A Hollow Tree - Skinwalker movie (Proof-of-Concept) 

Omg yes! That’s it, i hadn’t exactly registered why it was sooo creepy but that’s exactly it. Once you hear them, they’ve long since clocked you and are now playing with your mind.

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I always think about how if they sound close they're far and I'm like "you best run dude while you have a chance"

@@zesebi bro what 😭

​@@michaelmurphy8947skin walker a scrub bro, one .45 ACP def killing these poser.

There is one I saw the trailer for on Amazon prime, i can't find it though, i remember the brief synopsis, it was about 4 adults or college students at some house or cabin in the woods and they have to figure out what's real and not real since there's a skin walker outside, looked pretty decent too but I can't for the love of my life find it

@@sebastianortiz9343’Forrest of Death’ might be what your looking for

There not pretending to be humans. There humans that can disguise themselves as any animal. Look up some history on them

​@@sebastianortiz9343 i think that this is the one theyre describing

The wretched is a pretty good film on Netflix that’s kinda like that

Yea most people are in love with ideas. Don’t feel bad you’ll get better.

@@Starkillr1 who bullied you, man?

They will emerge from the hollow earth to retake the woods and mountains

Refine your Long-range game & sharpen up your C.Q.B.!

​@Starkillr1 😂😂 bro is sad reddit is irrelevant

It literally is mimicking, the thing is that it doesn’t ever hear people say “help” with full pronunciation or any words really so it can’t clearly articulate it and simply adjust volume for distance like humans would yell louder and at a distance the acute pronunciation wouldn’t be as noticeable so skinwalkers imitate the only sounds they know from humans; screams of terror. Creepy how they’re aware of humans empathy too and use it against us

@@Barrythebarnabasi also hear those are the screams they took from their last prey to bring in other prey n then mimic theirs

It reminds me of the “sierra camp” recording

Oh, I didn't know that. That's terrifying it's like the Predators or that bear creature from Annihilation.

Lots of animals can sound human. Especially when distressed. Anyone who doesn't spend time in the wilderness could easily think an animal is a human yelling. Mountain lions, racoons, deer and elk, rabbits can all sound similar to humans... Crows can actually mimic. There are real dangers to worry about out there, but shape shifters are probably not one of them.

Not really. Yee Naaldlooshii is the word Navajo use for Skinwalkers, and mostly Skinwalkers are exclusive to the Navajo but hypothetically any Witch Doctor could become a Skinwalker. Yee Naaldlooshii roughly translates to "by any means of it, he goes on all fours". Whistling is believed to be one of the noises that gets their attention, as well as talking about them in general. To acknowledge the sound might be in the beliefs somewhere but I've only heard about what I said. Looking them in the eyes can have significance, if only because they have cast aside their humanity, so to look into the eyes would be like looking into a void, something soulless but undoubtedly human. They cast aside their humanity by denouncing their human name and killing the one closest to them. The one who would be their main motivation for staying in the human world. This is why saying their name has significance. You invoke the very thing they cast aside for enhanced physical abilities and shapeshifting power. A skinwalker attack looks less like what's depicted in the movie. Multiple things can happen. Yes they might mimic the voices of loved ones but they don't mimic the shape of them, that's Goat Men. They'll also run laps around your house, just the pounding of hooves or heavy feet doing 360s around your home, or stomping on your roof. After this if you inspect your home you might find the actual means of attack, a "fetish" which is pieces of you like your hair or urine, mixed with animal bones and other unpleasant things, then left on your property to bring negative energy, misfortune, and sickness to your body. Usually beneath your house, like under your porch, or hanging on a tree at the treeline of your property, somewhere you likely won't notice unless you knew to look for a fetish afterward to get rid of it.

@@ghoulishgoober3122 I didn't know ANY of that. Thanks for taking the time to share it. It was disorienting for me to expect an American Southwest setting for this skinwalker short film based on the title, but find myself in a post-apocalyptic U.K. world instead. Fresh concept, works! My Four Corners-area rancher friend knows certain canyons to avoid on native lands, and doesn't even *joke* about skinwalker lore. In fact, his face went gray and he stopped talking, so I changed the subject.

just remember, if you heard someone shouting in a forest where you're alone, no you didn't. :)

Skinwalkers are fake it's all a lie.

