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it is doubtlessly one of the strangest

locations in the entire world it is a

roughly 500 acre ranch located in a

remote part of Uinta County in

northeastern Utah in 1994 the Sherman

family purchased the property with the

intention of living a simple private

quiet life the ranch seemed perfect for

this lifestyle

they couldn't have known how wrong they

would be

the Shermans would live here for just

under two years until they could no

longer endure it in that time they would

claim to have not won nor even just a

handful but dozens perhaps over a

hundred unexplainable experiences when

they finally went public with their

story the whole world turned their eyes

to this remote area of the country and

the Sherman Ranch would be given the

name by which it is better known today

Skinwalker Ranch

ladies and gentlemen hello and welcome

to fire of learning this is the campfire

series join us as we tell the full

actual story of what happened at

Skinwalker Ranch before we begin I would

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it's quite clear there is an interest in

the area fencing security cameras

blocked off roads and no trespassing

signs surround the property making it

explicitly clear that the area is off

limits to the General Public

it was not like that whatsoever when

Terry and Gwen Sherman purchased the

property and moved in with their

children in the Autumn of 1994. what we

will now discuss is the standard account

of the events that would take place on

this Ranch in the two years the Shermans

lived on it and the years after in which

the area was officially investigated

many of the details of which were

originally brought to the public in the

famous 2005 book hunt for the skinwalker

science confronts The Unexplained at a

remote Ranch in Utah by Dr column A

Kelleher and George Knapp

the Shermans purchased the ranch with

the intention of raising their two

children a teenage son and a 10 year old

daughter and cattle on it Terry was an

experienced cattle rancher and the area

seemed suitable for the needs of raising

the quality cattle for which it was

known the prior owners of the property

Kenneth and Edith Myers had owned it

since the 1930s because the property had

been vacant for years before the

Shermans acquired it it was a neglected

Fixer-Upper but the Shermans felt up to

this task as soon as the Shermans had

begun moving in however they began to

notice strange things about the property

firstly there had been an unexplained

clause in the contract requiring them to

contact the Myers family for permission

to dig on the property secondly when

they arrived it is said they found the

home itself had been practically

fortified as if the Myers were expecting

some kind of intrusion the doors and

windows had been bolted shut with metal

bars placed in the windows as well there

were also chains on each side of the

house which were assumed to have once

been used to hold guard dogs however the

Shermans chalked these unusual features

up to the old couple just being a little

bit eccentric the family moved in and

began to settle down into their new

lives

it was not long after that the first

incident occurred

one day the Sherman couple their two

children and Terry's father noticed a

dog-like animal in the distance

approaching the ranch from about 400

yards away they could tell it was really

quite large probably a wolf

at about 50 yards away it paused and

stared the family down for a moment then

slowly approached them the wolf did not

seem to hesitate whatsoever which

suggested to them that it was possibly

tame maybe even someone's pet as it came

closer they were better able to make out

its features this was no ordinary Wolf

the wolf it was said came up to the

chests of the two six foot tall men

present it was intimidatingly muscular

with gray fur and piercing blue eyes

though a strong feeling of unease came

over Terry as it came right up to his

family the wolf still appeared

completely tame they even pet the Beast

within a split second however the wolf

turned and rapidly darted towards the

Corral that held Terry's calves it

attacked a curious calf who had stood

too close to the gate

Terry and his father rushed to attack

the Beast and save their calf but their

blows failed to deter the creature in

the slightest Terry called to his son to

bring him his gun occult 357 Magnum

pistol this is where a tense and strange

situation became a Horror Story

he shot the creature at point-blank

range but the bullet had little more

effect on the wolf than did the blows of

the two men the Beast did not simply

withstand it it seemed unconcerned by it

altogether Terry shot the animal twice

more it released the calf and slowly

walked away then turned and faced the

family it stood there staring them down

still showing no signs of having been

harmed Terry shot again and it walked

back about 30 more feet but remained

staring at the family Terry called to

his son to bring him his 30-06 a rifle

which he used for elk hunting even with

this greater Firepower however when he

shot at the creature though it was

claimed he heard the bullet hit the wolf

from only about 40 feet away it again

had seemingly no effect he fired again

this time it is claimed visibly removing

flesh from the wolf

still it seemed indifferent at this

point the wolf turned and paced away

from the area

to say those present were shocked is an

understatement Terry felt it best to

pursue this throughout however and try

to finish it he and his son followed the

beast but it was moving quickly they saw

it disappear into the trees before they

could reach it however they were able to

follow its tracks they followed them for

about a mile until

the tracks disappeared

this made no sense the ground on which

the tracks disappeared was soft as soft

as the ground on which there were tracks

they could find no explanation as to why

the tracks would have abruptly stopped

but abruptly stopped they had

as the sun set and their search for

signs of the wolf yielded nothing Terry

decided it would be best to return home

lacking the ability to answer the many

questions they had Terry felt it best to

try to forget the incident

in the following weeks there would be

more sightings of not just this wolf or

one like it but other odd canines as

well though these incidents weren't

quite as intense they were generally

just sightings eventually the Shermans

would stop seeing these mystery canines

for a while however this did not mean

normalcy return to their lives

unfortunately this incident was only the

first of a series of incidents that

would confuse disturb and threaten the

family during the two years they owned

the property soon the Wolves would be

replaced by a great many other forms of

strangeness

