# The accounts were largely made up before the sale.

> Still possible: The accounts were largely made up before the sale.

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# The accounts were largely made up before the sale.

The accounts were largely made up before the sale.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The family's accounts change with the audience; neighbours and the previous owners' family heard nothing of the kind before June 1996.

## What would rule it out

- Evidence that the family described the same events to neighbours, a vet or the sheriff before going public.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[Many of the most bizarre incidents in the 2005 book were witnessed only by Terry Sherman, who stayed on as…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D014S180GGQ/many-of-the-most-bizarre-incidents-in-the-2005-book-were)

Suggestive

FOR

[The family said they lost money on the sale.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/evidence/EVD0D014S922PGA/the-family-said-they-lost-money-on-the-sale)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[How reliable are the Sherman family's 1994–96 accounts, and how did they reach print?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/skinwalker-ranch/questions/QST0D014DA8480K/how-reliable-are-the-sherman-familys-199496-accounts-and-how)

Most likelyThe core of the accounts was reported in good faith, but the story grew as researchers, the press and the…

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