As a native who grew up hearing Wendigo and Skinwalker stories, again I wanna say, I appreciate so so much that you try to correct the lore of our stories after the creepy pasta bastardizing of them. Also remember Skinwalkers are a part of other tribes lore, we just call them different things.
It’s unfortunate, but stories and legends change with tellings over time. Another good example is how Vikings had horned helmets. It gets exponentially worse when you have something like the internet, it’s no longer local but a global game of broken telephone.
@@joshuabadach1448i dont think american old native stories the problem is retelling or something although obviously through time those oral stories in their communities as well changes. The bigger problem is people outside that cultural knowledge just making stuff up without the cultural connection. Good example is bigfoot, and how bigfoot proponent community uses supposed native sightings to make it sound more legit from their legends even when they have nothing to do with bigfoot or any large apes. So in that sense its similar vikings wearing horned helmets since its not retelling of something, and that slowly changing the tale as the story evolves, but more like people centuries later with very little original cultural connection intact just deciding to depict viking raiders that way.
@@lalli8152 Yeah I was gonna say it's less "game of telephone" and more creative liberties. I was gonna use Vlad the impaler as an example, since he was a real individual, but people decided that wasn't terrifying enough, and exaggerated myths about him to create the concept of Dracula.
Just a comment about the lack of police reports at 28:27 in the video. We handle things ourselves most of the time without calling anyone in the tricounty even today let alone when there was even fewer people in the 90’s. There are about 15-20 officers on duty in the whole Uintah Basin at once probably counting the two cities with a police depts( only Roosevelt and Vernal have them) for over 8,000 sq miles of area and about 50,000 people who may be very spaced out. If no one’s bleeding out or a person isn’t dead, we don’t bother the sheriff, he’s busy. So dead cow isn’t going to get a phone call till it’s REALLY severe. I’m not saying it’s credible without evidence, but I’d be shocked if you did find a report.
@@shadow_td I had an animal control situation when we first moved into our current house. The dispatch told me I could shoot the dog if it was threatening people or livestock, and that’s in city limits where discharge of a firearm is frowned on in most situations. You will get a “what would you like us to do about it?” if you call about a dead cow.
Seriously. Something tells me you could look into even the biggest scandals I've heard of 'round here and find nothing, you just don't go to sheriff. Mostly 'cause if you do, they'll probably get brushed off. My father used to run the newspaper in Roosevelt, we had a guy throw a dry ice bomb at the window once, and it basically got shrugged off
I have learned more about Native American and First Nation peoples history on this channel than I ever learned in high school and college, and that is often not even the focus of these videos. Thank you for continuously providing this history in your videos!
Growing up in North Texas, I had two close friends who were full blooded Navajo Navajo. When I was 12 years old ,my family and I went on vacation to the Navajo reservation that they grew up on. I was introduced to their grand mother and shown around the reservation. Once we left , I asked them why so many people on the reserverations had shotguns within easy reach. My friends mother answered very quickly ,and very sharply " because of the skin walkers, please dont ask about it again". I never forgot about that , im still not sure if I believe in them . But ill tell you this ,that week I met about a dozen people who absolutely believe in them , and take the threat of them extremely seriously.
Lol well the folks who live on reservations around here keep em handy because of coyotes & meth heads. Are you sure they weren't funning you? I've never once in my 53 years heard native people actually express fear that any of their folkloric creatures will actually appear.
From what I know, some Native American nations will not tell you or talk to outsiders about their cultures. Skinwalker if I recall is one of the major baddies they'd rather not talk about BECAUSE they fear them so. Also, most cultures, even Native American, have this thing about Naming. To name something means they will probably be listening in.@@standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory
ive been watching your videos for a bit and I wanted to compliment your respect for native and indigenous peoples. you take time to educate yourself and are open to change if those groups of people see something as incorrect/inaccurate. that's really commendable, all the while making great content that is both entertaining and informative! keep of the great work man!!
@@kreskin0079 No see this is the other part of the problem with the world. People like you refuse to give any sort of props when they're actually deserved. Commendability is relative. Maybe you're around people who accurately portray this sort of topic daily, but in this world of shitty influencers who bastardize cultures, when an "outsider" to that culture takes the time to educate themselves and others, props are deserved.
Perhaps, but if we were to ultimately respect the Native traditions, maybe we wouldn't even be talking about this. Most tribal elders will refuse to even talk about "skinwalkers," as providing people with any the knowledge of the dark paths is practically giving them directions. We promethean westerners want to enlighten ourselves, even at the cost of dangerous knowledge. Taboos are a naturally-selected mechanism for quarantining the general population against dangerous knowledge, and the "skinwalker" is among the most taboo elements of the Native American cultures. And yet... it's so fascinating that I can't help but want to know more.
Aidan, everyone's favorite ranch is Demolition Ranch followed closely by Hidden Valley. From what I've heard about skinwalker ranch it would be an amazing place for gun enthuses. You have mobile targets that you never have to replace. Shoot them all you want and the next night you can do it all over again without having to buy new ones.
I Do LOOOOVE the Hidden Valley Ranch, I remember a time before ranch as a kid. The closest thing we had then was Bleu Cheese, And it's not even close to as good!
I really appreciate you correcting what skinwalkers and wendigos actually are. This is part of why we keep our stories to ourselves. They get bastardized and twisted into something alien but of course name and it’s association with Native culture is kept part of it to give it a “mystical” quality
@@kreskin0079 David Grusch said they had found "biologics", heavily implying ET bodies. The government has said nothing beyond these objects are real, physical phenomenon as far as we can tell. The hearings were about questioning witnesses, not announcing anything. I don't know why anyone would need the government's confirmation though. I wouldn't believe them either way. They've proven time and time again they _cannot_ be trusted. The government is not an authority on any subject except manipulation and violence. If I wanted to know how to take over some place and it's people, I'd go to them, but for everything else I'll seek my knowledge elsewhere.
@@kreskin0079 No, they didn't. Retired Maj. David Grusch alleged that the U.S. has retrieved "non-human" biological matter from the pilots of the crafts, adding, "That was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the [UAP] program I talked to, that are currently still on the program." But he didn't identify who these "people" where, this is called "hearsay". Why would the government make up lies like this? Because little green men from mars and their flying saucers make for the best cover-up the government has ever had. It's a lot easier to cover up the test flights of new experimental bombers when you can make it look like you're actually covering up something else, it's called misdirection and you and douggaudiosi14 have both fallen for it, hook, line and sinker.
I’m in South Africa. We also has “Skin Walkers” and I use “” as we don’t care them that. Our transformation stories are as follows (and might help clarify or not the Navajo stories). The Person becomes one with the animal spirit. This person can astro glide into their spirit animal and control the animal for short periods of time. This makes some people believe that the person can change into the animal, but the person goes into a trance and sends their mind into an animal that they are “bonded” to, some being buffalo, some lions etc. Maybe that is the spiritual transformation/physical transformation misunderstanding.
Astro Gliding is when you send your spirit into an animals or person. What you thinking of is Aqua Glide or Aqua Plane where you slide on water and usually crash.
No, Astro gliding is when you send your mind into an animal to control it. Astral projection is when you send your mind as a spectre to communicate. Astro Glide might also be the name of a live where you are from, but “touched” people speak of astro glide to take control of an animal.
To add to our legends. The ways to kill our “skin walkers” is to kill the animal as they are controlling it or to destroy their head (bullet, knife even a rock will work) while they are controlling the animal. If you kill the animal, the person dies. If you kill the person, their mind slowly gets taken over by the animals original mind and the lose control and just see through the animals eyes without being able to do anything or control anything. They are stuck until the animal dies. This might also explain some of the kill the werewolf and the the person dies. We have loads of supernatural history.
In essence, a skin walker is someone who takes sacred medicine and makes it profane. It is someone who brute forces their way into being a shaman by breaking taboos and casting away their ties to socieity in every sense of the word. Often, those who are between worlds find themselves there not by choice but by happenstance and destiny. There is power to be had within this field but also great responsibility. A skin walker is the name for what amounts to an evil animist, someone who takes up this profession for personal gain and is corrupted by the power. Many animistic cultures hve stories similiar to this and my best advice is to not follow this road.
So, is it really just similar to a witch/wizard who uses "dark magic" (so, magic intended to hurt others or for purely selfish reasons) or is that not really an accurate comparison.
Sacred Medicine workers, shamans, and animists are traditionally given that mantel because they were marked for it. Typically, at a young age they had an experience with death via illness, injury, or something else before receiving training from current practiconers. Often, many do not complete this training and take on other roles. It's often viewed as soemthing someone is born into and requires a certain disposition as well as being closer to the other side. Many stories of people shedding their humanity for power is interwoven with people doing anything for this power. Casting away their standing here on the mortal side to embrace being on the other side. It's not a dark druid or a dark witch so much as someone who actively throws away their humanity, community, and ties to this world along with all ethical baring in hopes of gaining power. The process of doing this, of taking an extreme left hand path approch often results in someone who is extremely negative and if they manage to achieve actual power well... It won't be good for anyone.
