I'm fairly certain many people on Psience Quest will have heard of this place, with its connections to the paranormal. A new documentary is to be released, produced by Jeremy Corbell of Patient Seventeen fame and coming out on iTunes 11th September of this year. Apparently it will feature footage not seen before by the public, and I've not been able to ascertain this for definite, but also footage of the phenomenon at play (if anyone can refute or confirm this, let me know!).
Check out the trailer for yourself
Thoughts?
(This post was last modified: 2018-06-29, 08:01 PM by diverdown.)
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(2018-06-29, 08:00 PM)diverdown Wrote: I'm fairly certain many people on Psience Quest will have heard of this place, with its connections to the paranormal. A new documentary is to be released, produced by Jeremy Corbell of Patient Seventeen fame and coming out on iTunes 11th September of this year. Apparently it will feature footage not seen before by the public, and I've not been able to ascertain this for definite, but also footage of the phenomenon at play (if anyone can refute or confirm this, let me know!).
Check out the trailer for yourself
Thoughts?
Jason Colavito has a review of the documentary on his blog:
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review...lker-ranch
According to him, the only evidence presented is "a couple of blurry photographs of what seem to be airplanes that we hear match no civilian flight plans" and photographs of mutilated cattle.
On the whole, I think it's fair to say he's not impressed. His conclusion is:
Quote:Hunt for the Skinwalker, as a film, is an enjoyable and entertaining two hours, so long as you are amused by old men tilting at windmills. However, as a documentary, it was surprising in its lack of rigor and evidence. Instead, it is a portrait of madness and a commercial for the forthcoming paranormal resort apparently planned for the site. The people involved are the last of the romantics, looking for a world beyond reality, where the fantastic touches the mundane. Just as the Spiritualists and the Evangelicals turned to things unseen as a promise of eternal life, so, too, do the men who haunted Skinwalker Ranch seem to think that by scaring themselves in the dark they will transcend the limits of nature and escape to a world unencumbered by flesh and physics.
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And courtesy of the Daily Grail, Radio Misterioso has a podcast with the maker of the film and the author of the book:
http://radiomisterioso.com/2018/09/10/je...kinwalker/
Also Mysterious Universe has a review of the film by M. J. Banias, concluding:
While the various NIDS scientists and the new anonymous ranch owner constantly assure us that the supernatural activity is objectively real, that is all this documentary truly provides. It seems to all hinge upon trust. The viewer is left to deal with shadows, hoping and wishing that whatever is casting them actually exists. Hunt for the Skinwalker fundamentally comes full circle. It ends as it begins, with a lot of questions, and very few answers. It brings the viewer to a fork on a remote dark road; you either believe or you don’t.
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/09/h...lm-review/
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Watched it yesterday. What a piece of typical hyped up bullshit tripe that said and produced absolutely nothing of worth. Take any paranormal podcast over the past 10 years with skinwalker ranch as the topic and that's the movie.
No wonder the ufo phenomena gets shunned by science and laughed at when all these supposed 'revelations' turn out to be all about nothing. 
I mean really.... this was hyped as 'never seen or spoken about before', then George Knapp spends most of his time saying, "I know that such and such a thing happened", but I can't talk about it. PUUUUUUHHHLLEEEEEZE. 
In earlier film pre-release interviews, Corbell sounded (literally) like a fraud and a hack. Now proven. 
Skinwalker is a place i'd love to stay at for awhile. Especially if it's as paranormally dangerous as it supposedly is. It annoys me how much that stuff would've hurt random people for no reason and I wanna see what happens if I'm exposed to it.
"The cure for bad information is more information."
As reported by Sharon Day of Ghost Hunting Theories, a new documentary series on Skinwalker Ranch was set to debut on the History Channel on Tuesday, 31 March, 2020: The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
You can watch a couple of previews at that link. The premise of the series seems to be that the new owner of the ranch, Brandon Fugal, allowed in a team of scientists to investigate the place, and the series reports on their discoveries.
Jason Colavito's review of this series - as well as of the legitimacy of the supposed underlying anomalous phenomena - is scathing.
Quote:I discussed Skinwalker Ranch in 2018 when I reviewed the documentary The Hunt for the Skinwalker, and nothing in the opening hour of the new series has changed my opinion of the ranch or the groupthink that has infested those who scare themselves silly imagining supernatural encounters there.
(This post was last modified: 2020-04-01, 07:09 PM by Laird.)
And then, courtesy of The Daily Grail, there's this Newsweek article which is a little more... sympathetic:
The 3 craziest UFO, odd creature and unexplained happenings from Utah's secretive Skinwalker Ranch
MysteryWire's article Live from Skinwalker Ranch embeds a couple of related videos: a 12-hour livestream from the ranch and an interview with its new owner. For convenience, I've embedded them in this post, although I have only watched small parts of both. I'm not sure that (whether) there is anything interesting in the livestream (recorded on the 30th of March) - if so, it hasn't made a lot of splash.
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