03x06 - Back to the Energy Zone

[bunniefuu]

[narrator] Previously on
Blind Frog Ranch...

[bleep] Holy [bleep].

What'd you find?

[narrator] The team found
gold ingots near
the bead site...

Finally get to hold [bleep]
gold in my hands.

...which led them on a hunt
for the Lost Roads mine.

One, two, three, four.

There's a path here, Ryan.

Just keep following
that [bleep] to the cave.

Where they uncovered
a collapsed mine tunnel

leading back toward
Blind Frog Ranch

and the Keyhole Cavern.

-It's going down that way.
-Yeah, to the south.

Right towards Blind Frog.

This is just one of
seven entrances.

These caverns could be
all connected.

[narrator] But new
trespasser activity posed
a dangerous threat

-to the ranch.
-What the [bleep]?

Look how big this is, man.

It's a fresh dig.

They're coming in at night
when we're not here.

This is dynamite, boys.

They're blowing [bleep] fire.

[narrator] And pushed Duane
to take matters into
his own hands.

This [bleep] ends now.

It ends [bleep] now.

Picking up movement coming
across the creek.

Can you send that drone up?
I'm getting a hit on camera
number six.

-Trail cam.
-Got some trespassers on foot

coming onto the property.

If they're there,
we'll find them.

That's gonna be...

-There we go.
-Oh, wow.

So we're looking for
heat signatures.

Yeah, if it's real light,
it's hotter.

[narrator] Determined to put
a stop to the poachers
digging on the ranch,

the team conducts
a stakeout,

waiting until nightfall
to intercept them.

And look for something
moving around.

Chad has launched
an infrared drone to find

the exact location of
the trespassers
on the property.

Right there.

Nope.

Those are deer.

It's camera number six,
so it'll be all the way
up there.

[Chad] Where are
these [bleep]?

-Right there.
-Right there.

[bleep] Charlie, you're right.

There's someone right here.

Down there? How many?

Two. I see two.

-Let's go down.
-All right.

We're going down there.

They're on the south side.
Go further south on the creek.

[Charlie] Okay.

I'll turn the lights on
with the drone.

-Yep, look at them
moving right there.
-Yeah.

Little [bleep].

Yeah.

They froze up.
I guess they can hear
the drone, maybe?

Oh, [bleep].
Oh, they're running now.

-Charlie boy, they haul a*s.
-Yeah.

[Chad] They must know
we're following them.

They're headed down
towards the creek.

[shouting indistinctly]

-Two males?
-Yes.

One has a backpack.

One's carrying something.
Look at that.

He's carrying something.

[all clamoring]

They're splitting up.

Oh, this [bleep]
trying to hide.

I'm gonna switch
to visible spectrum.

[laughs]

[bleep] what's this, man?

Got you [bleep].

The drone did its job.
I think we scared them enough.

They were moving pretty quick.

Charlie, boy,
they're back to BLM landing.

Hopefully, they're gonna
think twice before coming onto
the property again.

Damn, that works pretty good.

Oh, [bleep],
you should see 'em on this.

Really?

Two guys were over there
hiding in these bushes,

and were following
the whole way,

and they were even trying
to hide under trees
and [bleep].

I mean, 400 foot,
you could see exactly

the two guys right there.

The heat sensors just,
like, blared out.

There was no way
they could hide with that.

No way at all.

[Chad] Yeah, then we went to
normal camera with the light.

You could see who they were.

[Duane] Really?
You get pictures of it?

[Chad] Yeah,
I got a video of it.

[Duane] Hell, I want
to take that picture with me
to the court.

They were moving pretty quick
when I saw them.

They were all [bleep].

[Duane] Good work, fellas.

[narrator] After obtaining
drone footage of the poachers

illegally trespassing,
Duane is in Salt Lake City

for a court appearance.

So right now, we're outside of
my lawyer's office

at Salt Lake City,

bringing the lawsuit
against these poachers

and their phony mining claims.

And if we win,
they won't be able to dig

anywhere in the state of Utah.

I think I've been...

been played for
a long time,

and now we're gonna get
to see the truth coming out,

and so,
we're ready to go to w*r.

And I don't like coming to
the big city

to get your [bleep]
figured out,

but, you know, we're here,

and I hope I dress
good enough.

Let's do this, Bill.

