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ANNOUNCER: Tonight on "Beyond Skinwalker Ranch"...

I felt this intense cold move right past my back,

as if it was a person.

Oh, my gosh. Look at that.

We're seeing four or five times

the average level of magnetic activity.

Do you see the orange right above the trees?

-Can you see this? -Yes, I can.

That's a solid glowing ball.

We have a burning hot burrow of some sort.

That's hot like there's something in it.

I had an orb experience not too far from here.

It's coming straight toward the shore right now.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

All of a sudden, I am much less excited

about going out there looking for this.

For years, scientists have been working

to reveal the secrets of Skinwalker Ranch.

But is it possible

that the clues to unlock the mystery

are located beyond the borders

of this hub of high strangeness?

-Now... -Whoa!

An ex-CIA agent and a veteran journalist

have been recruited by the Skinwalker team

to go on a high-stakes mission across America.

Look at all this activity that's happened.

-That's unbelievable. -Oh, my gosh. Look at that.

Look at that, look at that, look at that.

The goal--uncover evidence that may finally expose the truth.

-What is that thing? -It's getting more intense.

You ever seen anything like this before?

No.

♪

This is just the beginning.

♪♪

Paul and Andy, it's good to have you at the table again.

-Good to be back. -Yeah.

Well, from the looks on your faces, I feel like

we're at the top of a new adventure.

Absolutely, and our thought here is to go back as far as we can

to kind of the starting place of high strangeness

in the United States.

This area predates the United States itself.

It's an area called the Bridgewater Triangle.

It's outside of Boston.

Really, the oldest recorded UFO sighting

in the United States was in Boston in 1639.

John Winthrop reported seeing some kind of fireball in the sky

that moved about for hours.

As you can see, it's, you know, now

you know, highly populated,

but still to this day, lots of incidents of high strangeness.

Why the particular points of the triangle? Do we know?

This triangle was actually built in the 1970s by an investigator

who was investigating claims of different types of phenomenon

throughout the area and literally just putting

a point on a map over the course of multiple data points

and came up with this triangle.

And those reportings include UFOs,

orb sightings, cryptids,

and other types of paranormal activity.

This was the scene of a particularly bloody chapter

in the country's history.

Are you familiar with King Philip's War?

Heard of it.

During this--this war between the British,

well, then the British colonists and the native Wampanoags,

on a per capita basis, it was deadlier than the Civil War.

Really ended with a-- with a surrender

and then a massacre

not too far from an area called Anawan Rock.

Did it leave some kind of mark on the landscape?

Some kind of history being left in the land itself,

not unlike what we hear about here with the curse.

You said cryptid.

Is there any mention of anything akin to a Skinwalker?

There's a cryptid that they call a Pukwudgie.

-A what? -A Pukwudgie.

-Pukwudgie. -Pukwudgie.

Pukwudgie. Yeah.

This woodland creature

that would almost lure people, uh, to their death.

-Is that a Wampanoag term? -Yes.

We understand this idea of a curse,

and we understand that there's cryptids locally,

but we want to dig more into what is the explanation.

Do they mimic the Skinwalkers that we hear about here

in Skinwalker Ranch... -Mm-hmm.

...and other parts of the United States?

Yeah. If there's a curse, who knows?

They might have put some being or entity or demon, uh,

to protect or terrorize the location,

so--which would fit

in the Skinwalker sort of, uh, description.

I think one of the things that's really

gonna make this investigation unique

is that Bridgewater Triangle has this verbal history.

-There's no hard data behind it. -Right.

So...I'm okay with taking the stories,

the ghost stories, as data.

-Right. -But then we got to figure out

what hard scientific measurements and data

we can gather from that.

Once we're boots on the ground, our goal is to go out there

with the instrumentation that we have

and see if we can't put some data

behind the claims that exist verbally.

I really like the sounds of that.

It looks like swampy area, so, uh, be prepared to, uh,

trudge through some mud and some...

-[laughs] -...some muck.

-Well, be careful, guys. -Yeah.

-And, uh, be safe, right? -Yeah.

-Well, good luck. -Thanks, gentlemen.

-Yeah. -Thank you.

Go forth and conquer.

♪

I'm really excited about this one.

This feels like we're going sort of

deeper into history than we have before.

The curse that we're chasing down here

predates the Skinwalker curse at Skinwalker Ranch

by more than 200 years.

PAUL: In many ways, this is where it all began,

and this is where these stories of high strangeness began.

ANDY: And what's fascinating is, as you drive through here,

you see that we're not in the middle of nowhere.

We're in the middle

of essentially suburban neighborhood.

People live here full-time, year round.

-Yeah. -And this phenomenon

is happening just in their backyard.

PAUL: It's very concentrated.