@@dianauwu1312no, not in the way you think. Shamans =/=witches. As a satanist/theosophist/chaos magician who was raised by a traditional Navajo family (my grandparents are both a medicine man and a medicine woman and I’ve been to many a NAC meetings in my life since infancy. And as someone who has also dabbled in black magic and really dark shit when I was younger, black magic doesn’t even touch the skinwalker shit. I’d honestly say that skinwalkers are far more demented than any modern black magician you can think of. Even the ones who practice necrophil!a and human sacrifice. So yeah, tldr as a Diné woman who practices magic and was raised in NAC, OP explained it pretty well. A skinwalker is a Navajo medicine man or woman with spiritual power who is either initiated or uses their own self taught powers to do harm and cause death and destruction to their targets mentally, physically, financially etc etc
BAsically, yes. Witch, Wizard, Shaman, Voodoo (Who I believe uses the term Bokor for dark practitioners), etc. All magic is considered neutral, if you look at it. It's the intention of the wielder of that magic that make one dark or light, good or evil. @@dianauwu1312
Great video Sir. For the most part Navajo ancestral lands lay between the four sacred mountains of the Navajo people. Skinwalker ranch is far north of this area and there is no evidence of Navajo habitation that I’m aware of. The Myers that you mentioned were very educated people for the time period when they purchased the ranch in the 1930’s . Both college graduates with professional careers who decided to be ranchers. They were not simpletons living in the boondocks. 2:02
Kinda hard to be simpleton out in the boondocks, where you have to rely on yourself almost all the time. It's much easier to be a simpleton in a city, where everything is within arms reach, and other people tend to solve your problems for you. Someone in the boondocks might wire their own home, whereas someone in a city almost always hires someone else to do it, for example.
I blame Supernatural and Teen Wolf (the 21st century version) for people believing skinwalkers can shapeshift into anything. These shows are big hits but got the lore of the Navajo people generally wrong. I will say that the shows did bring native lore into mainstream media but they damaged it more than helped by getting the legends wrong.
To be fair to the showrunners, native tribes are well known for not talking about their folklore to outsiders, particularly the Navajo and their skinwalkers.
Actually they didn't get it wrong. They end up changing it to make it there own twist (they talked about the berserkers about mixing latin lore and germanic for a new twist) Its very well they had limited info and from there there show is literally shapeshifting so its not hard to believe they just went that route
Skinwalkers shapshifting into anything, was being told way before those shows existed. My stepmom in the 90's would tell us stories about skinwalkers around a campfire in the 4 corners region. The stories were similar to the ones she was told as a child. So, the lore of shape-shifting skinwalkers has been around for atleast many decades.
Didn't X-Files also do it wrong too? I think I remember in the episode where the monster of the week is basically a werewolf and they call it a skinwalker.
24:01 as a folklorist, floating lights or better known as will-o-the-wisps have been known to be spotted in places where a tragedy occurred. So that can be a supernatural explanation.
That made the Disney movie “Brave” make a lot more sense to me now The movie claimed “they lead you to your fate” but your definition hits harder given the storyline of the antagonist… how interesting
If you’ve ever watched Dark, it’s a German TV series, it covers the topic of time travel via worm holes. When watching Skin Walker ranch, a lot of the theory’s they were claiming made me think of this show.
We in the basin also have ways to check out the path of the skinwalker without ever setting foot on the ranch. Heck Bottle Hollow, between Ballard and Fort Duchesne meet up is where the buffalo soldiers held their Masonic ceremonies and is now supposedly in the path of the skinwalker, isn’t on the ranch but has so many historical and weird levels of cool.
@@MountainHobbler Skinwalker Ranch is fake, but Bottle Hallow is weird and historical with a few odd spots. My own house in Roosevelt had deer carcass offerings along the fence line when we bought it, so someone takes the skin walkers seriously even if I don’t. The only truly weird place I’ve encountered out here between visiting family towards Tridell when I was younger or going all over this area to help catch babies in people’s houses was Dry Fork Canyon towards Vernal. The point was Aiden said he wouldn’t come check out the area because you have to sign an NDA for Skinwalker ranch. My point is there’s other places with a creepy backstory/legends near there that don’t require an NDA to investigate. The Buffalo Soldiers and the Masonic ceremonies are very real and an awesome historical tidbit, even if the “path of the skinwalker “ isn’t.
@@lizziebreath9 Seems to me if you care about where we live you might consider discussing the negatives it has had here. Some of us enjoyed the quiet and lack of crowds before Fugal decided to make this go viral for his own financial gain.
@@MountainHobbler What crowds? We get a handful of tourists out here for Skinwalker versus the thousands that come out for Dinosaur towards Vernal. I haven’t seen anything close to extra traffic since the last powwow or any noise disturbances since that big thing that sounded like an explosion the other day on one of the fracking platforms. I haven’t even heard from anybody in Ballard really having an issue with tourists. I don’t think the Basin is ever going back to the economy being majority agriculture and the energy industry which is probably what it will take to go back to a more quiet less touristy economy. Roosevelt and for the most part Duchesne at this point are majority service industry as the economy and that has more to do with politics well outside of the Basin telling rural communities all over the damn state that our only options are appealing to tourists. I don’t think we should just drive people away who might like to check out some unique history we have out here.
aiden the reason the timeline is so bungled is because we are in the "weasel timeline". this is because a weasel dove into the large hadron colider while it was active which caused a shortage in the machine that split the realities. jk i dont believe that but it is a real theory ive come across youd love it.
I grew up in the area. My high school was very close to skinwalker ranch. It’s always an interesting story, but unfortunately I’ve never experienced anything strange and nobody i know has either. I don’t personally believe anything is going on, but I think it’s so much fun to imagine if there was
the little wendigoon video was such a nice surprise. I think i’m gonna have to rewatch the video of y’all’s collab again, it was just so good. Hands down one of my favorite videos
I work and live in the Uintah Basin, there is a shit load of oil field pads, and especially out in the area that the Skinwalker Ranch is. Those pads could explain a lot of their lights.
Have you or anyone that you personally know had any experiences out of the ordinary that have been thought to be attributed to the ranch? Just curious to get a take from someone who lives there.
@@Flails I met one of the guys who drilled those wells lucamnunez8201 mentioned in his post. He lived in a company trailer that sat on south side of the Skinwalker Ranch property, like he was so close to the property he could piss from the trailor's back door and the stream would land on Skinwalker Ranch, this was back when the Sherman's owned the ranch and were claiming all this paranormal bulls**tery was going on. He said he and his crew never saw anything but lights off in the distance from company men checking on the wells, batteries and pumpjacks at night that literally surround the Ranch. He also said he and his men did EVERYTHING they say you shouldn't do out there and nothing happened. This coincides with the claims of the Myers family who owned the Ranch from 1934 to 1994 when they sold the property to the Sherman family who denied anything ever happening when they owned the place, contradicting the Sherman's who claimed the Myers had been plagued by the same paranormal bs. In all likelihood, a lot of the "experiences" the Sherman's claimed, like the lights, where from the oilfield crews doing their thing, drilling oil wells.
I just gotta say im extremely impressed with the accuracy of your lore information. A lot of people tend to get things massively wrong about these kinds of things.
This channel is actually pretty great. Been watching your stuff for a while and I always get the sense your work is well researched and informative by design, well done.
The saddest thing about the skinwalker is that I guarantee some people throughout history have thought they were real and killed or did something horrible to someone they loved. It's unlikely not one person actually believed in them and thought "That's what I wanna do."
I can promise you everyone ever thought of using dark magic not only for personal gain but for funsies. Some of the FIRST TEXTS ON EARTH are about necromancy, thank you Sumeria
I live in Texas, I’ve met a fair share of natives. When I was in high school I thought it was hilarious to ask them about skinwalkers. They always just looked at me w a blank face and shook their heads no. Talking about skinwalkers is believed to draw them to you.
I'll take Pascal's wager and assume this stuff is real, and do my best to avoid it. If I'm wrong, and they don't exist, oh well, no harm done. If I'm right, and they do exist, the consequences of not heeding the warnings could be fatal, or worse.
Nope. They don't talk about skinwalkers because anyone can be a skinwalker. Your father, brother, uncle, grandfather, teacher, neighbor, anyone. They don't talk about them because they don't know who all might be listening and when you talk about them and one overhears you talking about them, it invites them to f**k with you. I've heard stories of Navajo members going into their uncle's one room house and finding trunks full of skinwalker regalia. Discovering their dear old uncle was actually a skinwalker. That's why they don't talk about them.
@@SlumCut6661 They can't. No one knows who a skinwalker is until the skinwalker dies. It can be your dad, brother, uncle, nephew, neighbor, best friend, husband, anyone, and if you openly talk about them, you have no idea if the person you are talking to is actually a skinwalker and by talking about them, you are inviting them to mess with you in a bad way. It's not because they can hear your thoughts, it's because they can be anyone in your life.
@@Princess_Celestia_ girl I’m Navajo (from Tuba City) and grew up traditional, don’t try to school me on my culture. Not talking about “them” because someone near you could be one isn’t the ONLY reason we don’t talk about “them”. There are many reasons, that is just one of many. Like I said, they can hear your thoughts and astral project just like our medicine people can. (I’ve been to ceremonies growing up and know for a fact they have these abilities and that skinjoggers exist as I and my family have first hand knowledge and have witnessed them) The main consensus on taboo things like death and “skinjoggers” is to not talk about them, in fear of summoning them and/or manifesting them. They don’t have to be physically present or even nearby to be summoned to stalk you and do you harm.