I don't want to celebrate
too much,

but, you know, that went
way better than I expected.

These poachers,
they've been slithering around

on our land,
and they don't get
to do that anymore.

[narrator] Though cameras
were not allowed
in the building,

the court determined
that the poachers

had been digging on
Duane's land illegally

and were found guilty of
using a false mining claim.

Not only must they vacate
the area immediately,

the impending
sentencing hearing
could lead to jail time.

They'll do anything
to kind of see if you drop

your guard and maybe just
give up and then they win,

but they don't get to
do that this time.

These people are trying
to take over the land

and get the gold.

[Charlie] Got a lot of
cleanup to do.

There's a huge hole
they've dug right here.

More back over there.

[narrator] Now that
the poachers are barred
from the ranch,

Charlie has to work on closing
the dig sites

and removing
what was left behind.

Look at all this crap,
this bogus-a*s fake [bleep].

That must have been
the shoring that they were
gonna be using.

Trespassing sign.
We didn't put that up.

That's something they put up,
like they own this place.

This g*dd*mn mess
is all it is.

You know, this is [bleep].

And this is how
they were sneaking on,
was right here.

You can get side-by-sides
down here,

four-wheelers, which they had.

With all this brush down here,
they can actually work

down here and be unseen.

Nobody even know
they're even here.

They've got caution tape
down here.

That's fresh.

It almost looks like...

So this is kind of flattened
out a little bit.

Looks like something's been
coming through here.

I don't know what it is,
but...

I'm looking for tracks
just to see if I can get

an idea of what it is,
but I don't see any tracks.

What the hell is that?

[bleep]

It's a big-a*s deer.

This thing has not been shot,
so it's not done by a hunter.

This neck is snapped.

Snapped right there.

It's still soft.

That's weird right there.

I've never seen blue skin
like that before.

I've been tracking and hunting
my entire life,

and I've never seen
skin color like that.

Something that k*lled this,
I don't know
what the hell it is.

Got like a wet slime on it.

Got a broken neck.
What the hell is this?

What the [bleep]?

It's a [bleep] tooth.

Whatever snapped
the neck when it bit into it,

it lost a tooth.

That's not a bear's tooth.
That's not a mountain lion's
tooth.

I don't know
what the hell that is.

You know, I've seen a lot of
mountain lion kills and, uh...

this ain't no mountain lion,
I can tell you that.

It's something different.
It's not a bear.

There's no more bite marks
anywhere that I can see.

There are no claw marks,
no tracks, no b*llet holes,

so I can't tell you
what it is.

I have no answers for it.

Holy [bleep].
Look at this.

There's a drag mark
right in through there.

Seeing drug down here?

Look at these trail marks.
Ponds right over here.

Beaver ponds are down here.

And this thing comes right off
the road right here.

[bleep]

Something got drug
through here,

but there is no footprints
whatsoever.

I got to get up to guys
and let them know
what I found on this.

Because that's a risk,
having an unknown predator

on the property.

None of this makes
a lick of sense.

-Hey.
-I found something
y'all gotta see.

I found a fresh deer k*ll.

-His neck was broken.
-[bleep]

His tooth was in his neck.

What's that?

That's like a [bleep] fang
of some kind.

That's like a fang, yeah.

You ever seen
a tooth like this?

I could see the very end of
that tooth inside
the deer neck,

so I dug it out.

-Damn.
-But the neck
was just snapped.

There was no other marks
anywhere on it.

The skin on the deer
was blue,

like it had been suffocated
or strangled or something.

How old did
the deer carcass look?

-Was it a fresh k*ll?
-A fresh k*ll. Yeah.

So we have something
roaming around out here
that...

I think it's coming down
in here into the beaver ponds
to feed.

-The deer are up and down
this creek.
-Yeah.

This'll sound weird,
but I don't think that's
a mammal tooth.

That looks like a fang to be
some sort of large snake.

Well, how big a snake
could k*ll a [bleep] deer,
though?

Damn.

[narrator] Of the 31 known
species of snakes in Utah,

none are known to exceed
six feet in length.

While the native kingsnake
is one of the strongest

constrictors on the planet,

their size prevents
them from being capable

of k*lling prey
as large as deer.

[sighs]

-Hey, gents.
-What's going on?

Hey.

-How'd it go?
-Good, good.

