The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020) s01e02 Episode Script

TRAVIS:
I'm Dr. Travis Taylor.
I was invited
to investigate this area
known as Skinwalker Ranch.
We've verified
and documented everything
from UFO sightings
to these columns of light
above the mesa,
and even cattle mutilations.
TRAVIS:
Let's go up the mountain.
Look at that.
Microwaves like that
could be harmful to humans.
If you want the phenomenon
to manifest itself,
you go and dig somewhere.
When you dig, bad stuff happens.
One day I was digging,
my scalp separated
from my skull.
If you're gonna be
a part of this,
I have to unequivocably say
no digging.
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,
researches and experts
has taken over.
They are determined to solve
the mystery and reveal
The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.
TRAVIS:
Hey, Brandon.
Greetings, team. Uh, I'm glad
that you've patched me in,
and I'm wondering how the
investigation is progressing.
So, one of the first things
the guys want to do is
they want to dig.
You know, I-I'm not sure
I'm comfortable with that.
There are certain risks
you just haven't
been properly briefed on.
TRAVIS:
Well, we need
to be briefed
on that data, then.
I understand. Erik,
show them what is in the case.
Regrettably, I have to go
to a meeting, so I'll look
- for your update later. Thanks, gentlemen.
- Will do.
- Thank you. - Thanks, Brandon.
- See you later, Brandon.
(beeping)
TRAVIS:
I came into this saying,
"Look, guys, we're gonna
follow the scientific method."
You can't keep data
away from the experiment
and not show
the rest of the team
in order for it
to be a good experiment.
So what I am going to show you
may offer an explanation
for some of what we've been
seeing on the property.
You'll understand as soon
as I open this up.
You might recognize it.
It's a very large
neodymium magnet.
- It's like the China syndrome of magnets.
- Yes.
It's capable of exerting
quite a bit of force.
TRAVIS: Yeah, I mean,
you can lose a finger
- under a magnet like that.
- Yeah.
TRAVIS:
A neodymium magnet is a magnet
that's made out of neodymium,
iron and boron
and is a really powerful magnet.
But when Erik opens up
this case,
and he shows us this magnet,
I'm looking at this thinking,
"What does this have to do
with not digging on the ranch?"
ERIK:
This object gives us a way
to reproduce some of the effects
that we've seen
on the property, ongoing.
How did you reproduce
the effect?
I can actually show it to you.
- Okay.
- Now, these guys have seen it,
but if you'd like, we can go in.
- Yeah. No, I'd love to see that.
- I'll do a quick demo.
- Yeah, let's do that.
- Sure.
ERIK:
So, guys,
what you see right there,
that's actually a still shot
from a video that I made
the first time
I came to this ranch.
- TRAVIS: From your phone?
- From the phone.
ERIK: When I went to
the top of the mesa,
I was getting artifact
like this.
It was when we got down
to Homestead 2,
it finally cleared up and I was
able to take a normal picture.
So, the question I have is,
well, what would it take
to make that happen?
- Right.
- Can I reproduce that effect?
Hm-hmm.
Before I came
to Skinwalker Ranch,
I'd heard that in addition
to UFO sightings
and animal mutilations,
there were also a lot
of strange electrical phenomena,
like cell phones and electronics
that just suddenly
wouldn't work.
Down here on the countertop,
what I've got
is a second magnet.
This fixture lets us do this
in a little more
controlled fashion.
- We're gonna watch the effect
- All right.
- show up on this-this phone.
- I got it. Let's do it.
- All right.
- (clears throat)
All right, now, look, you're
gonna go through a position.
I hold it at the position
- ERIK: Right. Yeah.
- Oh.
- TRAVIS: Uh, that's right. Right there.
- SEGALA: There you go.
- There it is.
- ERIK: Right there.
So I can make it happen.
- Very cool, Erik.
- TRAVIS: I'll tell you what,
I'm-a hold the phone, Erik.
You move the magnet.
ERIK:
And so what I'm seeing is that
when I go through a certain
point, I'll get the effect.
Well, that's interesting.
Now I'm curious to find out
where Eric is going
with all this.
Now, does he think
there's some giant magnet buried
under the ground that's causing
some of these strange phenomena?
Is that why he and the other
guys are afraid to dig?
Pretty interesting, right?
- Yeah, every interesting.
- TRAVIS: It's interesting.
Not exactly sure
what it all means just yet.
ERIK:
Yeah.
