We pass through into another dimension.
Do you feel it now? - Yes.
I swear, like, everyone we talked to,
they must've thought we were nuts.
You can die. - Something was very wrong with that cave.
I'm freaking out, man.
That place left a mark on us for sure.
We have seen things that defy explanation.
Experiencing the best...
God, that was awesome, dude.
That was so gnarly, man.
and worst...
These dolls are gonna take our souls.
of the places between worlds.
I want the portals of this forest wide open.
Now it's time to look back.
One of my scariest nightmares that we are about to relive.
For the first time ever, I'm inviting you,
the audience, into my inner sanctum.
Together, we will pull back the curtain on the biggest,
scariest and funniest moments
from our investigations.
I'm Zak Bagans
and this is Ghost Adventures Screaming Room.
There's one location that we have done
that's historic. Billy, you listening?
Yes. sir. - I can't even see you.
I know, I'm down here.
I'll give you a hint. We got drugged.
Oh! Skinwalker.
Geez, Aaron, that was quick.
That was quick - Oh, that was the best.
If you guys have never seen the episode
where we got drugged and didn't know we were getting drugged,
Skinwalker Canyon.
We are in the Four Corners region.
It's a very mysterious superstitious region
that is kinda like
our own version of the Bermuda Triangle.
We have gotten very special permission
from the Navajo reservation
to investigate Skinwalker Canyon.
They never go there. It's, like, off-limits.
Total off-limits.
They will not enter the Canyon. - Yeah.
Just being out there was cool.
- You weren't driving a Jeep, were you? - No. - No.
You don't let me drive Jeeps.
I would never allow that. - Aaron's not allowed to drive.
No. - I would never allow that.
No.
So here on the reservation, practitioners of adishgash,
or, uh, witchcraft here, is a very real thing.
This dark magic practiced within the Canyon
calls forth a shape-shifting being
seldom spoke of outside of Navajo culture,
the skinwalker.
Skinwalkers, I believe, were a person within
the Navajo people that do witchcraft...
Right. - ... and through their witchcraft,
conjure a skinwalker. - They conjure it, okay.
The owner of a trading post on the reservation
has requested to give us some warnings
about the choice that we have made
to investigate Skinwalker Canyon.
We are on the Navajo reservation.
There are creatures here called skinwalkers.
They strongly believe that these entities,
creatures exist here in the reservation
we're at right now. - They do.
Okay. - It's a very, very strong belief.
They, for the most part, fear the skinwalker.
Is it true there was a... a man that was beheaded
because he was a skinwalker?
I can't talk about that.
You can't talk about that? - Uh-uh.
Some of these people that we were gonna talk to,
they backed out. They did not wanna talk about skinwalkers
for fear of retaliation.
According to accounts, there was a Navajo man
who was known on the reservation
for conjuring skinwalker entities through witchcraft.
His wife said this created a darkness inside of him
that kept growing until one day,
she put an end to it by cutting off his head.
The person doing the witchcraft kind of operates
the skinwalker as an... like an avatar.
I mean, that's why it's so scary 'cause, you don't...
who... who do you know? Someone might be a Navajo witch
and you're not aware of it.
So your advice to me, to us,
is to find Navajo people
and ask them about these skinwalkers, the Navajo witches.
And they will tell us more in detail about them.
Some of 'em will.
Why wouldn't others?
If they talk about the skinwalker to you,
um, or a non-Indian, something could happen to them.
Like what? - They could get sick, they could die,
or go blind. - They could die?
Yeah. - So something very serious could happen to us.
Not to you. - Not to me? Why?
You don't believe
in the skinwalker. - I do though.
No, you don't. You think you do. - I do.
But if you really believed in the skinwalker,
you wouldn't be going to Skinwalker Canyon.
That's a powerful statement when he's like,
"You do not wanna encounter one of them."
At this point, I didn't really understand
what I was up against here.
I mean, after talking to him,
it made me rethink everything.
There's a lot of things that I believe they didn't tell us.
Members of the tribe have come out to welcome us
and offer a safe passage into the Canyon.
I can only hope that we won't need it.
What's up, guys? - Hey, Aaron.
How you doing?
- What is it, ya'at'eeh?
Ya'at'eeh. - Ya'at'eeh, hello.
This was so cool.
Let me tell you. The Navajo people just welcomed us.
It was the most love
and just welcoming that we've ever had.
Some of our biggest fans too.
We hung out for a while there.
