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[narrator reading]

[Charlie] Got some trespassers.

I think tonight would be a good night to catch 'em.

[narrator] After tracking the poachers...

[man] [bleep] Busted, man.

...and taking them to court,

Duane wins his case to ban them from his property.

[Duane] They've been slithering around on the land,

and they don't get to do that anymore.

[narrator] Now, he can double down

on his mission to breach the underground.

We will have to go in slow, but we will go in.

[narrator] With the floodwaters receding...

[man] I don't see any water.

...he can finally move forward...

[Charlie] Everybody out of the way.

We got the drill coming in now.

...with his plan to drill into the keyhole cavern beneath the Energy Zone.

That lightning's two miles away.

-[thunderclap] -[bleep]

[thunder rumbling]

[Chad] This whole area, for some reason,

we can't get [bleep] done here.

We keep on pushing, and it keeps on fighting back.

The storm coming.

Lighting and all kinds of crazy [bleep]

I mean, it seems like a coincidence.

But whatever it is, it's always the case, though,

when we're out here in the Energy Zone.

Hopefully the weather clears.

We'll have better luck tomorrow.

-How we doing, Oscar? -[Oscar] Pretty good, man.

[Chad] We'll be able to tell we're in a void

-'cause it will just drop off? -[Oscar] Yeah. Yeah.

[Chad] All right, perfect.

[narrator] After a sudden thunderstorm shut the team down,

Oscar moves the rathole rig back into position.

Nice.

[narrator] The weather has cleared,

and the team can resume drilling.

Weeks earlier, they discovered a vent shaft

leading 125 feet down into the Energy Zone.

[James] Look at that [bleep].

[narrator] But they don't want to risk a collapse,

so they're drilling a new shaft parallel to the vent,

using it as a guide to orient them toward

the cavernous chamber below.

[James] This is really exciting.

We've been waiting for this for weeks.

And I wanna find some treasure today.

I wanna at least find an entrance

into where the artefacts and the treasure is at.

[Chad] Here we go. This is it.

We're gonna find that [bleep] cavern today, boys.

-[James] Oh. -Hell yeah.

[Chad] Yeah. At least.

The vent shaft goes 125 feet down.

We need to keep on going till we find something.

-[Oscar] I'll keep going. -Let's do it, boys. Hell, yeah.

We've been drilling out here for years now, and this could be the one.

Man, this is no [bleep]. We can [bleep] hit it today.

[Chad] What's it look like, Art?

-Is it? -[Art] Yeah.

Few parts. We'll see right now.

[narrator] The rainstorm has created a wet layer of dirt,

but the drill operators think it's only near the surface,

and the further down they drill, the drier it will get.

-[Art] Yeah. -We're still all right, though.

-[Art] Yeah. -It's dry right there.

[Art] Yeah, that's what I was saying.

-If it just sits for a minute, then yeah. -[Chad] All right.

-It's not bad. Good. -Yeah.

So, uh, there's a little moisture in the dirt there.

As we're drilling, there's some seepage in there.

But it's still not too bad.

Like, if, uh... If it gets much worse,

and it turns into a mud, it's a problem.

But right now, we're okay.

What we got, Oscar?

How far?

[Chad] Ninety feet?

[James] So, my magnetometer put the top of that cavern at about 120 feet.

And right now, we're almost at 90.

With any luck, we'll punch through soon.

[Duane] What the [bleep]?

-[horn tooting] -[man] Now.

-That's [bleep] blue dirt. -[Chad] What?

That's blue dirt down there.

-Is it? -Yeah.

[narrator] After drilling down 90 feet,

the soil composition has changed

from dry sedimentary dirt to a strange blue clay.

Hey, stop the drill! Hey!

Kill it.

-This is that blue dirt he was talking about. -[Charlie] Holy [bleep].

-[Chad] It's hard to drill? -[Oscar] Yeah.

-[Chad] Yeah? -Yeah.

[narrator] Duane claims he has seen this dirt before on the ranch.

And according to locals, it's a bad omen.

[James] So, it's like a blue clay.

That's it.

That's [bleep] it.

-Is it hard to drill through this stuff? -Yeah, it's hard, you know.

-[Chad] It's hard? -[Oscar] Yeah.

