01x06 - Poking The Nest

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There is a bunch of energy,

and the source could be

under Skinwalker Ranch.

I'd like to know

what's in this thing.

- Don't lift it up.

- Mine's beeping.

- That's pretty high. - We were

just exposed to ionizing radiation.

We need to do

ground-penetrating radar

to see what's down there.

This looks like there's

something a thousand feet long.

We got to dig there.

Well, you're gonna have to get

Brandon to sign off on that.

Or it could halt it

in its tracks, Brandon.

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,

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has taken over.

They are determined to solve

the mystery and reveal

The Secret

of Skinwalker Ranch.

Hey, Tom. You copy?

Yeah, go ahead.

You've almost completely

cleared our view

- from that camera.

- Copy that.

Now that we've been

given the go-ahead from Brandon

to begin digging on the ranch,

we thought it'd be

a good idea to install

a lot more security cameras.

That way, if something

strange happens,

we have a better chance

of catching it in the act.

So, is that leveled up, Erik?

Uh, yes.

You've made a big difference.

If we need to adjust it,

we can, a little bit,

towards the bait pens.

So, can you move it

around, then?

Yeah, I'm pointing

at them right now.

- There you go.

- Okay, I've got them.

Bryant, do you copy?

Yeah, Erik. Go ahead.

How are you guys

doing out there?

We're doing good.

One more piece to install.

There's been unusual

activity on this property,

over the course of,

you know, days.

Radiation anomalies.

Look, it is going nuts.

It's coming from up there.

Unusual lights.

That's a definite beam.

It is clearly a beam

going across there.

We got something. Hold on.

- Look, look, look.

- What is that?

We saw a UFO over the property.

- Oh, there it is again!

- There it is again!

- It's still in the same spot!

- Right there.

We don't know why it occurs

or when it occurs.

It's not predictable.

Let's get as far

out on the end as we can.

So, it's helpful to have

constant monitoring in place.

Now we need the screws

and the drill.

Something that

may help us to pull back

the curtain on what

the phenomenology really is.

- Yeah, that is not gonna go anywhere, man.

- Sweet.

Okay, man,

we'll finish cleaning up here

and we'll head back in.

Yep, absolutely.

Thanks, guys.

32, 34, 36, 38.

I got 38.

You see any over in those trees?

- By the trees? Yeah.

- Yeah.

40, 41, 42.

All hanging out right here.

Kandus and I are caretakers

here on the ranch,

and one of the things that we do

is keep track of the cattle.

You know, because there has been

cattle mutilations

over the past few decades here.

All right. So, there's those.

We're the eyes and ears

of this place.

We're constantly looking up,

looking out, listening.

We do keep good notes

on each day that happens here.

Tom, Kandus? You copy?

Yep. Go ahead, Erik.

How are those cows doing?

Yeah, they're all accounted for.

They're all bunched up

in the corner.

They definitely like

this area in the trees here.

Oh, yeah, I see them.

They're all in one spot.

I mean, it's almost like

they're scared of something.

Very strange.

Cameras are helpful because

it gives us additional eyes,

so to speak, in places where

we can't be all the time.

It's like having

assistance 24/7.

I think between the three of us,

let's keep an eye on that.

It's absolutely important

to continue the work.

Of course,

with heightened vigilance.

Before we start

drilling, we want to do

one more sweep

of the target site.

Hopefully, there's no danger

of any of us getting sick.

There's Qal-Tek.

When the team requested

to proceed forward with digging,

to find out exactly what was

underground, I was hesitant.

We're always concerned

about disturbing the earth,

because we've seen

bad things happen.

- You guys remember Casey from Qal-Tek?

- Hey, guys.

We've had people

in the emergency room

with serious injuries that,

frankly, to this day,

remain unexplained.

So, uh, what do we got going on?

Well, we'd like you guys to do

another, uh, radiation sweep

down at Homestead Two, 'cause we

planned on drilling out there,

but Jim and I, and, uh,

and another guy were in there,

our meters went crazy,

and they had weird readings.

