NWCS Into The Dark Episode 49 Skinwalkers

[00:00:04] Speaker A: Hear the sasquatch howling in the night. [00:00:11] Speaker B: Paranormal beings come out to play. [00:00:19] Speaker C: Feel. [00:00:19] Speaker A: That chill upon your neck. [00:00:24] Speaker B: But do not fear when the rougarou. [00:00:28] Speaker A: Barks because we'll follow you into the dark we'll follow you into the dark. [00:00:40] Speaker C: Into the Dark. Contains subject matter and language that may be unsuitable for younger listeners. Listener discretion is advised. Hello, greetings, and welcome to NWCS into the Dark podcast. [00:00:55] Speaker B: This is our 49. [00:00:57] Speaker C: 49Th episode. Big 49. Where's Rob? Where's Rob with the whistling? He always goes, rob. Still not. Still not here. [00:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah. What's up with that? [00:01:11] Speaker C: Skinwalkers? All things skinwalkers. [00:01:16] Speaker A: I'm all in it. Had that vibe. [00:01:19] Speaker C: Yeah, the Petey vibe. Skinwalkers. [00:01:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:23] Speaker C: Danny, what do you got for us? [00:01:25] Speaker A: Well, who's. Who's with us today? [00:01:28] Speaker C: Good talk, good talk. In the studio this evening, we have myself, Scott. We've got Tab. [00:01:35] Speaker B: Hello. [00:01:37] Speaker C: And all the way from. We've got Danny. [00:01:44] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I love that. [00:01:47] Speaker C: I, you know, I don't have an intro. [00:01:50] Speaker B: Yeah, you just say me or. [00:01:51] Speaker C: Yeah, and me. [00:01:53] Speaker A: We tried that in one episode before. [00:01:56] Speaker C: For me to have a saying. [00:01:58] Speaker A: Yeah, we flipped this. [00:01:59] Speaker C: We have a double do. What happened to. What happened to Ahoy, Tab. You were Ahoy. [00:02:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:07] Speaker B: I thought you guys didn't like that. [00:02:09] Speaker C: No, I did. [00:02:10] Speaker B: Oh, you did? [00:02:10] Speaker C: Yeah. That was so Tab Ahoy. [00:02:12] Speaker B: Oh, it's actually more Troy, but no one knows Troy. [00:02:16] Speaker C: Yeah, that's true. You've just assumed it, and that's fine. So I'm gonna work on that by the end of the episode as the outro is playing. So this is a teaser for everyone listening. Listen to it all the way through to the end. Because before we say nighty night, I'm gonna say what my thing is. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Oh, you have a thing. [00:02:37] Speaker C: No, I don't. But as the episode is going, I'm gonna be thinking, oh, of what? My intro. Howdy Doody, or, you know. Okay, you know. [00:02:47] Speaker B: So throughout this podcast, you'll be thinking, I'm gonna be. [00:02:49] Speaker C: I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be channeling my. Is it my intro saying through the outro? Right through. But it's gonna come. My intro is going to come through the outro. [00:03:00] Speaker B: Okay. [00:03:00] Speaker C: So if you listen. [00:03:01] Speaker B: So that's going to be a editing nightmare. [00:03:04] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, something like that. Intro. Your intro. I. I think the intro is your intro. [00:03:12] Speaker C: Well, that's. That. That's the podcast intro. It's not my intro. [00:03:16] Speaker A: It's kind of, you know, whoopy woo. You do say greetings and Welcome. [00:03:23] Speaker B: I do. You do. [00:03:24] Speaker C: But that's. But that's the podcast intro. That's not. And in this studio tonight, we have Scott. [00:03:33] Speaker A: All right, well, we need to get you a thing. [00:03:34] Speaker B: I think it sounds like. How about. And it'll be on the soundboard. That way it doesn't. [00:03:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:03:39] Speaker A: And you. There you go. [00:03:40] Speaker B: You can sample it, like, right at random. [00:03:42] Speaker C: Like a rap song. People can break down. [00:03:45] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:46] Speaker C: All right. I'll be famous for it over and. [00:03:48] Speaker A: Over and over again. [00:03:49] Speaker C: Species Spicy Meatballs. [00:03:53] Speaker A: Wow. [00:03:53] Speaker C: Did you ever watch that series, Danny? [00:03:55] Speaker A: Just. No. [00:03:56] Speaker C: Very busy. Spicy Meatballs. Anyone know what that's from? [00:03:59] Speaker B: No. [00:04:00] Speaker C: Very obscure. I'm surprised, Danny, you don't know what this is. Captain King, we're getting off topic just for a moment, but there was a TV show on. I think it made it one and a half seasons. Not very good at all. It was called Small Town Security, and it was like a. You have to watch it. It was a lot like Tiger King, where it was. It's a legit security company in Georgia, and they're just a fricking mess. Now, I'm sure a lot of it was for tv, but I researched it, and they are legitimately a security company, and everybody in this series was part. Are we allowed to talk about stuff like this on a podcast, TV shows and stuff like that? [00:04:39] Speaker B: Why not? [00:04:40] Speaker C: Whatever. [00:04:40] Speaker B: Why not? [00:04:41] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:41] Speaker C: Anyway, it is. [00:04:42] Speaker B: It's a free country, right? [00:04:44] Speaker C: It is an amazingly awkward. Danny, you would love it. [00:04:48] Speaker A: Yeah. Small Town Security. [00:04:49] Speaker C: Small Town Security. I had. What was it? [00:04:52] Speaker B: You got, like, Beer Belly. [00:04:54] Speaker C: It was crazy. Just the different characters that are within this, and they're all real people. Like, it turned out that they're legitimate people, but like the chief, the owner of the company. The chief was just a wreck. Just a wreck. And her husband was a whack job. It was a great, great show. Obviously not that great because it only made it to season. [00:05:17] Speaker B: You could relate. You could relate to it. [00:05:20] Speaker C: No, but it was. It had such comedic moments, Danny. I think, you know, with all of us being in sort of that similar industry. Yeah. You would appreciate it, Danny. [00:05:32] Speaker A: I'm gonna have to check it out. [00:05:33] Speaker C: Small Town Security. It's funny. Like, I. The first few episodes I watched, I was like, this is ridiculous. But then, much like Tiger King, it. [00:05:42] Speaker B: Just got sucked in. [00:05:44] Speaker C: Yeah, it's. It sucked in. Where were we? Where were Skinwalkers? [00:05:49] Speaker A: Anything new? [00:05:50] Speaker C: Anything new with the group? [00:05:54] Speaker A: No, not a whole lot new. [00:05:55] Speaker C: I think not since our last episode. 