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TRAVIS: We're going to get
a 3-D model of Homestead Two.
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mature subject matter.

PETE:
I've got some stuff to show you.

ERIK:
Something odd happened here.

When you walked inside
the building,

it didn't take any data.

This ground here
is the gateway for skinwalkers.

What I saw,
it doesn't belong here.

I'm a little nervous.
Hold on.

-Hey.
-ARIEL: These entities
are out there.

-I already sense it.
-Holy (bleep)!

-Right there!
-BRYANT: Hey, are you guys
seeing anything?

-KALEB: We're looking at an eye.
-ERIK: The temperature

around the homestead
began to drop.

There is one other feature.

I want you
to see this thing.

Whoa! Whoa!

THOMAS:
What is that?

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.

THOMAS:
Right there.

What is that?

ERIK: We have some moving,
unidentified...

sort of object
that appears to be animate.

BRYANT:
Why is it cold?

Yeah, if it were an animal,

-it would be hot.
-BRYANT: It would be hot.

TRAVIS: As we're watching
the thermal camera footage

that we took last night
during Rabbi Ariel Tzadok's

portal experiment
down at Homestead Two,

we're seeing not only what
looks like a possible vortex

with a much lower temperature
than its surroundings,

but also some kind of black
object moving across the frame

that is giving off
absolutely no heat signature.

I don't know what
to make of that.

Wow, so, uh, yeah, we need
to understand that better.

-To me this is...
-Yeah.

This is... startling.

It's exciting in that

it looks, at least,
in the same sort of

genre of experience as what
the NIDS guys talked about,

although it wasn't a monster
that crawled out of this portal,

it was--
we see a weird thing,

and we did see
something in the FLIR,

but we didn't see it
with our eyes.

A couple weeks ago, retired
Army Colonel John Alexander,

who was part of Robert Bigelow's

National Institute
for Discovery Science,

that investigated Skinwalker
Ranch from 1996 to 2016,

he gave an incredible assessment
of what he believes

is causing all the weird
phenomena that happens here.

It's my view that these things

are all connected in some way.

I would say the area

is a portal.

TRAVIS:
Well, we saw
this strange anomaly.

Could it have been something
like that they saw?

I don't know,
but there is a correlation,

and there's a comparison
that one could make.

Well, we have the luxury
of following up.

You know, we can always take
this instrument back out

to the exact same spot.

I would like to have more
than one infrared camera

looking there,
maybe from a couple

-of different directions.
-ERIK: Oh, yeah.

And maybe even have, uh,

night vision goggles going.

Everything we can think of
and redo this experiment

and see if we can see anything
like we saw the other night.

People say that
when you try to stimulate

strange phenomena on the ranch,
the ranch sometimes responds.

(chanting)

TRAVIS:
Last night
with the rabbi here performing

that ancient Hebrew ceremony...

...it may have caused
whatever that was

that we recorded on
the thermal camera to appear.

Hopefully, we can do it
all again but this time

really figure out
just what the heck it is.

-Well, I appreciate
the time, guys.
-Well, of course, Erik.

-Thanks.
-Thanks for letting us
look at it.

-All right, man.
-Thank you, Erik.
-Sure thing.

♪ ♪

TRAVIS:
While Erik and I were preparing

for the follow-up experiment
at Homestead Two,

Thomas Winterton met up with
someone with past experiences

on the ranch named Steven Wall.

He's actually a member
of the Sherman family,

who not only reported
very bizarre and traumatizing

incidents here
back in the mid-1990s

but also similar phenomena to
what we've been investigating,

including the possible
existence of portals.

THOMAS:
How many years has it been
since you've been

-on the ranch?
-Almost, almost 30 years,
I believe.

I-I'm curious what your feelings
are about coming back on.

Nervous, just anticipating it.

Just seeing it.
Seeing if it's still the same.

Steven is the nephew of Gwen
and Terry Sherman and lived

four years here on the ranch,
uh, when he was a child.

BRANDON:
The Sherman family bought
the property in the early '90s.

It was their dream
to raise prized cattle.

The Shermans quickly found out,
unfortunately,

that, uh, they were not alone.

And it's well documented
that the Sherman family

experienced everything
from UFO sightings on the ranch

to disturbing daylight
cattle mutilations...

...to really what
could only be described

as terrifying events
on a regular basis.

All of the strange events that
were plaguing the Sherman family

motivated them
to sell the property.

THOMAS:
Got to be kind of hard to talk

about some of these things

as far as, does it dredge
up old memories,

-old emotions?
-It does. Right now I have

a lot of emotions
going through me right now.

