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[Music] this is a story my family told me when I was growing up we live in a rural community on the Navajo reservation my aunt and her two brothers were home alone while my grandparents had left for the evening to attend a chapter house meeting they were in the house and like many people from the reservation they didn't have electricity it had been dark outside for about an hour and my aunt and uncle's were getting ready for bed outside they heard noises as if something was moving things around my oldest uncle went to look out the front window and saw a figure by the truck this was immensely out of the ordinary because the closest neighbor was miles away whatever it was opened the truck door and began to dig through the personal items that my family had left in the vehicle my aunt and uncle's were frightened by the sight and knew they should take action they took out a rifle and all studied themselves to hold it up they flung open the door and aimed it at the dark figure the figure turned around and started to walk towards them totally unfazed my uncle pulled the trigger but nothing happened the figured er closer and my aunt began to smell something like a rotting corpse it was so strong it made her gag my uncle continued to pull the trigger with no luck and the figure came closer and closer off in the distance headlights were coming up the road my grandparents were returning the figure looked towards the lights and started to move away and tucked itself behind a tree near the house my oldest uncle ran towards the truck my grandfather got out of the car and my uncle pointed to the tree the thing was poking its head out to observe what they were doing my grandfather ran into the house over the stove and grabbed a handful of ashes and rubbed it over the gun and bullet and placed it into the chamber he walked out onto the porch and fired towards the tree whatever that thing was didn't expect the gun to go off the gunshot echoed and the dark figure began running my grandma chased my aunt inside and my uncles and my grandfather went after it there weren't many roads or paths so my grandfather and uncles chased after the fake the truck was bouncing and the headlights were not fixed on one particular spot my uncle swears that every time the headlights would hit the figure he saw a woman not only that it was running on all fours like a bear my grandfather eventually stopped the truck as it neared the ditch that drops about 20 feet he got out and began to yell in Navajo my uncle says that he was yelling about a local woman he yelled that he wasn't scared and that he knew her and to leave his family alone a few days passed and there was news that a woman that my grandfather was yelling about had passed I've always been told that if you know who was skinwalker is say their name and it will kill them my cousin lived in the eastern agency of the Navajo Nation in a community known as Crown Point she was still living with her parents at this time and was a good girl and was very popular and played on the basketball team when she told us this story it was very out of the ordinary and the events that followed would also deepen my beliefs in the traditional Navajo way and of the taboos associated with the Navajo culture my cousin was coming home from basketball practice which ran past sunset it was during the colder months so it was dark by the time she pulled into her neighborhood she pulled into a small housing community that she lived in it was far from a fence community but there were streetlights and the neighbors weren't too far from each other as she neared her home she saw a group of dogs this wasn't unlikely as there are random packs of stray dogs that roam rural communities these dogs don't belong to anyone and they get food wherever they can find it as she got closer she noticed something was off about the dogs there were four dogs and they were sitting in a circle all facing each other this didn't really faze her until she spoke about the event later because this was a housing community my cousin couldn't barrel down the road so she slowly drove past the group of dogs and kept going on her own way as she continued to drive she noticed in her peripheral vision that something was running alongside her car she turned her head to see that brown dog from the group was trotting alongside her car she didn't mind much until she hit a strategically placed speed bump the impact of the bump made her entire car Wabble she looked over at the dog again still casually keeping pace with the car she tried to ignore the dog and tried speeding up keeping in mind where the speed bumps were placed the dog continued to keep pace my cousin had to eventually stop at a stop sign she began to feel immensely uncomfortable and tried to keep her eyes forward but curiosity got the best of her she looked over at the dog and was facing forward she continued to stare and that's when the dog turned its head instead of the face of a dog there was a flat face of a man covered in hair smiling from ear to ear fear shot through her body and my cousin pushed the pedal to the floor not daring to look back in her rearview mirror she reached her house and barely pulled herself in the door weak from fear my aunt came to her and my cousin began to sob she told my aunt everything and they scheduled a meeting with a medicine man the next day that night my cousin was trying to get some rest she was tossing and turning and felt very ill she could hear people outside laughing and talking in Navajo but she didn't think too much of it because she lived in a community near plenty of neighbors at the medicine man she told my cousin that she was very fortunate the skinwalker wasn't meant for her she just happened to spot it while it was out bringing another person misfortune he also told her that the laughing and talking that she heard in the night was the skinwalker talking to its friends letting them know that someone had saw him and that he had scared her the medicine man told my cousin if the skinwalker had been for her and she had seen him like that it very well could have killed her after that encounter my cousin suffered from many ailments and had to stop playing basketball for a while she had many ceremonies and eventually got back on her feet my mom told us this story on many of the nights when the electricity would go out when I asked my cousin about it she confirms it's true but doesn't like talking about it much [Music] out on the Navajo reservation we don't have this city come and collect our trash so we burn our trash in these huge burning barrels not very eco-friendly I know but it's what we got if you don't like the trash properly the fire will go out and the trash will just sit in the barrel it is important because we are told to dispose of our personal hygiene items correctly if you removed all of your hair from your brush make sure the trash burned if it was that time a month make sure the trash burned if you change the baby's diaper make sure the trash burned they tell us these things because skinwalkers have been known to dig through the trash in order to find things that they can get to use against us they use the things that were briefly connected to and bring misfortune on to us using these things some of my family members take part in the sport of rodeo so to practice they have to rope a dummy and take turns roping in my two mill cousins were enjoying themselves outside and taking turns swinging the rope at the fake calf the elders were always adamant that we shouldn't stay out past sundown especially out on the rez where it's pitch black and there's no one around for miles but my cousins weren't the superstitious type and they were under a streetlight my cousins were joking around laughing having a great time that changes when my oldest cousin looks over to the burn barrel a dark figure is bent over rummaging through the garbage that failed to burn my cousin devised a plan that they were going to grab weapons sticks and rocks and go chase whatever it was they moved strategically so that they are able to flank the figure they run full speed and begin yelling and swinging their stakes and throwing their rocks my cousin said that they kept up with it for the most part that was until the figure ran underneath the streetlight while my cousins thought was a person was actually a goat why would they think it was a person because the goat was running on its hind legs they stopped running in fear ran down their backs and the figure ran off into the dark feeling nervous and not entirely accepting what they just saw they began roping the dummy again there was an awkward silence amongst the boys now they saw something so unnatural but talking about it now would just make it seem real were they crazy did they really see a skinwalker the boys rope the dummy in silence until one of them looked over to the tree there was a head peeking out at them if they didn't pay attention to it whatever it was witches poked its head out from behind the tree and stare when they would look in the direction of the tree it would quickly move back out of sight this was the final straw and my cousin's ran back into the house they told their parents and my uncle came out to look it was still there poking its head out and going behind the tree my uncle loaded his gun and started to walk towards the tree he aimed and pulled the trigger but nothing happened the gun jammed whatever it was began to run but it was so fast like a blur as my cousin describes it when it left my uncle gave the boys a thorough lecture about staying out late the next day my cousin's told my uncle about whatever it was had been digging through the trash barrel they went out to investigate and saw the creature had pulled out a lot of things out of the barrel what was odd was the tracks goat prints were all around the area they followed a set of tracks that were found around a baby diaper several feet away from the barrel whatever they saw that night had very malevolent intentions my cousin said that although the sight was ungodly they know what they saw and stand by their claims [Music] so I grew up in Utah and lived about