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Final part 5 of Steven Greenstreet's investigations into Skinwalker Ranch - Kornee - Apr 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tsg0X4onCo&list=PLwNrNqsuwF1n43wh5nuV5hTFrdAN00kfk&index=1
Greenstreet takes up a self imposed challenge of camping overnight - alone - adjacent to the claimed haunted hot spot - an old homestead.
Most of the episode is actually taken up with detailing various inconsistencies involving the key players.
Meanwhile, 'back at the ranch' he did experience a couple of overnight stay incidents that his rationalizing as mundane, looks rather thin:
1: Walk through the ruined homestead at night: 19:15 to 20:30
Thumps/knocks. He put it down to either shifting timber from walking around, or a scampering animal.
But one would expect creaking sounds synchronized to walking steps on the former scenario.
Or characteristically scurrying animal motion sounds not just a series of isolated knocks in the latter one.
2: Walk along dirt trail to the property west gate bordering native reserve land, and wait for strange sensations/happenings: 29:14 to 31:17
First a distinct uneasy feeling comes over him (just as others had reported).
Followed by an inexplicable triggering of portable lightning detector.
And to round things off, a sudden burning feeling in eyes and face, quickly becoming inflamed and swollen eyes.
He makes no effort to explain the first two, but subsequently claims the burning & inflammation was likely a natural allergic reaction to being in the region not just Ranch.
Which ignores the sudden onset just at the time of west gate visit. Coincidence seems very unlikely.
For sure though he has exposed the dubious nature of what Skinwalker Ranch is really all about as a business venture of sorts, far more than a bona fide 'long-term scientific study of the paranormal'.
RE: Final part 5 of Steven Greenstreet's investigations into Skinwalker Ranch - C C - Apr 21, 2023
"As the Mormons began building towns and cities, brutal and bloody wars were fought to control the land. For decades, the Utes battled to defend the home of their ancestors. The consequences were devastating and microcosm of a national genocide. The Ute population suffered and dwindled from disease in war, defeated and often at gunpoint. They were placed inside America's second largest Indian reservation, the Uinta."
I guess the Mormons got genocide off their conscience by viewing the Utes as just more Lamanites. Didn't realize the great "revelation of 1978" wasn't so much a revision communicated from the divine but a rediscovery of the situation before Young's machinations.
"Men of black African descent were permitted to hold the priesthood in the early years of the Latter Day Saint movement, when Joseph Smith was alive. After Smith died, Brigham Young became leader of the LDS Church and many were excluded from holding the priesthood. This practice persisted after Young's death, and was maintained until the announcement of the 1978 revelation."
RE: Final part 5 of Steven Greenstreet's investigations into Skinwalker Ranch - Kornee - Apr 21, 2023
The striking thing about that Wiki article on 'Lamanites' is the degree it parallels the 'legitimate' OT origins mythologies and justifications for genociding those Yahweh commanded to be smitten unto the uttermost - because of their 'exceeding wickedness'. So handy to have a pre-existing template where only names and places change.
Can't recall any parallels in OT to Skinwalker Ranch. Apparently the curse behind all the spooky stuff was an inter native tribal thing - nothing to do with the Mormon massacres. Odd.