They got their [bleep]
shut down.

You know, the lawyer's
got a cease and desist

on these poachers,
so it's all good.

I'm telling you,
there's some lying sumbitches,

so we're going to wrap this
whole thing around their neck.

-Hell, yeah.
-We needed that.

That doesn't solve
all the problems,

but it helps us
to move forward, so.

Well, we got another problem.

What's that?

I found a fresh k*ll, deer.

Neck was broken.

I dug that out of the neck
of the deer.

-No [bleep].
-It's a fang.

It could have been the [bleep]
tooth of that snake.

The one that Charlie took
a picture of by the pond.

[narrator] A few days ago,
while patrolling the property,

Charlie photographed
some sort of animal
in Beaver Creek Pond.

You know, I was patrolling
the property

this morning,
right down there,

and these weeds sounded like
water movement,

and I was
able to grab my phone,
and this is what I got.

[Chad]
What the hell is that?

But that's a huge
serpent-looking thing,

but it's got scales like
an alligator would
all along its back,

but that's only about 12
to 13 feet sticking out
of the water.

The other half is diving
straight down.

-Mmm.
-Same area,
right down the creek there.

I found drag marks, too,
coming down the hill.

Holy [bleep].

-That's getting wild as hell.
-Yeah.

The drag marks, that wide.

-Well, we've seen it before.
-Yeah.

It looks like
they were pulling something
huge out of the pond.

Right here. Look at
this [bleep], Charlie.
Right here.

Right to the beaver ponds.

-I always
wondered what it was.
-That's a big snake.

It's bad as hell.
That's worse than
[bleep] poachers.

It's out there k*lling
large deer.

That was a 200-pound deer.
It was a big deer.

And it just snapped
its neck like nothing.

-Didn't he saw it or anything?
-Nothing, no.

It's down in there somewhere.

Safety-wise, I'm gonna say
let's stay out of there.

I know a guy
that could damn sure
figure this deal out.

Emery Smith,
he's on the board of Stanford.

He can get some DNA
off that deal.

Hell, he can tell us
what the [bleep] it is.

You know, we'll bring in Emery
to find out

what the hell is going
on here,

but right now, you know,
we got to get back
to drilling.

-Yeah.
-We got to.

We should probably head
back up to Mosby's sink

and see if it's dry.

If it's dry up there,
it's going to be dry
down here.

Yeah.

Why don't you and I
grab Skinner,

some packs, and hike up there,

and hopefully we can
get back to drilling.

Sounds good.
Let's go get him.

Yeah.

[Chad] What the [bleep]?
What kind of hair is that?

Bigfoot hair.

Oh, he's rubbing in the tree,
maybe?

Uh, maybe it's just deer shed.

[narrator] Chad, James,
and Ryan are on their way
to Mosby Sink,

a giant hole in
the Uinta Mountains

that channels snowmelt
to Blind Frog Ranch.

That's a lot of water.

Recent flooding on
the ranch was fed underground

by water from the sink.

So Ryan, James,
and I are going to check out

the water flow,
see if it's gone down any,

and see if we still have
a huge flow going under
the ranch.

If the water's gone down,
we can drill the energy
zone then.

-Oh, yeah,
right through there, isn't it?
-Yeah.

I don't hear anything.

Look at this.

Before, you could hear
the water rushing from


There's no creek at all
so far.

The water volume has got to
have decreased considerably.

I'll just see if I can
get down there.

It's tight,
but maybe I can
squeeze through.

Yeah, grab that little camera
for me.

Yeah, I'll go grab it.

Just enough room for a human.

Does it still look dry?

Uh... Oh.

Oh, yeah,
it looks completely dry.

I don't hear any water
running. Nothing.

Yeah, well, this is great,
though,

so this means underneath
the ranch is dried up, too.

Yeah.
Do you need help?

-Uh...
-Come down and grab
that [bleep].

All right, let's get the hell
out of here.

That's great.

All that water in Mosby's sink
affects the water level

that's underneath
the Blind Frog Ranch.

And fortunately,
there is no more water
in Mosby's sink.

It looks like we're good
to go on drilling again

at the energy zone.

All right,
let's drill [bleep].

- [narrator] Coming up...
-We're gonna take
the rat hole rig

right down to this ravine.

If he slips, it's dangerous.

Here we go.

