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[narrator] Previously on Blind Frog Ranch...

[bleep] Holy [bleep].

What'd you find?

[narrator] The team found gold ingots near the bead site...

Finally get to hold [bleep] gold in my hands.

...which led them on a hunt for the Lost Roads mine.

One, two, three, four.

There's a path here, Ryan.

Just keep following that [bleep] to the cave.

Where they uncovered a collapsed mine tunnel

leading back toward Blind Frog Ranch

and the Keyhole Cavern.

-It's going down that way. -Yeah, to the south.

Right towards Blind Frog.

This is just one of seven entrances.

These caverns could be all connected.

[narrator] But new trespasser activity posed a dangerous threat

-to the ranch. -What the [bleep]?

Look how big this is, man.

It's a fresh dig.

They're coming in at night when we're not here.

This is dynamite, boys.

They're blowing [bleep] fire.

[narrator] And pushed Duane to take matters into his own hands.

This [bleep] ends now.

It ends [bleep] now.

Picking up movement coming across the creek.

Can you send that drone up? I'm getting a hit on camera number six.

-Trail cam. -Got some trespassers on foot

coming onto the property.

If they're there, we'll find them.

That's gonna be...

-There we go. -Oh, wow.

So we're looking for heat signatures.

Yeah, if it's real light, it's hotter.

[narrator] Determined to put a stop to the poachers digging on the ranch,

the team conducts a stakeout,

waiting until nightfall to intercept them.

And look for something moving around.

Chad has launched an infrared drone to find

the exact location of the trespassers on the property.

Right there.

Nope.

Those are deer.

It's camera number six, so it'll be all the way up there.

[Chad] Where are these [bleep]?

-Right there. -Right there.

[bleep] Charlie, you're right.

There's someone right here.

Down there? How many?

Two. I see two.

-Let's go down. -All right.

We're going down there.

They're on the south side. Go further south on the creek.

[Charlie] Okay.

I'll turn the lights on with the drone.

-Yep, look at them moving right there. -Yeah.

Little [bleep].

Yeah.

They froze up. I guess they can hear the drone, maybe?

Oh, [bleep]. Oh, they're running now.

-Charlie boy, they haul ass. -Yeah.

[Chad] They must know we're following them.

They're headed down towards the creek.

[shouting indistinctly]

-Two males? -Yes.

One has a backpack.

One's carrying something. Look at that.

He's carrying something.

[all clamoring]

They're splitting up.

Oh, this [bleep] trying to hide.

I'm gonna switch to visible spectrum.

[laughs]

[bleep] what's this, man?

Got you [bleep].

The drone did its job. I think we scared them enough.

They were moving pretty quick.

Charlie, boy, they're back to BLM landing.

Hopefully, they're gonna think twice before coming onto the property again.

Damn, that works pretty good.

Oh, [bleep], you should see 'em on this.

Really?

Two guys were over there hiding in these bushes,

and were following the whole way,

and they were even trying to hide under trees and [bleep].

I mean, 400 foot, you could see exactly

the two guys right there.

The heat sensors just, like, blared out.

There was no way they could hide with that.

No way at all.

[Chad] Yeah, then we went to normal camera with the light.

You could see who they were.

[Duane] Really? You get pictures of it?

[Chad] Yeah, I got a video of it.

[Duane] Hell, I want to take that picture with me to the court.

They were moving pretty quick when I saw them.

They were all [bleep].

[Duane] Good work, fellas.

[narrator] After obtaining drone footage of the poachers

illegally trespassing, Duane is in Salt Lake City

for a court appearance.

So right now, we're outside of my lawyer's office

at Salt Lake City,

bringing the lawsuit against these poachers

and their phony mining claims.

And if we win, they won't be able to dig

anywhere in the state of Utah.

I think I've been...

been played for a long time,

and now we're gonna get to see the truth coming out,

and so, we're ready to go to war.

And I don't like coming to the big city

to get your [bleep] figured out,

but, you know, we're here,

and I hope I dress good enough.

Let's do this, Bill.

I don't want to celebrate too much,

but, you know, that went way better than I expected.

