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TRAVIS:
It's right by the triangle.

ZACH:
Yeah, I brought
a ground-penetrating radar.

That's going crazy.

We should start excavating.

BRYANT:
We ready to do this?

-THOMAS: Let's dig.
-TRAVIS: Look at this, guys.

I don't know what's going on,
but it's detecting everywhere.

-It's like we're triggering
something.
-Yeah.

CHRIS:
I'm at altitude.

TRAVIS:
We spent the better part
of the day

running these magnetometry
and lidar surveys.

Here is the magnetic data
of the Homestead Two.

-Whoa.
-Here's the triangle.

TRAVIS:
Oh, look at that.

I feel like we have to dig

to get to the bottom
of Skinwalker Ranch.

NARRATOR:
There is a ranch
in Northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most
disturbing phenomena on Earth:

animal mutilations,

bizarre UFO sightings

and unusual energies that have
proven harmful to humans.

For 20 years,
the federal government

tried to find answers
and failed.

Now a new team
of dedicated scientists,

researchers and experts
has taken over.

They are determined to solve
the mystery and reveal...

...The Secret
of Skinwalker Ranch.

-Good morning, guys.
-FERNANDO: Good morning.

TRAVIS: To help us find out
what's really going on

behind all these phenomena
happening on Skinwalker Ranch,

Brandon has given us permission
to dig and drill deeper

than anyone's ever tried before.

Now, in order to do that,
though, Erik's brought out

a team from
Pete Martin Drilling.

We got a game plan for today?

We're out here
at what we call "the triangle."

And so,
we're gonna poke two holes

right at the vertices
of that triangle.

As far as we know,
there's no structure

underneath here,
but we're not sure.

But part of why
we're here doing this

is to explore
that very question.

Okay.

TRAVIS:
They're going to help us explore

the area we call the triangle.

-NATHAN: Here's the triangle.
-TRAVIS: It was here

that last week we detected two
large highly magnetic anomalies

with a long, tunnel-like feature

running between them
deep underground.

It's also where a researcher
named James Keenan

shared with us evidence
of where he believes could be

some kind of underground
water course

or possibly even
an artificial tunnel system.

When you look at this,

you're cutting right directly
through my focal

and origin point, which is this
location of Skinwalker Ranch.

So, what we're planning to do
with these holes is,

you know,
besides just seeing what we find

and what we run into
when we go down,

we're looking
to instrument these.

We're going to set up
some instruments

and we'll be taking
some measurements

while you're drilling.

We see any elevated
radiation measurements

or strange, uh,
radio frequency signals

or something,
we'll let you know.

Please also let us know
if anything unusual happens

with that big piece
of equipment over there.

FERNANDO:
Okay.

-Sounds good, guys.
-All right.

-Sounds like a plan.
I'm excited.
-Thank you.

-Thanks.
-Thank you.

ERIK:
Look, the history is what it is.

Our attention is naturally drawn
to this spot, but then again,

we've never tried drilling
at the triangle.

We may provoke some response
from the ranch.

Who knows what will happen.

FERNANDO:
Erik, what exactly do we got?

ERIK:
We've got magnetometers,
we've got GPS,

we'll be looking at
the Geiger counter data logging.

On the laptop is where
we're looking

at our spectrum analyzer.

It allows us to see any
unusual radio frequency signals

that show up while we're
conducting our experiment.

-Okay.
-So, while you're doing
your-your work,

all of this stuff
will be running.

All right, well if you guys
are ready, we're ready.

-Yeah.
-Yep, I think we are.
Go ahead and fire it up.

Let's go, guys.

TRAVIS:
You know, we're...

really pressing our luck

if the whole
"digging on the ranch" thing

has got any merit to it because,
uh, you know,

Tom's digging with the excavator

and we got the big,
giant drill going.

We're-we're not poking the
hornet's nest, we're kicking it.

-Yeah, you-you can't...
-We're kicking it.

We're kicking it down,
stomping on it.

TRAVIS:
While Erik and Dragon were
working at the triangle,

I went with Kandus Linde,
Kaleb Bench and Thomas Winterton

to investigate
another area of interest

that's right between
the triangle and Homestead Two.

Well, I have some interesting
news to share.

TRAVIS: Last week, Brandon
told us that this spot was

a particular place of interest
for the Shermans,

who used to own
Skinwalker Ranch.

BRANDON:
There is an actual location
of the area on the ranch

where the Shermans said
not to dig.

I'd like the share with you
the coordinates.

TRAVIS:
When we plugged
the coordinates in,

they pointed right
to a big rock sitting

all by itself
across the road from the mesa.

-BRANDON: Look at that.
-So, what's the first thing
we thought?

Let's go out there and dig,

and maybe it'll lead
to some answers.

-This good?
-Yeah, that's...

Where is the rock?

