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2,000 feet high

but this is showing it
only at about

150 feet or something.

So, I've taken
the Lunasonde data

that we got last year,
and there's the rocket launches.

-BRYANT: They do line up.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

Look at that scapula.

That is a tooth that bit
all the way through.

It would have to be
larger than a wolf.

That is a dire wolf,

which is an extinct species.

THOMAS:
Look at this tree right here.

It looks charred.

TRAVIS:
We got a dead animal right here!

-THOMAS: Oh, What is that?
-BRYANT: What is that?

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.

KANDUS: Thanks for
meeting with us today.

BEN: Absolutely.

We'd love to hear
what you found out about

those samples of
the dead things we found

in the river.

BEN: Okay, all of it
was very interesting

and kind of
some unexpected things.

TRAVIS: Last week,
we made a bunch of

strange discoveries
in Dry Gulch Creek,

which borders the south field
of Skinwalker Ranch.

These included a scorched tree

where nothing else
around it was burned,

and the decayed carcass
of some kind of animal

with huge fangs,
so we couldn't wait

to hear the scientific report

on the samples that we sent
to biologist Ben Woodruff

at the Hutchings Museum
Institute in Lehi, Utah.

So, I want to show
you some pictures

from the olive wood tree
that was burned,

and the burn
looked a little strange.

I can't 100% confirm this,

but the way the burn happened
looked like pyrolysis,

which is where a burn happens
without combustion,

and without
burning through any oxygen.

So, if you were to witness it,

it would just be turning black
in front of your eyes

without a flame.

Then the question is,
what is making heat hot enough

to create a non-combustion fire
and have no oxygen?

Well, you'd have
to have an extreme

-heat source.
-Yes.

I'm thinking about
that post we found.

I was just exactly

-thinking about that post.
-Yeah.

Which is right where

we saw that silver orb
coming toward

our game camera.

-It is, isn't it?
-BRYANT: It is.

THOMAS: Huh, look at this.

We got a burn mark.

TRAVIS:
In 2022,

Kaleb Bench and Thomas Winterton

noticed a fence post
in the south field

with a half-circle-shaped
hole through it

and burns that were
just like the olive tree

that we found
nearby in the creek.

And then, after
setting up game cameras

to keep a better watch
over that area,

we captured an image of
a silver orb

in the middle of the field.

But was it connected
to the scorched fence post

or even the olive tree?

Man, I find
that really interesting.

BEN:
Let me show you next,

the jaw sample,
the canine that you found.

ERIK:
I want to see this.

TRAVIS:
About six months ago,

a dead cow was discovered
near the south field

that had
massive teeth marks in it.

BEN: The size fits into
that hole perfectly.

TRAVIS:
And last week,

Ben suggested that one animal

with teeth large enough
to make those sized wounds

could have been a dire wolf,

which went extinct
about 10,000 years ago.

What's even crazier than that

is a story told by
the Sherman family,

who lived here in the 1990s,

that they actually saw

a dire wolf attack their cattle.

So, we were all on
the edge of our seats to hear

what Ben had to say
about the dead animal

we just discovered in the creek
bordering the south field.

BEN:
I want to give you
a couple of examples here,

some comparative anatomy.

So, this is the side view

of a typical coyote skull.

And I want you
to focus down here.

At the bottom,

you can see this bulge
is not very big.

This is the part of the jaw

that undergoes the most stress

when these teeth here
are crunching down.

So, keep that in mind.
Keep the shape in mind.

This is a regular,
modern-day gray wolf.

And they're
tackling larger prey,

up to the size of moose
or even a buffalo.

And you can see
how much larger that is.

And this is a dire wolf.

You can see down below here

how much larger that bulge is.

-TRAVIS: That's huge.
-THOMAS: Yeah.

BEN:
Here is the dentition
on your jaw.

That has the much thicker,
larger bulge

like a dire wolf.

TRAVIS: Look at that.

What?

Are you kidding me?

KAELEB:
No way.

BEN:
I don't want
to put out a hypothesis,

but if you handed me this
and said, "Hey, what is this?"

Everything I'm measuring,
everything I'm looking at says

it looks like
it has dire wolf in it

or is a young dire wolf.

But I'm hoping
we can do a DNA test.

THOMAS:
If we can prove
this is a legit dire wolf,

that would be
the first physical evidence

that we've been given
from anybody

that suggests that
the Shermans actually saw

a dire wolf trying to pull
their cows through the fence.

