Navajo Elder Warns Night Whistling Summons Sasquatch and Skinwalkers
Posted Sunday, July 12, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So I just stumbled across something pretty wild over on YouTube, and honestly, I had to share it with anyone who'll listen. There's this channel called Codex of Curiosities, and the host Ry sat down with a guy named Don Yazi, who actually hosts his own podcast called "Don't Whistle at Night." Don is Navajo, lives on the Navajo Nation, and grew up surrounded by the very lore most of us only read about in books. The conversation gets into some seriously fascinating territory about why his people have always warned against whistling after dark, and let me tell you, the reasons are not what you'd expect.
The part that really caught my attention, and I think will catch yours too, is what Don shared about Sasquatch. According to traditional Navajo knowledge passed down through generations, Sasquatch whistles at night. And not just one of them. Three of them, coordinating with each other like players calling out positions. Don described it almost like a team working together, whistling back and forth to set up ambushes. He called them opportunistic hunters, fast, predatorial, and incredibly smart. They hunt everything from black bear to moose, and they prefer to ambush their prey rather than chase it down. That hunting strategy, the coordinated whistling to communicate location and position in the dark, is something researchers have speculated about for years. Hearing it described as traditional knowledge from someone who grew up in Sasquatch territory adds a whole different layer to the conversation.
Don also mentioned that skinwalkers whistle at night too, and he shared a story about a friend who whistled and got two of them responding back. The whole concept of whistling acting like a beacon, drawing in anything with "the gift" or "the light," is genuinely chilling. He compared it to turning on strobe lights and watching all the bugs come swarming in. Everything attracted to you, wanting to get a look, maybe even trying to enter you or follow you home. That's the kind of warning that sticks with you.
The interview also gets into a firsthand account from an investigation Don did near Gallup with a team that included hand tremblers, people with the ability to sense and diagnose spiritual afflictions. One of the tremblers predicted someone on the team would get possessed that night after Don used a death whistle near a skinwalker cave. And sure enough, it happened. The possessed woman drew an owl and a demonic face before they even reached the cave, and they encountered an owl that showed zero fear of humans. The possession got physical, she bit one of the team members, and they had to use bitter powder to bring her back. Don himself ended up with something attached to him from the cave, and Lee, another trembler, had to perform a spiritual extraction that involved tracing from his left side up to his neck and telling him to spit. Don ended up on his knees throwing up for about three minutes. A skinwalker also reportedly came up behind his son during the investigation.
This is the kind of interview that really makes you think. Traditional Navajo knowledge describing Sasquatch as coordinated, intelligent nocturnal hunters who use whistling to communicate and ambush prey is exactly the kind of behavioral detail that researchers are always trying to piece together. If this perspective interests you, definitely go check out the full conversation on the Codex of Curiosities channel. It's worth every minute.