Looking for the scariest skinwalker book to be written so far???

I'm an amateur fantasy and sci-fi writer who loves mythology and folklore from around the world, and, as my presence here makes it apparent, the Navajo are included. The series I'm currently writing has skinwalkers in its setting. However, I feel like I've consumed every type of content, both from actual Navajo people and from fellow enthusiasts, when it comes to their powers and how dangerous and fearsome they are. While the story does use these aspects on the skinwalker character (while there are others skinwalkers, he is the only that shows up on it), I wanted to add more spice to it, more intrigue, more than just a rabid animal hunting his prey and having fun with their despair, but a rabid animal with a tragedy behind him. Avoiding as many spoilers as possible, the skinwalker was an outcast on his tribe as since birth, he was treated as cursed. He basically had a deep connection with Hastur (yes, Lovecraft enthusiasts, that Hastur), mix those two aspects with all the tragedy when the Exodus of the Navajo happened and he snapped, sacrificing his own father to complete the ritual. He swore to himself he would only devour and hunt the colonizers, but inevitably, he was driven mad and began hunting his own kin too. The protagonist of the story is your average mix of a boy scout who believes that everyone has the potential to become better and the chosen hero of legends. When they met, he shouted to the skinwalker and his allies (its a big story of why he didn't just ate them) that he would save them all since the world he wants to create is one which everyone can live together in peace, but I'm not sure Skinwalkers can even be redeemed and saved to begin with. So, the unusual question of the title is: Is it possible to redeem a Skinwalker? To save them? To have them come back to the light and not be corrupted by dark magic anymore?

A new Skinwalker Stories is up! Check it here and Happy Halloween:

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-eleven/

It seems Halloween is upon us, which means all kinds of shitposting, scary stories and the ever increasing risk of diabetes. Over the years I've told many stories around encounters with Skinwalkers, some fictional, others more real. To celebrate this festive season, as well as to look back, I'm attaching links to every Skinwalker Stories post I've published since starting The Horror Show blog.

When I started, I never thought a single series would be my most popular body of work. The Horror Show was started simply for somewhere to post my work, build out a portfolio for a professional career. Yet Skinwalker Stories regularly brings hundreds of people to my site than I thought it would. It has been a long journey of pride, joy and often times stress and yet we're all still here. I thank each and every single one of you for sticking with me up to now and hope we'll get to keep going forward no matter what.

Over on r/TheHorrorShow, I'm posting new content daily during the week (I take the weekends off) during the month of October. I would much appreciate the extra support outside the Skinwalker Stories as I attempt to grow my content out of a single niche area. Thank you all again.

Links:

Volume One:

Skinwalker Stories #1

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/skinwalker-stories-1/

Skinwalker Stories #2

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/skinwalker-stories-2/

Skinwalker Stories #3

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2019/12/20/skinwalker-stories-3/

Skinwalker Stories #4

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/skinwalker-stories-4/

Skinwalker Stories #5

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/01/06/skinwalker-stories-5/

Skinwalker Stories #6

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/skinwalker-stories-6/

Skinwalker Stories #7

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/02/09/skinwalker-stories-7/

Skinwalker Stories #8

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/04/02/skinwalker-stories-8/

Skinwalker Stories #9

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/skinwalker-stories-9/

Skinwalker Stories #10

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/05/28/skinwalker-stories-10/

Skinwalker Stories #11

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/10/26/skinwalker-stories-11/

Skinwalker Stories #12

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/skinwalker-stories-12/

Skinwalker Stories #13

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/skinwalker-stories-13/

Skinwalker Stories #14

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/skinwalker-stories-14/

Skinwalker Stories #15

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/skinwalker-stories-15/

Skinwalker Stories #16

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/skinwalker-stories-16/

Skinwalker Stories #17

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/01/06/skinwalker-stories-17/

Skinwalker Stories #18

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/01/13/skinwalker-stories-18/

Skinwalker Stories #19

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/01/20/skinwalker-stories-19/

Skinwalker Stories #20

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/01/27/skinwalker-stories-20/

Skinwalker Stories #21

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/02/04/skinwalker-stories-21/

Skinwalker Stories #22

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/09/27/skinwalker-stories-22/

Skinwalker Stories #23

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/skinwalker-stories-23/

Skinwalker Stories #24

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/10/11/skinwalker-stories-24/

Skinwalker Stories #25

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/10/18/skinwalker-stories-25/

