[theme music]
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): Tonight,
on Beyond Skinwalker Ranch.
[suspenseful music]
PAUL BEBAN: This is a new opportunity for us to figure out
what Bigelow was doing here.
EXPERT: This is like an entrance to an underground vault.
This is completely unexpected.
We got to go down.
Dig.
PAUL BEBAN: Now, it's gonna get interesting.
It's gonna snap back.
Yeah.
CARL ANDREASEN: What in the hell?
[drone whizzing]
ROBERT LEONARD: Whoa. - Whoa!
ROBERT LEONARD: God.
Oh, no!
JEFF MACBURNIE: This room here, Mr. Bigelow had an encounter
with what he called a shaman.
Whoa!
What was that?
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): For years,
scientists have been working to reveal the secrets
of Skinwalker Ranch.
But is it possible that the clues
to unlock the mystery are located
beyond the borders of this hub of high strangeness?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Wow.
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): Now, an ex-CIA agent
and a veteran journalist have been recruited
by the Skinwalker team to go on a high-stakes mission
across America.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Look at all this activity that's happening.
PAUL BEBAN: That's unbelievable.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: That is right over our heads.
That's it! That's it right there!
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): The goal-- uncover evidence that
may finally expose the truth.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: How is this happening?
PAUL BEBAN: Now, it's gonna get interesting.
WITNESS 1: Look, it's moving! WITNESS 2: Look at that.
Whoa! WITNESS 1: Look at that!
[group exclaiming]
[theme music]
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: This is just the beginning.
[tense music]
BRANDON FUGAL: Guys, one of the hotspots you investigated
that yielded some incredible results in phase
1 of the investigation was Mount Wilson, which happened
to be owned by Robert Bigelow--
my predecessor here at Skinwalker Ranch.
In fact, we all know that Robert Bigelow, the elusive Las Vegas
billionaire and now space entrepreneur,
owned both Skinwalker Ranch and Mount Wilson at the same time.
I was frankly very surprised by the incredible results
that you were able to get in your initial exploration
of that property.
And I think of all the properties, that is one that I
wanted to go back and revisit.
We couldn't agree more.
First of all, there's fascinating history there,
you know, connection between Mount Wilson and Skinwalker.
But we really got shut down.
I mean, we still had a lot of work underway
when the weather just slammed the door on it.
You had a blizzard hit you, basically, right?
PAUL BEBAN: Absolutely.
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): In their previous trip
to Mount Wilson Ranch, which is located just 80 miles away
from Area 51, Andy and Paul investigated reports
that Robert Bigelow and his team of scientists
were investigating an alien spacecraft
buried beneath the ranch.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: So you have Bigelow's researchers following
up with you because they believe there might
be some sort of alien craft buried
in a meadow on this property.
Apparently, down in the meadow,
there's something that emits a signal.
A lot of history in the ground around here.
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): Magnetometer
readings in the Lower Meadow confirm
the presence of an unnatural object below ground.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: I am blown away because Robert Bigelow was
digging here, trying to find some sort of unexplainable
energy source under the ground.
And now, we actually have evidence that
shows there is something there.
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): Andy and Paul also investigated
two possible mine entrances they believed
were openings to a tunnel system leading to the Lower Meadow.
A survey revealed an opening under the mines.
EXPERT: it's a huge magnetic disturbance
that's typically going to be indicative of a void.
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): The team tried
to access the mine entrances.
Fire in the hole!
[explosion]
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): But they
failed after a heavy snowstorm stopped
them from going any further.
We come out here to our two best opportunities
to get underground and we've been able to get close,
but not close enough to get in.
From our first investigation there, we
have a number of really powerful data points
that give us an idea of where we want
to focus on this next visit.
Are there any other aspects that you're
planning on concentrating on?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: We've actually had a fortuitous series
of events recently that make this the perfect time
to go back to Mount Wilson.
First, the ranch owner, Jeff MacBurnie,
reached out to us to let us know that crazy storm that forced us
off the ranch has actually created what looks
like some sort of sinkhole that may be an access
point to an underground network of tunnels that we suspected
was there.
So this is something that emerged after your visit there?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Yeah.
PAUL BEBAN: One thing that Jeff, the owner, has told us,
there is evidence that this was in use for some purpose.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: Really?
PAUL BEBAN: So whether this is part
of some kind of further underground structure
that Bigelow was working on, we really have no idea.
Yeah, we're excited to, kind of,
unearth what it is that the Bigelow team found there
and what they may have left behind when they left.
I'll wager it's worth every minute of time
you're going to spend there.
And then some.
I'm pumped.
I love it.
There's definitely some connection
between Mount Wilson and Skinwalker Ranch
that we have yet to fully understand.
[theme music]
[wind swishing]
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: I am so excited to be going
back to Mount Wilson, man.
Yeah, and just look at the difference between--
[chuckles] --when we-- when we left in the winter and now.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: I mean, we-- the last time we were here,
we were under 2, 2 and 1/2 feet of snow.
Yeah, this was complete-- and I don't know how much
more fell during that blizzard.
But I mean, it was a complete whiteout.
We have an opportunity now to go even deeper than we were
when we were here last time.
We have open soil, open ground.
We're really able to explore what might be under the surface
here in Mount Wilson.
