Skinwalker Ranch: The Secret isn't the Ghosts (REUPLOAD)
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2022
- A Utah ranch is well known for alleged sightings of UFOs and paranormal activity. Do any of these claims make sense, and are any of them true? Lets find out!
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I had a colleague that wrote a book on ghost hunting safety. It wasn't a guide for wrangling spirits, but more of a safety manual for exploring abandoned and physically hazardous spaces. Turns out there were lots of instances where a ghost hunter falls ill and blames spirits, not the super toxic mold that's been sitting in stagnant air for the last decade.
I guess you could say that ghost guide breaks the mould.
I've heard the Tobin's Spirit Guide is a great reference book.
@@chillimack 🎤 drop! Boom!
Id love to read it. I want to go exploring abandoned buildings, not fot ghosts but for the architecture and just being nosy
@@_ZeroQueen_ "An Investigator's Guide to Paranormal Safety," by Elaine Davison.
The reason vampires traditionally couldn't be seen in mirrors and photographs is because both were made using silver, and as it was regarded as a "holy metal", it would not reflect the "unholy"/"soulless" (as vampires are said not to have souls). Since modern cameras and mirrors don't use silver, traditional vampires would be visible, if they existed.
My fave representation of this is the movie What We Do In the Shadows. When they discover technology. 🤣
I had never made the silver-photography connection before. Thank You!
Currently mirrors are often produced by the wet deposition of silver, or sometimes nickel or chromium (the latter used most often in automotive mirrors) via electroplating directly onto the glass substrate. You are chatting BS.
I heard a different version. Supposedly, some folklore states that mirrors reflect the soul, which is what you're actually looking at, and since vampires have none, they likewise have no reflection.
I admit that I'm no expert, but the idea that silver is inherently holy is new to me. I am aware of it being able to harm werewolves, but traditionally, vampires did not seem beholden to the same rules.
According to my completely valid and expert source vampires can actually be seen in mirrors. The myth of them not being visible was started by vampires themselves. This was a way to protect themselves from vampire hunters as all they had to do was stand in front of a mirror and since they would be reflected they could claim they weren’t a vampire. Pretty smart if you think about it.
Oh wait. ……. I saw that in True Blood on HBO. Never mind.
I believe that they thought the wolf they saw was 3x bigger than you'd expect, because people usually think wolves are the size of dogs, but they can be way bigger. Some wolves are Huge
I had some neighbors with pet wolves, and they were gigantic. Easily 4x the size of our Border Collies.
Oh come on man! We are not looking for facts here. We are looking for aliens, shapeshifters and ghosts! Your rational facts make this more difficult!
Not all wolves are bigger than dogs
Maybe they were just standing 3x's closer than they thought...
@@secularbelt I've never seen a wolf smaller than a Chihuahua.
The whole cow mutilation thing made me think of some horse mutilations that happened in northen Denmark years ago: horses were found dead in their paddocks with knife wounds on them especially around the rectum and vaginas in the cases of mares. Clearly, some animal-abusing sexual deviant was torturing and killing the poor animals!
It went on for weeks, months! And the public was outraged! Who was this psycho!? Why couldn't the police catch him!? What if he decided that horses wouldn't do anymore, and he'd excalate to people!?
Yeah, turned out all the horses had died of natural causes, and the "knife wounds" were just scavengers like raptors, crows, foxes, etc. nibbling at the cadavers; the rectum and vagina are the easiest entry points for scavengers breaking through the hide and into the juicy bits, which is why these areas looked mutilated more often.
So, the horrible horse-f**king knife-wielding psycho was just scavengers being scavengers...and we all felt a bit stupid for all the uproar and commotion...
Raptors, what else
That was my initial reaction to the cows as well. It's how not just scavengers but predators too tend to get in the body. Cow skin is TOUGH yo.
I thought the whole thing about the cow mutilations were that the cuts to the animals were laser precise and very surgical in nature. Plus they were completely drained of blood with no evidence of having bled out.
Well that's better than the first conclusion!
@@grayfoxv There is a lot of misinformation going around.
"Spooky shit happens but it's definitely not ghosts" is a perfect way to sum up this channel.
A good way to sum up reality itself, actually.
Is "Decoding the Unknown" just a reboot of "Scooby Doo, Where are You?"
Subtitle:
"Or Aliens. Definitely not aliens either. It's never aliens. What is WRONG with you?"
I'm 40, I've spent most of my life denying anything that science didn't support. These names we give things, often give us more of a misunderstanding of something. Instead of helping us understand it. The past 3 years, I've been shown some things that are incompatible with my old understanding of our world.
There's definitely aliens. Ghosts as we understand them, are not real, but the phenomena is very real. Infact, it's ALL very very real. God, "ghosts", demons, Angles, aliens, cattle mutilations, abductions, et al.
Should we be afraid? No. Anything coming, or that's going to happen. Good, or bad. Cannot be stopped or prevented. I doubt however, that those things will be "unexpected" by the time it does happen.
But I have seen ghosts.