All right. So how much more do you want to keep going?

-Till we get to the cavern gotta keep going. -Okay.

-[horn toots] -Drill!

[Chad] Damn. That's loud.

Don't give a [bleep].

All right, let's go.

[Chad] How's the drilling, man?

-[Art] So slow. -Slow?

It's still not wet, though.

What do you think?

[Chad] Yeah?

-[Oscar] That's what we got. -[Chad] Oh, [bleep].

-You see, it's barely moving. -Yeah, yeah.

[narrator] The drill is working through the thick clay

at a rate of two feet every hour,

which is five times slower than usual.

Oscar was thinking, like, two to four hours.

We're sitting at, like, seven hours now.

[Chad grunts]

It's stuck.

-It hasn't moved at all. -Yeah.

[metallic scraping]

[James] That sounds hard.

That's hard.

[James] Yeah.

It just hit something hard, hard

'cause it's really slow, he said, the drill.

You think this is what slowed us down?

[Ryan] Chad.

They're grinding down there,

and this, I guess, is some of the stone that they're grinding.

-You see it's got, like, reflective properties to it. -[Chad] Yeah.

-[Ryan] Crystals or something. -[Chad] Right.

This stuff is super hard. He's still at 98 feet.

This is the [bleep] that you're drilling through right now.

So, this is still that blue dirt.

And the further we get down, there's, like, black chunks in there that are, uh...

That we haven't seen before.

[metal detector beeping]

[Chad] Charlie, what did you find?

[Charlie] It's more of those rocks you've been finding.

Really?

[Charlie] We've been drilling up here for years

and saw and done enough drilling.

I know what, what the rocks looks like

when they spin off the, the drill.

Uh, that thing spun out, and it went further than any other rock,

indicating that it was heavier.

It was a lot heavier than a normal rock, and it was more black.

It did set off the metal detector

and with a very high iron content.

Looked like a chunk of metal.

Where it's coming from? I have no idea.

Oh, this is... This is strange.

[James] It still needs to be tested, too,

-before we jump-- -Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, Chad, look at the dirt, take it over here,

but let's get back to drilling.

[Chad] Let's keep going, Oscar.

In all these clumps of clay down there,

we're finding these dark, blueish, metal-looking nodules.

Is this giving it some kind of unique properties that energize the Energy Zone?

I think we should have it analyzed.

[Charlie] Sending 'em off and have 'em tested

could help us come up with the answers

as to why some of this weirdness goes on up here

as far as the energy and, and the equipment not working properly,

batteries draining.

There's just been a lot of weirdness that goes on up here.

I don't know if I've ever not seen this place cause havoc on something.

-What do you think? -They're hard as [bleep].

-It's getting harder? -Yeah.

This could be the top of the cave.

-'Cause that's hard as [bleep]. -[Oscar] Yeah.

Yeah.

We've been drilling here all damn day.

And based on that scan, we're only ten feet away from punching in the cave.

Yeah.

[Chad grunts]

[narrator] To pierce through the hard layer of rock,

the drill team must swap out the tiger teeth on the drill bit

with new teeth that are strong enough to grind through.

I talked to Jeff. He has to go get more teeth for the...

For the drill bit.

You know, I thought today was gonna be a smooth and easy day,

just jump in and...

I was, kind of, hoping that we...

You know, we would have still stayed in the, the, um, clay.

-[Chad] Yeah. -'Cause it would have made it a lot better.

We passed the clay and went straight to something else now.

-[Chad] Something super hard. -Yeah.

-[Chad] Hey. -[Duane] Yeah.

[Chad] They're out of teeth.

-He's having to go get some more. -[bleep]

And we're still stuck.

Just one more thing.

-[James] I hope it solves it. -[Jeff] Yeah.

[Chad] So, yeah, it's like something beyond our control out here.

I mean, we keep on pushing, and it keeps on fighting back.

We've had more [bleep] today than, than ever.

Oh, [bleep].

[Duane bleep] this.

[Charlie] Oh, man.

-[Duane] Emery. -[Emery] Duane, Chad, Charlie.

[narrator] While the drill crew works,

biomedical expert Emery Smith has returned to the ranch with his findings.

I finally got the report back.

[narrator] Duane asked Emery to investigate a mutilated deer carcass...

