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TRAVIS: My name is Travis Taylor.
I'm an optical scientist,
aerospace engineer and astrophysicist
who has worked on many classified programs for NASA
and the intelligence community for over 30 years.
One year ago, I was invited to join a small team of scientists
who were investigating a place called Skinwalker Ranch.
Now, all I knew was that the ranch had been associated
with some very strange UFO activity over the years.
There'd also been reports of animal mutilations
and other bizarre phenomena.
I was open-minded but fairly skeptical.
But nothing could've prepared me
for what my colleagues and I were about to experience.
THOMAS: Do you see the glow, the flicker?
Yeah, the whole top of the mountain is glowing.
We were just exposed to ionizing radiation.
This looks like there's something a thousand feet long.
-We got something. Hold on. -THOMAS: Look, look, look!
-ERIK: What is that? -TRAVIS: It's gone.
SEGALA: Look at the cows.
That is the strangest thing.
THOMAS: There is something going on out here.
TRAVIS: There's no sign of struggle.
It's just dead.
The cow is right here.
I can't help but also notice there's something here.
TRAVIS: Now I've been invited back.
And this time, I've got a better idea of what we're dealing with.
And this year, we're going to start
finding the answers to why this 512-acre
stretch of land is one of the strangest places
on the planet Earth.
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.
We're approaching the ranch.
All right.
My name is Brandon Fugal,
and I'm the owner of Skinwalker Ranch.
The ranch continues to surprise and astound, I think, all of us
that are involved with this investigation.
Dr. Lee, it's a privilege to have you come out to the ranch
and engage with the team, uh, right here on-site.
Yeah, this is an incredible experience for me
to be able to visit the ranch and to
see some of things
that you've been involved with over the last few years.
BRANDON: After the repeated injuries
with Thomas Winterton,
and then Dr. Taylor having radiation injuries
that remain unexplained,
I thought it was important that we bring in a professional
that is not only credentialed but someone that I trust.
A good share of Dr. Lee's practice involves
clinical research into radiation oncology,
and I've come to trust him as not only a medical advisor
but as someone that doesn't screw around.
CAMERON: So, Dr. Lee, as we fly into the ranch here,
just to the north of these observation towers
is Skinwalker Ridge.
Many of the phenomena we've seen have come from Skinwalker Ridge,
so I try to be extra careful as we fly over,
uh, just to avoid any electromechanical issues
that could arise from... from some of that phenomena.
But I'll fly out here just... just south of it to be safe.
BRANDON: We know that we're dealing
with potentially dangerous phenomenon.
There are certain risks associated
with activity on the ranch, but
I think it's time to take the investigation to another level.
I'm anxious to get some answers.
CAMERON: Oh, here's the helipad.
We're making our final approach in here.
BRANDON: It's a thrill to have the whole team
come back together in order to continue the investigation.
This is a multidisciplinary team of professionals.
People who bring to the table not only scientific
expertise but also advanced technology experience.
-Everybody's waiting to see you. -Very good.
-We're excited to have you back. -It's good to be back.
Remarkable things happened this past year,
and to build on that momentum, to further understand
the phenomena and what is really at play
on this unique piece of property
is really exciting.
Well, it's, uh, good to see you back
at Skinwalker Ranch, Dr. Taylor.
-Thank you. -I'd like to introduce all of you
to Dr. Chris Lee.
He's a nationally-recognized radiation oncologist.
Uh, having him as an outside medical consultant is
a vital part of establishing the health and safety protocols
here at Skinwalker Ranch.
I appreciate meeting all of you.
So, I know I'm a visitor today, and, uh, this is my first time
being here, but, uh, I believe that safety is
of utmost importance, and I do think that it's critical to know
exactly what to do, when to do it,
how to do it and the proper methods, so...
I've offered to Brandon I can lend my expertise
with regard to safety or radiation exposures,
or if there's questions regarding, um,
some of the electromagnetic phenomenon
that they've been experiencing.
I also would like to have Dragon
take on the added role and responsibility
of being the safety officer at the ranch,
in order to not only ensure that everyone is kept
healthy, but, uh, really kept safe.
I'm-I'm happy to do it.
And we have Kaleb to be able to watch over
the more day-to-day security side of things.
So that, you know, we can focus on, you know, the investigation
-and what we're doing as a team. -KALEB: Speaking of that,
I do have some other issues I got to go get taken care of,
-so I'll leave you guys to it. -We'll let you get to work.
-BRYANT: Thanks, Kaleb. -Thanks, Kaleb.
