The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020) s01e06 Episode Script

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There is a bunch of energy,
and the source could be
under Skinwalker Ranch.
I'd like to know
what's in this thing.
- Don't lift it up.
- Mine's beeping.
- That's pretty high. - We were
just exposed to ionizing radiation.
We need to do
ground-penetrating radar
to see what's down there.
This looks like there's
something a thousand feet long.
We got to dig there.
Well, you're gonna have to get
Brandon to sign off on that.
Or it could halt it
in its tracks, Brandon.
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.
Hey, Tom. You copy?
Yeah, go ahead.
You've almost completely
cleared our view
- from that camera.
- Copy that.
Now that we've been
given the go-ahead from Brandon
to begin digging on the ranch,
we thought it'd be
a good idea to install
a lot more security cameras.
That way, if something
strange happens,
we have a better chance
of catching it in the act.
So, is that leveled up, Erik?
Uh, yes.
You've made a big difference.
If we need to adjust it,
we can, a little bit,
towards the bait pens.
So, can you move it
around, then?
Yeah, I'm pointing
at them right now.
- There you go.
- Okay, I've got them.
Bryant, do you copy?
Yeah, Erik. Go ahead.
How are you guys
doing out there?
We're doing good.
One more piece to install.
There's been unusual
activity on this property,
over the course of,
you know, days.
Radiation anomalies.
Look, it is going nuts.
It's coming from up there.
Unusual lights.
That's a definite beam.
It is clearly a beam
going across there.
We got something. Hold on.
- Look, look, look.
- What is that?
We saw a UFO over the property.
- Oh, there it is again!
- There it is again!
- It's still in the same spot!
- Right there.
We don't know why it occurs
or when it occurs.
It's not predictable.
Let's get as far
out on the end as we can.
So, it's helpful to have
constant monitoring in place.
Now we need the screws
and the drill.
Something that
may help us to pull back
the curtain on what
the phenomenology really is.
- Yeah, that is not gonna go anywhere, man.
- Sweet.
Okay, man,
we'll finish cleaning up here
and we'll head back in.
Yep, absolutely.
Thanks, guys.
32, 34, 36, 38.
I got 38.
You see any over in those trees?
- By the trees? Yeah.
- Yeah.
40, 41, 42.
All hanging out right here.
Kandus and I are caretakers
here on the ranch,
and one of the things that we do
is keep track of the cattle.
You know, because there has been
cattle mutilations
over the past few decades here.
All right. So, there's those.
We're the eyes and ears
of this place.
We're constantly looking up,
looking out, listening.
We do keep good notes
on each day that happens here.
Tom, Kandus? You copy?
Yep. Go ahead, Erik.
How are those cows doing?
Yeah, they're all accounted for.
They're all bunched up
in the corner.
They definitely like
this area in the trees here.
Oh, yeah, I see them.
They're all in one spot.
I mean, it's almost like
they're scared of something.
Very strange.
Cameras are helpful because
it gives us additional eyes,
so to speak, in places where
we can't be all the time.
It's like having
assistance 24/7.
I think between the three of us,
let's keep an eye on that.
It's absolutely important
to continue the work.
Of course,
with heightened vigilance.
Before we start
drilling, we want to do
one more sweep
of the target site.
Hopefully, there's no danger
of any of us getting sick.
There's Qal-Tek.
When the team requested
to proceed forward with digging,
to find out exactly what was
underground, I was hesitant.
We're always concerned
about disturbing the earth,
because we've seen
bad things happen.
- You guys remember Casey from Qal-Tek?
- Hey, guys.
We've had people
in the emergency room
with serious injuries that,
frankly, to this day,
remain unexplained.
So, uh, what do we got going on?
Well, we'd like you guys to do
another, uh, radiation sweep
down at Homestead Two, 'cause we
planned on drilling out there,
but Jim and I, and, uh,
and another guy were in there,
our meters went crazy,
and they had weird readings.
