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02x05 - The Ranch Strikes Back

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch". Aired: March 31, 2020 – present.*
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Series that follows a team investigating Skinwalker Ranch, located in Uintah County, Utah, United States.

02x05 - The Ranch Strikes Back

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We're going to get a

3-d model of homestead two.

I've got some stuff to show you.

Something odd happened here.

When you walked

inside the building,

it didn't take any data.

This ground here is the

gateway for skinwalkers.

What I saw, it

doesn't belong here.

I'm a little nervous. Hold on.

- Hey.

- These entities are out there.

- I already sense it.

- -Holy!

Right there!

Hey, are you

guys seeing anything?

- We're looking at an eye.

- The temperature

around the homestead

began to drop.

There is one other feature.

I want you to see this thing.

Whoa! Whoa!

What is that?

There is a

ranch in northern utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most

disturbing phenomena on earth

Animal mutilations,

bizarre ufo sightings

and unusual energies that

have proven harmful to humans.

For 20 years, the

federal government

tried to find

answers and failed.

Now a new team of

dedicated scientists,

researchers and

experts has taken over.

They are determined to

solve the mystery and reveal.

The secret of skinwalker ranch.

Right there.

What is that?

We have some

moving, unidentified

Sort of object that

appears to be animate.

Why is it cold?

Yeah, if it were an animal,

- it would be hot.

- It would be hot.

As we're watching

the thermal camera footage

that we took last night

during rabbi ariel tzadok's

portal experiment

down at homestead two,

we're seeing not only what

looks like a possible vortex

with a much lower temperature

than its surroundings,

but also some kind of black

object moving across the frame

that is giving off absolutely

no heat signature.

I don't know what

to make of that.

Wow, so, yeah, we need

to understand that better.

- To me this is

- Yeah.

This is Startling.

It's exciting in that

it looks, at least,

in the same sort of

genre of experience as what

the nids guys talked about,

although it wasn't a monster

that crawled out of this portal,

it was we see a weird thing,

and we did see

something in the flir,

but we didn't see

it with our eyes.

A couple weeks ago, retired

army colonel john alexander,

who was part of robert bigelow's

national institute for

discovery science,

that investigated skinwalker

ranch from 1996 to 2016,

he gave an incredible

assessment of what he believes

is causing all the weird

phenomena that happens here.

It's my view that these things

are all connected in some way.

I would say the area

is a portal.

Well, we saw

this strange anomaly.

Could it have been

something like that they saw?

I don't know, but

there is a correlation,

and there's a comparison

that one could make.

Well, we have the

luxury of following up.

You know, we can always

take this instrument back out

to the exact same spot.

I would like to have more

than one infrared camera

looking there,

maybe from a couple

- of different directions.

- Yeah.

And maybe even have,

night vision goggles going.

Everything we can think

of and redo this experiment

and see if we can see anything

like we saw the other night.

People say that when

you try to stimulate

strange phenomena on the ranch,

the ranch sometimes responds.

Last night with

the rabbi here performing

that ancient hebrew ceremony.

It may have caused

whatever that was

that we recorded on the

thermal camera to appear.

Hopefully, we can do

it all again but this time

really figure out just

what the heck it is.

- Well, I appreciate the time, guys.

- Well, of course, erik.

- Thanks.

- Thanks for letting us look at it.

- All right, man.

- Thank you, erik. - Sure thing.

While erik and I were preparing

for the follow-up experiment

at homestead two,

thomas winterton met up with

someone with past experiences

on the ranch named steven wall.

He's actually a member

of the sherman family,

who not only reported

very bizarre and traumatizing

incidents here back

in the mid-1990s

but also similar phenomena to

what we've been investigating,

including the possible

existence of portals.

How many years

has it been since you've been

- on the ranch?

- Almost, almost 30 years, I believe.

I-I'm curious what your feelings

are about coming back on.

Nervous, just anticipating it.

Just seeing it. Seeing

if it's still the same.