I mean, in the middle of it all is the Hockomock Swamp,

I mean, which is-- which means in Wampanoag,

"the place where the spirits dwell."

I mean, it's--it's written all over the landscape.

And I'm actually really excited that we get to have

a resident along with us on this investigation.

We actually have Matty Blake joining us.

People know him from "Drilling Down"

and from "Beyond Oak Island,"

but what they don't realize is that he's actually a native

from not far from here.

Right, right, and long before those shows.

I mean, investigating the Bridgewater Triangle

has been his passion for-- for decades.

It's really gonna be a big asset for us.

Andy and Paul are meeting with Matty Blake

to check out a spot known as the Skim Milk Bridge,

where many strange anomalies have been documented.

Welcome to my original home state

and the Bridgewater Triangle.

The Hockomock Swamp, to be specific.

The crazy thing is it feels like sort of

a little middle of nowhere in the middle of everywhere.

-A suburb. -That's really well said.

In a little short walk,

you won't feel like you're in the middle of civilization.

I promise you that. It's vast, and it is desolate.

I'm excited to see it. Let's get to it.

All right. Straight ahead. I'll lead.

It's gonna be a cold one, boys, so bundle up.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

♪♪

One of the common things

you'll hear about this whole area

is that you feel like you're being watched.

I do believe that to be true.

In fact, I stopped coming out here, to be completely honest.

ANDY: What happened?

Well, um, I had an orb experience

not too far from here,

and I saw a classic orange orb following me as I walked.

I started walking quicker.

Every time I looked up, it was there.

I felt like I was being urged to just leave.

So, the history, I mean, people have been seeing

strange things here for hundreds of years, right?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you have reported UFO sightings

you know, hundreds of years ago outside of Boston,

not far from here.

Whatever's happening has been going on a long time.

I think the most compelling UFO sighting

happened right over there in the '70s.

Two local newscasters saw it.

Hundreds of witnesses

said it was the size of a football field.

-That's a ton of eyewitnesses. -That's massive.

-That's massive, yeah. -And a local woman,

according to reports, said that that craft

landed here in this swamp. -ANDY: Uh-huh.

PAUL: What, disappeared into the swamp?

Yeah. And I'm not sure that science

is gonna give you the answers you want.

I think it's maybe beyond science,

but they might decide to show you--

put on a little show for you tonight.

How do you feel about being out here at night with us?

Uh, however I can help you guys, I will.

I mean, I'm still apprehensive.

It's--It's--It's not-- I'm not comfortable.

I'll be--I'll be honest. Um, I think it's a bit of

a malevolent energy here. -Hmm.

The more that I see, the more that I want to explore.

So can we get a little bit deeper in here

and see where we might be able to set up camp?

Yeah, let's-- Let's get into the bridge.

Yeah.

The Skim Milk Bridge's origin is a mystery.

No one knows when it was constructed,

who built it,

or where the 4,000-pound stacked stones came from.

Wow. So, what's the story here?

What's the significance of Skim Milk Bridge?

Well, there's been a lot of paranormal activity,

you could say, associated with the bridge, over the years.

People have claimed to have seen

colonial-era people walking across the bridge.

People have seen a lot of light anomalies around here.

There were three orbs seen in the '90s.

There's also a terrible story of a 20th century woman

canoeing the river and disappeared.

And they found her canoe in perfect condition.

Everything inside it was dry, but she was gone.

And her body was found, uh, under the bridge, unfortunately.

-Under this bridge right here? -Yeah.

What--What do they think happened to her?

The--The--Her parents always said foul play.

Really?

Perhaps really lured by somebody or something.

I would say this.

This is like the heartbeat of the Bridgewater Triangle,

in my opinion.

Um, this is--this is the source of--of most of the stories.

It's where all the action is. It's--

It's where all the creepy things happen.

So, if there is some sort of anomaly,

I think you'll be here. I think you're in the right place.

Well, this is a great place to set up.

Yeah.

♪

So, one of the key pieces of equipment

that we're setting up tonight... -Yeah, it's pretty cool.

...is called a UFODAP, and it's actually an AI device.

It scans a set portion of the sky,

and anything that passes across that frame,

it's gonna get picked up, and it can actually determine

whether it's a plane or something unknown.

No kidding.

So, 109 is connected.

Beautiful.

Tell you what, you guys are bringing

the Bridgewater Triangle into the modern era.

This is next level.

If there's anything out here,

we're--we're gonna capture it one way or another.

Cool. We got 99% on the Jackery,

so I'm going to try to bring the UFODAPs online.

All right, we've got 108 and 109.

Hunter tracker are both up. You see positive? You see--

Confirmed, yep.

Paul, I just lost, uh, the UFODAPs went offline.

-I just had it when-- -It just shut off?

Yeah, that's not seeing them.

Well, we just lost power completely.