I was just worried they were all there 'cause they were like,
this is the last time you're ever gonna see
these guys again.
These roads are very well-known for,
you drive at night, you see a coyote.
Then all of a sudden, you're doing 60 miles per hour
and the coyote is running with you.
You can see it out the side of your window.
The coyote then turns into a man.
And the man has glowing yellow eyes.
Skinwalker Canyon or Ojo Amarillo
means 'yellow eyes'.
As we approach Skinwalker Canyon for the first time,
we see a huge dirt barrier
and barbed wire fence blocking the entrance.
My nerves begin to tense up.
We meet a man named Randy who is reluctant
to even be here speaking to us.
Have you been in here?
I don't venture in here
because, uh, there's... there's beings out here
that are unexplainable.
Have you seen 'em? - I have seen them.
There's areas where the skinwalker
would be and they'll just come out,
turn, look at me,
and I get nauseated.
He wouldn't go past this point.
And he was getting physical reactions.
Scary. - I swear, like, everyone we talked to,
they must've thought we were nuts.
That was just a forbidden place to enter.
There's two parts to it.
There's the actual person
that's doing the singing
and the conjuring right here.
This is what you see in the dark,
the conjuring part.
The Navajo witch creates the skinwalker entity
through a sacrificial ritual
where it has control of what acts of terror
it does on the living.
Why do you think the skinwalkers
are here? Is this their home?
There's a cave back there.
You believe that the cave is where these Navajo witches
will do the conjuring.
They will, what we call bad medicine.
Every moment we went closer to that mountain
was more terrifying with what... - Yeah.
people were saying, you know. - Mm-hmm.
We could feel that energy
the closer you got. It kinda was like
there was literally a line in the sand and once you crossed...
Yep. - ... into that Canyon,
it felt like a whole other world, you feel the energy.
All right, we just got here.
Uh, we're at the entrance of Ojo Amarillo Canyon,
Skinwalker Canyon.
Uh...
- What's the gun for? - Hold it.
We're out. - Right?
There may be a skinwalker out there.
Um, during the day, it's very highly unlikely
but at night, usually it will get pretty, uh... - Okay.
I was like really second thinking this.
Okay. We're gonna go in with this guy. - Yeah, like...
He's got a... I think, an assault rifle. - Right.
We're gonna follow this guy into a cave.
- And we're just gonna hope for the best.
So let me get this straight.
If you see a skinwalker, Vincent,
you will shoot at it.
If they keep their distance, then I won't fire.
Okay, okay, very good.
Uh, I feel more comfortable around you now...
- ... since you've explained the use of your gun.
Yes, sir.
I was like, "What are you gonna shoot and kill?" - Yeah.
And he literally says there might be a skinwalker out there.
Yeah, right, but a skinwalker's like an entity.
You're not gonna kill an entity. - I know.
What's a gun gonna do?
I was like, "What are you gonna kill?"
Well, technically, if it turned into, like, a wolf,
you could kill it, right? - Right.
But I was like, "Is he gonna kill us?" - Still.
Like, what happens if one of us starts getting possessed
by a skinwalker? - Oh, man.
Are we going out this bitch?
Vincent's got a gun and I got a machete.
This won't do nothing against a skinwalker.
Yeah, if they're that close, usually they have other means of dealing with you.
There's even belief that they can cause paralysis
with their sight.
Dude's got an assault rifle and I got a machete.
Like, this is good.
I know who I'm jumping behind.
He's like you're pretty much done for
if you use the machete.
Vincent has agreed to lead us further
into the Canyon to a dangerous underworld
the Navajo call witchcraft cave
where the skinwalkers have been summoned.
Do you think that we are going to be safe
going in here
past the point that you say don't go?
That's your life, that's your risk.
You go beyond that
and if you don't come out, then that's it.
Short answer, "No."
- That's your life, yeah.
Everybody that's watching this right now,
eight out of ten of you
would not have stepped another foot forward after...
- Oh, yeah. - No. - ... this point in our investigation.
This is a very real thing.
It's a very real thing.
You guys don't mind if I chamber my pistol
just in case, right? - That's fine.
You don't mind if I chamber my pistol, do you?
Like, jeez.
What? - Dude, if we see this guy
just unload his clip on a skinwalker, like,
God, is this gonna be great?
No!
Yeah.
You good now? - No, it's still there.
So we're getting, like, a mirror image on the bottom.
We've never seen this before.
And it just happened right when we got out of the car.
