Two young Gallup, New Mexico women were walking at night to a local store when they encountered and were stalked by an unknown entity. They are later told that it was a skinwalker!I received the following account several years ago:"Hello, Lon. I have read several of your articles about strange things here in New Mexico. I live in Gallup, NM which is surrounded by Native American culture and history. We have many nearby towns and reservations that have been here for a very long time and many of the people claim they are haunted.My experience takes place right in Gallup on the east side of the city near a very small reservation. My best friend visited her sister every weekend. She lived in the low-rental apartments on the east side. Right across from these apartments is an elementary school, the one I actually attended when I was a little girl.During those weekends I would spend the night with my friend at her sister's apartment. When there was absolutely nothing to do and the kids and parents were asleep, we'd go outside to the park located in the middle of the apartments and hang out. One night we became so bored we actually took off walking. I'd say it was about 2 AM. We were used to being up late and were wide awake. We walked behind apartments where there was no light, tons of bushes, and prairie dog holes in the ground.As we were walking, I sensed that someone was staring at us or following us (I am very sensitive, so when I sense someone is looking at me or following me, I'm usually right). I turned around to look and nothing was there. As I turned to look forward, my friend suddenly grabbed my arm and said in a scared whisper, "Oh my god! What was that?" I looked into the darkness and saw nothing. The wind was blowing lightly and there were a few trees ahead of us, so I passed it off as the wind moved the leaves. I told her "It's just the wind, chill out" and kept walking. But as I looked again, I saw what looked like a black figure moving through the trees. I stopped and said, "I think it might be a drunk crashing out back there for the night."Just so I wouldn't scare my friend I kept a calm voice, which was awfully hard for me to do because I was sensing that this thing in the trees wasn't good, I said "Do you want to go back home?" And she said, "No, we're almost to the store, let's just keep going." So as we kept walking we heard movement in the trees. We started walking faster. I heard something behind us and I looked, and it was like a wounded or hurt dog. I wasn't really scared because where I live there's a lot of that. But what I heard next stopped me dead in my tracks and paralyzed me. I heard this "dog" moan and growl at the same time as if it was ready to attack. I literally couldn't move and my friend was trying to distract me saying "Come on! Come on! We gotta run!" Her screams sounded distant as if I had gone deaf or if she was far away. I had made eye contact with this thing and I knew that that was a bad move.I closed my eyes and said a short prayer and, without even thinking, I turned around and ran for my life with my friend close by my side. I tried not to look behind us but something was telling me to look. I glanced behind us and a man was running after us! He wasn't just running, he was running on all fours! I screamed and my friend joined in, only because I scared her when I yelled. We finally got to the road where light and cars were passing. We must have run for about 5 minutes straight and were completely out of breath. I remember our sides were aching and cramping as we stopped to catch our breath. I turned to look behind us and saw the man in the distant darkness running back to where we had come from.We walked a few more minutes until we finally reached the store. The lady behind the counter gave us a weird look and asked us "Are you girls okay?" We replied out of breath "Yes, just a late-night run." I could tell she didn't believe us, so she asked "Did you girls run from the apartments?" I answered "Yeah...why?" and she said "Oooh! Are you girls sure you're okay?" We looked at each other and my friend told her "Well not really, we just had a horrible encounter with something, we don't know what it is or who it was." The lady said "You girls just ran from a skinwalker. Whoever it was always chases someone he catches walking the road at night. You girls are lucky you made it this far!" As if we weren't shaken up already, what she had just told us struck a nerve. I have heard similar tales from my grandmother.We didn't have any money but she offered us a bottle of water and a ride back home. She closed down the store and we got into her pickup. As we passed the bushes and trees where we had previously come from, we both saw something running. The lady told us to ignore it and close our eyes.We finally entered the apartment complex and she asked us "Which is yours?" I pointed in the direction of our apartment. As we were getting out of the pickup she told us "You girls stay home at night now. There's no need for you two young girls to be running around at 2 in the morning. Keep yourselves safe, you hear?" We nodded and said goodbye and thank you.After that night we never left the apartment complex after it turned dark. To this day I am still shaken about what I had experienced that night and I still don't really know what it was that chased us that night." MHunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in UtahSkinwalkers Shapeshifters and Native American CursesSkinwalker Ranch In the Shadow of the Ridge: Based on Actual EventsLost on Skinwalker Ranch: The True Story of a Property Guard and His Encounter with the ParanormalSkinwalker Ranch: No Trespassing**********TERRIFYING ENCOUNTERS! INTENSE, RAW FEAR! | LIVE Chat | Q & A | Join Us! 