I- I got, uh, nauseous
and a headache
and I had some burns
come up on my body.
Really?
T- They formed blisters,
just like I'd been sunburned.
And my doctor looked at them
and he said, "It looks like
"when we do radiation treatment
on people,
that's the kind of burns
that you see."
Yeah, we want to definitely
double-check that area,
do a more thorough search
through there, make sure
that there isn't anything there,
make sure you guys are safe,
- so
- Well, let's grab the gear,
get in the two vehicles
and head out.
Sounds good.
I didn't want
to pull right in front,
'cause I want to stay
at least a little ways away
until Casey gets a chance to get
in there and poke around a bit.
And you can't send
someone in there alone,
- so I'm gonna be right behind you.
- Okay.
And you're trained
in understanding the effects
of this stuff,
so if you notice anything
- Yeah.
- get out of there, right?
- Yeah.
- After my previous visit
to Homestead Two,
I ended up with some
nasty radiation burns.
So I decided it's probably best
I keep my distance
until Jim and Casey can figure
out what's going on over there.
I mean, maybe Erik's right.
Maybe there is some kind
of powerful energy there
that's buried
somewhere deep underground.
All right, guys.
Y'all be careful in there,
watch each other's backs.
All right, sounds good.
- All right. - So right around the
corner here is where we started.
Okay.
We'll start in the back
where the, uh, cistern is.
Everything,
everything I'm seeing here
- is all just background.
- Pretty low?
Yeah. Just background. Nothing.
This is actually
the opposite of what we saw.
All these nails
over here, maybe?
- Nothing?
- Nothing.
- Okay.
- Nothing up on the roofs, nothing.
- Are you finding anything?
- Not at this point.
Nothing-Not at this point.
- Just-just normal background?
- Yep.
- I think, really
- You're not getting anything?
As we're looking around,
the readings that we took
using our instruments show
that it was below
what they would normally read,
and they didn't read
anything higher
than what we call
background noise.
Nope.
Just background.
Maybe we can come
focus over here more?
- Yep.
- Where the well is.
Is that the well, right there?
- Okay.
- One of the things that we did
is we took the top off,
and I'd like to do that again.
- Yep. - But after we kind of check
the area and do a little, uh, scan.
Okay.
- Nothing?
- Nothing. Just background.
Yep, that's just background.
This is interesting.
In the same spot where,
just last week,
I got hit by a huge spike
of ionizing radiation,
Casey and Jim are now
getting zero readings.
So, n-nothing but background?
Nothing but background.
At this point in
time, there's no radiation.
I mean, as far as what
my meters are-are seeing,
there's nothing there
at the moment.
You know how crazy that sounds,
though? "At this point in time"?
- It's
- I mean, that's becoming
the catchphrase
out here at the ranch.
"At this-
at this point in time."
I- It's almost like, you know,
the ranch is, like,
messing with us, you know?
We-we go in there and it's gonna
poke us this time.
And we-Let's go
right back and not-
That's how you make
people crazy.
We've done what we can.
You know, the fact that
there's not a constant source
of something that's harmful
makes me feel at least
a little bit better
- about poking a hole in the ground.
- Right.
It does clear that hurdle
of being able to come in
and see what's under us.
I agree. Well, let's load
our gear up and let's head out.
If there really is some kind
of massive object
or structure located
deep beneath Homestead Two,
then I'm eager to start drilling
so we can find it.
Could we be stirring up
a hornets' nest here? Sure.
But why would we want to walk
away now without any answers?
So, I guess we're
getting some new animals.
Alpacas, I think,
is what I think they are.
Is that the ones
that spit on you?
I think if you make 'em mad,
yeah, they'll spit on you.
Go ahead and open this.
We decided to see
if our drilling operation,
coupled with the introduction
of an exotic type of animal
would help trigger some kind
of strange
or unusual phenomenon.
So, Tom and Kandus arranged for
the delivery of two alpacas.
That's probably good.