PAUL BEBAN: It's literally a new opening for our investigation.
I can't wait to see what this site actually is.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Right.
PAUL BEBAN: Bottom line is, this is a new opportunity for us
to figure out, maybe, more about what Bigelow was
doing here for 10 years, right?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: As soon as we hit the ground,
I think we should really take off running.
PAUL BEBAN: Yeah.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: We'll see if Mount Wilson has something
more to show us this trip.
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): Andy and Paul's first plan
of attack is to meet with Mount Wilson Researcher Carl Andreasen
and Ranch Owner Jeff MacBurnie to investigate
the new collapsed area.
- How's it going? - Hey, guys.
Welcome back.
How are you doing?
Good to be back.
Hey, Jeff.
How are you, Carl? - Hey, gents.
- How you been? - Good to see you.
We have a ton to show you guys.
Yeah.
Last time, we were pushing you guys out of snow
and dealing with all that.
But what we thought was maybe pushing us off
the mountain was really maybe showing us the real way, so.
The melt-off this year has been
the most we've ever experienced here at the mountain.
[eerie music]
CARL ANDREASEN: Yeah, basically all of that
snowpack that we had, the blizzard that pushed us off
from the mines that we were trying to get access to
in the winter time, when that melted off
was showing us probably the real tunnel
that we should have been looking for this whole time,
which is literally right here.
This is it. I mean, look--
PAUL BEBAN: This is it.
CARL ANDREASEN: This entire giant sinkhole
with everything that you see, it's like 40 feet wide,
60 feet long.
And we got Jerry up here taking a look at it.
Hey, Jerry. JERRY PANKOW: Oh.
CARL ANDREASEN: How you been? - Good.
CARL ANDREASEN: We brought our friends, Andy and Paul here,
to take a look at this hole. - Hey, Jerry.
So you're taking a look at the-- whatever this is?
Yeah, they called me and asked me
to come over here and see if this was
some sort of mining activity.
OK.
And, I'll have to tell you, it doesn't look like any mining
activity I've seen.
This is like an entrance to an underground vault,
or a tunnel, or cave system.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: What makes you say that?
What do you see here that leads you--
It's too big.
It's just way too big.
This is-- this is big enough to put a vehicle in.
[metal squeaking]
PAUL BEBAN: OK.
This is a low ground pressure mat.
The military uses them when they--
you know, they bring their rubber-tire vehicles onto
a soft beach, a beach landing.
There's no reason for this to be out in the middle of the desert
in remote Nevada because we don't have
any soft ground around here.
But when you go below the water table here,
you're gonna find really wet, mushy ground.
And so they were driving trucks in and out
and had to have these mats so they
didn't get stuck in the mud?
Right.
Definitely some rubber-tire vehicles
and able to drive under ground here.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: I see a-- is this a chain drive?
JERRY PANKOW: Yeah.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: This is huge.
JERRY PANKOW: Yeah.
Now, I am gonna guess this was a gate,
a motorized heavy gate to let a vehicle pass in here.
CARL ANDREASEN: Like a door?
This was a giant sliding door?
JERRY PANKOW: A giant sliding door or gate.
We've got this, what is-- what's clearly, you know,
a hidden entrance to something.
I think what it also suggests is that maybe there's just
a lot more infrastructure here that we
have no idea about at all.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Paul, this is unlike anything we've
seen in our investigations.
And it's really important to me that we
understand what is under here.
We need the Terra Exploration Group.
PAUL BEBAN: Yeah. Yeah.
That's a good idea.
MOCEAN MELVIN (VOICEOVER): In their previous investigation
at Mount Wilson, geophysical experts
from Terra Exploration Group identified
several underground targets for the team.
PAUL BEBAN: What the Terra guys can do
is just see underground for us.
Right.
PAUL BEBAN: I mean, we have no idea really where
to begin aside from right here.
This could go in any direction.
This is a hell of a starting place, man.
Oh, it's incredible.
This is awesome.
CARL ANDREASEN: This is just the beginning.
We have a lot more to do.
[dramatic music]
MAN: Hey, guys.
Hey, fellas.
What's going on?
Good to see you.
Welcome back. MAN: How's it going?
PAUL BEBAN: Good.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): With the breakthrough discovery
of a collapsed area that could provide the missing link
to the secret of the Lower Meadow,
Andy and Paul have brought back Terra Exploration Group
with their underground surveying technology
to search for any connecting tunnels or voids
and pinpoint a spot to dig.
We brought a bunch more toys.
Excellent.
Well, I think we're gonna need them for this one.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): In 2020, the Skinwalker Ranch team
used a magnetometer drone that identified something hidden
below ground next to the mesa.
ERIK BARD: It's telling us there's
something going on in the ground,
particularly there at the homestead area.
ROBERT LEONARD: I mean, it's clearly
a magnetic anomaly there.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): In Andy
and Paul's first investigation at Mount Wilson,
the Terra team launched a magnetometer
drone in the upper part of the ranch that crashed--
It's bouncing all over the place.
[men groaning]
PAUL BEBAN: What just happened?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Oof.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): --requiring
them to walk the magnetometer by hand
to collect the rest of the data, which
showed evidence of a tunnel system
leading to the Lower Meadow.
