The Scourge of the Skinwalker
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For centuries, the southern regions of the United States have been plagued by stories of strange beings which travel under the cover of darkness, attacking anyone they encounter without fear or remorse. What is it that lurks in the shadows, waiting for lone victims? This week, we explore the Scourge of the Skinwalker.
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This is the first colour episode we have done in a very long time, but if you would prefer to watch it in black and white, please click here: ua-cam.com/video/k_LluCiLfqo/v-deo.html
You guys are too kind.👍👏
it is OK for me.
Can't say I remember you ever doing another. Regardless, while it is kinda strange to see one of your videos in color, I wouldn't say it's bad. Just different. Unlike the the whole thing with the narrator, I can get used to the color. Also, let whoever did the animation for the skinwalker running alongside the cop car know they did an EXCELLENT job. Really, it looked so smooth and creepy. Plus the attention to detail, continuing the animation even after it mostly disappeared from sight and could only just be seen in a gap between the two officers and in the back window. Most people just would've had it disappear.
I really like the colours. They still portray this harrowing theme very well, and makes it feel more real.
I love this new style, keep it, it adds a new flavor and depth!!! Keep up the great work!!!
Smashing a skinwalker with a wrench is a pretty chad move.
😂
Please. That never happened
I'd beat the thing into a bloody pulp if it meant I could get away.
@@FoxxMulderr Of course it didn't. None of this has. If skinwalkers were real, that guy would be dead considering other stories have them resisting huge 7.62 bullets like they were nothing. Still fun though.
Sir Pepe of House Kek ideally your suppose to cover the bullets in ashes in order to kill them but honestly all you need to have is no fear and egg them on to take off their mask since ski walkers are just regular people using witchcraft once you know their identity they die
“The only way to truly kill these beasts is to uncover it and speak its human name.”
So, skinwalkers are Scooby Doo villains?
or destroy their skin. Its a living pact, if broken the owner dies.
I thought you could shoot them with ash-coated bullets?
csgptg As in the tree or ash in general?
Just as fictional
Good point
As a child growing up in New Mexico I can say Native Americans, specifically the Navajo do not take speaking of Skin walkers lightly. I had a Navajo friend tell me stories his father had told him once about Skinwalker's, and once I was outside playing with him as a child I started joking around about it saying "A skin Walker is going to get you!"
I'll never forget his father got so genuinely mad about it I had to leave. Later his father explained to me that it's no joke, and they're very real. He told me how to spot one, and if I did spot one to run and never look it in the eye's. I'll never forget how genuinely concerned for my well being he was. He definitely made it a point that it is very real
So how did he say you can spot one?
C’mon, how do you spot them?
C'mon!
@@mathewmaheo4806 you dont wanna know but I will tell u one thing,you'll smell it before u see it.and if the guy who put this comment up is speaking truths,he will understand that I know what I'm talking about!!
Interesting story man.
How do u spot one?
I’m not sure if this is a skinwalker story but nevertheless I’ll tell you guys about it.
Around a decade ago my uncle was once driving home alone from his friend’s house. He lives in a village in Ukraine not far from the Romanian border. It was around 12 at night and he was driving on a dirt road through a large field, basically in the middle of nowhere, when all of a sudden his car slowed down and stopped running. Thinking something happened to the motor, he was just about to open his door when he looked up and saw two red cat-like eyes on a hairy, upright, humanoid looking figure standing on the hood of the car. He immediately locked his doors and started panicking since a few more pairs of eyes joined the first figure. Those things began to sort of laugh and jump on the roof of his car, causing noise and shaking his vehicle. My uncle had no other option but to begin frantically praying. After some some time the jumping stopped and all he remembers is that he woke up in the morning and the car worked just fine. When he got back home he noticed that there were dents on the roof and hood.
I got other stories from this village, many of my relatives are from there
Thanks for sharing Igor , love these first hand encounters .
Do share the other stories !!
that's some messed up shit
... and that happened in the Ukraine ! Likely after 1986 ?
One of my relative’s neighbors was crossing that same field at night when she was as young girl. She swore she heard a distant baby crying and that the sounds kept getting closer, but she didn’t fall for it and ran home as fast as she can.
In another story, one of my aunts was in bed with her husband and something at night slammed open the door, and ran upstairs with heavy footsteps. Stopped for a few seconds, and ran back out the house. She’s very superstitious and this occurred right after when she told others that saying “dracul” wasn’t so bad (it’s like basically saying damn). She stopped saying those words ever since.
There’s other accounts of Soviet border patrols disappearing or the dogs would hide under furniture for no apparent reason
My parents grew up in Flagstaff. My father went hunting with some of his buddies and encountered a Skinwalker. It followed one of his friends home and terrorized him for the rest of the night.
Both my father and his friend were stern military men. No nonsense. Not the kind to make up fantastic stories.
They always looked visibly scared when they retold the story...
Military vets are trained observers. Take what most say with a literary sense.
What happened?
Many people in the rural Southwest take Skinwalkers seriously. Very seriously. I have a cousin who is a psychologist in Utah and has become convinced of their existence through her clients. Given how long she's been in that field and remained rational, I'm inclined to give the topic the benefit of the doubt.