I love connecting the dots of Simon's tangents. He has previously said that he and a friend once used a coffee grinder to grind wheat from the backyard field where he grew up, and baked bread with it… Now we know that *this whole time* he thought it was cornbread. 😆
The wild thing is, corn originally mean grain - which is why the KJV of the bible has references to corn in it - and maize was originally called "Indian corn" by the English, eventually shortening it to corn. So, pre-American colonization English could have called the wheat field the corn field without any confusion.
@@annwilson7750 The REALLY wild thing is, I think I actually learned that from Simon Whistler years ago. 😅
"he thought it was cornbread" Legitimately laughed out loud. Outstanding.
@@annwilson7750 "John Barleycorn Must Die" - great classic rock album by Traffic, 1970.
Tangents within tangents xD
About 18 years ago I heard what sounded like people talking quietly in the dark outside our bedroom window. Upon going outside to find out what was happening. I quickly identified what was happening. We had a small creek running through our yard and had a duck box in a tree near the creek. This year some owls had taken over the resident and raised four chicks. The chicks had started flying and I hadn't seen them for a couple days. This night, the chicks had returned and were sitting on the fence near our bedroom. They were talking to each other with in soft hoots and chirps that sounded like humans talking softly. It would have been easy to think some ghosts were in the yard consulting each other.
Actually, the word corn originally had a meaning closer to our word grain. Maze was one type of corn. Pease was another, which we now call peas. Basically the word corn essentially meant a kernel, or some small chunk of hard stuff besides and shape of a kernel of grain. In fact, rock salt broken up into small chunks would be called corn salt. It was used to cure beef brisket, which thereby came to be known as corned beef
Yeah, apparently the British during WW2 demanded US shipments of dry corn and were mystified and really annoyed they kept getting U.S. corn shipments (maize). The Brits made due with it anyway for a while, but they wanted wheat. 😆🤣
If you read older literature wheat is always referred to as corn
That’s really cool and all but what did that have to do with the story told?
@@Foxracing218 Simon's tangent at 9:48
... *Maize.* As not in *corn maze.*
'You must enjoy smoking the crack' I don't know why, but when Simon puts 'the' and reads that sentence with a British accent, it sounds so sophisticated
😸🙌😆
I hear proper British people hold their pinkie finger up when holding the crack pipe. Because it's PROPER!
I love the bit where Simon is, while totally not believing in them, also is checking over his shoulder to see if he's just summoned a skinwalker.
I've only come across a handful of original skinwalker lore, and a couple of very unnerving derivations of the idea, but....yeah, it's one of those concepts that kinda gets under your skin even if you don't believe it - it's not at *all* surprising that any group who believes in them would develop the idea that it's something you don't talk about much, especially in mixed company.
I've got a thing along those lines: I don't say the name "Mab" - I don't believe the Winter Queen of the Faeries exists, but like Simon checking for skinwalkers, on the very very very minute chance that there might be such a being, I sure as hell don't want to accidentally get her attention.
That crop circle thing actually gives me a fun idea for why: Dude has fun and makes some circles and all is fun and games. Then the aliens show up and think that is how humans communicate and make more.
I love the way the editor "saves" Simon's cornfield tangent with soothing music and pretty pictures. Kudos!
Simon you are not afraid of being alone in the dark, you are afraid you are not alone.
Exactly. I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm afraid of what else might be in the dark with me.
This is why darkvision is the bane of DMs everywhere. Can't make your players afraid of the dark if they can see in the dark.
Exactly. I've long believed that we never outgrow our fear of the dark, it just transforms from "I don't like the dark because it's scary" to "Someone could sneak into my room and kill me, and I wouldn't see them coming because it's so freakin' dark in here"
He's most afraid of not having a beard to blaze.
Yes!!!!!
Crop circles. I had a friend who was farmer, he told me exactly how they were done. He made quite a few in his fields in Wiltshire back in the 90s. He made a few quid out of the tourists
yes a small % are made by losers with boards. however you cant account for everyone on earth thats been made. less alien more geomagnetic.
Did he manage to travel all over the world doing them too.?
@@jpmonkman what one man can do, many others can too. Crop circle groups operate all over the world, though I imagine their numbers have dwindled since the heyday in the 90s
@@jpmonkman what's your point? Why does it matter if he went around the world doing that?
I grew up on farms my whole life..i did it for fun till my grandfather whooped my butt for ruining his crops..yeah as a 9 yr old i knew they were so easy and completely fake lol
Omg, I was listening to this walking back to my campus room on a dark walkway and a kangaroo jumped out at me while you were describing the skinwalker 😅 I freaked the duck out!!
Yes, we have those here ;)
Sounds familiar for Australia this time of year.
Mate, hold me Vegemite... do I gotta yarn about a 'Roo for ya...
'Straya™
they don't run away from people? (I'm from the states)
@@nicole6323 Not the rabid ones lassie, nay they come straight atcha.