Now, the Terra team will use the same technology
to see if they can identify any openings
beneath the new collapsed area.
ROBERT LEONARD: Should we go take a look?
PAUL BEBAN: Yeah, we'd love to show you the site.
Yeah.
All right.
PAUL BEBAN: And this whole area collapsed in on itself.
ROBERT LEONARD: Yep.
PAUL BEBAN: What we can see here, right,
this is maybe some kind of entrance
to an underground vault. We have no idea.
ROBERT LEONARD: It looks like a track.
Like, a train track where you have a-- you know,
you pull a rail cart out. PAUL BEBAN: Yeah.
ROBERT LEONARD: What we can do is throw some technology at it
and see what we see.
And then that can kind of give us maybe a direction to dig.
Perfect.
That's the idea.
Well, let's get to work.
Ooh, that's high speed.
Look at that.
Bigger, stronger, faster, better.
I like it.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): Terra's drone flies
in a preprogrammed grid pattern using
GPS coordinates for navigation.
The attached magnetometer will take magnetic readings
with hopes of revealing a tunnel underneath the Collapsed Area.
If the team can find an underground pathway,
it may lead them to the buried craft Robert
Bigelow was searching for.
We got a new drone because we killed ours last time.
This one's actually shielded, so it should
be more stable this time.
Hopefully, it comes back.
[chuckles]
Yeah, hopefully it lands in one piece.
[drone whirring]
PAUL BEBAN: So far, so good.
ROBERT LEONARD: Yep.
PAUL BEBAN: There she goes.
ROBERT LEONARD: Well, this one's flying a lot better.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: A good, clean flight.
ROBERT LEONARD: Yeah.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: And I really like the large footprint
that you programmed because it gives us a chance
to see if there's any sort of directionality
to whatever anomaly we may find under there.
ROBERT LEONARD: Right.
PAUL BEBAN: Yeah, whatever this entrance connects to,
we have no idea what direction, or what orientation,
or how big it is.
ROBERT LEONARD: Let's come home.
Perfect.
Look, hit the only pothole.
PAUL BEBAN: Almost perfect.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Well, good job, guys.
ROBERT LEONARD: All right.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Now, you got some work ahead of you
to process data? ROBERT LEONARD: Yes, we do.
We'll be able to compare and contrast information and come up
with a solid set of where we want to target
and how we want to proceed.
Yeah, all right.
Got it.
Let's do it.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): Since it will take the Terra team
into the late evening to process their magnetometer data,
the plan is to regroup in the morning to see the results.
But before Andy and Paul call it a night
in Room 3 of Mount Wilson's guest house,
Jeff and Carl have some important information
to share with them.
[knocking]
Hey, guys. What's up?
- Hey. - Come on in.
Can we come in?
We're just-- we're just messing with some gear.
CARL ANDREASEN: Nice.
I kind of felt like we should make you aware.
Yeah, this room here, basically, last time you asked,
why would Mr. Bigelow have sold this place to me?
This room here, Mr. Bigelow had an encounter
with what he called a shaman.
PAUL BEBAN: In this room?
JEFF MACBURNIE: In this room.
CARL ANDREASEN: While he was sleeping, like, in this bed.
In this bed?
CARL ANDREASEN: Woke up in the middle of the night.
And he said the figure was so tall
that it was stooping up with its head below the ceiling and it--
what it tell him?
Leave.
CARL ANDREASEN: Pointed right at him and told him to leave.
That was the message.
And we even talked to a guy from the phone company that was here
the next day when he woke up, heard it first-hand from him
and said that Bigelow was freaking out,
that he had saw this apparition appeared
to him right here in this room.
PAUL BEBAN: It sounds like this isn't
like someone sensing a presence or feeling like something
is there.
This is something that's visible.
We can set up cameras to-- you know, if anything does happen,
we'll capture it.
Yeah, we're not leaving, for sure.
Right, no. Yeah, we're not going anywhere.
I mean, this is-- this is wild.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
PAUL BEBAN: Carl and Jeff were just
kind of giving us, sort of, a friendly heads up, like, look,
this is the story of this place.
And I always take, especially these the idea
of the paranormal stuff with a grain of salt.
But of all the places we've been,
this place may have the darkest and most
disturbing, and frankly, some of the most
bizarre stories we've heard.
But you've got to come with an open mind.
I thought this was all just gonna be for outdoor use.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): Andy, Paul and the production team
set up multiple cameras in their room
to attempt to record what supposedly spooked Robert
Bigelow, including a new, highly sensitive FLIR HD
Thermal Camera designed to capture
heat signatures from objects.
PAUL BEBAN: Hey, Andy? - Yeah, man?
PAUL BEBAN: Come check this out.
[tense music]
Look at that.
What is that?
What is that in the corner?
Whoa!
What was that?
- Was that recorded? - Did you see that?
No!
I absolutely saw it.
I just turned it on.
[tense music]
PAUL BEBAN: Hey, Andy? ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Yeah, man?
PAUL BEBAN: Come check this out.
Look at that.
What is that?
What is that in the corner?
Whoa!
What was that?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Was that recorded?
PAUL BEBAN: Did you see that? No!
- I absolutely saw it. - I just turned it on.
[chuckles]
That was a dude in the corner.