-You said 99%, right? -Yeah.

I didn't mishear you.

This said 99%. Yeah, this is fully charged.

All right, so we've got no power right now.

-Did we literally--It just died? -Yeah.

-The whole thing just died? -Completely.

We're dark.

We'll see if we can get this back up.

But in the meantime, I'm gonna switch everything

over to the smaller Jackery. -Yeah.

♪

-And... -Oh, everything just fired up.

We got 94% on this guy right now.

-These monitors just fired up. -Yeah.

All right. So, we're gonna have to work fast, though.

It's not gonna leave us a lot of time.

-Yeah. -Hey, Paul, we've got power,

but for some reason, the software is not connecting.

Something in the operating system

was triggered to take security steps.

Tell you what, while you do that,

let me just try and power up the FLIR.

It's not dark yet, but...

Yeah, you wanna do the handheld, too?

Let's just see...

We're rebooting here.

Push comes to shove, we got the three of us.

-Yeah. -That is the...

-Wow. -Isn't that amazing?

This FLIR has been so incredibly reliable.

Go ahead and trigger record on that bad boy

to make sure that we have it. -Yeah.

What, we got a bad card here?

♪

-Card not saved? -Not saved.

-The memory card? -Are you kidding me?

-Have you ever had... -No, it's done.

This thing's not working either? We have lost every opportunity

we have to record tonight.

I have never seen this level of equipment failure

in any of our previous experiments.

-We have no software... -Not the card.

...and some kind of failure with the memory card.

-Yeah. -We've got no tech right now.

Welcome to

the Bridgewater Triangle, gentlemen.

♪♪

♪

So I reset everything, and we're just getting total failure.

Look at this. I have a complete shutdown

on the software system for the computer.

What's our plan B here?

I want to pull out our analog equipment

and see if we can kind of get a sense

of what's driving all this failure.

So, one of the first things I want to look for is

any kind of magnetic or electromagnetic anomalies.

-Yep. -Sure.

TriField meter is gonna give us

a sense of the magnetic impact here.

We've seen technology failure in other investigations.

We've also seen anomalies that we can measure.

Right.

So right here...Wow, you're seeing that right, Paul?

-Yeah. Whoa! -Oh, my gosh. Look at that.

Look at that. Look at that. Look at that.

Whoa, whoa.

We're at 2 milligauss. 2.9 milligauss.

Look at--this is crazy. Look at this activity.

-What is going on? -You see that?

-Really? -In a normal location

anywhere in America, you're looking at .1, .2.

We're seeing four or five times

the average level of magnetic activity.

Not only are we getting those spikes,

but the baseline seems to be... -It is.

...between 0.5 and 1.5 almost all the time.

That is an intense amount of magnetic activity.

Yeah. Wow.

Look at our radiation right now. See that?

-[steady beeping] -What?

Look, we're at 17 Micro Rem, dropping slowly right now.

This is seven points higher

than what you would expect to see...

-Right. -...anywhere else.

That means we have both magnetic activity and radiation.

What I'm seeing is completely blowing my mind.

I mean, we're looking at electromagnetic energy

in this area that's 10 to 15 times higher

than anything that I would expect to see here right now.

I mean, this could be attracting all sorts of strangeness

all around this Hockomock Swamp area.

What--What could cause something like a radiation spike?

Some sort of energy source is putting out more radiation.

-Yeah. -And this confirms that

that same power source

is also putting out some kind of electromagnetic field.

What I've got to wonder now is this magnetic field

what's--what's spiking all of our equipment?

There's a very good likelihood that that's what's happening.

I got to tell you, actually, in my estimation,

that's scarier than any ghost or orb

I could have seen tonight.

I-I did not expect that. Everyone I love lives here.

I live in this area, so that's not--that's not good.

You know, that's--that's disturbing to me,

and, um, I'm glad you did it, though.

I'm glad you--I'm glad you got those readings,

'cause the people should know.

-All right, let's head back. -All right, let's do this.

♪♪

After intriguing results with Matty Blake at Skim Milk Bridge,

Paul and Andy are on their way

to investigate the historical Anawan Rock,

another notorious site located within the Bridgewater Triangle,

where they're meeting with researcher Andrew Lake.

This is where this whole story begins, right?

Anawan Rock has a reputation of being very haunted...

Mm.

...by the Wampanoags who made their last stand here.

-Yeah. -As you can see by this sign,

this was the end of the King Philip's War.

Historians said it was probably

the bloodiest conflict in North America.

Wow.

Some of the nastiest crimes against humanity

you could think of.

♪

I myself have had some experiences here

that make me feel that this place is always

gonna hold on to that history and that energy.

I mean, I'm really eager to actually get eyes on the rock.

Well, yeah, let's go in. Let's go in,

and I can continue the story.