So next, Travis,
as you come out and, uh, rejoin the effort,
are you prepared for another stint here at Skinwalker Ranch?
Well, uh, what we saw last time
was some extremely unusual things
that you can't explain with modern physics,
or at least we can't yet.
And so, the opportunity to come back out here
and see if we can see what it really is, is-is...
It's exciting, and I appreciate you inviting me back out.
Well, it's been interesting in that during the off-season,
we've had no shortage of incidents
that have taken place.
In fact, we've continued to track and monitor events
that have con-continued to occur here on the property.
Well, and hopefully we can figure out something
that will stimulate these events to occur.
If we can figure out the switch that makes it happen,
instead of it always being sort of we-we got lucky
and caught it this time, then that would be huge.
BRANDON: That's exciting.
What would you propose as far as experiments?
Uh, I would actually like
to look underneath the surface of the ranch.
TRAVIS: So, last year,
there was this fear of digging on the ranch.
We should see what happens
when we do something like digging a hole.
BRYANT: I know for a fact
crap goes down when people start disturbing the earth.
I have to say unequivocally say no digging.
TRAVIS: So, as a result, we didn't do much research
into looking at what's underneath the property.
There have been stories and legends
of what might be underneath the ground here, like
ancient meteorites, alien spacecraft
and even underground bases.
Perhaps this secret base could be the source of
all this weird transient energy that we've been experiencing.
I think if we're gonna get to the bottom
of what's going on here,
we're gonna have to start looking underneath the ground,
and maybe that means we're gonna have to start digging.
BRYANT: Last time, we had Travis out
and stuff like that, it was your mandate
that there was not to be any invasive digging.
And so, you know,
I took that seriously, and in order to explore
what Travis is talking about and, you know,
the possibility of something larger, you know,
I will follow your lead.
Yeah.
Um, well, without digging,
we could try looking at photogrammetry,
lidar, uh, scanning.
THOMAS: Well, you know, as you guys have been talking about this,
just to the west of Homestead Two
is a fairly significant hole of size,
big enough you could probably put a car in.
But it's been
filled up with trees and branches,
and you can't see down into it.
You can't tell how deep it is or-or how far down it goes.
And so, you know, one of the days
I was irrigating, I thought, you know, just out of curiosity,
I'm gonna divert some of the water
down into that hole and see how long it takes to fill it up.
It took about three and a half hours
to fill this thing up to the top.
Now, the interesting thing was,
is that after taking three hours to fill it up,
the water disappeared out of sight within 15 minutes.
TRAVIS: Oh, wow.
-(others murmuring) -That's unbelievable.
THOMAS: I thought that water would be sitting there for weeks.
And so, you know, I think it would be interesting to
take and fill that back up again and see if maybe we can trace
where that water is going.
TRAVIS: That's a good idea.
You know, the ground-penetrating radar
did show some strange anomalies at depth there.
Last year, we did ground-penetrating radar,
and we found some weird anomalies
right in the middle of the road
right in front of Homestead Two and right in front of that pit.
We found some dome features anywhere from eight to 25 feet.
Almost looked as though there was the top
of a tunnel and the base of a tunnel...
Oh, a tunnel.
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Yeah, I'm really liking this idea.
I think we can get a lot of information out of it
if we do this in the right order.
And putting some water in there, we can follow that with some dye
and perhaps trace the flow of that water
and see if it emerges somewhere else on the property,
perhaps even in the creek out there.
-Oh, nice. -BRANDON: That's exciting.
I'd like to get to the bottom of whether there really is
a cave system beneath this ranch.
We can address this right now, then.
I mean, I think these are great ideas.
And, you know, if it comes to the point
where you are curious about, you know, seeing what's deeper,
if we can't get satisfactory answers
by the noninvasive stuff,
then, you know, we'll have to open up that area of discussion
when it comes to d-digging and disturbing the earth again.
I'll look forward to your guidance.
Well, thank you all for coming together.
Uh, Dr. Lee and I have to, uh, depart.
-JIM: You bet. Thank you. -Thank you. -KANDUS: Thanks, Brandon.
TRAVIS: I'm real excited.
There have been so many stories about
there being something underground here
at Skinwalker Ranch.
This hole may be the answer.
Hopefully, if something happens, we'll get some data for it.
Well, that's it.
I guess we better get to work.
This-this is the hole you were talking about?
-THOMAS: Yeah. -TRAVIS: We divert water
into this hole and fill it up with this green dye
-that we can track. -Look at that.
