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0:07From UFOs, wormholes, and cryptids to
0:10cattle mutilations and polterists, a
0:13remote property in northern Utah has
0:15been described as a Disneyland of
0:17paranormal and supernatural phenomena. A
0:20case that has turned the heads of even
0:22some of the most ardent of skeptics.
0:25We recount the tales from Skinwalker
0:28Ranch.
0:34[Music]
1:18It has been said that Utah, particularly
1:21northern Utah in the Uint basin, is one
1:24of the most active Paranormal and
1:26supernatural hotspots on the planet.
1:28Everything from unidentified lights in
1:30the sky to weird humanoid figures and
1:33even Bigfoot have been spotted in the
1:35region. It has a long history of high
1:38stranges, accounts which date back to
1:41the earliest of human settlements.
1:43Three out of every four people in this
1:45part of the state have experienced
1:47something out of the ordinary. And for
1:49many others just passing through, there
1:51is a palpable feeling that those dusty
1:54roads and bleak landscapes hide
1:56something of a dark secret.
1:59Much of the strange activity is
2:00concentrated in and around the basin.
2:03But some believe that within that radius
2:05there is an epicenter from which all
2:07these bizarre phenomena seem to
2:09manifest. A beautiful 480 acre ranch
2:13situated about 100 mi due east of Salt
2:15Lake City.
2:17As with any other acreage, it
2:19traditionally adopts the name of the
2:21current owner, but over time it has come
2:24to be known by another.
2:27The youths believed this ranch to be the
2:29focal point of a curse placed on them by
2:31the Navajo. Tribe members were and still
2:34are forbidden from setting foot on this
2:36land as they believe it to be in the
2:39path of the skinwalker.
2:42For this reason, it became known to the
2:44locals as Skinwalker Ranch.
2:48Throughout the latter half of the 20th
2:50century, Skinwalker Ranch was owned by a
2:53family which has long remained anonymous
2:55in this mysterious saga. For reasons
2:58unknown, they suddenly and inexplicably
3:01vacated the property in 1987,
3:04leaving it empty and unattended for more
3:06than 7 years.
3:08That was until 1994 when it was
3:11purchased by Terry and Gwen Sherman.
3:14Along with their two children, the
3:16couple believed that they had found
3:17their dream home. The remote property
3:20was bordered to the north by a high
3:22ridge which overlooked its sprawling
3:24green pastures, wild thickets of
3:26woodland, and its flowing creek to the
3:28south. The entire estate exuded an
3:31almost tranquil beauty that was not lost
3:33on the Sherman family. Terry was a
3:36high-end cattle breeder, and he hoped
3:38that the ranch would provide the space,
3:40privacy, and security he needed to take
3:43what was not only his hobby, but his
3:45livelihood to the next level.
3:48He had bought the ranch for an extremely
3:50favorable price, far less than what it
3:52was worth. And when he signed the
3:55paperwork, he accepted the deeds with an
3:57excited, disbelieving look in his eyes.
4:00What he now held in the palm of his hand
4:02was his ambition, his prospects, his
4:06dream. He could not have known that the
4:08land he had just purchased would almost
4:10destroy him, not just financially, but
4:14also psychologically.
4:17When they had first viewed the property,
4:19Terry and Gwen had found the main
4:21homestead in a state of disrepair, which
4:23of course they had anticipated given the
4:26length of time it had stood empty. What
4:28they did not expect to find, however,
4:30was the sheer amount of dead bolts
4:32securing the home. Not just on the front
4:34and back doors, but on interior doors
4:37and all of the windows, too. At the
4:39front and rear entrances, they also
4:41found heavyduty chains attached to huge
4:44metal rungs, which were embedded into
4:46the walls. It didn't take a genius to
4:49work out that these had been used to
4:50chain large, powerful guard dogs in
4:52place.
4:54Although slightly unsettled by these
4:55peculiarities,
4:57Terry and Gwen dismissed them, believing
4:59that the elderly couple who owned the
5:01ranch before them had been paranoid and
5:03overprotective.
5:04They had seemed rather eccentric after
5:06all. In the real estate contract, they
5:09had inserted a number of unusual
5:11clauses. For instance, the Shermans were
5:14not permitted to dig on the land without
5:16prior approval from the previous owners.