the family began to notice things going

missing on the ranch and not just

trivial or small things for example

Terry would leave an area for a few

minutes and come back to find heavy

large Ranch equipment missing such as a

70 pound post digger some of the objects

like the post sticker were eventually

found the trouble was finding them

sometimes only added to the mystery for

example the post digger was allegedly

found 20 feet up in a tree sometime

later there was another major incident

their first encounter with a phenomenon

that would haunt them much more

consistently

strange lights and the crafts to which

they were occasionally said to have

belonged

one evening as night fell Terry his son

and his nephew noticed lights on his

land in the distance a white headlight

and red tail lights probably an RV

assuming they were trespassers he was

determined to drive them off however as

the three began walking in the direction

of the lights the lights silently moved

away from them as they increased their

pace and Drew closer the lights suddenly

Rose about 50 feet in the air they could

better see the outline of the vehicle

now it was an object shaped more like a

refrigerator than an RV

the group froze watching as the object

flew off into the night sky disappearing

from sight

it was becoming clearer that the

Shermans were not just the victims of

random Oddities that happened across

their paths by coincidence but that

there was perhaps something unusual

about the ranch itself indeed as time

passed they would come to learn that Not

only was the Uinta Basin regarded as an

area in which unusual happenings weren't

so unusual but that the land on which

they lived itself may have had a close

connection to this strangeness some

regarded part of it as cursed

oftentimes when a scary story is said to

have precedence in Native American

folklore it uh doesn't actually however

in this case there does seem to be at

least some truth to the claim that the

people indigenous to the area the youths

have historically regarded the area of

Skinwalker Ridge part of which lies on

the north of the ranch as dangerous

Supernatural even cursed holding a kind

of connection to what are called Skin

Walkers

Skin Walkers are dark figures from the

folklore of various Southwestern

amerindian groups the full extent of

Skinwalker folklore is not well

understood outside of these groups it is

often considered a private and

uncomfortable subject however from the

information that these groups have

shared it is known that skinwalkers are

Sinister figures capable of wielding

powerful black magic they attain these

Powers through the completion of a

number of dark rituals including the

murder of a family member and the

consumption of their flesh

in some instances the skinwalker in its

natural state resembles a foul thin husk

of a person with eyes that burn a coal

red in the darkness they are said to

possess great strength speed and

endurance they are closely connected to

dark spirits and can cause illness and

curse others they are capable of

entering and corrupting the minds of

others driving them mad causing them to

do terrible things

the most famous of their powers though

is the ability to shape-shift often

transforming into an animal such as a

bear bird or wolf

the strange history of the Uinta Basin

does not end there in 1911 an article in

the sun Advocate was published

discussing strange noises resembling

Thunder heard throughout the Basin that

were reportedly causing settlers unease

some residents reported hearing them day

and night in summer and winter for years

the noise was attributed to layers of

rock moving on the uint default

for years beginning the 1950s residents

of Uinta County began reporting what

would add up to thousands of UFO

sightings incidents of cattle

mutilations and purported

extraterrestrial encounters alongside a

wide variety of other abnormal phenomena

like Sasquatches and Poltergeist

activity this was especially true in the

1970s when the rate of UFO and ET

incidents increased dramatically Uinta

County became one of the most

significant hot spots of unexplained

phenomena in the entire country a

position the area retains to this day

frustrated as these occurrences and

others like them continued as the cold

of winter set in Terry would often

Patrol his land at night he claimed he

would often see strange lights moving

around in the darkness though generally

they were only glimpses from a distance

one snowy fiercely cold winter night

however it is claimed he noticed the

craft which was unlike any he had ever

seen before

it was jet black dead silent and hovered

about 30 feet off the ground it began

flashing a series of multi-colored

Lights under the ground below almost

like a disco ball as if it were looking

for something

Terry hid to avoid detection when the

object was about a hundred yards away he

quietly stretched which caused some of

his joints to pop

seeming to have somehow heard the noise

the object turned its lights off turned

towards him and then slowly flew away in

the opposite direction

several weeks later Gwen essentially saw

the same thing following her car one

evening she rushed home and as she

pulled in the object flew over her house

and off into the distance

about an hour later Gwen looked outside

and saw a craft like that of the

mistaken RV from before sitting on her

property inside she could see a seven

foot tall figure wearing a black uniform

and headgear standing in what was

described as a light filled doorway

she got the impression the figure was

staring at her and so she closed the

blinds

by the following morning when she and

her husband investigated all that

remained were unusually large footprints

one of the most common things the

Shermans would see were described as

large glowing orange objects they each

witnessed them with Terry perhaps

witnessing it dozens of times overall he

would watch them for hours at a time

sometimes with a night vision scope on

his rifle it was said they always

appeared in the same place over an area

of cottonwood trees about a mile away

where one would hover silently however

it would appear in different shapes

sometimes flat and elongated other times

as round as the moon the angle from

which the Shermans viewed it seemed to

influence how its shape appeared with

the area around his Homestead being the

only area in which it was perfectly

visible it was claimed that motorists on

a nearby roadway would have seen a faint

normal looking orange cloud

one night Terry allegedly noticed

something that added to the strangeness

he noticed in the middle of the Orange

Mass a blue spot

he realized it was the sky blue sky

shining in the middle of the object when

the sun had long set

when he began to see fast-moving

triangular objects exiting the orange

