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We have a spiral right here
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that's been put
into this ground.
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That spiral is indicative of...
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A portal, a dimensional rift,
uh, an opening.
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TRAVIS: Our team has heard
Native American testimony
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that interdimensional portals
exist here on Skinwalker Ranch.
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Travis, you-you got to see this.
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TRAVIS: And then,
we've witnessed UAPs...
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Look right here.
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...literally vanish
into thin air.
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Oh, my gosh. It disappeared.
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TRAVIS:
What did it disappear into?
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We've been told stories
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about buried extraterrestrial
bases and craft.
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Now, I'm up against
something pretty hard right now.
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THOMAS:
Look how big that chunk is.
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BRYANT: Are we
chipping away at something
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much larger under the mesa?
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TRAVIS:
And then, we found evidence
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of a huge metal object
deep inside the mesa.
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ROLAND:
I followed the tracks and then,
all of a sudden it turned
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from human footprints
to like a wolf.
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TRAVIS: And tonight,
we're clawing our way
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into another incredible legend
about Skinwalker Ranch
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that, believe it or not,
may also be true.
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What is that?
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We're about to find out
what it is.
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Look at those fangs.
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♪ ♪
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-Hi, Travis.
-Hey, Brandon. How you doing?
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-Brandon Fugal.
Nice to meet you.
-Yeah. How you doing?
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The new owner
of Skinwalker Ranch.
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I see you've been able to get
acquainted with our team.
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-Yeah.
-When Brandon Fugal,
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the owner of Skinwalker Ranch,
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asked me to join
his team in 2019
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and help investigate
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the 512-acre property
in Northern Utah,
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I was a skeptic about
all the legends related to UFOs
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and portals and other
crazy phenomena
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that had been reported
out there for centuries.
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But since our own government
had partially funded
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a prior investigation
of the ranch
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that was led by billionaire
aerospace developer
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Robert Bigelow from the
late 1990s to the early 2000s,
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well, as a former scientist
of the Department of Defense,
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I was intrigued enough
to give it a shot.
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Well, so, one question
I have is why is it called
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Skinwalker Ranch? What is
the-the lore of it, right?
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Well, it's a phenomenon,
is what it is.
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Goes back hundreds of years.
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Native Americans
talk of shape-shifting
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demonic entities
called skinwalkers
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that take on the form of a large
werewolf-like creature
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and also a number
of other shapes.
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Wow.
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Werewolf-like shape-shifters
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on an old cattle ranch?
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Just the idea was hard
to even imagine as having
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any basis in reality.
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So, this used to be
a very operational ranch,
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where they had the cattle
they would process right here.
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TRAVIS: But then I heard
a very specific story
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that had been reported by
the Sherman family,
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who owned the ranch
back in the 1990s.
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There's a story
where a very large wolf
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came in off the plains.
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And a group of calves
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were in this pen right here.
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The wolf put his head through
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and started pulling one
of the calves out of the fence.
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The Shermans, seeing that,
the father then went inside,
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got a weapon, and came out
and started shooting at it.
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Point blank,
you know, right here.
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Shooting at the wolf.
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Right, like a .357 and then
that didn't do anything,
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so apparently it let them
go back in and get a bigger gun,
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and I guess that's
what it took to let it,
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to make it drop the calf.
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And the story goes
that this animal
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was strong enough to withstand,
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allegedly, six shots from a .357
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and a couple shots
from a .30-06 rifle.
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So, they pursued after it,
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and as they got to the part
of the ranch
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where the river
bisects the property,
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they could see tracks
going down the mud
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and starting up the side
of the bank on the other side
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and then disappearing
into nothing,
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as if the thing
had just vaporized.
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And so, there are rumors
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and stories that have come out
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about all sorts of really
fantastic happenings here.
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TRAVIS:
Another story of an encounter
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with a mysterious creature
came to us in 2020.
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So, how does it feel
right now to be back here?
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It's a little...
I'm a little nervous.
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-Not-not, you know,
to be honest.
-JIM: Yeah.
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TRAVIS:
when a local member
of the Ute Nation
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named Roland McCook
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shared an experience he had
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while hunting on
Skinwalker Ranch
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more than three decades ago.
