“Five Decades. Nine Encounters. One Presence.”

Something massive walks the Yakima night — a long-armed, upright predator that leaves no tracks on stone, watches from treelines, and screams through canyon walls with a voice no known animal can match. For over fifty years, hunters, police officers, and families have reported the same impossible figure: towering, silent, intelligent, and always just beyond the light. In this episode of Nightmare Hunters, we follow nine real encounters across the Yakima Reservation — road crossings, trackways, window watchers, and forest silhouettes — to build a unified theory of a creature that moves with purpose, chooses when to be seen, and never runs. Cryptid investigation, forensic analysis, eyewitness testimony, and primal dread converge in Standing in the Dark: The Yakima Upright Predator.

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Welcome to The Nightmare Hunter Podcast!
Thank you for joining us on this journey into the macabre, the strange, the bizarre, and the terrifying.


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