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Post by auntym on Jun 19, 2011 12:32:00 GMT -6
www.skinwalkerranch.org/ THE SKINWALKER RANCHWhere the Incidents in the Book 'HUNT FOR THE SKINWALKER' took place ...... Skinwalker Ranch is a ranch located in the Uintah Basin of Utah; it is the site of a series of paranormal activities. The ranch roughly covers 480 acres relatively near to the Utah cities of Roosevelt and Vernal. Its name comes from the "Skinwalker", a supernatural being in Navajo and Ute folklore. The paranormal activity at Skinwalker Ranch has been intermittent, but according to sources, the alleged activity encountered is unusual or unidentified aircraft, balls of light, poltergeist activity, cattle mutilation, and strange creatures. have been reported. The book "Hunt for the Skinwalker" asserts that after numerous interviews with neighbors to the Gorman ranch, many spoke of unusual experiences to NIDS researchers (one, identified as "Mr. Gonsalez" alleged that he had unusual experiences with cattle disappearances). They also claim local Ute Indians have a history of encounters with unusual objects and creatures.
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Post by auntym on Jun 19, 2011 12:40:50 GMT -6
www.ufodigest.com/article/high-strangeness-skinwalker-ranch-part-threeHigh Strangeness at the Skinwalker Ranch -- Part ThreeSubmitted by Hugh Mungus on Sun, 06/05/2011 The eyes blinked out. Tom raced to the spot beneath the tree, only to discover the area abandoned. The rancher would once again catch sight of the creature, and fire two more rounds into it. Again, the anomaly would vanish, leaving the four men cautiously searching for what Gorman described as a 400-pound beast. Although there were no traces of blood, a pair of huge tracks, with apparent talons, were discovered in the snow. Tom informed NIDS he had seen a pair of creatures, one in the tree, the other on the ground. Able to fell a predator from 500 yards, he claimed to have hit both beasts, the first with the initial round, the second with the last two. NIDS was left with almost no physical evidence to substantiate their encounter. This trend would prove indicative of the group's overall experiences at the Skinwalker. Anomalous events never followed any pattern. Thereby, scientists were unsure where to focus their data collecting equipment. Still, investigative teams were able to corroborate one another's reports, ensuring researchers something beyond their comprehension was occurring. Overwhelming neighbor testimony also lent credence to the supernatural origin of what appeared to be happening. If the Gormans were fabricating a yarn, their efforts were thorough. To achieve such a monumental accomplishment, collusion with countless acquaintances would have been necessary. The scientists began to feel as if some type of force was toying with them. During one particular instance, an NIDS researcher spotted a massive, black entity moving through a copse of trees in front of him. Whatever he gazed upon was large enough to block out the stars. Abruptly, the man began screaming. Racing to their colleague's side, the group discovered their associate bewildered and horrified. The frazzled scientist claimed whatever he encountered had somehow penetrated his thought processes, informing him it was watching the team. The individual, an esteemed academic, appeared to have his entire belief system shaken. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2011 14:45:39 GMT -6
Maybe a weak area in some dimension that allows entrance here..like the Bermuda Triangle. I can't really see any other reason for one place to be singled out for so much activity unless there are dimensional doorways or vortex's. A theory anyway
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Post by auntym on Oct 2, 2011 12:50:27 GMT -6
www.ovni.ch/guest/bourdais6.htmHunt for the Skinwalker A new challenge for the ET Hypothesis?By Gildas Bourdais (with my thanks to Robert Durant for having corrected me) (Third international UFO Conference, Ireland, 23/24 September 2006) Introduction: an important and provocative book The purpose of this talk is to present and discuss an important and provocative book, published at the end of 2005, with a bizarre title: Hunt for the Skinwalker (I will explain it later). The subtitle is more explicit: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah. It was written by a biologist, Dr Colm Kelleher, Ph.D, and a journalist, George Knapp, well known for his inquiries on UFOs. Kelleher holds a biochemistry doctorate from the University of Dublin. Cover of the book In a few words, Colm Kelleher and George Knapp reveal at last, in detail, the numerous strange phenomena which happened on a ranch in Utah, ranging from weird lights, poltergeist happenings in the farm house, to frightening, ghostly apparitions and cattle mutilations. These events were studied very discreetly, almost secretly, during several years by a scientific team of NIDS under the direction of Dr Kelleher. NIDS stands for "National Institute for Discovery Science". It is a private organization which was set up in 1995 by a rich businessman from Las Vegas, Robert Bigelow, who happened to be interested in UFOs and related phenomena. Although NIDS is a purely private organization, it is known to have some working relations with governmental services, so that everything NIDS has said and published has been listened to with great attention. And, although Kelleher and Knapp insist that they are independent authors (Kelleher no longer works with NIDS), their book stands somehow as the NIDS account of these strange events. Let's add that, after a decade of active studies by NIDS on UFOs and related subjects, such as cattle mutilations and abductions, Robert Bigelow has apparently closed inquiries on UFOs and has turned to space projects and studies, in relation with NASA, while keeping the NIDS web site freely accessible, with some very interesting reports. (Web site: www.nidsci.org/index2.html)In their book, Colm Kelleher and George Knapp tell how the NIDS team and its scientific board discussed the possible explanations of all these strange events, including "paranormal" theories, even the most esoteric ones, as we are going to see. What links the story to UFOs is the fact that a lot of observations were made of luminous orbs and silent flying objets of different shapes, including some typical UFO shapes. But they appeared and disappeared very strangely, an aspect which opens the question of paranormal phenomena. Another link is that the whole area, the Uinta basin in Utah, is, in their own words, "a heavyweight contender for UFO capital of the world". Since the 1950s, thousands of UFO sightings have been reported in the area, and it is estimated that half of the residents have seen anomalous objects in the sky. At the heart to the debate lies the question of the nature of UFOs, which has long been debated. In the book Hunt for the Skinwalker, the classical "ET hypothesis" is put in doubt by the authors, not only as an explanation for the events on the ranch but, by extension, for UFOs and related phenomena in general. They compare the events at the Utah ranch with similar events which occurred in other places, such as a ranch in Colorado, and in the area of Dulce, New Mexico. They also compare them with Indian legends, such as otherwordly entities called "tricksters", and "skinwalkers", which have the reputation of being malevolent. The whole chapter five, entitled "The Curse", is devoted to these legends, and it explains the strange title of the book. We learn that the ranch has a bad reputation among the Ute Indians of the area. A local researcher, named Hicks, has told them that "they have stories about the place that go back fifteen generations". They say the ranch is "in the path of the skinwalker" (p. 16). The legend of the skinwalkers is present among several Indian tribes of the American southwest, such as the Navajo, Hopi, and Utes. For them, it is "a malevolent witch capable of being transformed into a wolf, coyote, bear, bird, or any other animal" (p. 35). The skinwalker would be, not only what we call now a "shape-shifter", but it would be also capable of mind control and other trickeries. CONTINUE READING: www.ovni.ch/guest/bourdais6.htm