I- I got, uh, nauseous

and a headache

and I had some burns

come up on my body.

Really?

T- They formed blisters,

just like I'd been sunburned.

And my doctor looked at them

and he said, "It looks like

"when we do radiation treatment

on people,

that's the kind of burns

that you see."

Yeah, we want to definitely

double-check that area,

do a more thorough search

through there, make sure

that there isn't anything there,

make sure you guys are safe,

- so

- Well, let's grab the gear,

get in the two vehicles

and head out.

Sounds good.

I didn't want

to pull right in front,

'cause I want to stay

at least a little ways away

until Casey gets a chance to get

in there and poke around a bit.

And you can't send

someone in there alone,

- so I'm gonna be right behind you.

- Okay.

And you're trained

in understanding the effects

of this stuff,

so if you notice anything

- Yeah.

- get out of there, right?

- Yeah.

- After my previous visit

to Homestead Two,

I ended up with some

nasty radiation burns.

So I decided it's probably best

I keep my distance

until Jim and Casey can figure

out what's going on over there.

I mean, maybe Erik's right.

Maybe there is some kind

of powerful energy there

that's buried

somewhere deep underground.

All right, guys.

Y'all be careful in there,

watch each other's backs.

All right, sounds good.

- All right. - So right around the

corner here is where we started.

Okay.

We'll start in the back

where the, uh, cistern is.

Everything,

everything I'm seeing here

- is all just background.

- Pretty low?

Yeah. Just background. Nothing.

This is actually

the opposite of what we saw.

All these nails

over here, maybe?

- Nothing?

- Nothing.

- Okay.

- Nothing up on the roofs, nothing.

- Are you finding anything?

- Not at this point.

Nothing-Not at this point.

- Just-just normal background?

- Yep.

- I think, really

- You're not getting anything?

As we're looking around,

the readings that we took

using our instruments show

that it was below

what they would normally read,

and they didn't read

anything higher

than what we call

background noise.

Nope.

Just background.

Maybe we can come

focus over here more?

- Yep.

- Where the well is.

Is that the well, right there?

- Okay.

- One of the things that we did

is we took the top off,

and I'd like to do that again.

- Yep. - But after we kind of check

the area and do a little, uh, scan.

Okay.

- Nothing?

- Nothing. Just background.

Yep, that's just background.

This is interesting.

In the same spot where,

just last week,

I got hit by a huge spike

of ionizing radiation,

Casey and Jim are now

getting zero readings.

So, n-nothing but background?

Nothing but background.

At this point in

time, there's no radiation.

I mean, as far as what

my meters are-are seeing,

there's nothing there

at the moment.

You know how crazy that sounds,

though? "At this point in time"?

- It's

- I mean, that's becoming

the catchphrase

out here at the ranch.

"At this-

at this point in time."

I- It's almost like, you know,

the ranch is, like,

messing with us, you know?

We-we go in there and it's gonna

poke us this time.

And we-Let's go

right back and not-

That's how you make

people crazy.

We've done what we can.

You know, the fact that

there's not a constant source

of something that's harmful

makes me feel at least

a little bit better

- about poking a hole in the ground.

- Right.

It does clear that hurdle

of being able to come in

and see what's under us.

I agree. Well, let's load

our gear up and let's head out.

If there really is some kind

of massive object

or structure located

deep beneath Homestead Two,

then I'm eager to start drilling

so we can find it.

Could we be stirring up

a hornets' nest here? Sure.

But why would we want to walk

away now without any answers?

So, I guess we're

getting some new animals.

Alpacas, I think,

is what I think they are.

Is that the ones

that spit on you?

I think if you make 'em mad,

yeah, they'll spit on you.

Go ahead and open this.

We decided to see

if our drilling operation,

coupled with the introduction

of an exotic type of animal

would help trigger some kind

of strange

or unusual phenomenon.

So, Tom and Kandus arranged for

the delivery of two alpacas.

That's probably good.

