1 00:00:01,460 --> 00:00:02,760 [narrator] Previously on Blind Frog Ranch... 2 00:00:02,760 --> 00:00:04,260 [bleep] Holy [bleep]. 3 00:00:04,260 --> 00:00:05,560 What'd you find? 4 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:07,700 [narrator] The team found gold ingots near the bead site... 5 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:09,860 Finally get to hold [bleep] gold in my hands. 6 00:00:09,860 --> 00:00:12,760 ...which led them on a hunt for the Lost Roads mine. 7 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,460 One, two, three, four. 8 00:00:15,460 --> 00:00:17,100 There's a path here, Ryan. 9 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:19,100 Just keep following that [bleep] to the cave. 10 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:21,300 Where they uncovered a collapsed mine tunnel 11 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:23,260 leading back toward Blind Frog Ranch 12 00:00:23,260 --> 00:00:24,760 and the Keyhole Cavern. 13 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:26,960 -It's going down that way. -Yeah, to the south. 14 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:28,700 Right towards Blind Frog. 15 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:31,060 This is just one of seven entrances. 16 00:00:31,060 --> 00:00:33,100 These caverns could be all connected. 17 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:36,160 [narrator] But new trespasser activity posed a dangerous threat 18 00:00:36,160 --> 00:00:38,100 -to the ranch. -What the [bleep]? 19 00:00:38,100 --> 00:00:39,700 Look how big this is, man. 20 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:41,100 It's a fresh dig. 21 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:43,360 They're coming in at night when we're not here. 22 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:44,860 This is dynamite, boys. 23 00:00:44,860 --> 00:00:46,160 They're blowing [bleep] fire. 24 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:49,360 [narrator] And pushed Duane to take matters into his own hands. 25 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,100 This [bleep] ends now. 26 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:52,830 It ends [bleep] now. 27 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:15,360 Picking up movement coming across the creek. 28 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,600 Can you send that drone up? I'm getting a hit on camera number six. 29 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,560 -Trail cam. -Got some trespassers on foot 30 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:23,160 coming onto the property. 31 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:24,530 If they're there, we'll find them. 32 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,460 That's gonna be... 33 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,760 -There we go. -Oh, wow. 34 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:46,800 So we're looking for heat signatures. 35 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,260 Yeah, if it's real light, it's hotter. 36 00:01:49,260 --> 00:01:52,860 [narrator] Determined to put a stop to the poachers digging on the ranch, 37 00:01:52,860 --> 00:01:54,460 the team conducts a stakeout, 38 00:01:54,460 --> 00:01:57,160 waiting until nightfall to intercept them. 39 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:58,500 And look for something moving around. 40 00:01:58,500 --> 00:02:01,360 Chad has launched an infrared drone to find 41 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,530 the exact location of the trespassers on the property. 42 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:07,400 Right there. 43 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:08,560 Nope. 44 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,100 Those are deer. 45 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:13,330 It's camera number six, so it'll be all the way up there. 46 00:02:17,860 --> 00:02:19,860 [Chad] Where are these [bleep]? 47 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,260 -Right there. -Right there. 48 00:02:23,260 --> 00:02:24,860 [bleep] Charlie, you're right. 49 00:02:24,860 --> 00:02:25,860 There's someone right here. 50 00:02:25,860 --> 00:02:27,360 Down there? How many? 51 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,160 Two. I see two. 52 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:30,160 -Let's go down. -All right. 53 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:31,360 We're going down there. 54 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,200 They're on the south side. Go further south on the creek. 55 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:35,260 [Charlie] Okay. 56 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:38,860 I'll turn the lights on with the drone. 57 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:44,860 -Yep, look at them moving right there. -Yeah. 58 00:02:44,860 --> 00:02:46,630 Little [bleep]. 59 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:01,860 Yeah. 60 00:03:01,860 --> 00:03:05,360 They froze up. I guess they can hear the drone, maybe? 61 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,060 Oh, [bleep]. Oh, they're running now. 62 00:03:29,860 --> 00:03:32,100 -Charlie boy, they haul ass. -Yeah. 63 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:33,860 [Chad] They must know we're following them. 64 00:03:33,860 --> 00:03:35,860 They're headed down towards the creek. 65 00:03:40,260 --> 00:03:41,230 [shouting indistinctly] 66 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:44,100 -Two males? -Yes. 67 00:03:44,100 --> 00:03:45,760 One has a backpack. 68 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,360 One's carrying something. Look at that. 69 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:48,330 He's carrying something. 70 00:03:49,460 --> 00:03:51,060 [all clamoring] 71 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:53,730 They're splitting up. 72 00:03:55,260 --> 00:03:57,560 Oh, this [bleep] trying to hide. 73 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,330 I'm gonna switch to visible spectrum. 74 00:04:02,060 --> 00:04:04,560 [laughs] 75 00:04:05,860 --> 00:04:07,830 [bleep] what's this, man? 76 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,930 Got you [bleep]. 77 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:15,700 The drone did its job. I think we scared them enough. 78 00:04:15,700 --> 00:04:17,260 They were moving pretty quick. 79 00:04:17,260 --> 00:04:20,360 Charlie, boy, they're back to BLM landing. 80 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,030 Hopefully, they're gonna think twice before coming onto the property again. 81 00:04:26,860 --> 00:04:28,800 Damn, that works pretty good. 82 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,660 Oh, [bleep], you should see 'em on this. 83 00:04:30,660 --> 00:04:31,660 Really? 84 00:04:31,660 --> 00:04:34,100 Two guys were over there hiding in these bushes, 85 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:35,260 and were following the whole way, 86 00:04:35,260 --> 00:04:37,800 and they were even trying to hide under trees and [bleep]. 87 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,360 I mean, 400 foot, you could see exactly 88 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:41,600 the two guys right there. 89 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,600 The heat sensors just, like, blared out. 90 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,560 There was no way they could hide with that. 91 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:46,960 No way at all. 92 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,030 [Chad] Yeah, then we went to normal camera with the light. 93 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,160 You could see who they were. 94 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:52,800 [Duane] Really? You get pictures of it? 95 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:54,260 [Chad] Yeah, I got a video of it. 96 00:04:54,260 --> 00:04:57,060 [Duane] Hell, I want to take that picture with me to the court. 97 00:04:57,060 --> 00:04:59,000 They were moving pretty quick when I saw them. 98 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,400 They were all [bleep]. 99 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:01,560 [Duane] Good work, fellas. 