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5 min readSkinwalkers are real
"Don't shoot! It's me." The deer turned its head toward the hunters and spoke those words clearly, its mouth opening and closing as the phrase left its throat. That moment, recounted in a first-person narrative on the podcast Scary Stories, forms the centerpiece of an episode that presents a firsthand encounter with a skinwalker—not as a monster from folklore, but as something far more unsettling: a person who has done the unthinkable to gain the ability to shape-shift.
The hunting trip that went wrong
The story begins when the narrator receives an unexpected invitation from his friend Kelvin to go hunting. Kelvin insists it has to be him specifically, which raises suspicion but not enough to decline. The narrator accepts, motivated by a desire to escape his cousin's rowdy friends who are about to descend on his home. Kelvin pulls into the driveway almost immediately after receiving the text, already on his way, and they drive deep into a forest of tamaracks toward Kelvin's makeshift deer stand—a precarious structure built from scrap wood nailed into a dead tree.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Scary Stories - Skinwalkers are real
- 2 Timestamped Outline
- 3 (01:36) **Setting the Stage** - The narrator explains he needs to share a story that has been haunting him, acknowledging listeners may not believe him but stating he's not trying to convince anyone, only to unburden himself.
- 4 (01:47) **The Invitation** - A friend named Kelvin calls the narrator on a Saturday and insists he join him hunting, specifically requesting only him and not their other friends.
- 5 (02:45) **Kelvin's Urgency** - Kelvin arrives at the narrator's house suspiciously quickly, as if he was already on his way, and urgently wants to get back to the deer stand before nightfall.
- 6 (03:33) **The Deer Stand** - They arrive at a dead-end gravel road leading deep into a thicket of tamaracks, and Kelvin leads them to a makeshift deer stand built from scrap wood nailed into a dead tree.
- 7 (05:57) **The Herd Appears** - As darkness falls, a herd of deer approaches about thirty feet away, but a cold wind carries their scent to the animals, causing them to scatter and disappear into the forest.
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Show Notes
Skinwalkers are real, I've seen one. Pray to God you never do...
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