It's draining quickly. You guys need to get out there
and start lookoking for this stuff.
Oh, look. You can see the water down here.
This-this is the hole you were talking about?
Yeah.
How deep do you think it is?
Well, I'm not sure.
TRAVIS: Don't know how-how much that stuff's piled up on there.
THOMAS: There's this hole over at Homestead Two.
It's filled with brush and trees and debris,
and I've observed
water disappearing in very rapidly.
And the water's got to be going somewhere,
especially when I look around
and all I see is clay everywhere.
Clay just doesn't allow water to seep in.
I can't help but wonder if it's not an opening
or some kind of tunnel
that this water is escaping into.
You know, I've tried to poke down in there.
It-it feels like it could go down further,
but I just don't know.
I know it took a long time to fill up.
-How 'bout that. -But then only took about
-20 minutes to drain, right? -Yeah.
-About 15 minutes. -Now, that tells you there's something.
-There's a hole or something under it, right? -Yeah.
If all that water that Thomas dumped in this pit
is not reappearing somewhere else on the ranch,
then there has to be a massive void of some kind below it.
Nothing else would really explain it.
The question is whether or not it's a natural void,
and that's what we're going to find out.
-So... -What-- So what I need to do to help?
Well, we're just getting this ditch opened up right here.
BRYANT: Just diverting the stream.
THOMAS: So, a couple feet away
from this pit is
a little irrigation ditch
that takes the water out to the field.
So we're gonna dig a channel from this ditch
and divert the water from going to the field
and instead running into this sinkhole.
-Gah! Come on, Dragon! -Sorry, man. Sorry.
TRAVIS: That's easy...
ten gallons a minute.
Well, that's about triple the rate that I had the first time.
Easy ten gallons a minute.
Man, I wish I had a five-gallon bucket and a clock.
THOMAS: I actually think
I may have a five-gallon bucket over there.
Let me go see if I can find one.
TRAVIS: I want to measure just how much water
we're dumping in this pit.
So, with a five-gallon bucket and a stopwatch...
Oh, hey. Here we go.
...I'll calculate how long it takes to fill it up.
All right, I'm ready when you are.
Three, two, one, go.
So, that's about four gallons in two seconds.
120 gallons a minute.
THOMAS: Even as fast as that's going in,
I'm-I'm still shocked it's not coming up faster.
TRAVIS: Right.
And at this rate, it's gonna be filled up
before I can get down there and back.
So I'm gonna go get Erik and the rest of the people
and the-- and that dye.
-'Kay. -All right? I'll be right back.
-'Kay. -Sounds good.
Man, y'all don't go swimming in that.
Ain't no telling what's at the bottom of it.
-(chuckles) -We're not from Alabama.
Ha!
We're bringing the whole team out to the sinkhole,
so we'll have more eyes to look around
in case something happens.
Our plan is to use
a green dye as a tracker dye.
Perfectly safe.
It's environmentally friendly.
So it's not gonna hurt anything.
And you pour it in the water
and you watch for it to come out somewhere,
and you'll know that that's the pathway
that the water is taking.
Look what the cat dragged in, guys.
BRYANT: What's up, Casey?
Welcome back, man.
CASEY: I'm Casey Smith.
I work for Qual-Tek Associates.
I have a degree in geology,
particularly hydrology, so it's groundwater.
And so they wanted to bring me in
to help with the tracer test.
So, you guys ready to put this in?
Yeah, I'd say we need to pour it in.
-Where do you want it? -Dump it in.
-All right. -TRAVIS: Watch this stuff.
-It's-it's cool when-when it hits-- Look at that. -KANDUS: Oh, wow.
-TRAVIS: Is that not awesome? -KANDUS: Not what I expected.
-CASEY: It's like the Ninja Turtles. -TRAVIS: Oh, yeah!
-Secret of the... Secret of the Ooze here. -Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
-Yeah. -KALEB: Yeah.
As this mixes, it may take a--
you know, a little while for it to go.
Here's what I think what we should do is
just stop it complete, as close to completely as we can.
The next thing we need to do
is dam up our flow of water into the pit
so the dye can drain out.
Then we can all go check to see
if it emerges anywhere else on the ranch.
If not, then there's only one place to look:
deep below this pit.
-They got it blocked off. It's gonna start draining. -Ready.
But we need to divide and conquer here.
We need to all pick some-some spaces.
I think, like, me and you and, uh, Thomas,
we can handle whatever we got to do here, right?
-Erik, what do you want to do? -Well, I think we should head
to the south, down to the, uh, the big creek.