object as well he suspected it was some

kind of portal

at first despite how disturbing and

confusing these incidents were no clear

harm actually came to the Sherman family

themselves apart from the stress fear

and confusion these incidents caused

this was even true of their animals with

the possible exception of the wolf

incident but whether the wolf had any

relation to these other anomalies who

could say

however either way according to the

story The phenomena or whatever control

them would begin to take a dangerous

interest in Terry's cattle

one day following a fierce blizzard

Terry noticed one of his cows was

missing he went to search for it

eventually finding its tracks following

them until they abruptly stopped in the

middle of an open area

Like the Wolf in this case it was as if

the cow had vanished there were no

Predator tracks alongside them and no

explanation as to why the tracks would

have stopped

his cow was never discovered

she was the first of five to disappear

throughout that winter alone

the coming of spring in 1995 did not

relieve them of their stresses with much

of the strangeness continuing to Center

on the cows in April they began to find

their cows deceased in horrifying States

they would have much of their rears and

bodies removed as if surgically as the

missing parts seemed to have been

removed with precision and there was a

distinct lack of blood

more cattle mutilations occurred in the

following months Terry began to notice

many shared features surrounding them

yellow lights would appear on his

property oftentimes in poor weather than

the following day he would find a cow

mutilated with again what seemed like

surgical Precision it was also noted

that the cow carcasses seemed to Decay

more slowly than they should have on one

occasion Terry noticed strange liquid

Brown chemical next to a cow carcass he

touched it describing it as gel-like and

cold it evaporated however before he

could find something with which to

collect it

each cow was worth thousands of dollars

this was becoming a serious threat to

Terry's livelihood

strange things were happening several

times a month but Skinwalker Ranch is

famous not merely for the frequency of

such events but the variety as well

strange sounds would be heard that

seemed to come from underground Holes

about a foot deep and several feet in

diameter would appear in areas where

flying lights were seen the night before

meaning hundreds of pounds of soil

apparently vanished from his property

overnight mysterious circular

Impressions were made in the grass Terry

would hear voices speaking in an

unfamiliar language from above him

another major Oddity observed on the

ranch were what were described as flying

glowing orbs multiple colors were noted

blue yellow orange red it was Saturday

quote unquote usually signaled trouble

and that they seemed to observe him and

investigate his activities they were

generally seen at a distance however a

few Close Encounters were described

on one occasion in April of 1996 Terry's

dogs attacked one of these blue orbs

when the dogs got close to the aura bit

descended somewhat and flew around the

dogs just Out Of Reach of their bites as

if it were taunting them the orb then

moved behind the tree line and the dogs

followed once the dogs and orbs were out

of sight Terry heard the dogs give out

disturbing Yelps and then silence

the following morning when he

investigated the area he found three

large brown circles of burned grass and

the remains of the dogs which were

described as a greasy mess in the center

of each of them

during another encounter Terry and his

wife were able to observe the blue orbs

much more closely they were described as

perfectly round about three times the

size of a baseball with a clear

shell-like exterior which was said to be

not unlike glass inside they observed

what was described as a swirling

incandescent intensely blue liquid

substance that seemed on the verge of

boiling the object also made a faint

crackling sound like the sound of

electricity it was also noted to have

interfered with the electricity in the

house perhaps most interestingly the

objects seemed to produce a feeling of

intense anxiety in them that seemed

unnatural even in the circumstances as

if it were an artificial emotion

it was following the loss of Terry's

cherished dogs that after well over a

year of Terror and strangeness the

Shermans came to agreement that it was

time to leave it was around this time

that Sherman finally went public with

what was happening he spoke to Zach van

Ike of the Deseret News the second

largest paper in Utah at the time his

story was printed on June 29 1996. the

information he gave the newspaper was

limited but it was enough information

for the story to spread across the

country though Terry was reluctant to

potentially lose his privacy he

ultimately felt that drawing attention

to his situation would deter whoever was

responsible or at least lead to answers

it would not stop the incidents in fact

all it did at first was attract

attention to the property including that

of a number of unwanted visitors hoping

to investigate he turned away most with

a few exceptions a few of these visitors

reportedly actually triggered a number

of strange events on their own namely

those who were described as eccentric it

wasn't long before a word of the

property caught the eyes of those in

high places within a few weeks of the

first publication the property would be

purchased by an individual named Robert

Bigelow Who took possession of it on

September 5th of that year

the Shermans unhappy but desperate to

leave sold the property for less than

they had paid for it

Robert Bigelow was and is a billionaire

real estate Tycoon whose side interests

included the supernatural

he had such an interest in a subject

that he had found that an organization

called the National Institute for

Discovery science nids or nidsai for

short the year prior an organization

dedicated to scientific research of

paranormal topics

Skinwalker Ranch was precisely what they

were looking for

the nids team that formed included a

number of professionals and Skeptics

including individuals with backgrounds

in physics astronomy psychology

veterinary science Etc also associated

with the project where noteworthy

figures such as Edgar Mitchell an

astronaut who had walked on the moon the

parapsychologist Hal putoff and the

ufologist Jacques filet chosen to head

the research team assembled for the

ranch was Dr column A Kelleher an Irish

scientist with a PhD in Biochemistry as

you will recall Kelleher would later be

the author of the famous book hunt for

the skinwalker which he co-wrote with

George Knapp a journalist known for his

investigation of UFO topics namely the

story of Bob lazar's involvement in area

51.