5:19These irregularities were overlooked by
5:21the family, but somewhere in the back of
5:23Terry's mind. He could not help
5:25wondering what had spooked them to the
5:27point of installing this level of
5:29security. In time, of course, he would
5:32come to understand that this idyllic,
5:34stunning acreage was haunting in more
5:36ways than just its serene beauty. And in
5:39fact, the weirdness began almost
5:42straight away.
5:45On the first day of moving in, the
5:47Sherman family were unloading a truck in
5:49front of their new home when they
5:51spotted something on the far side of the
5:52pasture to the south. As it closed the
5:55distance, they could see that it was a
5:57wolf, which was loping gracefully
5:59towards them in a series of s turns.
6:02This immediately set Terry on guard. But
6:05it wasn't just the presence of the wolf
6:06that concerned him. Scaling it against
6:09distant fence posts and bushes, he could
6:12see that this animal was at least three
6:14times the size of an average wolf. But
6:16its behavior was oddly disarming. It
6:19seemed nonchulant, friendly even rather
6:21than aggressive, slowing down and then
6:24stopping about 50 yards away. It sniffed
6:27the air and gazed at the family with
6:29intelligent, piercing blue eyes before
6:31continuing on, casually padding towards
6:33them without a care in the world. It
6:36seemed entirely tame.
6:38It wagged its tail as it approached, and
6:41Terry's father, who had been helping
6:43unload the truck, bravely reached out to
6:45stroke the huge beast. Sherman Senior
6:48stood over 6 ft tall, and even though he
6:51was a big man, its head easily came up
6:54to the top of his shoulder.
6:56It quickly became clear that despite the
6:58wolf's intimidating size and appearance,
7:01it meant no harm. The rest of the family
7:04relaxed and walked over to greet their
7:06strange visitor.
7:07Maybe it's somebody's pet," Terry
7:09ventured, glancing nervously at the
7:11corral about 70 ft to his left, and
7:14wondering if it had been wise to move
7:15some of his herd onto the ranch so soon.
7:18Inside of the pen stood four of his
7:20breeding cows and as many calves. They
7:23were all clearly troubled by the wolf's
7:25presence, except for one curious
7:28youngster, which was sticking its head
7:30out between the metal bars, watching the
7:32scene unfold.
7:34Almost as soon as Terry had realized the
7:36danger, the wolf had bounded across the
7:38short distance and now had its huge jaws
7:41clamped around the cal's head. The young
7:43cow bleeded and thrashed wildly as the
7:45wolf tried to drag it out of the pen.
7:48Terry grabbed an axe handle from the
7:49back of his truck and rushed over,
7:51beating the huge animals flanks and
7:53kicking at its hind legs, but the wolf
7:55paid no attention and refused to let go.
7:59"Get my magnum!" he shouted. His son ran
8:02across to the truck, grabbed a 357 from
8:05the cabin, and handed it to his father.
8:08Terry quickly fired a shot at the wolf's
8:10abdomen, which rang out across the empty
8:12pasture, but it had no effect. The huge
8:17animal did not react in any way. It did
8:19not stagger or yelp. It did not even
8:22flinch. It simply continued to ravage
8:25the poor calf. In his desperation, Terry
8:29fired again. Still, the gun had no
8:31effect. After a third shot, however, the
8:35wolf slowly released its grip and backed
8:37off about 10 ft.
8:39The rancher could not believe his eyes.
8:42Very few animals could have survived
8:43three shots from a .357 Magnum at point
8:46blank range, but this wolf was somehow
8:49not even wounded. There was no blood
8:51anywhere on its coat.
8:54Finally, he took a fourth shot right at
8:56the animal's heart, and it retreated
8:58another 30 ft.