We love everything
about your approach, Ben,

and I-I am... I am so grateful

for everything
you've shared with us.

KANDUS:
Yeah. Thanks so much
for coming on

and sharing
your results with us.

We'll collect more samples
and hopefully

-talk to you soon.
-BEN: Great.

Thank you. I look forward
to coming out again.

-BRYANT: Thanks, man.
-THOMAS: Thank you, Ben.

-See you later.
-Talk to you soon.

-BRYANT: Wow.
-TRAVIS: A dire wolf.

KAELEB: Well, we've got
Jan back out, guys.

-ERIK: Hey, Jan.
-Hey. Hey, guys.

-Welcome back.
-JAN: Thanks for having me back.

TRAVIS:
After our meeting
with Ben Woodruff,

we welcomed ground-penetrating
radar expert Jan Francke

back to help us with another one
of our current investigations,

between the area known as
the triangle and the mesa,

where we've detected a possible
underground structure.

We had a team come out
and do a balloon-based

deep penetrating radar survey.

-Okay.
-We also have some

-magnetometer data
from a few years ago...
-JAN: Yep.

...that shows
magnetic anomalies.

-Okay.
-Which suggests

that we're looking
at something metallic,

possibly even
a tunnel of some kind.

Okay.

TRAVIS: Over
the past three years,

we've conducted
a magnetometry scan

as well as an aerial
radar scan in this area,

and both of them identified
a possible metal tunnel

running underground between
the triangle and the mesa.

So today, Jan is going to use

a special
ground-penetrating radar device

to get us more data
and help us figure out

if that could really be true.

Our ambition is to

do a survey in this area
under the triangle.

Absolutely, we can do that. Yes.

Well, guys, so,
this time I brought

a much deeper
penetrating system--

I've improved it over
the last year--

that will give us
a much higher resolution.

Perfect.

TRAVIS:
Jan is going to scan
back and forth

across the area in what's called
a push broom pattern.

As he does this,
the GPR will send

radio signals into the ground

that bounce off of
objects or structures.

If any are detected,

the device will
produce an image on

what is known as a radargram.

Now, while Jan's GPR
is mainly designed to

send radio signals
into the ground,

some of them will
actually go up,

meaning that he could also
detect things above him.

That would be a good thing
for us because we've documented

a lot of anomalies
above the triangle.

So, if anything passes over him,

we might able
to image that, as well.

We got another experiment

on the other side of the ranch,
so we're going to

leave you and Kaleb here
at it for a little bit,

and we're gonna
head over there.

Sounds good.

TRAVIS:
Well, good luck, guys.

-Okay.
-JAN: Got it?

All right,

let's start assembling it.

TRAVIS:
While Jan and Kaleb were
running the GPR scan

-at the triangle...
-And off we go.

...Me, Thomas and Dragon
went about a half mile over to

the east field to conduct
a different experiment

to follow up
on something strange

that happened two weeks ago.

Let's put the launch pad
right here.

We were conducting a
drone-based infrared lidar scan

when Jim Royston suddenly
began losing GPS data

at very specific spots
above the east field.

-ERIK: Uh-oh.
-What happened, Erik?

TRAVIS:
Something that
we couldn't explain

was blocking the GPS signal.

-Let's go launch this thing.
-Okay.

TRAVIS:
So, we've decided to launch

rockets equipped with
GPS devices

up into those same dead spots

to see if we could get
repeated data,

or even stimulate
some kind of phenomenon,

that might help us figure out
what's going on in that area.

(beeps)

THOMAS:
Erik, the rocket's armed

and we're ready to launch.

Copy you.
Standing by for launch.

BRYANT:
While we're out in the field,

Erik's going to be
in the command center,

watching all of his
instrumentation and cameras,

to keep an eye on both parties

while we're out
doing this experiment.

We might be able to get
to the next spot.

-Okay, whereabouts is it?
-It's up over in...

-In that thicket there?
-It's up over in here.

JAN:
All right.

TRAVIS: In five, four,

three, two,

one.

-KALEB: Yeah.
-JAN: Something's going on

with the signal there,
very interesting.

We've got this weird bump
above the ground.

-I can't explain that.
-KALEB: Uh, yeah.

What the hell?

ERIK (over radio):
Hey, Thomas, you copy?

Yeah, Erik. Go ahead.

ERIK:
I don't even know
how to say this.