-It's right...
-Oh, yeah. I see it now.

-Yeah, actually, let me go
through right here.
-Over here?

THOMAS:
Just watch, this ditch
is a little deep right there.

-TRAVIS: Is there water in it?
-No.

KALEB:
Was there anything in particular

we're looking for here, or...?

Well, the-the intel
that Brandon got

was that, uh,
one of the Shermans said

this was the spot not to dig at.

It's an odd coincidence
that we took

the GPS coordinates
that they gave us

and it was right in the middle
of that rock.

The rock could be a marker.

Did somebody
bury something there?

Is there something there
that's dangerous?

We don't know,

but we've got to dig there
to see

why would somebody say,
"Don't dig in this spot"?

It's stable right there, Thomas.
Steady.

I-- There's something
right there on the rock.

-THOMAS: What are you seeing?
-KALEB: Wh-- Oh, right there?

Yep. I'm gonna get
a bottle of water,

I'll be right back. I'm-a go
to the Jeep and get one.

THOMAS:
Not talking about
where I scratched it.

-No.
-KANDUS: Not the white, but...

-It's right here.
-TRAVIS: All right, here,

-let me get in there, Kandus.
-KANDUS: Yep.

That's actually something on it.

-KANDUS: It kind of looks...
-KALEB: There's definitely
something

right there, and you got
three clearly defined marks.

TRAVIS:
I don't want to read
too much into anything,

but it's definitely curious
to me that we found

a possible carving
on the underside of this boulder

where the Sherman family
supposedly said

no one should ever dig.

It could be that they made
the marking,

but we just don't know.

It's nowhere else,
and it, to me, it looks like

a bunch of the old thunderbird
symbols that you see

in a lot of Native American
tribes and stuff.

One of my pastimes is I love
reading mythology and history,

and to me that symbol
almost looked

like some kind of a thunderbird
that you see in the Navajo

and other Native artwork.

TRAVIS:
The thunderbird
is a mythical creature

of huge importance in Navajo

and other Native American
cultures.

It's a symbol
of great power, strength

and protection of humans
against evil spirits.

Now, what's interesting here
is that the legend

of the dangerous,
shape-shifting entity

known as the skinwalker

is not only what this property
has been named after,

but it also arose
out of the Navajo culture.

So, if this really is
a carving of the thunderbird,

then I wonder
who would have carved it?

And is it connected
to the Sherman's warning

not to dig here?

I'll take a picture of it.

-It certainly doesn't say,
"Enter here."
-KALEB: No.

THOMAS:
Well, let's look under the rock.

I like that.

Well, I'm getting over here,
out of the way.

(engine starts)

Who knows what could be here
if this really is a marker.

It's right between Homestead Two
and the triangle,

so even though
I'm a little skeptical about it,

what if it's covering some
kind of strange object

that's connected to all
these strange phenomena

here on the ranch?

Heck, what if it's even covering

an entrance to what
we might be drilling down into

over at the triangle?

We need to poke that sucker
as much as possible.

ERIK: This is a significant
water flow.

BRYANT: Just like
what James Keenan told us.

TRAVIS:
Hey, Thomas.
Let's do another test.

-Oh, crap. Look at that.
-KALEB: Well, that's...

TRAVIS:
That is really magnetic
riright there.

KALEB:
Holy crap.

TRAVIS:
We're digging below a boulder

right where the Sherman family
reportedly said to never dig.

There's a long-standing legend
that warns

against any digging
on Skinwalker Ranch.

So, I'm really eager to see
if we'll find something

buried here, or...

if some strange phenomena might
be triggered by the digging.

Hey, do you see anything
down there?

KANDUS:
No, let's have a look.

TRAVIS:
You gonna hop
down in there, Kandus?

KANDUS:
Yeah, just real quick.

I just want to look
across this hole.

That's just some shale.

-THOMAS: Is it just shale?
-Yeah.

Well, here's
a bigger piece of it.

TRAVIS:
Oh, hey, look at that.

THOMAS:
I didn't know if it
was pottery or something.

-KANSU: No.
-TRAVIS: Kandus,
you need a hand?

Yeah, I'll take one.

Nothing unusual,
it's just crazy cross-bedding.

But I can't help but think

the rock was simply a landmark.

To be honest, that could
be within 100 feet of the rock.

Oh, well,
they might go to the rock,

take 100 paces due north,

you know,
five paces to the east.

It's kind of like finding
a needle in a haystack.

-TRAVIS: Yeah.
-We go deeper,

-or what-what are you thinking
after seeing it?
-KANDUS: I would not go deeper.

TRAVIS:
It doesn't look like
it's been disturbed

and that rock's been
sitting on it forever.

That rock hasn't been moved.

TRAVIS:
I really don't think
it's worth investigating

this spot any more right now.

