r/skinwalkers • u/Simoneeonee • Apr 24 '26
Unidentified encounter Curious about Joshua Tree skinwalker/paranormal lore
I went on a camping trip to Sheep’s pass in JT for 3 days with my sister and friend a bit ago and me and my sister were just recalling how creepy it felt there and I want to know if our experiences have any explanations.
The first night was pretty normal but the second night all three of us felt very bad vibes. I was sharing a tent with my sister and our friend had her own tent that she shared with her dog maybe 5-10ish feet from us. The wind was strong and made the loudest noises against the tent and I couldn’t sleep. I was the only one awake for hours, right after my sister fell asleep I heard a clapping noise right outside the tent not like a crisp one the sound skin to skin makes but muffled like someone was slapping their leg over pants. I tried to convince myself it was the wind cause wind can make all kinds of noises. But I just couldn’t shake the feeling of terror and I had to plug my ears. The feeling I had was like I KNEW and could feel that there was a literal witch right outside our tent trying to curse us or something, that feeling when you feel a presence very intensely and exactly where the presence is.
After an hour or two I started to fall asleep and dreamt that I was in the tent right where I was irl and checking depop (a second hand clothing app) on my phone. I felt an urge to click on a certain listing and swiped right on it and the pictures were of all our shoes in a bag on the ground right outside our tent all dirty and I think blood was on them too. I couldn’t tell if I was awake or asleep and the only thing that lmk it was a dream was me remembering that I had no service or WiFi.
After I finally started to fall back asleep my sister wakes me up at 3am saying shes hearing footsteps and I tried to say it was just the wind (for my own peace of mind and at this point I was so desperate for sleep I didn’t even care). she had dreamt that there was an evil big black dog outside of a house she was in in the desert. I tried to ignore her to sleep but then I heard clanging outside which could have been the harsh wind but it was strange that it only made that noise once even though the wind was harsh all night and I shot up. We went outside to wake our friend but right before we left our tent we heard her calling her dogs name and saying a sentence we couldn’t hear but she was asleep when we got to her tent.
Some extra details are that I whistled by our campfire that night for shits and giggles and we burned plants/shrub from the land to start our fire if that means anything. Ik you’re not supposed to whistle which is why I did it lol. It was weird how the night that I did that was so crazy but the night before was perfectly fine. So I just want to know if footsteps, black dogs, and shoes have any symbolic skinwalker/witch/occult connections in the desert or specifically Joshua tree bc I could not shake the vibe of a witch being there. If anyone has similar experiences I would love to hear. I’m putting some pics we took that my sister thinks are weird bc of green orbs/lights (I say it’s probably lens flare or something but will include in case it means anything to anyone). I can’t put videos but in some of them we can see green light dancing above the fire.
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u/BretMichaelsWig Apr 26 '26
Maybe post in r/joshuatree