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NARRATOR:
In a remote valley in Utah,

there is a ranch
that some say is evil.

GEORGE KNAPP:
Bad things happen to people
on that property.

There's danger there. It's real.

NARRATOR:
Terrifying creatures
prowl the land.

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
There's stories
of cloaked beasts

running out of the woods
and chasing people.

This thing comes right up
to this guy and roars.

NARRATOR:
Ominous lights
appear in the sky.

I have personally watched as

portions of the mesa
appeared to glow.

NARRATOR:
Animals are found slaughtered.

They had prized cattle
taken and mutilated.

NICK REDFERN:
It's not just UFOs.

It's not just strange creatures.

It's not just animal
mutilations. It's everything.

TOM WINTERTON:
There are things
that have happened here

that have shaken me to my core.

NARRATOR:
What is behind
the strange phenomena

that takes place
on Skinwalker Ranch?

And could solving the mystery

change our entire reality?

JEREMY CORBELL:
There is something profound that
is going on at Skinwalker Ranch

and it begs to be studied.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

(bird screeches)

NARRATOR:
Uintah County, Utah.

Nestled in a deep valley,

surrounded by some
of the highest mountain peaks

in North America,

is an infamous
512‐acre patch of land

known as Skinwalker Ranch.

The native Utes
warn of a dark presence

that exists in this area,

where strange sightings
in the sky,

encounters with
terrifying creatures,

animal mutilations,

and numerous other
paranormal activities

have been reported
for centuries.

Skinwalker Ranch has become
this nexus of activity

where people are reporting
strange things.

It's in an area in Utah that's
very much like a desert terrain,

and what's there now

is high desert prairie,
kind of, area.

Now what it actually is

and what's going on there
is a whole other question.

CORBELL: It's a very unique
place in the world

where the phenomenon
expresses itself

in dramatic form.

It's also the most
scientifically studied

UFO or paranormal hotspot
in history.

NARRATOR:
Native American legends say

that there has been
an otherworldly presence

at Skinwalker Ranch for as long

as humans have existed
in the area,

which, according
to archaeological evidence,

is at least 10,000 years.

And the very first
European settlers

to pass through this land

in the late 1700s had their own
bizarre experiences,

which they recorded
in their journals.

KNAPP:
The first Europeans

to cross the Uintah Basin,
the, uh, Franciscan monks,

reported seeing things
over their campfires at night,

really weird objects
that we would call UFOs.

The Native Americans,
the indigenous tribes

have been there, have had these
experiences for generations.

It has, for as long as humans
have lived there,

it's been the site
of paranormal activity‐‐

strange things in the sky, UFOs.

There are so many stories
about Skinwalker Ranch

that range from
cattle mutilations going on.

There're stories that if you dig
on the property,

you'll get sick.

Even strange stories

of cloaked beasts
running out of the woods.

You've seen UFOs.

They have seen
different creatures.

They have seen weird things
happening up in the sky.

So you have all these
different phenomena

that happened on that ranch,

so some have referred to it

as a veritable Disneyland
of the paranormal.

NARRATOR:
The most notorious
of the paranormal phenomena

associated with Skinwalker Ranch

is the creature for which
the property is named.

The association
of the skinwalker

with this mysterious
plot of land

can be traced back
to the mid‐19th century.

In January of 1864,

land disputes between
Navajos, Utes,

and the United States military
in Utah and Arizona

reached a fateful tipping point.

After decades of conflict,

the military removed
the Navajo people from the area,

forcing them to make
what became known

as "The Long Walk"
to New Mexico.

The Navajos blamed the Utes
for helping the military,

and so they cursed the land

that the Utes lived on up there.

And it must've been a pretty
strong curse because,

even today, there are
really interesting things

that happen up there.

NARRATOR:
Cursing the land,

the Navajo witch doctors
attempted to conjure an entity

called a "yee naaldooshii,"
or "skinwalker."

The skinwalkers,
they're sort of typically

six to seven feet tall,

very dangerous.

It's described
as being wolf‐like,

but walking on two limbs.

So, inevitably, it sort of
provokes imagery of a werewolf.

DOVER:
The subject of skinwalkers
is as serious as a heart attack.

This is not something
to trifle with.

Even talking about them
puts me in some danger.

The skinwalker

is somebody who is evil.

They want to control people,

communities, regions,

and have that power over people,

and they do this by fear.

JIM MORSE:
The Utes, to this day,
are very respectful.

