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Look at that scapula.

That is a tooth that bit
all the way through.

It would have to be
larger than a wolf.

That's crazy.

Holy crap. Look at this.

That's a communication signal.

I think its two things
talking to each other.

Uh-oh.

ROYSTON:
There's a signal interference

to my controller.

ERIK:
There's a gap in the data

right where he called out
controller interference.

That UAP is basically
in the triangle airspace.

TRAVIS: Like it's turning
to make a final approach.

Like it's coming in
for a landing.

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NARRATOR:
There is a ranch
in Northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most
disturbing phenomena on Earth:

animal mutilations,

bizarre UFO sightings

and unusual energies that have
proven harmful to humans.

For 20 years,
the federal government

tried to find answers
and failed.

Now a new team
of dedicated scientists,

researchers and experts
has taken over.

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

...The Secret
of Skinwalker Ranch.

ROYSTON: Erik, you copy?

Yeah, Jim. Go ahead.

ROYSTON: Hey, we've been
out at the triangle

and I've got to tell you,

we just picked up

some really strange lidar
up there

that we're trying to figure out.

What do you mean by strange?

We got this weird anomaly
over the triangle.

-What do you think
he's talking about?
-I don't know.

Last week

we recorded images of a UAP
that suddenly appeared

right above the spot
that we call the triangle.

So this morning,
Erik and I asked Jim Royston

and Sam Deriso of OmniTeq
to scan the area

with their drone-based
infrared lidar device to see

if it could reveal what might
have caused that phenomenon.

We flew the drone one time.

Got some very interesting

kind of crazy lidar data, uh,

that does kind of confirm some
of the things we saw last year.

Yeah, we have it
recorded and, uh,

I'm gonna send you
the data right now.

And then we'll come in
and take a look at it.

Copy that.
Go ahead and shoot it over.

I want to see it.

TRAVIS:
Erik and I were really stunned

when Jim said
that he thought his lidar data

may have confirmed what we saw
at the triangle last year...

Oh, we got a malfunction.
Everybody watch out.

There's something in the sky
above the rocket right here.

...because it was
in that same spot

that we captured
high-speed camera images

of some kind of a blob
that might have caused

a rocket to explode
just 31 feet in the air.

-What is that red circle?
-Whoa.

TRAVIS:
And then later in the year,

it's also
right where Jim obtained

lidar images of a circular ring

with the black void
in the center.

So we couldn't wait
to find out what he captured

this time and hoped it might
explain the crazy phenomena

that keeps happening
at the triangle.

ROYSTON:
Erik, did you get those files?

There should've been
some movie files and some JPEGs.

Yeah, I see-I see images

and I see some, uh,
movie files here.

Uh, do you want me to just
start with the first file?

ROYSTON:
Yeah, let's start with that.

Okay, I'm gonna put it
over here.

-ROYSTON: This is my controller.
-TRAVIS: For the lidar?

ROYSTON:
Yes. I called Sam over

and had him go ahead
and pull out his cellphone,

it's what he's
capturing this on.

So if you play this...

that's right in the center,
right above the triangle.

You'll see,
as I turn this around,

you'll see, one,
this weird symmetry.

TRAVIS:
Looks like a doughnut
floating there as you turn it.

Keep it going and let's
look at the different views

that you give us.

Okay, so what the hell
is generating these returns?

ROYSTON:
And look how clean
the lines are around it.

That's what
just kind of blew my mind.

TRAVIS:
You know,
the interesting thing to me is

it looks kind of funnel-shaped.

ERIK:
Whoa.

You know, the-the really
crazy piece to this is

this looks like
it could be an extension

of whatever that is
you saw last year.

That bright circle,

perfect circle you measured
last year on the ground.

-It's in the same location.
-Yeah. Yeah.

That is just tantalizing, guys.

It looks like a dadgum hourglass

or the, you know, the pictures
that you see on papers

and graphics of traversable
Lorentzian wormholes.

I mean, think about it.

Wow.

TRAVIS:
For much of the last century,

scientists
such as Albert Einstein have

theorized that wormholes--
which are passageways

between two distant
points in space--

could actually exist.

And what Jim and Sam captured
on their lidar device

appears to have
the very structure

of a theoretical wormhole.

Could that be what exists
above the triangle?

And is that what's causing
all these phenomena to happen

in this area?

I want to catch
this thing again.

-TRAVIS: Absolutely.
-I want us to do
whatever it takes

to catch that thing again.

