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stalked by a skinwalker I have read

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several of your articles about strange

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things here in New Mexico

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I live in Gallup New Mexico which is

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surrounded by Native American culture

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and history we have many nearby towns

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and reservations that have been here for

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a very long time and many of the people

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claim they're haunted my experience

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takes place right in Gallup on the east

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side of the city near a very small

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reservation my best friend visited her

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sister every weekend she lived in the

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low rental apartments on the east side

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right across from these apartments is an

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elementary school the one I actually

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attended when I was a little girl during

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those weekends I would spend the night

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with my friend at her sister's apartment

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when there was absolutely nothing to do

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and the kids and parents were asleep

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we'd go outside to the park located in

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the middle of the apartments and hang

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out one night we became so bored we

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actually took off walking I'd say it was

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about 2:00 a.m. we were used to being up

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late and were wide awake

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we walked behind apartments where there

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is no light tons of bushes and prairie

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dog holes in the ground as we were

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walking I sensed that someone was

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staring at us are following us I am very

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sensitive so when I sense someone is

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looking at me or following me I'm

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usually right I turned around to look

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and nothing was there as I turned to

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look forward my friend suddenly grabbed

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my arm and said in a scared whisper oh

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my god what was that I looked into the

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darkness and saw nothing the wind was

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blowing lightly and there were a few

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trees ahead of us so I passed it off as

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the wind moving the leaves I told her

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it's just the wind chill out and kept

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walking but as I looked again I saw what

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looked like a black figure moving

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through the trees I stopped and said I

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think it might be a dream crashing out

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back there for the night just so I

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wouldn't scare my friend I kept a calm

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voice which was awful hard for me to do

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because I was sensing that this thing in

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the trees wasn't good I said do you want

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to go back home and she said no we're

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almost to the store let's just keep

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going

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so as we kept walking we heard movement

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in the trees we started walking faster I

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heard something behind us and I looked

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and it was like a wounded or her dog I

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wasn't really scared because where I

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live there's a lot of that but what I

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heard next stopped me dead in my tracks

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and paralyzed me I heard this dog moan

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and growl at the same time as if it was

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ready to attack

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I literally couldn't move and my friend

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was trying to distract me saying come on

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come on we got her on her scream sounded

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distant as if I had gone deaf or if she

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was far away I had made eye contact with

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this thing and I knew that that was a

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bad move I closed my eyes and said a

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short prayer and without even thinking I

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turned around and ran for my life with

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my friend close by my side I tried not

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to look behind us but something was

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telling me to look I glanced behind us

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and a man was running after us

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he wasn't just running he was running on

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all fours I screamed and my friend

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joined in only because I scared her when

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I yelled we finally got to the road

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where there was light in cars passing we

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must have run for about five minutes

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straight and were completely out of

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breath I remember our sides were aching

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and cramping as we stopped to catch our

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breath I turned to look behind us and

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saw the man in the distant darkness

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running back to where we had come from

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we walked a few more minutes until we

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finally reached to the store the lady

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behind the counter gave us a we would

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look and asked us are you girls okay we

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were played out of breath yes just a

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late night run I could tell she didn't

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believe us so she asked did you girls

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run from the apartments I answered yeah

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why and she said oh are you girls sure

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you are okay we looked at each other and

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my friend told her well not really we

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just had a horrible encounter with

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something we don't know what it is or

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who it was the lady said you girls just

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ran from a skinwalker whoever it was

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always chasing someone he catches

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walking the road at night you girls are

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lucky you made it this far as if we

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weren't shaken up already what she just

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told us struck a nerve

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I have heard similar tales from my

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grandmother we didn't have any money but

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she offered us a bottle of water and a

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ride back home she closed down the store

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and we got into her pickup as we passed

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the bushes and trees where we had

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previously come from we both saw

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something running the lady told us to

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ignore it and close our eyes we finally

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entered the apartment complex and she

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asked us which is yours I pointed in the

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direction of our apartment as we were

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getting out of the pickup she told us

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you girls stay home at night now there's

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no need for you to young girls to be

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running around at 2:00 in the morning

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keep yourselves safe you hear we nodded

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and said goodbye and thank you after

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that night we never left the

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and complex after it turned dark to this

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day I am still shook up about what I had

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experienced that night and I still don't

