The Shape of Shadows

All right, you'll be all right.

My grandfather, too, he would tell the same story,

in that same area.

There was a horse, like a horse man.

So, there definitely is that creature out there.

So, they say these things can turn into wolves.

They turn into, you know, different creatures.

Cougars or whatever.

Whatever's available.

My name is Tony Merkel.

Host of The Confessionals Podcast.

I've interviewed over 500 witnesses

to the strange and unexplained.

Last year, I assembled a team of like-minded guys

to come with me on a quest to document,

and even possibly experience,

some of these mysterious phenomena for ourselves.

We started getting lights out here over the ridge.

Here they come again.

Here they come again.

That gray container

- was right here. - Correct.

Look left, look left.

Up there?

They'll come from the west in the sky.

So it's old news?

It's old news, yeah.

This kind of stuff is connected in some way.

What if those guys, whoever was, that was a decoy.

God created everything, including these UFOs.

Including all this phenomena.

God created it all.

In the summer of 2022,

the team got a chance at a trip of a lifetime

when a show guest, named Ryan, invited us to his property

called Space Wolf Research.

Located in Utah's Uintah Basin,

at the very doorstep of the infamous Sherman Ranch,

Space Wolf had already produced multiple reports

and evidence of strange happenings.

From skin walkers to UFOs.

It's very interesting how I got into an area

that ended up being so restricted and locked down

later on, because it was so open back then.

But I had

succumbed to an injury.

I was a fishing guide.

I was driving around, I couldn't work or get my foot wet,

so I was driving around doing stuff.

I was coming down that road.

Something was coming down through there.

And I was like, "Ah, it looks like an elderly,

an elderly Native American."

I couldn't tell if it was a he or a she really.

Had a blanket over their head,

and came towards the truck.

And I rolled down the window and said,

"Hey, you want to get in?"

"Need a ride somewhere?"

They kind of mumbled something and just kind of grumbled in.

Jumped up into the truck.

And, within seconds, I was just in tears.

I didn't know what was going on.

My reality just totally changed.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs found me

near Bottle Hollow Reservoir,

and I was just kind of hanging outta my truck catatonic.

They thought I was drunk.

Did all the tests, they realized I wasn't.

And, asked me what happened.

And, when I told them, they explained to me

that I had been nabbed by the skin walker.

And that's the first time I'd ever heard that.

Seeking answers after his own encounter,

Ryan would purchase property bordering the Sherman Ranch

in an attempt to create what he would refer to

as a safe haven of sorts for the phenomena.

No guns.

No threats.

So, Ryan wants to create

a safe haven for all the activity in the area.

So, you know, if this stuff is conscious,

and it's bobbing, and weaving,

and ducking behind bushes or whatever

trying to avoid human contact,

well, he wants to create an environment on his properties

where it's just like a place where, consciously,

it's known to be a safe place where nothing's gonna happen.

You're not gonna get shot at kind of thing.

So, whether it's Bigfoot, shadow entities,

aliens, UFOs, portals,

they're welcome on his property.

And so, he has a no gun policy.

He doesn't want anybody having guns on the property.

Since episode 202, I've become pretty friendly with Ryan,

and I just, I respect him.

So, we're gonna follow his orders and his wishes,

and we're gonna do this

gun free.

So, it's gonna be interesting.

Hopefully, nothing too crazy happens

that we can't handle with a hatchet, but we'll see.

So, show us the picture that we got.

Oh, yeah.

Apparently, Christian's already there.

And, when they got to the ranch,

one of the shipping containers that's on the property

was picked up and moved.

But there was no drag marks when it was moved.

And there was no tire tracks, nothing around.

It was just mysteriously moved.

So, this is the picture that was sent, right here.

Oh, I got it, I got it.

That's the picture right there, which is nuts.

And you can tell there's no drag marks, like it was slid.

It was just picked up in the middle of the night and moved.

There was nothing on the property.

So,

yeah, this is what we're walking into.

Teleporting shipping containers,

and we haven't even got there yet.

So, I feel like we're on track to

see some wild stuff, I can tell you that.

I appreciate your time.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah, no problem.

No problem, it's part of my duty here.

- Yeah. - You know, I'm security.

Right?

So, anything that happens out here,

I'm supposed to be on top of it.

I am absolutely baffled

with how a 9,000 pound container is

moved,

not so much as a blade of grass disturbed.

Because there's no

It looks like it was picked up and moved.

There's no scraping.

Wasn't it by the building?

Right by the building?

Yeah, it was next to the building,

and now it's the other way.

It's turned, isn't it turned?

It's completely turned as if it was lifted.

I just noticed that.

I've never seen it out there like that.

But I came out here and I go, "Oh."

That gray container

was right here.

Correct.

And there's no skid marks it's been skid by, right?

That end right there was right there.

I mean, a couple years before, there was a 40 foot RV,

almost exactly where the container was that was vaporized

by what was, apparently, a daytime lightning bolt.

Well, we have pictures of the lightning strike.

Ryan has them, I got 'em too.

And they estimated that a 12 foot bolt

hit the trailer and melted it.

The lightning was getting kind of close,

and I told my husband, "We better go in the house."

"That's getting pretty close."

And then, boom, it hit right across the street.

And we called the fire department.

And it was melted down, that whole trailer, within seconds.

This

went like this.

So, it had to be lifted up.

Because there's no... But wait.

Here's the only, here's a little bit of evidence.

It wasn't lifted that high, 'cause it caught this rock.

Look, it caught that rock,

and it caught this one.

It caught those three.

It caught those rocks and moved them.

But

it had to be up high.

What would it take to melt metal into rock?

I mean, would a lightning bolt do that?

All right, so,

we've been here, on location, for,

I don't know, like six hours.

You're gonna freak out when you get here.

There's some stuff that's totally unexplainable already.

Really?

That we, yeah, we've had some of the neighbors,

they told us stuff that's gonna blow your mind.

Let me hear you, let me tell you this.

This is some of the words that we were told.

Giant redheaded cannibals.

- Giant redheaded, what? - What?

Whoo!

Hold on a second.

Giant redheaded, what?

Let's go, baby!

And one of the,

Johnny, Native American Indian

that we've been hanging out with here,

told us about the giant redheaded cannibals.

You'll learn more about that.