That's a type of animal that,

as far as any of us know, has

never been on the ranch before.

- Hello, hello.

- Hey, Jim.

- Good to see you.

- You, too.

- So excited.

- I can see you,

- I can see you've already adopted 'em.

- Yes.

The idea of bringing alpacas

on the ranch was

just to introduce

a different animal.

Something that's never

been here,

something a little bit

more exotic than a cow.

I'm ready to rock and roll.

We thought

it would be interesting

to just see how they react

to the ranch

and how the ranch reacts

to them.

We can put 'em in

this corner pen for now.

We're going to

corral them to start with,

in a smaller space so they can

get more comfortable

to the bigger scope of things,

where we can

maybe eventually let them out

in the pasture.

Just watch out

for their back legs,

'cause they will kick sometimes

if they're scared.

- Kandus, do it.

- Okay.

Hi. Come here.

It's okay, buddy.

Hey, come out. Oh, so sweet.

Come here.

- Okay, just watch his legs.

- There we go.

There we go.

Welcome. Oh, they're so sweet.

We ended up with the alpacas

because they have

very good eyesight,

very good hearing,

and are always aware

of what's going on around them.

- Come on.

- Hopefully they'll react

if they see something

out of the ordinary.

Welcome. This is where

you're gonna live.

But the only thing is,

they're not known

to be very vocal.

So, which one is, uh, Lionel?

The, the chocolate brown, yeah.

- Jed is the lighter one.

- Yeah, he's the blonde. He's four.

And then Lionel's ten.

I got my degree in anthropology.

Which is really the study

of behavior.

So, Tom and I,

being part of this whole team,

we're hoping that

it sheds light on things

we hadn't ever really looked

into before, researching-wise.

They seem to like okay here.

They're doing-yeah,

and their ears are telling, too,

when they stand up.

I like the idea

of introducing

new types of animals

to the property in order to see

if that will stimulate

different types of interactions

with the phenomena.

And it's something that will

hopefully bring new insight.

- They look like they're pretty

comfortable. - Yeah.

People think we're crazy

to want to live out here,

because of the history.

I would like to see

some of these things

people have explained

and described,

'cause I think it's fascinating.

So,

you guys gonna keep a close eye?

Yeah,

it'll be interesting to see

if the ranch changes,

or if, you know, if they pick up

on anything different.

My goal is

to experience this place

and to understand this place.

And hope that

I can see something, too.

- Okay. - Okay. Good job.

- All right.

- We good?

- Yeah.

Uncle Jim.

- Hey, guys, how you doing?

- How are you, brother?

It's always good to see you.

Want to introduce you

to a very close friend

and confidant here.

Uh, this is Larry Cesspooch.

- Larry, I'm Bryant.

- Hi, how's it going?

- Hey. Travis Taylor.

- Glad to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

- Hey, guys, let's have a seat.

Larry Cesspooch

is a local Ute leader.

He's very spiritually in touch

with what we've got here

on Skinwalker.

You know, there's

a lot of people

that profess to be

spiritual leaders,

but Larry has a really

true perspective on this area.

You know, this is home to him.

Skinwalker Ranch is pretty

much surrounded on all sides

by members of the Ute tribe.

These are people

who are very familiar

with all the strange

UFO activity that happens here.

Now, because I'm a scientist,

you'd think I wouldn't be open

to spiritualism

or the so-called paranormal,

but I think it's important

that we examine

all the possibilities,

even the ones that offer

more mystical explanations.

You know, it's interesting.

I've been on the property

since the current ownership

purchased the place.

And, you know,

everybody seems to experience

things, and sometimes

not the nicest things.

It's a very powerful place.

Our people, the Ute people,

were through Colorado and Utah,

and generations have talked

about things

that have happened in this area,

and our people have accepted it

as just part of this universe.

And so, just as there's white,

there's black, and good and bad,

and all of that.

So, I appreciate hearing that.

So, I'd like to kind of get

your perspective on something.

Sure.