The ground doesn't
look backfilled,

like someone dug here
or hid anything below,

so we need to focus
our energy where we are

experiencing anomalies
like the triangle area,

and another spot we
want to investigate

next in the East Field
of the ranch.

THOMAS:
Well, then, let's just
fill this in and call it.

FERNANDO:
You're good. You're clear.

Oh, it's already getting wet.

BRYANT:
Can we take a look?

Yeah, give me just a sec

-and I'll give you some light.
-Okay.

ERIK:
This is a significant
water flow.

BRYANT:
Just like what James Keenan
told us.

But this is the kind of stuff
that caves like crazy.

ERIK:
Oh, boy.

Oh, yeah. It's caving.

-BRYANT: It's already
caving, huh?
-Oh, yeah.

BRYANT:
What do you think, Erik?

Do we want to continue
digging in this?

So, I really want to get
this hole to depth.

If we can get that 100-foot
depth, I want to get it.

If we've got to put a casing
in the ground,

we were gonna do it anyway.

-Yeah. Yep.
-I say we do it now.

BRYANT:
I was pretty surprised to see

the amount of water
that we encountered

at such a shallow depth here,

but we really do want
to get to the bottom

of what is underneath
the triangle.

-Thank you.
-Thank you.

TRAVIS:
We're gonna head over

to where the cow died.

Right underneath where the UFO
appeared in the video.

After we finished
investigating the rock,

the next place we wanted to
explore was in the East Field,

where we've seen all kinds
of strange phenomenon.

I'm gonna park right here
to be out of his way.

One week ago,
we conducted a lidar scan

with a company called
Juniper Unmanned,

and we detected two very large
circular features in the ground.

The anomalies we found were
right here where this flag is.

The peak of that parabola.

And this also happens
to be an area

where the cattle on the ranch
have been avoiding.

One cow mysteriously died
last year,

while at the same time, a UFO
appeared above it in the sky.

So, uh, the cow we found
right here.

-Literally right here. Right?
-THOMAS: Yeah.

Why don't we just dig
right through the center of it,

and we can put this to bed
really quick.

If there's something there,
we'll find it; if there's not,

-we'll know and we can
get to the next spot.
-Yeah.

So why don't we go
all the way to the fence

and do-- maybe do two swipes
and just come back to, you know,

about 20 or 30 feet away
and just-just do...

-You want a wider trench?
-Yeah.

KANDUS:
That'd be nice.
A little bit wider.

TRAVIS:
That way we can actually go in.

If-if we do see
some kind of anomaly,

we can walk in it safely
and maybe look at the dirt

-and take samples or whatever.
-Yeah.
-THOMAS: All right.

THOMAS:
The cow died possibly
of something

that messed up
its neurological system.

It makes me wonder, you know,

if there is
something underground here

that caused this reaction
leading up to this cow's death.

Okay, guys.

We're gonna get out of the way.

ERIK:
Wow.

BRYANT:
No wonder he wants us
out of the way.

ERIK:
Yeah. I'm glad to be
out of the way.

BRYANT:
Yeah, me, too.

The drill rig hit water

really early and it
was starting to cave in.

So, now we have
these big metal casings

we're gonna put in the ground,
and hopefully

it'll help stop the water.

CHANCE:
Bring it this way.

ERIK:
So, he's actually
getting into the ground

below the level at which
they were drilling, right?

BRYANT:
Yeah, oh, yeah.
That pipe was 40 feet.

FERNANDO:
Real soft and wet material
can be dangerous.

When that material like that
is-is that saturated,

it could cave in
and it could tip the rig over.

-Down?
-CHANCE: Down.

BRYANT:
Oh, there she is.

FERNANDO:
Let's see your mirror.

How deep are we here?

-About 25.
-25?

FERNANDO:
See how it's just running in?

-Yep.
-It's falling apart.

ERIK:
That is really flowing.

Looks like a river down there.

BRYANT: Seeing the amount
of flowing water

under the surface
is very interesting.

Is this an opening to a big void
or a larger cavern?

Or could this be tied into

what James Keenan told us
where he talked about

some highly
electrically charged river

that could be running
underneath this property.

Well, we had a gentleman
come out here to the ranch.

-Yeah, when James was out.
-Yeah.

We talked about the possibility
of there being water flow,

significant water flow,
under the property.

And he even talked
about this area

as being one of the areas
of interest.

I have to admit,

I thought it was crazy
that we went down

maybe 24, 25 feet below
the ground with the drilling

and we hit flowing water.

You guys ready to put this in?

Yeah, I'd say we need
to pour it in.

ERIK: This year we put
45,000 gallons of water

into that hole on the other side
of the Homestead Two area

and it disappeared
rather quickly.

Where did it go?

And when Thomas started
digging with the mini-excavator,

trying to find an exit point
for all that water,

Kaleb's phone started
malfunctioning again.