an hour away from the skinwalker ranch and going there as a high schooler was just a thing to do just to see if it was true or not and to see if you actually got scared but here's my story first time me and a couple friends went out there we got pretty far in we got out of the car and started walking around mind you this was around 1:30 in the morning we found an old beat-up woodshed that looked like it was falling apart but you could see through the holes of it there were hooks the kind you use for hanging up deer or cows they looked mostly rusted but the walls and everything around looked like it was splattered with old dried blood it was everywhere but of course it was dried but the worst part started happening when we walked away from the shed since we had a couple of flashlights we looked around when we were walking we would see pairs of eyes around us at first it was just the shiny reflective look like when you shine the light at a dog or a cat so we thought it was just a couple dogs or coyotes we continued on a bit more until we started seeing more eyes but they were red like bright red even if you had the light in their direction and they were a lot higher than a normal level would be for an animal that's when we decided to turn back what started to get me was one pair was always in front of us as we were walking to the car staring at us like it was walking backwards with us we never caught up to it but it never left same with all of the others that kept circling us as we made our way back to the car when we got to the car we just wanted to get out of there we got in and it wouldn't start nothing would turn on at first no matter how hard he turned the key he tried it twice then only the radio kicked on we started panicking because the eyes got closer then BAM something hit the side of the car really hard but we couldn't see what it was it hit the car on the right side three times my buddy got the car started finally after like five minutes of freaking out trying to get it going I'm in the passenger seat about to crap myself and my other friend was in the back seat freaked out but speechless with the most scared look I've ever seen but when he got the car star there was no delay in leaving he put the car in gear and spun those tires and got us out of there once you get out of the gate onto the main road that goes by you're pretty much off the ranch we thought we were away from everything since we were on an actual Road but my buddy didn't slow down we were going 85 miles an hour down that road going right home I looked and to the left about 15 feet off was a pair of red eyes it was keeping up to us and that's when it charged at us I kind of got a glimpse before it smashed into the side of the car it was definitely big like four feet from its lakes to its head --is-- looking thing kind of hard to explain when I didn't get a great look at it we eventually lost it and when we got home we went straight to bed but in the morning we looked at his car one huge dent on the left rear fender and another dent on the right door in the passenger side about the size of my head we were so lucky to get out of there so every summer I go to a lake in upstate New York near the Canadian border my family has a house that is pretty much in the middle of nowhere it's a 30 to 45 minute drive to the nearest convenience store we have three neighbors on our side of the lake but there aren't any kids and it's mostly all retired or vacationing elderly people they don't stay up past ten and it's perfectly quiet when the Sun Goes Down here's my story I have zero explanation for this and the most reasonable thing to assume is a skinwalker around 11:30 p.m. maybe midnight my cousin and I go down to the dock on the water we have to walk through a short path in the woods to get there and the thick trees bordered directly on the shore while looking out at the stars in the water we hear quiet raspy rumbling that's the best way I can explain it out of the forest pretty far away we didn't really know what it was and wasn't bothered by it about two minutes later we hear the same voice say both of our names this time it was closer to our property from our dock we can see along the shoreline and were near a corner so we could see pretty well along the coast to our left we were looking with the flashlight in the trees and saw nothing maybe someone was out kayaking at night and said something to their friend and we just heard them wrong sounds travel across water very easily so couldn't have been someone from their house although our neighbors are about 1/3 of a mile away our uncle couldn't have been pulling a prank on us because of how far away it was and there wasn't any light five minutes passed and we've calmed down while we were sitting there in silence thinking about what just happened we hear footsteps loud leaf crunching footsteps about 10 feet to the left of our dog right behind the tree line so we couldn't see anything these footsteps were either from a human bear or deer my cousin whispered to me that we need to get inside but I told him that it might be a bear and I didn't want to get chased while running back inside so we were sitting on the dock holding our breath as the footsteps continued then stopped for a bit all of a sudden we hear the same voice that said our names hello I have never been more scared in my life the voice was speaking English but it wasn't human it had an almost robotic growl under the word both of us flipped out at this point and sprinted inside not even trying to glance at what was in the trees my uncle was sitting on the couch with our dog we spent the next 30 minutes checking the whole property in the nearby forest and didn't see anything what the hell could it have been this happened a little more than a week ago and the scariest part I wondered was how did that thing know our names and why was it on our property yesterday I was reminded of the skinwalker from some videos on YouTube it fits perfectly with the story but they aren't known for being in New York I wish I saw what it was to see if it had a human or a deer form but the trees were so thick and it was so dark we couldn't see anything behind the trees anyways talking about them is apparently bad luck and encountering what I experienced ever again will be too soon so this took place in my dad's then girlfriend's house during broad daylight in Grand Rapids Minnesota just off of River Road behind the house there was a forest but it's a bit dense to play in so we'd usually just follow the deer trail a bit into the woods till there was a clearing where there was a barbed-wire fence that cut right through the middle of it we'd hopped the fence and go through the woods on the other side on the other side was a planted pine forest that ran along the fence for the airport there it was pretty wide open back there so you could see straight down the rows to the other side my brother and I were back there with the girlfriends nephew just romping around you know just some kids being rowdy and noisy well at the very end of the rows of trees is a road which is actually a fire trail but we called it the road and on the other side of the road was a more dense forest we reached the road and stopped and talked like we usually did to look at a deer track or a squirrel or something when this skunky bear like smell came up my brother and I both felt an urge to look up at the road towards the airport fence what I saw was what looked like the head of a huge black wolf but it didn't look right his ears weren't in the right spots and looked droopy and his eyes looked off they were too big and bright for his face his front legs were long and skinny but he was standing right like a wolf just way too big my brother and I looked at each other and here's where I'm going to mention that my brother and I are very close so we would usually give each other a look and know what it meant here we looked at each other and instantly started to briskly walk back the girlfriend's nephew just started to walk with us he asked what was up and we just shushed him we were being as quiet as we could but we knew it would hear every step and movement of us once we hopped the barbed wire fence we ran as fast as we could to get to the house once we got to the back entrance we looked back and there it was looking at us through the brush we didn't hear it move behind us or anything we pointed it out to the nephew and we all watched it flopped back into the woods now my brother and I have been raised on 80 acres of land just south of bobbing we've seen wolf bear moose mountain lions coyote pretty much everything else we both have never seen a wolf that big and lanky in our lives I feel like it's important to note that at least I didn't feel any dread or anything like that it was more a primal fear like I knew we all had to get away from it but not show we were afraid I felt like if we ran from it it would have taken us down my brother and I told my dad and he didn't seem too interested but he was that way about everything growing up the next morning my brother and I went back out to look for tracks so we could see where and how it stalked us we saw huge doglike tracks and about six feet up in a tree following its route back we found thick black fur we nope doubt of their fast and didn't go back without protection about a few weeks later I'm home alone all the doors are locked and only the back windows on the house are open I suddenly noticed the dogs are acting weird then I hear clear as day by the back door my dad's girlfriends voice call for her dog I froze but looked up at my bedroom doorway into the small hall the dog got up and went to the kitchen where the back door was she was quiet for a moment then I heard her claws get across the floor and she ran back to my room I closed the door and locked it fast and closed my window the only reason it freaked me out was because I didn't hear the garage door open or the side door open just the voice I blessed my room and made sure nothing was allowed in it or around it the next time my brother visited he slept in the living room now the living room was huge and you could see out to the front deck as my brother was