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TOM:
We've come up
with this cow tracking system

that we're going to use.

Right over there
you could see something

open up in the sky.
Something came out of it.

ERIK:
It's really interesting

that Steven mentioned
the triangle.

(Ariel chanting)

-TRAVIS: Look at the screen.
-GUY: It jumped to 47.

THOMAS:
There's something
flickering right here.

Back corner of the house!
Back corner of the house!

-TRAVIS: Guys, what's going on?
-THOMAS: It's moving.

Something may be hacking us.

TRAVIS:
Oh, crap. Look at that!

We're actively being
electronically attacked.

I'm leaving the ranch.
I'm getting a bad headache.

That was--
that was freaky weird.

I was just suddenly
short of breath.

That's not good either, Travis.
I don't like this.

BRYANT:
Well, let's get you out of here.

TRAVIS:
There's a static

electricity feeling.

This is an effect
of these microwave

and radio wave signals
that are here.

NARRATOR:
There is a ranch
in Northern Utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most
disturbing phenomena on Earth:

animal mutilations,

bizarre UFO sightings

and unusual energies that have
proven harmful to humans.

For 20 years,
the federal government

tried to find answers
and failed.

Now a new team
of dedicated scientists,

researchers and experts
has taken over.

They are determined to solve
the mystery and reveal...

...The Secret
of Skinwalker Ranch.

ERIK: Hey, guys.
James Keenan's with us.

-James, why don't you have a
seat at the head of the table.
-Hi, everyone. Thank you.

-Nice to meet you.
-TRAVIS: Hey!

-James Keenan. Thank you.
-Nice to meet you, man.
-Have a seat.

ERIK: We've spoken
a little bit about

James's area
of expertise and study.

He's a researcher and an author
touching on a lot of the stuff

that we're interested in
here at the ranch,

and has some
interesting connections

that he thinks he's found.

All right.

We've been applying
hard science to figure out

the bizarre phenomena
that keep happening

at Homestead Two
and other parts of the ranch,

but so far nothing definitive
has been discovered.

So Erik Bard
invited a researcher named

James Keenan
who has been studying

this area for more than 25 years

and had a theory
about what might be causing

all the strange phenomena here.

James had never been
on the ranch,

but Erik explained to me
that he conducted

vector magnetometer surveys
of the surrounding area,

measuring for the strength
and the direction

of magnetic anomalies.

And what he found
pointed him here.

JAMES:
So my research
started near the area.

This is the Uinta Basin.

You see that area that
I've put a blue marker over?

I went in there
and wanted to take some

uh, vector
magnetometer readings.

However, when I went to go
put my magnetometer away,

I carry with me
a standard compass,

just the typical
Boy Scout compass.

I had it on a rock.

Uh, it was spinning.

Uncontrollably spinning.

And I thought to myself,
well, maybe it's something

in my backpack or with the rock.

So I picked up the compass,

I put everything down,
and I moved

about five or six feet away,
and it continued.

At about what rate?

Faster than a second hand. Yeah.

ERIK:
One of the stories
that we've heard

on a few occasions is

an old-school magnetic compass

would begin rotating wildly.

We've seen
this kind of thing before

with other instrumentation.

What do we make of it?
I don't know.

Other than
the fact that something

is altering
the magnetic environment.

JAMES:
So I continued
to take magnetometer reads

throughout this area

west of the ranch,
east of the ranch,

south of the ranch, on the mesa.

Most of it was typical reads.

And we're talking
hundreds of data points taken.

But I had three reads
that had the exact same

transient, magnetic
read of anywhere

from a negative to the mid-40s.

TRAVIS:
What James reported
was really interesting

because a normal
magnetic field reading

for this desert area
should be positive

and in the single digits

up to about 80 microteslas.

For him to get negative readings

and as much as
minus 40 microteslas,

that means there's something
unusual underground,

such as a void
or a large metallic object,

or even a structure.

So not only was it here,

but it was right here,

and I had one right there.

When I plugged
these three anomalies,

they lined up in
this imaginary straight line.

Guess where it ran
straight through?

Skinwalker Ranch.

I believe there is
something underground.

There's all kinds of rumors
that have been floating around

this ranch since the day
that I stepped foot on it.

Whether it be underground
tunnels, underground bases,

alien craft
that's buried under here.

And, so, a lot of stories
all indicating

that there may be something
under Skinwalker Ranch.

JAMES:
When you look at this,
you're cutting right directly

through my
focal and origin point,

which is this location
of Skinwalker Ranch.

Hmm.

