The Legend of SKINWALKER RANCH

The Legend of SKINWALKER RANCH

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, friends, Steve's talking here with you. Welcome to our
latest video. In this episode, we're going to be taking
a look at the mysterious Skinwalker Ranch. Join me, let's
take a walk and see. Now, there are some places
much stranger than fiction, some places that will leave you
feeling as if you're going crazy because something this strange

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couldn't possibly be real or could it? Baffling scientific experts
and terrifying even the most cynical and skeptical onlookers. That
is what we're going to explore in this episode. The
mysterious Skinwalker Ranch, located in Utah, Utah, is known for
its beautiful parks, canyons, and trails, rich in breathtaking, beautiful
crimson colored natural land formations, the most picturesque landscapes that

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would make your heart leap out of your chest and
be in complete all of its Western beauty, lots of
untouched sacred land. It's home to many tribal nations. The
whole state holds a little bit of lovely mystery waiting
to be explored, but none as mysterious as the infamously
known Skinwalker Ranch. Let's spiral in shall we Skinwalker Ranch

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is a very large area of land in the Fort
de Chesney, Utah region that people have reported to have
strange accounts of high radiation levels, UFO sidings, possible government experiments, aliens,
cattle mutilations, Sasquatch and dog man sidings, a whole host
of air normal activity, and the most talked about one
is the myth of a curse put on the land

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that turns men into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Skinwalker
Ranch is located on over five hundred acres in the
northern Utah region known as the un Ta Basin. The
UN's Oar Basin is a geologic structural basin in the
northeast corner of Utah. Is bounded to the north by
the Uinta Mountains, on the south by the Tabaputz Plateau,
on the west by the Wassatch Range, and on the

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east by the elevated terrain that separates it from Colorado.
The ranch appears from a distance to be a quite
normal looking farm, but I suppose to Sometimes things aren't
always as they say, are they. When you start to
get into closer proximity, these abnormal sightings seem to emerge
with frightening regularity. The question here is, though how does

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this seemingly ordinary plot of land become what some have
called the epicenter of these strange occurrences? After all, there's
usually a reason for something. Sometimes, though, some things just
cannot be explained. We think that's what bothers us humans
the most, and we cannot explain something with logic when
there is no rational or scientific explanation. It baffles the

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human mind to think that there are things out of
the norm that can't indeed happen, and perhaps there are
things that occur in the world that we might never
fully understand. That's the fascinating part about it all, though,
isn't it not necessarily a search for answers, but a
search for the questions, Because asking the right questions that's
what the exploring, the wondering, the conquest for the truth

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is all about. It's both excited and frightening at the
same time. The things we could find, though we should
tread carefully, as some things might not want to be found,
and if we do find them, will we too be
in danger? Anyway, back to our story. To really dive
deep and to explore this question, we must first learn
the history that surrounds this ranch. The ranch itself dates

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back to the times from the Ute and Navajo Native
American tribes occupied the area around present day's Skinwalker Ranch.
We are told that these two tribes met near the
area of the ranch and their relationship was instantly full
of hatred and conflict. The Navajoe, said at that time
to be a quite aggressive tribe, enslaved many members of
the Ute tribe. Allegedly, the Utes having their people enslaved

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for so long, and this hatred towards the Navajo built
up so great. Eventually the Utes placed a curse over
the land which is now you guessed it, right where
the Skinwalker Ranch is. Then, not to be outdone, the
Navajo did a reversal curse on the Ute. So what
is the skin walker exactly? Well, we found in our
research that different tribes have different suggestions on what exactly

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a skin walker is. To put it simply, the skin
walker is an ancient Native legend that takes on various
forms across different tribes and the lore of the Navajo
or the DNA. A skin walker is an evil witch
who can shape shift into or disguise themselves or an animal,
or call upon someone else to transform into said being
to wreak havoc above the land and its inhabitants. Many

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scenarios surround this story. Who cursed who and who did what.
Some stories state the Navajo cursed the Ute, and some
state the Ute cursed the Novajo. Some stories even claim
they cursed each other. Hate can make people do terrible things.
One story that stands out the most is the story
about a witch that lived on Navajo land that practiced