sleeping he heard what he described as an old woman screaming on the deck he woke up panicking and said he turned on the porch light and there was a big black crow sitting on the deck banister after that he only slept in my room never out in the open I'd also like to note that neither of us knew what a skinwalker was at the time being that we were 11 and 13 years old and lived in the north we just assumed that it was a goofy wolf that smelled bad [Music] for context I live in the Midwest in a suburban area my boyfriend lives about 30 to 60 minutes away from me depending on if I use either the interstate highway or the city roads that being said I usually take the interstate then take the highway part way home since the highway is only about a mile or so away from his neighborhood and I take it all the way to the interstate there is also another Road I can take a paved country road with one lane on each side of the road with no streetlights it eventually meets up with a few main streets which are numbered roads and it will take you back towards the highway in City I'm sorry for all the background about the roads but I feel it's important and I feel like my choice was a definite sign that the butterfly effect is always in works on to the story earlier today I went to pick up my boyfriend and we basically hung out and binge watched a TV show I recently got him in around 11:00 p.m. he says he probably should go home since he works in the morning I agree and drive him home using the interstate with no problems we kissed goodbye and that I am on my way out of the neighborhood and towards the street that takes me to the main roads if I turn right it's a straight shot to the highway if I turn left I could take it down to the country road for a bit of a late night drive I decide to take the ladder I turn left then turn right at the stoplight and begin to drive through the dark country night so I had my windows rolled down and my music up just letting the breeze come in it was pretty windy so my car was swerving a little and you couldn't see the stars or anything because the clouds were taking over the sky building up a storm I thought about switching on my high beams to see better but the road was really curvy and had lots of hills and I was afraid of accidentally blinding someone coming from the opposite direction what happened next makes me glad I didn't turn them on on the left side there was a small patch of woods with overgrowth to my right were wide open fields and in front of me was a hill toward the crest of the hill I saw something beginning to cross the road something large and dark with what looked like antlers on its head I thought maybe at first it was a deer or even an elk can i slow down when I got closer I realized something was wrong one of the things that were wrong was it was moving very slow like it was hurt or something and it didn't even glance at me it just kept moving toward the patch of trees on my left which I thought seemed weird I felt like it should have at least acknowledged the sound of my vehicle the second thing was this thing this animal that I presumed was a deer or an elk couldn't have been it was at least the size of a moose but that couldn't be right because where I am from there are no moose we had deer and maybe some elk but no moose I felt a cold wave of dread wash over me as I watched this moose thing make its way across the road and then it stopped and it looked right at me it twisted its head so fast to look at me I almost screamed its face was hideous it looked rotten somehow like it was withering away and its eyes were so dark I was so scared it didn't have any eyes there was something dripping from where the mouth was and I could see sharp teeth poking from its lips as they pulled back into a sneer I thought about reversing my car and hightailing it out of there but I was frozen you know how when adrenaline kicks they say you either enter fight-or-flight mode well they don't tell you that there's a third option and that's to freeze which is exactly what I did I just stayed in place my hands still on the wheel foot still digging into the brakes I don't know how long i sat there staring at this thing with the thing staring back at me but when it started towards my car I honestly thought that was going to be the end of me I couldn't move couldn't blink could barely even breathe all I could do was hope and pray that I wouldn't be ended by some freakish moose looking monster and then a pair of lights begin to rise over the hill toward us and as the other vehicles high beams shined on the thing in the road it let out a curdling scream that didn't sound entirely human it was animalistic and sort of raspy it's hard to explain but I watched as that thing got on its hind legs and lurched itself across the road into the thicket of the trees and bushes narrowly missing the other person I knew this thing would probably come back if I stayed where I was so before I could give it the chance I slammed on my gas pedal gunned it out of there going well over the posted speed limit I just wanted to get as far away from it as possible every dark curve or patch of trees or field made me feel so paranoid that I could see the creature again and all I wanted to do was go home and never for the life of me drive on that country road again I made it home safe but was shaken and to cut a long story short my family thought I was just being hysterical and had just seen a deer but I know what I saw and this thing wasn't a deer it couldn't have been I've read up on skinwalkers but I'm not sure if it's what I saw I mean do they even exist out in the Midwest I thought that was more in Arizona or New Mexico why would a skinwalker be here why would it come after me was it even a skinwalker or was it something else entirely was it my mind playing tricks on me what was that thing please if anyone knows what it was or has any idea of it please tell me I'm so scared I'm going to come across that thing again and I don't know if next time I'll be as lucky this is 100% true so this will probably be a boring account compared to some of the other posts here but I wanted to share this memory somewhere and maybe get opinions on the matter I grew up in Albuquerque New Mexico my mom would often take us camping in the summers this particular camping trip was somewhere in the vicinity of Shiprock New Mexico my mother took my older brother Chris 10 and myself ain't camping often in those days and preferred dispersed camping on BLM /np s land to camping in merged grounds she usually find us a spot and make herself busy setting up the tents and Pitts while Chris and I would scamper around and explore the area and be generally unhelpful on this particular trip we arrived in the middle of the day and as my mom started setting up camp Chris and I started to explore the area around our campsite we wandered into the woods of our campsite being in the desert it was really just stunted trees and sagebrush so I hesitate to describe it as a forest but the trees and brush were taller than me and provided a decent screen I wandered down into a gully and came face-to-face with what I described my mother as a wolf kangaroo it was crouched low with long slender arms reaching down to the ground and large pointed ears like a deer the fur covering its body was sandy brown and patchy as if it had mange it had large orange eyes and a snout like a wolf or a coyote it bared its teeth at me and stood up at its full height it was the biggest animal I had ever seen towering over us and the sagebrush I had never been and probably still have never been as frightened as I was then Chris and I started screaming for our mom to come to our rescue Chris regained his senses before me taking off running back up the embankment to the campsite the wolf kangaroo turned and sort of I don't know speed skated away from us through the brush and tree its legs were backwards like a dogs and it strides took it far away and fast faster than any deer or antelope I'd ever seen after a split-second of staring at it in horror I followed my brother up the embankment screaming for my mom we were so frightened that my mom packed us back into the car and moved camps conceding for once to stay in the managed campground Chris and I were too scared to sleep in our tent that night and we clung to mom at the smallest twig snapping in the brush so that's my story it's boring compared to some of the others here but it's 100% true and I wanted to share I vividly remember the way this animal moved as it glided away from us into the desert and the sheer utter horror I felt looking into its face Chris and I have never managed to find an explanation for what we saw that day in the brush I used to work at a local coal mining company on the Navajo reservation as an operator for a coal haulage crew I drove haulage equipment and it was one of those crests 240-ton coal haul belly dump trucks if you've ever seen those trucks they're pretty huge they're about two to three stories high and about one-third the length of a football field I remember that I was working the night shift which started around 11:00 p.m. before we started the shift we required to do a pre start inspection of our equipment I walked around my truck and when went up to the rear of the truck and lowered its tears that gave me access to the engine bay I walked up the stairs and started my inspection I found a pretty bad coolant leak on the truck I climbed back down and went to the cab and called my haulage supervisor he answered and asked me if I can drive the truck to the main shop for repairs so I left the ready line and drove six to eight miles back to the shop and I called the shop maintenance supervisor and he instructed me to drive around back of the shop and park the truck there I drove around the shop parked the truck and I wanted to see how much coolant I had left I climb back down from the cab walked around to the back side of the truck and lowered the stairs I checked the coolant level and I had a significant loss of coolant I called my supervisor over the radio and asked him to pick me up as I started to walk away from the truck towards the shop I seen it it was big like a bull it