In fairness to the Skinwalker Ranch guys, they never come out and say “Yeah, it is aliens, and this proves it!” They more go “So, this was weird, and we don’t know what’s causing it.” Which is more than what can be said for most things, like Ancient Aliens, The Mystery of Oak Island, or people who claim anime is for kids.
I want them to watch boku no pico and tell me that.
Simon: "This is all BS ... and I am _scared_ now."
Me: "I'm open to all possibilities, even really stupid ones. **Reaction when ostensibly paranormal shit happens** _Shh, ghosts_ - I'm busy."
Simon: "I don't believe in this nonsense..."
Proceeds to freak himself out thinking about monsters that may be invisible to cameras lurking behind him.
Me: Can relate.
To be fair thats just ingrained survival instinct. Thats why the majority of us dont like dark places or freak out when we think theres something crawling on our arm or leg only for it to be a piece of hair.
Thats like me saying I dont believe in you!
@@nickstav08 The difference is that Simon knows it is a survival instinct and not ghosts, ghouls, tribbles or nargles.
I don’t believe in ghosts or anything like that. However, when I house sit for my parents I get super creeped out at night. They have a humongous house with tons of windows and I always feel like somebody is looking at me, but I know it’s all in my head. Even rational people can get freaked out over nonsense.
Nothing wrong with reading your kids childish poetry, or even stories. That's what builds kids' interest in literature. So good on you, Simon!
The doctor said it was "radiation burns!"
Erh... So a sunburn? That's the most common kind of radiation burn. Maybe not surprising in an area with sunshine for two thirds of all daylight hours.
(While in mild doses they appear much like sunburns, burns from radioactive materials typically take a bit longer to appear, so connecting it to something specific like an old storage tank is... well, they made it up!)
Exactly what I thought. Also, the classic "cattle mutilation" symptoms line up well with natural insect activity on dead livestock, and as for the "giant wolf"...wolves were extremely uncommon in the American West into the mid-90s after a successful extermination attempt in the early 1900s. Only in the last 20-30 years have they made a comeback, and even then it's mostly in more northern states like Montana and Idaho. Chances are, nobody in Utah had SEEN a wild wolf on anything like a regular basis. I have some experience with wolves, and I can tell you, they ALWAYS turn out to be bigger than you're used to if you're used to dogs and coyotes. The "giant wolf" was probably a wolf. Or a big dog.
@@onbearfeet according to Utah's DWR, there's no established wolf pack in the state but there's about 20 wolves hanging around. The sightings are almost always lone dispersed wolves or misidentified domestic dogs and coyotes.
Much more pedestrian and likely explanation: Radon gas buildup. This is described as the result of opening a covered well; if there is ground radon leaking in the well water, the water will also release some of it, and the gass builds up for a while, and you open it? Actually radiation burns are perfectly possible. This isn't paranormal. Dangerous yes, but not even terribly interesting.
Radioactive gas
Simon: I'm gonna steal RUclips
Me: Dude don't talk about your crime or evil plans. lol
Ethan Klein would go crying to his buddy the CEO of RUclips and that would stop Simon.
As someone who lives in SLC, the Skinwalker Ranch still makes the news every few years. Have been camping at Mirror Lake up in the Unitahs. Its beautiful up there. However, once you come into the Unitah Basin, where the Ranch is, it truly feels little creepy. The Unitahs is one of those places that just feel off. The Utes believed that the Basin, was cursed land. And they refused to go near it. You used to be able to go up there and hike around, without getting caught. Now the land is patroled, has cameras, and highway cops hide on roads to keep tresspassers out. I dont believe in any ghosts, aliens, or any of that and have never seen or experienced anything in all the times Ive gone there.
I live in southern Utah and really want to go there as someone never raised christian but the old ways and see with video and pictures if maybe it's a native thing or just fake cause I don't know any recommendation for me
Some billionaire bought it to produce shows and get on tv he has private security that lives there.
So the ranch is purportedly on a piece of land the local tribe considers taboo. Few of the native people will intentionally visit the ranch, and even with the show becoming more popular there's only been a visit by one tribal shaman, and interviews with local tribes people typically occur off the ranch.
Since the popularity of the show. Incidents of trespassers and wariness of trespassers went up. Most of the on site security is off duty local police, so there's some vertical integration that if something goes down there's going to be a greater police presence, because let's face it, small town cops have nothing to do and while show up to look at anything exciting going on. It's why you'll see 4 cops pulled up behind a speeding ticket.
Truth, I have camped all over the area but personally saw a bunch of weird shit camping on the Duschene River about 20 miles away from Skinwalker Ranch.
@xXnoclaf68Xx what have you seen? I've seen things as well. I believe there's something else here with us, but only because I've experienced things.
Imagine if a vampire was sneaking up behind you and you can't see it's reflection in the mirror but then bloody Mary pops up in the mirror right where the vamps reflection should be so you turn around and see it. Like, just monsters messing with each other.