9:00There was something incredibly unnerving
9:02about the way it just stood there with
9:03an unconcerned look, contemplating
9:06whether to attack the car for a second
9:08time. Terry sensed this and shouted at
9:11his son to get his 306 rifle from the
9:14house, which he did within a matter of
9:16seconds. The wolf remained perfectly
9:18still as he took aim with the heavier
9:20firearm, and he almost felt sorry for
9:22the poor beast. A deafening shot echoed
9:25across the wilderness as he pulled the
9:27trigger. And in that moment, he knew
9:29he'd hit his target. But instead of
9:32collapsing to the ground in a heap, as
9:34it should have done, the wolf simply
9:35withdrew another 2 yard and stood
9:38looking at an increasingly unsettled
9:40Terry. He quickly took another shot, and
9:43this time he saw a chunk of flesh
9:45detached from the animal, but even this
9:47did not put it down.
9:49The wolf took a last unhurried look at
9:51the calf, then turned and trotted back
9:54in the direction it came from. Terry was
9:57dumbfounded. He knew he could not allow
10:00a large predator to remain on his land
10:01if he intended to breed cattle, so he
10:04called to his teenage son, and the two
10:06of them proceeded to go after it. They
10:09must have followed the wolf for about
10:10half an hour, catching glimpses of it as
10:13it ran to the south between patches of
10:14cottonwoods and other trees. The tracks
10:17led them through a cops of Russian
10:19olives, the other side of which was the
10:21creek. And emerging from the trees, they
10:24found themselves on a wide open mudbank.
10:27They could clearly see the wolf's paw
10:28prints and immediately began to follow
10:30them, but the tracks abruptly stopped
10:33about 40 yard from the water's edge.
10:36Terry and his son could not believe
10:37their eyes. They were standing in a wide
10:40open expanse of soden mud. Yet, the paw
10:42prince ended right in the middle of the
10:44bank. The wolf would have had to have
10:46left an impossible 40 or 50 yards in
10:49either direction to avoid leaving any
10:51more tracks. It had seemingly vanished
10:54into thin air.
10:57Returning to the homestead, Terry
10:59happened to pick up the piece of flesh
11:01that had detached from the animal. He
11:03noted that rather than being fresh and
11:05covered in blood, it looked and smelled
11:07rotten, as though it had been left out
11:10in the sun for a few days.
11:12In quiet contemplation, he turned his
11:15head south and looked out over the
11:17pasture towards the horizon, wondering
11:20what on earth had just happened.
11:23That was the first day. The next few
11:26weeks were relatively normal, except for
11:28a few strange occurrences which happened
11:30around the homestead, all targeted
11:33towards Gwen. She didn't report any of
11:35these things to her husband at first, as
11:38she genuinely thought she was losing her
11:40mind. For instance, she would come home
11:43from shopping, unpack the groceries, and
11:45put them away, and then leave the room
11:47to attend to something else. Moments
11:50later, she would return to the kitchen
11:52and find the groceries all back in the
11:54bags, as if she had never unpacked them.
11:57In other occurrences, she would go to
12:00have her customary morning shower.
12:02Locking the door behind her, she would
12:04place her towel and hairbrush on the
12:06side. When she finished, she would step
12:09out of the shower only to find her towel
12:11and hairbrush missing. They would
12:13disappear. A few hours later, she would
12:16find them in some random location
12:18elsewhere in the house. Things continued
12:21like this for some time, and Gwen was
12:23getting increasingly worried about her
12:25memory. That was until Terry came in one
12:28evening demanding to know who had taken
12:30his post digger. He had been using it to
12:32repair a fence in the pasture and had
12:35turned away for a few moments. When he
12:37turned back, it had gone. Gwen explained
12:41that she and the children had been in
12:42the house all evening and proceeded to
12:44help him search for it. However, it was
12:47nowhere to be seen. A few weeks later,
12:50it was found hanging in a tree on the
12:52other side of the ranch, 70 ft off the
12:55ground, which was odd considering that
12:57this piece of equipment weighed over 70
12:59lb.
13:01By this time, the Shermans were
13:03beginning to suspect that something was
13:05not quite right about the property they
13:07had bought. About a week before they
13:10rediscovered the post digger, a nephew
13:12came to stay with them, and Terry
13:14decided to take the youngster on a tour
13:15of the ranch. His son also accompanied
13:18them, and it was well after sunset when
13:20they decided to return to the homestead.