It's bittersweet, I guess,
coming back, though.

STEVEN:
I lived here as a small child.

There was some
crazy, bizarre things

that happened that
I can remember as a kid that--

I just remember feeling a little
scared, a little nervous.

THOMAS:
I think bringing Steven on

and getting to the bottom
of some of these stories

that we've heard about the ranch

is going to help us
in our investigation

by leaps and bounds.

-TRAVIS: Hey, Thomas.
-Hey, guys.

I'd like to introduce
you to Steven Wall.

-Nice to meet you guys.
-TRAVIS: Hey, man.
-BRYANT: How you doing?

Good, good.

So, Erik and Travis
are the scientists here

on the ranch,
and Bryant is head of security

and also our safety officer.

I'm just wondering
if you can walk us through

some of the things
as they come to mind,

some places that we can look at,

where there are stories
associated with it.

Okay. Well, y'all
want to walk over here.

-TRAVIS: All right.
-ERIK: Everything I know

about the time when
Terry and Gwen Sherman

lived on the ranch is known
through the public record.

I've never had the opportunity
to speak with them personally.

I think it's special for our
whole team to hear from Steven.

THOMAS:
We are walking down to an area
where we've been told

about some dogs
that were killed.

TRAVIS:
The vaporizing dogs, right?

They weren't vaporized.

-They were compressed
into the ground.
-TRAVIS: Compressed?

What do you mean by compressed?
Like something fell on them

-or what?
-Like something
heavy smashed them.

Really?

Something actually looked like

-they were just squashed
into the dirt?
-STEVEN: Yeah.

From what I remember, a blue orb

came bouncing down off
them rocks right there.

TRAVIS:
They believe a blue orb
killed the dogs?

Is that what you're saying?
Really?

You heard that story
from the people

who actually saw it
with their own eyes?

-I saw it with my own eyes.
-Oh, you saw it?

-Yeah.
-Wow.

STEVEN:
When I was a kid,
me and my uncle saw something

coming down off from the mesa.

As we were standing
by the house,

it looked like
a bouncing ball, an orb,

I guess you would call it,
but it was like a blue color.

I remember
hearing the dogs whimper.

And then I remember
finding the dogs smashed.

I don't really know
what happened,

but I just know
that man couldn't do that.

I've been told about
an area having been burned

in the vicinity
of each of the animals,

-like, uh, a circle
in the ground and...
-Mm-hmm.

-Did that actually happen?
-Mm-hmm.

-Like, it was charred...
-It looked like something hot

sat right there in-in the weeds.

-Really?
-And this is around the dog,

almost like whatever
compressed them was hot

-and it burned the earth?
-TRAVIS: It was one big circle,

-or was it a circle
around each animal?
-Each animal.

So, almost like
the outside edge was hot,

and whatever smashed
them down to the ground wasn't

and just
pressed them into the dirt?

When I hear
these detailed stories

like orbs appearing and crushing
the Shermans' dogs,

they're hard to believe
at face value.

But just a month ago,
right after we excavated

a mysterious pit
near Homestead Two,

that night,
while we were eating dinner,

both Kaleb Bench and I saw a
glowing object near my trailer.

It was right there.

Something yellow
and goldish color,

and it was rectangular.

You know, uh,
we ought to keep moving

and look for other spots
that you want to show us.

-Maybe head down closer
to Homestead Two.
-ERIK: I agree.

TRAVIS:
As a scientist,

I'm still struggling
with Steven's story.

But he's so sincere
about what he claims happened.

And given what I've seen myself,
I wonder more and more if there

really could be things going on
here at Skinwalker Ranch

that conventional science
just isn't going to explain.

(grunts)

♪ ♪

THOMAS:
If you can at all
be specific about...

here, if there--
you know, if possible.

-Obviously it was
30 years ago, but...
-Okay, yeah, well, keep going.

So, so you start getting down
in here, and this is where...

(bleep) gets
a little crazy around here.

So right here
on this knoll right here

is where
everything just gets crazy,

and it seemed like it all
focused around this right here.

♪ ♪

STEVEN: You could see something
open up in the sky.

Something came out of it,
and they were searching

through the trees,
and that hole closed.

TRAVIS:
You ready, Guy?

GUY:
I'm ready.
I can go hit "record."

(Ariel chanting)

STEVEN:
It all focused around this

-right here.
-TRAVIS: Are we gonna
get out here?

Is that what we're doing?

As we were driving
toward Homestead Two

with Steven Wall,
who lived here with the Shermans

back in the 1990s,

all of a sudden,
he gets really freaked out.