What happened in the King Phili's War was

the English authorities in Plymouth

uh, kept pushing the Wampanoag tribe,

making them give up land.

At one point, they wanted them to hand over their firearms.

It was an absolutely brutal conflict.

♪♪

General Anawan, a much older man,

he became their leader whether he liked it or not,

and he had retreated to this spot.

♪♪

-This is the last stand. -This is it.

And Benjamin Church snuck up on them,

and without firing a shot.

Anawan surrendered,

and they were drawn and quartered and beheaded,

and their heads were put on spikes.

So this place has a reputation of being

very haunted by the Wampanoags who made their last stand here.

♪

What was your experience here?

Well, my experience here, uh, was in, uh, 2008,

two days after the anniversary of the surrender.

And I was here helping some friends

with their radio program.

And I volunteered to come out here

with their scientific advisor, Matt Moniz.

And we were up on the top of the rock,

and what I saw was what they call phantom fires.

There was a fire burning with no heat, no smoke, no sound,

campfire light under the canopy.

And it looked like-- like a film overlay.

But it just faded away.

I had heard these stories about people

seeing these phantom fires.

But then to be standing up there that night,

look out there and see it, it was just crazy.

That wasn't the end of it.

We were standing up on the rock, and Matt was facing toward 44,

and I was facing out this way, and it was August.

It was very warm,

and I felt this intense, and I mean, intense cold

move right past my back,

as if it was a person walking right past me.

My brain immediately thought, something is moving past me,

and all the hair stands up on me.

And I immediately spun around, and there was Matt with this--

probably the same look on his face,

And he goes, "What the eff just walked between us?"

And that's exactly what I was thinking.

It was like a fluid movement of something, and it was gone.

Andrew Lake has an incredible depth of historical knowledge.

He also is an experiencer himself.

Now, our job is to come and measure real data,

to take real, meaningful findings,

real results back to Skinwalker Ranch.

And Andrew seems like the right person to help us do that.

Now, this is the actual campsite where

Anawan had set up camp that night.

Right here along the backside of the rock.

I mean, this-- I think this is the place.

This is where we want to set up.

-Yeah, I completely agree. -Yeah.

Based on Andrew Lake's firsthand experiences

of strange anomalies at Anawan Rock,

tonight's investigation will focus on visual, thermal,

and energy phenomena in the surrounding area.

♪♪

-[high-pitched electronic whine] -We are recording on the FLIR.

-Awesome. -Got us looking right

into the heart of the swamp over there.

Yeah. I'm just gonna scan with the night vision.

Just go for it.

What I've got here are night vision goggles

that we can use to record.

So you'll see them projected here on the screen.

So, what we'll do is we'll step down here

and we'll start taking a look as well.

Sure.

Paul, we're gonna look in this direction, over this way.

Okay. And I'll keep my eyes on the FLIR as well.

♪

So, the main thing we're looking for here

is any kind of light reflecting off of eyes.

Or if we see a light source somewhere

in the woods, it's gonna be amplified,

but it might only come across as a flicker.

Okay.

So, just keep your eyes open for that.

That is just black swamp.

ANDREW: Yes.

♪

All right, Paul, it looks quiet so far on thermal and...

-Yep. -...night vision.

I'm wondering if there's something that in the past,

Andrew, has caused a response.

Yeah. One of the things that folks have tried to do

is speaking Algonquin. -Mm-hmm.

So, I mean, I don't know if you want to try to...

-Yeah. -Well, we don't have

an ancient Native American language,

but we do have a recording of an ancient Hebrew prayer.

-Oh. -We have the same prayer

that was chanted at Skinwalker. -That's right.

In 2020, the Skinwalker team used

an ancient Hebrew prayer as a catalyst

while attempting to open a portal.

What they documented were strange thermal anomalies

throughout the entire area near Homestead Two.

[chanting] Shalom.

[speaks Hebrew]

Erik, come here a minute.

You seeing something?

Look at the difference in the FLIR imagery now.

It's completely changed.

Now Andy and Paul are conducting a thermal test at Anawan Rock.

They'll be using the exact same Hebrew prayer

recorded by Travis and his team

to see if it will similarly trigger any thermal anomalies,

like the phantom fire or cold flash

that Andrew Lake described.

[chanted Hebrew prayer playing on recording]

♪

[chanting continues]

Paul, am I seeing something?

[chanting continues]

Does this look like a plane to you?

Do you see the orange right above the trees?

♪

-Andrew, can you see this? -Yes, I can.

What is that? It's right through the tops of the trees.

Look at it.

♪

ANDY: That's a solid glowing ball.

That's really strange.

Floating right through Hockomock Swamp.

[chanting continues]

And it seemed to come out of the air

when we started the rabbi chant. -It doesn't have--

It doesn't have any flashing lights at all.

