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Skinwalkers; glowing eyes while in human form
Topic Started: Jan 6 2010, 06:03 AM (2,180 Views)
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Navajo Rez: Skinwalker

By Tracker337
2009-05-04

I am also a newcomer to this site and enjoy reading all the stories and experiences that everybody has had. I would like to share a few experiences of my own. As half Navajo and Hopi I've had my share of "experiences" on and off the Navajo and Hopi "rez". I hope that I won't get any ridicule from any other Native Americans for posting these experiences.

One experience that I would like to share happened when I was 14 years old (I'm now 29). This is an experience that I have only shared with a small number of people and am now writing down for the very first time. My brother who is a hardened soldier is still scared about what happened to us this particular evening.

On with the story...

As a teenager, I would visit my grandma at her home on the Navajo rez for several weeks every summer. I loved to spend time with her, eat her delicious fried bread, and hear her tell us stories. Every so often my grandma would hire a worker (the harmless town drunk) to do odd jobs around her house and property. One evening right before the sun went down, I was asked by my grandma to take him home, which was about four miles out of the valley where she lived. I was more than happy to, seeing that I was only 14 years old and was asked to drive a truck! Mind you that on the rez, nobody cares that you're only 14 years old and driving around. Hell, there's hardly anybody around to see you anyway! So my 9 year old brother jumped in the truck cab with me while this "worker" and my dog shared the tailgate of the truck and we were off. After I dropped the worker off at the shack that he and his brothers called a house, we headed back down the road to grandmas. As I mentioned before, it was evening and the sky was a deep red as the sun began to set behind us. We were leaving a nice dust trail from the dirt road and the radio was playing music from the only radio station that could be picked up from the nearest town of Holbrook, Arizona.

There was nothing unusual, nothing weird. It was at this time that my eye caught movement of something in the bushes a little up the road to the right of us. I remember slowing down thinking that it was one of the many free roaming sheep in the area that would dart out in front of the truck. As I passed where I thought I saw it, I sped up thinking nothing else of it. Then out of nowhere I just felt this dark feeling of fear and dread. I had no idea why I was feeling this way but I definitely felt that something was wrong.

As I play this memory back in my mind, there are only a few clear memories that I have of that evening. I clearly remember looking in my rearview mirror and seeing the dark silhouette of something very tall and very skinny that seemed to be covered with some kind of hair or fur running behind the truck after us! Whatever it was, it wasn't a normal human or human at all. I remember hearing my brother crying and my dog barking ferociously at whatever was chasing us. I remember speeding very fast and shaking violently as the truck bounced on the washboard dirt road. I distinctly remember that this thing was only getting closer as my brother cried "it's coming up on your side!" I remember being as scared as hell and thinking that I didn't want to die. At the moment that I thought would be our last. I remember speeding around a bend in the road and seeing a car coming towards us in the opposite direction. At that moment I felt instant relief and felt that whatever was following us was gone.

Shaken up but alive, we made it to grandma's house wondering what the hell had just happened. We ran inside not looking back, hoping that whatever was chasing us had not followed us home. As we told my grandma about our experience she didn't seem too surprised, which surprised us. She continued by repeating stories that we had already heard at one point or another about black magic, witches, and something that the Navajos call Yee Nadlooshii or Skinwalkers. Needless to say, I didn't even want to look out any of the windows at all the rest of that night. As a matter of fact, I never drove on the reservation at night until I was 21 years old.

Without going too deep into explanation, I'll just say that these Skin-walkers are evil men and spirits that use black magic for evil doing. I tell you that as farfetched as it may sound, they are real! I believe that if God and his greatness are real, the devil is equally as real and also has his ways of showing himself.

This may not sound very scary to some readers and that may be due to my lack of writing skills. But what happened that evening really did happen and scared the living crap out of me. I invite anybody to visit this part of Arizona if you have any doubt or want huge scare. I promise you that you won't be disappointed.

I hope that you enjoyed my story and I look forward to sharing other experiences soon.

http://www.yourghoststories.com/real-ghost-story.php?story=5918
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Amber, I actually went looking for more Skin Walker stories after you commented but I couldn't find any!

This is my favorite comment on the page and it hadn't been posted yet when this thread was made:

TsoJimFlyboy 2010-09-22
 

From what I know way way back in the day skinwalkers were used only for traditional reasons. For insteans when there is a ceramony, certain types of plants were needed. These plants were only found on the four sacred mountains or somewhere far. This is were skinwalkers come into play. They would be used to travel these far distances to gather the plants and bring them back. However, these skinwalker I guess started using these special abilitys for bad deeds such as geting revenge or being jelouse and harming others. Since then all I hear is bad things about skinwalkers. I have also heard that now days to become a skinwalker you have to kill someone in your family that you love the most. Then you have to do many other things as well to get anisheated. I don't really now much more but once I find out I'm willing to post it. I also do know this tho, if you are ever on the navajo rez try not to drive at night. Especially alone. Lastly don't whistle in less you want 1 to come. If you do be very carefull!


I think 'anisheated' is meant to be 'initiated'.

One guy talked about skin walkers being used in battle. That guy also repeatedly said that skin walkers are different than shape shifters and that shape shifters are 'innocent' while skin walkers are 'evil'. He carried on like he was a native saying "we" this and that, but by the way he capitalized certain words and carried on he didn't seem like a native.

It's an interesting idea though about the battle thing. I remember hearing a story from my friend Shani in Pakistan about a fierce army that appeared and caused the Indians (India) to retreat before them. It was in their legends. I'll try to get that story again.
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