These poachers, they've been slithering around

on our land, and they don't get to do that anymore.

[narrator] Though cameras were not allowed in the building,

the court determined that the poachers

had been digging on Duane's land illegally

and were found guilty of using a false mining claim.

Not only must they vacate the area immediately,

the impending sentencing hearing could lead to jail time.

They'll do anything to kind of see if you drop

your guard and maybe just give up and then they win,

but they don't get to do that this time.

These people are trying to take over the land

and get the gold.

[Charlie] Got a lot of cleanup to do.

There's a huge hole they've dug right here.

More back over there.

[narrator] Now that the poachers are barred from the ranch,

Charlie has to work on closing the dig sites

and removing what was left behind.

Look at all this crap, this bogus-ass fake [bleep].

That must have been the shoring that they were gonna be using.

Trespassing sign. We didn't put that up.

That's something they put up, like they own this place.

This goddamn mess is all it is.

You know, this is [bleep].

And this is how they were sneaking on, was right here.

You can get side-by-sides down here,

four-wheelers, which they had.

With all this brush down here, they can actually work

down here and be unseen.

Nobody even know they're even here.

They've got caution tape down here.

That's fresh.

It almost looks like...

So this is kind of flattened out a little bit.

Looks like something's been coming through here.

I don't know what it is, but...

I'm looking for tracks just to see if I can get

an idea of what it is, but I don't see any tracks.

What the hell is that?

[bleep]

It's a big-ass deer.

This thing has not been shot, so it's not done by a hunter.

This neck is snapped.

Snapped right there.

It's still soft.

That's weird right there.

I've never seen blue skin like that before.

I've been tracking and hunting my entire life,

and I've never seen skin color like that.

Something that killed this, I don't know what the hell it is.

Got like a wet slime on it.

Got a broken neck. What the hell is this?

What the [bleep]?

It's a [bleep] tooth.

Whatever snapped the neck when it bit into it,

it lost a tooth.

That's not a bear's tooth. That's not a mountain lion's tooth.

I don't know what the hell that is.

You know, I've seen a lot of mountain lion kills and, uh...

this ain't no mountain lion, I can tell you that.

It's something different. It's not a bear.

There's no more bite marks anywhere that I can see.

There are no claw marks, no tracks, no bullet holes,

so I can't tell you what it is.

I have no answers for it.

Holy [bleep]. Look at this.

There's a drag mark right in through there.

Seeing drug down here?

Look at these trail marks. Ponds right over here.

Beaver ponds are down here.

And this thing comes right off the road right here.

[bleep]

Something got drug through here,

but there is no footprints whatsoever.

I got to get up to guys and let them know what I found on this.

Because that's a risk, having an unknown predator

on the property.

None of this makes a lick of sense.

-Hey. -I found something y'all gotta see.

I found a fresh deer kill.

-His neck was broken. -[bleep]

His tooth was in his neck.

What's that?

That's like a [bleep] fang of some kind.

That's like a fang, yeah.

You ever seen a tooth like this?

I could see the very end of that tooth inside the deer neck,

so I dug it out.

-Damn. -But the neck was just snapped.

There was no other marks anywhere on it.

The skin on the deer was blue,

like it had been suffocated or strangled or something.

How old did the deer carcass look?

-Was it a fresh kill? -A fresh kill. Yeah.

So we have something roaming around out here that...

I think it's coming down in here into the beaver ponds to feed.

-The deer are up and down this creek. -Yeah.

This'll sound weird, but I don't think that's a mammal tooth.

That looks like a fang to be some sort of large snake.

Well, how big a snake could kill a [bleep] deer, though?

Damn.

[narrator] Of the 31 known species of snakes in Utah,

none are known to exceed six feet in length.

While the native kingsnake is one of the strongest

constrictors on the planet,

their size prevents them from being capable

of killing prey as large as deer.

[sighs]

-Hey, gents. -What's going on?

Hey.

-How'd it go? -Good, good.

They got their [bleep] shut down.

You know, the lawyer's got a cease and desist

on these poachers, so it's all good.