Steven is the nephew of gwen

and terry sherman and lived

four years here on the

ranch, when he was a child.

The sherman family

bought the property in the early '90s.

It was their dream

to raise prized cattle.

The shermans quickly

found out, unfortunately,

that, they were not alone.

And it's well documented

that the sherman family

experienced everything

from ufo sightings on the ranch

to disturbing daylight

cattle mutilations.

To really what could

only be described

as terrifying events

on a regular basis.

All of the strange events that

were plaguing the sherman family

motivated them

to sell the property.

Got to be kind of hard to talk

about some of these things

as far as, does it

dredge up old memories,

- old emotions?

- It does. Right now I have

a lot of emotions going

through me right now.

It's bittersweet, I guess,

coming back, though.

I lived here as a small child.

There was some

crazy, bizarre things

that happened that I can

remember as a kid that

I just remember feeling a

little scared, a little nervous.

I think bringing steven on

and getting to the bottom

of some of these stories

that we've heard about the ranch

is going to help us

in our investigation

by leaps and bounds.

- Hey, thomas.

- Hey, guys.

I'd like to introduce

you to steven wall.

- Nice to meet you guys.

- Hey, man.

How you doing?

Good, good.

So, erik and travis

are the scientists here

on the ranch, and

bryant is head of security

and also our safety officer.

I'm just wondering if

you can walk us through

some of the things

as they come to mind,

some places that we can look at,

where there are

stories associated with it.

Okay. Well, y'all

want to walk over here.

- All right.

- Everything I know

about the time when

terry and gwen sherman

lived on the ranch is known

through the public record.

I've never had the opportunity

to speak with them personally.

I think it's special for our

whole team to hear from steven.

We are walking down

to an area where we've been told

about some dogs

that were k*lled.

The vaporizing dogs, right?

They weren't vaporized.

- They were compressed into the ground.

- Compressed?

What do you mean by compressed?

Like something fell on them

- or what?

- Like something heavy smashed them.

Really?

Something actually looked like

- they were just squashed into the dirt?

- Yeah.

From what I remember, a blue orb

came bouncing down

off them rocks right there.

They believe a

blue orb k*lled the dogs?

Is that what you're

saying? Really?

You heard that

story from the people

who actually saw it

with their own eyes?

- I saw it with my own eyes.

- You saw it?

- Yeah.

- Wow.

When I was a kid, me

and my uncle saw something

coming down off from the mesa.

As we were standing

by the house,

it looked like a

bouncing ball, an orb,

I guess you would call it,

but it was like a blue color.

I remember hearing

the dogs whimper.

And then I remember

finding the dogs smashed.

I don't really know

what happened,

but I just know that

man couldn't do that.

I've been told about an

area having been burned

in the vicinity of

each of the animals,

like, a circle in

the ground and

Did that actually happen?

- Like, it was charred

- It looked like something hot

sat right there in-in the weeds.

- Really?

- And this is around the dog,

almost like whatever

compressed them was hot

- and it burned the earth?

- It was one big circle,

- or was it a circle around each animal?

- Each animal.

So, almost like the

outside edge was hot,

and whatever smashed them

down to the ground wasn't

and just pressed

them into the dirt?

When I hear these

detailed stories

like orbs appearing and

crushing the shermans' dogs,

they're hard to

believe at face value.

But just a month ago,

right after we excavated

a mysterious pit

near homestead two,

that night, while we

were eating dinner,

both kaleb bench and I saw a

glowing object near my trailer.

It was right there.

Something yellow

and goldish color,

and it was rectangular.

You know, we

ought to keep moving

and look for other spots

that you want to show us.

- Maybe head down closer to homestead two.

- I agree.

As a scientist,

I'm still struggling

with steven's story.

But he's so sincere about

what he claims happened.

And given what I've seen myself,

I wonder more and more if there

really could be things going

on here at skinwalker ranch

that conventional science

just isn't going to explain.

If you can at

all be specific about

Here, if there you

know, if possible.