Yup. This triangle's got us.

You know what?

If that's going on right now,
there might be,

the anomaly might actually
be active right now.

-ERIK: All right.
So let's head out.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, we need to load
all of that in the truck.

After what Jim and Sam showed us
on their lidar scan,

Erik and I wanted
to get the team

out to the triangle immediately.

All right. Here we go.

We wanted to see if
the phenomenon would reappear

so we could figure out
exactly what it was.

-You got the plate?
-Yep.

TRAVIS:
Because rockets have repeatedly

helped us observe phenomenon

on the ranch,
our plan was to launch

several of them
equipped with GPS devices

straight up above the triangle

and then photograph each launch

with high-speed cameras.

The goal was to see
if we could cause

anything to appear
that was potentially related

to the ring-shaped lidar anomaly

that Jim Royston had
just recorded.

Rocket's hot!

And while we finished
getting ready,

Erik headed
to a brand-new observation post

we call the black box.

It's located
southeast of the triangle

and it enables him to monitor

the live GPS data
from each of the rockets

as they pass through the area

where we detected
the strange lidar ring.

Wait, watch out,
that doesn't go all the way.

TRAVIS:
And finally, to help us get
an even wider view

of anything that might appear
during the rocket launches,

ranch caretakers Tom Lewis
and Kandus Linde set up

an additional high-speed camera

several hundred yards
southeast of the triangle.

Everyone be notified that we are

about to start doing
some launches,

uh, so be prepared
to catch it on the high-speed

and, uh, to help spot
where it comes down.

The wind's blowing, uh,
pretty hard right now,

so we may need as many eyes

as we can get.

Copy that.
We'll be ready.

Kaleb, you can do
a countdown for me.

All right, you let me know
when you want me

to go hot on the battery.

I'm ready
whenever you are, man. Do it.

-Okay, we're armed.
-(high-pitched beeping)

Rocket's hot!

KALEB:
We will be launching in

five,

four, three,

two, one.

-Oh, that's a good one.
-BRYANT: Yeah, that's perfect.

TRAVIS:
What have we got? Oh, wow.

Hey, Erik. You copy?

Yeah. Go ahead, Travis.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, Erik.
I'm looking at this trace.

It got to about 2,000 feet high,

but this is showing it at only

about 150 feet or something.

TRAVIS:
Holy crap. It sure does.

That is really weird.

Now, we all saw
that rocket shoot straight up

a couple thousand feet
in the air.

But the data from the GPS device
inside of it showed

that at an altitude of 150 feet,

it turned northeast toward
the face of the nearby Mesa,

where last year we saw a UAP
exit from that very same spot.

All right, well, we're getting
ready for the next launch,

so just stand by.

ERIK:
Perfect. Standing by
for launch.

TRAVIS:
So, could all of this
be related to the thing

that Jim Royston spotted today
on his lidar scans?

Maybe launching
another rocket could get

something to happen
that would help us find out.

All right, everybody be advised
we're about to launch

-another rocket.
-Okay.
-(high-pitched beeping)

In five, four,

three, two,

one.

ERIK:
So, Travis?

Yeah. Go ahead, Erik.

Um...

the data looks really messed-up.

TRAVIS:
Oh, wow.

Dragon, come look at this.

This is crazy.

TRAVIS:
Dragon, come look at this.

-BRYANT: Okay.
-TRAVIS: This is crazy.

You saw that rocket, right?

It went 2,000 feet high.

Look at what the GPS
is telling us it did.

The rocket on the launch
never got higher than the mesa

and it looks like it turned

and then it went
west of the triangle.

What?

I don't know what's really
going on above the triangle,

but right where
we captured new lidar images

of a ring-like anomaly
earlier today,

the rockets
that we just launched

are showing GPS data
that doesn't match at all

with their actual flight paths.

I have no idea
what to make of that.

-TRAVIS: That makes no sense.
-BRYANT: Okay.

-Well, we're gonna try again.
-TRAVIS: You're
dadgum right we are.

Hey, everybody, be advised

we're gonna launch
in less than one minute.

So we wanted to keep launching
rockets up through the triangle

to see if whatever was
causing this

might actually be revealed.

You good there?

-I think so.
-All right.

BRYANT: Okay, we got juice.

Five, four,

three, two, one.

The GPS data from that rocket
is wrong, too.

It says the rocket
didn't go high at all.

Look, it just went to the west
of the triangle again.

