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0:05The Navajo are a tribe of Native
0:07Americans whose earliest settlements lay
0:09in the southwestern United States,
0:12primarily in what are now the states of
0:14New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona. Along
0:17with their own ancient tribal war
0:19history, throughout the Pacific Island
0:21campaigns, Navajo men proudly fought
0:23alongside fellow Americans during the
0:25Second World War. The now famed Navajo
0:28code talkers and their unusual language
0:31was used to great effect for the
0:33encryption of American radio
0:35transmissions which confounded the
0:37Japanese cryptologists who intercepted
0:39them. But the Navajo people also speak
0:42about things which confound the rest of
0:45us.
0:49They tell stories about strange things
0:52that creep and crawl around the wild
0:55desert expanses and forests of the
0:58Americas.
0:59Legends which persist until the present
1:02day. One such popular Navajo legend is
1:06about evil witches, something the native
1:09people call ye nadloshi.
1:12With it he goes on all fours.
1:15Skinwalkers.
1:17Such a creature is considered half
1:18person and half animal. It starts as a
1:22medicine man or woman who once used
1:24their powers of healing for good, but
1:26for some reason they turn to evil, to
1:29murder, and to eating the flesh of their
1:32human victims. And so they are cursed.
1:36They are believed to be immortal. The
1:39only way to destroy one is to kill them
1:41in their animal form. Not only do skinw
1:44walkers bring pain and suffering to
1:47their victims, but they can crawl inside
1:49a person's mind and control them, they
1:52can make them hear things and see things
1:56that are not really there. Or so the
1:59legends go. But while the Navajo people
2:02continue to pass down stories about
2:04encounters their ancestors have had with
2:06these creatures, it seems there are more
2:08than a handful of American service
2:10members who, while out training in the
2:13field, have likewise come face to face
2:15with something they could not explain.
2:20Something that terrified them out of
2:21their wits.
2:23Something that looked like an animal but
2:26spoke like a human.
2:30This is the smoke pit and these are
2:34their stories about skinw walkers.
2:47Before we enter into the stories from
2:49our military service members, it might
2:51help our understanding of these
2:52creatures to hear one story that is told
2:55by the Navajo people. Modern times may
2:58have quelled these superstitious fears
2:59that many native people once held,
3:02always cautious of certain creatures,
3:04always on the lookout for skinw walkers.
3:07But it was once, if not still is, a very
3:10real fear. Navajo parents would warn
3:13their children that skinwalkers could
3:15look like anyone else during the day,
3:18then at night transforming into
3:19creatures with glowing eyes.
3:22Skinwalkers appear during the day, too,
3:25they said, waiting and watching for
3:28their victims. They could run like the
3:30wind and easily track down a person.
3:34One Arizona Navajo man tells us a story
3:36that took place about a 100 years ago.
3:40This man's name is Art Tracy Jr., and
3:42his story was published by fellow
3:44natives from the Panka and Tongva tribes
3:47in a book they subtitled Chilling
3:49American Indian Stories.
3:52As his mother relayed the story to him,
3:54in the 1920s or 30s, there was a Navajo
3:57man working as a ranch hand for a
4:00wealthier Navajo landowner somewhere
4:02around the western part of the Navajo
4:04reservation in Tuba City, Arizona. One
4:08day, he decided to ask his employer for
4:10a few days of leave to go and visit his
4:12family where they lived in New Mexico.
4:15Riding horseback through desert canyons,
4:17meases, and open range, he eventually
4:20stopped along his route to rest for a
4:22while. While paused, staring out at the
4:25desert expanse around him, he suddenly
4:27spotted an old mangy coyote sitting on
4:30top of a hill not too far away. The man
4:33pulled out his rifle, took aim, and
4:35fired, watching the coyote drop to the
4:38ground. He then walked over to inspect
4:40his kill.
4:42Reaching the top of the hill, he was
4:44shocked to find not the body of a
4:46coyote, but a young Navajo man with long
4:50hair, at least part of a young man. And
4:54he was dead.
4:56The top half of his body was human, the
4:59skin painted with designs, and his lower
5:02half that of an animal covered in the
5:05fur of a coyote.
5:08Now horrified, the man who shot him
5:10looked around, wondering what to do.