Skinwalker Stories #26

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/10/25/skinwalker-stories-26/

Skinwalker Stories #27

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/11/01/skinwalker-stories-27/

Skinwalker Stories #28

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/11/08/skinwalker-stories-28/

Skinwalker Stories #29

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/11/15/skinwalker-stories-29/

Skinwalker Stories #30

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/skinwalker-stories-30/

Volume Two:

Chapter One

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/06/10/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-one/

Chapter Two

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-two/

Chapter Three

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/06/24/skinwalkers-vol-2-chapter-three/

Chapter Four

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-three/

Chapter Five, Part One

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-five/

Chapter Five, Part Two

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-5-1/

Chapter Six

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/08/13/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-six/

Chapter Seven (mis-labled as Chapter Six)

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/08/19/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-six-2/

Chapter Eight

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/08/26/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-eight/

Chapter Nine

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-9/

Hi everyone, I'm shaking and panicking uncontrollably, so this started happening about 4 hours ago and I've finally gotten home, so I want to write what happened while its still fresh.

To give a complete rundown: I live in Ontario Canada close to Toronto, I heard on the news that tonight there would be a chance to see the northern lights again. This past May I went and saw them and wanted to take the opportunity to see them again. Last May I went with a couple buddies but no one was available this time. The plan was to drive 4 hours to Algonquin park, hike in middle of the Forest make a campfire, smoke some marlbros and drive back after stargazing. I end up driving about 2 hours there before my friend sends me a text showing there's no real forecast for the northern lights, so I decided to go up anyway and stargaze (a hobby of mine). I drive up another hour and at this point it's about 11:00 pm in the middle of nowhere, no signs of humans other than the road in the pitch black.

I was on a call with my buddy since it was pretty boring driving up and I started mentioning how beautiful the stars looked, my buddy then recommended that I pull over and take some pictures to send. I end up pulling over, turning off all the lights in my car (while leaving it running) and standing beside the forest. For about 5 minutes everything was fine as I was admiring the stars gushing to him about it, right about that time the forest went completely quiet, there was literally 0 sound other than the wind and the trees. I immediately felt like something was wrong and went to grab my flashlight to see if there was a bear or something. I walk a little bit into the woods and turn on my flashlight, I end up hearing a rustling noise and turned around until is see this "thing" standing on its hind legs with a bright orange/red glow to its eyes. It was about 50 meters away. I start mentioning what I'm seeing to my buddy when all of a sudden my signal goes dead before I stare at it for a second until it starts sprinting at me at full speed, I immediately go into fight or flight and dash to my car, going in and redlining it until I'm doing 300km/h.

Im usually a pretty casual guy and not spooked by much, but I was shaking, crying, sobbing and trying to run away as fast as I could (before anyone says anything it wasn't a bear or anything similar). I start spam calling everyone and anyone I can until I get ahold of my best friend and start crying and sobbing about what happened while freaking out. At this point he just wants to check in to see if I'm ok and whatnot, I start describing to him what I saw, and used the name of the subreddit (I don't wanna say it even in text) to describe what I saw. It was this super unnatural looking thing and it had really spooked me. Right around here is when I feel all the muscles in my body start becoming sore and cramping up, it turned out when I had initially dashed to my car I basically output all the force I could to get away, I'm an ex rugby player/powerlifter so my instincts were forcibly making me get out as fast as possible

After about 30 seconds of saying the name I see the same figure on the side of the road following me with its head and glowing eyes. I proceed to hyperventilate and freak out more until he calms me down and tells me to get the fuck out of there. I started looking for a way to make a U-turn but couldn't find anything. At this point I drive another 15 mins before I can find somewhere to turn without stopping. I start to slow down and u turn before I hear this ear splitting screaming sound from my window before I gun it back the direction I came. I start freaking out more telling my friend as everything was happening before I started getting a sinking feeling in my stomach that something was watching me. I start to look all over the empty roads and see nothing, all of a sudden my signal goes out again and I hear the screaming sound and see a kinda humanoid body in the fetal position on the side of the road, I then see its head look up and stare at me directly. I gun it again and can't get the goosebumps and sinking feeling to stop. I continue trying to contact everyone I can to no avail.

