Skinwalker Ranch

 

During the PhenomeCon conference, quite a few extra activities were offered before, at lunch time, and in the evening after the actual presenters were speaking.  After the first day of presentations, I chose to go on a field trip up to the main gate of Skinwalker Ranch.  BTW—this is as far as they will allow you to go for obvious liability purposes!

The ranch is 512 acres of land mainly surrounded by the Ute Reservation near Fort Duchene, Utah, in the Uintah Basin.  It is literally out in the middle of nowhere.  The Uintah Basin has a number of geological and electromagnetic anomalies that seem to cause a wide variety of paranormal phenomena.  These include sightings of criptids, UFO’s, orbs, portals opening and closing, ghosts and dark figures, and any number of unexplained things.  These have been happening for hundreds of years, not only on the ranch, but in the whole surrounding area.  The “Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” show on the History channel depicts many of these strange things.  Check it out!

So on that night, about 50 of us loaded up onto 2 buses to head out to the ranch, about a 35 minute drive.  One bus was hosted by Thomas Winterton.

The other was hosted by “Dragon” Arnold.

They then switched buses on the way back.  We were highly entertained by their personal stories and stories of the happenings on the ranch.

The sun had just set by the time we got to the gate.  During the day there is a guard there.  Note the “Keep Out” signs!

Here is the mesa where a lot of the mysterious happenings occur. 

After a photo op, we loaded back onto the buses and drove to a spot off the ranch property that was south, and where we could see the lights of neighboring properties on either side.  Everyone was pretty attentive to seeing if anything strange happened while we were out there. I did have a sighting of sorts.  At one point, I looked straight upwards and saw a small light blue orb.  I glanced down briefly and then back up to see if I was looking at something that was moving, like an airplane or a satellite.  The orb was gone.  No one else saw it.

So that was my entertainment for the evening.  In spite of not seeing much of anything odd or unusual, just listening to Thomas and Dragon was a real treat in itself.