Skinwalkers: The Evil Navajo Shapeshifters - (Native American Folklore Explained)
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- Today we take a look at some Native American folklore with the Navajo Skinwalkers.
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Everybody gangsta, till the coyote stands on two legs
Everyone when a white man whistle at night lol
Only if that Wile E. Coyote is packing 2 Desert Eagles. OwO
Dog faced pony soldier, boiii
@@thatindigenouscreature8323 bro true
Not Me I'm a dead man walking death by skin walker beats death by fbi/Cia bring it
Me: *spots a deer while hunting* "Oh hey Bambi"
Deer: *stands up and stares down my scope* "oH hEy BaMbI"
Housel
o shit
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)Bastet
Damn fucked me up a little bit there
Me: eyy word up homeboy
😂😂😂😂
My wife is Navajo, she told me a story when she was young about hearing scratching and growls outside the trailer, and the growl sounded unnerving, not a typical dog or coyote growl, but more sinister, she said she looked outside and saw just a pair of red eyes staring back at her. I'll tell you what, not much scares me in the realm of paranormal, but when we go to the Rez,I avoid going outside at night, and when I do, I keep my eyes and ears open, I keep calm, and I hurry my ass up. They have a poison, made from human bones grounded into dust, I don't want that blown in my face.
@@POOPGOD999 cap
@@kremit6361 nah
@@_wok3_ The manifestations of the human mind never seize to amaze me.
Am I the only one who’s wondering how to kill one of these mfs without their name?
@@POOPGOD999 they don’t exist
I’m not superstitious or believe in myths, but the idea of skin walkers scare the sh* t out of me
Yea I’m Native American and I like hearing stories from the elders or just people with knowledge
There’s one around my rez.. I have a big fear of humanoids.. so skinwalkers are the sameish of humanoids from the stories I been told... I watched a video from a Caucasian and he said sometbing “if a native person is scared of something like that, you need to be afraid of it too.” I didn’t understand my huge fear.. cuz nothing scared me like that ever.. but it’s in my culture (Windigos and stuff) to be afraid of them. A
You should be on the toilet when you get that scared.
@@johnborris3222 I'm taking a shit rn too lol
@@davidpowell172 LMFAO
Would really appreciate more Navajo legends
Ok cowpoke
Arther had Tuberculosis and still whooped your ass😂
Micah Bell same here
Y’all don’t need more of our “legends”. What you hear from other white ppl is all you need to know. Other then that it’s for our ppl only not for others. Because to you guys it’s a “legend” or “folklore” or “mystical”.
An Y who said I was white
A video on skinwalker encounters and stories yes or no?
Yes
Of Course .. yes hell yes
Yessss
Hell yes
O definitely because there are a few different types of skinwalkers around the world 😎👍
I find it interesting that the Aztec, Mayan, and other native civilization thought similarly about shapeshifting. Shows how in a way us natives are family. Blessings my Navajo and native cousins from a Pipil descendant!
edgar gonzalez I’m not native and this comment is late but I have massive amounts of respect for all native civilisations
"They" divided the natives. Just like they divide us all. It's a simple yet effective way to infultrate and control people. That's all about to change.
Holy snap, you're descended from the Pipil? I'm half Salvadoran, and I can't find anything on you guys!! :o
sounds very interesting
There is an ancient aztec legend that there were multiple tribes in a cave and there came a time all the different tribes had to leave this cave.
the aztecs were one of these tribes . im guessing underground or so.
theres a hopi origin legend were they say they came from underground.
they said there were demons/monsters and witches down there with them in those times.
then to the surface they went . then back again to stay with the ant people. and as they stayed with them they fed the tribe and protected them underground during cataclism like times.
back on the hopi origin story: in thier origin story they left the cave , but when leaving they climbed up a big hole to get to the surface.
anywho makes me wonder if many tribes new each other in those hyper ancient times.
The Mayan and Aztec have been further down the forbidden rabbit hole when they reigned the jungles.
The Anasazi ruins are evidence of an old occult system.
Many northern tribes are knowledgeable on these teachings and have warnings about life.
There are strict rules on how to live. Dark magic is strictly forbidden but are still practiced. Many of these crafts have derived from the Aztecs and Mayans. The old world has many mystical traditions.
I'm half Navajo and find this part of my lore so friggin cool. My mother is a full blooded Navajo, raised on the reservations in new mexico. Her mother was an alcoholic and abandoned my mom at birth so a medicine woman /shaman took her under her care and raised her. She has some stories herself on skinwalkers
Damn its seems every native American is only half native at best these days.
@@andrewjennings7306 the Navajo tribe is the largest...of course they're going to have mixed races, but also we're one of the tribe that have more full blooded Navajo as well.
@@blahblahblah9200 good. Dont get absorbed.
Yikes, issues much? You made the stupid comment in the first place.
@@andrewjennings7306 What do you mean by absorbed, exactly?
During my time living in AZ, I learned much of the skinwalkers. The number 1 rule is, NEVER EVER speak of skinwalkers in your own home. Just by talking about them, they are drawn to that location. 2) They are most interested in causing you fear (a Rez Rat told me that one) if you show no fear, the will leave you alone. Lastly, don't go out on Native land at night and disrespect your surroundings. They will find you...
Very true.
Yup, I live in AZ and of you travel through AZ at night (outside of the city near or on the rez), you are bound to experience something otherworldy/supernatural.
In Australia the aboriginal people have legends like this. Have been out bush at some areas at night and you just get the urge to gtfo. Other areas are fine.
