talk about a ship he used work on as a diesel mechanic in the navy he heard a loud banging noise in the engine room, he goes in to investigate sees nothing afte rinvestigating the engines, he goes to walk up the stairs then hears a rapid banging noise coming from behind before he could turn and look he feels like he was hit in the head, he falls down the stairs and looks rapidly around and sees absolutely nothing, this boat did have a history and apparently the old diesel mechanic in it's past died in some attack
honestly these stories actually all sound plausibly real and not made up for special attention
Honestly love the background conversations in the stories such a brilliant atmosphere!!
Edit: Jesus, this has been popping off!
War stories and bedtime stories are my favourite channels
Good to see you back. As a sheriff deputy we saw some strange things. I hope the best for you all.
In Maine, twice now, I've been alone in the woods and have heard something large and bipedal charging up on me. However, both times I've turned around to not see anything. I've even felt the footsteps vibrating through the ground.
Footsteps vibrating through the ground? I've lived in New England my whole life, and I know for certain that with our loamy, thick forest floors a horse could gallop ten feet away and you wouldn't feel anything transmitted through such soft earth *and* the soles of your boots. And on granite? Unless you set of an explosion underground, forget it.
Maybe through the root systems, if you're *very* close, but even 20 feet would be stretching it I'd say.
You have an absolutely perfect voice and cadence for these creepy military videos. Happy to be along for the ride, just wish UA-cam would quit making things so difficult for my favorite creators. Thanks for all that you do and Merry Christmas!
Skinwalker stories were told to get Navajo children to get children to behave. They would say "ah dii boogey man" or yinigloshie. Usually to get them to sleep. Some skinwalkers stories are told with humor to dispel fear. In Navajo history there were real threats of enemy tribes or Mexican who raided Navajos for slaves, so being quiet at night was important and being able to run was important. There are protections against skin walkers, ash on your rifle or weapon and throwing ash into it face with a specific shout. Some of the story sounds like ghost stories. Old man at fence sounds like a ghost story or chindi story. It is easy to confuse the two. One of the story about a deer walking sounds like a deer woman story, that is not uniquely Navajo but to other tribes. Or having an animal speak to you may be more of a death omen or warning that other tribes as well as Navajo talk about. There are dark spirits that also scare people or perpetuate fear, by using the human imagination. Many stories are usually dark spirit related. Don't give into fear or let them have power over you. Prayer helps, you are not alone as Willy Brown would say.
Yeah that's why I believe all of these stories I just malicious spirits and aliens also I could be malicious Spirits using the human imagination like you said that's why they take the form of aliens one way to distinguish one from the other is if alien only once you to leave the area and if you don't it will keep haunting you and in some extreme cases even kill you also if it's aliens then most of the time they will take on a form that will scare you away but they are not actually changing their form but changing how your brain perceives them but not every alien but not every alien will do this the reason is because they can actually change the molecular structure into different shapes while maintaining their higher intellectual consciousness how they do this is I think the physical form is just flash puppet for their consciousness to control so basically they can just shapeshift into a animal like you said and still talk like a normal intelligent species
Skinwalkers are real, they exist, there are real witches who have the power to shapeshift. U have no idea.
Cool but as an Arizonian I have heard several impossible fuck shit noises in the night...I know what owls, bobcats, coyotes sound like. My mom was laying in bed fully awake not dozing off when from outside her bedroom window something in a human voicr called her by her first name.....Skinwalker or not, I do not fuck with wildlife....
@@m.g.6394They're real but you shouldn't experience any outside the 4 corners area as they lose their power the further away they are from their land. No skin walkers in Louisiana.
@@thepreacher7399 Mexico and central america has skinwalkers, they call them "Nahuales"
My wife is from philippines. Her mother tells me stories of skinwalkers, they just don't call it skinwalker, they have a different name for it
In south america, some shamans are the same. I am from there
Huge shout out to everyone who helped Luke during this difficult process your the best ❤
This is my second viewing of this episode and i can honestly say that the story toward the end where the deer rams its own head into the tree, only to stand up with a crushed skull on 2 legs and say clear as day "i know your there", is the most terrifying episode of either Bedtime Stories or Wartime Stories series to date. It was just as chilling the second time around. Idk why this one got me like it did, but man did it get me. Great work Luke
This was absolutely one of my favorite Wartime Stories episodes. The one that involved the ‘echoed’ “hello” gave me goosebumps, and the reenactment really made for such immersive storytelling. Thank you for all that you do to keep us at the edge of our seats. I’m sorry that you had to deal with that stressful situation but I’m happy to see things are back. I look forward to the next video!
I'm Navajo and boy did I have my fair share of weird things whenever I went down to the reservation to see family.