I want to say I have, I was living Pinetop, AZ in 2008 and I think I heard plea's for help one time when cutting through a Forest park to get home after school. It tripped me out because I didn't know where it was coming from and I was deep into the woods, I kept going because I had a weird chill but took me couple hours to get home. Thought cutting through the forest would be quicker, it wasn't with an ingrown deep toe nail. 😢

The acting is very not top notch lol. And the dialogue is crap, just repeating stuff or not setting up character.. Had to skip 80% of it coz it was so boring. Thing that irked me the most was those stupid added foot steps like cmon 😂

The running skin walker was pretty cool though.

And just black screen in the cabin. C'mon man! Fjb

​@@DonRoyalXyou had to skip 80% of an 22 minute long video? That's not their fault, thats just your terrible attention span

​@@DonRoyalX If you had to skip through a 20 minute video, then you have a worse attention spam than a goldfish with ADHD

the vid is based on the skinwalker lore from gemini home entertainment analog horror rather than the traditional folklore one, in that the skinwalkers are just one version of a much deadlier phenomen, being refered to as "natures mockery" and wood crawler, as its a kind of arachnid like creature thats turning people into skinwalkers or fake people iirc, id give it a watch

@@stellarkin1232 i didnt find anything with the word skinwalker in the title. Do you know which one it was?

The voices is what will keep me from going into a forest. The idea of something luring by pretending to be someone in need is terrifying. Somehow it's scarier to me when it doesn't flawlessly mimic someone. Either a call being said in half a breathe, the cadence and emphasis being greatly mismatched and that it uses the exact same samples, like it's only heard 3 screams but it keeps repeating those three exactly every time. God, that's scaring me thinking about it.

@@tomas.a1356I watched a clip last night of someone traipsing around the forest at night alone with a flashlight. He hears a branch break and cuts the light off. An eerie voice says “I see you!” In the distance. It was probably fake but still gave me the Willie’s!

I love this story and i love physical monsters in horror. I hate when its an OP ghost or something because i want horror thats also fun and unrealistic and you can plot how you would survive! Also, have you ever noticed people in the comments of these videos will make up their own (claiming its real) stories about how they encountered the creature in the vid? Lmao

this!

There's a go fund me link in the bio. If enough people donate they are turning this into a full feature film.

I thought its already being released soon, I looked it up online and the only info I see is on imdb

@@Dead_End_Angel oh, I don't know why they would link the go fund me and act like it wasn't already done then I have no idea

It is a full movie. It just hasn't come out in theaters yet

Ikr it made me laugh and the way the regret sound effect played made it better 😂

It looked more like it knew he had a rifle, so it ran that way so he wouldn't be able to hit him

@@lasa9595 Yeah, I also think that was probably the main reason.

Or that it is intelligent enough to know to strafe to avoid bullets.

Ever lost a digital watch with a set alarm? It can be tricky to find given its location. He's in a forest and the trees would've bounced sound around in multiple directions. This is probably the same for anyone trying to find the origin of a cricket or cicada's chirp in a forest.

I know right? On one scene the world is perfectly described "Why is the north any better?" "Further away from the blast" And right there, we have a _why_ they are stuck in a situation like this, no 14 minute long explanation, just 2 sentences

I’m also coming

@@Doom-xd3zqhold still im almost done

I can feel the red mist coming inside me!

@@mr.suitsland6594wait a min, let me finish too.

@@Novabunny_ambatakum

wow you explained that feeling perfectly

Random fact but in certain types of meditation in order to get better hearing you close your eyes and imagine your ears getting bigger and bigger until your nothing but a giant pair ears and nothing else.

​@@whiskeyTXin hybrid moments you know

It's also a natural instinct + developed skill, sharp movement is unnatural in the woods, therefore you move very slowly when something presents itself

i know annihilation is one of my favorite and i pinpointed the music as soon as i heard it! lol

@@hippiecloudd999I love that movie too

Yep I caught the same thing. Instantly took me back to that movie..

This honestly reminds me of the video game Metro. Set in post-apocalyptic Russia its about survivaling other humans in the underground tunnels of subway stations, while supernatural forces can be witnessed during the protagonists journey. Favorite part was the whispers in the pipes and the dark shadows.