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How did it start? Tell us,
walk us through this little bit.
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Well, when we was up there,
the weather was moving in,
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and we was looking for
a place of shelter,
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to get out of the weather.
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And when we got in there,
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while we was waiting,
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I was looking out the door,
and I heard,
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uh, like, scurrying.
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(imitates scurrying)
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Something moving, and I turn,
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and then farther
in that back corner,
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some stuff fell over,
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just got knocked over.
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I told him that sounds
bigger than a raccoon.
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I took off, grabbed my gun,
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and out the door
I went after it.
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-Wow.
-We were looking for tracks.
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We noticed there were
human footprints.
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-No shoes on.
-Wow.
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-JIM: In the snow?
-In the snow, yeah.
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And I followed the tracks,
and then, all of a sudden,
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it turned from human footprints
to a big dog tracks.
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Like a wolf.
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And it came out, red eyes,
probably, like, eight feet tall,
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and then it just,
it pointed at me.
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Whatever it is,
it doesn't belong here.
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We shot, we started shooting.
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He had a semi-auto,
and pop, pop, pop, pop.
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And all you hear
is the biggest roar,
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just... (imitates roar)
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Loudest roar I ever heard.
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And after that, it just,
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it was gone. We took off.
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TRAVIS:
Like many others,
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Roland's story
was hard to fathom.
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But not long after that,
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we would find
something ourselves
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here on Skinwalker Ranch
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that suggested
these kinds of stories
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really could be true.
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THOMAS: I want to hear
everything that happened.
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-CHRIS: Yeah, right here.
-I have photos of those
if you'd like to see them.
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-Yeah, I'd love to see those.
-Sure. Look at those,
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-how deep those go down.
-Look at that. Oh, my gosh.
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What the heck?
Holy crap, that just happened.
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What's it like coming back?
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It's pretty surreal
actually, you know.
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It's kind of like
being back home a little bit.
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You know, I lived and breathed
this property for six years.
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After the incredible stories
we heard about
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the Sherman family
and Roland McCook
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encountering huge wolf-like
creatures on Skinwalker Ranch,
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in 2021, we invited
Chris Bartel to come out
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and share some of his
firsthand experiences.
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I would love to show you guys
some of the things
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that I went through
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and important aspects
of the property.
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TRAVIS:
Chris was a policeman
with the U.S. Air Force
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and also worked
on the security detail
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of Robert Bigelow's
investigative team
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on Skinwalker Ranch
back in the early 2000s.
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CHRIS:
Yeah, right here.
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-This is the spot.
-Let's park here then.
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We have this 20-year gap where
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Mr. Bigelow owned the ranch
for which we know very little.
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I think somebody
that spent six years here
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is critical and could be,
uh, crucial
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to helping us solve
some of the mysteries
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that are here on the ranch.
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I find it interesting
that you, uh, stop us here.
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This is by a place
we call the triangle.
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Been a place we've done
a lot of experiments
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and research and had
a lot of interesting data.
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So, I'm curious, tell me
about what you experienced here.
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So, October of 2010,
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we had a pretty good routine
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where one guy
would do a normal run
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through the property to get
kind of eyes on what's going on.
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That day,
the other officer came back,
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and he was like, "Hey,
I-I found some-some big prints
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on top of the mesa."
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And I'm like, "Okay,
let's go take a look at them."
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We get to the top of here,
and we find these giant,
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these pretty good-sized
canine prints.
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I have photos of those
if you'd like to see them.
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-Yeah, I'd love to see those.
-CHRIS: Sure.
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Here, take a look at this.
You can see here.
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Look at those,
look how deep those go down.
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-KALEB: Look at that.
-THOMAS: Oh, my gosh.
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So, that's about three feet
between step?
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CHRIS:
Mm-hmm.
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And then, we had
a couple labs with us.
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You can see here in the
top corner, the labs' prints.
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KALEB: That thing's, like,
four times the size of those.
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That's a very big canine.
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I was here,
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the other officer
was right there,
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and the dogs were kind of
in between us.