Near the 23:00 minute marker, when you said the part about "orange colored portals" I audibly gasped. Lemme explain: often when someone sees a Bigfoot or a Gray alien, or just other strange entities, they're often accompanied, or rather, preceeded by orange colored lights or orbs that appear as "bubble lights" some have described. It just struck me as something meaningful that with all the high strangeness in the area of the Sherman Ranch, orange lights or portals are also reported. One of the stranger things of the Sherman Ranch, to me, anyways, is the loud banging and clunking and rumbling they often hear "coming from underground" and "sounds like heavy machinery running or doing work". What could THAT be?
All of the surrounding ranches see the balls of light and wolves! They also have had animal mutilations. And their radio signals interrupted. This was brought out on the History Channel TV Show. They just take this as normal phenomenon.
Thanks for the great video bro. Very well organized and the flow was very well done. Fairly new to the channel, other than a few random vids that showed up in my algo. Will enjoy binge-watching a bunch of your older stuff. 😊
Found your channel from Windigoon, Been binge watching both of you and love all your stuff, as a fellow creator and lover of the strange, i'd love to chat with you both about some of your ideas
I just found this video recommended for me. I'm originally from the Uintah Basin, have family and lots of friends out there and I distinctly remember when that jackass Sherman bought the place from the Myers and started making all these insane claims. Everyone in the Basin thought it was ridiculous and absurd because when the Myers owned it nothing ever happened (family members were friends with the Myers). I will tell you that there are a LOT of drugs as well as firearms and explosives in the Basin (a dude murdered and blew up his ranch hands with dynamite in the 90s) and in the early to mid 90s there was a bad mountain lion problem for the ranchers and their livestock. I honestly get tired of being asked about that place when people who watch that show find out where I'm from. It's bunk, in my opinion Sherman lied his ass off and every subsequent owner of the property has grifted to their benefit.
i was recently living in Phoenix and met a young guy who was the son of the medicine man in Navajo Nation. To say he had stories is an understatement. He had literally escaped and that alone is an incredible story of a 13 yr old lost in the mountains for two months before being rescued. He is now a born again Christian and said its all true about both Wendigo and Skinwalkers . He said matter of factly its demons. he has seen them in action and shapeshift since he was young during ceremonies. He is currently writing his story and it will be incredible.
The Navajo have actual shamans still? The dad would be my ageish. Seems unlikely tbh. Or did dad just decide he's a Navajo medicine man? The Tobacco Society lives on where I live, but none of the nations in Montana have the old roles, too many are Christian & a great deal of the knowledge was lost.
I was stationed at Creech AFB working nights and can attest the orange "portals" and lights burning near from them would be more related to special long burning flares the Air Force uses for night time gun runs/air strikes.
We may have had round and triangular aircraft but it's worth mentioning that the sightings for these things had no propellers on them or any brands/markings of any kind. Also with the wolf story being shot if the tracks did disappear would they not have seen the human foot prints on the tracks immediately after?
I only discovered your channel recently but I had thought I noticed Stakuyi-like vibes with the Lore Lodge videos. Glad to hear you two are friendly. Both great historical/lore channels.
I think it would be insightful to know more about the Sherman family and their history. Like, if someone interviewed family and friends would they say the family is completely normal? Or are they super into the paranormal/ just "not right". Seems highly sus the previous owners said nothing strange ever happened.
I've wondered this myself. From what I know, when Terry sold the ranch to Robert Bigelow, he actually worked on the ranch with Bigelows research team. The rest of the family moved away. I find it weird that he went through all these terrifying things yet he still willingly worked on the ranch.
they are not completely normal. anyway, if you dig onto it, you start to see what was really going on. in short, the family wasn't going to make it financially, and biggalow was getting tax money from the federal government. I'm pretty sure he had some deep state connections.
Ive kept up to date with most of the skinwalker ranch stuff. If memory serves me i remember that, when the Shermans where buying the property they noted a lot of locks and chains on the doors and windows. A friend of the previous owners to the Shermans also stated that the owner had kept the chains and locks on, because he got "visitors" regularly.
Honestly seems like a huge fabricated story during a time people were not as skeptical. I get people romanticize mysteries and mythos, but this seems like a very clear fabrication. Unless ofc people have undeniable data and not repetitive reactionary sightings that morph as they hear more of previous sightings to be more similar. I too recognize patterns. The whole shot with magnum twice i am mighty sus about. Just twice? You shot a bigass wolf coyote twice and it just walked away uninjured? My brother in christ in that era people would have emptied the whole goddamn gun into it.
New sub here🤗I’m currently bingeing on your videos,I’ve been watching The program The Secrets of skin walker ranch since its first season so I’m looking forward to watching this😊
There is an extremely small chance that the floating light may have been multiple instances of ball lighting or a single ball lightning that looked like multiple. I guess it depends on how large and high up the floating lights were observed to be. Still pretty intriguing.
Ball lightening is still a very loose, nearly unsubstantiated theory to explain these very common paranormal occurrences. They can't have everyone on earth experiencing something that's part of a realm most people don't wanna admit exists.
I remember reading about Skinwalker Ranch in my teens, over 12 years ago. It was the ONLY reason I wanted to fly over the US at the time. I am from Australia and half my family live in California. This peaked my interest so much that I did end up visiting Skinwalker, I camped off the land on public land and unfortunately I didn't see aliens. It did feel like I was being WATCHED by something... Even now I still look behind me because of the extreme paranoia I experienced camping closeby. But this could be BECAUSE I knew its history and that quelled the anxiety.
I remember reading or hearing somewhere that they were also told never to dig on the land. Nobody said why tho. I would love to sneak onto the property, dig a small hole, and camp out with a camera to see what happens.
Til you find out it's where they dump radioactive waste and you dig away the top layer of protection and start feeling sick over the next week thinking it's food poisoning til you end up hospitalized
@@godwarrior3403 I'm no expert on radiation but I'm pretty sure a few inches of dirt would not matter if the area is as hot as you're suggesting. Especially with the area getting rainfall that would seep all that waste into the rivers.
@@PaidInBoredomWell, if you dig a few inches of dirt you won't find anything. Why go there and dig at all if that's your plan. A few feet of dirt however absolutely can be the difference between being in the danger zone and being safe.
@@PaidInBoredomBut hey, if you think it's more likely that it's a supernatural reason and you think a cheeky little hole dug with a garden shovel is gonna give you a lifetime of excitement, go ahead. I don't suggest doing any actual DIGGING though. As in actually burrowing into the ground. Because if that rule is real, there's a reason for it, and not being an expert on radiation won't protect you from the consequences of it believe it or not. Our government has used the desert for some... rad purposes
Top marks. Sincerely, theres nothing more i can say. ^^ This channel feels like I'm looking through a mirror. I have a story for you that'll take some time to prepare. The Ultimate Lore, lets call it. Ive lost most of my sources, so all i have is a story but i have a feeling you not only have the eyes to see it for what it is but also the ability to make good use of it, however you see fit. Perhaps its all wrong, but it is the greatest story I've ever found and told, taken from this entire world. ^^
Maybe the orange portals and white lights are maybe a multistage rocket like an ICBM being tested. The orange light could have been the initial booster and the white lights could be the second stage booster.
People are stupid, but not that stupid. Also, that assumes the existence of a nearby rocket launching facility, and that they're launching these rockets with some level of regularity. A shoulder shrug is really the only honest answer here.
NW Coast Native researcher here. You're getting close when you said "Naha". Tribes traded along longitude lines & Lake Athabasca in Canada where the Dineh are & SWR is also at 109-degrees longitude. Naha are just a branch & are next door neighbors of the Dine & can you imagine the ancient furs or animals hides the Naha brought down from the Headless Valley to the southwest when they disappeared?
I’ve come to the conclusion that Skinwalker Ranch, Oak Island, and shows like Ghost Adventures are just all a bunch of entertaining hooey born from minute kernels of truth. Also, the reason it’s hard to get Navajos to talk about Skinwalker I believe is because they believe that talking about them is risking attracting them, something they certainly don’t want to do.😊
Do you have a citation for Bigelow having produced no usable evidence? The reason I ask is that every other source I've heard report on this says that Bigelow refused to release his findings publicly, which is a different thing altogether, and if you have found a new bit of verifiable information on this I'd be very interested in that material.
Something that I heard about skinwalkers is that you do not want to look at them in the eye because if you do they can possess or curse you, and I was wondering if that is something from the original legends or something that was added later?
What's most interesting is I heard a different account from Terry initially he said he shot from a distance and blew a chunk off of it. It's hard to figure out what Terry actually claimed without video
It sounds like the Shermans just needed to make a quick buck. Most people on the alien con circuit will tell you, behind the scenes,, that it doesn't take much to become the next big thing. You just have to come up with the wildest story you can think of, and put yourself at the center of it. Sort of like really elaborate fan fiction... and the fed announced that they were raising rates while the alien hearing was going on.
Don't know if he mentioned this, but the house was sold for less than its original value. The Sherman's weren't involved in any kind of book deals/movies as far as I know. That's not considering the money lost in dead livestock.
If I remember right, they did want/need out of the mortgage, at the time, but, to be fair, the neighbors. did have most of the stories, so maybe they were just trying to spook the outsiders. I think someone's relative had even lost their bid for the property, or something.@@martyr_lightsilver1833
We watch the show and realize it's all ridiculous. But it's pretty entertaining to watch them blow stuff up and freak out about bugs on camera every week 🤣 One of my favorite parts is the panicking about military aircraft overhead. I live near a certain underground military installation that "doesn't exist" and a certain camp for a high ranking government official, and there are regularly helicopters flying through. They're so ridiculous
17:50 A HUGE thankyou for invoking Occam's Razor where UFOs are concerned. Very refreshing in the current Ufological climate where hype and disinformation are running rampant in the mainstream media.