- Obviously it was 30 years ago, but

- Okay, yeah, well, keep going.

So, so you start getting

down in here, and this is where

gets a little crazy around here.

So right here on

this knoll right here

is where everything

just gets crazy,

and it seemed like it all

focused around this right here.

As we were driving

toward homestead two

with steven wall, who

lived here with the shermans

back in the 1990s,

all of a sudden, he

gets really freaked out.

The first story that I can

really, really

hard-core remember

Down there, there's a gulch.

- Yeah. - Yep.

- Okay. Right over there

you could see something

open up in the sky.

Something came out of it.

A peach-colored

object up there, okay?

Me and my uncle saw it

coming through the field,

but it come working its way up

through them

russian olive trees,

and it came up and just

scouted these trees just like this.

God.

It came up, went over the canal,

and it drove down the

path of that road right there.

I want to make

sure I've understood.

You-you described

a scouting behavior,

like a searching behavior?

Yes, like they were,

they were searching

through the trees,

and it went straight up,

and that hole closed.

Wow. That's interesting.

Different people

described seeing

an opening, a

portal or whatever.

Maybe this is a spot that we

need to investigate for that.

It's amazing to meet

another firsthand witness

who believes he may have seen

a portal open on

skinwalker ranch.

Steven seemed very sincere,

and it's well-known

that his aunt and uncle,

gwen and terry sherman,

were literally terrified so much

by what they experienced here

that they left the

property in 1996

and have never been back.

Over here on

this ridge right here

- Wow.

- That's exactly where it all happens.

It's really interesting that

steven mentioned this location.

Several of our

investigations have led us

to focus attention on what

we've been calling the "triangle."

We have magnetic anomalies,

we have equipment, I

would say, malfunctions.

Last year, on my very

first day here on skinwalker ranch,

something weird happened in

this exact area up on the mesa.

Hey, hand me that meter.

Yeah, this is pegging out.

What's it saying?

It's in the milliwatts

per meter squared.

I mean that's a significant

amount of energy right there.

Look, it is going nuts.

Then, a couple weeks later,

we got more radiation spikes

from three spots

across the ranch

all pointing to this same area,

but about a mile high

above the property.

Three, two, one, let it launch.

So we launched a weather

balloon with instruments,

- hoping to find the energy source.

- Good launch.

This is not updating.

Dude, I've flown

this thing 30 times,

more than 30 times,

it's never failed on me.

And the balloon just

disappeared off the radar.

Steven, I can't thank

you enough for all the things

you've shown us

and shared with us,

and you've really set a lot

of the stories straight for me,

and, I just appreciate you

coming out and giving your time.

Absolutely. Well,

you're welcome.

It's good to be back

and just-just see

that it's still the same as

it was when I was a child.

Well, I guess we should

probably be headed back.

- All right. Yep. Yep.

- Sounds good.

- He's here.

- Yeah.

Fellas, I want you to meet

guy blocker. He's from trgus.

- Hi, guy.

- Hey, how you doing?

- Hey, guy. How you doing? Travis.

- Hi, travis.

Tonight, we're

going to reproduce

the experiment we did when

rabbi ariel tzadok was here,

and he did a nighttime

chant ceremony.

And we're going to

replay that over a sound system.

If we can see the temperature

change in the infrared cameras,

and if we can see

this weird black anomaly

moving around again,

then we are that

much closer to proving

that there is a correlation

between the rabbi's chants

and seeing these

possible portal phenomena.

I'm interested in seeing

what it is you saw.

What we did see was,

looking at a particular location,

that the temperature dropped in

probably 20 degrees cooler than

the area around it.

And we always try and

improve on our experiments.

This one we hope

to be bigger, better,

and we hope to create

a bigger reaction.

We've already been out

setting up some of the stuff.

- Okay.

- I'd like to get you out there

and get set up while we

still got good lighting, so

Okay.

I'd say let's grab

that, put it in our jeep,

and have you ride over with us.