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Post by auntym on Oct 12, 2011 22:56:44 GMT -6
naturalplane.blogspot.com/Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Breakthrough at Skinwalker Ranch? [/color] The following article was forwarded to me by its author Robert A. Goerman after it appeared in FATE. You can read about Goerman's research at robertgoerman.tripod.com and his latest book WEIRD HAPPENS Investigator Handbook In UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities, author John B. Alexander Ph.D., a former Green Beret commander and developer of weapons at Los Alamos, New Mexico, elaborates upon a mystifying event that we first read about in Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah by Colm A. Kelleher Ph.D. and George Knapp. For readers unfamiliar with the narrative of the so-called “Skinwalker Ranch,” Terry Sherman purchased this 480-acre property near Fort Duchesne, Utah in the summer of 1994 with the intention of starting a cattle ranch business. Terry, his wife Gwen, and their son and daughter, fled the property in May of 1996. A succession of terrifying occurrences on their ranch had left the family anguished and afraid. If I were forced to limit my personal library to a single book about transient anomalies, Hunt for the Skinwalker would be my hands-down choice. Enter the National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDS). Founded in 1995 by real-estate developer and aerospace entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow, NIDS was established to research and advance scientific study of anomalies. Bigelow bought the Sherman ranch in 1996 and Colm Kelleher set up shop. George Knapp was the only journalist allowed to personally witness and document the NIDS effort. The NIDS team eventually installed three telephone poles in one of the pastures. Each was topped with a sophisticated package of sensors and a combined total of six standard surveillance cameras. These researchers kept hard copies of the 24/7 time-stamped recordings and monitored them for extraordinary activity. On July 20, 1998, it was observed that the trio of cameras on telephone pole #1 had stopped recording. A cursory inspection revealed that somebody had badly sabotaged this reconnaissance equipment. Wiring was ripped out forcibly. One section of cable was missing and analysis of the remaining cable showed that it had been slashed with a knife. Each set of wires (the video and power feeds) from the three cameras had been separately wrapped in heavy-duty duct tape and then carefully secured to the utility pole with several windings of that same durable binding before entering sturdy PVC tubing (anchored to the pole with U-clamps) and going underground at the base of the pole. Now the PVC pipe rested twisted and mangled at the foot of the pole and every inch of duct tape was gone. Adhesive residues from the duct tape were unmistakably visible on the dangling wires and pole. Videotapes from the camera array on telephone pole #1 did not reveal perpetrators but disclosed that these three cameras almost simultaneously lost power at 8:30 P.M. on the previous night. Someone on the NIDS research team suddenly realized that one of the cameras on telephone pole #2, about two hundred feet away, was aimed directly at the “scene of the crime.” That recording would undoubtedly expose the identity of the vandals. A mad dash resulted and, sure enough, the available daylight was sufficient for the event to be clearly and duly recorded for all to see. But all that was visible on this tape as it passed that fateful 8:30 P.M. time-stamp was the pristine stillness of the telephone pole and cattle munching peacefully in the pasture beyond. With multiple rounds of digital enhancement of the video, the resolution became good enough to see the tiny red lights on the bottom of each camera lose power at exactly 8:30 P.M. This was absolute proof that the trio of cameras on telephone pole #1 definitely lost power while under continuous video surveillance. This event made entirely no sense. The perpetrators who ripped the wiring out of the cameras at exactly 8:30 P.M. should have been obvious on this videotape. As an investigative scholar of the unknown and unexplained, I believe that several important questions remain to be resolved… First of all, we need to know if the resolution of the surveillance video allowed the NIDS investigators to clearly determine the distinction between the PVC pipe and duct tape wound around telephone pole #1 in perfect condition versus the vandalized state. If a clear and marked transformation could be plainly seen, when was the destruction first confirmed on the surveillance videotape? Was it by the time-stamped dawn’s early light of the following morning? Or was it before darkness set in on that Sunday evening of July 19, 1998? Were these perpetrators invisible? Was the video surveillance of the destruction of this equipment like “watching” time-lapsed invisible vandals at work? Going frame by frame in viewing the time-stamped surveillance video, can it be determined how many frames (or how long it took) for this sabotage to take place? If the surveillance video recorded the destruction of this equipment as “instantaneous,” that suggests a case for Tempus Interruptus or that the local space-time continuum was interrupted. Think in terms of that popular device in science fiction where the character is able to “suspend” time and move freely about that “frozen” moment making changes. This also may explain how lights, objects, and creatures/entities might be able to “blink” in and out of our reality at will. For illustration purposes, imagine that our own space-time existence is like a four-dimensional “movie” that can be “paused” allowing “actors, et cetera” to mysteriously enter or walk off the “set.” Maybe our question should not be “Where do UFOs and monsters go when they disappear in plain sight?” Maybe we should be asking “When do they go?” By his own admission in UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities, John Alexander was one of the first scientists to pull a watch at the Skinwalker Ranch. In Chapter 14: Considerations, Speculation, and Puzzles Addressed, he confirms and addresses this baffling act of vandalism. “As all cameras were recorded with date and time stamps, the exact