I saw the rocket launch
straight up in the camera.

But the GPS data went
deep into the mesa.

-(Travis laughing)
-BRYANT: That's amazing.

straight up in the camera.
theh

But the GPS data went northwest.

And raced off
into the interior of the mesa.

It never went up
from the launch pad.

-Wow.
-It turned and went
that direction.

TRAVIS:
Our latest experiment showed

really weird results
from the get-go.

We all saw
our first rocket launch

straight up over 1,000 feet
in the air.

But according
to Erik's GPS receiver

tracking the rocket's path,

it supposedly flew
straight into the mesa.

Hey, Erik and Travis,
if you guys can hear me.

As Jan and I were dragging
his GPR through the triangle,

Jan said about five
to ten seconds

after that rocket launch,

that he was getting something
interesting above us.

TRAVIS:
Did you hear what he said?

That radar picked up something

in the air
when we launched the rocket.

At the triangle.

KALEB:
I am wondering if we did

have some kind of...

interaction or we did get

some kind of reading
of something moving above us.

So that's,
that's really interesting.

I can't wait to see that data.

We couldn't believe it

when Jan detected something

in the air with his GPR device

above the triangle
after our first rocket launch.

He was trying to find
an underground tunnel, but,

clearly,
some of the radio signals

bounced off something
over his head.

We are ready to launch
the next rocket

with the GPS tracker on it.

Are you ready?

ERIK:
Standing by for launch.

TRAVIS: We had no idea
what it could have been.

So we wanted
to launch another rocket

as fast as we could
to see if it would happen again.

Hey, Kaleb, be advised

that we are gonna launch
the rocket

in less than 30 seconds.

Be prepared.

JAN: If we're gonna launch
another rocket,

we should stand still
and we watch for it,

-and see if we see
anything about us.
-Okay.

Okay, battery is gonna
go hot right now.

(beeping)

Preparing to launch in five,

four, three,

two, one.

What in the hell is going on?

This makes no sense at all!

That is not
what that rocket did.

I want an explanation for this.

During the rocket launch,
the rocket didn't go

straight into the mesa,
but what it appeared to do

was to corkscrew on its way up.

Um, the altitude that it is
reported to have reached

is nowhere near
where the rocket actually went.

How is that even possible?

Kaleb, you copy?

KALEB:
Yeah. Go ahead, Erik.

Are you still seeing
any of that artifact

at 30 to 40 feet?

JAN:
Uh, roger that, I am.

Yes, it is definitely there.

And it occurred
maybe four or five seconds

-after the launch.
-ERIK: Wow.

JAN:
We saw the exact same effect.

Five or six seconds
after that rocket launched,

we see movement
at a range of about 40 feet.

I can't explain that at all.

I need to process that data,

but that's something
of real interest.

Well, it's been an eventful day.

Heck yeah, it has.

Sounds like Erik got
some interesting data.

I'll be interested to see
what the camera looks like.

I-I'd say this is
a very successful day.

Yeah, I wo-- I would,
I would think so.

I can't wait to see

what Jan got
down at the triangle.

I say we pack up,
we get back

-to see what he's got.
-I agree.

BRYANT:
Good job, everybody.

-TRAVIS: Hey, guys.
-JAN: Come on in.

ERIK:
Before we jump into Jan's data

I want to look
at some rocket launch data

with you guys.
I want to show you

the GPS data
for that first flight.

I'm excited to see what you got.

TRAVIS: The next morning,
we couldn't wait to see

if Jan was able to find evidence

of a tunnel underground
in the triangle area.

But first,
we really wanted to review

the GPS data from
our east field rocket launch

when Jan's GPR device

simultaneously
detected something

above ground at the triangle.

Okay, so, you tell me...

...what's wrong
with this picture?

(laughs) The rocket went
straight up to 2,000 feet.

Mm-hmm.

And you see
these points over here?

They're inside the mesa.

-Now.
-TRAVIS: There they are,
look at that.

ERIK: Look exactly
where they went in.

TRAVIS:
Wow.

THOMAS: That's right
where we saw the UAP

last year go into the mesa.

That's a good point.
The entry point right there.

Crazy, man.

The GPS data shows
this rocket flew straight

at the mesa
and directly into a spot

that we call the "in point."

Now that's where we've seen
a UAP enter

the east field mesa
and then exit it

a half a mile away
before disappearing

into thin air near the triangle.