And what has given me pause
is whatever is generating
the malfunction on our devices
is related to your injury
and to the other
unpleasant experiences
that people have had
on this property.
THOMAS:
A couple of years ago,
I had been warned
not to dig on this ranch,
which I thought
was absolutely ridiculous.
So I paid zero attention to I,
and ended up getting
very, very sick, hospitalized.
I had fluid that separated
the fatty tissue from my skull.
And to this day, my doctors
still haven't come up
with an explanation.
So, I'll tell you, I applaud
that you've looked for something
that you can do
in a controlled manner
and reproduce something
that you've seen.
Now here's the thing,
I've yet to hear
anything tell me
that this magnetic field thing
is a reason not to dig.
So, I think we have not
ruled out the possibility
that we have something active
beneath the surface
of this property.
We have some evidence,
at least, to support the idea
that there may be a magnetic
field-generating device
or devices or something,
located on or beneath this
property, or perhaps above it.
So, until we have done
all the noninvasive work,
I don't think we're ready
to start digging.
That's more my mind-set.
There's no data
that's been on the table
that tells us
digging is correlated
to anything that causes events.
But a lot of the things bad
happen more often when you dig.
- Look, we're just trying to do the best
that we can out here. - No, I get it.
And without getting people hurt.
I- - Hey, I appreciate that.
I think we're all closer to
the same point than we realize.
Uh, Erik, if we set out and we
do all of these different tests
and use those to guide us
as to a point that we could dig,
would you feel
comfortable with that?
- I think that's the approach that
I'm advocating. - TRAVIS: Sure.
I- I like that. Let's
ERIK:
Yeah, I'm confident.
When we've exhausted
all the options,
the noninvasive options.
We've talked about it enough.
I mean, w-- let's figure out
what we're doing.
What is our first step? What are
we gonna do, like, tomorrow?
- Okay.
- That's fair enough.
I think the first thing
that's got to be done,
just from a safety standpoint,
is we need some experts
to come in here to do a full
sweep of the ranch for safety.
Measure radiological and RF and
microwaves on the whole ranch.
Let's make sure that it's safe
just to be here;
- we're not getting slow cooked or
something. - Yeah, we can do that.
You know, we've got people
that can come to the ranch,
do a full sweep of radio
frequency radiation tomorrow.
- That sounds great to me. What do
you guys think? - (murmured agreement)
- Well, let's go, let's do it.
- Yeah.
Okay.
TRAVIS: So, how many people
actually have
access to the ranch?
- Very few.
- Oh.
We do our very best
to try to keep
the integrity of the science
that's going on here.
So, actually, today,
they got the team out there
doing the radiation sweep
- and the RF sweep.
- Oh, good. Good.
Following our discussion in
the command center yesterday,
we invited two different
companies up to the ranch.
The first will look for
dangerous levels of radiation
and the second
will look for microwaves.
Now, if everything checks out,
then we'll be safe
to conduct
some more focused experiments
and find out where the strange
electromagnetic energy
on the ranch is coming from.
THOMAS: We're gonna continue
to head across the ranch.
You can see the old building.
This is what we call
Homestead 2.
There are specific places
on the ranch
where I've even personally
witnessed some shadow figures.
(whispering voices)
I've heard voices
on multiple occasions.
I've had individuals with me
that heard the voices, too.
The interesting thing
is I have no idea
whether it's an actual
audible voice
or something that's playing out
in my head.
It was as if
someone was standing
right in front of me,
talking to me,
telling me to either stop
what I was doing or to leave.
Now, is this
all Indian reservation
part of the ranch here or is
this part of the other property?
Ute tribe is just right up
on top of this hill right here.
TRAVIS:
Oh, okay.
THOMAS:
The fascinating thing is there's
a lot of Native Americans that,
to this day,
they tell us that
they look to the east,
they won't even acknowledge
that the ranch exists.
That's strange.
The Utes and the Navajos
actually have
quite a storied past.
They originally started off
as allies and trading partners
and then as generations went on,
relationships started
to become strained.
So much so that when the
U. S. government sent soldiers
out to the Southwest
to protect the white settlers
from the Navajo tribe,
the Ute tribe joined forces
with the soldiers.
And as retribution, the Navajos
actually cursed this land
with evil spirits
known as skinwalkers,
which are evil entities
that can take many different
forms and shapes.
TRAVIS:
So, where's the north border
on the other side of the mesa,
how far does it go?
Just to about
that back cliff over there.
- TRAVIS: Oh, really?
- Yeah, just short of it.