I quite have a Question, Would they come if you said it in your head, like if you didn’t speak but said it in your head?
Try saying, "Leave, in the Name of Jesus Christ."
In Native Folklore Skin Walkers have many dark magicks and can actually mimic the voices of other people. Couple that with their ability to change into other Animals and they make for a terrifying creature.
We have them here in guyana but they are far out in the Amazon jungle they changed to hunt animals to feed thiers own we call them kainiama buck here
@@tessabrowninglove8408 can u get one transforming on video ,I will pay quite a few
@@hardanalljr.3138 no I can't because no one is allowed in that far deep of the jungle
tessa Browning love how come
@@daniels1263 have you ever went in a jungle before any way my advice to you is to do some research about guyana jungle and the amerindians different tribes
My grandpa and many elders have told me skinwalkers were never just pure evil. That idea was instilled when the white settlers came to the desert and heavily forced Christianity into navajos. My grandpa said, navajos used skinwalkers for both good and evil, used them to sneak into enemy camps to get information of raids, battles. They were used to create allies with neighboring tribes, or the reach out to faraway family member's, send messages, etc.
You can find video recordings of elders speaking of skinwalkers and they rely the same thing as I say. They were common, used by both good people and bad, its was taught by settlers and other navajos who converted to Christianity that skinwalkers were a taboo and considered evil witch doctors since they change forms.
@Loretta 253
Nice
Yessss I may know of some that try to help their people
What videos?
Well I’m sure if the skinwalkers were used against the settlers, that they would believe they were evil
I believe in them cus I seen 1
when I was staying with my grandpa in New Mexico he owned a property with animals but his live stock was dying so when we were standing on this hill at 9:30pm and we saw this pack of coyotes and this red dog so when we shot the cyotes and the red dog, the red dog survived but ran away behind the hill. in the morning when we got the carcasses we went to go find the red dog so we followed the blood trail and we found an old lady dead and my grandpa told me that we shot a skinwalker
Wow man that had send shivers up your spine I bet
What was your reaction when he told you? Did he tell you anything else afterwards?
Did you use shrooms before the coyotes attacked?
Sounds like a typical day in New Mexico, a lot of odd things happen out here. My grandpa shot an owl and an old lady was found shot dead the next day in the same spot where the owl was shot. People around town would say that lady was a witch
So your grandpa straight up murdered an old lady for no reason and told you it was a skinwalker and you believed him... damn.
I remember my uncle once said that there was a Skinwalker around the area on one of my trips to Mexico, couldn’t sleep for a few nights.
I like your uncle .😂
There are quite a lot of legends about that in México, just by other names. It's the first time I hear the name skinwalker and I'm surprised how it fits perfectly...
Probably was a "Nahual"
Mayans, Cherokee, seminole, Choctaw, etc. all have their own shapeshifting "witches".
@@aaronengland8289 so many legends of shapeshifters around the world, makes ya think if they really are out there
I grew up on a reservation on San Diego, Cali and we were told many stories about skinwalkers, my grandmother told us about them, at night we could hear cries and screeches, someone walking by the windows, grandma would sit with us and keep us quiet, after what usually seemed like an hour everything would get quiet and we could hear footsteps going away from the house, this usually happened between 12 and 2 am, but not on any particular night.
Ok you gotta tell me more im hooked
Tell us more please
Wtf that's scary as hell
As a San Diegan Myself, I can think these are pretty terrifying.
We need a animated video for this story!!!
I came across something in middle of the night in the Sedona wilderness. The footsteps sounded human but when I saw it, it was a white wolf. I had my flashlight right on it. It looked at me for a second then turned and left. I was really expecting a human to come through the bush. It wasn't hostile at all. In fact I was less creeped out about being in the woods at night.
That's actually kinda wholesome
Same exact thing happened to me, a big white wolf, no one believed me because the area i lived in had mostly coyotes but wolves are very rare, scared the shit out of me
I had a similar experience. I was visiting family in Europe many years ago, where wolves are no longer around. I believe many were killed and the rest were pushed out. (Not sure as this was A LONG TIME AGO) I was about 9-10 when I saw a russet red wolf and we just looked at each other. I saw the wolf as clearly as I am typing this. After awhile, I believe it was just a minute or two - it felt forever - it turned, gave me one final look, and ran off. Something about it was uncanny. I tried telling my family and they just laughed at me.
You know I had the exact same thing happen to me
Wow thats weird but cool
I will say this.
Anyone who has spent time in the Southwest knows there are energies here that are different. Arizona has places that you can feel are different. Alot of times, it's connected to the natives from the past. So when I hear "This land is cursed" I believe it because I can feel it. Some places just emit such strange feelings of anxiety and fear for no reason. As if, move on, this place is not for you...
I've spent time in southern Utah, and I remember hearing about skin walkers as a young teen, used to scare the crap out of me.
Places in Arizona like the superstitious mountains, Prescott, Sedona, flagstaff, Verde Valley.... Etc... man, you can feel the vibes. It's different, and not always good. I've been in Yavapai County for just under 2 years and have felt intense anxiety here. Usually I don't feel that. I've heard people talk about portals, wikka, just bizarre things.
Prescott has unusually large ravens... As big as chickens... One of the first things I noticed here. They are highly intelligent and sometimes, I feel like they are just watching people.
A lot of locals here are daily drinkers, and I noticed my intake of alcohol skyrocketed as soon as I got here. It was bizarre. I thought it was just having fun but I think it was to try and cover the anxiety surrounding the area. I've had stomach issues, anxiety, and depression... I usually never have these problems...