I don't have any control
over it.

It shut itself off.

ERIK:
It could be that
what we're seeing

is part of the explanation
as to what happened

to all that water.

I want answers.

If we continue drilling

without advancing
the temporary casing more,

it'll collapse underneath us.

It's doing it already.

It's probably underwater.

BRYANT:
It's disappointing
to have this hole

in the middle of the triangle
cause so many problems.

It's a moot point
to go any deeper

because there's enough
current there

that it's actually making
the water bubble up,

and they're really having to
work hard to try and stop it off

so they can go to the depths
we're after.

-I guess we're done.
-FERNANDO: Okay.

The next spot's
gonna be over there.

-Okay.
-To the west.

FERNANDO:
All right. Okay.

Let's rock and roll.

TRAVIS: Hey, Thomas,
let's do another test

after this one!

Okay.

-Just feels like dirt to me.
-Yep.
-Yep.

TRAVIS:
The Juniper data said
there's some sort of anomaly

right where the cow died.

And a cow died there, so
that's anomalous to start with.

But as Thomas
excavates the soil,

we don't find anything
really unusual.

-Well, you just drop on
in there, Kandus.
-Yeah, I'm going down.

I want to see the side wall.

Yeah, that ground's
just like concrete.

-TRAVIS: It just looks
like dirt, right?
-KANDUS: There we go.

-KANDUS: Yeah, it's...
-You see any other layers?

You know, it's just natural
stratigraphy.

You've got that top horizon...

soil, then it goes down.

Yeah, there's nothing
to write home about down there.

-No.
-So, hey, what depth are we at?

Drop the tape measure
down there.

How deep is it?

I think we're right at seven.

Oh, crap. Look at that.

Look at it. Look how it's
bending the tape back.

-KALEB: That's...
-That is really magnetic
right there.

KALEB:
Holy crap.

TRAVIS: Pretty strong
electromagnetic field

right at the drill.

-Go figure.
-ERIK: Hey, guys.

Look at that.

This thing's hopping
all over the place.

-That is so strange.
-You hear it?

BRYANT:
It really does kind of
sound like communication.

TRAVIS:
Look at that.

That is really magnetic
right there.

THOMAS:
Can you feel it?

I can't-- look at, watch it.

It pulls it right to it.

-You see it speed up?
-KANDUS: That's uncanny.

THOMAS:
Yeah, it does. That's so weird.

TRAVIS:
The ground in the pit we dug,

and where the cows
have been avoiding,

is strangely magnetic.

But what makes it really freaky

is that there's
no large metallic object

or structure of any kind
buried here that we can see.

I've dug holes all my life
and I've never seen a hole

as magnetic as that.

Travis, would that suggest
that there's current running

through this ground
that's magnetizing it?

Yeah. Anytime you have
an electric current,

there's a magnetic field
associated with it.

-Mm-hmm.
-We seem to be finding magnetism

with everything we find.

When I first came
to Skinwalker Ranch last year,

Erik Bard explained
how a lot of the data

he had been collecting
on the property

indicated that something
underground

was causing a highly powerful
magnetic field.

And he also believed
it might help explain things

like the horrible head injury
Thomas Winterton suffered

a couple years ago,

and all the malfunctions we've
had with electronic devices.

ERIK:
What is it doing?

KALEB:
It was in my contacts.

It tried calling
a couple people.

Dude, that is crazy.

Well, I don't know
if there's ano-- any reason

to keep digging this hole.
I don't see a parabolic shape

like was in the
ground-penetrating radar.

Thomas, we probably ought to dig
another hole just like this

-where we've heard stories
of cattle mutilation...
-Mm-hmm.

...or UFO or whatever.

And wasn't there another one
down here by the big tree?

Down here in the corner
by the tree, yeah.

That's where
that Sheriff Kris Porritt

showed us a spot
where there had been

mutilations in the past.

And, also, he talked
about some kind of craft...

-Where?
-...that had landed.

It's just in the corner
where you're talking about.

Uh, why don't you guys
go down there and scout it out,

-and I'll come down
and we'll dig that out.
-Okay.

-TRAVIS: Let's get the--
you got the metal detector?
-KALEB: Yeah.

(engine starts)

An ex-deputy sheriff from
the area named Kris Porritt

had some pretty incredible
stories when he came to visit,

and told us there had been
a cattle mutilation here.

All the female organs
were removed out of both cows.

I can't explain it.

And there was matted grass,

where something heavy
had sat in these weeds

and made an impression.

I presume

that it was a spaceship.

TRAVIS:
I don't know what to make
of Sheriff Porritt's story.

He believes
that an actual alien craft

landed on this next location.

Given the mutilated cows
that he officially reported,

and our own lidar data

showing large circular anomalies
on that exact spot,

I'm convinced
that it's worth digging.