You mean like... most post apocalyptic stories?

A terrible situation gets so much worse. Love this idea as well. The filmmakers did such a great job

​@@mythicalsalmon3621no post apocalyptic movie has ghost and demons.

I know right

Nah, it got boring

@@Spade_the_wolf perhaps to people who cant go without a action seen every 10 minutes sure but if your here for the story then its great

@@creepyplaysoof4812 without action for 10 minutes is fine but when there is no action at all for the whole film, that is when its boring

@@josua3 you have to take into account it’s a short film, aswell as it’s not a action film, which brings me back to my first point, people who need action every 10 minutes aren’t gonna like this they need a action film.

@@creepyplaysoof4812 im assuming the short movie is gonna have another part? because it ended so suddenly with literally 0 conclusion

Me on the shitter after Taco Bell

😂 lol both of you

I instantly thought, "crap, run" in a quiet voice

That was the only half decent part. Everything after that was boring.

For real, that was the climax. I watched the rest thinking it's gonna get better and it was a disappointment. Add another hour I bet it could be great

You might also be interested in the ambience in the background! Check out the soundtrack for the movie, “Hereditary” the soundtrack itself is named, “brother and sister”

notice when the watch beeped it instantly stopped screaming and started moving towards him? it heard that beep from hundreds of meters away

@@rickyjames1659 a bit yes but i think sometimes a skinwalker perspective would put energy back in the movie

That was a super underappreciated movie, I recognized the soundtrack too.

That movie gets a lot of hate but I LOVED it and the soundtrack is an integral part of what made it so unsettling. ❤

I like annihilation a lot, but when they crawled into the butthole thing at the end it kinda lost me.

Right. I too recognized it and got nostalgia of what i was feeling while watching annihilation..it was very uncomfy

@@sara_c907 only got hate because the movie is based off a book, and people complained it wasn’t perfect 🙃

Sounds like a rake to me, cave/sewer dwellers. They come out at night to hunt / scavenge what they can. Something I believe has been kept under wraps and always will.

@@hardtailharry6812dude the rake was a cryptid invented collaboratively on 4chan. Skinwalkers and Wendigos are actually from indigenous folklore

Coyote, maybe?