But then it's gone.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: It's gone! That wasn't saved?
Nope, not (bleep) at all. Nope.
I just turned it on.
Before we even press record on half the equipment down here,
I thought the shaman, we'd never get any evidence.
But then, sure enough, as soon as we turned on the FLIR,
we get some kind of weird shadow.
Like, is that the shaman?
Oh, my god. - Crazy.
Dude, go back over there.
- You go over there. - OK.
OK, roll it. Roll it.
All right, we're gonna roll it.
Oh, there we go.
It's live.
OK.
So you were over here.
Blah, blah, blah, right?
Right.
I think you were messing with the camera.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: OK.
And--
I left.
It's-- I'm-- It's as-- you were--
I was focusing on. ANDY BUSTAMANTE: I see you, yup.
And you're hot as the day is long.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
And then you came over here.
And when you were over here, there was a dude in the corner.
So what's crazy is--
PAUL BEBAN: 100%.
--the signature that was there didn't have heat.
But you had heat when you were there right now.
Right Did you-- so you saw it the second before it went away?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: I absolutely saw it.
I saw it right before it-- and then it reset
and the image went away.
It was gone.
That was so wild.
[laughs]
Did Lee-- did you get that?
[groans] Man, I hope Lee got that.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Oh, man, could you
imagine if we're five minutes into this room
and we already have that? CREW: [laughs]
PRODUCER: Oh, my god, I hope this is on camera.
Come on, Lee. Come on, Lee.
CAMERA OPERATOR: Here we go. - That's it!
That's it! That's it right there!
Now, keep watching.
Keep watching.
PAUL BEBAN: That's totally [bleep] right there.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Look at that. Look at that.
Lee, you have it.
Oh, my gosh, Lee, you have it.
PAUL BEBAN: And there it is!
Andy walks away and it's right there.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: It's right behind me!
PAUL BEBAN: It's right there.
Oh, look at that, right there.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Yes, it's right there.
PAUL BEBAN: Yeah, you can [bleep] see it.
Oh, and then Andy blocks it.
[men laughing]
You totally have it, Lee!
PAUL BEBAN: But then it's gone.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: And yes, just as soon as my hand clears,
it's gone.
[men laughing]
Awesome.
PAUL BEBAN: Check this [bleep] out.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: I just saw something
that you shouldn't see.
Right?
Here's Andy.
What's that behind him in the corner?
There's someone standing in the corner of the room.
There is someone stand-- exactly.
There's someone standing in the corner.
I'm like--
CARL ANDREASEN: There's a person standing.
PAUL BEBAN: And I'm like, huh? Wait, watch.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Keep watching, guys.
Watch.
Your hands are in the way. PAUL BEBAN: Oh, my god.
But watch. CARL ANDREASEN: Move your hand.
JEFF MACBURNIE: He's saying move his-- move--
PAUL BEBAN: I heard. Gone.
What?
PAUL BEBAN: Gone.
Weird.
Something is weird in that corner.
I've seen a lot of things doing this kind of work.
But I've never seen anything remotely like that.
Like, there was a moment where I was like,
hey, Andy, because I'm about to lose my mind here.
There's something in the corner right behind you.
I don't even know what to say.
I'm kind of at a loss for words, which is not like me.
There was-- there was something in that corner.
I don't know what it was, period.
I want to see what the Skinwalker team makes of this.
Absolutely.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): After encountering what appeared
to be the entity that reportedly drove Robert Bigelow from Mount
Wilson, Andy and Paul call an urgent meeting
with the Skinwalker team to analyze what was
captured on the thermal camera.
BRANDON FUGAL: Greetings from Skinwalker Ranch.
Paul, Andy, anxious to hear what is happening at Mount Wilson.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Well, I want to say we've had a hell
of a start to this place.
One of the things that ended up happening to Paul
and when we arrived is that we were
given a room that was assigned to us by Jeff, the ranch owner.
And Jeff came in and told us later on
that the room actually had a specific history
tied back to Bigelow.
PAUL BEBAN: This room is where Bigelow had been
staying while he was there.
There's no other way to put it but that it was haunted.
And we want to share that with you because we think we may have
captured some really interesting, measurable evidence
that speaks to the phenomenon that may have
gotten Bigelow off that ranch.
Am I to understand that you actually
took instrumented measurements in the room
where Mr. Bigelow had those experiences?
PAUL BEBAN: That's exactly right.
I can't wait to see it.
Yeah, I'm on the edge of my seat here.
PAUL BEBAN (ON RECORDING): Whoa!
ANDY BUSTAMANTE (ON RECORDING): Was that recorded?
PAUL BEBAN (ON RECORDING): Did you see that?
No!
ANDY BUSTAMANTE (ON RECORDING): I absolutely saw that.
PAUL BEBAN (ON RECORDING): I just turned it on!
ANDY BUSTAMANTE (ON RECORDING): What is that?
PAUL BEBAN (ON RECORDING): What is that in the corner?
TRAVIS TAYLOR: Wait a minute.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE (ON RECORDING): That was a dude in the corner!
PAUL BEBAN (ON RECORDING): That was a dude in the corner.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: Wait, I saw somebody
walk in front of the camera.
BRANDON FUGAL: No, it was right in the back.