TRAVIS:
Huh.
It looks different from the
BRYANT (over radio):
Hey, Thomas. Do you copy?
Yeah, Bryant. Go ahead.
Yeah, we're up in the sinkhole
doing this radiation sweep.
You guys should get just
straight over here.
We found some crazy stuff
you're gonna want to see.
TRAVIS: While Tom Winterton and
I are taking a tour of the ranch,
we get this emergency call
and it's from the team
that's up on the mesa
scanning for harmful levels
of radiation and microwaves.
THOMAS:
All right,
we will head straight
over there. You'll see us soon.
TRAVIS: My first thought was
whether or not the guys were getting
the kinds of crazy readings
we measured yesterday
when we were up on the mesa.
(devices whirring)
I mean, that's a significant
amount of energy right there.
We found electromagnetic
radiation
that could be harmful to humans.
Oh! And it's shifted now.
Now it's coming
from that direction.
- And it's all radiation.
- TRAVIS: Yes. Yeah.
- I see them standing up there.
- THOMAS: Oh, you see them up there?
- TRAVIS: Yeah.
- THOMAS: We got to walk from here on up.
TRAVIS:
Yeah, okay.
Hey, guys.
The sinkhole is right over here.
Obviously, Thomas knows.
These guys picked up stuff
I thought
you guys would be interested
in seeing yourselves.
TRAVIS:
Wow. Look at that.
- Hey, guys.
- There's Jim down there.
- How far does it go?
- It goes down.
SNOWDER:
Quite a ways.
TRAVIS: We get up there and
there's a hole in the ground.
It's kind of like a little
cave, and it's big enough
for three or four people
to get down in.
This one is interesting
just because
- air flows out of it and things like that.
- Yeah, you can feel it.
THOMAS:
We've had a few people
that have climbed down
in that hole
and experienced
some pretty extreme
vertigo and nauseousness.
The sinkhole is a spot
that I found one day when I was
hiking up above Homestead 2
and the thing
that made it remarkable
the first time I found it was
there is a cavity
that continues down.
We've been trying to figure out
how far down there it goes,
and it was just
blasting cold air,
just like an air conditioner.
Myself, as well as, uh,
several other individuals that
I was there to witness
have had experiences
when we climbed down
inside that hole.
You know, I kind of shrugged t
off as heat stroke at the tim,
but then, other individuals
that we've taken up there
since then have experienced
the same thing.
BRYANT: Jeff is with Semper,
and he's measuring
radio wave frequencies
and things like that.
Travis and Casey
are with Qal-Tek.
They're doing
a full radiation sweep.
- All right. - We're also,
while we're in there, looking for
V.O.C.s, uh,
and other chemicals.
Such as?
Such as nerve agents
or toxic chemicals.
- Okay.
- And we actually got a really
high hit, uh,
on our V. O. C. levels,
about 3,600 parts per billion,
which is a really high
abnormality.
- Dangerous level or just high?
- Dangerous levels, certainly.
Uh, it was a real quick hit.
It was, it was almost as if
there was a ventilation
that plumed.
We got a reading
off of that and then,
- um
- It disappeared.
- It disappeared.
- Really?
- Yep.
- That-that's intriguing.
There are all sorts
of volatile organic compounds
like, uh, formaldehyde,
uh, benzene,
but this sinkhole is pretty far
away from anything man-made,
so their presence here
is really strange.
SEGALA:
The V. O. C. level,
I thought that was significant,
3,700 parts per billion,
- that's
- It was very concerning.
TRAVIS:
Well, let me ask you this:
Did you take the RF meter
down inside?
I haven't been down
in there yet.
'Cause it'd be interesting
to see if you're
getting anything
in there, RF-wise.
What if I go down
in there with you?
You guys think it's safe
to go down in there, right?
I mean, it wasn't--
it was transient, right?
We'll keep an air monitor
with you
so we can make sure
there isn't any
air displacement,
oxygen displacement.
All right. Well, let's go
down in there and see.
Do you want to send in
the O2 sensor first?
Makes the most safety sense.
I think that's just--
that's smart.
I like not dying.
I'll jump in and make sure
O2 sensors levels are good.
I like having the air quality
sensor in there first.
For sure.
(device whirring)
All right, we got normal levels
here, so you're good.
All right, bring it on in.
I'll take measurements
if you call them up to me.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know if anyone brought
a flashlight, you can see.
You got one?
Your phone will work. That's
what they're made for, right?
Oh, wow.
