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Skinwalkers

A skinwalker is a person with the ability to transform into any different type of animal at will.They are most frequently seen as coyotes, wolves, foxes, eagles, owls or crows.Some can also "steal" the faces of different people, and could appear as someone you know. If you accidentally lock eyes with a skinwalker, they can "absorb" themselves into your body and take control of your actions.Rare skinwalkers can also have the ability to enchant the powder of corpses and use the substance as a poison dust on victims.The legend of the skinwalkers originates from the Navajo, a southwestern Native American tribe.In the Navajo language, the word "skinwalker" is yee naagloshii and translates to "he who walks on all fours."  Skinwalkers have only entered the public discourse relatively recently compared to other phenomenon. In 1996, a team of scientists ventured to a Utah ranch to investigate a series of bizarre phenomenon.If their other powers weren't enough, Skinwalkers are also said to be able to run incredibly long distances — some say over 200 miles in one evening. Skinwalkers have a tendency to hang around graveyards, and can dig up graves at an impossibly fast speed.While they can take many forms, many people who see them today describe them as "hollowed out" dog-like animals.Skinwalkers are said to recruit more skinwalkers themselves. There is some dispute in how this happens, but some say that there is an official ceremony and that skinwakers only take their form with a gathering of people and specific chants. With all of their advantages, it is said that you can kill a skinwalker if you call them by their true (human) nameSkinwalkers are most commonly encountered near native reservations, though they have been seen all over the United States ( in Utah is the most famous. Some people believe the "Rake" which is commonly encountered in the northeast is similar to a skinwalker. Now we got some stories from people who have escaped them. My grandmother on my mothers side has always been very Superstitious, for lack of better word, she's not religious, but she does believe in a lot of paranormal stuff.

Her mother was full-blooded Navajo and her father was Irish. Either way, she'd never been anywhere east of Montana and she grew up in Nevada.

One year, when I was in grade school, we went to visit her, most of the visit was pretty uneventful, typical boring old people stuff, except she always kept her curtains drawn shut and would always peek out the window and when someone asked what she was doing, she would simply reply " Yenaldlooshi is watching me"

This went on for nearly the entire visit until a few days before we were due to leave, My grandma and my (then) baby brother (he's 19 now lol) were in the front yard that evening, planting flowers when all of a sudden, my grandmother starts shouting "Insert little brothers name here get away from that creature! It's not safe!" of course, being in Nevada, we all assumed that my brother had found a scorpion or a rattle snake, so we all run outside, to see my Grandmother clutching my little brother and shaking in terror against the side of the house, standing out in the yard, was a large,black, great-dane sized dog, it was staring at my grandmother with an intensity I'd never seen before. It looked up at us, gave a little huff and bounded off, I don't remember if it moved unusually fast or not, but do remember it had really deep yellow eyes.

When my mother asked my grandmother what had happened, she kept repeating " The Yenaldlooshi has found me". She moved a couple weeks after that.My uncle and cousin saw a large deer on the side of the road. When they got closer it hopped over the fence like a bipedal man. One time driving back from Gallup, my dad saw an old navajo woman walking on the side of the road and when he slowed to offer her a ride she took off into the plains, quickly with inhuman speed. Once when I was a kid, my family was at my Aunt's house which is in a rural secluded area when we were toyed with by a few entities. They would make animal noises and when we looked to the direction from which the noises were coming they would turn a flashlight on and off. The noises would come from all directions, in increasingly shorter succession. Usually when I'm there, on the reservation visiting, alone late at night I will feel the presence of evil and dread, panic and paranoia will wash over me and as sudden as it comes it will leave.