That's a type of animal that,
as far as any of us know, has
never been on the ranch before.
- Hello, hello.
- Hey, Jim.
- Good to see you.
- You, too.
- So excited.
- I can see you,
- I can see you've already adopted 'em.
- Yes.
The idea of bringing alpacas
on the ranch was
just to introduce
a different animal.
Something that's never
been here,
something a little bit
more exotic than a cow.
I'm ready to rock and roll.
We thought
it would be interesting
to just see how they react
to the ranch
and how the ranch reacts
to them.
We can put 'em in
this corner pen for now.
We're going to
corral them to start with,
in a smaller space so they can
get more comfortable
to the bigger scope of things,
where we can
maybe eventually let them out
in the pasture.
Just watch out
for their back legs,
'cause they will kick sometimes
if they're scared.
- Kandus, do it.
- Okay.
Hi. Come here.
It's okay, buddy.
Hey, come out. Oh, so sweet.
Come here.
- Okay, just watch his legs.
- There we go.
There we go.
Welcome. Oh, they're so sweet.
We ended up with the alpacas
because they have
very good eyesight,
very good hearing,
and are always aware
of what's going on around them.
- Come on.
- Hopefully they'll react
if they see something
out of the ordinary.
Welcome. This is where
you're gonna live.
But the only thing is,
they're not known
to be very vocal.
So, which one is, uh, Lionel?
The, the chocolate brown, yeah.
- Jed is the lighter one.
- Yeah, he's the blonde. He's four.
And then Lionel's ten.
I got my degree in anthropology.
Which is really the study
of behavior.
So, Tom and I,
being part of this whole team,
we're hoping that
it sheds light on things
we hadn't ever really looked
into before, researching-wise.
They seem to like okay here.
They're doing-yeah,
and their ears are telling, too,
when they stand up.
I like the idea
of introducing
new types of animals
to the property in order to see
if that will stimulate
different types of interactions
with the phenomena.
And it's something that will
hopefully bring new insight.
- They look like they're pretty
comfortable. - Yeah.
People think we're crazy
to want to live out here,
because of the history.
I would like to see
some of these things
people have explained
and described,
'cause I think it's fascinating.
So,
you guys gonna keep a close eye?
Yeah,
it'll be interesting to see
if the ranch changes,
or if, you know, if they pick up
on anything different.
My goal is
to experience this place
and to understand this place.
And hope that
I can see something, too.
- Okay. - Okay. Good job.
- All right.
- We good?
- Yeah.
Uncle Jim.
- Hey, guys, how you doing?
- How are you, brother?
It's always good to see you.
Want to introduce you
to a very close friend
and confidant here.
Uh, this is Larry Cesspooch.
- Larry, I'm Bryant.
- Hi, how's it going?
- Hey. Travis Taylor.
- Glad to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hey, guys, let's have a seat.
Larry Cesspooch
is a local Ute leader.
He's very spiritually in touch
with what we've got here
on Skinwalker.
You know, there's
a lot of people
that profess to be
spiritual leaders,
but Larry has a really
true perspective on this area.
You know, this is home to him.
Skinwalker Ranch is pretty
much surrounded on all sides
by members of the Ute tribe.
These are people
who are very familiar
with all the strange
UFO activity that happens here.
Now, because I'm a scientist,
you'd think I wouldn't be open
to spiritualism
or the so-called paranormal,
but I think it's important
that we examine
all the possibilities,
even the ones that offer
more mystical explanations.
You know, it's interesting.
I've been on the property
since the current ownership
purchased the place.
And, you know,
everybody seems to experience
things, and sometimes
not the nicest things.
It's a very powerful place.
Our people, the Ute people,
were through Colorado and Utah,
and generations have talked
about things
that have happened in this area,
and our people have accepted it
as just part of this universe.
And so, just as there's white,
there's black, and good and bad,
and all of that.
So, I appreciate hearing that.
So, I'd like to kind of get
your perspective on something.
Sure.
