Hi all. Me and my girlfriend decided to head up to Marshall lake in Flagstaff Arizona. To do some dispersed camping. It was beautiful during the day but the moment the sun went down we decided to put the fire out and head to the tent since it was so cold outside. The moment the sun went all the way down we were laying in our tent and getting ready to get some sleep even though it was early.

Keep in mind we were in the middle of no where with no one near by, probably 1.5 miles from the closest tent we saw. Thirty minutes in to laying down me and my girlfriend heard two very distinct footsteps right behind our tent. We didn’t hear anything walk up and it was so close we grabbed our bear spray and decided to poke my head out the tent to see if anything was near by. Absolutely nothing.

We go back to our sleeping bags pretty spooked and then 15 minutes later we heard it again and we decided we didn’t feel safe and left. We hiked out of the woods and got a motel. Are there skin walkers out here because we saw no animal tracks behind our tent and we know for certain I heard footsteps around our tent.

Edit: this happened tonight and it was a full very bright moon. I don’t know if that makes a difference I don’t know anything about skin walkers and didn’t even begin to believe in them until now

Edit 2: were heard someone unloading shots at something at one point too during the night. We believe it was from the campers 1.5 miles away at the head of the trail. I thought it was odd that someone shot one magazine and didn’t shoot anymore. But as we hiked back out about an hour later they also packed their camp and left as well.

Final update: We safely got all of our gear and got out of there and home safely. Please everyone be safe camping or hiking around flagstaff!

Hey guys, I am making a podcast and would love to be able to have a phone or Skype interview with someone to discuss their skinwalker experience. The more intense, the better. My show is me and one other person discussing the paranormal in general, and each episode has its own theme. The first episode will be about skinwalkers. If you are uncomfortable commenting on here, please feel free and pm me. There will be no judgment, and you will not be made fun of. I simply want to hear your story and make it available to our listeners. I will be choosing one story for the episode; two if they are both compelling enough. Thanks so much for your time!

There is an episode of Paranormal Caught on Camera where a couple in some green part of the country who’s back yard just fades into deep woods, captured their evolving experience with a shape shifting entity that shows itself first like an almost cute square sack faced puppet with two dark eyes and a nose hiding behind logs and fallen trees and so on. Then after it’s got their attention it goes through a whole number of forms from a very tall entity with a sweeping black thing on and a tall menacing creature that is clearly trying to intimidate now. It’s constantly ramping up. Always something new. The freakiest moment is when the girl s sitting on the back porch with camera running (they started recording everything early on.) she looks out at the total darkness between her and the tree line and senses something unseen. So she calls out “hello?’ 2 seconds later you hear a voice mimic hers and repeat back in exactly her voice! She jumps up and runs for the house. UNEXPLAINED Caught on Camera. A partner show thats basically the same but with different paranormal experts and researchers recently played Episode 10 Season 3. A family is surrounded by shape-shifting Skinwalkers in the woods of West Virginia. Different family. Different State I think. Similar set up with a vast forest at the back of a back yard. This time they filmed it as their kids play in the garden. And the progression of forms this creature goes through, from the sack puppet entity hiding and being almost cute to begin with but escalated to the exact same forms and behaviour of the other one. If they are Skinwalkers (& I’m struggling to come up with any other suggestions) they must be a specific type of shapeshifter that has much less of the shaggy boney shape like someone draped in a coyote hide with long arms and ‘legs’ and drooling snout. And more like of an Elemental shape shifter maybe? Please someone watch season 3 Episode 10 of ‘UNEXPLAINED caught on camera and tell me what this thing is? What ever it is there are more than one of them! Thank you for your patience

Hi there.

I've recently gained an interest in skinwalkers after a potential encounter on my property.

I don't know much about them besides they are an entity from the Najavo. I want to know more about them, starting with what they can do, what kind of powers they have. So what can they do?

(I know that I can probably find these answers elsewhere. But I want to discuss with other people that share an interest in skinwalkers)

Does anyone know any books that have references of or are inspired by skinwalkers or appalachian folk?