the Shermans moved to a ranch located

about 20 miles away however Terry was

unable to abandon his desire to figure

out what had caused him and his family

so much hardship and driven him away

with his family safe he volunteered to

work as the ranch manager nids agreed

the research team arrived in September

of 1996 to begin their investigation

they would not be permanently stationed

on the ranch but spent a great deal of

time there

on their very first day the team

encountered carcasses of mutilated cows

the three large circles of dried grass

where Terry had lost his dogs which was

surrounded by tall Healthy Green Grass

and a number of holes in the ground that

were attributed to Flying lights

soon after the team witnessed something

for themselves

one night a bright light was seen

hovering over the tree line it was

observed by four people including

Kelleher and Sherman they said it

hovered for about 10 minutes moved

downward out of sight then came back up

photographs were taken but it was

claimed that they failed to display the

true brightness of the light none of the

four present were able to recognize it

as anything familiar

in the following months they would

observe a number of other Oddities here

and there that suggested that Sherman

really was telling the truth however it

was in March of 1997 that the period in

which the strangest events that the team

would witness started happening

on March 10th a calf was discovered

dismembered with its organs blood and

much of its body removed the calf had

been seen alive when it was tagged just

45 minutes prior the injuries were

seemingly made with professional

instrumentation

on March 12th at 11 PM when dogs owned

by the team were heard howling and

barking Terry Kelleher and another

researcher gathered in Terry's truck to

investigate eventually as they drove

around the property they were startled

as they came upon what appeared to be a

huge animal estimated by Terry to weigh

about 400 pounds in a tree with yellow

eyes that reflect the car lights

Terry got out and shot at it the eyes

disappeared

they believed they had hit the creature

and that it had fallen to the ground but

when he investigated Terry could not

find the creature Terry then saw it or a

separate creature again nearby and shot

at it at what he said was point-blank

range however again he could find no

carcass

the group would investigate spending

around two hours looking for signs of

the creature or creatures but little was

discovered however they did find two

oval-shaped tracks in the snow about 20

feet apart from each other from it it

was determined that at least one of the

animals appeared to have had two claws

six inches in diameter

Kelleher compared it to that of a huge

bird of prey the tracks were never

identified

the next major incident easily one of

the strangest occurred in April

Terry and Gwen were driving by an

enclosure containing four of the most

prized Bulls which were still held on

the property Gwen remarked that it would

be terrible if something were to happen

to them 45 minutes later they returned

to the area to find that the Bulls had

vanished

Terry began searching the property he

managed to find them though the

circumstances in which he found them

only added to his questions

the Bulls were discovered huddled

together in a small trailer seemingly in

some kind of hypnotic state

it seemed unlikely that four fully grown

Bulls would have or even could have

entered the trailer and arranged

themselves like this on their own when

Terry called out to his wife and banged

on the metal door the Bull's trance was

broken and they began to panic

destroying the interior of the trailer

they knocked down a metal door and

escaped

the niche team was not present when this

occurred but arrived not long after

finding evidence that they said

suggested that the Bull's had in fact

been in the enclosure with no clear

explanation as to how exactly they had

entered it while investigating the team

noticed the metal bars that the

enclosure in which the cows had been

held were magnetized especially the

borrowers closest to the trailer they

took photographs and footage of the

scene

the magnetization gradually diminished

being barely detectable after 48 hours

though Oddities continue to be observed

and experienced throughout the months

the next major incident occurred in

early June

one night a bluish white orb the size of

a basketball was cited about 75 yards

away from Kelleher and one of his

Canadian Partners bobbing slightly no

more than 15 feet off the ground

then it abruptly disappeared

the researchers searched the area with a

powerfully bright beam and night vision

binoculars

eventually the Canadian researcher

noticed something with the binoculars he

said a quote-unquote huge black thing in

a tree was ahead of them moving North

Kelleher tried to get a photograph of it

but he could neither see it nor

photograph it then the Canadian

researchers suddenly yelled out quote

it's got me it's saying we are watching

you end quote Kelleher still could not

see it

the unnamed Canadian researcher claimed

it was large and blotted out all the

stars in the binoculars when he snapped

out of it he explained that it had taken

control of his mind and had given him

that message

the final major incident that nids would

witness occurred on August 26th of 1997

around 2 30 a.m on this night two

researchers Jim and Mike noticed a

yellow light appear about a hundred feet

below a bluff overlooking the property

from which the researchers were

observing it was an area in which one of

them had been meditating because there

was a claim from past stories involving

visitors to the property that meditation

could trigger an event

they photographed it as Mike washed the

light with a pair of infrared binoculars

he realized that it appeared to be the

light of a tunnel that was opening just

above the ground then he saw a faceless

black humanoid creature estimated to be

about six feet tall and 400 pounds

emerge from it and move off into the

darkness

however Jim who did not have binoculars

did not claim to be able to see this

figure nor did he identify the light as

a tunnel rather he only saw it as a much

duller yellow light

the yellow light then slowly disappeared

the two researchers descended to

investigate they smelled a sulfurous

odor their nard alert machine picked up

Alpha Beta gamma and x-ray radiation

that quickly faded they found nothing

else that night or the following day the

photographs they obtained were of poor

quality

another incident of interest is the one

involving the cameras in July of 1997

the team has set up cameras in an area

of unusually high reported activity

about a year later three would be

mysteriously damaged all at once at 8 30

pm

when investigated the wires were found

ripped out however neither these cameras

nor the other cameras which faced these

cameras picked up what damaged them nor

anything of much note throughout the

entirety of their use for that matter

the team would also do a great amount of

Investigation throughout the rest of the

Uinta Basin and even abroad when

interviewed a number of individuals

shared experiences that suggested that

the Shermans were not alone they too

spoke of strange cattle mutilations

balls of light and mysterious

unidentifiable craft

some of these individuals were Sherman's

Neighbors in fact regarding the cattle

mutilation specifically Terry even said

of his neighbors that quote if I'm crazy

then we both have the same problem end

quote it is necessary to mention as well

however four of the Sherman's neighbors

themselves told the nid's team they did

not believe Sherman's stories

the nid's investigation lasted for six

years from 1996 to 2002. the period of

March to August of 1997 represented the

period of the strangest and most

frequent activity that Ned's reported

after the portal incident involving Jim

and Mike however fewer and fewer