The first story that I can

really, really
hard-core remember--

down there, there's a gulch.

-Yeah.
-Yep.
-Okay. Right over there

you could see something
open up in the sky.

Something came out of it.

A peach-colored object
up there, okay?

Me and my uncle saw it
coming through the field,

but it come working its way up

through them
Russian olive trees,

and it came up and just scouted
these trees just like this.

God.

STEVEN:
It came up,
went over the canal,

and it drove down the path
of that road right there.

ERIK:
I want to make sure
I've understood.

You-you described
a scouting behavior,

like a searching behavior?

Yes, like they were,
they were searching

through the trees,
and it went straight up,

and that hole closed.

Wow. That's interesting.

Different people
described seeing

an opening,
a portal or whatever.

Maybe this is a spot that we
need to investigate for that.

It's amazing to meet

another firsthand witness
who believes he may have seen

a portal open
on Skinwalker Ranch.

Steven seemed very sincere,

and it's well-known
that his aunt and uncle,

Gwen and Terry Sherman,

were literally terrified so much

by what they experienced here

that they left
the property in 1996

and have never been back.

STEVEN:
Over here
on this ridge right here...

-TRAVIS: Wow.
-that's exactly
where it all happens.

ERIK:
It's really interesting that

Steven mentioned this location.

Several of our
investigations have led us

to focus attention on what we've
been calling the "triangle."

We have magnetic anomalies,

we have equipment,
I would say, malfunctions.

TRAVIS:
Last year, on my very first
day here on Skinwalker Ranch,

something weird happened in
this exact area up on the mesa.

-Hey, hand me that meter.
-(meter whirs)

Yeah, this is pegging out.

THOMAS:
What's it saying?

TRAVIS:
It's in the milliwatts
per meter squared.

I mean that's a significant
amount of energy right there.

Look, it is going nuts.

Then, a couple weeks later,
we got more radiation spikes

from three spots
across the ranch

all pointing to this same area,

but about a mile high

above the property.

Three, two, one, let it launch.

So we launched a weather balloon
with instruments,

-hoping to find
the energy source.
-THOMAS: Good launch.

ERIK:
This is not updating.

Dude, I've flown
this thing 30 times,

more than 30 times,
it's never failed on me.

TRAVIS:
And the balloon
just disappeared off the radar.

ERIK:
Steven, I can't thank you enough
for all the things

you've shown us
and shared with us,

and you've really set a lot
of the stories straight for me,

and, uh, I just appreciate you
coming out and giving your time.

Absolutely.
Well, you're welcome.

It's good to be back
and just-just see

that it's still the same
as it was when I was a child.

Well, I guess we should
probably be headed back.

-All right. Yep. Yep.
-BRYANT: Sounds good.

♪ ♪

-TRAVIS: Oh, he's here.
-ERIK: Yeah.

Fellas, I want you to meet
Guy Blocker. He's from TRGUS.

-Hi, Guy.
-Hey, how you doing?

-Hey, Guy.
How you doing? Travis.
-Hi, Travis.

TRAVIS:
Tonight,
we're going to reproduce

the experiment we did when
Rabbi Ariel Tzadok was here,

and he did a nighttime
chant ceremony.

(chanting)

TRAVIS:
And we're going to replay
that over a sound system.

If we can see the temperature
change in the infrared cameras,

and if we can see

this weird black anomaly

moving around again,

then we are that
much closer to proving

that there is a correlation
between the rabbi's chants

and seeing these possible
portal phenomena.

I'm interested in seeing
what it is you saw.

What we did see was, looking
at a particular location,

that the temperature dropped in
probably 20 degrees cooler than

the area around it.

And we always try and improve
on our experiments.

This one we hope to be
bigger, better,

uh, and we hope to
create a bigger reaction.

We've already been out setting
up some of the stuff.

-GUY: Okay.
-I'd like to get you out there

-and get set up while we still
got good lighting, so...
-Okay.

I'd say let's grab that,
put it in our Jeep,

and have you ride over with us.

GUY:
What we're going to try to do
when we set up is, we're going

to have the target area
in focus,

get our cameras set up
so we can maximize

the effectiveness
of our sensors.

With the handheld sensors, we're
also able to monitor anything

that's going on around us.

So, even though the main
event is in front,

there may be something else
that may be attached to that

we also want to document.

All right, well, let's get
to putting-- hooking stuff up,

-turning stuff on,
and getting set up.
-Okay.

I guess we got a lot
of work to do still.