I'll take Tom and Kandus, and we'll go hit
-this middle section right here. -Okay.
-Sure. -TRAVIS: Hey, guys.
It's already dropped a foot
since we-we just stopped.
I mean, I set these bottles right at the edge of the water.
So it's draining quickly. You guys need to get out there
and start looking for this stuff, all right?
Sounds good. We'll get out of here.
CICO: Nice.
BRYANT: I was really fortunate that my friend Cico was able
to join Erik and I.
He's a drone operator,
so that we could cover way more ground
and be able to, you know,
hopefully see if there was any dye coming out.
We went to one part
where we thought it may come out into the river.
If we find the dye coming out in the river
or in the field somewhere, you know what,
that's an answer, so we have an answer to questions.
CICO: This the spot?
Yeah, this is it.
Now, if we don't find it, then, you know,
it's gonna warrant further investigation.
So, I think if we land right in about this area,
you can probably get drone footage...
-Oh, cool. -...up and around.
Plus, we can see with our physical eyes
-the water coming down here. -All right.
-Should we throw it up? -Yeah, put it up.
I'm anxious to see you fly this thing.
See what happens.
You just tell me which way you want me to go.
Yeah, the homesteads are off in that direction.
-Okay. -So...
CICO: We'll just follow the river down that way.
BRYANT: I mean, you can follow the river back up.
CICO: If you see any discolorations, just shout it out.
So, let's just follow this water channel.
There's a good trail through here,
and we'll just go all the way down
and see if we can find that dye.
-TOM: Okay. -KANDUS: All right.
KALEB: I personally thought that the water,
if it might come up anywhere, would be
one of the areas that I've been able to go through
doing a lot of my patrols.
There's areas of the ground that are very wet.
I've gone through there where there's been
about a foot of water in some areas.
And it's just random on where that water's coming up.
Travis, you got me? It's Kaleb.
TRAVIS (over walkie-talkie): Yeah, man. What's going on?
We're just down in the southwest corner.
Gets pretty marshy through here,
so maybe it's coming up here somewhere.
TRAVIS: Well, most of the water's drained out of the hole,
so it went somewhere.
Just keep looking.
Will do. Out.
That's a lot of water that went away.
Yeah.
We put 45,000 gallons of water
into this hole.
And at least 80% of it was gone within an hour.
You know, there's no telling where this is gonna run out.
To me, that looks downhill.
You know, appearance, yes, we think that's downhill.
But what we don't see is, you know,
what's underneath us, right?
We could have a bed layer that's, you know,
sloping back towards the mesa.
So, that actually could be downhill
-for this water? -Yeah.
THOMAS: You know, where we drilled is just right--
like, what, 20 feet right there?
-Yeah. -TRAVIS: Last summer...
Let's take a look at the data here.
...after we used the ground-penetrating radar
in front of Homestead Two
and detected those strange tunnel-like anomalies,
we all agreed to drill a hole
to see what the heck those anomalies were.
(mechanical rattling)
That whole thing's shaking.
What is our depth?
We're right now at about 17.
I think that's right
in the range where we were getting that ping.
Yeah, I think you're right.
Are you getting something?
No.
-Just normal background? -Yeah.
We didn't find anything by drilling.
But now it's strange
that all this water's draining down somewhere
right next to where we found those anomalies.
I say the first place to look is in that hole.
We ought to run something down in there
and see if any of this green stuff is getting into it.
THOMAS: I think we should.
All right. Let's try that.
Here's the hole.
I think we can probably see down in there.
Oh, look. You can see the water down here.
-THOMAS: See any green? -I can't tell.
Let's see how deep it is. See if we can get one of those--
get the pipes down in there.
See if you get some green water on it.
THOMAS: I think we should.
Yeah. (grunts)
Oh. I'm in mud.
Here, hold on. I'll put a top on it.
(crackling)
Pull it up quick.
TRAVIS: Well, I don't see any green water.
THOMAS: No, looks pretty clear.
TRAVIS: You'd think we'd find the dyed water
in the hole closest to where we had diverted it,
but it's not there.
Where in the heck did all that water
that we pumped into the hole go?
-THOMAS: I don't think there's any green in there. -Yeah.
TRAVIS: This is where the radiation event happened.
We saw 45,000 gallons of water disappear.
It must be going somewhere rapidly.
THOMAS: I, for one, I want to dig it out.
BRYANT: The lore associated with digging,
there's no way to protect against that.
-Broke right off. -Well,
-I don't think there's any green in there. -Yeah.