It was like a hooded figure.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Right, you can see there's the purple stripe
is the cool corner of the room.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: OK.
PAUL BEBAN: When we roll it back, now look at that corner.
That's from just a moment before.
Can you frame advance very slowly?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Absolutely.
Now, here I step in front of the camera until a later moment.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: It's gone there.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: There's a very important frame
that I think will help shed some light on this.
So you're about to see my image pop up on the thermal camera.
And I'll appear in front of whatever
that entity, whatever that image is.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: That's interesting.
ERIK BARD: OK.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: OK. right there. - There.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: Stop.
ERIK BARD: There's a dark feature that we
saw in the initial image.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: I still see the--
the hands, and the face, and the body shape.
Is that not weird?
Now, it's starting to get a little more obscured.
ERIK BARD: Well, the persistence of that dark area
says a lot to me. TRAVIS TAYLOR: Yeah.
ERIK BARD: You know, as I said, it's--
yeah, there it is again.
OK.
Ah, goodness.
BRANDON FUGAL: It obviously looks like some spectral figure,
which is similar to what we've seen, observed and documented
here at Skinwalker Ranch.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): In 2022,
a member of Robert Bigelow's investigative team
returned to Skinwalker Ranch and recalled
an incident where he saw an apparition at Homestead 2.
WITNESS: As we walk closer to Homestead 2,
we felt a drastic drop in temperature.
[eerie music]
You could put your arm through it.
And you could feel the cold versus the heat.
On the second floor of Homestead 2,
through the night vision device, we saw what resembled
a dark, shadowy figure.
PAUL BEBAN: And here's one of the things, a detail
that really struck me, right?
Was whenever-- whenever one of us,
whenever a person passes in front of the screen, what's
the hottest thing you see?
It's their face.
Your face is bright yellow, you know, the hottest
ends of the spectrum.
Whatever this face is, is black.
It is cold.
The part that's undeniable is that you have an image in a FLIR
of a cold object that looks very humanoid in shape
that just appeared there for a few seconds.
This is unique because we have a very distinct image captured
with a very sophisticated piece of equipment,
with witnesses participating in observing all of this play out.
What an extraordinary event to be captured on camera.
And I can only imagine what will be further discovered
as we dedicate the resources.
All right, gentlemen, thank you very much.
And we'll see you soon. - All right, guys.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Nice talking to you.
BRANDON FUGAL: Thank you so much for your efforts.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: We got to go meet up with the Leonards.
PAUL BEBAN: Let's do it.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): The recent discovery
of a collapsed area above the Lower Meadow led the team
to order a magnetometer survey looking for evidence of tunnels.
Now, they meet up with Terra Exploration Group
to review the results.
All right, fellas.
Well, so I got--
got some cool stuff.
We got all the data crunched.
There is some interesting findings.
There is weird stuff going on out here.
The mag data is gonna blow you away.
This is the magnetometer.
When we use a magnetometer, we're reading
the Earth's magnetic field.
This is not a topo map.
This is just a representation of the magnetic field strength.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Yeah.
ROBERT LEONARD: All that black area
there is our collapsed area.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: The dark colors?
ROBERT LEONARD: Uh-huh, yeah.
Typically, that kind of a color indicates a void
or a very loosely-packed soil.
The dark blues and the blacks like the low magnetism
because it's air.
PAUL BEBAN: Wow.
ROBERT LEONARD: And I'm seeing some lines in here
that kind of intrigue me.
I see three in there-- one there, one there, one there.
PAUL BEBAN: Oh, whoa.
CARL ANDREASEN: It looks totally straight.
Like, unnaturally straight.
ROBERT LEONARD: Yeah.
You don't get a lot of straight lines in nature.
Yeah.
ROBERT LEONARD: So we want to look at the satellite image.
There's our collapsed area.
And we overlaid this.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Oh, whoa.
PAUL BEBAN: Oh.
CARL ANDREASEN: Wow, that could be the tunnel entrance
that we're looking for.
It would be consistent with a tunnel.
Wow.
ROBERT LEONARD: And here's the most intriguing thing.
These-- there's one there.
And here's this one over here.
Boom.
Wow.
Do you think there's a possibility that continues
all the way down under there?
ROBERT LEONARD: Yeah.
Right under the meadow.
ROBERT LEONARD: Right under the meadow.
CARL ANDREASEN: Exactly.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: It lines up perfectly.
There's enough data here that we've also
been able to connect the tunnel area with the Lower Meadow
with some kind of void that might connect the two.
Correct.
Right there is the opening all the way down
to the Lower Meadow. BOB LEONARD: There could be.
ROBERT LEONARD: So there's maybe a little bit of an answer
to a big question there.
Maybe this was built to access under the meadow?
Is it the spaceship under the ground?
You know, it's just--
Bizarre.
It is bizarre.
PAUL BEBAN: And now that we're looking
at what may be a tunnel that leads all
the way to the Lower Meadow.
If they're all the way up at this entrance,
would there be a purpose to tunnel all the way down
to the Lower Meadow?
I mean, you can access the Lower Meadow from the Lower Meadow.
JEFF MACBURNIE: Right, true.
But if you-- if you're wanting to pull something out of there,
a UFO, you need-- you need a way to get it out.
