Comparisons: My Experiences Vs Skinwalker Ranch Reports
I have a friend, I'll call him 'V', who is VERY intelligent (he's a professional mathematician-- don't ask me what that means!) who was a member of my pagan Circle for a couple of years when he was collage age. This guy has a very interesting background: father belonged to an exclusive ritualistic magick group, but he himself has mostly friends and colleagues who are scientists and heady academics, and nearly all of them are die-hard dogmatic so-called "rationalist skeptics." What that means is that he's had exposure to 'freaky' (if only in theory) but pursued a career that surrounded him with those who laugh and snerk at anything remotely interesting like the paranormal.
He goes back and forth. He'll look for hauntings or UFOs, then declare the material, mechanistic universe is all there is-- but a couple of years later get bored and depressed and dive into magickal studies or New Age enlightenment practices. Somehow, neither side seems to deliver. He's lately back on an esoteric kick and asked me to help him understand what it is he's looking for and how to up his chances for real paranormal experiences.
HAH!!
We've had our differences, but we've known each other over 15 years and the guy is one of the most fun people for me to talk to I've ever met. I don't have his education (especially in math-- GAH!) but I DO have loads of direct experiences on top of decades of research into the paranormal. AND-- unlike most experiencers of such, I keep journals and take meticulous notes! We met at a pagan festival where I was giving a workshop on the 4 Quarters, and I got his attention because I got it CORRECT. (West/Air/Sunset/Autumn & East/Water/Dawn/Spring- most paths mix those 2 up, which comes from a legacy left by ritual magicians to deliberately keep noobs from having too much knowledge before gaining wisdom... now everyone publishes and teaches the incorrect classification. However, simple LOGIC makes it fucking obvious! But that's a rant for another time and blog.)
ANYWAY--!
He is reading books I recommend and we're discussing them via chat once every other month or so-- because trying to help him get some of what I understand would take too long otherwise. Our first book was Mothman Prophesies by John Keel, and then the one we're on now is Hunt for the Skinwalker by Kelleher & Knapp. Both discuss how supernatural events tend to come in groups together: UFO sightings and Sasquatch and weird creatures and poltergeists... the list goes on. Keel was one of the first who noticed the overlap and didn't pick one and exclude the others like most researchers do, he investigated everything together as a whole. He wondered if there was an Other Dimension that over-lapped our own during such periods. Later, billionaire Robert Bigelow funded similar research through NIDS or National Institute for Discovery Science. They bought a ranch in a Hot Spot where crazy strange things happened and documented their findings.
Due to our upcoming chats on the Skinwalker Ranch, I decided to look up what all is available more recently on the internet and found some interesting stuff...
One of the things I found intriguing was how many of the anomalies reported there are things I've come across myself during flaps of abductions, which, as I've noted, seem to cause tears in reality, allowing funky things to slip through for short periods of time.
Please pull up a tab on your browser that includes this site:
www.skinwalkerranch.org/classificationsystem.html
1. The Spotlight X-- nothing similar to my own experiences.
2. Flash Drones ?-- I've seen flying Orbs that seem somewhat similar, but they fly while lit and don't quite seem as mechanical. In my experiences, the orbs are only semi-physical and fuzzy-looking and range in color and size, typically whitish being an inch in diameter, yellow being tennis-ball sized, blue being grapefruit sized, orange being beach-ball sized, and red about 3 feet across. I've seen a few exceptions to this, but these are the typical ones. My cats have chased them through the house, they fly by so quickly there is never a chance to grab a camera. (At least not yet!)
3. Invisible Chopper !!--Actually, I have had encounters with this-- several times as a teenager in Oregon and a couple times when living out in the rural area of southern Ohio.
4. Mini Stealth X-- No comparisons.
5. Giant Bullet Proof "Wolves" !!-- I've had some freaky encounters with DOGS, but not wolves. I've had Rotweilers chase me across an entire small town while I rode in a car, for example. I've also had multiple weird random encounters with giant black rabbits-- which DO exist as a domestic breed. But I see them while hiking in the woods or on the side of the road or in cemeteries. Maybe nothing, who knows? But I've had a few strange animal sightings or interactions that were completely eerie.
6. The Controllers ?-- I've overheard and interacted with weird voices heard over normal broadcast TVs and radios, but they sometimes speak English and once (at age 14) spoke about me and then addressed me directly. Don't recall hearing outside above my head-- but at Windy Firs, my ex husband and a friend heard something similar above their heads outside sounding like a walkie-talkie, but in a strange language.
7. The Dark Native !!-- Obviously not the same guy, but ONCE while hiking in forest in Hocking Hills a Shawnee native wrapped in a deep blue blanket manifested very clearly (and looked me in the eye) about 30 feet away and then faded out. I wrote about that encounter, and it seemed connected to my studies with Nahili, who was a medicine woman of the Shawnee. She and I would experience paranormal flaps around the same time (we lived 5 minutes from each other) and even on the same days.