Jesus Christ....Just saw the vid of the Hollow tree, then read your posting and i am just terrified. mostly because I think I've seen something seriously weird before. I'm a retired soldier and I have been to Combat many times so the prospect of dying in the field, never bother me as much (although I always preferred to shoot them) but this shit that happened to me, had terrified me for 15 years plus... I was station in FT. Bragg back in 2008 and a few of us guys went Deer Hunting in W. Virginia like in the dead ass cold of November. I admit, I have never been hunting, so I made them promise, if I did get something, they will walk me through skinning, and all that good stuff (I was determined to make me some Deer Jerky). We were divided in two pairs, but always between sight of each other. sometime during the evening hours, I see a big ass Deer with a shit lot of antlers...I'm like Fuck yeah waited all damn day and now boom gonna bag me this fucker. I told "Michael" (not his real name) to look where it was and he paused and freaked the fuck out. All i heard him say was "Oh my lord save me". he was really frightened, and his face scared me... then I looked at the deer through the scope and I will swear on the life of my children, the fucking deer was kind of standing in two legs, like straight up and i don't know how like his front legs were like really long...that didn't make sense to me...and then the damn thing turned its head towards were we were.... I know it was getting darker and shit, but I know what i saw, I just didn't understand it. Out the blue, "Michael" took off running and he just yelled "RUN!! NOW, JUST FUCKIN RUN". I stood there for a sec, I was trying to understand why the fuck should i run from a deer, I even thought "oh man maybe they're fucking with my newbie ass"...but when i looked again through the scope "it" was gone...Like, not there, Gone!!! I think that's when panic kicked in and I bolted out of there following "Michael", and I'm telling you this guy was in a full sprint towards where we park the Truck, He was yelling to our other friends to GTFO and head to the truck. man we just ran and ran like Lucifer himself was behind us...."Michael" kept turning around and looking back, and I did too, but I didn't see shit...We got by the truck and he literally threw his shit, including his "mightier than thou" rifle and was screaming to get in and drive off. We all looked at each other and said fuck this and basically threw our gear in the back and drove to the Hotel. The entire drive back "Michael" was like in shock, mumbling to himself and saying some odd shit. I kept asking what the fuck just happened? He literally shouted at me to STFU and just to drive faster and that he was never going hunting again....we were really concerned, i had no idea why was he like that, because he was like the biggest Redneck hunter in the entire Post, i shit you not. (lots of deer heads and pics of all kinds of shit he hunted and mounted, you know the type). The other guys kept asking me what the hell happened, did we see a bear or something...but i didn't wanna talk about it while he was all messed up, freaking the fuck out... So we get back to the Hotel, and we were sharing the rooms like two rooms, 2 beds each and he told us we were all staying in together in one room or he was gonna get a UBER all the way to FT. Blevins in VA. He was in a full panic, so We all agreed and we stayed in the same room, and he had his shotgun on his hand aiming at the door the entire night, only slept on our drive home the next day. On our drive back while he was asleep, the guys asked me what the hell would scare "Michael" so bad, and i told them it was not a bear or anything, and what i saw... These two guys looked at each other and they told me "Deer's don't stand in two legs, let alone straight up, bro" literally no one could say what the fuck was that. Almost getting home, one of the guys was Googling shit and he said that Maybe he thought it was a WENDIGO....and "Michael" knew what it was when he saw it. we like looked at each other and I said lets change subjects...mainly cause i was starting to freak out again.... All i know is that months after that happened, after the holidays and all that, "Michael" was seeing counselors at the Medical center, mainly to deal with a traumatic even. I remember asking him once if he would talk about it and this guy gave me a dead look and told me never ever again asking him about that day. I am not gonna state that in fact I saw a damn WENDIGO....shit I had to look it up many times, trying to understand what I saw, what the hell happened that day, even trying to convince myself that maybe it was just my imagination....so no way I'm saying that's what it was....but what I am damn certain of is this... what I saw, what scared this guy worse I've ever seen before, ever, was definitely not a damn deer. I know this in my heart. Whatever it was, has me kept me spooked for years and keeping a gun next to me ever since. Oh and by the way, Never again I've been back in the woods...day or night...ever. Fuck the woods, I'm keeping my ass in the city.

@@Tricky561 Deer can stand on their hind legs and bucks do so fairly commonly. They’re also fast- that deer bolted, rather than “disappeared” from your eyesight. Sounds like Michael had a mental breakdown (hey, war will f you up) and the rest of you were taken along for the ride. It was a lucky day for that buck, though. It’s not the Wendigo or the deer in the woods you have to fear - it’s other people.

😂😂😂

Its not even "help, somebody" they cant speak, they make similiar sounds to what they heard from prey

It gets closer And closer And closer AND THEN IT GETS YA AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH oh come on spongebob! 😂

IKR!! Then it came to an end. I was like DAMN!!

Biggest disappointment was finding out this wasn’t a full movie yet

Boring as hell..

@@bryanmerberonio5245 sucks you didn't enjoy it!

Same here. Now I'm sad I'll never know the rest of the story.

Time stamp?

​@@michaelskooma85372:57

Didn’t even notice that the first time. Fucking hell, that’s scary.

​@michaelskooma8537 literally within the first 3 minutes of the movie

​@@sethweddle5160the USA trains its military to make sure all such electrical gear is off so it doesn't alert any enemy or ones who might help the enemy. Even loose gear that can make noise should be secured so it doesn't make any noise.

It's not their music lol, the music is taken from another movie called annihilation, which is 10 times better than this crap

@@joshi2070it's a short film lol chill out and you even missed the point of the original comment

@@raccus2719fr☠️

Read before you type next time clown.

@@joshi2070relax bro y you comparing a movie to a short film😭

Has potential 👍🏻

Cool read 😉

dude thinks he’s in a fantasy

@@chimpygorilla9462 Don't belive me, well there is plenty of unexplainable stuff in this world. After ww2 the government was fooling around with red spectrum nogs. And a ton of soldiers experienced what the higher-ups called "hallucinations" they were not hallucinating, the goggles gave them the ability to see things you wouldn't with the naked human eye

@chimpygorilla9462 Don't belive me, well there is plenty of unexplainable stuff in this world. After ww2 the government was fooling around with red spectrum nogs. And a ton of soldiers experienced what the higher-ups called "hallucinations" they were not hallucinating, the goggles gave them the ability to see things you wouldn't with the naked human eye

I didn’t even know that this was on TikTok😭

Ong I prolly seen the same tiktok you did like 2 seconds ago lmaooo

this shit crazy

@@jaylermoreau is it with the butt naked guy and spot theme music?