13:23A few hundred yards ahead, Terry noticed
13:26a set of headlights moving along a
13:27distant fence line well within the
13:29boundaries of his property.
13:32He had seen these lights before and had
13:34assumed that someone had taken a wrong
13:35turn off the road to the east. But now
13:38seeing them again, he suspected that
13:41these people, whoever they were, were
13:43hunting on his land without permission.
13:46He decided that he would confront them
13:48and immediately began marching in their
13:50direction. But as he picked up the pace,
13:53the lights began to move away from him.
13:56His brisk walk turned into a jog. And as
13:59the boys followed suit, he began to
14:01wonder why there was no engine sound.
14:04They had gotten to within a 100 yards
14:06when the lights suddenly lifted off the
14:08ground and floated up over some distant
14:10treetops.
14:12Terry and the boys stopped dead in their
14:14tracks, shocked by what they were
14:16seeing. The lights silently continued on
14:19their course before disappearing out of
14:21sight.
14:23During the autumn, these lights became a
14:25frequent occurrence, especially as Terry
14:28began transporting his prize Simmonl and
14:30Angus cattle onto the ranch. The
14:32activity seemed to escalate with the
14:34arrival of his high-end livestock, and
14:36this is when things started to turn
14:38serious.
14:40As the winter months rolled in, severe
14:42snowstorms battered the region, and
14:44Terry found himself out at all hours,
14:47rounding up cattle that had wandered too
14:48far astray.
14:50One late evening, he was out on
14:52horseback searching for one of his prize
14:54Angus cows that had been missing for
14:56almost 24 hours. He had covered the
14:59whole ranch except for a dense area of
15:01woodland to the southwest, which he was
15:04now heading towards. As he approached
15:06the large outcropping of trees, he was
15:09relieved to see the unmistakable
15:10impressions of hoof prints in the deep
15:12snow, and he now knew that it was only a
15:14matter of time before he located the
15:16animal. He paused briefly as he
15:18considered the tracks. From the spacing,
15:21he determined that she had been running
15:23at full tilt as she had entered the
15:24treeine. This was odd behavior for a
15:27cow, especially during a snowstorm,
15:30unless she had been running from
15:31something. But what? Although it was
15:35unlikely for a predator to be hunting
15:36during this weather, it wasn't
15:38impossible, but he could see only one
15:40set of tracks. He followed the hoof
15:43prints for 20 yards into the trees and
15:45soon reached a wide clearing. The tracks
15:48continued out into the middle of the
15:50open space and then stopped dead. The
15:54cow was nowhere to be seen.
15:56A cold chill ran down his spine as he
15:58recalled how the wolf's tracks had
16:00stopped in a similar fashion, as if the
16:02animal had disappeared or had been
16:04sucked up into the air. He searched for
16:07a while longer, but began to lose hope.
16:10In the end, he turned back towards the
16:12homestead with a heavy heart. The only
16:15thing Terry loved more than his cattle
16:17was his family. And to lose a single cow
16:20or bull was not only financially
16:22devastating, it was also heartbreaking.
16:25He had a profound sense of pride in the
16:27breeding and rearing of each of his
16:28animals.
16:30Over the course of the winter, four more
16:33of his prized cows and bulls would
16:34disappear in a similar fashion. Terry
16:37began to spend many nights outdoors,
16:39sticking to the shadows and creeping
16:41around his property like a spectre,
16:43trying to get the drop on who was taking
16:45his cattle. Unfortunately for him,
16:48whoever or whatever it was always seemed
16:51to be two steps ahead. The lights seen
16:54on his land were now commonplace, but he
16:57could only ever view them from a
16:58distance, never up close. No matter how
17:01silently he tried to creep towards them,
17:04they would simply move away as if they
17:06knew he was there.
17:08But then, in the early hours of one
17:10morning, after yet another fruitless
17:12night, he was making his way back
17:14towards the homestead when a movement in
17:17the periphery of his vision suddenly
17:18caught his attention. To his utter
17:21shock, he saw a black mass hovering over
17:24the ground about 100 yards to his left,
17:26silhouetted against the pale white snow.
17:29Immediately, he hunkered down and
17:31quietly observed the strange object as
17:33it moved across the land. To his eyes,
17:36it looked like a slightly smaller,
17:38snub-nosed version of the F-17
17:40Nighthawk.
