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What’s hidden at Skinwalker Ranch? - C C - Mar 17, 2022
https://lsydneyfisher.medium.com/whats-hidden-at-skinwalker-ranch-d1f933fa2481
INTRO: I’m now weeks into my Skinwalker Ranch binge and little did I know that this fun, investigative reporting project would turn into a never-ending search for answers. I’m starting to feel the same frustrations that the SWR (Skinwalker Ranch) team has expressed during the show, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
Without a doubt, the history of bizarre phenomena that’s been reported by hundreds of eye witnesses has left me exhausted as I consider the evidence and attempt to arrive at a conclusion. But honestly…the reason why it’s been impossible to solve the mystery here is because there are numerous things going on that require a completely different set of test applications and investigations.
Here you’ve got the spiritual world versus the material world. And while UFO’s or alien visitations have reportedly left evidence behind such as strange metals or even the spaceship itself, have you ever known a ghost or spirit leave anything behind other than a bad case of nerves? I’ve said it before, but I’ll reiterate my position.
The phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch is two-fold and separate in design, but the most widely shared experiences at the ranch seem to be the hundreds of UFO sightings. It’s been said that at least half of the residents of Uintah Basin have seen the UFO’s... (MORE - details)
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Criticism (Wikipedia): According to skeptical author Robert Sheaffer, "the 'phenomenon' at Skinwalker is almost certainly illusory. Not only was the several years long monitoring of 'Skinwalker' by NIDS unable to obtain proof of anything unusual happening, but the people [Kenneth and Edith Myers] who owned the property prior to the Shermans, a family whose members lived there 60 years, deny that any mysterious 'phenomena' of any kind occurred there". Sheaffer says "the parsimonious explanation is that the supernatural claims about the ranch were made up by the Sherman family prior to selling it to the gullible Bigelow". Sheaffer wrote that many of the more extraordinary claims originated solely from Terry Sherman, who worked as a caretaker after the ranch was sold to Robert Bigelow.
In 1996, skeptic James Randi awarded Bigelow a Pigasus Award for funding the purchase of the ranch and for supporting John E. Mack's and Budd Hopkins' investigations. The award category designated Bigelow as "the funding organization that supported the most useless study of a supernatural, paranormal or occult".
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Brandon Fugal: Brandon Fugal is the owner of Skinwalker Ranch. As the Chairman of Colliers International in Utah, Brandon is one of the most prominent businessmen and real estate developers in the Intermountain West. From an early age, he has also been fascinated with the mysteries of our universe and the question of whether or not we are alone. In 2016, Brandon purchased Skinwalker Ranch from aerospace tycoon Robert Bigelow in order to investigate and study the strange and unexplainable phenomena that has been reported there for more than two centuries.
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Nov 21, 2021 - Enjoy the Journey.Life: "Skinwalker Ranch: What Is The Secret?" ... https://youtu.be/cS9xMuMtQxs
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Nov 22, 2021 - Joe Scott: "Skinwalker Ranch Is A Grift. There, I Said It." ... https://youtu.be/oZEdcyWF6VA