walked weird patches of tan fur missing blotches of blackened skin and its head was big the head was as large as a pumpkin and it wobbled around like it was unbalanced it had an unnatural look nothing like I'd ever seen this thing walked on all fours and about four to five feet tall it was about a hundred feet away and was walking toward me my first instinct was that it was a sick dog mange infested and malnourished it continued to walk toward me and I thought this sucker might be sick and have rabies I took out my flashlight and shine the light in it yelling at it to stay away it continued to walk towards me it was then that I noticed it wasn't alive its eyes did not give off any reflection and were black and solid it was unnatural I reached for my pocketknife and yelled at it to stop it stopped when it was about 20 feet away I was still walking towards the shop and it paralleled me all the way there I never looked away I thought it could attack me by the time I got to the shop-door entrance it started walking towards the east I went inside and got the shop supervisor and we both came out it wasn't about a minute later and it was gone we walked to the east and my supervisor drove up now there was only one way into the back side of the shop and my supervisor should have seen it he didn't I explained to him what I saw and he said he didn't see it the way into the shop my supervisor said that I saw a skinwalker and that it usually was seen walking around the shop the rest of the shift I stayed with my supervisor I think he was scared I wasn't scared nor did I go into shock like some people described it was an experience that I would never forget to this day I don't know what I witnessed those few days nor do I want to know I think it would be better that way to set the scene with some background information I'm a 20 year old Latino woman I'm a lance corporal in the marine corpse and have spent a year in Afghanistan back in 2015 during the time of this experience my girlfriend and I took a camping trip and for the sake of this story I will call her Olivia I've grown up in a very wooded area of Florida many trees and animals of all sorts alligators bears Panthers coyotes and sometimes wolves from people owning them and letting them into the wild when they got big the area we had gone to was new terrain for us she insisted we go somewhere new and explore around since I would have to return to California to my duty station in a few days she wanted to explore the new terrain with me we walk along the beaten path admiring nature in the wooded areas flowers and even small animals and birds that inhabited the area Olivia went to college for zoology so she enjoyed teaching me about the different animals and the ways to identify them by their tracks and other signs as we were walking to the camp clearing in this particular forest we came across the hardly visible pathway winding deeper into the brush her nature calling was pulling her into it she wanted to explore and find a place inside to set up camp but call it military intuition but I felt really uneasy with the idea reluctantly with her pleading I agreed we then began to trek through the brush thorny vines cutting up my legs through my jeans and a spider web hitting me in the face every now and again due to the overlaying branches we walked for roughly 45 minutes until we came into a clearing deciding this was the best spot we could camp Olivia pitched our tents as I got the fire roaring and at this point the dusk is creeping in on us we lay down to settle in for the night and all is well that is until I'm awakened by things being thrown by the side of my tent it takes me a little bit for my eyes to adjust to the darkness the campfire was now a dim glow my eyes finally adjust as I look around I wasn't truly awake until the smell hit me like a semi-truck the smell of rotting garbage it was sickening as I tried to gain my composure that's when I saw the figure it was tall very large and stocky and appeared very human-like just too large to be a person there was still tapping against the tent some large other small but I didn't make a peep my voice was lodged in my throat and I'm not even sure at this point I was breathing all the hair on my body was on end I was terrified Olivia shifted in her sleep opening her eyes hey is everything okay I cut her off by placing my hand over her mouth raising a finger to my lips in order to tell her to be quiet that's when I heard it the growling it was low more like a grumble and a groan than a growl but it was a sound like no other it was enough to make even my drill sergeants piss themselves our eyes directed to the zipper and it began to move it slowly started unzipping whatever this thing was it was getting into our tent I reached next to me and grabbed a small handgun I took everywhere with me and took aim a rather loud bang is heard as I took my shot making a direct hit into the things shoulder a monstrous growl scream is heard he rattled me to the bone and Olivia only cried out of pure fear we watched as this figure disappeared and we didn't fall asleep just in case it returned I stayed with her all night my handgun at my side the next morning we were packing all of our stuff and getting ready to head out when we saw it a stocky figure standing in the tree line it was around 8 maybe 9 feet tall it was large hairy and seemed rather human-like besides its dark deep eyes and fur covered body it just watched us as we collected our things we never broke eye contact either the thing just watched or sinking back into the woods we've never ran so fast in our lives back to the main road Olivia still has nightmares about this thing that terrorized us by throwing things and opening our tent and I'll admit the thing really creeped me out let me just tell you I haven't been camping since during the summer of 2016 my larger group of friends and I went camping out at this spot called desert Creek it's a place that's about a hundred miles from any town deep in some mountains in Nevada I'm not of any sort of native descent but I've heard a few skinwalker stories before I didn't believe them too much until this night my large group drove out to the camp spot and got set up being stupid teenagers we started drinking it was fourth of July weekend so the camp spots were sort of busy but all of the spots were pretty far apart so we didn't think we would have too many problems the drinking started around 2:00 in the afternoon right after we set up camp while setting up my tent I noticed some odd footprints but didn't think too much of it by the time night fell all of us were pretty drunk I decided I had to go take a leak so I walked over to a tree but before I could I saw what looked like a coyote but something was off about it it turned and looked at me and stood up on two feet and it sounded like it was trying to say something to me but it couldn't get out the words they were just sounds for a few seconds I was paralyzed with fear and then it seemed like the word started to become more clear but it's still not right I heard my best friend let's call him C C's voice came from its mouth Hey and me another beer that's when I snapped out of it I turned and ran back to camp and told everyone but no one believed me and I wasn't sure if I believed myself but after I became really paranoid I thought I could hear sounds all night when it was time to go to bed I had almost forgotten about it keep in mind we were about two thirty six packs in between about eight of us I was lying in my tent listening to the crackling of the fire when all of a sudden I could hear footsteps but they were scattered I looked out the window of the tent and saw a humanoid figure about 10 feet away standing next to the fire staring at me then it's said again in cease voice hey guys I think I'm gonna go to bed that's when I heard si say from his tent what was that he poked his head out of the tent and screamed everybody got up at that point and that's when this thing turned and lunged at my other friend let's call him Jay Jay jumped out of the way and hopped into his car which was right next to his tent the thing then how old this terrifying sound and that's when I realized the smell of rotten eggs and burning garbage the thing ran away and si said guys we need to get out of here we all hopped into our cars and started driving out when one of my friends in front of me stopped about a mile from the main road I got out with the pistol my dad had let me borrow for protection and I realized my friend's truck had a flat tire we all heard the howling N and it sounded like it was in the middle of the canyon where we were in about a 25 minute drive away from us we thought we would be okay so we got to work putting the spare tire on we had only just gotten the flat tire off and we started to smell the rancid odor again we stopped and looked around and heard the howl once again this time right next to us we bolted to our cars and tried to drive away when this thing jumped out in front of the car and stood up the creature looked into my eyes and spoke once more but in a demonic like voice gonna have to try harder than that I slammed on the gas and this thing jumped over my car we got out of there and drove 150 miles back home still drunk and way past curfew but we didn't care the next morning I drove my friend back to his truck and when we both got there we were both struck with this terrible feeling in our stomachs his trucks windows were broken and scratched into the car all over the place was every single one of our full names there were two animals in the bed of the truck but we couldn't tell what kind of animals they were because they were so mangled from that point on we had never given a thought to going camping at Desert Creek ever again I will not say my name for this story as I am afraid they will find me but you can call me rose I was 14 when it happened so about a year ago I was at a powwow with my friends a young girl let's call her Lily and her older sister Sariah it was getting late probably around 10 p.m. when we came up with the idea to tell scary stories I've always been fascinated by skinwalker stories though I have never seen one myself