whose members lived there 60 years, deny that any mysterious 'phenomena' of any kind occurred there". Sheaffer says "the parsimonious explanation is that the supernatural claims about the ranch were made up by the Sherman family prior to selling it to the gullible Bigelow". Sheaffer wrote that many of the more extraordinary claims originated solely from Terry Sherman, who worked as a caretaker after the ranch was sold to Bigelow. In 1996, skeptic James Randi awarded Bigelow a Pigasus Award for funding the purchase of the ranch and for supporting John E. Mack's and Budd Hopkins' investigations. The award category designated Bigelow as "the funding organization that supported the most useless study of a supernatural, paranormal or occult". Ownership 1934 – 1994 – Kenneth and Edith Myers 1994 – 1996 – Terry and Gwen Sherman 1996 – 2016 – Robert Bigelow 2016 – present – Brandon Fugal, via Adamantium Real Estate LLC In 2016, Bigelow sold Skinwalker Ranch to Adamantium Real Estate LLC. After this purchase, roads leading to the ranch were blocked, the perimeter was guarded by cameras and barbed wire, and signs were posted that aimed to prevent people from approaching the ranch. Adamantium Real Estate, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, filed a U.S. Trademark application for the service mark "Skinwalker Ranch" on February 15, 2017 and was approved and registered on April 14, 2020, with the mark applicable to "providing recreation facilities; entertainment services, namely, creation, development, production, and distribution of multimedia content, internet content, motion pictures, and television shows." An additional trademark filing to expand use on "cups and mugs, shirts and short-sleeved shirts, sports caps and hats" was filed by Adamantium Real Estate, LLC on June 21, 2021, and was approved and registered on July 12, 2022. In March 2020, Brandon Fugal, 46, Utah real estate tycoon, announced ownership of the ranch. In popular culture See also List of topics characterized as pseudoscience Footnotes References Further reading Why a millionaire real-estate mogul bought Skinwalker Ranch Brandon Fugal – Supercar owner & Steward of Skinwalker Ranch External links Skinwalker Ranch Official Website SkinwalkerRanch.org – Property maps and updates from local researchers investigating the ranch RealityUncovered.com Article comparing claimed phenomenon to the region's Native American Ancestral heritage and religious practices (archived) 17 Creepy Facts About Utah’s ‘Skinwalker Ranch’ at Thought Catalog Reportedly haunted locations in Utah Forteana Utah culture Conspiracy