They're very mindful.
Matter of fact, they stay

at an arm's length, um,
from the Skinwalker Ranch.

Uh, they firmly believe

that this ground is cursed and
that, not only the Uintah basin,

but this concentration
of this phenomenon,

this host is on
the Skinwalker Ranch.

NARRATOR:
Could a monster known
as the skinwalker

really stalk the grounds
of Skinwalker Ranch?

And if so, was it conjured up
by Navajo witch doctors?

Or is it connected
to the paranormal,

and perhaps
otherworldly, activity

that has been reported
on the property for centuries?

Investigative journalist
George Knapp

was one of the first reporters
to expose the strange stories

at Skinwalker Ranch

back in the mid‐1990s,

when he conducted extensive
interviews with the Shermans,

the family of ranchers
that owned the property.

This guy shows up one day

while the ranching family
is still there.

He's built like Grizzly Adams,
big burly guy with a beard,

he said he'd been drawn
to the property,

and he talks to the rancher
and says, "I just need

"to meditate
for a couple of minutes.

"I'm drawn here.
I need to do this.

Can you let me on the property?"

The rancher kind of
bemusedly says, "Okay,

come on in." He lets the guy in.

The rancher and his son escort
him to the middle homestead

and the rancher and his son
are watching the guy

and just kind of
chuckling to themselves.

They hear this thing
in the brush,

and then they look over
and there's something moving.

And then it comes out
of the brush,

right up to where this guy is,

and it‐it looked like
the creature in Predator

with the camouflage,
the opaque c‐camouflage,

the invisibility technology.

This thing comes right up
to this guy and roars.

(roaring)

KNAPP:
Scares the hell out of this guy
who opens his eyes, flies back,

lands on his back.

The rancher and his son
go rushing over to him.

He's petrified, grabbing them,
won't let go.

They escort him off the property
and he swears it's the devil,

it's Satan, you're gonna burn
for this kind of stuff.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
the terrifying creature

witnessed by both the ranchers
and their mysterious visitor

was what the Navajo call
a skinwalker?

Was it a being
from another world?

Even another dimension?

Such stories have inspired
countless curiosity seekers

to make pilgrimages
to the ranch.

But for those who have lived
and worked there,

like current ranch
superintendent Tom Winterton,

Skinwalker Ranch is not a place
to be taken lightly.

I'd been warned
not to dig on this ranch,

which I thought
was absolutely ridiculous.

Yeah, it's‐it's a ranch,
for crying out loud.

That's what you do. You dig
fence holes, you dig ditches.

And so I paid
zero attention to it.

And whether it's related or not,

I ended up getting
this severe head injury

that causes my head to swell up.

I had fluid that separated
the fatty tissue from my skull,

and to this day, my doctors

still haven't come up with
an explanation of what happened.

What they did say was that
what happened to me

just was not medically possible,

but I'd be lying if I didn't say
that there are things

that have happened here
that have shaken me to my core.

When we patrol the‐the perimeter
of the place,

both on foot
and with our vehicles, um,

we are heavily armed.

And that's not necessarily

because we're looking
to hurt anybody.

It's more of we don't know
what we're dealing with,

‐and it's a dangerous place...
‐Morning.

MAN:
Hey, Caleb. How you doing, man?

ARNOLD:
...between the natural things
that are here

and then also the unknown.

NARRATOR:
What could possibly explain
so many incredible encounters

being reported on a single
512‐acre stretch of land

and by multiple groups of people

over a span
of hundreds of years?

Do the many accounts of UFOs

point to an extraterrestrial
connection?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by more closely examining
the stories

of the skinwalker
and its connection

to ancient gods.

The mid‐1990s.

The current caretakers
of the ranch, the Shermans,

are entering their third month
on the property

when they begin to experience
what they believe

to be paranormal activity.

They give their accounts
of the strange events

to investigative journalist
George Knapp.

So, the wife goes
grocery shopping,

she buys enough food
for a couple of weeks.

She comes home, takes all
this stuff out of the bag,

puts it in the cabinets

and goes out of the room,
comes back,

all the stuff's
back in the bags.

She takes a shower
in the morning,

locks the door,
has a towel and a hairbrush.

Gets out of the shower,
the door is still locked,

but the towel
and the hairbrush are gone.

The hairbrush is found later
in the freezer.

NARRATOR:
Initially, it was only
Mrs. Sherman

who witnessed the poltergeist
activity on the ranch.