I end up trying to calm myself down with my Kanye cd and hear something tapping my sunroof. I don't know how I knew but I knew something wanted me to open the sunroof cover and look through. I prevailed and never looked but never lost that sinking feeling that it was there, I would hear the tapping sound on and off (rhythmically kinda like drums) for about an hour until I reached a small town. At this point I've gotten ahold of my friend and puked in my car, I'm just trying to get back as fast as possible and he's telling me to describe Elden ring lore to him to calm me down. After about an hour of paranoia I stop crying and freaking out. I drive as fast as possible to get home but I can't shake the feeling that they're still on me. I've locked all my doors and windows and I'm still shaking like crazy. I don't know what to do and I'm freaking out.

Update: I can't stop shaking and the sinking feeling is still there, I can't stop checking the windows every 5 minutes

Update 2: get everyone, thanks for all the advice and kind words, just wanted to say I'm alright. I've definitely calmed down a bunch and I'm safe at home. I got motion detected cameras surrounding the house that activate a light when anything is detected so I'm pretty sure I'm fine for now, the plan is still to stay awake through the night and basically sleep in the morning.

Hi everybody, after looking through multiple reddit communities on where to post this, I came across here, what I am about to tell you may sound bizarre and outlandish but please bear with me.

A little background about myself. I am working in the healthcare industry and have a few clinics in my locality where I frequently visit. My visits involve a lot of travel especially at night time as I work in the emergency dept.Throughout my life I have been a rational man, I laughed at flat earthers and conspiracy theorists and generally have been a follower of science, The country I live in probably has never heard of reptilian conspiracy theories, I can tell you I live in a middle eastern country.

So Around 3 years ago I was travelling to one of my clinics when I had to take the river road due to ongoing work on the highway, it was night time around 1 am and the river road was all dark, due to the pandemic people were generally staying in and the roads were deserted, being a doctor I was almost at work every day, usually I worked 10 hours shifts and came home late at night or early in the morning, anyways so as I was driving on the side of the road, I could hear the river slowly moving, pitch dark only my headlights illuminated the road infront of me, the area between the road and the river has short grass growing on it and I could clearly see the river edge and road as it was, since I was driving a jeep my headlights were high beam to avoid accident in the river, I could easily the riverbank and the road 10 to 15 feet infront of me. As I was driving all of a sudden the corner of my eye caught something slithering from the river and turn into a woman!!!!!!!!. The horror and shock of the moment still haunts me to this day. Anyways as I was slowly thinking if I was going insane the creature turned to me and was covered in a sticky substance, it blinked and had normal eyes but two sets of eyelids, it stared at me for a minute and then vanished in the Bush on the other end of the road, I was still in my vehicle and was shocked speechless, I slowly gathered myself and drove away from that place, that night I delivered a healthy baby boy and assisted in a complicated c section, I had myself tested and my bloodwork was fine, i had slept 13 hours and was not sleep deprived, my mind rationalized the incident and closeted it as the workload was too immense. It has been a few years since that and I still can't rationally explain what I saw, even now my mind tears itself up to find why I saw what I saw, I have since moved to the west but that memory is very strange and bizarre, I cannot talk about it to anyone and I cannot speak about it to my family as my professional outlook will be compromised, I may post this on ask reddit but I don't want people making a fool out of me, I forgot to mention that I visited the place late in the afternoon the next day and I saw a flaky scaly grey dust by the river. I didnot look into the bushes.

Anyways that was my account, if anyone has experienced this or finds this interesting post it in other reddit communities of theory rules allow it or not, I honestly feel relieved now that I have shared this paranormal experience with you all.

Thanks!

welp i saw this place and i have something that still haunts me to this day. sadly a kid i told this story to took it as his own and butchered it on 4 chan with a lot of inconsistencies. needless to say i snapped at the lad as i take this real story of mine seriously cause it was the first night i was shown that i am easy prey. so a bit of lore leading up to the situation, in 2016 i was living in Denver, Colorado i was in high school at the time and i had a good decent job that was paying me well but fired me for being a metal and techno music blaster as i did the job. me and my family moved due to dear old dad getting into it with a landlord resulting in...well i cant say here cause it would violate the 1st rule of this place. we moved a few months later to a city in Southern Colorado cause rent was cheap there and still is. i am a bit of a horror and paranormal lover so naturally stuff like a Skinwalker or werewolf drew me in, something about it just spoke to me to check it out and being a horror nerd it was a good time hearing and reading such stories even ones that are true....but no one realizes how horrifying things can get when your met with the real thing. it is unclear to me if these are evil shaman or spirits but i can tell you a warm night in 2021 was the night that put things into perspective on why you should never want something like that to show up with that we have a bit of my history leading up to this encounter in my own home...