-[chanting continues] -It's going very fast.

-Are you recording on that? -I got it.

♪

I don't know what that was. It just went away.

It just disappeared behind the trees.

Whatever that was, just tracked right across here.

Right in the canopy.

-That was weird. [laughs] -It also moved really fast.

That was weird.

Of all the planes I've seen around here,

they're all going to Boston, and they're all moving,

you know, slow. -And also, like,

it--it seemed low, right? -ANDY: It did.

It seemed low and fast. So if it were a plane,

we would have heard it. -ANDREW: Yes.

ANDY: That's a great point.

I mean, we are in an ancient place with an ancient language,

speaking an ancient prayer and seeing a phenomenon

that has been reported in the Hockomock Swamp before.

This is happening in front of us.

Our entire crew is watching this orb

float through the treetops with our jaws on the floor.

I mean, there, you can see, it's clear as a bell.

-No flashing lights. -Look at that.

Just, it doesn't look like an airplane, right?

-No, it doesn't, not at all. -PAUL: Nope.

-Look at that. -Completely steady.

-That's a solid ball of light. -Yes. Yes, it is.

And it's going really fast.

The flickering is from when it's going through branches.

-That is not a plane. -No.

And I think this is where I'm losing--

-What was that thing? -Yeah, and it's gone now.

Wow.

♪

The next day, Paul and Andy broaden their investigation

by going to the town of Raynham

in the heart of the Bridgewater Triangle

to meet with local resident Bill Russo

to discuss an encounter he had

with what he believes was a shapeshifting creature

from Native American lore known as a Pukwudgie.

This is a residential neighborhood.

This is--This is not kind of where you'd expect to have

some kind of cryptid encounter.

Andy, it's--it's a quiet town. I am not a ghost hunter,

not in any paranormal groups. I don't look up in the sky.

I was a guy working a 3:30 to midnight shift in an ironworks.

Now, every night when I get home,

Samantha, my Rottweiler Shepherd,

take our walk.

We walked back here.

When we got to about that fire plug,

Sammy started doing this on the leash,

and it was heart-wrenching. -Right.

-She was scared. -The night was very dark.

That streetlight cast a circle of light down on the street,

and into that circle of light walked a thing, and it did this.

♪♪

So, Bill Russo, you know, he's classic salt of the earth.

This is not someone I think is gonna make something up.

His impressions are totally genuine

and, frankly, you know, just really colorful.

He has a vivid memory of, you know,

a completely bizarre encounter

in a neighborhood that he'd lived in for years.

What did you think was happening?

It's got to be a little kid, could be in a costume,

but it just kept doing this. -Right.

So, you ruled out that it was a child.

It must be some kind of natural animal from the woods

that you just hadn't seen before that was aged--

Animal in the woods that walks on two legs,

3 feet tall, had a pot belly.

It looked like some sort of a hairy thing.

I got the impression it was old.

-A pot belly? -Yeah.

-Like a humanoid? -Somewhat humanoid in a way,

because it had hands and relatively big eyes.

How did it come to an end?

Very simple. I gave in to Sam.

I wanted to get closer to the thing,

but I was being held down by an 80-pound Rottweiler Shepherd.

If Sammy's frightened of it, it can't be up to any good.

What did you do?

I made a wide berth and headed home.

Only saw one, never saw it again.

Right.

But after I wrote a blog about this,

and other writers heard about it,

they told me, "You saw a Pukwudgie."

The Pukwudgie is a creature from Wampanoag mythology,

described as a 3 to 4-foot tall humanoid.

It is said to possess the power

to hypnotize its victims and lure them to their death.

I 100% believe what I saw.

Where do you think it came from?

If you go behind my house,

you'll enter an area that's preserved.

The woodland is like it was 300 years ago.

You think that's where this thing,

this Pukwudgie, came from?

Undoubtedly. Undoubtedly.

I mean, I feel like that's the place that we need

to investigate next. -Yeah, sounds like--

That sounds like that's where we need to go.

-Well, thank you again, Bill. -Thank you.

-Appreciate your help. -Thank you.

-All right. -Take care, man.

♪♪

♪

Bill wasn't kidding. This is right in their backyard.

-And this place looks eerie... -Yeah.

-...even by day. -Yeah.

After hearing from local resident Bill Russo

about an experience he had with what he believed to be

a Native American legendary creature known as a Pukwudgie,

Andy and Paul are headed to the area

where Bill thinks the shapeshifter came from

in the Hockomock Swamp

to meet with scientist Matt Moniz.

Beautiful evening, but this--this place is creepy.

Welcome to the Bridgewater Triangle.

It--It feels like we're in the middle of nowhere,

but we're right in the middle of the suburbs.

We are approximately 50 miles outside of Boston.