We pumped about 45,000 gallons of dyed water
down into this hole,
and now it's just gone.
Let's go look in the cistern to see if there might be
-the green dye leached into it. -Okay.
TRAVIS: So, the next logical place
that Thomas and Casey and I are going to check
is the old cistern behind Homestead Two.
THOMAS: You got your flashlight, right?
TRAVIS: Yeah, I got it.
KALEB: Just come right through here.
The thicket that I wanted to go through,
it's very dense.
You almost need to have some kind
of tool to get through there, like a machete or an ax
to get through some of those branches.
Here's some water, down right here.
(Kandus exhales)
-Do you see any dye? -No, no dye.
It's curious.
Uh, we still don't know where this water's going.
Let's head back out.
CICO: We're about 450 feet out
from where we started. You can see the bottom.
-Right. That's cool. -The map. The... What...
The terrain we're tracing.
BRYANT: We've spent a lot of time
looking for this fluorescent green dye to show up,
and as of yet, we haven't found any traces of it.
CICO: If somebody'd keep an eye on the water.
Looks like normal water so far.
BRYANT: I'd be shocked if we were able to see something
at this point, as much as it would be diluted.
-Sure. -Sure.
TRAVIS: This place just has
a specific smell to me.
I don't know if it does to y'all or not, but I smell it.
Homestead Two's not only
one of the creepiest-looking places on the ranch
but it's also where a lot of strange phenomena
and events have occurred.
People have heard creepy voices.
They've had lost time events.
And Robert Bigelow's team actually claimed that they saw
a portal open up by Homestead Two
and a creature crawl out of it.
And I've had my own weird experiences here, too.
Right around the corner, this is where
the radiation event happened.
Last summer,
I had symptoms of radiation sickness.
It's filled with something.
I feel, like, a... I don't know.
I got a little bit of a headache or something happening.
-(beeping) -My dosimeter went off.
Holy cr... Mine's beeping.
I had radiation sickness, flu-like symptoms for a week,
and I had burns and rashes appear.
I'll move it this time.
-How about that? -All right, all right.
The water's really clear.
-I can see... Wow, look at that. -CASEY: It's super clear.
THOMAS: So, I guess you don't see any green.
TRAVIS: No, I don't.
CASEY: So, the dose readings in here
have actually dropped, so we're getting some shielding
from the concrete, probably.
Uh, but it's actually lower
-in here. -TRAVIS: Okay. All right.
BRYANT (over walkie-talkie): Hey, Travis. You copy?
Yeah, Dragon. What's going on?
Unfortunately, really nothing.
We've run the drone.
We really don't see anything yet.
TRAVIS: Well, that's interesting. Uh,
we haven't found anything yet here around, uh, Homestead Two.
I wonder if Kaleb has seen anything where they are.
Okay, well, I think we're gonna head back to the command center.
So, when you guys are ready, you can meet us back there,
and we'll powwow and formulate a plan.
TRAVIS: All right, that sounds good.
We'll see you there in a little bit.
Well, there you go. So...
From the very first day
I stepped on this ranch, we've had
crazy RF readings. Uh, we saw UFOs.
I got dosed by radiation. We had a cow die.
And then we put 45,000 gallons of water into this hole.
So, where did it go?
Is there an underground opening that the water fell into?
It's another just weird thing about Skinwalker Ranch.
I think, g-gather our stuff and head back.
-Sounds good. -All right. -Okay.
BRANDON: Greetings, gentlemen. How are you?
-Hey, Brandon. -Hey, Brandon, we're fine.
So how did the investigation go today,
and, uh, what's, uh, what's the latest?
Really, we didn't see anything, to be honest,
but with that, it opens the question as to
where is all of that water going,
and how are we gonna figure that out?
That's, uh, significant.
Brandon, I'd like your permission to be able to
bring some equipment on and, uh, dig that brush out,
and maybe even excavate out some around that hole
and towards the road where we, uh, drilled at.
ERIK: We find ourselves in a situation again
in which the subject of digging is coming up.
It's not a subject that we engage lightly,
given all the things that have happened
in connection with digging.
BRANDON: Um, I really appreciate your efforts,
but we know that things have happened on that ranch,
uh, and continue to happen
when there's construction activity or any digging.
It bears mentioning that we saw 45,000 gallons
of water disappear.
It must be going somewhere rapidly.
I don't see anything that says don't do it.
That is motivation enough to start at least
some kind of digging into the problem.
Dragon, do you feel that the digging is warranted?