JAMES:
It looks like a shark tooth.

-That's interesting.
-That is very interesting.

TRAVIS:
James Keenan,
who studied the area

but never
been on the ranch before,

has pinpointed a location
that he called a shark tooth.

Well, we know that
as the triangle.

We call it that after
an experiment last year...

Three, two, one, let it launch.

...where we measured
anomalous energy spikes

from three different locations
across the ranch

that all pointed,
or triangulated,

to this same spot,

except about a mile high
above the ranch.

And just last week,

Steven Wall,
the nephew of the Shermans,

who were so scared

by what they kept seeing
in the 1990s,

that they sold the ranch
and refused to ever come back,

he shared a crazy story
about a possible portal

appearing high
above the triangle as well.

Right over there you could see
something open up in the sky.

Something came out of it.

It come working
its way up through

them Russian olive trees,
and it went straight up,

and that hole closed.

So even though
we've been focusing

our investigation
of the triangle area

high above the ground,

the fact that James is getting
anomalous readings

at this spot below the ground

makes me wonder if that's
where we need to look next.

TRAVIS:
So what do you think it is?

There seems to be the potential
or the possibility

for a tunnel system
with a water feature

going like this
straight down for miles.

So do you think
a cavity or a tunnel

could be an explanation
for the anomaly?

-Yes, absolutely.
-All right.

TRAVIS:
Caverns with water flowing
underneath the ranch

might explain some strange
magnetic anomalies

if it's mineral water or there's
salt or other ionic materials

in the water that can carry
an electric current.

It might also explain something
that happened earlier this year.

-THOMAS: That's a lot of water
that went away.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

TRAVIS:
A few weeks ago,

we dug into
a strange and deep pit

that Thomas found
near Homestead Two.

When we couldn't get
to the bottom of it,

we poured 45,000 gallons
of dyed water

into it just to see
if it would appear

somewhere else on the ranch.

It all just disappeared.

So now I'm wondering if James

is really onto something
that could not only explain

where all that water went,
but just maybe what's behind

the weird phenomena
on Skinwalker Ranch.

What do you want
from us about that spot?

Do a grid pattern search

to see if there...

could be an explanation,

uh, below ground.

Well, we're more than happy
to pack you in to the Jeeps

and head out and let you,

-you know, continue your search.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

-JAMES: Okay. Sounds good.
-BRYANT: Let's do it.

All right.

TRAVIS:
Since the team is very cautious

about disturbing the ground
on Skinwalker Ranch

because bizarre injuries
have coincided with digging...

...we let James
conduct a non-invasive

vector magnetometer survey
right at the triangle

to see if he could
confirm any anomalies.

THOMAS:
So, James,
you've personally seen caverns

that seem like they're
traveling down this direction.

Correct. And, uh, most of these
were filled with, uh, water.

-Okay.
-THOMAS: Well, let's see
what you find.

JAMES:
Can I have somebody log
the numbers from a distance?

-ERIK: Sure.
-JAMES: I'll call them out.

So we're 48.641.

43.842.

49.941.

That's weird.

Hey, guys. So I've got
something interesting here.

We went from
a-a peak value of 49.870

down to a 43 to about a 45.

The value is moving
without me moving.

James's initial reading
of about 49 microteslas

was pretty normal, but then
for him to almost immediately

get a six-point drop--
that makes no sense to me.

The natural ground
shouldn't be that inconsistent.

-So right now it's changing.
-JAMES: Correct.

It's just climbing
right now to 48.

It's just all
over the place right here.

TRAVIS:
When his readings then started
jumping back and forth,

that made me even more intrigued
about what could be causing it.

Something strange
is definitely going on here

below this triangle area.

JAMES:
41.328.

-TRAVIS: Oh, hey.
-ERIK: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

It's dropping.

It dropped
all the way down to 31.

ERIK:
What the heck?

TRAVIS: We need
to look underground.

ZACH: I've brought a
ground-penetrating radar.

Hey, why don't you
come take a look at this.

That's going crazy.

The ground beneath us
is super conductive.

-THOMAS: What the heck?
-KALEB: We should
start excavating.

JAMES:
It's dropping.

Yeah. It dropped
all the way down to 31.

So I don't know how
to interpret this.

-I've got values from 49 to...
-There was a 31.

James Keenan, a researcher
who believes there could be

some kind of underground
flooded cavern or tunnel system

here at the so-called triangle
area, has just picked up

a series of anomalous readings

with a handheld magnetometer.

So 31 to 49.

-JAMES: Correct.
-Okay.