Clicked on this to listen to more stories while I do some homework, and I have come to find one of my favorite videos *ever* - especially about us indigenous. This was respectful, educational, and just cool.
New sub - and I'm here for life now 😤❤️
Me and you both
By no means I’m native but I have encountered some weird things in my state of Michigan all of them I couldn’t explain had a odd encounter up north mostly dense woods only think there was 5000 people in the whole county combined was sitting on tbe porch looking into the woods there was a couple trees in front the house not big but decent trees I saw a large outline of something behind the tree it wasn’t a person as soon as it saw I noticed it whatever it was hid behind the tree i don’t know what it was but it wasn’t human or a black bear for how large it was still don’t know what that was
I'm navajo (Dine) too! After listening to one of his other stories I wanted to check this one out and already in the first few minutes I loved how knowledgeable he was, unlike other paranormal channels who like to throw the "S" word out at anything creepy or cryptic. But I can tell ya I had one of these things messing with me, cause it knew I was in a bad place. I had 3 dreams, the first dream had a something that looked like the person I was studying (I'm a med student who had to work in a cadaver lab), It crawled around me while I was walking through a changing forest. I was definitely creeped out and I passed it off as anxiety since I was working on a non living person. The 2nd dream happened a few weeks later and I was alone walking back to my old car, when I felt like someone was following me. I started my car and looked in the side mirror and saw a shadow sprinting at me, so I drove off and turned around and wanted to hit it, but for some reason it wouldn't let me hurt it, so I went home and locked the doors and windows. It followed me back and started calling me all sorts of names saying I ruined everything, while it kicked at the door and banged on the windows. I told it to leave me alone and started yelling back before I woke up. Once I was awake I told it to leave and it wasn't welcomed around my house. Then the 3rd dream happened a few nights after the 2nd. I was driving back to my mom's place late at night and she was gone off on an overnight trip, so I had the house to myself. She told me to park in the back cause they needed the front when they got back early since they had the horse trailer. So I pulled around to the back and turned on my brights cause it's a rural area where she lives, and when I did that I saw someone standing in the bushes on the hill behind the house. That's when i figured out what it was, so I started honking my horn and yelling at it to go away. It turned around and hopped on all 4's like a dog/cat. I woke up and told it to leave me alone once again. I told my mom and dad, and my dad went to a medicine man and they said it's true, it was lingering around all 3 of our places and that we needed a prayer and a ceremony done. The prayer was done but i haven't had the ceremony yet, I think it figured out that it couldn’t get into my head as easily so instead it attacked my dad who was already dealing with depression from losing his covid patients. He ended up passing last fall...
@autumnlee488 oh man... all those dreams sound absolutely terrifying. It sucks that it got to you, and went after your father... some spirits and entities are just disgusting and cruel
I hope it never harms you and your family again...
@@prenimystic I wish, but it’s working it’s way through, my family is in a tough spot now since the loss, just gotta stay positive and keep my herbs and courage with me. It helps knowing my dad is okay, he came to visit a couple times. But thank you 🫶
I have Cree blood, biggest band of natives in Canada. Meeting Natives from other tribes is always a pleasure. Meeting anyone that isn't native always a pleasure as well. I recall walking downtown in Cornwall, ON. Up ahead walking my way was a Native, we both just randomly came to a stop to say hello. He was a Mohawk from New York State. We just talked for a minute wished each other well, and that was it. I am from Moose Factory, ON but was in Kashechewan, ON when we were evacuated due to flooding from one end of Ontario to another. Went from being able to see Nunavut to being able to see the USA. Hercules flight was something else.
Ayyy! I have cree blood aswell! great to see others on the large internet, rare to see
@@ItsActuallySaturn We had internet service here in Moose Factory since 98.
My father is retired Army and was stationed at Ft. Huachuca in the early 80’s, I was about ten years old at the time. One weekend we were camping in the dessert some twelve miles outside of Sierra Vista with the neighbor and his three boys, the eldest of them being sixteen. My father and the neighbor left to go get pizza shortly before dusk, leaving the eldest boy in charge and with a force multiplier. It wasn’t too long after sunset that we found our camp surrounded by coyote and our fathers had only been gone roughly an hour. I had taken note that one of these coyote was much larger than the others and carried itself differently. Not taking any chances the eldest boy fired a shot into the pack and they scattered, but that larger one only distanced itself and watched us for a while, only taking off when headlights approached.
This incident is seared into my memory and to this day I believe that larger coyote was a skinwalker.
Glad you are back brother! So many channels that push garbage content, it is really nice when stories like yours are shared in such a great production value! Thank You and please keep giving us this great content!!