I'm telling you, there's some lying sumbitches,

so we're going to wrap this whole thing around their neck.

-Hell, yeah. -We needed that.

That doesn't solve all the problems,

but it helps us to move forward, so.

Well, we got another problem.

What's that?

I found a fresh kill, deer.

Neck was broken.

I dug that out of the neck of the deer.

-No [bleep]. -It's a fang.

It could have been the [bleep] tooth of that snake.

The one that Charlie took a picture of by the pond.

[narrator] A few days ago, while patrolling the property,

Charlie photographed some sort of animal in Beaver Creek Pond.

You know, I was patrolling the property

this morning, right down there,

and these weeds sounded like water movement,

and I was able to grab my phone, and this is what I got.

[Chad] What the hell is that?

But that's a huge serpent-looking thing,

but it's got scales like an alligator would all along its back,

but that's only about 12 to 13 feet sticking out of the water.

The other half is diving straight down.

-Mmm. -Same area, right down the creek there.

I found drag marks, too, coming down the hill.

Holy [bleep].

-That's getting wild as hell. -Yeah.

The drag marks, that wide.

-Well, we've seen it before. -Yeah.

It looks like they were pulling something huge out of the pond.

Right here. Look at this [bleep], Charlie. Right here.

Right to the beaver ponds.

-I always wondered what it was. -That's a big snake.

It's bad as hell. That's worse than [bleep] poachers.

It's out there killing large deer.

That was a 200-pound deer. It was a big deer.

And it just snapped its neck like nothing.

-Didn't he saw it or anything? -Nothing, no.

It's down in there somewhere.

Safety-wise, I'm gonna say let's stay out of there.

I know a guy that could damn sure figure this deal out.

Emery Smith, he's on the board of Stanford.

He can get some DNA off that deal.

Hell, he can tell us what the [bleep] it is.

You know, we'll bring in Emery to find out

what the hell is going on here,

but right now, you know, we got to get back to drilling.

-Yeah. -We got to.

We should probably head back up to Mosby's sink

and see if it's dry.

If it's dry up there, it's going to be dry down here.

Yeah.

Why don't you and I grab Skinner,

some packs, and hike up there,

and hopefully we can get back to drilling.

Sounds good. Let's go get him.

Yeah.

[Chad] What the [bleep]? What kind of hair is that?

Bigfoot hair.

Oh, he's rubbing in the tree, maybe?

Uh, maybe it's just deer shed.

[narrator] Chad, James, and Ryan are on their way to Mosby Sink,

a giant hole in the Uinta Mountains

that channels snowmelt to Blind Frog Ranch.

That's a lot of water.

Recent flooding on the ranch was fed underground

by water from the sink.

So Ryan, James, and I are going to check out

the water flow, see if it's gone down any,

and see if we still have a huge flow going under the ranch.

If the water's gone down, we can drill the energy zone then.

-Oh, yeah, right through there, isn't it? -Yeah.

I don't hear anything.

Look at this.

Before, you could hear the water rushing from 500 feet away.

There's no creek at all so far.

The water volume has got to have decreased considerably.

I'll just see if I can get down there.

It's tight, but maybe I can squeeze through.

Yeah, grab that little camera for me.

Yeah, I'll go grab it.

Just enough room for a human.

Does it still look dry?

Uh... Oh.

Oh, yeah, it looks completely dry.

I don't hear any water running. Nothing.

Yeah, well, this is great, though,

so this means underneath the ranch is dried up, too.

Yeah. Do you need help?

-Uh... -Come down and grab that [bleep].

All right, let's get the hell out of here.

That's great.

All that water in Mosby's sink affects the water level

that's underneath the Blind Frog Ranch.

And fortunately, there is no more water in Mosby's sink.

It looks like we're good to go on drilling again

at the energy zone.

All right, let's drill [bleep].

- [narrator] Coming up... -We're gonna take the rat hole rig

right down to this ravine.

If he slips, it's dangerous.

Here we go.

That'll make these [bleep] pucker up.

Tell him to take that to himself low idle.

He can drill faster than that.

