1 00:00:01,460 --> 00:00:02,500 [narrator reading] 2 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:04,600 [Charlie] Got some trespassers. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,960 I think tonight would be a good night to catch 'em. 4 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:10,860 [narrator] After tracking the poachers... 5 00:00:10,860 --> 00:00:12,160 [man] [bleep] Busted, man. 6 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,160 ...and taking them to court, 7 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,560 Duane wins his case to ban them from his property. 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,360 [Duane] They've been slithering around on the land, 9 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:21,560 and they don't get to do that anymore. 10 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:23,260 [narrator] Now, he can double down 11 00:00:23,260 --> 00:00:25,500 on his mission to breach the underground. 12 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:29,260 We will have to go in slow, but we will go in. 13 00:00:29,260 --> 00:00:31,230 [narrator] With the floodwaters receding... 14 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:33,100 [man] I don't see any water. 15 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:35,030 ...he can finally move forward... 16 00:00:35,860 --> 00:00:36,700 [Charlie] Everybody out of the way. 17 00:00:36,700 --> 00:00:38,260 We got the drill coming in now. 18 00:00:38,260 --> 00:00:43,160 ...with his plan to drill into the keyhole cavern beneath the Energy Zone. 19 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,260 That lightning's two miles away. 20 00:00:47,260 --> 00:00:50,530 -[thunderclap] -[bleep] 21 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:57,560 [thunder rumbling] 22 00:01:04,860 --> 00:01:06,160 [Chad] This whole area, for some reason, 23 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,400 we can't get [bleep] done here. 24 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,600 We keep on pushing, and it keeps on fighting back. 25 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:12,730 The storm coming. 26 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,900 Lighting and all kinds of crazy [bleep] 27 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:17,760 I mean, it seems like a coincidence. 28 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,100 But whatever it is, it's always the case, though, 29 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:22,060 when we're out here in the Energy Zone. 30 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:24,560 Hopefully the weather clears. 31 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,260 We'll have better luck tomorrow. 32 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,260 -How we doing, Oscar? -[Oscar] Pretty good, man. 33 00:01:48,260 --> 00:01:50,360 [Chad] We'll be able to tell we're in a void 34 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,160 -'cause it will just drop off? -[Oscar] Yeah. Yeah. 35 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:53,460 [Chad] All right, perfect. 36 00:01:53,460 --> 00:01:56,760 [narrator] After a sudden thunderstorm shut the team down, 37 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,160 Oscar moves the rathole rig back into position. 38 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,160 Nice. 39 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,160 [narrator] The weather has cleared, 40 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,330 and the team can resume drilling. 41 00:02:06,860 --> 00:02:09,360 Weeks earlier, they discovered a vent shaft 42 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,500 leading 125 feet down into the Energy Zone. 43 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:15,260 [James] Look at that [bleep]. 44 00:02:15,260 --> 00:02:17,800 [narrator] But they don't want to risk a collapse, 45 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,900 so they're drilling a new shaft parallel to the vent, 46 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:23,100 using it as a guide to orient them toward 47 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:25,530 the cavernous chamber below. 48 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:27,160 [James] This is really exciting. 49 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,360 We've been waiting for this for weeks. 50 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,660 And I wanna find some treasure today. 51 00:02:32,660 --> 00:02:34,000 I wanna at least find an entrance 52 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,860 into where the artefacts and the treasure is at. 53 00:02:36,860 --> 00:02:38,860 [Chad] Here we go. This is it. 54 00:02:38,860 --> 00:02:40,800 We're gonna find that [bleep] cavern today, boys. 55 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,160 -[James] Oh. -Hell yeah. 56 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,060 [Chad] Yeah. At least. 57 00:02:49,060 --> 00:02:52,000 The vent shaft goes 125 feet down. 58 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,760 We need to keep on going till we find something. 59 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,530 -[Oscar] I'll keep going. -Let's do it, boys. Hell, yeah. 60 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:05,730 We've been drilling out here for years now, and this could be the one. 61 00:03:06,660 --> 00:03:09,330 Man, this is no [bleep]. We can [bleep] hit it today. 62 00:03:32,660 --> 00:03:34,230 [Chad] What's it look like, Art? 63 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,360 -Is it? -[Art] Yeah. 64 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,300 Few parts. We'll see right now. 65 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:43,760 [narrator] The rainstorm has created a wet layer of dirt, 66 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,660 but the drill operators think it's only near the surface, 67 00:03:46,660 --> 00:03:50,360 and the further down they drill, the drier it will get. 68 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,060 -[Art] Yeah. -We're still all right, though. 69 00:03:53,060 --> 00:03:54,600 -[Art] Yeah. -It's dry right there. 70 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:55,800 [Art] Yeah, that's what I was saying. 71 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,230 -If it just sits for a minute, then yeah. -[Chad] All right. 72 00:03:59,260 --> 00:04:01,300 -It's not bad. Good. -Yeah. 73 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:05,100 So, uh, there's a little moisture in the dirt there. 74 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:07,660 As we're drilling, there's some seepage in there. 75 00:04:07,660 --> 00:04:09,160 But it's still not too bad. 76 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,300 Like, if, uh... If it gets much worse, 77 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:14,860 and it turns into a mud, it's a problem. 78 00:04:14,860 --> 00:04:16,330 But right now, we're okay. 79 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,000 What we got, Oscar? 80 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,330 How far? 81 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:26,960 [Chad] Ninety feet? 82 00:04:44,700 --> 00:04:48,830 [James] So, my magnetometer put the top of that cavern at about 120 feet. 83 00:04:50,260 --> 00:04:53,260 And right now, we're almost at 90. 84 00:04:53,260 --> 00:04:55,260 With any luck, we'll punch through soon. 85 00:05:03,460 --> 00:05:05,260 [Duane] What the [bleep]? 86 00:05:05,260 --> 00:05:08,560 -[horn tooting] -[man] Now. 87 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,400 -That's [bleep] blue dirt. -[Chad] What? 88 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,360 That's blue dirt down there. 89 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:13,660 -Is it? -Yeah. 90 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:19,960 [narrator] After drilling down 90 feet, 91 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:21,700 the soil composition has changed 92 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:25,930 from dry sedimentary dirt to a strange blue clay. 93 00:05:26,860 --> 00:05:29,360 Hey, stop the drill! Hey! 94 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:31,630 Kill it. 95 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,660 -This is that blue dirt he was talking about. -[Charlie] Holy [bleep]. 