You know, there's no telling
how far that thing
goes down in there.
JEFF: If anything
coming out of there
TRAVIS: Yeah,
you're gonna get it, right?
JEFF:
Yep, that's right.
I did see a spike.
An instantaneous spike at around
one two, four, zero,
let's call it.
I'm seeing only
background levels here,
but when I put the antenna
down by the hole,
I clearly see
some spikes forming.
- I've got some peaks showing.
- You sure do.
- Yeah.
- So, right at the opening?
Right at the opening, when I put
the antenna down in there.
Okay, Erik,
we're on preset number two.
Let me, let me ask a question
real quick, guys.
Do any of y'all feel
swimmy-headed at all?
SNOWDER:
No, you good?
ERIK:
You feeling it?
I don't know.
Slightly, I felt like I was
not holding my balance well
for a second there. That's why
I put my hand over on the rock.
And I'm feeling it now, too.
- Any change in the oxygen level?
- Yeah, that's what I was wondering.
- No, it's consistent.
- ERIK: Sure.
TRAVIS:
It's weird, it feels weird.
Yeah, m-my knees
are starting to,
actually kind of starting
to tremble.
I'm-I'm feeling kind of shaky.
That's not all right.
One of the things that's the
largest of concern That was weird.
I mean, I-I feel like
I just worked out
and I didn't eat before.
You know, feels weird.
BRYANT: Are any of you
other guys feeling anything
- bad down there at all?
- SNOWDER: No.
I just felt like
I was gonna bonk.
Dude, I will tell you
my phone battery just went
(blows raspberry)
- Your battery's dead on your phone?
- TRAVIS: Yeah.
- Huh. - TRAVIS: Your battery's
dead, too, ain't it?
It shut off.
TRAVIS:
Clearly, something
is in that hole that-that made
me have a weird, you know, like,
low blood sugar feeling, and I,
uh, I don't know what it was.
ERIK: We have what we believe
to be safe practices here,
but there are
no guarantees here,
and no one knows that
better then Tom.
TRAVIS: You guys got all
the measurements
that y'all were planning
to take up here, right?
We got a good surveillance of
the entire ranch at this point.
We get back down to the truck,
we can dive into our results,
take a little deeper look
at that,
and then, uh, we can get
some further analysis
and try to look
at some deeper details.
Let's-let's go look at that.
- I'm-I'm good for that.
- Sounds good to me.
Everyone be safe going down.
TRAVIS: I'm convinced
that whatever came over me
while I was down in that cave
had nothing to do
with oxygen deprivation
or toxic gas levels.
Our oxygen meter was indicating
there was plenty of air,
but then, all of a sudden,
the batteries
in our cell phones go dead.
Boom. Just like that.
SNOWDER: We've seen some
stuff that we expected to see,
some stuff that
we didn't expect to see.
Our concern seems to be around
these underground emissions,
that's where we're seeing
the most of these phenomenons.
I want to tell you we're-we're
still gonna be looking
- for more holes to crawl into
and more things - Sure.
to dig into and look under
and-and-and it's possible
we'll uncover
something that's dangerous.
- Right?
- Correct.
SNOWDER:
In some of the confined spaces,
those are areas
you might want to be
aware of when you're
working in those areas,
but in the open area
and-and the ranch and so forth,
uh, nothing of concern.
It's okay to walk around out
here, we're not getting cooked,
but we might find
some weird transient things.
- Absolutely.
- And in that hole,
- there's something that we
can't explain yet? - Right.
So, in summary
on the radiation exposure
is one of the things
we haven't figured out
across the entire ranch,
and we don't know this,
um, is the exact levels of that.
So we brought something
for your guys's team
that'll kind of watch you guys
on an individual level.
This is a dosimeter.
This is gonna primarily work
from a radiological perspective.
If you're getting
above the normal
background radiation exposure,
we want to know.
It's looking for stuff
that you are,
immediately, your body is in.
So anything that's
really in the window
of harmful to humans,
or impactful to humans,
our instrumentation sets
will see.
Okay, guys, so we'll
hand these out to you guys.
- Travis, there's yours.
- Thank you, man. Thank you.
- Erik, here's yours.
- TRAVIS: These dosimeters
will work like a canary
in a coal mine.
They're gonna be very helpful
in alerting us if we run into
any more sudden bursts
of harmful radiation.
We'll lead you out
and escort you off the ranch.
Thank you again.
Appreciate all your time.
- We'll pack up our stuff and we will
be ready to roll. - Okay, sounds great.