What we're going to try to

do when we set up is, we're going

to have the target

area in focus,

get our cameras set

up so we can maximize

the effectiveness

of our sensors.

With the handheld sensors,

we're also able to monitor anything

that's going on around us.

So, even though the

main event is in front,

there may be something else

that may be attached to that

we also want to document.

All right, well, let's get to

putting hooking stuff up,

- turning stuff on, and getting set up.

- Okay.

I guess we got a

lot of work to do still.

In addition to guy's thermal

and infrared cameras,

erik and I also set

up every energy

and radiation

detector that we have.

And just in case

something happens

that mysteriously shorts out

any of our electronic devices,

we also set up old

school thermometers

in and outside of the

homestead building

to make sure we measure any

strange drops in temperature

like we got the other night.

I think this is the most

instruments we've put out

- at once before, erik.

- You know, travis,

I think we set a new record

- every time we do one of these exercises.

- Right, well,

you know what? If something

happens, I want to see it

with as many things

as we can see it with.

Amen to that.

Look, this is a really

speculative exercise

when we start talking

about portals and such.

But in this particular

location on skinwalker ranch,

anything is apparently possible.

And if we do, in fact, cause

some of this phenomenology

to manifest, we absolutely

want to document it.

We're getting really

close to being set up.

- Yeah, we're about there.

- I think it's just a few minor tweaks

and then we just wait

for nightfall to run sound.

Hey, guys. I have all

the cameras on record,

so we're recording right now.

Why don't you guys get

in place and when you get there,

give me a call, and

we'll start the-the

Yeah.

- The rabbi's singing.

- Sounds good.

Kaleb and I decided

that we would go down to the road

and watch the

ceremony from there.

The first time we saw

some type of object

that seemed to dart down

around the area of the road.

And so definitely having eyes

on it from a different perspective

could prove to be useful

as this experiment unfolds.

That's good, thomas. Tell

me I'm not seeing you

in there, so you're

in a good spot.

- We are ready.

- Ready here, too.

Just seconds after the recording

of the rabbi's

ceremony began to play,

there was an obvious

rise in temperature

being shown across

the top of homestead two

on the thermal camera feed.

It was crazy. Just like

a switch got flipped.

While the chant's playing,

right at the doorway

of homestead two,

the temperature changes

It gets hot by, like,

nine degrees more

than the surrounding area.

I can't explain that.

Now, if you want to look for

a stretch, an

exotic explanation,

the rabbi said it was a chant

that's supposed

to open up a portal.

So maybe that's what's

causing this strange

temperature anomaly to occur.

Well, several things happened

while the ceremony was going

and the screen

got completely hot,

and now it's sort of

filtering back to normal.

- Slowly. Yeah.

- Yeah. Slowly, right?

I wasn't really

sure what to expect.

I got to say I was,

quite surprised

by what we did encounter.

It's been the first time

that I've been in a place

using thermal and

watched the temperature

change so drastically.

You know, on the

first experiment,

we saw a lot of things after

the ceremony was finished.

You want us to

head back up there

or do you want us to stay

put for a few more minutes?

Stay put. We're

watching it closely,

and if we start seeing

what we saw last time,

I'll tell you guys

to rush in there.

What's so wild is how

this looks normal now.

And all this was this blue stuff

I mean, it was

just bright hot red.

T-that's just so weird.

It makes no sense that

we hit the play button

on an acoustic recording

and the temperature

The temperature changed.

The temperature.

- The temperature spiked, it went up.

- It was crazy.

Rabbi tzadok performed

that chant specifically

to open a portal, so it

just makes you wonder

Did playing that chant back

cause the temperature to spike?

And, if so, just what

does that mean?

Hey, hey, hey, hey, come here.

I've got movement in the back.

It's, like, in the back

window or something, dude.

Are you seeing it?

What the hell?

The-the flir just

In the window.

Guys, so, the back window

of the homestead there

was a definite flickering

in the window. I don't

know what it was.

All right. Well, we're going

to head down that way.

We'll watch for you.