It's kind of awe-inspiring

and-and awe-striking to me

when I stand out here

in the middle of the field,

I realize I'm standing

inside a big bowl.

I wonder if this is kind of

like a collector

of whatever's going on here.

Maybe that's why it's here.

I think it's more

like a funnel

where everything

comes to a point.

And so

I don't know if you want

to call it a portal?

A lot of people

have called it that.

Where in your mind do you fit

something like that

as far as an explanation?

- Oh, yeah, I

- I'm just curious. Someone like yourself.

I have no doubt that it's,

uh, from something

not of this earth.

- Okay.

- Historically,

is there tribal history

that says that there were things

that they saw here?

Yeah.

Our people, in Ute,

what people call skinwalkers,

we call that

"ya-go-ven-sin-ite,"

which means "coyote-like."

Have you ever seen one?

I haven't seen one,

but I've had many people tell me

about what they've seen.

When I was in high school,

we came and we hauled hay

for this old couple,

and it was this field

right here.

They had these big dogs,

and they had a bunch

of dead bolts on their door.

And so I asked 'em,

uh, "What's the dead bolts

and the dogs for?"

And they said,

"Well, things come at night."

Skinwalker Ranch really

derived its name from a curse.

The skinwalker curse

has its roots in a feud

between the Ute tribe

and the Navajo tribe.

At a time when the Utes

were really aligned

with the United States

government

and had sold many of their peers

into sl*very.

So, the Navajo

cursed this property.

A skinwalker

is essentially a witch

that has chosen

to put on the skin,

essentially, or the form

of what can only be described

as a giant wolf.

A skinwalker is something

that exhibits

superhuman agility and strength.

Placing the skinwalker curse

on this property

made it a very real place

to avoid.

We've heard all these stories

that if you dig on this ranch,

bad things might happen

to the people

that do the digging.

So, there's a space down here

that we've got instruments

that say there might be

something underground,

but the only way to know

is to drill.

We want to do it safely,

and we certainly don't want

- to do something that's-that's dangerous.

- Right, right.

But we'd love to get

your perspective on it.

Well, normally when

we, we do anything

to disturb the earth,

we usually lay down

the blessing.

'Cause I don't want

to tap into something

- that isn't meant to be tapped into.

- Amen!

That's been my whole contention

the entire time.

Let's put it this way.

- Let's go and see.

- I would love that.

That'd be great.

Well, why don't

we head out there and look?

Let's go for it.

It's a vast property.

How many acres?

- About 512 total.

- Oh, wow.

- I didn't realize it was that big.

- You know,

it goes quite a ways south.

Larry Cesspooch

performing a Ute tribal blessing

at the drill site

might help calm the anxiety

that some of the guys have

about disturbing the ground

on the ranch.

And who knows? Maybe it will

really help keep us safe.

As you can tell, this is one

of the old dwellings here.

We call it Homestead Two.

This is an area

where people have had

various experiences.

I'll leave it at that.

So, if we decide to dig,

it's gonna be

along this roadway,

where we detected anomalies

under the ground.

We don't know what it is,

we just know

it's something different

than the rest

of the dirt around,

- under the ground here.

- Right.

I, I will lay some tobacco.

I will ask for understanding

that no one be hurt or affected.

- We'll listen with reverence.

- Sure.

Okay.

- Wow.

- Thank you very much for that.

We appreciate you helping us

with that.

Yeah, I would hope that you

all would have been praying with me,

'cause you're the ones

who's gonna do it.

And if it's something

that, uh, we shouldn't touch

or tap into,

your instruments,

your machinery,

will malfunction.

And just take that as a sign

that it's not good.

Just leave it at that.

Can't tell you how much

I appreciate everything.

Yeah,

he's been trying to tell us no,

- and, and I think this, this helps.

- Right.

- Thank you so much.

- Thanks for having me, yeah.

Great to meet you, Larry.

Thank you.

The rig operator said

that his rig's 12 foot tall.

And so we're just gonna whack

these branches off.