18 minutes ago. [00:05:58] Speaker B: Right. [00:05:59] Speaker A: Ye. [00:05:59] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:00] Speaker A: We're back to Podcasting again? [00:06:01] Speaker B: Yes, yes. Yeah, we gotta get back on the algorithm. [00:06:06] Speaker C: Have I mentioned our new studio? [00:06:08] Speaker B: Yes, yes. [00:06:09] Speaker C: You know what else is new? These cameras. [00:06:11] Speaker B: I know we have. Now we're being. [00:06:14] Speaker C: We have state of the art cameras in our studio. [00:06:17] Speaker A: People can see us. [00:06:18] Speaker C: Now we have a Gary and Mark and Travis, our production crew. [00:06:25] Speaker B: Right? [00:06:26] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And they work tirelessly on this set. [00:06:30] Speaker C: Noel, David and Justin over there, our audio. [00:06:34] Speaker A: Who's the guy with the cue cards? [00:06:36] Speaker B: Oh, hello. [00:06:37] Speaker C: Hey, Justin there. [00:06:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:38] Speaker B: How's it going? [00:06:39] Speaker C: Yeah, Miguel, our. No guy. Yeah. [00:06:42] Speaker A: What's the guy's name with the cue cards? [00:06:43] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, you do have a note guy. [00:06:44] Speaker C: Yeah, we've got a note guy now. I mean, we're moving up, right? We are moving up. Yeah. [00:06:49] Speaker B: There's your notes. [00:06:50] Speaker C: Now the guy that does the snapping sound on the, the. The little click thing. [00:06:54] Speaker B: Don't do that. It messes up my editing. [00:06:56] Speaker C: Oh, not your editing, the. Our crew. [00:06:59] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, Editor. [00:07:00] Speaker C: Sorry about that, David. [00:07:02] Speaker A: We don't just do that. We're the talent. [00:07:03] Speaker C: Right? Yeah, we don't do that. Skinwalkers, Danny, what do you got? [00:07:09] Speaker A: Skin walkers. [00:07:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:10] Speaker A: So, you know, I'm going to tell you a little story here, what research I've done on this topic. And. And I'm going to qualify this just like any other time and say Danny's not an expert. [00:07:24] Speaker B: No, but you are the expert right now. [00:07:28] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. For this moment, I'm going to provide you a version of what I understand skinwalkers to be. So bear with me as I walk through this with you. [00:07:38] Speaker C: Speaking of skin walkers. Danny. [00:07:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:07:41] Speaker C: You know who we should have probably invited as a guest on this? [00:07:44] Speaker A: I was thinking of that. [00:07:46] Speaker C: What's his name? I. I know his name. I just want to see if you know his name. [00:07:50] Speaker A: I want to say the right name because I know he goes by the. [00:07:53] Speaker C: Certain name and it starts with an. [00:07:54] Speaker A: X. Cryptid is what it goes by. [00:07:57] Speaker C: Right. Oh, doesn't he. Xavier, I think that's. Oh, is that his real name? That we're not supposed to say, I think. [00:08:04] Speaker B: No, it's fine now. He's fine now. [00:08:06] Speaker C: Xavier. I thought it was. [00:08:07] Speaker B: I'm sure he's fine with that. [00:08:08] Speaker C: I thought it was Xavier Hunter. [00:08:10] Speaker A: It is. Well, Cryptid Hunter, anyway. [00:08:13] Speaker C: So we're all thinking of the same guy. Yeah, Our pal, the Cryptid Hunter. Yeah, from. Formerly from Nevada, now in Colorado, I believe. [00:08:22] Speaker A: Colorado, yeah, yeah, that's right. [00:08:24] Speaker C: We should have had him on this because he is a skinwalker expert of sorts. [00:08:30] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. [00:08:31] Speaker C: I think that goes back to his Navajo past. But anyway, I digress. Danny. I'm sorry, Mr. Interrupt us. [00:08:38] Speaker A: You're all good. They say there are things you just don't talk about in the open desert. Things that move too fast, that watch from the shadows. Things that wear the faces of beasts or men. Tonight, I want to tell you all about one of those things being feared not just for what it does, but for what it used to be. This is the story of the skinwalker. [00:09:06] Speaker C: Skinwalker. [00:09:07] Speaker A: Skinwalker. As you mentioned, Scott, in the tradition of the Navajo people. [00:09:15] Speaker C: I'm sorry, that was Marcus, our sound effects guy. [00:09:18] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, sorry. Thank you. [00:09:19] Speaker C: Thank you, Marcus. [00:09:20] Speaker A: Thank you, Marcus, for that. [00:09:21] Speaker C: Like the echo. [00:09:24] Speaker A: In the tradition of the Navajo people, the term. Okay, bear with me. Ye. Now, Lucy. [00:09:32] Speaker B: Okay, what does it call? Lucy? [00:09:35] Speaker A: It literally means with it, he goes on all fours. [00:09:41] Speaker C: Literally. [00:09:41] Speaker A: Apparently. [00:09:42] Speaker C: Kind of like Danny's girlfriend. [00:09:45] Speaker B: Oh, Scott, I'm gonna edit that out. [00:09:47] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, he goes on all fours, which refers to a witch who has gained the terrible power to shapeshift and into animals. But this isn't just some whimsical folk tale about magic and mischief. This is dark magic, forbidden knowledge, a perversion of everything sacred. Becoming a skinwalker isn't an accident. It's a choice. According to the lore, a person must commit the most unforgivable act to gain this power. Can we say the M word? I don't know if we can say unaliving. [00:10:23] Speaker C: The N word. [00:10:25] Speaker B: No, no, Scott. [00:10:28] Speaker C: What? What? What is the. I don't know what the M word is? [00:10:32] Speaker B: Clearly, I heard M. Well, you know. [00:10:36] Speaker C: Danny, I don't know. I don't know what the. My dilemma with that is. I don't know what the M word is. I know what the N word I. [00:10:44] Speaker B: Think we can say. I mean, we had it. We had a series called Surreal Killers. [00:10:51] Speaker A: Yeah, Serial Killers. Okay. [00:10:52] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm pretty sure we'll see what. [00:10:54] Speaker A: It does on YouTube, though. We're on YouTube. [00:10:56] Speaker B: Yeah, that's true. That's true. Might have to sweep it out. [00:11:00] Speaker A: Unaliving. [00:11:01] Speaker C: Just cough when you say it, Danny. Okay, go ahead. [00:11:05] Speaker A: We'll say this is what they say the safe word on YouTube is. Unaliving family members. [00:11:12] Speaker B: No, not good enough. [00:11:13] Speaker C: Oh. [00:11:16] Speaker A: That act serves as their bond with humanity and opens the door to something far more sinister. Once transformed a skinwalker to can take the shape of any animal they choose. Coyotes, wolves, owls, creatures of the night. But don't be fooled. They are not animals. They walk like beasts but think like humans. And they hunt some Say they mimic voices of loved ones calling to you from the trees in the dead of night. Others claim. Others claim they move with unnatural speed, blurring between the shadows gone before your eyes can focus. They are said to curse, to kill, to rot your insides from the safety of the hills. And then there's the skin. The most chilling part of the legend is how they wear it. Not their own, but that of an animal which they choose to become. Skinned pellets drape over their bodies like cloaks. Flesh as disguise, death as a mask. It's no wonder the Navajo avoid speaking their name. Doing so is said to summon them. In recent years, the legend has bled into mainstream. You probably heard of the famous Skinwalker Ranch, which is a remote stretch of Utah that's become somewhat of a hot spot for paranormal activity. UFOs, strange creatures, electromagnetic anomalies. [00:12:45] Speaker C: Skinwalker Ranch Copyright 1999. [00:12:49] Speaker A: 44. I did look up the owner for Skinwalker Ranch, but couldn't get him. [00:12:55] Speaker C: He refused to come on the podcast. [00:12:57] Speaker A: Well, I don't know how to get a hold of him. Oh, yeah, I tried. [00:13:00] Speaker B: It's probably in their contract not to talk to podcasters. [00:13:04] Speaker A: Yeah, well, he was on a show not long ago, but apparently the guy he interviewed with took him four years to get. But researchers and television crews have tried to explain it, but the land doesn't give up its secret so easily. Some believe it's cursed, others say it's a portal. But those who've spent time there often leave changed change. While pop culture has twisted the Skinwalker into a trope appearing in TV shows, video games, horror fiction, the original stories are far from far more unsettling. Rather, because they aren't just stories, they're warnings. People tell of hearing their names whispered from the dark by the voices that shouldn't know it. Of seeing animals standing just a little too still, a little