I'm seeing that again.

- Guys, I see it.

- It's right there. Yeah.

Back corner of the house!

Back corner of the house!

Back corner of the house!

Guys, what's going on?

Thomas is running,

thomas is running.

They're running around crazy.

Right here.

There was something

f-flickering right here.

I've seen it a couple times,

- and he saw it the second time.

- All right.

This is crazy.

Hey, I think we're getting a,

temperature vortex

starting like we had last time,

and it's right above

the, homestead.

I want to see this thermometer.

Twice now, we've played

this ceremony and twice now,

we have had a pocket

of air much different

from the surrounding area

in temperature come in.

Maybe we are affecting a portal,

or maybe we're at the very

beginning stages of a portal.

Hey, did one of you guys

move the thermometer in here?

No.

Because this

one's on the ground.

Kaleb just went inside

the house. The thermometer that

was sitting in the

window is now sitting

- On the ground.

- On the ground.

Wait, you mean it moved?

Yes,

and nobody's been in the house.

And right where

you saw that light flicker?

That's a little freaky, guys.

We're having a hard time

believing that it just

rolled off this, window.

Tell you what,

guys, while I like watching

up here, we're

recording all of it.

I'm going to wander

down that way and,

see what you

guys are looking at.

Yeah, come down here,

a-and check this out.

So, that was right here.

- Where we set it up.

- So, it rolled off.

How was it

attached? Was it simply

Kaleb and thomas

go into the homestead area,

and they find that one

of our thermometers,

one of these big mechanical

thermometers that was sitting

in a windowsill, had been

knocked off somehow,

and was on the floor.

So, if we didn't hear

it, how did it fall?

It's a really weird situation.

Did your was your flir

camera, did it have this window?

No, I was only covering

those first two up here.

There's something

walking in the field out here, guys!

What?

There's something walking

in the field right out there.

What are you

looking at naked eye?

No, in the infrared.

I think I can see what

he's talking about right there.

While I was inside

the homestead looking

the back window, I saw

something in the backyard

that looked like a big

blob that was moving.

I thought it may

have been bipedal,

it could have been quadrupedal,

I'm not sure, but

it was just a blob.

How far out?

I'm going to say

almost to that fence line.

Thomas, you're 30 yards short.

You're right where it was.

I don't see it anymore,

but it went straight in

front of you, thomas.

And that That tree looks

like it's hot or something.

It went right into that tree.

What the heck is that?

It's moving, it's moving!

I'm on my way!

What the frick are you?

Hey, travis!

Yeah? What do you got?

I saw a white

thing in See, right there?

I thought it was

something stationary;

All of a sudden,

it started moving.

That's right

where I was looking.

It was something coming up

out of the ground over here.

So, whatever it was,

it was like a round object.

But it was right there and

then, all of a sudden, boom.

Hey. It's in there!

You see it?

Yeah, it's right there.

It's right there, it's moving.

I don't see how

you're going to get in there.

Be careful, thomas.

I don't think we're

going to get through that.

It just gets

worse. What the heck?

What I saw was like

a six-foot diameter,

really intense and then

it kind of got dimmer as it,

like, went out a

little bit, like it faded.

And while I was

sitting there staring at it,

trying to figure

out what it was,

it started to move like this.

And it just kind of moved

across, and then it was like

it disappeared in the

trees, and that's when we

Yeah, it was

right through there.

I'm not seeing it anymore.

Let's go back and

A-and kind of

- Regroup.

- Yeah, yeah. Regroup.

- Catch our breath for a second.

- Let's regroup.

Calm down.

That was exciting,

interesting and weird all at once.

Whatever it

was that we saw tonight,

these were seen only with

the thermographic cameras.

We couldn't see them

with the naked eye.

And that tells me

that we're not dealing

necessarily with

something that's physical.

We could be dealing

with something

that's another dimension,

or another realm.

So, I know for a fact

it was not an animal,

and it definitely

was not a human.

Beyond that, you know,

your guess is as good as mine.