THOMAS: Well, here we
are, your second time on,
day two and we're already
experiencing more crazy stuff.
Crazy, I was not expecting
that at all.
I got sick and I felt weird
and-and lightheaded and dizzy.
The ranch has always
responded, uh, to new visitors.
I didn't expect it
to be this quick, though.
I didn't expect to see anything,
so this is amazing.
(chuckles)
Doesn't surprise me, though.
I mean, you know,
where the sinkhole sits
is right up above Homestead 2,
which has been
the reported site of a lot
of this paranormal activity
that Bigelow's team reported.
TRAVIS:
Oh.
In 2016,
I purchased Skinwalker Ranch
from Robert Bigelow.
Robert Bigelow is best known as
the billionaire entrepreneur,
real estate developer
and now aerospace entrepreneur.
Mr. Bigelow
also had an interest
in everything from UFOs
to the paranormal.
In the early '90s,
Robert Bigelow bought
Skinwalker Ranch.
His team conducted
a very aggressive
scientific investigation.
The Bigelow team ended up
having all sorts of
strange things happen.
They started seeing
everything from
electromagnetic anomalies
centered around
the old homesteads,
cattle mutilations
It involves the full gamut
of unexplained phenomena
that we continue to monitor.
Most of what Mr. Bigelow
and his team
studied and reported
on the ranch
remains either classified
or confidential
and is locked away.
You guys got everything?
- TRAVIS: Yep.
- All right.
If we don't,
it's a long way back.
- (laughter)
- TRAVIS: Later that day,
after we got the "all clear"
that the ranch
was safe to explore
Dragon, I guess
I'll ride with you.
Dragon, Jim Segala,
Tom Winterton and I
decided to do
a good old-fashioned
stakeout near the mesa.
From what I've observed,
the mesa is pretty much
ground zero for most
of the strange activity
that's been happening
on the ranch.
So we're all hoping that,
by staying up all night,
we'll be able to see
and record firsthand
the strange lights
and glowing effects
that people have reported
seeing over the years.
This a good as spot as any.
This is perfect--
we see the mesa,
the moon's gonna be giving us
some backlighting.
Let's start grabbing stuff out
and putting it up.
Let's start hooking up
the experiments.
I want the telescope up.
Get the sound system set up.
We have a lot of
diagnostic equipment.
We can measure
radio and microwaves,
we can measure magnetic field,
we can measure infrared.
We've got a lot
of different things
that we're going to use tonigt
and, uh, see what
we can find out.
Hey, what movie are we watching?
Aliens? Predator? What?
We're gonna hook
the cameras up to it,
so we can look at it
on the big screen.
Cool.
THOMAS:
So, the 512 acres of the ranch
are under 24-hour
video surveillance
by dozens of security
and surveillance cameras,
and Erik keeps track of these
around the clock and is able
to view them
from the command center.
Hey, Erik. Are you there?
ERIK:
Copy, yeah.
Okay, so you can see us, then?
I can see everything
you're doing.
TRAVIS: Erik Bard makes
sure that pretty much
every inch of this ranch is
covered by a camera somewhere.
Although he can pretty much se
everything we're doing tonight
from the command center,
he won't be able to get
the kind of close-up images
and information we can get.
And he certainly wouldn't
be able to investigate it
as quickly as we can.
(insects trilling)
TRAVIS:
Let's bring the lights down now.
And let's start looking
at the mesa in the infrared.
That is so cool.
BRYANT:
That is really cool.
TRAVIS: As humans,
we're only able to see light
in a relatively narrow spectrum.
But by using an infrared camera,
we're gonna be able
to see things
that are further out
on that spectrum
that we otherwise
might not be able to see
with our naked eyes.
- That's amazing.
- Isn't that awesome?
- That's-that's a good view
right there. Look at that. - Wow.
BRYANT:
Yeah, that's really good view.
Hey, Jim's got the laser.
- There we are.
- SEGALA: So, I'm gonna go
walk out here with the laser.
TRAVIS:
Yep. Yep.
- SEGALA: You ready?
- Yep.
SEGALA:
We brought a very large
green laser that allows us to
light up a beam
all the way up to the mesa.
You can put the laser spot
right there,
then I'll look
right at the spot.
SEGALA: I'll come out here
so I don't hurt anybody.
That way, we can focus
our infrared cameras
on that spot so we know
exactly where we are.
Perfect. Right there.
THOMAS:
There it is.
TRAVIS: Hold on.