Needless to say, I'm leaving soon to see if I feel differently once gone, and I think I will.
One thing I've learned from traveling and living in alot of different places is, looks can be deceiving, just because a place is beautiful, it doesn't mean all is well. Sometimes there are forces at work that we cannot see, but feel it. Like they say, always trust your gut.
Interesting.
May I ask you, what is the most fucked up place in the US in terms of bad vibes that you instantly notice that something is off?
I’m not American but I’ve heard many times people talking about Utah and Navajo cursed territories.
@@fidelioal great question. Arizona has some strange vibes in certain areas and i always felt feally off in many places in California. There's a certain soullesness to these areas. Could be too many people, or just too many people living close to native lands. The one thing I look for is how the locals treat eaxh other. Do they smile, are they friendly...or do they avoid ea h other, ghost each other like they do in Phoenix.
I feel you! But still, the remark about Ravens size... my daughter attended NAU and whenever we went to visit (a lot) I'd always look for the "dark chickens". They are pretty huge! 😉 Love Arizona! I grew up here after my Dad got stationed here.
@@fidelioal skin walker ranch in Utah
Dude same thing with Nevada and it's even lonlier over here. The desert hides so much.
Yes to the encounter stories, but there's also more to Native American folklore than skinwalkers. I'd like to hear more.
How do we rid ourselves of them?
Different native tribes have different folklore.. You can't really generalize "native American folklore".. This is Navajo folklore
@@lunamaria1048 so unnecessary, no one said all native American folklore is the same just that this is one example of native American folklore is it not?
ursaminor doesn’t make them wrong tho
@@lunamaria1048 Well every single Native America Tribe have legends of the same being.
Getting the ability sounds like how to get the mangekyo.
It's all a Genjutsu
Sharigan does mean "Evil Eye"
Ladies Love the Moon Knight 写輪眼？ focused eye?
I heard " kill someone close"...bout right
Alfonso Payan That actually makes more sense, but I know I read evil. Or maybe it was referring to the byakuga (Neji's clan eyes) as evil eye and I got the two mixed up. That would make more sense too since Kyuga first had that rye then Sharigan. Butchering spelling
I was in Albuquerque NewMexico, it was about 3/4 AM... I had snuck out to to see my girlfriend who lived quite a ways away. I lived near what we call the Mesa, barren empty desert on the outskirts of the city. I decided to walk through the desert, alone, in the dark... About half way there, I'm walking and I hear my grandma call my name. She was back at home sleeping... I immediately froze... I felt a shock of adrenaline go through my entire body. At that moment I went into a fight or flight response, my survival instincts kicked in. I took off my shirt, and ran as fast as I could... I think I took it off cause I didn't want it to grab my shirt, I don't know. I ran through rocks, little hills, trenches, bushes... I felt it chasing me... Luckily I am a gifted natural runner, and have never lost a race in my life. I even had to run through this area that was closed off, cause they had found the skeletal remains of many women... I reached the gates community, but with no time to worry about gates, I started leaping walls, going through yards, etc... When I finally got back home in one piece, I told my girlfriend... "I am NEVER sneaking out ever again" and I never did... I'm an adult now days, but I definitely knew it was a skinwalker at the time... My mother's Native friend, whom I consider family had taught me about them years ahead of the incident. I was dumb to not listen and take precautions, and I was lucky to have gotten away with my life.
dang man glad u made it in one piece
Glad your safe 🙏 I've once had an experience with one
@@louishernandez2830 same though mine wasn't as hands on due to me being with a group.. though in my case it could have been something else aswell. (i live in the netherlands) so i was about 8 years old at the time and we were on a school camp.. (i went to this location twice once when i was 8 and later when i was 12) now when i was 8 i remember us having a walk trough the forest.. the oddest thing is that it was during the day.. so i remember noticing something in the forest. (it also didn't help that later on they decided to tell scary stories just before we did a dropping.. wich is basically the teachers putting you with a few others in a random spot in the forest after blindfolding you and you have to get back to camp on your own.. however there are often set things that will occur like how during middle school they had this whole story made up about a forest watch and the army training nearby.. so having already seen something i was defenitely not partaking in that) it's a very vague memory but i remember seeing horns and glowing eyes. and something running past quickly.. apparently at this moment i had also partially strayed from the group so all of a sudden one of the others came back to get me. and they told me i was just standing there staring off into the distance wich they found pretty wierd (especially because i didn't react when they called me)
there were some other smaller things too like feeling a hand on my shoulder and when looking nothing being there.. or the one i remember most vividly wich was inside of the camp building.. we were about to leave and everyone else was outside playing. so i decided to go to the toilet before we went when on there i suddenly heard and felt someone breathing in my neck. when i looked behing me there was only a wall but the sound persisted.. i got up and out of there as quickly as i could and told the teacher about what had happened.. of course she shook it off not believing me saying "someone was playing a prank on you" like if they were i would have known as with the speed i bust out of that toilet i would have seen them. not to mention the side it was coming from was a solid wall
Yeah hearing voices at night that sound familiar is scary enough as it is but as seeing the thing that made them is where the real nightmares begin
It could be something diferent there is a lot of forgoten monsters in America glad I am a slav lol
I'm Mexican and we have so many legends about these people. My dad said that he saw them and he's not into conspiracies or anything out of the norm.