Today is a day without

precedent on Skinwalker Ranch.

We're drilling into the ground

after having done

ground-penetrating radar surveys

near Homestead Two.

That's perfect.

We're told

that some kind of misfortune

often accompanies digging.

We don't assume

that there's a danger,

but we also don't assume

that there isn't.

In my opinion,

we're ready to dig.

We have the right personnel.

We hired the right consultants.

We're well protected.

We're ready to get out of there

if anything bad happens,

so we're ready to go.

That's a pretty big drill.

Yeah, this is

on Brandon's mandate.

It certainly wasn't mine.

It's gonna be all right, Dragon.

I still have some reservations

about digging or drilling

on the property.

A lot of the activity associated

with digging on the ranch

isn't necessarily what you're

gonna pull out of the ground

- How we doing?

- but what may happen

when you do disturb the earth.

- You guys are ready to do some work, huh?

- Yeah.

I guess we'll

have you come on in, then.

Ground-penetrating radar said

there's something under

the road that's anomalous,

and the only way

to get down there

and look at it is to dig a hole.

So that's what

we're going to do.

Hey, guys. I'm Thomas.

I'm the ranch

superintendent here.

- Jeremy.

- Hey, Jeremy.

So, what we found, guys, is-

we did ground-penetrating radar

on-along the roadway here,

and so there's something

along this stretch

from about where we are

on past that homestead,

probably 50 feet or so.

We've had some-I don't want

to call 'em issues-

but some events,

where there might have been

some radioactive

decay particles.

There might have been

some toxic chemicals.

So we'd like to go small

distances, like a few feet,

measure it with equipment

that Casey brought,

and then, then when it's clear,

do the next few feet

and-and make sure that we're not

getting anybody in any situation

- we don't want to be in, right?

- Sure.

The first hole

we're gonna drill today

will be at the far end

of Homestead Two.

Now, Jeremy Lebeau has been

instructed to go easy,

in case we hit something

really dangerous.

We're drilling today

with hollow-stem augers.

They're hollow in the middle.

That allows us to go down

through the middle

with our sampler.

We'd bring up the sample,

look inside of it,

and you can do whatever readings

you need to do at that point.

And that would be

before we drill down

- and really disturb it.

- Yeah, I like that.

Well, let's get him located

- where we want to plunge that first hole.

- Yeah.

Let's get you situated to

measure whatever they pull up

- from that, right?

- Correct. Correct.

- You want it right there?

- Yep.

Right in the middle

of the road, right there.

Unusual things happen

out at Homestead Two.

It's undeniable.

There's talk about things

being buried here.

There are rumors that there is

some kind of alien activity

beneath this property,

and here we are,

at that very spot,

ready to start exploring

what's beneath the ground,

but we really don't know

what we're going to find.

So, guys,

before you drill, I'm gonna,

I'm gonna remove myself.

- Keep us posted on how you're doing.

- All right.

Okay.

My rational mind says

that there's no problem

digging on the ranch.

My experience makes me

very superstitious.

I didn't believe

in the paranormal

when I came out on this ranch.

It wasn't until my injury

that I really bought

into the whole notion

of digging.

We can check for radiation

or gases that come out,

but show me the scientific meter

that can pick up bad spirits

or bad energies.

And until we have that,

we can't say

that we can monitor

for every bad thing

that could possibly

be coming out of the earth.

Here we go.

So, is this the core sample now?

Yep. He's getting a sample.

Oh, so you're getting dirt

before you even drill.

- That's right.

- Oh, that's sweet.

The drilling just facilitates,

to get to the depth to sample.

There are a couple of reasons

why we don't just bring

excavation equipment out

and just dig the whole ranch up.

Number one, we're not sure

what's down there.

And so, it's safer to do

core samples first.

When we pull the core sample up

and we look at it,

the first thing we're doing

is having Casey

check it

for radioactive material.

There's no radiation

or anything in there?

- Right, Casey?

- Nothing there. Got nothing.

So we can keep moving.

