The first written history of the paranormal activity in the region dates back to the end of the 18th century. Spanish explorers crossed the Uintah Basin, the site of the future farm, and reported seeing a ship in the sky above its fire at night.

The nearby Duchesene Castle has been a US military fortress since the 19th century, but is now a city. It is a protected state: the farm is surrounded on three sides by the Uintah-Ouray Ute sanctuary. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Navajo claimed that their as their watersource and farm: abundant fresh water and main fishing areas were a dine paradise, as they were called.

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But eventually, the Ute tribe attacked, selling the Dine to the Spanish as slaves and claiming the sweetwater and game as their own. The Dine cursed the Ute the form of a spirit that could shapeshift from wolf to human to anything it wanted — a skinwalker. From that point on, native people deemed the Uintah Basin “unholy ground.”

What is a skinwalker?

The natives did not ask the question, they did not even say the word for fear of attracting one. A skinwalker (Dine: yee naaldlooshii) “is one of the many varieties of Navajo witches,” according to Wikipedia. “Navajo witches represent the antithesis of Navajo culture … see it as magical and manipulative magic in a perversion of good works that men and women of medicine usually do.” Legends say that a skinwalker is a man or woman of medicine who commits a terrible act, like killing a relative, to obtain supernatural powers.

Skinwalkers are always in the form of an animal like a wolf, an owl, a crow or a coyote, but they are able to transform themselves into any animal of their choice. They are known to knock on doors, slam walls, look out of windows, attack cattle and harass unsuspecting humans by appearing and disappearing.

What is the Skinwalker on the Ranch?

This creature is described as a “giant” wolf and is characterized by observers as not “normal”. Researchers who analyzed images and photos of living things say that it looks like an extinct wolf.

Even the bold wolf looks bulletproof. In 1994 Gwen and Terry Sherman bought a ranch and moved family and cattle to the grounds. The day they were caught unloading, they found a giant coyote or wolf in one of their meadows. Oddly enough, the animal approached and the family started petting it – it was a rainy day, and Sherman said the creatures smelled of wet dogs.

A few minutes later the “wolf” approached the barn, grabbed the calf by the nose and tried to pull it on a fence stick. Terry Sherman and his father defeated the animal to free the calf.

When this failed, Sherman shot an animal up close at 0.3357 magnum – he was holding his chin to his calf. After the next hit, he released the calf, which didn’t work. He looked at his family. The Sherman continued to shoot, but began to go back, with no signs of blood or signs of injury.

Sherman took a shotgun and fired again at close range. In the end, the blow made the wolf’s skin and hair, but the animals were still calm. After a few more shots, he ran through a damp swamp meadow. Sherman followed him for a mile, but the road disappeared. Those who were there that day remember that the rest of the hair and meat stank of rotten meat or foxes.

“A few weeks later, Gwen Sherman met a wolf big enough to stand parallel to the top of the window while standing next to the car. The wolf carried an animal like a dog and could not identify himself.”

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