Nagualli
I’ve heard these stories from my mom and random people from Mexico, I ask and they literally tell me long stories about this stuff like it’s normal!
val Mexicans are Native American our ancestors have many legends
Bryce Anhk they’re also European
Lannister those are white people not Mexicans
do more Native American ones
There's one too. A white man. Wanted to know the ways of the Navajo witchcraft. He taught him. Now his evil spirit roams free. His teacher? With his dying wish? Cursed the land. War rages in the spirit world.
I'm game for more of all Native American content. I'm 1/16th so it's cool to hear about some ancestors even if it is at a wide remove.
Here's some truth , in the old days when America was still being raided for land and manifest destiny , a groups a medicine men had premonitions that this was a sign of the end of the people (Dine) so to help each other's family's and tribe these medicine men knew of a different songs and chants but these are in a way like blood magik or necromancy , so in order to perform these arts you'd must take what you have brought into the world, an innocence for violence , an so when the Spanish conquistadors came started wars with the dine , this was a chance to use this strange art , and Everytime the Spanish attack, the medicine men would meet right before the sun was fully down and sing the opposite of the beauty way song or morning song , to ugly way the night song , and since then Spanish had alot of struggle to keep the Dine at bay untill , the women started practicing then it got worst from there , in Dine beliefs women do not conduct healing or medicinal practices , reason is that women are easy to manipulate and can give birth to horrific and evil offspring , yet it happened and these young medicine men were evil and cruel and jealous and spread there ways to people with weak wills and jealousy to keep hurting each other instead of the purpose of the magic was used for against the Invaders but all turned back on us and then the long walk happened not to long after , and the way of the ugly way was mislead and used on its own people now . Thanks for reading
@@MaeDBegay interesting
I love getting scared but nothing scares me more than skinwalker
Funny they remind me of deatheaters fr harry potter, that feeling
Never encountered a skin walker in my life but I have a witch,it was about 4 in the morning and I lived in Louisiana at the time and we had a big huge dark forest behind our small cabin and at night you’d hear crows all the time and I payed no attention to it until the same crow noise happened at the same time every night and one night I went out armed with a rifle and walked through the forest and came upon a broken down and half destroyed shack and it wasn’t there atleast to my knowledge when we moved in and I walked in and immediately felt uneasy as the crow sat there and watched me the whole time very noise I’d make,every word I said every thing I did to score it off it didn’t flinch at anything.When I was leaving the shack I heard what sounded like an old lady who said sweetheart leaving so soon?And I never ran so fast in my life and got back to the cabin and told everyone.The shack wasn’t there in the morning.I swear it was a witch in the form of a crow
I almost got kidnapped by twin witch sisters in Puerto Rico. Also my mother told me a story when I was little a shadowy figure once try to steal me from my crib in Boston lol most recently my GF said she saw something hanging over me and my son too through the baby monitor so who knows
@@juliocapeles8993 How’d they try to kidnap you ? What were they going to do to you ?
@@onetime3137 they just snatched me up and both were walking with me down the street to their house. They were twin old sisters who has a reputation I guess in the are my grandmother told me. My mother literally ran for me down the street started screaming yelling wtf you doing with my son and everything. Idk what they wanted or would have done but up in the mountains in PR it’s endless
@@juliocapeles8993that’s so fucked up Julio.
They could have used you for some ritual.
You’re a lucky guy.
Regarding that shadow over you and your son, what the fuck dude.
Just call some medium or something to clean up that place lol.
You have some shit following you.
did you ever go back and see it again?
This is one reason I like Native American Culture as a whole- they as a people have legends and stories that having a straight forward meaning to them, they tell you You may have consequences you may not- there is not underling or fine print like other cultures
This kind of reminds me of the werewolf myths from Northern Europe, such as saying the full name of the Skin Walker will change them back is similar to how if you say the Christian name of a werewolf, it will also change then back to their normal form, both distinctly mentioning a specific name, such as their full name or their Christian name.
Another myth that I noticed a similarity to was the wearing of skins, specifically the Völsung sagas, in which the protagonist and his uncle wear wolf skins in order to transform into a wolf for a short time.
Similarities in cultures across the world from each other always interests me a great deal.
Most myths come from the same central mythology that Humanity had long ago.
The Dacians also had the werewolves, though they were not evil as the Navajo describe them.
That's cool but the craziest thing is how our religions parallel eachother. That was insane to me.
@@codygreyeyes1610 It should not be. Almost every religion has similar myths and characters, if you study them.
I come from Southeast Asia and there is a creature here that is similar in the sense that you need to know their true identity to kill them.
Here, the creature is called Balan-Balan. You do NOT mention it (Balan-Balan) out loud or else it will find you. It is said the creature is a form of evil due to dark magic.
The origin is from a woman who wanted to be beautiful and made a deal with the supernatural but failed to obey the conditions and were cursed with being the creature at night.
I read that Skinwalkers are similar, you do not mention it ou loud and it is from dark magic.
Anyway, the Balan-Balan is a creature that can imitatr any sound. If it's loud, it's far but if it's not, it's near. Their head detached from their body and they move around floating with an orb around their intestines.
It is said one tribe is cursed with this for generations and you can tell someone is a Balan-Balan when they have their neck covered. Since Islam spread, it is hard to find Balan-Bapan because it is usually cursed on women and many Muslim women from that wear hijabs.
To kill them, you have to find their house and hide their body so the head cannot return.