“I don’t think any year since 2016 has been real” I felt that. I felt that so deeply. And I know you probably at least occasionally watch Timcast...we both know the shift happened when they turned the Hadron Collider on.
Na bro it was just gov covering up the SL-1 nuclear disaster about 50 miles upstream that runs across the ranch. The parts missing indicate cancer risk as well as accumulate radiation to give an idea how bad it may have been.
Just as a major note about something similar, there's the lachuze/lachusa that's all but identical with, essentially, evil witches with the ability to change into animals (mainly owls for them, but can be a lot of others).
I thought the previous owners eventually admitted that weird things did happen, but they just ignored it, because paying attention made it worse. But that might also be made up. Your information that there weren't locks on the doors is striking because every story I've ever heard say there were. Do you know whether the thing where they're not allowed to dig without permission from the prior owners is true?
Recently came across your channel and I'm loving it! I love all of the things that you cover they're so fascinating and I'm a history buff plus I like UFOs and all that other kind of crazy stuff so I'm excited to watch this video cuz I know you're going to give us amazing content! Thanks for all the hard work you put into doing this for us!! 💯✔️👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👌🏻
Small correction: early on the video you say that the Navajo refer to themselves as "the Dine people." The term "Dine" literally means "the people" so when you say "the Dine people" its a bit like saying "ATM Machine" 🤣
I've current been watching _The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch,_ and Holy Shite. There is unironically weird stuff going on there, and it's being documented on a scientific level.
As a Utahn, I have so much respect for the Navajo. Well I have respect for all of our tribes, but especially the Navajo. Their resilience and intelligence are honestly so inspiring. The desert is not a forgiving place. Yet they managed to thrive for hundreds of years before us.
As a Tennessean I feel the same about the Cherokee. And i know everyone says this, probably because its true down south, but my great x2 grandmother was Cherokee. I have a cpl pictures of her posed with my European great x 2 grandfather, their children, and 2 slaves whose names weren't recorded. Sitting outside in front of their home. Her name was Adaline. I imagine this is a name she changed to sound more European.
Their philosophy is also highly conducive to living a good life. Obviously they didn't all live out their philosophy, as they are corruptible humans, but the foundations are solid, the knowledge is there.
My parents watch this show and i watched it with them a couple times and it almost feels like im watching a parody of the "ghost show" genre. It ticks every box, its such a bad show its crazy
I heard skinwalker ranch on bedtime stories two years ago absolutely love the lore despite it not being true. I would say it would make a great horror movie if James Wan directed it.
wormholes are a heck of a lot simpler than people think. if you look at the universe as a sheet of paper a wormhole is just folding the paper and using a hole punch so you can just go through the hole instead of around on the paper. typically a wormhole is within the same dimension and alternate dimensions haven't been confirmed but wormholes have but all the ones we have found are microscopic.
Not quite that simple. Creating that hole requires something called a gravity field. Mess with gravity and you mess with time and space. it isn't like making a tunnel through a mountain to get to the other side.
Did you use the explanation from event horizon to explain worm holes? I know that it's a really dumbed down way of teaching it but did Hollywood get it right? (About the science not the demon ship)
The uhh, “Rectum! Damn near killed him!” bit made me spit my soda all over myself as I was lying in bed listening to this. Unfortunately that Little Johnny joke is my favorite joke of all time and no matter how many times I hear or say it I still bust out laughing insanely at it. Yes, men are just taller 12 year olds, I know, my wife says that a lot.
A Skinwalker at least from my understanding of their lore is a shaman, medicine man, or any “elder” type person who uses taboo magic to transform into beasts using the pelts. This leads to them becoming more animal than man as time goes on. With the animal transformation, been harder and harder to leave each time. From what I understand they physically change and spiritually change, and it leaves to corruption of mind and body. That’s just my understanding of it, and I could be wrong as all of this is ether second hand from a native friend of mine who hails from the Area or the internets horrid web of lies.
Did you do a video about Jack Parsons and the Babylon Working yet? I'm pretty sure I've watched all your videos but I don't remember hearing you talk about it.
Thank you for the skinwalker clarity. Pop culture has bitcherized them in the same way they did to the Wendigo. I grew up with these stories and modern interpretations are as bad as vampires sparkling in sunlight if you know what I mean.
You forgot to mention the part where the Sherman’s shot the “wolf” again with a 30-06 and a piece came off , a piece of flesh and when they examined the piece of flesh, it seemed already coagulated and almost decomposed and they had it DNA tested and it came back as an ancient wolf, a dire wolf. According to Jeremy Corbells’ “Hunt for the Skinwalker” movie you referenced. Colm Kelleher and George Knapp , more so Mr. Kelleher was the one in the film who stated what I aformentioned above.
I certainly would take anything reported by George Knapp with a grain of salt. If they really had a chunk of Dire Wolf confirmed by DNA testing it would be a major bombshell that would rock the scientific community. Since that hasn't happened, we can safely put the claim in the bullshit file:) Sorry.
Still waiting for David Paulides to do a missing 411 book on my dad. I think a skinwalker snatched him on his way to get some cigarettes.
my dad left when i was an infant, found him on facebook 18 years later, and he blocked me.
@@1-eye-willyi mean, if he left you what makes you think he wanted you to interact with him on facebook☠️
@@1-eye-willyyou should try to get that child support money off of him
I suspect David Pallides only does videos that bring in the advertising revenue
@derekmcmanus8615 he doesn't have adds on his UA-cam channel, what are you talking about? And his books are like 15 to 25 dollars.
As a native who grew up hearing Wendigo and Skinwalker stories, again I wanna say, I appreciate so so much that you try to correct the lore of our stories after the creepy pasta bastardizing of them. Also remember Skinwalkers are a part of other tribes lore, we just call them different things.
It’s unfortunate, but stories and legends change with tellings over time. Another good example is how Vikings had horned helmets.
It gets exponentially worse when you have something like the internet, it’s no longer local but a global game of broken telephone.
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@@joshuabadach1448i dont think american old native stories the problem is retelling or something although obviously through time those oral stories in their communities as well changes. The bigger problem is people outside that cultural knowledge just making stuff up without the cultural connection. Good example is bigfoot, and how bigfoot proponent community uses supposed native sightings to make it sound more legit from their legends even when they have nothing to do with bigfoot or any large apes. So in that sense its similar vikings wearing horned helmets since its not retelling of something, and that slowly changing the tale as the story evolves, but more like people centuries later with very little original cultural connection intact just deciding to depict viking raiders that way.
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Yeah I was gonna say it's less "game of telephone" and more creative liberties.
I was gonna use Vlad the impaler as an example, since he was a real individual, but people decided that wasn't terrifying enough, and exaggerated myths about him to create the concept of Dracula.
Atleast you know it's just stories I'm pretty sure this dude thinks they are absolutely real
love the wendigoon cameo lol, "remember kids if someone tells you the government wouldn't do that, oh yes they would"* insert ruby ridge*
Which is a fine example of bureaucracy meets separatism, but not super natural boogeyman are real.
@@Zanenoth Not sure about that. The amount of stupidity and corruption in the fed seems to be beyond the natural levels that normal humans can be.
Agreed.
"Skinwalkers can't transform into your mailman" - Skinwalker
No?
@@dennisst.george6211 Glowie skinwalker tryin real hard to convince me he ain't the cashier at 7-Eleven
The mailman isn’t a skin walker silly… they are lizard men
As a mailman I can "safely" say I'm not a skinwalker
As a Mail Lady... I could be anything, but I will definitely give your puppers treats 😊😊
Thank you for specifying everyone’s favorite ranch. I myself frequently confuse Ram Ranch with Skinwalker Ranch.
This is the comment I needed
Ram ranch has a different type of predator hunting you
18 NAKED COWBOYS
69th like on the Ram Ranch comment? Nice
IN THE SHOWERS AT RAM RANCH
Just a comment about the lack of police reports at 28:27 in the video. We handle things ourselves most of the time without calling anyone in the tricounty even today let alone when there was even fewer people in the 90’s. There are about 15-20 officers on duty in the whole Uintah Basin at once probably counting the two cities with a police depts( only Roosevelt and Vernal have them) for over 8,000 sq miles of area and about 50,000 people who may be very spaced out.
If no one’s bleeding out or a person isn’t dead, we don’t bother the sheriff, he’s busy. So dead cow isn’t going to get a phone call till it’s REALLY severe. I’m not saying it’s credible without evidence, but I’d be shocked if you did find a report.
Yea makes sense. And plus what would they say rhat would make the sheriff put any amount of effort into it
That’s what I’ve heard bout that area from people who lived/live there.
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@@shadow_td I had an animal control situation when we first moved into our current house. The dispatch told me I could shoot the dog if it was threatening people or livestock, and that’s in city limits where discharge of a firearm is frowned on in most situations. You will get a “what would you like us to do about it?” if you call about a dead cow.
Seriously. Something tells me you could look into even the biggest scandals I've heard of 'round here and find nothing, you just don't go to sheriff.