Is that? There's two.
Look.
Do that again.
THOMAS:
How is it doing that?
SEGALA:
When we shined
the laser on the mesa and saw it
in the image of the camera,
we also noticed there was
a smaller image just above it.
TRAVIS:
That is so weird.
- SEGALA: What the heck is that?
- TRAVIS: You know what it is,
it's reflecting off
of the surface.
THOMAS:
How is it doing that?
The actual laser spot
that is coming back
and hitting the camera
is the little one.
We need to go up there
and look at it.
Hey, Erik, do you copy?
- I do.
- You interested in going
up on the mesa,
while these guys sit back
and monitor it?
You bet.
Well, let's go get Erik
and let's head up there.
BRYANT:
You ready, man?
ERIK:
Yep, let's do it.
BRYANT:
Okay, let's go.
TRAVIS:
Gotta turn my headlamp on.
All right, let's go.
♪
TRAVIS: It's like walking
on Mars or something.
The rocks and the soil of
the Skinwalker Ridge mesa
have an extremely high amount
of some kind of
crystalline material.
So I'm wondering
if there's a reflection
happening up on the mesa
that's causing the laser beam
to split into two points
of light instead of one.
There are these
little white disks everywhere.
I don't know what it is.
You are getting
pretty close to that laser.
You'll have to start
making a descent.
TRAVIS: I'm gonna turn
and sit right here.
All right?
And now I am going
to kill this light.
All right.
BRYANT: Does the laser seem
like it lost intensity?
TRAVIS:
The laser's lost power.
Whoa, where'd that laser go?
TRAVIS:
And it went out.
ERIK:
And it went out, just now.
TRAVIS:
Radio back to them and ask 'em
if they're doing something
to the laser.
Hey, Travis?
TRAVIS:
Yeah, go ahead, Jim.
So, we're--
before the light went out,
the laser light went out,
you were standing exactly whee
the main glow of the laser was
on the screen.
TRAVIS:
Really?
SEGALA:
That's correct.
I'll go back up there
- and see what's going on.
- Hold on, guys.
THOMAS: I just replaced the
batteries in this laser.
There's no way
that it's the batteries
that are causing it
to malfunction.
I tried everything
to get it to come back on again,
but it's just one of
those million things
that happens
at Skinwalker Ranch.
The button's pushed in
and everything.
It-It's dead.
SEGALA:
Hey, Travis?
Yeah. Go ahead, Jim.
SEGALA:
The laser is dead.
TRAVIS:
I think it's crazy
that as soon as we got here,
the laser went out.
Hardly the first time something
like that's happened here.
Unfortunately, it's typical.
TRAVIS:
All right, guys.
I think we've seen enough here.
BRYANT: Let's carefully make
our way back down the ridge.
Carefully.
TRAVIS: The laser
experiment was inconclusive,
but what we did discover
with this experiment
is that the mesa
is highly reflective.
Now, that's interesting,
especially since
we've seen in the past
the mesa seeming to glow
and there being beams of light
coming up from the mesa.
There's something to this place,
I just don't know what it is.
Whoa, look at that.
Holy crap.
What is that?
That reflective flickering.
THOMAS:
Hey, guys, we just noticed
on the screen here a second ago.
Do you see the glow?
The flicker?
Up behind there.
TRAVIS:
Yeah.
It's flickering.
Kind of flashing behind it
or something.
What does it look like
on infrared?
TRAVIS: It looks like the whole
top of the mountain is glowing.
BRYANT: Yeah,
it's almost like the outline of it.
TRAVIS:
Wow.
I mean,
it's clearly doing something.
It kind of looks like,
uh, the
(low growling)
Did you hear that?
(low growling)
Yeah.
Like a growl or something.
Yeah.
It was right over there.
Right?
TRAVIS: Being out here in the
wilderness, it's not unusual
to hear growls
and strange noises and stuff.
It could be from a mountain lion
or a coyote
or even a pack of wild dogs.
Look, the top looks less
like a silhouette now
than it did before.
It's-it's right here, right?
Yeah.
TRAVIS:
Till I came to the ranch,
I didn't really believe
the stories I'd heard
about strange lights
coming off the mesa.
Now I'm seeing this thing glow
at night with my own eyes.
This isn't just a story,
this isn't some special effect
or a hoax.
This mesa is really glowing.
You know what we should do,
is we should scan
across the mesa
and see if we see something else
with the, with the camera.
Well, we better hurry, 'cause
the sun's gonna be up soon.