96 00:05:37,660 --> 00:05:39,000 -[Chad] It's hard to drill? -[Oscar] Yeah. 97 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,860 -[Chad] Yeah? -Yeah. 98 00:05:40,860 --> 00:05:44,460 [narrator] Duane claims he has seen this dirt before on the ranch. 99 00:05:44,460 --> 00:05:47,530 And according to locals, it's a bad omen. 100 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:53,030 [James] So, it's like a blue clay. 101 00:05:54,460 --> 00:05:55,560 That's it. 102 00:05:57,460 --> 00:05:58,960 That's [bleep] it. 103 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,460 -Is it hard to drill through this stuff? -Yeah, it's hard, you know. 104 00:06:03,460 --> 00:06:04,660 -[Chad] It's hard? -[Oscar] Yeah. 105 00:06:04,660 --> 00:06:07,100 All right. So how much more do you want to keep going? 106 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:09,430 -Till we get to the cavern gotta keep going. -Okay. 107 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,260 -[horn toots] -Drill! 108 00:06:13,260 --> 00:06:14,860 [Chad] Damn. That's loud. 109 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:17,230 Don't give a [bleep]. 110 00:06:18,660 --> 00:06:20,230 All right, let's go. 111 00:06:44,260 --> 00:06:45,330 [Chad] How's the drilling, man? 112 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,130 -[Art] So slow. -Slow? 113 00:06:51,460 --> 00:06:52,860 It's still not wet, though. 114 00:06:53,860 --> 00:06:55,400 What do you think? 115 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,430 [Chad] Yeah? 116 00:06:58,860 --> 00:07:01,500 -[Oscar] That's what we got. -[Chad] Oh, [bleep]. 117 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:03,860 -You see, it's barely moving. -Yeah, yeah. 118 00:07:09,660 --> 00:07:11,960 [narrator] The drill is working through the thick clay 119 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,560 at a rate of two feet every hour, 120 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,060 which is five times slower than usual. 121 00:07:18,060 --> 00:07:20,100 Oscar was thinking, like, two to four hours. 122 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:22,730 We're sitting at, like, seven hours now. 123 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,660 [Chad grunts] 124 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:28,300 It's stuck. 125 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:31,130 -It hasn't moved at all. -Yeah. 126 00:07:35,660 --> 00:07:38,260 [metallic scraping] 127 00:07:38,260 --> 00:07:40,060 [James] That sounds hard. 128 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:42,730 That's hard. 129 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:48,930 [James] Yeah. 130 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,000 It just hit something hard, hard 131 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,330 'cause it's really slow, he said, the drill. 132 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,230 You think this is what slowed us down? 133 00:08:23,060 --> 00:08:24,760 [Ryan] Chad. 134 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:29,000 They're grinding down there, 135 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,330 and this, I guess, is some of the stone that they're grinding. 136 00:08:34,260 --> 00:08:37,560 -You see it's got, like, reflective properties to it. -[Chad] Yeah. 137 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:39,060 -[Ryan] Crystals or something. -[Chad] Right. 138 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:43,400 This stuff is super hard. He's still at 98 feet. 139 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,030 This is the [bleep] that you're drilling through right now. 140 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,100 So, this is still that blue dirt. 141 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:53,300 And the further we get down, there's, like, black chunks in there that are, uh... 142 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:54,330 That we haven't seen before. 143 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,860 [metal detector beeping] 144 00:09:09,860 --> 00:09:11,160 [Chad] Charlie, what did you find? 145 00:09:12,460 --> 00:09:14,930 [Charlie] It's more of those rocks you've been finding. 146 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:19,760 Really? 147 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,460 [Charlie] We've been drilling up here for years 148 00:09:21,460 --> 00:09:22,660 and saw and done enough drilling. 149 00:09:22,660 --> 00:09:24,900 I know what, what the rocks looks like 150 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:27,500 when they spin off the, the drill. 151 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:30,900 Uh, that thing spun out, and it went further than any other rock, 152 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:33,200 indicating that it was heavier. 153 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,860 It was a lot heavier than a normal rock, and it was more black. 154 00:09:36,860 --> 00:09:39,560 It did set off the metal detector 155 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:42,760 and with a very high iron content. 156 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,800 Looked like a chunk of metal. 157 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,960 Where it's coming from? I have no idea. 158 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:52,130 Oh, this is... This is strange. 159 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,460 [James] It still needs to be tested, too, 160 00:09:56,460 --> 00:09:57,460 -before we jump-- -Yeah, yeah, yeah. 161 00:09:57,460 --> 00:10:00,860 Hey, Chad, look at the dirt, take it over here, 162 00:10:00,860 --> 00:10:02,460 but let's get back to drilling. 163 00:10:02,460 --> 00:10:03,960 [Chad] Let's keep going, Oscar. 164 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:10,660 In all these clumps of clay down there, 165 00:10:10,660 --> 00:10:15,400 we're finding these dark, blueish, metal-looking nodules. 166 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,860 Is this giving it some kind of unique properties that energize the Energy Zone? 167 00:10:19,860 --> 00:10:21,230 I think we should have it analyzed. 168 00:10:22,660 --> 00:10:24,100 [Charlie] Sending 'em off and have 'em tested 169 00:10:24,100 --> 00:10:26,100 could help us come up with the answers 170 00:10:26,100 --> 00:10:29,160 as to why some of this weirdness goes on up here 171 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:33,300 as far as the energy and, and the equipment not working properly, 172 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:34,700 batteries draining. 173 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:37,330 There's just been a lot of weirdness that goes on up here. 174 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:47,930 I don't know if I've ever not seen this place cause havoc on something. 175 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,260 -What do you think? -They're hard as [bleep]. 176 00:10:54,260 --> 00:10:55,900 -It's getting harder? -Yeah. 177 00:10:55,900 --> 00:10:57,960 This could be the top of the cave. 178 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:59,630 -'Cause that's hard as [bleep]. -[Oscar] Yeah. 179 00:11:01,460 --> 00:11:04,160 Yeah. 180 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,400 We've been drilling here all damn day. 181 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:10,430 And based on that scan, we're only ten feet away from punching in the cave. 182 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:24,530 Yeah. 183 00:11:25,060 --> 00:11:26,460 [Chad grunts] 184 00:11:26,460 --> 00:11:29,000 [narrator] To pierce through the hard layer of rock, 185 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,160 the drill team must swap out the tiger teeth on the drill bit 186 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:35,760 with new teeth that are strong enough to grind through. 187 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,760 I talked to Jeff. He has to go get more teeth for the... 188 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,200 For the drill bit. 189 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,760 You know, I thought today was gonna be a smooth and easy day, 190 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,500 just jump in and... 191 00:11:43,500 --> 00:11:45,000 I was, kind of, hoping that we... 192 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:48,960 You know, we would have still stayed in the, the, um, clay. 193 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,000 -[Chad] Yeah. -'Cause it would have made it a lot better. 