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And the other officer says,
"Chris, stop. I hear something."
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Out of that ditch,
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I hear a God-awful
guttural howl growl.
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And I was, like,
frozen for a second,
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so was the other officer,
and the dogs were all alerting.
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The animal jumps out
of the ravine,
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over the berm, and travels west.
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This thing was probably
the size of a donkey, black.
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Instinctively,
the dogs chase after it.
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I run after the dogs.
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We get around that corner there,
it's-it's gone.
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-Wow.
-TRAVIS: Having a military
veteran like Chris
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give such an incredible
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first-person testimony
to the team,
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in addition to the picture
he shared
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of a huge animal track,
was absolutely stunning.
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But then, the following year,
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Dragon and Kaleb Bench made a
discovery in the south field...
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-BRYANT: Hey, Kaleb.
-TRAVIS: ...that revealed
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even more compelling evidence
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that mysterious predators
might be on the ranch.
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BRYANT:
What the heck?
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KALEB:
It looks fresh to me.
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Holy crap, that just happened.
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TRAVIS:
Something had just killed a deer
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and left its carcass
scattered across the area.
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BRYANT:
I'll be curious to hear
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what the vet thinks of it all.
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-Should we head back?
-Yeah, okay.
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TRAVIS:
After taking some photos...
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-BRYANT: Hi, Haleigh.
-How are you?
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BRYANT:
Good.
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TRAVIS:
...Dragon and Kaleb
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sent them to veterinarian
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Haleigh Lundgreen,
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so she could examine them
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and hopefully determine
what may have killed the deer.
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She had examined
another dead deer earlier
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in the year,
which she thought had definitely
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died under
strange circumstances.
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But this time, she had
a much more chilling report.
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So, what do you think of
the latest pictures we sent you?
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I think the scapula's
really interesting.
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So, the scapula
is the shoulder blade.
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There are two large holes
towards the top of that scapula.
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And so are those canine holes
or teeth holes?
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You know, that would be
a very strong animal
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if that were the case.
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Are coyotes--
Do they get big enough
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where they could possibly
do this or are we talking
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about something bigger
than that?
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I would suspect that it would
be something bigger than that.
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Wow.
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We definitely
have also heard stories
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of big wolves
and things of that nature.
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You know, if you're talking
about that type of an animal,
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that opens up a whole
different type of discussion.
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-Yeah.
-HALEIGH: The other issue is,
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if these are bigger predators--
cats, wolves, or otherwise--
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then they're not afraid
to go after humans, as well.
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So you definitely
have to make sure
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you guys are safe.
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TRAVIS: We protect ourselves
and are very careful
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on the ranch because
you definitely would expect
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to see dangerous wild animals
like mountain lions out here.
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But the following year,
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we would make another discovery
in the south field
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that really made us take
Dr. Lundgreen's warning
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very seriously.
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What are you seeing?
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Look at these tooth marks.
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-Yeah.
-That is a tooth that bit
all the way through.
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Look on the other side here.
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-See how that other side
is shattered out?
-Oh, wow!
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-Yeah.
-That's a lot of force.
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It would have
to be larger than a wolf.
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that went down last October.
ERIw
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-Hmm.
-Uh, really kind of mysterious.
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-And it just went down? Mm.
-And it just went down, yeah.
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We'll get a chance for you
to really get your eyes on it,
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put your mind on it
and see what sort
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of insights
you can share with us.
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Sounds good, yeah,
let's go take a look at it.
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TRAVIS: As
our investigation continued
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on Skinwalker Ranch
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in 2023, we invited
biologist Ben Woodruff
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from the Hutchings Museum
Institute in Lehi, Utah,
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to examine the carcass
of a dead cow...
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-Let's head on over.
-...that had died
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several months earlier
in the south field.
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-Well, there's not much left,
is there?
-Mm-mm.
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Huh.
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You know, I was expecting
to see only dry bone
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but I guess there's a little bit
of that soft tissue left there.
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When was it
that this cow died again?
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ERIK: You know, it's been
about six months ago.
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Okay.
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But you don't know why it died?
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ERIK:
No.