One time a friend was on the indian reservation in hat creek, ca. He said there was a bipedal "thing" trying to hide itself amongst a heard of deer. He said it stood up, it was covered in hair, looked human. It saw him looking through his car window. Its eyes were red and bright and as it stared my friend said it was like he was paralyzed and that this thing knew what was thinking, then immediately tears started running down my friends eyes, the thing crou ched down and dissappeard into the heard. Gives me goosebumps even to think about it.
They are called “Naguales “in Mexico and there are books written by German Explorers about them. It’s genetic and not all of them are evil. Otomi Nation 🇲🇽
I concure
Thats a different tribe and they only turn into wolfs or a dog like animal skin walkers are from a different tribe nahuales are from nahuatle tribe they are the michuacan native americans
@@jeangarcia6432 so which one's turn into mountan lion's and which one's turn into snakes.
@@davidsnow9453 disregarding the fact that your question was random and irrelevant. Depending on which tribe or source you ask. The answers will very. You have the option of believe on answer whole heartedly. But know that on persons answer is another person's joke. It just depends yk? Not to say that anyone's story is a joke. I just mean for other people the answer if different and they don't understand how others can have a different answer =/
@@davidsnow9453 hope this helps if you have anymore questions lmk There are a couple of native american tribes that only change into 1 specific animal there's wolfs, eagles, aligators and some kind of big cat of prey 3 of the those clans are/originated in mexico the eagle the aligator and the wolf some people say the big cat is from african and/or Asian tribes the thing is all tribes have been recorded in mexican ruins and pyramids edit: in these tribes it was the warriors that shape shifted to enhance their strength
Three maybe four years ago when my dad was driving me home from somewhere, we were in the country side and I screamed and he yelled what, I saw a giant shadow of a person sprinting at an nonhuman speed and I told my friend about it and he thinks it was this thing
My dad saw one in his side mirror but this was before I was even born
This happens a lot more than you think you know
My brother saw something like that and he hit it a couple weeks later he was released from the hospital he also said that if you see a animal carcass leave immediately because you never now what was eating it
there are odd things that we can't explain.. it also reminds me of the camp house i went to.. now i live in the netherlands but my family is very spiritual in nature.. (not to mention i do actually have native american blood.. though i don't know much more of my family history as i've never been able to ask anyone.. my grandfather the one that might know died when i was still a child) basically they had this story about swamp witches and how they were witches that had been killed centuries ago that still roamed those woods.. so of course most would presume it's just something made up.. but when we were walking trough the woods i remember at least two instances where i saw something with adult human form run in the corner of my eye however it looked off.. not to mention the fact that i had several moments in wich i felt a hand on my shoulder.. and then finally the worst one of them all was when i was in the bathroom. now this was the last day we were there and i decided to take a pee so i didn't have to go during the ride home. so i was on the toilet and behind me i heard breathing in my right ear.. now on my right was a wall so i got spooked.. (mind you i was about 8 at the time) the speed at wich i ran out of that toilet was insane i immideately told my teacher about what happened.. whom of course wrote it off as "just another kid playing a prank on you" like no.. that is literally impossible with the angle the breathing came from.. unless my classmate could merge with walls like a superhero that would have literally been physically impossible
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I learned a little of this in my Native American anthropology class a few years ago
So what you're saying is you're something of an expert?
@@KM-mt5gx I think he's just saying he learned about skin walkers in his class. 🤔
@@nudorucatburger7088 I know, it was a joke. Sorry, I won't do it again.
Lol
"In every legend, there is a grain of truth."
The grain of truth here is probably rabies just like with Werwolfs
Yeah some random kidnappers and coincidence
I'm doing my senior thesis on the Windigo and your video on it helped me so much in my research! I discovered your channel through that, but I fell down the rabbit hole of binge watching your videos!
In my native Innu culture, my grandpa used to storytelling us about people changing into animals and helping people.
More Native American myths (or any lesser known myths) is great. There’s so many resources for Greek, Norse, Cthulhu etc.. not much for these.
Thank you for making this video. Here I can sadly barely find information on my native myths. This was really helpful ^^
Keep up your work.
As a native Cherokee and Latina mix I would absolutely love to hear all Native's lore and stories, growing up in smack dab Navajo county this video was spooky. The people I remember thinking I always saw in different bodies, but felt they were the same person that looked at me 2 weeks ago, the same look and energy, but then they just dissapear into the crowd, and that's hard growing up in a tiny dirt town.
The book The Vampire Slayers Field Guide to the Undead is really good. It was written by Jonathan Maberry. The other two are Vampire Universe and They Bite. Of course exists some big fat encyclopedias like the Elemental Encyclopedia for Magical Creatures (720 pages), The Elemental Encyclopedia of Vampires (760 pages), and The Encyclopedia of Spirits (it contains how summon astral zombies) with 1072 pages.
I’m enrolled on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and these stories always freaked me out as a kid. Please make more Native American folklore videos.
I really enjoyed this. Thank you for branching out into the legends of Native American nations.
I'm Impressed with the level of research that has gone into this video Considering how much taboo surrounds this particular topic and that people outside out the reservation hardly hear about it.. all in all and good video thanks
Im afraid this isnt something only in some reservation back in USA, friend.
I come from northern Europe namely Sweden and we have large large areas of really thick forest.
You guys have it too.. it seems. You also have what I know by the name of 'rå'.
Weclassify them by the different areas:
Forest
Mountain
Lake
There is one 'rå' for each domain and they work exactly in the way these skinwalker is discribed.
After hearing about this stuff also existed in USA I was shocked and now im too convinced that they exists in all over the world.
segpasta jag älskar dig!