Yo, Oscar, can you speed that thing up?

Yeah, boy!

We're starting to see some storm clouds.

We got a [bleep] 100-foot lightning rod sticking up.

[thunderclap]

Emery!

Duane!

Charlie, how are you guys doing?

-Doing great. Good seeing you. -Good.

Oh, my gosh.

I'm glad you called me.

[narrator] Dwayne has asked Emery Smith, a biomedical investigator

and a former scientist for the U.S. Air Force,

to examine the deer carcass Charlie discovered.

I want you to know we don't have a clue what's going on.

My name is Emery Smith. I'm a clinical specialist in regenerative medicine,

exobiology and hematology.

Now, I've been classifying different types of genetic anomalies.

For 30 years, I've identified over 3,000 different types of species.

But you said there was a carcass.

-It's about a 200 pound doe. -All right.

And... [clears throat] whatever this thing was,

it just snapped its neck.

There's no other bite marks on it anywhere.

[Emery] Yeah, I'd like to take a look at that.

It's a big boa or whatever it is...

And it's coming out of the pond and it left tracks.

-Why don't you guys show me this body? -[Duane] Let's go.

-All right. -[Charlie] Let's do it.

There it is, right there.

[Emery] Well, I'll be...

There's no bite marks on it anywhere,

-but that neck is snapped right into half. -Yeah.

-Yeah, it's twisted all the way around. -[Charlie] Yeah.

-And there was this slime... -[Emery] Uh-huh.

-...like a slime all over it. -Yeah?

And I felt like a... a lump in the neck.

That's where I dug that tooth out of it.

Well, I think, I should definitely take that

-with a sample. -Looks more like a fang than anything.

[Emery] Well, a fang would've had a channel for venom.

That looks like a conical tooth to me.

Multiple spinal fractures.

-It's green. -[Charlie] Yeah.

And what would cause it to turn green like that?

[Emery] This is plasma.

Without blood cells, you get this weird plasma green effect.

Somehow the blood separated.

That's not normal.

How long has it been, Charlie?

It had to have happened last night

'cause the body was actually still warm.

Hmm. This just happened 24 hours ago.

There's definitely something accelerating the decomposition of this animal.

That's not how they deteriorate. [chuckles]

No, I've never seen anything like it before.

Something is making this rot a lot quicker.

You know, the bite was just for leverage.

Kinda, like, wrap itself, you know, around the neck.

Obviously suffocated the animal.

And it most likely died from the pressure

to its circulatory system.

And there's drag marks coming down the cliff, uh,

near the hill over there,

that are about this wide.

[clears throat] And apparently, it just came through here.

This is just something very odd I haven't seen before.

And I... I've seen it all.

Let's go check out this pond.

Yeah, it's a drive back up that way.

-[Emery] All right. Excellent. I'll follow you. -Okay.

[Duane] Oh, man. It's getting wild.

[Emery] Yeah.

[James] Careful right here.

This is kinda lost away.

Yeah, but what you guys are going to see up here is just... it's insane.

[Chad] How much longer we got, James?

[James] Just like five more minutes.

[Chad] Man, it was five minutes 20 minutes ago, bro.

[James chuckles] Five minutes.

[Chad] Five more minutes.

[narrator] On their way back from Mosby Sink,

James has brought Chad and Ryan to ancient petroglyphs

near Blind Frog Ranch.

Estimated to be 1,000 years old,

these rock drawings were made by the enigmatic Freemont culture

who lived here as early as 950 A.D.

[James] This is it. [pants]

This is what I wanted to show you guys.

[Chad] Oh, you're not kidding. Holy [bleep].

Oh, wow, that's so cool, man.

[James] See right here? We have these anthropomorphic figures.

Those look like some type of deer or antelope.

-[Ryan] Oh, yeah. -[Chad] I see it.

Do you see over here, we have that squiggly line?

It looks like a snake.

[James] Yeah, exactly.

[narrator] The petroglyphs depict animals that were common here at the time,

including antelope and deer.

But they also depict mysterious figures

whose meanings are not so clear,

including a giant serpent.