well that was about to change I came up with a story and told my friends then Lily then Sariah after telling stories we finally got tired and went to bed Sariah and Lily slept in a small tent while I slept in a camper with my dad I've been up where the powwow is many times and we call the area the grounds I'm not really a native I have a little black foot but I'm mostly Irish the grounds are full of mostly Cherokee anyway I came up with a stupid idea to scare my friends I went outside next to their tent and snapped a twig then I made loud footsteps along with hard breathing and groaning noises I could see their shadows sit up so I knew they were awake I was just about to shake the tent when I heard footsteps behind me I knew there were bears and big cats in the woods but they rarely come in the grounds because all of the lights and people I didn't want to take any chances so I slowly walked towards my camper then I hear the same groaning noises I made behind me I thought it was Lily or Saria trying to get me back but something wasn't right it sounded just like my voice haha very funny guys I call back to their tent haha very funny guys said someone who sounded just like me in the woods then I see Lily and sorry I walk out of their tent will you stop we're trying to sleep said Sarria in an annoyed voice a branch breaks and echoes in the woods sorry young Lily looked behind them to see nothing I think a bear is out there hurry come inside my camper I whisper to them they both walk towards me when suddenly a loud curdling scream filled my ears it sounded like a girl and a dog screaming in the woods loud footsteps came closer to us we ran as fast as we could to my camper and slam the door shut I looked out the window and see a dark shadow next to my friend's tent then I did something I still regret to this day I got a flashlight and shined it at the figure it had the head of a bear and the upper body of a human and the legs of some kind of dog it stood on its hind lakes and stared at us with glowing eyes I screamed so loud I probably woke everyone up from a mile away my dad came running what's wrong are you okay I yelled skinwalker I saw a skinwalker my dad got out his shotgun while his friend who was staying the night let's call him Jack grabbed a bowl of stage my dad ran out the door to see nothing Jack lit the sage and put it in the bowl outside the front door we stayed inside the rest of the night the next morning we went out to investigate the area where the skinwalker was all of us almost puked from the rotten smell of animals I went home the next day he would think the story ends there but sadly no there's more I was laying in bed trying to sleep when I heard footsteps outside my window I looked at my window to see a face of a bear it followed me home I screamed but I was home alone because my mom was still at work the skinwalker banged up my window cracking it I tried to let out another scream but what came out was a loud growl the creature froze I did something I thought I would never do I ran to the window and yelled go away be gone at the creature slowly it backed away into the woods I stayed up all night waiting for it to come back but it never did why did it follow me home and why did I do what I did I probably will never know but all I care about is it's never coming back I'm 15 now and still no side of the monster hopefully I will never see something like that again [Music] my name is Jonathan I'm 22 I've encountered this creature twice so I'm covering the first time I saw the thing which was when I was 14 and lived with my parents my grandparents told me stories of skinwalkers and they took them quite literally which is how I knew what this thing was one night I was getting ready to go to bed and my cat was in my window as I went to get into bed he started growling I didn't really think much of it just thought maybe he saw a deer or a straight cat or dog he kept going and started hissing then my curiosity got the best of me and I looked out the window my froze I hadn't looked directly at it I had just looked at my yard and it's glowing red eyes caught the corner of my eye I knew exactly what it was I tried to move but I just couldn't as it just stared at me and my cat still hissing and growling a couple of seconds went by and it let out a curdling scream so loud it might as well have been right in front of me I broke the gaze and closed the curtains grabbing my cat and getting away from the window then not a couple seconds later I heard a tapping up my window I knew they were really fast so I wasn't surprised that it got to my window so quickly my gut had sank at this point and I couldn't move my cat was silent but on edge and all of its hair was standing up then it tried to speak there's no explanation on how it did this but that it's been around for a very long time it said Jonathan come here I need your help the most frightening part about that was it was in my dad's voice but he had been gone for over a year now the tapping continued for about 10 minutes and stopped completely longest 10 minutes of my life after it stopped I heard footsteps stomp off quickly into the woods where I lived I didn't get any sleep that night and the next morning everyone was up and didn't seem like they had heard anything and acted like everything was normal I haven't told anyone and you're the only person I've told this I couldn't tell if it was a skinwalker or a Wendigo as I didn't see any of its features except it had glowing red eyes and that a mimicked my dad I was 15 when this happened I have some family in Arizona so I decided to go out there for the summer I was very bold and stupid my grandmother used to say you're like a young wolf cub always trying to figure out your fangs that can lead to trouble I didn't understand at the time what she meant by that my uncle let's call him Tom told my cousins and I when I arrived not to go out at night I thought to myself why not sure the place is colder at night but I'm 15 almost a man so I waited until he his wife and children went to sleep that night I snuck out of the house quietly I was wandering around looking at everything houses stores etc I had walked two to three miles away from the house when I realized that I needed to take a leak somewhere away from the streetlights I found a house with no one living in it not too far from the road I stepped off the street going around the right side of the house I was in the middle of doing my business and I thought I heard a cry from a little girl but it sounded somewhat off like if it was coming from a tunnel or something far off in the distance I listened closer for a while before stepping in that direction I thought it may have come from I yelled hey little girl where are you then the crying just stopped I was confused what was going on that's when I heard it my own voice but not quite right more like a growl reply I'm scared can you come to the other side and help me get home the home was almost a dogs growl my mind was racing now that I was fully creeped out and I felt an overpowering need to run as I turned to do just that I heard movement from somewhere behind me at the same time I started smelling something like rotten meat looking back I saw it I think it was trying to look human but the way it moved like a movie zombie all stiff though once it saw me it started moving much smoother plus its eyes were wrong they look like dog eyes when light hits them at night as it moved closer the thing tried to mimic my Uncle Tom's voice I just ran from it but as messed up as its walk was the thing was fast I ran full speed but the thing was catching up fast the thing passed me then turned into the middle of the road I saw something about it now that it was in the streetlight not only was it size doglike but the face was no longer human but looked like a coyote now my instincts told me to run the other way I was frozen and before my eyes the rest of the body snapped and popped as it was transforming into the coyote on all fours I ran in the direction of my uncle's house I heard it coming from me as I ran this is where something weird happened as it got close this time my mind went blank I don't know how to explain this but I'll do my best I saw a gray wolf and my mind's eye and I turned realizing a growl from my mouth that even sounded like a wolf's Crowl the thing stopped clocked its head to the side and just stared at me the thing looked like a coyote but it was standing on its hind legs I started walking backwards seeing the gray wolf and knowing I was using my instincts at the moment that if I turn to run it would cease to chase me down and get me I kept my eyes on it until I was almost to my uncle's door where I regained control of my mind going into the house I heard scratching on the door asking in different voices to be let in for an hour then it left it did come back the next night to my uncle's house but Tom knew what it was after looking at it through the window of the front door it pretended to be human again but tried to use my voice to get Tom to open the door he went straight to work burning sage and other herbs afterwards asking me if I was the only one it was after I told him everything he was mad telling me you're safe for the night but I'm sending you home in the morning I know he was mad but I needed to know what this was he told me it was a skinwalker and it was going to hunt me until it loses my scent he told me about The Legend of them but the wolf thing he smiled and said that you'll have to figure that one out for yourself the next day I was picked up by my mom I am afraid to go back that way I don't walk at night anymore and I still have no answer about the wolf thing that's stalk through my mind that night I was heading to a small town in southern Utah with my wife and a couple of friends we were on our way to see Lee a friend of mine that hadn't been seen for a long time we met up with him at his place and decided to hang out at a nearby lake it was a typical quiet campsite with a fire pit and a couple of logs around it we had a little picnic there and we were exchanging stories and catching up with each other all day eventually one of my friends Bryce got tired