It's kind of awe-inspiring
and-and awe-striking to me
when I stand out here
in the middle of the field,
I realize I'm standing
inside a big bowl.
I wonder if this is kind of
like a collector
of whatever's going on here.
Maybe that's why it's here.
I think it's more
like a funnel
where everything
comes to a point.
And so
I don't know if you want
to call it a portal?
A lot of people
have called it that.
Where in your mind do you fit
something like that
as far as an explanation?
- Oh, yeah, I
- I'm just curious. Someone like yourself.
I have no doubt that it's,
uh, from something
not of this earth.
- Okay.
- Historically,
is there tribal history
that says that there were things
that they saw here?
Yeah.
Our people, in Ute,
what people call skinwalkers,
we call that
"ya-go-ven-sin-ite,"
which means "coyote-like."
Have you ever seen one?
I haven't seen one,
but I've had many people tell me
about what they've seen.
When I was in high school,
we came and we hauled hay
for this old couple,
and it was this field
right here.
They had these big dogs,
and they had a bunch
of dead bolts on their door.
And so I asked 'em,
uh, "What's the dead bolts
and the dogs for?"
And they said,
"Well, things come at night."
Skinwalker Ranch really
derived its name from a curse.
The skinwalker curse
has its roots in a feud
between the Ute tribe
and the Navajo tribe.
At a time when the Utes
were really aligned
with the United States
government
and had sold many of their peers
into slavery.
So, the Navajo
cursed this property.
A skinwalker
is essentially a witch
that has chosen
to put on the skin,
essentially, or the form
of what can only be described
as a giant wolf.
A skinwalker is something
that exhibits
superhuman agility and strength.
Placing the skinwalker curse
on this property
made it a very real place
to avoid.
We've heard all these stories
that if you dig on this ranch,
bad things might happen
to the people
that do the digging.
So, there's a space down here
that we've got instruments
that say there might be
something underground,
but the only way to know
is to drill.
We want to do it safely,
and we certainly don't want
- to do something that's-that's dangerous.
- Right, right.
But we'd love to get
your perspective on it.
Well, normally when
we, we do anything
to disturb the earth,
we usually lay down
the blessing.
'Cause I don't want
to tap into something
- that isn't meant to be tapped into.
- Amen!
That's been my whole contention
the entire time.
Let's put it this way.
- Let's go and see.
- I would love that.
That'd be great.
Well, why don't
we head out there and look?
Let's go for it.
It's a vast property.
How many acres?
- About 512 total.
- Oh, wow.
- I didn't realize it was that big.
- You know,
it goes quite a ways south.
Larry Cesspooch
performing a Ute tribal blessing
at the drill site
might help calm the anxiety
that some of the guys have
about disturbing the ground
on the ranch.
And who knows? Maybe it will
really help keep us safe.
As you can tell, this is one
of the old dwellings here.
We call it Homestead Two.
This is an area
where people have had
various experiences.
I'll leave it at that.
So, if we decide to dig,
it's gonna be
along this roadway,
where we detected anomalies
under the ground.
We don't know what it is,
we just know
it's something different
than the rest
of the dirt around,
- under the ground here.
- Right.
I, I will lay some tobacco.
I will ask for understanding
that no one be hurt or affected.
- We'll listen with reverence.
- Sure.
Okay.
- Wow.
- Thank you very much for that.
We appreciate you helping us
with that.
Yeah, I would hope that you
all would have been praying with me,
'cause you're the ones
who's gonna do it.
And if it's something
that, uh, we shouldn't touch
or tap into,
your instruments,
your machinery,
will malfunction.
And just take that as a sign
that it's not good.
Just leave it at that.
Can't tell you how much
I appreciate everything.
Yeah,
he's been trying to tell us no,
- and, and I think this, this helps.
- Right.
- Thank you so much.
- Thanks for having me, yeah.
Great to meet you, Larry.
Thank you.
The rig operator said
that his rig's 12 foot tall.