Simon, you said at the beginning that "I just read", but it's much more than 'just reading'. You have a unique talent for reading quickly, with appropriate accents and emotions that I think is very rare. And when you go off into your tangents, your demeanor changes slightly (well, sometimes severely) to make your sidetracks easily discernable from the main story. Your talents have helped me to learn much more over the last year (when I discovered your many channels) than I ordinarily would have - since many narrators/teachers are fundamentally boring. Not that they mean to be, it's just the way they are. I often think about how lucky your kids are, and will be, to have you reading all the children's stories to them. Thanks for all you do Fact Boy!
I was watching a old documentary on the Roman army and the show said that the army lived and died on whether corn production in the empire was good..... And then went on to another topic, I was very confused because I thought corn was a new world crop that wasn't around in Europe during the classical age.... This led me down a rabbit hole only to find out that what I call corn is actually called maize and the term corn used to be a generic term for many different types of cereal crops.......
Nope, they have corn ears depicted on old churches in Scotland etc. It was a crop used by the natives well before modern times. Big fat juicy corn is new, old corn only has 8 or 10 rows of kernels. All modern corn is GMO.
@@Ashphinchtersayswhat One church and even that is not definitvely proven to be corn.
'Corn' as in maize is indeed a new world crop.the word .'corn' in English can apply to any grain, especially historically. Hence the much maligned 'Corn Laws', the repeal.of which was a key milestone on the road to democracy, didn't refer to maize, which isn't commonly grown in the UK's damp climate, but to wheat, barley and oats, the main British crops.
@@Ashphinchtersayswhat that's not corn, it's barley, corn doesn't grow in ears and the climate of Scotland has never been warm enough ot dry enough to grow corn. It is linguistically described as 'corn' because the word 'corn' is used, and in the past more commonly used, to describe any arable crop.
In Scotland the primary grain crops are barley and oats which are Hardy enough for the climate, wheat is grown in the Lothians, Fife and Angus. Everywhere else it is pretty much barley and oats as grain crops. This is why, historically, oats were always the stable carbohydrate in Scotland.
I am a farmer and an archaeologist, who lives in southern Scotland
@@somniumisdreaming prove its not.
You guys should totally do a video on Ed and Lorraine Warren. They're super popular now because of the movies involving them. Yet if you actually look into their stories they all just seem made up.
I can't wait until the pop culture bandwagon changes their tune on them; they are totally grifters. But they "conjure" (pun fully intended) up a lot of revenue for a lot of people so I don't see it happening soon. Plus it also ties into some people's profoundly held beliefs so that also might play into it. Either way, they're terrible people.
Their stories were made up and they exploited poor families with real struggles to make money off them. They're disgusting con artists.
That's a great idea! Especially about Amityville Horror where there guy who killed his family was up for some kind of parole hearing just as the "hauntings" began, and Annabelle, and the Conjuring--it could almost be a series and I think it would do very well. Those two were big-time frauds!
I’m from CT and we love the Warrens, they are very highly regarded. Don’t really like the guy (I think their son in law) who seems to have control of their stuff and stories now though but… I would love a show about them. :)
Simon should buy Annabelle.
I first heard about Skinwalker Ranch on a well known RUclipsrs spooky storytelling channel. I laughed my socks off at the part where the HUGE wolf creature ignored being shot at and walked right up to the cattle pen and then turned and walked slowly away, leaving an unholy stench in it's wake (apparently proof of the supernatural)... in my mind, that wolf was thinking "I fart in your general direction" as it departed
Your mother was a hampster and your father smelled of elderberries
The first known ‘crop circle investigator’ was Robert Plot, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University in late 1600’s. In 1680, Plot visited farms in southern England to examine this phenomenon first-hand.
Robert Plot, in his words, ‘excavated’ over 50 crop circle sites, and noted farmers’ stories about other crop circle reports. Plot noted simple circles, circles with squares, circle rings, and spirals. Plot noted that animals tended to stay away from crop ‘figures.’ Plot did his own historical research, uncovering additional historical reports. Plot published his first work mentioning crop circles in 1686 in the book The Natural History of Stafford-Shire. Plot hypothesized that crop circles were formed by hollow thunderbolts - - or else it was elves, dancing witches, deer, or mosses. Plot did the first ‘crop circle’ soil sample testing -- he compared dirt from the center of circles with dirt from the inside edge of the circles, and with dirt from outside the circles; where he noted soil dehydration in the circles, and occasionally finding white, sulfurous residues. Plot noted that crop yields, in the areas within the crop circle boundaries in successive years, increased by up to 30%. Many of these same findings are still being found in crop circle formations today.
New episode idea: investigating the mysterious video that only a select few people can listen to.
Ohmigosh I thought it was just me!!!
This ^
I can't hear the audio ?
Yep no audio
Same
I don't know what's going on, but I have no audio on this video alone.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say at least 8 other people are having the same problem.
Thank you! First time watching any of your vids and a few seconds in all I can say is Wow!