We don't know
what's causing the GPS errors,

but it is obvious

that something has
prevented us from getting

accurate data
on Skinwalker Ranch.

KALEB: And at the exact
same time, Jan was picking up

those radar anomalies.

TRAVIS: That's right,
Jan had the GPR set up

when we did this launch,
and he picked up

uh, something in the sky

that seemed to be 40 feet
above him over the triangle.

Yes, exactly, we can actually
see that on this data set.

-Yeah, let's take a look.
-JAN: Okay.

So, the radar's continuously

running, it's taking readings
ten times a second.

Now what is the radar
really detecting?

It's detecting changes.

And we're in an open field

and there's no cows
or anything else moving.

So if we just stand still
and nobody moves,

then there shouldn't
be any changes at all.

So, what I want you to do is

take a look at the bottom
of the screen, okay?

So here's what's interesting.

The launch happened--

I happened to get
the timestamp off of it--

right here.

Okay?

About six seconds later,
five seconds later,

we have this blip.

It's probably sitting
around 40 feet

above the ground.

And that's a very,
very strong blip.

Okay, now what does that mean?

Okay, something changed
and created an interference.

TRAVIS: So we launched
a rocket a mile away from you,

and, uh, you detected some sort

-of anomaly, uh...
-JAN: Yeah.

-...happened
about 40 feet above you?
-JAN: Yeah.

Well, I assure you there
was nothing above us, but...

-nothing that we could see.
-Nothing that you could see,
yeah, that's right.

-JAN: Exactly.
-ERIK: Right, that's the point.

And I saw that, and I was like,

"What just caused that?"

And it happened twice,
if I remember correctly.

JAN:
That's right.

So here's the interesting part.

Repeatability, right?
That's how science works.

Check this out.

So we'll go along in time
and it happened...

again.

-Right there.
-TRAVIS:
Wow, look at that.

JAN: This happened
after your second launch.

So that means, somehow or other,
launching a rocket

in the east canyon field
down there,

somehow at the triangle,

we detect
an electromagnetic disturbance.

Well, no, we detect an object.

-We detect an object. That...
-JAN: That appears
and disappears.

That appears and disappears
for just a few seconds.

What on earth is that?

ERIK:
Well, now that's a good question

And I've got something
to show you that I think

you're gonna find
really interesting given

what we already
know about this anomaly.

This is a camera
that's positioned right on

on the observation point
there on the tower,

here in the east field,
looking off towards the west,

right there at the triangle.

I want to see if you spot
what I spotted

when I played through this.

TRAVIS:
Whoa, whoa! Was that it?

That was fast, whatever it was.

ERIK:
Let me take it back.

Is it just one frame?

Uh, no, there are
several frames here.

So you'll see it enter

the field of view
from the right.

And I'll tell you
why I find this interesting.

Okay, we get to this frame.

-(key clicks)
-And it's gone.

What?

Yeah.

KALEB:
It disappeared right there.

THOMAS:
It disappeared right there.

What on earth is that?

THOMAS:
So how many frames?

ERIK: Okay.
We can count them.

-TRAVIS: One. Uh-huh.
-ERIK: So there's your first.

BOTH:
Two, three, four,

-ERIK: Five.
-What in the world is that?

ERIK: You know again,
just for added context,

remember, Jan was out there
at the triangle.

KALEB: Well, I can point out
right where we were standing

right here.

We were right down in here.

ERIK:
Wow.

TRAVIS:
What phenomenology

could-could suddenly
get a rocket trigger

there that you would
detect with the radar?

You have no speculation, right?

I have no speculation.

TRAVIS:
They say seeing is believing,

but it was totally unbelievable

that just seconds
after we launched a rocket

in the east field yesterday,

Jan Francke's radar device
detected something

hundreds of yards away
above the triangle.

And at that exact same moment,

Erik's surveillance camera
captured images of a UAP

coming from the east field
and then disappearing

right above the triangle.

THOMAS:
So look at where it's at,

right there
in the middle of the screen,

and if you come straight down
that would be exactly

within the bounds
of that black hole

in the lidar data.

As soon as you started
pointing that out,

that's what hit my mind,
Thomas, you're right.

It is absolutely right over

where the hole
in the lidar data is.

As scientists, Erik and I have
to be very careful

when analyzing data,

but we couldn't deny
what Thomas pointed out.

The UAP disappeared
right above the triangle.