Oddities were noted on the ranch

they would continue to research the area

for years but after 1999 especially

there was very little of note happening

in 2002 the investigation ended in 2004

nids disbanded Bigelow explained on his

website that there had been no need for

investigative work for well over two and

a half years at that point but stated

that he would reactivate nids with new

Personnel if an opportunity arose

interestingly and very importantly many

of the results of this investigation are

kept confidential by Bigelow to this day

in 2005 hunt for the skinwalker was

published leading to the next phase in

the ranch's history

the book caught the attention of figures

within the United States government

specifically a scientist working for the

defense intelligence agency Dr James a

lakatsky

lakatsky contacted Bigelow about

visiting the ranch

while there laketsky witnessed what he

claimed to be as strange yellow spectral

object which Bigelow did not see

lakatski became convinced of the

veracity of the story

Bigelow then contacted a friend of his

the late Nevada Senator Harry Reid to

tell him about a member of the Dia's

interest in the ranch

Reed's interest was also peaked before

long nids was replaced by the much more

secretive government-funded Advanced

Aerospace weapon systems applications

program or ASAP which contracted the

newly formed Bigelow Aerospace Advanced

space studies or Bass to investigate a

great number of UFO and other paranormal

cases including and especially that of

Skinwalker Ranch

the bass offsap investigation was funded

by the defense intelligence agency

receiving 22 million dollars and a staff

of around 50 people it lasted from 2008

to 2010 a period which was marked by a

great number of other strange events and

occurrences the details of this

investigation were largely kept secret

for many years but while the large

portion still is some information has

come out in recent years although there

is a huge amount of misinformation about

ossap because essentially there seems to

have been attempts to conceal what the

program was doing and there were other

later initiatives such as Luis

elizondo's atip work the distinctions

between which were not immediately clear

anyway in the 2021 book Skin Walkers at

the Pentagon laketsky Kelleher and Knapp

outline this era like the preceding era

a great number of strange events are

said to have taken place in this period

including what has been termed The

Hitchhiker effect this refers to the

effect the ranch seems to have on those

who visit it after they leave

according to the authors a large number

of individuals who visited the ranch

during the OSAP era experienced or

witnessed things similar to what was

often reported on the ranch in other

places after having left the ranch like

orbs objects being misplaced in absurd

ways and wolf-like creatures what's more

these sightings were said to have spread

to these individuals family members and

peers who had not been on the ranch in a

way that Kelleher compared to a virus

however at the end of this investigation

likewise though much remains unknown it

appears no substantial evidence was

produced of anything unknown to science

the Sherman family moved away they have

since often refused to publicly discuss

what happened on the ranch in 2016

Bigelow sold the property to adamantium

real estate headed by Brandon fugle on

the condition that research continued on

the ranch sightings of The Unexplained

continued into this period and indeed

continue to this very Day in 2020 an

ongoing television show was launched

focusing on the investigation of the

ranch under Fugal called The Secret of

Skinwalker Ranch which aired on the

History Channel like the knits team

Fugal and his team of researchers have

been unable to obtain conclusive proof

of any phenomena unknown to science

existing on the property however Fugal

is confident that there is something

happening here that more than justifies

continued investigation however behind

the scenes of this uh Sensational TV

show there does seem to be genuine

investigation occurring with Fugal and

his team having respectable intentions

overall which I do respect

so what can we make of all of this

well firstly contrary to many claims one

might encounter it is blatantly not true

that the incident stopped when the

professionals showed up like you would

expect of standard nonsense rather the

professionals now have a number of their

own stories to tell however it is true

that the team failed to gather much that

could be useful to science at the end of

all this investigation those involved

have produced a few low quality

photographs and videos strange readings

on their instruments and things like a

few plaster castes of round impressions

in the soil moreover much of this

limited evidence has not been released

to the public for inspection Beyond this

they have added to the number of

witnesses of these Oddities likewise

Terry Sherman had only been able to

produce some poor quality images and

photographs as well

other than this their efforts to study

and measure the phenomena empirically

were constantly foiled there is no hard

evidence

as far as we know again there is still

quite a bit evidently under lock and key

those involved in the nid's

investigation have often been criticized

for ignoring the lack of Hard Evidence I

don't think they do Kelleher and nap did

comment on this and hunt for the

skinwalker and were fairly open about

the frustration of trying to find hard

evidence and seem to understand the

issue of not having it very well however

there are other very major issues with

the book

for example many of the stories we have

so far discussed as I mentioned in the

beginning were brought to the public by

Kelleher and nap through the book hunt

for the skinwalker but are said to have

originated with Terry Sherman and his

family

the problem is that for starters they

did not actually interview the Shermans

during the writing of the book in fact

the Shermans were not even aware a book

was being written about them until it

was published the authors to my

knowledge have never commented on or

explained this I personally strongly

suspect this was simply a genuine

mistake likely they thought they had

everything they needed and didn't want

to bug Terry Sherman whom they assumed

probably correctly would not be

interested in collaborating on something

like a book that would give him all this

publicity that he did not want whatever

their reason though the major problem is

that in the words of Terry Sherman

himself the stories in the book some of

which we have just looked at aren't

entirely accurate he said they only

resembled a true accounting of his

experiences

this was brought to light in chapter 8

of the book The Utah UFO display by the

late Frank B Salisbury the 2010 Edition

mind you not this one from 20 years

before the incident Salisbury did sit

down with Sherman to interview him and

worked with Junior Hicks a local UFO

expert and James carrion to shed further

light on this case

this word resembled

what exactly does that mean

it's hard to say the Shermans don't seem

to have released an extensive correction

and they are the only people who could

shed some light on the specific

irregularities in the book for the most

part however they seem uninterested in

doing further interviews Mr Sherman did

mention some things such as that the

version of the wolf story in the book

was based on hearsay but was apparently

reluctant to explain further

that is actually a very serious issue

there's really no evidence but there is

witness testimony but the testimony of

the main witness was delivered by others

and contains in the witness's own words

inaccuracies but the witness has not

fully clarified his own account of what

happened

even if this were an honest mistake and

I think it was it's a serious blow to

The credibility of the whole book it

begs the question of how much else is