5:13Spotting a deep crevice along the
5:14canyon's edge, he dragged the creature's
5:16body to the cliff and hurled it over the
5:18edge. His fear growing, he then mounted
5:21back up and rode his horse near to
5:23death, riding even past nightfall,
5:26trying to put as much distance between
5:27himself, the creature, and the place
5:30where he killed it.
5:33Finally crossing the Chuska Mountains,
5:35he reached his relatives home just past
5:37Shiprock, New Mexico. After recounting
5:40his story to them, they too experienced
5:43an unnatural fear. "You must never go
5:46back to your employer," they told him.
5:48"You have to stay here. The relatives of
5:51the skinwalker will be looking for
5:53answers, and they'll be out looking for
5:57you.
6:04It stands to reason that a creature that
6:06takes the form of a wild animal would
6:08more than likely be encountered in the
6:11wild. It should be no coincidence, then
6:13that the majority of these following
6:14stories take place in the wild, unckempt
6:18regions of various military
6:19installations, what service members
6:21would call the field. After all,
6:24military bases are often built on the
6:26more undesirable expanses of undeveloped
6:29land, those which are often still
6:31covered in dense forests or vast
6:33expanses of unusable desert. These
6:36portions of land are therefore only
6:38differentiated from wildland by the long
6:41fence surrounding the base's perimeter,
6:43maybe with a mess of barbed wire
6:45adorning the top. But a fence only keeps
6:48out law- abiding people. Animals and
6:51unexplained creatures with a mind of
6:54their own will always find a way around
6:57such trivial man-made barriers. This
7:00first military encounter would seem to
7:03verify that.
7:06They agreed not to tell their commander.
7:12You got any plans for this weekend?
7:14Well, I'll probably go see that new
7:16Rocky movie.
7:17There's another Rocky movie coming out.
7:19Yeah.
7:19Who's he fighting this time? Apollo's
7:21Kids,
7:22huh? No. Some bastard or something
7:26Russian. I think that looks all right.
7:29All right. You mind if I come see it
7:31with you?
7:32The girl just dumped me.
7:33Oh, again?
7:34Yeah, I get. Oh, jeez.
7:37Hey, get Hey, get your hands up.
7:39Damn.
7:40Sir, old man, you scared the out of
7:43me. Sir, get your hands in the air.
7:46Get your hands up.
7:48Do you have any idea where you're at
7:49right now, old man? I
7:51think there's something wrong with him.
7:53Either he's deaf or he's got some sort
7:55of mental problem. Sir, get your hands
7:58in the air.
8:00Hey, go ahead and call this in.
8:02Yeah, let me get it.
8:05HQ, this is Rover one. Come in. Over.
8:11HQ, this is Rover One.
8:13The following account was submitted to
8:15the curators of the Paranormal Scholar
8:17website by Stacy C on behalf of her
8:20uncle Bob R. My uncle Bob was in the
8:24Army. Last Thanksgiving, he got drunk
8:26and told us all a story that shocked me.
8:29It was around 1985, and he was still new
8:32to the army, only being about 3 years
8:34in. He was on patrol duty on a base in
8:37Arizona. It was late and he and another
8:40guy were walking along the fence line.
8:43Bob and the other guy were focused on
8:44looking out beyond the fence outside the
8:47base when they heard a sound behind
8:49them. The sound came from the inside
8:52from their side of the fence. When they
8:54turned around, they saw an old man
8:56dressed in buckskin with long hair and
8:59braids. Bob described it as being so
9:02gray that it almost glowed in the
9:04moonlight. The man was standing
9:07approximately 30 ft behind them. Both
9:09men drew their weapons as the old man
9:11was in a restricted area with warning
9:13signs all over the place. They could
9:15have shot him if they'd wanted to, but
9:17neither my uncle Bob nor his buddy
9:19wanted to shoot an old man. They figured
9:21that he must have Alzheimer's and had
9:23wandered into the base or something.
9:25After all, he wasn't threatening them
9:27and he appeared harmless. The men
9:29shouted to the old man, telling him he
9:31was in a restricted area and that he
9:34needed to put his hands in the air. Bob
9:36thought they'd walk him back to post and
9:38then call the local police department
9:39who would be able to get him back home.
9:42Bob tried to call in a report, but it
9:44was just static.