Davito2000
I live in what is defiantly considered the rural southwest and I think there is definitely a likelihood that skinwalkers exist but I think their abilities are a little exaggerated and their population is tiny. Like I think there’s probably only an handful in my entire state. Who would willingly lose all semblance of their humanity?
You sure it wasnt a Dependa-Walker? Usually around 5'5" to 5'8" real heavy set about 230 to 340 lbs and usually wears the same rank as the spouse they torment for several years until they move on
The three wolves weren't skinwalkers, but something much, much worse...
Furries
😂
Furries do wear "skins" that are often loose on their bodies and move in unnatural ways and are generally disturbing to encounter.
Also known as "Foreskin Walkers
Lmao
That Navajo elder was totally right, they were lucky to survive the encounter 😂
The Scourge Of The Skinwalker is a really cool title. Sounds like a 1970s horror movie.
Sounds way more like the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 movie "Werewolf", starring miscellaneous Europeans, and Martin Sheen's under-appreciated brother, Joe Estevez.
I thought the title said Scrooge Skin Walker in relation to Ebernezer Scrooge.
Henry Glennon Thanks for the trip down Joemery Lane!!
Can't wait for the needless sequels that decrease the scare factor: Skinwalker 2: 2 Skin, 2 Walker. Skinwalker Tokyo drift. Skin walker 4: The quest for more money. An American Skinwalker in London. Skinwalker IN SPACE! and Skinwalker: The animated series.
Luke Skinwalker
The coloring is just really well done, like wow. Your illustrator is extremely talented
Ikr 👌
Not just talented, but skilled as well.
I'm a trained illustrator, and I fully agree. He should get more credit in the videos imo, and perhaps participate in the next Q&A.
i really like this style. wouldnt mind seeing it again.
@@Sater109 IMO, Some stories are better with color. It doesn't need to be vibrant color everywhere, but sometimes it REALLY makes things pop out.
That guy who fought the Skinwalker with a wrench is an absolute boss. Props to him.
Lol that never happened
thing about it is, the skinwalker takes tomes from humans- like the missing ballcap he realized was gone the next day. they use these objects in various forms of witchcraft to bring misfortune to their owners.
@Disco Sucks Nothing's wrong shitting your pants while still taking a decisive action. That's the definition of bravery for me - it's not when you're not scared, it's when you overcome the fear.
This guy was beyond lucky to make it off that boat. The creepiest detail of that story was the movement of the creature and the mix matched clothes. I imagine that at least some of the clothing were taking from people who weren’t lucky enough to get away.
@@malachimatcho7583 lol you actually believe it happened 😆
I don't know what's scarier, this in black and white, or in color.
I think color allows him to better visualize the grotesqueness of the skinwalker
Yeah. I would like them to upload two videos every upload on in color and one in black and white but they probably wont as thats a lot of work.
@Hannah Dyson Yeah...I think youtubes time thing is having a stroke...
Hannah Dyson exactly like a skinwalker would do!
@Hannah Dyson early vids for patrons I'd wager
I love the stories of skinwalkers for a couple reasons.
1: I've never heard a legitimately believable one where anyone was actually hurt, just chased or even trapped for a while. Very strange.
2: I walked outside on a job once to hear a slightly distorted woman's voice singing. I was a security guard and nobody was supposed to be around, so I asked "who's there?" and shined a light right where the voice had come from. There was a doe standing where the voice had come from. That still sticks with me to this day. Eerie, but not anything like some people's stories.
anyone who gets hurt is likely not going to survive to tell the story (an assumption). Skinwalkers from what I understand are intelligent, and predatory. If a creature as unworldly as a skinwalker gets to you to hurt you, then you are its intended prey and probably wont be telling stories.
Unfortunately I have heard stories that are suspected skinwalker stories where people's friends have gone missing, or their pets/animals have wound up dead.
Its a neat type of story for sure though.
Search up Glover road...
Glover Road one is terrifying
@@themasterseye Plus whoever got hurt by them but survived would probably be too wrecked up with PTSD to properly register the situation much less come forward with their encounter.
So to answer the first point, this is because in order for you to hear the story a person needs to survive. So if the skin walker is real(pray it's not), and it kill 9 of 10 people it mets; then you'll only ever hear of a tenth of the encounters. All the others would just be missing persons. If the skin walker is as dangerous as the tribes say, we'd be lucky to even get a 10th of the encounters documented
Many people forget that the original interpretation of werewolves was someone who used black magic to assume the shape of a wolf.
Kinda digging the color, not going to lie.
The original? From where did you get this? Are these interpretations as old as Ancient Rome or Greece? Older?
Yes! Thank you. And Africa has shape shifter witches too
@@kaalsemulzii1920 I belive the most records of it are around the 16th century France but it stretches into other times and country's as well.
(Feel free to fact check this cause I'm going off memory)
@@annebird9195 I did find a source dating back to the 4th century mentioning both witches and werewolves (or more precisely shapeshifters), and another providing a "direct" link between them. However there were older - Ancient greek and roman - tales of lycanthropy or at least people transforming/transformed into wolves.
Perhaps the transformation through black magic can be attributed to early christians, however some roman sources do imply some sort of magic without any kind of - or at least not apparently evident - divine intervention.