It is not uncommon for manifestations
within the magnetic field to disrupt our equipment.
But we have never seen this happen to any of our cameras before.
I am now in a panic to see that Vincent
has chambered his rifle and wonder what will happen
if we stumble upon a Navajo witch
inside the cave. A living person
trying to conjure a skinwalker.
This path was very loosey-goosey.
Oh, yeah. - Yeah. You could easily slide down the...
Yeah. I was scared of walking on this path.
You carrying axes? - I'm carrying axes. You never know.
Well, and I thought if I fell,
I could hit it against the rock and hold on
like in the movies.
As we approach the Navajo witch's cave,
a place no one will enter and rarely speak of,
I feel as though an impending doom is our immediate fate.
And yet for some reason,
something seems to draw me inside.
There's actually fresh shoe tracks right here.
But there was no fresh tracks coming up here.
That ground hasn't been broken.
Oh, great, so you're telling us that there's somebody,
a... a witchcraft person in there... - Right.
conjuring a... Uh, now all the witches.
Don't get mad at me.
I'm talking about the witchcraft that they do
conjuring the... the skinwalkers. - Yeah, the bad ones.
I know all witches aren't bad.
I know, I know. I'm just saying,
in this context, a witch is bad.
What are you eating?
Granola.
With chopsticks?
Wait, what? - Who eats granola with chopsticks?
- God, you're strange.
It's fun.
We are following mysterious footprints
inside of the Navajo witchcraft cave
led by our skinwalker tracker, Vincent.
Hey, does that look like a... a phoenix?
See that rock right there? Looks like a phoenix
with wing. - Oh, wow.
Is this a warning to keep outsiders away
or perhaps a sign of a ritual that was conducted here?
I was really amazed once we started walking in here
and all the little things we started seeing. - Yeah.
Dude, this was crazy. This spooked me.
Just to see the outline of that phoenix.
Looks like you're going into like a... like a demon's mouth.
Dude, this is incredible, man.
We're in the Skinwalker Canyon inside the cave.
Are you guys seeing those tracks back there?
Aaron?
Where'd they go? They just left.
How are they not answering me?
I don't know. I can't even hear 'em.
Vincent! - They're off our audio too.
Aaron?
You guys just disappeared. - Oh, yeah.
We didn't hear you. - You were right in front of us
and you turn a corner,
and we never heard another peep from you guys.
We never heard you. - Yeah.
Like you walked through some kinda time travel door.
Well, what's weird is I remember we walked around the corner and stopped.
Right, but it's a cave. You'll hear me.
Yeah, you would totally hear us.
It doesn't make any sense.
You guys were 20 feet in front of me.
And you disappeared with a stranger with an assault rifle.
Look at this.
It's an archway. Should we go under this archway?
Uh, crossing under here
could mean crossing into another dimension. - Right.
And they said that archway
is a... a portal entrance
that the skinwalkers come in and out of.
Which would make sense because those tracks were in there
coming from the back. - From the back.
They weren't on the path leading up.
And yeah, we're right in their den. How great is that.
This would be about the spot where we last saw
Aaron and Vincent's flashlight
and they would have had to go under this arch.
Could they have entered into another realm affecting time and space.
We find them an hour later
both confused and trance-like.
causing us to end our exploration of the cave.
Something was very wrong with that cave.
I almost felt like there was layers like, uh, forcefields
like when you pass through
different segments of the cave. - Yeah.
Some place that we walked into that
we shouldn't have walked into, just as they told us.
As night falls, a medicine woman
approaches us out of nowhere
and tells us that we need to undergo
a Navajo warrior ceremony.
Her name is Walking Thunder.
Here she is.
She feels that we are already in danger
from entering the cave.
and this ceremony will prepare us for the canyon at night.
Okay, this is what warrior paint is.
Okay? - Okay.
That's, uh, one of the things that they won't be
tryin' to get you with it. Okay?
The skinwalkers? - Yeah.
Okay.
While he's doing that one, go ahead and sing, okay.
I will never forgot this.
So, here we think that we're just having
Walking Thunder come in and do
some kind of ceremony with us to prepare us for battle.
Right. - Right. I had no idea.
And we just thought we would get some warrior paint
and maybe get some sage.
- Some good advice. - Kind of like a blessing or something.
Before we came to the reservation
we could not anticipate
how much our own understanding of the skinwalker
would begin to change.
How much we ourselves would change.
I was honored that they allowed us or
she came out and we did this ritual.
I felt it. - Oh, me too.