You... (sighs)

TRAVIS:
Hey, Erik.
It looks like it turned

and went west of the triangle.

Yeah, I get it. Uh,

Travis, this doesn't
make any sense.

I don't know what
we're looking at here.

At launch, the GPS data
looks nothing at all

like the actual trajectories
of the rockets.

I'm watching them
in the cameras.

We really need to understand
what is happening

in this airspace
over the triangle.

-That's crazy, right there.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
Hey Travis, I'm just gonna
shut down out here

and, uh, take a look
at the data.

Copy that.

Hey, everybody.
That's the last launch.

We're gonna start
breaking down.

KANDUS:
Thank you, Travis.

-Hello, hello.
-Hey, how you doing?

-KANDUS: Good to see you.
-Glad to have you guys out.

-Yeah, we're excited.
-Good to see you.

ERIK: While the rest
of the team review the data

from our experiment,
we're visiting

with Ben Woodruff
at the Hutchings Museum

in Lehi, Utah.

I want to show you
some amazing things,

kind of give you the results
of, uh, what we went over.

Okay.

On the starling, nothing has
eaten the inside of this bird.

But the brain is gone.

ERIK:
I'm anxious to find out
his findings

on those specimens that
he collected from the ranch,

including a pair of birds

that didn't seem
to be decaying normally at all.

I'm just gonna take it off.

ERIK:
And a rib specimen

from a cow that recently died,

with a puncture wound
that appeared to have

an entry point and
an explosive exit point.

BEN:
The force that it takes
to go through that,

I mean,
that would break my teeth.

I've got a lot of samples
that we took on the ranch

the last time I was there.

The first thing--
you remember the starling?

The bird, we found a dead bird.

And you remember how
the brain was just gone?

-Yes. Yes.
-BEN: Completely just missing.

And you remember that
the muscle tissue was soft

and squishy, okay?
I've got a sample.

Now, first thing I want,
Erik, I want you to smell it.

Smell if you smell anything.

-Actually, I don't.
-Yeah, there's no smell.

This should either be
rotten to the core

or it should be mummified.

It should be totally dried out,
and it's neither.

So, I want you to look
on the screen over here

and take a look
at this tissue sample.

And what I want you to see
is that it is still

keeping its color
as if it's fresh.

-TOM: Weird.
-KANDUS: Yeah.
-BEN: See how flexible that is?

ERIK:
Wow.

BEN:
Now, that's impossible.

Microbacteria
should be eating this,

consuming it, uh,
and it-it should not be soft.

And it should be discolored.

What on the ranch
could be making bacteria

-not consume something?
-Right.

Usually, when a small animal
dies of natural causes like this

what should happen
is the tendons tighten,

the muscles dry out,
rigor mortis sets in.

But in this case,
that has not been happening.

But what's really strange
is after I got home,

all the bird didn't decompose,
but the head started to.

Whatever at the ranch
was preventing decomposition,

started only on the head,
at my house.

-Now, that's interesting.
-BEN: Yeah.

It's like almost once
it was away from the ranch,

suddenly the laws of nature
were applying correctly.

Except for not
to the breast tissue.

-Mm.
-BEN: It's really strange.

BRYANT:
Skinwalker Ranch is
just that-- it's a ranch.

There's times that
we find dead animals

like you would anywhere else--
birds, small animals.

But there's all sort
of strange things happening

with the decay process
of animals here.

And I wonder what in the world
happened on the property

that can cause
this sort of anomaly.

You guys brought
those two birds,

the starling that we
just looked at.

The grosbeak
was totally different.

Part of it did decompose
but I want to show you.

This is really, really strange.

From the bones, it looks like
it was flying along

and something went...
(mimics crunching)

-and just broke
all the bones and left it.
-KANDUS: What?

The bones are busted up
and it hasn't been eaten.

Not by, like,
a predator or anything.

So, I wanted to show you
how this works.

We'll take a look at this

and you see how
the legs are just broken?

-TOM: Oh, yeah.
-BRYANT: Contorted around.
-KANDUS: Whoa.

BEN:
The wings, see that break point?

So, this did not stay squishy
like the starling did.

But the bones--
they're all basically snapped.

ERIK:
So, throughout
the entire body of this bird,

-the bones are broken?
-Mm-hmm.

Just... (imitates crunch)

It, again, the easiest
thing would be like

if it went "crunch, crunch"
and then dropped.

You don't just have
things break like that.

ERIK:
Is there perhaps
some invisible force

that can be exerted
on a small bird

if it flies into
a particular region

of the space on the ranch?