100 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:22,060 [narrator] After obtaining drone footage of the poachers 101 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:25,700 illegally trespassing, Duane is in Salt Lake City 102 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:27,260 for a court appearance. 103 00:05:27,260 --> 00:05:30,360 So right now, we're outside of my lawyer's office 104 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:31,860 at Salt Lake City, 105 00:05:31,860 --> 00:05:34,100 bringing the lawsuit against these poachers 106 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:36,160 and their phony mining claims. 107 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,860 And if we win, they won't be able to dig 108 00:05:38,860 --> 00:05:40,560 anywhere in the state of Utah. 109 00:05:43,660 --> 00:05:46,100 I think I've been... 110 00:05:46,100 --> 00:05:48,360 been played for a long time, 111 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:52,360 and now we're gonna get to see the truth coming out, 112 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:54,360 and so, we're ready to go to war. 113 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:56,100 And I don't like coming to the big city 114 00:05:56,100 --> 00:05:57,560 to get your [bleep] figured out, 115 00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:58,660 but, you know, we're here, 116 00:05:58,660 --> 00:06:00,630 and I hope I dress good enough. 117 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:03,860 Let's do this, Bill. 118 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:33,100 I don't want to celebrate too much, 119 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:37,260 but, you know, that went way better than I expected. 120 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:41,500 These poachers, they've been slithering around 121 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:45,200 on our land, and they don't get to do that anymore. 122 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,560 [narrator] Though cameras were not allowed in the building, 123 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,360 the court determined that the poachers 124 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,760 had been digging on Duane's land illegally 125 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:55,160 and were found guilty of using a false mining claim. 126 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:59,200 Not only must they vacate the area immediately, 127 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:03,660 the impending sentencing hearing could lead to jail time. 128 00:07:03,660 --> 00:07:07,160 They'll do anything to kind of see if you drop 129 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,500 your guard and maybe just give up and then they win, 130 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:14,460 but they don't get to do that this time. 131 00:07:14,460 --> 00:07:16,800 These people are trying to take over the land 132 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,160 and get the gold. 133 00:07:37,260 --> 00:07:39,160 [Charlie] Got a lot of cleanup to do. 134 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,130 There's a huge hole they've dug right here. 135 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:44,660 More back over there. 136 00:07:44,660 --> 00:07:47,360 [narrator] Now that the poachers are barred from the ranch, 137 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,760 Charlie has to work on closing the dig sites 138 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:52,460 and removing what was left behind. 139 00:07:52,460 --> 00:07:58,400 Look at all this crap, this bogus-ass fake [bleep]. 140 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,630 That must have been the shoring that they were gonna be using. 141 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,400 Trespassing sign. We didn't put that up. 142 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,730 That's something they put up, like they own this place. 143 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:12,660 This goddamn mess is all it is. 144 00:08:13,460 --> 00:08:14,760 You know, this is [bleep]. 145 00:08:18,260 --> 00:08:21,960 And this is how they were sneaking on, was right here. 146 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,660 You can get side-by-sides down here, 147 00:08:24,660 --> 00:08:27,000 four-wheelers, which they had. 148 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,260 With all this brush down here, they can actually work 149 00:08:30,260 --> 00:08:31,960 down here and be unseen. 150 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:33,630 Nobody even know they're even here. 151 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:36,860 They've got caution tape down here. 152 00:08:49,900 --> 00:08:50,930 That's fresh. 153 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:15,060 It almost looks like... 154 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,460 So this is kind of flattened out a little bit. 155 00:09:19,460 --> 00:09:22,460 Looks like something's been coming through here. 156 00:09:22,460 --> 00:09:23,830 I don't know what it is, but... 157 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,300 I'm looking for tracks just to see if I can get 158 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:31,460 an idea of what it is, but I don't see any tracks. 159 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:41,830 What the hell is that? 160 00:09:44,300 --> 00:09:45,530 [bleep] 161 00:09:47,460 --> 00:09:48,830 It's a big-ass deer. 162 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,630 This thing has not been shot, so it's not done by a hunter. 163 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:15,830 This neck is snapped. 164 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:18,230 Snapped right there. 165 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,130 It's still soft. 166 00:10:27,860 --> 00:10:29,260 That's weird right there. 167 00:10:29,260 --> 00:10:33,660 I've never seen blue skin like that before. 168 00:10:33,660 --> 00:10:36,000 I've been tracking and hunting my entire life, 169 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,160 and I've never seen skin color like that. 170 00:10:41,460 --> 00:10:44,460 Something that killed this, I don't know what the hell it is. 171 00:10:49,260 --> 00:10:51,460 Got like a wet slime on it. 172 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,630 Got a broken neck. What the hell is this? 173 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,560 What the [bleep]? 174 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:12,030 It's a [bleep] tooth. 175 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:15,860 Whatever snapped the neck when it bit into it, 176 00:11:15,860 --> 00:11:17,800 it lost a tooth. 177 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,360 That's not a bear's tooth. That's not a mountain lion's tooth. 178 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,300 I don't know what the hell that is. 179 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:26,830 You know, I've seen a lot of mountain lion kills and, uh... 180 00:11:28,260 --> 00:11:30,360 this ain't no mountain lion, I can tell you that. 181 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,960 It's something different. It's not a bear. 182 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,560 There's no more bite marks anywhere that I can see. 183 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:40,200 There are no claw marks, no tracks, no bullet holes, 184 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,000 so I can't tell you what it is. 185 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,730 I have no answers for it. 186 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:46,560 Holy [bleep]. Look at this. 187 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:49,430 There's a drag mark right in through there. 188 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:51,560 Seeing drug down here? 189 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,860 Look at these trail marks. Ponds right over here. 190 00:11:57,400 --> 00:11:59,560 Beaver ponds are down here. 191 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:01,730 And this thing comes right off the road right here. 192 00:12:02,260 --> 00:12:03,800 [bleep] 193 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,260 Something got drug through here, 194 00:12:05,260 --> 00:12:07,460 but there is no footprints whatsoever. 