And so we're just gonna whack
these branches off.
Today is a day without
precedent on Skinwalker Ranch.
We're drilling into the ground
after having done
ground-penetrating radar surveys
near Homestead Two.
That's perfect.
We're told
that some kind of misfortune
often accompanies digging.
We don't assume
that there's a danger,
but we also don't assume
that there isn't.
In my opinion,
we're ready to dig.
We have the right personnel.
We hired the right consultants.
We're well protected.
We're ready to get out of there
if anything bad happens,
so we're ready to go.
That's a pretty big drill.
Yeah, this is
on Brandon's mandate.
It certainly wasn't mine.
It's gonna be all right, Dragon.
I still have some reservations
about digging or drilling
on the property.
A lot of the activity associated
with digging on the ranch
isn't necessarily what you're
gonna pull out of the ground
- How we doing?
- but what may happen
when you do disturb the earth.
- You guys are ready to do some work, huh?
- Yeah.
I guess we'll
have you come on in, then.
Ground-penetrating radar said
there's something under
the road that's anomalous,
and the only way
to get down there
and look at it is to dig a hole.
So that's what
we're going to do.
Hey, guys. I'm Thomas.
I'm the ranch
superintendent here.
- Jeremy.
- Hey, Jeremy.
So, what we found, guys, is-
we did ground-penetrating radar
on-along the roadway here,
and so there's something
along this stretch
from about where we are
on past that homestead,
probably 50 feet or so.
We've had some-I don't want
to call 'em issues-
but some events,
where there might have been
some radioactive
decay particles.
There might have been
some toxic chemicals.
So we'd like to go small
distances, like a few feet,
measure it with equipment
that Casey brought,
and then, then when it's clear,
do the next few feet
and-and make sure that we're not
getting anybody in any situation
- we don't want to be in, right?
- Sure.
The first hole
we're gonna drill today
will be at the far end
of Homestead Two.
Now, Jeremy Lebeau has been
instructed to go easy,
in case we hit something
really dangerous.
We're drilling today
with hollow-stem augers.
They're hollow in the middle.
That allows us to go down
through the middle
with our sampler.
We'd bring up the sample,
look inside of it,
and you can do whatever readings
you need to do at that point.
And that would be
before we drill down
- and really disturb it.
- Yeah, I like that.
Well, let's get him located
- where we want to plunge that first hole.
- Yeah.
Let's get you situated to
measure whatever they pull up
- from that, right?
- Correct. Correct.
- You want it right there?
- Yep.
Right in the middle
of the road, right there.
Unusual things happen
out at Homestead Two.
It's undeniable.
There's talk about things
being buried here.
There are rumors that there is
some kind of alien activity
beneath this property,
and here we are,
at that very spot,
ready to start exploring
what's beneath the ground,
but we really don't know
what we're going to find.
So, guys,
before you drill, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna remove myself.
- Keep us posted on how you're doing.
- All right.
Okay.
My rational mind says
that there's no problem
digging on the ranch.
My experience makes me
very superstitious.
I didn't believe
in the paranormal
when I came out on this ranch.
It wasn't until my injury
that I really bought
into the whole notion
of digging.
We can check for radiation
or gases that come out,
but show me the scientific meter
that can pick up bad spirits
or bad energies.
And until we have that,
we can't say
that we can monitor
for every bad thing
that could possibly
be coming out of the earth.
Here we go.
So, is this the core sample now?
Yep. He's getting a sample.
Oh, so you're getting dirt
before you even drill.
- That's right.
- Oh, that's sweet.
The drilling just facilitates,
to get to the depth to sample.
There are a couple of reasons
why we don't just bring
excavation equipment out
and just dig the whole ranch up.
Number one, we're not sure
what's down there.
And so, it's safer to do
core samples first.
When we pull the core sample up
and we look at it,
the first thing we're doing
is having Casey
check it
for radioactive material.
There's no radiation
or anything in there?
- Right, Casey?
- Nothing there. Got nothing.