time of the damage was known. The extent of the damage was significant,” he writes, before particularizing that the “wires leading to camera one were affixed to the pole by a large amount of duct tape (probably about half a roll). That duct tape was totally missing. Anyone who has worked with such tape can attest to how hard it is to remove that material. Further, near the ground, the wires had been protected from animals by being encased in PVC tubing and held to the pole via U-clamps. The PVC had been pulled loose from the pole and the U-clamps were again missing.” John Alexander adds significant details that were not previously reported. He describes the cameras as “strategically placed on the ranch taking time-lapse photography 24/7. Each camera snapped a frame every second and a third, day and night.” Referring to the segment of the wire that had been cut and was missing, Alexander states that “tests on the remaining segments of wire suggested that a rusty instrument had made the cuts.” What sort of demented individual carries a corroded knife? Why might this be important? “Coincidentally,” Alexander informs us, “the cattle just happened to have been grazing right around the camera one pole at that same moment. They did not move in any excessive or excited manner.” This lack of nervousness by the cattle might be noteworthy. Terry and Gwen Sherman once watched as something unseen to them under the noon sun terrorized a single cow before it plowed through the herd and parted those cattle like the Red Sea. There were also reports of invisible creatures that could roar ferociously and splash wildly in a stream. On the opposite end of the weirdness spectrum, there were also several encounters with various visible but unusual animals that proved impervious to gunfire and that could disappear without a trace in mid-stride. Now comes my favorite part of the vandalized cameras mystery in UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities… John B. Alexander concludes: “Considering the amount of physical damage that occurred, for the entire event to have happened in a little over a second (or between video frames) is simply out of the question.” Why would this learned gentleman (who was probably privy to the viewing and analysis of the original time-stamped time-lapse video photographs) even suggest such a thing? This violent act of vandalism to the surveillance cameras brings to mind the inexplicable set of circumstances that involved the horrific mutilation of a newborn calf on this same Utah acreage. The gruesome crime happened one sunny morning just a stone’s throw and heartbeat away from Terry Sherman as he tagged new arrivals to the herd. We agree with John Alexander’s assessment that “the notion that some team of people raced across an open field and was able to conduct this extensive amount of surgery in a short time is highly improbable.” Both events involved some level of intricacy and difficulty. Both events were completed undetected in plain sight. Both events seemed to be accomplished in an impossibly short time or in that temporal space between tick and tock. Did NIDS capture video evidence of Tempus Interruptus? - Thanks to Robert A. Goerman SOURCE MATERIALS: UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities by John B. Alexander Ph.D.; hardcover; 336 pages; Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition (February 15, 2011) ISBN: 0312648340 Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah by Colm A. Kelleher Ph.D. and George Knapp; paperback; 320 pages; Paraview Pocket Books (December 6, 2005) ISBN: 1416505210 CONTINUE READING: naturalplane.blogspot.com/
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Post by skywalker on Oct 13, 2011 19:45:19 GMT -6
If anything unusual ever did happen on a ranch owned by Bigelow( ) the last people who would know about it would be anybody whose name is not Bigelow. He never shares any info with anybody. He just keeps buying up everything UFO related that he can get his greedy little hands on and then he locks it away so that nobody else can ever see it. Knowing how Bigelow( ) operates I seriously doubt that the above incident ever happened because if it did we would not be reading about it. In my opinion, Robert T. Bigelow( ) is the worst thing that has ever happened to the field of ufology.
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Post by auntym on Oct 13, 2011 20:49:10 GMT -6
If anything unusual ever did happen on a ranch owned by Bigelow( ) the last people who would know about it would be anybody whose name is not Bigelow. He never shares any info with anybody. He just keeps buying up everything UFO related that he can get his greedy little hands on and then he locks it away so that nobody else can ever see it. Knowing how Bigelow( ) operates I seriously doubt that the above incident ever happened because if it did we would not be reading about it. In my opinion, Robert T. Bigelow( ) is the worst thing that has ever happened to the field of ufology. the paranormal activity at the skinwalker ranch was happening long before bigelow took over.... the neighbors who live near the ranch also claim paranormal activity.... strange stories from the ranch and surrounding areas go back more than 100 years..... the book THE HUNT FOR THE SKINWALKER by colm kelleher and george knapp is one of my favorite books & it is a fascinating read .... it is one of those 'can't put down books' .... the reader will not be disappointed....
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Post by skywalker on Oct 13, 2011 21:06:14 GMT -6
I'm not disputing the paranormal activity at the ranch, only what Bigelow and his NIDS goons say about it. Ranches don't lie...Bigelows do.
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Post by Steve on Oct 13, 2011 21:38:42 GMT -6
Lets hope some substantiated evidence can be gathered, and more it be made public, instead of sequestering it all away. where someone can review the data, without having to do so 'at a price'.
Lets also hope the apparently very scary things purported to be occurring their are not themselves scared off by Bigelow instead! ;D
Why is this topic brought up now? The stories related at the top of the thread are over a decade old. Since Bigelow bought the ranch has anything happened there since? Or has like everything else Bigelow touches or buys, another cloak of secrecy is raised once again.
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Post by auntym on Oct 13, 2011 21:58:36 GMT -6
Why is this topic brought up now? The stories related at the top of the thread are over a decade old. Since Bigelow bought the ranch has anything happened there since? Or has like everything else Bigelow touches or buys, another cloak of secrecy is raised once again. Steve my guess would be.....like roswell, it is a story of major interest....
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Post by skywalker on Oct 13, 2011 22:10:47 GMT -6
Maybe the ranch is a giant votex into another dimension and MUFON moved their headquarters there so they can more easily hide all of their information. I have always said that MUFON is the black hole of ufology...information goes in and it never comes out. If there is a black hole there let's all hope that Bigelow falls in and the brown-nosing MUFON BoD follows him.
