027: The Dark Path
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
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🗓️ 29 September 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The history of the Navajo goes back in time to the Four Corners region in Arizona. Where the spider grandmother spun a giant web and threw it into the night sky to create the stars. This area known as Canyon de Chelly is also known as the Canyon of the Dead after a misguided weaver's warning resulted in a cruel cave massacre.
Like the art and designs of the Navajo weaver's blanket, the Navajo legends are intertwined with a ranch purchased by a Utah couple. The Sherman ranch seemed like an idyllic place to raise premium cattle, but strange things started happening almost immediately upon the family's arrival. This ranch is now known as the Skinwalker Ranch and the legends continue.
Episode Highlights:
- Spider rock and the legend of the weaver and Navajo blankets.
- Terry and Gwen Sherman purchase a Utah ranch in 1994.
- The Sherman's experienced strange phenomena and decided to sell.
- Robert T. Bigelow purchases the ranch and dispatches the National Institute for Discovery Science to investigate.
- A terrifying dark force grabs one of the observers before fading away.
- Night vision goggles expose a tunnel through the light used by the black creature.
- The Ute Tribe and the legend of the Navajo Tribe in New Mexico.
- New Mexico, 1863 Kit Carson and his troops round up the Navajo for transport.
- Canyon de Chelly and "The Long Walk" of the Navajo.
- The legend of the skinwalker.
Resources:
Kit Carson's Campaign Against the Indians
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| 0:00.0 | Some stories were never supposed to be told. |
| 0:15.0 | Stories that exist in the twilight, between science and the supernatural, |
| 0:22.0 | between history and the supernatural, |
| 0:22.7 | between history and horror, |
| 0:25.8 | stories that speak of terrifying things. |
| 0:30.0 | Stories that you want to hear. stories that you need to hear, |
| 0:35.8 | stories that will sink their teeth in |
| 0:39.0 | and never let you go. |
| 0:41.6 | My name is Mike Brown, and this is pleasing terrors. |
| 0:47.0 | Episode 27, the Dark Path. Located in Northeastern Arizona in the Four Corners Region, Canyon Deschee National Monument |
| 1:11.6 | sits within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. |
| 1:15.4 | It is one of the longest continuously inhabited places in North America, and it contains ruins of the indigenous tribes that live there, from the ancestral |
| 1:26.5 | pebloans who descended from the Anasazi to the Navajo. One of the most prominent features of the park |
| 1:35.0 | is a pair of sandstone spires. |
| 1:38.0 | The taller of the two reaches to a height of 750 feet and is known as Spider Rock. |
| 1:47.0 | In Navajo mythology, it was once the home of the Spider Grandmother, |
| 1:52.0 | who was believed to have spun a web and thrown it into the night's sky, creating the stars. |
| 1:59.0 | She taught the original inhabitants of the the world and she told them how to survive in the world and she told them its secrets. |
| 2:10.0 | Sadly, her words of wisdom would not save them. |
| 2:15.4 | The history of Navajo weaving is a story consecrated in blood. |
| 2:21.8 | Canyon Desche has also been known by another name, |
| 2:25.0 | The Canyon of the Dead. |
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