TRAVIS:
James's readings did
indicate a very strange

disturbance in the magnetic
field here underground,

so who knows if that could mean

he's right about a flooded
cavern or a tunnel,

or some kind
of unknown structure,

which people have speculated
about in the past as well.

So I think
the next step is to get

some ground-penetrating radar
equipment out here

and see
if we can get better data,

or even an image
of just what it could be.

Well, James,
this is great stuff.

Uh, I think we've pretty much
covered this area

and, you know,
it's something weird

about this spot.
Uh, so, you know, I say we just

shut down, load up, and head
back to the command center.

-Sounds good to me.
-All right. Well, I appreciate
you doing this.

ERIK:
What's going on, guys?

KANDUS:
We just reviewed

-the footage from the game cams.
-Oh. Cool.

While I was working
with Thomas Winterton

to arrange for a
ground-penetrating radar expert

to come check out
the triangle area,

the ranch caretakers
Kandus Linde and Tom Lewis,

who have been helping monitor

the cattle on the ranch
this summer,

showed some very peculiar
surveillance footage

to Erik Bard.

KANDUS:
This one by the cow tree

had a few things on it that we
wanted you to get your eyes on.

-Okay.
-Yeah.

-ERIK: And...
-KANDUS: Yeah,
start with that one.

-ERIK: Okay. This one here?
-KANDUS: Mm-hmm.

-There.
-ERIK: Okay.

What?

What are we looking at here?

-Um, yeah, what is that?
-KANDUS: We don't know.

-ERIK: So...
-KANDUS: And it's there and
then it's not in each of the,

-you know,
the frames before and after.
-ERIK: Okay.

With these game cams,
everything's in focus,

-everything's pretty clear.
-ERIK: Uh-huh.

And that is very unclear.

ERIK:
Okay.

TOM:
This particular photograph--

I couldn't tell what it was.
It looked like something

flying in the sky, to me,
that was cloaked

and really bizarre,

so I don't have any idea

what that would be
in a natural sense.

And 'cause
this is Skinwalker Ranch,

you kind of have to wonder
what's going on.

I've got tell you,
I'm scratching my head

on some of the features
that I see here.

I'm not sure what to make

of this unusual,
dark spot in the sky.

It's not unlike some
of the other things

that we've seen
in our footage in the past.

So we're going
to be studying that image

and look for more like it
in coming days.

KANDUS:
Then, we noticed the cows

left this area
and didn't come back.

-In the same time frame?
-Mm-hmm.
-Yeah.

Well, I've got
some of the recent

movement cow tracker data.

-You know, this is cumulative
data for the summer.
-Mm-hmm.

Okay. So...

So this is really more
almost like a-a snapshot

of where the--
uh, of where the herd were.

We have the movement system.

The GPS tags in the ears
of some of the cattle

that allow us to study
the movement of the herd

over the course of time.

One surprising result is where

they tend not to congregate,

as if they're avoiding
certain regions of the property.

We have indications
of these tags

being as far
out of the field as here.

-KANDUS: Mm-hmm.
-ERIK: Okay? And we even
have them going down into the,

-you know, into the Serengeti,
right? Down here.
-KANDUS: Yeah.

ERIK:
And yet there are regions
within our own field,

where the cows
seem to avoid them.

TOM:
They've been here
every day, every morning.

-ERIK: So they love
to hang out here.
-Mm-hmm.

And you're saying they left
and, correlative with that,

-we have the puff of smoke.
-Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS:
What made the footage
of this blurry object

and the correlation
of the cattle movement

away from that area
so compelling

is that it was in that
location where last year

one of the cows suddenly died,

and not from natural causes.

So it makes us all wonder
what is going on

with that particular area?

Does it have to do with whatever
was captured in the footage?

Or could it be something
below ground there?

ERIK:
Okay.

-Well, keep them coming.
-Yeah.
-All right.

-TOM: Thank you so much, Erik.
-KANDUS: Yeah, no, thank you for
your time. We'll see you later.

-Looks like MALA's here.
-BRYANT: Yeah.

ERIK:
You guys remember Zach?

-Looks like some new equipment.
Hey, Zach.
-ZACH: Hey, how's it going?

-ERIK: Hey.
Awesome to have you back.
-BRYANT: Welcome back, man.

-Good to see you.
-ZACH: Thank you, thank you.
Good to see you.

ERIK:
I'm thrilled to have Zach Zyla

coming back out to the ranch.

We're going to be taking
a careful look

in the triangle area
where we got those very strange

vector magnetometer readings
with James Keenan.