194 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 We passed the clay and went straight to something else now. 195 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,830 -[Chad] Something super hard. -Yeah. 196 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,400 -[Chad] Hey. -[Duane] Yeah. 197 00:11:58,400 --> 00:11:59,660 [Chad] They're out of teeth. 198 00:11:59,660 --> 00:12:02,300 -He's having to go get some more. -[bleep] 199 00:12:02,300 --> 00:12:04,000 And we're still stuck. 200 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,700 Just one more thing. 201 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:07,930 -[James] I hope it solves it. -[Jeff] Yeah. 202 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,300 [Chad] So, yeah, it's like something beyond our control out here. 203 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:15,560 I mean, we keep on pushing, and it keeps on fighting back. 204 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:17,930 We've had more [bleep] today than, than ever. 205 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:22,260 Oh, [bleep]. 206 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:30,260 [Duane bleep] this. 207 00:12:31,260 --> 00:12:32,560 [Charlie] Oh, man. 208 00:12:33,660 --> 00:12:38,860 -[Duane] Emery. -[Emery] Duane, Chad, Charlie. 209 00:12:38,860 --> 00:12:40,700 [narrator] While the drill crew works, 210 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:46,160 biomedical expert Emery Smith has returned to the ranch with his findings. 211 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,200 I finally got the report back. 212 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:52,460 [narrator] Duane asked Emery to investigate a mutilated deer carcass... 213 00:12:52,460 --> 00:12:56,560 Multiple spinal fractures. 214 00:12:56,560 --> 00:13:00,260 ...as well as strange tracks that led out of the pond to Beaver Creek... 215 00:13:00,260 --> 00:13:03,100 [Charlie] These are fresh overnight tracks. 216 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:04,660 ...where Charlie captured a photo 217 00:13:04,660 --> 00:13:07,360 of an unusual animal in the water. 218 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:08,830 This is what I got. 219 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,600 [narrator] After collecting samples from the pond, 220 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,860 Emery analyzed them against his DNA database 221 00:13:16,860 --> 00:13:19,060 and has his findings. 222 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:23,000 [Emery] This is the results of the DNA. 223 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,160 [Duane bleep] Tell us what that means. 224 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:26,960 We ran it through this database. 225 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:30,860 The majority of it is snake DNA. 226 00:13:30,860 --> 00:13:33,460 But to survive this cold weather here, 227 00:13:33,460 --> 00:13:35,260 it's not normal for a regular snake. 228 00:13:35,260 --> 00:13:40,160 And it has other DNA that, they're prehistoric. 229 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:41,660 That's just incredible. 230 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:47,160 Because they're part of that being that we don't know. 231 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:55,460 [Emery] The majority of it is snake DNA. 232 00:13:55,460 --> 00:13:59,500 But it is has other DNA that, they're prehistoric. 233 00:13:59,500 --> 00:14:03,600 [narrator] Biomedical expert Emery Smith has returned to Blind Frog Ranch 234 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,560 with the DNA results of his findings 235 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:08,300 from the water samples taken from the pond. 236 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:12,600 -There's part of that being that we don't know. -[Chad] Right. 237 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,000 But this is something that's been around for a long time. 238 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,560 So, what do you think this is? Like, some kind of snake? 239 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:21,160 To survive this cold weather here, you know, 240 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:22,860 it's not normal for a regular snake. 241 00:14:22,860 --> 00:14:24,800 -A snake can't be out here. -[Chad] Yeah. 242 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,460 -[Emery] Tropical python or anaconda. -[Chad] Right. 243 00:14:27,460 --> 00:14:31,160 It's impossible that something has survived. 244 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,060 But in a cave system... 245 00:14:33,060 --> 00:14:35,060 That stays the same in a cave system. 246 00:14:35,860 --> 00:14:38,660 So you might have a large biosphere 247 00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:41,360 under Blind Frog Ranch is what I'm getting at. 248 00:14:44,060 --> 00:14:46,500 It's some sort of prehistoric creature. 249 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:48,460 There's a whole ecosystem, apparently, 250 00:14:48,460 --> 00:14:50,730 that's alive and well down there. 251 00:14:55,300 --> 00:14:57,560 This serpent, more than likely, 252 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,700 has to have been living underground 253 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:01,760 hundreds of years to be that big. 254 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:03,700 Thanks, guys. 255 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:05,900 That's worse than what I thought. 256 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:07,600 [Chad] Well, you think if it's prehistoric, 257 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,200 that explains how it's so big, like a-- 258 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,660 Yeah. And has all those armor-plating scales on it and stuff. 259 00:15:13,660 --> 00:15:16,560 That's pretty wild, boys. That's pretty wild. 260 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:20,960 He's right. I mean, a snake is not gonna be in this cold climate. 261 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,700 Well, let's just let him, figure this out 262 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:26,130 and we'll get back to drilling. 263 00:15:32,700 --> 00:15:35,100 [Chad] So, we got fresh teeth on it so she's comfortable, huh? 264 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:36,560 -[Art] Yeah. -[Chad] Nice. 265 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,360 [narrator] After hitting a hard rocky layer at a depth of 100 feet, 266 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,000 the rat-rig team has replaced the drill teeth 267 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,000 so that they can cut through the next 20 feet of rock 268 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,460 and penetrate the keyhole cavern. 269 00:15:48,460 --> 00:15:50,030 -[Jeff] Turn. -[Art] There you go. 270 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,460 [Chad] Watch that [bleep] hole, man. 271 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:01,460 Whoa, whoa. 272 00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:03,000 [bleep] 273 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,060 God damn. You almost fell in the [bleep] hole, man. 274 00:16:05,060 --> 00:16:06,700 [Charlie] Yeah, I saw that. 275 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:09,260 [Chad] When I saw his foot slip in there, almost had a heart attack. 276 00:16:09,260 --> 00:16:12,660 Anyone gets in the hole, it's over, you know. 277 00:16:12,660 --> 00:16:14,330 Someone would have died today. 278 00:16:14,900 --> 00:16:16,160 Watch that [bleep] hole. 279 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:31,330 [Chad] Send it. 280 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,100 [James] We're almost at the depth 281 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:36,260 that the magnetometer was showing. 282 00:16:36,260 --> 00:16:39,000 Hopefully, in the right place. 