Skinwalker Ranch – The Experiences Part Two
In 1996 Robert Bigelow bought The Skinwalker Ranch from the Shermans. His goal was to study the ranch’s strange experiences and see if they could be explained from a scientific perspective.
Mr. Bigelow put together a team he named NIDS or The National Institute for Discovery Science. NIDS did not live on the ranch like the others. They resided in Nevada but visited as needed. Mr. Sherman, however, continued to visit the ranch daily and was kept on as a ranch hand.
NIDS had a handful of its own experiences on the Ranch. Some corroborated Mr. Sherman’s experiences. Some were completely new. All were equally strange and unexplainable!
The National Institute for Discovery Science
Missing Animals
The NIDS’ list of missing animals wasn’t as varied as Mr. Sherman’s since no one lived on or had pets on the ranch. But they did experience dogs and calves of Mr. Sherman’s that went missing during their time.
Cattle Mutilation
Cattle mutilations continued happening the entire time the NIDS team worked on the ranch. The longest timespan between a cow being seen alive and then being found mutilated was only 40 minutes. This was hardly enough time for a person to leave the cows in the state of being they were found in. Some had their legs detached but were laid out with the limbs only inches from the body like they were still attached. Internal organs were missing. Parts, or all, of their ears were missing. All of this with no blood anywhere to be found. The NIDS team used various tools to investigate these mutilations and found that often, even hours after the event happened, there was a high level of magnetism in place where the body was found. Aside from that they could find no other evidence of what caused these deaths.
Unexplainable Creatures
On a couple of occasions the NIDS team found themselves face to face with some very strange creatures. One seemed to be birdlike. It was in a tree, watching them when they first noticed it its outline and red eyes in the darkness. When it left the tree and took off running through the woods, they chased it to get a better look.
Unfortunately, the creature and its tracks disappeared mid chase and was never seen again. But it did leave behind large three point prints that had claw like talon marks at the end of the ends.
On another occasion two of the NIDS team watched a giant black shadow move back and forth through an area of trees. While they never saw what was creating the shadow, it lead them on a cat and mouse chase for quite a while. One even claimed this creature spoke to him telepathically during the process.
Mr. & Mrs. Sherman stumbled across a very strange animal that was attacking some horses as they approached the pen to do a welfare check. The animal ran away as they approached but not before they got a good look. It was large and had features that resembled a hyena, fox, dog and boar all in one animal. Mr. Sherman tried to follow it when it ran off but the animal disappeared without a trace as usual. This was not the last time this animal was seen either. Multiple people have claimed sightings of it since that first encounter.
Perhaps the strangest of all the creatures were the ones that couldn’t even been seen. The arrows of a compass would follow them. Groups of cattle would part for them and there would be evidence of something being there, such as footprints, weird behavior in the animals they interacted with and large scratches on the group of animals they walked through. But the few times this happened, no one was able to see anything creating these effects.
Light Tunnels
NIDS saw what they described as tunnels of light that would come and go apparently at random. They were huge and could only be seen from certain angles on the ranch. They even said they saw objects coming out of the tunnels but couldn’t see the object once it had made it through.
Teleportation
My favorite of the NIDS stories happened to the Sherman’s when they were visiting the ranch one day. They had taken 4 large bulls and put them in a corral together. They went about their chores and about forty-five minutes later returned to find all 4 of the bulls missing. Mr. Sherman went on a frantic search and soon found them. All 4 bulls were huddled together in a nearby trailer. The trailer was covered in dust as it hadn’t been used in quite some time. It’s only door had a padlock which was still covered in dust and barbed wire wrapped around it to keep people out. Yet somehow the bulls had made it inside. The bulls seemed to be in a trance like state at first. They weren’t moving and were just staring at the wall. When Mr. Sherman knocked on the trailer to see if they were alive, they came back to reality. The bulls went on a rampage and destroyed the inside of the trailer. NIDS did investigate the trailer and found what they had found in other situations, a large amount of magnetic energy in and around the corral where the bulls had been and around the trailer itself.
NIDS had set up cameras around the property. At one point a couple of the cameras had the wires ripped out of them and destroyed. Neither the cameras with the ripped wires, nor the cameras that were facing them and recording at the time of the event caught anything that showed what caused the damage.
UFOs
NIDS claims to have seen a large number of UFO’s while on the property, backing up Mr. Sherman’s claims that he has seen them too.
Orbs
NIDS experienced many orbs and glowing lights. Like Mr. Sherman, they would try and get closer to these things for investigation, but the lights seemed to dodge them with every tried.
Since that was a lot of information, I’ve decided to cut this story into one final part. So next week we’ll cover all the experiences of Brandon’s team as well as the theories of why this ranch is a hotbed of such strange things!
photo credit to Jan Koetsier, Filipe Delgado, Dom J. and pexels.com
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