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Haunted Cosmos

Skinwalker Ranch, Part III: The Fugal Era

Haunted Cosmos

Ben Garrett & Brian Sauvé

Supernatural, Legends, Kids & Family, Comedy, Christian, Religion & Spirituality, Fortean, Ghost, Cryptid, Lore, Christianity, Stories

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Haunted Cosmos, Brian and Ben close out our three-part look at Skinwalker Ranch—the Northern Utah ranch that has been called the Disneyland of paranormal activity—with a look into the current era of research under the ownership of enigmatic real estate tycoon Brandon Fugal.

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This episode of Haunted Cosmos is brought to you by the Psalms Project, the 10-minute

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Bible Hour Podcast and our supporters at Patreon.com.

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Did you know that patrons get early access to ad-free main episodes

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as well as an exclusive weekly show, The Dusty Tome?

0:21.0

Support the show today and get these benefits and more. And now, on with

0:26.2

the show. Oh, What? As the Nids era Nids era of Skin Walker Ranch drew to a close, and Bigelow Aerospace began to lose the bandwidth necessary to manage such a massive investigative undertaking.

1:13.0

The ranch went up for sale for just the fourth time in its history.

1:17.0

A Delaware-based holding company, Adam Antium Real Estate LLC,

1:21.0

owned by Brandon Fuegel out of Salt Lake City, Utah, was chomping at the bit to purchase the ranch.

1:27.0

After some negotiations and due diligence required by some strange clauses in the purchase contract. It had been a government research

1:34.5

facility after all. The purchase was finalized in the ranch entered the era of

1:39.0

fugals ownership. When reflecting on his first visits to the famed ranch, Fugel said the following, quote,

1:45.0

I found nothing unusual about the property other than on that first tour,

1:49.0

we noticed something unusual about the fence line perimeter.

1:52.0

These body parts were hanging from the fence line.

1:55.4

Animal Bladders that were blessed and hung for the purpose of keeping the demonic spirit

1:59.7

entities on the property. Apart from that obvious bit of horrifying detail,

2:04.6

Fugel would double down and confirm that even the disinterred animal bits hanging from the fence

2:08.8

wasn't enough to give him the creeps.

2:10.5

It was just common Navajo practice.

2:12.4

In fact, Mr. Fugel considered himself, if he

2:15.1

had to pick, more of a sculli than a molder, more of a skeptic than a believer. However, he won't deny that he's always being the type of skeptic that remains

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