KANDUS:
Okay.

TRAVIS:
Check this out, I see exactly
what was in the lidar.

It's raised up.

It's a perfect circle
right here.

-KANDUS: Oh.
-Y'all see it?

-I do.
-It is a perfect circle,
right here.

And it looks like it's probably
an inch to two inches higher

than the rest of the area
around it.

Well, let's dig
through the middle of it.

All right,
so let's start digging.

Now I'm here
to follow the science,

so hopefully we can make
a discovery of something

that will explain those things
that happened here

and this weird magnetism
in the ground across the ranch.

I'd say that's good enough!

Let's see if the thing's
magnetic.

I'm not seeing anything crazy.

Look, look,
it's pushing it away.

-Look, it's pushing away. Look.
-KANDUS: Is it?

-You see that? Yeah.
-KANDUS: Mm-hmm.

-THOMAS: Yeah.
-TRAVIS: It's literally
pushing it away.

-Look at that.
-KANDUS: Hmm.

Something is either electrically
charging or magnetically

charging the walls of this dirt.

This is charged
differently than that.

And I'm beginning to--
This is making me think

it's electric, not magnetic.

If it's electric,
which would make more sense,

because that's not a magnet.

And if that's charged
and if they're both positive

or they're both negative,
they'll push each other away.

The fact that dirt

is statically charged enough

that it will push metal
to the wall of the dirt

is unbelievable.

Is there electric current
flowing through the ground

that's putting electric
charge on it?

I don't know, but it tells me
that there's something weird

electromagnetically in the soil
once you get to a depth

of about five feet or so.

Could this explain why
we've seen so much phenomena

in this area?

I-- It's all connected somehow.

Everything. The UFO sightings,
the dead cows,

the cows moving around
in weird places,

the Internet going out,

the batteries dying,
the phones wigging out,

the water under the ground,
the soil acting weird.

All of this
is connected somehow.

We just don't know
what the culprit is.

We didn't find any dead aliens
or spaceships,

but what we did find was another
mystery and another clue.

-It's another pushpin.
-Yep.

ERIK:
How far down are we?

-FERNANDO: We're about 25 feet.
-All right.

BRYANT:
We drilled our first hole

and we hit water really early
and it was starting to cave in,

so now we're punching
hole number two.

ERIK:
Wow.

Look at that.
You see what's going on here?

-BRYANT: Yeah.
-This line you see right here?

-BRYANT: Mm-hmm.
-I've been watching this thing
dance around,

and I've never seen that before.

A spectrum analyzer is a device

that's sensitive
to electromagnetic waves,

uh, like radio waves.

And it allows us
to see which frequencies

are present
and at what amplitudes.

And we're seeing stuff
that is neither natural

nor easy to produce.

This may be correlative
with what we're doing

with the rig itself.

I think what I want
to do is watch

how this changes as-as they work
with the machine.

Okay. That is strange.

ERIK:
Yeah.

KALEB: You want to check
right here real quick?

TRAVIS: We might as well
get out and walk around,

see if we trigger anything.

-Okay.
-Take your phone in case
it starts wigging out.

TRAVIS:
While the drilling
continued at the triangle,

Kaleb and I went back
to the East Field.

I wanted to see
if we could measure

any potentially dangerous
energy spikes

or radiation as a possible
result of all the digging.

So, the Bessie was right
over here, right? The cow?

-KALEB: Right between these
two cow-- trees right here.
-Between the two trees.

So, the gamma ray levels
are about three times higher

-right now, background-wise,
than normal.
-Okay.

TRAVIS:
We stopped by the site
where the cow died last summer.

Suddenly, my, uh,
gamma ray detector

started showing an increase
in gamma rays.

Yeah, we just jumped up
above 20...

24 millirem per hour.

Gamma rays
are higher-level X-rays,

and you can get
radiation sickness from them.

Although the levels
weren't immediately dangerous,

they were increasing.

Yeah, you know,
this is crazy weird.

Tell you what,
if you hold this for a minute.

I want to check
another instrument out.

We've got a continuous
magnetic field...

-Mm-hmm.
-...that's going on right now.

TRAVIS:
That should be zero.

Hey, guys. Look at that.

This active peak
is really interesting here.

This thing's moving around.
You see that?

BRYANT:
Yeah. Have you ever seen
that frequency?

-I have not seen this before.
-Really?

If you look over here,
you'll see

this colored waterfall plot here

shows that we've got a peak
that's dancing around

and I don't know
what's driving it.

We seem to be
receiving some kind

of energy.

I think that there may be

an energy source nearby

that can be interpreted
as artificial.

I wonder if this is somehow
connected to the drill.

Look at that.

That makes no sense.

TRAVIS:
Let me just check my compass

-and see if it looks weird.
-We have the compass
in your Jeep.