@@siegpasta Navajo legends originate in America not Europe
Mariah J. There are very similar creatures in Celtic European folklore, they predate Europeans traveling to America.
@@Aron-ru5zk But they're NOT Nejavo legends are they? Because Nejavo legends originated in America.
I am a Slav, and in our folklore there are almost identical stories about these beings.
They most often turned into wolves.
Theres about 4 tribes that can turn into animals but each tribe has a specific animal they turn to the three in north america are eagles wolfs and aligators theres an extra tribe that turns into some big cat but people say that tribe is asian or african
Im a Slav also 🇭🇷
@@jeangarcia6432 Do you know which tribe can turn into eagles?
@@Cro95 Vidim.
I came hear expecting star wars stuff because i misread the title, now im a bit more educated...damn!
Thales Anastácio 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
😂 this made my day, awesome
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Lol
Yes please
I’d love to learn more and hear more Native American stories
the fact that skinwalkers aren't just from Navajo legend really sums up that there could be and most likely are different kinds and or species of the creature. As an Abenaki native, I have heard many stories of the creatures myself including from my grandfather who is a shaman and deals with mythical and magic beings such as that. it's weird to think that there's so much more to the creature than we could actually know. but one thing that my grandfather taught me was that you should never utter its name lest you want to be hunted down by one till you either die by it's hands or naturally even if you're a witch like myself.
Suuurrre you are, you appear to believe more in Satan than you do our lord and creator, the one and only GOD of the Universe. Good luck with that, non-believer. I’ll pray for your lost soul.
Its even more fascinating to me because the same sort of creatures are also very pre valent from where I came from here in south east asia.
Not a creature. Same species, different tribes
In my village called "Kashmir " they are called "ban buddahy" means the one belonging to woods ! They are same like skinwalkers and my relatives who live their my grandma and grandad have witnessed them nobody opens the door at the midnight there !!!
When I was 12 I went hunting with my dad, grandpa, and uncle. Early in the morning they insisted on my uncle and I to walk through the woods so when we were walking my uncle quickly froze and put his arm in front of me. He pointed to the ground in front and there were dog footprints that led to a little patch of black sand and what looked like a foot print of a man.
I really enjoy the way you tell these stories in the narratives behind them I really do I am impressed with the way you delve into the most critical part of this narrative and I think the Wendigo legends and the skin walkerI really enjoy From one novice paranormal investigator in the New England region of the United States colonial country to another keep up the great work and God bless and be safe out there
When I was about 5-6 something woke me up in the middle of the night. I remember seeing a black wolf with bright glowing yellow eyes that looked like snake eyes. It was hanging upside down staring at me from my window. I got up and turned on the light then it disappeared . Still amazes me.
Mavin AK47 could have been a form of reptilian.
Mavin AK47 THAT! IVE BEEN CURIOUS SINCE I WAS A YOUNG BOY AND THATS WHAT HAPPENED THE SAME EXACT THNG
that's why your not supposed to leave your curtains open at night always have some kind of window cover.
@@jadefrank8923 incase a demon comes in lol.
@@overliving finally found someone with the same experience, I would tell my aunt and she would always just brush it off. I was a kid who never watched anything scary so it couldn't have been my imagination.
Great video! Is it possible to do a more in-depth video on the origin of the Asuwang? I've always been fascinated with them. You already covered my other favorite, the Shinigami! That was a great video 😊
In a fantasy universe I'm designing, I have a faction made up of skinwalkers and other shapeshifters from around the world. They're called Nocturnals, basically serial killers and predators who shapeshift.
Hey, you should make more of these! This was great! Please make a video detailing some of the more popular accounts and stories of Skinwalkers. Sounds quite frightening!
Awesome video! Would love to see a highly detailed video on the Skinwalker subject. That's one cryptid which fascinates most of us. Thanks. Will be looking forward for it. Cheers and Regards from India.
I really appreciate your efforts for preserving these wisdom full knowledge.
I request you to make video about Achilles's life
Thank you for a short, detailed explanation! I’ve been seeing and hearing people mention this everywhere on social media and I thought I should look into understanding what these are.
Those people are clearly on drugs or something. Their stories sound so fake that not even a 10 year old would believe them. And I'm actually surprised that there are a lot of people in this comment section that are believing this crap. They are either delusional or making stuff up for attention
@@VanessaLol421 Personally, I don't believe in them but it's interesting to see what all the fuss is about. Though some people take these myths and work them into videos, treating them as fact, for the sake of making something cool looking (e.g., Blaire Witch Project). Not everyone is as gullible as they seem. Just food for thought.
It would be amazing to take a deeper look on those encounters, thank you for the video!!
I was just thinking about the skinwalkers! This channel is great
Love your voice and narration 😍😍😍😍😊
They (shape shifters) only mess with their own blood or relatives whom they know. Usually out of jealousy or envious. One who succeeds in life is usually targeted (they) got too much time on their hands. Faith ,love, happiness and prayers are your weapons. 🔥❤️🙌🏼🙏🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Skinwalkers have long fascinated me and I'd love to know more about them.👍
Maybe they are dark and scary to protect sacred sites, Ancestoral land.
They practice witchcraft for selfish reasons. They roam Navajo ancestral lands but not to protect them. If they are sacred parts they are looking over it's a bad sacred part.
Lexx Melancon do you know why the stay in those spots
interesting theory, butif it's true, why is there one that WONT LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!
@@thesqonkofpennsylvania7458 what do you mean
@@thesqonkofpennsylvania7458 .
Love this channel!!!
Yes indeed, please expound more on this subject. As much as possible. Thank you.