This is where we've documented
all kinds of strange phenomena

over the past few years.

Oh, we got a malfunction.

Everybody watch out.

Including a mysterious blob

that seemed to cause
a rocket to explode.

-What is that red circle?
-Whoa.

TRAVIS:
Infrared lidar images
of a circular ring

with a black void
right in the center.

And another
doughnut-shaped anomaly

that we detected just last week.

Could these things help explain
what caused this UAP

to disappear above
the triangle yesterday?

And if so,
what in the world could they be?

BRYANT:
It's just more evidence

that there's something
above the triangle

and we got to do
more work out there.

Yeah, for sure.

ERIK:
So, initially, you know,

we were looking for GPR returns

from underground, so, Jan,
what are the takeaways?

JAN:
So I want to go back
and show you some things

that stick out
in the radar data.

TRAVIS:
After what Jan showed us
above the triangle,

we had no idea what to expect
from the subsurface scans

he conducted yesterday
in the same location

where previous magnetometry
and radar surveys

have identified possible voids
or even metal tunnels

between the triangle
and the mesa.

So just at high level,
what are the takeaways?

JAN:
When we look at the data

what I want to show you is

we did get
some interference right here.

I don't know what that is.

It could be a void,
it could be a metal object,

it could be really anything,

but it is different
than that surrounding material.

Where is that?

Uh, right-- if you can see
the gray marker on the map.

Right about there.

TRAVIS:
Oh, wow.

So it's really interesting
that the returns you have

seem to kind of point

-in a general area...
-Yes, absolutely.

-...right in that location...
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
...where the Lunasonde
data point is.

JAN:
Yeah.

TRAVIS: That there is something
giving you a return.

JAN: Something's going on there,
absolutely.

Wow.

TRAVIS:
Repeated data is exactly

what Erik and I look for
in our experiments.

So for Jan's GPR survey

to confirm that there could be
something strange underground

between the triangle
and the mesa,

right where two previous
subsurface scans did, too,

is incredible.

The question now is,

what the heck could it be?

We have the rumors that there's
an underground base out here.

-I know that.
-TRAVIS: But that's
just a rumor,

we have no evidence of it--
unless maybe this is

evidence of that.

ERIK:
This area,

just to the west
of the triangle,

seems to hold secrets
that I would love to discover.

Perhaps it's got
some relationship

to all of the strange things
that we've seen

at surface level.

Yeah, I think that we need
to, uh, get our drill out there

and probe it and poke it,
and see if we can--

Get a sample back from it
is what we need, whatever it is.

Whether we bring in
a geotechnical drill,

that we're just doing
a core sample down

and seeing if we find something.

I think a core sample
would be great.

This is
an accessible spot, so...

-TRAVIS: Let's do it.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
Well, Jan,

your work has born more fruit
than I was expecting.

Both in the sky,
it sounds like, potentially,

as well as in the ground.

So we appreciate you
coming out and doing this work,

and we look forward to having
you come back to follow up.

-My pleasure,
I enjoy being here.
-TRAVIS: Yeah, absolutely.

-Yeah.
-No, it's-it's great.

Yeah, definitely
more work to be done.

-ERIK: Yep.
-TRAVIS: Well, thanks, guys.

-Let's get to it.
-BRYANT: It is awesome.

JAN:
Love it. Thank you.

♪ ♪

Erik, this is Kaleb.

Letting you know I have Snowshoe

and we are heading
to the triangle now.

Copy you, Kaleb,
we'll be watching for you.

ERIK:
So today,

we're bringing out Jeremy
with Snowshoe Engineering

back out on the ranch.
He's been here before.

We've identified points
where we want Jeremy

to place his rig
and take some core samples.

We have the Lunasonde data,

we have Jan's GPR data

or ground-penetrating
radar data,

and we have this magnetic
survey that was performed.

All of them seeming to indicate

that there's
something exceptional

beneath the ground just
to the west of the triangle,

and that's where
we're drilling today.

You guys ready to do
some drilling?

Yep. We are ready.

Yeah.

ERIK:
We very well may be

coming into something
that is, that is metallic

according to some
of the measurements we made.

-Well, we'll know it. Yep.
-ERIK: Okay, good.

I understand you can
go down about 30 feet

with that 8-inch bit.

Yep, yep, that's what
we're ready to do today.

As always, you know,

when we seem to do
these types of activities,

just make sure
you take care of yourselves.