I've got a compass right here.
Just hang on, I'll find it.

It is right there.

That is odd right there, dude.

-So...
-There is an extraneous

magnetic field right here
messing my compass up.

Kaleb, check this out.
Magnetic north has been shifted

by about five degrees.

It's showing north is that way.

KALEB:
Holy crap.

It's pointing toward
where they're drilling.

TRAVIS: There's a pretty strong
electromagnetic field

right at the drill. Go figure.

BRYANT:
My compass is saying that

that's due north right now.

TRAVIS:
That's what Kaleb's and mine
have been doing.

-Do you have anything
magnetic on you?
-No.

TRAVIS:
Check this out.

Magnetic north has been shifted
by about five degrees.

It's pointing toward
where they're drilling.

Kaleb and I went on a patrol
while the guys

were out at the triangle
drilling,

and we stopped by the site

where the cow died last summer,
and while we were there,

my electronic compass was off.

It was pointing
toward the drill site.

Let's go further south
and see if we're still seeing

the same stuff
the further away we get from...

-Yeah.
-...from the drill rig

and from the homestead area.

-You ready?
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
One of the best places
to see the whole ranch

is down
at the observation tower.

Why don't we go down there,
and that way we can see

-the whole ranch at once?
-Okay.

Do you mind just having them
shut the machine off

for a second?

We're picking something up
that we want to see

if it's being caused
by the machine or not,

so it'll just be one second.
Thank you.

Okay, Erik, it's shut down.

Okay. Oh, it's still active.

This thing's hopping
all over the place.

Look at that.
You see what's going on here?

BRYANT:
Yeah. That is so strange.

ERIK:
This line you see right here,

is, it's moving around
as if under

some kind of, uh,
deliberate control here.

So, what-- I mean, what would
the purpose of something

like that be,
a communication device?

ERIK:
I don't know. Look at this.

-That's bizarre.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
I sure don't know
how to explain this.

TRAVIS:
All right. You ready?

-KALEB: Yep.
-All right, here we go.

-You got everything you need?
-I think so.

KALEB:
I'm gonna get up on top
of that tower

and really see
what we can see up there.

TRAVIS:
We'll be able to see everything.

Since we got such weird compass
and gamma ray readings

in the East Field
that seemed to point

over toward the drill rig
at the triangle,

Kaleb and I went
to the observation tower

at the southernmost point
of the ranch

where we could get high enough
above any obstructions

to see if we could duplicate
those readings.

-Take a few readings here.
-(crackling)

Ooh, hey.

Pretty strong
electromagnetic field.

Seems like it's coming from...
peaks out...

Boom. How about that?

Right at the drill.

-Go figure.
-KALEB: Mm-hmm.

Aim it away from the drill,
it drops.

Clearly the drill's
having some kind of effect

on the magnetic field
of the ranch.

And I can detect it
all the way down here.

That's nuts.

TRAVIS:
I'm not real sure
how to explain this,

but it's possible that
this huge metal drill bit

that's sticking down
into the ground

is acting like a big,
permanent magnet

if it's hitting something
that's more magnetized

than normal under the surface.

That could throw
the compasses off a little bit,

but I've never seen them
go off 15 degrees

like these were doing.

So, what could they be drilling
into that would cause that?

That's really interesting.

ERIK:
It's not the frequency itself,

but it's the behavior
of that frequency

that's caught my attention.

BRYANT:
It really does
kind of sound like

-communication or someone
trying to dial something in.
-Yeah.

You know when you run across
and you get that

-on an old transistor radio?
-Yeah.

BRYANT:
This signal,
it bounces back and forth,

and I don't know
what's going on.

Could it just be
a natural phenomenon

based on the geography
and the geology of this place?

Could it truly be
a higher intelligence

that's communicating?

One thing I do know, is there
are things happening here

that we can't explain.

Are we in communication
with Travis and...?

-Yeah, we can give him a call.
-Thanks.

Hey, Travis.

Do you copy?

TRAVIS:
This is Travis.
Dragon, what do you got?

So, we picked up this signal,

but this thing is bouncing
all over the place.

-It's really, really strange.
-Is that the drill?

-I think that's the drill, yeah.
-Hey, Dragon...

All right, copy you, out.

You can land right here
if you want to,

just pull out of the way
of the drill just a little bit.

Right there's good.

Hey, this was weird stuff.

-TRAVIS: Yeah?
-Really weird.

(device whirring)

TRAVIS:
So, what are you getting?

-Let me just mute this.
-(whirring stops)

-Okay, you know that peak
we've been getting?
-Uh-- Yep, yep.

Look how active it is.

-TRAVIS: Wow.
-It's frequency-modulating.

-But we've seen this before.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

Just two weeks ago...

Oh, crap, look at that.

...a massive energy spike
showed up

on our spectrum analyzer.