But it wasn't long before her
husband had his own experiences.

The rancher's out using
a post hole digger,

digging this big, heavy
piece of equipment.

He's digging holes
to put fencing in.

He stops for a second,
wipes his brow, looks around,

the post hole digger is gone.

He finds it three weeks later,
75 feet up in a cottonwood tree.

NARRATOR:
The Shermans' experiences,
while bizarre, are not unique.

We're gonna pull some data
up here that we took,

‐so lets take look at this.
‐NARRATOR: Members of the team

currently investigating
Skinwalker Ranch have reported

similar poltergeist‐like
phenomena on the property.

One of the weird experiences
I've had is

I was in my bedroom
in the command center

trying to go to sleep.

There was no one else around.

And it felt like someone
came up and kneed the bed.

‐(wood creaking)
‐And it jostles the whole thing.

I got up and wandered around
to see if something happened.

There was nothing really that
could've made just a big shake

of the bed as if some individual
had bumped into it.

WINTERTON:
I've heard voices
on multiple occasions.

I've had individuals with me
that heard the voices, too.

The interesting thing is
is that I have no idea

whether that's an actual
audible voice

or something
that's playing out in my head.

And there are specific places
on the ranch

where you walk into it and it's
almost as if you're walking

into a room of people.

You're, like, asking,
"excuse me,"

as you walk through the space,
'cause you feel

like you're gonna
bump into somebody.

NARRATOR:
But if paranormal activity
really is occurring,

what could be causing it?

Author and researcher
Lynn Picknett believes

that all of
the strange phenomena

occurring on Skinwalker Ranch
must be interconnected.

When you're looking at the
phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch,

you're looking at all sorts
of manifestations.

But perhaps, really, you're
looking at one phenomenon.

Certainly, one of
the most dramatic type

of phenomenon ever in paranormal
is a poltergeist phenomenon...

...meaning literally
"noisy sprit,"

but a destructive haunting.

It's very likely
that all of the various,

multifarious,
uh, paranormal incidents

at the Skinwalker Ranch
are caused by one entity

or one source of energy,

and it's not good energy
and it's not a good entity.

NARRATOR:
While paranormal researchers

often attribute
poltergeist phenomena

to either a spiritual entity
or telekinetic energy,

according to the Navajo,
it also fits the profile

of the skinwalker, which is a
shape‐shifter and a trickster.

The, uh, idea of the skinwalker

being a prankster comes
from a lot of Navajo tales

where they talk about
the coyote being a trickster.

But the skinwalker
doesn't always use

the guise of a coyote,
he'll use the guise of a wolf.

He'll use anything
that he has the skin for.

Uh, it's said
that they can change into owls,

they can change
into crows or ravens,

um, they can change into bobcats
if they have that skin.

Our view on it is that
they're manipulating

the DNA of their own body.

NARRATOR:
Stories of beings
like the skinwalker

that change shape
and deceive humans

can be found in cultures
throughout the world.

Sometimes identified
as trickster gods,

they are often described
as coming from another world,

or another dimension.

We have the Scandanavian stories
of‐of Loki,

who's very much,
uh, of a trickster.

We have Celtic stories
of the‐the fairies

who are also tricksters.

We have stories of‐of Krishna

being also a trickster‐type god

who likes to make jokes
on people.

So, throughout the world,
we have these stories

of trickster beings who can also
shape‐shift into other bodies.

This seems to be some entity,
uh, an extraterrestrial,

who's acting as a skinwalker.

Perhaps he's an alien
who's caught

in this interdimensional doorway

and manifests from time to time

and ultimately
terrorizes this ranch.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the skinwalker

is an extraterrestrial being

that has crossed over
from another dimension?

A parallel universe?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that in addition

to the stories
of trickster gods,

primitive rock art
provides evidence

of an otherworldly connection.

At Nine Mile Canyon,

just 60 miles south
of Skinwalker Ranch,

mysterious‐looking
creatures abound

with giant antennae
and oddly‐shaped heads.

For many members of both
the Navajo and the Ute tribes,

they represent
ancient visitors from the stars.

When you see these figures,

I have been told
that these are star people,

these are people from, uh,
other worlds or other dimensions

that have shown up and, uh,
met and communicated

with the, uh,
ancient people that live there.

A lot of the rock writing
that have

what might be considered portals
that are like a spindle

are holes within
the universe that allow you

to go into different dimensions.