I felt the strength, I felt the power and I loved it.
I loved it too. - Me too.
I really had no idea that Walking Thunder
was going to deliver us a lightning bolt
in the form of a hallucinogenic drug.
Yeah, I wasn't ready for that.
Now, this one is called the ghostbuster.
The ghostbuster?
Right up our alley. - Yeah.
At this moment, none of us are aware
that this ghostbuster herb we are consuming and breathing in
is actually a very powerful hallucinogenic plant
used in sacred Navajo ceremonies
to commune with deities through visions.
The ghostbuster. - Yeah.
Aaron, do you have a ghostbuster, in your home?
No I wish. I wish.
Zak, you sounded like it was mints.
Don't mind if I do.
You're the leader, right? - Yes.
I want you to say, "Ha!" Right there.
Ha! - Again.
Ha!
How do you feel? - Good.
My senses feel heightened
by a growing connection to the canyon and its people.
But when you're searching out there
make sure you go "huh."
Go like that as hard as you can.
Still at this point
when she's doing this with the feather... - Yeah.
we have no idea that we just consumed
hallucinogenic drugs. - Yeah.
What can happen if one of us shows fear tonight to a skinwalker?
Once they know you're scared, that's it.
What does that mean?
You gonna either die or you're gonna either passed out.
- You can die. - You can die.
Remember, that warrior paint is gonna be with you for the rest of your life.
Even though you wash your face, it's gonna be there
and people will see it.
I still do that. At times I'm feeling things, could be anxiety, could be fear
could be... I still do that.
And it helps just push that away.
I love learning from native American people who were here way before us.
We are not at all prepared for the effect the hallucinogenic has on us.
About ready to investigate skinwalkers at the Skinwalker Canyon.
So, we just got done doing this ceremony, and it was deep.
I mean, I feel amazing.
I feel absolutely incredible, like just, superpowers.
This is some deep stuff. - Yeah, I know.
I had visions, I was twitching... and...
I feel amazing.
Amazing.
But at this point, the ghost buster drug started kicking in.
We sat in the car... You go, "Something's wrong.
Dude, I feel like I'm on mushrooms."
And then we were like, "Holy
Why, have you done mushrooms before? - Oh, yeah.
You have? - Oh, yeah.
- Whoa. - Like portobello? - Portobello mushrooms.
Oh, okay. Yeah. - Yeah.
For the next few hours we are unable to concentrate on filming.
We decide to get into one car because we do not want to be separated.
Right now we're in the spirit world.
God, I even look weird.
Something's not right.
Seriously.
Do you feel that?
Amazing.
How long is it gonna last?
You all right, Jay?
All I know is that we're warriors.
We're Navajo warriors.
I've never felt that good before. Maybe I should use some more ghostbusters.
Dude we drove around nowhere.
We're just driving in circles in the desert.
I didn't want to get out of the car.
I only wanted to be around with you guys that did it. - Oh, yeah.
'Cause we knew we were all... - On the same wavelength.
On the same wavelength, Jay. - Yeah.
We sat, all four of us, in that little jeep
for like two hours. - Yeah.
You look happy, G.
I was happy.
After about four intense hours
the hallucinogenic plant known as Devil's weed
begins to subside.
This ghostbuster herb we took from the Navajo, - Mmm-hmm.
and what they would use
in these ceremonies to I believe... - Exactly.
open up even deeper. - Yeah.
Eradicating all of your distractions. - Exactly.
I think there is... I'm not trying to promote anything either
but even psychedelics can expand your thinking.
Expand your mind to be able to... - That's kinda promoting.
Hey, but not only that... it opens your... - Let's cut to a commercial.
Ready guys? One... two... three - Yup.
Huh!
I mean, you felt that.
Still feel it.
All right. It's about that time.
We're gonna jump in our off-road vehicles right now.
You guys ready? - Ready.
We begin this terrifying journey by heading to the witchcraft cave
where we were told Navajo witches do their rituals
to create and conjure skinwalker entities.
Some of these guys are still feeling...
actually, we're all still feeling the ghostbuster... - Yeah...
some of these guys. We were all feeling it. -
It was also dangerous, because there was no assault rifle people with us
we were on our own and we drove out into
the middle of Skinwalker Canyon where they refused to even go to in the daytime.
That was probably one of the scariest things driving into.
'Cause it was completely dark. - Yeah.
As we arrive at the caves, we make a dangerous ascent
the entrance along a very loose slope.