and decided to fall asleep in the car while the rest of us continue talking at this point Twilight had fallen Erika and I were discussing something while my wife and Leigh were talking about something else all of a sudden my wife and leave falls silent Erika and I quickly notice we look at them and Leigh says get in the car I asked him what's wrong and he says there might be a skinwalker around now Erika and I had no idea what a skinwalker was at the time so we asked him to explain after his explanation of what it was Erika and I being the only sensible thinkers at the moment and Bryce just barely waking up from us jumping in the car decide we should investigate believing that it was probably just some kids in a nearby campsite trying to mess with us we came to the top of the hill that was between our campsite and looked for any likely candidates for the scare none all we could see was a couple of trees and some bushes we even called out and there was no response as we were walking back to the campsite we heard it a rustling in the bushes behind us we look again but see nothing at this point we were considering that Leigh and my wife may be right we get back and it's getting dark fast so I asked them is there something we can do to keep them away for a little bit yes sadly they don't like fire and Tim my wife and Bryce start working on the fire while me and Erika go down by the lake to collect the two litres we had put there in the water to keep cold now it's dark and Eric and I headed back with the sodas we hear rustling in the bushes beside us we're both scared we hurry back and start putting everything back in the car as soon as possible while Lee made sure the fire kept Bernie after getting everything into the car I rush over to the fire pit and tell everyone to get in the car as I proceeded to stomp the fire out right as the fire went out I hear a curdling scream across the lake I felt my heart stop Liat said skinwalkers are fast and could make up a full lap around the lake in a matter of seconds I jump in the car and yell go right as the engine started and the lights come on we see it coming out of the bushes right in front of us glowing yellow eyes and what looked like a zombified coyote with decaying flesh a skinwalker we backed up and peeled out of there as fast as we could this happened two years ago and it still scares me - how close to a call it was I am honestly amazed that we all survived such a close encounter with this skinwalker when I was about 11 or 12 we lived in a small house made of mud and stone a lot like our house now it was two of my brothers and I in the house everyone else had gone to the feast and left us to tend the Sheep we were getting ready for bed when we heard the dogs going crazy outside thinking it was nothing more than coyotes howling in the distance we told them to be quiet we began to drift off into sleep and the dogs would not shut up somehow I was able to get a few hours of sleep then I woke up very late in the night it was very quiet and still in the house except for my brother snoring and breathing I realized I needed to use the outhouse and woke up my brother to take me there he teased me about being scared which I certainly was we went out with our flashlights to the outhouse the dogs began with their crazed barking out in the sagebrush going from one place to the next my brother went first and I waited for him outside while waiting I tried to follow the dogs with my flashlight suddenly there was a very loud whine from one of the dogs then everything went silent again it was really too quiet for that time of year not even the sheep were making noise suddenly I heard a few of the dogs going completely mad by the truck when I looked over there was this man he was unbelievably tall leaning one arm on the cab roof of the truck he was looking at the dogs for a little they all scattered and if directions the thing looked up at me and I saw its face it had a pure white face like a full moon - burning yellow eyes and a slight smile that was pure black I could not move or make a sound it began to walk towards me with long strides until it finally towered over me all I began to see was dark red I kept getting deeper and deeper into its eyes I could faintly hear my brother coming out of the outhouse with this the thing looked up at him reality came rushing back to me I noticed my brother was too distracted with his buckle to realize what was going on I noticed this thing's long hands hovering just inches from my head its skin was black ash and smelt like rotten flesh in the summer I was still unable to move or speak the skinwalker began to move toward my brother finally noticing this figure my brother became paralyzed as I was closer and closer it drew reaching its arm out toward my brother's head something finally snapped to me I became unbearably angry I broke from the trance and lunged at the skinwalker raising my arms like a wild animal and baring my teeth added a growl came out that I never knew I could make I became more angrier at the thing that it was trying to hurt us it kept that smile at first but the angrier I got the more the smile faded finally with everything I had I began to make a primal roar at it it fell backwards and ran into the night looking back at me its eyes were dim and dull it smiled now long since gone the next morning my family returned home from the feast after relaying the story to my parents they quickly hired a medicine man I'm half Navajo and half Mexican for over 20 years of my life I've lived on the Navajo Nation reservation in New Mexico my Native American side of the family always warned us to be careful at night my grandparents would always tell me stories of these shape-shifting witches who can curse you or mess with you they called them skinwalkers because they would take the skin of animals and wear them to change into that animal or something in between a human and an animal I never believed in it really I'm only half Navajo and light skinned so I was never treated the same by most people here so I drifted away from the culture and thought it wasn't for me it was around summertime this happened when I was in high school so about 6 to 8 years ago I would have been like 15 to 17 then I used to hang out with a group of guys who liked to do a lot of delinquent type stuff you know smoke cigs and stay up all night playing video games at someone's house then at 3 a.m. if we felt like it we would go sneak out to paradise I know it's an ironic name it's basically a giant metal pipe that carries irrigation water to all the farms but really it was also a spot for kids to get drunk or high in the evenings however the place did have a scary history of kids and adults who drowned in the night but I always thought those were urban legends but at 3 a.m. that was our time we as boys would test one another across the pipe sort of an initiation to see how far you could go we usually could go all the way across now keep in mind this pipe goes well over three stories high it's also wide I'd say as wide as an average car we would walk this thing for kicks and a group of 9 at 3 a.m. so one night me and a small group of friends were driving around bored at 2:00 a.m. wanting to spook each other so I said let's go to paradise and walk the pipe as to most of these friends I was hanging out with had never done it they agreed pumped up on energy drinks and we drove it was pretty quiet the sky was dark and the night was cold the boys with me were Michael Cody Tommy and Farrell now there´ll was the driver because he had a car and his family was pretty well-off too so he never had to worry about cash we got to the place and he didn't want to go said his parents were traditional and he wanted to just chill in the car basically he wanted to text some chick I'm sure without us bugging him I told him it's fine keep the car locked and running in case we see something scary me and the other boys went on without him as we got onto the lead pipe a few of the guys were scared and had me take the lead as we crawled I'd say a fourth of the way on the pipe talking and laughing I noticed a faint white or light gray bat bigger than my head flying around us it dived for us a few times we dodged it but then Tomi slipped because of the shoes he was wearing and almost fell off the pipe I reached out grabbing him on his right arm Michael had grabbed my shirt collar and Cody grabbed his all together we got back on the pipe shaken that we almost lost Tommy to the dark depths below the bat was gone we were all freaking out but the guys wanted to continue we laughed about it as guys usually do we passed the halfway point on the pipe with no problems but as we got 3/4 of the way Michael saw something you see at the end of the pipe there's a hill behind that hill it's very brightly lit because of a church somewhere off in the distance anyway on that hill was a black figure of pointy ears a dog silhouette now Michael was a tough guy he yelled at that thing I'm not scared of you skinwalker and tossed a few rocks he had in his pocket one rock hit the pipe and the other fell into the brush below that shadow silhouette dog stood up on its two legs like a person we all freaked out jaws dropped then Cody said look another one to the left Tommy said there's another one on the right so there's three silhouettes of pointy dog eared people on the hill I told them to back up so we could get back to the car the things to the right and the left of the hill started to move down the hill towards us now there's just one standing on the hill the one who stood up first now we're trying to go back but we're still half way under us complete darkness it's quiet for a few minutes then we heard a girl crying sounded like she was hurt and scared we were overcome with a strange feeling of wanting to help Michael wanted to go back towards the end and crawl down the pipe to help this girl I almost followed to but inside I said no this is wrong something isn't right so I yelled at him and everyone saying are you stupid look at the thing up there on the hill did you not see those things it's a trap let's leave that fake crying if that girl is hurt we'll come back when the Sun is up in