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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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