The night was like any other i just got home from a new job i got cleaning a call center and relaxed with some destiny 2 with friends in one ear and listening to Navajo shaman talk about Skinwalkers and their history in the other needless to say it got very dark to me. after a few hours i called it quits on destiny 2 with the lads as we were doing vanguard nightfall missions that night to get a a certain heavy ammo using grenade launcher, we succeeded in that getting some good rolls but alas we aren't here to talk about destiny. so after about 3 hours of going to bed i was woken up by a pair of glowing red eyes just watching me. i couldn't move, my body was locked in place as if it was screaming at me "Don't move. don't move or your dead". now this is where things take a turn....i was still living with my family when this happened so you can bet not only was i scared and unable to move, i was scared what it was gonna do to my mother and younger brother and sick father. i could feel and hear my own heart beating, slowing down.....then...the growling came. it started getting close to my bed growling and on occasion snarling it was pitch black in the room all i could see was its eyes those blood red angry eyes that tell you "the world you know it has ended what happens now is my choice" it felt like an eternity but it backed off and i could move again, but i didn't want to...why? it was still there staring at me and growling as if testing me or seeing what i was gonna do so it can do what it really wanted to do to me. i never took my eyes off of its eyes not even to shut my eyes and wish for it to go away....but in the words of a Mr. quint sometimes it don't go away. i was thinking scared that it had to be a nightmare had to be any moment i would wake up to my bedroom light on and my younger brother slapping me to wake me from it. but it wasn't i didn't get such a mercy. after a long time the sun started to rise and the eyes disappeared without a trace. not taking any chances i grabbed my handgun and did a sweep of the house....mom was terrified, dad laid there asking me what the hell sounded like a warped chainsaw. but my brother he saw it and he wished he hadn't gave a description i remember his words to a damn t "it looked like some skinny tall person with a wolves head....it stared at me for a bit. the teeth looked like a bunch of knives and the hands like a humans with freddy kruger claws going on. i don't know what the hell that was but i don't ever wanna see it again" dad went into a yelling fit blaming me for giving them all nightmares playing some horror flick went i went to bed as that's what he chocked it up to when i never did that. hours later mom took me for a drive and parked at the city park asking me "what the hell was that thing last night?". i told her i don't know but whatever the hell it was it was not friendly...not in the slightest. the following weeks bad luck happened. my runs in d2 went to hell, my job was on my butt saying i never cleaned and missed a lot of spots when i never did miss a spot to the point to where i told them to shove it and i quit during that time, the employees of the call center gave their support for me i thank them for that as they said there was no problems at all everything was cleaned to the point they could eat off the breakroom or bathroom floor if they wanted to so they couldn't understand why my boss was losing his mind at me. so i went to a shaman out in the rural parts of the city and told him what happened....what he said next was well "you drew it to you with your interest and it took interest in you not cause your a negative energy buffet even though you try to be polite and nice. you must have some native blood in your family tree. its still out there watching you, i don't know if it was an evil spirit or a Skinwalker but ill tell you what ill get a priest friend of mine and bless your house asap for free. it will keep it away as long as you don't feed it or attract it any further" i still payed the shaman and i donated to his priest friends church. 2 days later dads health went to hell so bad that it was time for a hospice.... 3 days later...dad called and had me, mom and brother come to see him one last time. we said our goodbyes but made mom and brother leave and me stay to have one last conversation.