You need a track.
CARL ANDREASEN: And Bigelow did try in the meadow
and got stuck up to the seat, you know, with their bulldozer.
Because of the softness of that.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): The Lower Meadow is a marshy area
located next to a creek.
And when Bigelow's team tried to dig there with a bulldozer,
it sank all the way up to the driver's seat.
Later, he brought the same bulldozer to Skinwalker Ranch.
This is intentional infrastructure
built by human beings.
And the fastest way to get underground in the Lower Meadow
would be through a tunnel that starts in the Collapsed Area.
CARL ANDREASEN: That might be what Bigelow's team was
following and what made them ultimately leave
and give up, too.
How can we home in on that a bit?
Is that possible?
Dig.
We got to go down.
PAUL BEBAN: Right.
If there are those tunnels going down,
if we can gain access into those tunnels, get into there.
Now, Robert, I know you were saying
earlier that you guys find the anomalies, but you don't dig.
So we'll get to digging and we'll give you a new target
to explore in the Lower Meadow.
Awesome, let's go.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): With newfound information
of a possible tunnel system connecting
the Collapsed Area to the Lower Meadow,
and an alleged buried spacecraft.
The team sets out to excavate and hopefully
reveal what Robert Bigelow was doing at Mount Wilson Ranch.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Let's do it.
PAUL BEBAN: We know we've got steel down there.
We know we've got potential risk of further collapse.
I mean, this is a huge 40- by 60-foot site and we
have no idea what's in there.
So to see that excavator actually do this,
this is what we're here for.
Now, it's gonna get interesting.
Even if this is a tunnel going in that direction,
there is some kind of void here.
I mean, something has collapsed.
Absolutely.
Look at all that.
What is going on, man?
This is mind-blowing right now.
This so crazy, Jeff.
[metal clanging]
[boom]
Oh.
PAUL BEBAN: Well, that sounded hollow.
JEFF MACBURNIE: Wow.
PAUL BEBAN: Just amazed that this is all covered.
This took some work to cover.
It took some real work to cover this up.
CARL ANDREASEN: There's a lot more here than I thought, man.
This is crazy.
PAUL BEBAN: It seems like every time Jerry puts the bucket
into the ground, we are pulling out some kind
of mysterious piece of debris.
Like, why is there so much metal in here?
CARL ANDREASEN: There it is. There it is.
Watch out.
Throw it over here, is four--
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Wow, that's farm equipment.
Farm equipment?
What the hell, Jeff?
Farm equipment?
It's a giant combine thing.
JEFF MACBURNIE: What in the hell?
CARL ANDREASEN: Wow.
JEFF MACBURNIE: Well, that's hooked to something.
CARL ANDREASEN: Watch this piece of military rig.
Oh, my god.
What is this?
What is that?
JEFF MACBURNIE: What [bleep]!
CARL ANDREASEN: That's like a big steam engine.
I think there's a whole truck down there.
That is the undercarriage of a truck.
PAUL BEBAN: This really is like an archaeological dig.
We're just pulling all these mostly metal artifacts out
of the ground, like these traction mats
for maybe very heavy trucks to drive in
and out of some kind of site.
CARL ANDREASEN: Whoa, look out.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Jeez.
Two for one.
More and more mats.
A stack of them.
There's more coming.
It's gonna snap back.
Yeah, watch out.
More railing.
Like, they just threw railing in here.
Look at that. JEFF MACBURNIE: Oh, my goodness.
CARL ANDREASEN: Holy crap, Jeff.
PAUL BEBAN: We've got all this debris
that looks like it was just shoved into a hole in a hurry.
CARL ANDREASEN: There's the engine.
The whole motor.
CARL ANDREASEN: The engine block.
Whatever was going on here, they definitely
abandoned it and covered it up.
It's another one.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: That's a second vehicle.
CARL ANDREASEN: It's another vehicle.
PAUL BEBAN: Why would you take all the time and energy
to bury all this stuff?
Holy [bleep].
Look out.
[windows rattling]
Hey, guys?
Carl and Jeff, step back.
A piece of metal comes out of there,
it's gonna come out of there like a tomahawk.
And remember, this is all a void.
[metal clunks]
CARL ANDREASEN: Oh, my god! PAUL BEBAN: Look at that.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: See, that crack just opened up?
Yep. ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Oh, yeah.
PAUL BEBAN: A big crack.
Yeah, you can see there's a void underneath.
CARL ANDREASEN: This almost looks like an entrance or--
JEFF MACBURNIE: Careful there, bud.
Look at that.
What the hell is that, Andy?
[engine humming]
PAUL BEBAN: A big crack.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Look at that.
PAUL BEBAN: What the hell is that, Andy?
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): As the team continues to excavate
at the Collapsed Area, they uncover
what seems to be an opening, as predicted
by the magnetometer survey.
He's all through here.
I mean, look underneath here, Paul.
I know, right?
I mean, there's-- you know.
I'm just trying to see if our void continues here.
I mean, this is-- whatever this beam is, it
goes deep into this hillside.
It just keeps going back there.
There's more buried metal and equipment.
But why would they have collapsed it all?
Why would you bury all this stuff?
This is like it's hidden, right?
Why would you do this?
Unless all of this equipment was scattered around this area.