17:42However, he knew that it couldn't have
17:44been an F-17
17:46because this thing was completely quiet,
17:48floating about 20 ft off the ground as
17:50if defying gravity.
17:53Colored light shone from its hull,
17:55flitting over the snow as if it was
17:57searching for something. Terry was able
17:59to observe it for around 15 minutes as
18:02it made its way over to the west before
18:04turning back and heading east again.
18:07Sitting still in the cold, Terry's arms
18:10were beginning to go numb. And as he
18:12stretched his limbs, his joints cracked.
18:15In the deathly silence, the sound seemed
18:18impossibly loud, but in reality, it was
18:21so insignificant that it wouldn't have
18:23been heard by anyone standing beyond a
18:25distance of 6 ft. Nevertheless, the
18:29lights on the strange craft suddenly
18:31went out. It then stopped and turned in
18:33his direction. For a few tense moments,
18:37Terry's heart thumped in his chest as
18:39the object seemed to glare at him. But
18:42to his relief, it turned and silently
18:45floated off to the north out of sight.
18:48In the new year, as the spring rains
18:51began to lash the ranch, the family
18:53would lose even more cattle. But now
18:55they began to reappear, sometimes dead
18:58from no apparent cause, other times
19:00extensively mutilated.
19:02The nature of these mutilations was
19:04bizarre. Huge chunks of flesh and skin
19:07were carved out of the animals, yet
19:09there was no blood. The wounds always
19:12seemed to be cut with precision
19:13instruments, displaying an almost
19:15surgical quality rather than the savage
19:18tearing of predators.
19:20The Shermans were beginning to feel the
19:22stress caused by these losses.
19:24Throughout 1995,
19:26the strange activity only intensified.
19:29Events took place that were frankly
19:31beyond bizarre. The lights appeared over
19:34the ranch almost every night. More
19:36poltergeist activity was experienced in
19:38the homestead. Black featureless
19:40entities began to appear, looking in
19:43through the windows and later even
19:45entering the house and standing at the
19:47ends of beds. Strange sounds would
19:50emanate from the ground, almost as if
19:52there was machinery or railroads
19:54operating beneath their feet. Their
19:56neighbors would hear this, too. They
19:58also heard disembodied voices speaking
20:01in strange languages coming from the
20:02sky. One morning, Terry woke to find
20:06huge cookie cutter-like holes dug into
20:08his land with no resulting piles of
20:11earth anywhere to be seen. Somehow,
20:13hundreds of pounds of soil had silently
20:16been removed from his property in the
20:17dead of night. In addition to this,
20:20strange creatures were spotted walking
20:22across the land. From humanoids that
20:24resembled Bigfoot to bizarre canine
20:27hyena hybrids with razor-sharp claws
20:30that would attack their livestock, there
20:32was an invisible entity that was often
20:34witnessed. Not the being itself, but the
20:36effects of its presence. Livestock would
20:39part and move out of the way as if
20:41something big and unseen ran through the
20:43middle of the herd. Water in the canal
20:45would be displaced as if large invisible
20:48feet were stomping through it. Another
20:50smaller creature was witnessed that
20:52seemed to be shrouded in some sort of
20:53cloaking device, much like the alien
20:56entity from the movie Predator.
20:58Stationary orange lights were seen in
21:00the sky, which were different to the
21:02other ones Terry often witnessed moving
21:04in the distance. The first time he saw
21:07one of these anomalies, he was sitting
21:09out on his porch on a warm summer
21:11evening when something suddenly appeared
21:13in the sky about a mile away from his
21:15position. He had been cleaning his rifle
21:17earlier on in the day and a high-powered
21:20scope just happened to be nearby. He
21:22grabbed it and proceeded to view the
21:24object through the telescopic site and
21:26what he saw left him sitting there mouth
21:29a gape. The orange object looked like
21:32some sort of portal and at its center he
21:35could see an opening. On the other side
21:37of that opening was a blue sky, even
21:39though the sun had long since set. In
21:42his mind, it looked like a gateway to
21:44another place.
