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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.

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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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