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So you've had that amount
of time of solar radiation
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hitting what's left here,
but you still have wet tissue.
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I was not expecting this at all.
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Usually when an animal dies,
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there's stages of decomposition
that should happen,
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and they don't happen here.
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TRAVIS: It was already weird
that Ben thought
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the cow was decaying
at an unnatural rate.
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But given all the lore
about strange creatures
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that supposedly stalk the ranch?
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What he noticed next
really stunned the team.
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Look at these tooth marks
on these ribs
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and on that scapula.
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I mean, these all show
the teeth marks and this...
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Look at this one, though.
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What are you seeing?
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That is a tooth
that bit all the way through.
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-Look on the other side here.
-That's...
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It's shattered
out of the other side.
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See how that other side
is shattered out?
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-ERIK: Oh wow, yeah.
-KANDUS: Mm-hmm.
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BEN:
That's a lot of force.
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KANDUS:
That's a big canine.
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I'm just going to take it off.
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If you look at how thick
this rib is,
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the force that it takes
to go through that...
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I mean,
that would break my teeth,
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if I was trying to do that.
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All these other bites
that you see,
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these I can see
scavengers doing.
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But this, the force that
it takes to go through that...
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Well, that is a big, powerful
canine that's very pointy.
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-TOM: So what kind
of animal is that?
-I don't know.
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This is not a species
that I have ever seen in Utah.
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TRAVIS:
It was amazing.
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Ben thought that
whatever killed this cow
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was potentially
an unknown species for the area.
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BEN: I want to show you
some amazing things,
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kind of give you the results
of, uh, of what we went over.
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-Okay.
-TRAVIS: But when Erik Bard
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and other members of the team
got Ben's follow-up report
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at the Hutchings Museum
Institute,
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it suggested that this predator
might not be from this era.
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-Okay.
-So I wondered,
"How did it die?"
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We don't know, but the really
strange thing was the rib.
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On this rib,
there was this hole.
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So you see this right here?
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That was a tooth mark.
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-Mm-hmm.
-And on this side
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over here is where you see
where it shattered outward.
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-ERIK: Yes.
-So there's only a few animals
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that would fit.
353
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So I took some teeth
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from coyotes
and from a black bear
355
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and I rigged them up
in a drill press.
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I didn't turn
the drill press on,
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I just anchored them in
and then pushed it down
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into this rib. So...
359
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I want to show you
what happened.
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These are the results.
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So these are all coyote teeth.
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And the big one is
a black bear tooth.
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ERIK:
So these look shattered.
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They completely shattered
when I pushed down.
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And I wasn't, like, going hard.
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So, whatever went through this
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was able to do it
without shattering.
368
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So your options are...
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And we talked about it before.
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These shouldn't fit the bill,
but these are perfect.
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This is a dire wolf,
which is an extinct species.
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ERIK: I was not expecting
to hear these words
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come out of Ben's mouth,
but what he told us
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is the best match, structurally,
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to what we've brought
to his laboratory
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is in fact a dire wolf.
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I have absolutely
no framework in which
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to accommodate the presence
of an extinct species
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on Skinwalker Ranch.
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How is this even possible?
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BEN: Now, I'm not saying
that you have
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dire wolves running
around your ranch.
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But I'm just saying,
biologically speaking,
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that's what fits the bill.
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TRAVIS: Ben's analysis was wild,
because a dire wolf
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is the exact kind of animal
that the Shermans
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claimed to have attacked
their cattle back in the 1990s.
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But as objective as Ben's
analysis of the dead cow was,
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it couldn't prepare us
for what we discovered
390
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when we went back
to investigate the south field.
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Erik, this is Thomas,
you got a copy?
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Yeah, go ahead, Thomas.
393
00:16:56,250 --> 00:16:58,083
Got all the equipment
strapped down
394
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and ready to go and
we're entering the river now.
395
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Yep, here we go.
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TRAVIS: After biologist
Ben Woodruff gave his analysis
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that a dire wolf,
398
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which is thought to have gone
extinct 10,000 years ago,
399
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may have been responsible
for the dead cow we found...