Think about what we've been told

by the former

nids investigators,

about seeing amorphous

things out here in the trees.

You know, they would

appear, move around a bit,

and then fold in on

themselves and disappear.

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

a monster crawl out of a portal,

but what I did see was

something I couldn't explain

Are you sure?

Running across the field

behind homestead two.

What I can take away from

the experiment tonight is

that we played

the rabbi's chant,

we saw a temperature

anomaly again,

and we did see an unusual

Figure, object, thing,

moving through

the infrared camera.

Very similar features

to what we'd seen in

the previous experiment.

I would say it's a success.

I still don't understand

what it means.

Well, we got a lot of data.

We had some weird things happen.

We just need to go

back and analyze the data

- and understand what it means.

- Yeah.

I've got a few

things going on here.

So, what I want to do

is take us out

into the east field.

- Okay. Gotcha.

- Virtually.

The next morning,

erik called me and

dragon into his control room

to check out the

surveillance footage

that was captured of the

mesa at the same time

we were conducting our

experiment at homestead two.

Watch what happens here.

- There.

- Right. Look at that.

Look at the mesa

flickering right there.

- And look at the top over here.

- Yeah.

- There it is. - There it is.

- Sure enough.

Look at that. The

whole top of the mesa lights up.

That piece of the mesa

has a crazy history

of us seeing things.

- Yeah.

- Ever since the beginning.

Erik, brandon and

the team have captured

pretty dramatic surveillance

footage in the past

where something

causes the entire

mesa to light up at night.

- Whoa, look at that.

- Holy crap.

Hey, guys. We just noticed on

the screen here a second ago

You see the glow, the

flicker? What is that?

And just last year,

during a laser experiment,

we observed a similar phenomenon

where the ridge

appeared to be glowing.

Yeah, it's almost

like the outline of it.

Wow.

So, while we were trying

to figure out if this footage

we got of the mesa was connected

to what happened last

night at homestead two,

suddenly, thomas came rushing in

to alert us of something else.

All right. Well, yeah.

We definitely need

to go put eyes on that.

Hey, guys, I just got

a message that said

that something

popped up on the wi-fi,

and it's unsafe.

- Unsafe?

- On our network.

On the network?

And then it kicked me

off on my computer, too.

Something may be hacking us

or trying to get into the system.

It's behaving weird.

Security's a top concern

here at the ranch,

whether it be the premises

or whether it be our network.

And so when I see a notification

like that pop up on my phone,

I'm very concerned

about what it could be

that's affecting our network,

whether it be an

outside influence

or something here on the ranch.

So, if something is

hacking into the wi-fi,

we'd see it on the

spectrum analyzer.

So, it's an sdr. Let me see

Well, pull it up.

Crap! Look at that!

Look at this, look right here.

All the way across. You

see these this little

These ripples all the

way across the floor?

The noise floor

shouldn't look like that.

It should be just

random. That's structured.

That is a signal. There's a

signal right now on the ranch

all the way across the spectrum.

So, what could cause

something like that?

I don't know. That is

a manufactured signal.

That is not mother nature doing

that, and we're not doing that,

so why is that

here on the ranch?

This is a massive energy

spike being detected

by the spectrum analyzer.

I'm not even sure how

I could create a signal

of this magnitude,

but it reminds me

of something that

happened last year.

Sounds like there's something

just screeching

in the background.

After being awakened

in the middle of the night

by a weird noise

outside my trailer,

I checked my spectrum

analyzer and found the same

kind of signal being detected.

Wow!

I mean, t-there's a signal

oscillating up and down,

all the way up to two gigahertz.

The only thing I could

think of at the time

that could cause this

kind of energy spike

was something albert einstein

actually had a theory about.

This might sound

crazy, but what if

the only way to explain

all these things is.

With a wormhole.

I'm an astrophysicist who has

been researching and studying

the plausibility of these

kinds of phenomena

for more than 25 years,

but I never thought it would

lead me to a ranch in utah

contemplating the

existence of wormholes.