NARRATOR:
Not far from Nine Mile Canyon
are similar petroglyphs,

at Sego Canyon, San Rafael Swell
and Temple Mountain.

TSOUKALOS:
They look like spacemen.

You have these
strange creatures that,

for all intents and purposes,

seem to be floating
up in the sky.

hey appear to wear helmets.

Very strange.

CHILDRESS:
These figures have
vortex symbols around them.

You have to wonder exactly
who is making these petroglyphs

and what they were seeing,

because they look like
they're extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Do the petroglyphs in the areas
surrounding Skinwalker Ranch

point to Utah being a place

of ancient and perhaps
even modern alien visitation?

And do the spiral
petroglyphs indicate

that there could even
be some sort of portal

in the Uintah Mountains,
opening to other dimensions?

Fort Duchesne, Utah...

...1968.

17‐year‐old Larry Cesspooch
is with his friends

driving along an infamous
stretch of road

near Skinwalker Ranch.

As they approach a spot
known as Dead Man's Curve,

named for the high number

of car crashes
that have occurred there,

they spot a bright object
in the sky.

We were driving around,
with a bunch of us,

and we come around
Dead Man's Curve and, uh,

the driver looked in
his rearview mirror and said,

"Oh, what the heck is that?"

It was a fireball,

and that fireball
was coming up behind us.

And so we told him to go faster,

and this thing
just flew over our head.

When I told my mother, she had
talked about a similar incident

when she was younger.

And other tribal members
have seen that fireball.

NARRATOR:
Other reports indicate
that the local residents

have been regularly witnessing
similar strange events,

both in and around
Skinwalker Ranch, for decades.

The various accounts
describe flashing lights,

floating orbs and UFOs.

ARNOLD:
In this entire area,
there have been hundreds

of reports of UFOs, you know,

multiple people
seeing the same ones.

This particular part of the area
has kind of gotten the nickname

of UFO Alley
because of the number

of those sightings
that had been reported.

JOHN ALEXANDER:
We did see tears.

We had openings
in the sky, voices,

crafts coming through, orbs.

Is that E. T.?

Uh, hard to say.

Reality of the events
is absolute.

ERIK BARD: I have personally
watched as portions of the mesa,

as large as 500 to 600 feet,
appeared to glow.

We may be looking at
a terrestrial light source,

or we may be looking at
something far more interesting.

NARRATOR:
In the 1990s, the owners
of Skinwalker Ranch

also witnessed strange orbs
in the sky.

When they relayed their
experiences to George Knapp,

he found that the UFOs were tied
to the other paranormal activity

taking place on the property.

They start hearing
heavy footsteps

outside their bedroom window
at night.

Then they start seeing
these dark, humanoid shapes

in the windows at night.

(creaking)

Then they start hearing
the footsteps inside the house.

(heavy footsteps)

Then they wake up at night,

and there's the thing
at the bottom of their bed.

They would go out at night,
they'd walk around,

they'd start hearing disembodied
voices in the sky

above their heads,

speaking some strange language,
almost like mocking them.

They start seeing little orbs
floating around,

seemingly intelligently
controlled,

flitting around in the trees.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
reports of floating orbs,

poltergeist activity,

and the creature known as
the skinwalker

are not separate phenomena?

Might they be better understood

by considering them
all together?

Another story told to
George Knapp by the Shermans

may reveal yet another aspect
to the Skinwalker Ranch mystery.

KNAPP:
The first day they're
on the property,

they see an animal of some sort
over on the brush line,

and it starts coming
toward them.

The men realize,
"That's a wolf."

It's huge.
The back of the wolf

came up to the middle
of his chest.

(snarling)

They petted this thing.

It was a real,
physical creature.

‐Now, the calves are
in the corral.
‐(distressed lowing)

They're all backed up
against one side,

scared of this wolf.

Except one calf
makes the mistake

of sticking its snout out
between the bars of the corral.

‐(growling)
‐The wolf sees it...

leaps in the air,
like, 20 feet,

chomps down on the head
of this calf

and is trying to drag it
out of the corral.

His son grabs a .357
out of the truck

and brings it over,
Dad pops a shot into this wolf.

No yelp, no blood, no anything.

Shoots it a second
and third time.

Now this is the fourth shot

they've put into this wolf,
and then a fifth shot

goes right into the chest,

a chunk of flesh and fur
comes popping off the side

and falls on the ground.