21:46These anomalies became a frequent
21:48occurrence above the ranch, and Terry
21:50would later describe seeing odd-shaped
21:52craft entering and exiting these
21:54openings on several other occasions.
21:57The most disturbing of all phenomena,
21:59though, were the orbs. They were not as
22:01common as the lights or portals, but
22:03when they did appear, they were far more
22:06obvious, zipping in and out of nearby
22:08trees and harassing the livestock.
22:11These were mostly about the size of a
22:13tennis ball and had a blood red color.
22:15But every so often, larger blue ones
22:18would show up. And these were bad news.
22:23Nicknamed the blue meanies, these orbs
22:25were somehow able to instill intense
22:27fear in those who got too close to them.
22:30Perhaps it was a certain vibration or
22:32signal they gave off, which stimulated
22:34extreme anxiety. Terry and Gwen were
22:37never sure, but they feared the blue
22:39orbs more than anything else they had
22:40seen on the ranch. One evening, Terry
22:44was out on his porch again, observing
22:46the lights over his property, as he
22:47often did, when he spotted an ominous
22:50blue glow coming from the treeine in
22:52front of his house. He was immediately
22:54on guard as one of the blue orbs emerged
22:57from the thicket and slowly made its way
22:59towards him. Three of his best hunting
23:01dogs sat by his side, and the moment
23:04they saw the orb, they began to growl
23:06and bark. Without even thinking about
23:09it, Terry set them loose, and they
23:11proceeded to chase it back into the
23:13trees. Whatever fear it was able to
23:16stimulate in human beings, did not seem
23:18to affect dogs, and Terry felt his
23:21spirits lift as he considered that a
23:22small battle had been won.
23:25But then suddenly out of the darkness
23:27came three pained yelps and then
23:31nothing.
23:33He waited for a couple of hours, but his
23:35dogs never returned. He was far too
23:38scared to venture out and look for them.
23:40But in the morning, he and his son went
23:42to search the cops of trees where he had
23:44last seen them. On the ground, they
23:47found three quarterized piles of flesh
23:49smoldering in the cool morning air. This
23:53was all that was left of his dogs.
23:56This proved to be the last straw for the
23:58Sherman family. They had endured much
24:00more than they could physically take
24:02over the last 2 years. They were not
24:04getting any sleep. The kids were doing
24:06poorly at school. Gwen had lost her job
24:09at a bank in town and the whole family
24:11had taken to bunking in the same room
24:13because of the strange phenomena that
24:14was now regularly entering their
24:16household during the night. On top of
24:18this, they had lost 14 head of cattle
24:21along with family pets, and they were
24:23now on the verge of bankruptcy.
24:26Seeing those vaporized dogs, it was now
24:28becoming clear just how much danger they
24:31were in.
24:33Terry had previously contacted a local
24:35newspaper about the strange activity
24:36taking place on his ranch. And although
24:39roundly ridiculed, the story was picked
24:41up by other publications.
24:43By chance, it caught the attention of
24:46one Robert T. Bigalow, a billionaire
24:49businessman who had recently invested a
24:51significant amount of money in setting
24:53up a scientific team whose purpose was
24:55to investigate events of high stranges.
24:58He offered to purchase the ranch from
24:59the Shermans, who were only too happy to
25:01accept, and by July 1996, Terry and his
25:05family had vacated the property.
25:08Bigalow's team, the National Institute
25:10for Discovery Science or NIDS, were
25:13ready to move in by September that same
25:15year and would in fact remain at the
25:17ranch for nearly a decade, studying in
25:19detail various instances of bizarre
25:21phenomena.
25:23They would have their own stories to
25:25tell. What they encountered there was
25:27every bit as intriguing and downright
25:29terrifying as what the family had
25:31experienced.
25:32For the time being at least, whatever
25:34had been tormenting the Shermans over
25:36the last two years was about to receive
25:38some unwelcome attention. It was about
25:41to come face to face with a fearless,
25:43highly equipped, and wellunded team of
25:45investigators who were well aware of its
25:48presence. The Hunter was about to become
25:52the hunted.
26:02[Music]
26:10[Music]
26:25[Music]
26:50Bedtime stories.

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