In addition to Guy's thermal
and infrared cameras,

Erik and I
also set up every energy

and radiation detector
that we have.

And just in case
something happens

that mysteriously shorts out
any of our electronic devices,

we also set up
old school thermometers

in and outside
of the homestead building

to make sure we measure any
strange drops in temperature

like we got the other night.

I think this is the most
instruments we've put out

-at once before, Erik.
-ERIK: You know, Travis,

I think we set a new record

-every time we do
one of these exercises.
-Right, well,

you know what? If something
happens, I want to see it

-with as many things as we
can see it with.
-ERIK: Amen to that.

Look, this is a really
speculative exercise

when we start talking
about portals and such.

But in this particular location
on Skinwalker Ranch,

anything is apparently possible.

And if we do, in fact,
cause some of this phenomenology

to manifest, we absolutely
want to document it.

We're getting really close
to being set up.

-ERIK: Yeah, we're about there.
-I think it's just
a few minor tweaks

and then we just wait
for nightfall to run sound.

Hey, guys. I have
all the cameras on record,

so we're recording right now.

TRAVIS: Why don't you guys get
in place and when you get there,

-give me a call,
and we'll start the-the...
-Yeah.

-the rabbi's singing.
-Sounds good.

THOMAS: Kaleb and I decided that
we would go down to the road

and watch
the ceremony from there.

The first time we saw
some type of object

that seemed to dart down
around the area of the road.

And so definitely having eyes on
it from a different perspective

could prove to be useful
as this experiment unfolds.

That's good, Thomas.
Uh, tell me-- I'm not seeing you

in there,
so you're in a good spot.

-THOMAS: We are ready.
-TRAVIS: Ready here, too.

(Ariel chanting)

♪ ♪

(chanting continues)

TRAVIS:
Just seconds after the recording

of the rabbi's ceremony
began to play,

there was an obvious
rise in temperature

being shown across
the top of Homestead Two

on the thermal camera feed.

It was crazy.
Just like a switch got flipped.

(Ariel chanting)

THOMAS (whispering):
Hey, hey, hey, hey, come here.

I've got movement in the back.

It's, like, in the back window
or something.

Back corner of the house!

TRAVIS:
Guys, what's going on?

Thomas is running.
Thomas is running.

They're running around crazy.

(Ariel chanting)

TRAVIS:
While the chant's playing,

right at the doorway
of Homestead Two,

the temperature changes--

it gets hot by,
like, nine degrees more

than the surrounding area.

I can't explain that.

Now, if you want to look for

a stretch,
an exotic explanation,

the rabbi said it was a chant

that's supposed
to open up a portal.

So maybe that's
what's causing this strange

temperature anomaly to occur.

Well, several things happened
while the ceremony was going

and the screen
got completely hot,

and now it's sort of
filtering back to normal.

-Slowly. Yeah.
-Yeah. Slowly, right?

GUY: I wasn't really sure
what to expect.

I got to say I was,
uh, quite surprised

by what we did encounter.

It's been the first time
that I've been in a place

using thermal
and watched the temperature

change so drastically.

You know,
on the first experiment,

we saw a lot of things after
the ceremony was finished.

(over radio): You want us
to head back up there

or do you want us to stay put
for a few more minutes?

Stay put.
We're watching it closely,

and if we start seeing
what we saw last time,

I'll tell you guys
to rush in there.

-What's so wild
is how this looks normal now.
-Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS: And all this
was this blue stuff--

I mean, it was just
bright hot red.

T-That's just so weird.

It makes no sense that
we hit the play button

on an acoustic recording

-and the temperature...
the temperature changed.
-The temperature.

-The temperature spiked,
it went up.
-It was crazy.

Rabbi Tzadok performed
that chant specifically

to open a portal,
so it just makes you wonder:

did playing that chant back
cause the temperature to spike?

And, if so,
just what does that mean?

Hey, hey, hey, hey, come here.

I've got movement in the back.

It's, like, in the back window
or something, dude.

Are you seeing it?

What the hell?
The-the FLIR just...

In the window.

(over radio):
Guys, uh, so, the back window

of the homestead--
there was a definite flickering

in the window.
I don't know what it was.

All right. Well, we're going
to head down that way.

We'll watch for you.

♪ ♪

THOMAS:
I'm seeing that again.

-Guys, I see it.
-KALEB: It's right there. Yeah.

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

Back corner of the house!

TRAVIS (over radio):
Guys, what's going on?

Thomas is running,
Thomas is running.

They're running around crazy.

THOMAS:
Right here.