Multiple spinal fractures.

...as well as strange tracks that led out of the pond to Beaver Creek...

[Charlie] These are fresh overnight tracks.

...where Charlie captured a photo

of an unusual animal in the water.

This is what I got.

[narrator] After collecting samples from the pond,

Emery analyzed them against his DNA database

and has his findings.

[Emery] This is the results of the DNA.

[Duane bleep] Tell us what that means.

We ran it through this database.

The majority of it is snake DNA.

But to survive this cold weather here,

it's not normal for a regular snake.

And it has other DNA that, they're prehistoric.

That's just incredible.

Because they're part of that being that we don't know.

[Emery] The majority of it is snake DNA.

But it is has other DNA that, they're prehistoric.

[narrator] Biomedical expert Emery Smith has returned to Blind Frog Ranch

with the DNA results of his findings

from the water samples taken from the pond.

-There's part of that being that we don't know. -[Chad] Right.

But this is something that's been around for a long time.

So, what do you think this is? Like, some kind of snake?

To survive this cold weather here, you know,

it's not normal for a regular snake.

-A snake can't be out here. -[Chad] Yeah.

-[Emery] Tropical python or anaconda. -[Chad] Right.

It's impossible that something has survived.

But in a cave system...

That stays the same in a cave system.

So you might have a large biosphere

under Blind Frog Ranch is what I'm getting at.

It's some sort of prehistoric creature.

There's a whole ecosystem, apparently,

that's alive and well down there.

This serpent, more than likely,

has to have been living underground

hundreds of years to be that big.

Thanks, guys.

That's worse than what I thought.

[Chad] Well, you think if it's prehistoric,

that explains how it's so big, like a--

Yeah. And has all those armor-plating scales on it and stuff.

That's pretty wild, boys. That's pretty wild.

He's right. I mean, a snake is not gonna be in this cold climate.

Well, let's just let him, figure this out

and we'll get back to drilling.

[Chad] So, we got fresh teeth on it so she's comfortable, huh?

-[Art] Yeah. -[Chad] Nice.

[narrator] After hitting a hard rocky layer at a depth of 100 feet,

the rat-rig team has replaced the drill teeth

so that they can cut through the next 20 feet of rock

and penetrate the keyhole cavern.

-[Jeff] Turn. -[Art] There you go.

[Chad] Watch that [bleep] hole, man.

Whoa, whoa.

[bleep]

God damn. You almost fell in the [bleep] hole, man.

[Charlie] Yeah, I saw that.

[Chad] When I saw his foot slip in there, almost had a heart attack.

Anyone gets in the hole, it's over, you know.

Someone would have died today.

Watch that [bleep] hole.

[Chad] Send it.

[James] We're almost at the depth

that the magnetometer was showing.

Hopefully, in the right place.

The depth that we're at right now is almost 120 feet,

so technically we're right there

and just haven't hit it yet.

[narrator] For the past two hours,

the drill has been making minimal progress.

However, Oscar and his team start to pull up some promising signs.

[Chad] Damn. Look at the size of that rock.

[Art] See where the bit was spinning on the top of that?

[Chad] Looks like, kind of, sandstone, but it's a different color.

It's another layer.

-That's why we weren't going down an inch. -Ah, makes sense.

-[Art] Yeah. -It wasn't cutting at all.

[Art] Yeah.

[James] This is what it was just bouncing off of.

[Charlie] It's a big chunk of sandstone.

That tells you what that drill bit's doing, though.

-[James] Yeah, finally was able to break through. -[Charlie] Yeah.

[James] It's got a thick ceiling.

[Charlie] That's a cave wall.

-Ceiling's what that is. -[Duane] Yup. Gotta be.

That's hard as [bleep].

-That's why this whole [bleep] went caving in. -Yeah.

[narrator] Caverns are lined with thick layers of stone and rock

that support the weight of the earth above

and keep the cavern walls from collapsing.

After passing through the mysterious blue dirt

embedded with shards of metal,

the team has now entered a dense layer of sandstone

which they believe to be the ceiling of the cavern below.

It's unclear how thick the ceiling is.

But if they can breach it,

it could mean they've finally gained access

to the mysterious chamber discovered by the quantum team

earlier this winter.