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When confronted by hostile members of the liberal media, J.D. Vance has demonstrated an almost otherwordly ability to keep his cool and make his case cogently. Witness Vance's performance on ABC's This Week. Host Martha Raddatz was attacking Trump, and by extension Vance, over statements Trump had made about apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado being invaded by violent migrant gangs. As Vance began to reply, Raddatz tried to cut him off, saying "I'm going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes." Bad move, Martha! Retorted Vance: "Martha -- do you hear yourself? Only a 'handful' of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem, and not Kamala Harris' open border? . . . You seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said, rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs." It was game, set, and match. Raddatz should have cried "no mas" and cut her losses, but made the mistake of trying to score a point in ending the segment: "Let's just end that with they did not invade or take over the city." Vance struck back with some savory sarcasm: "Just a few apartment complexes, no big deal." Think Raddatz would have so blithely dismissed the problem of a "handful" of apartment complexes being invaded by violent migrant gangs if that handful included the complex . . . where she lives? Rhetorical question. In both this segment on Aurora, and the proceeding one regarding problems with getting aid to people affected by Hurricane Helene, Raddatz's approach toward Vance was combative to the point of belligerence. She seemed determined to establish her Kamala street cred -- but wound up with Vance taking her to the rhetorical cleaners.  Here's the transcript. ABC This Week With George Stephanopoulos 10/13/24 9:09 am EDT MARTHA RADDATZ: I want to -- we played some other comments about migrants, including in Aurora, in Colorado, where Trump said the city had been invaded and conquered by Venezuelan gangs. The Republican mayor of the city said flatly, the city and state have not been taken over or invaded or occupied by migrant gangs. So do you support Donald Trump making those claims that the Republican mayor says were grossly exaggerated, and have hurt the city's identity and sense of safety? I understand what you're saying, that some people left behind, but he's making these statements that the mayor is flat out disputing. JD VANCE: Well, Martha, just said the mayor said they were exaggerated. RADDATZ: Grossly exaggerated. VANCE: That means that there's got to be some element of truth here, and of course President Trump was actually in Aurora, Colorado, talking to people on the ground. And what we're hearing, of course, Martha, is that people are terrified by what has happened with some of these Venezuelan gangs. RADDATZ: Senator, I'm going to stop you, because I know exactly what happened. I'm going to stop you. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes. And the mayor said, our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns. A iihandful of problems. VANCE: Only, Martha -- do you hear yourself? Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem, and not Kamala Harris' open border?  Americans are so fed up with what's going on, and they have every right to be. And I really find this exchange, Martha, sort of interesting, because you seem to be more focused with nitpicking everything that Donald Trump has said, rather than acknowledging that apartment complexes in the United States of America are being taken over by violent gangs. I worry so much more about that problem than anything else here. We've got to get American communities in a safe space again. And unfortunately, when you let people in by the millions, most of whom are unvetted, most of whom you don't know who they really are, you're going to have problems like this. Kamala Harris, 94 executive orders that undid Donald Trump's successful border policies. We knew this stuff would happen. They bragged about opening the border, and now we have the consequences and we're living with it. We can do so much better, but frankly, we're not going to do better, Martha, unless Donald Trump calls this stuff out. I'm glad that he did. RADDATZ: Okay, let's just end that with they did not invade or take over the city as Donald Trump said. I want to move on to -- VANCE: Just a few apartment complexes, no big deal.

We're in a boomer shooter renaissance right now. Doom The Dark Ages is on the way, Dusk still reigns as a truly sublime modern take on the genre, and surprises like Selaco blend the boomer shooter with fresh ideas. Then there's Cultic. It's grungy, fast, and filled with an atmosphere that would make even the purest RE4 players churn. So to celebrate the second anniversary, developer Jasozz Games has revealed new gameplay and details of Cultic: Chapter Two. The game is still very much a work in progress, but it already sounds as though it’s going to be bigger and better than the original in several ways. Continue reading Supernatural boomer shooter Cultic shows the improvements of Chapter Two MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best FPS games, Best single-player games, Best action-adventure games

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