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dark magic. She brought forth skin walkers in the Navajo
or Dnae language Ye now rushi, which translates into he
who walks on all fours and called upon them to awaken.
They're known to appear as men, but can change into
animals to hunt. In fact, while researching this video, a
friend of mine who's of the Hualapai tribe, told me

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to be careful of speaking of the skin walkers. She
believes that if you're even speaking of these creatures, you're
welcoming to you. She told me to sage and cleanse
my house after recording this story. Trust me, as I
have shivers going down my spine, I do feel a
chill in the air. I'm most definitely burning sage as
we speak, and letting the bad spirits know that they

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are not welcome here. Those listening to this story, if
you're brave enough, should beware. This is particularly why you
won't hear many natives speak on this legend. I'm basically
putting myself on the line just reiterating this widespread belief
in tribal custom warns that speaking of wicked beings is
not just bad luck, but it's the same as calling

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out to it, reaching out to it, welcoming it. Even
some say that even and just thinking of those type
of creatures can draw them forward. I don't think I
or any of you want to experience that encounter firsthand.
My friend from the Huallapai tribe went on to tell
me a story of her and her family heading to
New Mexico for the Gathering of Nations and had to

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pass through the skinwalker ranch area. They went at night,
and her aunt cautioned her, if you see anything running
alongside the truck, don't look at it, don't look at
its eyes, just keep your head down. Reason being is
the belief that if you accidentally lock eyes with a skinwalker,
they can put their mark on you. They can absorb
themselves into your body and take control of your actions. Now,

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this is taken very seriously by the native tribes as
more than just a myth, but a factual story with
factual encounters of factual entities. This is why I tread
lightly and respectfully as I delve into this mystery. No
matter who or what cursed this land and the differing
thoughts on it, the descriptions of the beings are essentially

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the same in that it is a four legged, shape
shifting creature with a disturbingly grotesque human face with orange
red gleaming eyes. Those who have claimed to see a
skinwalker also stated that they were extremely fast and made
horrific sounds and cries. Aside from stories relating to indigenous law,
they've been talk about possible alien activity and even secret

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government experiments going on at Skinwalker Ranch. Has stated it's
been the site of UFOs, paranormal activity, sasquatch cattle mutilations,
psychic manifestations, and of course, the long standing story of
men who can turn into bloodthirsty animals, which has been
the main theme in the mid nineteen nineties. The Sherman family,

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who purchased the ranch in nineteen ninety four, shared their
fascinating stories with the media, which in turn brought national
attention to the area. Terry and Gwynn Sherman, along with
their two children, moved into the home on the Skinwalker
Ranch in nineteen ninety four, looking to expand Terry's business
of raising and sales cattle. Terry and Gwynn fell in

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love with the homestead, and we're really looking forward to
this new start on this farm with their children. Really,
all they wanted was a peaceful and quiet place to
live out the rest of their lives. Gwynn was raised
in Utah, Al though she had no idea about the
claims of the ranch. Terry was born and raised in
Arizona before moving into the basin. The Shermans were just

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nice people, good folks, as my granny would say, who
wanted the best for their children. The couple had no
clue brought away to them, nor the whores they would
soon encounter. When they arrived at the home, they found
all the windows and doors were bolted shut. The previous
owners didn't offer any explanation why not. Only were their
dead bolts everywhere. Towards the back of the house were big,

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chunky chains that looked as if they had held something
back at one time. This left them feeling uneasy, but
they tried brushing it off, thinking maybe the previous owners
were just overly cautious about intruders. The ranch was apparently
left in pork and by the previous owner. Wonder why
what could have possibly wrecked this home? Could someone or

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something drove the previous owners to this insanity? Anyway, the
ranch was left in poor condition, so the Sherman spent
countless hours restoring their property before they were finally able
to move in. However, soon after settling into their dream homestead,
Terry noticed an odd circular depression in the ground. This
imprint didn't bother them at first. We just assumed someone

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had removed a tree at some point in time, or
that it was a natural occurrence. It wasn't until a
year later, in nineteen ninety five, that the Sherman started
getting plagued with odd goings on. They started seeing strange
lights in the sky as well as other unidentified flying objects.
They tried taking pictures, recording and documenting these events, but