195 00:12:07,460 --> 00:12:12,160 I got to get up to guys and let them know what I found on this. 196 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,560 Because that's a risk, having an unknown predator 197 00:12:14,560 --> 00:12:15,530 on the property. 198 00:12:17,860 --> 00:12:19,730 None of this makes a lick of sense. 199 00:12:37,460 --> 00:12:39,660 -Hey. -I found something y'all gotta see. 200 00:12:42,100 --> 00:12:45,000 I found a fresh deer kill. 201 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,900 -His neck was broken. -[bleep] 202 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:48,060 His tooth was in his neck. 203 00:12:48,060 --> 00:12:49,160 What's that? 204 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,760 That's like a [bleep] fang of some kind. 205 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:53,360 That's like a fang, yeah. 206 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,030 You ever seen a tooth like this? 207 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,160 I could see the very end of that tooth inside the deer neck, 208 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:03,560 so I dug it out. 209 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:05,200 -Damn. -But the neck was just snapped. 210 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,730 There was no other marks anywhere on it. 211 00:13:10,260 --> 00:13:12,360 The skin on the deer was blue, 212 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,460 like it had been suffocated or strangled or something. 213 00:13:16,460 --> 00:13:18,760 How old did the deer carcass look? 214 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,360 -Was it a fresh kill? -A fresh kill. Yeah. 215 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,100 So we have something roaming around out here that... 216 00:13:23,100 --> 00:13:26,560 I think it's coming down in here into the beaver ponds to feed. 217 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:28,760 -The deer are up and down this creek. -Yeah. 218 00:13:29,860 --> 00:13:32,930 This'll sound weird, but I don't think that's a mammal tooth. 219 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,900 That looks like a fang to be some sort of large snake. 220 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:45,460 Well, how big a snake could kill a [bleep] deer, though? 221 00:13:45,460 --> 00:13:46,660 Damn. 222 00:13:46,660 --> 00:13:49,760 [narrator] Of the 31 known species of snakes in Utah, 223 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,200 none are known to exceed six feet in length. 224 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,860 While the native kingsnake is one of the strongest 225 00:13:55,860 --> 00:13:57,560 constrictors on the planet, 226 00:13:57,560 --> 00:14:00,160 their size prevents them from being capable 227 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,530 of killing prey as large as deer. 228 00:14:13,860 --> 00:14:15,360 [sighs] 229 00:14:18,260 --> 00:14:19,560 -Hey, gents. -What's going on? 230 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:20,500 Hey. 231 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:22,800 -How'd it go? -Good, good. 232 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:24,560 They got their [bleep] shut down. 233 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:26,660 You know, the lawyer's got a cease and desist 234 00:14:26,660 --> 00:14:28,860 on these poachers, so it's all good. 235 00:14:28,860 --> 00:14:31,000 I'm telling you, there's some lying sumbitches, 236 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,900 so we're going to wrap this whole thing around their neck. 237 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:36,000 -Hell, yeah. -We needed that. 238 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,360 That doesn't solve all the problems, 239 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,800 but it helps us to move forward, so. 240 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,500 Well, we got another problem. 241 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:42,460 What's that? 242 00:14:43,060 --> 00:14:46,030 I found a fresh kill, deer. 243 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:47,530 Neck was broken. 244 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:50,830 I dug that out of the neck of the deer. 245 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,630 -No [bleep]. -It's a fang. 246 00:14:56,860 --> 00:14:59,900 It could have been the [bleep] tooth of that snake. 247 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:02,600 The one that Charlie took a picture of by the pond. 248 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,160 [narrator] A few days ago, while patrolling the property, 249 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:09,230 Charlie photographed some sort of animal in Beaver Creek Pond. 250 00:15:10,260 --> 00:15:11,960 You know, I was patrolling the property 251 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,000 this morning, right down there, 252 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,800 and these weeds sounded like water movement, 253 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:21,160 and I was able to grab my phone, and this is what I got. 254 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:22,530 [Chad] What the hell is that? 255 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,760 But that's a huge serpent-looking thing, 256 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:31,560 but it's got scales like an alligator would all along its back, 257 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:35,260 but that's only about 12 to 13 feet sticking out of the water. 258 00:15:35,260 --> 00:15:37,760 The other half is diving straight down. 259 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,700 -Mmm. -Same area, right down the creek there. 260 00:15:42,700 --> 00:15:45,900 I found drag marks, too, coming down the hill. 261 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:47,600 Holy [bleep]. 262 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,660 -That's getting wild as hell. -Yeah. 263 00:15:49,660 --> 00:15:52,260 The drag marks, that wide. 264 00:15:52,260 --> 00:15:54,360 -Well, we've seen it before. -Yeah. 265 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,230 It looks like they were pulling something huge out of the pond. 266 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,660 Right here. Look at this [bleep], Charlie. Right here. 267 00:16:03,660 --> 00:16:05,060 Right to the beaver ponds. 268 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,060 -I always wondered what it was. -That's a big snake. 269 00:16:10,060 --> 00:16:12,900 It's bad as hell. That's worse than [bleep] poachers. 270 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:14,800 It's out there killing large deer. 271 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,730 That was a 200-pound deer. It was a big deer. 272 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,400 And it just snapped its neck like nothing. 273 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,600 -Didn't he saw it or anything? -Nothing, no. 274 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:26,860 It's down in there somewhere. 275 00:16:26,860 --> 00:16:29,760 Safety-wise, I'm gonna say let's stay out of there. 276 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:33,260 I know a guy that could damn sure figure this deal out. 277 00:16:33,260 --> 00:16:35,760 Emery Smith, he's on the board of Stanford. 278 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,600 He can get some DNA off that deal. 279 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:40,530 Hell, he can tell us what the [bleep] it is. 280 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:44,960 You know, we'll bring in Emery to find out 281 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:46,460 what the hell is going on here, 282 00:16:46,460 --> 00:16:49,260 but right now, you know, we got to get back to drilling. 283 00:16:49,260 --> 00:16:50,660 -Yeah. -We got to. 284 00:16:50,660 --> 00:16:53,660 We should probably head back up to Mosby's sink 285 00:16:53,660 --> 00:16:54,730 and see if it's dry. 286 00:16:54,730 --> 00:16:57,700 If it's dry up there, it's going to be dry down here. 287 00:16:57,700 --> 00:16:58,560 Yeah. 288 00:16:58,560 --> 00:16:59,700 Why don't you and I grab Skinner, 289 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:01,860 some packs, and hike up there, 290 00:17:01,860 --> 00:17:03,730 and hopefully we can get back to drilling. 