This area was not as thickly settled,

mainly because you can't really build out a swamp.

♪

But a lot of the indigenous tribes--

they would not venture too far into the swamp

unless they had to.

This is dark woods.

Are there stories of the Pukwudgie?

Yes. Same kind of description in most of the Algonquin Nation.

-Small people. -Small people.

-Right. -So, what we'd like to do

is actually go looking for them,

and we wanna do it here in the swamp.

So, what--what do you recommend?

-How should we go about this? -Carefully.

There's a lot of people that do go missing around here.

What is your understanding

of the local lore behind the Pukwudgie?

Pukwudgies have been seen in this area for hundreds of years.

It is a thing that will lure you into the woods

with balls of light, or they'll call you.

"Follow me. Follow my light. Follow my voice."

What is their objective in luring someone away?

They're a type of soul stealer and they--

So, it's a trickster, like-- like Coyote or lots of other...

-Right. -...Native American stories.

They are also known to be shapeshifters,

and Coyote is one of the forms that they are said to take.

When you start to see how the Pukwudgie legend

aligns with the legend of the Skinwalker,

you see these really interesting connections.

These two tribes more than a thousand miles apart--

how does that happen if there isn't some sort

of connective evidence between the two of them?

PAUL: I mean, if there's somewhere where we can set up

sort of our base camp, that would be great.

So, why don't you just show us the way?

Yeah.

♪

ANDY: I think right about here could be really good.

PAUL: This looks like a great place for our base camp.

We've actually got a great view right where

Bill thinks the Pukwudgie may have come from.

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So, Matt, let me introduce you to Pete.

This is Pete Kelsey. Pete's a drone operator.

We brought Pete in from the Skinwalker team.

He's gonna be, really, our eyes in the sky.

In 2022, Pete Kelsey used a thermal camera attached

to a drone to search for temperature differences

in the Skinwalker mesa

that could identify any openings leading to a tunnel

or underground cavern.

Heading for Thomas.

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That's 64 degrees.

Whereas on the rock surfaces you are--

Yeah, out in the sun, just went to 102.

40-degree difference.

Good God.

That's concerning.

Now he'll use this same technology

at the Bridgewater Triangle, but this time,

the team will be searching for any anomalies

that might explain the Pukwudgie sightings

in the Hockomock Swamp.

The thermal camera will pick up

temperature changes in the environment,

as well as heat signatures from any warm-blooded animal

caught in its lens.

What exactly am I looking for on a thermal camera?

We're looking for a specific creature called a Pukwudgie.

Now, the dimensions that we know of

stand somewhere between 2 and 4 feet tall.

Yeah. Humanoid in shape

in terms of head, arms, legs, bipedal.

If it has a heat signature at all,

it should look like something between a human

and a furry animal.

Which suggests warm-blooded, which would work well.

And so what kind of range do we have here, Pete?

[chuckles] As far as you want, more than likely.

-Okay, great, -Um, 'cause I will be able

to see you guys, no problem. -[chuckles]

As long as you don't go hypothermic on us.

-Yeah, we'll work on that. -Yeah.

All right, before we head out, guys, a friend of mine acquired

what they think is a picture of a Pukwudgie.

-Really? -And this is what they caught.

Oh, whoa.

That's just the head.

-Oh, I see it now. -Yeah, exactly.

-Right? -That's terrifying.

I mean, it looks like a small person,

-But look at the chest. -Whatever this thing is

is looking right at the cameraperson.

All of a sudden,

I am much less excited about going out looking for this.

-You ready to rock and roll? -Ready.

-Keep us safe. -Yep.

-We'll keep an eye on you. -Thanks, guys.

-Literally. -I'll be watching you.

-All right. -Catch you later.

So, we'll get the drone set up, and we'll be in touch.

Let's go.

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Andy, we are up, and we're gonna try and pick you up.

Copy that, Paul. Thank you.

So, I'm going to sit at 150 feet

'cause I know I'll be clear of the trees.

Copy.

Jeez, look at this.

Whoop. Whoa. Look at that.

♪

I just discovered how deep the swamp is.

We've got a visual on you, Andy.

You can hear the drone overhead, right?

-Yep. -That means they're...

Directly overhead.

That's the sound of a friend in sight.

♪

What's happening there? Look at that.

PETE: Yeah, that's pretty interesting.

-Hey, Andy? -I'm here, Paul.

Are you on the shore right now?

Paul, we are at the waterside of the swamp.

You're not moving right now, right?

Correct, sir. We are not moving. We are in place.

There is something large moving in the water

maybe 50 yards to your left,

and it's approaching. It's hugging the shore.

You got it?

No, sir, I'm--I'm looking for it.

PAUL: That thing is big.

PETE: And moving at a pretty good clip.

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It's coming straight toward the shore right now.