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with no success. Their equipment either seemed to go haywire
when they would try to record, where everything was just
messed up on their recording more of these strange crop
circles or whatever they were, Some bigger than eight feet
in diameter would start to show up on the ranch.
Soon after, they found holes about three feet wide and
a couple feet deep that would appear in random spots

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on the farm as well. They were very unsure of
any animal that would dig holes so big. Soon after
this is when the cattle be lash and started occurring.
Shermans lost their prize cattle the first year, over twenty
percent of their cattle, compared to the usual one percent
or so that farmers expect to lose. That one percent

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of cattle usually die off due to natural circumstances such
as illness, but this great loss of twenty percent was
not natural at all. In fact, it happened so often
that the cattle completely went missing where they found them
in numerous areas of the ranch, either dissected or exsanguinated
drained of their insides in an oddly surgical and bloodless manner.

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One night, Terry Sherman went to check on a cow
that was soon to give birth. When you noticed strange
bright lights in the sky that moved in ways that
a normal aircraft could not possibly move. He noticed these
lights were hovering over some of his cattle, and when
he rushed over the area, he noticed a cow that
had a missing eye, almost like it was hollowed out,
and all the insides of the cow were gone, as

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if everything inside this cow had been sucked out of
a single eye socket. As creepy as that is, this
would not be the last incidents of this. One thing
he noted was that the cows had an indescribable chemical
like smell coming from them after they died. In the winter,
Terry was out in the field and was searching for
a certain cow that had gone missing. He noticed hoofprints

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in the snow, so he followed him. They seemingly led
to an area near some trees, then stopped. He looked around, thinking, okay,
where could this cow possibly gone? Then he looked up
and saw it severed and broken branches on the tree
and on the ground, as if the cow had actually
been pulled up with great force and disappeared into the air.

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What could have taken the cow in such a manner
and why law enforcement was called on multiple occasions, only
for them to chalk it up to predator animal mutilation.
The question remained, though what type of predator could do this?
This question would undoubtedly go unanswered. Other odd phenomena occurred

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almost daily, objects being moved round or going missing, only
to reappear in other places, large animals, and prints they
were convinced couldn't be real. These events began to make
the Sherman family terrified and scared for not only the
remaining cant in livestock, but for their very own lives
as well. They would begin to hear strange, non human

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like growls and noises that sounded like they were coming close.
Things would bang on their house in the middle of
the night, and they found what appeared to be claw
marks on the outsides of their home. The children were
not sleeping well throughout this night. Marriage you can imagine,
as a matter of fact, no one in the Sherman
family was getting much good rest at all. One night,
Terry went outside, as he did every night, to check

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on his livestock. This time he had a gun, his
two dogs, and a flashlight. As you can imagine, life
on this farm had become eerie and nerve wracking. Suddenly,
the dogs went crazy barking. Terry pointed his flashlight in
the direction where the dogs were growling, and in the
tree line, he made out the shape of what appeared
to be a very, very large creature. It looked like

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a wolf, but much too large. Terry estimated the creature
to be more than three times the size of an
average wolf, with eyes that glowed blood red, some sort
of supernatural superwolf. The dogs yipped, put the tails between
their legs, and retreated back to the house. Terry was
shaking and trembling in fear, but he held his gun
a steady as he could and quickly shot a few

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rounds at the animal. The creature was hit, but didn't
seem to be phased or heard in the least. This
giant wolf like creature stared at Terry with malicious evil intent,
then slowly disappeared back into the dark tree line. It
was this very event that drove the Shermans to sell
their once dream homestead. This was the last and final straw.