9:45Asking his friend to help, both he and
9:47Bob turned to tinker with the radio.
9:50Although they only looked away for half
9:52a second to quote my uncle,
9:54when they turned back,
9:56the old man was gone. Sir,
9:58in his place was a massive rabbit just
10:02sitting there watching them.
10:05That's what he said. That when he and
10:07his partner looked back up,
10:08the man had disappeared and there was
10:10this large rabbit sitting in his place.
10:13Sir,
10:14both men looked around, right, to left
10:16and back again to see where the old man
10:17had wandered off to,
10:19but he was nowhere to be seen.
10:21In that time, the rabbit took off
10:23towards the fence.
10:25Then again, they heard a noise behind
10:27them. And when they turned around, the
10:29same as last time, the old man was
10:31there.
10:32This time, however, he was now on the
10:35outside of the fence.
10:36How did he get over the fence?
10:38The fence was a good 8 to 10 ft tall.
10:40There was no way this old man could have
10:42jumped it
10:43to hell with this.
10:44Bob described how that sent him and his
10:47buddy off running, and they agreed not
10:50to tell their commander.
10:53Keep in mind that my uncle was drunk,
10:55but despite over 30 years having passed
10:58since that night, he still looked scared
11:01as hell when he told us that he had seen
11:05a skinw walker.
11:14Although Stacy doesn't mention the name
11:16of the base where her uncle's story took
11:18place, I was curious if the base in
11:20question might be rather obvious.
11:23Arizona has several military bases,
11:26three of which are army. Yuma proving
11:29grounds on the western border with
11:30California, Fort Wuka near the southern
11:33border with Mexico,
11:35and Camp Navajo which is up north near
11:39Flagstaff.
11:41Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that
11:43her uncle was stationed at the third
11:45one? The base was formerly named Navajo
11:48Army Depot in the early 80s and was and
11:51is still used as a munitions storage
11:54facility. Definitely seems like the kind
11:57of base that would call for routine
11:58perimeter fence patrols to ensure that
12:01no one unauthorized is entering into the
12:03base to steal something or cause damage.
12:06And as the name would indicate, the land
12:09it occupies lies very close to what
12:11remains of the Navajo's land and was
12:14undoubtedly occupied by the Navajo
12:16people in previous generations.
12:25Skinwalker guns.
12:31The following story comes from an
12:33unnamed Marine who spent time training
12:35in a desert wasteland that is otherwise
12:38known as Marine Corps base Camp
12:39Pendleton in Southern California. He
12:42submitted this story to Nick Orton who
12:44runs the Tales from the Grid Square
12:46project. I've personally spent quite a
12:48bit of time roaming the desert on that
12:50base, both day and night. Plenty of wild
12:53animals that a marine can run across at
12:54any time. There's rabbits, mice, deer,
12:57skunks, coyotes, few bobcats, quail,
13:01roadrunners, hawks, owls, and the more
13:04dangerous animals like the odd buffalo,
13:06rattlesnakes coiled around the base of
13:08shrubs, and even one marine in my group
13:10that was stalked during a nightand
13:12navigation course by a mountain lion.
13:16I've otherwise had my share of strange
13:17hallucinations out there, probably due
13:19to sleep deprivation and the mesmerizing
13:22effect of the green tinted night vision
13:24goggles, but to my knowledge, I'm the
13:26only one who saw those things. Whatever
13:29this marine and his buddies saw would
13:31arguably creep anybody out. He writes,
13:36"My squad's name is Skinwalkers, and
13:39there's a story behind it. A little over
13:41a year ago, we had a division level
13:43exercise called Steel Knight. My gun
13:46squad was attached to a platoon in a
13:48defense position above the Camp Horno
13:50combat town. While we were out there,
13:52one of my buddies told me how he had
13:54seen this skinwalker when he was
13:56younger. It creeped us all out when he
13:59said it was still following him to this
14:02day. We only had one boot in our squad,
14:05a marine just out of boot camp, I mean.
14:07So, me and my buddy took an hour of gun
14:09watch. So, my boot could get a little
14:11sleep. But instead of sleeping, it's 30
14:14minutes into this watch shift. So, maybe
14:16around 0130, give or take. And this boot
14:19keeps saying he's hearing weird noises
14:21like the sound that the predator makes,
14:24but says it sounds faster and louder.