And it not only shut down
the entire network

but it also happened
at the same time

that both Thomas and I
suddenly felt ill.

Guys, I'm-I'm leaving the ranch.
I'm getting a bad headache.

I'm dead serious.

So, it made me wonder
if drilling at the triangle area

was causing this
to happen all over again.

That is, uh, that's bizarre.

So, let me tell you
what-what all we've been seeing.

So, not only have the compass
readings been changing,

but we've been measuring
a large magnetic anomaly...

-Uh-huh.
-...and it points
right at the drill.

-Wow.
-And then, the gamma rays

are going-- they're dropping
down into single digits...

-Yeah.
-...and going up into the high
20s in millirem per hour.

-That's interesting.
-Yeah.

But the fact that
it's fluctuating so much,

constantly, is pretty weird.

BRYANT:
Hey, Travis?

My compass is saying
that that's due north right now.

TRAVIS:
That's what, uh,

that's what Kaleb's and mine
have been doing.

BRYANT:
Dude, it's spinning.

It's telling me that north

-is right at me now.
-Oh, come on.

Look, it's still going.
I mean, it made a full rotation

and then corrected itself.

-TRAVIS: Look at that!
-ERIK: Whoa.

ERIK:
As far as you're aware, do you
have anything magnetic on you?

-BRYANT: No.
-Okay...

I don't think we've ever
seen anything

quite like that before at all
on the property.

But then again,
I don't think we've ever tried

drilling like this before.

TRAVIS:
Mine and Kaleb's are lining up
with each other's.

-Right.
-That is insane, dude.

TRAVIS:
There's no real simple
explanation

for the compasses
being messed up.

This would require

a transfer of magnetic
or electromagnetic energy

all the way across the ranch

over miles of distance.

So, this is something
far different

than-than just a piece of metal

being magnetized
by drilling in the ground.

Maybe we're drilling down into
something that's causing this.

Hey, Chance? Do you know--

Do you know what our depth
is now?

How deep was you, Troy?

About 26.

Okay, and you haven't hit
full-on water yet, have you?

-Just that muddy stuff.
-Yeah.

BRYANT:
Well, that's a little
encouraging, at least.

CHANCE:
Yeah.

Well, we don't have water
flowing in the hole,

so I'm really bullish
about going deeper.

I want to go as deep as we can.

TRAVIS:
If it were up to me, I would say

just keep drilling the hole,
'cause I'd like to see

if we can hit-- get water.

BRYANT:
I mean, they're here to drill
as deep as they can, so...

we'll let you get back to it
and we'll just follow your lead.

-All right.
-All right, thanks, Chance.
-Let's get out of the way.

-Thanks, you guys,
for stopping by.
-Thank you.

TRAVIS:
Keep us posted.

BRYANT:
Whoa. Look at that.

CASEY:
That is some dark stuff.

I don't know
what to make of that.

I got the data back
from the analysis

on that interesting black stuff.

TRAVIS:
Just looking at the graphs
you got,

if we mined it and refined it,
we could build an airplane.

-Wow.
-BRYANT: Pretty amazing.

FERNANDO:
Well, guys,

quick update.

We are about 70 feet
right now, roughly.

ERIK: As far as we know,
that's as deep as anything

-that's ever been done
on this property.
-Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. We're hoping to get-get
down to that 100-foot still,

so, we'll keep chewing on it
and seeing what it'll give us.

It's been interesting to see
the change in soil color

-and composition and everything.
-Yeah.

It seems like every time
the bucket comes out,

-about every other time
it changes up.
-Yeah. Yeah.

Got some layering
going on there.

Exactly. Yeah, you just never
know what you're gonna see.

-BRYANT: Okay.
-All right.

We'll get out of your way.
Thanks for the update.

I appreciate it. I'm excited
you already have been--

gotten down to 70 feet.

-That's-that's significant here.
-Yeah.

BRYANT:
The drilling process
seems to be going smoothly.

Watching the different soil
colors come out of the ground

and drilling deeper than we ever
have, really has us excited

to find out what's
actually going on here.

CHANCE:
How deep are we now?

TROY:
Yeah, we're about probably 93.

CHANCE:
Okay.

BRYANT:
Oh. Look at that.

CASEY:
What's that?
It's like pitch-black.

That is some dark, dark stuff.

-ERIK: Yeah, it looks like coal.
-It does.

Does look like coal.

-It looks just like coal to me.
-Yeah.

Oh.

There's another black material
native to this area

that's kind of interesting.

You know what that is?

-See this?
-Yeah.

ERIK:
What's that look like to you?

-BRYANT: Coal.
-Yeah, that's what
we were saying.

The only other black stuff
around here that I know of is...

BRYANT:
We're here at the triangle

where we were able to reach
a depth of 100 feet.

The drillers pulled out
this strange black substance.