Like, for example, the triangle,

and that could cause
that kind of physical trauma

to the extent that we're
breaking every bone in its body?

Do we have some kind
of invisible, physical object

in the airspace
causing this to happen?

BEN:
So, that's the birds.

What I also want to talk
to you about was the cow.

-Okay.
-So, I wondered how did it die?

We don't know, but the really
strange thing was the rib.

On this rib,
there was this hole.

So, you see this right here?
That was a tooth mark.

-Mm-hmm.
-And on this side over here

is where you see
where it shattered outward.

ERIK:
Yes.

BEN:
So, there's only
a few animals that would fit.

So, I wanted to experiment
and see, okay,

could it be a coyote or a dog
and something of that size?

So, I took some teeth
from coyotes

and from a black bear

and I rigged them up
in a drill press.

I didn't turn
the drill press on,

I just anchored them in and then
pushed it down into this rib.

So, I want to show you
what happened. (chuckles)

These are the results.

So, these are all coyote teeth,

and the big one
is a black bear tooth.

ERIK:
So, these look shattered.

BEN:
They completely shattered
when I pushed down

and I wasn't, like, going hard.

So, whatever went through this

was able to do it
without shattering.

So, your options are--

and we talked about it before--

these shouldn't fit the bill,
but these are perfect.

This is a dire wolf.

Which is an extinct species.

TOM:
That's crazy.

BEN:
These shouldn't fit the bill,

but these are perfect.
This is a dire wolf.

Which is an extinct species.

And as you can see, the size
fits into that hole perfectly.

It's a pointed tooth, which is
gonna puncture through

-But you see this ridge
right here?
-ERIK: Yes.

-It's called a sagittal crest.
-ERIK: Yes.

And this allows
much more musculature

back here to bite
through that rib.

You have to have that sagittal
crest to offer more power.

ERIK:
I was not expecting to hear

these words
come out of Ben's mouth,

but what he told us

is the best match,
structurally,

to what we've brought
to his laboratory

is in fact a dire wolf.

I have absolutely no framework
in which to accommodate

the presence
of a extinct species

on Skinwalker Ranch.

How is this even possible?

BEN:
It sounds crazy,
but that is what

fits perfectly is a dire wolf.

Now, I'm not saying
that you have dire wolves

running around your ranch.

But I'm just saying,
biologically speaking,

that's what fits the bill.

Anything else would either
shatter their own teeth

or shatter the rib
in the process.

-Take a look at that.
-That's crazy.

-Dire wolf.
-Mm-hmm.

BRYANT: We've heard stories

from when the Sherman family
owned the ranch.

About Mr. Sherman
shooting a dire wolf...

...and having it not die.

And as they tracked it
across the field,

the tracks led to the river

and then never
came out of the river.

Could there really still
be dire wolves on this property,

scavenging on this carcass?

BEN:
This makes sense to this,
but I'd feel a lot better

if you were handing me
a 10,000 year old

rib of a buffalo
and saying "What did this?"

and I'd be like, "Well, it's
pretty obvious what did it,"

but you've got a modern cow

and an animal
that's supposed to be extinct.

The whole thing
doesn't make sense to me.

ERIK:
I really respect
the fact that you're not

jumping right into a hypothesis

when we don't have
enough information here.

Not at all. We just have bits
and pieces that tell a story.

But we've got to have
all the pieces

to understand what's going on.

Can't thank you enough.

-I feel like I'm learning
something every time we talk.
-BEN: Mm. Great.

Well, thanks for coming out.

-Thank you.
-Appreciate it very much.

BEN:
You're very welcome. Thank you.

BRYANT: What are we looking at
today, Erik?

ERIK: The rocket launches
that we did out at the triangle.

I got to tell you, the data

just don't make
a lot of sense to me.

After a couple days
of processing the GPS data

and scouring the high-speed
camera images

that were collected during

our rocket experiment
at the triangle,

we were all on edge to see
just what might be revealed

about the ring-shaped
and blob anomalies

that were documented there.

Well, here's our familiar, uh,
3D framework, our-our model.

And again, we're talking
about a rocket launch

from here at the center
of the triangle

going to, you know,
nearly 2,000 feet or so.

-Yep, yep.
-And we all saw it.

-Yes.
-Okay.

ERIK: Why is it going
right towards the out point

of that in and out event
that we've been studying?

Look at that.