14:28My other buddy that told us he had seen
14:29a skinwalker when he was younger, he
14:32then tells us that the one he saw made
14:34that same noise. So that freaks us out
14:38and we get real quiet and start
14:40listening for whatever this noise is.
14:43Sure enough, we hear it. This strange
14:46sound along with a screech and rustling
14:49in the brush that's coming from down the
14:52front side of the hill.
14:53I see something.
14:53We had a 13 Golf on the gun, which is a
14:55thermal optic. And I looked down the
14:57hill and saw this deer looking thing,
15:01but it was standing on two legs.
15:03What the hell is this? As soon as I
15:05caught sight of it, it then ran straight
15:07up the hill past our defense on the
15:08right flank.
15:10And then it dropped back down on all
15:11four legs and
15:13disappeared down the back side of this
15:15hill. My buddy Rick had a skeer, which
15:18is another type of thermal
15:20and he saw that thing, too. Since then,
15:23we came up with the name Skinwalker guns
15:25since we just say that's what it was and
15:28embrace it. And that's how our squad
15:31name came to be.
15:39Now, I'm not one to knock a good story,
15:41but I have seen deer stand up on their
15:43hind legs and walk. Usually when two
15:46bucks are fighting or some other
15:47instance where one deer is showing signs
15:50of aggression, possibly trying to reach
15:53the lower branches of a tree to eat the
15:55leaves. I've never seen one that made
15:57predator noises run up a hill before.
16:00Nor did I see it through thermals in the
16:02dead of night after one of my buddies
16:04had just told me a skinwalker story. All
16:07of that happening at the same time would
16:08make for a creepy experience in any
16:10case, but the following stories are not
16:13so easy to offer a rational explanation
16:16for.
16:17[Music]
16:21Hello.
16:22Tries to break right towards the nose of
16:25the plane and not jump.
16:27So jump master sees him going right and
16:30says, "Nope."
16:32He he reaches up, he grabs the overhead
16:34and then donkey kicks his ass right out
16:37the door.
16:39dude, I got I got out right after him
16:41and he is screaming
16:43the whole way.
16:48What a blue blazes mountain line sounds
16:52a hell of a lot
16:55more like a woman.
16:58This next account comes from an unnamed
17:00soldier who was likely a member of the
17:02California National Guard and was
17:04serving on a security detail during a
17:07massive wildfire. The Dixie fire of 2021
17:11was the single largest wildfire recorded
17:14in California history. It burned nearly
17:17a million acres of land and destroyed
17:19multiple communities in the area. And
17:21with the rapid spread and size of the
17:23growing fire, it would seem the
17:25California Guard was assisting local
17:27authorities in blocking roads,
17:29preventing civilians from driving into
17:31areas that were burning or were in the
17:33direct path of the fire. The fire
17:36undoubtedly disrupted a vast amount of
17:38wildlife in the area. But for this
17:40soldier and his group, they appear to
17:43have encountered something in the
17:45forest, that was in and of itself
17:48disturbing.
17:50He writes, "This happened during the
17:522021 Dixie fire in Northcow. My
17:55lieutenant, our driver, PFC Bravo, and
17:58myself were driving around making the
18:00rounds and checking on all our guys out
18:02at their checkpoints. We got to one
18:05where our guys were blocking a road and
18:07they had one of those generator lights.
18:09So, we stopped for a bit and we're all
18:11just standing around talking and making
18:13conversation
18:14when we started hearing a woman
18:16screaming. Startled the hell out of all
18:19six of us. My LT and I ready up our
18:22weapons as we take a few steps towards
18:24the woodline. We had been told that if
18:27we hear a woman screaming, it's usually
18:29a mountain lion attacking a deer or
18:32something like that, but this sounded
18:35close. And honestly,
18:38it just sounded too much like a woman
18:41screaming.
18:42So my LT yells out, "Hello."
18:48And I you not in his same exact
18:52voice. We hear back,
18:55"Hello."
18:57What the hell? Everybody back in the
18:59truck.
18:59This wasn't an echo at all. It came
19:02clear as day from the direction we heard
19:04the screaming. and it was his exact
19:07voice.
19:09We all immediately said, "Screw that."
