The Skin Walker Ranch: Before The Shermans.

Before the Shermans, did the Meyers experience the paranormal?

Tony Walker
11 min readOct 14, 2022
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

The Skinwalker Ranch story is so famous that lots of different sites and accounts have popped up all over the Internet. Some of these are pretty much ‘fan fiction’ but as with legends since the beginning of human history, what starts as fiction will soon have people swearing it is a fact.

The Sherman family’s alleged encounters in the middle of the 1990s made Skin Walker Ranch, a place of extreme strangeness in Utah’s Uintah Basin, renowned. But who owned the land before to the Shermans, and did they encounter any unusual circumstances?

The Evidence For

Kenneth Myers owned the ranch from 1934. There is a story that he saw a rangy man with a black coat whose face was in shadow. This was the dreadful winter of 1948.

This towering dark stranger knocked on Myer’s door at the Ranch out of the blue in a snowstorm. When Myers answered, this man claimed to be from the Sherrif’s Department. We see below that Kenneth Myers had friends in the Uintah Sherrif’s Department, but Myers had never seen this guy before.

This stranger insisted he had only called by on behalf of the Sherrif to check they were okay, what with the snowstorm and all…

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