@@kaalsemulzii1920 yeah like king Lycaon who canniballed his kid and got cursed.
Honestly the more you look for shape shifters the more you can find them in every culture so it's impossible to say who got the idea from who, when they all seem to have it independent of eachother.
European has were wolves, Japan has Kitsune Foxs, Africa has were hyenas, Navajo's had skinwalkers and other native tribes had wendigos.
The similarities across the board are everywhere. And nearly always associated with witchcraft and/or cannibals.
Heck I've heard that some ancient Sumerian texts talk about dogmen (though I didn't find them and read myself)
So yeah. Idk that there's one start to werewolves. They everywhere.
Back in the mid-1990s, me and another guy were in central New Mexico near an arroyo. It was late night. We both were armed with revolvers. There was this humanoid thing - to this day I do not know what it was - that emerged from the arroyo about 100 feet away. It certainly did not appear natural. It moved in an odd lurch. Then when it noticed Ben, the other guy who was closer to it than I was, it made a very aggressive gesture. Ben went to draw his revolver and I shit you not, the thing was on him in an instant, knocking him to the ground. Then I went to shoot and like that it was gone. I cannot say what it was, but some of the people we spoke to in NM said that was absolutely a skinwalker. I dunno, personally, but I’ll never forget it...
Your opsec is lame bro.
@@oliverfrancis9409 kinda like your comment? Bro.
dafuq is an arroyo??
@@_--Reaper--_ a steep-sided gully formed by the action of fast-flowing water in an arid or semi-arid region, found chiefly in the southwestern US.
Can you detail exactly what it looked like
As someone who lives in flagstaff, the portrayal in the video is 100% accurate. Many people who live on the outskirts of flag (farmers, ranchers, etc) have stories similar to that girl’s, and out on the Rez it’s much worse. A friend of mine was coming home from work and found a witch doctor stealing hair from his hairbrush, and she (the witch doctor) just grabbed it and jumped out of the bathroom window. And it doesn’t help that the Navajo nation police response time is about an hour, because it’s so remote.
This channel should have a million subscribers.
*10 million
Soon
I think this is the *best* channel "doing these".
Very few channels bother to illustrate their stories: 90% either use stock images or just talk to the camera.
Bob Gymlan has a good illustrator too, though.
Why such a small number?😆
It will in time
Everybody gangsta until the wolves start walking upright...
And then start chanting in chorus...
@@aleksandarvil5718 don't know about you but I would definitely piss my pants
@@_pankaj117 count me in.
My ancestors would respond with pulling an axe out of their belt and getting ready for the gloryous fight. They would respond to seeing a gangster by axe to the face of these barbarians. As you can tell they where far hardyer men.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714bro tf are you talking about
I liked the creepy stories and the color was kind of nice. I still like the black and white pulls me out of reality and puts me in the stories more.
You folks are waaaayyy too attached to having a lack of colour in these. Let’s sit back and enjoy the stories, and let these creators experiment and branch out. Nothing wrong with criticism but come on, man.
@@tylerdrainville1136 Right. I love that Bedtime Stories is branching out and not in a box. The black and white is great, but the colour is very intriguing as well.
I like the black and white simply because it enhances the storytelling nature. Like something you'd see in a storybook. Plus, it's a classic look that goes nicely with the narration.
@Tyler Drainville Why so hostile? I saw no over-the-top comment. Just someone saying the color was nice but they preferred b&w. Maybe it's not us who should be taking it easy.
Nice touch with the license plate of the police car :)
Just noticed that!
YES! *"BTS"* 😛😛😛😛😛
“Behind the Scenes”??
@@elonjoanwilliams614 No, simply "Bed Time Stories" :)
@@yungbananaclip2822not the Korean Kpop group? 😄😄💚
I grew up in Monticello Utah where hyw 666 terminated. We were always taught to be home before dark and never be alone when out on the mountain. After high school, I drove a delivery truck for the local frozen food company. I had to be on the road by 4:00 am and would deliver all along highway 666. I saw several strange lights and figures. They would usually appear along the side of the road just on the edge of my head lights. I'm still paranoid to be in the woods at night.
so u would never go camping in the woods at night?
A tree limb fell outside my window and scratched the glass on the way down right when it was at the trucker part and i almost pissed myself
lol
Poor guy!!
These are particularly in the southwest, I hear the most stories from there. I have lived in many places and I can tell you when I was partying with some natives in the panted desert area they were not very happy about me asking about that. later when we were back in town they told me that in the wilderness you don't talk about it and at night you never whistle. It attracts them.
Wicked art on display here. Needed this break from all the chaos and madness on social media. Perhaps I'll spend the rest of the day getting lost in your channel rewatching your content. ❤
I think that the new color scheme is hauntingly beautiful. Well done gents.
meh looks the same to me like the episode though
I don't like change
I remember seeing a presentation by some ethnically Navajo sheriff's deputy who dealt with a lot Indians ... the video is somewhere on youtube, but I can't find it at the moment. Anyway, he said that some Indians are so convinced there are skinwalkers that they don't even like talking about them, because it brings the skinwalkers' attention on them. He also mentioned something similar to using bone dust to curse their enemies. Interesting stuff.