The sun is coming up soon.
Yeah, all right.
Well, let's do that.
Let's go
pan to the west first.
BRYANT:
Look at that.
THOMAS:
See how the top of that's
TRAVIS: Yeah, the top's glowing
like crazy. Look at that.
BRYANT: It's like the whole
top of the ridge
- is outlined in chalk.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait.
- All right.
- So
TRAVIS: Look, it's flashing.
Look, it is flashing
behind that big-time.
That cloud is pulsing
like crazy.
Look at that.
The interesting thing is
is it almost looks like
it's a lot more defined here
- than it is with the naked eye.
- TRAVIS: Yeah. Oh!
Look, look.
Did you see that?
THOMAS:
That's a definite beam. Whoa.
It was like a beam that came
right up from the ground.
THOMAS:
It's gone now.
TRAVIS:
Did you guys see that?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Did you see that?
- Jim, you weren't looking.
- BRYANT: Look, there it is again.
THOMAS:
Oh, there it is.
TRAVIS: We're looking back and
forth at the infrared camera
and then back and forth
at the mesa
to see what's going on and then
we notice out of the ground,
in front of the mesa,
this beam comes up
through the sky
and tracks something.
- There it is!
- There it is again.
It is clearly a beam
going across there.
There is something clearly
over the ridge.
BRYANT: Do you think
that's coming from behind?
THOMAS:
What is that?
- That time, did you see it sweep?
- Well,
and you can't see anything
from looking out of here.
It's only in infrared.
TRAVIS:
So, we're out here on the mesa,
investigating the strange
lights and the glowing effects
that other people have been
reporting over the years.
What's interesting is that
we can't see these light beams
when we look at the mesa
with our naked eyes.
We can only see them
with the infrared camera.
We should be looking
in that direction
to see what we can come up with.
Right now while
something's happening.
BRYANT:
What are we doing with this?
SEGALA:
What we're attempting to do
is measure electromagnetic
energy or frequencies.
And what this board
will allow us to do
is to isolate to one single
direction or one plane.
TRAVIS: We need to find out if
the glowing effect we can see
on the infrared monitor is
connected to any kind of RF--
or radio frequency-- radiatio.
This experiment will help us
determine the direction
of the radiation
that we're detecting now
and maybe help us find
the direction of the source.
All right, so I would say we
hold it up about waist-high.
Right about-- that's good.
- Now, Jim, there you go.
- Here.
All right.
Sweep. There you go, good.
And keep sweeping--
it starts dropping off.
- Right?
- (meter whining)
TRAVIS: The TriField
meters are little RF radios
with a little antenna
just like your FM and AM radio
in your car
or at home or wherever.
It's a tuner.
Yep, it's dropping, so it's not
coming from that direction.
So, let's go the other way.
Rotate the other way now.
TRAVIS:
And this thing is set to listen
to, like,
all the channels at once
and just measure the signal.
It's coming from right at
where we saw that flash.
Keep coming around.
All right,
now it's dropped off again.
TRAVIS:
The interesting thing is
when we pointed the RF meter
in a certain direction
with the reflector behind it,
it maxed out.
That tells us kind of
the direction
the big fields are coming from.
I mean, it's coming
from that direction
where we saw that beam.
That's pretty significant
right there.
Well, it's at least concerning.
We're measuring nearly ten
milliwatts per meter squared.
TRAVIS: The microwave
spikes that we're reading
are getting on the level of
standing by the microwave
a few feet with the door open,
but it's still working.
That's dangerous levels.
Yeah, what was that beam
that we saw?
TRAVIS:
What was that beam?
There is something here,
on this ranch,
that's broadcasting microwaves
and at times,
reached powers that's like
a microwave oven.
And it's not Wi-Fi, it's not
- normal transmission.
- TRAVIS: It's not cell phones,
it's not-- yeah,
it's-it's something different.
All of this is real unusual.
That's To me, it's amazing.
(Thomas exhales)
TRAVIS:
Tom, you all right?
THOMAS:
My head is killing me.
- BRYANT: Is it?
- Yeah, right-right here.
- BRYANT: In that spot?
- In the exact same spot,
my head is-is hurting bad.
SEGALA:
Here, sit down.
THOMAS: It just-- it just,
it's just right here, like,
it's right-right here.
BRYANT:
That's not all right.
It's just throbbing.
- Like, that section right there.
- Is that-- is that the--
is that the pain?
SEGALA:
That's the exact same spot.
