Ghost Adventures: Screaming Room

We pass through into another dimension.

Do you feel it now? - Yes.

I swear, like, everyone we talked to,

they must've thought we were nuts.

You can die. - Something was very wrong with that cave.

I'm freaking out, man.

That place left a mark on us for sure.

We have seen things that defy explanation.

Experiencing the best...

God, that was awesome, dude.

That was so gnarly, man.

...and worst...

These dolls are gonna take our souls.

...of the places between worlds.

I want the portals of this forest wide open.

Now it's time to look back.

One of my scariest nightmares that we are about to relive.

For the first time ever, I'm inviting you,

the audience, into my inner sanctum.

Together, we will pull back the curtain on the biggest,

scariest and funniest moments

from our investigations.

I'm Zak Bagans

and this is Ghost Adventures Screaming Room.

There's one location that we have done

that's historic. Billy, you listening?

Yes. sir. - I can't even see you.

I know, I'm down here.

I'll give you a hint. We got drugged.

Oh! Skinwalker.

Geez, Aaron, that was quick.

That was quick - Oh, that was the best.

If you guys have never seen the episode

where we got drugged and didn't know we were getting drugged,

Skinwalker Canyon.

We are in the Four Corners region.

It's a very mysterious superstitious region

that is kinda like

our own version of the Bermuda Triangle.

We have gotten very special permission

from the Navajo reservation

to investigate Skinwalker Canyon.

They never go there. It's, like, off-limits.

Total off-limits.

They will not enter the Canyon. - Yeah.

Just being out there was cool.

- You weren't driving a Jeep, were you? - No. - No.

You don't let me drive Jeeps.

I would never allow that. - Aaron's not allowed to drive.

No. - I would never allow that.

No.

So here on the reservation, practitioners of adishgash,

or, uh, witchcraft here, is a very real thing.

This dark magic practiced within the Canyon

calls forth a shape-shifting being

seldom spoke of outside of Navajo culture,

the skinwalker.

Skinwalkers, I believe, were a person within

the Navajo people that do witchcraft...

Right. - ...and through their witchcraft,

conjure a skinwalker. - They conjure it, okay.

The owner of a trading post on the reservation

has requested to give us some warnings

about the choice that we have made

to investigate Skinwalker Canyon.

We are on the Navajo reservation.

There are creatures here called skinwalkers.

They strongly believe that these entities,

creatures exist here in the reservation

we're at right now. - They do.

Okay. - It's a very, very strong belief.

They, for the most part, fear the skinwalker.

Is it true there was a... a man that was beheaded

because he was a skinwalker?

I can't talk about that.

You can't talk about that? - Uh-uh.

Some of these people that we were gonna talk to,

they backed out. They did not wanna talk about skinwalkers

for fear of retaliation.

According to accounts, there was a Navajo man

who was known on the reservation

for conjuring skinwalker entities through witchcraft.

His wife said this created a darkness inside of him

that kept growing until one day,

she put an end to it by cutting off his head.

The person doing the witchcraft kind of operates

the skinwalker as an... like an avatar.

I mean, that's why it's so scary 'cause, you don't...

who... who do you know? Someone might be a Navajo witch

and you're not aware of it.

So your advice to me, to us,

is to find Navajo people

and ask them about these skinwalkers, the Navajo witches.

And they will tell us more in detail about them.

Some of 'em will.

Why wouldn't others?

If they talk about the skinwalker to you,

um, or a non-Indian, something could happen to them.

Like what? - They could get sick, they could die,

or go blind. - They could die?

Yeah. - So something very serious could happen to us.

Not to you. - Not to me? Why?

You don't believe

in the skinwalker. - I do though.

No, you don't. You think you do. - I do.

But if you really believed in the skinwalker,

you wouldn't be going to Skinwalker Canyon.

That's a powerful statement when he's like,

"You do not wanna encounter one of them."

At this point, I didn't really understand

what I was up against here.

I mean, after talking to him,

it made me rethink everything.

There's a lot of things that I believe they didn't tell us.

Members of the tribe have come out to welcome us

and offer a safe passage into the Canyon.

I can only hope that we won't need it.

What's up, guys? - Hey, Aaron.

How you doing?

What is it, ya'at'eeh?

Ya'at'eeh. - Ya'at'eeh, hello.

This was so cool.

Let me tell you. The Navajo people just welcomed us.

It was the most love

and just welcoming that we've ever had.

Some of our biggest fans too.

We hung out for a while there.

I was just worried they were all there 'cause they were like,

this is the last time you're ever gonna see

these guys again. -

These roads are very well-known for,

you drive at night, you see a coyote.

Then all of a sudden, you're doing 60 miles per hour

and the coyote is running with you.

You can see it out the side of your window.

The coyote then turns into a man.

And the man has glowing yellow eyes.

Skinwalker Canyon or Ojo Amarillo

means 'yellow eyes'.

As we approach Skinwalker Canyon for the first time,

we see a huge dirt barrier

and barbed wire fence blocking the entrance.

My nerves begin to tense up.

We meet a man named Randy who is reluctant

to even be here speaking to us.

Have you been in here?

I don't venture in here

because, uh, there's... there's beings out here

that are unexplainable.

Have you seen 'em? - I have seen them.

There's areas where the skinwalker

would be and they'll just come out,

turn, look at me,

and I get nauseated.

He wouldn't go past this point.

And he was getting physical reactions.

Scary. - I swear, like, everyone we talked to,

they must've thought we were nuts.

That was just a forbidden place to enter.

There's two parts to it.

There's the actual person

that's doing the singing

and the conjuring right here.

This is what you see in the dark,

the conjuring part.

The Navajo witch creates the skinwalker entity

through a sacrificial ritual

where it has control of what acts of terror

it does on the living.

Why do you think the skinwalkers

are here? Is this their home?

There's a cave back there.

You believe that the cave is where these Navajo witches

will do the conjuring.

They will, what we call bad medicine.

Every moment we went closer to that mountain

was more terrifying with what... - Yeah.

...people were saying, you know. - Mm-hmm.

We could feel that energy

the closer you got. It kinda was like

there was literally a line in the sand and once you crossed...

Yep. - ...into that Canyon,

it felt like a whole other world, you feel the energy.

All right, we just got here.

Uh, we're at the entrance of Ojo Amarillo Canyon,

Skinwalker Canyon.

Uh...

- What's the gun for? - Hold it.

We're out. - Right?

There may be a skinwalker out there.

Um, during the day, it's very highly unlikely

but at night, usually it will get pretty, uh... - Okay.

I was like really second thinking this.

Okay. We're gonna go in with this guy. - Yeah, like...

He's got a... I think, an assault rifle. - Right.

We're gonna follow this guy into a cave.

- And we're just gonna hope for the best.

So let me get this straight.

If you see a skinwalker, Vincent,

you will shoot at it.