Man, this is creeping me out that we can't see this, Matt.

Oh, stand by. Stand by. We might have something.

-Whoa! -Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Do you see that?

Andy, it looks like some kind of large bird.

Maybe a swan.

That was an alarming... [laughs]

-That was crazy. -That was frightening.

All right, good to go. Thanks, uh,

Thanks for the eyes in the sky there, Paul.

All right, man, we're gonna keep moving along the shoreline

if you're good with that.

Yep, good copy.

Okay. I think what I'm gonna do now, guys,

is bring it home.

-Oop. Okay. -I'm at half a battery.

Andy, we're gonna return to base here with the drone.

The battery is drawing down very quickly.

You're on your own for now.

[whirring]

♪

-What have we got there? -Magnetic field interference.

Hey, Andy, get this. We've-- We've got a message on the drone

that actually says, "Magnetic Field Interference.

Fly with caution."

So, the drone is reading it.

Copy that, man.

[branch snaps, footsteps]

MATT: Did you hear that?

Hey, Paul, I'm hearing snapping down here.

Have you guys seen us yet?

We do not have eyes on you for now.

I'm moving across the, uh, the ground.

Got it. You're on your own for now.

So, this is really useful, man, because temperature colors

are gonna show us that we're seeing some kind of anomaly.

And let's just see how far we can get out here

before we run into trouble.

Right behind.

♪♪

[footsteps, branch snaps]

There it was again. Did you hear that again?

MATT: Yes, I did.

Hey, Paul, we're working our way close to base camp.

The snapping sound seems to keep getting closer to you guys

On its way to your location.

All right, I'm gonna grab the night vision.

All right, Pete, I'm gonna go check this out

for a second with Andy. -Okay.

♪

[rustling]

Oh, my gosh. Look at this.

Oh-ho-ho. [laughs]

We have a burning hot...

burrow of some sort. That's hot like there's something in it.

Is that you, Paul?

-What have you got there? -I'm right here, man.

PAUL: What is this?

What I don't understand is the heat signature.

If that's an uninhabited animal burrow,

I would expect it to be cold like the rest of the soil.

Oh, whoa, whoa. There's a huge entrance here.

-Oh, yeah? -The thing just goes on and on.

Yeah, it goes way back there. Oh, it's hot, too, man.

Something made this its home.

From down there,

we started hearing footsteps on dry twigs.

That brought us here.

I feel like we were following something.

Yeah, as we approach, we heard it retreat.

♪

Well, I think Andy, at this point,

maybe we'll try to get the drone back up, continue the search.

Maybe whatever was here can be flushed out

or is gonna show itself again, or we'll find something else.

Yeah.

Okay, let me just make a couple of checks.

♪

Yeah, "Magnetic Field Interference.

Fly with caution." -Yeah.

ANDY: Yeah.

I'm gonna take a look at an old school compass,

and I just wanna see

if the compass shows any kind of strange activity.

It is absolutely oscillating.

Let's get him away from the metal

and and see if we still get it.

Let's do a side by side.

None of them are matching.

♪♪

Look at that.

I see three compasses pointing at three different norths.

There was a magnet or a motor

or even the computers themselves.

Everything would point at that.

But that's not what's happening here.

I feel like I'm looking at three broken compasses,

which I know can't exist.

What? What?

Yeah, I see it too.

-Oh, wow, look at that. -I see it, too.

Nick, if you have that Sionyx, I can catch it.

Look at that thing.

-Completely steady. -Yep.

Nothing. Yeah.

That's super bright. It's going right through the tree line.

PAUL: That thing is so bright.

MATT: Let me see if it's on my app.

PAUL: That is intense.

PETE: That's nothing FAA that's pinging.

PAUL: That's definitely not an aircraft?

PETE: No.

Are you tapped into the FAA live feed right now?

There's nothing else within miles.

The blue dot is us.

-Now I-I just lost it. -You just lost it?

-It just sort of winked out? -Yep.

I lost it on here as well.

And there's nothing, so whatever it was

was not transponding, which is pretty strange.

Right. That was amazing.

Great eyes, whoever caught that.

Wow. We just gathered our data.

Now we got to try to make sense of it all.

We're kind of excited to package these up...

Was gonna say...

...and get these to Erik and Travis.

We have a lot for those guys to look over.

-Yeah. -Cool.

Well, I mean, we--we are in the heart

of the Bridgewater Triangle, and--and it delivered.

♪

Welcome back, guys. I absolutely can't wait

to hear what you uncovered at this Bridgewater Triangle place.

This trip was 100% worth it.

-No kidding. -We had no idea.

-That's a good start, yeah. -...what we were going to find.

So the first place that we started is

a location known as Skim Milk Bridge.

Similar to running into some really intense weather,

we also ran into some really intense equipment failure.