"i saw it in my window last night son it- it....im sorry. I'm so sorry for everything I've done to you and the hell i put you and your brother and mother through I'm so sorry i thought it was a horror movie you had blaring that night. i know you hate me you have every right to do so you can tell me off and yell scream and curse at me. I've made my peace with god. but know this....its still out there....its waiting for you. take care of your mother and your brother....keep that thing far away from them. i know you will do the right thing." those were the last words he spoke before he died right Infront of me i said aloud "the dead have settled their debts and its time for living to pick up the tab. ill do my best and that thing will never get near them as long as i still draw breath, rest in peace dad may you find more peace in the afterlife than you did in life". me and my father had a rocky relationship when i turned into a teen around 2016 i stopped acting like him and became a better person. dad was a jerk with delusions of wealth and grandeur. i always butted heads with him on how he treated people in the house and in public even traded punches on a few occasions. but now we come to 2024 i told a kid this story in a discord vc and well i find a post on 4 chan days later where he screwed it up with time tables and inconsistent times and dates and months he even made a follow up post and yet again he screwed it up. saying "i had my gun at the ready front door was smashed till the sun came up." none of that happened except me doing a sweep of the house with the handgun in hand. all doors were undamaged. what really pissed me off is my dad passed away around that time and that thing came into my home to show me that it could easily get to me and my family if it so chose to kill us all. we moved from that house into an apartment due to hard times and yes im still living in the same city but whenever i recount or remember or speak of this incident i feel watched, even a border collie i adopted named emmy growls at a closet or the front door at night....its out there...and its waiting for its moment. and ill be waiting right for it now that i have a sense of what i might be up against. im more than happy to talk or have someone share a similar experience but know this i will never say the name Skinwalker in a vc or anywhere aloud cause to do that from what i learned is like inviting a vampire into your home. you do not want that. thank you for reading this it also allowed me to clear the air thanks to that kid but this is a moment of my life i will never forget and it seems will follow me to the grave. never forget there are forces in this world we will never understand but never paint a target on your back....cause then they will come.

I live in a small town in New Mexico, we have bonfires quite often out in the desert and one night my friends wanted to have a kickback. I’m not one for party’s but I decided why not. A while into the kickback the fire started to die down so I decided to go grab some fire wood on my own, I walked a little ways but enough to still be able to see the fire but not able to make out what anyone was saying. As I was cutting down this dead tree I heard a whistle. I stopped for a second because I wasn’t sure what I heard was actually whistling, and not a second later I heard it again, this time closer. I was in complete shock and froze for a second, and again a whistle. It was even closer than before. I dropped everything and ran back blindly back to the fire, told my friends and left. I’ve never returned since.

Hey all. Lurker but I've never posted. I wanted to share my personal experience and get some validation that I'm not crazy. I titled this "Possible" because people never believe me when I share.

So a couple years ago, my mom and I were leaving from a visit with my grandma. For reference, she lives in a old folks mobile park in the "country" side of the town in Southern WA. It's completely dark out, and I'm driving the car with my headlights on. As we are taking the exit road, I slam on my brakes as what looks clearly like a coyote darts in front of my car. My mom and I both see it. It shoots to the left, and I follow it with my eyes as it runs into the field of cows beside us. My mom doesn't have great vision and lost it in the darkness, but I could still see it.

Sharing this always makes people look at me funny, but this was the realest thing I've seen. The "coyote" stood on it's hind legs and was much taller than a normal coyote would have been if it were to stand up. Somehow between it running in the field and standing up, I notice there were antlers on it's head. Like, moose antlers.

My eyes started to water and I got the worst sensation flood over me, like get away now. I had goosebumps all over, and even though my mom didn't see it, she had goosebumps too, like her body knew something was wrong.

I'm sure I'm not the only one to experience this, has anyone seen something similar? This happened about three years ago and I can still remember it very vividly.

There is an episode of Paranormal Caught on Camera where a couple in some green part of the country who’s back yard just fades into deep woods, captured their evolving experience with a shape shifting entity that shows itself first like an almost cute square sack faced puppet with two dark eyes and a nose hiding behind logs and fallen trees and so on. Then after it’s got their attention it goes through a whole number of forms from a very tall entity with a sweeping black thing on and a tall menacing creature that is clearly trying to intimidate now. It’s constantly ramping up. Always something new. The freakiest moment is when the girl s sitting on the back porch with camera running (they started recording everything early on.) she looks out at the total darkness between her and the tree line and senses something unseen. So she calls out “hello?’ 2 seconds later you hear a voice mimic hers and repeat back in exactly her voice! She jumps up and runs for the house. UNEXPLAINED Caught on Camera. A partner show thats basically the same but with different paranormal experts and researchers recently played Episode 10 Season 3. A family is surrounded by shape-shifting Skinwalkers in the woods of West Virginia. Different family. Different State I think. Similar set up with a vast forest at the back of a back yard. This time they filmed it as their kids play in the garden. And the progression of forms this creature goes through, from the sack puppet entity hiding and being almost cute to begin with but escalated to the exact same forms and behaviour of the other one. If they are Skinwalkers (& I’m struggling to come up with any other suggestions) they must be a specific type of shapeshifter that has much less of the shaggy boney shape like someone draped in a coyote hide with long arms and ‘legs’ and drooling snout. And more like of an Elemental shape shifter maybe? Please someone watch season 3 Episode 10 of ‘UNEXPLAINED caught on camera and tell me what this thing is? What ever it is there are more than one of them! Thank you for your patience

Mondays are shit. But here's a new Skinwalker Stories to cheer you all up. And while you're at it, check out my review for the New Alien Romulus film (spoilers ahead).