too aware, a little too human. So if you ever find yourself alone in the desert at night and you hear something call to you, don't answer, don't look. And whatever you do, don't follow it. Because in land where the skin walkers roam, not everything that walks on four legs is what it seems. [00:14:15] Speaker B: So what you're saying, if you're alone and you hear your brother calling you or your best friend out in the middle of nowhere, don't. Don't answer back. [00:14:25] Speaker C: You wouldn't have to worry about me at all. There's been plenty of times there would. [00:14:31] Speaker B: Just be a dust trail. [00:14:32] Speaker C: Yeah, there's been plenty of times where we've been Deep, dark in the Nevada desert, middle of nowhere. And I left all alone next to area 50. One tab trips. And he's like, hey, Scott, I'm gone. I'm out. [00:14:43] Speaker A: What if I'm calling your name, Scott, out in the woods, I don't even know. [00:14:47] Speaker B: And you're in California. [00:14:50] Speaker C: I'm out. I don't come and help. I think everybody knows that. Because if I come and help, then I get sucked into whatever scary stuff you're in. [00:14:59] Speaker A: Skin walking, going on. [00:15:01] Speaker C: Just better safe than sorry. [00:15:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I've heard of stories where people just talk about these creatures and weird things. They, like, bring it home. [00:15:11] Speaker C: So hold on. Hold on. What? [00:15:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:15] Speaker C: So why are we doing an episode on these things? If you mention these things, names and. [00:15:21] Speaker B: They show up, or even our listeners. [00:15:24] Speaker A: No, you. Well, Danny, I guess it depends on what you believe. [00:15:27] Speaker C: Can I pick a bone? [00:15:28] Speaker B: Right? I mean, if you want to take it that far. [00:15:31] Speaker C: Can I pick a bone? [00:15:31] Speaker A: Danny, you're far away from it. [00:15:33] Speaker C: Don't worry. So this is the one, the one topic where you just merely mention the name of it. [00:15:39] Speaker B: Yes. [00:15:40] Speaker C: And we've already mentioned the name. How many times you got to be. [00:15:43] Speaker A: In the woods and you don't even know what a woods is? At least according to this. [00:15:48] Speaker C: I found that video, by the way, Danny. [00:15:51] Speaker A: Not too long. I gotta see it. I still haven't seen it. [00:15:53] Speaker C: I don't even know what the woods. They want me to go in the woods. I don't even know what the woods is. Oh, I will send that to you because that is hilarious. Hilarious. That goes way back. Way, way back. [00:16:06] Speaker A: That was, like, the very first video we ever shot. [00:16:08] Speaker C: Yeah, we were, like, searching for Bigfoot before. Searching for Bigfoot was cool. [00:16:13] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:16:14] Speaker C: They want me to go into the woods. I don't even know what the woods is. Yeah, all right. So don't say its name. Don't talk about it. [00:16:24] Speaker A: What do you guys think about skinwalkers? What. What is the. I've heard them referred to as mimics before as well. [00:16:32] Speaker B: Right. [00:16:32] Speaker A: Obviously, coming out of the Navajo lore, you know, they are said to take the shape of different creatures and. And also mimic family members or people, loved ones, you know, to get you kind of to pull you in. [00:16:47] Speaker B: Right. [00:16:48] Speaker A: I don't know. I mean, I guess superhuman speed and such. Go ahead, sir. [00:16:52] Speaker B: I mean, what is the attraction of becoming a skinwalker? I mean, it sounds like you. [00:16:57] Speaker C: You're just pure evil to begin with. In order to be a skinwalker, you have to be. You have to want it. So you have to sort of be evil just to begin with. There's no. [00:17:08] Speaker A: And you have to take an action like. [00:17:10] Speaker B: Right, right. It just seems like a miserable life to me. [00:17:16] Speaker C: So I got a question for you, Danny. Speaking of these walkers. I'm not gonna say walkers. Yeah. I'm not gonna say their name. What is the difference, Danny, between a walker and a Wendigo? Because the Wendigo is also from tribal backgrounds. And from what I recall from the Wendigo episode, it was very similar to these walkers. [00:17:42] Speaker A: These flesh walkers are Wendigo shape shifters? [00:17:46] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:17:47] Speaker A: I don't know that they're shape shifters. Are they? [00:17:49] Speaker C: Yeah, Wendingo. [00:17:51] Speaker A: Wendingo. [00:17:53] Speaker C: The Wendingo is from the Ojibobi tribe. Ojibo tribe. [00:17:58] Speaker A: Good job. [00:17:58] Speaker C: It's a cannibalistic spirit that also manifests through transformation. [00:18:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't. [00:18:04] Speaker C: According to my notes from the Wendigo episode. [00:18:07] Speaker A: I don't recall. [00:18:08] Speaker C: Paul. [00:18:09] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it was Miguel. [00:18:12] Speaker C: Oh, thank you, Miguel. Look at those in front of me. [00:18:16] Speaker A: I don't remember what the. What the Wendigo, other than it's the shape of a stag. I remember like a stag and had horns. [00:18:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:24] Speaker A: You know, antlers rather. But we watched the movie Antlers. Otherwise I do remember some version of cannibalism. Some, some. Some like cannibalism involved with them and Wendigo psychosis or something, you know, kind of being attributed to the stories. I don't know. This one is. They are said to be, as I understand it, witches and practicing dark magic. And so I think, I think Wendigo. I don't know how you become a Wendigo. I think it just. I don't know. I don't remember. [00:18:59] Speaker C: So do these walkers, are they able to transform into. I mean, they're shape shifters. Right. So the history that I've read and seen regarding them, they usually shapeshift into dogs or something on four legs, I guess. Wolves, dogs, stuff like that. Can they. Can they transform to, like a human? [00:19:23] Speaker A: Yes. [00:19:23] Speaker C: Because if you hear voices, it's, you know, your buddy calling you out or your mother, your mother, who's deceased, that's calling you out. Are they able to shape shift into the form of a human or does it have to be a four legged. [00:19:36] Speaker B: Creature or a blank slate? [00:19:38] Speaker A: Minus. Yeah. My understanding is that they can shift into a creature of their choosing or not. They can trans or change into a person that is familiar to you or not themselves. I don't know. But I've heard them referenced in the same breath as something called A mimic, which apparently does have that ability to exactly mimic. It's like a shadow of or an echo of another being, another person. [00:20:06] Speaker B: Right. [00:20:06] Speaker A: And so I've heard them kind of blended together. You probably have some blending of the different abilities. And mimics are said to be able to transform into people and. Or objects. People, animals or objects. So those chairs are sitting on. It's going to get awkward. [00:20:23] Speaker C: So the Skinwalker Ranch. I've never seen that television show, Skinwalker Ranch, but that's in Utah from what I recall. Do they. So that also is much like that location that we went to up in Mount Adams. East Eddy Ranch. Where? [00:20:41] Speaker A: East Eddy. [00:20:42] Speaker C: Yeah. Right. So much like East Eddie Ranch, Skinwalker Ranch has a multitude of a variety of paranormal activity that's going on. UFOs, cattle mutilations. [00:20:56] Speaker B: Yeah, paranormal, all of that stuff. [00:20:57] Speaker C: But it seems to be fol. Focusing on the blank walkers. [00:21:03] Speaker B: We'll