291 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:05,660 Sounds good. Let's go get him. 292 00:17:05,660 --> 00:17:06,630 Yeah. 293 00:17:27,660 --> 00:17:30,560 [Chad] What the [bleep]? What kind of hair is that? 294 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:32,830 Bigfoot hair. 295 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:35,860 Oh, he's rubbing in the tree, maybe? 296 00:17:35,860 --> 00:17:38,560 Uh, maybe it's just deer shed. 297 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:42,560 [narrator] Chad, James, and Ryan are on their way to Mosby Sink, 298 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:44,760 a giant hole in the Uinta Mountains 299 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,760 that channels snowmelt to Blind Frog Ranch. 300 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:48,960 That's a lot of water. 301 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,760 Recent flooding on the ranch was fed underground 302 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:53,330 by water from the sink. 303 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,760 So Ryan, James, and I are going to check out 304 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:58,760 the water flow, see if it's gone down any, 305 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:02,360 and see if we still have a huge flow going under the ranch. 306 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:05,600 If the water's gone down, we can drill the energy zone then. 307 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,900 -Oh, yeah, right through there, isn't it? -Yeah. 308 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:09,130 I don't hear anything. 309 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:12,660 Look at this. 310 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,560 Before, you could hear the water rushing from 500 feet away. 311 00:18:20,660 --> 00:18:22,660 There's no creek at all so far. 312 00:18:22,660 --> 00:18:26,230 The water volume has got to have decreased considerably. 313 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:35,960 I'll just see if I can get down there. 314 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,060 It's tight, but maybe I can squeeze through. 315 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,000 Yeah, grab that little camera for me. 316 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,160 Yeah, I'll go grab it. 317 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:48,330 Just enough room for a human. 318 00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:50,430 Does it still look dry? 319 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,260 Uh... Oh. 320 00:18:54,260 --> 00:18:56,700 Oh, yeah, it looks completely dry. 321 00:18:56,700 --> 00:18:59,060 I don't hear any water running. Nothing. 322 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:02,500 Yeah, well, this is great, though, 323 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:04,900 so this means underneath the ranch is dried up, too. 324 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:06,600 Yeah. Do you need help? 325 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,160 -Uh... -Come down and grab that [bleep]. 326 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:12,860 All right, let's get the hell out of here. 327 00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:18,860 That's great. 328 00:19:18,860 --> 00:19:21,760 All that water in Mosby's sink affects the water level 329 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,100 that's underneath the Blind Frog Ranch. 330 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:27,300 And fortunately, there is no more water in Mosby's sink. 331 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:30,300 It looks like we're good to go on drilling again 332 00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:31,660 at the energy zone. 333 00:19:31,660 --> 00:19:33,960 All right, let's drill [bleep]. 334 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,300 - [narrator] Coming up... -We're gonna take the rat hole rig 335 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:37,800 right down to this ravine. 336 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,160 If he slips, it's dangerous. 337 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:41,100 Here we go. 338 00:19:41,100 --> 00:19:43,100 That'll make these [bleep] pucker up. 339 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:45,300 Tell him to take that to himself low idle. 340 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:46,660 He can drill faster than that. 341 00:19:46,660 --> 00:19:48,860 Yo, Oscar, can you speed that thing up? 342 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:51,760 Yeah, boy! 343 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,800 We're starting to see some storm clouds. 344 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,130 We got a [bleep] 100-foot lightning rod sticking up. 345 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,530 [thunderclap] 346 00:20:06,260 --> 00:20:07,230 Emery! 347 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:08,860 Duane! 348 00:20:08,860 --> 00:20:10,100 Charlie, how are you guys doing? 349 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:11,360 -Doing great. Good seeing you. -Good. 350 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:12,360 Oh, my gosh. 351 00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:13,900 I'm glad you called me. 352 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:17,660 [narrator] Dwayne has asked Emery Smith, a biomedical investigator 353 00:20:17,660 --> 00:20:20,560 and a former scientist for the U.S. Air Force, 354 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,360 to examine the deer carcass Charlie discovered. 355 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:26,900 I want you to know we don't have a clue what's going on. 356 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:30,060 My name is Emery Smith. I'm a clinical specialist in regenerative medicine, 357 00:20:30,060 --> 00:20:32,000 exobiology and hematology. 358 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,800 Now, I've been classifying different types of genetic anomalies. 359 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:40,860 For 30 years, I've identified over 3,000 different types of species. 360 00:20:40,860 --> 00:20:42,100 But you said there was a carcass. 361 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:44,760 -It's about a 200 pound doe. -All right. 362 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:48,200 And... [clears throat] whatever this thing was, 363 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,000 it just snapped its neck. 364 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,160 There's no other bite marks on it anywhere. 365 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:54,860 [Emery] Yeah, I'd like to take a look at that. 366 00:20:54,860 --> 00:20:56,960 It's a big boa or whatever it is... 367 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,060 And it's coming out of the pond and it left tracks. 368 00:21:00,060 --> 00:21:02,100 -Why don't you guys show me this body? -[Duane] Let's go. 369 00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:03,330 -All right. -[Charlie] Let's do it. 370 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:10,530 There it is, right there. 371 00:21:11,860 --> 00:21:13,100 [Emery] Well, I'll be... 372 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:14,900 There's no bite marks on it anywhere, 373 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:17,760 -but that neck is snapped right into half. -Yeah. 374 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,560 -Yeah, it's twisted all the way around. -[Charlie] Yeah. 375 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:21,500 -And there was this slime... -[Emery] Uh-huh. 376 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:24,300 -...like a slime all over it. -Yeah? 377 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:27,760 And I felt like a... a lump in the neck. 378 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,760 That's where I dug that tooth out of it. 379 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,660 Well, I think, I should definitely take that 380 00:21:31,660 --> 00:21:34,460 -with a sample. -Looks more like a fang than anything. 