Love your channel! Thank you for all your hard work
They are attracted to negative emotions. Stay away from stress, anger, fear and any other negative emotions as much as possible. Keep your faith in God and leave your worries with him. Follow righteousness in all decisions. Stay in the light as Isaac Kappy and Etika warned. And keep the faith in God and better days to come after the evil is done away with. Amen
Navajo here: one of the stories my grandmother told me when I was younger, was that to become a skin walker, after achieving the height of medicine practices, it takes a ritual involving killing your closest blood relative.
Whether that's physical closeness by birthdate, or emotional closeness, I'm not sure.
I’m curious do you have to be specifically Native American to become one like your roots/blood?
A form of spirit binding
. In the region in Mexico where my family is from (Zacatecas) it is believe real witches are initiated when their faith in their practice is tested.. The ritual takes place in a cave on top of a steep mountain thats notorious for this practice. After a sacrificial ceremony, the initiate then throws themself off the cave which is about 2000ft and if they fly, then they pass the initiation... It is here where they "learn to fly"... I forget what the name of the mountain was called, my aunt told me this legend when I was 9.
Oh my God !! my totems are guiding
Me in real life .. thank u spirit brother for beautifully narrating the story .. truly hypnotic !!
Yes! Give us the Skin Walker Stories! This is so interesting I had never heard of this!
there was an episode about a Skinwalker on The X-files season 1 that's where I first heard about Skinwalkers
I heard about these first in the “Dresden files” I love when I see informational videos on the more obscure things that Jim writes about. I love this channel, great video.
Ah, a fellow Dresden Files reader!
Same, for me! Try Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles for an even more in depth treatment. His main character "Atticus" ranks almost as high on the FICTIONAL CHARACTERS I'D LOVE TO HAVE A 🍺 WITH scale as "Harry Dresden"!!!
Hearne has a full book set in and around a Rez where Skinwalkers are the Big Bad
skinwalker that was in the pilot episode when Dresden was protecting a kid who had the gift of magic but it hadn't manifested yet, the skinwalker was wearing the skin of his teacher
I’d be interested in some stories about this topic! Great video and a new subscriber here!
Thanks
Vince
Fascinating thank you for posting this ironically me and a soul sister were just talking about this yesterday and it's funny that this came up again thanks for that let me get to find out more about this topic namaste
Also btw..... so who here remembers a thing back called Animorphs? :''3
Think it might have been inspired by them?
I loved the animorph books
Our stories about this witchcraft goes way before those books
The Holy One he's saying the books are based on the legend
I doubt it, KA Applegate DID bring up native lore in her books but frankly it was in that heavy handed way that white liberals talk about other cultures. Plus the Animorphs were the good guys in the stories.
Hell yea...I loved that show. They still play it on a Canadian station called Qubo
Love your accent, and I watch about 90%of your videos.
I would absolutely love to see any further information on this topic it is absolutely fascinating
Mexicans talk about the same thing, i always love how all these stories end up connecting to each other in their own ways.
yes please...I live in the Caribbean and my granny use to tell me this story and she might had witness it. she said that you can hide the skin of the skin walker and they will stay in the form they are in
That sounds like the tale, or myth, of the Silkies. The seal people, who would hide their seal skim when on land line. And a lonely fisherman who found and stole a silky's skin. Forcing her to become his wife. Until she found it years later, and ran away, back to the sea.
I like that one, but it will be extremely difficult do because their skin is hidden on their land and trespassing is deadly.
Also, they are the first ones to call the police when in human form.
@@tcb9775 you guys need to hunt them down.Witch hunt
@@TheLegacy87 I'd love to. I have a brother who is interested. That being said, it is not an easy task. Where I come from it's extremely difficult being surrounded by them daily. Most of the time we must ignore it in order to live somewhat safe in the system. It's possible.
To answer question about going face to face only requires 100% good faith. Then when you kill that ghost enemy you enter a hellish war with power over most enemies. It's never complete
@@tcb9775 I understand bro I'll keep you in prayer.A lot of wickedness in this world but there will be justice for every evil deed they do more then they realize that's for sure.
This is so similar to the Aswang myth in the Philippines. I wrote a fantasy novel series about this. Very interesting that the similarities are so plentiful even if I thought I was inventing the characteristics of my fantasy beings. I’ve never heard of the skinwalkers before now, so my ideas must not have come from nowhere. This must have come from some subconscious information.
Napakalayo ng aswang sa pinag uusapan💀
Aswang was a cia psyop
Did you write ' Forest of Thousand Laterns'..?
@@user-od8cn3xv2i No. My series is called THE WORLD OF THE VISCEREBUS. I have 4 books out.
Yes, please, a vid about accounts of/experiences with skinwalkers.
I love myths they hold something deep within the stories that give insight.
Shape-shifting and transformations is some of the coolest kinda powers
I am Navajo to and my grandfather saw one once and has stories these where lessons
Please tell me more
I love hearing Native American folklore great video
I clicked on this video to learn about where I’m from this was very helpful! Thank you!
The most interesting thing I find is that in my culture's (Hmong) stories there is a similar creature where it is also a shape shifter. The most common story of these creatures is when hunters would go hunt in the woods back in Laos and Thailand and these hunters would sleep in the trees when their hunting trip would last longer than what they anticipated. In the middle of the night these creatures would usually transform to some one you know and call out to you in the woods until they come upon the tree you are sleeping. They would then tell you to come home with them because someone in your family is sick and they are there to inform you and take you home. These are just one of the encounters with the creatures. With so many cultures having such a similar creature in their stories who are to say that these do not exist? Even more interesting is that Native Americans and our Hmong people are from two different sides of the world.