I have no preconceived ideas

of what it is we're gonna hit.

All I know is, it's something

different than the regular dirt?

Well, that's kind of

what we're good at, is

Usually, it's for

engineering purposes,

but we look for anomalies,

things that are there

that shouldn't be there.

- Right.

- Disturbed earth, stuff like that.

We are all kind of apprehensive.

GPR showed that there's

something down there,

but what it is, we don't know.

Is it possible

that these strange objects

that we're seeing is

the source of the radiation

that caused the injury

to Thomas?

Caused the injury to Travis?

So, if we do find

something that shows

dangerous radiation levels,

that's the end

of this investigation.

- Anything?

- Nothing.

Nothing. All right,

let's go get the next one.

Are you getting something?

- No.

- Just normal background?

- Yeah.

- All right. Well, let's bag it

and let's move on

to the next one.

So, this next sample

should be right there.

So,

they're hitting something hard now.

Man, they're on something.

I hear a pinging sound.

You hear that?

Sound metallic?

We're right now at

about 17.

This is at the right depth.

That whole thing's shaking.

So, they're hitting

something hard now.

Man, they're on something.

As we move closer

to the, uh, GPR anomaly,

the core drilling bit

is hitting something,

and it's chattering like crazy,

like it's hitting

something really hard.

I hear a pinging sound.

You hear that?

Sound metallic?

That whole thing's shaking.

What is our depth?

We're right now at about 17.

I think that's right

in the range

where we were getting that ping.

Yeah, I think you're right.

It's just too hard.

We're not going anywhere.

W-We can't go any deeper.

The drill rig's done.

We're gonna break a bit,

shear a pin, do something bad,

do some damage.

Can we look at the bit

when you pull it up,

and maybe see

if there's anything

on the end of it

- that-that makes sense.

- Sure.

The fact that the drill bit

is hitting something

that can't be penetrated

has gotten us all excited

but also a little bit nervous.

I mean, hey, what if some of

the rumors I've heard are true,

and there really is some kind of

alien object underneath there?

- What do you got?

- That was in the middle of it.

Okay, check that,

check that with the meter,

make sure it's not radioactive

or anything.

- Got nothing.

- So, this is siltstone.

Siltstone is

just a type of bedrock

that we have around here.

It's made of silt

rather than sand.

But this doesn't seem

like it adds up

to what we were thinking,

possibly.

I mean, so

But it doesn't look sinister.

No, it doesn't look

Or man-made.

All right,

so I would say we move on.

- Move on.

- Yeah, I think so.

I think somewhere right

in front of the homestead.

This is the one that makes me

a little bit nervous,

just because of the history

of what has happened

at the old homestead,

what happened with you

and other people.

You know, I want to cautiously

keep an eye on this one

for sure.

Oh, I-I agree.

One of y'all just get

on one end of this table

and we'll just walk

with this thing.

Even though

we didn't find anything

at our first drill site,

we're gonna move

to another place,

right in front of Homestead Two.

A little more. All right.

About there is good.

Thank you, man.

At least the trees cooperated.

This is the one that,

if we find radiation gradients

or increases of radiation,

- this is where it's gonna happen.

- Agreed.

We all know there's been a lot

of injuries on Skinwalker Ranch

based upon what we perceived

to be ionizing radiation.

We call that "gamma radiation"

for a short term.

Right over there is where my,

uh, dosimeter went off

and I got exposed to radiation.

So, we were looking to see

if we can measure

ionizing or gamma radiation

in the soil,

which would then give us some

information to go back and say

why these people

are getting hurt.

Well, maybe this will be

"X" marks the spot.

That's where I put the "X"

on the GPR

and said that's where

we should dig.

Look at that.

The whole power line's wobbling.

Why is that rocking like that?

The wire's going nuts.

It was violent.

- Look, there-all the way down there.

- Look, it's

- Oh!

- Holy sh

Yeah.

It's crazy.

Just then, something made

the utility pole nearby shake,

like we were having

an earthquake.

Somebody messing with that wire?

