Indeed, three of these insiders go to great lengths in their coauthored Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (the very title fuses the two aspects, since a “skinwalker” is a shape-shifting superwitch in Indigenous American lore) to describe and discuss things like the “hitch-hiker effect.” The latter phenomenon involves military and intelligence professionals apparently being “infected” with occult presences on Skinwalker Ranch in Utah and bringing the phenomenon back home, literally, to their East Coast families.
