Inside the Mysterious Skinwalker Ranch in Utah
Article by Simon Green March 22, 2021 (dailystar.co.uk)
• Skinwalker Ranch, the 512-acre property nestled in the Uintah Basin in Utah, has been a hotbed for apparent paranormal incidents for decades. The documentary “Hunt for the Skinwalker” was featured on BLAZE pay tv channel on March 25th as part of the channel’s ‘UFO week’. Stories of portals to other dimensions, extinct giant wolves and flying saucers have all been “spotted” at the infamous Skinwalker Ranch over the years.
• Named after the mythical creature found in the Navajo tribe legends, the Skinwalker Ranch’s various owners and visitors have claimed to have witnessed unexplainable events since it was first publicized in the 1970s. Thousands of people have claimed to have witnessed UFOs there in the Uintah Basin.
• Billionaire businessman and UFO fanatic Robert Bigelow bought the property in 1996. He and his team of scientists set about studying the paranormal sightings, but even they were unable to come up with a plausible explanation. Bigelow’s team set up cameras around the property, but the UFOs proved elusive as though they “knew where you were looking”.
• Bigelow’s cameras did manage to pick up some bizarre activities, however. The “Hunt for Skinwalker” documentary shows footage of a blue orb that “seemed under intelligent design” dart across the night sky. A “fan-shaped array of lights” and an airline-like “contrail emanating from the ground” was also recorded at the ranch. Perhaps the strangest of all caught on camera was the moment a ghostly silhouette of “structures” appeared in CCTV footage. Two of Bigelow’s scientists also claimed to have witnessed a “portal” opening up in front of them, before a mysterious creature emerged and darted off into the darkness.
• On March 10, 1997, Skinwalker Ranch owner Tom Gorman and his wife had just tagged a calf and left it with their mother. Standing 300 yards from where they left the animals, their dog started growling at its direction, took off running and was never seen again. The Gormans returned to that spot to find the calf’s distressed mother pacing back and forth, dragging her leg. They then discovered the calf laid spread-eagled on the ground with all of its internal body cavities and muscle missing. One of the ears had also been removed with a “very sharp instrument”. About ten feet away from the animal lay its femur bone, which seemed to have been forcibly removed from its body.
• Dr. Colm Kelleher, a biochemist who worked for Bigelow recalled: “It looked like a massive predator had laid waste to this animal, removed 60lbs of meat in 45 minutes. We don’t know of any predator that could have done it.” Even stranger, the Gormans did not hear or see anything unusual from when they left the calf and returned to it. And there was not a drop of blood on the ground around the animal. Skin tissue analysis showed that the calf had been cut up with sharp, metallic instrument. Scientists came to the conclusion that the creature had been taken away from the field to be killed and butchered before being returned and laid out in the “ritualistic” pattern at the original spot. But, like all the other cattle mutilations, no perpetrator has ever been found.
• In 1994, one day during the very first week that they lived there, while they were tending to their cattle Skinwalker Ranch owners Terry Sherman and his son noticed what looked like a wolf coming towards them across a field. It seemed docile like a lost pet. The one of their calf stuck its head outside of its pen and the huge wolf attacked it and tried to drag it through the fence. The father and son desperately to beat the creature with sticks to make it release the calf, but it had no effect. Terry shot the monster with a .357 Magnum handgun four times before the wolf would let the calf go.
• The wolf let out no cries of pain and just stared at the ranch owner. He shot the creature again with a rifle at 20ft, but the wolf was unfazed. The wolf-like animal was shot again. This time, a “piece of flesh” fell to the ground before it trotted off. Terry and his son tracked the animal to a creek where its tracks “stopped suddenly”. “Even a single shot from the Magnum should have brought that wolf down,” noted Dr Kelleher.
• Later that day, Terry Sherman’s wife Gwen came across the monster wolf and claimed it was accompanied by two black dogs “with giant heads”. When the family was asked to describe the creature by pointing out its picture from a lineup of different types of wolves, they picked out a “dire wolf” – such as those that went extinct roughly 13,000 years ago.
Stories of portals to other dimensions, extinct giant wolves and flying saucers may
sound like something from a science-fiction blockbuster, but they have all been “spotted” at the infamous Skinwalker Ranch over the years.
The 512-acre property nestled in the Uintah Basin in Utah, US, has been a hotbed for apparent paranormal incidents for decades.
Named after the mythical creature found in the Navajo tribe legends, its various owners and visitors have claimed to have witnessed unexplainable events and the fascination behind the Ranch has even attracted celebrities such as Robbie Williams.
Billionaire businessman and UFO fanatic Robert Bigelow bought the property in 1996 and his team of scientists set about studying the sightings of Bigfoot-like creatures, crop circles, glowing orbs and more.
But even they were unable to come up with a plausible explanation.
Skinwalker Ranch is the focus of new BLAZE documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker, which features footage from a previously-never seen programme from journalist George Knapp.
Ahead of its release on March 25 as part of the channel’s UFO week, Daily Star delves into some of the strangest stories to emerge from the chilling ranch.
UFOs and ‘portals’
Thousands of people have claimed to have witnessed UFOs at Skinwalker Ranch and
the surrounding Uintah Basin ever since it was first publicised in the 1970s.
Bigelow’s team of scientists, from his privately-funded National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), set up cameras around the property when he bought it in 1996 and they managed to capture their own sightings.
Frustratingly, as NIDS’ Dr John Alexander claimed, the UFOs proved elusive as they “knew where you were looking”.
But the cameras did manage to pick up some bizarre activities.
In footage shown for the first time in the Hunt for Skinwalker documentary, a blue orb that “seemed under intelligent design” darts across the night sky.
Another image shows how a “fan-shaped array of lights” was recorded while a third captured an airline-like contrail emanating from the ground.
Perhaps the strangest of all caught on camera was the moment a ghostly silhouette of “structures” appeared on CCTV.
1:52 minute trailer for 2018’s “Hunt for the Skinwalker” (‘UNIDENTIFIED’ YouTube)
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