You guys should take a look at Kaleb's phone.
I don't have any control over it.
It just goes right past my pass code.
-It's just instantly hacking that? -Just goes right past it.
That's almost technologically impossible to do,
and it's doing it instantaneously?
Something here is crying out for help.
BRANDON: Dragon,
do you feel that the digging is warranted?
Well, Brandon, I mean, obviously,
the lore associated with digging,
there's no way to protect against that.
But we put some safety protocols in place now.
We've had Casey with Qal-Tek back out.
Yeah, I think that it's time
that we need to get below the ground.
BRANDON: Well, based on recommendation,
you have my permission to proceed.
But proceed with great caution.
-We'll do it. -Okay, we'll keep you posted on what we find out.
Thanks again, Brandon.
Okay, bye.
-There it is. -We're gonna dig a hole. -Yeah.
BRYANT: He's given us the go-ahead to bring in some heavy equipment
and do some digging. It could be the key
to figuring out what exactly is going on here,
or at least give us direction
as to where we need to go next.
In the meantime, we got a lot of stuff to do.
-That's right. -Let's get out of here. -All right, man.
BRYANT (over walkie-talkie): You guys all loaded up in the Jeep, ready to come out?
TRAVIS: Copy that, Dragon. We're all here.
We're on our way out. We'll be out there in just a few minutes.
-BRYANT: Copy that. See you. -Over and out.
TRAVIS: Couple days ago, we ran a dye test by the pit
over at Homestead Two
to find out where the water was going.
But after the test, we still don't know
why it disappeared or where it went to.
We all got a little bit of bad vibe juju, mojo
about digging, right?
And we don't none of us believe it,
but at the same time, we want to do it cautiously.
Yeah. I think we can make our own protocol and, you know,
say every two, three feet, let's just sample.
And we'll be monitoring constantly.
The other thing, too, that I want y'all to be aware of,
I think Dragon's really nervous.
He don't want to show it, but I think he is.
-Yeah, I don't blame him. -So, uh, let's...
Let's just make sure that he understands
that we're doing everything that we can possibly
think of to do to keep everybody safe.
Absolutely.
It's a good thing I'm so cautious about this
or I'd have just started digging.
-Getting tired of waiting. -Right?
TRAVIS: Brandon gave us permission to dig,
so Thomas got a mini excavator delivered to the ranch.
We've got Casey here
with all sorts of test equipment
to make sure we're not being exposed to something dangerous,
and we're gonna start digging.
Brandon's given us the go-ahead to dig,
but with that, I want to make sure that we do so cautiously.
So, Casey, thank you again for coming all the way out here,
um, and bringing all your equipment.
It's no secret that I have concerns whenever
the topic of digging on the ranch is brought up.
As excited as we are about this, every time that
someone does a major digging on this property,
then bad things happen.
Prior to last year, Thomas Winterton had
a very serious head injury that almost took his life.
We almost lost him because of it.
Now, I know that there are answers
that we're trying to get to the bottom of
that may actually require more of that sort of activity,
but I want to make sure that
we're not getting ourselves in trouble.
-Are we ready? -You ready to start digging?
-Yeah. -Well, let's get set up
-and let's-let's get moving. -All right, sounds good.
(engine starts)
And away we go.
The first step is
to clean that brush out of that hole,
dig down and try to figure out
where that water's disappearing to.
Uh, just wait for him to get
more of those branches out of the way.
TRAVIS: Yeah, that's gonna be great to see
what's down at the bottom of that thing.
ERIK: I think we're looking for a couple of things
with this digging exercise.
We're interested in locating
an exit point for all that water.
Second, we're interested in determining whether we,
in the process of digging, perhaps stir up
something radioactive,
something that may have been detected
in our earlier exercises.
TRAVIS: There's a lot of stuff in that hole, man.
ERIK: And, of course, there's always the question of,
when you upset the earth, does anything
ranch phenomenon related take place?
BRYANT (over walkie-talkie): Hey, Thomas?
-Yeah? -Let's do a safety sweep
-while we got it right here. -Okay.
CASEY: For the dig today, I brought my radiation equipment.
I brought back the rad defender,
which is our sensitive gamma probe.
Basically, what we can do with that-that probe
is we can attach it to the end
and telescope it out without, you know... And we can be back
at a safe distance from whatever we're doing.
You know, uh, I mean, that dirt looks a little sandy here,
but you can barely call this a hole.
I don't know where 45,000 gallons went.
TRAVIS: Yeah, where...? Yeah, 45,000 gallons
of water with the green dye in it that we never found.