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Post by auntym on Nov 10, 2011 21:38:08 GMT -6
naturalplane.blogspot.com/2011/11/just-facts-battle-at-skinwalker-ranch.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhantomsAndMonstersAPersonalJourney+%28Phantoms+and+Monsters%29Thursday, November 10, 2011 Just the Facts? Battle at Skinwalker Ranch[/color] By GARY S BEKKUM Futurist, STARstream Research OK...this one needs some verification! It sounds like a Hollywood plot for a 21st century remake of Earth versus the Flying Saucers. San Francisco physicist Dr. Jack Sarfatti claims to have heard the rumor while visiting London in 2004, while in the company of Nick Cook, the well known aerospace journalist from the private intelligence publisher Janes Information Group. "I was asked by the 'CIA' not to pursue the story in 2004, but now Bigelow has (allegedly, it seems) opened Pandora's Box on the story." Sarfatti came forward with the rumor following a remark made by billionaire space maven Bob Bigelow to the New York Times about the dangers of UFOs: "People have been killed. People have been hurt. It’s more than observational kind of data." The New York Times had interviewed Bigelow about his recent efforts to build a private space station. In the article, Bigelow was quoted about the lethality of the UFO phenomena, but the basis for Bigelow's statement was not pursued. According to Sarfatti, the rumor of a battle between Bob Bigelow's employees and otherworldly beings was provided by a mysterious French woman, who was accompanied by a body guard carrying a mystery briefcase allegedly containing "some kind of 'psychotronic' weapon based on alien ET technology." Sarfatti says the woman claimed to be part of a semi-secret Paris UFO group, and the woman attributed the story to Jacques Vallee, the internationally famous researcher who inspired the French UFO researcher Claude Lacombe in Steven Spielberg's classic UFO film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Sarfatti quickly added, "Allegedly Jacques Vallee denies the story, but now Bob Bigelow seems to have gone public with it -- albeit without the details. Apparently Sarfatti, who in recent years has consulted to Dr. Ron Pandolfi (for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) on speculative ideas related to reverse engineering hypothetical extraterrestrial technologies, also knows more of this rumor than he is willing to make public. "I am not divulging details only the general nature of the remarks. In any case Nick Cook heard them also." In the 1990s, Bob Bigelow funded UFO investigations under a group he founded called the National Institute of Discovery Sciences, also known as NIDS. Among the many investigations conducted by NIDS was the mysterious case of the so-called Bigelow Skinwalker Ranch in a remote region of Utah, where a variety of paranormal phenomena had been reported. One experience made public by former NIDS personnel was the report of a nearly invisible being emerging from a tunnel that appeared to float in thin air, which led to speculation of an opening from another world -- a star gate -- built from a spacetime wormhole. CONTINUE READING: www.starpod.org/news/1111023.htm
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2011 11:56:13 GMT -6
OK...this one needs some verification! |
They ALL need some verification LOL
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2011 18:47:03 GMT -6
Whoever Robert Bigelow is, I had initially hoped that he was "buying" things up to eventually reveal more things to the general public.
Several of us here have been waiting for a new book about this ranch.....and I figure if there is money to be made, it will happen. The thing about this Bigelow, is he doesn't seem to need money, and what advantage is there to starting rumors of this sort?
Why was the book named the "skinwalker ______" in the first place? Not a whole lot fits that heading. Unless there already are parts of the story being withheld. I sure wish I knew some natives of the area.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 13, 2011 0:33:02 GMT -6
I think Bigelow is buying things up so they won't be revealed to the public. He seems to want to keep everything for himself.
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Post by lois on Nov 13, 2011 1:10:53 GMT -6
It has alway been called paranomal events aound this ranch.. has a ufo actually come down on this guys house or stood above his front yard? He should have a photo of that or maybe a alien in his front yard.. I have seen the videos .. It is a bunch of lights bouncing around.. I do not believe this man has had any alien contact.. those are like the Mofitt lights in texas, they won't every figure it out..
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Post by lois on Nov 13, 2011 1:14:26 GMT -6
What I really would like to know .. who was the previous owner? and were they surrounded by these paranormal events?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2011 6:49:01 GMT -6
hi lois . supposedly, there are "superstitions" about this land from the American Indians also. More than one tribe. As a youngster, I heard from somewhere, someone (possibly just a story) about a "skinwalker" that his special gift was to turn into a wolf. Not a werewolf. A real, normal size, gray type of wolf (at least I pictured him gray). He basically protected old tribal lands from curiosity seekers; especially in the high hills, caves, and "rock carved homes". He was respected (and feared) for his role. I have yet to find his particular story on the net. I want to believe it was a more Utah, Montana, type of story, because besides mountains there were vast, open plains. Could even be NM. I've been exploring in a lot of Colorado; several times; just doesn't "feel right". Anyway, there is a reference in the book we are discussing, to exceptionally large wolves showing up on the ranch. If they are just a precursor, and people aren't warned away, maybe this is what continues to happen.... (but I kind of doubt this). That thought makes me wonder more. I believe there are several paranormal portals on our world, including in Missouri, and in Illinois (more than Mo. ) People are just more aware of the Bermuda Triangle initially. So, in "Indian country", with "legends" and all, are the wolves just "used" to garner fear in the old days? I believe Europe came up with the "werewolf" and more exotic ideas, but the Americas are just as old. I have been around both wolves and bears. Bears scare me more. I've never seen in person (only on tv) a "mountain cat". I'd prolly be in awe. I believe my family is "plains Indian". At least my grandfather decided to retire and farm on the plains . He was (now deceased) a very loved, ornery man. We have tried to find out his family history; even brothers and sisters, and there is nothing. I find this very weird. It is an accepted "fact" in our family, that we don't know anything, and usually "dropped". We get our Indian from him, I'm told. I don't think I look Indian at all (does it matter?) but I'm warmly greeted in those communities wherever, including the Spanish-speaking (more than most). I sense it is a spiritual thing. I think this particular land was against the white man. If that makes sense. Now it is more science fiction paranormal? Someone should be trying to find out what is so "sacred" about this land, if they're not being scared off, IMO. Is Bigelow Indian heritage?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2011 23:51:02 GMT -6
well, no one has commented more on this. Yet . I have said before that I believe there are many forms of life, including "beings". The point I was struggling for here is nothing new. That when a place is "sacred" for whatever reason, it doesn't matter who or what trespasses. So even a "portal area" may have some restrictions on it that confound anyone (including "aliens") that doesn't show respect.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 16, 2011 22:35:13 GMT -6
As far as I know, the paranormal occurances on that land go back for generations. That's one of the things that attracted Bigelow to it. The previous owner was allowing people to go out and camp there and its fame is what attracted Bigelow, but when he bought it he closed it down to everybody but himself and his own investigators.