-What'd you bring?
-I brought a ground-penetrating
radar.

Hopefully, we can see down
to maybe ten to 15 feet,

but, more realistically,
probably six to ten.

All right, sounds good.

♪ ♪

THOMAS:
I feel like we've looked above

in this particular place
pretty good,

and so now it's time
to GPR the triangle,

and see if we can draw
our attention to specific places

that we should dig.

All right,
I'd say let's get on it,

and get this done
as quick as we can.

ERIK:
GPR is ground-penetrating radar.

We're broadcasting radar waves
down into the ground

and looking at the reflections

in order to get an idea of what
may be beneath the surface.

ZACH:
So I kind of see
the triangle comes to a point

right where our trucks are.

Do you mind if we kind of
start right here,

kind of across
this flag and then

we'll start just kind of
going back and forth?

-THOMAS: You're the expert.
-That's perfect.

-ZACH: Let's go.
-KALEB: Do what you need to.

(beeping)

ERIK:
This is an area where
we've seen unusual signals

using other equipment.

There may be something
beneath the ground there,

and we want to see
if anything stands out.

(beeping rapidly)

ZACH:
Hmm.

Interesting.

Hey, why don't you, uh,
come take a look at this.

That's going crazy.

THOMAS:
What the heck?

-BRYANT: We ready to do this?
-THOMAS: Let's dig.

TRAVIS:
Look at this, guys.

I don't know what's going on,
but it's detecting everywhere.

-Like we're triggering
something.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

Did you hear
the gamma rays just go off?

-BRYANT: That's weird.
-What the heck?!

TRAVIS:
There's something
about this hole.

ZACH:
That's going crazy.

We're putting
out an electromagnetic signal

into the ground,
and the ground's really making

that whole thing ring.

You see all these black
and white lines?

This is actually because,

you know,
the soil in the, you know,

ground beneath us
is highly conductive.

TRAVIS: Certain minerals
in the soil, like salt,

which is common to this area,

could make
the ground conductive,

but so could water
or a water flow

like James Keenan
suggested to us when he said

he believes there could be
flooded tunnels

under the triangle area.

ZACH:
Right here. You can see
something kind of weird

is going on in terms of, you
know, maybe ground movement.

Someone kind of dug up,
mushed around

and then, you know,
backfilled everything.

So that point right there,
you're saying

that's been disturbed possibly,
is in this triangle.

Within-- yeah, within kind
of the two areas of the road.

THOMAS:
What the heck?

Now that we
have confirmation that

the soil has been disturbed,
does that mean that someone just

dug here in the past, or was
something actually buried here?

Or, more to the point,
was something

constructed under the ground?

There's really only
one way to figure that out.

Do you think
it'd be a good, uh, next step

that we potentially
start excavating?

I think it could be,
uh, justified.

Really?

Well, that's--
that is interesting.

BRYANT:
It was a mandate given to me

that we were
to be very cautious,

in particular
with digging activities,

but I know that there
are answers that we're trying

to get to the bottom of
that may actually require

more of that sort of activity.

So if we do it in a safe manner,

then I'm prepared
to let the team dig.

THOMAS:
Okay.

Okay.

THOMAS:
Well, let's get this loaded up.

BRYANT:
Thanks again for coming out.

ZACH:
Thanks for, uh, having me again.

TRAVIS: We do have a
mini excavator on the ranch

that Brandon, the ranch owner,

has given permission for us

to conduct shallow digs with

when we find evidence
of anomalies.

So I think we need to take that
step next and see what we find.

-BRYANT: We ready to do this?
-THOMAS: Let's dig.

TRAVIS:
Now, as we conduct our shallow
dig for more scientific evidence

of what could be buried
in the triangle area,

we're going to be very cautious

since we already had
a strange experience this year

when we dug up
the pit at Homestead Two.

ERIK: You guys should take
a look at Kaleb's phone.

KALEB: I don't have
any control over it.

It just goes right
past my passcode.

TRAVIS: Something strange
happened to Kaleb's phone,

like it was being hacked.

Something here
is crying out for help.

KALEB:
Or is it giving us a warning?

TRAVIS:
You know, I'm a scientist.

Things have reasons
for happening, but so many

strange things happen here
that I can't explain.

BRYANT:
All right. If you start
feeling anything funny,

let each other know, okay?

Yep, got it. Thank you.

All right, Thomas!

While Thomas digs
with the mini excavator,

Dragon and Kaleb will be
sifting through the spoils

for anything metallic
that might explain

why the soil here
is so conductive.

