- Note - You can hear this remarkable interview of 12-19
with Jeff in our Archives. Buy
- the book through Amazon.com. This is one of the strangest
stories you'll ever read. - ed)
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- Hunt for the Skinwalker documents a real life version
of what could be several chilling "X Files" episodes, the difference
being that the events in Skinwalker actually happened. The book begins
in late 1994 just after an innocent family purchases and moves onto a ranch
in an out of the way spot in NE Utah. Quickly the idyllic spot begins to
demonstrate some very weird phenomena. Within a month, family members are
being literally terrorized by an intelligent, malevolent force that seems
to want to drive them off their land. For example:
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- · Their purebred registered cattle are brutally
killed and mutilated.
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- · Three dogs that serve as both cattle dogs and
family pets are vaporized by apparently intelligently guided, flying blue
orbs only a couple of hundred feet from where the rancher sits watching
in horror.
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- · The family is subjected to daily rounds of mind
games in which the purpose seems to get them off the property as quickly
as possible. Things disappear from inside their house and then reappear
later. Among dozens of events, while the wife has a shower, her towel disappears
and later ends up in the oven. A 70 pound post digger disappears from behind
the rancher and a week later, after searching the property, is discovered
twenty feet up in a tree.
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- · They hear invisible, discarnate voices laughing
at them and mocking them from a few feet away.
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- · They see strange flying objects flying around
their property that seem to be involved in killing their cattle.
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- · A mysterious orange object appears over the
property and the rancher sees a hole in the sky opening, through which
something flies through.
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- As the stress mounts, the teenagers in the family begin
to suffer from sleep loss. Their grades drop. By mid 1996, the family has
had enough. They are sleeping together on the floor of their living room
for protection. They have no idea of how to respond to an intelligent force
that seems to know what they are thinking and what they are saying. They
go public. They look for help.
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- A high powered science team comprising the National Institute
for Discovery Science (NIDS) with unlimited funds and access to world class
technology responds. They are based in Las Vegas and funded by billionaire
entrepreneur and aerospace owner Robert Bigelow. NIDS purchases the property,
the family moves off. NIDS decides to create a "laboratory of the
paranormal" and sets up a command and control center on the ranch.
Three scientists, led by Colm A Kelleher PhD, and an arsenal of scientific
equipment, including magnetic field, electric field detectors, instruments
for monitoring radiation, microwave and radio waves, as well as portable
spectrometers and video cameras are quickly deployed on the ranch.
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- Throughout 1996 and 1997, as the team spends hundreds
of days on the property, and as they cover every inch of the ranch, mostly
at night, they encounter dozens of strange phenomena. For example:
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- · On March 10, 1997 the team gets a phone call
from the panicked ranch manager to report that an 84 pound calf has been
silently killed in daylight while he and his wife were only 300 yards away.
The team hops on a private jet and in five hours is standing over the dead
calf. The animal with all internal organs gone, rib-cage ripped open, lies
spread eagled on the pasture. The calf's limbs have been forcibly ripped
from their ball and socket joints. An ear is gone. Using forensic analysis
and with a veterinary pathologist conducting a necropsy, the team quickly
determines that sharp instruments have been used to remove the ear. Forensic
analysis determines that a heavy machete instrument was also used. Not
a drop of blood is found on or near the calf. The ranch manager is completely
spooked.
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- · Two days later at near midnight, the dogs go
berserk outside. The team and the ranch manager hop into a truck and drive
through the pasture where the cattle are plainly panicked. The bouncing
headlight beams pick up two eyes staring from a tree, obviously a large
animal. Another large shadow is seen by team members below the tree. The
manager, an expert marksman, shoots the creature from the tree and sees
it drop to the ground through the rifle scope. According to team leader
Kelleher: "we jump out of the truck and run over to the spot; the
manager yells that he sees another large creature, shoots twice and plunges
into the undergrowth. We run through the dense shrubs and trees, expecting
a wounded creature to attack. We spot some weird tracks in the snow, it
looks like a large raptor with claws. We spend hours hunting for other
evidence or bodies. None are found".
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- · In April 1997, something invisible drove through
a herd of cows and panicked them, scattering them in multiple directions.
Simultaneously, the needle of a compass locked onto whatever was amongst
the cattle and stayed locked on for nine minutes.
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- · In June 1997, the team witnessed from 75 feet
a basketball sized orb that silently hovered in front of us for several
seconds. Minutes later one of the team witnessed a huge shadowy object
in the infra-red, but the object was invisible to the human eye.
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- · At 2 AM, in August 1997, again seen with the
benefit of infrared technology, a six foot tall black, heavily muscled
humanoid crawled through some kind of "door" about four feet
above the ground and vanished into the night. Another observer only saw
a weird light without the benefit of infrared technology.
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- · A couple of days previously, cattle were attacked
by a number of small red orbs causing multiple injuries, one death and
one abortion.
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- Over the years, the team personally experienced and documented
a large array of weird phenomena including unidentified flying objects,
bizarre creatures, flying orbs, spikes in magnetic fields, infrared activity
and much more. Because the events were so fleeting and rarely repeated,
no definitive explanations have ever been proven for what took place. Was
it the military? Were family members and the research team hallucinating?
Is the ranch haunted? Are aliens involved? Is there a door to another dimension
located on the ranch? Hunt for the Skinwalker examines each of these questions.
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- The phenomena are not just localized on the ranch, but
are a part of a 50 year history of unusual sightings in the area. The local
Ute tribe says the ranch is on the "Path of the Skinwalker" and
have 15 generations worth of oral history legends about the property.
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