You are awesome! I am hooked now lol
I have ADHD and your speech pattern and accent is a huge seratonin hit for me. You have made my mood instantly brighter and I literally feel energized already :)
Yep. Ex-fan of the History Channel here. I found you about a month ago and you've become my go-to bedtime relaxation channel. Keep up the good work and the dumping on the "History" Channel
Anyone else having sound issues? Like there is none?
Yep no sound
We need a rereupload
Do....do other people have sound? I dont
I don't
Soundless here too
Oh dear, Whistler there's a glitch in your matrix and it's spilling into our matrix, bang that computer screen on the side for us and see if we can hear you!
Yeah, no sound here either 🤷🏻♀️
I love Simon's other channels but this one may be my favorite. Getting to see him be goofy, run off topic, and talk crap about stuff he thinks is dumb is just so funny to watch. Simon just seems like he'd be super fun to hang out with. Also as a mother to a 2 year old daughter that loves Winnie the Pooh I totally get him about getting into how good the stories and poems are.
YES, Simon, YEARS before the first commercially viable web browser became available in about 1993, there were DOZENS of chat/file tools, HUNDREDS of sites using character-based screens, HUNDREDS of newsgroups (think "chat rooms"), and many THOUSANDS of users on the internet. Primarily for research, like me, early as the mid 1970's.
Crows, vultures, hawks, eagles, etc can all "carve out" an animals carcass in a matter of minutes. The only think mysterious about these cattle death are the amount of attention they gather.
bcuz the lack of blood, predator prints ? is that wutchu mean ?
Something is wrong with this one.
I think the Cyberghostsquatches are finally going to get him.
That show on History was actually pretty interesting. The Pentagon conducted tests on that ranch for years before the Shermans purchased the land. The ranch is in a dish-shaped basin, has odd mineral composition in the soil, and was directly in the path of nuclear fallout during testing at the Nevada site in the 1950s. I’m not saying there are ghosts, just fun science. It is worth a watch if you already have the channel.
I definitely agree. And I really enjoy this channel and Simon, that being said I don't think it's right to so abashedly dismiss skin walker ranch. The series on history was a " series" so of course there was some Hollywood shit going on. But that being said, they had a legitimate physisost. I can't remember his name to save my life but he was the blonde fella with a southern accent. Besides him they brought a gang of legitimate folks in throughout the seasons. And a lot of the stuff they found was genuinely amazing. Like for instance there was a cattle mutilation during the series, and they documented how no animals were insects touched the carcass for months. And the carcass was placed in the spot they usually put dead animals and they are always taken care of by the wildlife. That's just one example of many events that happened on the show that we're not easily explained away by, "conspiracy people are crazy." And I'll honesty as time goes by more and more "crazy conspiracy theories" end up being proven true. Shits wild.
@@tomabram8629just because somebody is a physicist doesn’t mean they aren’t a liar collecting an easy check from an idiot who believers this hogwash. As usual there isn’t a single solitary shred of evidence to substantiate any of this nonsense. We’re all just supposed to take peoples words. I don’t think so.
My grandpa used to tell me, "if you want to hide the truth, tell it to a crazy (theorist) person."
Simon casually giving conspiracy theorists advice how to conspiracy theorise because they can't do anything right. Love it.
Except for the ones that are proven correct
@@kochspostulates6149 Do you mean flying saucers and presidential elections?
From criminals to conspiracy theories Simon's going to tell you how to be better at it because you just can't get it right.
@@kochspostulates6149 Which ones?
@@archstanton6102 mk ultra, lab leak theory, gulf of Tonkin incident, project paper clip, bohemian grove, Tuskegee syphilis study, operations north woods, Iran contra, project sunshine, deep state
“No Stream. Tap to retry” Ironic. This video is Skinwalkered. All others are working fine.
When I started grade school in 1957, we had a water cooler in the back of the room. Water was hauled to school by the teacher, drawn from his well on his nearby farm. The cooler had radium in the pottery because early beliefs were that radium was healthy and purified the water through the release of radioactivity. This was later disproven but nobody believed we children were in any danger by this release. The school board that ran that little white school house atop the hill right of State Highway 49 did not have enough funds to afford a new crockery water cooler so we just used what we had, with little cone like paper cups to drink the water that came from the blue and gray cooler with crockery lid of the same color. These water coolers were used nation wide from the 20's through the early 60's
Simon: "I definitely believe in UFOS and Aliens. But I don't think they're coming across the universe and taking our butts away"😂😂😂
Haha that was a great line!
Same here. When I first started my astronomy degree in college I stopped believing in any kind of alien visitation. When you start getting a grasp on how huge space is you realize that the likelihood of something coming all the way here for no real reason is not very high. Also, they come all the way here and don’t want to be seen but then immediately turn on their high beams and fly over populated areas. Sure.
Thank you, Simon, for letting me put my lip reading skills to good use. Unfortunately though, it turns out I have none
I wonder why it was reuploaded
I love it so much! Hearing odd noises, being far more attuned to your environment and all the noises you usually write off at any other time sound louder when you're reading, watching, or listening [You might enjoy a podcast titled "Let's Not Meet"] to something creepy alone in the dark. It's nice to know that is a universal human experience.