two hours now the moment I said this the crying stopped all the guys freaked out saying they can't believe what came over them they said they almost forgot what we saw before halfway on the pipe now we hear a drum being played we start running running on this pipe almost to the car Cory stops us we can all hear it and it sounds like a pack of snarling growling yelping coyotes but it's pitch dark below but we know they are under us we run full speed not looking back in the car we yell and drive as fast as we can back onto the dirt road to a well-lit gas station and explained what happened to Ferrell we couldn't get the girls crying out of our heads and we went back in daylight just to make sure we did not find the girl instead in the area we heard the crying and we saw a coyote watching us a close distance away it was not shy it looked at us for four seconds and walked into the brush I did not go back there after that this was about a year ago I lived in Michigan my older brother was planning a big cruise to Mexico and then invited me to go along I agreed because I'd never left the country before and I thought it would be a fun trip so it was a day before the flight and I went over to my cousin's to sleep because our flight was very early and I live 40 minutes away my cousin's backyard is completely woods with a small creek and it's beautiful down there in the summertime but it was about March when this happened so the woods were very bare it was getting late and we were all starting to go to bed I slept in the living room while my cousin went upstairs to bed with her husband and said good night I was up just facing the window to the woods because it always takes me a little bit to fall asleep then very faintly I saw a pair of glowing eyes off in the distance my mind raced as I told myself it was just a deer but the glowing eyes were getting closer and closer then I realized it wasn't a deer the thing had to be at least 9 or 10 feet I was horrified and paralyzed with fear it looked like a big wolf or deer that had been decaying the thing went back into the woods that night I didn't sleep when it was about 4:00 I heard my cousin's husband walking down the steps and I told him about the whole thing that had happened that night his eyes got very wide and said very quietly you seen a skinwalker I've done some more research about these things and I do believe I've seen a skinwalker I never told anyone the story because I felt like I would be called a liar but that was one of the scariest moments of my life [Music] to start I'm a white female I was adopted seven years ago by my Navajo family and we've always been close despite my obvious cultural differences still I learned about skinwalkers firsthand and they have since then become an accepted part of my life I left Utah at the end of 2012 the first story happened to my adopted uncle he was driving through the canyon area they live in Blanding Utah a spot not quite notorious for skinwalkers but full of them nonetheless it was dark outside but the moon illuminated the canyon and brush enough for him to see out of his side vision that something was running across the desert night he was in his 40s and at the time he was a police officer so a full grown man he started singing and praying in Navajo and kept his eyes on the road in front of him but he was driving at least 55 to 60 miles per hour so the shape running through the desert was keeping pace with him despite his high speed he said that it looked very vaguely human shaped but paler than any human that he'd ever seen still he didn't look directly at it and despite his singing he was getting more and more scared one thing my Navajo family always taught me was that these creatures feed on our fear this one certainly seemed to my uncle was shaking and sweating when this running thing picked up speed outpacing his truck and that it was maybe 30 yards ahead of him it made a sharp right and begin to run towards of the road he knew it was going to directly intersect him and he made up his mind to put the foot on the gas so we got closer and he sped up and just as the two crossed paths it jumped onto the road he thought for the first then he described it as a skinny man in jeans with a plaid shirt typical reservation wear with a long face and big yellow eyes that looked like cat eyes its arms were thrown up over its head and its hands were kind of flying behind it the worst part was its mouth was open and seemed disconnected from its jaw the chin was just flapping around about a foot below its nose it left under the road and just as quickly jumped out of the way of the truck and he didn't see it again he prayed the whole way home and they had a ceremony shortly after that another encounter happened to my adopted brother who was one of the most level-headed and unshakable men I have ever met he was 30 when this happened he was at their dad's house partaking in one of these ceremonies which happens in a Hogan the rule is that you never leave the Hogan alone because the magic and energy that you make in one of those ceremonies is kind of like a supernatural light beacon you never know what kind of creatures you're attracting still Eric my brother was a pretty rational guy and wasn't afraid of the dark he's been in the Hogan for hours chanting and praying and all that good stuff he needed a smoke break and to take a leak so against the general rule he edged out of the round house and out into the night there was nothing around except 15 or 20 parked cars all close to the ceremony area it was a large gathering so Eric did his business with no incident and lit up a cigarette he was standing there staring off into space when he got that feeling of being watched to shake it off he walked away from the Hogan about 20 feet and scanned the desert everything was quiet except drums coming from the back of the tent and singing within just as he was about to shrug off his weird feeling and Chuck his cigarette but he saw it under one of the vehicles a dark shape with two shining eyes the eyes were animal like they didn't glow on their own but had reflective light in them and they glinted right at Eric they were yellow the creature didn't have the shape of any animal he'd recognized though he explained it to me that it was shaped like Gollum really skinny with a round human head Eric walk towards the vehicle and bent down to get a closer look duh scrabbled around and he could hear a skittering noise one bony arms shoved gravel his way and the next thing he knew the creature was gone and the vehicle was empty but then he smelled this disgusting puke worthy stench and he got scared then because that's one of the worst things in Navajo culture bad smells are treated very seriously when they're assumed to be supernatural so he straightened back up and then he realized the source of the smell a shadow fell over him covering him from behind he is around 6 - so this thing he said it was at least seven and a half feet he was shivering and didn't move as it approached him from behind until it was standing inches away he could feel it he could smell it see its shadow and then the worst thing he felt it breathe on his neck Erik said that it sounded like a horse or a cow when it snorts and its breath was warm when he looked at his feet he saw his shoes and behind his right foot a big hoof so he closed his eyes and started to sing and right in that moment his dad and uncle got a terrible feeling from inside the Hogan they bolted up and exited calling his name they found him shivering outside too terrified to talk and too terrified to stop singing in Navajo it took Erik months before he shared this with us and he did so expecting us to laugh or call him crazy but I completely believe his story [Music] this just happened mere seconds ago I'm a 22 year old female of sound mind pretty but not immaculate average sized living in Oklahoma I have a job and have never had anything that could be considered a mental episode I live in Tulsa the second largest city in the state to give a little backstory I live in a house with four roommates all men I think of them as brothers and we never really worry about anything like intruders and always have our three back doors unlocked now to give you a visual aid I live in the front part of the house the living area and two of the doors are the back doors to my roommates the back doors lead out to a porch that overlooks our backyard the backyard is large though it's a pretty urban area it snowed a few days ago and there's still some snow on the ground and it's freezing but there's no smoking in the house I put on my jacket and throw on some slippers I grumbled to my roommates about having to go outside to smoke alone but trudged out our back doors anyways I usually bring my phone or another person's but this time I didn't I've been bringing people because I've been hearing strange noises I'm not the only one either my other roommates I've heard them as well sounds that resonate in our backyard but seem to have no place they sort of sound like chimes the fence surrounding our yard is wood until about halfway up and then the chain-link start so it's about 12:30 a.m. and I'm on the porch smoking when something catches my eye now I have two cats in my house my boy cat and my roommate's female cat there's a cat that wanders around and tries to sneak in from time to time and I noticed this thing that caught my eye is close to the ground and wiggling I assume it's the cat and start looking around for something to shoo it away finding nothing I resort to building a snowball and I throw it a small one nothing too big I don't want to hurt it I just want it to go on so I throw the snowball and it hits it it was then that I realized how big this thing was as soon as the ball hit it my entire body filled with an outstanding fear one that I cannot explain I was frozen I watched this thing slowly stand up from the Crouch that it was in it looked like a man but gross its knees was bent in the wrong way and it had gross sagging skin it was unbelievably tall its arms were like twice as long as a person's its face was distorted crinkled with the same wrinkles that creases its body it looked at me and