- Who would be there?

- I don't know!

They stopped shaking.

That is really weird.

That's crazy.

That was strange. I mean,

maybe Tom and Dragon were right.

Maybe we shouldn't have

drilled here on the ranch.

Just for one

other safety measure,

I'm gonna walk with Erik,

we'll go in there,

see if this thing

goes off or else

And you've got

the Geiger counter, right?

I mean, I don't love being

a human radiation detector,

but I'd rather us pick it up

before we get any further along.

- Just get out quick if it

- I want to go to the exact same spot

where you experienced

what you did.

- It was at the corner over there, right?

- I know, I know.

- All right.

- Let us know what you find, guys.

- Okay.

- Will do.

I think what we're finding

is that there isn't

a radioactive source

underneath us

that's permanent, anyway.

Yep.

That just looks like fill dirt.

I mean, that's just mud,

is all that is.

That's like, that's like it

has just been put there

not long ago because

they were making a road.

So, I guess our premise is that

if anything that we're doing

out there on the road stirs up

activity, we'll see it on one

- or more of these devices.

- Yeah.

Right now it looks like

it's just that typical range.

Listen to that bit chatter.

There it is.

Boy, that thing sounds like

it's hitting something hard.

Yeah, what the heck is it?

Should we go

out and look at that,

or do you want to poke around

here a little bit more?

Maybe we head over

and take a peek.

Yeah, let's go see.

Boy, that thing is not moving.

Yeah.

That thing's sounding like

it's working way harder.

Yeah. We hit a hard layer.

It was soft,

and then, all of a sudden, boom.

Yeah, there's some kind

of natural layer, I think,

that's about this thick or so.

That's what we were seeing

in the GPR.

Ooh, wow. Look at that.

Oh.

I don't see anything crazy.

Just more dirt.

We're at 29 feet, and that's

just kind of normal dirt

at this point.

Normal clay,

whatever you call that.

- I got a big question for you.

- Mm-hmm

What do you think about

digging on the ranch now?

It's kind of a complicated

answer from my standpoint.

I'm happy-the fact that we

didn't pick up any radiation

or any dangerous things, based

on the equipment we have

coming out of the ground.

But if you look at the lore,

or the stories passed down,

or the reports,

stuff doesn't always

happen immediately

when you dig on the ranch.

It can take time.

Just because we didn't

find anything today

with the drilling process,

that doesn't mean that

things aren't gonna happen

as a result of us drilling.

I hear you.

I and I agree it doesn't

give us carte blanche

to just go digging willy-nilly.

But maybe it's gonna

help us say,

"Look, digging may not

necessarily be

such a heebie-jeebie thing

that, that people think it is."

Dr. Duncan?

Been better, but, uh,

I think you're here

to help out with that, right?

Well, hopefully.

He's, uh, right over here.

So, has he been down ever since,

or has he?

No, he's-he's been

up and around.

He was down a lot

at the beginning.

I woke up this morning

to this screaming sound

that I wasn't familiar with.

The alpacas were under

some sort of distress.

Came to find out one of 'em

was under attack.

Well,

let's see if we can get ahold of him.

The alpacas were in a

great degree of distress,

based on this screaming sound

that we hadn't heard before.

I run into the pen,

and this pack of animals is

just chomping on this alpaca.

You're all right.

They looked like

dogs, but they varied in size.

Like a whole group of something

eating him alive.

Like, that's what

it looked like.

There were a group of animals

just eating him.

It looks bad.

And there was one

animal in particular

that did not move off the alpaca

when I ran into the corral.

It took me picking up a stick

and chucking it at him

to even get him out

of the corral.

Very aggressive.

Very aggressive animal.

So, will you

cauterize the wound?

I'm just glad he's alive.

I didn't know what

you were gonna find.

Yeah.

So, Dr. Duncan,

are you from here?

Okay. Yeah.

Are you familiar

with this property?

Okay. They had some

crazy things that happened.

You know,

they had some stories about big animals

that they saw.