Mostly 'cause if you do, they'll probably get brushed off. My father used to run the newspaper in Roosevelt, we had a guy throw a dry ice bomb at the window once, and it basically got shrugged off
I have learned more about Native American and First Nation peoples history on this channel than I ever learned in high school and college, and that is often not even the focus of these videos. Thank you for continuously providing this history in your videos!
Growing up in North Texas, I had two close friends who were full blooded Navajo Navajo. When I was 12 years old ,my family and I went on vacation to the Navajo reservation that they grew up on. I was introduced to their grand mother and shown around the reservation. Once we left , I asked them why so many people on the reserverations had shotguns within easy reach. My friends mother answered very quickly ,and very sharply " because of the skin walkers, please dont ask about it again". I never forgot about that , im still not sure if I believe in them . But ill tell you this ,that week I met about a dozen people who absolutely believe in them , and take the threat of them extremely seriously.
Lol well the folks who live on reservations around here keep em handy because of coyotes & meth heads. Are you sure they weren't funning you? I've never once in my 53 years heard native people actually express fear that any of their folkloric creatures will actually appear.
that may have been a sarcastic dismissal. 😐
You went on vacation to a reservation?
From what I know, some Native American nations will not tell you or talk to outsiders about their cultures. Skinwalker if I recall is one of the major baddies they'd rather not talk about BECAUSE they fear them so.
Also, most cultures, even Native American, have this thing about Naming. To name something means they will probably be listening in.@@standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory
Nice fanfic, bro.
ive been watching your videos for a bit and I wanted to compliment your respect for native and indigenous peoples. you take time to educate yourself and are open to change if those groups of people see something as incorrect/inaccurate. that's really commendable, all the while making great content that is both entertaining and informative! keep of the great work man!!
Same, I really enjoy the preamble going into the history of the land and the people who lived there. It's what elevates this content above the rest.
I see what you're saying but it's not commendable, it's how it should be.
@@kreskin0079Hey now brown cow!
@@kreskin0079 No see this is the other part of the problem with the world. People like you refuse to give any sort of props when they're actually deserved. Commendability is relative. Maybe you're around people who accurately portray this sort of topic daily, but in this world of shitty influencers who bastardize cultures, when an "outsider" to that culture takes the time to educate themselves and others, props are deserved.
Perhaps, but if we were to ultimately respect the Native traditions, maybe we wouldn't even be talking about this.
Most tribal elders will refuse to even talk about "skinwalkers," as providing people with any the knowledge of the dark paths is practically giving them directions.
We promethean westerners want to enlighten ourselves, even at the cost of dangerous knowledge. Taboos are a naturally-selected mechanism for quarantining the general population against dangerous knowledge, and the "skinwalker" is among the most taboo elements of the Native American cultures.
And yet... it's so fascinating that I can't help but want to know more.
Aidan, everyone's favorite ranch is Demolition Ranch followed closely by Hidden Valley. From what I've heard about skinwalker ranch it would be an amazing place for gun enthuses. You have mobile targets that you never have to replace. Shoot them all you want and the next night you can do it all over again without having to buy new ones.
That sounds amazing
I Do LOOOOVE the Hidden Valley Ranch, I remember a time before ranch as a kid. The closest thing we had then was Bleu Cheese, And it's not even close to as good!
Yes. This whole comment.
The best ranch is hands down Ram Ranch.
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“and not the ram ranch” thank you that made my day
I really appreciate you correcting what skinwalkers and wendigos actually are. This is part of why we keep our stories to ourselves. They get bastardized and twisted into something alien but of course name and it’s association with Native culture is kept part of it to give it a “mystical” quality
Waaaa that’s you.
@@RSCJOHN Daddy, chill.
@@RSCJOHN Damn man I wrote that 5 months ago, you still mad?
Thank you for setting the skinwalker info straight. Makes me crazy when I hear about a skin walker in Vermont or became Grandma's dog.😊
I'm always really impressed by the trouble you guys go to with the historical background. you put the erroneously named "History Channel" to shame!
im glad you brought how convenient the timing of the govn announcing aliens being real is
Nobody announced aliens are real. Just unidentified objects. REALLY BIG DIFFERENCE
@@sihall1975they said in the press conference they have bodies
@sihall1975 yeah they def said they have ET bodies. They didn't leave alot for debate.
@@kreskin0079 David Grusch said they had found "biologics", heavily implying ET bodies. The government has said nothing beyond these objects are real, physical phenomenon as far as we can tell. The hearings were about questioning witnesses, not announcing anything.
I don't know why anyone would need the government's confirmation though. I wouldn't believe them either way. They've proven time and time again they _cannot_ be trusted. The government is not an authority on any subject except manipulation and violence. If I wanted to know how to take over some place and it's people, I'd go to them, but for everything else I'll seek my knowledge elsewhere.
@@kreskin0079 No, they didn't. Retired Maj. David Grusch alleged that the U.S. has retrieved "non-human" biological matter from the pilots of the crafts, adding, "That was the assessment of people with direct knowledge on the [UAP] program I talked to, that are currently still on the program." But he didn't identify who these "people" where, this is called "hearsay". Why would the government make up lies like this? Because little green men from mars and their flying saucers make for the best cover-up the government has ever had. It's a lot easier to cover up the test flights of new experimental bombers when you can make it look like you're actually covering up something else, it's called misdirection and you and douggaudiosi14 have both fallen for it, hook, line and sinker.
I’m in South Africa. We also has “Skin Walkers” and I use “” as we don’t care them that. Our transformation stories are as follows (and might help clarify or not the Navajo stories). The Person becomes one with the animal spirit. This person can astro glide into their spirit animal and control the animal for short periods of time. This makes some people believe that the person can change into the animal, but the person goes into a trance and sends their mind into an animal that they are “bonded” to, some being buffalo, some lions etc. Maybe that is the spiritual transformation/physical transformation misunderstanding.
"astro glide" ? on a Harley ??
Astro Gliding is when you send your spirit into an animals or person. What you thinking of is Aqua Glide or Aqua Plane where you slide on water and usually crash.
ASTRO glide is lubrication that old ppl use for their dirty shenanigans.
@garethcollins8201 do you mean Astral projection? 😂 astro glide is lube, my guy.
No, Astro gliding is when you send your mind into an animal to control it. Astral projection is when you send your mind as a spectre to communicate. Astro Glide might also be the name of a live where you are from, but “touched” people speak of astro glide to take control of an animal.
To add to our legends. The ways to kill our “skin walkers” is to kill the animal as they are controlling it or to destroy their head (bullet, knife even a rock will work) while they are controlling the animal. If you kill the animal, the person dies. If you kill the person, their mind slowly gets taken over by the animals original mind and the lose control and just see through the animals eyes without being able to do anything or control anything. They are stuck until the animal dies. This might also explain some of the kill the werewolf and the the person dies. We have loads of supernatural history.
In essence, a skin walker is someone who takes sacred medicine and makes it profane. It is someone who brute forces their way into being a shaman by breaking taboos and casting away their ties to socieity in every sense of the word. Often, those who are between worlds find themselves there not by choice but by happenstance and destiny. There is power to be had within this field but also great responsibility. A skin walker is the name for what amounts to an evil animist, someone who takes up this profession for personal gain and is corrupted by the power. Many animistic cultures hve stories similiar to this and my best advice is to not follow this road.
So, is it really just similar to a witch/wizard who uses "dark magic" (so, magic intended to hurt others or for purely selfish reasons) or is that not really an accurate comparison.
Dark Druid 🌳🧙🏼♂️🌲
Sacred Medicine workers, shamans, and animists are traditionally given that mantel because they were marked for it. Typically, at a young age they had an experience with death via illness, injury, or something else before receiving training from current practiconers. Often, many do not complete this training and take on other roles. It's often viewed as soemthing someone is born into and requires a certain disposition as well as being closer to the other side.
Many stories of people shedding their humanity for power is interwoven with people doing anything for this power. Casting away their standing here on the mortal side to embrace being on the other side. It's not a dark druid or a dark witch so much as someone who actively throws away their humanity, community, and ties to this world along with all ethical baring in hopes of gaining power. The process of doing this, of taking an extreme left hand path approch often results in someone who is extremely negative and if they manage to achieve actual power well... It won't be good for anyone.
@@dianauwu1312no, not in the way you think. Shamans =/=witches.
As a satanist/theosophist/chaos magician who was raised by a traditional Navajo family (my grandparents are both a medicine man and a medicine woman and I’ve been to many a NAC meetings in my life since infancy. And as someone who has also dabbled in black magic and really dark shit when I was younger, black magic doesn’t even touch the skinwalker shit. I’d honestly say that skinwalkers are far more demented than any modern black magician you can think of. Even the ones who practice necrophil!a and human sacrifice.
So yeah, tldr as a Diné woman who practices magic and was raised in NAC, OP explained it pretty well. A skinwalker is a Navajo medicine man or woman with spiritual power who is either initiated or uses their own self taught powers to do harm and cause death and destruction to their targets mentally, physically, financially etc etc
BAsically, yes. Witch, Wizard, Shaman, Voodoo (Who I believe uses the term Bokor for dark practitioners), etc. All magic is considered neutral, if you look at it. It's the intention of the wielder of that magic that make one dark or light, good or evil. @@dianauwu1312
Great video Sir. For the most part Navajo ancestral lands lay between the four sacred mountains of the Navajo people. Skinwalker ranch is far north of this area and there is no evidence of Navajo habitation that I’m aware of. The Myers that you mentioned were very educated people for the time period when they purchased the ranch in the 1930’s . Both college graduates with professional careers who decided to be ranchers. They were not simpletons living in the boondocks. 2:02
Kinda hard to be simpleton out in the boondocks, where you have to rely on yourself almost all the time. It's much easier to be a simpleton in a city, where everything is within arms reach, and other people tend to solve your problems for you. Someone in the boondocks might wire their own home, whereas someone in a city almost always hires someone else to do it, for example.