And when they bulldozed in to close this up,
they just pushed the equipment right in with it.
Yeah.
And I got to go meet up with the Leonards,
take a look at that Lower Meadow.
OK, perfect. We'll just keep working here.
Sounds perfect.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): With the rest of the team focused
on the dig at the Collapsed Area,
Andy heads down to the Lower Meadow
to meet with Terra Exploration Group.
Welcome back to the Lower Meadow.
Yes, sir.
BOB LEONARD: Oh, boy.
So we're really hoping to dig deeper.
OK.
We've got whatever seems to exist under here.
Travis believes this might be some sort of advanced tech.
If we can confirm some of the same magnetometer results
as last time, I see that as a positive.
But if we can really get down and get a closer, more detailed
view, that's even better.
All right.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): The last time
they ran the magnetometer in the Lower Meadow, the team
picked up a mysterious interference
signal that obscured the data.
So it's like, it's an even pulse.
I mean, look how evenly apart they are.
There's something that's just stopping it.
Like, the mag is turning on and off.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): When Travis reviewed the results,
he theorized it could be some kind of advanced technology
that's sending signals from beneath the earth into space.
If Bigelow would have found that, he would have stayed.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): Now, they
will try again with a new drone, with hopes of identifying
what could be buried here.
- You ready? - Let's do it.
- All right. - Let's launch.
[drone whirring]
Whoa!
Whoa, god!
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Oh, no.
ROBERT LEONARD: What was that?
What happened there?
No forewarning or anything.
Well.
That thing just totally shut down.
What just happened here?
I just watched a modern-day, insulated, shielded drone
take off and then just shut off in midair.
Well, the other day when we did that other grid,
it worked flawlessly.
I mean, it did it-- it flew a grid perfectly for 12 minutes,
came back and landed no problem.
This thing ain't get up 10 feet.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: This machine is built to survive.
It's built to save itself.
Oh, absolutely.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: So the fact that it
just shut off and came crashing down, that's highly anomalous.
What gets me is how localized this anomaly is.
I mean, this Lower Meadow is maybe
half a football field in size.
And really, what this struck me as is
it's like it hits some sort of persistent boundary
that just fried the electronics, fried
all of the self-preservation, and it
just brought it straight down. - Yeah, I don't--
I don't understand it.
Well, let's go walk it.
Let's go take a walk.
Yeah.
I am so sorry to see--
to cost you guys another piece of equipment.
ROBERT LEONARD: Well, it's the price we
pay for being in this business.
First point to the Lower Meadow.
But we're not done fighting yet.
Yeah.
PAUL BEBAN: I think we keep going in this direction
and see if we can pick up our void again.
Keep going.
PAUL BEBAN: I think we just have Jerry keep clawing away.
We don't know what's gonna happen,
but I think we keep going where the data is pointing.
We have to find out if there's a tunnel or not.
Definitely.
PAUL BEBAN: Like, we can't figure out, is it a mining site?
Is it a military site?
And then why was it capped up in what looks like a huge hurry
to get out of here?
Hey, you guys should come over and take a look at this.
We got a date on this bag over here.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I saw Jerry pull this right
out of the hole with a scoop, kind of towards the top railing.
But is that what this is?
Yep.
CARL ANDREASEN: So we have a name, a website, and everything.
2005.
So this would be--
PAUL BEBAN: This is recent.
CARL ANDREASEN: --Bigelow trash on top of all this old stuff.
So you've had it for 16 years, 2007.
That was bought in 2005.
This was done right before then.
JEFF MACBURNIE: Right before I bought it.
CARL ANDREASEN: So Bigelow must have filled this in with some
of his stuff, potentially, right before deciding
to sell it to you.
JEFF MACBURNIE: So this is a big deal.
PAUL BEBAN: What it does is give us a time stamp on this place.
2005, Bigelow still owned this place.
Yeah.
This gives us a date.
PAUL BEBAN: Right.
What this does is prove that Bigelow had
a big physical operation here.
And for some reason, buried all this equipment in a hurry
before he sold it to Jeff.
Now, what that means about what they were actually doing here,
that's what we've got to figure out.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): It has been a constant source
of frustration for the Skinwalker Ranch team
that Robert Bigelow, who owned both Skinwalker Ranch and Mount
Wilson Ranch at the same time, has never shared the data
his teams uncovered at either location.
BRANDON FUGAL: Bigelow came in with his team National Institute
of Discovery Science, or NIDS, and his team
conducted a very aggressive scientific investigation.
Most of what Mr. Bigelow and his team
studied and reported on the ranch
remains either classified or confidential and is locked away.
So I think we just have Jerry continue along our axis.
Who knows what else we'll find? - Yeah.
PAUL BEBAN: Right along this beam.
JERRY PANKOW: Yep. CARL ANDREASEN: Start digging.
JEFF MACBURNIE: Yeah, let's do it.
[engine turns over]
[engine humming]
PAUL BEBAN: There's got to be a void there.
JEFF MACBURNIE: Well, the Leonard scan clearly
said there's a void, so this might be
the entrance to it right here.
CARL ANDREASEN: We're getting close to finding out real quick.
PAUL BEBAN: No matter what this is, though, the question
is, why would you bury it?