That circle under the Energy Zone does look manmade.

No doubt.

-I can hear it, I can hear it. Rubbing the wall. Yeah. -Yeah.

[Oscar] Yeah.

[Oscar] Yeah.

[Chad grunts]

[Chad] So, we got a setback right now.

Uh, problem is, the slope of this rock

is making the drill go that way

and, uh, it's causing a lot of hell.

We could be, what, ten feet off?

Oh, I don't know. We'll see.

[Chad] Oh, [bleep].

[narrator] As the drill continues to labor through

the stone layer that covers the keyhole cavern,

Drillmaster Oscar has realized that the drill bit is sliding.

It indicates that the rock layer covering the cave must be rounded,

like a vaulted ceiling or shell.

But the curve is causing the drill to deviate.

If the drill continues to veer off course,

the team might miss the keyhole cavern entirely,

and would be forced to start the drilling process over again,

or it could even collapse the cavern below.

[Chad] He got to that shell, and he's pushing hard on it.

And, uh, that rock is on a slope.

So what happens is it just pushes...

...angle going towards him.

So, uh... [bleep]

[ominous instrumental music]

[Chad] I talked to Oscar.

He's saying that the hole has a bend in it from the rocks.

-Yeah. -So the rocks are like that and he got to here,

and he's pushing hard on it so it's shifting

and going back towards it.

Yeah, it's crooked right now. That's why it's taking so long to get it in there.

[narrator] As the team hits 110 feet,

they have encountered a dense rock layer

that is causing their drill to bend and veer off path.

[Chad] We're just trying to slow it down a little bit. Keep it straight as we can.

[drill whirring]

[Charlie] Well, that doesn't sound good.

-You hear that grinding? He's not at the bottom. -[Charlie] What?

It's grinding 'cause it's rubbing on the way down.

So when he gets to the... He's not even drilling at the bottom.

So he's grinding all the way down 'cause it has a curve in it.

[narrator] In order to penetrate the cavern,

they need the drill to lock into a straight, vertical position.

What do you think, Oscar?

-It's still not locking up? -[Oscar] It's still not locking up.

Yeah. Oh, [bleep]

[tense instrumental music]

[narrator] As the drill head slides along the rock layer below,

it is causing the rig's Kelly bar, or Kelly,

to spin and bend due to the immense torque.

If it gives out, the cost would be over $100,000.

-What would break it? -No.

-What would break it? -How?

What would? Yeah, how could you break it?

Uh, if...

Yeah.

I don't know what we hit down there,

but whatever we hit, it's as hard as diamonds.

I doubt that even a bigger drill could push through this.

What could happen is the drill could break,

or there could be a collapse and someone could die, man. So we can't enter in here.

-[Duane] Time to call it. Let's do it. -[Charlie] Yeah.

-Tell 'em. Shut it down. -[Charlie] Okay.

[whistles]

Same [bleep] again.

Yeah, this really is so disappointing for me.

I mean, this was a big day. This was supposed to be a target point hit today,

and [bleep] So it's a very disappointing day for me.

I'm kinda pissed off, to be honest with you.

No drilling now.

We're almost there. It'd be a shame for all of this to have been a waste.

-[Charlie] Yeah. -Yeah.

[Charlie] We'll figure out a way to get through it.

Every time we seem to be at this energy zone area,

we're being thwarted by something.

You know, you just can't help but believe, you know,

that there is something to the phenomena that occurs here in the Uinta Basin

and in the Uinta Mountains.

It just sucks. We're dead in the water at this point.

We were almost there.

We almost had it.

[Charlie] That's just about as disappointing as you can get right there.

[Duane] We'll call in some folks and bring in some gap.

Let's get the hell out of here, fellas.

[dramatic instrumental music]

We really gotta find out what the hell is going on over there.

[narrator] After striking an impenetrable rock layer in the energy zone,

Duane has phoned a familiar friend for some help.

[Charlie] So what have we got going on?

I got a hold of Stephen Leeah and he's sending somebody else out.

[narrator] Stephen Leeah and his team uncovered the keyhole cavern

lurking below the energy zone.

[Stephen] You've got a tunnel, or pathways, inside your mountain.

Now, what's that doing here?