I blame Supernatural and Teen Wolf (the 21st century version) for people believing skinwalkers can shapeshift into anything. These shows are big hits but got the lore of the Navajo people generally wrong. I will say that the shows did bring native lore into mainstream media but they damaged it more than helped by getting the legends wrong.
To be fair to the showrunners, native tribes are well known for not talking about their folklore to outsiders, particularly the Navajo and their skinwalkers.
Actually they didn't get it wrong. They end up changing it to make it there own twist (they talked about the berserkers about mixing latin lore and germanic for a new twist)
Its very well they had limited info and from there there show is literally shapeshifting so its not hard to believe they just went that route
Skinwalkers shapshifting into anything, was being told way before those shows existed. My stepmom in the 90's would tell us stories about skinwalkers around a campfire in the 4 corners region. The stories were similar to the ones she was told as a child. So, the lore of shape-shifting skinwalkers has been around for atleast many decades.
@@NG-VQ37VHR yea i dunno why rhere blaming the shows directly when that's what i assuned skinwalkers did before even the shows came out
Didn't X-Files also do it wrong too? I think I remember in the episode where the monster of the week is basically a werewolf and they call it a skinwalker.
24:01 as a folklorist, floating lights or better known as will-o-the-wisps have been known to be spotted in places where a tragedy occurred. So that can be a supernatural explanation.
That made the Disney movie “Brave” make a lot more sense to me now
The movie claimed “they lead you to your fate” but your definition hits harder given the storyline of the antagonist… how interesting
Everyone talks about skinwalkers. No one talks about walking skin.
Walking Skin.... definite SCP vibes with this phrase.
That sounds like a way more terrifying concept.
Dont rip the skin flesh pedestrian fellows.
That's us.
@@godwarrior3403definitely us
If you’ve ever watched Dark, it’s a German TV series, it covers the topic of time travel via worm holes. When watching Skin Walker ranch, a lot of the theory’s they were claiming made me think of this show.
We in the basin also have ways to check out the path of the skinwalker without ever setting foot on the ranch. Heck Bottle Hollow, between Ballard and Fort Duchesne meet up is where the buffalo soldiers held their Masonic ceremonies and is now supposedly in the path of the skinwalker, isn’t on the ranch but has so many historical and weird levels of cool.
I have spent 40+ years in Myton, if you are really from the basin you know it's all fake af.
@@MountainHobbler Skinwalker Ranch is fake, but Bottle Hallow is weird and historical with a few odd spots. My own house in Roosevelt had deer carcass offerings along the fence line when we bought it, so someone takes the skin walkers seriously even if I don’t.
The only truly weird place I’ve encountered out here between visiting family towards Tridell when I was younger or going all over this area to help catch babies in people’s houses was Dry Fork Canyon towards Vernal.
The point was Aiden said he wouldn’t come check out the area because you have to sign an NDA for Skinwalker ranch. My point is there’s other places with a creepy backstory/legends near there that don’t require an NDA to investigate. The Buffalo Soldiers and the Masonic ceremonies are very real and an awesome historical tidbit, even if the “path of the skinwalker “ isn’t.
@@MountainHobbler It’s not like I’m going to give out my address online to prove some sort of “Basin cred”.
@@lizziebreath9 Seems to me if you care about where we live you might consider discussing the negatives it has had here. Some of us enjoyed the quiet and lack of crowds before Fugal decided to make this go viral for his own financial gain.
@@MountainHobbler What crowds? We get a handful of tourists out here for Skinwalker versus the thousands that come out for Dinosaur towards Vernal. I haven’t seen anything close to extra traffic since the last powwow or any noise disturbances since that big thing that sounded like an explosion the other day on one of the fracking platforms. I haven’t even heard from anybody in Ballard really having an issue with tourists.
I don’t think the Basin is ever going back to the economy being majority agriculture and the energy industry which is probably what it will take to go back to a more quiet less touristy economy. Roosevelt and for the most part Duchesne at this point are majority service industry as the economy and that has more to do with politics well outside of the Basin telling rural communities all over the damn state that our only options are appealing to tourists. I don’t think we should just drive people away who might like to check out some unique history we have out here.
aiden the reason the timeline is so bungled is because we are in the "weasel timeline". this is because a weasel dove into the large hadron colider while it was active which caused a shortage in the machine that split the realities. jk i dont believe that but it is a real theory ive come across youd love it.
Honestly, the weasel theory makes as much sense as anything else. I'm going to be using this explanation for absolutely everything from now on.
this channel brings the adequate amount of chaos into my life
I grew up in the area. My high school was very close to skinwalker ranch. It’s always an interesting story, but unfortunately I’ve never experienced anything strange and nobody i know has either. I don’t personally believe anything is going on, but I think it’s so much fun to imagine if there was
the little wendigoon video was such a nice surprise. I think i’m gonna have to rewatch the video of y’all’s collab again, it was just so good. Hands down one of my favorite videos
I work and live in the Uintah Basin, there is a shit load of oil field pads, and especially out in the area that the Skinwalker Ranch is. Those pads could explain a lot of their lights.
Have you or anyone that you personally know had any experiences out of the ordinary that have been thought to be attributed to the ranch? Just curious to get a take from someone who lives there.
@@Flails I met one of the guys who drilled those wells lucamnunez8201 mentioned in his post. He lived in a company trailer that sat on south side of the Skinwalker Ranch property, like he was so close to the property he could piss from the trailor's back door and the stream would land on Skinwalker Ranch, this was back when the Sherman's owned the ranch and were claiming all this paranormal bulls**tery was going on. He said he and his crew never saw anything but lights off in the distance from company men checking on the wells, batteries and pumpjacks at night that literally surround the Ranch. He also said he and his men did EVERYTHING they say you shouldn't do out there and nothing happened. This coincides with the claims of the Myers family who owned the Ranch from 1934 to 1994 when they sold the property to the Sherman family who denied anything ever happening when they owned the place, contradicting the Sherman's who claimed the Myers had been plagued by the same paranormal bs.
In all likelihood, a lot of the "experiences" the Sherman's claimed, like the lights, where from the oilfield crews doing their thing, drilling oil wells.
Not to be confused with the Skim Walker, which can be found lurking around dairy farms
Too funny!
This is rapidly becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep up the good work Aidan!
I just gotta say im extremely impressed with the accuracy of your lore information. A lot of people tend to get things massively wrong about these kinds of things.
This channel is actually pretty great. Been watching your stuff for a while and I always get the sense your work is well researched and informative by design, well done.
Not gonna lie, Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch and Curse of Oak Island are my favorite history channel shows.
Ancient aliens
They really got us with that “found the treasure” on Oak Island recently when they didn’t. It’s my dad and my special interest show.
Man, I remember watching Oak Island back in the day and enjoying it, but it just got boring over the years of nothing happening.
and they are all lies.
@@zanolsena I was surprised to find out that show was still going on after a decade.
I really like your in-depth videos. 40 minutes or more. I hope you can keep delivering.
I like the hypothetical discussion on what to do in case you are being attacked by the skinwalker. Good to know!
This is my new favorite video on UA-cam. Thank you so much, this has made my afternoon
The saddest thing about the skinwalker is that I guarantee some people throughout history have thought they were real and killed or did something horrible to someone they loved. It's unlikely not one person actually believed in them and thought "That's what I wanna do."
I haven't made it very far in the video but wtf do you mean 😂
@@iamatlantis1 a skinwalker wrote this
Yeah, "skinwalkers" aren't "real"
Sure thing my fellow "human being"
I can promise you everyone ever thought of using dark magic not only for personal gain but for funsies. Some of the FIRST TEXTS ON EARTH are about necromancy, thank you Sumeria
Does anyone actually believe in them? Seems kind of ridiculous to believe anyone would actually think these things are real
I live in Texas, I’ve met a fair share of natives. When I was in high school I thought it was hilarious to ask them about skinwalkers. They always just looked at me w a blank face and shook their heads no. Talking about skinwalkers is believed to draw them to you.
Yep, it is said they can hear your thoughts. He was right when he said that they have the power to astral project and can see/hear these things.
I'll take Pascal's wager and assume this stuff is real, and do my best to avoid it. If I'm wrong, and they don't exist, oh well, no harm done. If I'm right, and they do exist, the consequences of not heeding the warnings could be fatal, or worse.
Nope. They don't talk about skinwalkers because anyone can be a skinwalker. Your father, brother, uncle, grandfather, teacher, neighbor, anyone. They don't talk about them because they don't know who all might be listening and when you talk about them and one overhears you talking about them, it invites them to f**k with you. I've heard stories of Navajo members going into their uncle's one room house and finding trunks full of skinwalker regalia. Discovering their dear old uncle was actually a skinwalker. That's why they don't talk about them.
