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5 min readSkinwalker Horror Stories for a Sleepless Night
The episode presents two first-person accounts of encounters with shapeshifting entities in rural New Mexico, both told by a narrator named Mason. The central question organizing both stories is whether the traditional warnings passed down by local families—don't answer voices in the dark, don't stop for animals that look wrong, don't feed things with attention—are folk superstition or hard-won survival knowledge. Both stories answer that question by showing what happens when someone ignores those warnings.
The House-Sitting Encounter
The first story takes place on a property outside Farmington, New Mexico, where Mason agrees to house-sit for his mother's friend Carla and her husband Ray. Carla gives him an unusual set of instructions before leaving: don't go outside at night unless you have to, and if you hear things—dogs, babies, people calling—don't answer, don't call back, don't go looking. Ray adds that if the motion light turns on, he should look before opening the door. When Mason asks if they've had break-ins, Ray says "just animals," then adds "animals mostly" in a way that is "not dramatic, not spooky, just tired."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:21) **Mason's Setup: House-Sitting Outside Farmington, New Mexico** - The narrator introduces himself at age 22, admitting he still feels stupid retelling this story, and establishes that he once didn't believe in skinwalkers.
- 2 (04:07) **The First Two Days: Quiet Routine and an Ominous Warning** - The narrator describes the normal-looking property and Carla's final, serious warning about not answering calls from the dark.
- 3 (07:53) **The Third Day: The First Knocks and a Dead Chicken** - The narrator hears three taps on the side of the house and finds a chicken dead outside its latched coop.
- 4 (10:59) **Carla's Text and the Escalating Tension** - After texting Carla about the chicken, she gives a terse, unsettling reply that makes the narrator feel genuinely unsafe.
- 5 (12:26) **The Motion Light and the First Knock on the Door** - At 8:06 PM, the motion light comes on, and the dogs go silent before something knocks three times on the back door.
- 6 (15:35) **The Peephole: A Deer with Wrong Eyes** - The narrator describes the deer's unnatural appearance: forward-facing, yellow eyes and a raised leg knocking like a person.
- 7 (18:28) **The Voice: It Speaks as Carla** - The deer begins to mimic Carla's voice, calling the narrator by name and asking to be let in.
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Show Notes
Skinwalker Horror Stories for a Sleepless Night
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:00:18 Story 1
00:36:35 Story 2
Music by:
►'Decoherence' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
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