After being tormented to the point of mental breakdown, the Sherman family had nowhere to turn.

They were stuck on a property that was haunted by something that went beyond their understanding and to make matters worse they were facing financial ruin.

Fortunately, someone had heard their cry for help. I'm going to do. And then In March 1996,

1996, at around the same time that the Sherman family were considering leaving the ranch. Billionaire real estate developer Robert Bigelow was busy putting together an organisation that would come to be known as the National

Institute for Discovery Science, or NIDS for short.

It was an ambitious undertaking and one which was unprecedented, a well-funded, highly qualified state-of-the-art equipped team of scientists that could deploy anywhere

in the country at a moment's notice and investigate events of high strangeness. Never before had a scientific organization been formed with such significant

funding in order to bring systematic analysis and scrutiny to what was essentially paranormal and supernatural research.

These specialized individuals were no fly-by-night dropouts who didn't quite make the cut in their

respective fields of study.

These were PhD professors, qualified in subjects ranging from biochemistry and psychology

to astrophysics and veterinary science. Bigelow was careful to recruit only candidates

with a skeptical frame of mind. Field investigators who would always look for

rational explanations first and foremost and leave pseudoscience at the door.

In addition, he also assembled a world-class advisory board, the members of which were hand-picked from a wide array of disciplines.

This group would evaluate evidence gathered from the field team's activities.

All in all, NIDS would comprise more than 25 members, the majority of which were from the scientific community,

but would also include security personnel recruited from former military circles.

Two of the most prominent members of the scientific team were physicist Eric Davis and

biochemist Colin Kelleher.

Kelleher would go on to document both the Sherman's and Nids experiences in his book,

Hunt for the Skin Walker, which he wrote in collaboration with George Knapp.

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