[narrator] And Duane is hoping he can figure out

what is preventing the drill from breaching the cavern.

Who's he sending out?

[Duane] He's sending Dave, who's an expert.

[Dave] Electromagnetic radiation is all around in the environment

and, from that, we're able to deduce patterns

about what could be happening in a physical level.

[Duane] And then, there's Michael Boyd coming, and he's the real deal.

There they are.

-Hey, hey. -[Dave] How's it going?

-[Chad] What's up, Dave? How you doing, man? -It's good to see you again.

-Yeah, welcome back, brother. -Thank you so much.

-Yeah. Hell, yeah. -This is Michael Boyd

Hey.

-Charlie. Good to see you, my friend. -Good to see ya.

-I'm liking the ponytail, man. Doing the long hair. -[Michael] Yeah.

I get a haircut every year or so,

and I tell 'em, "Business in front, party in the back,

-archaeologist all the time." -[all chuckling]

[narrator] Michael Boyd is a quantum physicist and archaeologist

who has been conducting field research for Stephen Leeah

for over a decade.

[Michael] Stephen told us to come look at what you guys are finding,

that you've been drilling and finding all kinds of cool stuff.

Take this inside so we can start taking a look at things.

Perfect. Perfect. That's what we're here for.

[Dave] Give me just a second to get set up here.

-[line ringing] -Okay.

That's it. Oh, here it comes.

-Well, hello. -[laughing]

-[Dave] All right. -The presentation right there.

Welcome to my spread.

-Baguettes, jambon, croissant. -[Chad] What are you doing there?

We've been working on European outreach here.

We're in the beginning genesis of it.

Duane, what's your problem?

We're drilling down where your scan was, and--

My God, Duane, you digging down in that black hole?

Are you crazy?

That's not the point, Stephen. I've always been crazy.

What do you need our help with?

So we drilled right over here,

right at the base of the key,

just pushing on something that's super hard that we can't get through.

[Mike] Did you hit a hard pan or anything?

-[Duane] We did hit hard pan down about 100 foot going in. -Yeah.

-Took us forever to drill through it. -[Mike] Okay.

So there's a couple of things that could be going on.

Some natural phenomena

that's due to the features that we have here that we see underground.

Basically, what's going on is, where you have the dark area,

that's a higher density area.

And, then, these other areas are lower density.

[narrator] Michael believes the quantum scan

shows the center of the keyhole cavern

to be much more dense than the surrounding rock.

But whether it's a hard rock making up a cave ceiling,

or something else entirely, it is still unknown.

-It seems like that we have a perfect place to hide stuff. -Right.

It could be something to do with the Aztec, possibly.

It makes sense that you might have hit something down below.

It could be some kind of energy

that we don't quite understand yet.

I'm not quite sure what it is, but there's something big out there.

[narrator] Coming up...

[Mike] Okay, everybody, just step three foot at the same time.

[narrator] The quantum team investigates the area around the energy zone...

[Mike] Look at that.

[Dave] I mean, you can even see, like, the impact.

Like it crash-landed into it.

[narrator] ...leading to a shocking discovery.

It all started with a meteorite impact.

[tense instrumental music]

[Mike] You might've hit something down below.

It could be something to do with the Aztec.

I'm not quite sure what it is, but there's something big out there.

Okay, guys, listen, you know the drill,

I need time progression.

I'm gonna need video footage,

some deeper scans, and see what's going on in there.

I need more data. I need dirt, I need samples out of that ground.

You got it.

Duane, Chad, great seeing you all again,

but my wife's calling me. We got dinner to go to.

We're going to eat some snails tonight.

-[laughing] -Pray for me.

[narrator] Chad and the team take Michael and Dave to the energy zone drill site

to investigate the area.

[Chad] Yeah, right there is where we poked the hole.

So that's where we found the balls, the blue dirt,

and that's where we hit that super hard object, whatever it was, at 120 foot.

We've had hell with this site.

We drilled it and we hit something solid.

We couldn't go any further through that.

[Charlie] We hit and it just smoothed our bits off.

And they were good bits. They were sharp, they had tiger teeth on them,

they were raw to bits. So it is a hard sumbut down there.

This is some of that mud that we've been pulling out right there.

It's wet. It's just as wet as ever.

