The witness says of their ominous encounter: It was evening and the sky was a deep red as the sun began to set behind us. From what wedo hear (in the rare stories we get), there are some common characteristics you can look for. Monsters in movies are nothing compared to this. When they tried to get scientific evidence for the weirdness via an array of expensive audio and video recorders, this equipment was mysteriously vandalized., Unfortunately, despite millions of dollars, a crack team of scientists, and a lot of strange events, it doesn't seem like Bigelow's company ever uncovered the verifiable proof that the businessman had wanted. Fake fans! One night, a student was taking the bus home from a basketball game. It had been dark outside for about an hour and my aunt and my uncles were getting ready for bed. On this evening he had been working the graveyard shift, patrolling in his car around the hotel grounds, and he decided to park and take a nap. In addition, it is believed that non-skinwalkers are not allowed to witness the ritual that leads to the creation of skinwalkers, making information even more scarce the skinwalkers truly are shrouded in mystery. Shutterstock. I parked under a tree and I guess I semi-drifted off. The film used the then-popular "found footage" approach, and while it certainly wasn't The Blair Witch Project, it definitely introduced new viewers to all the Skinwalker Ranch mythology. The figure drew closer and my aunt began to smell something like a rotting corpse. I've always been curious and creeper out by this story. Sightings: Farmer City, Bloomington Weldon Springs State Park, Heyworth and Waynesville in the 1970s. More on them later. The elderly woman was 100 % Navajo, and the little girl remembers her shouting at her brother to get away from it!. Next thing you know my aunts and my parents are freaking out about what just happened saying stuff like, "What if it comes back tomorrow?" The witness says: It was going from wall to wall really quick, screaming the most blood-curdling scream youve ever imagined. My uncle pulled the trigger but nothing happened. This dude, if you've never heard of him before, is recognized for having founded Bigelow Aerospace, a million dollar technology company that creates space station modules and he's also known for being really, really into studying UFOs, E.T.s, and paranormal stuff through his other organization, the National Institute for Discovery Science. He only said he was on his way into the main city. Was that a skinwalker sighting? Located in California, Death Valley is a scorching slice of America, and one of the hottest places on Earth. The Navajo, or Din, people of North America have a long-standing belief in magic and shapeshifting and the skinwalker, or yee naaldlooshii, continues to stand as one of the more widely known examples of both. To start with, what you need to know about this place, as described by Vice, is that it's basically the Earth's black hole. I parked and grabbed my pistol and ran on foot after it. Want to know how to make an already creepy place even creepier? Additionally, they must kill the animal they wish to take the form of, making their connection with nature truly perverse. That's well, a bold estimate, for sure. He conducted the prayers and chanted songs. If you stand up to him and stare at him, he wont hurt you. Another way to combat them is to find their true name and speak it. Political insiders are more inclined to think that bizarre, flying vessels described by Navy pilots are next-generation aircraft developed by other countries, as opposed to little green men. Nevada has Area 51, and New Mexico has that whole "weather balloon" incident they don't like talking about. Why are they named after a fictitious Marvel Comics metal? Interestingly, many of these reports involve people just driving through these lands, having frightening encounters with prowling Skinwalkers while in their vehicles. Well all this commotion was enough to get the rest of the trailer up as they came out into the hallway. It was like a bright flash light, not a spot light. When I looked over, there was this man. After singing and praying for several hours, the light disappeared. It had just rained earlier in the day and the road was kind of slick so we were taking it pretty slow. 4 Native American myths and legends, Monster myths debunked: From Bigfoot to the Loch Ness monster. Whatever the case may be, the badlands of the Southwestern United States is certainly a land of spooky myths and legends, and just perhaps may be the hunting grounds for something from beyond the fringe of our understanding. As theDeseret News explained, by 1996, four of the family's prized cows an important part of their income vanished from thin air. Naturally this makes the cop, a Navajo man himself, very on edge and he immediately asks why Travis felt the need to pull over as well. In the novel, Archaeological discoveries in modern-day Germany date the contemplation of therianthropes (shapeshifting or half-animal beings) back to between 35,000 and 40,000 years in the past. Although his family believed in skinwalkers, this man did not; he does now. He fired at the creature with a rifle and it disappeared. One October evening he had just been coming back from the Navajo Nation Fair with his family and grandmother, at Shiprock, New Mexico, and the conversation came around to Skinwalkers, which his grandmother told him to stop talking about because it was dangerous. I could not move or make a sound. We have to get out of here and we have to go faster. The world abounds with tales of supernatural or otherwise cryptic creatures, and North America is no exception.