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Post by lois on Nov 17, 2011 1:02:05 GMT -6
sky . . you mean the original owner in the past twenty years is not the owner any more.??
jc.. I love to hear about history here in America.. thanks for putting up your post..
My youngest brother found a dog in the county about 12 years ago. he took him home. As he grew my brother realized he had wolf in him.
The Vet told him you know your dog is half wolf? He did not turn him in as we are not allowed wolves to be a pet here.
Just wanted to say he was the most gentle dog I have ever seen. he was also Muskie.. We have no idea how this animal came about.. to be this breed. He made me think of the movie. Fang one and Fang two.. yes he resembled that animal..
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Post by auntym on Jul 5, 2012 15:25:29 GMT -6
www.jerrypippin.com/Paranormal_Mystery_Ranch.htmMYSTERY RANCHA hair-raising tale of the paranormal with a healthy mix of UFO and spirituality, the new book, "Hunt For the Skinwalkers," has been released. George Knapp, a nationally known investigative reporter for KLAS-TV, Las Vegas, joins Dr. Colm Kelleher, former Director of the National Institute of Discovery Sciences (NIDS), in a vivid discussion interview with Jerry about the investigation of a complete potpourri of paranormal and UFO events, including appearances of Skinwalkers, who are described in Navaho shamanist folklore, as shape-shifting witches from the dark side. The events take place on the Old Sherman Ranch in the isolated Uinta Mountains region of northeastern Utah, long known for its UFO activity. After enduring several months of many terrible and stressful encounters with the phenomena manifesting on the property, the then owner, a Mr. Gorman, and his family decided to sell and move out. In 1996, the entire ranch property, flagpole and all, was bought by Las Vegas entrepreneur and founder of both NIDS and Bigelow Aerospace, Robert T. Bigelow in behalf of NIDS. A scientific investigation of the various phenomena that continued to plague the property commenced and continued for another eight years. NIDS still exists today as an organization, but is currently not actively conducting any research, and it's Las Vegas headquarters office is closed. Knapp covered the events on this remote Utah ranch beginning in the middle 1990's. Kelleher and other scientists were involved since 1996. The types of paranormal activities occurring on the ranch property include cattle mutilations, a giant wolf that would not die, UFOs and many supernatural occurrences, including poltergeist, strange noise and visual effects. Interestingly enough, according to Kelleher, things have strangely quieted down on the ranch since 1998. It is as though the presence there sensed that it had come under scientific investigation and not wanting to provide evidence about itself, disappeared. But, paranormal activity could still be occurring, and the warning signs on the gate should not be taken lightly by any who might wish to enter the property to observe, for your own safety. In conclusion, this is a story that demonstrates that scientific expertise and equipment, as well as a brave journalist offering himself not only as a recorder of events, but also as an on-site target, can be brought to bear in investigating paranormal and possibly UFO/ET related phenomena. To date, this nexus of paranormal phenomena still defies explanation. You can wonder: will it always remain an unsolved mystery? CONTINUE READING: www.jerrypippin.com/Paranormal_Mystery_Ranch.htm MORE READING: www.aliendave.com/UUFOH_TheRanch.html
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2012 12:22:43 GMT -6
I was hoping for a new book, still.
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Post by auntym on Apr 14, 2013 14:32:04 GMT -6
www.spookscentral.com/view-all-news/1-latest-news/1262-a-tale-of-the-skinwalker-ranch.htmlA Tale of the Skinwalker RanchAndy Miller returned to his home at Skinwalker Ranch to visit his parents after two years away at college studying political science, as well as to try to repair the strained relationship he developed with his father after leaving for college instead of staying to work on the ranch. He videotapes the trip to show his girlfriend when he returns to college. Shortly after arriving, his parents approach. Andy joins his father as they drive out onto the ranch to check on a mother sheep that had recently given birth. His father tells him of a recent coyote problem that had developed at the ranch, and after a while they drive past a strange Native American woman walking along the road, who is wearing animal hides and making strange growling sounds. When Andy asks him about it, his father dismisses it as simply being that there are several reservations in the area around the ranch. As they arrive at the north end of the ranch, where the mother sheep is being kept. As they walk up into the hills, they spot tracks in the dust. Andy notices that, while the tracks start off looking like those of a coyote, they turn into what appear to be human footprints as they progress through the sand. They suddenly hear Andy's mother calling from the truck. At first, they think that they had left the truck's radio on, but when they arrive, they find that it has been off the whole time. They then hear coyote calls from up in the hills and the bleating of a sheep. Andy's father grabs a rifle from the truck and they head towards where the sheep is being kept. A coyote suddenly appears on a ridge, and Andy's father shoots at it, but it seems to disappear. They finally arrive at the pen where the mother sheep is being kept, but find it slaughtered, and the lamb is missing. They suddenly hear what appears to be an entire pack of coyotes approaching them and they decide to leave as night begins to fall. As they drive back, they see what appears to be the woman from before up on a ridge. It is completely dark in a short while, and a person, presumably the same woman from before, suddenly walks out into the road in front of them and seems to be hit by the truck. When they get out to check on her, they find only the missing lamb wrapped up in the animal hides the woman had been wearing. Andy suddenly hears a sound and turns just in time to see a coyote running away at the edge of the headlights' beams. Andy returned to college, switching his field of study to Native American mythology. The coyote problem ceased shortly after his visit, but his parents continue to report strange animal calls sounds on their ranch at night.