You mean Jonathan Dover, the retired Navajo Ranger?
@@Davito2000 How do u know of him?
I live in South Texas, I believe I had encountered a Skinwalker one cold February night.
We were going down the highway into the countryside after a long day of romance. When made a turn on a curve and that's where we saw it. The description in the video matches especially on the creature appeared to be wearing a mask and the eyes.
Further description I'll put down:
A very large wolf. Very large by 6 inches shorter from my kia soul in height.
The back part of the creature looked natural; tail wagging, rear legs walking without issue. However, the front part was disturbing. It frail its arms as it walks, the face looked like a loose mask, I could clearly see the jaw without skin, giving a ominous skeletal grin of a wolf. It's eyes was piercing. I tried to turn around so I'll take a picture of it, but it ran into a property. It jumped a 5 foot barb wire fence and disappeared into the darkness.
Probably one of the scariest stories I’ve heard yet. I mean...who the hell would go on a date in a Kia Soul. You poor man.
😉
My friend's mom grew up in Mexico, and she told us stories of witchdoctors who would transform into creatures or as humans possessed animal like running speed. Of course, you've heard of Lechusa stories too.
This was very unsettling to watch, as I had my own skinwalker encounter when I was in high school, tho at the time I had some shaky tidbits of info at best. This video cemented my own belief that I had been stalked by a skinwalker, as it was described in identical fashion as to what I witnessed. The vividness of the memory made it hard to look at the skinwalkers' eyes, even in the animations.
I lived in a community in Arizona within the southern suburbs of Phoenix, in what is known as The Foothills. Our neighborhood had been developed right up against a Native American reservation, with our community on one side of a 4-lane "highway" and the reservation on the other. We always heard about different Native ghost stories living so close, but as they made the rounds through school, it was difficult to pinpoint which details belonged to which tales. The only thing I knew at the time was that skinwalkers were some form of Native witch that possessed the ability to transform into a coyote.
Some time after I had heard the stories, when it was albeit out of my mind, I had my encounter. I was driving home from my high school sweetheart's house at the end of the highway separating the community and the reservation. It was about a 15 minute drive back to my house, and much of the strip of road near the end was unlit, except for maybe one or two streetlights for about 5 miles. I remember listening to the radio, young love filling my thoughts, as I looked out of my passenger side window at the side of the road. I saw what I at first believed to be a rather large coyote, running alongside my car. I was already going about 60mph when I noticed it was keeping up with the car, running perfectly parallel to the highway. I was on a stretch that was completely unlit when I saw it's head turn towards me and it's piercing, glowing red eyes looked at me. I thought it was really strange, but again, assumed that there was some light reflecting off the creature's eyes that caused this effect, similar to when you point a flashlight at a dog in the darkness.
As I continued to stare, briefly checking the road as I drove, it never broke it's gaze on me. I remember an unsettling feeling creeping up my spine as I remembered portions of the tales told at school. With no other cars on the road in any direction, and the threat of police speed traps extremely low in that neighborhood, I put my foot on the gas, hoping I could outrun the creature, and explain away the event as nothing other than a large, rather quick coyote. As I did, the moon moved through some clouds, and I remember thinking it was strange that the creature's fur was still jet black, even once illuminated. The coyotes I was used to seeing were greyish brown, with varying degrees of saturation in either end of the gradient. My car picked up speed, to the point where I was traveling ~80mph along the unlit stretch of road. As I looked out the window again, the creature was not only keeping pace with me, but began to pull ahead of the car ever so slightly.
All I could think of at the time was how unnatural the whole event was, though I surprisingly never felt in danger. I was somewhat relieved, however, when I finally hit the stoplight (green, thank God) that marked the beginning of the lit portion of the road, with a large foothill on my right to break up the open desert I had been driving alongside. Once I passed through the intersection, I could no longer make out the entity running beside me, though I remember only reducing my speed partially, as I wanted to get home as quickly as possible.
I apologize for the amount of detail here, but I wasn't kidding when I said this video elicited some very intense memories for me. I must've put the event out of sight, out of mind, as I never really dove into more details regarding skinwalkers, and just so happened across this video as I am avid BTS fan. I'm really unsettled right now thinking back through every detail of that night, and shuddering as I realize how accurate the video was to what I experienced.
Believe me, don't believe me, that's up to you. But please... please, if you are ever in Arizona, double check your maps and ensure you aren't accidentally crossing through any reservation land. If skinwalkers are real, it honestly frightens me to think of what other tales from rez might also be.
Wow amazing story!! Truly strange. I must say though, you have a very obvious gift for writing. I could have continued reading on indefinitely. Thank you!!!!
Awahtukee???
Incredible! I’ve heard many times of entities that can keep up but it’s always hard to know what is true. I believe you
The whole "true name having power over someone" thing is also something found in European folklore.
rumplestiltskin
This is probably the most chills I've gotten from BTS in nearly two years of watching
Yeah, same here. The last one that got me this bad was the Ghosts of Stocksbridge Bypass.