I couldn't move I couldn't breathe with an inhuman speed it took off towards the back of my yard and it was gone my feet started moving again and cigarettes still in hand I crashed through the doors into my house I screamed to my roommates to lock the doors and tried to calm my trembling I can't get the image of this thing out of my mind I can't calm myself they keep telling me that I'm tripping and that can't be real but it's Christmas I'm not on any drugs and I know what I saw I'm terrified what do I do what did I see update 143 a.m. I force my roommate to go outside with me and there are prints in the snow while I can't confirm that they are the creatures they appear too large to be that of Tyler's or my own my cats won't go anywhere near any of the doors and when we were outside we heard what sounded like a cat but it's weird it had an almost garbled undertone the leaves were moving as well I'm terrified update last night was the toughest night I've had in a long time none of my roommates believed me except for the one that's also seen a skinwalker all night long there was this very strange tapping and scratching coming from the Attic I couldn't get more than 45 minutes of sleep at a time while trading stories around a campfire my friend recalled an encounter he had while serving an LDS mission my friend's mission region had a reservation within its boundaries however it was relatively far from where he was serving on occasion him and his mission companion were asked to travel further than usual to meet with some investigators this took them near the reservation on their way home their car ran out of gas and it wasn't until late that night that they were able to continue the journey home my friend who was driving while his companions slept in the passenger seat chose a different route that took him through the back roads in an attempt to get home sooner he told us he was driving above the speed limit when he noticed movement in the woods lining the road because coyotes were common in the area he took a little notice at first then he looked out the window and slammed on the brakes the sudden stop jolted his companion awake who immediately wanted to know what was wrong my friend was shaken and he said he would tell him once they got home he asked him to say a prayer by the time they made it home his companion was eager to know what happened my friend told him I looked down the road next to the car and saw six men running on all fours keeping up with the car I was driving for miles an hour I'm from southern Ohio my particular neck of the woods was hilly and full of the Amish I live deep in the countryside with my father who was stricken with frequent seizures and was unable to work or live alone my story takes place early in the autumn of 2014 I was a 26 year old college dropout at the time and working part-time at a gas station thanks to this I had a lot of free time on my hands most of which was spent hiking in the woods surrounding my home on one of my many solo hikes I saw something that changed me as stated before the seasons had just changed to autumn and the trees were just starting to change into the many brilliant shades that time of year is known for I had decided after one of my shifts at work to get one last extended hike in before the cold started to set in for the year I had left the house around 2:30 p.m. and told my dad I'd be back around 7:00 p.m. for dinner warm Sun but with a cooling breeze remarkably low humidity and not a cloud in the sky perfect weather for a hike I had been walking alongside a creek using a large branch turned into a makeshift walking stick my usual route for around 45 minutes when I realized the woods were quiet too quiet I stopped to listen and aside from the running water to my right there was not a sound in the forest after shuddering from a chill I attributed to a breeze that had cut through the trees I continued my trek trying my best to match the silence of the woods with each step another 45 to 60 minutes passed and my trail separated from the creek and began to loop back around towards my house I had always dreaded this part of the hike due to the steep hills that laid before me and stopped to take a breather after resuming my hike I had made it nearly 3/4 of the way through when I felt a strong wind at my back then allowed cracks somewhere in front of me about 40 yards ahead of me and about 15 yards to the right of the trail a young white-tailed buck stood alert but unaware of my presence after a few seconds of taking in the beauty of the creature I noticed that the wind was still blowing and thought it was strange that the buck hadn't noticed me I had always heard that being upwind of a dear would ensure that you'd be noticed and that the Beast would flee shrugging it off I continued walking making sure to remain silent as to avoid spooking the buck after walking about 15 yards I noticed movement in the direction of the deer looking I noticed he was no longer alert and began walking slowly through the brush but I noticed something else as well the deer was now around 30 yards away from me but in between us close to the ground there was a pitch-black mass moving under the cover of foliage it was much closer to the buck and approaching him he had yet to notice it I froze waiting to see what the strange creature was as coyotes are the only common predator around here and this was way too large and much too dark to be one of those after the distance between the two forest dwellers shrunk to what couldn't have been more than ten yards the hidden be stopped and with it the wind time seemed to freeze in that moment the deer suddenly looked in the direction at me and flinched as if it was going to sprint away but before it could take so much as a step a large black cat lunged at it and instantly took the deer to the ground while shocked at the appearance of this foreign predator I remembered that there have been stories and eyewitness reports going around for the past couple of years of a large black mountain lion roaming the hills in my County I could no longer see the animal through the brush but I didn't need to see to know what it looked like quietly I continued along my path wanting to avoid disturbing the feasting feline as I walked along I realized I was getting a clearer view of the Cougar it was bigger than I expected having only seen them on television or in books and the colour was mesmerizing a deeper black than anything I'd ever seen almost as if it was pulling the light towards it never to escape I stopped to marvel at the cat and as I did it began eating I felt bad for the deer but it was the circle of life and all what felt like minutes couldn't have been more than a few seconds and I was hit with a horrid smell attributed to the deer I noticed that the Cougar wasn't black all over its face and hands were the typical colour weight hands why did it have hands where the paws should have been I began to study the creature more features which just seconds before were that of a large cat were becoming more human-like before my eyes what was once a black cougar or mountain lion is now a large bulky man with long black hair and covered in black first for clothing eating the deer raw with only his hands I couldn't help but let out a quiet gasp but it wasn't quiet enough the man stopped and didn't move for a few moments I knew I had to get out of there but didn't want him to be able to follow me home he hadn't looked in my direction yet and as he was beginning to stand without thinking I launched the stick I had been using to aid my hike back down the path in the direction I came from after hearing the crash the man sunk back down and became creeping in that direction becoming a cat yet again as he moved taking my eyes off of him as little as possible as fast as I could without making a noise I continued along the path once I felt like I was far enough away I broke into a sprint and didn't stop until I was through my back door I haven't seen the man or cat since but I quickly convinced my dad to move to Cincinnati and haven't been back to those woods so who knows if he's still around I knew about the Wendigo skinwalkers etc before my encounter but though it didn't cross my mind until a few months ago when I was retelling the story to my younger cousin at Halloween to scare him the problem is my story doesn't match up to many skinwalker stories I've heard in nearly all others the skinwalker takes on the form of a dog or related animal and my part of the country isn't exactly known for them anyone know what else that could have been if not a skinwalker a few years ago two thousand twelve or thirteen I think since I was still in high school then I was at a party with some friends and as the night goes on maybe 11 or 12 at night one of my friends and I go outside to have a cigarette the second we get out there there's just this completely awful foul smell just like vomit in decay all at once now this was in the middle of nowhere so we just figured it was an old animal and went on having a cigarette less than a minute later we hear something moving in the dark and sure enough a deer comes hobbling into the very edge of the porch but then I noticed something one of its front legs was messed up in some way I'm talking like broken in multiple places messed up so my friend and I are slightly put off by this and finish up our cigarette and go inside however right as we start to do that one of the two porch light goes pop and then goes out so now there's less light outside and the deer goes back into darkness so a bit giddy we both do a fake scared squeal at each other and turn around and go inside and that's when we heard it that undeniable sound of nails on the concrete patio we both slowly turn around and see this hunched over rotten coyote doing this very slow unnatural crawl toward us we go from 0 to 600 paralyzed with fear almost instantly until another one of our friends playfully pulls us through the open door telling us to get back to the party to this day I have not experienced anything like that and it's one of the most horrifying things I've ever experienced [Music] you

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