MORE: www.spookscentral.com/view-all-news/1-latest-news/1262-a-tale-of-the-skinwalker-ranch.html
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Post by auntym on Apr 15, 2013 13:57:28 GMT -6
naturalplane.blogspot.com/2013/04/reader-submission-living-near.htmlMonday, April 15, 2013 Living Near the Skinwalker Ranch [/color] I received the following email today: Hi Lon - I recently started receiving your email newsletter and happened to listen to your show last night. Your guest (Christopher O'Brien) was talking about the Skinwalker Ranch and some of the strange things that have been known to occur there. I have been familiar with the general area for quite a long time. I lived near Roosevelt, UT when I was a boy. My family owned land south of town. I suppose we lived about 3 or 4 miles from the current Skinwalker Ranch and Bottle Hollow. This was during the 1950s before the reservoir was built in the hollow. Sometimes we'd look east at night and see weird lights coming from the hollow area. One night I remember watching a ball of bright white light with a long tail moving along the eastern horizon then reverse course and go back the other way. My father called it a 'spirit light' and said he would see many in one night when he was a boy. The most shocking and memorable incident I experienced happened on my 12th birthday which was in September 1959. Our family was sitting out behind the house enjoying the evening. We had a small party earlier and the last guest had just left. I had received a refracting telescope as a gift from my parents and I was eager to try it out. The sky was clear and full of stars that evening. As I scoured the sky I heard what sounded like men talking. The sound was coming from the gully on the east end of our land. As I listened I noticed my father walking towards me. He had a very fearful look on his face, like he had seen a ghost or something. CONTINUE READING: naturalplane.blogspot.com/2013/04/reader-submission-living-near.html
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Post by auntym on Nov 6, 2013 14:30:01 GMT -6
www.costaricantimes.com/facing-death-at-the-utahs-skinwalker-ranch/22147Facing Death at the Utah’s Skinwalker RanchPosted by Paul Dale Roberts Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Ghosts & the Paranormal - Chantal Apodaca looks at me and asks…”are you scared?” I look at her and calmly said…”yes.” What is there to be scared about at the Skinwalker Ranch? Lots of things, but before I talk about the ‘scary incident’, let’s start from the beginning. Skinwalker Ranch 1Let’s look at the history of the Skinwalker Ranch. Skinwalker Ranch, also known as Sherman Ranch or Gorman Ranch, is a property located on approximately 480 acres (1.9 km2) southeast of Ballard, Utah that is allegedly the site of paranormal and UFO-related activities. Its name is taken from the skin-walker of Native American legend. Claims about the ranch first appeared in the Salt Lake City, Utah Deseret News, and later in the alternative weekly Las Vegas Mercury as a series of articles by journalist George Knapp. These early stories detailed the claims that a family that had recently purchased and occupied the property experienced an array of inexplicable and frightening events. Knapp and co-author Colm Kelleher subsequently authored a book in which they describe the ranch being acquired by the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDSci) to study anecdotal sightings of UFOs, bigfoot-like creatures, crop circles, glowing orbs and poltergeist activity reported by its former owners. Special Note: It is rumored that the NIDS was formerly the O.S.I.R. (The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research) made famous by the TV series Psi-Factor hosed by Dan Ankroyd. The ranch, located in west Uintah County bordering the Ute Indian Reservation, was popularly dubbed the “UFO ranch” due to its ostensible 50-year history of odd events said to have taken place there. Knapp and Kelleher cite the 1974 book The Utah UFO Display: A Scientist’s Report by Frank Salisbury and Joseph “Junior” Hicks, which details an earlier investigation into alleged UFO sightings in the Uintah County region, as partial confirmation of their account. According to Kelleher and Knapp, they saw or investigated evidence of close to 100 incidents that include vanishing and mutilated cattle, sightings of unidentified flying objects or orbs, large animals with piercing yellow eyes that they say were not injured when struck by bullets, and invisible objects emitting destructive magnetic fields. Among those involved were retired Army Colonel John B. Alexander who characterized the NIDSci effort as an attempt to get hard data using a “standard scientific approach”. However, the investigators admitted to “difficulty obtaining evidence consistent with scientific publication.” Cattle mutilations have been part of the folklore of the surrounding area for decades, but NIDSci founder Robert Bigelow’s purchase of the ranch and investigation funding was reportedly the result of his being convinced by stories of mutilations that included tales of strange lights and unusual impressions made in grass and soil told by the family of former ranch owner Terry Sherman. In 1996, skeptic James Randi awarded Bigelow a Pigasus Award for funding purchase of the property for what he termed a “useless study” of “a ‘haunted ranch’ in Utah”. A film, titled Skinwalker Ranch, was released in 2013, and is very loosely based on the folklore behind the ranch. The stories that stay in my mind about the Skinwalker Ranch are the following. 1. The Gormans that lived on this ranch, came across aSkinwalker Ranch bullet proof wolf that was chewing on the leg of one of their calves. They shot at this wolf several times and it merely shrugged off the bullets and walked away. 2. The Gormans saw a RV drive away into the hillside and later morph into a UFO and fly off in the night sky. 3. A NIC scientist witnessed a portal open up in the sky and a Bigfoot creature came out of the portal and ran off into the woods. 4. There has been Shadow People, poltergeist activity at this ranch. So, you can see I am anxious to check it out myself. When we drove through Salt Lake City, we were amazed at the beauty of this city. Salt Lake City has much to offer with the sites of Temple Square, the Tabernacle, Olympic Cauldron Park and much more. When we reached Salt Lake City, we learned that the Skinwalker Ranch (near the towns of Roosevelt and Vernal in the Uintah Basin was 2 hours or 2 ½ hours away on Highway 40. When I got this news, I almost fainted. I already drove forever into eternity with Lisa helping me to drive. The weather didn’t look good, there is lightning everywhere. It’s now midnight, I feel the fatigue setting in. I ask my investigators if they are ready to get a hotel and try again tomorrow. Lisa says if the Sci Fi Channel’s Destination Truth paranormal team can endure the hardships that they do in various jungles, swamps in the world to seek out the truth, then we can endure the hard rains of Utah. I looked at Chantal and say: “Do you feel the same way Chantal?” Chantal: “Yes, Paul, we came too far to stop now.” I look at Lisa and Chantal and said they are both heroic paranormal pioneer scouts that have the courage and heart of a tiger. So be it, let’s get back into The Rift and trek ahead for our destination. For California paranormal investigators, if you plan to investigate the Skinwalker Ranch, I suggest you drive first to Salt Lake City, get a hotel, rest up and then in the morning head over to Skinwalker Ranch, do not attempt to drive all the way to the Skinwalker Ranch. In fact Utah even has signs indicating they do not want fatigued drivers on their freeways. CONTINUE READING: www.costaricantimes.com/facing-death-at-the-utahs-skinwalker-ranch/22147
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Post by lois on Nov 6, 2013 18:27:12 GMT -6
As usual, still trying to find the book I read in the late 70s or early 80s . Terry Sherman sure sound like the name of the owner in this book but I read this book before he ever owned the ranch. No it would have to be Gorman who the book spoke of.. just trying to find as it had the bigfoot coming out of a ufo carry in a purple lit box.