There was something
f-flickering right here.

I've seen it a couple times,

-and he saw it the second time.
-ERIK: All right.

Ah, this is crazy.

Hey, I think we're getting a,

uh, temperature vortex
starting like we had last time,

and it's right above the,
uh, homestead.

THOMAS:
I want to see this thermometer.

Twice now, we've played
this ceremony and twice now,

we have had a pocket
of air much different

from the surrounding area
in temperature come in.

Maybe we are affecting a portal,

or maybe we're at the very
beginning stages of a portal.

KALEB: Hey, did one of you guys
move the thermometer in here?

THOMAS:
No.

KALEB: Because this one's
on the ground.

THOMAS: Kaleb just went inside
the house. The thermometer that

was sitting in the window
is now sitting...

-KALEB: On the ground.
-...on the ground.

Wait, you mean it moved?

Yes,

and nobody's been in the house.

TRAVIS: And right where
you saw that light flicker?

That's a little freaky, guys.

THOMAS:
We're having a hard time

believing that it just
rolled off this, uh, window.

TRAVIS: Tell you what, guys,
while I like watching

up here,
we're recording all of it.

I'm going to wander down
that way and, uh,

see what you guys
are looking at.

Yeah, come down here,
a-and check this out.

KALEB:
So, that was right here.

-Where we set it up.
-THOMAS: So, it rolled off.

ERIK:
How was it attached?
Was it simply...

TRAVIS:
Kaleb and Thomas go
into the homestead area,

and they find that
one of our thermometers,

one of these big mechanical
thermometers that was sitting

in a windowsill,
had been knocked off somehow,

and was on the floor.

So, if we didn't hear it,
how did it fall?

It's a really weird situation.

Did your-- was your FLIR camera,
did it have this window?

No, I was only covering
those first two up here.

TRAVIS:
There's something walking
in the field out here, guys!

-THOMAS: What?
-There's something walking
in the field right out there.

-THOMAS: What are you
looking at-- naked eye?
-TRAVIS: No, in the infrared.

KALEB:
I think I can see what he's
talking about right there.

It's moving, it's moving!

I'm on my way!

-KALEB: It's in there!
-THOMAS: What the heck?

I just got a message
that said that it's unsafe.

Oh, crap. Look at that!

We're actively being
electronically attacked.

THOMAS: There's a spot
appearing in the trees.

TRAVIS:
There's something walking
in the field out here, guys!

While I was inside
the homestead looking out

the back window,
I saw something in the backyard

that looked like
a big blob that was moving.

I thought it may
have been bipedal,

it could have been quadrupedal,

I'm not sure,
but it was just a blob.

ERIK:
How far out?

TRAVIS: Uh, I'm going to
say almost to that fence line.

Thomas, you're 30 yards short.

You're right where it was.

I don't see it anymore,

but it went straight
in front of you, Thomas.

And that... that tree looks
like it's hot or something.

It went right into that tree.

(crickets chirping)

What the heck is that?

It's moving, it's moving!

I'm on my way!

What the frick are you?

Hey, Travis!

TRAVIS:
Yeah? What do you got?

THOMAS:
I saw a white thing in...
See, right there?

I thought it
was something stationary;

all of a sudden,
it started moving.

TRAVIS:
That's right where
I was looking.

-It was something coming up
out of the ground over here.
-THOMAS: So, whatever it was,

it was like a round object.

But it was right there and then,
all of a sudden, boom.

KALEB:
Hey. It's in there!

-THOMAS: You see it?
-KALEB: Yeah, it's right there.
It's right there, it's moving.

TRAVIS:
I don't see how
you're going to get in there.

Be careful, Thomas.

I don't think we're going
to get through that.

THOMAS:
It just gets worse.
What the heck?

What I saw was
like a six-foot diameter,

really intense and then
it kind of got dimmer as it,

like, went out a little bit,
like it faded.

And while I was sitting there
staring at it,

trying to figure
out what it was,

it started to move like this.

And it just kind of moved
across, and then it was like

it disappeared in the trees,
and that's when we...

TRAVIS:
Yeah, it was right
through there.

I'm not seeing it anymore.

Let's go back and...
a-and kind of...

-KALEB: Regroup.
-TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah. Regroup.

-Catch our breath for a second.
-KALEB: Let's regroup.

Calm down.

TRAVIS:
That was exciting, interesting
and weird all at once.

THOMAS:
Whatever it was
that we saw tonight,

these were seen only with
the thermographic cameras.

We couldn't see them
with the naked eye.