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really know what it was that jazzed us

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living near the skinwalker ranch I lived

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near Roosevelt Utah when I was a boy my

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family owned land south of town

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I suppose we lived about three or four

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miles from the current skinwalker ranch

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and Bottle Hollow this was during the

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1950's before the reservoir was built in

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the hollow sometimes we'd look east at

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night and see weird lights coming from

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the hollow area one night I remember

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watching a ball of bright white light

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with a long tail moving along the

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eastern horizon then reverse course and

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go back the other way my father called

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it a spirit light and said he would see

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many in one night when he was a boy the

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most shocking and memorable incident I

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experienced happened on my 12th birthday

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which was in September 1959 our family

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was sitting out behind the house

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enjoying the evening we had a small

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party earlier and the last guests had

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just left I had received a refracting

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telescope as a gift from my parents and

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I was eager to try it out the sky was

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clear and full of stars that evening as

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I scoured the sky I heard what sounded

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like men talking the sound was coming

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from the gully on the east end of our

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land as I listened I noticed my father

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walking towards me he had a very fearful

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look on his face like he had seen a

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ghost or something

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all of a sudden there was a loud whoop

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sound and then another I looked back

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toward the gully and was shocked to see

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three tall white human-like figures the

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only description I can give is that they

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were very thin with long arms and legs

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their heads were human but looked more

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animal-like as we watched they were

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standing still and looking directly at

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my father and I was shining black eyes

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then the one on the right raised its

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left arm and pointed in the direction of

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the hollow the area near the current

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skinwalker ranch my father yelled out

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leave us be and the figures crouched to

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the ground and disappeared when we got

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in the house my father and mother sat me

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down at the kitchen table and told me

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that these were spirits of dead mute

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warriors who were killed by the Spanish

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and buried in the hollow they also said

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that these spirits protected the sacred

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native lands and used magic from the

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heavens to scare their enemies my

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parents were very aware of these

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traditions even though they were not

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Native American as I grew older I

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started to realize that we know very

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little about the spiritual world

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and that we know less about the people

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is a skinwalker stalking me a few months

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ago I started dating a Navajo girl

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there has been some trouble with an

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ex-boyfriend of hers strange things have

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started to happen around my property I

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live on a ranch in southern New Mexico

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and it's very isolated lately I've

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started seeing shadows and shapes moving

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around outside at night coyotes

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which have never been much of a problem

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have started coming into the yard I even

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think I saw one in the house one night

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but I can't be too sure

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one morning I found a feather laying in

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front of my door I quickly called my

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girlfriend she told me not to touch it

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but wouldn't say why can anyone give me

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any information as to what is going on

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here exactly I can't explain it

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but this is starting to seem like

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something out of the ordinary could

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there be a skinwalker stalking me

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skinwalker encounter I live close to the

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reservation just outside Mesa Arizona I

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have a couple of native friends who I

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just recently went camping with around

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20 miles outside the valley to a place

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they call three poles this place is

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considered holy land in their eyes and

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is close to a river there are numerous

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stories I know about this place

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such as the flute player you can hear at

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night or the Boulder sized splashes you

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hear in the river but the most notable

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are the stories of the skinwalkers we

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arrived at the camping site around 9:00

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p.m. it was already dark so we started

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to unpack and made a fire once that was

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done my native buddies put up the

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barriers and puffed the smoke of tobacco

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upon us as a personal barrier they told

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me never to go anywhere alone and that

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around 3:00 a.m. is when the spirits are

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the most active around 2:00 a.m. the

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beating of a drum became very clear this

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is a sign of the skinwalker they told me

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at around 3 a.m. the smell of wet dog

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became apparent this is the sign of

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either two things who fee an extremely

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evil spirit or the skinwalkers the fire

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grew small and we could see the shadows

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of animals we all decided to move to

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another site in the morning as first

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light dawned we packed I sat in the back

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of his truck to hold down the stuff as

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we left I saw a Rottweiler walking on

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its hind legs straight to the middle of

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our camp it was easily five feet tall

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and had bright orange eyes I freaked out

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and screamed as it was running at us

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still standing up that disappeared into

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a bush after we turned the corner later

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on at our other camp an old man with his

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face covered up by hair visited us and

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acted very strangely we ran out of

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drinks so a friend and I decided to head