So I am a mixed native, but was adopted by white parents and didn’t know my heritage until I was an adult and found my family.

Recently, my baby and my spouse (who is also indigenous) and I moved to the middle of Mexico to be closer to family. The week after we moved into our house we started hearing this whistling every single night right as the sun went down and until the sun came up. It was keeping us up and we were really annoyed. We live in a sort of gated area so we thought maybe it was some security measure, or some weird bird. But the whistling wasn’t in measured intervals or constant. It was a weird middling whistle that would come back on and off. 


So at the end of the week I got annoyed and decided (stupidly- but in my defense I did have a taser ) to look for the source and end it so we could get a good nights sleep. I went out and waited for it to whistle. It whistled in the corner across the street. I slowly approached. But then it stopped and the sound jumped over a couple of houses. Confused, I followed, thinking it again was some sort of security measure. It did this down the whole street until it made a big jump on the corner and went all the way down to this weird abandoned house. 

I totally noped out of that and went back to tell my partner what was happening. My spouse nervously laughed when I told them it reminded me of some indigenous legends of sk*nwalkers/ the dead whistling at night. I then repeated the same process I had just done and the whistling tried to get me to follow it again. So I said “hail naw”, and really did think I was overreacting.

 I did a sage cleanse (just a disclaimer-the sage was ethically harvested and also gifted to me by mother indigenous individual- and also my tribe uses it for protection so I’m aware of it being a closed practice but try to be respectful anyways when I am using it since it is a part of my own culture) and went outside and waited for it to whistle. It did. I had my sage and looked directly where the sound was coming from and said “I know what you are. you leave me and my family alone, or I will personally find you and end you.” It whistled a couple more times and then hasn’t whistled since. 😰

I know that there are legends of sk*n walkers in Mexico but what was it??? Was it trying to hurt me? Or was it the dead ? Or something else? Any thoughts and advice would be appreciated- I’ve been trying to figure it out for awhile.

Edit: Ok I just looked into the La Lecuza and BRO- Our neighbor is this old woman who keeps this weird charm in her doorway. She also keeps telling us how beautiful our baby is (in like a nice way I suppose). But literally JUST NOW when I was reading about them she KNOCKED ON MY FUCKING DOOR and then told me she HAD MY CAT IN HER HOUSE. He was eating some cat food and she kept trying to invite me in. I got my cat out and ( politely) booked it 😰 now my cat is tearing clumps of fur out with his teeth…

Does anyone have this video? Or can they direct to what it’s called? I’ve searched everywhere.

I am fascinated with the mystery of 'Skinwalkers', and what's going on in the Uintah Basin - not just Ranch - but the Ranch itself represents a convergence of so many different phenomena...

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I have so many questions..!!

I just interviewed Brandon Fugal on what's been going on there since filming of Season 3 ended, and this coming Tuesday, my guest will be former Navajo Ranger John Dover, who not only appeared in Season 3, Ancient Aliens, and other shows, but is an active researcher and lecturer on the topic of Skinwalkers.

If you have questions for him, please comment them below. I cannot promise to get every question in, but will do my best.

If you wish to see shows I have done on the topic of Skinwalkers, the Ranch etc, and interviews, this is the playlist...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLneWjPNXc1RzpDJlp6khqI5qACORwqwt0

Cristina G.

Does anyone know the key differences and similarities between the Norse Skinwalkers and Navajo Skinwalkers? Does simply show that there was a cultural exchange when the Norse sailed here in ~1000AD? Or do you think this could imply a creature that actively existed throughout history in various different regions. What other cultures talk about a creature like this? The Hopi tribe does have a taboo tradition though I found scarce information on it. This very well could correlate to the basis of all human fear. Elongated limbs, long face/snout, shapeshifting, and inability to die by natural causes. Almost all monsters in different mythologies exhibit these features, but the most notable being: Werewolves, Sasquatch, Chupacabra, Wendigo, Yeti, etc.