And that tells me
that we're not dealing

necessarily with something
that's physical.

Uh, we could be
dealing with something

that's another dimension,
or another realm.

So, I know for a fact
it was not an animal,

and it definitely
was not a human.

Beyond that, uh, you know,
your guess is as good as mine.

Think about what we've been told

by the former
NIDS investigators,

about seeing amorphous things
out here in the trees.

You know, they would appear,
move around a bit,

and then fold in on themselves
and disappear.

Right. You know, I-I didn't see

a monster crawl out of a portal,

-but what I did see was
something I couldn't explain...
-Are you sure?

...running across the field
behind Homestead Two.

What I can take away
from the experiment tonight is

that we played
the rabbi's chant,

we saw
a temperature anomaly again,

and we did see an unusual...

figure, object, thing,

uh, moving through
the infrared camera.

Very similar features

to what we'd seen
in the previous experiment.

I would say it's a success.

I still don't
understand what it means.

Well, we got a lot of data.

We had some weird things happen.

We just need to go back
and analyze the data

-and understand what it means.
-KALEB: Yeah.

ERIK: I've got a few things
going on here.

So, what I want to do

is take us out
into the east field.

-TRAVIS: Okay. Gotcha.
-Virtually.

TRAVIS:
The next morning,

Erik called me and Dragon
into his control room

to check out
the surveillance footage

that was captured
of the mesa at the same time

we were conducting
our experiment at Homestead Two.

Watch what happens here.

-There.
-TRAVIS: Right. Look at that.

Look at the mesa
flickering right there.

-And look at the top over here.
-Yeah.

-There it is.
-There it is.
-BRYANT: Sure enough.

TRAVIS:
Look at that. The whole top
of the mesa lights up.

That piece of the mesa

has a crazy history
of us seeing things.

-Oh, yeah.
-Ever since the beginning.

TRAVIS: Erik, Brandon
and the team have captured

pretty dramatic surveillance
footage in the past

where something

causes the entire mesa
to light up at night.

-THOMAS: Whoa, look at that.
-ERIK: Holy crap.

Hey, guys. We just noticed on
the screen here a second ago--

You see the glow, the flicker?
What is that?

TRAVIS:
And just last year,
during a laser experiment,

we observed a similar phenomenon

where the ridge
appeared to be glowing.

-BRYANT: Yeah, it's almost
like the outline of it.
-TRAVIS: Wow.

So, while we were trying
to figure out if this footage

we got of the mesa was connected

to what happened last night
at Homestead Two,

suddenly, Thomas came rushing in

to alert us of something else.

All right. Well, yeah.

We definitely need
to go put eyes on that.

Hey, guys, I just got
a message that said

that something popped up
on the Wi-Fi,

and it's unsafe.

-TRAVIS: Unsafe?
-THOMAS: On our network.

-On the network?
-And then it kicked me off
on my computer, too.

Something may be hacking us or
trying to get into the system.

It's behaving weird.

Security's a top concern
here at the ranch,

whether it be the premises
or whether it be our network.

And so when I see a notification
like that pop up on my phone,

I'm very concerned

about what it could be

that's affecting our network,

whether it be
an outside influence

or something here on the ranch.

So, if something
is hacking into the Wi-Fi,

we'd see it on
the spectrum analyzer.

ERIK:
So, it's an SDR. Let me see...

TRAVIS:
Well, pull it up.

Oh, crap! Look at that!

Look at this, look right here.

All the way across.
You see these-- this little...

these ripples all the way
across the floor?

The noise floor
shouldn't look like that.

It should be just random.
That's structured.

That is a signal. There's
a signal right now on the ranch

all the way across the spectrum.

So, what could cause
something like that?

I don't know.
That is a manufactured signal.

That is not Mother Nature doing
that, and we're not doing that,

so why is that here
on the ranch?

This is a massive
energy spike being detected

by the spectrum analyzer.

I'm not even sure how
I could create a signal

of this magnitude,

but it reminds me

of something
that happened last year.

Sounds like there's something

just screeching
in the background.

After being awakened
in the middle of the night

by a weird noise
outside my trailer,

I checked my spectrum analyzer
and found the same

kind of signal being detected.

Wow!

I mean, t-there's a signal
oscillating up and down,

all the way up to two gigahertz.

The only thing I could
think of at the time

that could cause
this kind of energy spike

was something Albert Einstein
actually had a theory about.

This might sound crazy,
but what if

the only way to explain
all these things is...

...with a wormhole.