That'll make these [bleep]
pucker up.

Tell him to take that
to himself low idle.

He can drill faster than that.

Yo, Oscar, can you speed
that thing up?

Yeah, boy!

We're starting to see
some storm clouds.

We got a [bleep]
sticking up.

[thunderclap]

Emery!

Duane!

Charlie, how are you guys
doing?

-Doing great. Good seeing you.
-Good.

Oh, my gosh.

I'm glad you called me.

[narrator] Dwayne has
asked Emery Smith,
a biomedical investigator

and a former scientist
for the U.S. Air Force,

to examine the deer carcass
Charlie discovered.

I want you to know
we don't have a clue
what's going on.

My name is Emery Smith.
I'm a clinical specialist
in regenerative medicine,

exobiology and hematology.

Now, I've been classifying
different types
of genetic anomalies.

For 30 years,
I've identified over 3,000
different types of species.

But you said
there was a carcass.

-It's about a 200 pound doe.
-All right.

And... [clears throat]
whatever this thing was,

it just snapped its neck.

There's no other bite marks
on it anywhere.

[Emery] Yeah, I'd like to take
a look at that.

It's a big boa
or whatever it is...

And it's coming out
of the pond
and it left tracks.

-Why don't you guys
show me this body?
-[Duane] Let's go.

-All right.
-[Charlie] Let's do it.

There it is, right there.

[Emery] Well, I'll be...

There's no bite marks
on it anywhere,

-but that neck is snapped
right into half.
-Yeah.

-Yeah, it's twisted
all the way around.
-[Charlie] Yeah.

-And there was this slime...
-[Emery] Uh-huh.

-...like a slime all over it.
-Yeah?

And I felt like a...
a lump in the neck.

That's where I dug
that tooth out of it.

Well, I think, I should
definitely take that

-with a sample.
-Looks more like a fang
than anything.

[Emery] Well, a fang would've
had a channel for venom.

That looks like
a conical tooth to me.

Multiple spinal fractures.

-It's green.
-[Charlie] Yeah.

And what would cause it
to turn green like that?

[Emery] This is plasma.

Without blood cells,
you get this weird
plasma green effect.

Somehow the blood separated.

That's not normal.

How long has it been, Charlie?

It had to have
happened last night

'cause the body
was actually still warm.

Hmm. This just happened


There's definitely something
accelerating the decomposition
of this animal.

That's not how
they deteriorate. [chuckles]

No, I've never seen
anything like it before.

Something is making this
rot a lot quicker.

You know, the bite
was just for leverage.

Kinda, like, wrap itself,
you know, around the neck.

Obviously suffocated
the animal.

And it most likely died
from the pressure

to its circulatory system.

And there's drag marks
coming down the cliff, uh,

near the hill over there,

that are about this wide.

[clears throat]
And apparently, it just
came through here.

This is just something
very odd I haven't
seen before.

And I... I've seen it all.

Let's go check out this pond.

Yeah, it's a drive
back up that way.

-[Emery] All right.
Excellent. I'll follow you.
-Okay.

[Duane] Oh, man.
It's getting wild.

[Emery] Yeah.

[James] Careful right here.

This is kinda lost away.

Yeah, but what you guys
are going to see up here
is just... it's insane.

[Chad] How much longer
we got, James?

[James] Just like
five more minutes.

[Chad] Man,
it was five minutes


[James chuckles] Five minutes.

[Chad] Five more minutes.

[narrator] On their way back
from Mosby Sink,

James has brought
Chad and Ryan
to ancient petroglyphs

near Blind Frog Ranch.

Estimated to be
1,000 years old,

these rock drawings
were made by the enigmatic
Freemont culture

who lived here as early
as 950 A.D.

[James] This is it. [pants]

This is what I wanted
to show you guys.

[Chad] Oh, you're not kidding.
Holy [bleep].

Oh, wow, that's so cool, man.

[James] See right here?
We have these
anthropomorphic figures.

Those look like some type
of deer or antelope.

-[Ryan] Oh, yeah.
-[Chad] I see it.

Do you see over here,
we have that squiggly line?

It looks like a snake.

[James] Yeah, exactly.

[narrator] The petroglyphs
depict animals that were
common here at the time,

including antelope and deer.

But they also depict
mysterious figures

whose meanings
are not so clear,

including a giant serpent.