wrong for example are the descriptions

of what the rest of the nids team

experienced factual accounts

Frank B Salisbury also interviewed

someone else of great interest Garth

Myers brother of Kenneth Myers Kenneth

and his wife Edith Myers were if you

recall the individuals who had owned

Skinwalker Ranch for 60 years prior to

the Germans the things the Sherman's

witnessed and experienced had been

reported across the country including

and especially in the Uinta Basin for

decades before Skinwalker Ranch was ever

famous but if the anomalies have been

active for that long on the ranch itself

as is often believed as the ranch is in

fact suspected to be some kind of

epicenter of the area's strangeness that

has lasted for decades maybe centuries

why didn't the Myers experience anything

well they probably didn't but it isn't

actually completely clear that they

didn't the Myers simply never reported

anything and passed away before the

ranch and their names became famous but

others have claimed some interesting

things

some have come forward over the years

claiming that the Myers experienced and

witnessed some similar things mutilated

cows strange objects on their land

people who would knock on their doors

and disappear a worker who was allegedly

abducted a store clerk mentioned that

Edith Myers had a few UFO stories to

tell Etc however Garth Myers tells a

different story and sets the record

straight about what happened with the

Myers and why they sold the ranch in

salisbury's book which was written about

a year before garth's death and about

four years before salisbury's

some of the seemingly untrue claims

about the Myers experience don't come

from hunt for the skinwalker but that

book seems to have made some errors

about them as well

the common story is that the Myers

bought the ranch in the 50s and

mysteriously vacated it in 1987. seven

years later they sold the abandoned

Ranch to the Shermans who upon entering

the property found it in disrepair and

found the main building seemingly

heavily fortified Garth Myers contested

this the ranch which was purchased in

the 30s not the 50s he said wasn't just

abandoned Kenneth died in 1987. Edith

lives there for five more years on her

own until she moved to a Resting Home in

1992. the ranch was vacant for two years

not seven even during those two years

the property was leased to other

ranchers and occasionally visited he

also added that there were far fewer

locks and fortifications on the house

than is often claimed saying that

someone could have easily kicked the

door down to get in if they wanted to he

also said that his sister-in-law did not

live there with guard dogs but rather

had only one three-legged dog for part

of that period on her own when Edis died

in 1994 the ranch was left to Garth

Garth and his sisters decided to sell it

they sold it to the Shermans not long

after most importantly he told Salisbury

that quote there was nothing

unequivocally absolutely nothing that

went on while she and my brother lived

there end quote Salisbury asked if this

may have been something that Kenneth and

Edith just didn't share Gareth had a

background in science and Salisbury said

he seemed to have a very skeptical

attitude about such things and so it was

proposed that they may have never told

him because they knew they wouldn't be

believed however Garth adamantly

rejected this possibility saying they

were very close and kept up with each

other on a regular basis Garth also

worked on the ranch himself for a few

Summers as a teenager Gareth also

claimed he told Robert Bigelow this same

thing when Bigelow called him to ask why

his family had never reported anything

upon hearing gara's account Bigelow went

so far as to call him a liar

this is actually very interesting

because this is not the only incident in

which Bigelow was said to fly off the

handle when it was suggested to him that

there could be nothing happening on the

ranch which has led some to suggest that

his employees may have exaggerated or

even made things up during the

investigation in order to please their

boss

but was Garth Myers a liar

well there's one person who generally

supports Garth Meyer's account to the

best of his knowledge

Terry Sherman

furthermore while the neighbors of the

property have their own stories to tell

not many recall anything happening to

the Myers although neighbor John Garcia

claimed he did see a round floating

reddish orange house-sized object on

their land that the Myers did not know

about

what about that strange Clause requiring

that the Sherman's contact the Myers if

they wanted permission to dig on the

property that could easily be explained

as them wanting to retain mineral rights

it's actually a pretty common topic when

dealing with land like this and this is

an area where that is a legitimate

concern it's probably something Fugal is

concerned about too given how

controversial digging on the property is

on the TV show that being said neighbor

Charles Nguyen claimed Kenneth Myers was

a bit noticeably strange about digging

in certain areas of the property while

he was there and said he claimed bad

things would happen if one were to dig

never explaining why

another problem that I would like to see

addressed is that while the events in

the book were said to have been taking

place Jacques valet who was Associated

but not stationed on the ranch was

reporting at the same time that the team

wasn't witnessing anything

was he referring exclusively to hard

evidence where Keller her and his

colleagues simply not sharing this

information with him anyway

salisbury's interviews deal a heavy blow

to the most famous version of the

Skinwalker Ranch account many of the

details of the standard story that

everyone tells are either questionable

or even flat out not true again I'm not

blaming hunt for the skin walk or

exclusively for that but it does have to

be said that the book did make some

mistakes and yet this is not sufficient

to close the case

when the dust clears we're still left

with a very strange case on our hands as

Salisbury himself who was sympathetic to

the possibility of the existence of such

Supernatural entities admits the popular

account is inaccurate but does resemble

the original claims as is verified by

people like Zach van Ike Junior Hicks

and Sherman himself

when we focus on what we do know of

Sherman's own account his own account

alone is profound and leaves us a

fascinating case to dissect Sherman did

see the strange lights and orbs cattle

did disappear and others were found

mutilated which others observed he and

his family in his words did see the

orange portals in the sky Sherman and

Junior Hicks actually when he visited

the ranch in 1996 saw the unfortunate

state that the dogs had been left in

after their purported encounter with the

orb the shed was in a destroyed state

after purportedly holding four

teleported Bulls though it was a shed

not a trailer his neighbors namely John

Garcia and Charles Nguyen did see some

similar things on their properties

going with what we do know how do we

explain what happened here

the three main conventional explanations

for this sort of thing are hoaxes

delusion and misidentifications of

normal objects and phenomena which of

these if any fit this situation

this is kind of difficult

it has been suggested that the entire

thing was a hoax perhaps orchestrated to

sell the property it would be a bit

extreme for Sherman to kill his own

cattle or dogs to spin a story but

perhaps he invented most of the stories

to quickly get off the property because

he really was losing them to something

more natural

was this the invention of a desperate

Rancher while hardly anyone involved in

the investigation believed the Shermans

to be dishonest and there was nothing in

their character or history that would

suggest they were unfortunately even the

word of the most honest person in the

world would have to be taken with a