Certain elements produce a blue color when they're oxidized.

And how deep did you hit the blue sand?

I think that was around 80 foot or something like that.

[Mike] Oh, boy, that's deep.

What I'm gonna suggest we do is we survey up above here.

So what we wanna do is some transects, it's called.

[narrator] Transect is a field survey method

where collectors move in unison along a fixed path.

By measuring the distances between similar objects,

they can generate a scientific sample of the ground composition.

Okay, so what we're gonna do is we're all gonna line up five feet apart.

I'm gonna give you each a few of these flags

and, then, we're gonna walk together

and we're gonna look down and see if we see anything.

Okay, let's line up.

[narrator] Michael hopes the survey will identify

localized minerals and objects

to give him insight on the geological forces

that make the energy zone so unique

and tell them what's protecting the cavern from being breached.

Okay, everybody, just step three foot at the same time.

You see something, put it down.

[tense instrumental music]

Anyone see anything cool yet?

[Duane] There's a [bleep] Does that count?

[Charlie] There's something that's kinda interesting.

[Ryan] I got one.

It looks like another one of those weird nugget,

metal-looking nodules.

Whatever these things are,

these little molten nodules,

I've never, never, come across these anywhere throughout the basin.

And I've spent 17 years going to all these various paranormal hotspots,

spending time in the desert.

The hell are these things?

Yeah, there's... there's a lot of them in there.

Look at that.

I see something embedded in the rock there.

That's something else.

I gotta take a picture of that.

[Dave] I mean, you can even see, like, the impact, a kind of depressed...

Like it crash-landed into it.

Oh, right here. Looks like it might be a stone artefact.

Check that out. Wow!

That's awesome.

-[Ryan] And it's obsidian. -[Mike] Look at that.

That's beautiful.

[Ryan] You can see where it's been worked.

[Mike] That edge is sharper than steel.

Obsidian was like money to Native Americans.

They called it black gold.

When we do our geological research on this area,

I'm hopeful that we'll find some evidence

of this volcanic rock in the area.

[narrator] Obsidian is a volcanic glass

and has been shaped into tools and weapons

for hundreds of thousands of years.

Its unique molecular properties allow it to be sharpened to an edge

500 times sharper than a steel blade.

This made it the preferred weapon of Aztecs and other ancient civilizations

who would mount deadly obsidian blades on wooden clubs.

According to the account of one Spanish conquistador,

the Aztec blades could take the head off of a horse with a single blow.

This could actually be Aztec material that we're looking at.

Okay, guys,

I think we're about done here.

We're gonna take the samples so that we can do further analysis

in the lab on it.

We'll see what we get.

-Thanks, Michael. -[Mike] Oh, yeah.

[tense instrumental music]

How many beers have you had?

Had one.

-One at a time. -[laughing]

You know, when we were pulling up that blue dirt,

we had these limestone-looking rocks.

And I don't know if this was giving the color to the blue dirt,

but I've been looking at it, and it looks like

-there's something yellow and sparkly in the blue dirt. -Really?

When I ground some of this stuff up and I panned it,

and I could see some really fine color in it.

It was, you know, like flour dough or something like that.

But you could see the color in it.

[Ryan] Maybe this has some unique properties to it.

And if that is gold in there, we could be hitting the mother lode

of some kind of rich gold vein underneath here.

[Chad] Yeah, we put a lot of work into this.

It'd be nice if that blue dirt paid off.

[dramatic instrumental music]

[Ryan] Taking off.

[narrator] After collecting geological samples, including obsidian,

from the energy zone drill site,

the team has given the material to geologist Michael Boyd for analysis.

While they await his findings, quantum imaging expert Dave Wilkinson

performs a scan of the keyhole cavern hole.

[Dave] I'm gonna take some more footage so we can scan the area.

We're gonna see if we get to collect some more information

about what's going on with this hole.

[narrator] Earlier in the year,

Dave's image scans provided the dimensions and shape

of the cavern below.

[Dave] There's a round portion 500 to 1,000 feet across.

[narrator] But now, with a 120-foot hole

drilled into the center of the cavern,

he can get information on what lies at the dense center of the cave ceiling.

[Dave] Duane and Chad told me they hit something really hard.

What I think happened is they might have cracked it.