I'm an astrophysicist who has
been researching and studying

the plausibility
of these kinds of phenomena

for more than 25 years,

but I never thought it would
lead me to a ranch in Utah

contemplating
the existence of wormholes.

Look at that. Holy...
Look at that.

I mean, we're actively being
electronically attacked.

Right there.

Holy cow!

There is a crazy signal
right at 700 megahertz.

There's something so broadband
happening right here.

Guys, I-I'm leaving the ranch.
I'm getting a bad headache.

TRAVIS:
I was just suddenly
short of breath.

BRYANT:
Look at the pattern.

-And you don't
normally see this?
-TRAVIS: No, no.

That is a transmitter
somewhere doing that.

-THOMAS: Can your antenna
pick this up?
-I'm going to go over there

right now, and I'm gonna get it
turned on and get it up and

-I'm gonna go start
looking at it. Okay?
-ERIK: All right.

-Let me know if
you need any help.
-Yep.

Erik's just put in

this-this really cool system

near my trailer that has

directional antennas
that I can actually point

the antenna to see where
the signal's coming from.

I want to see if we can
pinpoint this signal.

Well, that's interesting.
There it is.

I need to rotate my antenna
to see where we are.

It's pointing right at
the homestead right now.

Oh, right there.

There it is.

Hey, Siri. FaceTime Erik Bard.

-Erik!
-Hey, Travis.

I am picking up

the signal,
and I have zoomed in on it.

It is southwest

from my Yagi tower.

-Southwest.
-Yes.

Whatever was causing
this energy spike

was not only overwhelming
the ranch's network,

but, because it was so powerful,

it made me anxious
of what could be causing it.

Guys, I-I'm leaving the ranch.

I'm getting a bad headache.

-TRAVIS: Are you serious?
-I'm dead serious.

-Holy...
-TRAVIS: Erik?

-ERIK: Yeah?
-Go to 50 megahertz right now.

50 megahertz, it is-- it is

completely
saturating the spectrum.

THOMAS:
I'll come back
when the signal stops.

Be safe, Tom. Let us know
if anything else happens.

BRYANT:
I don't know what's going on,
but it seems like

he's all out of sorts,

and seeing Thomas
react in this way,

obviously, it raises concern
because he has a history

of having injuries
on this ranch.

TRAVIS:
A couple years ago,

Thomas was digging out a road
on the ranch

and he had a really startling
and frightening experience.

It started with him getting
a really bad headache,

and then he ended up
in the hospital

in a very serious condition.

-TRAVIS: Tom, you all right?
-My head is killing me.

TRAVIS:
Last year, he also

suddenly got a bad headache

just after
we witnessed that strange

glowing phenomenon
on the ridge of the mesa.

-BRYANT: In that spot?
-THOMAS: Right here,
in that exact same spot.

My head is-is hurting bad.

Holy cow.

There is a crazy signal
right at 700 megahertz.

Crazy.

Could this massive signal
that's hit our network

also be causing Thomas pain?

Is it possibly evidence,
like the Shermans believed,

that the phenomena targets
people on the ranch?

And if so, have our recent
experiments provoked it?

I am looking
due north right now,

and it seems
like the signal has moved.

The signal is not
as bright in the southwest...

Okay.

That tells us
the source is moving.

ERIK:
The fact that the source seems

to be moving around
is pretty mysterious.

It's kind of suspicious.

Suggestive
of something artificial.

We don't know whether
we're talking about something

on the land or, in fact,
in the, in the sky above us.

I have no air traffic.

You know, normally I would
look to something like that

to try to explain
a moving source.

I've lost it again.
It's not south anymore.

It's due west now.

ERIK:
I am looking due west

with more than
one of our cameras

for anything that
shows up in the, uh,

beneath the cloud cover.

I got nothing.

TRAVIS:
I honestly have no idea

what is causing this signal.

It's a broadband signal
that has structure

that's nothing like we use

in modern industry
and communication systems.

If I wanted to reproduce it,

I'm not even sure
how I would reproduce it.

But this signal's going
on and on and continuing.

There is a transmitter here
that's designed

in a way I've never seen.

-TRAVIS: All right, Erik.
-Yeah, I've got you.

The signal has moved
in frequency.

This is exactly
what I've seen it doing before,

but there's
so much structure to it

that it's clearly...

There's so much structure to it,
there's clearly something, um...

Say it again, please?

I can't-- hold on,
I got to think. (laughs)

♪ ♪

I was just, uh,

I-I was just suddenly

short of-of breath and like I...
(stammers)

I just hit pause or something.
It was so weird.

Travis, I don't like this.

(stammering) It went--
I don't know.