Skinwalker Stories

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/08/19/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-six-2/

Alien Romulus Review:

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/08/17/review-alien-romulus/

last night i went out for a cig and there was the tinfoil man lukring in front of my doorstep to steal it from me

I am posting here because I don’t know what this was and I want to tell people who will actually believe me. I don’t want to give too much information about myself but I am a male and under the age of 18. At around 9:45 I finished binge watching random videos on YouTube and I go to bed. (By the way I am in Russia to see my grandma and I live in the Bay Area) about 10 minutes later I hear this gut wrenching moan coming from outside my window. We live on the 8th floor of a really old apartment building and it is raining. It seemed to be coming about 500 feet away from our floor. The sound was coming from around the bush and if anything it had gotten louder. I shut the window and the shut the curtains. I went to my grandma to ask to use her phone to call my mom to let her know about a potential crazy guy. (I broke my phone by water damage the other day) as I call her I hear it out of the kitchen window and it sounds even closer. By the time I got back to my room to write this it sounds like it is next to the entry gate to the building right below me but instead of moaning it sounds like a “heeeeeeeeeeeeh” like the pronounciation on a “meh” but long, high pitch, almost soft sounding, and with an “h”. A key detail is that it stopped when the rain stopped

Any ideas what it could be? I think It was in Siberia. Novosibirsk to be exact. I know it isn’t Navajo land but are there any urban legends or sightings that match mine? I sincerely thank all who read this to the end.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the sound was very loud. Way louder than a human because from the distance that the sound was coming from it was not possible for it to sound so clear

Got another story here. Seems people enjoy the stories I post here. If I may, I post more on r/TheHorrorShow as I've come back to writing full time after a period of being away. Over there I post content not directly related to Skinwalkers, such as Bigfoot stories (I posted two such stories on Friday and Saturday) and fan fiction. I'd also like to read the stories everyone here has to share. I can never seem to get enough of horror. The more the better in my opinion. Anyway, today it'll be a single story while I work on a more acquiring more stories to share with you all. I hope you enjoy:

https://horrorshow171764435.wordpress.com/2024/06/17/skinwalker-stories-vol-2-chapter-two/

Let me preface this with some facts about me. I’m not by no means a writer or a person that really shares stories or anecdotes in the written form. I’m a talker usually.

I also am not or wasn’t believer in the paranormal. After this experience I believe in something.

This is a fairly short story of an experience I had around 3 years ago during a time my wife and I were having issues (no idea if that affected the events or not but just a weird correlation)

I was alone (kids were put to bed) on late on a chilly Sunday night in or around October I had been preparing for the week of work that lay ahead for me. As well as unpacking a lot of stuff from boxes which were then stacked up neatly at the front door of my house.

I was trying to do things around the house to impress or please my wife who had gone to stay with her mother in a neighboring city. We had been having problems for the better part of a year. So I was feeling lonely and depressed and just generally down on myself that weekend.

I lived on the corner of one of the main roads in my town at the time. Giant high school right across the street. Lots of traffic usually though it slows down around 11:00 on the road it’s still busy enough the cops would set up traffic stops from time to time later at night

The other part of the corner I lived on is a dead end road with 4 houses counting mine. A single guy with an adult son. An elderly single woman and a couple that doesn’t have kids.

It’s probably pushing 12AM and I’m winding down what I’m working on and thinking about going to bed. Suddenly I hear a baby crying. My kids are like 6 and 9 at the time so I go check and it isn’t them.

It sounds like it’s outside. So I just peek out the door and I see this misshapen thing pretty far off sort of shambling up the sidewalk. No more baby sounds. By this point i had stepped all the way outside and storm door slammed behind me. As it did whatever it was turned around. I couldn’t get a good view of it and by the time it started to turn I had quickly gone back inside. I don’t often get freaked out easily but this did the trick. I closed all windows blinds and curtains and grabbed a machete saw thing I had.