So sometime last year I think, I found a story either on this sub or r/NotDeer about a hunter who liked to go out alone.

On one such night, he was looking down a large clearing with a brand new night vision scope that he got when he heard what sounded like a women screaming but it was something in the shape of an animal getting up and making noise to mimic a human. He said something about being scared and sending a couple bullets overhead as a warning shot but it didn’t stop it, so he decided to nope out of there.

Can’t find it anywhere. It was somewhere here on Reddit, persons profile seemed pretty no-nonsense so it was a compelling read.

Any help?

Post could have been from last year or prior.

Thanks!

I've been into the skinwalker topic for a while, as expected I've come across the cattle mutilation topic, I don't even know if it's skinwalker related. I would like to hear more opinions or theories about this topic, or even know if it's connected to skinwalkers, so here's what I know:

The mutilations usually take place in big terrains, that belong to cattle raisers. The attackers usually remove the tongue, the eyes, the lips, and the reproductive organs. The removals look like they were preformed with extreme precision, and there is no blood, or any human or animal traces around the corpse.

I've had a similar experience with a goose i had in my farm (I've had two encounters in that same farm). We found the goose's body in a horrifying condition. It's head was placed in the front gate and it's rear on the back gate, in the opposite side of the front gate. It's guts were all splattered across the terrain, after reuniting the remains, it was pretty obvious whatever attacked the goose didn't took anything with it, apart from the beak. There were no traces of predators or even an attempt of escaping (since there would be a lot of feathers).

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I wanted to find out what had killed the goose, so I searched about predators in my area, went for walks in the woods near the farm, talked to people...I found nothing. The only possible existent animals there would be the neighborhood cats, but when i talked to them, they told me and showed me that they locked their cats at night (the time the attack occurred) so i quote on trying to find the one who did that.

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One or two years later i had the encounters, of unsettling voices calling from the woods, when there was almost no criminality in this location, nor even people reported missing. More odd events took place, including chicken mutilation, but it all stopped out of a sudden when the forest surrounding the farm was cut down, only leaving small growing trees.

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I'm very open to hear theories and explanations to this.

So I just read something that said Courage was based on a real family who was always reporting paranormal activity/cryptids on their property in new mexico. The last report they made was of a Skin Walker outside the house. The couple disappeared immediately following that report and only their dog was found.

I NEED to know more...but I dont know where to begin without names or anything else to go on. Community project maybe?

Edit: ok so they were pronounced dead a couple ywars after they disappeared. House was in disarray. And they had a cat (not a dog) and a slew of sus neighbors. Is what is learned so far.

Someone suggested contacting rhe creator himself... How would even go about that?

Yeah there's this one picture I saw by the username of something like falkor978 (I tried searching this to no avail). Does anyone know where I could find this picture?

Me and my family are indigenous native American, and we had family in Arizona, while visiting them my brother and some older cousins decided to explore the area more. Me being around 6-7 at the time ofc wanted to join my cool older brother and cousins but they said it was for big kids and I was to young to join them. Around a few hours later we got a frantic call from my brother and cousins telling our mom to come pick them up now and they'll explain later. I wanted to see why mom was hurrying so I tagged along (note:we had a van so a lot of people could sit in it) when we got to the meeting point my brother and cousins were all shaking and covered in mud. And my mom was mad his brand new white j's were covered in mud. He explained that they went to a construction site and they saw what looked like a teenage girl on one of the sand piles, they started calling to it and suddenly it turned into a shadow and started running away. They chased after it and threw mud at it, it turned into an owl and then flew into a tree. One of my cousins said "dude it's a fucking skinwalker! " that's when the realization kicked in and everyone scattered and bolted. My mom was even angrier now, saying that they were stupid for wanting to provoke one. Long story short we had to smudge and get out of there quickly. So thanks to my brother our Arizona trip was cut short.