Careful, guys.
You can look right here, we're walking along this ridgeline right here.
Yeah. - One little fall
and you're falling 100 feet straight down. Your head is gonna crack on that rock.
Here we go and I'll be honest with you for the first time.
I'm gonna say this, I did not believe we were ever going to return from this.
Hey guys. - Yeah.
What the hell.
Yup.
This wasn't here yesterday, guys.
And what is that?
It's the remnants of a fire.
This was crazy, dude. When we walked up and saw this.
Who the hell was there making a fire?
Yeah, there shouldn't have been anybody there.
This had to have been last night, this was not here.
Hang on. There's something in the fire.
What is this?
What is...
- Guys, this is an animal head skull. - Shut up.
Do you see this? - 100%.
And the animal was... - That is an animal. That's the bottom of a skull, look.
Why am I touching it? - I don't know.
I can't believe you were touching that. - Yeah.
I was scared. That was so stupid I was touching it.
You never want to touch any items that were used
in a ceremony, particularly a bad ceremony
'cause the energy that was infused in that item... - Mmm-hmm.
by the conjurer can easily now penetrate your soul.
I'm just glad you touched it and not me.
- Come here, Zak. - That was not there either.
That definitely was not there.
Are you kidding me right now? - No.
There's three marks.
Look, they would have been holding the flame against the wall
it would have burned the wall. - Yeah.
That's super fresh.
That's fresh ash, on my hands.
And yet again, I am touching it.
Somebody took the charcoal or something that's part of the ceremony
They were putting the ritual into the rock or something you know.
We did not see that during the day. - No, that wasn't there.
So we've got one... two... three.
Three marks, definitely demonic in nature.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Aaron, what is that right there?
A feather. - Yeah.
Guys, this happened last night.
It's like, did they try to conjure these entities against us.
Were they mad that we were venturing in there
and they conjured a skinwalker to go against us. - I think so.
Another thing? - What?
It's a shell casing.
It's, uh, it's new.
It's a big bullet, guys. It's a.45.
Look at this.
It's like a bullet hole. - Wow.
Oh, cool a bullet hole... - Right.
inside of the wall that we didn't see before. Great.
Somebody was in here trying to kill a skinwalker recently.
That should have been enough to be like, "Maybe we should try somewhere else."
Hey, that's what I like to do though. - I know.
That's what we do, we hunt down... - Ghosts.
As we climb deeper and deeper into the cave
we all sensed that something isn't right.
and I don't mean any psychosomatic feelings
due to the objects we just discovered.
It's like Aaron says, "There is some type of threatening energy
that keeps growing stronger and stronger.
Aaron, this is where we're gonna leave you alone.
Are you guys serious?
I understand that's serious.
We got to take things up one level from the last.
I believe that the Navajo witch does a ritual there
and the skinwalker comes through that gateway up here.
With Aaron getting ready to take the ultimate Navajo warrior challenge
we now leave him by himself with multiple X-Cameras
recording his every move.
I couldn't believe you agreed to this. - Me neither.
I've left you in some scary ass places, bro
but I couldn't believe.
I was jokin' around.
Honestly, I felt like I had to do it.
You know, if I'm gonna go down and die let's do this
you know, like that's how I thought, like...
Billy and I decide to head deeper into the canyon
to conduct visual surveillance with night vision binoculars.
Oh, my God.
Dude, I just heard some lady go
"There you are."
That tripped me out when I heard a lady go, "There you are."
I've never seen him so scared, in an episode.
Yeah dude.
Zak, how did we end up talking Aaron into staying in the cave?
He was still on ghostbuster, bro.
I was ghostbusting it up, bro. - Yeah.
And he probably saw a bunch of gummy bears
in there talking to him.
So, there's a point where Billy and I
you get me and him together in places like this
and we just keep going and we don't know when to stop. - So far.
And that's gonna be dangerous one day.
Knock on wood. Damn, this is plastic.
Billy and I are driving deep
into the Ojo Amarillo Canyon in search of skinwalkers.
So you can drive up that or no? - No dude.
Dude I don't know where the road goes.
You know what? - Stop right here for a second.
What? - Hold on.
I thought I saw eyes in the bushes over there.
Billy and I found this canyon.
We entered into a whole other different world.
We don't know where we're at. We drove miles back.
There's no service
and it scared the absolute crap out of me.
What did you see?
Billy... be careful, dude. - Let me see the camera.
Hey... smell this.
But it came out of nowhere.