Some believe that such snakes
may have been common
at the time,

only to have disappeared
in the many years

since this petroglyph
was created.

[Chad] I mean, all these
animals were creatures

that they
were seeing back then.

So what does this mean
for the snake?

You know, who knows.

But it's just interesting
that it's here.

So this is what's really,
really amazing
about this rock art.

You have right here
what almost looks like
a large portal or gateway

-and some creature
coming out of it.
-Yeah.

[James] Like, going down
into the mountain.

[Chad] Super interesting.

Look at the squiggly lines

under
the anthropomorphic figure.

In traditional maps,
that's what you use for water.

Is that a river
running underground?

-You know, is there
a water feature underground?
-[Ryan] Like the water

-that Duane tapped
into under the ranch?
-Exactly.

[Chad]
It's just hard not to think
that there's a connection

between the petroglyphs
and our ranch.

[Charlie] That's the pond,
right there.

I saw the tracks coming up.
It was right in here.

All the way down
to the beaver ponds

-about what? A quarter mile?
-[Emery] Yeah, at least.

And I swam all the way back
as far as I could go...

-[Emery] Right.
-...and the tracks
led all the way back

to that hole back there.

[Emery] Huh. Well,
let's get these samples.

I'm gonna do a sample here.

[narrator] Back at Blind Frog,

Emery Smith takes
a water sample from the pond

to test for DNA.

There's a lot of life in here.

They all leave DNA behind.

We're gonna do
a full microbiology,

which means we're gonna see

what kind of microbes
are there,

how many living creatures
are in there

and who's feeding off of who.

All right, looks good, fellas.

We have the samples
and our job

is to get these tests done.

Off to the lab.

[Chad] Mosby Sink is dry
as a bone over there.

So that means
the energy zone has to be dry.

And we can start drilling.

[narrator] With
the flood waters receded,

the team can finally can
turn their sights

back to drilling
in the keyhole formation

that sits below the vent shaft

that James discovered
with his magnetometer.

How deep did that, uh, scan
show where the vent shaft is?

It's just short of a 125 feet.

[Duane] We need to bring in
a rat hole rig.

And it'll drop us down
about a 150 foot.

It would give us
about 30-inch hole.

It'll get us into
that [bleep] cavern.

What's the plan
when we hit the chamber

with the rat hole rig?

You know, once we tap
into the roof of that deal,

you know good and well,
we're gonna have to drop
some cameras down there.

And if it's a big void
and we're at the top
of the cave,

we will build a basket
that could let somebody
down in there

with oxygen and everything.

We'll bring in a crane
and drop that basket
down in there.

Take the hole we have,
then widen it,

and then we could
definitely fit, like,

a whole basket down in there
without getting stuck.

So we could have plenty
of room to get
in and out of there.

[narrator] Duane's plan
is to drill a shaft
150 feet deep

into the keyhole chamber,

then widen the shaft,

so a person can be lowered
into the chamber from above.

This'll be the deepest
we've ever dug, though,

so there's gonna be
a lot of logistical issues.

If we're going a 150 foot,

that means we're gonna go
through different layers.

So we're gonna start
at the sandstone

and we could hit limestone,

we could hit quartz
and really hard [bleep].

It's just gonna take longer
to get through.

All that hard stone
is gonna wear that bed out,

so they need to bring in
a lot of extra teeth

'cause it'll get hot...

and it'll melt those teeth.

Just getting
that thing over there
is gonna be a b*tch.

Like, we're gonna
have to track it in
which will take a full day.

Well, we got to prepare
the site too.

That's right.
Yeah, we need a flat...

'cause if he's
off tilted a little bit,

-it won't dig a hole.
-Yeah.

All right, we got a plan.
Let's go get this deal
done now.

-It's time.
-Finally.

[motor whirring,
wheels squeaking]

[Chad] Oscar!

What's up, brother?

-How are you?
-Good, man. How're you doing?

So we brought in the,
uh, rat hole rig today.

Uh, we're gonna track it
all the way
to the energy zone.

How long do you think
it'll take to track over there

-to the field site?
-[Oscar] Uh, probably
a couple of hours.

-Couple of hours?
-[Oscar] Yeah.

-[Chad] All right.
-I have to go real slow.
I see the road...

[Chad] Yeah.