Now, Erik and I
will be monitoring

our spectrum analyzer,
our gamma ray detector,

the lightning strike meter,
and we'll use a metal detector

to see if anything else happens
as we disturb the ground.

(beeping)

There's something right here.

Next scoop.

TRAVIS:
It's weird, Erik. Look.

Nothing's happening.
Before, it was going nuts.

-ERIK: Okay.
-I say keep on digging.

(indistinct chatter)

-(beeping)
-Oh.

W-What the heck?

I don't understand

what could be making
the metal detector

register strong hits
and then nothing.

Once again, it's a transient
anomaly that is occurring.

-BRYANT: That's weird.
-What the heck?

-(beeping)
-THOMAS: Holy smokes.

TRAVIS:
What's going on with that?

So now, since people
warn against digging,

could these readings
be because of that?

Or is there something here
underground causing it?

(droning)

Whoa, it was a lot stronger
this time.

I didn't even have to make it
all the way to the ground

before it went off.

THOMAS:
What the heck?

TRAVIS:
I-I'm a foot
from the ground now.

(beeping, droning)

I'm not making it
all the way to the bottom,

-but when I come up
out of the hole...
-ERIK: Okay.

TRAVIS:
That's weird, man.

The deeper we dug there,
the stronger

the signal was getting
on the metal detector.

But we found no metal objects at
all in the spoils at that point.

So it made me think we must be
getting closer and closer

to a really large
metal object or a structure.

(electronic squealing)

-Did you hear the gamma rays
just go off?
-Yeah.

-(electronic squealing)
-KALEB: There it goes again.

-Yeah, 24 microohms per hour.
-What does that mean?

ERIK:
Well, what we're seeing
is more than double

the normal background level.

(electronic squealing)

-TRAVIS: Now it's just,
like, wigged out.
-It's malfunctioning.

-THOMAS: What's going on?
-KALEB: What in the world?

It's detecting everywhere.

There's something
about this hole.

THOMAS:
Well, is it me, or is this

-almost like
we're triggering something?
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

(droning stops)

TRAVIS:
What the crap?

Look, there is nothing now.

This thing was
going crazy a minute ago.

Something weird
just happened here.

It could be natural
or unnatural. I don't know.

THOMAS:
What's charging it?

Is this whole ranch
a big generator?

Well, we've heard
how many stories about

the possibility of something
underneath the ground,

whether it be caverns, a base...

So who's to say it couldn't
be something even more crazy.

We've heard
stories of individuals

going into these
deep caves or caverns,

and we've even heard crazy
stories about these openings

that lead to some
sort of an underground base.

We need to be careful of that

and definitely
study this area more.

Yeah, the really exotic
explanation is there's something

under the ground here
that's either

-using this or causing this.
-Mm-hmm.

We just got
to keep going deeper because

it's certainly
not at eight-foot deep.

We've now gone as deep as we can
with this mini excavator.

So whatever's here
is deeper than we can

actually reach today.

I think what we need to do next

is to conduct a deeper
magnetometry scan of this area

to figure out just what's
causing these energy spikes,

and if it really
could be a structure

or a flooded tunnel system
like James Keenan told us.

BRYANT:
I don't know that
we are any less confused,

but, you know, it definitely
hammers home the point

that we have to
study this area way more.

-TRAVIS: Yep.
-BRYANT: All right, well,

let's pack it up
and get out of here.

NATHAN: Here is the magnetic
data of the whole property.

We've got Homestead Two.

There's extreme
magnetic field anomaly

compared to
the rest of the background.

There's something
going on in the ground,

particularly there
at the homestead area.

-TRAVIS: Hey, fellas.
How y'all doing?
-JEFF: Doing well.

-How are you?
-TRAVIS: After our shallow dig

with the mini excavator
at the triangle area

didn't really find
any definitive evidence

of a structure or a tunnel,

that means we need
to dig much deeper.

But before we can
do anything more invasive

or potentially risky like that,

Brandon Fugal,
the owner of Skinwalker Ranch,

is going to want to see
some hard scientific evidence.

ERIK:
Everybody, I want you to meet
the team from Juniper Unmanned.

(overlapping greetings)

TRAVIS:
So we invited Juniper Unmanned,

a company that specializes

in both magnetometry
and LiDAR technologies

to help us perform a deeper
and more comprehensive scan

of the triangle,
as well as other hot spots

around the ranch
where we keep seeing anomalies.

ERIK:
There are a few

locations of interest relative
to the magnetic question.