healthy amount of skepticism in a case

like this there are a few glaring

problems with the hoax explanation

however firstly while the researchers

didn't see everything that Terry saw and

exactly what he and they saw would have

to be further verified they did claim to

see a number of things which seemed to

validate at least some of what Terry

Sherman was saying the theory that the

whole thing was a hoax therefore

requires that one assert that either a

the Shermans were the greatest hoaxsters

in history and fooling professionals

behind their backs for years or B and

not only they but the nid's team and

probably others as well were involved in

the hoax

were they

this would have meant Bigelow risking

his reputation and perhaps a few dozen

people on the nid's team risking their

careers on a heist with relatively

little gain now you can argue several

people involved did end up gaining you

can point out that Kelleher and NAB made

money from the book Bigelow made money

selling the property but don't forget

all this started with the Shermans who

lost money Terry Sherman sold the

property to Bigelow for less than he had

paid for it and that doesn't seem to

have been out of desperation either

there were reportedly other buyers

offering more but Sherman said he did

not want to put anyone at risk so he

went with the group trying to buy it to

investigate furthermore the Shermans

have never tried to profit off the story

in any other way either having returned

to private life and seemingly trying to

avoid the story

could it have been a hoax orchestrated

by a third party again this was a little

more than just a crop circle they'd have

been dealing with the greatest hoaxsters

in history who would and even could

orchestrate such a thing

perhaps the American Military

Terry was a practical man who even

during the strangest incidents suspected

the U.S military was behind all the

activity in some kind of Scooby-Doo sort

of way it's almost certain that the

government possesses Advanced

Technologies that the public doesn't

know about and it is true that they have

been willing to pull stunts on the

public before however why this

to study the family's reaction and test

secret technology perhaps although they

would have taken a huge risk given the

amount of attention they've drawn to the

area especially given they continued for

years even after making the news the

drive the Shermans from their properties

so that they could acquire it the

government doesn't need theatrics to

confiscate land

it's difficult to blow all of this off

as a hoax

could it all have been a delusion

no one appears to have been

professionally assessed psychologically

however this brings us back to the

explanation being something that would

have to apply to not just the Shermans

but the needs team and many others as

well being delusional for years

they actually tested for many things in

the environment that could have

interfered with the mental states of

anyone on it but managed to find no

evidence of anything furthermore

importantly there were several things

like the cattlemutilations that clearly

did happen perhaps people were

frightened by the things they were

seeing and their minds filled in the

rest leading them especially the

Shermans to mistake normal objects and

occurrences maybe even we could throw a

little bit of the hoax theory in there

as well and assume a few people were

playing along with the fear for their

own prophet maybe but that leaves the

question of what was responsible for the

things which they did see

as far as that goes going into the topic

of misidentifications what known natural

phenomena could explain these things

well I'll have to summarize a bit here

because there's such a wide variety of

things that were reported that would

each have to be individually looked at

that it would really be enough to

constitute its own video in summary this

is really where the lack of clear

information about what happened stunts

and needlessly complicates the case

looking at the more reliable accounts

themselves what we do know paints a

picture that is difficult to Simply

explain away for starters cattle

mutilations are a common phenomenon not

unique to the ranch they long predate it

and have been observed around the world

the common explanations are that cattle

typically are attacked by Predators or

eat poisonous plants and decompose or

are interfered with by their environment

in a way that owners wouldn't expect

many cattle mutilations appear bloodless

for example because blood can quickly

pool into the lower areas of the body

and denature given that cattle tend to

decompose relatively quickly evidence

that would point to natural causes of

death quickly disappears however cattle

mutilations remain a famous area of

debate because owners do not always

accept these explanations sometimes

because they've been around dead animals

before and have never witnessed anything

like the strangeness they observe in

these incidents this definitely seems to

apply to the Skinwalker Ranch case

although a lot of what the veterinarians

had to say about the cattle carcasses

specifically doesn't seem to have been

released

ball lightning is a common explanation

for many UFO sightings and often gets

brought up in the skinwalker case to

explain the orbs that were reported

however ball lightning is rare occurs

almost exclusively during storms and

does not last very long the things

Sherman and others witnessed were

long-lived frequent appeared at all

times of the year and seemingly behaved

with purpose as if there were a

Consciousness behind them

the orange portals are also difficult to

explain could they be optical illusions

of some kind some sort of strange

weather anomaly that tends to form in

the area in which Sherman saw them if so

why aren't these things still so easily

observed as far as the creatures that

were seen go especially on the night

with Kelleher and Sherman there is a

great variety of wildlife indigenous to

Utah Bears raccoons coyotes wolves

mountain lions while none cleanly fit

the description of what was seen in the

tree on the night in March of 1997 or in

a few of the other incidents and the

Wilde's researchers doubtlessly

familiarize themselves with the local

fauna these creatures also weren't often

well observed in the incidents in which

the creatures were well observed like

the initial wolf incident the original

story has again been skewed the noise is

coming from underground are very

possibly geologic activity as was

reported about a century ago the ships

that were observed could very well have

been misidentifications of normal craft

although the reported behavior and

design differs remarkably from anything

known

for many other incidents alleged to have

taken place like the portal incident the

holes in the ground and a telepathy

incident it's difficult to explain these

as misidentifications of normal things

long story short conventional

explanations may explain some things but

they do struggle here even with regard

to the things that were observed by

multiple people

we must therefore ask could it in fact

be the case that forces and or entities

unknown to science are responsible for

what happened at Skinwalker Ranch after

all

we cannot completely rule it out

before we get into this however it

should be remembered that as I've

mentioned on here before the fact that a

situation cannot be explained with

conventional explanations does not mean

that the most exciting most unlikely

explanations suddenly take precedence

could there be a natural explanation for

the cattle mutilations in strange lights

which though unknown to science is much

more practical and less exciting than

aliens or skinwalkers certainly Kelleher

considered tectonic strains theory for

example although found it did not apply

again maybe this region has just the

right features to produce some kind of

very rare atmospheric or geological

phenomena that we don't really see