If you feel off physically
or anything like that,

that's important.
Please let us know.

There's no egos out here.

We want to make sure that you
guys are healthy to do your job.

THOMAS:
We inherited a narrative
on this ranch,

that bad things happen
when you dig.

And while I still can't say
whether or not that's true,

I will tell you
that I've experienced

a lot of bad things shortly
after I've dug on the ranch.

I suffered this injury in which

my head became very swollen,

and the thing
about this injury is

that it affected me in a way

that the doctors were
just baffled.

It leaves you wondering,

you know, what's taking place
here on the ranch

that is causing
these physical ailments.

All right, let's do it.

TRAVIS:
Let's get rolling!

During the drilling operation...

...Erik will collect
GPS data from a tracker

attached to the drill rig.

We'll also be running
our high-speed cameras

that record hundreds of images
per second to constantly

scan the area above the triangle

and the drill rig
for anything strange

we might miss in the moment.

Who knows if all the UAPs

and possible evidence
of portals that we've seen

could be connected
to something underground?

But, hopefully,
today we'll figure that out.

Good?

Hey, guys. Just letting you
know, the drill is going.

We are in the ground.

♪ ♪

KALEB:
I've heard all the stories, too,

that there's underground
facilities out here,

there's some kind
of alien technology

underneath
the triangle area and so...

if there's an actual tunnel
or tunnel system

below Skinwalker Ranch,

I think that would be
truly validating.

So I'm really interested
to see what happens

over the course of drilling.

Hey, guys.

They're hitting
a harder substance.

Do you want a core sample?

Yes, Thomas. If we can, uh,
get both of them over here,

-we'll take a look at 'em.
-Copy that.

♪ ♪

Hey, buddy.

So kind of weird
at the bottom of this one.

There's a hard layer
and then a soft layer.

THOMAS:
Maybe indicating

that we got a water pocket
or something under there.

Nah...

I don't know
what it would be, I mean,

we'll loosen it

-and you can check it out.
-Okay.

JEREMY:
If you want to pay attention
to what's in the shoe,

'cause that's where
the weirdness happened.

THOMAS:
Okay.

I'll be back.

After being on this ranch
for seven years

and hearing countless stories
of tunnels and caves

and vast, complex
systems underground,

could it be that we're
finally punching through

into what's
underneath the triangle?

This one may be of interest.

-This is our 30-foot sample.
-Okay.

And the reason I say
it may be of interest is

that when Jeremy handed it
to me, he told me

that this is different
than what they see

in most of their drilling.

ERIK:
Okay.

THOMAS:
Here we go.

So if you could see,

solid, solid, solid,
and then nothing.

Like they just hit the ceiling
of whatever it was,

punched through and,
and that was it.

So that would imply a void.

Yes.

ERIK:
Interesting.

So that would imply a void?
ERIK:

Yes.

Interesting.

Thomas is delivering
these core samples

from the drill site
in sections to the table.

We're at about 27 feet and...

it appears that there's
some kind of opening.

I'm really interested
in finding out

how big this void is.

And I can't help wondering,
what have we hit here

beneath the triangle?

It's almost like you drove
a pipe into a pipe.

-Well, that's interesting.
-That's damn interesting.

All right,
before we even move that,

I want to take
a radiation measurement.

♪ ♪

So far, nothing.

All right, well,
I'll tell you what,

-um, I want,
I want to bag these samples.
-Yeah.

Tell me if I'm wrong,
but it makes sense

to just keep punching through

to see how far
it goes like that.

I think he's got the ability
to go another 20 feet.

-I say let's do it.
-Okay.

I mean, after all,
we are hitting

something interesting
right there.

Maybe I'll run over there
and tell him to,

if possible, let's go
with the same hole.

Understood, yeah, okay.
If he's up for it.

I don't know
what we've gotten into here,

but we've just begun penetrating

a very different region
from everything above.

So, my instincts as a scientist,

if not my impulse,
is to keep going.

Let's find out
how big this void is.

I'm getting like
a really bad metallic...

-Taste?
-...taste, are you?

Or just me?

-No.
-Really weird.

Do you feel all right?

I feel fine, it's just like,
very metallic-y.

MASON:
Well, you know what they say,

-it's a curse
to break ground out here.
-BRADY: Yeah.

Well, if it gets worse,
say something.

ERIK:
Well, guys, you're going
to be interested in this.

-Yeah?
-I just learned from Thomas...

we ran into
what is essentially a void.