TRAVIS:
And look-- it takes off,
goes toward

the in and out spot,
turned a 90-degree turn

and come back this way.

I don't think any of those
data points even correlate

with anywhere the rocket was.

The rocket didn't shoot across
the top of the ground like that

and then decide
to go up over there

at the exit point
of the in and out.

ERIK:
I see what you're talking about.

TRAVIS:
And then-then turn around.

But, really, the rocket went up
to 2,000 feet straight up.

ERIK:
Why is it going this way?

We're still seeing this-this

pathological mismatch

between what the rockets
actually did

and what the GPS data
are telling us.

THOMAS:
So what you're telling me is
the data that we're seeing here

in no way represents
what you guys watched happen.

-BRYANT: Not even remotely.
-It's just wrong.

But how it's wrong might
have something to teach us.

So, now I'm excited
to see the others.

I'll show you the second one.

THOMAS:
Oh, wow.

-That's similar.
-TRAVIS: About the same thing.

And look at...
all these rockets went 2,000,

-1,500 feet at a minimum.
-KALEB: Yeah.

TRAVIS:
There's no point

in that whole thing
that's 1,500 feet.

ERIK: Uh, there's
no mistaking the difference

between this and 2,000 feet.

THOMAS:
So is it this way
for all of them?

-Yeah.
-THOMAS: Wow.

-It's definitely interesting.
-Yep.

ERIK:
So I might expect
this type of behavior

from a rocket that has a problem

with the fins, okay,

but, no, it did not do this.

-Let me give you
the next launch.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS: And again,
it jogs around some

with randomness
and then it goes to the west

of the triangle.

What the crap?

And now, here's the weird thing.

Look at where
the data points stop.

That's right where the Lunasonde

and Juniper targets were
identified underground.

BRYANT:
Really?

That's what I was expecting
someone to say.

In the past few years,
we've conducted

two underground
scanning surveys of the ranch.

One was a magnetometer
survey conducted in 2020

by a company
named Juniper Unmanned.

And the other, which was
just done last year in 2022,

was a weather balloon based
radar scan

conducted by Jeremiah Pate

and representatives from
his company called Lunasonde.

Incredibly,
both companies identified

a possible underground tunnel

between the triangle
and the mesa.

And now the crazy GPS data
from yesterday

shows that the rockets diverted
from their actual paths

and landed
right in that same area.

ERIK:
So I've taken the Lunasonde data

that we got with Jeremiah Pate
and his team last year

and I've added that
to the rocket launches

that we did out at the triangle
together

with the magnetic data
that we got back in 2020.

-TRAVIS: Okay.
-ERIK: There's the Juniper data.

This is the Lunasonde data
and there's the rocket launches.

THOMAS:
Oh, wow.

BRYANT:
It's interesting to see
how they do line up though.

It's especially
interesting to me

that the location
where the Lunasonde data

lines up with the Juniper
magnetometry data

has been described to us
as a possible tunnel structure.

We've long heard about
the tunnel system here

on the ranch, which we've never
found real evidence for,

and now hearing
those terms all used

in one data set-- you know,
conductive, metallic, tunnels--

I think that we need
to go investigate further.

Yeah.

I've heard all kinds

of crazy stories
about this mesa.

Spacecraft going in it,

tunnels, caverns,
underground bases.

It really makes me wonder what's
going on below the surface here.

ERIK:
In that general vicinity,

we've got something going on
under the ground.

I... I-I agree and I think

from the rocket launches
that we've seen,

this whole thing makes no sense.

Wow, all right.

Well, this is amazing, Erik.

ERIK:
I have something else to share.

-There's more?
-ERIK: There's more.

Wait till you see
what else I've got.

You-you guys probably
remember we were, uh,

-you know, taking high-speed.
-Okay.

Well, let me bring up the, uh,
the camera footage.

So, this is a single camera

looking up this launch tower.

You know, this is
the post process

where we have that embossed
effect and so here you see

just immediately
after the first rocket launch.

You can see there is something

that shows up that...
it's not a rocket.

TRAVIS:
What is it that we're looking at

that's kind of coming
out at that thing?

I don't know...
I don't know what that is.

I just don't even know...
I just can't decide if it's a--

BRYANT:
That's not the rocket.

TRAVIS:
What the crap?

-BRYANT: That's not the rocket.
-TRAVIS: What the crap?

What is that
we're looking at that's

kind of coming out
of that thing?

ERIK: Yeah, you're
talking about these lobes

-on either side.
-Yeah, what the crap is that?