So we can keep moving.
I have no preconceived ideas
of what it is we're gonna hit.
All I know is, it's something
different than the regular dirt?
Well, that's kind of
what we're good at, is
Usually, it's for
engineering purposes,
but we look for anomalies,
things that are there
that shouldn't be there.
- Right.
- Disturbed earth, stuff like that.
We are all kind of apprehensive.
GPR showed that there's
something down there,
but what it is, we don't know.
Is it possible
that these strange objects
that we're seeing is
the source of the radiation
that caused the injury
to Thomas?
Caused the injury to Travis?
So, if we do find
something that shows
dangerous radiation levels,
that's the end
of this investigation.
- Anything?
- Nothing.
Nothing. All right,
let's go get the next one.
Are you getting something?
- No.
- Just normal background?
- Yeah.
- All right. Well, let's bag it
and let's move on
to the next one.
So, this next sample
should be right there.
So,
they're hitting something hard now.
Man, they're on something.
I hear a pinging sound.
You hear that?
Sound metallic?
We're right now at
about 17.
This is at the right depth.
That whole thing's shaking.
So, they're hitting
something hard now.
Man, they're on something.
As we move closer
to the, uh, GPR anomaly,
the core drilling bit
is hitting something,
and it's chattering like crazy,
like it's hitting
something really hard.
I hear a pinging sound.
You hear that?
Sound metallic?
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.
It's just too hard.
We're not going anywhere.
W-We can't go any deeper.
The drill rig's done.
We're gonna break a bit,
shear a pin, do something bad,
do some damage.
Can we look at the bit
when you pull it up,
and maybe see
if there's anything
on the end of it
- that-that makes sense.
- Sure.
The fact that the drill bit
is hitting something
that can't be penetrated
has gotten us all excited
but also a little bit nervous.
I mean, hey, what if some of
the rumors I've heard are true,
and there really is some kind of
alien object underneath there?
- What do you got?
- That was in the middle of it.
Okay, check that,
check that with the meter,
make sure it's not radioactive
or anything.
- Got nothing.
- So, this is siltstone.
Siltstone is
just a type of bedrock
that we have around here.
It's made of silt
rather than sand.
But this doesn't seem
like it adds up
to what we were thinking,
possibly.
I mean, so
But it doesn't look sinister.
No, it doesn't look
Or man-made.
All right,
so I would say we move on.
- Move on.
- Yeah, I think so.
I think somewhere right
in front of the homestead.
This is the one that makes me
a little bit nervous,
just because of the history
of what has happened
at the old homestead,
what happened with you
and other people.
You know, I want to cautiously
keep an eye on this one
for sure.
Oh, I-I agree.
One of y'all just get
on one end of this table
and we'll just walk
with this thing.
Even though
we didn't find anything
at our first drill site,
we're gonna move
to another place,
right in front of Homestead Two.
A little more. All right.
About there is good.
Thank you, man.
At least the trees cooperated.
This is the one that,
if we find radiation gradients
or increases of radiation,
- this is where it's gonna happen.
- Agreed.
We all know there's been a lot
of injuries on Skinwalker Ranch
based upon what we perceived
to be ionizing radiation.
We call that "gamma radiation"
for a short term.
Right over there is where my,
uh, dosimeter went off
and I got exposed to radiation.
So, we were looking to see
if we can measure
ionizing or gamma radiation
in the soil,
which would then give us some
information to go back and say
why these people
are getting hurt.
Well, maybe this will be
"X" marks the spot.
That's where I put the "X"
on the GPR
and said that's where
we should dig.
Look at that.
The whole power line's wobbling.
Why is that rocking like that?
The wire's going nuts.
It was violent.
- Look, there-all the way down there.
- Look, it's
- Oh!
- Holy sh
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Just then, something made
the utility pole nearby shake,
like we were having
an earthquake.
Somebody messing with that wire?
- Who would be there?
- I don't know!
They stopped shaking.