I was unaware this was your main source of income, for someone so professional and who abides pretty damn closely to UA-cam's absurdly restrictive rules it's a damn shame they'd mess with your livelihood like that for seemingly no reason. For being on such dark subject matter the channel is as wholesome as War stories and paranormal activity can be.
I wish you goodluck with your career but I know you won't need it with the skills you've got.
Just found this page today, and I've always love a good story rather its war stories(no disrespect) or just crazy, strange, and mysterious stories. I have created a playlist on youtube, so when I start my work shift(truck driver) i have plenty of stories to listen too. I have to say the quality of the few stories I've heard on this channel are very impressive since it is hard to find channels with good storytelling. I appreciate the stories people allow you to tell from their personal experiences and also yours with much respect. Keep up the good work.
My dad always warned me not to talk about or even think about Skinwalkers--doing so will draw them to you...gonna be hard to get to sleep tonight!!
Good morning from the UK!
I’m not a serving or former military member (health issues sadly went against me on that), but I have always lived your videos, and respect what the vets here have shared with all of us here. I thought I’d say about an experience which occurred about 13 years ago in daylight with a couple of friends at South East England’s largest body of standing water, Bewl Water.
There is only one point where you can actually cross from one side of the reservoir to the other, a bridge over a narrow creek, and you have to walk through a wooded stretch along a footpath to get there. There has always been something about the area which felt unsettling, and one morning three of us found out why; out of the corner of our eyes we observed that the other side of a fence in the woods we were being stalked by something that stood upright, grey in colour, and was seven feet tall at least- the top half was indistinguishable but it was unsettling to say the least, and we sped up our walk accordingly!
I avoided the place for many years, but the next time I went there I found myself flanked by two Squirrels who stayed with me through the woods until I reached the bridge. They seemed to pause in the trees as if waiting for me to catch up- woodland guardians maybe?
4 years ago the area we saw the ‘entity’ had been cleared with the exception of one tall, spindly pine tree. I have always wondered what stalked us that day.
We have Bigfoot and other cryptid in UK!
Those pesky wandering pine trees lol. But for real fuck that
Glad mrballen helped you. You both seem like good guys. UA-cam needs to pull their head outta their ass
As a civilian that used to work on the west side of Quantico, the "I know you're there" story scared tf outta me. I mean are you kidding me?! If I'd seen that one day at work I'd never come back 💀 Luckily I never saw anything strange on the base but it was HUGE.
This was a great video. The subject matter discussed always intrigues me. I used to work with a member of the Navajo Nation, who I consider a good friend. Anyway, I had watched some videos/shows covering the skinwalkers. Knowing that it was taboo to even mention this or discuss it with him, I never brought it up to him. One day, out of the blue, he brings the subject up. I was taken aback, as I knew that even mentioning the creature’s name was a no-no. Anyway, he tells me that he didn’t mind discussing it because he had confronted one (literally I believe) and told me that it holds no power over him because he acknowledges it and he won’t let it. I told him I appreciated him talking to me about the subject. He had quite a few interesting stories he told me!
I just want you to know I and my whole family absolutely love listening and watching your stories. We kill the lights, put it up on the big screen and enjoy. So just know all your hard work is greatly appreciated!
Oh hell yeah! It’s great to have you back, Luke! ❤
As soon as I watched this video, I went on amazon, and ordered tales from the grid square. Instant buy, no hestitation. Amazing video, and I love your channel. Watched 2 videos and immediately subscribed with notifications on.
This is my first time running into your channel, I want to say this is the type of content I love. The way you structured your video made me subscribe and itch to watch more. Amazing job on your video, can’t wait to watch more!
I am a Nor Cal native and have spent my life all around the woods, camping, hiking, foraging etc, and I can attest to the stories. I've heard a great deal from friends and family about weird shit around here, especially on the reservation land which isn't too far from where I grew up. Needless to say my friends and I when trecking around are always armed, and at all costs stay away from native land, or places that used to be native land, too many folks have gone missing for me to test my luck. On the topic of the fires at least where I am I know that they tend to push a lot of wildlife into populated areas, hell we've had problems with mountain lions roaming the neighborhood in past years before somebody eventually puts it down, I have little doubt that a wildfire might also push more unsightly etities in and around here. Even now years after the fires it seems like the woods inches further into town, which isn't crazy my neighborhood is right next to the forest, we're not at all a big community, but it is a little unerving with the things I've heard out there and from others.
So why is native land so haunted?
@@blackkennedy3966 Well to be quite frank the lands seen a lot. Men like my great great grandfather came in and settled rifles in hand. There’s plenty of blood in the land, many sacred sites desecrated, and the logging industry had its way with 90% of all wooded areas around here. I’m not surprised that somethin might be pissed. Seein as I’m descended of some of the original fightin settlers out here I got even less reason to tread out there.