@@SlumCut6661 They can't. No one knows who a skinwalker is until the skinwalker dies. It can be your dad, brother, uncle, nephew, neighbor, best friend, husband, anyone, and if you openly talk about them, you have no idea if the person you are talking to is actually a skinwalker and by talking about them, you are inviting them to mess with you in a bad way. It's not because they can hear your thoughts, it's because they can be anyone in your life.
@@Princess_Celestia_ girl I’m Navajo (from Tuba City) and grew up traditional, don’t try to school me on my culture.
Not talking about “them” because someone near you could be one isn’t the ONLY reason we don’t talk about “them”.
There are many reasons, that is just one of many. Like I said, they can hear your thoughts and astral project just like our medicine people can. (I’ve been to ceremonies growing up and know for a fact they have these abilities and that skinjoggers exist as I and my family have first hand knowledge and have witnessed them)
The main consensus on taboo things like death and “skinjoggers” is to not talk about them, in fear of summoning them and/or manifesting them. They don’t have to be physically present or even nearby to be summoned to stalk you and do you harm.
Great vid, Skinwalker ranch is a huge topic, and as per usual... you crushed it , big fan - Biker
Near the 23:00 minute marker, when you said the part about "orange colored portals" I audibly gasped. Lemme explain: often when someone sees a Bigfoot or a Gray alien, or just other strange entities, they're often accompanied, or rather, preceeded by orange colored lights or orbs that appear as "bubble lights" some have described. It just struck me as something meaningful that with all the high strangeness in the area of the Sherman Ranch, orange lights or portals are also reported.
One of the stranger things of the Sherman Ranch, to me, anyways, is the loud banging and clunking and rumbling they often hear "coming from underground" and "sounds like heavy machinery running or doing work". What could THAT be?
Funny how all the neighboring ranches have no skinwalker issues. I guess barbed wired is effective against aliens, skinwalker, etc...
Sightings occur in the whole region it's not just one property
All of the surrounding ranches see the balls of light and wolves!
They also have had animal mutilations.
And their radio signals interrupted.
This was brought out on the History Channel TV Show.
They just take this as normal phenomenon.
Thanks for the great video bro.
Very well organized and the flow was very well done.
Fairly new to the channel, other than a few random vids that showed up in my algo.
Will enjoy binge-watching a bunch of your older stuff. 😊
Found your channel from Windigoon, Been binge watching both of you and love all your stuff, as a fellow creator and lover of the strange, i'd love to chat with you both about some of your ideas
I didn't expect this legitimate and accurate discussion upon opening the link. Great work.
I just found this video recommended for me. I'm originally from the Uintah Basin, have family and lots of friends out there and I distinctly remember when that jackass Sherman bought the place from the Myers and started making all these insane claims. Everyone in the Basin thought it was ridiculous and absurd because when the Myers owned it nothing ever happened (family members were friends with the Myers). I will tell you that there are a LOT of drugs as well as firearms and explosives in the Basin (a dude murdered and blew up his ranch hands with dynamite in the 90s) and in the early to mid 90s there was a bad mountain lion problem for the ranchers and their livestock. I honestly get tired of being asked about that place when people who watch that show find out where I'm from. It's bunk, in my opinion Sherman lied his ass off and every subsequent owner of the property has grifted to their benefit.
i will NEVER FORGIVE YOU for introducing "ram ranch" into my life.
i was recently living in Phoenix and met a young guy who was the son of the medicine man in Navajo Nation. To say he had stories is an understatement. He had literally escaped and that alone is an incredible story of a 13 yr old lost in the mountains for two months before being rescued. He is now a born again Christian and said its all true about both Wendigo and Skinwalkers . He said matter of factly its demons. he has seen them in action and shapeshift since he was young during ceremonies. He is currently writing his story and it will be incredible.
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Dang. That's incredible. I'd love to hear/read his story.
The Navajo have actual shamans still? The dad would be my ageish. Seems unlikely tbh. Or did dad just decide he's a Navajo medicine man? The Tobacco Society lives on where I live, but none of the nations in Montana have the old roles, too many are Christian & a great deal of the knowledge was lost.
I thoroughly enjoy the history you include.
For the "Long Walk", I recommend the movie CHEYENNE AUTUMN.
I was stationed at Creech AFB working nights and can attest the orange "portals" and lights burning near from them would be more related to special long burning flares the Air Force uses for night time gun runs/air strikes.
We may have had round and triangular aircraft but it's worth mentioning that the sightings for these things had no propellers on them or any brands/markings of any kind.
Also with the wolf story being shot if the tracks did disappear would they not have seen the human foot prints on the tracks immediately after?
I only discovered your channel recently but I had thought I noticed Stakuyi-like vibes with the Lore Lodge videos. Glad to hear you two are friendly. Both great historical/lore channels.
I think it would be insightful to know more about the Sherman family and their history. Like, if someone interviewed family and friends would they say the family is completely normal? Or are they super into the paranormal/ just "not right".
Seems highly sus the previous owners said nothing strange ever happened.
I've wondered this myself. From what I know, when Terry sold the ranch to Robert Bigelow, he actually worked on the ranch with Bigelows research team. The rest of the family moved away. I find it weird that he went through all these terrifying things yet he still willingly worked on the ranch.
they are not completely normal.
anyway, if you dig onto it, you start to see what was really going on. in short, the family wasn't going to make it financially, and biggalow was getting tax money from the federal government. I'm pretty sure he had some deep state connections.
Ive kept up to date with most of the skinwalker ranch stuff. If memory serves me i remember that, when the Shermans where buying the property they noted a lot of locks and chains on the doors and windows. A friend of the previous owners to the Shermans also stated that the owner had kept the chains and locks on, because he got "visitors" regularly.
Honestly seems like a huge fabricated story during a time people were not as skeptical. I get people romanticize mysteries and mythos, but this seems like a very clear fabrication. Unless ofc people have undeniable data and not repetitive reactionary sightings that morph as they hear more of previous sightings to be more similar. I too recognize patterns. The whole shot with magnum twice i am mighty sus about. Just twice? You shot a bigass wolf coyote twice and it just walked away uninjured? My brother in christ in that era people would have emptied the whole goddamn gun into it.
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There is an extremely small chance that the floating light may have been multiple instances of ball lighting or a single ball lightning that looked like multiple. I guess it depends on how large and high up the floating lights were observed to be. Still pretty intriguing.
Ball lightening is still a very loose, nearly unsubstantiated theory to explain these very common paranormal occurrences. They can't have everyone on earth experiencing something that's part of a realm most people don't wanna admit exists.
isn't ball lightning like, super rare?
@@mattgonzales774insanely rare
Rember 2016, 2019_2021. They don't want us to remember. Keep up the good work and stay safe.
I remember reading about Skinwalker Ranch in my teens, over 12 years ago. It was the ONLY reason I wanted to fly over the US at the time. I am from Australia and half my family live in California. This peaked my interest so much that I did end up visiting Skinwalker, I camped off the land on public land and unfortunately I didn't see aliens. It did feel like I was being WATCHED by something... Even now I still look behind me because of the extreme paranoia I experienced camping closeby. But this could be BECAUSE I knew its history and that quelled the anxiety.
I remember reading or hearing somewhere that they were also told never to dig on the land. Nobody said why tho. I would love to sneak onto the property, dig a small hole, and camp out with a camera to see what happens.
Til you find out it's where they dump radioactive waste and you dig away the top layer of protection and start feeling sick over the next week thinking it's food poisoning til you end up hospitalized
@@godwarrior3403 I'm no expert on radiation but I'm pretty sure a few inches of dirt would not matter if the area is as hot as you're suggesting. Especially with the area getting rainfall that would seep all that waste into the rivers.
@@PaidInBoredomWell, if you dig a few inches of dirt you won't find anything. Why go there and dig at all if that's your plan. A few feet of dirt however absolutely can be the difference between being in the danger zone and being safe.
@@PaidInBoredomBut hey, if you think it's more likely that it's a supernatural reason and you think a cheeky little hole dug with a garden shovel is gonna give you a lifetime of excitement, go ahead. I don't suggest doing any actual DIGGING though. As in actually burrowing into the ground. Because if that rule is real, there's a reason for it, and not being an expert on radiation won't protect you from the consequences of it believe it or not. Our government has used the desert for some... rad purposes
@@godwarrior3403 it's scientific analysis at its finest. Do it to see what happens.
Top marks. Sincerely, theres nothing more i can say. ^^ This channel feels like I'm looking through a mirror.
I have a story for you that'll take some time to prepare. The Ultimate Lore, lets call it. Ive lost most of my sources, so all i have is a story but i have a feeling you not only have the eyes to see it for what it is but also the ability to make good use of it, however you see fit. Perhaps its all wrong, but it is the greatest story I've ever found and told, taken from this entire world. ^^
Maybe the orange portals and white lights are maybe a multistage rocket like an ICBM being tested. The orange light could have been the initial booster and the white lights could be the second stage booster.
People are stupid, but not that stupid. Also, that assumes the existence of a nearby rocket launching facility, and that they're launching these rockets with some level of regularity. A shoulder shrug is really the only honest answer here.
I don't know if your aware but the US government can't just test missiles in private land 😂
NW Coast Native researcher here. You're getting close when you said "Naha". Tribes traded along longitude lines & Lake Athabasca in Canada where the Dineh are & SWR is also at 109-degrees longitude. Naha are just a branch & are next door neighbors of the Dine & can you imagine the ancient furs or animals hides the Naha brought down from the Headless Valley to the southwest when they disappeared?
