Strange Tide: Short Board Sessions - Skinwalker Ranch Christmas Entity

Aloha Tide Riders and Happy Holidays - Festivus included. Today, we're hitting up one of the freakiest places on the planet and talking about something that shows up just in time for the winter solstice. This Short Board Session dives into one of the strangest recurring cases to come out of Utah’s Uintah Basin: the Skinwalker Ranch Christmas Entity. For decades, witnesses, scientists, and even government-backed research teams have reported a tall, shadowy figure appearing almost like clockwork during the winter solstice and holiday season—bringing radiation spikes, EM interference, and a lingering sense that something is watching from the dark.

We break down the origins of the phenomenon, from Native lore and early ranch sightings to Pentagon-funded investigations, modern sensor data, and the unsettling “hitchhiker effect” that follows witnesses home. Is it a skinwalker, an interdimensional bleed-through, or something far stranger tied to seasonal cycles and human attention?

Quick, focused, and heavy on the weird, this episode rides the thin line between folklore and hard data—perfect for a fast listen when the nights get long and the shadows feel a little too close.

Sources and Links

Brandon Fugal interview – Salt Lake Magazine (2022) | https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/skinwalker-ranch-brandon-fugal-interview-2022 |

Clyde Kluckhohn – Navaho Witchcraft (1944) | https://archive.org/details/navahowitchcraft0000kluc |

Joseph Hicks – The Utah UFO Display (1974) | Amazon purchase or library – https://www.amazon.com/Utah-UFO-Display-Joseph-Hicks/dp/B0006C9Z0G |

Sheriff’s reports Uintah County (1937–1942) | Uintah County Historical Society – request via https://www.uintahcounty.org |

Colm Kelleher & George Knapp – Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005) | https://www.amazon.com/Hunt-Skinwalker-Science-Confronts-Unexplained/dp/1416505210 |

Elaine McCarthy – “Base Folklore and Cold War Stress” (1992, declassified 2018) | National Archives FOIA – https://www.archives.gov/research/foia |

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch – History Channel (2020–present) Seasons 1–5 | https://www.history.com/shows/the-secret-of-skinwalker-ranch |

Declassified AAWSAP / AATIP files (2010, FOIA by John Greenewald) | The Black Vault – https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/aawsap-aatip-files |

Luis Elizondo – Identified (2019) | Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/Identified-Luis-Elizondo/dp/0063063859 |

Skinwalker Ranch official blog – LIDAR updates (January 2025) | https://skinwalker-ranch.com/blog |

Robert Sheaffer – Bad UFOs blog (2012) | https://badufos.blogspot.com |

James Lacatski – Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021) | https://www.amazon.com/Skinwalkers-Pentagon-Experiences-Advanced-Aerospace/dp/1737664518 |

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources – Uintah black bear population (2024) | https://wildlife.utah.gov/bears |

George Knapp – Deseret News articles (1996) | Archive search – https://www.deseret.com/search?q=skinwalker+knapp+1996 |