They didn't know what they were.

They had cattle mutilations.

Seen any of those?

The Sherman family bought

the property in the early '90s.

They experienced everything

from UFO sightings

to countless cattle mutilations

of a very disturbing nature.

They had beasts

or entities

that could only be described as

the skinwalkers of old.

These giant, wolf-like creatures

that would appear to them.

They were terrorized.

That's part of what

motivated them

to sell the property.

Okay.

He's good to go?

Okay.

Yeah, well, thank you so much

for coming out.

Although we hoped that

the presence of the alpacas,

coupled with our digging,

might trigger

some strange phenomena,

we thought the pen

we had them in

would protect them from harm.

After what happened, we decided

to take them off the ranch

and move them to a safer place.

- I'll take some of that for you.

- Yeah.

And, uh,

the attack might even be on video here.

I bet we might have something.

You know, it might be

a good idea for you guys just to

- go follow up.

- Yeah.

We got to do everything

we can do to prevent

anything like this

from happening again.

You know, the only thing I can

put my mind to is it's a dog,

- but it's a big dog.

- No.

I think you could see

the way he moved and the color.

Yeah, it's hard to say

exactly what,

you know, bit them.

It was wretched.

We were just

watching some footage.

Obviously, there's nothing

going on.

- These guys are just chilling.

- They're fine. Just hanging out.

Well, the unfortunate thing is,

this camera

went down not too long after

what we're looking at right now.

- Oh, really?

- Yeah.

Are there any other cameras that

might have picked up anything?

Um, yes.

We have the camera that was

on Travis's trailer

looking back towards the corral.

- Okay.

- Let me bring this up.

Oh, God.

So they're already under attack.

We see them running around.

Yeah. Unfortunately,

we don't have a great view.

Okay, so you can see

something in that pen.

- Yeah, there is something

- What is that? - Oh, yeah.

- But that thing is in between them.

- That is a big animal in there.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

Oh, gosh, it's chasing them

in circles.

Okay, so what, um

Something is in there

chasing and grabbing

- Can we see that again?

- Maybe they showed up-I don't

Yeah.

Oh, there.

Right there, that's

- When the first bite happened.

- Yeah.

Let's take a look again.

So, this is an animal

that doesn't hesitate

to attack not one

but two animals

that are as much as maybe

185, 200 pounds.

Watch the footage up there,

and you can almost see something

grabbing onto it right about

Oh, right there. Yeah.

That's when you really

see whatever that is pounce.

I want to back this up

and review it again carefully.

- Yeah.

- Oh

Oh, right there. Oh.

You know what's crazy

about that is,

you would think if it was just

normal animals,

- you'd come running out and,

you know, they'd scatter. - Yeah.

I'm really glad that,

whatever it was, it didn't

turn on you guys.

Could have been

much, much worse.

Yeah. Absolutely.

I felt a lot of

responsibility for these alpacas.

I like to learn

from my mistakes, and so

we're going to move them

to a much more secure location

and prevent anything like this

from happening again.

This is something that

we can monitor, we can data-log

and be on the lookout

for suspicious activity

as, perhaps, more of

our animals may be subjected

to whatever it was.

It was horrible to

hear those alpacas screaming

and know who was in trouble

but not know what was

causing the harm.

I don't know what was

in that pen with them.

I just know something was,

and it was bad.

With all of its beauty

and stunning landscapes,

Skinwalker Ranch, at its heart,

is truly a mysterious,

haunting place.

And I don't believe it's

a coincidence that we see

such disturbing events

happening on this property.

What is at work?

I want to get to the bottom

of that.

There's a helicopter coming in.

That dude's hovering

right there.

I think somebody's watching us

right now.

There's something going on

out here.

What in the world?

It's just dead.

- Get that over there.

- The meter's going nuts.

All the frequencies are excited.

Mankind doesn't

know how to do that.

We're dealing with something

that doesn't want us

to understand.

There's something

happening here.

The cow reacted

the moment that

that object appeared.