Right? Where did it go?
More background, so...
-Okay. -Um, so I don't see anything above...
-above my background. -Okay.
I'm gonna get out of your way.
We can start digging dirt.
So, we've got the brush cleared out.
Not locating any trace of dye anywhere.
The next step really is to
dig down and try to figure out
where that water is disappearing to.
TRAVIS: Look at that. That is like potting soil.
You guys should take a look at this,
what's happening with-with Kaleb's phone.
So, what all's it doing?
It's doing what it's done in the past.
It goes into different apps. It's taken a couple screenshots.
I don't have any control over it.
It shut itself off, it's turning back on,
and it just goes right past my pass code.
TRAVIS: It's just instantly hacking that.
KALEB: And it just goes right past it.
Uh, that's-that's almost technologically impossible
-to do, and it's doing it instantaneously? -Yup.
TRAVIS: We just start digging out the pit,
and Kaleb's phone is really wigging out.
It's like somebody has opened up his phone,
unlocked the pass code, and is going through all of his apps,
trying to dial random contacts.
Currently, even the National Security Agency
doesn't even have the technology to hack that kind of encryption.
That is startling to me.
And it-it tried calling, uh, 911
and my dispatch number within a minute.
TRAVIS: That startles me.
So, if you go to the exotic, then,
something here is crying out for help.
KALEB: Or is it giving us a warning?
If there's something that has that kind of decryption
hacking capability, that, to me, scares the hell out of me.
Kaleb, it was right there.
Let's go up there, and let's see if there's tracks or something.
Y'all keep y'all's gun ready,
in case a cat comes out and eats us or something.
Something here is crying out for help.
KALEB: Or is it giving us a warning?
THOMAS: So, here we are digging this hole, and Kaleb's screen
starts opening up apps, trying to make phone calls.
TRAVIS: To me, that's one... this is
one of the most startling things because
if there's something that has that kind
of decryption hacking capability,
that, to me, scares the hell out of me.
Kaleb's phone
wigging out is-is really... is freaking me out.
That can't be done.
You can't hack the iPhone.
Well, I'm gonna tell you, just based on previous history,
I've done digging before with my equipment, and it's been
a day or two later that something really bad
has happened to the equipment,
even up to the point of throwing a rod through the motors.
So, you know, it's not always instantaneous.
That exact phone has done these things when the cow died.
My phone starts freaking out whenever your TriField goes off.
I don't have any control over my phone right now.
THOMAS: When the rockets were shooting off...
One. Ignition.
THOMAS: Every time we've had something big happening
at the ranch, it seems like he's got issues with that phone.
KALEB: It's just been doing this for the last couple minutes.
Well, I mean, we need to figure out
what we can scratch off the list, right?
-Whoa. Whoa. -Is it doing it again?
I'm changing my password, and it is... interfering with it.
ERIK: Oh, wow.
KALEB: It's never done this off the ranch.
Hey, Erik, you got your-your cell phone with you?
-I do. I'm getting... -Snap some video of that really quick.
I'm gonna try to get... We have to get out of the sunlight
-so I can actually see this. -Yeah.
Well, why would somebody be hacking your phone
in the middle of the Uintah Basin, you know, in Utah?
ERIK: Well, we know its screen is broken.
Yeah, the screen is broken, but that's where I...
I have normal function with it even with the broken screen.
Like, there's no interference when I'm using it.
CASEY: I mean, another thing, too.
How does a...? Even if it's got a cracked screen,
how does it get past the password?
Well, the only thing I can say is...
keep an eye on it.
If it does anything else,
let us know, but other than that,
I mean, let's get back to what we're here for.
I say, dig on.
Kaleb's phone was freaking me out and...
I-I really can't explain it,
but nothing weird is happening other than that,
so I say we keep digging to see where this water went.
Hey, Thomas, we're gonna do a quick check on that spot.
(engine stops)
-It feels like it's just pure clay. -CASEY: It is.
THOMAS: Nothing?
Nothing.
BRYANT: And you haven't hit anything
other than just soft clay dirt, right?
It's just cl-- It feels like just clay.
-You're a hydrologist, right? -Yeah.
Would you expect wa-- 45,000 gallons
to go down through that so quick?
I mean, there could be other places.
There's voids here that we're not-- we-we haven't saw.
I mean, and so, that could be a possibility.
Clay just doesn't allow water to seep in,
and I can't help but wonder if it's not an opening
or some kind of tunnel that this water is escaping into.