So, hopefully, we can get some data that can reveal

how big the cavity could be and what the best way to get in would be.

Oh, my God. Man, this is...

really interesting.

Holy [bleep]

[dramatic instrumental music]

[tense instrumental music]

[narrator] The next day, the quantum team returns to Blind Frog Ranch

and are ready to share their results with the crew.

[Chad] So, right now, we have quantum coming out.

We don't know what the quantum guys have found,

but they've told us that they've found

some really interesting stuff going on, so I'm excited to hear it.

-Hey, Chad. Great to see you. -Welcome, guys.

Hey, you too, man.

-How you doing, Dave? -[Dave] Good to see you, man.

We've got Stephen on the phone right now.

[Mike] Oh, perfect, let's go.

Duane, it's good to see you again, man.

[Duane] Good seeing you, Stephen.

-So we got Stephen on the... -All right.

-Sorry we're late, guys. -[Duane] Hey again.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. How are you doing there, bud?

-[Mike] Good. -[Ryan] How are you doing?

Duane, I told you a long time ago,

you're gonna have to end up taking the red pill or the blue pill from us.

Well, my boy, Doc, is ready to give you both.

Are you ready for this?

All over the ground, I'm finding these little rock.

And, then, I found this one piece

where it's a big glob of 'em fused together.

So we did a whole series of tests to look for what materials we had.

We did EDX with a scanning electron microscope

to look for composition.

[narrator] Used extensively in topography studies,

an EDX is an energy dispersive X-ray

that uses electrons to determine the elemental composition of ground samples.

We did X-ray diffraction to look at the crystallography of the sample,

and we found iridium.

Well, iridium means off-Earth, right?

It's not natural to this planet.

It all appears, right now, to boil back to a meteorite impact.

Congratulations, boys! Looks like you all got a meteor at Blind Frog Ranch.

[narrator] According to the quantum team,

the fragments of metal and rock that the drill was encountering

were the direct result of a large impacted meteorite

sitting above the keyhole cavern.

I told you guys. That's why they [bleep] up.

It's a huge magnetic ball like a meteorite, huh?

I have never, ever,

have seen such an energy flow as I saw in your property,

where none should exist.

[narrator] Every day, thousands of pieces of interstellar material

enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up before reaching the surface.

Meteorites larger than 100 feet, however,

can make impact and send hundreds of droplets of melted rock

around the impact area.

These tiny chunks are called bomblets,

and they contain traces of minerals and metals.

Their size is proportional to the mass of the meteor itself

and force of impact.

[Mike] It would have had to be a pretty big piece of material

for us to be seeing such large bomblets down here on the surface.

-[Chad] Right. -So there's something big out there.

I mean, what we've learned today is there's a huge [bleep] meteorite

right here.

Well, that explains why it's so hard.

We couldn't get 120 foot. It was just rock solid.

And if it was a meteor, there's no way we could get through it.

[Stephen] Duane, listen, I'm gonna be completely honest with you,

Texas to Texas boy,

there is something huge going on on your property.

And the only way to find out is to get down there.

So what might we keep doing now, Stephen?

[Stephen] Duane, it's gonna take several months

for our quantum team to get together

and compile all the data that you guys have collected.

[Chad] So Stephen's gonna take more scans

for the quantum guys to evaluate more of this area,

but it's gonna take months.

So we don't have months. We have to find another way in.

There's not telling when we're going to get more rain.

We get a bad enough storm and everything's flooded again.

We need to get down there now!

[dramatic instrumental music]

[narrator] On the next episode of Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch...

[Chad] We brought in Stephen Leeah,

and he's saying that it could be a huge meteorite down there.

[man] These things hit Earth just like a huge bomb going off,

and it's created fracturing around this large impact crater

where we could search for natural openings.

My dad's gonna go over there and, then, start digging.

-Oh, [bleep] -[Chad] God almighty!

Piece of [bleep] stuck.

[Duane] We're getting worse and worse.

[Chad] See that?

We're gonna be out about a half a million dollars.

[Chad] Hey, we got something!

There's another chamber coming off in here.

[Chad] Oh, yes! It looks like a tunnel.

We are the first people to see this,

possibly in hundreds of years, if not thousands.

This is amazing.

Holy [bleep]