THOMAS: No,
it's not the same pain I felt,
- but it's, like, throbbing bad.
- It's the same spot, though.
Well, let's get you the heck
out of here, man.
I'm serious.
- Right now.
- Yep, yep, yep.
BRYANT:
Come on, dude.
- Let's go.
- Come on.
THOMAS:
Damn it.
BRYANT:
That's nothing to with.
TRAVIS: I'm extremely worried
about Thomas right now.
I have no idea how serious
this injury could be.
SEGALA: So, I wonder if
anybody else got affected.
TRAVIS:
I don't know.
They almost lost Thomas once
out here before I got here
and now I get here
and we do an experiment.
I would hate to think that
I did something that put him
in harm's way.
SEGALA:
Uh, this is serious, you know?
TRAVIS:
Yeah.
I was not expecting to get that
right at the end of the night.
SEGALA:
This could be life-threatening.
TRAVIS: He should he should go
to the emergency room, I think.
THOMAS: Just over a little
bit, like, right-right there.
- TRAVIS: Dragon? Tom? Where are you?
- BRYANT: Yeah.
He's in here.
THOMAS:
Right there.
THOMAS: Does it seem like
it's swelled up any?
It's a knot?
So, when-- out there,
it was right here,
and now it's just right here.
SEGALA:
Yep, there is,
there is that same fluid
from last time.
Dude, you need to go
get that checked right now.
I'm serious.
Like, right now.
SEGALA: I think you
should call your wife.
TRAVIS: He needs to be in the
car, right now,
on the way
to the emergency room.
TRAVIS:
We're not playing a game here.
This happened, we saw phenomena
and the same symptoms
are occurring
when it put him
in the hospital for a week,
and there's no reason for us
to talk about it any further.
(engine starts)
It's bizarre. I don't know
what to say about it. Bizarre.
Bizarre is not the word.
It's scary.
I think I should probably
call Brandon.
(line ringing)
BRYANT:
Hey, Brandon.
So, I've got Erik here with me.
It's kind of an urgent matter
I wanted to talk to you about
real quick.
So, as you know,
we had the team out last night.
We were finishing up
our last experiment,
and we started picking up
really heavy RF signals
and things like that
like we have previously.
And, uh, all of the sudden,
Tom Winterton
started saying
that he had a headache
and then reached back to the
spot on the back of his head
where he previously
had his serious injury
and said that he was
having pain there again.
I mean, it was apparent that
we really couldn't risk things.
So, Kaleb actually grabbed him
and drove him to the emergency
room to have more testing.
Yeah, dude, it has me
rattled as .
ERIK:
I think it is.
I want to understand what's
going on but not at the expense
of more episodes like this.
I don't know that we did
anything that would trigger it.
We shined lights on
the damn mesa, we did nothing
- Yeah.
- that would do it.
That's what kills me, Brandon.
I-I'm armed to the teeth
and I feel like I might as well
be carrying a flyswatter.
I don't-- I mean, it's-it's
beyond frustrating to me.
All I know
is that people are getting hurt
and we've got to figure out
why the hell that is happening.
I think that's a good idea.
I will. See you.
BRANDON: What we've learned
at Skinwalker Ranch
is if you don't
approach the ranch
with a degree of humility
and reverence and care,
bad things happen.
ERIK:
Did what happened to Tom happen
as a result of an experiment?
I think the right strategy
is to observe better.
BRYANT: The fact that Thomas
has suffered another injury
related to the one
that almost took his life,
it makes me put in question
if any of us
should even be here anymore.
TRAVIS: Before I came
here to Skinwalker Ranch,
I really didn't believe
the stories I'd heard.
UFOs, cattle mutilations,
shape-shifting animals
It all seemed too bizarre.
But now that I've been here
and seen things firsthand,
I can't shake the feeling
that something very strange
really is happening here.
What's causing it?
Where is it coming from?
I don't know.
But the bigger question
is this: is it dangerous?
It's making me think:
are we putting ourselves
at risk just being here?
BRANDON: I wanted to get
out here as soon as I could.
Lights on the mesa,
Tom's injuries--
these things are real.
BRYANT: Something's caused
so much interference
that a $35,000 drone couldn't
connect to its controls.
It means there's a transmitter
here somewhere.
Where is this transmitter?
I get my biggest readings
looking up.
TRAVIS:
It's coming from the sky.
TOM: In the basement,
there's a weird room.
What is that?
We need to see
what's really in there.
ERIK:
It could be human remains.
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