Around here, we line our ponds with clay
-because it holds the water. -TRAVIS: Right.
So, where did the water go?
Thomas has dug all the way down to about 16 feet,
and we still don't know where that 45,000 gallons
of water went.
It's getting late, so we're just gonna wrap it up
and go back and think about what are next step is.
And out of all of this, nobody's meters went crazy...
-Nothing. Nothing. -...no-no weird detections?
The only thing is Kaleb's crazy phone thing.
Yeah.
TRAVIS: Just a little more than eight hours after digging
down at the pit by Homestead Two on the ranch,
we're sitting down, eating hamburgers
around the picnic table outside my trailer,
and then Kaleb shines his light into the woods.
And I'm like, "What's going on?"
Uh, and he says, "Well, do you guys hear that?"
So, I get up and walk behind him.
And as we turn the corner, there is this unmistakable
rectangular shaped object
that was glimmering or shimmering.
And then the thing instantly vanished.
I'm recording this!
So, Kaleb, point your-- right there.
It was right there, something yellow and goldish color
and it was rectangular.
Kaleb, I thought it went this way.
KALEB: I-- That's what I thought, too.
Just go up there and let's see if there's tracks or something,
so we can see what we got.
I feel like my training kind of kicks in and I'm like,
"Okay, I'm going after this. Where-where did it go?"
TRAVIS: Kaleb, y'all keep y'all's gun ready in case it--
a cat jumps out and eats us or something.
I mean, if it, if it ran through here, that's soft.
There would be tracks.
We didn't see the brush move.
We didn't hear footsteps.
We didn't physically see it run away.
It just vanished.
That scared the (bleep) out of me.
I mean, I thought we were about to be, you know,
having a confrontation with something
-that wanted to eat us. -Like a frickin' mountain lion.
-Yeah. -THOMAS: There is that one hole up there
that I was looking and I, and I swear I heard, like,
some type of twig snap.
But the only way you can see it
is to put your head down in the hole.
TRAVIS: I'm telling you right now that there-there was clearly
-something right there watching us eat. -KALEB: Yeah.
TRAVIS: I'm turning off the camera, by the way.
-(camera beeps) -As soon as I stopped the video,
looking due south, something darts across the sky.
It was just a bright streak, just boom, real quick.
-(camera beeps) -(bleep)
I thought the excitement was over, and then suddenly
something just shoots across the sky.
I want to come out here, all of this.
I want us to come out here tomorrow in the daylight
and survey the (bleep) out of this.
First, we find evidence of a mysterious void
that's right next to Homestead Two.
We dig, and then all of the sudden,
Kaleb's phone goes completely haywire
like someone, or something, has hacked into it.
And now this really strange encounter.
I can't help but wonder if all these things are connected.
And, if like others before us have warned,
did our digging cause this response?
BRYANT: Getting the feeling that we're being watched
or even possibly stalked by something
while we're outside just having dinner
really raises the concern level heavily.
So, we need to be very vigilant, because this is an area
that is dangerous and things are
constantly going on out here.
ERIK: There are a few activities planned for this summer
that have me mildly concerned.
And I have absolutely no idea what to expect from them.
BRANDON: Just when you least expect it, the ranch comes alive,
and I want to get some answers.
I want to better understand
what is causing the phenomena at Skinwalker Ranch.
Understanding the nature of these events
that continue to occur, that defy explanation,
really drives our investigation forward.
TRAVIS: There's still a lot of weird things about the ranch
that we can't explain.
I do sense a presence here.
I get visitors; alien activity.
TRAVIS: You can see the mesa glow in that camera.
BRYANT: Unreal.
When you walked inside the building,
it didn't take any data.
ERIK: The temperature around the homestead
began to drop.
TRAVIS: You're in launch, the electromagnetic
spectrum is going crazy, guys.
-(bellowing) -Hey, look, the cows--
something's got the cows going nuts.
Thomas has spotted a light.
TRAVIS: Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Right here.
What do you think it is?
It is a portal.
Holy (bleep)!
We got something, we got something!
I'm leaving the ranch.
-I'm getting a bad headache. -Are you serious?
What I saw doesn't belong here.
I'm a little nervous. Hold on.
Hey.
BRANDON: We're engaging the phenomena.
The question is, are you willing to all accept the risks?
-(alert beeping) -CAMERON: Though something
-could be under us. -What the hell
-is under us? I don't get it. -It's stayed with us
-the whole time. -It's following us.
TRAVIS: Crazy things happen on Skinwalker Ranch.
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