-Wow.
-So I've asked him
to keep going,

to just keep on punching through

to see how deep that runs,
'cause that could explain

that point that we saw
in the Lunasonde survey

and it could line up with
some of what Jan has shown us.

So, while we've got it open,
we ought to

just keep punching down through
to see what we get.

Sounds like we're in agreement.

-Yeah.
-Okay.

Shut it down, shut it down.

While we're ready
to start drilling

beyond that 30-foot mark
that we were originally at,

I go over to check on them and
see if we're ready to get going,

and Brady just told me

that he's got a really strong
metallic taste in his mouth.

Come on, we're going.

Hey, guys. Somebody.

Having been on this ranch,

I've experienced that before,

and for me personally
it's been accompanied by

some serious health issues,

so I'm really concerned
at this point.

So you-- Are you--
Like, are you feeling okay?

No, I feel completely fine,
it's just the really, like,

strong metallic taste
I have in my mouth.

-Dragon!
-I feel completely normal.

-When did you first...
-It's been about an hour now.

THOMAS:
Oh, shoot.

Hey, guys?

TRAVIS:
What's happening, Erik?

-Dragon!
-BRYANT: What's going on?

THOMAS:
We-we have a safety issue
we need to address right now.

-Is something happening?
-What's going on?

BRYANT:
I don't know. Thomas is just
on his way over.

Well, um...
He-- Look, he's...

-He's feeling fine.
-I feel perfectly fine.

But he's had--
For the last little while,

he's had a really strong
metallic taste in his mouth.

ERIK:
Oh, oh, whoa, whoa.

-That is a very strong sign
of something going on.
-Yeah.

ERIK:
And have you been
right over there

-right next to the rig or on it?
-Yeah, I've been running it.

ERIK:
Brady, from Snowshoe,

is describing
metal taste in his mouth,

and I recognize that right away

as one of the potential
symptoms of exposure

to a very high magnetic field,
among other things.

Like increased levels
of radiation.

I don't know exactly
what the cause is,

but this is concerning.

I think we should quit
talking about it

and get him off the ranch.

I agree. I agree, I agree.

ERIK:
Hey, guys, you want to help me

take some instruments over

and take some local readings?

Maybe we need to go
measure the gamma's

-and stuff over there.
-All right.

-I agree.
-Let's go.

TRAVIS:
Now, I don't know if the legend

about bad things happening
when you disturb the earth

on Skinwalker Ranch is
true or not,

but since Brady was
experiencing symptoms

like you'd get
with high levels

of electromagnetic
radiation exposure,

we wanted to take
measurements and readings

with our scanning devices
to see exactly

what may be coming out
of that hole,

and we all wanted
to make certain

we weren't in any danger.

Uh...

I'm not getting anything
significant on the gamma ray.

No, I'm getting exactly
the same reading

as I got over there
on our table.

-It's not gamma rays.
-ERIK: Okay. So, so,

I don't see anything here
to account

for what he is experiencing.

TRAVIS:
Me, either.

You know, just because
we're not getting anything

with these instruments
doesn't necessarily mean

that there wasn't
something affecting him.

Because it could be,
uh, microwaves.

It could be anything.

-240.
-Oh, it's going up.

-You got a 240?
-Yeah, I just got a 240.

-TRAVIS: It spiked. Mine did,
too.
-0.3. 0.3. 0.3 right there.

That's the highest reading
I've had today.

-So that's two times
our normal measurement.
-And what are you measuring?

It's a measure of
the radiation dose per hour.

So, we're-we're
at roughly, uh,

500 to 1,000 times
below anything dangerous.

Yeah. I can't connect the dots

to a metallic taste
in his mouth.

THOMAS:
So, if I understand right,

you guys are kind of
dead in the water

until the driller comes back,
so this is gonna sit as is.

Yup.

ERIK:
Oh, so you can't keep going?

-No.
-Yeah, so we need to...

I did not understand that.

I find that interesting, right?

How is it that the one, uh...

weak link in the chain
is what got attacked or affected

and can't be here
to continue drilling?

The critical link in the chain.

TRAVIS:
The critical link is right.
Yeah.

ERIK:
I'm sure this won't be the last

frustration of its kind
on the ranch

when we're doing
something like this,

trying to drill into the ground
or into the mesa.

I'm not prepared to give up
on this location,

but at least for now we're
going to have to shut down,

regroup, and figure out
how we're gonna go forward.