Some believe that such snakes may have been common at the time,

only to have disappeared in the many years

since this petroglyph was created.

[Chad] I mean, all these animals were creatures

that they were seeing back then.

So what does this mean for the snake?

You know, who knows.

But it's just interesting that it's here.

So this is what's really, really amazing about this rock art.

You have right here what almost looks like a large portal or gateway

-and some creature coming out of it. -Yeah.

[James] Like, going down into the mountain.

[Chad] Super interesting.

Look at the squiggly lines

under the anthropomorphic figure.

In traditional maps, that's what you use for water.

Is that a river running underground?

-You know, is there a water feature underground? -[Ryan] Like the water

-that Duane tapped into under the ranch? -Exactly.

[Chad] It's just hard not to think that there's a connection

between the petroglyphs and our ranch.

[Charlie] That's the pond, right there.

I saw the tracks coming up. It was right in here.

All the way down to the beaver ponds

-about what? A quarter mile? -[Emery] Yeah, at least.

And I swam all the way back as far as I could go...

-[Emery] Right. -...and the tracks led all the way back

to that hole back there.

[Emery] Huh. Well, let's get these samples.

I'm gonna do a sample here.

[narrator] Back at Blind Frog,

Emery Smith takes a water sample from the pond

to test for DNA.

There's a lot of life in here.

They all leave DNA behind.

We're gonna do a full microbiology,

which means we're gonna see

what kind of microbes are there,

how many living creatures are in there

and who's feeding off of who.

All right, looks good, fellas.

We have the samples and our job

is to get these tests done.

Off to the lab.

[Chad] Mosby Sink is dry as a bone over there.

So that means the energy zone has to be dry.

And we can start drilling.

[narrator] With the flood waters receded,

the team can finally can turn their sights

back to drilling in the keyhole formation

that sits below the vent shaft

that James discovered with his magnetometer.

How deep did that, uh, scan show where the vent shaft is?

It's just short of a 125 feet.

[Duane] We need to bring in a rat hole rig.

And it'll drop us down about a 150 foot.

It would give us about 30-inch hole.

It'll get us into that [bleep] cavern.

What's the plan when we hit the chamber

with the rat hole rig?

You know, once we tap into the roof of that deal,

you know good and well, we're gonna have to drop some cameras down there.

And if it's a big void and we're at the top of the cave,

we will build a basket that could let somebody down in there

with oxygen and everything.

We'll bring in a crane and drop that basket down in there.

Take the hole we have, then widen it,

and then we could definitely fit, like,

a whole basket down in there without getting stuck.

So we could have plenty of room to get in and out of there.

[narrator] Duane's plan is to drill a shaft 150 feet deep

into the keyhole chamber,

then widen the shaft,

so a person can be lowered into the chamber from above.

This'll be the deepest we've ever dug, though,

so there's gonna be a lot of logistical issues.

If we're going a 150 foot,

that means we're gonna go through different layers.

So we're gonna start at the sandstone

and we could hit limestone,

we could hit quartz and really hard [bleep].

It's just gonna take longer to get through.

All that hard stone is gonna wear that bed out,

so they need to bring in a lot of extra teeth

'cause it'll get hot...

and it'll melt those teeth.

Just getting that thing over there is gonna be a bitch.

Like, we're gonna have to track it in which will take a full day.

Well, we got to prepare the site too.

That's right. Yeah, we need a flat...

'cause if he's off tilted a little bit,

-it won't dig a hole. -Yeah.

All right, we got a plan. Let's go get this deal done now.

-It's time. -Finally.

[motor whirring, wheels squeaking]

[Chad] Oscar!

What's up, brother?

-How are you? -Good, man. How're you doing?

So we brought in the, uh, rat hole rig today.

Uh, we're gonna track it all the way to the energy zone.

How long do you think it'll take to track over there

-to the field site? -[Oscar] Uh, probably a couple of hours.

-Couple of hours? -[Oscar] Yeah.

-[Chad] All right. -I have to go real slow. I see the road...

[Chad] Yeah.

[narrator] The 35-ton drill

will need to slowly travel two miles

to reach the site.