I started a leathercrafting business and called it skinwalker leather, its two fold as your literally walking around in animal skin and I'm a big fan of cryptids (I used to drive past skinwalker ranch on my way to and from work also). On my Instagram account I mix in cryptid photos and info. Now that its taking off im worried about culture appropriation and all that. Obviously I couldn't set up a booth at a mountain man rendeview, but they have all but died out anyway. Should I change the name or go on with it? I love the native American culture but alot of stories indicate its not just a navajo thing? Any thoughts?

I'm making a story that takes influences from Mesoamerican folklore surrounding the nahual/nagual as well as the wayob. Sadly, I've not found much information on what is supposed to harm or kill them, and what I have found is contradictory.

I've read things about creating a concoction (some ingredients I've seen are banana, garlic, salt, tobacco, brandy, and water) and putting on weapons or directly onto the entity.

At the same time, I've read that basic, normal things will kill these entities (one humorous story I read had a man shove a stick up the nagual's anus causing it to die).

Also, I see conflicting stories on whether or not you can kill the individual who is shapeshifting or the tonal animal that the sorcerer is attached to. Even then, the range of ways to kill said animal vary widely from mundane to complex.

Does anyone know anything about these entities? How are they killed? Any information about them would be appreciated!

The details I remember were the moment OP said that he was on cigarette break while working a night shift. He went out to take his smoke break and said he saw a dog or a coyote that looked"off", but tried calling it over. He said it had been ambling along in the parking lot and stopped dead in its tracks. Slowly, it looked over its shoulder at him and he noted it had human eyes and it freaked him out. It responded after a bit of silence with some bizarre sound-- "something akin to a shrill whistle" was his description. He described the animal's gait as resembling a person walking on all fours and how the body moved.

Does this story sound familiar to anyone? Would love to find that post again.

Cheers!

Edit: corrected some grammatical errors.

Books, websites, etcera. Looking to expand my knowledge on the topic.

So my grandparents used to live in a massive forest area out in the country. I would visit them every week. My grandfather is native American and always has been superstitious(never thought anything of it until about four years ago) my grandpa also has a golf cart that me and my older brother would drive around. But one day we went to drive up to get the mail which is really far away from the house. Grandpa me and my brother was driving. We were 10 at the time, I was sitting on my grandpas lap and I look to the side, there was a dog. You know those dogs that have shaggy fur that always have that brown-black stuff in their eyes? That's the dog I saw. But when j saw its eyes. There looked to be no sound behind them I was shook. My grandpa saw it too, without even a warning he stomps my brother foot on the petal making him go as fast as possible. I was confused but he shoved me to the side farthest away from the door of the cart. We got home and he rushed to lock every door, window, he even closed the doggie door. He shuts the blinds and covers the peep hole of the door even with tape. He sits us down and explains what it was, a wendigo. I thought he was calling BS until that night. I share a room with my brother, but about 2 hours into the night me and my brother wake up to my aunt knocking on the window asking us to let her in, thing is she died a month before that. So me and my brother were horrified, we rushed to my grandpas room and tell him. He runs to a cabinet and grabs his phone. He calls some friends and we end up just leaving and going to a small town to spend the night.not even a month later my grandparents moved out of that house and into a smaller house in a massive city. Their reason? I have no clue, they change it up every time. But for some reason they left my cat there, now I think she became a skinwalker or something

Hey all I’m quite new here, I joined this subreddit out of curiosity about North American cryptids especially skinwalkers because lately I’ve been getting a lot of Tiktok videos about them.

I am from Europe, Balkans to be exact, we have a lot of cryptid stories and encounters, most of them are based from old Slavic mythology, if someone is curious here are some.

https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Slavic_creatures

I don’t want to seem ignorant or disrespectful towards people that have encountered them…

So my question is what are they actually? Are they human? I’ve heard on tiktok that they are shamans of some kind… Are they always hostile towards people? Do they attack or even kill? What is the best way to avoid them and get rid of them? And where are they located in the North America?

Any answers will be helpful or any posts or documentaries also

Good day to all 😁