-I'm starting to taste metal.
I'm not kidding.
-What?

-I'm not kidding you.
-You're tasting metal now, too?

Yeah. I'm not kidding you,
I'm-I'm tasting it.

All right, then you need--
You now have to leave.

-Come on.
-All right,
let's get out of here.

All right,
just because of this second one,

I want you guys to load up.

Clear out as quick as you can.

Hey, guys.

ERIK:
You're not gonna believe this.

I was standing over there
and I start-- no kidding,

I started to taste
that metal taste in my mouth.

No kidding.

Well, you're no different
than anybody else.

We got to get you out of here.

ERIK:
This is bad.

-This is bad.
you out o.

It-It's like when you touch
your tongue to a battery.

That's the first time
I've experienced that,

is standing next to that rig.

Uh, he's the second one,

so we need to get him
out of here.

It could be a phenomenology
that we never heard of before.

-Right?
-Exactly.

Let's go look at that drill rig
again.

After drilling into a void,

right where
we've detected evidence

of a possible metal tunnel
below the triangle,

Erik Bard
and driller Brady Davis

suddenly had the sensation
of tasting metal in their mouths

and had to be
rushed off the property.

We're not sure exactly
what caused it,

so Thomas and I needed to see

if we could figure it out.

TRAVIS:
Where was Erik standing?

THOMAS:
Right here.

Like, it's something
in this area right here.

Oh.

Uh, put your hand on that.

TRAVIS:
Dude.

♪ ♪

That's crazy, man.

I feel like
my sinuses are getting, like,

just like I'm going up
in an airplane.

So, I can feel this nerve
in my arm

right here,
all the way up my arm.

THOMAS:
Yeah, I feel it,
like-- like my skin's crawling.

This thing's highly electrically
charged, is what it is.

This is crazy. As soon
as we touched the drill rig,

both Thomas and I
felt electric shocks.

It's like grabbing
an electric fence, dude.

Then my fingers start tingling.

Yeah.

TRAVIS:
So, I got the idea

for a quick experiment
with volt meters

to see just how much electricity
it was actually conducting.

If we measured anything more
than a tiny fraction of a volt,

it would mean that
we had drilled into something

very strange under the ground
near the triangle.

All right.
First touch them together

to make sure they say zero.

Yep. Now touch the black one
to the ground

and the red one
to the pole somewhere.

Oh, yeah, look at that.

Oh, we're getting
more than a half a volt

from there to there, easy.

THOMAS:
Where's the electricity
coming from?

Is this putting electricity out?

TRAVIS:
No, look at that.

And there is electricity.

There is absolutely electricity
built up on this thing.

There shouldn't be any,
should there?

No, not that much,
not unless he was drilling

into something conductive

that had electricity
flowing through.

Now, a half a volt
of electricity

really isn't that much.

It wouldn't even be enough

to power a laptop computer
or a light bulb.

But here's the point:
this was at least

ten times more
than there should be.

Unless there's something
artificial down there.

Is it a tunnel?

Well, we don't know that yet,

and we don't know
exactly what caused

Erik and Brady
to start tasting metal.

Maybe there really is something
to the legend

that bad things happen
when you disturb the ground

here on Skinwalker Ranch.

Hopefully, those guys are okay.

All right, well, I'm convinced
now it's electrical.

Uh, yeah, I am, too.

TRAVIS:
Amazing stuff, man.

THOMAS:
Yeah, it's crazy for sure.

TRAVIS:
We have a lot of data

and high-speed camera video
to analyze,

so once we make sure
everyone is safe,

we're gonna regroup
to see what else

today's experiments
will help reveal,

and then we can decide
how best to move forward

and figure out just what
really is below the triangle.

ERIK:
If it turns out that we are

dealing with
continuous structures,

anything at all like tunnels,
then that does lend credence

to the reports that we've heard
of artificial structures,

even things referred to
as bases beneath the ranch,

and we are going to have
to investigate deeper

what's underground
there at the triangle

and perhaps
in the east canyon area.

BRANDON:
Why do we continue to see

such disturbing events unfold
on this piece of property?

What lies in the regions
beyond the area of the triangle,

the east field
and even the homesteads?

Will we get answers
by further exploring

the region of Dry Gulch Creek?

Will there be
additional evidence

of potential dire wolves,

or some other type of
strange phenomenon?

Time will tell.

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