[narrator] The 35-ton drill

will need to slowly
travel two miles

to reach the site.

It's a long a tedious route

over rough and uneven trails,

crossing a steep ravine

that still has water in it
from the flooding.

But the most
difficult maneuver

will be navigating
a 750-foot climb

over the backside
of the energy zone.

-[Oscar] Here we go.
-[Duane] Copy that.

It is very difficult
for these guys to get
this equipment up here.

It really is.
It's no game. Uh...

It's pretty steep.

He can slip and slide.

It's... it's a real project.

You're gonna have a little
bit of a slippery drive
over there on the rock.

I'll be above you
the whole time.

If I need to drag on you
or something, I will.

I can tug you up.

This is not my
first rodeo either.

-Yeah, we'll go real slow...
-Yeah.

-...make sure
to break nothing and...
-Okay.

[Duane] Okay.

[narrator] The 35-ton
rat hole rig

needs a hydraulic motor
and brakes to move it around.

While enormously powerful,

the temperature
of the hydraulics needs
to be carefully maintained

or the brakes can fail,

sending 35 tons hurdling

uncontrolled, down the hill.

[Duane] Here we go.

Bring it on down, Oscar.

What we're gonna do
is take the rat hole rig

right down to this ravine.

He's probably gonna
have to spin
his derrick around

and back up there
and if he slips and can't
get up, then I'll, uh,

I'll put a tether on the back
and drag him up.

It's gonna be a little muddy
out there, a little slippery.

These guys that are coming in,
they know what they're doing,

but they're standing
on a hill. It's dangerous.

So they gotta get this right.

[squeaking]

[Duane] Don't make
that [bleep] pucker up.

Here he comes.

Hell, yeah.

[Oscar] Hydraulics overheated.

Yeah, argh, it's stuck.

Rat hole rig, looks like,
it stopped right now.

We'll have to go
over there and see what
the [bleep] is the problem.

[grunts] What the hell
is going on?

[Oscar] Yeah, it jammed.

[Duane] Okay, copy that.

-It's a long way over here.
Sorry about that.
-Yeah.

But we still
got to get it over here.

[narrator] The brutal terrain
at the ranch is causing

the hydraulics
on the rat hole rig
to overheat.

He has problems
with his hydraulics
heating up.

If we can't get
that rat hole rig
to the energy zone,

we're not gonna
be able to drill.

We're gonna burn
the whole day up.

[Oscar] Yeah, yeah.

[Oscar] Yeah.

Yeah.

-[both] That's a long way.
-Long ways.

Yeah, there used to be
a little river over here.

-If you want me to put
tether on you, I will.
-Okay.

[narrator] The quick
application of water

has cooled the drill enough

to finish its journey
to the energy zone.

-[Duane] We're good?
-Thank you. Appreciate it.

-[Duane] Here we go,
let's do it.
-[Oscar] All right.

[Duane] Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
It's another [bleep] cakewalk.

Good job, Oscar. [groans]

-How was it going
down that path?
-Oh, man. Pretty bad.

-Was it really? [laughs]
-[Oscar] Yeah.

Yeah, we'll platform
this whole deal out

-and we'll make it safe.
-[Chad] It was on
the right side from here.

So if we're gonna
carve out some,
it needs to be on that side.

Okay, right. Got it.

[narrator] Now that the drill
has made it
to the energy zone,

the next step
is to create a flat,

stable drilling platform
for the rig.

[Duane]
We could have a cave-in
or anything like that

and if the dirt goes down,
you go down with it.

So it's no game here.
Uh, people can get k*lled.

[Emery] We've taken samples
from the pond

and we're gonna measure
the frequency

of all the life forms in it.

It's not gonna give us
the DNA yet.

We have to send all that out.

But, at least,
we can get a baseline.

We have a lot of bacteria,

amoebas, um, parasites,

which is normal
in these waters.

This one is called Ascaris.

It's weird
because they need a host.

Really?

It's found in animals.

That must mean
there's some sort of

-living being in there.
-Wow.

Right now, our job
is to find out

what the DNA belongs to.

Emery, you know,

if anybody can
figure out this,
somebody like you can.

I will do it, Duane.

-[James] Hey, Duane.
-Hey.

I'm gonna run another


Okay.

[James] We got the drill
up here and I know Duane
is anxious to get going.