283 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 The depth that we're at right now is almost 120 feet, 284 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,960 so technically we're right there 285 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,630 and just haven't hit it yet. 286 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:00,960 [narrator] For the past two hours, 287 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,360 the drill has been making minimal progress. 288 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,060 However, Oscar and his team start to pull up some promising signs. 289 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:12,460 [Chad] Damn. Look at the size of that rock. 290 00:17:12,460 --> 00:17:14,760 [Art] See where the bit was spinning on the top of that? 291 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:16,700 [Chad] Looks like, kind of, sandstone, but it's a different color. 292 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:18,000 It's another layer. 293 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,160 -That's why we weren't going down an inch. -Ah, makes sense. 294 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:22,700 -[Art] Yeah. -It wasn't cutting at all. 295 00:17:22,700 --> 00:17:23,930 [Art] Yeah. 296 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:30,160 [James] This is what it was just bouncing off of. 297 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:31,700 [Charlie] It's a big chunk of sandstone. 298 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:34,360 That tells you what that drill bit's doing, though. 299 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:37,360 -[James] Yeah, finally was able to break through. -[Charlie] Yeah. 300 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:39,360 [James] It's got a thick ceiling. 301 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:43,460 [Charlie] That's a cave wall. 302 00:17:43,460 --> 00:17:46,560 -Ceiling's what that is. -[Duane] Yup. Gotta be. 303 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:48,000 That's hard as [bleep]. 304 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,330 -That's why this whole [bleep] went caving in. -Yeah. 305 00:17:54,660 --> 00:17:57,560 [narrator] Caverns are lined with thick layers of stone and rock 306 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,660 that support the weight of the earth above 307 00:17:59,660 --> 00:18:02,760 and keep the cavern walls from collapsing. 308 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,360 After passing through the mysterious blue dirt 309 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:07,360 embedded with shards of metal, 310 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:10,400 the team has now entered a dense layer of sandstone 311 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,430 which they believe to be the ceiling of the cavern below. 312 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,400 It's unclear how thick the ceiling is. 313 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,060 But if they can breach it, 314 00:18:19,060 --> 00:18:21,360 it could mean they've finally gained access 315 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:24,560 to the mysterious chamber discovered by the quantum team 316 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,460 earlier this winter. 317 00:18:26,460 --> 00:18:29,560 That circle under the Energy Zone does look manmade. 318 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:31,230 No doubt. 319 00:18:55,260 --> 00:18:57,830 -I can hear it, I can hear it. Rubbing the wall. Yeah. -Yeah. 320 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:01,760 [Oscar] Yeah. 321 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:16,260 [Oscar] Yeah. 322 00:19:19,700 --> 00:19:21,260 [Chad grunts] 323 00:19:21,260 --> 00:19:22,760 [Chad] So, we got a setback right now. 324 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,700 Uh, problem is, the slope of this rock 325 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:27,960 is making the drill go that way 326 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,360 and, uh, it's causing a lot of hell. 327 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:33,760 We could be, what, ten feet off? 328 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:35,760 Oh, I don't know. We'll see. 329 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,530 [Chad] Oh, [bleep]. 330 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,100 [narrator] As the drill continues to labor through 331 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:46,800 the stone layer that covers the keyhole cavern, 332 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:52,460 Drillmaster Oscar has realized that the drill bit is sliding. 333 00:19:52,460 --> 00:19:56,460 It indicates that the rock layer covering the cave must be rounded, 334 00:19:56,460 --> 00:19:59,760 like a vaulted ceiling or shell. 335 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,860 But the curve is causing the drill to deviate. 336 00:20:03,860 --> 00:20:06,660 If the drill continues to veer off course, 337 00:20:06,660 --> 00:20:09,260 the team might miss the keyhole cavern entirely, 338 00:20:09,260 --> 00:20:13,000 and would be forced to start the drilling process over again, 339 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,960 or it could even collapse the cavern below. 340 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:30,000 [Chad] He got to that shell, and he's pushing hard on it. 341 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,860 And, uh, that rock is on a slope. 342 00:20:32,860 --> 00:20:35,160 So what happens is it just pushes... 343 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,560 ...angle going towards him. 344 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,360 So, uh... [bleep] 345 00:20:46,460 --> 00:20:47,760 [ominous instrumental music] 346 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:49,300 [Chad] I talked to Oscar. 347 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:52,900 He's saying that the hole has a bend in it from the rocks. 348 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:55,400 -Yeah. -So the rocks are like that and he got to here, 349 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,500 and he's pushing hard on it so it's shifting 350 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:00,100 and going back towards it. 351 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,030 Yeah, it's crooked right now. That's why it's taking so long to get it in there. 352 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:08,800 [narrator] As the team hits 110 feet, 353 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,660 they have encountered a dense rock layer 354 00:21:10,660 --> 00:21:15,600 that is causing their drill to bend and veer off path. 355 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:20,060 [Chad] We're just trying to slow it down a little bit. Keep it straight as we can. 356 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,060 [drill whirring] 357 00:21:29,060 --> 00:21:30,630 [Charlie] Well, that doesn't sound good. 358 00:21:33,300 --> 00:21:36,500 -You hear that grinding? He's not at the bottom. -[Charlie] What? 359 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:39,360 It's grinding 'cause it's rubbing on the way down. 360 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:41,460 So when he gets to the... He's not even drilling at the bottom. 361 00:21:41,460 --> 00:21:44,230 So he's grinding all the way down 'cause it has a curve in it. 362 00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:55,000 [narrator] In order to penetrate the cavern, 363 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,930 they need the drill to lock into a straight, vertical position. 364 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:03,860 What do you think, Oscar? 365 00:22:03,860 --> 00:22:06,760 -It's still not locking up? -[Oscar] It's still not locking up. 366 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,260 Yeah. Oh, [bleep] 367 00:22:16,260 --> 00:22:17,730 [tense instrumental music] 368 00:22:19,260 --> 00:22:22,760 [narrator] As the drill head slides along the rock layer below, 369 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,860 it is causing the rig's Kelly bar, or Kelly, 370 00:22:25,860 --> 00:22:29,460 to spin and bend due to the immense torque. 371 00:22:29,460 --> 00:22:34,430 If it gives out, the cost would be over $100,000. 