The homestead area
out to the west

is very interesting to us.

There are a few concentrated
regions here in the east field

that are also-- they have
some interesting history.

So no shortage of interesting
sites on this ranch.

-THOMAS: Let's get it done.
-JEFF: Great.

TRAVIS:
We want to know
if there could be a connection

between the pit at Homestead Two
where all that water disappeared

earlier this year,
and the triangle area,

which may have
flooded tunnels below it.

So I'm really interested in

what the magnetometry scan
is gonna tell us.

THOMAS:
You think this will work?

Yeah, I think this will be
a good place to get started.

Well, heck. Let us get out
of your way. Right?

You guys get it going.
I want to see it fly.

Okay. I'm going to
power up the drone.

Taking off.

(drone buzzing)

Starting to route.

TRAVIS:
Juniper's drone is equipped

with a sophisticated
magnetometer device

that will scan the entire area

sensing for
any magnetic anomalies

100 or more feet underground,

so if there are tunnels
or structures there,

we should get
a good indication of it.

All right, I'm at altitude.

Turning onto its first line.

THOMAS:
That's really cool.

CHRIS:
The magnetometer
is nice and stable.

Of course,
I'm very excited to see

all the data
that we're collecting,

but I think
the magnetic survey really

holds the greatest promise
for providing insights

into some of the strange things
that have happened

out at the homesteads
and at the point of the mesa.

All right, so it's about
to turn and head towards us.

TRAVIS:
We spent the better part
of the day running

these magnetometry and LiDAR
surveys in the triangle area,

Homestead Two,
and the eastern field.

So, hopefully,
once we process all the data,

we'll have a much more
complete picture of what

could be going on both above
and below the property.

CHRIS:
The magnetometer
is nice and stable.

TRAVIS:
Then, we can talk to Brandon
and decide as a team

how much harder
and deeper we are willing

to poke this nest to get to
the bottom of Skinwalker Ranch.

CHRIS:
Gear down.

All right, guys.
Well, let's pack up,

-and let's get out of here.
-Sounds good.

-ERIK: Hey, gentlemen.
-TRAVIS: Hey, Chris.

JEFF: Hey, guys.
Good to see you again.

-How you doing?
-Howdy.

We're pretty excited
about, uh, the data

that, uh, we've been able
to produce for you all.

TRAVIS:
Juniper compiled all this data

of pretty much the entire ranch,

and we can't wait to see

if there are
any anomalous readings

that they got under the ground
here on the ranch.

It would be better for us
to go to those locations

that you gentlemen found
interesting in this survey.

NICHOLAS:
Uh, what I'm showing here,
this is, uh,

our LiDAR point cloud

of the entire section
that we collected.

As the first area
that I'd like to point out,

it is just southeast
of the helicopter pad.

Uh, there are a couple
of circles that show up

in the ground surface.

As you're walking along,
you might not notice

the difference in the terrain.

TRAVIS:
There is clearly
a circle right here.

You can clearly see
the circle there.

That is very interesting,
and, you know,

it's not far
from where the cow died.

-No. It's right by that.
-TRAVIS: Yeah.

I mean, it's within ten feet,
right? Or 20 feet, maybe.

NICHOLAS:
Looks like there is--
there is a depression

-going all the way around it.
-TRAVIS: What is that?

Probably 50 feet across?

I-I think they're about
ten to 20 feet across.

It definitely does not look
like a natural feature to us

-here at the office.
-ERIK: Yeah, I'm really anxious

to have a look
at the magnetometry results.

NATHAN:
Here is the magnetic data

of the whole property.

And, as you'll see,

we've got
some hot, bright colors

in the southeast,
and it moves off

to greens and blues,
cooler colors, to the north.

The cooler colors represent

lower magnetic intensity
readings,

and the warmer colors
are higher.

If I move a little to the west
here, we have Homestead Two.

TRAVIS:
Really?

There's extreme
magnetic field anomaly

compared to the rest
of the background right there.

You know what? That's exactly
where we always have trouble

-with the...
-With everything.

Yeah, with everything.
Can you zoom in

a little bit closer right there?

I want to see exactly
where that is in the road.

I mean, it's clearly
a magnetic anomaly there.

The really high
magnetic readings

at Homestead Two are incredible.

We've had so much happen there
above ground this year

with our portal investigations,

but this scientific data
is telling us

there has to be
something below ground

like a void or
maybe even a structure.

I really think we need
to convince Brandon to let us

drill a hole there
and see what that is.

