The Thing That Knows Your Voice | Skinwalker Horror Stories
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What is the setting described in the beginning of the episode?
Imagine being somewhere so remote that there is no quick way out. No street lights, no cell service, no nearby house, no passing cars, just trees, water, mountains, and miles of empty country in every direction. Now imagine that while you're out there, you hear something calling to you. At first it sounds normal. Maybe it sounds like a cow bawling somewhere beyond the fence line. Maybe it sounds like a friend whispering from the edge of the lake. Maybe it even sounds like someone you know, someone you trust, saying they need help. But then something about it is wrong. The voice is too close, or it moves too fast, or it calls from two places at once. And suddenly, you understand that whatever is out there is not lost, and it is not asking for help.
It is trying to get you to answer. Tonight, we have two Skinwalker horror stories from two very different wildernesses.
One takes place on a lonely cattle allotment near the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico, where an experienced ranch hand finds out that some boundaries exist for a reason. The other takes place in the boundary waters of Minnesota, where four friends follow the wrong canoe into a nightmare that knows their voices better than they do.
So turn off the lights, settle in, and whatever you hear outside while this video is playing, don't answer it. But before we get into those stories, if you enjoy scary stories, make sure to subscribe and turn on notifications. We upload new episodes every week. And if you like listening on the go or for sleep, you can also find the Just Creepy podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere else you get your podcasts. Leaving a rating or review helps grow the show. Now, let's get into it.
I've worked cattle most of my life, and I'm not going to pretend I understand everything I've seen out there. A man who spends 40 years on horseback learns the country talks to him in its own way, and most of what it says is plain enough. Weather coming. Water gone bad. A lion working a draw. You learn to read it the same way you read a man's face across a table. And after a while, you trust that reading more than you trust your own two eyes. Because the eyes can be fooled and the patterns can't. That's what I want you to understand before I tell you the rest of it.
What unsettling sounds does the ranch hand hear at night?
I wasn't a green kid out there. I knew what I was looking at most days. The summer I'm going to tell you about is the one where that stopped being true. And I've never been able to make it true again. The outfit I rode for ran cattle on a forest grazing allotment up against the Gila Wilderness boundary in southwest New Mexico, north and west of a little nothing town called Mimbras. If you've never been out that way, I'll tell you it's some of the emptiest big country left in the lower part of the United States. The Gila's the first piece of ground anybody ever set aside as wilderness in this country back in 1924, and they meant it. no roads to speak of past a certain point no motors of any kind allowed across the line just mountains stacked on mountains juniper and pinon down low ponderosa up high and canyons that'll swallow a day's ride before you've found the bottom
The allotment I worked was a few thousand acres of permitted range that bumped right up against that boundary, and the fence between the two was an old four-strand barbed wire affair that had been there longer than I had. That fence is going to matter, so hold on to it." I'd been on that outfit 11 years by the summer this happened. I was past 60 by then, riding for a man named Harlan, who'd inherited the permit, and the cattle from his father and didn't much care for either, which suited me fine because it meant he left me alone to run things the way I knew how. I lived most of the grazing season in a line camp up near the high pasture, an old log cabin with a wood stove and a spring box and not much else.
There was no electricity up there and no telephone, but I kept a battery two-way radio in the cabin, the kind that runs off a dry cell pack, and I'd check in with Harlan on it every so often and could raise a couple of the neighbors on it if I had to.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the setting described in the beginning of the episode?
0:15–2:44
2
What unsettling sounds does the ranch hand hear at night?
2:44–9:53
3
What strange occurrences happen with the cattle?
9:53–19:32
4
How does the story of the skinwalker unfold?
19:32–1:24:58
5
What happens when the group hears a familiar voice in the wilderness?
1:24:58–1:26:19
6
How do the characters react to the strange canoe and its occupant?
1:26:19–1:27:36
7
What unsettling discoveries do the characters make during their escape?
1:27:36–1:30:34
8
How does the story conclude with the revelation of Kellen's fate?
1:30:34–2:19:34
Speakers
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