19:12My crew and I got back in the truck and
19:14nope the hell out of there. After
19:16telling Specialist Sierra and his crew
19:18to stay in the truck and to combat lock
19:21all their doors.
19:24Pretty sure a skinwalker was out there
19:25trying to get one of us.
19:28Creepy as hell.
19:34[Music]
19:36As I mentioned earlier, these last few
19:38stories were shared with me by Nick
19:39Orton, a man who is currently serving in
19:41the US Army and has dedicated much of
19:44his free time to gathering these kinds
19:45of short and often spine- chilling
19:48stories from his fellow service members
19:50and veterans. If you haven't checked out
19:52his work yet, you are missing out on
19:54some creepy and fascinating stuff. And
19:57heads up, he's got a second book out
19:58now, Tales from the Grid Square, Volume
20:012. Combined, these two books account for
20:04nearly 500 bizarre reports from
20:06soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and
20:09coast guardsmen, as well as service
20:11members from foreign militaries. For me,
20:14there is just something both intriguing
20:16and yet highly unnerving when reading
20:19the accounts of dozens and dozens of
20:22servicemen and women from around the
20:24world who have never met each other. And
20:26yet, like these stories, they all report
20:29having these eerily similar and yet
20:33highly bizarre experiences during their
20:36time in the military. You can find
20:38Nick's books by following the links in
20:40the description section of this video,
20:42the link at the top of the screen here,
20:44or by searching for the books on Amazon.
20:47With that, here is one final skinwalker
20:50story from his collection, another
20:52unexplained tale from the grid square.
21:00I know you're there.
21:0821
21:11card for a parking problem.
21:20Here goes the radio.
21:23Considering the man telling this story
21:24has Navajo blood, I thought it might tie
21:27up these encounter stories nicely. Not
21:30to mention that his is by far one of the
21:33most bizarre.
21:34Another military police officer out on
21:37night shift seeing terrifying things in
21:41the woods. He writes,
21:45"I'm an MP at Quantico, and there's
21:47definitely been a couple of weird things
21:49I've seen on nights patrolling Westside.
21:52So, I've been at Quanico for about 2
21:54years as an MP. For those that don't
21:57know about Quanico, it's set up with two
21:59sides. Main side, where everything is,
22:01east of Interstate 95, and the
22:04appropriately named West Side, where
22:06they do TBS, the basic school for
22:08officers, and all the ranges. West Side
22:11is pretty damn massive. Like, I'm
22:14talking it would take two to three hours
22:15to drive around it. And it has all of
22:18these unused back roads and old
22:20cemeteries from homesteads dotting the
22:23landscape. Plenty of forgotten training
22:25areas, too, dating back to World War II.
22:28When I was on night shift, I always
22:30asked to be the roving unit out there
22:32cuz it would give me a chance to scout
22:34out places to hunt or fish on my off
22:36days. And being the only unit out there
22:39and being left alone was pretty nice to
22:42just skate or, you know, do my own thing
22:44over my 10-hour shift. Now, I'm not a
22:47stranger to the woods or to the outdoors
22:49or anything. I grew up running around
22:51the mountains for quail and deer in
22:53Southern California as a kid and spent a
22:56ton of nights out camping by myself in
22:58my teens. So, there's really not much
23:00out there in nature that freaks me out.
23:03But one night in about November, when
23:06the nights get really dark real fast, I
23:09was done posting Marines out on the
23:11gates and was heading up to a far-off
23:13training area. I had my tree stand and
23:16trail camera that I previously set up
23:18and wanted to go take a look to see if
23:20anything had been around. To get there,
23:22you have to drive about 30 minutes up
23:24one road and then another 15 until you
23:27hit a long dirt road that dissects that
23:30part of the base in half. And in this
23:32particular area, comms always sucks. So
23:35without a working radio, you're pretty
23:37much out there on your own. I parked my
23:40Durango on the offshoot. I grabbed my
23:42flashlight and started off heading into
23:45this creek bottom about a mile or so off
23:47the road. I've done this a ton of time,
23:49so I got there pretty fast. I grabbed
23:51the chip out of my trail cam and I hop
23:53up into my treeand to take a look at it
23:55and to kill some time. And not even 5
23:59minutes into flipping through pictures,
24:00most of which were of just some turkey
24:03that were hanging around, I hear
24:05someone, and I say someone because I
24:08thought it was a person, walking through
24:10the woods about 30 yards in front of me.
