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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