372 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:37,500 -What would break it? -No. 373 00:22:37,500 --> 00:22:39,100 -What would break it? -How? 374 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:41,260 What would? Yeah, how could you break it? 375 00:22:41,260 --> 00:22:43,130 Uh, if... 376 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:52,760 Yeah. 377 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,200 I don't know what we hit down there, 378 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,460 but whatever we hit, it's as hard as diamonds. 379 00:22:58,460 --> 00:23:01,160 I doubt that even a bigger drill could push through this. 380 00:23:02,260 --> 00:23:04,000 What could happen is the drill could break, 381 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,160 or there could be a collapse and someone could die, man. So we can't enter in here. 382 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:11,600 -[Duane] Time to call it. Let's do it. -[Charlie] Yeah. 383 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,130 -Tell 'em. Shut it down. -[Charlie] Okay. 384 00:23:15,100 --> 00:23:16,430 [whistles] 385 00:23:21,860 --> 00:23:24,060 Same [bleep] again. 386 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,560 Yeah, this really is so disappointing for me. 387 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:35,560 I mean, this was a big day. This was supposed to be a target point hit today, 388 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:40,560 and [bleep] So it's a very disappointing day for me. 389 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,630 I'm kinda pissed off, to be honest with you. 390 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,700 No drilling now. 391 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:49,560 We're almost there. It'd be a shame for all of this to have been a waste. 392 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:50,760 -[Charlie] Yeah. -Yeah. 393 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,460 [Charlie] We'll figure out a way to get through it. 394 00:23:52,460 --> 00:23:56,360 Every time we seem to be at this energy zone area, 395 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:57,960 we're being thwarted by something. 396 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,000 You know, you just can't help but believe, you know, 397 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,560 that there is something to the phenomena that occurs here in the Uinta Basin 398 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,160 and in the Uinta Mountains. 399 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,660 It just sucks. We're dead in the water at this point. 400 00:24:09,660 --> 00:24:11,400 We were almost there. 401 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,860 We almost had it. 402 00:24:12,860 --> 00:24:15,800 [Charlie] That's just about as disappointing as you can get right there. 403 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,630 [Duane] We'll call in some folks and bring in some gap. 404 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:21,330 Let's get the hell out of here, fellas. 405 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:25,230 [dramatic instrumental music] 406 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,460 We really gotta find out what the hell is going on over there. 407 00:24:36,460 --> 00:24:40,460 [narrator] After striking an impenetrable rock layer in the energy zone, 408 00:24:40,460 --> 00:24:43,630 Duane has phoned a familiar friend for some help. 409 00:24:45,860 --> 00:24:48,060 [Charlie] So what have we got going on? 410 00:24:48,060 --> 00:24:51,660 I got a hold of Stephen Leeah and he's sending somebody else out. 411 00:24:51,660 --> 00:24:55,100 [narrator] Stephen Leeah and his team uncovered the keyhole cavern 412 00:24:55,100 --> 00:24:57,660 lurking below the energy zone. 413 00:24:57,660 --> 00:25:01,430 [Stephen] You've got a tunnel, or pathways, inside your mountain. 414 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,100 Now, what's that doing here? 415 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:05,760 [narrator] And Duane is hoping he can figure out 416 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,100 what is preventing the drill from breaching the cavern. 417 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:10,500 Who's he sending out? 418 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:13,960 [Duane] He's sending Dave, who's an expert. 419 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,300 [Dave] Electromagnetic radiation is all around in the environment 420 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:19,300 and, from that, we're able to deduce patterns 421 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:22,160 about what could be happening in a physical level. 422 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,930 [Duane] And then, there's Michael Boyd coming, and he's the real deal. 423 00:25:27,100 --> 00:25:28,330 There they are. 424 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:31,560 -Hey, hey. -[Dave] How's it going? 425 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,460 -[Chad] What's up, Dave? How you doing, man? -It's good to see you again. 426 00:25:33,460 --> 00:25:35,360 -Yeah, welcome back, brother. -Thank you so much. 427 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:37,360 -Yeah. Hell, yeah. -This is Michael Boyd 428 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:38,460 Hey. 429 00:25:38,460 --> 00:25:39,860 -Charlie. Good to see you, my friend. -Good to see ya. 430 00:25:39,860 --> 00:25:42,400 -I'm liking the ponytail, man. Doing the long hair. -[Michael] Yeah. 431 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,260 I get a haircut every year or so, 432 00:25:45,260 --> 00:25:49,360 and I tell 'em, "Business in front, party in the back, 433 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:52,160 -archaeologist all the time." -[all chuckling] 434 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,460 [narrator] Michael Boyd is a quantum physicist and archaeologist 435 00:25:55,460 --> 00:25:58,700 who has been conducting field research for Stephen Leeah 436 00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:01,160 for over a decade. 437 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,360 [Michael] Stephen told us to come look at what you guys are finding, 438 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:07,860 that you've been drilling and finding all kinds of cool stuff. 439 00:26:07,860 --> 00:26:10,100 Take this inside so we can start taking a look at things. 440 00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:12,530 Perfect. Perfect. That's what we're here for. 441 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,230 [Dave] Give me just a second to get set up here. 442 00:26:20,860 --> 00:26:23,530 -[line ringing] -Okay. 443 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,560 That's it. Oh, here it comes. 444 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:27,760 -Well, hello. -[laughing] 445 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,160 -[Dave] All right. -The presentation right there. 446 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,160 Welcome to my spread. 447 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,260 -Baguettes, jambon, croissant. -[Chad] What are you doing there? 448 00:26:37,260 --> 00:26:41,060 We've been working on European outreach here. 449 00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:43,130 We're in the beginning genesis of it. 450 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:46,660 Duane, what's your problem? 451 00:26:46,660 --> 00:26:49,300 We're drilling down where your scan was, and-- 452 00:26:49,300 --> 00:26:53,000 My God, Duane, you digging down in that black hole? 453 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,100 Are you crazy? 454 00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:56,660 That's not the point, Stephen. I've always been crazy. 455 00:26:57,260 --> 00:26:59,360 What do you need our help with? 456 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:01,260 So we drilled right over here, 457 00:27:01,260 --> 00:27:02,900 right at the base of the key, 458 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:06,600 just pushing on something that's super hard that we can't get through. 459 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,560 [Mike] Did you hit a hard pan or anything? 