Luke, sir, you're up next. Yeah, hit the music for you. See what you got all right? Music's coming in This story is called skin walker sighting. I've always been a skeptic. Ghosts, aliens, monsters, they are all just stories to me. After what I experienced in the Southwest, my perspective on the unknown has been forever altered. I was on a road trip my best friend Jake. We decided to take a detour through the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, mainly because of the scenic beauty and the rich history of the area. We had heard tales of skin walkers. We lapped them off. There were myths right. Our first day on the reservation was uneventful. We visited a few local spots, interacted with some of the locals. It's up camp near a canyon. Night fell. We sat around our campfire, sharing stories and enjoined the serenity of the desert. Around midnight, Jake decided to turn in. I stayed up, mes brised by the stars. The Milky Way stretched across the sky, and I felt a profound sense of peace. That is until I heard it. A low, guttural growl echoed through the canyon. I froze, thinking it might be a coyote or a mountain lion. But then I heard a voice. It was distorted, as if someone was speaking through a broken radio, but it was unmistakably Jake's voice. Come here, it beckoned. Confused, I turned to our tent. Jake was sound asleep. The voice called out again, this time from the opposite direction, grad a flashlight and showing it towards the source. What I saw will haunt me forever. Standing our ridge was a figure. It looked like a man, but his limbs were elongated and his eyes glowed a sickly yellow. He wore tattered clothing and his skin was mottled with gray. But the most disturbing part was its face. It was Jake's face. I stumbled back, my heart racing. The creature mimicked Jake's voice again, Come here. It took a step towards me, its movements jerky and unnatural. I bolted to the tan, shaking Jake awake. We need to go now, I hissed. He looked at me, confused, but the urgency in my voice spurred him into action. We backed up as quickly as we could. The creature's voice echoing around us in our voices, our laughter, our conversations from earlier sped away in our car, A glance in the rear view mirror. Creature stood in the middle of the road, watching us, its yellow eyes glowing in the darkness. We didn't stop driving until it reached the nearest town. We checked into a motel and I spent the night researching skinwalkers. The legends say they were witches who take the form of animals or people, using their voices to lure victims. I don't know what we encountered that night, but I do know one thing. Some stories are real. The Southwest is beautiful. Hold secrets there beyond comprehension. I'll never set foot on that reservation again. To all of you reading this, please be careful when you venture into unknown territories. Some legends are rooted in truth, and some nightmares are very very real. Oh so, yeah, it reminded me of Fallout. Hey, smooth Skin, you know I'm talking about New Vegas. Yeah, the Ghules. Yeah, yeah, I don't remember his name. You're like, I think you could be your companion if he always called you smooth Skin. Yeah, that's terrifying. That so I actually don't. I'm not really familiar with these kind of stories. Skin Walker secually the first one I've really heard of. I am very familiar with skin walker stories. I read a lot of them. They are almost all identical, like Somewhere story, and uh, the Nabojo very much believed in them, as they always mimic people, like what the hell is he doing? Yes, they would mimic people or the mimic animals like a deing go or not to go, a coyote or some other wild dog. And then uh, but yes, they would take the form of people, and they would call out at night, trying to call you out there to go visit them. And then if you are out there, chances are you would be killed. They don't. More about the skin walkers if I'm not familiar, said which legend has it? Yes, a which they would, or a tribe of which is of some sort, or some people would describe them as not even like humans. It's hard to call them witches. They practice an old magic. They are able to take the form of other people and things. Well, the question why not they're true? Where they exist, that's one thing. But I will say that they are very much believed in by the Native Americans in the area. This is not something that they talk about like two fool like tourists. This is something they very much believe in and they're very much afraid of. He didn't seem very confrontational though in this instance. So they gotta get you to come to them, That's all I think I've ever heard. That's like across all the stories. They want you to come to them and then they'll catch you. Then that's why you say, come here, come here, have some candy. Yeah, basically, yeah, Well, just to recap this, so what his friend was asleep, right, so he knew it absolutely was not friend, But yes, he was asleep, and he could hear was like a distorted version of his friend's voice from across the campsite. Did it look like his friend at all? The face resembles a trend, but the body was elongated limbs and had yellow eyes and a very gray modeled skin, almost like leather. What I've heard the people describe it as people are at I guess some questions popping up here. Why would they need you to come to them? One person asked, there are a couple of different reasons that I've read in different stories from Native Americans talking about this, and some say that it is for food and some is for turning you into a skinwalker as well. How does one get turned into a skinwalker? And I don't know for sure, but I believe it is something similar like a like a ritual. They perform a magical ritual. No couple of scattered stories that read Maggie, Hey, hey, Maggie, she's asking or she says actually more or less a statement. They can change forms, Yes, they can change forms. It's different people and different animals. So like if I want to be like a raccoon skinwalker, I'm just like, yeah, they would. They can totally morph their bone structure and and everything and kind of yeah. Uh, they're always a little bit off, so like slightly longer legs, Like you see a raccoon with like one two foot long legs, that's a skin walker. A codi act bear there is a nightmare enough on it, so doesn't need to be a skinwalker. I'm curious we have to talk more about the skinwalkers one day. I'm oh, I've got a couple saved for another night. You just act like you pushed up your classes, like you no scratches. I thought you were just like the anime guy pushed up there. Yeah. Yeah, Jack could be proud so little memory out there if he ever listened. That was a cool story, dude. I can't wait to hear more stories about that. That's terrifying. Is there a certain let me ask this. Yeah, someone said a kodiac back with four inch legs just rolling. I guess I don't know. That would be even more terrifying. I don't know why, but that just sounds horrible, right. He said it shook the trees around him. I can't get up for that. Is there a certain area where they're more around historically speaking? Is it in this area they're talking about? Yeah? The southwest United States is a big hotbed skink. Yeah, Western and Southwest and particular Navajo reservations and stuff like that is where they're really concentrated around. And there's a couple of stories. I read one from Utah we'll probably talk about on another episode. That was a very pretty spooky story. It's one of those things it's like like that can't be real, right, But then you have like hundreds of years of people talking about them and they all follow the same patterns. Yeah, it's specifically the yellow eyes. That's what it stood out to me. You can't talk about the yellow eyes. Yeah, I just shows they talk like the ghoul. You actually did a pretty good impersonation of the ghoul too when you were doing that story. Yeah. Uh, should have said smooth skin, though, that would have been better. Hey, smooth skin. Listen, you gotta go there and get those new coclas. Yeah, I hope somebody screen recorded that. That made my day. That was an awesome story though, I actually really enjoyed that one. Jeff Townsend Media sees you good night, and the question is do I stay here? Will you be back? Are you gonna come back? Will you be back? Are you coming back