@@jaylermoreau I stg, someone in the comments said it was on yt about 5 minutes ago😂

From the million stories i've read, adding an uncanny growly voice imitating the original one is always more terrifying, like a creature learning how to speak like you each time sounding more and more like you

​@@v.richard9993that's when you tell it to eat your ass

Ski walkers are creepy af

shame they didnt bother showing anything

@@Petey0707bro has no clue

World building, man what a way to describe it! 🤯

@@HighCharity it's a pretty standard phrase, and key process in storytelling. I Definitely agree though. It's a great way to describe it.

If not becausw of you mention it i think i would never came to that conclusion.

That's the way "world-building" is best implemented. The writer may well jot all the details down, but in the actual script just *alludes* to it. Adds to the realism; obvious exposition is not how people really talk.

When the guy takes the coat and gives it to the kid, you can see that there's a hand inside the coat as he's doing so. He was looting a body.

Honestly the behind the scenes of that movie makes me love it even more. They used most of their money on location in London so they were stuck with home video cameras, YET they made one of the most influential zombie films of this era. Crazy stuff.

@@TheNoobyNoob1 i didn’t know any of that, thats so awesome and makes me love it even more

Not quite

Yeah this film reminds of the blare witch project

I hate to break it to you but that lore only applies to wendigos, skin walkers are a completely different ideology and region. And the reason wendigos can do that is because they are mountain dwelling creatures that use acoustics to alter reality. A skin walker lives in the plains and other such areas, thus they alter reality through their own appearances.

I guess that makes sense, The goal is to get the victim closer, so from far away, It sounds close; making the person believe that they are nearby, and that they can easily find the source of screams; then the closer they get, they get more desperate to find the person so they keep running towards the source. Quite Genius of the skin walker if I do say so myself. But I'm assuming this would only work against Naive Kind-Hearted people, Most people nowadays would run "from" the screams.

@@dreadsummer2766 I thought that was Tikwis, not wendigos?

​@@maxwelleckelbarger2734 Yes Tik-Tik or manananggal. They have bat-like wings and when the flapping sounds of their wings sound far it is very close and vice versa. Never seen that tactic applied to a wendigo or skinwalker.

​@@pizzaeldante3446kind hearted doesn't equate to stupidity. If I hear someone screaming I'm running the opposite way and calling the police.

It's a Human who mastered Skinwalker language.(🤫)

for real id watch a movie directed by them

I didn’t feel any suspense whatsoever. The first scene was it. This movie could just be a tiktok and not lose anything

It was suspenseful twice, stop the bs

This was ass what are you talking about

no there was 3 seconds of screen time for the skinwalker

The theory i always see about a skin walker screaming "help" is because they do that to lure humans to it.

They aren’t real stop being gullible

@@getbackgang3050bro doesn’t go out in nature

@@TheQuatch44 if you believe a person can shape shift then you need mental help. They are real but not what you people think it is. It’s just a normal person in a disguise which was used a very long time ago not anymore 😂😂

@@getbackgang3050ike “The Village”

You must’ve only seen this and like two other things then

@@gbeach85 I am actually a big fan of horror, been watching it all my life, but different things scare people in different ways, but it's all about what you prefer. For example, some people can watch the Grudge and aren't scared at all, while other people are terrified and pissing themselves. It's all about perspective and what works for the viewer. The horror genre of skin walkers just so happens to freak me out on a whole other level, so of course I would find this absolutely terrifying, and also amazing, considering that in the last 5 years most horror movies are about demons, ghosts, witches or zombies, none of which really scare me.

​@@user-wl2zl3gf7ndamn

All aspects that are lost on today's filmmaking.

@@SC-gp7kt So true, it is really sad to see, but hopefully this short film will get the recognition it deserves to become a feature film.

