Former Skinwalker Ranch Manager Details Bigfoot Sighting and Cattle Mutilations

Posted Sunday, June 21, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

So I just came across this incredible interview on the Canam Missing Project YouTube channel, and honestly, I had to share it with anyone who follows this stuff. David Paulides sits down with Dr. Colm Kelleher, who was the project manager at Skinwalker Ranch from 1996 to 2004, and later ran a Defense Intelligence Agency-funded program called AASAP from 2008 to 2010. This guy was in the thick of it. The way Dr. Kelleher ended up at the ranch is wild in itself. He was working at the National Jewish Center for Immunology, reading Science magazine, and came across this bizarre full-page ad asking for scientists interested in "the origin and evolution of consciousness in the universe." He couldn't resist calling, and that phone call led him straight to Robert Bigelow and eventually to Skinwalker Ranch. Bigelow hired him in July 1996, purchased the property in August, and within a month had a full scientific team deployed with sensors, cameras, electromagnetic equipment, and radioactivity detectors. But here's what really caught my attention. When Paulides asked about the previous owners, the Gorman family who lived there from 1994 to 1996, Dr. Kelleher dropped something huge. The Gormans had about 80 head of purebred Angus cattle and lost roughly 12 animals to mutilations or disappearances in just two years. The family was terrified, sleeping together in the same front room because they didn't know what would come through the walls. The two teenagers' grades tanked completely until they left the property, then shot back up to straight A's within a year. And then there's the part that made me sit up straight. Dr. Kelleher mentions that one of the Gorman teenagers reportedly saw a family of Bigfoot in the distance on the property. He specifically says this was one of the things they were following up on, along with the UFO phenomenon and unusual creatures. This isn't some random claim from a casual witness. This is coming from a PhD-led scientific investigation with a full team of researchers, including a veterinarian with a DVM and PhD who could perform field necropsies like artwork. The Myers family owned the property for decades before the Gormans, and the place had been abandoned for about seven years before the Gormans moved in. Whatever was there didn't want the family around because all hell broke loose once they settled in. Poltergeist activity, giant wolves (officially extinct in Utah since the early 1900s), and those creature sightings. There's also this fascinating detail about a clause in the deed that prohibited digging on the property. The Gormans had to notify the Myers family if they ever intended to dig, though nobody knew exactly why. When Bigelow's team purchased the property, that clause became null and void, so they brought in a caterpillar digger from Las Vegas and started excavating at various locations. Every time they did deep digging, neighbors would report unusual activity within 24 to 48 hours, including basketball-sized orange orbs flying around their properties. The normal orbs seen on the ranch were softball to baseball-sized, but the ones responding to digging were significantly larger. Dr. Kelleher's theory is that disturbances in the topography triggered activity. When the Gormans moved 80 head of cattle onto the previously quiet property, the whole place became noisy and active. Whatever entity or phenomenon is associated with Skinwalker Ranch seems to respond to environmental changes. This interview is absolutely worth watching in full. Dr. Kelleher has a measured, scientific way of describing things that makes the accounts even more compelling. He doesn't sensationalize anything, just reports what happened during years of on-site investigation. The Bigfoot sighting alone makes this essential viewing for anyone interested in Sasquatch reports from locations outside the typical Pacific Northwest hotspots. Skinwalker Ranch has a long history of unusual creature sightings, and having a credentialed researcher confirm that witnesses reported seeing a family of them on the property adds serious weight to the phenomenon.