Why would you go through all this trouble?
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): As the dig progresses
in the Collapsed Area, Andy and Terra Exploration Group
are taking a different approach to getting
data in the Lower Meadow.
That looks like some vintage equipment, man.
Yeah, I'm telling you.
Some of this stuff's been around for a long time.
This is an old technology, but it's very dependable.
ROBERT LEONARD: We got these big coils we're gonna drag out.
And this one won't give us an image,
but it'll give us a number.
If there's metal under the ground,
we're gonna pick that up.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): The EM-34
is a device that sends electromagnetic frequencies
into the ground to measure the conductivity of objects below,
such as metals.
The team will start by measuring at 50 feet deep,
then go farther down to 100 feet, and finally 200 feet.
Higher readings would indicate more
conductivity, suggesting the presence
of a large, metal object.
We're sending a magnetic field into the ground--
Through those.
--from one of these into the other.
BOB LEONARD: We're gonna go 50 feet deep, because it'll
read down to that depth.
OK, so what's the reading?
BOB LEONARD: 0.04.
ROBERT LEONARD: OK, let's move over a little bit.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): Moving across the field
laterally, the team will take several measurements until they
cover the entire Lower Meadow.
BOB LEONARD: OK, same, Robert.
ROBERT LEONARD: All right, let's move over one.
BOB LEONARD: Same. ROBERT LEONARD: Same?
So far, it looks pretty low to me.
ROBERT LEONARD: Yeah.
All right, let me go grab those other cables.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): After covering the meadow
and detecting normal readings at 50 feet below the surface,
the team will now move on to test at 100 feet.
So we got a hundred feet cable, yeah?
ROBERT LEONARD: Yep.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: So we're going just about a hundred feet.
ROBERT LEONARD: Are you touching the ground?
Yeah.
ROBERT LEONARD: All right, here we go.
Switch it.
OK.
BOB LEONARD: Wow.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: It's hugely different.
Holy smokes.
It's pegging off the charts.
At a hundred feet deep.
So we hit it, whatever's down there.
50 feet deep was still basically all soil.
So we went deeper and we came across something.
Somewhere between 50 and hundred feet,
we're hitting some kind of material
that is highly conductive.
Highly conducted.
ROBERT LEONARD: Let's see if it still does it--
all right, about right there.
A little too-- yeah, that's good.
All right, come on, baby.
Come on, baby.
It's climbing, climbing!
So we're 10 feet further from our last point,
but we're getting the same results at a hundred feet deep.
We are seeing a highly conductive, large mass of
something that's underground.
Whatever it is that we're running into,
it's had the same readings from here to where you are right now.
What's curious is it really could be any number of things.
It could be some kind of device that's never been shared
because it was classified for some sort of government use
or it could be something not of this planet at all.
I'd like to see somewhere where it would stop.
ROBERT LEONARD: Well, if we run out that bigger cable
and it goes back low, then we know we've passed under it.
Yeah.
All right, so we'll get this bigger cable out.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): With an unidentified conductive
mass detected 100 feet down--
- Are we doing that big one? - Yeah.
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): --the team
will now measure at 200 feet to see how large
this mysterious mass really is.
All right.
ROBERT LEONARD: All right, here we go.
Are you on?
Yeah.
BOB LEONARD: I think it's gonna peg out again.
Still climbing, 0.7.
BOB LEONARD: Something crazy here, highly conductive.
We're off the chart.
BOB LEONARD: And that means it's pretty thick
because we picked it up at a hundred feet
and we picked it up at 200.
So whatever it is, it's big.
That's unbelievable.
ROBERT LEONARD: That's weird.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: This incredibly large conductive
mass, 200 feet underground.
What could be so big and so deep?
BRANDON FUGAL (VOICEOVER): Next time
on Beyond Skinwalker Ranch--
PAUL BEBAN: What is this thing? What is it?
ROBERT LEONARD: It's a metallic object that's shaped like this.
BOB LEONARD: The Manta Ray, shape of a manta ray,
but being a craft.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Something strange
was either developed on Mount Wilson Ranch or discovered.
What the heck is going on out here?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: We got power.
PAUL BEBAN: They've got to be Bigelow's right?
CARL ANDREASEN: Well, maybe they were trying to use these to make
contact or to communicate with whatever
is out in the Lower Meadow?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: This is our first chance to really carry out
an investigation with the same technology, the same tool that
the Bigelow team may have used.
PAUL BEBAN: So this piece of 50-year-old tech,
we'll just see what it does.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: There's absolutely something
happening that's causing this.
We might be reaching the Manta Ray 200 feet down.
CARL ANDREASEN: Maybe this is some kind of a communication?
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: The fastest way to get
under ground in the Lower Meadow is going to be through a void.
JEFF MACBURNIE: All right, we've got a plan.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Wow.
PAUL BEBAN: Look at the size of that thing.
ANDY BUSTAMANTE: Let her rip. - This is it, Jeff.
We're about to find out.
[drilling]
PAUL BEBAN: Andy, do you want the bad news or the bad news?
TRAVIS TAYLOR: You guys may have captured a nefarious set
of oligarchs watching you or a foreign intelligence
organization watching you.
This could be far stranger than ghosts and aliens.
I don't know what this is, but it's weird.
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