NATHAN:
We did a survey
over the triangle,

a magnetic survey.

Here's the triangle.

There's something
going on right here.

TRAVIS:
Could you stop right there

and-and go a little bit
more transparent

with the magnetic data,
just a little bit?

Right there.

What's really interesting
about the magnetic anomaly

at the triangle is how it
looks like an elongated feature

or possibly two main objects

with something
running between them.

So from the lore about some
kind of base under the ranch,

to James Keenan's theory
about a tunnel,

we really
need Brandon's blessing

to explore
deeper underground there.

Well, I'd say, uh,

that's some interesting stuff,
and it gives us

some things to dig deeper into

and maybe even some spots to
go look at a little closer.

This is really great.
It's a feature-rich report

-that we're getting out of this.
-TRAVIS: Great.
Thank you very much, guys.

-BRYANT: Yeah.
-Thank you very much.
-Appreciate it.

ERIK:
So it's telling us
there's something going on

in the ground,

particularly there
at the homestead area.

So we're being led by the data

to explore that
even more deeply.

A-And then, uh,
around the triangle,

th-the weird, oscillating,

uh, magnetic anomaly
is just weird.

Maybe we just
didn't dig deep enough

-to see if there's an opening.
-ERIK: Drill more, drill deeper.

-I agree with that.
-Given that,

I think we should call Brandon

-and talk to him about it.
-Yeah, let's do that.

ERIK:
I'd like to know
what he thinks as well.

The Sherman family has revealed

the actual location where
they were told not to dig.

TRAVIS:
Erik, let's see where that is.

Is there a landmark
or a rock right there?

We need to maybe do
some careful excavation.

I see him now.
Yep. There's Dragon.

TRAVIS: After conducting
comprehensive magnetometry

and LiDAR scans across the
ranch with the representatives

from Juniper,

we got the data back,

which revealed that
at each area of interest,

the triangle, Homestead Two,
and in the eastern field,

there appear to be
anomalous features,

or possibly structures
below the ranch.

So we've asked Brandon
to fly in from Salt Lake City

to meet with us
so we can explain why we

now think it's necessary
to do some excavations

and deeper drilling
than we've ever done before...

-Hey, guys.
-TRAVIS: ...to find out
what could be causing

the bizarre phenomena
on his property.

Hopefully, he'll agree.

ERIK: We want to brief you
on some plans

that we have for exploring
even beneath the ground.

-Wow.
-What I'd like to do is

I'd like to bring it up
on the map and discuss

the motivations,
discuss the data that we have.

Let's do it.

ERIK:
I'd like to start with the area

where we saw the passing
of that cow last year.

We did see some features

in our LiDAR surveys,

possibly something
beneath the ground

could-could account for some
of what's been reported.

And we now know that cows
are avoiding that spot.

So it's interesting.

BRANDON:
I feel like there are
few areas on the ranch,

let alone anywhere in the world,
where you can see

that type of activity.

-ERIK: It's a diversity
of activities.
-Yeah.

-And our second spot here...
-Yeah.

...you can tell is right by
the Homestead Two area.

-We had a magnetometer...
-Mm-hmm.

...uh, that would
measure the amplitude

and specific direction
of the magnetic field,

and in that spot, it showed

there's extreme magnetic field
anomaly right there.

We definitely need
to investigate it further.

This seems to be a very real...

area of interest.
Very real.

Let's just continue
across the property on our map.

This triangle area
has a long history.

TRAVIS:
I mean, this is
right underneath where

last year we lost the balloon
at 5,000 feet above the ranch.

Three, two, one, let it launch.

Last year we launched
a weather balloon equipped

with energy detectors
about a mile high

above the triangle area
hoping to get some data.

It's-it's not...
This is not updating.

MATT:
So somewhere the sensor
stopped working.

TRAVIS:
But the sensors suddenly
just stopped returning data,

and we never found the balloon.

We thought something up there
must have caused that,

but could it be because
of this possible cavern

or tunnel system we've now
detected deep underground?

So what have you observed
most recently in this area

that would cause you to...

to believe that
we need to dig deeper?

-Strange behavior
of the metal detectors...
-TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.

...in very specific locations.

We also have,
in the opinion of Zach Zyla,

that in fact, yes, our soil is

unusually highly conductive.

Well, I think that's noteworthy.

There's something to it
that's important.

We need to see
what's underground.

We've identified
multiple locations

where we feel like
there will be a...

an in-sight payoff
if we do some drilling.

What are you recommending?

We're not talking about poking
small holes in the ground.