The article above and I quote it here..
The stories that stay in my mind about the Skinwalker Ranch are the following. 1. The Gormans that lived on this ranch, came across aSkinwalker Ranch bullet proof wolf that was chewing on the leg of one of their calves. They shot at this wolf several times and it merely shrugged off the bullets and walked away. 2. The Gormans saw a RV drive away into the hillside and later morph into a UFO and fly off in the night sky. 3. A NIC scientist witnessed a portal open up in the sky and a Bigfoot creature came out of the portal and ran off into the woods. 4. There has been Shadow People, poltergeist activity at this ranch. So, you can see I am anxious to check it out myself.
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Post by lois on Nov 6, 2013 18:36:37 GMT -6
Maybe ufos pick up bigfoot as well as humans. But in this book they were pretty well trained as it was doing all sort of chores for ET. I can see all the photos in this book clearly in my mind. I know what the owner looked like. Also what the room in his ranch looked like and the yard in front of it, but I do not remember the name of the stupid book.
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Post by auntym on Jan 16, 2014 12:26:55 GMT -6
www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=260850 Facing death at the Skinwalker Ranch.Posted on Thursday, 16 January, 2014 Columnist: Paul Dale Roberts Chantal Apodaca looks at me and asks…”are you scared?” I look at her and calmly said…”yes.” What is there to be scared about at the Skinwalker Ranch? Lots of things, but before I talk about the ‘scary incident’, let’s start from the beginning. The day is October 4, 2008, Saturday. The time is 0900 hours. At my door are HPI paranormal investigators Chantal Apodaca and Lisa Hanley. My local scouting missions can have up to 30 investigators attending, but when the distance is far, the scouting mission party can be very small. Well, this scouting mission is far, it’s in Utah, past Salt Lake City, close to the towns of Vernal and Roosevelt. This scouting mission is the smallest one yet. Only two investigators show up at my door. I am thankful they are coming with me, because now I will have someone to talk to. I won’t lose my mind on the long, long road to nowhere. Skinwalker Ranch is the paranormal Mecca for investigators like me. Chantal and Lisa have done their research and are very excited to go. Let's look at the history of the Skinwalker Ranch. Skinwalker Ranch, also known as Sherman Ranch or Gorman Ranch, is a property located on approximately 480 acres (1.9 km2) southeast of Ballard, Utah that is allegedly the site of paranormal and UFO-related activities. Its name is taken from the skin-walker of Native American legend. Claims about the ranch first appeared in the Salt Lake City, Utah Deseret News, and later in the alternative weekly Las Vegas Mercury as a series of articles by journalist George Knapp. These early stories detailed the claims that a family that had recently purchased and occupied the property experienced an array of inexplicable and frightening events. Knapp and co-author Colm Kelleher subsequently authored a book in which they describe the ranch being acquired by the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDSci) to study anecdotal sightings of UFOs, bigfoot-like creatures, crop circles, glowing orbs and poltergeist activity reported by its former owners. Special Note: It is rumored that the NIDS was formerly the O.S.I.R. (The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research) made famous by the TV series Psi-Factor hosted by Dan Ankroyd. The ranch, located in west Uintah County bordering the Ute Indian Reservation, was popularly dubbed the "UFO ranch" due to its ostensible 50-year history of odd events said to have taken place there. Knapp and Kelleher cite the 1974 book The Utah UFO Display: A Scientist's Report by Frank Salisbury and Joseph "Junior" Hicks, which details an earlier investigation into alleged UFO sightings in the Uintah County region, as partial confirmation of their account. According to Kelleher and Knapp, they saw or investigated evidence of close to 100 incidents that include vanishing and mutilated cattle, sightings of unidentified flying objects or orbs, large animals with piercing yellow eyes that they say were not injured when struck by bullets, and invisible objects emitting destructive magnetic fields. Among those involved were retired Army Colonel John B. Alexander who characterized the NIDSci effort as an attempt to get hard data using a "standard scientific approach". However, the investigators admitted to "difficulty obtaining evidence consistent with scientific publication." Cattle mutilations have been part of the folklore of the surrounding area for decades, but NIDSci founder Robert Bigelow's purchase of the ranch and investigation funding was reportedly the result of his being convinced by stories of mutilations that included tales of strange lights and unusual impressions made in grass and soil told by the family of former ranch owner Terry Sherman. In 1996, skeptic James Randi awarded Bigelow a Pigasus Award for funding purchase of the property for what he termed a "useless study" of "a 'haunted ranch' in Utah". A film, titled Skinwalker Ranch, was released in 2013, and is very loosely based on the folklore behind the ranch. I have been to many haunted locations from Stonehenge to the Tower of London to the Bridge over River Kwai in Thailand, but never have I been to a location that has so many stories of paranormal phenomenon. I have been to countries that have unusual paranormal phenomenon like Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Panama, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, but for some reason the stories from Skinwalker Ranch will stay in my mind. Now let's talk about this adventure. The stories that stay in my mind about the Skinwalker Ranch are the following. 1. The Gormans that lived on this ranch, came across a bullet proof wolf that was chewing on the leg of one of their calves. They shot at this wolf several times and it merely shrugged off the bullets and walked away. 2. The Gormans saw a RV drive away into the hillside and later morph into a UFO and fly off in the night sky. 3. A NIC scientist witnessed a portal open up in the sky and a Bigfoot creature came out of the portal and ran off into the woods. 4. There has been Shadow People, poltergeist activity at this ranch. So, you can see I am anxious to check it out myself. CONTINUE READING: www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=260850