just call them swalkers. [00:21:06] Speaker C: So do the blank walkers have anything to do with UFOs? Why is there a high concentration at that particular ranch with cattle mutilations? UFO activity usually get one or the other. Right. You're at a location that's known for Bigfoot. You're at a location that's known for UFOs. But this particular location, Blank Ranch, much like the E City Ranch, has all these. A variety different things going on. Why do you think that is? [00:21:34] Speaker A: That is a big question mark. Some, I guess some, from what I hear, have attributed it to the. The land that the ranch sits on and what it was used for in the past. I don't know exactly what that is from the past, but it's my understanding that I thought I read something about a portal or something along those lines. Is the claim to have all these different things kind of a confluence of those different things? He said he had some of the same. Same things. Right. UFOs, paranormal. I remember a lot of paranormal talk there, and I think it was primarily those two. But allegedly. Allegedly there's something to do with the land there and maybe the location where they are. [00:22:17] Speaker C: Has anyone seen that show? [00:22:19] Speaker A: I have not. [00:22:20] Speaker C: Is there? [00:22:21] Speaker A: I started to try and watch it before, but. [00:22:23] Speaker C: Is there? I know that they have the place. Just look, because, you know, it's a TV show, obviously, but that they have the place just loaded with cameras. And I'm just wondering if they've ever caught anything on camera or anything that makes you go. [00:22:38] Speaker A: There'S a security lead for the site that's actually. I was joking about contacting the owner, but I was going to try and contact the security guy. I just ran out of time before I could get to it. By the time we decided to have to try and. Yeah, to try and, like, hey, we work in that same kind of industry. Why don't we, you know, bro, hook a brother up and come come talk to us. [00:23:02] Speaker C: You look. You look fabulous, by the way, Danny. [00:23:06] Speaker A: Oh, I. Thank you. Thank you. [00:23:07] Speaker C: You look fabulous. The shirt and the background you got going on there, it's very natural looking. [00:23:14] Speaker A: Thank you. Thank you. I feel very majestic. [00:23:19] Speaker C: So. No. So nobody knows of any video or any sort of evidence whatsoever of these alleged blank walks? [00:23:26] Speaker B: Well, I did watch some. Some YouTube videos of what people are calling skinwalkers, and they kind of look more like hairless, kind of shaped like humanoid. But I don't know what you would call them. Kind of like a naked white being. You know, I don't know how to. It's skinny and long arms and. Yeah, but you're describing it completely different. They can be humanoid or more of an animal. So. [00:23:54] Speaker A: Yeah, here's some. Here's some signs that you might be encountering a skinwalker. [00:23:59] Speaker B: Okay. [00:24:00] Speaker A: If you see an animal acting strangely, especially if they seem to observe and follow you, Right. There's a. There's a fixation with you as. As you know, from that animal may be different from usual. Now I have a husky and a shepherd, the absolute wrong dogs to have if you want any privacy around here. So maybe I live with skinwalkers. I don't know. But they seem to follow me everywhere I go in my house, so. But hearing a loved one's voice calling from the woods, I don't know what the words is. When you know, aren't there. We know they aren't there. Seeing a figure just on the edge of the vision of your vision that quickly vanishes. It could be a cataract or something like that. But a sudden feeling of dread, nausea, or hearing footsteps on rooftops in moored areas. That's weird. And then also repeated sightings of the same animal, that would be creepy. I see the same animal. Of watching you, especially across long distances, and that would be an awkward, awkward encounter. Though huskies have pretty good noses, so they probably find me. [00:25:08] Speaker C: I've got the. I've got the sound of a skinwalker. [00:25:11] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. What do you suppose this sounds like? [00:25:14] Speaker C: But our. From our friend Jack And Coke at YouTube has this Skinwalker scream. [00:25:25] Speaker B: That was really loud. [00:25:27] Speaker C: That was from his front porch. One more time. [00:25:30] Speaker B: Yeah, just turn it down a little bit. [00:25:36] Speaker C: Seems to be something after it. [00:25:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:38] Speaker C: Almost like a bird sound right after the scream. Kind of weird. One more time. Is that what a skinwalker sounds like, Danny? [00:25:54] Speaker A: Yes. The last time I heard one sound. [00:25:58] Speaker C: Like your mom calling you for dinner. [00:26:00] Speaker A: Yes. Get up here, boy. Yes. I don't know. I suppose it could sound like. Well, I suppose it could sound like anything. I don't know that I've heard them scream, but I imagine that's probably getting attacked. One of the last things right here. [00:26:17] Speaker C: Speaking of screams, I think it's going to be in our best interest on our next road trip to stop at that truck stop that we saw. Tab, I think I sent you. [00:26:26] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:26:26] Speaker C: To that in the howling and the screaming in the woods. [00:26:31] Speaker B: Yeah, that was in Weed, California. [00:26:33] Speaker C: Weed, California. [00:26:34] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a. That's my supposedly Sasquatch howling. How far is that of the night? [00:26:40] Speaker C: How far is that from you, Danny? [00:26:42] Speaker A: Four hours. [00:26:43] Speaker B: Yeah, it's about. It's about between. So it's actually in between. [00:26:47] Speaker C: Halfway mark. [00:26:48] Speaker B: It's probably about Mount Shasta. [00:26:50] Speaker C: We could send you over there by yourself. Yeah, you'd probably do that. You'd probably do it, right. [00:26:56] Speaker A: It's actually not a bad drive to get there. Usually. There's. My first stop going from here to there is in Weed. [00:27:01] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:27:02] Speaker A: So it's probably two to three hours, actually. [00:27:05] Speaker B: Yeah, it just. [00:27:06] Speaker A: Four hours would put me in Medford. [00:27:08] Speaker B: Gas is super expensive there. [00:27:11] Speaker A: Yes. Yes. So crazy. [00:27:13] Speaker C: Do you guys have any. Do you guys have any idea how you kill a skinwalker? [00:27:16] Speaker B: Did you. You just said the word. [00:27:21] Speaker C: Well, there's several ways, according to the tribal history. [00:27:26] Speaker B: Okay. [00:27:27] Speaker C: Use of the true name. In some Navajo stories, if you know the skinwalker's human identity or real name, you can kill them by publicly saying it out loud. This act strips them of their power and causes them to die either instantly or shortly after. See, these are all reasons, Danny, why our last episode. It's like my. My team that I came up with, the. The brothers from Supernatural would be the best because they. They know how to kill everything. Everything, including skinwalkers. Guess what else, guys? What have you in our killing monsters pocket? What has been probably the most known for killing all monsters universally? [00:28:17] Speaker A: Oh, I don't know. Killing, but the counting thing or burning it. [00:28:21] Speaker C: How about. How about silver bullets? [00:28:24] Speaker B: Really? [00:28:25] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:28:25] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:28:26] Speaker C: This one's more Hollywood than Navajo, unfortunately. But stories from the Skinwalker Ranch era, encrypted lore