I stood at my closed front door freaked out. Then I heard the footsteps come up to my door, only it sounded more like hoof steps or distorted high heels steps. I waited a few minutes maybe 5 or so after hearing the steps and thew open the door, machete in hand.

The neat stack of broken down boxes was knocked over. Not only knocked over but almost fully covering my walkway as if to muffle the footstep sounds that would have been made upon its exit.

There was nothing else. No signs of it.

I didn’t learn till later of the sounds skinwalkers make which is what led me here to tell My story.

Was it a skinwalker? Are they attracted to loneliness or negative emotions? Sadness?

Did it try to feed off my fear of thinking it was at my door?

For weeks I was scared it would be there when I rounded the corners of my house.

That’s pretty much it. Thanks for reading if you made it this far. I don’t know that’s what I saw but I thought you all might shed some light on it.

Again like I said early in probably a bad writer. But I just had to share.

Thank you.

I had some more weird shit happen last night.

I took my two dogs for walks, I normally walk Fin (large, all black German Shepherd) toward the park where I have had these experiences, and I walk Booger (chi terrier mix) the other direction toward downtown.

On my walk with Fin, about a block away in the direction I was headed, I saw 3 or 4 deer calmly walking toward the park. Most nights where something "weird" happens to me start like this. The deer seemed completely unbothered by me as I approached. They kept walking toward the park but stopped every few steps to look back at me, as if they wanted me to follow them. Then, as Fin and I reached where the deer were, I notice about 10 or more other deer waiting as well. They all start walking together, calm, but still looking back at me every few feet. On my way toward the park i smell the stench of rotting meat, I know the smell very well as I used to be a butcher. It was strong. Like someone plugged my nostrils with rotting ground meat or something. At the same time I smell this stench, I get the chills. Fin's hair stands up and he gets more nervous. I can feel the air around me get colder.

As we continue walking I look down an alleyway that cuts the block in half and, if you would walk down the dark alley, would spot you out where I eventually walk back home. I was two blocks away from the park, when you reach the park you can either turn around and walk down the same road, you can continue into the park, or you can continue on the road which turns left. Looking down that alleyway you are looking at the part of the road that continues left, which is the way I take every night on my way back home.

What I saw I tried to convince myself wasn't real or maybe I just saw something else and my brain tried to convince me it was this.

A large, muscular, pale, hairless, creature (?) that was moving fast. So fast I could barely see it, I saw the motion down the alley about two blocks away. The exit of the alley on that side has a street light directly above it, it wasn't standing still, it was moving and it was moving fast. The only reason I'm positive what I saw wasn't deer or something normal is because of something I saw later that night that I will write about when I talk about my walk with Booger. It solidified that what I saw was something I wasn't supposed to see.

In the meantime I convinced myself I was making stuff up and being a pussy. As we approach the treeline of the park, the large group of deer move to the side of the street where the neighborhood is, while I'm on the side with the treeline. I noticed something in the clearing. A lone deer, separate from the large group across the street, staring directly at me.

I have my flashlight pointed at him, and I even hung up my call with my wife to use my phone to take video of this moment.

This lone deer doesn't even have micro movements from breathing. The other deer across the street were constantly readjusting.

You might be thinking to yourself "oh yeah, deer do that with bright lights shining at them. Deer in headlights always act like that." Just wait.

Fin starts to pull very hard and acts anxious, nearly knocking me over, I turn to look across the street towards the large group of deer for at most 3 seconds before quickly turning around to face the lone deer again.

In those 3 seconds, that lone deer is easily 30 feet closer to me, still not moving, staring directly at me. I have this on video, I have pictures. I felt weird, I felt unsafe. I've lived in rural Iowa my whole life, I am and have always lived outdoors. This didn't feel normal. I was scared.

I back away while shining my light at the deer, once I get a block or so away, he finally turns around and calmly walks into the tree line.

The whole way home I feel like I'm being stalked, not just watched, but like something is following me.

Here is a link to that video of the deer getting closer to me:

https://youtube.com/shorts/S1l2FRxKO58?si=Dv8362ajs7DR8UWw

Now, I went home and sat for a bit and tried to talk myself into believing it was all coincidence. After nearly 20 minutes, I started to walk Booger, my smaller chi mix.

The entire walk was nice and very enjoyable actually, I had my earbuds in and was talking to my wife about what I saw in a joking way.

"Man I'm such a pussy, I really scared myself for no reason" I said.

At the end of the walk I turn to go down our alleyway, as I leave from the garage on our walks.