I think there's a movie being made. August 22nd

comes out june 17th 2023

@@prys4445 that’s today 🤔

The pacing is horrible nothing happened. Not scary at all and not suspenseful either. Huge waste of time. No climax, plot, or storyline. Sub-par acting and pretty terrible cinematography

​@@christiansilva6446were is your short film then? Lets watch it

Sorry bro,that was me shouting

@@user-sk4wf3ve6z awwww come on man, you said we weren't going to tell him!

Schizophrenia idfk🤷‍♂️

Bro, you should be ashamed of yourself, youre gonna scare people dude. It's all fun and games until someone starts saying it really happened to them. Then people start to believe. But, bro if you really heard that.... you are sick and you need to get help buddy.

Happened to me a few times in my life when I heard one of my parents faintly calling my name, usually when I was home alone. I live Europe where skinwalkers aren’t present, I guess I was just really tired and started hearing things, or maybe it was the supernatural

Wise friend

I'd like to hear more details about that and what exactly are the Rez , sells and casa Grande?

@@kostasboicarez, short for reservation, sells and casa grande sound like different parts of said Rez.

@@kostasboica Rez is a reservation. Sells and Casa Grande are town in Arizona. CG is between Tucson and Phoenix. Sells is southwest of Tucson on the Tohono O'odham reservation.

Not too sure which Rez I was still a young one maybe 10ish we were driving and I look out the window and I see a human figure galloping along the car in and out bushes a few of my elders claim to have seen the same things growing up but instead of a human they said it was either a coyote or even a bull running along their car on their hind legs

Yeah, I live on Red Lake, native as well. It’s just eerie here. Either from drugs and crime, but idk what that atmosphere is when I go let my dogs run, can’t shake this off feeling.

It is, it’ll be coming out in August according to IMDb

@@braxtonpierce8768 it just said June 17th for me wtf lol

@@Notkyle388same here lmao im confused

comes out june 17th 2023

@@prys4445 tomorrow?

NPC

@@Encurry08535 What was that?... Hmmm. Must've been the wind

@@jeremygage2356 nah, not the wind it was a chatbot, its trying its best, it just can't say anything interesting cuz it don't have original thoughts

Yeah first time I had goosebumps watching a horror movie. Don't get me wrong, I get scared shytless when watching them. But this was the first time I got goosebumps. Fooking terrifying

There's actually a go fund me in the description to support that I think

I can arrange that

There is a full movie just got posted 20 hours ago I’m about to watch it now

@@tuggybear9205you got the link mane I’m trynna watch that too

@@kahlelchristal5429search it up again, it’s like 2 hours long

The soundtrack is from "annihilation" movie on Netflix

lol

it was a little slow in the middle to be honest, but other than that the concept is great

But nothing actually happened.. So ultimately what is the point of a film like this.. Usually a story has a beginning, middle, and end. The ending here falls flat unfortunately.

@@SurfMastery-kz6je I think the idea was to create a narrative that will prequel something bigger.

You probably need to watch a lot more films before stating things like that. Have you seen The Exorcist, The Shining, Psycho, Texas Chainsaw? If not, I highly recommend them.

​@@SurfMastery-kz6jeYou're probably just too stupid to appreciate anything that isn't a superhero movie.

Go on....

@tx3er68 it happened right when the sun was coming up we were camping by a creek in the woods by my parents house in south Alabama and the only way I can describe the sound is if you mixed a dog and a rooster. It sounded very unnatural and we noped out of there as soon as the sun was up enough to see

@@KELEVRA004 interesting. I've had an encounter while I was hunting in Central VA. I still cannot explain it. The sound it made and the way it moved through the woods. The leaves crunching under its whatever was not a gallop nor a 2 footed run. It was something else. As soon as it seemed like it was right behind my treestand my Dad called for me on the walkie talkie and pulled up to the right of me. I was shaken up for sure. Never hunted that stand again.

@@tx3er68 hard pass for me 😂

rooster dog reminds me of some fox calls, don't doubt there aren't things out there though

there is also the burning sunlight at the start

Thank god, i didn't understand the plot at all

It's probably why they are all sick aswel,radiation poisoning

Watched the whole 23m movie and commented on it 17m after it was posted🤨🤨

@@michaelpliscott218 I commented while watching, please don't call the cops 😞

@@lookaway1I’m calling the cops fs

Funny how much you can love something until you live in it’s backyard

@@docholliday9741never meet your idols