400
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Man, this is not easy walking.
401
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...we decided to look for clues
in Dry Gulch Creek,
402
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which runs through the south
field of Skinwalker Ranch.
403
00:17:26,583 --> 00:17:29,500
Hey, Dragon, if you can,
c-cut us off a sample of that.
404
00:17:29,667 --> 00:17:31,292
-Okay.
-TRAVIS: We took some samples
405
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of a tree
that had strange burn marks,
406
00:17:33,833 --> 00:17:36,375
but as we continued
further down the creek,
407
00:17:36,542 --> 00:17:39,000
we made one
of the strangest discoveries
408
00:17:39,167 --> 00:17:41,333
of our entire investigation.
409
00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:43,833
-Whoa! What is that?
-What is that?
410
00:17:44,042 --> 00:17:45,625
Right there.
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THOMAS:
What is that?
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KALEB:
Hard to tell.
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TRAVIS: We're about
to find out what it is.
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THOMAS:
Look at those fangs.
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BRYANT:
Ew! God!
416
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TRAVIS: We've got
a dead animal right here.
417
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BRYANT:
I wonder what that is.
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Just a few hundred feet
down the river
419
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from where I found
this burnt tree,
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we came across
some sort of animal here
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in late stages of decay.
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As soon as we lifted
its head out of the water,
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we saw massive canine teeth.
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So we knew it was
a canine of some type,
425
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but these teeth are pretty big.
426
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It doesn't look like
a coyote or a dog to me.
427
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So what is dead
here in the water?
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TRAVIS: One week later,
Ben Woodruff gave us
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his absolutely stunning report
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based on the jawbone
of the animal
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we found in Dry Gulch Creek.
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BEN: I want to give you
a couple of examples here,
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some comparative anatomy.
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So this is a side view
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of a typical coyote skull,
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And I want you to focus
down here, at the bottom.
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You can see this bulge
is not very big.
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This is the part of the jaw
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that undergoes the most stress
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when these teeth here
are crunching down.
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So keep that in mind,
keep the shape in mind.
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This is a regular
modern-day grey wolf.
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And they're tackling
larger prey up to the size
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of moose or even a buffalo.
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00:19:10,292 --> 00:19:12,833
And you can see
how much larger that is.
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And this is a dire wolf.
447
00:19:19,208 --> 00:19:21,500
If you can see down below here,
448
00:19:21,667 --> 00:19:23,708
how much larger that bulge is.
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00:19:25,125 --> 00:19:26,833
-TRAVIS: It's huge.
-THOMAS: Yeah.
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BEN: Here is
the dentition on your jaw.
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It has the much thicker,
larger bulge like a dire wolf.
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TRAVIS:
Look at that.
453
00:19:40,625 --> 00:19:41,958
What?
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Are you kidding me?
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KALEB:
No way!
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00:19:46,875 --> 00:19:48,667
BEN: I don't want
to put out a hypothesis,
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00:19:48,875 --> 00:19:51,500
but if you handed me this
and said, "Hey, what is this?"
458
00:19:51,708 --> 00:19:54,167
Everything I'm measuring,
everything I'm looking at says
459
00:19:54,333 --> 00:19:56,917
it looks like
it has dire wolf in it
460
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or is a young dire wolf.
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00:20:02,667 --> 00:20:05,625
-ERIK Wow.
-TRAVIS: A dire wolf.
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THOMAS: If we can prove
this is a legit dire wolf,
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that would be
the first physical evidence
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that we have been given
from anybody that suggests
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that the Shermans
actually saw a dire wolf
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trying to pull their cows
through the fence.
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BRANDON: We are on the verge
of getting the very answers
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that we've been seeking
for years.
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We've made incredible progress
in documenting
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the reality of the phenomenon.
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We are just getting started
472
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in scratching the surface of
what we are really dealing with
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here at Skinwalker Ranch.
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TRAVIS: Is the legend
of the skinwalker really true?
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If you asked me that
before I joined this team,
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I'd have probably laughed.
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But as I sit here today,
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all I can say is
that I'm both excited
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and a little bit anxious
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for what we might discover
out here next.
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