Really? I get about the same feeling on every video (save a few of the alien ones). That is to say, completely and utterly terrified of everything around me (I work during the early morning so I'm usually up all night and sleep during the day.) Though I must say, the worst was the Crosswade Interlopers one. I still can't watch it without rock hard goosebumps everywhere and this strange feeling all over my face, like I'm getting ready to tear up or cry. I had been completely immersed and didn't realize the twist of the story until it was mentioned.
The Korean pop band?
I agree. This one was exceptional and creepy. Those stories especially the boat and the creature getting on the boat? That was creepy
No kidding. Bedtime Stories can really give you the heebie-jeebies. I was afraid of sleeping by myself after hearing those stories.
You could do a video on norse/scandinavian folklore. I think its not very often that someone covers mysteries related to this topic. Also, keep up with the good work, you partially inspired me on doing my own research.
The Skinwalker is the same thing in Mexico: El Nahual
I’ve never heard of that before. I learned something new today then.
We have them in Australia too - but ours are all alcoholics now and just bug you for some money and a ciggie.
@@pants15 Lol. Human degeneracy spreading to the parallel species
@@yeshwant5875 just wait till they do the terrifying stories of "The Methwalkers"
and the aswang in the philippines.. i daresay they are exactly the same type of creatures..
I remember being a kid and a local guy in his early 20's at the time would occasionally show up at the local court to play basketball with us. When we played shirts and skins, if he happened to be skin and remove his shirt, he had these gnarly claw marks or what appeared to be clawmarks on his chest. He claimed a skinwalker had clawed him. These clawmarks were huge and defined, if it wasn't a skinwalker it had to have been a bear at least, but seems if we survived a bear encounter one wouldn't need to create a false story. Anyway, as I grew up and the years went by, the guy never changed his story. Idk but he swore to it and the scars were convincing.
5:15 I *LOVE* the inclusion of a 'Bedtime Stories' vanity plate - 'BTS' - on the police car!
My favorite Bedtime Stories content is skinwalker content!!!
I probably listen to way too many UA-cams and greentexts about skinwalkers.
@@Wolfy1012 ditto 😯👌
Me too. SMD BABY.
You listen to Darkness Prevails too here on UA-cam?
My favorite Bedtime Stories video is The Body On The Reservoir.
Creepiest thing that ever happened, anywhere, and the best video about it.
TRUE STORY: My best friend in High School and his father were avid hunters. They went on a hunting trip one Friday (way back in 1997), after school to bag a deer. The problem was, they came back the same day; and my best friend told us what happened the very next day during lunch at his house. Here's what he said happened:
-They went out and sat still for almost an hour when they spotted the head of a deer poking out from behind a large bush. My friend's father told him to take the shot. My best friend aimed at the head, just behind the eye, fired...and MISSED. However, the shot scared the deer and it stood up, screamed an ALMOST human-like scream and started running away...ON TWO HUMAN LEGS!!! He described it as if some naked guy was running while wearing the upper-half of a VERY realistic deer costume. It was a deer with human hips, human legs and human genitalia. But, as the deer ran further away the half-deer, half-man "thing" turned into a full deer and began galloping like a real deer, instead of running on just its hind-human legs. My best friend said that he and his dad just stood there for a while, then, the dad said they should leave. So, instead of just packing up what was unpacked, they just threw everything in the back of their SUV. The next morning I got a phone call telling me to go to his house because he saw "something" out there. I was confused that he called from his house, because I thought he would be back the next day (Sunday), so I went there to see what was up. He told me and my other two friends what happened, and w thought he was lying (at first); but, his dad told us what he said was true. And, we realized that these two guys wouldn't lie about something like that.
It wasn't until the year 2001 when I was working with a Navajo (Dine) person. He told us stories about "epidural runners" or an "epidural meanderor" (it's what he called S.W.s). I told him about what happened to my best friend and his dad. My co-worker told me that it was DEFINITELY an "epidural runner" and that my friend was lucky he missed the shot; and the both of them were lucky that thing simply ran away. Why? Well, a REGULAR bullet won't kill a S.W. (epidural runner); and having an angry S.W. is not good for your health.
And, if you're wondering why that Navajo co-worker of mine calls them "epidural runners/meanderors," it's because just saying the word "skin" next to the word "walker" evokes them to pay you a visit. So, he called them "epidural meanderors" or "epidural runners" instead of the "S.W." word.
Thank you, very interesting.
Skinwalkers scare me the most. It is pretty interesting how consistent the lore is. It's just weird how so many people appear to get away.
Love the color btw
The fact that some of them can impersonate a human and mimic a human voice is already horrifying
I love how each Sunday night, I get to end the week settling into bed with the latest Bedtime Stories’ story!
For future videos, can I request the Order of Nine Angles, Dulce Base/underground lizard people, Sawney Bean and the Toronto Tunnel Monster.
I have to watch in the daylight. If I watch at night my mind imagines all sorts of things.
Big up for Sawney Bean.
Sawney Bean would make brilliant video for the Bedtime Stories guys.
Here where I live (in Portugal) once went to a nearby forest with my cousin, which no one goes at night (we went at night). We saw some very strange eyes in the middle of the trees staring at us, some were white and one was red. Even if they belonged to animals, it was one the most terrifying experiences I had
Guy: *Hits a skinwalker with a wrench* Space Marine Chaplain: “I want you for the Adeptus Astartes!”