sometimes say that silver bullets, particularly to the neck or head, can end a skinwalker's life. So I think that's why it's important to have like an arsenal of stuff, right? Because like, you go out there going, I got my silver bullet and it doesn't work, then you revert to calling its name. But what if you don't know its name? Well, you just run through a list really quick, Bob. [00:28:53] Speaker B: Fred gonna know their name? You're gonna have to like to try, Danny. You're gonna have to fool them. [00:28:58] Speaker A: Yeah, it reminds me of the Rumpelstilts story. [00:29:05] Speaker C: Bless you. Some. Some legends mention white ash bullets, which are tied more closely to nava, to Native American ritual magic. So how do you. How do you generate a white ash bullet? I guess just during the bullet making process, instead of putting. [00:29:21] Speaker B: You put a little white ash in. [00:29:23] Speaker C: With a little white ash in with it. [00:29:24] Speaker A: Just like roll it around in there or something. [00:29:26] Speaker C: So are you making notes, Danny, so that we can have this in our arsenal? [00:29:30] Speaker A: Yeah, we don't you guys have the notebook there though? In the back there on the counter? [00:29:34] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:35] Speaker A: Okay, we need it in our book of. Okay, we'll add bells and we'll. [00:29:38] Speaker C: We'll. [00:29:39] Speaker A: Incantation. [00:29:40] Speaker C: Yeah, we'll add that. You guys know where they. Where the. As far as hot spots are concerned. Skinwalker hot spots in the U.S. where do you think it's more in the desert. Where do you think you're gonna find them? Southwest, if we want to plan. If we want to plan a trip to find them. Where are we going? [00:29:57] Speaker A: Arizona. [00:29:59] Speaker C: Very good, Danny. Arizona, I believe, is number one tab. [00:30:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:30:03] Speaker B: What number two? [00:30:04] Speaker C: Just any place, maybe anything might be on the list. [00:30:08] Speaker B: Nevada. [00:30:09] Speaker C: Nevada. Probably a good guess. It's not on here. But the Navajo Nation. Navajo Nation. So primarily where the Navajo Nation is sort of base would be Arizona, New Mexico, Utah. And the significance basically is that it's a cultural origin of the Skinwalker legend. And the Navajo land spans over 27,000 square miles across. That's a lot of square United States. Yeah. Local residents have passed down stories of creatures running alongside cars at highway speeds. Human animal hybrids peering into windows and mysterious disfigurements of livestock. Yeah, and that's obviously tied to the spiritual beliefs. Number two on that list would be where? Skinwalker Ranch and Utah. United Basin, Utah. And basically they're saying it's the Area 51 of paranormal activity. And since the 1970s, that particular private property has been the epicenter of stories involving skinwalker sightings, UFOs and orbs, poltergeist like activity, and cattle mutilations. And then the number three would be the Four Corners region. That's where Utah, Colorado, And Mexico and Arizona meet the intersection of the multiple native tribes and sacred lands. It's also a magnet for strange phenomena like phantom creatures, UFOs and a lot of people go missing in those particular areas. Number four. Number four is Highway 491. Do you know what that was formerly known as, Danny? [00:31:47] Speaker A: The road to Nowhere. I don't know. [00:31:49] Speaker C: No, no. Highway 491 was formerly known as, I don't know, Highway 6. Six, six, three sixes. Yeah. [00:32:01] Speaker A: Interesting. [00:32:03] Speaker C: Was formerly known as the Devil's highway and it ran through parts of New Mexico and Arizona. And they say that there's a lot of sightings there because a notorious stretch linked with accidents. Eerie creatures running across the roads and v. Fishing hitchhikers. Navajo travelers have reported run ins with the shape shifting figures along this road. But you know, I mean, what do you. What do you. What do you think's gonna happen when you're Traveling down Highway 666? You know, like if there's an alternate route, it's like you're looking at Google Maps and it's like, oh, hey, take a left on Route 666. And then you can say, oh wait, there's another way I can go. That's going to take me an hour and a half longer. I'm going like the hour and a half longer. [00:32:48] Speaker B: Right. [00:32:48] Speaker C: I'm not gonna. [00:32:49] Speaker A: I'd drive it. [00:32:50] Speaker C: You would go down Highway 666? [00:32:52] Speaker A: Yeah, why not? [00:32:53] Speaker C: Well, you're weird. You're weird. Anyway, we're all a little. Would you. Would you take your. Let's ask this. Would you take your mom with you if your mom. If your mom was the passenger, I'd. [00:33:03] Speaker A: Stay on the phone with her. [00:33:04] Speaker C: No, if she was in your car and you had to take Route 666 or take Highway 26, it took two and a half hours longer. You take your mom down. [00:33:13] Speaker A: We'd probably take 26. [00:33:15] Speaker C: Yeah. Okay. [00:33:16] Speaker B: Especially if there was a buffet. [00:33:17] Speaker C: Mother's Day is tomorrow, so that's. That was a good answer. That was a good answer. [00:33:20] Speaker B: A buffet. [00:33:22] Speaker C: Yeah. Wait, what you had on roof 26. But if there. Well, let's think about this first. [00:33:29] Speaker B: Well, what if. What if there was a buffet on Route 666? [00:33:33] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:35] Speaker B: Dilemma. [00:33:35] Speaker C: Let me think about that. Cracker Barrel. There's a Cracker Barrel or In and Out Bob's burgers on Route 26. I don't know. The Cracker Barrel is pretty tempting, but I still don't think I would go down for a buffet. Like a, like a really Good Vegas style buffet. [00:33:55] Speaker B: What about time in the day? What if it was during the day? [00:33:58] Speaker C: No, it doesn't matter because you go down that route and then everything gets dark. Oh, yeah. [00:34:04] Speaker B: So there's a time. [00:34:05] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what happens when you go down Route 6. 6. It's daytime. But as soon as you get on that highway, everything is good. [00:34:12] Speaker A: What if they had those grilled Brussels sprouts from Wolf Creek Inn? [00:34:16] Speaker C: The Wolf Creek Inn? Yeah. [00:34:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:34:19] Speaker C: That's a tough one. Those were good. Brussels sprouts. Yeah, those were good. But I'm still staying off Route 666. Do we have any idea why all these, you know, hotbed of sighting locations for these alleged blank walkers? Why the US military has such a strong presence in. In those certain areas? Coincidence, you think? [00:34:44] Speaker A: Probably not. Probably the same reason, you know, DC. [00:34:48] Speaker B: More gift shops along those routes. [00:34:51] Speaker A: Yeah, it's like dangling the carrot. Look over here. Don't worry about the other stuff. [00:34:56] Speaker C: Is this a location that you guys think we should. [00:34:59] Speaker B: No. [00:34:59] Speaker C: Would you guys investigate it? [00:35:01] Speaker B: I don't want to dabble in it. [00:35:02] Speaker C: No, Dan, I know Danny would go. [00:35:06] Speaker A: I'm down. [00:35:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:35:07] Speaker A: Road trip. Yep. [00:35:09] Speaker C: If we had a skinwalker hot spot, would you go by yourself? [00:35:12] Speaker A: Yeah, there's one near me, apparently. Is there Shasta? Is that what you guys said? [00:35:17] Speaker C: I didn't say Shasta. [00:35:18] Speaker B: No, we were. We were talking about the Sasquatch sound that was at a stop and it was in weed. In Weed, Yeah. [00:35:26] Speaker A: Oh, I think that was. [00:35:27] Speaker C: I