460 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:12,300 -[Duane] We did hit hard pan down about 100 foot going in. -Yeah. 461 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:14,960 -Took us forever to drill through it. -[Mike] Okay. 462 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,600 So there's a couple of things that could be going on. 463 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,560 Some natural phenomena 464 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:23,860 that's due to the features that we have here that we see underground. 465 00:27:23,860 --> 00:27:26,900 Basically, what's going on is, where you have the dark area, 466 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:28,960 that's a higher density area. 467 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,760 And, then, these other areas are lower density. 468 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,700 [narrator] Michael believes the quantum scan 469 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:36,560 shows the center of the keyhole cavern 470 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,860 to be much more dense than the surrounding rock. 471 00:27:39,860 --> 00:27:43,160 But whether it's a hard rock making up a cave ceiling, 472 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,230 or something else entirely, it is still unknown. 473 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:51,700 -It seems like that we have a perfect place to hide stuff. -Right. 474 00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:56,400 It could be something to do with the Aztec, possibly. 475 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:01,260 It makes sense that you might have hit something down below. 476 00:28:01,260 --> 00:28:03,760 It could be some kind of energy 477 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,760 that we don't quite understand yet. 478 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,730 I'm not quite sure what it is, but there's something big out there. 479 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,300 [narrator] Coming up... 480 00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:16,600 [Mike] Okay, everybody, just step three foot at the same time. 481 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:20,360 [narrator] The quantum team investigates the area around the energy zone... 482 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:22,560 [Mike] Look at that. 483 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,460 [Dave] I mean, you can even see, like, the impact. 484 00:28:24,460 --> 00:28:26,260 Like it crash-landed into it. 485 00:28:26,260 --> 00:28:28,160 [narrator] ...leading to a shocking discovery. 486 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,630 It all started with a meteorite impact. 487 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:36,460 [tense instrumental music] 488 00:28:36,460 --> 00:28:39,600 [Mike] You might've hit something down below. 489 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,700 It could be something to do with the Aztec. 490 00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:47,300 I'm not quite sure what it is, but there's something big out there. 491 00:28:47,300 --> 00:28:51,000 Okay, guys, listen, you know the drill, 492 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000 I need time progression. 493 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,760 I'm gonna need video footage, 494 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,560 some deeper scans, and see what's going on in there. 495 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:03,000 I need more data. I need dirt, I need samples out of that ground. 496 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,000 You got it. 497 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Duane, Chad, great seeing you all again, 498 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000 but my wife's calling me. We got dinner to go to. 499 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,860 We're going to eat some snails tonight. 500 00:29:11,860 --> 00:29:14,760 -[laughing] -Pray for me. 501 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,460 [narrator] Chad and the team take Michael and Dave to the energy zone drill site 502 00:29:18,460 --> 00:29:20,160 to investigate the area. 503 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,960 [Chad] Yeah, right there is where we poked the hole. 504 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,560 So that's where we found the balls, the blue dirt, 505 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,630 and that's where we hit that super hard object, whatever it was, at 120 foot. 506 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:35,030 We've had hell with this site. 507 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,300 We drilled it and we hit something solid. 508 00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:39,760 We couldn't go any further through that. 509 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,360 [Charlie] We hit and it just smoothed our bits off. 510 00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,300 And they were good bits. They were sharp, they had tiger teeth on them, 511 00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:51,100 they were raw to bits. So it is a hard sumbut down there. 512 00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:54,360 This is some of that mud that we've been pulling out right there. 513 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,260 It's wet. It's just as wet as ever. 514 00:29:58,260 --> 00:30:02,360 Certain elements produce a blue color when they're oxidized. 515 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,260 And how deep did you hit the blue sand? 516 00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:07,360 I think that was around 80 foot or something like that. 517 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,000 [Mike] Oh, boy, that's deep. 518 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,100 What I'm gonna suggest we do is we survey up above here. 519 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:17,300 So what we wanna do is some transects, it's called. 520 00:30:17,300 --> 00:30:19,460 [narrator] Transect is a field survey method 521 00:30:19,460 --> 00:30:23,300 where collectors move in unison along a fixed path. 522 00:30:23,300 --> 00:30:26,060 By measuring the distances between similar objects, 523 00:30:26,060 --> 00:30:30,230 they can generate a scientific sample of the ground composition. 524 00:30:31,860 --> 00:30:36,100 Okay, so what we're gonna do is we're all gonna line up five feet apart. 525 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:38,760 I'm gonna give you each a few of these flags 526 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,260 and, then, we're gonna walk together 527 00:30:40,260 --> 00:30:43,160 and we're gonna look down and see if we see anything. 528 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,960 Okay, let's line up. 529 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,360 [narrator] Michael hopes the survey will identify 530 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,260 localized minerals and objects 531 00:30:49,260 --> 00:30:51,800 to give him insight on the geological forces 532 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,760 that make the energy zone so unique 533 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:59,230 and tell them what's protecting the cavern from being breached. 534 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,460 Okay, everybody, just step three foot at the same time. 535 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,560 You see something, put it down. 536 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,330 [tense instrumental music] 537 00:31:12,660 --> 00:31:14,630 Anyone see anything cool yet? 538 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,060 [Duane] There's a [bleep] Does that count? 539 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:26,930 [Charlie] There's something that's kinda interesting. 540 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:36,060 [Ryan] I got one. 541 00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:40,360 It looks like another one of those weird nugget, 542 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:41,930 metal-looking nodules. 543 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:44,360 Whatever these things are, 544 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,360 these little molten nodules, 545 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,100 I've never, never, come across these anywhere throughout the basin. 