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Post by auntym on Apr 11, 2015 14:11:53 GMT -6
ufodigest.com/article/stalking-skinwalker-0410STALKING THE SKINWALKERBy Steve Erdmann April 11, 2015 From a stanza of the Navajo ‘Ghost Song’: Wana’yañ Ma’niye Wana’yañ ma’niye, Wana’yañ ma’niye. Tata’ñka wañ ma’niye, A’te he’ye lo, A’te he’ye lo. Translation: Now he is walking, Now he is walking. There is a buffalo bull walking, There is a buffalo bull walking, Says the father, Says the father. An infamous ranch called the Skinwalker Ranch lies in the heart of ancient Native American Lands in Utah. A number of Indian reservations surround the ranch, influencing residents in rich, traditional culture and the spirituality of their ancestors. Asazi, Fremont, Ute, Paiute, Shossone, and Uintah Indian legends speak of “portals” to the spiritual world, often fraught with forms of witchcraft. There were two types of spiritual tribal shaman members: Medicine Men and Skinwalkers. Skinwalkers evolved into black magic, deception, and cursing, inflicting pain and suffering. They could not enter the dwellings of victims (unless invited in), but could lure them into the open where they could instill fear or harm. A Skinwalker was a shape-shifter, often a mortal man, but also a women or child, that could appear as an animal (a wolf, bear or eagle) extending those attributes and traveling by supernatural means. A typical story involved a female Indian newspaper deliverer whose automobile was accosted by a “half man, half beast” with red eyes and a “misshapen” arm, opening her car door and trying to grab her baby. She managed to drive her car off, but the creature kept pace with her vehicle, and still attempted kidnapping. When she pulled into the parking lot of a convenience store, the patrons chased the creature away STALKING THE SKINWALKER By Steve Erdmann The Skinwalker Ranch (known for reports of hyper-mysterious happenings) “consists of 480 acres located in North-East Utah south of US Interstate 40, which enters Utah from North-Western Colorado, winds through miles of sparsely populated territory – interrupted only by the city of Ver Nal and passes through Ballard on its way west.” The Ranch property is located along the southern border of the Unintah-Quray Indian Reservation near the Bottle Hollow Reservoir, north of the Ranch; Road 27505 leads from Hill Top Road east along the northern edge of the Ranch property. There is a North Gate, South Gate, and an East Gate. The ranch house is located in the north-east corner of the property. BAASS AND BIGELOW Many of the earliest strange events are related in Colm Kelleher and George Knapp’s 2005 book Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah (Paraview Pocket Books, December 6, 2005). Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) bought the property in 1996 and established the National In statute for Discovery Science (NIDS) to investigate many of the incidents. About 2009, Bigelow entered into a short-lived agreement with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Indian legends in that area bespoke of a trans mutative creature, both half animal and half human. Some creatures took the form of “apparitions and whirlwinds.” EARLY CASES Earliest records indicate that a Ken Meyers and his wife Edith lived on the property from 1930s till 1987. Not much was reported about paranormal activity on the ranch then, but the local Indians had a “wage pool” as to how long the Meyers would stay “before being driven off.” The Meyers had placed dead bolt locks on almost all the doors, even inside of the house. The Meyers also owned large and unfriendly dogs chained just outside the door leading into the house. Another neighbor said one of his cows disappeared about 1996. And the man's nephew, Dean Derhak of Salt Lake City, said he was riding a horse on his uncle's property in 1980 when he saw a silver sphere on the ground of what later became the Sherman ranch. ``It was fairly big, about 30 to 40 feet wide. It looked like a bowl upside down,'' said Derhak, who was eleven-years-of-age at the time. ``It scared me and I took off.'' The farm was bought by Terry and Gwen Sherman in 1994. One of the first phenomena the Shermans noticed were geometric circles of varying diameters that appeared as if some heavy bodies left their impressions. Further investigation, however, revealed three of the families living nearby have experienced unusual activity. The Uintah County Sheriff's Office confirmed that John Garcia, who lives east of the ranch, reported two of his cows were mutilated earlier in 1996. Some of the Sherman’s cattle were found to be mutilated, drained of blood; one was cored through the anus and gave off strange chemical odors. Four other cattle disappeared. One cow appeared to have been pulled up leaving scorched branches. Roosevelt, Utah veterinarian Dan Dennis said that eventually ten mutilated cattle were reported on the Sherman ranch. (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/12insiders/Robert_Bigelow_001.html.) The Shermans also had their share of UFOs: strange light sightings and strange voices. Voices were heard coming from about 25 feet over the heads of two family members. Gwen Sherman witnessed a manned aircraft, and she had witnessed a figure over seven feet tall exit the craft. CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/stalking-skinwalker-0410
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