Look at that.

Holy Look at that.

I mean, we're actively

being electronically attacked.

Right there.

Look at the pattern.

- And you don't normally see this?

- No, no.

That is a transmitter

somewhere doing that.

- Can your antenna pick this up?

- I'm going to go over there

right now, and I'm gonna get

it turned on and get it up and

- I'm gonna go start looking at it. Okay?

- All right.

- Let me know if you need any help.

- Yep.

Erik's just put in

this-this really cool system

near my trailer that has

directional antennas

that I can actually point

the antenna to see where

the signal's coming from.

I want to see if we

can pinpoint this signal.

Well, that's

interesting. There it is.

I need to rotate my

antenna to see where we are.

It's pointing right at the

homestead right now.

Right there.

There it is.

Hey, siri. Facetime erik bard.

- Erik!

- Hey, travis.

I am picking up

the signal, and I

have zoomed in on it.

It is southwest

from my yagi tower.

- Southwest.

- -Yes.

Whatever was causing

this energy spike

was not only overwhelming

the ranch's network,

but, because it was so powerful,

it made me anxious of

what could be causing it.

Guys, I-I'm leaving the ranch.

I'm getting a bad headache.

- Are you serious?

- I'm dead serious.

- Holy

- Erik?

- Yeah?

- Go to 50 megahertz right now.

50 megahertz, it is it is

completely saturating

the spectrum.

I'll come back

when the signal stops.

Be safe, tom. Let us know

if anything else happens.

I don't know what's

going on, but it seems like

he's all out of sorts,

and seeing thomas

react in this way,

obviously, it raises concern

because he has a history

of having injuries

on this ranch.

A couple years ago,

thomas was digging

out a road on the ranch

and he had a really startling

and frightening experience.

It started with him getting

a really bad headache,

and then he ended

up in the hospital

in a very serious condition.

- Tom, you all right?

- My head is k*lling me.

Last year, he also

suddenly got a bad headache

just after we

witnessed that strange

glowing phenomenon

on the ridge of the mesa.

In that spot?

Right here,

in that exact same spot.

My head is-is hurting bad.

Holy cow.

There is a crazy signal

right at 700 megahertz.

Crazy.

Could this massive

signal that's hit our network

also be causing thomas pain?

Is it possibly evidence,

like the shermans believed,

that the phenomena

targets people on the ranch?

And if so, have our recent

experiments provoked it?

I am looking due

north right now,

and it seems like

the signal has moved.

The signal is not as

bright in the southwest

Okay.

That tells us the

source is moving.

The fact that the source seems

to be moving around

is pretty mysterious.

It's kind of suspicious.

Suggestive of

something artificial.

We don't know whether

we're talking about something

on the land or, in fact, in

the, in the sky above us.

I have no air traffic.

You know, normally I would

look to something like that

to try to explain

a moving source.

I've lost it again. It's

not south anymore.

It's due west now.

I am looking due west

with more than

one of our cameras

for anything that

shows up in the,

beneath the cloud cover.

I got nothing.

I honestly have no idea

what is causing this signal.

It's a broadband

signal that has structure

that's nothing like we use

in modern industry and

communication systems.

If I wanted to reproduce it,

I'm not even sure how

I would reproduce it.

But this signal's going

on and on and continuing.

There is a transmitter

here that's designed

in a way I've never seen.

- All right, erik.

- Yeah, I've got you.

The signal has

moved in frequency.

This is exactly what

I've seen it doing before,

but there's so

much structure to it

that it's clearly

There's so much structure to it,

there's clearly something, um

Say it again, please?

I can't hold

on, I got to think.

I was just,

I-I was just suddenly

short of-of breath and like I

I just hit pause or

something. It was so weird.

Travis, I don't like this.

It went I don't know.

All of a sudden, I couldn't

My-my thought was not there.

I couldn't finish

what I was saying.

That was that

was freaky weird.

And like.

I'm going over there, erik.

That was that

was freaky weird.