It's a long a tedious route

over rough and uneven trails,

crossing a steep ravine

that still has water in it from the flooding.

But the most difficult maneuver

will be navigating a 750-foot climb

over the backside of the energy zone.

-[Oscar] Here we go. -[Duane] Copy that.

It is very difficult for these guys to get this equipment up here.

It really is. It's no game. Uh...

It's pretty steep.

He can slip and slide.

It's... it's a real project.

You're gonna have a little bit of a slippery drive over there on the rock.

I'll be above you the whole time.

If I need to drag on you or something, I will.

I can tug you up.

This is not my first rodeo either.

-Yeah, we'll go real slow... -Yeah.

-...make sure to break nothing and... -Okay.

[Duane] Okay.

[narrator] The 35-ton rat hole rig

needs a hydraulic motor and brakes to move it around.

While enormously powerful,

the temperature of the hydraulics needs to be carefully maintained

or the brakes can fail,

sending 35 tons hurdling

uncontrolled, down the hill.

[Duane] Here we go.

Bring it on down, Oscar.

What we're gonna do is take the rat hole rig

right down to this ravine.

He's probably gonna have to spin his derrick around

and back up there and if he slips and can't get up, then I'll, uh,

I'll put a tether on the back and drag him up.

It's gonna be a little muddy out there, a little slippery.

These guys that are coming in, they know what they're doing,

but they're standing on a hill. It's dangerous.

So they gotta get this right.

[squeaking]

[Duane] Don't make that [bleep] pucker up.

Here he comes.

Hell, yeah.

[Oscar] Hydraulics overheated.

Yeah, argh, it's stuck.

Rat hole rig, looks like, it stopped right now.

We'll have to go over there and see what the [bleep] is the problem.

[grunts] What the hell is going on?

[Oscar] Yeah, it jammed.

[Duane] Okay, copy that.

-It's a long way over here. Sorry about that. -Yeah.

But we still got to get it over here.

[narrator] The brutal terrain at the ranch is causing

the hydraulics on the rat hole rig to overheat.

He has problems with his hydraulics heating up.

If we can't get that rat hole rig to the energy zone,

we're not gonna be able to drill.

We're gonna burn the whole day up.

[Oscar] Yeah, yeah.

[Oscar] Yeah.

Yeah.

-[both] That's a long way. -Long ways.

Yeah, there used to be a little river over here.

-If you want me to put tether on you, I will. -Okay.

[narrator] The quick application of water

has cooled the drill enough

to finish its journey to the energy zone.

-[Duane] We're good? -Thank you. Appreciate it.

-[Duane] Here we go, let's do it. -[Oscar] All right.

[Duane] Hell yeah. Hell yeah. It's another [bleep] cakewalk.

Good job, Oscar. [groans]

-How was it going down that path? -Oh, man. Pretty bad.

-Was it really? [laughs] -[Oscar] Yeah.

Yeah, we'll platform this whole deal out

-and we'll make it safe. -[Chad] It was on the right side from here.

So if we're gonna carve out some, it needs to be on that side.

Okay, right. Got it.

[narrator] Now that the drill has made it to the energy zone,

the next step is to create a flat,

stable drilling platform for the rig.

[Duane] We could have a cave-in or anything like that

and if the dirt goes down, you go down with it.

So it's no game here. Uh, people can get killed.

[Emery] We've taken samples from the pond

and we're gonna measure the frequency

of all the life forms in it.

It's not gonna give us the DNA yet.

We have to send all that out.

But, at least, we can get a baseline.

We have a lot of bacteria,

amoebas, um, parasites,

which is normal in these waters.

This one is called Ascaris.

It's weird because they need a host.

Really?

It's found in animals.

That must mean there's some sort of

-living being in there. -Wow.

Right now, our job is to find out

what the DNA belongs to.

Emery, you know,

if anybody can figure out this, somebody like you can.

I will do it, Duane.

-[James] Hey, Duane. -Hey.

I'm gonna run another 3-D ground image survey.

Okay.

[James] We got the drill up here and I know Duane is anxious to get going.