It just instantly like was around us.
It could be a dead animal... - Sure.
but the fact that Walking Thunder told us
that's what you smell before a skinwalker...
That's like their perfume.
All right, now Billy and I found this spot on this ridge
and Billy thought he saw some eyes out here.
So, we're just gonna scan this whole ridgeline here.
That looks like Star Wars. - I was so scared
just looking through that.
I felt like I was on a video game
and I was just gonna see just something running at me
just like.
Right now, behind me is the archway
and there's also a game cam sitting there.
Not only that, I also have a thermal camera set up shooting me in case.
I'm nervous. I'm really, really nervous.
Aaron, you're standing right at the gateway, dude. - Yeah.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, Aaron is by himself.
In this cave, Jay is at the entrance, about ready to play some chants.
I was sitting here at the front of the cave
and the energy, you could feel it. It's living up.
The vibe in here just got really bad.
You can hear the drums coming from back there, all the way
all the way through here.
That... Oh, God, that noise just gave me chills.
Well, there's a thing that drumming can be sacred and hit certain frequencies
in the, you know, in the audio spectrum
that create different feelings.
Yeah. - So that was the idea,
to try to... Almost, like, infrasound experiment
but using drums instead.
There's a lot of beliefs
that sound can open up these portals.
Do you like the chants that you're hearing from the drums?
Does this bother you?
Skin-walker, come in here and talk to me, please.
What was that?
I just heard, like,
I just asked the skin walker or the witch to come and talk to me
and I swear, the whole energy of this cave
just got so scary.
How did you even stay in there?
And you just invited it to you.
I'd like to see your face. Is that okay?
Would you come over to me?
Would you talk to me? Would you come next to me?
What was that?
was that?
Headlight down.
Oh, my, God.
What was that?
Zak. Zak, come in. Right now. - [walkie-talkie beeps]
You know, I'm on edge already,
just watching... - Dude, I invited...
all this stuff... - Look at Aaron's face.
He's never been that scared.
How did you not dookie your pants, bro?
- Honestly, I froze.
I didn't know which way it was coming.
Aaron, are you okay?
Billy and I faintly hear Aaron calling
for me on the walkie.
We try to respond but receive no further communication.
So we decide to continue our investigation.
Zak, come in right now, dude. I think I just heard
a bobcat or something...
What was that? Something just screamed,
like, at me, bro.
You captured it on your camera.
Dude, it sounded like it was coming from even farther back in...
Could it have been a mountain lion? - No.
That's a woman screaming.
Were you guys even in range?
No, we were miles away.
We had no range.
I just heard something that sounded like a bobcat
or even, like, a witch
mixed with a bobcat.
I'm freaking out, man. - [walkie-talkie beeps]
This is natural fear at its best.
Not being able to reach anybody
in a moment like that too. - Yeah.
How did you just not run right there?
You know what they say, if they know that you're scared
that's when you're done. - Oh, that's right, Bill.
I don't know what to do.
I... I know they said, "Don't show fear."
I feel like I'm gonna black out.
Feel like I'm gonna black out and just wake up in my bed.
I literally was just wanting to go to bed, like,
just give up... Yeah. - You feel like it was, like,
a bad dream. Like a nightmare or something?
Well, it's just panic
of, "I'm gonna shut my eyes and hopefully this goes away."
Like that too. - And because too,
you know how long of a distance it is to the exit of the cave.
Hoo!
She said if you get scared or something, you gotta... Do that.
Hoo!
That was a whole pack of...
Earlier we were told
skin walkers can shapeshift into coyotes.
I just heard a whole pack of wild coyotes.
They sound like they were coming straight this way when I made that noise.
This is what you're supposed to do in a fearful situation.
You chose to fight.
Which is good. - Yeah. Because if I don't
the theory is, you die.
So I had no choice.
When we first dropped you off in the cave,
we saw the... The char marks,
three of those. The skull. - Yeah. Mmm-hmm.
So the person that was doing the witchcraft
could've been deeper in the cave too.
Still be there. That's what's scary about it.
So, I heard a woman first, then coyotes.
Right? - Yes.
It's kind of the same thing they're talking about. - Yeah.
That whole transforming thing.
We'll back out of this cave a bit.
Just for my safety, I wanna go around the other side.
As I continue scanning this ridgeline,
I do see a strange pair of eyes
staring back at me in the distance.
Yes, this could be easily explained
as some type of animal.