546 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:54,000 And I've spent 17 years going to all these various paranormal hotspots, 547 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,530 spending time in the desert. 548 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,530 The hell are these things? 549 00:31:59,460 --> 00:32:01,230 Yeah, there's... there's a lot of them in there. 550 00:32:07,860 --> 00:32:10,100 Look at that. 551 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:13,060 I see something embedded in the rock there. 552 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,130 That's something else. 553 00:32:15,860 --> 00:32:18,760 I gotta take a picture of that. 554 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,260 [Dave] I mean, you can even see, like, the impact, a kind of depressed... 555 00:32:22,260 --> 00:32:24,430 Like it crash-landed into it. 556 00:32:39,300 --> 00:32:43,860 Oh, right here. Looks like it might be a stone artefact. 557 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,660 Check that out. Wow! 558 00:32:47,660 --> 00:32:49,660 That's awesome. 559 00:32:49,660 --> 00:32:52,530 -[Ryan] And it's obsidian. -[Mike] Look at that. 560 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,660 That's beautiful. 561 00:32:54,660 --> 00:32:56,260 [Ryan] You can see where it's been worked. 562 00:32:56,260 --> 00:32:58,800 [Mike] That edge is sharper than steel. 563 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,860 Obsidian was like money to Native Americans. 564 00:33:02,860 --> 00:33:04,160 They called it black gold. 565 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,460 When we do our geological research on this area, 566 00:33:07,460 --> 00:33:10,800 I'm hopeful that we'll find some evidence 567 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,060 of this volcanic rock in the area. 568 00:33:14,060 --> 00:33:15,960 [narrator] Obsidian is a volcanic glass 569 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,100 and has been shaped into tools and weapons 570 00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:20,460 for hundreds of thousands of years. 571 00:33:20,460 --> 00:33:24,360 Its unique molecular properties allow it to be sharpened to an edge 572 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,200 500 times sharper than a steel blade. 573 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:32,800 This made it the preferred weapon of Aztecs and other ancient civilizations 574 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:37,100 who would mount deadly obsidian blades on wooden clubs. 575 00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:40,100 According to the account of one Spanish conquistador, 576 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:45,800 the Aztec blades could take the head off of a horse with a single blow. 577 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,860 This could actually be Aztec material that we're looking at. 578 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,400 Okay, guys, 579 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,700 I think we're about done here. 580 00:33:56,700 --> 00:34:00,660 We're gonna take the samples so that we can do further analysis 581 00:34:00,660 --> 00:34:01,900 in the lab on it. 582 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:03,000 We'll see what we get. 583 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,230 -Thanks, Michael. -[Mike] Oh, yeah. 584 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,160 [tense instrumental music] 585 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,260 How many beers have you had? 586 00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:14,360 Had one. 587 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,460 -One at a time. -[laughing] 588 00:34:18,660 --> 00:34:21,160 You know, when we were pulling up that blue dirt, 589 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,260 we had these limestone-looking rocks. 590 00:34:24,260 --> 00:34:27,160 And I don't know if this was giving the color to the blue dirt, 591 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,160 but I've been looking at it, and it looks like 592 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:33,460 -there's something yellow and sparkly in the blue dirt. -Really? 593 00:34:33,460 --> 00:34:37,160 When I ground some of this stuff up and I panned it, 594 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,760 and I could see some really fine color in it. 595 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:44,860 It was, you know, like flour dough or something like that. 596 00:34:44,860 --> 00:34:47,160 But you could see the color in it. 597 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,260 [Ryan] Maybe this has some unique properties to it. 598 00:34:49,260 --> 00:34:52,460 And if that is gold in there, we could be hitting the mother lode 599 00:34:52,460 --> 00:34:55,900 of some kind of rich gold vein underneath here. 600 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:57,560 [Chad] Yeah, we put a lot of work into this. 601 00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,960 It'd be nice if that blue dirt paid off. 602 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:04,560 [dramatic instrumental music] 603 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,060 [Ryan] Taking off. 604 00:35:14,860 --> 00:35:18,360 [narrator] After collecting geological samples, including obsidian, 605 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,660 from the energy zone drill site, 606 00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:25,560 the team has given the material to geologist Michael Boyd for analysis. 607 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:29,760 While they await his findings, quantum imaging expert Dave Wilkinson 608 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,730 performs a scan of the keyhole cavern hole. 609 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,960 [Dave] I'm gonna take some more footage so we can scan the area. 610 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:41,560 We're gonna see if we get to collect some more information 611 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,860 about what's going on with this hole. 612 00:35:43,860 --> 00:35:45,260 [narrator] Earlier in the year, 613 00:35:45,260 --> 00:35:48,260 Dave's image scans provided the dimensions and shape 614 00:35:48,260 --> 00:35:49,860 of the cavern below. 615 00:35:49,860 --> 00:35:53,200 [Dave] There's a round portion 500 to 1,000 feet across. 616 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,860 [narrator] But now, with a 120-foot hole 617 00:35:55,860 --> 00:35:57,960 drilled into the center of the cavern, 618 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:02,530 he can get information on what lies at the dense center of the cave ceiling. 619 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,000 [Dave] Duane and Chad told me they hit something really hard. 620 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,530 What I think happened is they might have cracked it. 621 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,100 So, hopefully, we can get some data that can reveal 622 00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:17,530 how big the cavity could be and what the best way to get in would be. 623 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,360 Oh, my God. Man, this is... 624 00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:28,330 really interesting. 625 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:32,160 Holy [bleep] 626 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,560 [dramatic instrumental music] 627 00:36:40,660 --> 00:36:42,760 [tense instrumental music] 628 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,100 [narrator] The next day, the quantum team returns to Blind Frog Ranch 629 00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:50,860 and are ready to share their results with the crew. 630 00:36:50,860 --> 00:36:52,800 [Chad] So, right now, we have quantum coming out. 631 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:53,960 We don't know what the quantum guys have found, 632 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,400 but they've told us that they've found 633 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,660 some really interesting stuff going on, so I'm excited to hear it. 634 00:36:58,660 --> 00:37:01,060 -Hey, Chad. Great to see you. -Welcome, guys. 635 00:37:01,060 --> 00:37:02,860 Hey, you too, man. 636 00:37:02,860 --> 00:37:04,360 -How you doing, Dave? -[Dave] Good to see you, man. 637 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,460 We've got Stephen on the phone right now. 638 00:37:06,460 --> 00:37:07,860 [Mike] Oh, perfect, let's go. 639 00:37:07,860 --> 00:37:09,700 Duane, it's good to see you again, man. 640 00:37:09,700 --> 00:37:11,000 [Duane] Good seeing you, Stephen. 