I stop speaking from what I saw on the opposite end of the alley. My wife heard me stop.

I want to preface this with I did not have any substances, including alcohol, for weeks up to that point. The most I ever do in that department is a few beers or I'll use some weed to ease anxiety if life is getting hard. I have no mental conditions that will cause me to hallucinate, the most I have is a personality disorder resulting from trauma that I've been overcoming quickly this last year.

I saw two, large, muscular, pale, hairless creatures walking like apes at the end of the alley. The same thing I thought I saw with fin, this time not going fast, much closer, and it felt intentional. I saw them walk across the street very slowly, staring directly at me. These were not deer.

They didn't have long faces like deer, they didn't have fur or tails, they didn't walk like deer. They weren't slender like a deer. My first thought was honestly that I was looking at two hairless male lions. In the middle of Iowa.

I stood there, paralyzed with fear, well after they had left my sight. 15 seconds later, I finally get the courage to walk the few feet into the garage, when I take my first step, I see a third one. Slowly meandering across the street. Staring at me. Booger noticed him too, and started growling.

I ran to the door and watched the garage shut all the way.

The entire night, Fin guarded the bedroom door. He never does that. He sat staring at the door all night. Booger stared at the windows all night. He never does that either.

This happened to me yesterday night, Monday, May 13, 2024.

I don't know what to think.

Hi all. Me and my girlfriend decided to head up to Marshall lake in Flagstaff Arizona. To do some dispersed camping. It was beautiful during the day but the moment the sun went down we decided to put the fire out and head to the tent since it was so cold outside. The moment the sun went all the way down we were laying in our tent and getting ready to get some sleep even though it was early.

Keep in mind we were in the middle of no where with no one near by, probably 1.5 miles from the closest tent we saw. Thirty minutes in to laying down me and my girlfriend heard two very distinct footsteps right behind our tent. We didn’t hear anything walk up and it was so close we grabbed our bear spray and decided to poke my head out the tent to see if anything was near by. Absolutely nothing.

We go back to our sleeping bags pretty spooked and then 15 minutes later we heard it again and we decided we didn’t feel safe and left. We hiked out of the woods and got a motel. Are there skin walkers out here because we saw no animal tracks behind our tent and we know for certain I heard footsteps around our tent.

Edit: this happened tonight and it was a full very bright moon. I don’t know if that makes a difference I don’t know anything about skin walkers and didn’t even begin to believe in them until now

Edit 2: were heard someone unloading shots at something at one point too during the night. We believe it was from the campers 1.5 miles away at the head of the trail. I thought it was odd that someone shot one magazine and didn’t shoot anymore. But as we hiked back out about an hour later they also packed their camp and left as well.

Final update: We safely got all of our gear and got out of there and home safely. Please everyone be safe camping or hiking around flagstaff!

I’ve been watching Skin walker short films recently and I’ve been wondering if they are being correctly portrayed, they scream for help, move really fast, stalk.

What else do they do?

I go to school is Harrisonburg Virginia and in the summer of 2023, I was in my home late at night around 1am hanging out with my roommate at the time and we live in a three story home, we’re in the kitchen on the second floor And hear a faint moaning, we think its the neighbors at first through the walls but it starts to sound more like a baby but not next door but outside, at our front door. We start to move toward to stairs to get a better listen and whatever was there seems to start scary thing and banging on the door heavily like a dog or big four legged animal. We are freaked out and don’t know what to do. We sit in the living room and this goes on for about 30 minutes then after that time goes by its more on and off now but still can’t go to sleep cause how freaked out we were and I lived on the first floor so I was not going down there. It kept going on and on so we decided to call the non emergency police number. It started back up heavily now as we’re on the phone with someone and we describe to the person on the phone what I mentioned before and on the phone the person goes “is that the noise yours describing, I just heard it in the background” so we knew we were just hearing things. They said they would send someone but no one came. So me and my roommate decided we were fed up, I grabbed a kitchen knife and so did he and we walk down the stairs as its still scratching and banging as we go down, I get to the door and look out the peep hole and nothing was there. we go back upstairs and starts again for around 10 minutes and after that it stopped. I eventually go downstairs and peacefully go to bed and wake up the next day and check outside and nothing was there no damage to the door, nothing at all. We still think about it to this day and convinced it was a S.W.. Does anyone have thoughts on this? Was it a SW? A spirit? anything else?