And this wolf just casually
turns around and starts

walking away, he's had enough.

Five shots in this thing
and didn't kill it.

NARRATOR:
The Shermans say they pursued
the wolf into the brush,

following its tracks
on the wet ground.

KNAPP:
They get to a clearing beyond
the brush, a muddy area,

the tracks go all the way out
into the middle

of the muddy field and stop.

It's gone. It's as if it had
been sucked up into the sky.

NARRATOR:
Later, when the Shermans
told this story

to a group of scientists
that had come to investigate

the ranch, they were shown
a series of photographs

and asked if any of them
resembled the animal

they encountered.

KNAPP:
They have a lineup
of different types of wolves,

to ask each of
the family members,

show us what this looked like.

And the one that
they all identified

is what's known
as a dire wolf.

Dire wolf, of course, has been
extinct for 10,000 years.

NARRATOR:
If a dire wolf is, in fact,
what the Shermans witnessed,

could it present another clue
as to what is happening

at Skinwalker Ranch?

Many ancient astronaut
theorists believe

the answer is simple.

According to them, the ranch
most likely contains

some kind of
interdimensional portal,

one that would allow, not only
travel from one dimension

to another, but to various
points in time and space.

And they also believe that
the man who knows the truth

is the eccentric billionaire
who recently owned

Skinwalker Ranch,
Robert Bigelow.

NARRATOR:
Skinwalker Ranch. 1996.

Following two years
of non‐stop paranormal

and extraterrestrial phenomena,

the Shermans are driven
to sell the ranch.

The purchaser is a man
almost as mysterious

as the property itself.

The study of Skinwalker Ranch
first began

with private industry.

It was a man
named Robert Bigelow.

And he put together a team
of scientists

to study the phenomenon

and what was occurring
at the ranch.

The ranch played the role
of a living laboratory

to really be able to focus

scientifically
and try to understand

what is going on at this ranch.

NARRATOR:
Billionaire Las Vegas
businessman Robert Bigelow

made his fortune
in real estate.

But since then, he's turned
to investing his money

in aerospace,
and the goal of searching

for extraterrestrial life.

KNAPP:
It came to the attention
of Robert Bigelow,

who's probably spent more money
pursuing the UFO mystery

than any person in history.

He flew up,
met with the rancher,

uh, took his team up there,

heard the experiences himself
and bought it.

He put a team of scientists
on the property,

cameras, scientific gear,

so for the next seven years
after he bought it,

he had people on the property
pretty much 24‐7.

I was with, uh, Bob Bigelow
the day he went up

and, uh, physically bought
the ranch.

I was the first one
to spend the night on the ridge

overlooking the ranch itself.

Bottom line is, some very, very
strange things happened there

that just defy description.

NARRATOR:
The year before the purchase
of Skinwalker Ranch

Bigelow had founded
the National Institute

for Discovery Science, or NIDS.

Staffed with personnel
from a variety

of different disciplines,

NIDS was formed to study
a wide range

of unexplained events,
from the supernatural

to the extraterrestrial.

When Bigelow moved into
Skinwalker Ranch,

he took his NIDS scientists
with him,

mounted cameras
and other monitoring devices

over the entire property,
and sought to study

the paranormal phenomena
up close and in person.

He even built a laboratory
on the property.

He also protected the perimeter
of Skinwalker Ranch

with impenetrable security,

and has kept his findings

hidden from the public
to this day.

TSOUKALOS: You have to ask
yourself why would Bigelow

throw millions and millions
of dollars

at that particular project?

What's going on there?

And interestingly,
Robert Bigelow,

after he sold this ranch,
never came forward

to release what
he actually experienced.

He kept all this information
to himself.

Okay, either
he's not saying anything

because it's so incredible,

or because
there's nothing there.

So because he's such
an elusive figure,

it's a question,
which one is it?

NARRATOR:
While Robert Bigelow
did his best

to keep his investigation
of Skinwalker Ranch

off the public radar,

he himself became
front page news

on December 16, 2017,
when The New York Times

ran an explosive story entitled

"Glowing Auras and Black Money:

The Pentagon's Mysterious
U. F. O. Program."

The article reported
that in 2007,

$22 million was allocated
for a top‐secret

U.S. government
to investigate UFOs,

called the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program,

or AATIP.