More on that here: spirals-end.livejournal.com/20532.html
8. Disembodied Girl Voice !!--I've been hearing ghost voices off and on for MANY years. Any property with a spirit gets seen and/or heard. The last two places I've lived have no ghosts, ironically not even at the Ghost Lake house!
9. "Firefly Sprites"/Earth Lights X-- no equivalents in my experience. Sounds like a version of Will O'the Wisp, but unlike the Orbs, which fly around intelligently, these just manifest out of the ground, float up, and disappear about 8 feet up.
10. Water Babies ?-- The summers of 1988 and '89 when I was working as a Girl Scout Camp counselor at a sleep-away camp in the Columbia River Gorge, I had several weird experiences with something that sounded EXACTLY like a human baby crying. It made the hair on back of my neck stand up and I felt crazy high levels of fear from hearing it, though! It only happened when I was alone in an area, and the one time I investigated, it led me to a water tower on the grounds of the camp. It was on the ground level (you didn't have to climb scaffolding to get to the tower-- it was already on a high hill). I went towards the tower, and it sounded like the baby was behind it, so I went around-- and the sound MOVED to stay just out of sight! Then it quit and I was confused-- but then I heard the crying coming from above me like the baby was on TOP of the tower! At that point, I knew it was no baby and ran for my life! After that, when I heard it, it was always coming towards me from the direction of the water tower-- and the thing is, no baby that young sounding could... move that fast! So I was understandably freaked out. I never before equated that baby crying sound with WATER. A water tower no less! Weird...
11. Cthulhu Slug or Snake ?-- Had a couple of encounters with fuzzy-buzzing black long 'socks-filled-with-air' looking fast snake things that manifested, felt like moving static electricity and fizzed out of existence again. Both times right after being transported by aliens, so I assume there is a connection with that.
12. Glow Birds X-- no comparisons.
13. Orange Football X-- I've seen several UFOs but not any that are close to this type with red plasma flames, etc.
14. Sentient Mist !!!-- I call it Black Smoke Critter. I've seen this in Ohio 1992-'93 flap, and then again in Oregon apartment in '98-'99 flap (reports upcoming!) It appeared and then floated along the floor in a cat-sized sort of bunch of black cotton-looking 'stuff.' Around the same time, we started to see look-alike cat phantoms that mimicked our pets, but looked fuzzy around the edges and had no legs. I find this to be really intriguing. I NEVER heard of a single report of black smoke monsters (not counting the fictional show 'Lost' anyways!) like my own until coming across things associated with Skinwalker Ranch. Wow!
15. The Portals X-- I WISH I had seen such a thing! It sounds fascinating!
When you put it all together, it really makes me curious. There is something to this dimensions crossing thing, I'm sure of it. My own guess is that at the Skinwalker Ranch, there is a crossroads of sorts there. In my own case, as I've moved multiple times in my life, the alien abduction syndrome has followed me. I think the aliens use technology that warps reality and there are side effects from this. But, regardless, it is well worth continuing to study!
He goes back and forth. He'll look for hauntings or UFOs, then declare the material, mechanistic universe is all there is-- but a couple of years later get bored and depressed and dive into magickal studies or New Age enlightenment practices. Somehow, neither side seems to deliver. He's lately back on an esoteric kick and asked me to help him understand what it is he's looking for and how to up his chances for real paranormal experiences.
HAH!!
We've had our differences, but we've known each other over 15 years and the guy is one of the most fun people for me to talk to I've ever met. I don't have his education (especially in math-- GAH!) but I DO have loads of direct experiences on top of decades of research into the paranormal. AND-- unlike most experiencers of such, I keep journals and take meticulous notes! We met at a pagan festival where I was giving a workshop on the 4 Quarters, and I got his attention because I got it CORRECT. (West/Air/Sunset/Autumn & East/Water/Dawn/Spring- most paths mix those 2 up, which comes from a legacy left by ritual magicians to deliberately keep noobs from having too much knowledge before gaining wisdom... now everyone publishes and teaches the incorrect classification. However, simple LOGIC makes it fucking obvious! But that's a rant for another time and blog.)
ANYWAY--!
He is reading books I recommend and we're discussing them via chat once every other month or so-- because trying to help him get some of what I understand would take too long otherwise. Our first book was Mothman Prophesies by John Keel, and then the one we're on now is Hunt for the Skinwalker by Kelleher & Knapp. Both discuss how supernatural events tend to come in groups together: UFO sightings and Sasquatch and weird creatures and poltergeists... the list goes on. Keel was one of the first who noticed the overlap and didn't pick one and exclude the others like most researchers do, he investigated everything together as a whole. He wondered if there was an Other Dimension that over-lapped our own during such periods. Later, billionaire Robert Bigelow funded similar research through NIDS or National Institute for Discovery Science. They bought a ranch in a Hot Spot where crazy strange things happened and documented their findings.
Due to our upcoming chats on the Skinwalker Ranch, I decided to look up what all is available more recently on the internet and found some interesting stuff...
One of the things I found intriguing was how many of the anomalies reported there are things I've come across myself during flaps of abductions, which, as I've noted, seem to cause tears in reality, allowing funky things to slip through for short periods of time.