That is really weird.
That's crazy.
That was strange. I mean,
maybe Tom and Dragon were right.
Maybe we shouldn't have
drilled here on the ranch.
Just for one
other safety measure,
I'm gonna walk with Erik,
we'll go in there,
see if this thing
goes off or else
And you've got
the Geiger counter, right?
I mean, I don't love being
a human radiation detector,
but I'd rather us pick it up
before we get any further along.
- Just get out quick if it
- I want to go to the exact same spot
where you experienced
what you did.
- It was at the corner over there, right?
- I know, I know.
- All right.
- Let us know what you find, guys.
- Okay.
- Will do.
I think what we're finding
is that there isn't
a radioactive source
underneath us
that's permanent, anyway.
Yep.
That just looks like fill dirt.
I mean, that's just mud,
is all that is.
That's like, that's like it
has just been put there
not long ago because
they were making a road.
So, I guess our premise is that
if anything that we're doing
out there on the road stirs up
activity, we'll see it on one
- or more of these devices.
- Yeah.
Right now it looks like
it's just that typical range.
Listen to that bit chatter.
There it is.
Boy, that thing sounds like
it's hitting something hard.
Yeah, what the heck is it?
Should we go
out and look at that,
or do you want to poke around
here a little bit more?
Maybe we head over
and take a peek.
Yeah, let's go see.
Boy, that thing is not moving.
Yeah.
That thing's sounding like
it's working way harder.
Yeah. We hit a hard layer.
It was soft,
and then, all of a sudden, boom.
Yeah, there's some kind
of natural layer, I think,
that's about this thick or so.
That's what we were seeing
in the GPR.
Ooh, wow. Look at that.
Oh.
I don't see anything crazy.
Just more dirt.
We're at 29 feet, and that's
just kind of normal dirt
at this point.
Normal clay,
whatever you call that.
- I got a big question for you.
- Mm-hmm
What do you think about
digging on the ranch now?
It's kind of a complicated
answer from my standpoint.
I'm happy-the fact that we
didn't pick up any radiation
or any dangerous things, based
on the equipment we have
coming out of the ground.
But if you look at the lore,
or the stories passed down,
or the reports,
stuff doesn't always
happen immediately
when you dig on the ranch.
It can take time.
Just because we didn't
find anything today
with the drilling process,
that doesn't mean that
things aren't gonna happen
as a result of us drilling.
I hear you.
I and I agree it doesn't
give us carte blanche
to just go digging willy-nilly.
But maybe it's gonna
help us say,
"Look, digging may not
necessarily be
such a heebie-jeebie thing
that, that people think it is."
Dr. Duncan?
Been better, but, uh,
I think you're here
to help out with that, right?
Well, hopefully.
He's, uh, right over here.
So, has he been down ever since,
or has he?
No, he's-he's been
up and around.
He was down a lot
at the beginning.
I woke up this morning
to this screaming sound
that I wasn't familiar with.
The alpacas were under
some sort of distress.
Came to find out one of 'em
was under attack.
Well,
let's see if we can get ahold of him.
The alpacas were in a
great degree of distress,
based on this screaming sound
that we hadn't heard before.
I run into the pen,
and this pack of animals is
just chomping on this alpaca.
You're all right.
They looked like
dogs, but they varied in size.
Like a whole group of something
eating him alive.
Like, that's what
it looked like.
There were a group of animals
just eating him.
It looks bad.
And there was one
animal in particular
that did not move off the alpaca
when I ran into the corral.
It took me picking up a stick
and chucking it at him
to even get him out
of the corral.
Very aggressive.
Very aggressive animal.
So, will you
cauterize the wound?
I'm just glad he's alive.
I didn't know what
you were gonna find.
Yeah.
So, Dr. Duncan,
are you from here?
Okay. Yeah.
Are you familiar
with this property?
Okay. They had some
crazy things that happened.
You know,
they had some stories about big animals
that they saw.
They didn't know what they were.