would think that was a big. [00:35:28] Speaker B: But there is. There is a skinwalker in Shasta. [00:35:31] Speaker A: I don't know. [00:35:31] Speaker B: I would love to go to Shasta because there's a lot of crazy stuff there. [00:35:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:35] Speaker B: Including ufo. UFO and Bigfoot episode. [00:35:40] Speaker C: You guys ready to move on? Northwest Curiosity Society brings you. [00:35:59] Speaker A: What the was that? [00:36:08] Speaker C: Tab. What do you got for us? [00:36:09] Speaker B: I've got a sound for you. [00:36:10] Speaker C: Wtf? [00:36:11] Speaker B: This one's going to sound really familiar, but you're never going to guess what it is. [00:36:16] Speaker C: Okay. [00:36:16] Speaker B: Okay. You ready? [00:36:17] Speaker C: Yeah. One more time. [00:36:30] Speaker B: Okay. [00:36:31] Speaker C: Closer to the mic. I know exactly what that is. That's the dinner bell. [00:36:43] Speaker A: Marimba. [00:36:44] Speaker B: Somebody's hungry. [00:36:45] Speaker A: It. It's. [00:36:48] Speaker C: That's the dinner bell. [00:36:49] Speaker A: It almost. I thought it was metal, but then it was like glass. For a minute I thought, oh, you. [00:36:55] Speaker C: Want to do it one more time? [00:36:57] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, I gotta. Because they almost say what it is. All right. Where the sound. Where the sound starts. So hold on. Here it goes. [00:37:14] Speaker A: See, I think it started out as glass and then it was metal. [00:37:19] Speaker B: Well, you gotta. You gotta at least try. [00:37:22] Speaker C: I said dinner bell. [00:37:23] Speaker B: Okay. Dinner bell. [00:37:24] Speaker C: I live. I live in. [00:37:25] Speaker B: Dinner bell. [00:37:26] Speaker C: I live in. [00:37:28] Speaker A: It sounds like a tire rim. Somebody's hitting something. [00:37:31] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me, too. But what it is, it's called the singing boulders in Montana. [00:37:40] Speaker C: It's a thing. It's a thing. [00:37:43] Speaker B: Well, these boulders, the way they're created, they. They make that sound when you hit them. [00:37:47] Speaker C: Oh. [00:37:48] Speaker B: Which is very. Not boulder, like so. [00:37:51] Speaker C: It's like a rock. [00:37:52] Speaker B: It's a rock play that people are. [00:37:54] Speaker C: Now that I know what it is. [00:37:55] Speaker B: People. Yeah, people are banging a hammer on a rock, and they make these tones. [00:38:04] Speaker A: Wow. [00:38:08] Speaker C: Wow. That does not sound like a rock. [00:38:10] Speaker B: Yeah, so it sounds more like. I saw that a few weeks ago, and I was like, oh, yeah, that was pretty interesting. [00:38:16] Speaker C: I was gonna say that maybe that was the sound of the spaceship landing on the moon. [00:38:22] Speaker A: Yeah, we don't talk about that. Superstructures. [00:38:26] Speaker B: Oh, so now we need to take a hammer with us everywhere we go and try to find singing rocks in Oregon. [00:38:31] Speaker A: Yeah, just start banging. [00:38:33] Speaker C: It almost seems like the rock is fake. [00:38:35] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:38:37] Speaker C: Okay, I got a sound for you guys. [00:38:39] Speaker B: Oh, you have a sound. [00:38:40] Speaker C: Guess that sound. Danny, you want to hear that again? [00:38:47] Speaker B: It's. [00:38:47] Speaker C: You want to hear it again? [00:38:48] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:38:48] Speaker C: All right, Here we go. [00:38:50] Speaker B: Okay, Danny. [00:38:50] Speaker C: Yes. What do you think it is? [00:38:54] Speaker A: It's. It's a peanut butter cup. [00:38:57] Speaker C: No, it's me putting my spit guard back on my microphone. [00:39:00] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:39:01] Speaker C: All right, you guys ready to move on? [00:39:03] Speaker B: Yes. [00:39:03] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do that. [00:39:07] Speaker C: Northwest Curiosity Society brings you. Fact or crap factor? Crap. What do you got for us, Danny? [00:39:21] Speaker A: All right, I'm gonna put a little twist on this one for you guys. So I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna give you two stories. Okay? I'm gonna read you two stories, and I want you to tell me which one is fact and which one is crap. [00:39:37] Speaker C: Okay. [00:39:40] Speaker A: All right, so the first story, we'll call it the Hitchhiker who wasn't there. In 2002, a group of college students driving through northern Arizona near the Navajo nation picked up a young man walking along the highway just past midnight. [00:40:00] Speaker C: I'm sorry. What year was this? What year? [00:40:02] Speaker A: 2002. [00:40:03] Speaker C: Okay. [00:40:03] Speaker A: Yeah, he was. He was quiet, only nodding when asked where he was headed. As they drove, he suddenly said, you shouldn't have picked me up, and then vanished completely from their back seat. No sound, no trace. The group, understandably shaken, later learned that other travelers had reported seeing the same silent hitchhiker in the same area for decades, always disappearing before reaching the end of town. Locals say he's the spirit of a medicine man, cursed to wander the land. Or possibly a victim of a skinwalker's wrath. All right. [00:40:46] Speaker C: I feel like he should have said, thanks for picking me up instead of, you shouldn't pick me up. [00:40:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I wonder what that means. [00:40:56] Speaker B: What does that mean? I mean, they picked him up, and then he disappears. I mean, what's. What's the ramifications? [00:41:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:41:03] Speaker C: Did they die? [00:41:04] Speaker B: Did something. Are they haunted for the rest of their lives? [00:41:06] Speaker A: But did you die? That's the end of the story. [00:41:09] Speaker B: Okay. All right. [00:41:11] Speaker C: Okay. [00:41:11] Speaker A: All right. [00:41:12] Speaker B: So do we get to hear both stories? And then we can pick. [00:41:14] Speaker A: Okay, I'll read you the next one. [00:41:16] Speaker C: Is this going to take the next one? [00:41:17] Speaker A: Nope. [00:41:18] Speaker C: Good. [00:41:18] Speaker A: The next one we'll call the Goat man at Gila Bend. This story takes place in 1998. A man camping with friends near Gila Bend in Arizona claimed to claim that he encountered a half man, half goat creature that stepped into the firelight, bleeded in a human voice, mimicked their laughter. The creature allegedly followed them back to town, showing up the next day at the man's workplace, this time wearing a cowboy hat and whistling the same tune they had heard sung by the fire. They were terror. That guy was terrified so much that he quit his job and moved to Ohio. The Goat man was never seen again, but other sightings popped up in the following years, including one where the creature was spotted riding a bicycle through the Sonic. [00:42:12] Speaker C: Drive through number one is definitely true. If you believe it. I don't think that any of these would actually be fact. [00:42:20] Speaker B: Yeah, you can't. [00:42:22] Speaker C: But the story told number one is more believable than the story told number two. [00:42:29] Speaker A: What makes it more believable? What makes the second one less believable? [00:42:34] Speaker C: So the first one is believable because they were college students. Students. So the story that they're telling me, they might have just been super high and driving down the road and, you know, came up with this story. [00:42:46] Speaker B: I have a question now. Is one of these stories your own story that you made up? [00:42:50] Speaker A: Yes. [00:42:51] Speaker B: Okay. [00:42:52] Speaker A: One is fact. One is crap. [00:42:53] Speaker B: Okay. [00:42:54] Speaker C: Number two is definitely crap. [00:42:57] Speaker B: But Danny throws those twisters in there. He'll make up one that's riding. [00:43:03] Speaker C: Riding a bicycle. [00:43:04] Speaker B: And then he'll come across a story about. At the end of the story, it was what happened at the Sonic. [00:43:11] Speaker C: He rode a bicycle. He was seen riding a bicycle through this Sonic. [00:43:15] Speaker B: And that's probably going to be the one that's true. [00:43:17] Speaker C: No, no, I'd be willing to put a hundred bucks on it, number one. Number one's not fat about it. [00:43:26] Speaker B: I'm gonna go with number two. Just be. Just to be different. [00:43:29] Speaker A: Although there's Goatman. You know, he did go eat Go Man. [00:43:32] Speaker B: Goat Man. [00:43:33] Speaker A: No, he did bleat in a human voice. [00:43:36] Speaker B: No, I. I'm. [00:43:38] Speaker C: All right. [00:43:38] Speaker B: I'm gonna go number two. [00:43:39] Speaker C: Okay, well, you're gonna lose 100 bucks. [00:43:41] Speaker B: I'm not. That was you. [00:43:44] Speaker C: Danny's losing 100 bucks? [00:43:45] Speaker A: Yeah, apparently he can. So story one is true. Okay, It's. It's a widely shared and documented tale from multiple witnesses in the Four Corners area. Versions of it have appeared in local newspapers, books, and Native American ghost lore. There you go. [00:44:08] Speaker C: I knew it. I knew they would. No sightings of anything creepy. Riding a bicycle through Sonic. Although that sounds really good. And the nearest Sonic is like an hour and five minutes from here. [00:44:19] Speaker A: But yeah, sounds delicious. Mine is 15 minutes away. [00:44:23] Speaker C: You know what we have now, Danny? [00:44:25] Speaker A: Sizzler. [00:44:25] Speaker C: Oh, Sizzler. No, we have a scissor, but we have a in and out. [00:44:30] Speaker A: Oh, look at that. [00:44:31] Speaker C: In Oregon. [00:44:32] Speaker A: Nice. [00:44:33] Speaker C: You guys ready to move on? [00:44:35] Speaker A: Let's do it. We interrupt this program to bring you a special report. [00:44:39] Speaker B: A news flash. [00:44:40] Speaker C: Danny, our man on the street, NWCS news flash. [00:44:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Wow. [00:44:48] Speaker C: Did you know. Did you know you were in charge of this segment? [00:44:52] Speaker A: I did. [00:44:53] Speaker C: Okay, so you read your. [00:44:54] Speaker A: I thought we were doing the song, but we flipped it. [00:44:56] Speaker C: I think the song is the. The song is the outro. [00:45:00] Speaker A: Okay. [00:45:00] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah, we discussed that. [00:45:02] Speaker A: Yeah. All right. [00:45:03] Speaker C: Might have been asleep during that meeting slash discussion, but. No, that's good. [00:45:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:45:09] Speaker C: Yeah. We interrupt this program to bring you a special report. [00:45:12] Speaker A: All right, so we interrupt this program. [00:45:15] Speaker C: To bring you a special report. [00:45:17] Speaker A: This story is called the Ohio Lockdowns. Skinwalkers, or Social Media Panic. Apparently this is a true story in 2024. So just a couple years ago or a year ago, a strange wave of panic swept across social media. Particularly TikTok. Of course, the videos started. Small, grainy hallway clips, shaking, voices whispering. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? And then came the headline. Schools in Ohio's were locking down one after another. And the reason, Allegedly sightings of skinwalkers. So the shape shifting witches from the Navajo lore thousands of miles from the Southwest, supposedly walking the halls of Ohio's middle schools. The most viral videos showed students claiming to hear voices outside their classrooms. Voices that sounded like their teachers or friends, but weren't. Some said they Heard the names, their names being called from empty hallways. Others claimed to see figures watching from behind lockers, only to disappear when approached. One video showed an empty hallway with a long, slow shadow crawling across the lockers. Another, a bathroom mirror reflecting what looked like a crouched animal figure just out of the frame. It didn't take long for the skinwalker or the hashtag skinwalker sighting and hashtag Ohio lockdown started to trend. But here's where fact and fiction begin to blur. Local school officials quickly stepped in. The lockdowns. They were real. The lockdowns were real. But they were due to unrelated security drills and in some cases, false alarms. No evidence of any creature, figure or threat was ever official, officially reported by law enforcement. Yeah. In a statement to the press, one district superintendent called it, quote, a classic case of Internet hysteria. Still, the students told a different story. Some refused to come back to the school. A few claimed what they saw or heard was real. [00:47:21] Speaker B: Snow day. [00:47:22] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Even after being disciplined for the rumors. Others, it was a prank. It was a warning. Now, skeptics say the whole thing was a classic tick tock trend gone too far. Mass suggestion, feeding teenage imaginations. But believers, they say the fact that these voices mimic people the students knew matches traditional accounts of skinwalkers and mimics into entities that lure their victims. Familiar voices waiting for someone to take the mistake of answering really happened in that week. Was it a viral ghost story born from bored students and social media algorithms? Or something older and darker find its way into the school halls? You decide. [00:48:07] Speaker B: I think it was just they wanted snow days. [00:48:10] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:48:10] Speaker B: Yeah, snow days or something. Or something's in the water nowadays. [00:48:14] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Did they get those in Ohio? [00:48:19] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:48:20] Speaker A: New story of the day. How about. [00:48:22] Speaker C: How about I throw this out real quick? So, during my intro, Scott, my little thing. What's up? [00:48:30] Speaker B: No. [00:48:31] Speaker C: What's up? [00:48:34] Speaker B: No, no, no, no. That's awful. [00:48:35] Speaker C: You don't like that? [00:48:36] Speaker B: No. [00:48:37] Speaker C: Danny. [00:48:37] Speaker A: No. [00:48:40] Speaker B: All right, well, back to the drawing board. [00:48:44] Speaker C: We'll move on then. What's up? [00:48:49] Speaker B: This can be an editing nightmare. [00:48:50] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. Danny, you ready to move on? [00:48:54] Speaker A: Let's do it. [00:48:55] Speaker C: Before we move on, I just want to say I'm titillated by the outline that you provided regarding the number eight special mystery segment. Because I have been waiting patiently, longingly. Is this longingly? I don't know. I don't know if it is it or not. [00:49:18] Speaker A: Hang on a second. My dog is going crazy. [00:49:22] Speaker C: Okay. [00:49:24] Speaker A: All right. [00:49:25] Speaker C: I seriously thought the Skin Walkers were after. [00:49:30] Speaker A: Can you hear him? [00:49:31] Speaker C: Did somebody Say hello. [00:49:33] Speaker A: Hello. [00:49:36] Speaker C: I would love to play that back. Somebody said hello? [00:49:40] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:40] Speaker C: Your dogs talk to you, Danny. I'm so glad that was your dogs. [00:49:44] Speaker B: Holy cow. [00:49:45] Speaker C: I just. I might have pooped myself a little bit. [00:49:48] Speaker A: Just a little bit. [00:49:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:49:49] Speaker A: I don't know what you're talking about. [00:49:51] Speaker C: What's cracking? What's crack lacking? [00:49:53] Speaker