I'm going to stand

up for a second.

I'm gonna get a drink of water.

Hey, erik, can you hear me?

Yes, I can hear you.

It's gone due east.

Dude, I know that you

want to figure this out,

but we've talked about this.

- Yeah.

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

Let me go stand in the

silo and see if it stops.

Then we'll know it's some

It's a signal that we can stop.

And see if See

if I feel different.

I've never had that

happen to me in my life.

If this is an effect of these

microwave and radio wave signals

that are here the

strange, weird signal

You can shield out

signals with a metal shield,

and we've got these

silos here on the ranch

that are thick steel

all the way around.

So, you get inside it, and it's

an electromagnetic quiet zone.

Do you, do you

want to shut the door?

Yeah, close it,

but leave a little bit of light.

- Holy.

- What?

Son of a b*tch.

- Did it really go away?

- Yes, it's like a damn switch.

This is too much.

We need to look

into the physiology

of what's going on and

why it's affecting you,

and I'm standing right next

to you, and I feel right as rain.

It may have stopped.

Do you want to come

back out and see?

Yeah, I'm not feeling it now.

I don't know what to make

of this. I don't know how

Well, I don't know how I

feel about you staying here.

Well, I feel fine now.

I wonder if the signal's gone?

Let's go in and see if

erik's still seeing the signal.

Okay.

I had this weird

static electricity feeling

all over my body.

M-my skin was tingling,

my hair was felt like it was

standing up more than usual.

But when I came

out the last time,

I no longer felt that feeling.

Well, that's not a coincidence.

Where's your spectrum analyzer?

So, I've got that minimized.

I'll bring it back up.

Does that look anything

like what you were looking at?

No.

That just looks

like noise to me.

Yeah, I don't think

this is exceptional here.

You know, it made

me think of how the rabbi

told us he believed that

a portal could be allowing

whatever it is that affects

the ranch and people here

to come and go back and forth

from this dimension to another.

I don't know if that's true,

but if we're experiencing

evidence that we have

the ability to provoke it,

then what can we do to

finally identify just what it is?

I think looking at this I

think it's fine to call thomas

and say, well, if

this was the culprit,

it's not happening right now.

- Are you comfortable with that, too?

- Well, I think so.

Okay. Well, I'll call him and

see if he wants to come back.

Hey, thomas. How's it going?

Well, that's a relief.

I'm in here with the

guys, and we're looking at

the spectrum again, and it

looks like things have quieted

back down, so if you're

comfortable with it,

it would probably be

a good time for you

to make your way back

to the ranch, if you want to.

All right. So, we'll see

you when you get back.

All right, thanks. Bye.

I'm glad you're feeling

better, and it's a relief to hear

that thomas isn't

suffering from any effects.

We fortunately dodged

a b*llet this time.

I'm gonna head outside

and wait for him to get back.

Yeah, let's go wait on him.

Weird day.

There's always

a little bit of fear

when something

weird happens to you.

What is this phenomenon, though?

Why did it affect me and

thomas and not the other guys?

Is there something

about our physiology?

Or are we all at risk

just by being here

and conducting experiments?

I've been on the

ranch long enough to just say that

it's unpredictable, you never

know what's going to happen.

But, really, now

the question is,

is moving forward,

how do we better

prepare for this?

And what do we

need to do to be able

to help us understand

where this is coming from?

With the ranch,

we're dealing with an intelligence.

We're dealing

with something that

truly has command

over space, time,

even our very consciousness.

Just when you're relaxed

and not expecting

something to occur,

all hell breaks loose

at skinwalker ranch.

There's a tunnel system

going straight down for miles.

It's right by the triangle.

We need to look underground.

I brought a

ground-penetrating radar.

- That's going crazy.

- We should start excavating.

- You ready to do this?

- Let's dig.

Look at this, guys. I

don't know what's going on,

but it's detecting everywhere.

- Like we're triggering something.

- Yeah, did you hear

- the gamma rays just go off?

- What's going on?