The driving force
behind this project

was none other
than Robert Bigelow,

whose company Bigelow Aerospace

conducted the bulk
of the research

from their headquarters
on Skinwalker Ranch.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
Bigelow Aerospace

is the one who received

most of the $22 million

to do aerospace investigations.

All of the news that came out
in mid‐December,

and nobody ask anybody,
"What about the warehouse

that has extraterrestrial
artifacts in it?"

NARRATOR:
When questioned about AATIP,

government officials have stated

that it was meant
to identify craft

not from other worlds

but from other countries.

However, this view is not shared
by Robert Bigelow.

Did his investigation
of Skinwalker Ranch

convince him
that extraterrestrials

are present on Earth?

Rumors include having found

some exotic materials
on the property.

There's talk of certain rods

made up of exotic elements
from the periodic table.

Some kind of base or perhaps
an ancient alien artifact

beneath the property.

The findings of Bigelow's team

have never been fully disclosed.

There are all sorts
of rumors and stories

about things that happened

while the Bigelow team was here
on the property.

They talked about the side
of the mesa opening up

and a spaceship flying

into some sort
of underground base.

NARRATOR:
Could Robert Bigelow's
experiences confirm

that Skinwalker Ranch
is not only a place

of extraterrestrial visitation

but also contains a portal
through space and time?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that there is something

even more profound at work

and that Skinwalker Ranch
isn't only

a special place on Earth

but an important location
for the universe.

NARRATOR:
At Skinwalker Ranch,

a number of strange happenings
have been reported.

Everything from sightings
of prehistoric beasts

and poltergeist activity

to shape‐shifting monsters

and mysterious orbs of light
in the sky.

But one detail
seems to be consistent:

the manner in which
these frightening phenomena

suddenly come about,
as if out of thin air.

Could it be that some sort
of portal through space and time

really does exist in this area,

as many ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

And while most
of Robert Bigelow's activities

on the property
have remained top secret,

investigative journalist
George Knapp was able to learn

of at least one
extraordinary encounter.

There was one night, the...
one of the most dramatic things

that happened,
there, two of the scientists‐‐

these are PhD‐level people.

They walk around
the middle homestead

and two guys are up on
Skinwalker Ridge looking down.

They've got infrared
equipment, watching.

And one of them with the
infrared sees what looks like

a dirty snowball of light

just hovering a couple
of feet off the ground

and he walkie‐talkies
these guys down there,

"Hey, do you see it?"

"Yeah, we see it,
it's kind of vague."

Then he says, "Hey, something's
happening, it's changing."

Our guys are on the ridgeline
looking down,

and you see a light appear
above the ground expand.

KNAPP:
This ball of light
was stretching out.

It became a tunnel of light.

Into this tunnel comes
a humanoid figure.

Some kind of monster reached up,

pulled his shoulders
and come out.

KNAPP:
Seven or eight feet tall,
black, featureless.

When it gets out, the tunnel
collapses into a ball again.

It was almost as if it was
a dimensional tunnel,

that it was coming
from some other reality.

NARRATOR:
According to both
the Navajo and Ute tribes,

such portals do exist.

You have to go back to the story
of the emergence of the Navajo.

The story there is that
they went through

several underground worlds,

and in coming to this world,
through a hole in the ground,

or through a portal, if you may.

CESSPOOCH:
There are holes‐‐

portals, if you want
to call them that‐‐

within the universe

that allow you to go
into different dimensions,

and those have existed for eons.

So those who know about them
can travel back and forth.

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists
point out

that emerging scientific
theories support

the Native beliefs that other
dimensions not only exist

but that travel
between them is possible.

REDFERN:
Quantum physics, essentially,

allows for the existence
of multiple dimensions

that coexist with ours.

What we're seeing at places
like the Skinwalker Ranch

are strange creatures,

unusual entities coming through
the portals and the doorways.

It's entirely possible
that creatures and beings

from other realms of existence

could quite literally jump from
their dimension into our world.

More and more,
scientists are talking

in these extraordinary esoteric
terms about very powerful places

where realities
blend or blur together.

From the descriptions
of Skinwalker Ranch,

this could well be
one of those bleed‐over places.

NARRATOR:
While the theory of a portal
at Skinwalker Ranch

may seem incredible,

futurist Caroline Cory takes it
even one step further.

CAROLINE CORY:
We know that the physical
universe is based on geometry.

We are now predicting
that there is a matrix,

a grid patterning system
around the planet

that is a web‐like structure

with specific entry
and exit points

that allow
certain phenomena to happen

that seem supernatural
or paranormal.