A: You like something? [00:49:54] Speaker B: No. [00:49:55] Speaker C: You like that? No, no, no. [00:49:57] Speaker B: What's cracking? [00:50:00] Speaker C: Is this gonna stop at some point? So maybe. Wasn't that. Wasn't that One of. One of the signs? [00:50:10] Speaker A: Yes, I suppose. [00:50:12] Speaker B: So what are your dogs doing right now? [00:50:14] Speaker C: And what do they need to shut up? Like, what do we need? [00:50:17] Speaker B: Don't they realize we're podcasting? [00:50:19] Speaker A: Yeah. So here's how it goes. I play music for them in the living room, and one of the channels that I play for them happens to have a squeaky toy sound. So he goes crazy for squeaky toys. [00:50:35] Speaker C: And he decided to do that while podcasting. [00:50:38] Speaker A: It's. It's playing to keep them calm, and it's on rotate, and it just played the squeaky toy sound. And I looked. I looked on my phone, and I. I saw that it was squeak. Exactly. That squeaky toy. So I just paused it. [00:50:50] Speaker C: So I was crossing my fingers that this mystery segment that you came up with, I have no idea what it is because it's a mystery, but, yeah, I'm really hoping that it may be Paranormal Beans related, because I remember Danny said that he was going to come up with an episode of Paranormal Beans, then he changed it because he said, oh, yeah, all that information has been deleted from the Internet, and I have no conspiracy. I have no information on that, but I will come up with a bit. He said, I will come up with a bit. A segment. A bit. Bit. So I'm hoping that. [00:51:26] Speaker A: I said bit, but. [00:51:27] Speaker C: Okay, I think you said bit. [00:51:30] Speaker B: Maybe he said seg. [00:51:32] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't know. So I'm crossing my fingers. This is. This is. We'll see. Yeah, well, I guess we'll see what it is. [00:51:38] Speaker A: All right, well, I can tell you this. It's a campfire story. [00:51:42] Speaker C: Is it? [00:51:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:51:44] Speaker B: Turn it down. Turn that campfire down. There we go. [00:51:48] Speaker A: Yeah, it is definitely a campfire fire story that I will share with you all. And we're going to. Let's call this episode the Beans that Whisper. [00:52:02] Speaker B: Oh, yay. All right. [00:52:10] Speaker C: I'm so excited. [00:52:14] Speaker A: The Beans that Whisper. Thank you, thank you, thank you. They say it happened out near the Yuba Gap, just beyond the abandoned rest stop with the broken vending machines and that one. Porta Potty no one dares open. A kind of place where GPS dies and the fog rolls in like it's unfinished business. That's where the five of us, Scott, Danny, Tab, Jesse, Rob, decided to investigate a completely made up legend that started with misheard lyrics. By whom? I don't know. See, it all began when I, Danny, misheard our podcast intro and asked, did we say paranormal beings? And instead of correcting me, the team ran with it. Scott, our fearless leader who once screamed at a floating napkin, decided we should chase this lead. He claimed he found a reference in an old seed catalog that read, don't soak under a blood moon. So we went, because obviously that's what well adjusted adults do. We arrived at a bean field that felt off. The air was thick, the plants were too straight. Rob, our resident fixer, tripped on a root and broke our only working tripod. Danny, that's me, got excited, said, guys, did you know beans were feared by the Pythagoreans, an ancient. And they were considered ancient legumes of doom. Tab, the voice of reason replied, they're beings, Danny, not ghost grenades. Jesse, who only came back for snacks, grunted, if one of these things moves, I'm punching it. Then Scott leaned in too close and swore that pod blinked at him. He jumped hard again. That night, things escalated. I found a single black bean in my gear bag, written on it in tiny scratch marks, Soak me Tab. Heard whispers coming from our recorder. Two day shipping prime only, beware. Rob tried to dissect one. Our lights flickered, our drone activated and kamikazes straight into Jesse's forehead. And then the kettle screamed. I had boiled the bean for science, of course, you know. The water turned black. The microwave beeped in Morse code. The fridge whispered, they're inside the human. The hummus. They're inside the hummus. The next morning, all of our files were corrupted. Our voice recorders were fried. Scott locked himself in the bathroom and texted us goodbye. Jesse's protein shake turned into lentil stew. Rob built a containment unit of PVC and duct taped. And Tab just quietly stared, started googling gluten free exorcisms. We tried to post the episode. All that uploaded was static and one clear word, rooted. Now we don't eat beans at all. We don't talk about the Yuba Gap incident, and we definitely don't reply to listener emails that say, say, hey, I found a bean under my pillow after that episode. Should I soak it? Question mark? No, no, you should not. Because once you do, you don't digest the bean. The bean digests you. [00:56:27] Speaker C: I got my paranormal being. All right, gentlemen. Amazing episode. Get another amazing episode episode. We've got some fabulous, fabulous episodes coming up. [00:56:43] Speaker B: And a new outro songs. [00:56:44] Speaker C: And a new outro song. But wait till the end of the outro song for my intro. [00:56:53] Speaker B: Your intro? [00:56:54] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. [00:57:04] Speaker D: Hear your name when no one calls Footsteps fall when no one stands Shadows backing with twisted hands don't answer when it calls it's not the one you knew at all I was too wide smile too thin but you let that in Won't leave again moonlight breaks on fur and bone it walks like kin but not alone alone Whispers from stories. [00:57:40] Speaker C: Told. [00:57:43] Speaker D: Of cursed blood and ancient cold Honest screams and silent trees Voices b Come to me mirrors to face you but you ain't safe here anymore don't answer when it calls and then your brother down the hall in the dark Fill in your name and nothing human place that can. [00:58:24] Speaker C: You. [00:58:26] Speaker D: Don'T answer when it calls it's not the one you knew at all Eyes too wide, smell too thin but you let it won't leave again don't answer when it calls it's not the one you knew at all Eyes too wide, small too thin but you let it won't leave again when my face don't feel it walks like him but not alone Whisper stitch from stories told of cursed blood and ancient cold. Haunted screams and silent trees Voices bathing come to me Mirrors edge a face you wore but you ain't safe here anymore. You're the Northwest Curiosity Society and this is into the dark. [00:59:29] Speaker A: Howdy. [00:59:31] Speaker B: Howdy. [00:59:34] Speaker A: Yeah, let's do it. Let's keep it. [00:59:35] Speaker C: All right. [00:59:36] Speaker A: Sold. [00:59:37] Speaker C: Thank you, Tab, for that wonderful outro song. [00:59:41] Speaker B: Yes. [00:59:42] Speaker C: Skinwalker related. [00:59:43] Speaker A: Yes. [00:59:44] Speaker B: I guess that's my new task. [00:59:46] Speaker C: Yeah, you're the audio video. Well, along with our team. Our team. You're head of the audio technical video. Yeah. Yeah. [00:59:53] Speaker B: We'll see how this first YouTube visual. [00:59:56] Speaker A: Brandon, right? [00:59:59] Speaker C: Mark. Marcus. [01:00:00] Speaker A: Mark. Mark. Sorry. [01:00:01] Speaker C: Yeah. [01:00:01] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:00:02] Speaker C: Anyway, everybody, thank you for listening. [01:00:04] Speaker A: Nighty nighty. Night. [01:00:10] Speaker B: Light. [01:00:14] Speaker A: Sound good. [01:00:17] Speaker B: Bye. [01:00:18] Speaker A: Night, Deuces. [01:00:20] Speaker C: Night. Good night.