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They only lived there total of eighteen months, but they
saw no other choice but to sell their property at
a loss and finally be free of this horrific real
life nightmare. After all this had gone on. Once vacated,
the ranch was quickly purchased by billionaire Robert Bigelow, and
he renamed it the National Institute for Discovery Science. Bigelow

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an incredibly intelligent man who was seeking the truth about
our world and us as a human species, and wondered
if we were truly alone in the universe. He had
been familiar with the strange occurrences at this farm and
wanted to live there himself, to research and find out
for himself the truth about this property and find some
sort of explanation for these odd occurrences. Soon after his purchase,

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scientists and specialized researchers were brought out to the ranch.
It's unclear what research they did, but it's been said
that his wife started getting played with nightmares and supernatural beings.
Mister Bigelow hated this for his wife. Many experiments were
done at the ranch, but again little has been spoken
about what was found. It said that the experiments they
did do could not disprove the reality of what was

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happening at this ranch. Therefore, what was going on and
apparently still goes on at this ranch is quite clearly inexplicable.
Some theories suggest that the government possibly had forced Bigelow
to conceal many of the findings, which they had participated
in and funded. He lived there for twenty years until
selling it to a man named Brandon Feugel in twenty sixteen.

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And let's be real, Robert Bigelow was already a billionaire,
so he most definitely wasn't trying to flip the property
for money. It's been said that after his beloved wife
passed away, he refocused his research from UFOs and the
paranormal to trying to find out if the soul does
indeed live on after death. So what do you think.

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Do you think Robert Bigelow was quieted by the government.
Think of mister Robert Bigelow however you want to, But
in our opinion, we think he was a genius and
that he was on to something. It seems that he
got what he needed from the area. The timeline of
events places his creation of his aerospace company after experimentation
and acquisition of the Skinwalker ranch. Therefore, one can possibly

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surmise that Bigelow and his team possibly found enough anomalies
and data to not only create a space company, but
to peak the interest of defense assets. The strange goings
on through the interests of the Defense Intelligence Agency and
through funding secured by Harry Reid, the former Democratic Senate
majority leader. This led to a formation of a Pentagon
effort to study unidentified flying objects courtesy of the Advanced

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Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Now Brandon Feugel, owned of Skinwalker
Ranch since twenty sixteen, is also another very intelligent, wealthy man.
We believe him when he says he did not purchase
the ranch to monetize it. He owned his property for
four years before going public with it. He claims that
he bought it purely for the purpose of science investigation

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and had no desire to go public with his identity
as the owner. He admits that the property did indeed
become a money pit, but he has yet to make
any money personally in connection with the TV show that
came out about Skinwalker Ranch, and anything that could be
provided in the future would not even come close to
recovering the amount he's invested in this place. He goes
on to say that the television show was primarily only

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a vehicle for informing the public regarding the reality of
what his team had been experiencing and documenting, and then
he hoped this would stimulate positive discussion concerning these topics.
He had bought the property as a healthy skeptic and
is now surprised about what has been documented and witnessed. Furthermore,
has been stated that many people who go on the
Skinwalker ranch have been followed home by something and often

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continue to be terrorized by these supernatural beings. Because of this,
a lot of people steer completely clear from that area.
Many mysterious deaths have occurred, and some people have unfortunately
seemed to have been driven to insanity. Perhaps some things
are better left unknown, or should I say, better left
to the unknown and the professionals who are willing to

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take that risk for scientific purposes. And even then it's
as if the powers that be won't let us know
too much. Perhaps we should take advice from the wise
one on this, the Native Americans, and say just stay away.
There's obviously much more to reality than what meets the
eye here. Indeed, there are many things that cannot be

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explained and might not ever be explained. Aliens, skin walkers,
Cursed lands Again. Hate is a powerful emotion, a powerful tool,
a powerful word. Be careful how you use it, because things, lands,
and people can forever be affected by it. Could these
lands have been cursed prior to the natives arriving to

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this area, and what is the possible extraterrestrial connection? What
would they want with this place? These are the things
that aren't from your typical storybook, and yet we continue
to ponder Creepy sounds in the nine, scratching sounds on
the doors, skin walkers, mysterious lights, mutilated and disappearing cattle.
Are you brave enough to keep your head under the

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covers long enough to find out the truth? Just know
that if you do, whether you believe or not, that's
up to you, But be careful. You don't want the
chance of anything following you home, do you. Well. There
you have it, folks. I really look forward to the
comments on this one, but please keep it freely and respectful. Ultimately,

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it's up to you to decide what you believe. Until
we meet again, be good to yourselves and each other.
Stay safe out there. As for me, I'll see you
a little further on down the trail. I hope nothing
follows me home after this video. I'm Steve Stockton, and
I'll talk to you next time, and please tell your

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animals I said hi,