381 00:21:34,460 --> 00:21:37,560 [Emery] Well, a fang would've had a channel for venom. 382 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,930 That looks like a conical tooth to me. 383 00:21:44,060 --> 00:21:46,660 Multiple spinal fractures. 384 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,560 -It's green. -[Charlie] Yeah. 385 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,000 And what would cause it to turn green like that? 386 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 [Emery] This is plasma. 387 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:59,160 Without blood cells, you get this weird plasma green effect. 388 00:22:00,060 --> 00:22:02,230 Somehow the blood separated. 389 00:22:03,060 --> 00:22:04,560 That's not normal. 390 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:07,460 How long has it been, Charlie? 391 00:22:07,460 --> 00:22:09,260 It had to have happened last night 392 00:22:09,260 --> 00:22:11,630 'cause the body was actually still warm. 393 00:22:12,660 --> 00:22:16,360 Hmm. This just happened 24 hours ago. 394 00:22:16,360 --> 00:22:21,060 There's definitely something accelerating the decomposition of this animal. 395 00:22:21,060 --> 00:22:22,460 That's not how they deteriorate. [chuckles] 396 00:22:22,460 --> 00:22:24,860 No, I've never seen anything like it before. 397 00:22:24,860 --> 00:22:28,530 Something is making this rot a lot quicker. 398 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,860 You know, the bite was just for leverage. 399 00:22:33,860 --> 00:22:36,730 Kinda, like, wrap itself, you know, around the neck. 400 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:39,560 Obviously suffocated the animal. 401 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,760 And it most likely died from the pressure 402 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,530 to its circulatory system. 403 00:22:47,460 --> 00:22:50,600 And there's drag marks coming down the cliff, uh, 404 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,260 near the hill over there, 405 00:22:52,260 --> 00:22:54,260 that are about this wide. 406 00:22:54,260 --> 00:22:58,100 [clears throat] And apparently, it just came through here. 407 00:22:58,100 --> 00:23:00,400 This is just something very odd I haven't seen before. 408 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,430 And I... I've seen it all. 409 00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:04,800 Let's go check out this pond. 410 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:06,100 Yeah, it's a drive back up that way. 411 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:07,560 -[Emery] All right. Excellent. I'll follow you. -Okay. 412 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,100 [Duane] Oh, man. It's getting wild. 413 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:10,230 [Emery] Yeah. 414 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,300 [James] Careful right here. 415 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:28,730 This is kinda lost away. 416 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,160 Yeah, but what you guys are going to see up here is just... it's insane. 417 00:23:40,100 --> 00:23:41,460 [Chad] How much longer we got, James? 418 00:23:41,460 --> 00:23:43,200 [James] Just like five more minutes. 419 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,660 [Chad] Man, it was five minutes 20 minutes ago, bro. 420 00:23:45,660 --> 00:23:47,360 [James chuckles] Five minutes. 421 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:49,660 [Chad] Five more minutes. 422 00:23:49,660 --> 00:23:51,760 [narrator] On their way back from Mosby Sink, 423 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,300 James has brought Chad and Ryan to ancient petroglyphs 424 00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:57,500 near Blind Frog Ranch. 425 00:23:57,500 --> 00:24:00,060 Estimated to be 1,000 years old, 426 00:24:00,060 --> 00:24:04,160 these rock drawings were made by the enigmatic Freemont culture 427 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,630 who lived here as early as 950 A.D. 428 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,160 [James] This is it. [pants] 429 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:17,060 This is what I wanted to show you guys. 430 00:24:17,060 --> 00:24:19,460 [Chad] Oh, you're not kidding. Holy [bleep]. 431 00:24:19,460 --> 00:24:22,460 Oh, wow, that's so cool, man. 432 00:24:22,460 --> 00:24:25,760 [James] See right here? We have these anthropomorphic figures. 433 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,460 Those look like some type of deer or antelope. 434 00:24:28,460 --> 00:24:30,000 -[Ryan] Oh, yeah. -[Chad] I see it. 435 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,200 Do you see over here, we have that squiggly line? 436 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,830 It looks like a snake. 437 00:24:35,300 --> 00:24:36,860 [James] Yeah, exactly. 438 00:24:38,100 --> 00:24:41,860 [narrator] The petroglyphs depict animals that were common here at the time, 439 00:24:41,860 --> 00:24:44,030 including antelope and deer. 440 00:24:44,860 --> 00:24:47,300 But they also depict mysterious figures 441 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:49,360 whose meanings are not so clear, 442 00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:52,160 including a giant serpent. 443 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,760 Some believe that such snakes may have been common at the time, 444 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,300 only to have disappeared in the many years 445 00:24:58,300 --> 00:25:00,330 since this petroglyph was created. 446 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,100 [Chad] I mean, all these animals were creatures 447 00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:04,960 that they were seeing back then. 448 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:06,760 So what does this mean for the snake? 449 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,660 You know, who knows. 450 00:25:09,660 --> 00:25:13,200 But it's just interesting that it's here. 451 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:17,160 So this is what's really, really amazing about this rock art. 452 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,360 You have right here what almost looks like a large portal or gateway 453 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:24,260 -and some creature coming out of it. -Yeah. 454 00:25:24,260 --> 00:25:25,760 [James] Like, going down into the mountain. 455 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,760 [Chad] Super interesting. 456 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,160 Look at the squiggly lines 457 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:30,900 under the anthropomorphic figure. 458 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:33,460 In traditional maps, that's what you use for water. 459 00:25:33,460 --> 00:25:36,460 Is that a river running underground? 460 00:25:36,460 --> 00:25:38,260 -You know, is there a water feature underground? -[Ryan] Like the water 461 00:25:38,260 --> 00:25:41,560 -that Duane tapped into under the ranch? -Exactly. 462 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,660 [Chad] It's just hard not to think that there's a connection 463 00:25:43,660 --> 00:25:45,560 between the petroglyphs and our ranch. 464 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:01,560 [Charlie] That's the pond, right there. 465 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,160 I saw the tracks coming up. It was right in here. 466 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:05,760 All the way down to the beaver ponds 467 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,760 -about what? A quarter mile? -[Emery] Yeah, at least. 468 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,700 And I swam all the way back as far as I could go... 469 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:13,660 -[Emery] Right. -...and the tracks led all the way back 470 00:26:13,660 --> 00:26:15,160 to that hole back there. 471 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,360 [Emery] Huh. Well, let's get these samples. 