I'm so glad that Simon's train of thought works like mine: "it's not real!.... What was that noise?! 😂"
Just saw this and was so excited then saw the no stream/black stream 😩 hope you can fix it soon
1. So what happened to the History Channel is that Disney bought A&E
2. I would not be at all surprised if that whole area was contaminated with radiation. The US government did quite a bit of nuclear testing in the Utah and Nevada deserts in the 50s. One of John Wayne's last movies, The Conqueror, was filmed near there and many of the cast and crew died of unusual forms of cancer.
I am really liking that I found a channel on the more sceptical side of this stuff. It gets annoying having almost exclusively believers' content shoved in your face all the time, this is refreshing.
I also get scared mentioning the word "skinwalker" despite mostly not believing in them! 😂
Actually the story of skinwalkers is far nastier that what you said. I grew up in an area with a large population of Navajo and other Pueblo tribes. When a tribes shaman went dark they would perform a ritual that involved the murder of a family member and sometimes other members of the tribe. Other taboo acts were involved and the shaman became a skinwalker…. A being who exists only to kill and devour. That is it’s sustenance and joy and it will never stop unless destroyed. It is so depraved that it chose to be what it became…. It wasn’t forced or cursed….it chose. These creatures would turn most of the monsters of legend into tasty treats without breaking a sweat.
+1
While i fully agree with Simon that this is all just.. silly. Something i rather enjoy is learning the REAL mythology of things like skinwalkers and the stories the natives from the cultures stories are from as there seems to often be reasons and lessons in the myths themselves.
As for all the cattle mutilation stuff.. on top of naturally dieing all the time is indeed a thing that happens to farm animals, in a desert area like Utah they will tend to decompose faster and i would bet that some of the seemingly surgical cuts could also be from scavengers beyond bugs. Lizards and birds possibly even snakes. There is a LOT of terrifying stuff out in that part of the country but every bit of it is natural.
I'm especially happy to hear the REAL mythology. Oftentimes people just say "these are all myths of old for this exotic people" and it's not right.
"every bit of it is natural" - this is an assertion of faith, akin to asserting the 2020 US election was rigged.Depends on your usage of 'natural' of course
Birds seems most likely. Snakes and lizards eat things whole, so they don’t really take bites out of dead cattle.
It's "silly" because...it's beyond your experience? or because it's beyond modern science?
Viruses were once "beyond modern science", and lots of things are "beyond your experience". There's no reason to dismiss the paranormal aside from being afraid of it.
@@XavionofTherait’s silly because the topic is totally ridiculous and none of it ever happened. Make sure your mind isn’t so open your brain falls out.
Bruhhh he said “for the longest time I thought corn was wheat” I’m dying
Awesome as always thanks
Fantastic visuals as Simon went off on the corn field field tangent. LMAO.
It's like 1.39 am here Simon! But... I watch it anyway. Keep up the great work team.
The sound is not working for me, but it is on other videos
Probed by aliens>Quoted out of context - Simon
Simon on point as per usual my friend, always enjoy the little mental tangents
Glad to see this video re-uploaded! I found about the first one just yesterday, and I figured something was wrong!
This masterpiece deserves way more love than 7kish views ♡
Demonized or something?
12:02 -- "when the lights hit the sky like a big pizza pie, that's skinwalker!" -- I blame Simon for making me think of this silly joke.
Is it just me or has he become much happier lately? I love it!
Once I've found a big "crop circle" in my parent's farm, with the format of a huge dinosaur footprint. Turns out deers slept there and formed it.
Go figure.
I find some aspects of this story amusing as they are at great odds with real life as the Skin-walker is a Navajo legend whose traditional area is around the Navajo Nation near the eastern border of Arizona with New Mexico while the Skinwalker Ranch in this video is from near Ballard, Utah, which is hundreds of miles from Navajo lands and deep within the traditional lands of the Ute Peoples, and if they have a similar legend it would have a very different name. However, as hard as I try I can find a number of Ute legends but NOT one of the legends is about a shapeshifter or anything called a skin-walker.
Next, the ranch is in the middle of a major oil and gas field, most of those companies now have regular checks of their well done by helicopters and drones, so I'm sure there is a lot of air traffic in the area, especially when you can see the ranch is between the local airport and many of the wellheads.
Is there money in the idea of ghosts etc.? Well, near to the ranch is the Ufo Valley Campground and UTV Tours LLC and it seems to do well. So I seriously suspect this is all a con to make money.
I get what you're saying and I'm new to the legends because I recently moved near-ish to skinwalker ranch. Also being Native I can tell you most tribes have a shapeshifter legend, but pop culture has latched on to the skinwalker legend. Various areas of Utah went back and forth between Native tribes, especially the larger tribes like the Ute and Navajo. The Shoshone is also more likely with their native range though.
I can tell you some local natives from the reservation take that closer fence line to the res VERY seriously with deer offerings so if it started as a con man some local natives have bought into it I'm afraid and created their own traditions about it.