641 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,560 -So we got Stephen on the... -All right. 642 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,200 -Sorry we're late, guys. -[Duane] Hey again. 643 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,960 Hey, hey, hey, hey. How are you doing there, bud? 644 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,560 -[Mike] Good. -[Ryan] How are you doing? 645 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,460 Duane, I told you a long time ago, 646 00:37:21,460 --> 00:37:25,660 you're gonna have to end up taking the red pill or the blue pill from us. 647 00:37:25,660 --> 00:37:29,400 Well, my boy, Doc, is ready to give you both. 648 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,260 Are you ready for this? 649 00:37:31,260 --> 00:37:35,030 All over the ground, I'm finding these little rock. 650 00:37:35,860 --> 00:37:38,100 And, then, I found this one piece 651 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:42,260 where it's a big glob of 'em fused together. 652 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:47,000 So we did a whole series of tests to look for what materials we had. 653 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,100 We did EDX with a scanning electron microscope 654 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:53,260 to look for composition. 655 00:37:53,260 --> 00:37:55,660 [narrator] Used extensively in topography studies, 656 00:37:55,660 --> 00:37:58,460 an EDX is an energy dispersive X-ray 657 00:37:58,460 --> 00:38:03,400 that uses electrons to determine the elemental composition of ground samples. 658 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,660 We did X-ray diffraction to look at the crystallography of the sample, 659 00:38:07,660 --> 00:38:10,830 and we found iridium. 660 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,460 Well, iridium means off-Earth, right? 661 00:38:13,460 --> 00:38:15,160 It's not natural to this planet. 662 00:38:17,260 --> 00:38:24,560 It all appears, right now, to boil back to a meteorite impact. 663 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,560 Congratulations, boys! Looks like you all got a meteor at Blind Frog Ranch. 664 00:38:30,460 --> 00:38:32,360 [narrator] According to the quantum team, 665 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,760 the fragments of metal and rock that the drill was encountering 666 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,760 were the direct result of a large impacted meteorite 667 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,230 sitting above the keyhole cavern. 668 00:38:43,860 --> 00:38:46,360 I told you guys. That's why they [bleep] up. 669 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,360 It's a huge magnetic ball like a meteorite, huh? 670 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,500 I have never, ever, 671 00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:56,100 have seen such an energy flow as I saw in your property, 672 00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:58,860 where none should exist. 673 00:38:58,860 --> 00:39:02,000 [narrator] Every day, thousands of pieces of interstellar material 674 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,800 enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up before reaching the surface. 675 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,100 Meteorites larger than 100 feet, however, 676 00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:13,760 can make impact and send hundreds of droplets of melted rock 677 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,260 around the impact area. 678 00:39:16,260 --> 00:39:18,760 These tiny chunks are called bomblets, 679 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,660 and they contain traces of minerals and metals. 680 00:39:21,660 --> 00:39:25,060 Their size is proportional to the mass of the meteor itself 681 00:39:25,060 --> 00:39:27,300 and force of impact. 682 00:39:27,300 --> 00:39:30,700 [Mike] It would have had to be a pretty big piece of material 683 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:35,300 for us to be seeing such large bomblets down here on the surface. 684 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:38,800 -[Chad] Right. -So there's something big out there. 685 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,060 I mean, what we've learned today is there's a huge [bleep] meteorite 686 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:44,660 right here. 687 00:39:44,660 --> 00:39:46,260 Well, that explains why it's so hard. 688 00:39:46,260 --> 00:39:48,900 We couldn't get 120 foot. It was just rock solid. 689 00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:52,500 And if it was a meteor, there's no way we could get through it. 690 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:56,560 [Stephen] Duane, listen, I'm gonna be completely honest with you, 691 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,360 Texas to Texas boy, 692 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:02,900 there is something huge going on on your property. 693 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:07,160 And the only way to find out is to get down there. 694 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,260 So what might we keep doing now, Stephen? 695 00:40:11,260 --> 00:40:13,800 [Stephen] Duane, it's gonna take several months 696 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,560 for our quantum team to get together 697 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:20,560 and compile all the data that you guys have collected. 698 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:22,200 [Chad] So Stephen's gonna take more scans 699 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,100 for the quantum guys to evaluate more of this area, 700 00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:26,360 but it's gonna take months. 701 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,860 So we don't have months. We have to find another way in. 702 00:40:28,860 --> 00:40:31,300 There's not telling when we're going to get more rain. 703 00:40:31,300 --> 00:40:34,260 We get a bad enough storm and everything's flooded again. 704 00:40:34,260 --> 00:40:35,960 We need to get down there now! 705 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,060 [dramatic instrumental music] 706 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:44,000 [narrator] On the next episode of Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch... 707 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,760 [Chad] We brought in Stephen Leeah, 708 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,160 and he's saying that it could be a huge meteorite down there. 709 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,460 [man] These things hit Earth just like a huge bomb going off, 710 00:40:52,460 --> 00:40:56,060 and it's created fracturing around this large impact crater 711 00:40:56,060 --> 00:40:58,360 where we could search for natural openings. 712 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,730 My dad's gonna go over there and, then, start digging. 713 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,300 -Oh, [bleep] -[Chad] God almighty! 714 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,560 Piece of [bleep] stuck. 715 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,260 [Duane] We're getting worse and worse. 716 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:09,960 [Chad] See that? 717 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,230 We're gonna be out about a half a million dollars. 718 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,930 [Chad] Hey, we got something! 719 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,400 There's another chamber coming off in here. 720 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:19,700 [Chad] Oh, yes! It looks like a tunnel. 721 00:41:19,700 --> 00:41:22,000 We are the first people to see this, 722 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,560 possibly in hundreds of years, if not thousands. 723 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:26,860 This is amazing. 724 00:41:27,460 --> 00:41:28,800 Holy [bleep]