472 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:19,460 I'm gonna do a sample here. 473 00:26:19,460 --> 00:26:20,860 [narrator] Back at Blind Frog, 474 00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:23,660 Emery Smith takes a water sample from the pond 475 00:26:23,660 --> 00:26:25,500 to test for DNA. 476 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,260 There's a lot of life in here. 477 00:26:27,860 --> 00:26:29,500 They all leave DNA behind. 478 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:32,100 We're gonna do a full microbiology, 479 00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:33,760 which means we're gonna see 480 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,300 what kind of microbes are there, 481 00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:36,860 how many living creatures are in there 482 00:26:36,860 --> 00:26:39,300 and who's feeding off of who. 483 00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:41,360 All right, looks good, fellas. 484 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:43,260 We have the samples and our job 485 00:26:43,260 --> 00:26:45,460 is to get these tests done. 486 00:26:45,460 --> 00:26:46,830 Off to the lab. 487 00:26:54,860 --> 00:26:57,100 [Chad] Mosby Sink is dry as a bone over there. 488 00:26:57,100 --> 00:26:59,400 So that means the energy zone has to be dry. 489 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,060 And we can start drilling. 490 00:27:01,060 --> 00:27:02,860 [narrator] With the flood waters receded, 491 00:27:02,860 --> 00:27:05,100 the team can finally can turn their sights 492 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:07,200 back to drilling in the keyhole formation 493 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:08,660 that sits below the vent shaft 494 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:11,560 that James discovered with his magnetometer. 495 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:16,760 How deep did that, uh, scan show where the vent shaft is? 496 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,400 It's just short of a 125 feet. 497 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:21,500 [Duane] We need to bring in a rat hole rig. 498 00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:24,400 And it'll drop us down about a 150 foot. 499 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,560 It would give us about 30-inch hole. 500 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,260 It'll get us into that [bleep] cavern. 501 00:27:29,260 --> 00:27:31,400 What's the plan when we hit the chamber 502 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:32,900 with the rat hole rig? 503 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:35,360 You know, once we tap into the roof of that deal, 504 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:38,060 you know good and well, we're gonna have to drop some cameras down there. 505 00:27:38,060 --> 00:27:41,160 And if it's a big void and we're at the top of the cave, 506 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,700 we will build a basket that could let somebody down in there 507 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:46,100 with oxygen and everything. 508 00:27:46,100 --> 00:27:49,700 We'll bring in a crane and drop that basket down in there. 509 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:51,860 Take the hole we have, then widen it, 510 00:27:51,860 --> 00:27:53,200 and then we could definitely fit, like, 511 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,260 a whole basket down in there without getting stuck. 512 00:27:55,260 --> 00:27:58,000 So we could have plenty of room to get in and out of there. 513 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,560 [narrator] Duane's plan is to drill a shaft 150 feet deep 514 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,260 into the keyhole chamber, 515 00:28:03,260 --> 00:28:04,560 then widen the shaft, 516 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,800 so a person can be lowered into the chamber from above. 517 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,600 This'll be the deepest we've ever dug, though, 518 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,600 so there's gonna be a lot of logistical issues. 519 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,160 If we're going a 150 foot, 520 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,000 that means we're gonna go through different layers. 521 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,600 So we're gonna start at the sandstone 522 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,900 and we could hit limestone, 523 00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:20,860 we could hit quartz and really hard [bleep]. 524 00:28:20,860 --> 00:28:22,860 It's just gonna take longer to get through. 525 00:28:22,860 --> 00:28:26,060 All that hard stone is gonna wear that bed out, 526 00:28:26,060 --> 00:28:29,360 so they need to bring in a lot of extra teeth 527 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:31,260 'cause it'll get hot... 528 00:28:31,260 --> 00:28:33,260 and it'll melt those teeth. 529 00:28:33,260 --> 00:28:35,160 Just getting that thing over there is gonna be a bitch. 530 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,460 Like, we're gonna have to track it in which will take a full day. 531 00:28:38,460 --> 00:28:40,560 Well, we got to prepare the site too. 532 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,760 That's right. Yeah, we need a flat... 533 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,700 'cause if he's off tilted a little bit, 534 00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:46,300 -it won't dig a hole. -Yeah. 535 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:50,000 All right, we got a plan. Let's go get this deal done now. 536 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,760 -It's time. -Finally. 537 00:28:59,860 --> 00:29:02,930 [motor whirring, wheels squeaking] 538 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,060 [Chad] Oscar! 539 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:08,560 What's up, brother? 540 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,560 -How are you? -Good, man. How're you doing? 541 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,360 So we brought in the, uh, rat hole rig today. 542 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,700 Uh, we're gonna track it all the way to the energy zone. 543 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:18,560 How long do you think it'll take to track over there 544 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,560 -to the field site? -[Oscar] Uh, probably a couple of hours. 545 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:21,860 -Couple of hours? -[Oscar] Yeah. 546 00:29:21,860 --> 00:29:24,400 -[Chad] All right. -I have to go real slow. I see the road... 547 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,800 [Chad] Yeah. 548 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,260 [narrator] The 35-ton drill 549 00:29:27,260 --> 00:29:29,660 will need to slowly travel two miles 550 00:29:29,660 --> 00:29:31,160 to reach the site. 551 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:32,860 It's a long a tedious route 552 00:29:32,860 --> 00:29:35,300 over rough and uneven trails, 553 00:29:35,300 --> 00:29:36,760 crossing a steep ravine 554 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,000 that still has water in it from the flooding. 555 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,100 But the most difficult maneuver 556 00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:44,060 will be navigating a 750-foot climb 557 00:29:44,060 --> 00:29:46,400 over the backside of the energy zone. 558 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,200 -[Oscar] Here we go. -[Duane] Copy that. 559 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,460 It is very difficult for these guys to get this equipment up here. 560 00:29:52,460 --> 00:29:55,200 It really is. It's no game. Uh... 561 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,460 It's pretty steep. 562 00:29:56,460 --> 00:29:57,900 He can slip and slide. 563 00:29:57,900 --> 00:29:59,760 It's... it's a real project. 564 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,360 You're gonna have a little bit of a slippery drive over there on the rock. 565 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,000 I'll be above you the whole time. 566 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,260 If I need to drag on you or something, I will. 567 00:30:09,260 --> 00:30:10,300 I can tug you up. 568 00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:12,260 This is not my first rodeo either. 