The first story I have today is short but very creepy. You see, a skinwalker in the desert

and a flimsy window make for a very terrifying situation I'm not sure I would have survived myself.

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Today I've got almost an hour of brand new scary stories to share with you,

featuring skinwalkers, wind-ego, and childhood trauma.

As always, if you have a scary encounter with the unexplained and you want to hear it narrated

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The opinion skinwalker from Sienna.

Almost a year ago, I used to live in a somewhat isolated little neighborhood that was in the

high desert of California. I lived on a dirt road and since the homes were so spread out,

wildlife wasn't an uncommon thing. You would see rabbits, coyotes, snakes, and unrare

currences, deer. Once you've lived there for a while, you get used to the animals roaming around

during the late hours of the day. I'm Native American, so most of the time I actually enjoyed seeing

the wildlife so close to home. But I always have known of a creature my tribe refers to as skinwalker.

I'm not even supposed to say that word, but it was typed, so hopefully there's no bad omen.

That creature is what I think I saw in this encounter.

The house I lived at had a very large backyard and a driveway made of gravel mixed with dirt,

leaving a lot of open space to look out from. My rooms at the front of the house,

and every night if I had my window open, I would find myself staring out to the front gate of our

driveway. It was very quiet every night, unless you heard coyote hals.

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