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out on foot no car a friend had to take

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it home we saw a car as it approached it

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slowed down to a halt and the same man

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asked if we wanted a ride we said no

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because by this time my friends had told

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me the man was a skinwalker he grabbed

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my arm and pulled me by his car and

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looked straight at me as my friend ran

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up to grab me the man took off in his

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car once we got back I

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it was around dawn when just behind me

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the man appeared about ten feet away and

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asked if I could help him with something

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back at his camp as he did two trucks

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came around the corner to head further

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into the grounds he watched them as they

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passed and then all of a sudden he

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bolted after them I was astonished

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seeing the sixty year old man chasm down

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a car my native friends put up a salt

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barrier I heard sounds all night but

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skinwalker tradition and encounters as a

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teenager I would visit my grandma at her

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home on the Navajo Reservation for

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several weeks every summer I loved to

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spend time with her eat her delicious

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fried bread and hear her tell us stories

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every so often my grandma would hire a

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worker the harmless tantrum to do odd

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jobs around her house and property one

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evening right before the Sun went down I

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was asked by my grandma to take him home

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which was about four miles out of the

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valley where she lived I was more than

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happy to seeing that I was only 14 years

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old and was asked to drive a truck mind

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you that on the rez nobody cares that

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you're only 14 years old and driving

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around hell there's hardly anybody

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around to see you anywhere so my

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nine-year-old brother jumped in the

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truck cab with me while this worker and

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my dog shared the tailgate of the truck

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and we were off after I dropped the

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worker off at the shack that he and his

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brothers called a house we headed back

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down the road to grandmas as I mentioned

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before there was evening and the sky was

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a deep red as the Sun began to set

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behind us we were leaving a nice dust

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trail from the dirt road and the radio

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was playing music from the only radio

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station that could be picked up from the

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nearest town of Holbrook Arizona there

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was nothing unusual nothing weird it was

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at this time that my eye caught movement

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of something in the bushes a little of

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the road to the right of us I remember

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slowing down thinking that it was one of

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the many free roaming sheep in the area

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that would dart out in front of the

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truck as I passed where I thought I saw

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it I sped up thinking nothing else of it

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then out of nowhere I just felt this

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dark feeling of fear and dread I had no

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idea why I was feeling this way

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but I definitely felt that something was

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wrong as I play this memory back in my

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mind there are only a few clear memories

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that I have a bet evening I clearly

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remember looking in my rearview mirror

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and seeing the dark silhouette of

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something very tall and very skinny that

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seemed to be covered with some kind of

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hair for running behind the truck after

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us whatever it was it wasn't a normal

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human or human at all

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I remember hearing my brother crying and

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my dog barking ferociously at whatever

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was chasing us

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I remember speeding very fast and

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shaking violently as the truck bounced

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on the washboard dirt road I distinctly

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remember that this thing was only

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getting closer as my

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the cried it's coming up on your side I

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remember being as scared as hell and

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thinking that I didn't want to die at

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the moment that I thought would be our

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last I remember speeding around a bend

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in the road and seeing a car coming

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towards us in the opposite direction at

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that moment I felt instant relief and

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felt that whatever was following us was

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gone

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shaken up but alive we made it to

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Grandma's house wondering what the hell

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had just happened

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we ran inside not looking back hoping

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that whatever was chasing us did not

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followed us home as we told my grandma

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about our experience she didn't seem too

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surprised which surprised us

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she continued by repeating stories that

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we have already heard at one point or

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another about black magic witches and

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something that the Navajos call Unadilla

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sheer skinwalkers needless to say I

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didn't even want to look out any of the

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windows of all the rest of that night as

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a matter of fact I never drove on the

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reservation at night until I was 21

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years old without going too deep into

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explanation I'll just say that these

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skinwalkers are evil men and spirits

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that use black magic for evil do I tell

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you that as far-fetched as it may sound

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they are real I believe that if God and

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his greatness are real the devil is

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equally as real and also has his ways of

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showing himself this may not sound very

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scary to some readers and that may be

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due to my lack of writing skills but

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what happened that evening really did

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happen and scared the living crap out of

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me I invite anybody to visit this part

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of Arizona if you have any doubt or one

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huge scare I promise you that you won't

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be disappointed I hope that you enjoyed

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my story and I look forward to sharing

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