ERIK:
So we've got this, I'll
call it a cylindrical center.

-Mm-hmm.
-ERIK: It's a line.

And then we have these
two lobes on either side.

TRAVIS:
I don't know what that is.

The UAP that Erik noticed
in the high-speed camera video

from our rocket experiment
at the triangle

two days ago was amazing.

It didn't just appear like some
of the orbs that we've seen.

But it had distinct features

like it could actually be
some kind of an aircraft.

Is it possible
it could be an insect

and those are the wings
moving back and...

Always the first question
that comes to mind, you know?

We-we usually see some kind
of undulating feature

on either side of the body.

I got to look closer.
I just can't tell.

Would you like... Uh, you know
what, I can dive in, Travis.

Oh, yeah. Do that.

ERIK: I'll take us back out
to the original.

So watch as this evolves.

Okay, so I'm gonna
go forward one frame.

Okay.

-TRAVIS: Go forward again.
-ERIK: Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS: Go one more.

ERIK:
Whatever this
additional feature is

on the side of the main body
of this thing,

it goes from, uh, what would be

the aft portion of it
to the fore portion of it.

Yeah, at least that's
what it looks like to me.

TRAVIS:
It looks like wings.
I mean, not like bird wings

or insect wings,
it looks like airplane wings.

-Folding down.
-Mm-hmm, interesting.

TRAVIS: One more time,
go one more frame.

So look at the top.
It's shinier than...

-ERIK: You're speaking
of this part here?
-Yeah, whatever that is.

-ERIK: Okay.
-It seems to be shinier

than the rest of it.

It has a very defined,
rigid edge.

KALEB: That seems like
it stays very consistent.

ERIK:
Yeah. So, it's got definition.

And I don't know

that I've ever seen anything
exactly like this before.

Now wait till you see
what else I've got.

This is in that same time frame,

within a few minutes.

You see it over here?

TRAVIS: Look at that.
Oh, that's crazy, man.

-ERIK: And then
we'll dive in here.
-TRAVIS: All right.

Well, I'll tell you,
my brain's telling me

it's the same object

as the previous one
or the same type of object.

ERIK:
Same class of object.

Well, let me move
to the next one.

So, here we have
a third instance of...

BRYANT: It looks similar
to the same thing.

TRAVIS:
I think it's the same thing.
I don't know what it is

but it looks like
it's the same thing.

So we have three, uh, videos
of the same category of objects

right after the first launch,
but I don't think there's

any decision
we can make on it right now.

-Yeah.
-ERIK: Obviously,

the data is the other important
half of this exercise.

And we got these really mangled

GPS results and it correlates
with Lunasonde radar data

which, according
to the-the Juniper data,

were on top
of a magnetic anomaly.

So, what do you guys think
about getting

Jan Francke
to come back out, you know,

with his
ground-penetrating radar?

THOMAS:
Well, it's-it's
a starting point.

Yeah.

Could Erik be right

that the answers
to all the UAPs

and other phenomena
we've recorded between

the triangle and the mesa

and the east field
might actually be underground?

Is there a connection
between the ring-like anomaly

we've detected on lidar
and the possible tunnel

that was identified
by Lunasonde last year?

What I want to do this time
when he's with us

is to actually do
a grid-like, you know, uh, uh,

like a push broom pattern
on the ground

with that instrument.

And see if we don't, uh, get
some returns that correlate

with what we see in the
Lunasonde and the Juniper data.

-BRYANT: That's a great idea.
-I agree.

ERIK:
Okay, well, you know,
this has been a great review.

I appreciate you guys
sitting at the table with me.

-THOMAS: Thanks, guys.
-ERIK: Thank you so much.

TRAVIS: The next day,
while we were awaiting

the arrival
of GPR expert Jan Francke...

I say we, uh, figure out
what goes in here.

...Erik wanted us
to follow up on the unbelievable

findings of biologist
Ben Woodruff,

who believes something
with the jaw structure

of the extinct dire wolf killed
one of the cows on the ranch.

-Okay. Just set it down
for a sec.
-All right.

Where's that dry bag?

So, we decided
to conduct an investigation

in the river that runs
along the south field

called Dry Gulch Creek.

THOMAS:
Okay, so, we've got
the GPS tracker.

We should probably
check in with Erik

and see if he's
picking it up still.

-Yeah. Let him know we're here.
-Yeah.

Hey, Erik, do you have a copy?