And we've heard stories
of this gilsonite that is

a byproduct of a meteor impact
from years ago.

Then you can tell
if it's gilsonite or not, or...?

Well, if it melts all together,
it'll be like a tar sand.

TRAVIS:
Millions of years ago,

this entire area
was inhabited by dinosaurs.

And scientists
have long speculated

that what caused
their extinction

was one or more meteors
impacting the earth.

Now, we won't know until
we test this black substance

if it is gilsonite or not,
but if it is,

it could be evidence
of something that originated

in outer space,
and if that's the case,

what else could be down there

that might provide us
with some answers?

-ERIK: What do you think?
-Huh?

What do you think?

FERNANDO:
It wouldn't ignite,
so it kind of told us

it's not a flammable material.

Definitely not petroleum-based.

And gilsonite flakes off
and fractures real easy.

So I would dare guess

that it could be s-some
gilsonite that we are hitting.

But without testing it,
I can't give

a for-sure answer of what it is.

ERIK:
Well, we've got a lot of
samples, and this is probably

the most interesting
and it's at the bottom.

BRYANT:
Yeah, it'll be cool
to get it tested and see.

FERNANDO:
All right, guys.

We got 100 feet in there.

Um, probably a little extra,
but, um...

-I think that's all she wrote.
-BRYANT: Okay.

-Thank you for all your work.
-Yeah.

-Appreciate it. This is awesome.
-No problem, guys.

-Glad to help.
-BRYANT: We're excited.

FERNANDO:
Yep.

ERIK: I got the data back
from the analysis

on that interesting
black stuff taken out

of the drilling activity
at the triangle.

I'd love to hear what you got.

You might find this interesting.

Take a look.

It doesn't look like gilsonite.

-Well, there's strontium.
-Yep.

-Barium.
-Strontium and barium.

Both of which have radioa--
uh, radioactive isotopes.

I found that interesting.

But the interesting thing
here, though,

you've got manganese, iron,

uh, aluminum,
sulfur and silicon.

I mean, that's all the stuff
you would need

to put together
modern-day electronics.

-ERIK: That's pretty
interesting.
-If you go and take

any modern-day fighter plane

or spacecraft
and you crush it up,

and then you take
a sample of it,

you're probably gonna get
these materials.

BRYANT:
Whoa.

Hmm. This is very interesting.

ERIK:
Travis recognized materials

that are used
in the manufacture of aircraft

and semiconductor devices.

Why do we have something
like that black material

at a certain depth here
at Skinwalker Ranch?

I have no idea.

But I do find it fascinating.

TRAVIS:
That looks so familiar to me.

I've seen that.

I bet we could cool that down

to liquid, uh,
nitrogen temperatures

and I think it would be
superconducting.

-BRYANT: I can do that, too.
-Hey, that's easy enough to do.

We'd need a big magnet.

I think I know where
we can find one of those.

What we might want to do
is take the samples

that we've already sent out
and do some follow-up analysis--

you know, some chemical
analysis-- we might find out,

uh, more about the
light element composition.

Just looking at the graphs
you got, you could--

you got enough stuff there,
if we m-- if we mined it

and refined it,
we could build an airplane.

Wow.

It took us getting down
the deepest we've ever gotten

on the ranch, to 100 feet,

to find this strange
black substance.

You never know where there might
be a hidden clue in there.

I find that really interesting.

BRYANT:
Pretty amazing.

ERIK:
Some really cool insights,
Travis.

-Thanks.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Finding this strange,
conductive material

deep underground
at the triangle area

is the first physical
scientific evidence

of something that might not be
natural under the ground.

Whether it's part
of some kind of structure

or object, we can't tell.

But what we have to do
is follow up on this

and see if the rest of the ranch
has similar characteristics.

This discovery could lead us
to finding out

why all these bizarre phenomena

keep happening
at Skinwalker Ranch.

THOMAS:
You know, the thing about
digging on Skinwalker Ranch

is that the bad things don't
always happen immediately,

and there's a superstitious
part of me that says

the number of things that
I've seen go wrong after digging

just cannot be a coincidence.

BRANDON: We have never before
seen this level of investigation

with digging and taking
a more aggressive approach.

We don't know
what lies in store.

I think we have yet
to fully understand

the consequences of our work

out at Skinwalker Ranch.

TRAVIS:
We're gonna see if the ground

underneath Skinwalker Ranch
is conductive.

-All right, Erik, hook it up.
-All right.

-TRAVIS: There-- Look at that.
-THOMAS: Oh, wow.

TRAVIS:
The ground itself

might be acting like a battery.

We're gonna be putting
so much power

through the ground,
and hopefully we can stimulate

something on the ranch.

CAMERON:
Energize.

Wait, wait, wait.
What is that, right there?

It's diving and then it stops.

That is crazy.

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