@@blackkennedy3966because native Americans are incredibly superstitious people and people hold them in the highest regard lol
Although I wasn't raised on a reservation and am mixed, I am of Navajo descent. I've never been religious or superstitious or believed in anything supernatural or paranormal, but there's something buried deep in my dna, in my heritage, that always has me wary of these things. This topic in particular has always made my skin crawl even before I knew it was linked to the Navajo. I don't truly, 100% believe, but I also don't 100% discount it either. The flesh pedestrians are one thing I will never F around with because I don't want to find out. And you said The Word. Skin walker is all fine and dandy but not THE word. You're not supposed to say the word. You're not supposed to THINK the word. It shouldn't exist in one's vocabulary. Now pardon me while I do my best to forget and erase it from my brain.
Yeah, when THAT happened I stopped dead in my tracks irl.
Not good.
When did he say the word? So i know what part to skip
@@kremepye3613I think he means the Navaho word he says at 3:19. Out of respect, I don't want to write it here.
@@kremepye3613 early on. Introduction section.
Even Skin--- is too much. Fleshwanderer is the closest you should get. That's how you know so many people on here are full of crap. Anyone with any knowledge knows that naming them is so not okay.
I love these Skinwalker stories...keep up the good work.
I think this is my first time coming across this channel, but I absolutely adore it so far!! I love that it’s animated and even voiced, and I can tell that a lot of love was put into this 💜
Words cannot describe how happy I am to see you back Luke. Always enjoy your tales and I have a few of my own I’ll get around to sending in eventually. Really happy for you and the team. Here’s to better times ahead 🎉
Welcome back Luke!! Wally's youtube channel is very good, he is so knowledgeable. I didn't know he was a Marine. Thanks for the great stories and for always doing such a great job, I don't think I have missed a single one! God Bless you and all the people who serve in the Armed Forces around the world
Brand new to the channel but have already watched most of the videos and ordered both volumes of that book for a long flight to read. Great content. Love it
Army reservist in Arizona 88 Mike, back in early to mid '90s. Also was a corrections officer for about 16 years AZDOC and at a federal detention center in Florence, Az. I've had many paranormal experiences throughout my life since I was a kid. Man I am so glad one of my buddies suggested this channel to me! My new favorite channel, not sure if they would qualify but I had a couple of paranormal experiences while as a corrections officer might send
It’s great to have you back with great stories. I have read both vols of Tales From The Grid square and can’t recommend them highly enough.
Love the servicemen banter in your videos please never stop making it like this!
just found this channel like 2 hours ago and its already one of my favorites. love the content man
Thank you very much for sharing these kind of stories. Keep up the great work 🫶🏼
Glad to hear, they were able to help... and back in action!😊
UA-cam has been giving many other UA-camrs problems :(. Glad you're back , Love WartimeStories...Kudos to the Ballen Group :)
Wow this is really high quality especially for 200k subs, if I could buy stock in UA-cam channels I would buy it in this one (and wendigoon when I found him at 50k subs and I knew he’d quickly rise and then boom) so I think you’ll be at a million and more soon enough
I should NOT be watching this at night but here I am
Saw the title and was worried, figured this was gonna be another story set somewhere outside the Southwest and that you was gonna just lump them in with all natives by saying something like "Native American's talk about skinwalkers" like all the tribes are the same or something. Such a relief when you explained they are Navajo and even more relieved when you explained they start off as Navajo Shamen. Too often they get exported to other tribes and get morphed into supernatural entities like demons or ghosts. I'm just 3:43 seconds in, and I really hope you will also explain that there isn't much known about Skinwalkers because the Navajo don't like to talk about them, especially with outsiders.
Glad Mr. Ballen was able to help get it sorted out.
When I was at SOI at Camp Geiger in mid-2001, we were waiting to class up for MCT, so we had a rotating duty at the front gate - which was a small entrance that almost no one used and was closed a year or two later so everyone now has to use the gate at MCAS New River to get to Geiger.
Anyway, two dudes swore up and down that while they were on duty at the gate they heard a woman sobbing. Everyone believed they were just fucking with us. A few weeks later one of our instructors was telling us about some eerie occurences out in the woods at night, and mentioned that a woman had been killed either near there, or actually at the gate. I'm still not fully buying it, but it made it a bit more believable.
Holy shit! The voice acting is golden in this episode! Unironically better than many major productions.
Not Diné (more known as Navajo) but I’m Ojibway/Anishinaabe and I find these stories so interesting to listen to, I also have cousins from other tribes like Diné, Dakota, Cree & Oji-Cree, and we all like listening to these kind of stories