Skinwalker Ranch Hitchhiker Effect Hits Owner’s Home
Strange and Unexplained

Skinwalker Ranch Hitchhiker Effect Hits Owner’s Home

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 3, 202610 min

Cristina Gomez reviews the latest UFO / UAP news and covers Skinwalker Ranch owner Brandon Fugal’s interview on Jillian Michaels’ Keeping It Real podcast. For ten years, Fugal said nothing from the ranch had ever followed him. That changed two years ago, after a helicopter experiment went wrong. At 3 a.m., his dog snarled at an empty bedroom corner, his wife’s wedding ring vanished, and it was later found in a robe pocket after she prayed for help. Fugal ties the events to the hitchhiker effect and a trickster element described in Skinwalkers at the Pentagon by James Lacatski, Colm K...

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That's Brandon Fuegel, owner of Skinwalker Ranch, and he describes the night he believes something from the ranch followed him home.

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because we are dealing with forces and phenomena that is unexplained that is often steps ahead of us and has command over the space. That's Brandon Fuegel, owner of Skinwalker Ranch, and he describes the night he believes something from the ranch followed him home. For 10 years, Fuegel has been the man people point to when they ask whether the ranch can reach beyond its gates. And for 10 years, he could honestly say it never reached him.

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But that changed after a single day of testing went wrong. The next night, something entered his bedroom, his wife's wedding ring disappeared, and the way it came back has no simple explanation. Hey, you followers, I'm Christina Gomez, and this is your UFO News Update.

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The Hitchhiker Effect is the term researchers use when strange activity seems to follow people away from the ranch into their own homes. Fuegle explains it on the Jillian Michaels Keeping It Real podcast of what used to happen. He has a theory about why it took so long.

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