As far as air traffic goes it may be busy for Eastern Utah, but I haven't seen an aircraft in the air since I moved out here in October so I'm not sure what you mean by aircraft.
@@lizziebreath9 By air traffic I was referring to the helicopters and drones I'd mentioned earlier. Thanks for the information you include in your comment.
Is there money in it? Lmao...oh boy. You could probably whip up a quick script/treatment idea and as long as you can pitch it, Discovery + will green-light you for a few test episodes at least. Good luck in that endeavor
I used to live out in Vernal, Utah and have lots of family from Duchesne and Roosevelt. Skinwalker Ranch makes me roll my eyes, because it's not like it's out in the middle of nowhere.
It's less than 4 miles from a high school (Uintah River High School). In fact, there are a BUNCH of different Uintah tribe office buildings within like 5 miles of the ranch currently.
Roosevelt itself is like 10 miles away, and has existed since 1906. It may have been a bit of a trek back when the ranch was first settled in 1934, but it's only like 10 minutes away by car.
In fact, if you are driving out to Vernal from Provo (going along Deer Creek Reservoir to Heber, and then take Route 40 to Duchesne where it connects with Route 191) you'll end up driving within a couple of miles of the ranch since it's fairly close to the highway.
All of that is to say that the ranch isn't anywhere close to as isolated as it is depicted in many of the stories you will hear or read. There's probably like 15,000 or so people living within a 30 mile radius of the place too.
The Sherman family sold the ranch at a major loss ($200k selling price when they paid way more for it) and refuse to talk about anything that happened.
I don't think anything supernatural to the Shermans but something spooked that family bad.
The aliens have finally muted Simon, it's a conspiracy I say 🤪
Jen is your best editor of all the channels, simon. Jen appreciation thread let's go
The best part is Simon's tangents. 🤣🤣🤣
Has the audio been claimed?
AH I love the stories about Skinwalker Ranch. I didn't realise how badly I wanted to hear Simon tell me about it
Sorry, but I burst out laughing when Simon was talking about cows, “Having their butts cored out”.
I love your video's Simon. Very entertaining they make me laugh and lighten my day keep up the good work .
Come on Simon, that was oldentime mirrors that were backed with silver for the reflection. There's no reason a Vampire can't be seen in modern mirrors or camera's.
That is interesting and potentially useful to know, thank you. Though I thought silver was linked to werewolves, not vampires... but then in the end silver has antimicrobial properties in real life so it makes sense that it would also work against other evils.
WRONG! oldtimy mirrors were backed with Mercury. and before that mirrors were polished metal. the most perfect mirror you can but Right now isnt glass at all. get your facts that have to do with fake creatures right dum-dum. im curious tho, why wouldnt it show up in a camera? its not a reflection
@@Isaiah42069 Actually, I just looked it up out of curiosity and there was definitely a process for making mirrors that hinged on 'silvering' glass, invented by the German Justus Liebig. I got that off Wikipedia, but the statement has a source linked that goes to a page called Zenodo, whose intention is to make research in the public domain accessible to everyone. The first sentence of this old paper reads (translated from German): "Due to the request of my colleague Herr von Steinheil, I was prompted to carry out some experiments to determine a process for silvering glass in the cold, in particular for the representation of unblemished optical mirrors, which I want to describe in the following".
So they may not have been mainstream, perhaps, but there were definitely mirrors around that were made of silver and glass. The article was supposedly published in 1856.
All this goes without mentioning that if you're going to make a mirror out of polished metal... what material would lend itself better than silver? Especially for noblewomen. If you have money for silver, you're not going to do your make-up while looking at some ordinary iron, and things like copper and gold don't reflect colors that much.
@@Isaiah42069 Separately, about the reflections thing: the idea was specifically that silver does not get along with evil entities of all types (for example the silver bullet being the only thing that can kill a werewolf - and as I mentioned, this makes sense in a way because silver does actually kill germs). So bainick's idea was that that may also be why vampires' reflections didn't show up in mirrors back when mirrors were still a layer of glass over silver, because the silver just kinda can't stand the evil creature and refuses to reflect it I guess. Remember this is about imaginary creatures anyway so an imaginary rule like this might as well make sense.
Conclusion: It might as well make sense that a vampire's reflection wouldn't show up in a silver-backed mirror, and with that in mind, it would NOT make sense that a vampire's reflection would not show up on a modern mirror or in a camera because there's no silver involved. The only loose end would then be what you say about mercury (and other metal) mirrors... let's call it a plot hole. For starters, I don't remember vampire lore ever mentioning silver anyway... XD
@@trishapellis Silver in religious lore is considered a holy metal and thus unholy things like vampires, demons and the like cannot touch or interact with it or they will be harmed by it.
Of all the channels you make, I like this one the most! Although the Casual Criminalist is a close second. Thank you for your amazing content and your devotion to each channel. Your amazing! Happy Birthday to your daughter!