We lost a solid state generator.

You know, state-of-the-art. It's called a Jackery.

Oh, yes, I'm very familiar with that, yeah.

But, I mean, it just clocked out completely.

Our computers had a strange reaction,

as if they were trying to fight off a virus.

So we were not able to actually collect the vast majority

of what we wanted to collect. -Okay.

And we were out there with Matty Blake.

Maddie, you know--he told us to be ready for this kind of thing,

and we were ready for it, you know, physically,

but we just had, you know, case after case of equipment failure.

Well, that's really interesting because one of the things

we have seen here a lot is batteries being affected

and immediately drained.

We just charged them, unplugged them,

and their-- and their reading is dead.

I actually never made the connection myself

between the fact that our solid-state generator

is just a giant battery. -Yeah.

So, to see it discharge or fail to work really is in line

with what you guys see here on Skinwalker Ranch.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

This is a classic example of no data is data.

After our first investigation at Skim Milk Bridge,

we moved on to a second location here...

called Anawan Rock, kind of the center point for,

uh, a lot of the legend that has to do

with the King Philip's War.

We paired up with a historian named Andrew Lake.

Okay.

And multiple experiences that Andrew Lake reported

happened right at Anawan Rock--

thermal changes that he couldn't understand, he couldn't explain,

as if, uh, some kind of figure was walking past him.

And Andrew actually experienced something that he described as

phantom fires that he was able to see,

but there was no actual source of the light

that he could discern.

Now, our objective at the Rock was to set up

investigations while we were there.

Now, we also wanted to use some sort of trigger.

Okay.

So, we brought along a recording of the rabbi chant

that you all used here on the ranch.

-Huh. -Oh.

We thought, we're in an ancient place.

-Uh-huh. -And there's very few things

as ancient as Hebrew prayers and Hebrew chants.

That recording was made during an exercise

to explore the possibility of opening up a portal.

Well, I'm very excited now to share the results

of what we actually had at this location.

So, you'll hear the chant in the background.

-Andrew, can you see this? -Yes, I can.

-[Hebrew chanting playing] -What is that?

It's right through the tops of the trees.

Look at it.

-Did that go in front of a tree? -Yes.

Yeah, that's what it looks like it's doing.

What is going on there?

And we'd seen nothing like this until

we played the rabbi's chant. -Right.

That is a very intriguing piece of video footage.

You know, Erik, that looks a lot like the orb

that--that we got last year in front of Homestead, too--

the one that kind of went

right across the house on the road, remember?

It does. The proportions are right.

♪♪

What on earth is that?

There it goes in front of those trees and behind that tree.

So that tells us it's at least 30 feet away.

So, it's about the size of a volleyball.

-It's intriguing. -Yeah.

I don't know what it is yet,

but, uh, you know, that's why we're doing this.

Now, from Anawan Rock, we actually found someone

who had a local experience that was related to a cryptid--

a cryptid that they call a Pukwudgie.

Even more interesting was that

the person who gave us that report

believed that the Pukwudgies actually

were living in Bridgewater Triangle still,

in this swamp... -Yeah.

...called Hockomock Swamp.

So, we called in Pete Kelsey.

He's a great guy to call in for such things.

Now, as soon as we were getting ready to leave, this happened.

[keyboard clicks]

However, Pete--I'll bring-- I'll show you

this footage as well. -[keyboard clicks]

PETE: That's nothing FAA that's pinging.

PAUL: That's definitely not an aircraft?

PETE: No.

ANDY: Are you tapped into the FAA live feed right now?

Blue dot is us, but there's nothing else within miles.

So, to--to--to--to recap what we just saw here,

we have an aircraft reference.

We can see the strobe. We can see the colors.

-Yes. -This thing is not strobing.

There's no color, apparently,

and Pete reports that he can account for all air traffic.

I mean, it doesn't look like a satellite.

Looks like it's much closer.

This looked to me like it was falling down.

Um...so, what in the heck is that?

You've got multiple videos of two events, right?

These--whatever these glowing balls are.

-Two--Two UAPs. -Orb...yeah.

-Yeah. -Yeah, UAP is--

is what I would say they are, right?

We don't know anything more about 'em yet.

There's something at least

geophysically very interesting about this location.

Agreed. And I think this is helping us.

I mean, I had no idea about this place,

and what's really interesting to me

is the lore and legend of this place sounds so similar

to the lore and legend of this place.

Listening to you describe your experience

and what happened informs

how I want to conduct our-- our work here going forward.

Well, there's never too much data, right,

that you can collect. -All right.

Well, thank you so much, gentlemen.

All right. I can't wait to see what you bring us next.

-We'll be back. -Well, again,

the thanks go to you. -Yeah, guys.

-[laughs] -Yes.

All right. Thanks, guys.

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