Let’s get it out of the way right here up front: this involves what hundreds of podcasters, YouTubers, television shows, and TikTokers are calling “high strangeness.”

It focuses on a name you in all likelihood have heard: Skinwalker Ranch.

That’s a 532-acre expanse of gorgeous mesa in northern Utah that some like to think is the ultimate in “paranormal” activity.

A skinwalker was and perhaps still is a Navaho shaman—a warlock or witch—who, through incantations has managed to take on the eternal, ephemeral, and sometimes more than vaporous form of various entities, especially animals.

The ritual to supposedly change shape included wearing the hide of whatever animal the witch or “medicine man” wanted to manifest as.

Often it has been as a werewolf. But it can be a coyote, a bird, or really any creature.

According to legend, a person becomes a skinwalker (yee naaldlooshii) or “shapeshifter” through grave acts of sacrilege, such as killing a family member or committing other unspeakable deeds. They;re often associated with eerie stories of encounters on remote roads or in rural areas, where their unnatural speed, glowing eyes, or mimicked human voices terrify witnesses. These tales have become a part of modern folklore, sparking curiosity and fear.

That’s a whole other discussion, the kind we’ve had in our “Special Reports,” but this is about one particular parcel of land that was the subject of a major television series when scientists descended on the place and documented paranormal phenomena.

Apparitions. Demonic activity. Strange sounds. UFOs.

You get the picture.

According to legend, as a form of retribution, Navajo spiritual leaders cursed the land, unleashing the malevolent, shape-shifting witches upon the Utes, a competing tribe that lay claim to the territory. Archaeological evidence of ancient peoples, such as the Fremont culture, who lived there between 1,000 and 1,300 years ago. Petroglyphs found in the region depict humanoid figures, animals, and shapes that some interpret as evidence of early spiritual or extraterrestrial experiences. These ancient rock carvings have fueled speculation about whether the region has long been a hotspot for paranormal or unexplained phenomena.

The land was recently owned by Brandon Fugal, a real estate mogul from Salt Lake City who purchased it (from a Las Vegas billionaire).

This is no occultist. Fugal was recently recognized as the number one broker in the world for Coldwell Banker Commercial and EY Entrepreneur of the Year. Before merging with global real estate giant Colliers International, Brandon was co-founder and owner of Coldwell Banker Commercial Advisors, where he led the entire brand globally and “grew” his firm to thirty offices in ten states with nearly six hundred professionals.

He is both reserved and well-spoken and started out as a total skeptic before witnessing plenty of phenomena for himself.

But we’re not here to discuss that, right now. Rather, we’re here to note a peculiar item to poppped out of a recent interview of Fugal by a major podcaster named Shawn Ryan.

It’s at about two and a half hours into the interview that, discussing the ancient artifacts that some believe have drawn down the spirits, that he threw in a detail that is fascinating: the fact that amidst the ancient Indian occult items found on the ranch was also a Masonic symbol.

If that seems wildly out of place, it is.

Does it not coincide, however, with the dark spirituality?

“The Native American history and the fact that the Navaho cursed this property as a result of conflict with the Ute tribe.” he explains. “There’s rock art. There’s a megalithic site. There’s a lot of rock art and evidence of the ancients.

“There’s also a strange Masonic symbol that is etched into the face of the mesa that many have said symbolizes ‘as above, so below.'”

We don’t pretend to know what that means. We do know that UFO investigators have suffered strange afflictions, as did the family of the billiuonaire, whose name is Bigelow and who assembled a scientific team to study it for years. This even brought in Pentagon investigators who recorded inexplicable events.

Interesting it is not only how the site has caused problems in the families of investigators, but has been outright shunned by those who claim a demonic force.

That discussion can go on quite a ways.

But whether or not one believes in the paranormality, the issue here is that symbol.

How did the Mason have a presence there deep in Indian spiritual territory, and does it not tell us something about how such things are linked?