569 00:30:12,260 --> 00:30:14,000 -Yeah, we'll go real slow... -Yeah. 570 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,130 -...make sure to break nothing and... -Okay. 571 00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:22,160 [Duane] Okay. 572 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,400 [narrator] The 35-ton rat hole rig 573 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,360 needs a hydraulic motor and brakes to move it around. 574 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,260 While enormously powerful, 575 00:30:29,260 --> 00:30:32,800 the temperature of the hydraulics needs to be carefully maintained 576 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,560 or the brakes can fail, 577 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,900 sending 35 tons hurdling 578 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:39,100 uncontrolled, down the hill. 579 00:30:39,100 --> 00:30:40,530 [Duane] Here we go. 580 00:30:41,060 --> 00:30:42,860 Bring it on down, Oscar. 581 00:30:43,860 --> 00:30:45,860 What we're gonna do is take the rat hole rig 582 00:30:45,860 --> 00:30:48,000 right down to this ravine. 583 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,000 He's probably gonna have to spin his derrick around 584 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,160 and back up there and if he slips and can't get up, then I'll, uh, 585 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,430 I'll put a tether on the back and drag him up. 586 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,660 It's gonna be a little muddy out there, a little slippery. 587 00:31:02,660 --> 00:31:05,660 These guys that are coming in, they know what they're doing, 588 00:31:05,660 --> 00:31:08,860 but they're standing on a hill. It's dangerous. 589 00:31:08,860 --> 00:31:10,930 So they gotta get this right. 590 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:15,430 [squeaking] 591 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,230 [Duane] Don't make that [bleep] pucker up. 592 00:31:27,860 --> 00:31:29,200 Here he comes. 593 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,860 Hell, yeah. 594 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,830 [Oscar] Hydraulics overheated. 595 00:31:43,660 --> 00:31:46,360 Yeah, argh, it's stuck. 596 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,700 Rat hole rig, looks like, it stopped right now. 597 00:31:48,700 --> 00:31:51,060 We'll have to go over there and see what the [bleep] is the problem. 598 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,760 [grunts] What the hell is going on? 599 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,060 [Oscar] Yeah, it jammed. 600 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:03,630 [Duane] Okay, copy that. 601 00:32:10,860 --> 00:32:12,900 -It's a long way over here. Sorry about that. -Yeah. 602 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:14,730 But we still got to get it over here. 603 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,660 [narrator] The brutal terrain at the ranch is causing 604 00:32:21,660 --> 00:32:24,900 the hydraulics on the rat hole rig to overheat. 605 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:28,400 He has problems with his hydraulics heating up. 606 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,260 If we can't get that rat hole rig to the energy zone, 607 00:32:32,260 --> 00:32:34,000 we're not gonna be able to drill. 608 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,730 We're gonna burn the whole day up. 609 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,830 [Oscar] Yeah, yeah. 610 00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:50,460 [Oscar] Yeah. 611 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:55,830 Yeah. 612 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,260 -[both] That's a long way. -Long ways. 613 00:33:00,260 --> 00:33:02,560 Yeah, there used to be a little river over here. 614 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,430 -If you want me to put tether on you, I will. -Okay. 615 00:33:10,260 --> 00:33:11,860 [narrator] The quick application of water 616 00:33:11,860 --> 00:33:13,360 has cooled the drill enough 617 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,660 to finish its journey to the energy zone. 618 00:33:15,660 --> 00:33:17,160 -[Duane] We're good? -Thank you. Appreciate it. 619 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,130 -[Duane] Here we go, let's do it. -[Oscar] All right. 620 00:33:31,660 --> 00:33:35,960 [Duane] Hell yeah. Hell yeah. It's another [bleep] cakewalk. 621 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,930 Good job, Oscar. [groans] 622 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,000 -How was it going down that path? -Oh, man. Pretty bad. 623 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,060 -Was it really? [laughs] -[Oscar] Yeah. 624 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,260 Yeah, we'll platform this whole deal out 625 00:33:52,260 --> 00:33:55,460 -and we'll make it safe. -[Chad] It was on the right side from here. 626 00:33:55,460 --> 00:33:59,100 So if we're gonna carve out some, it needs to be on that side. 627 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:00,560 Okay, right. Got it. 628 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,060 [narrator] Now that the drill has made it to the energy zone, 629 00:34:03,060 --> 00:34:05,300 the next step is to create a flat, 630 00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:08,030 stable drilling platform for the rig. 631 00:34:27,660 --> 00:34:30,400 [Duane] We could have a cave-in or anything like that 632 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,800 and if the dirt goes down, you go down with it. 633 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,730 So it's no game here. Uh, people can get killed. 634 00:34:50,660 --> 00:34:53,060 [Emery] We've taken samples from the pond 635 00:34:53,060 --> 00:34:55,560 and we're gonna measure the frequency 636 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,560 of all the life forms in it. 637 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,100 It's not gonna give us the DNA yet. 638 00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:00,860 We have to send all that out. 639 00:35:00,860 --> 00:35:03,000 But, at least, we can get a baseline. 640 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,260 We have a lot of bacteria, 641 00:35:06,260 --> 00:35:08,860 amoebas, um, parasites, 642 00:35:08,860 --> 00:35:10,860 which is normal in these waters. 643 00:35:10,860 --> 00:35:12,260 This one is called Ascaris. 644 00:35:12,260 --> 00:35:14,730 It's weird because they need a host. 645 00:35:15,260 --> 00:35:16,560 Really? 646 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,660 It's found in animals. 647 00:35:18,660 --> 00:35:20,500 That must mean there's some sort of 648 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:23,200 -living being in there. -Wow. 649 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,360 Right now, our job is to find out 650 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,860 what the DNA belongs to. 651 00:35:28,860 --> 00:35:30,160 Emery, you know, 652 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,660 if anybody can figure out this, somebody like you can. 653 00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:34,630 I will do it, Duane. 654 00:35:42,460 --> 00:35:43,960 -[James] Hey, Duane. -Hey. 655 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,660 I'm gonna run another 3-D ground image survey. 656 00:35:46,660 --> 00:35:48,160 Okay. 657 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,700 [James] We got the drill up here and I know Duane is anxious to get going. 658 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:53,360 So I'm gonna take the magnetometer and try 659 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:54,960 to find that exact spot again, 660 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,130 so we don't spend any time or money. 661 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,430 -[crackling] -Oh, wait a minute. 662 00:36:07,700 --> 00:36:09,060 Hello, Missy. 663 00:36:10,660 --> 00:36:11,860 There it is. 664 00:36:11,860 --> 00:36:15,600 Right in that location is a vertical shaft straight down. 665 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,000 -Okay. -[James] Yeah. 666 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000 -It was right in there. -So we know that void's right here, right? 