But out here in Skinwalker Canyon
these animals could also be shapeshifting skin walkers.
Did you hear that? - Yeah, I heard that.
It was definitely a screech.
That was creepy. - Yeah.
We're just out in the middle of nowhere
and we see these glowing eyes staring at us.
And it was looking directly at you. - Yeah.
I mean, look, it could be some type of animal
but, hey, we're in Skinwalker Canyon, ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, you know what's weird?
When we got out of the car and this foul smell,
it was there and then it was gone.
Yeah, you're right, Billy.
I smelt it with you and what did it smell like?
Dead body. - Right.
But it's gone now. - It's gone.
It was here and then left.
Oh, dude!
Don't you ever do that again. - Oh, my, God.
Dude, you scared the outta me.
Something runned up on us.
How many times has Zak always said,
"Don't you ever do that again?"
It's a natural reaction, though.
What did you... Did you see something?
Bill, I just saw a black, dark shadow.
the shadow was right over you, Bill.
I'm sorry. I swear to God. - Oh, my, God.
I saw a dark,
dark, dark, shadow come up right over you.
How far does this camera go?
Man, I am... I'm...
Hold on, Billy. Hold on.
And now it's over there.
There was a screech.
If we hear any screeching, it might have been an owl.
It got closer, it sounds like.
It's like it was circling us.
That's scary. Like, it's hunting you or something. - Right.
The eyes, the smell, the screech. - Right.
Aaron is in a state of panic from hearing
a loud growl inside of the cave with him.
He makes his way back to the entrance of the cave
where he meets up with Jay,
who has a new idea for using mysticism to peek inside
the interdimensional vales of this cave.
I'm gonna attempt some scrying.
It's a form of communicating with the spirit world,
through the use of mirrors.
Now, Jay conducts a lot of our ceremonies,
a lot of our rituals.
And it really helps us in opening up ourselves... - Mmm.
in our world to the dimension
of which we are trying to get evidence of.
You know, to try to tap into that energy that's there,
use the rituals that people have done there, use that...
energy, that history, to try to...
bring out whatever it is there.
One of the ceremonies of the skin walker,
is to scry in a mirror
and actually morph their own face into...
- Shh!
Wow. - What was that?
What was that?
That was a flash. I saw that earlier.
I just heard coyotes right down the hill, man.
Aaron and Jay, both see a strange flash of light
inside the cave at the same exact moment
that they hear the sound of coyotes howling again.
Could this flash of light be a charge of energy,
caused by a skin walker entering or leaving our dimension?
This is not as scary but terrifying because,
we're at the... At the mirror and then
the temperature change and everything happening.
Well, the idea was to try to open a portal in the portal.
That's a great idea, Jay.
And what if something would've came through the mirror?
Then I hope we film it.
Is there any kind of ancient spirits here?
Creatures? Deities?
Whatever you may be, whatever you are,
I'm here for answers.
What is it that resides in this cave?
I'll try another little piece of equipment.
I'm gonna try the Mel Meter
and see if I can get any readings from that
while he's doing this.
If it changes the atmosphere at all.
Can you come join us here? In front of this mirror.
You can use it as a portal to travel as you like.
Honestly it was very entrancing.
I felt like zoning in, like,
obviously watching, I was sitting there.
But, like, I felt like I was going somewhere. You know what I mean? Like...
The more you do that, the more you do it,
you feel like you're starting to travel.
I believe in a lot with mirrors,
acting as actual doorways.
If you don't like us being in your cave,
now's the time to do something.
We know you're here. I can feel it, Aaron.
I just got chills.
Really crazy, all through my body right now.
We awakening you?
Are you finally coming out?
Temperature's dropping.
What is this?
Dude, the temperature's just dropping, dude.
It just dropped, like, three degrees.
Aaron. - What?
What is this?
Jay, did you... Were you plucking your...
Your, uh... Your toenails? - Your fingernail?
No, that wasn't mine.
That came off your big toe?
No, I just found that in there, I didn't know what it was.
I think something just touched my shoulder.
Dude, something just touched my shoulder, bro. - What?
Investigating skin walkers is at the same level
for me as like investigating little grey aliens.
100%. - It's just something that we don't understand
but, yeah, we can feel it. - Right.
And it's hard not to show fear for it.
We were in an alternate reality here.
It's weird because... - And Bill has me go by myself.
Thanks, Bill, for sticking with me, dude.
Hey, I had you on camera in case anything happened...
Right. Yeah, what are you gonna do back there?