24:14Now, this is like the middle of the
24:15night on a training base, so a
24:18lieutenant who got lost doing nightland
24:20nav isn't out of the question. So, I'm
24:23thinking maybe this is my chance to mess
24:25with them from up in my stand. I quickly
24:27close my laptop and I turn off my
24:29flashlight and I I try looking out to
24:32see where they were and I hear them walk
24:35closer and closer and then stop about 20
24:39yards in front of me. And at that point,
24:42with the illum being fairly bright that
24:44night, I could make out the outline of
24:46what looked like a deer, which was kind
24:49of disappointing. So, I just stayed
24:52quiet to watch where he was heading so I
24:55wouldn't spook him.
24:58And all of a sudden, this thing starts
25:00bashing its head against a tree over and
25:04over and over and over until its entire
25:09skull cap was crushed and it was leaking
25:12blood and brain matter.
25:15Then this effing thing stands up on its
25:18hind legs and turns towards me as though
25:21it was staring directly at me, even with
25:25its eyes being clearly now useless.
25:30And then it spoke
25:32in the clearest tone I have ever heard
25:35in my life.
25:36I know you're there.
25:39My stomach dropped
25:44and I I was too frozen in fear to even
25:46think to draw my pistol. But then, as
25:50quickly as it had walked up, this thing
25:53dropped back down onto all fours
25:57and walked away.
26:01I waited about 10 minutes,
26:04shaking like a leaf, trying to calm down
26:09before
26:11I I left my laptop. I left everything. I
26:14just hauled ass out of there, got out of
26:15my stand, ran back to my patrol car, and
26:20I grabbed my shotgun,
26:22and I sat for the rest of the night in
26:26the lit parking lot of the MCX.
26:38It took about a month before I summed up
26:41the courage to go back uh grab my laptop
26:44and stuff I'd left there.
26:47And I went with a friend who I didn't
26:49tell what had happened, but I told him
26:51to bring his long gun as well.
26:54When I got there, I grabbed my stuff and
26:56I looked towards where the thing had
26:59been.
27:00And the tree was busted up with
27:02splinters everywhere and what looked
27:05like, you know, the bone fragments and
27:08and the mess, the blood scattered on the
27:11ground.
27:13Needless to say,
27:15I don't go out checking stuff in the
27:16middle of the night anymore, and I hunt
27:19on the complete opposite side of the
27:21base.
27:22And anytime I do need to go by there
27:24now, I always take a shotgun in
27:26condition one.
27:29I told my Navajo grandpa about this
27:32and he told me not to speak about it,
27:35but clearly uh I don't listen. Well, it
27:39it freaked the hell out of me. Got me so
27:42messed up to the point where I really
27:46I don't even like going in the woods
27:48anymore.
28:00As I say, I've seen deer do strange
28:03things, but talk.
28:08While the idea seems completely
28:10ludicrous.
28:12Navajo legend does say that skinw
28:14walkers possess the ability to enter a
28:18person's mind and make them hear and see
28:22things that aren't really there.
28:26So perhaps the voice he heard was only
28:29inside his own mind. It's no less
28:32terrifying either way.
28:35As for the animals strange behavior, if
28:37it indeed was just an animal, I found at
28:40least one more account online where a
28:43young man recalled seeing this kind of
28:46behavior while hunting with his
28:48grandfather. No idea where it took
28:50place, but the two men apparently
28:53watched a deer slam its head repeatedly
28:56into a rock until its antlers and skull
28:59were shattered. The animal then clumsily
29:02licking its own brain matter off of the
29:05rock before standing upright like a
29:09human, he said,
29:11and then walking into the nearby river
29:14and drowning itself.
29:17Both the young man and his grandfather
29:19were also terrified by the experience.
29:22It likewise kept them from wanting to
29:24return to the woods. And quite
29:27strangely, the story ends with the young
29:28man saying his grandfather moved to
29:31Florida shortly afterward for what he
29:35put in quotes as safety reasons. He
29:38makes no mention about having any
29:40suspicions about what this animal was
29:43other than just being a deer, acting
29:46strangely, but it does make you wonder
29:48what about the animals behavior by
29:50itself would have scared them so badly.