Casual criminalist is dogs bollocks but I njoy this channel alot
Casual criminalist best show from the bearded brain
Jen, the music behind the corn tangent. Masterful. 👌🏻
I woke up this morning and the audio didn't work, and now it does. I'm glad too!
Simon is BRILLIANT! Re-upload all of your old videos and get twice the views and twice the money. That's next level.
Brilliant? because he can read a teleprompter? lol....
Skin walker Ranch is an interesting place. It seems like something is up there, but it's probably natural. Like soundwaves, magnetism, or something like that messing up people's perception while there.
Or just some good old fashioned American bs. I think people forget the desire of fame and fortune that American have
They did find "something" underground that emits electromagnetic pulses and low level radiation but they are not allowed to dig on the ranch. I'm thinking black opp military testing at some point. There is definitely some weird stuff going on there, dark back military stuff.
YES SIMON! This is the best after a full day moving into my Skoolie! Thank you, and your team!
There’s a place about an hour from where I’ve lived my whole life called Seven Gables Road in Michigan. There are a ton of creepy stories about the location to the point that the police know about the spot and clearly believe the stories. I’ve always been too creeped out to look to research it too closely but it would probably make for a great episode 😊 love your channel, I learn so much and enjoy the process
i just looked this place up and it’s apparently about an hour away from me too! I’m afraid to even read any of it just in case 🤣
Simon's literally losing his marbles keeping up with all his channels 🤣🤣🤣
I lived in Venal, Utah for many years very close to Uintah Basin. Uintah Basin is a highly fraced area filled with old oil wells and forgotten mines its far more likely they were high on methane than ghosts
1:30: I could hear Julie Andrews singing "My favorite things" already in the first line of that "poem". I LOVED Sound of Music growing up!
Kudos to the editor with the theme from Shalamyn’s “The Village” during Simon’s corn field tangent! LMFAO!
I’m getting “no stream tap to retry” when I try to play this video. All of your others worked for me though. Before and after I tried this one
Me too. Weird.
Me too
Same. 🙁
Glad I'm not the nonly one having issues! It's wierd that it seem others are having no issues.
Same
I love the way Simon dismisses the paranormal. I wonder what the people involved think of being called liars and fools.
They already know
They know they’re liars and fools. That’s what most ufoologists are. Lying for attention is their stock and trade.
Hi Simon, love the show, regarding the cattle mutilations, there was a report years back that stated that the US Military were conducting experiments on cattle grazing in farmland and cutting around the mouths and anuses of cattle to test for radiation. The reason for this was that the cattle was grazing on farmland that was all downwind of the old nuclear testing ranges from the 1940's to the 1960's, where the US tested hundreds if not thousands of nuclear devices of all sizes including underground.
By testing the animals and mutilating their organs in the process to take removed organs to labs, they were doing this as much of Americas food was also grown on this farmland and therefore could be radioactive.
The shape shifter with raging lightning and metal killed me hahahaha putting dishes away listening half watching and see that
Simon, channels like yours are my adulthood replacement for the giant History channel sized hole in my heart. I loved it as a kid, before the weird "aliens built pyramids" nonsense started. Surely Al G. Rythm has gotten many more people in the same boat to watch your stuff.
I never cared for the whole ancient alien conspiracy shows. Theses people don't give our ancestors any credit. There not as stupid as they think they are. The techniques on how they constructed these ancient structures could still be out there we just haven't found it yet.
Same. I miss the old discovery network. I miss actual scientific Content.
Am I mental, or is there no sound?
I love the OG description of Business Blaze in the description. Bring back the non business Business Blaze!
7:15 this was gold 😂😂😂 kudos to the editor they’re my fav
The music saved the story. Bless you Jen, bless you.
It’s always sarcastically mysterious which fits
Out of curiosity, were people having problems with the audio in the first upload? I had listened to it perfectly fine the first time around.
Sometimes RUclips glitches and random videos will have no audio and I have to close and reopen the app for it to work again.
Either way I'll probably play this on in the background a couple of times because I know Simon said that re-uploads always do terrible with the algorithm.
Edit: Just to clarify, I am asking why this was re-uploaded. I didn't have any issues with the 1st upload. I remember Simon saying that he really doesn't like to re-upload videos as it hurts them.
It didn’t pop up on the subscription page for people so there was a ridiculous amount less views on the first upload
I was like "how is this a reupload i never saw it" XD so yeah didnt even know it was out.
I watched the first upload fine as well. But I'll watch it again
My guess is that the current owner claimed some bs reason to sue
I didn't get the sub notification on original upload but, still watched it and now went and rewatched it via re-up because I was wondering what changed which was nothing...
First time on this channel, literally clicked this video for the title. You got me there, Simon.
Spot on for the history channel tangent 😁 hello friends!
No sound. Gonna need another reupload!
The US desert Southwest is also home to most of the American uranium mines. It doesn't even need to be human activity involved. I'm not sure what the geology is around that ranch, but it's possible they just stumbled across a uranium ore deposit.
The dramatic music while Simon was ranting about the wheat field killed me
20:45 Why is he holding his bosom? 🤣🤣