Great pov on the topic!!!
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I’m sorry, but this had dying laughing. I love Blink-182 and this was just too surreal.
If I shot a wolf twice and it just look offended and walked away I'd leave the place immediately and never come back
Slides 50.c in with neo colonist intent
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Oh my god. I haven’t even thought about that clip in so long it’s not even right. Love seeing an obscure clip from the RotK appendices!
The reason why the cows eyes and rectums are missing is because predators eat the soft tissue first. i.e. eye balls rectums tongues cheeks etc
We would love to come here one day and post our experiences for the world to see! Keep up the good work, guys! ❤️ 👻.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Skinwalker Ranch, Oak Island, and shows like Ghost Adventures are just all a bunch of entertaining hooey born from minute kernels of truth. Also, the reason it’s hard to get Navajos to talk about Skinwalker I believe is because they believe that talking about them is risking attracting them, something they certainly don’t want to do.😊
I know you focus mostly on North America but as an Australian I would to hear your thoughts on the Min Min lights in outback Australia.
Do you have a citation for Bigelow having produced no usable evidence? The reason I ask is that every other source I've heard report on this says that Bigelow refused to release his findings publicly, which is a different thing altogether, and if you have found a new bit of verifiable information on this I'd be very interested in that material.
Something that I heard about skinwalkers is that you do not want to look at them in the eye because if you do they can possess or curse you, and I was wondering if that is something from the original legends or something that was added later?
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clicked on this video and immediately received so much psychic damage upon hearing the words “ram ranch” and “pandemmy” in the first 30 seconds
The oversized wolf not being wounded by the .357 is by far the easiest to explain. They missed.
What's most interesting is I heard a different account from Terry initially he said he shot from a distance and blew a chunk off of it. It's hard to figure out what Terry actually claimed without video
I grew up in walking distance to Hill Airforce base, never seen a UFO or something similar in my entire life.
It sounds like the Shermans just needed to make a quick buck.
Most people on the alien con circuit will tell you, behind the scenes,, that it doesn't take much to become the next big thing. You just have to come up with the wildest story you can think of, and put yourself at the center of it. Sort of like really elaborate fan fiction...
and the fed announced that they were raising rates while the alien hearing was going on.
Don't know if he mentioned this, but the house was sold for less than its original value. The Sherman's weren't involved in any kind of book deals/movies as far as I know. That's not considering the money lost in dead livestock.
If I remember right, they did want/need out of the mortgage, at the time, but, to be fair, the neighbors. did have most of the stories, so maybe they were just trying to spook the outsiders.
I think someone's relative had even lost their bid for the property, or something.@@martyr_lightsilver1833
We watch the show and realize it's all ridiculous. But it's pretty entertaining to watch them blow stuff up and freak out about bugs on camera every week 🤣 One of my favorite parts is the panicking about military aircraft overhead. I live near a certain underground military installation that "doesn't exist" and a certain camp for a high ranking government official, and there are regularly helicopters flying through. They're so ridiculous
17:50 A HUGE thankyou for invoking Occam's Razor where UFOs are concerned. Very refreshing in the current Ufological climate where hype and disinformation are running rampant in the mainstream media.
“I don’t think any year since 2016 has been real”
I felt that. I felt that so deeply.
And I know you probably at least occasionally watch Timcast...we both know the shift happened when they turned the Hadron Collider on.
Can I go back to the timeline where Harambe is still alive? 🦍
Everybody gangsta until the aliens and the skinwalkers start working together.
My theory is that there's some RIDICULOUSLY strong natural magnetic field inside the mesa that's causing all the crazy phenomenon.
Na bro it was just gov covering up the SL-1 nuclear disaster about 50 miles upstream that runs across the ranch. The parts missing indicate cancer risk as well as accumulate radiation to give an idea how bad it may have been.
I agree
Just as a major note about something similar, there's the lachuze/lachusa that's all but identical with, essentially, evil witches with the ability to change into animals (mainly owls for them, but can be a lot of others).
I thought the previous owners eventually admitted that weird things did happen, but they just ignored it, because paying attention made it worse. But that might also be made up. Your information that there weren't locks on the doors is striking because every story I've ever heard say there were. Do you know whether the thing where they're not allowed to dig without permission from the prior owners is true?
Wasn’t there also a Starlight ranch across the state border that had a few weird UFO and weather events?
Recently came across your channel and I'm loving it! I love all of the things that you cover they're so fascinating and I'm a history buff plus I like UFOs and all that other kind of crazy stuff so I'm excited to watch this video cuz I know you're going to give us amazing content! Thanks for all the hard work you put into doing this for us!! 💯✔️👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👌🏻
Thank u for this video. I did a video on the skinwalkers and gave a lil wrong info on them. Now i know. We learn so much on here.
Small correction: early on the video you say that the Navajo refer to themselves as "the Dine people." The term "Dine" literally means "the people" so when you say "the Dine people" its a bit like saying "ATM Machine"
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Or Ramen noodles lol
Or PIN number.
Or chai tea
I love that Wendigoon meme. Got a like from me!
I've current been watching _The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch,_ and Holy Shite. There is unironically weird stuff going on there, and it's being documented on a scientific level.
yo I have that same teal shirt from Target, one of my favs
As a Utahn, I have so much respect for the Navajo. Well I have respect for all of our tribes, but especially the Navajo. Their resilience and intelligence are honestly so inspiring.
The desert is not a forgiving place. Yet they managed to thrive for hundreds of years before us.
As a Tennessean I feel the same about the Cherokee. And i know everyone says this, probably because its true down south, but my great x2 grandmother was Cherokee. I have a cpl pictures of her posed with my European great x 2 grandfather, their children, and 2 slaves whose names weren't recorded. Sitting outside in front of their home. Her name was Adaline. I imagine this is a name she changed to sound more European.
Their philosophy is also highly conducive to living a good life. Obviously they didn't all live out their philosophy, as they are corruptible humans, but the foundations are solid, the knowledge is there.
My parents watch this show and i watched it with them a couple times and it almost feels like im watching a parody of the "ghost show" genre. It ticks every box, its such a bad show its crazy
The book/ebook "Hunt for the Skinwalker" is much more grounded while still having a lot of woo factor
I heard skinwalker ranch on bedtime stories two years ago absolutely love the lore despite it not being true.
I would say it would make a great horror movie if James Wan directed it.
wormholes are a heck of a lot simpler than people think. if you look at the universe as a sheet of paper a wormhole is just folding the paper and using a hole punch so you can just go through the hole instead of around on the paper. typically a wormhole is within the same dimension and alternate dimensions haven't been confirmed but wormholes have but all the ones we have found are microscopic.
If you look at the universe, fold the paper, punch your sheets, you too can be the wormhole
Wormholes are an idea, they're not confirmed real.
Not quite that simple. Creating that hole requires something called a gravity field. Mess with gravity and you mess with time and space. it isn't like making a tunnel through a mountain to get to the other side.
that's basically what I said ...I used the sheet of paper as an example as well lol
Did you use the explanation from event horizon to explain worm holes? I know that it's a really dumbed down way of teaching it but did Hollywood get it right? (About the science not the demon ship)
The uhh, “Rectum! Damn near killed him!” bit made me spit my soda all over myself as I was lying in bed listening to this. Unfortunately that Little Johnny joke is my favorite joke of all time and no matter how many times I hear or say it I still bust out laughing insanely at it. Yes, men are just taller 12 year olds, I know, my wife says that a lot.
A Skinwalker at least from my understanding of their lore is a shaman, medicine man, or any “elder” type person who uses taboo magic to transform into beasts using the pelts. This leads to them becoming more animal than man as time goes on. With the animal transformation, been harder and harder to leave each time.
From what I understand they physically change and spiritually change, and it leaves to corruption of mind and body.
That’s just my understanding of it, and I could be wrong as all of this is ether second hand from a native friend of mine who hails from the Area or the internets horrid web of lies.
Did you do a video about Jack Parsons and the Babylon Working yet? I'm pretty sure I've watched all your videos but I don't remember hearing you talk about it.
Thank you for the skinwalker clarity. Pop culture has bitcherized them in the same way they did to the Wendigo. I grew up with these stories and modern interpretations are as bad as vampires sparkling in sunlight if you know what I mean.
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You forgot to mention the part where the Sherman’s shot the “wolf” again with a 30-06 and a piece came off , a piece of flesh and when they examined the piece of flesh, it seemed already coagulated and almost decomposed and they had it DNA tested and it came back as an ancient wolf, a dire wolf. According to Jeremy Corbells’ “Hunt for the Skinwalker” movie you referenced. Colm Kelleher and George Knapp , more so Mr. Kelleher was the one in the film who stated what I aformentioned above.
That part did not come up in any of the stuff from when they first came forward
Yeah I’m calling bullshit, they’ve been dead 13,000 years. And no geneticist with even a smidge of dignity would say such a thing.
I certainly would take anything reported by George Knapp with a grain of salt. If they really had a chunk of Dire Wolf confirmed by DNA testing it would be a major bombshell that would rock the scientific community. Since that hasn't happened, we can safely put the claim in the bullshit file:) Sorry.
I call bs. I've seen multiple documentaries on skin walker ranch and never heard that
Dire wolves were actually foxes, so that story is bullshit