667 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,160 [Chad] Yeah, it's right... right in front of where he's standing. 668 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,560 We got 'em on the clock right now. We need to drill. 669 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,660 -We need to start drilling right now. -Yeah, right here. 670 00:36:26,660 --> 00:36:28,660 So this whole deal, we've been waiting years 671 00:36:28,660 --> 00:36:31,160 and this has cost me about $20,000 a day. 672 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,000 So we'll start drilling now. Right now. 673 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,060 Everybody just needs to get the [bleep] out of the way. 674 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:40,530 [whirring, squeaking] 675 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,530 Everybody out of the way. We got the drill coming in now. 676 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:46,660 [Duane] Yeah. 677 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:02,860 [drill wails] 678 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,560 [Chad] Yeah, that's it. 679 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,060 -Hey, guys, we ready to drill? -[all] Yeah. 680 00:37:13,060 --> 00:37:15,330 Here we go. This is it. 681 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:17,800 [Duane] Yeah, boy. 682 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,460 -[Chad] Yeah, here we go. -[James] Yeah. 683 00:37:19,460 --> 00:37:20,830 [chuckles] Yeah. 684 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:23,730 [horns honking] 685 00:37:27,060 --> 00:37:28,000 [horns honking] 686 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,030 That [bleep] horn, man. 687 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,560 How about a radio? 688 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,160 Tell him, take that son of a bitch off low idle. 689 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,730 He can drill faster. 690 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:39,500 He can pick it up. 691 00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:41,800 Hell yeah, he can drill faster than that. 692 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,460 [honks horn] I like that horn. 693 00:37:44,460 --> 00:37:47,560 -[Chad] Hey, just yell at me. -[laughs] 694 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,260 Yo, Oscar, can you speed that thing up? 695 00:37:53,660 --> 00:37:55,300 [Duane] Yeah, boy! 696 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:56,900 -[Chad] Yeah, here we go. -[James] Yeah. 697 00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:58,360 Yeah. [chuckles] 698 00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:01,900 This is a good sign. Look how dry that is. 699 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:04,260 We don't want water. We don't want a wet mess. 700 00:38:04,260 --> 00:38:06,430 So this is dry. It's good. 701 00:38:09,460 --> 00:38:13,060 [thunder rumbling] 702 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,630 [clicks tongue] We're getting some rain here, surely. 703 00:38:22,260 --> 00:38:24,060 Everybody's focused on the drilling, 704 00:38:24,060 --> 00:38:25,700 but I've been watching the skies 705 00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:27,960 and I'm starting to see some storm clouds. 706 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,430 Damn energy zone, I guess. 707 00:38:33,460 --> 00:38:35,900 That is how mountain system here... 708 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:38,600 really just creates its own weather pattern. 709 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,260 You just... you never know what it's gonna do. 710 00:38:41,260 --> 00:38:42,730 That pressure drops... 711 00:38:44,260 --> 00:38:46,860 you know, all hell could break loose here. 712 00:38:46,860 --> 00:38:50,160 -Sort of done. -Lightning and thunder and heavy rain. 713 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:53,600 It's coming. 714 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,030 The radar says it's not that far away. 715 00:38:57,060 --> 00:38:58,660 If that storm makes it here, 716 00:38:58,660 --> 00:39:00,200 -and it starts lightning... -Yeah. 717 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,060 ...we got a [bleep] 100 ft 718 00:39:02,060 --> 00:39:04,130 -lightning rod sticking up right there. -Yeah. Exactly. 719 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:15,460 I went and I got the lightning strike detector 720 00:39:15,460 --> 00:39:17,260 -that I brought in. -What's it showing? Anything? 721 00:39:17,260 --> 00:39:18,660 No, we're good so far. 722 00:39:18,660 --> 00:39:20,760 -[Chad] How far can that reach out? -[James] 25 miles. 723 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,360 -[Chad] Nice. -[James] Yeah. 724 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:26,000 [narrator] James' lightning detector can detect the electromagnetic pulses 725 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,500 emitted by a lightning strike... 726 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:30,460 -[thunderclap] -...by measuring the strength of the pulse. 727 00:39:30,460 --> 00:39:33,430 The device can estimate the distance of the strike. 728 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,400 Uh, I'll keep an eye out for it. 729 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,060 -All right. Thank you. -All right. Yep. 730 00:39:58,660 --> 00:40:01,230 [thunderclap] 731 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,830 -Hey. -[horns honking] 732 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,860 -[Chad] Did you hear that? -What the [bleep] was that? 733 00:40:08,860 --> 00:40:10,630 [Chad] It's lightning. 734 00:40:12,460 --> 00:40:14,100 -What the [bleep] was that? -[Chad] How close are we? 735 00:40:14,100 --> 00:40:16,560 -[James]Two miles. -[Chad] Two miles? Which way? This will show us, right? 736 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,800 Two miles. Hey, Duane! 737 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,800 -[Charlie] Two miles. -That lightning is two miles away. 738 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,160 -[thunderclap] -[James] That was two miles. 739 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,800 Do you hear that [bleep]? 740 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,160 -There's another one. -[thunder rumbling] 741 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,660 Chad, you better shut 'em down. 742 00:40:32,660 --> 00:40:34,760 There's another one, Duane! 743 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,360 [Charlie] The lightning is too close now. 744 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,460 [bleep] One thing after another, huh? Jesus! 745 00:40:40,460 --> 00:40:43,260 -Yeah, we wanna get away from this lightning rod, huh? -Yeah. 746 00:40:43,260 --> 00:40:46,730 -We'll, uh, we'll start again tomorrow morning? -You got it. 747 00:40:47,260 --> 00:40:48,260 [man screams] 748 00:40:48,260 --> 00:40:50,830 -[thunderclap] -[bleeping] 749 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,360 [narrator] Next time on Blind Frog Ranch... 750 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,300 [Chad] Oscar is pushing that drill to the limit, 751 00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:00,460 but we can't get through. 752 00:41:06,500 --> 00:41:08,900 It's like something beyond our control out here. 753 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:09,960 [groans] 754 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,660 We keep on pushing and it keeps on fighting back. 755 00:41:11,660 --> 00:41:15,300 We did EDX with a scanning electronic microscope 756 00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:17,430 and we found iridium. 757 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,100 Well, iridium means of earth, right? 758 00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:21,700 It's not natural to this planet. 759 00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:23,660 There is something huge 760 00:41:23,660 --> 00:41:25,360 going on on your property. 761 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,660 Congratulations, boys. Looks like y'all got a meteor 762 00:41:28,660 --> 00:41:30,300 at Blind Frog Ranch.