If there are tears exactly
at these locations,

you're going to have all kinds
of anomalies that would happen

because of these tears.

You're going to perhaps,
uh, see an anomaly in the sky

or you could also see
a prehistoric animal

cross over
because there's a tear

in this fabric of space itself.

NARRATOR:
A tear in the fabric of space?

Could it be
that Skinwalker Ranch

is not only home to a portal,

but some sort of cosmic tear
through which entities

from other dimensions,
other parts of the universe

and even other points in time
could be entering our world?

Local tales and traditions do,
in fact, support this theory.

DOVER:
A lot of our investigations

have found that these things
are coming in,

uh, through unknown portals.

Whether the portals
are in the sky or on the ground.

What we've seen from people
describing this to us

is they hear a loud pop.

That the sound actually travels
through your body physically,

and it jolts you.

NARRATOR:
Could there truly be
a scientific explanation

for the various phenomena
at Skinwalker Ranch?

One that humans are not yet
equipped to fully understand?

Maybe a more important question

is should we seek to get to the
bottom of this mystery at all?

Or are we better off just
leaving Skinwalker Ranch alone?

There are some who believe
that while Skinwalker Ranch

is a dangerous place,

it may also hold the key to
humankind's ultimate survival.

NARRATOR:
After conducting
a 20‐year investigation,

the NIDS team ceases all
operations on Skinwalker Ranch.

Robert Bigelow has
sold the property.

Robert Bigelow owned
the property for 20 years,

and in 2016, he sold it.
He'd had enough.

And one of the reasons
that he and his team didn't want

to have that property anymore
is because there's danger there.

It's real. Bad things happen
to people and animals

on that property.

NARRATOR:
Fortunately, the person Robert
Bigelow has sold the property to

is committed to continuing
with the investigation,

Salt Lake City real estate
entrepreneur Brandon Fugal.

MORSE: This new owner here, his
obsession and his willingness

to really put his money where
his mouth's at, it's a new game.

‐Tom. Oh, my friend.
‐Hey, good to see you.

BRANDON FUGAL: I was approached
by several scientists

that had worked with me
on a past project,

were close confidants
of Bob Bigelow,

and they saw an opportunity for
Mr. Bigelow to pass the torch

to someone who not only
had the bandwidth

but the resources to really
take the investigation

and the scientific effort
at Skinwalker Ranch

to the next level.

It's the greatest
science project of our time.

The team that I have handpicked

all bring complimentary
skill sets to the table,

whether it be in areas
of scientific investigation,

physics,
construction management.

I don't believe that there
has been any investigation

into the paranormal
or supernatural

that has ever brought to bear
both the resources

and the professionalism and
the sophistication of equipment

that we've brought to this
effort and to this property.

The kinds of devices that we've
deployed across the property

include, of course, surveillance
cameras with audio channels

that allow us to both see
and hear what's taking place

at various locations
on the property.

We also have geophones.

These are devices that sense
the vibrations of the ground

due to what may be activity
taking place in beneath our feet

here on this property.

We have devices that sense
electromagnetic disturbances

across a wide range
of the electromagnetic spectrum.

TAYLOR:
What we want to do

is we're gonna measure microwave
and RF spectrum at altitude.

It's highly possible that there
is something going on here.

We should have film cameras,
infrared cameras,

starlight cameras
and visual observations

going on all the time
looking for things.

But we're gonna get
to the bottom of it.

ARNOLD:
Coming into Skinwalker Ranch

makes you kind of scrub

your preconceived notions
about things

and, you know,
it makes you wonder,

are we alone in the universe?

Is there a higher power?

It can be frustrating and
exhilarating at the same time,

trying to unravel
these types of things.

NARRATOR:
Will the new investigation
already underway

at Skinwalker Ranch
finally provide some answers

to the mysteries
that have persisted

for more than 200 years?

And if so, will we wish
we had left well enough alone?

CORBELL:
The implications
of understanding our universe,

our reality so much more‐‐
it's an opportunity.

So Skinwalker Ranch
poses to us this opportunity

to confront these things
that maybe even scare us.

This phenomenon is real.

It is happening,
whether we like it or not,

and it could alter
the basic fabric

of how we relate
to the external world.

There is something profound that
is going on at Skinwalker Ranch

and the surrounding area.

And it begs to be studied.

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