So I'm gonna take
the magnetometer and try

to find that exact spot again,

so we don't spend
any time or money.

-[crackling]
-Oh, wait a minute.

Hello, Missy.

There it is.

Right in that location
is a vertical shaft
straight down.

-Okay.
-[James] Yeah.

-It was right in there.
-So we know that void's
right here, right?

[Chad] Yeah, it's right...
right in front
of where he's standing.

We got 'em on the clock
right now. We need to drill.

-We need to
start drilling right now.
-Yeah, right here.

So this whole deal,
we've been waiting years

and this has cost me
about $20,000 a day.

So we'll start drilling now.
Right now.

Everybody just needs to get
the [bleep] out of the way.

[whirring, squeaking]

Everybody out of the way.
We got the drill
coming in now.

[Duane] Yeah.

[drill wails]

[Chad] Yeah, that's it.

-Hey, guys, we ready to drill?
-[all] Yeah.

Here we go. This is it.

[Duane] Yeah, boy.

-[Chad] Yeah, here we go.
-[James] Yeah.

[chuckles] Yeah.

[horns honking]

[horns honking]

That [bleep] horn, man.

How about a radio?

Tell him,
take that son of a b*tch
off low idle.

He can drill faster.

He can pick it up.

Hell yeah, he can drill
faster than that.

[honks horn]
I like that horn.

-[Chad] Hey, just yell at me.
-[laughs]

Yo, Oscar, can you
speed that thing up?

[Duane] Yeah, boy!

-[Chad] Yeah, here we go.
-[James] Yeah.

Yeah. [chuckles]

This is a good sign.
Look how dry that is.

We don't want water.
We don't want a wet mess.

So this is dry. It's good.

[thunder rumbling]

[clicks tongue] We're getting
some rain here, surely.

Everybody's focused
on the drilling,

but I've been
watching the skies

and I'm starting to see
some storm clouds.

Damn energy zone, I guess.

That is how
mountain system here...

really just creates
its own weather pattern.

You just... you never know
what it's gonna do.

That pressure drops...

you know, all hell
could break loose here.

-Sort of done.
-Lightning and thunder
and heavy rain.

It's coming.

The radar says
it's not that far away.

If that storm makes it here,

-and it starts lightning...
-Yeah.

...we got a [bleep] 100 ft

-lightning rod
sticking up right there.
-Yeah. Exactly.

I went and I got
the lightning strike detector

-that I brought in.
-What's it showing? Anything?

No, we're good so far.

-[Chad] How far
can that reach out?
-[James] 25 miles.

-[Chad] Nice.
-[James] Yeah.

[narrator] James'
lightning detector can detect
the electromagnetic pulses

emitted by
a lightning strike...

-[thunderclap]
-...by measuring the strength
of the pulse.

The device can estimate
the distance of the strike.

Uh, I'll keep
an eye out for it.

-All right. Thank you.
-All right. Yep.

[thunderclap]

-Hey.
-[horns honking]

-[Chad] Did you hear that?
-What the [bleep] was that?

[Chad] It's lightning.

-What the [bleep] was that?
-[Chad] How close are we?

-[James]Two miles.
-[Chad] Two miles? Which way?
This will show us, right?

Two miles. Hey, Duane!

-[Charlie] Two miles.
-That lightning
is two miles away.

-[thunderclap]
-[James] That was two miles.

Do you hear that [bleep]?

-There's another one.
-[thunder rumbling]

Chad, you better
shut 'em down.

There's another one, Duane!

[Charlie] The lightning
is too close now.

[bleep] One thing
after another, huh? Jesus!

-Yeah, we wanna get away
from this lightning rod, huh?
-Yeah.

-We'll, uh, we'll start again
tomorrow morning?
-You got it.

[man screams]

-[thunderclap]
-[bleeping]

[narrator] Next time
on Blind Frog Ranch...

[Chad] Oscar is pushing
that drill to the limit,

but we can't get through.

It's like something
beyond our control out here.

[groans]

We keep on pushing
and it keeps on fighting back.

We did EDX with a scanning
electronic microscope

and we found iridium.

Well, iridium means
of earth, right?

It's not natural
to this planet.

There is something huge

going on on your property.

Congratulations, boys.
Looks like y'all got a meteor

at Blind Frog Ranch.