29:55Strange as it may seem, these are only a
29:57handful of the available skinwalker
29:59stories we have left to share. It would
30:02seem another particular Marine Corps
30:03installation in California likewise has
30:07no small amount of reported encounters
30:09with strange creatures roaming the
30:12desert backlands. And with all of the
30:15artifacts that have been found in the
30:17area, it would seem that the
30:19installation 29 Palms appears to have
30:22been built on what was once tribal land,
30:26a place where native people once
30:29undoubtedly lived and died,
30:32and quite possibly practiced
30:35dark magic.
30:38[Music]
30:47[Applause]
30:57Hey guys, thanks for sticking around for
30:59the credits. This video is being
31:01released just before Halloween of this
31:03year, so stay safe out there if you're
31:05going out with the kids. Otherwise, I
31:07don't have much to add here since I gave
31:09most of my own commentary during the
31:11episode, but one thing I did want to
31:13mention was about a man named Wally
31:15Brown. Wall-ally was born in New Mexico
31:18and his family can date their Navajo
31:20lineage back more than something like
31:22500 years. The Navajo more often refer
31:25to themselves as the Da, which simply
31:28translates to the people. His
31:31grandfather was a medicine man. And so
31:33from a young age, Wall-Ally's parents
31:35and tribal elders apparently saw that
31:37their son would also, you know, he had
31:39the traits to also become a great
31:41medicine man. And so Wall-E began
31:43training and participating in
31:45traditional Navajo ceremonies from a
31:47young age. Uh Wall-E and his family
31:49continue to maintain these traditions
31:51and have dedicated their lives to
31:53teaching others about them. And so in
31:56one of his videos, he has a YouTube
31:57channel, the Navajo Traditional
31:59Teachings YouTube channel. And in one of
32:01these videos, Wall-E speaks at length,
32:04albeit somewhat grudgingly due to the
32:06topic being very dark, about the Navajo
32:10people's traditional beliefs in the
32:11relationships between skinwalkers,
32:15demons, and what he referred to as the
32:18evil one. So, if you wanted to learn
32:21more about the strange, dark, and
32:22mysterious side of Navajo legends
32:24straight from him, or learn more about
32:26the Navajo people, I'd recommend
32:28checking out his channel. But while
32:30watching his videos during the research
32:32for this episode, I couldn't help but to
32:35notice that along with his handmade
32:37walking stick, his traditional headwear,
32:39and a turquoise necklace, Wall-E always
32:42wears a particular medallion around his
32:45neck, which bears an eagle globe and
32:48anchor and proudly displays the words
32:50United States Marine Corps. A quick bit
32:54of research told me that Wall-Ally
32:55himself, along with being a Navajo
32:57medicine man who is unbelievably
32:59well-versed in his people's ancient
33:01traditional teachings, he is also a
33:03Marine Corps veteran, having served in
33:06the 1960s. Um, it from what I gather, he
33:09never actually deployed to Vietnam, but
33:10remained states side. And from his own
33:13account, he said that he witnessed
33:15firsthand the hell of PTSD. And so in
33:19treating these wounded Marines in
33:21whatever his occupation was, uh, he
33:23tried to apply a lot of these Navajo
33:26medicine teachings, whether it be the
33:28chanting, prayers, uh, healing
33:31ceremonies that he would use to try to
33:33bring these wounded men back, their
33:35minds back to a state of of calm. So, I
33:38know a lot of his buddies went to
33:39Vietnam, but I'm not sure if he did. I
33:41don't think he did. Uh but anyway, from
33:43one Marine to another, I just wanted to
33:45acknowledge my sincere appreciation for
33:48his work and for sharing the Navajo
33:51peoples and his own incredible legacy
33:54with the rest of us. Um, of course, I
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34:34Overseas bases that I've been to um
34:37where I got to visit some really unique
34:40creepy places.
34:41There was I Yeah, you get that sense
34:43after doing all these stories that
34:44anywhere that there has been a lot of
34:47chaos and and violent death
34:49particularly. I I really
34:50Yeah. It's like those emotions like just
34:52kind of get locked in the environment in
34:54some strange way when they're that
34:56intense where the to the point where
34:57that person's losing their life.
34:59Yeah.
35:00That seems to have an effect on the
35:02environment. Right.
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