anywhere else for some unknown reason

however if many of the Witnesses are to

be believed there seems to have been a

kind of Consciousness orchestrating

these events what could this

Consciousness have been this too is

debated by those willing to speculate

this far this reads very much like a UFO

extraterrestrial incident but some

people include the possibility that

these could be Advanced humans or

extra-dimensional beings from our

perspective I suppose it's a dime's

worth of difference between a three

furthermore there also seems to be some

cryptozoology in here what were those

strange canines were they connected to

the purported aliens some people put

forward the possibility that the

Shermans were dealing with ghosts

because of what seems like Poltergeist

activity as a side note though people

use the term Poltergeist activity

without necessarily implying ghosts are

responsible that just refers to objects

being moved around in unusual

Supernatural ways other people point to

the initial Legends of the skinwalker

and the possible influence of black

magic in the area

how could we possibly determine which of

these to favor

some people put forward the idea that

they're each present and that these

things are interconnected somehow

another Ranch simply represents a hot

spot where these anomalies can enter our

world but while some see it as a

strength to the argument that something

unusual is happening here the fact that

a wide variety of things are reported in

the same spot could also be considered a

weakness the more things people see the

more likely it becomes the people are

seeing things ultimately though if these

events are all true and there was a

Consciousness behind them be it

skinwalkers

ET interdimensional beings or the US

military the big question to ask is what

were they doing

this kind of brings us to what I call

the interstellar Boogeyman Paradox back

in my video about Kelly Hopkinsville

this referred to the apparent

contradiction between the high level of

intelligence and complexity that one

would expect aliens to have to be able

to travel across Interstellar space with

relative ease and the lack of

intelligence they display once they're

here by the seemingly Mundane Pointless

and sometimes ridiculous things they do

seems to apply here as well however as

always the fact that we don't understand

a motive doesn't mean there isn't one or

that it's bad but it is still worth

questioning what interest does an

extraterrestrial or extra dimensional

civilization have in the Sherman's cows

why are aliens so obsessed with cows

speaking of cows it is interesting that

while animals were harmed humans were

not

was there a Consciousness whatever it

was that Drew a distinction between the

two did it simply avoid harming humans

because of the alarm it would cause

either way it still couldn't be said to

have been benevolent it routinely

harassed the Shermans and attacked their

livelihood to the point of driving them

off the property there are also claims

some of which are connected to the ranch

that interaction with these types of

phenomena seem to result in later health

problems

though the phenomena do not seem to have

disappeared with the arrival of the

researchers which is a very important

detail the strangeness did scale back a

bit when the researchers were present

Terry Mandy even Kelleher wondered if

the phenomenon became aware of their

presence and was masterful at revealing

itself to them without providing them

evidence of its existence as Salisbury

mentioned if there were an unknown

Consciousness Behind these events it

would surely be masterful enough to have

only revealed itself when it so desired

the lack of evidence would probably have

to be explained in this way for this

explanation to be true not having

evidence is the big problem of course no

matter what a proponent of the

supernatural phenomena hypothesis can

argue the skeptic can always point to

the lack of Hard Evidence and they have

a very fair point the lack of Hard

Evidence is an even more impactful

aspect when you remember that this place

has been professionally investigated

since 1996

26 years later investigation is still

ongoing

for all this frequent unbelievable

activity there is practically no

evidence to reinforce the claims that

there is something unknown to science

active on the ranch

it is not for lack of trying though

Terry apparently tried to collect

samples of things and photograph and

record phenomena but he seems to have

been consistently thwarted in his

efforts he isn't a professional

investigator though and in his words he

tried he can't be blamed too much

although I am curious where are the

photographs or footage of something like

the portal which he said he was able to

see for hours at a time

anyway regardless the main concern

really is that the professional

investigators couldn't obtain much

better

another problem why did Terry take over

a year to publicly report this that is

also suspicious however according to a

poll I did on my community tab most of

my viewers wouldn't immediately run off

and report a paranormal encounter to the

world either regardless there is

evidence from his conversations with

Junior Hicks who also visited the

property in 1994 For example that this

was occurring on the ranch as early as

he claimed it was well before he decided

to sell the ranch

finally it's worth noting there was a

degree of secrecy to the nids and ASAP

investigations Robert Bigelow and the

U.S government have a great degree of

information that they have not released

to the public we certainly do not know

everything that took place here could

Bigelow and a few others be a part of a

smaller group of people to know about

some sort of reality-shattering

information obtained from the ranch are

they simply unwilling to release this

information to a world which they feel

is unready for it

I doubt it Bigelow started nids with the

intention of investigating these kinds

of strange reports and bringing answers

to the public perhaps he was forced to

keep quiet about some things later on by

the government although I also doubt

that Bigelow is still publicly active in

efforts like this albeit with more Focus

these days on providing evidence for the

existence of the afterlife

whatever it is that we do and don't know

I think the fact that he sold the

property to Fugal in 2016 is to tell

that nids and these subsequent

investigations in which he was involved

didn't really produce much that he

considered valuable by the way as far as

I know Bigelow never saw anything on the

ranch himself

I know this presentation probably has

come off to Skeptics as tin foil hat

type stuff and what you might call

Believers as cynical closed-mindedness

this I think is because I try to argue

for each explanation as strongly as the

evidence warrants my takes may not

always be perfect but I do give my best

shot at giving each side a fair chance

because that's how I think it should be

done

we must not be pseudoscientists clinging

to exciting Fantastical explanations for

what's occurring in these types of cases

conversely we must also not be pseudo

Skeptics clinging to preconceived ideas

about how the universe works when the

frontiers of science make it blatantly

clear after all that

we don't actually understand all that

much about the universe

the bottom line regarding this case is

that there is no hard evidence of

anything existing or having existed on

the property that would challenge modern

scientific understanding of the universe

but it is noteworthy that it also is

difficult to dismiss the case with

conventional explanations perhaps there

really isn't much to this story perhaps

there was one something of extreme

significance but it has moved on from

this now heavily scrutinized area or

perhaps one day our understanding of the

universe will change on Skinwalker Ranch

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