So I'm gonna take the magnetometer and try

to find that exact spot again,

so we don't spend any time or money.

-[crackling] -Oh, wait a minute.

Hello, Missy.

There it is.

Right in that location is a vertical shaft straight down.

-Okay. -[James] Yeah.

-It was right in there. -So we know that void's right here, right?

[Chad] Yeah, it's right... right in front of where he's standing.

We got 'em on the clock right now. We need to drill.

-We need to start drilling right now. -Yeah, right here.

So this whole deal, we've been waiting years

and this has cost me about $20,000 a day.

So we'll start drilling now. Right now.

Everybody just needs to get the [bleep] out of the way.

[whirring, squeaking]

Everybody out of the way. We got the drill coming in now.

[Duane] Yeah.

[drill wails]

[Chad] Yeah, that's it.

-Hey, guys, we ready to drill? -[all] Yeah.

Here we go. This is it.

[Duane] Yeah, boy.

-[Chad] Yeah, here we go. -[James] Yeah.

[chuckles] Yeah.

[horns honking]

[horns honking]

That [bleep] horn, man.

How about a radio?

Tell him, take that son of a bitch off low idle.

He can drill faster.

He can pick it up.

Hell yeah, he can drill faster than that.

[honks horn] I like that horn.

-[Chad] Hey, just yell at me. -[laughs]

Yo, Oscar, can you speed that thing up?

[Duane] Yeah, boy!

-[Chad] Yeah, here we go. -[James] Yeah.

Yeah. [chuckles]

This is a good sign. Look how dry that is.

We don't want water. We don't want a wet mess.

So this is dry. It's good.

[thunder rumbling]

[clicks tongue] We're getting some rain here, surely.

Everybody's focused on the drilling,

but I've been watching the skies

and I'm starting to see some storm clouds.

Damn energy zone, I guess.

That is how mountain system here...

really just creates its own weather pattern.

You just... you never know what it's gonna do.

That pressure drops...

you know, all hell could break loose here.

-Sort of done. -Lightning and thunder and heavy rain.

It's coming.

The radar says it's not that far away.

If that storm makes it here,

-and it starts lightning... -Yeah.

...we got a [bleep] 100 ft

-lightning rod sticking up right there. -Yeah. Exactly.

I went and I got the lightning strike detector

-that I brought in. -What's it showing? Anything?

No, we're good so far.

-[Chad] How far can that reach out? -[James] 25 miles.

-[Chad] Nice. -[James] Yeah.

[narrator] James' lightning detector can detect the electromagnetic pulses

emitted by a lightning strike...

-[thunderclap] -...by measuring the strength of the pulse.

The device can estimate the distance of the strike.

Uh, I'll keep an eye out for it.

-All right. Thank you. -All right. Yep.

[thunderclap]

-Hey. -[horns honking]

-[Chad] Did you hear that? -What the [bleep] was that?

[Chad] It's lightning.

-What the [bleep] was that? -[Chad] How close are we?

-[James]Two miles. -[Chad] Two miles? Which way? This will show us, right?

Two miles. Hey, Duane!

-[Charlie] Two miles. -That lightning is two miles away.

-[thunderclap] -[James] That was two miles.

Do you hear that [bleep]?

-There's another one. -[thunder rumbling]

Chad, you better shut 'em down.

There's another one, Duane!

[Charlie] The lightning is too close now.

[bleep] One thing after another, huh? Jesus!

-Yeah, we wanna get away from this lightning rod, huh? -Yeah.

-We'll, uh, we'll start again tomorrow morning? -You got it.

[man screams]

-[thunderclap] -[bleeping]

[narrator] Next time on Blind Frog Ranch...

[Chad] Oscar is pushing that drill to the limit,

but we can't get through.

It's like something beyond our control out here.

[groans]

We keep on pushing and it keeps on fighting back.

We did EDX with a scanning electronic microscope

and we found iridium.

Well, iridium means of earth, right?

It's not natural to this planet.

There is something huge

going on on your property.

Congratulations, boys. Looks like y'all got a meteor

at Blind Frog Ranch.