They had cattle mutilations.
Seen any of those?
The Sherman family bought
the property in the early '90s.
They experienced everything
from UFO sightings
to countless cattle mutilations
of a very disturbing nature.
They had beasts
or entities
that could only be described as
the skinwalkers of old.
These giant, wolf-like creatures
that would appear to them.
They were terrorized.
That's part of what
motivated them
to sell the property.
Okay.
He's good to go?
Okay.
Yeah, well, thank you so much
for coming out.
Although we hoped that
the presence of the alpacas,
coupled with our digging,
might trigger
some strange phenomena,
we thought the pen
we had them in
would protect them from harm.
After what happened, we decided
to take them off the ranch
and move them to a safer place.
- I'll take some of that for you.
- Yeah.
And, uh,
the attack might even be on video here.
I bet we might have something.
You know, it might be
a good idea for you guys just to
- go follow up.
- Yeah.
We got to do everything
we can do to prevent
anything like this
from happening again.
You know, the only thing I can
put my mind to is it's a dog,
- but it's a big dog.
- No.
I think you could see
the way he moved and the color.
Yeah, it's hard to say
exactly what,
you know, bit them.
It was wretched.
We were just
watching some footage.
Obviously, there's nothing
going on.
- These guys are just chilling.
- They're fine. Just hanging out.
Well, the unfortunate thing is,
this camera
went down not too long after
what we're looking at right now.
- Oh, really?
- Yeah.
Are there any other cameras that
might have picked up anything?
Um, yes.
We have the camera that was
on Travis's trailer
looking back towards the corral.
- Okay.
- Let me bring this up.
Oh, God.
So they're already under attack.
We see them running around.
Yeah. Unfortunately,
we don't have a great view.
Okay, so you can see
something in that pen.
- Yeah, there is something
- What is that? - Oh, yeah.
- But that thing is in between them.
- That is a big animal in there.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Oh, gosh, it's chasing them
in circles.
Okay, so what, um
Something is in there
chasing and grabbing
- Can we see that again?
- Maybe they showed up-I don't
Yeah.
Oh, there.
Right there, that's
- When the first bite happened.
- Yeah.
Let's take a look again.
So, this is an animal
that doesn't hesitate
to attack not one
but two animals
that are as much as maybe
185, 200 pounds.
Watch the footage up there,
and you can almost see something
grabbing onto it right about
Oh, right there. Yeah.
That's when you really
see whatever that is pounce.
I want to back this up
and review it again carefully.
- Yeah.
- Oh
Oh, right there. Oh.
You know what's crazy
about that is,
you would think if it was just
normal animals,
- you'd come running out and,
you know, they'd scatter. - Yeah.
I'm really glad that,
whatever it was, it didn't
turn on you guys.
Could have been
much, much worse.
Yeah. Absolutely.
I felt a lot of
responsibility for these alpacas.
I like to learn
from my mistakes, and so
we're going to move them
to a much more secure location
and prevent anything like this
from happening again.
This is something that
we can monitor, we can data-log
and be on the lookout
for suspicious activity
as, perhaps, more of
our animals may be subjected
to whatever it was.
It was horrible to
hear those alpacas screaming
and know who was in trouble
but not know what was
causing the harm.
I don't know what was
in that pen with them.
I just know something was,
and it was bad.
With all of its beauty
and stunning landscapes,
Skinwalker Ranch, at its heart,
is truly a mysterious,
haunting place.
And I don't believe it's
a coincidence that we see
such disturbing events
happening on this property.
What is at work?
I want to get to the bottom
of that.
There's a helicopter coming in.
That dude's hovering
right there.
I think somebody's watching us
right now.
There's something going on
out here.
What in the world?
It's just dead.
- Get that over there.
- The meter's going nuts.
All the frequencies are excited.
Mankind doesn't
know how to do that.
We're dealing with something
that doesn't want us
to understand.
There's something
happening here.
The cow reacted
the moment that
that object appeared.
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