All of a sudden, I couldn't--
my-my thought was not there.

I couldn't finish
what I was saying.

Ah. That was--
that was freaky weird.

(exhales)

And like, uh...

I'm going over there, Erik.

♪ ♪

Ah. That was--
that was freaky weird.

I'm going to stand up
for a second.

(exhales)

I'm gonna get a drink of water.

Hey, Erik, can you hear me?

ERIK:
Yes, I can hear you.

TRAVIS:
It's gone due east.

Dude, I know that you
want to figure this out,

but we've talked about this.

-Yeah.
-Well, let's get you
out of here.

Let me go stand in
the silo and see if it stops.

Then we'll know it's some--
it's a signal that we can stop.

And see if...
see if I feel different.

I've never had that
happen to me in my life.

If this is an effect of these
microwave and radio wave signals

that are here--
the strange, weird signal--

you can shield out signals
with a metal shield,

and we've got
these silos here on the ranch

that are thick steel
all the way around.

So, you get inside it, and it's
an electromagnetic quiet zone.

BRYANT:
Do you, do you
want to shut the door?

TRAVIS:
Yeah, close it,
but leave a little bit of light.

-Holy (bleep).
-What?

Son of a bitch.

-Did it really go away?
-Yes, it's like a damn switch.

BRYANT:
This is too much.

We need to look
into the physiology

of what's going on
and why it's affecting you,

and I'm standing right next to
you, and I feel right as rain.

It may have stopped.

Do you want
to come back out and see?

(Travis sighs)

Yeah, I'm not feeling it now.

I don't know what to make
of this. I don't know how...

Well, I don't know how I feel
about you staying here.

Well, I feel fine now.

I wonder if the signal's gone?

Let's go in and see if
Erik's still seeing the signal.

Okay.

I had this weird
static electricity feeling

all over my body.
M-My skin was tingling,

my hair was-- felt like it was
standing up more than usual.

But when
I came out the last time,

I no longer felt that feeling.

Well, that's not a coincidence.

Where's your spectrum analyzer?

So, I've got that minimized.
I'll bring it back up.

Does that look anything like
what you were looking at?

TRAVIS:
Uh... no.

That just looks
like noise to me.

Yeah, I don't think
this is exceptional here.

TRAVIS:
You know, it made me think
of how the rabbi

told us he believed that
a portal could be allowing

whatever it is that affects
the ranch and people here

to come and go back and forth
from this dimension to another.

I don't know if that's true,
but if we're experiencing

evidence that we have
the ability to provoke it,

then what can we do to finally
identify just what it is?

I think looking at this--
I think it's fine to call Thomas

and say, well,
if this was the culprit,

it's not happening right now.

-Are you comfortable
with that, too?
-Well, I think so.

Okay. Well, I'll call him and
see if he wants to come back.

(line ringing)

Hey, Thomas. How's it going?

Well, that's a relief.

I'm in here with the guys,
and we're looking at

the spectrum again, and it looks
like things have quieted

back down, so if
you're comfortable with it,

it would probably be
a good time for you

to make your way back
to the ranch, if you want to.

All right. So, we'll see you
when you get back.

All right, thanks. Bye.

I'm glad you're feeling better,
and it's a relief to hear

that Thomas isn't
suffering from any effects.

We fortunately dodged
a bullet this time.

I'm gonna head outside
and wait for him to get back.

Yeah, let's go wait on him.

TRAVIS:
Weird day.

There's always
a little bit of fear

when something weird
happens to you.

What is this phenomenon, though?

Why did it affect me and Thomas
and not the other guys?

Is there something
about our physiology?

Or are we all at risk
just by being here

and conducting experiments?

THOMAS:
I've been on the ranch
long enough to just say that

it's unpredictable, you never
know what's going to happen.

But, really,
now the question is,

is moving forward,

how do we better prepare
for this?

And what do we need to do
to be able

to help us understand
where this is coming from?

BRANDON:
With the ranch, we're dealing
with an intelligence.

We're dealing
with something that

truly has command
over space, time,

even our very consciousness.

Just when you're relaxed

and not expecting
something to occur,

all hell breaks loose
at Skinwalker Ranch.

JAMES:
There's a tunnel system going
straight down for miles.

TRAVIS:
It's right by the triangle.

We need to look underground.

ZACH:
I brought a
ground-penetrating radar.

-That's going crazy.
-KALEB: We should
start excavating.

-BRYANT: You 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.
-Yeah, did you hear

-the gamma rays just go off?
-THOMAS: What's going on?

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