Yeah, these-these might be
as much as 20 inches or so.

-Wow.
-And we're going
to hope to get down

beyond 50-foot deep,
maybe even to 100-foot deep,

at least in a couple of spots.

BRANDON:
The ranch is
a complicated place.

There are great risks associated

with any activity
on the property.

We're always concerned
about disturbing the earth

because we've seen some very
disturbing things happen

as we have disturbed
the earth in the past.

Most notably,
Thomas Winterton's incident,

but also others.

This triangle area
has unexpected similarities

-to the Homestead Two area.
-Yeah.

Well, I have some
interesting news to share.

You know, I recently conferenced
with Ryan Skinner,

who has-has really
gained the confidence

of the Sherman family.

Specifically, Gwen Sherman.

And Gwen revealed

that there is an actual location

of the area on the ranch where
the Shermans said not to dig.

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BRANDON:
There is an actual location

of the area on the ranch
where the Shermans said

not to dig.

TRAVIS: I was stunned
when Brandon told us

how he had just gotten ahold
of new information

about the Sherman family
and another location

where something strange
could be buried underground

on Skinwalker Ranch.

I'd like to share
with you the coordinates.

40 degrees.

15 minutes.

23.0652 seconds north.

Erik, let's see
where exactly that is.

ERIK:
Uh...

BRANDON:
Is there a landmark
or a rock right there?

-CAMERON: There's something
right on that point.
-BRANDON: Look at that.

TRAVIS:
It's really interesting to me

that when Erik types in

the coordinates
and he puts the pin in,

it shows up right
in the middle of this rock.

That is really
an intriguing thing.

Obviously,
we need to go look at the rock.

We need to walk around it
and survey it, and then we need

to maybe do some,
uh, careful excavation.

TRAVIS:
This spot is very near
Homestead Two,

and between Homestead Two
and the triangle,

so could there be
some kind of connection

between these three points
that might reveal something

if we can just get
deep underground?

Dragon, do you feel comfortable?

After doing
everything that we can

in a noninvasive way,

well, in talking
with these guys and seeing

where the investigation is,

it's gotten to the point where,

you know,
we kind of need to really

start exploring
under the ground here.

If you're prepared to
take on that responsibility,

then I'd like
to proceed aggressively,

especially
while the weather permits.

One thing that we have learned
over the course

of the last few years,
is that strange activity

has been reported
on this property

going back at least
to the early 1900s.

Maybe even hundreds
to thousands of years.

BRANDON:
Exactly.

And I believe
the search for the truth

trumps any previous effort
to try to cloak

or-or really, I think, keep
a lot of these events secret.

And even though there has been
warning given in the past,

I feel like
we have an imperative

to dig both
literally and figuratively

to get to the bottom of what
is at work at Skinwalker Ranch.

We're going to find
some answers to something

that has baffled people
for eons, maybe.

I-I'm comfortable
with executing immediately

and taking a very aggressive
approach on this property.

I guess we've got
marching orders.

And we'll keep you updated and
posted on everything as well.

-Okay, well, with that...
-Let me walk you guys out.

...let's head out.

BRYANT:
There's no question
that it's a distinct possibility

that some of the phenomenon
that are taking place

on Skinwalker Ranch
is associated

with something
beneath the ranch.

I know that I have given
a lot of pushback

about disturbing the earth

and digging
and things of that nature,

but I realize that,
for the investigation,

it's probably
a necessary exercise.

THOMAS:
The only way we're going
to get answers is to dig.

I'm not scared to dig,
but I am cautious.

There's a superstitious
side of me

that still believes that there's
something that takes place

when you dig on this ranch.

ERIK:
People have said for a long time

that when you start digging
on the ranch,

it stirs up activity.

We're no longer
in our comfort zone.

And we're dealing
with the ranch in a way

that may never have
been attempted before.

BRANDON:
This is a key moment

where we're about to embark
on the next frontier.

We all take a deep breath,

and we all carefully consider
not only the risks,

but also the gravity
of what lies ahead

and what we may yet reveal
at Skinwalker Ranch.

THOMAS:
We're going to dig at
this site where the cow died.

That is magnetic right there.
That is crazy.

ERIK:
We're going to poke three holes
out of the triangle.

Hey, guys. This thing's hopping
all over the place.

Magnetic north has been shifted.

It's pointing toward
where they're drilling.

The drill's having
some kind of effect

on the magnetic field
at the ranch.

The Shermans said not to dig

right in the middle
of that rock.

Oh, crap. Look at that.

THOMAS:
What is that?

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