In case anything happens, you can run away in time.
Throw a rock at it? - Exactly.
Get your slingshot out? - Mmm-hmm.
Hey, you can handle it.
Aaron and Jay are using scrying
to invoke the skin walker.
I think something just touched my shoulder.
Dude, something just touched my shoulder, bro. - What?
Now it's saying it's 84 degrees! - No way.
That's not right. - Pick the cameras up.
Eight six, eighty...
Look, this thing is just going nuts.
What? - 74, 76, 69.
Look how quick it's dropping.
It just said 80. It just was at 50 degrees.
Ninety!
Aaron begins documenting
an astounding 40 degree temperature fluctuation.
Something we have never documented before.
What! - That's an insane amount of degrees.
40 Degrees? - 40 degrees it changed.
Billy and I are back on the move
as we travel about three miles deeper
into Skinwalker Canyon
on the Navajo Reservation.
We have no cellphone service,
we are out of walkie-talkie range
and there isn't a single light of civilization in the distance.
Whew.
Wow.
Look at that out there.
Holy cow.
Billy and I just decide to keep pushing forward in the darkness.
We have no idea where we're at,
we have no idea how to return,
that's what I was scared about.
We just kept driving and driving and driving.
It was just... There was no real dirt roads.
I was scared about trying to find our way back.
We pull up on this canyon
and for some reason, this particular spot
just feels like a whole other planet.
Not only from how it looks
but from how it feels.
This is the canyon.
I think about this a lot, Billy.
We started walking into this canyon...
And we had the high powered UV camera.
Yes. - With all the ultraviolet...
There was a moment right in here, where I felt it.
We passed through into another dimension.
And it was so strong
and I just panicked.
We're so far deep in this canyon.
Miles from anything.
Whoa, what the hell was that?
I hear a very deep, guttural growl in the distance
and at this point, I have no idea
that Aaron had the same experience miles away.
That's really similar. - Almost the same.
Eerily the same. - A little more
higher pitched. - Yeah.
But it is like a scream.
There you go, guys, that would be the same scream
around two us who are in totally different spots,
would be...
Maybe a skin walker cruising around us. You know what I'm saying?
I was scared because I didn't know if it was a tiger or something.
A tiger? - A mountain lion.
There's a lot of tigers in New Mexico.
He said, "A tiger."
- Come on, bro.
What? Is Tigger running around?
Whoa.
Bill.
Right now I feel that my life may be in danger.
But instead of having the typical panic
and fear, I just feel frozen.
What's that?
Whoa, do you...
Do you feel that? - Yes.
It's just, like, coming right through us.
Yes, Billy. - Yeah.
I didn't even tell you...
It's a high pitched,
Do you feel it now? Do you feel it now? - It's a vibration.
Yes. It just... It came right around this corner.
Billy felt it too.
Zak, it was like a shockwave when I got
up to you. Just,
We capture something incredible.
As we zoom in, watch this strange light anomaly,
as it appears at the top of the mountain,
then begins to rapidly move down
while also growing larger and brighter.
Until it suddenly disappears.
Look at how fast this ball of light
comes down the mountain.
Kinda like a skier running from an avalanche.
I mean, it's just, boom, boom, boom,
coming down the mountain. What in the hell is that?
And then it just vanishes.
That was one of my most favorite piece of evidence.
Little do we know that Billy and I end up spending
three hours standing in this canyon.
While Aaron and Jay have been frantically searching for us.
Aaron to Zak. You guys doing okay?
[walkie-talkie beeps] - Aaron for Zak. Aaron for Zak.
[walkie-talkie beeps] - The guys finally flag us down
after seeing our headlights.
And as soon as they arrive,
Aaron says something that connects
back to an experience Billy and I will never forget.
As this detail was the first clue
that we would be in the presence of something otherworldly,
that lives in this canyon.
It smells like rotten flesh.
That Aaron would say that...
Yeah, what are the odds of that?
That happened up there
and we just... - That's what we smelled.
Rotten flesh... - It's been following us.
Yeah, you smelled it too. - I remember smelling it when we pulled up.
That place left a mark on us for sure.
Yeah, but these are the kind of investigations I like.
Yeah. - When it's truly like a mission.
Like, in the movies, where you see a team of four guys
being sent off by a little spaceship,
or something. - So basically what you're saying is,
we're Guardians of the Galaxy?
Yeah. Yeah.
Maybe.
And I guess that's our ending message
of Skinwalker Canyon.