ERIK:
Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.

We've arrived over here
on the western side

of the ranch
and we're just preparing

the equipment and getting
ready to go in the river.

Can you, uh, see the tracker?

Copy that, I'm watching.

Okay, we're gonna
get in the river.

Okay.

Let's go.

Let's do it.

TRAVIS:
Back in the 1990s,

the Sherman family
actually claimed

that they had followed
a dire wolf out here

after it attacked
one of their cattle,

but then reported
that its tracks just

disappeared right at this creek.

Let's just put it right here.

TRAVIS:
Yup.

THOMAS:
All right.

Okay. I think we're ready.

TRAVIS:
Since the water is very shallow,

we're going to wade
down the river with a kayak

that we've equipped
with GPS devices

as well as energy
and radiation detectors.

Erik, this is Thomas.
You got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Thomas.

THOMAS:
Got all the equipment

strapped down and ready to go,

and we're entering
the river now.

Well, that is
really interesting because

that is not
what I'm looking at here

According to the GPS,

you're at 5,000 feet
underground.

You mean to tell me right now

we're about 5,000 feet
lower than what we are?

I've never seen this before.

-Did you guys hear that?
-BRYANT: Yeah.

Right now, Erik's GPS tracker

is telling us
we're 5,000 feet below

-where we're at.
-TRAVIS: Really?

THOMAS:
Yeah.

TRAVIS:
That's crazy, man.

THOMAS: Right now,
Erik's GPS tracker

is telling us we're 5,000 feet
below where we're at.

TRAVIS:
That's crazy, man.

Well, let us know when
we portal back to reality.

Copy that, Thomas.

ERIK: I watched the real-time
GPS tracking data

as reporting its position
going underground.

This isn't the first
and won't be the last time

we're asking ourselves
the question:

why is it that something
that works perfectly fine

in one scenario

suddenly doesn't
work at all in another?

KALEB: Could the water be
somehow affecting that?

TRAVIS: Uh, it shouldn't,
it's above the water.

THOMAS: That's interesting.

TRAVIS: That's crazy, man.

THOMAS: Right off the bat,

Erik tells us that
the GPS tracker

that we have has suddenly
gone 5,000 feet below us.

I don't know what's going on,

but we haven't even walked,

you know,
ten feet down this river,

we're already starting to see
interesting phenomena.

TRAVIS:
Let's get this thing
in the water.

BRYANT:
Okay, let's roll.

TRAVIS:
Yep. Here we go.

THOMAS:
We've never explored the river.

Even Bigelow's people

claim that they had
never been down around it.

We're looking at
a large section of the ranch

located on the south side

where we've seen so much
strange activity in the past,

and it makes me wonder,
you know,

what is in store for us?

TRAVIS:
Dude, it is thick
right here, though.

If we lost a rocket in here,
you wouldn't get it.

-BRYANT: Man, this is not
-TRAVIS: We've been walking

-easy walking.
-for a while. Yeah.

That's a lot of walking. It's...

We haven't gone
very far linearly

-because the river's
just winding, right?
-KALEB: Yep.

Well, I can tell you,

we haven't had anything
on the gamma rays at all.

Yeah, the TriField meter

has been at zeros
the entire time, too.

TRAVIS:
We almost never see
that with that thing.

BRYANT:
Was this-was this
TriField meter's

battery full when we started?

-Yeah, yeah.
We checked it before we left.
-BRYANT: Because it's almost...

-it's almost dead.
-Really?

-BRYANT: Yeah.
-TRAVIS: Well,
that's interesting.

Maybe something's
drained the battery.

We often see batteries on
our equipment suddenly drain

just before and even during

strange events
like UAP sightings

and mysterious
signal detections.

So, we were all wondering
if our TriField meter,

which detects energy spikes,
was malfunctioning

because something much crazier
was about to happen.

Ugh. Let's go.

THOMAS:
Look at this tree right here.

Has that been...

I mean, it almost looks...

charred.

TRAVIS:
Hey, Dragon, if you can,

cut-cut us off a sample of that.

Okay.

THOMAS:
Yeah, why is this black

-and this one is just...
-TRAVIS: Take a picture of that,

too, if you don't mind.

It's not far from
that burnt post either, right?

THOMAS:
Where the thing
burned through it, right?

TRAVIS:
The river is not
real far from that at all.

BRYANT:
Last year,

we found that
mysterious burned post

in the south field.

And it just so happens
that we saw

this purple light
that seemed to fly off

into that area...