Watching this video on my phone camped out in the middle of nowhere off of highway 64 in Arizona somewhere between Williams and the Grand Canyon.
At the moment I started the video I heard a buzzing over my shoulder, turned to see a hummingbird watching me... there aren’t any flowers around right now, not sure what a hummingbird would be doing here. It flew away, may just have been my imagination, but it didn’t fly quite right... didn’t notice if it was because it skin didn’t fit properly.
The moon is rising, almost full... it’s super quiet, no insects even. I’m going to put the phone down now, there’s something over there...
If I saw an entity running beside my car like that I would need a drink and have to change my shorts.....😉
Same here. I wouldn't ever want to run into one of these things.
@@neopagan1976 That's if they exist of course.
@@bulgarianreaper6587 - Of course.
Lol don’t drive on NM highway 491
It might just be a runalong. Those are harmless interdimensionals
I have a wolf hybrid that enjoys standing on his hind legs, with his front paws leaning onto something. It's lovely to me to see his face at eye level through a window, but scary for the postman. Especially as he never barks or makes any sound, his eyes are just staring at you, willing you to notice him.
Hahaha, sounds like a cute dog :).
You're so pretty, too...and seem smart.
@@efisgpr how can you be this down bad 😭😭😭
Lol wat
There's a reason why this UA-cam channel is rapidly approaching 500,000 followers. Their videos are different, unique and of a very high quality.
regardless of whether such creatures truly exist, I often wonder if living alone as I do in an isolated place with dogs that suddenly jump up and bark at seemingly nothing in the night it's a good idea for me to be sitting here at night watching your bedtime stories particularly these ones! oh well, good thing I do scare easy!
Trust the dogs. Always.
That wolf chanting was really scary
they're probably chanting (hey how are yah hey how are yah hey hay how are yah)
-leslie nielson
When the wolves stood upright, coming closer together with that low male chanting - chilling!!!
Dominic Khan yeah I remember hearing a lot of chanting behind my house when I lived back on the reservation. It was honestly more annoying than scary I was trying to sleep but these assholes just have to chant xD
@@uBpGK Can't say I relate cuz I'm from the Caribbean 😂But I hear you
Dominic Khan yeah as long as you’re not scared they can’t hurt you, just gotta watch out for the bone powder when they use it, just gotta cover your mouth and eyes
@@uBpGK really? Like, they feed off of fear and can't hurt you if you aren't afraid?
Sarah Leeann yeah but it’s gotta be to the core, full on will power equal to a medicine man since they confront these people sometimes during healing ceremonies or even peyote meetings.
My compliments to the man who shitcanned a skin walker with a wrench.
That dude who whacked the skinwalker with a wrench is badass! Hell yeah! I want him on my team lol
I’m Navajo and LOVE watching this channel! Just barely found out you’ve done a video on skinwalkers! I think this was one of the best videos that covered all the main points a lot of other videos tend to miss! Side note: they die four days after speaking their name aloud. 😅
Why are you sharing this with strangers?!?! Aren't you worried? lol. Thanks for sharing though
I loved the art! The color was subtle and still kept the dark and gritty feel. Gj
So I just wanted to say thank you so very much for doing this episode. The reason I state this is because we hear so many skinwalker stories but nobody ever speaks about the way in which they’re created using the black magic ritual they use which involves the consumption of a loved one 🤮.
I heard a story that a Native American told from his childhood where he was being raised by relatives and had not seen or spoken to his mother as she had run off with Native American witches . One night his mother appeared in his bedroom while he was asleep she woke him and said her goodbyes and stated that he was always her favorite which is why she was going to spare him and take his sister instead .
His sister disappeared from her bed that night and she was never seen again . So sick and sad to think someone would do this to their own child.
As a side note I’d also like to give praise to all of you for how well put together this channel is right down to the music. Much Love ❤
I had a weird encounter with something late one night while I was changing a head gasket on a lorry. It was a slightly overcast night with the odd star coming through and while I was working something caught my attention. above and to my left over the tilted cab was what seemed like a bright star from the corner of my eye but when I looked all I saw was a dullish star, nothing to really draw my attention. I turned back to what I was doing and I guess a minute or so later, lower down and to my right from behind the tilted cab I saw this little glowing white tennis ball sized object moving outwards. I froze, and I could see it moving slowly again from the corner of my eye and it was clearly watching me. It stopped and I turned to look and as quick as a flash it shot upwards leaving a faint trail after it. I just froze again for a few seconds looking at the trail, then took a quick few steps back and lit a cigarette. Their was absolutely no one else around and no one was pranking me their was no one else there. Actually this is how I came across your amazing channel I've been researching these things since.
the ball of fire is indeed a skinwalker. they travel in astral form that way from what Haitians say. they call them lougawous
Love the Police car's licence plate
Ooh yeah ....well spotted 😎👍
Great observation!
Plot twist, the copper is actually just a Jimin stan
i missed it, what did it say?
@@captain_dsz6049 Just had the channel's logo and BTS
It's always unsettling watching these videos, but the fact that some of the stories in this one took place in my home state of Colorado made it hit differently for me. Especially the one in Frisco/Lake Dillon, where my family and I took many weekend trips to.