In Wales we have the cŵn annwn and gwyllgi, with a loads of similarities as well, these go back thousands of years in Celtic indo-European mythology of the wild hunt.
@@Aron-ru5zk explain
Alot of stories have occured Utah, Arizona that I've heard. I'm not afraid to speak of them, nor venture in the night on the rez. The skinwalkers are just people. Not alot can affect them, yet they can still bleed. Thanks for this. I always enjoy hearing the legends of my tribe. Even other Native American legends. Its always interesting to me to hear such magics from around the world. America has various forms. Voodoo, in New Orleans. Witches in Salem. Native American sorcerers. These things are real, it still all relies on the individuals that choose to acknowledge such things.
when i was younger and would go visit my grandpa a Navajo medicine man would visit him. He would show up randomly on the farm. I got to meet him a few times. I always got to hear stories from him and I loved it. He once told me a story on skinwalkers, one of the few stories he told me that put me on edge.
@B K I would highly recommend finding a sharman and getting instruction from them
I enjoy listening to stuff like this. There's a show called The Lost Tapes
It's not just skins, according to some stories, bones also work, especially skulls, so an owl, or raven skull necklace could also be a sign of a skinwalker.
I appreciate you actually saying Navajo. Because I hate when people say "Native American" due to the fact not every tribe believed the same as the next.
Love reading these comments! Super interesting! I have a story of my own of when I lived in Alaska. I mentioned in a reply but thought would share on main thread. My ex and I were getting ready for a trip out on the Yukon, and then another river off of it to visit a family who lived in the bush. We were staying at a already somewhat secluded campground. There were a few guests but spread out really far, you couldn’t see them…had to walk down the road a minute. It was a little before 2, it was finally getting dark. In the summer the sun sets at midnight so if you’re camping, you’re up! His son was sleeping and him and I were awake but had already said goodnight, basically lying there in silence with eyes closed and suddenly could here loud human footsteps coming not directly at the tent but in our direction off to the side a bit, then one single caw loud and very clear caw, and then nothing. My ex was in the military so pretty quick to get out of the tent with his gun and check out….no one was there. The campground was silent as if it had never happened. I will add we had not had anything to drink or no drugs or anything like that that night. I was pregnant with my son, early in the pregnancy. We both had to check in to make sure we heard the same thing! It was crazy! We are Mi’kmaq was not unheard of or I guess as crazy as it could have been, but still you can hear stories yet still be stunned when you experience it because you know what you heard in that moment, could not have been anything other than what it was. I was threatened when it first happened and a bit freaked out because I was pregnant so I was wondering did they want some thing? Idk ultimately we kind of thought that it was just passing by really…maybe did come to check out the tens or maybe just passing by and the running stopped when it saw the tent and it went off. There’s all types of crazy stories and folklore coming from the Alaskan villages. Things can be pretty remote out there so more of a chance for otherworldly things to roam I guess? I will never forget it though and can still hear it perfectly to this day. I don’t doubt any of these stories here!
Been waiting for this one!!
In Mexico they're called nahuales
@27White Butterfly that's really interesting. Also who native Americans are said to be genetically similar to south east asians
27White Butterfly I’m in Hawaii and same here there is a lot of folktales here but I found quite a few that are similar
Slowdayonthe MISSISSIPPI like the Force?
Así es, I actually worked with a guy in the cantera who was said to be nahual. He was also a known drug addict but he did have a way of knowing shit he had no business of knowing. Maybe he was that stray dog in the street or that bird on roof.
Simon ahuevo
As with all demons if you know their "name" you can control them or get rid of them.
Not more of a demon then man. Fucking moron
@ryuk yes why
@THINK HARDER thanks fam
What are they
@Alpha Magus I've seen them and they look like witches with demon eyes. so they might be demonic possessed witches. the power is satanic. I saw it transform from a black cat
There has only been one ever documented "possible" skinwalker encounter. A man in New Mexico came out to his garage to see what he thought was a mangy cayote. He hit it with a shovel and went to tell his wife about what he just knocked out. When they both came back to the garage, it was gone. That night and the next three days, the man felt ill, bed ridden puking and shitting all over the place. His wife being a native american took him four hours north to Nevada where they met a spirit healer. The spirit healer did his thing and told him that when he struck the "managed" cayote, A.K.A. "skinwalker", it dispersed it's poison, inflicting him.
Loved this one very much thank you .
More Native American Myths.
Thank you.🥀
You're Navajo, babe?
Thank you very much for this video. I greatly appreciate it.
Your narration is great! Just stumbled across you! Instant like sub all that.
My great grandmother told me but only a sliver of the culture of the old Americans . One was the this instance of those skin changers the fear in her eyes when I was just only a very young boy in the late 80's hearing about the tales, gives me chills . We may have technology that can take us to the moon but the realm beyond our screens is much more convoluted.
A part Navajo girl told me she saw one, I believe her she had no reason to lie.
Your voice is so calming
Me and my family loved it
That's so interesting because back in my home country of Philippines in the other side of the world, believed to exist a clan of creatures known as "Aswang" which are very similar. It's kinda creepy to think that they might have been real at some point because of this lmao.
My parents are from india, and they told me how my grandpa was once almost lured into the forest by a witch that transformed into a snake, and then into a bear… so many cultures have a shapeshifter tale and it’s just too creepy