Please pull up a tab on your browser that includes this site:
www.skinwalkerranch.org/classificationsy
1. The Spotlight X-- nothing similar to my own experiences.
2. Flash Drones ?-- I've seen flying Orbs that seem somewhat similar, but they fly while lit and don't quite seem as mechanical. In my experiences, the orbs are only semi-physical and fuzzy-looking and range in color and size, typically whitish being an inch in diameter, yellow being tennis-ball sized, blue being grapefruit sized, orange being beach-ball sized, and red about 3 feet across. I've seen a few exceptions to this, but these are the typical ones. My cats have chased them through the house, they fly by so quickly there is never a chance to grab a camera. (At least not yet!)
3. Invisible Chopper !!--Actually, I have had encounters with this-- several times as a teenager in Oregon and a couple times when living out in the rural area of southern Ohio.
4. Mini Stealth X-- No comparisons.
5. Giant Bullet Proof "Wolves" !!-- I've had some freaky encounters with DOGS, but not wolves. I've had Rotweilers chase me across an entire small town while I rode in a car, for example. I've also had multiple weird random encounters with giant black rabbits-- which DO exist as a domestic breed. But I see them while hiking in the woods or on the side of the road or in cemeteries. Maybe nothing, who knows? But I've had a few strange animal sightings or interactions that were completely eerie.
6. The Controllers ?-- I've overheard and interacted with weird voices heard over normal broadcast TVs and radios, but they sometimes speak English and once (at age 14) spoke about me and then addressed me directly. Don't recall hearing outside above my head-- but at Windy Firs, my ex husband and a friend heard something similar above their heads outside sounding like a walkie-talkie, but in a strange language.
7. The Dark Native !!-- Obviously not the same guy, but ONCE while hiking in forest in Hocking Hills a Shawnee native wrapped in a deep blue blanket manifested very clearly (and looked me in the eye) about 30 feet away and then faded out. I wrote about that encounter, and it seemed connected to my studies with Nahili, who was a medicine woman of the Shawnee. She and I would experience paranormal flaps around the same time (we lived 5 minutes from each other) and even on the same days.
More on that here: spirals-end.livejournal.com/20532.html
8. Disembodied Girl Voice !!--I've been hearing ghost voices off and on for MANY years. Any property with a spirit gets seen and/or heard. The last two places I've lived have no ghosts, ironically not even at the Ghost Lake house!
9. "Firefly Sprites"/Earth Lights X-- no equivalents in my experience. Sounds like a version of Will O'the Wisp, but unlike the Orbs, which fly around intelligently, these just manifest out of the ground, float up, and disappear about 8 feet up.
10. Water Babies ?-- The summers of 1988 and '89 when I was working as a Girl Scout Camp counselor at a sleep-away camp in the Columbia River Gorge, I had several weird experiences with something that sounded EXACTLY like a human baby crying. It made the hair on back of my neck stand up and I felt crazy high levels of fear from hearing it, though! It only happened when I was alone in an area, and the one time I investigated, it led me to a water tower on the grounds of the camp. It was on the ground level (you didn't have to climb scaffolding to get to the tower-- it was already on a high hill). I went towards the tower, and it sounded like the baby was behind it, so I went around-- and the sound MOVED to stay just out of sight! Then it quit and I was confused-- but then I heard the crying coming from above me like the baby was on TOP of the tower! At that point, I knew it was no baby and ran for my life! After that, when I heard it, it was always coming towards me from the direction of the water tower-- and the thing is, no baby that young sounding could... move that fast! So I was understandably freaked out. I never before equated that baby crying sound with WATER. A water tower no less! Weird...
11. Cthulhu Slug or Snake ?-- Had a couple of encounters with fuzzy-buzzing black long 'socks-filled-with-air' looking fast snake things that manifested, felt like moving static electricity and fizzed out of existence again. Both times right after being transported by aliens, so I assume there is a connection with that.
12. Glow Birds X-- no comparisons.
13. Orange Football X-- I've seen several UFOs but not any that are close to this type with red plasma flames, etc.
14. Sentient Mist !!!-- I call it Black Smoke Critter. I've seen this in Ohio 1992-'93 flap, and then again in Oregon apartment in '98-'99 flap (reports upcoming!) It appeared and then floated along the floor in a cat-sized sort of bunch of black cotton-looking 'stuff.' Around the same time, we started to see look-alike cat phantoms that mimicked our pets, but looked fuzzy around the edges and had no legs. I find this to be really intriguing. I NEVER heard of a single report of black smoke monsters (not counting the fictional show 'Lost' anyways!) like my own until coming across things associated with Skinwalker Ranch. Wow!
15. The Portals X-- I WISH I had seen such a thing! It sounds fascinating!
When you put it all together, it really makes me curious. There is something to this dimensions crossing thing, I'm sure of it. My own guess is that at the Skinwalker Ranch, there is a crossroads of sorts there. In my own case, as I've moved multiple times in my life, the alien abduction syndrome has followed me. I think the aliens use technology that warps reality and there are side effects from this. But, regardless, it is well worth continuing to study!