That boat one was very unsettling.
The color is great too
My uncle lives near Flagstaff AZ, he’s had some weird experiences out there
@StMAA, interesting tell us more 👻👾👹
@StMAA, interesting tell us more 👻👾👹
@StMAA, interesting tell us more 👻👾👹
I hope he's ok.
I live Just south of Flagstaff. Whatever he says he's seen, I believe him.
i love how bedtime stories treat the legends and cultures they present with respect.
Love the fact that your artworks are changing in the recent past few uploads. It is refreshing and thoroughly enjoyable. Loving it!
The color and animation was done very well. Just the right amount.
A few years ago I saw a thing while driving in the late hours of the night. I don't know what it was, but it looked a little bit like a dog and a little bit like a moose maybe? I live in Wisconsin. It was able to keep up with my car going roughly 50 mph for a short period, and it tried to ram my car.
I have no idea what it was. I think about it sometimes. It was a very strange experience, but not really scary. I was able to swerve out of its way due to no one else being on the road and then I sped up to get away from it.
Do moose live in wisconsin? (I know, not the point of the story, but now I'm curious)
@@sarahleeann7208 I googled it. As of 2003 there was a population of about 20-40 animals, so very small. Also, that's pretty old information.
The artwork works both in colour and b/w. And it has only improved over the years.
Well done, team Bedtime Stories!👍
Great episode, but was a little confused about one small thing by the end. In the US, the 'Southern' United States is generally considered to be the states of Virginia, The Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas and to a certain extent, Texas. The regions that this video covers are really considered the Western/Southwestern US. When people in the US think of "The South" it's the old Confederate states, not the states made from former Mexican territory.
I caught that too, but the story was so well done that I didn't give it a lot of thought, and I'm from one of the states you listed.
Maryland is the first southern state as well. We consider it as much.
Yeah it can be confusing, I've in CA, AZ, MS & FL. Different regions and cultures, yes, but The South and Southern are two different terms. Chose wisely.
I'd chalk it up to the channel owners being from the UK. They aren't familiar with our geographic terms the same way we are. It'd be like someone from the US grouping Wales and England into one country. Then again most Americans probably don't even know Wales is its own country technically lol
Guys from the U.K. just figure below the belt is south.
The color is a nice touch. Enough tone to flesh out the image without being overwhelming enough to detract from the style as a whole.
I really like that theory of the Skinwalker being born from the deteriorated minds of indian warriors ith PTSD of their wars agaist the other tribes who also go to battle wearing animal skins. Makes a scary story into a very sad one, which makes it deeper for me
Modern day skin walkers are just furries whose suits have become so body fluid encrusted they can't take the costume off anymore and are banned from conventions - truly a cursed existence even the ancient skinwalkers would have pity for.
Great episode. The 2 part Skinwalker Ranch story was what led me to your channel in the first place, and I'm happy to get more content. I've been fascinated by the concept of the skinwalker ever since I read the Dresden Files.
I live in southeast Texas and my property is bordered by the national forest. I have personally seen/heard (as well as multiple people who range from acquaintances to close friends) everything in the description of these skinwalkers. I have talked to my neighbors and almost every one of them confirm what I've seen. 2 of them absolutely refuse to even talk about it or acknowledge it at all in conversation and quickly change the subject if the topic is brought up. I don't necessarily believe in the magical voodoo shit about cannibalism and saying its name nonsense, but I know what I've seen and I have witnesses to back me up. This shit is weird and my fiance and I are planning to move very soon partially because of it.
Did y'all move? If not, can I- a stranger on UA-cam with morbid curiosity- bunk with you guys for a weekend? Joking but not really, lol
The act of devouring human flesh is the same as signing a contract with Satan. Read the Book of Enoch and you'll see that the Watchers taught humans magic and it's very real.
@@TheTwinkiefoot Probs works for the Texas Tourist Board..............Bless...........
Everyone: Not everything is black and white.
Bedtime Stories: *nods
Im Navajo I've heard lots of these stories, interesting stuff. I've heard alot from my cousin who lives in a Tuba City, Arizona allegedly he has seen weird things particularly there.
Your cousin should be considering investing in a whole lot of firepower
13:10 me and the boys having a staring contest with a human
"Tlacatecolotl" is what they were called in nahuatl. "Owl men". " hater of man" " he who bleeds himself on others and cause sickness and death".
"Some of the most colorful cryptids..." I see what you did there.
"I've relinquished my humanity, JoJo!"
-Skinwalker probably
Is this a JoJo reference?!
Technically D'bo is a skinwalker to a degree. Witchcraft to possess dolls is referenced in myth. Theres more to skinwalkers than animal transformation lol
I enjoyed the BTS logo on the police car license plate. Great work! The addition of subtle color added some amazing depths to the graphics. Just keeps getting better.
I spent 10 days traveling all over AZ years ago with my sister, tent camping for a lot of it. We were in Flagstaff on my birthday, one of the few nights we stayed in a hotel. A relief. Couldn't shake an uneasy feeling I had the entire time we were in the area.