...a strange silver orb that
shows up on our game cameras.

TRAVIS:
Yeah, that way we can
see the rings on it.

BRYANT:
And now we're seeing

some of the vegetation
in the river

that looked as though there
was a strange burn property,

it makes me wonder
if these instances--

are they related somehow?

Oh, look. You got a good piece.

Fantastic.

THOMAS:
We got some great samples.

TRAVIS:
Now, is this natural
or is this a beaver dam?

-THOMAS: Beaver.
-KALEB: It's a beaver dam.

-BRYANT: Whoa, what is that?
-TRAVIS: What is it?

BRYANT:
Right there.

THOMAS:
What is that?

KALEB:
Hard to tell.

TRAVIS:
We're about to find out
what it is.

BRYANT:
Ew. God.

THOMAS: What is that?

TRAVIS: We're about to
find out what it is.

THOMAS: Look at those fangs.

BRYANT: Ew. God.

TRAVIS:
We've got
a dead animal right here.

BRYANT:
I wonder what that is?

Just a few hundred feet
down the river

from where I found this
burnt tree, we came across

some sort of animal here
in late stages of decay.

As soon as we lifted
its head out of the water,

we saw massive canine teeth,

so we knew it was
a canine of some type,

but these teeth are pretty big.

It doesn't look like
a coyote or a dog to me,

so what is dead here
in the water?

TRAVIS:
Think you can hold it up?

All right, let's
get it in the bag.

BRYANT: We're still gonna try
and get a sample of it

and give it to Ben the biologist

that's been working
with us on the ranch.

(grunts)

-THOMAS: Ooh, I got
a whiff of that.
-TRAVIS: Yeah, it stinks.

BRYANT:
Good God.

TRAVIS:
That decayed carcass

that we found in
the south field creek

was really disgusting,

but it was also

one of the strangest things

we'd ever seen
on Skinwalker Ranch.

The body wasn't very big,

but the teeth were huge.

TRAVIS:
Whoa, those
teeth are sharp, dude.

Gah! I touched it.

I didn't know
what to make of it,

but no matter how bad
that thing stunk,

we had to get
a piece of that jaw

so Ben Woodruff
could analyze it to figure out

what kind of animal
it actually was.

THOMAS:
Oh, man that stinks.

TRAVIS:
Well, let's load up
and get out of here.

Yep, sun's getting lower.

-Get away from that smell, too.
-TRAVIS: Yeah, right?

THOMAS:
We're seeing interesting
things with our equipment

along with this burned tree

and a dead animal in the water,

so it makes me wonder

is this spot dangerous?

I don't know. It's hard to say,

but these are definitely
all things

that warrant more investigation.

THOMAS:
Hey, Erik,

do you copy?

ERIK: Yeah, Thomas. Go ahead.

THOMAS: Uh, we've reached our
destination point on the river.

Just came upon a really
large, dead animal.

We've got some, uh, maggots
along with its jawbone.

So, uh, we've got quite
a few samples to bring in

and we're excited to
come back to command center

-and compare notes.
-ERIK: That's fantastic.

I'd call that a success, guys.
Way to go.

I'll see you when you get back.

-THOMAS: All right.
-TRAVIS: Well, I think it was,

uh, very informative.

We found a zone
on this river where there was

absolutely no
electromagnetic information.

And right after that,
we found a dead animal.

Yeah, so there's a dead zone
back there in the river.

So, that's something
we need to really

think about and look into.

BRYANT:
All right, let's get
the heck out of here.

TRAVIS:
Yeah.

ERIK:
I don't think
any of us is content to

marvel at anomalous results.

I know that we are all
very hungry for answers.

Could this creek
be the point of origin

of some phenomenon
yet to be explained

that may have something to do

with the carcasses
of dead animals

that we're seeing on the ranch?

I'm especially interested

in getting the answer
to that question.

BRANDON:
The disturbing reality

surrounding animal deaths
at Skinwalker Ranch

is something that
has left us baffled.

Is there something unique about

the nature of these areas,

these previously unexplored
regions of the ranch?

As the investigation continues,

we hope to get more answers.

TRAVIS: There are so many
crazy stories from the past

about things like portals,

underground tunnels
and even extinct animals

supposedly existing
on Skinwalker Ranch.

And just this week,
we found evidence that suggests

these things could be based
in reality and are true.

I don't know
what to make of that,

but I'm more determined than
ever to keep working with

this team to figure it out.

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