I feel like the black and white gives the episode some mystery , and color makes it look more scary , but I still love these episodes
When I was about maybe 5-6 years old in Texas, I remember waking up one night and just kinda walking around my house at night. For a few minutes I was looking at my backyard for no reason really. I start to head back to my room towards the front part of the house and I saw a dark humanoid figure standing in front of door to my then house. I slowly inched back behind the corner of the hallway freaked out but didn't scream. I then peak around the corner and it was still there with glowing yellow eyes emitting from it. It did nothing but stare inside and I could feel it staring at me. I continued to stare for a few minutes before slowly walking towards the other hallway where the bedrooms were at and it was tracking me as I went along. After watching this video, I guess I learned why it never made an attempt to break-in, if it was indeed a skinwalker. once i made it I checked again and it was gone. After 20 years or so, I have never had another encounter with the super or para normal.
I will say this though, I always wondered what I may have seen that night and the thumbnail from this video brings back that memory with a clear image. Maybe it was a skinwalker, maybe it was something different but, I now at least have an idea maybe.
Growing up with Navajo family we kids wanted to hear stories of this but were forbidden to speak on it, and told better not to mention it either, but theres no way im missing my bedtime stories (sorry gran) guess ill burn enough sage for bedtime and myself!!! Amazing storytelling, thanku!!!!
Hozho.....🙏
What is sage?
A brush plant used for centuries to spiritually cleanse people and places. U burn it to release the smoke...😊
@@paigeburleson6932 cool :)
Hope you stay safe
@@chibi3593 thanks and u stay safe as well. Luckily im in the PNW now so just a few bigfoot here and there 🤣
i think we can all confidently declare this episode as by far the most terrifying bedtime story.
Oh my god that story with the boat! Helllll no!
My wife and I traveled that exact road in New Mexico. We were traveling back to Virginia from LA. We decided to take a detour and go see monument valley and then go to four corners. You're basically in the middle of nowhere. Our route back to I 40 was that same stretch of highway from shiprock to Gallup New Mexico. It was late afternoon and we didn't experience anything out of the ordinary but I had heard the stories of strange happenings on that road. In fact, my brother and his friend we're on their way to do some rock climbing at shiprock back when the road was numbered 666 and climbing there was allowed. Their car inexplicably broke down along that stretch. Fortunately for them, they were able to hitch a ride back to Gallup and the next day get a wrecker to retrieve the car.
4:42 from the lore I’ve heard, there’s more than one way to kill a skinwalker. Bullets covered in a paste from white ash and water as well as silver bullets followed by covering the corpse in ash, burning it and then burying the ash
The loan ranger would be safe then!
Really enjoyed this very creepy episode, actually jumped when the face appeared at the cops window😱
Yeah it was unexpected....
Love the license plate on the well drawn crown vic! 🚔🏆
Been watching and subscribed to the channel for about 6 months , never once been disappointed. The narration, research, artwork and effort that is put into this is royalty . Thank you!!! Fantastic job gentlemen.
I live in southern Maryland and have a 439 acre abandoned farm property. Nobody stays there past 5pm anymore due to the fact that there is something in the area that has been seen by multiple family members running on all 4s through the corn fields. I’ve gotten a glimpse of it and it looks like a very skinny hairless gorilla running on all 4s. Absolutely terrifying
Already another new episode? You guys spoil us
"He who walks on all fours", Ah a drunk at closing time then.:)
Corona sucks and all but wow working from home has these guys just rolling out the content and spoiling the crap out of us!
It's 12:17 AM here and a notification from Bedtime Stories pops up.
Me: 'Hell yeah!'
I have to commend all the research that goes into your episodes! It’s really top notch, down to the pronunciations. I’m from New Mexico, and have heard many stories of skinwalkers. I’ve had Navajo friends who were always reluctant to share any stories, due to even uttering the term skinwalker, could cause they themselves to be cursed. Let me just say that the vast NM desert and reservations are very spooky at nightfall.
The art here is always great, but the color is a nice change of pace, I like it!
You have one of the best supernatural channels on the entire platform. The topics you choose are all extremely interesting, the writing is suspensful, entertaining and informative, the narration is flawless, the music perfectly sets the tone and the pictures are spooky and really well drawn! Keep kicking ass my good man!
Imagine how good a Bedtime Stories - Jack the Ripper episode would be. I know JtR is well known but it would still be amazing with the artwork etc.
I am MiKmaq native north american from nova scotia and everybody knows the skin walker in Canada we dont go in the woods alone at night many people have gone missing with no explanation but we all know the shamans did rituals and some things still linger today.
A few years ago I moved from the Midwest to the heart of Navajo country, the belief in skinwalkers, chupacabras, sasquatches, and etc here is convincing in itself.
I am now a super fan of bedtime stories. Can’t get enough of the missing persons any 411 involved, paranormal, skinwalker or unexplained creepy stuff. Like I’ve stated previously, excellent storytelling/narration.buying hoodie soon to show support. Please keep making videos about these things. The world is completely unaware of the hidden unexplained frights around
The best scary story narration channel on UA-cam and super underrated. But the best things usually are.
New bedtime stories! My day just got better even if I’m a little late to the party.
this was a pretty scary episode...good job Bedtime Stories
This is a really random thing to pick up on but that's a really accurate looking Crown Vic, props to the illustrator!