02x06 - The Void

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[narrator] Previously on
Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch.

We gotta find
that dry entrance. Let's go.

[Chad over radio] There's
the hole, right there.

[laughs]

[Eric] If we can find
the radioactivity.

If we can find
the dry entrance to the cave.

-[beeping]
-There's a hit.

I think we need to go
check it out.

We've got two targets
right now.

Here we go, here we go.
That's it, right there.

Wow.

But look how black
all the rock is.

[device whining]

-[Eric] We can only dig
a relatively small hole.
-Wow.

So we need to be dead-on.

There could be a cavity
underneath us here.

[Charlie] Could this
be a smelter?

Yeah, they could have smelted
the gallium up here.

I mean, we're literally
standing on top

of an ancient cache
of something.

[Duane] There are
some places on earth
that just don't seem...

...right.

The land feels different.

It acts different.

And this, here,
is one of those places.

Some say the land is trying
to hold on to something.

Don't go in the [bleep] cave.

[Duane] Aztec treasure?

Holy [bleep]!

[Duane] Caverns of gold?

Look at this!

[Duane] Mormon riches.

It'd be million dollars here.

[Duane] Some even say
there's a buried space ship.

Hell, yeah.

Me? I never cared much
about the stories.

I just care about finding
whatever the hell's
in the ground.

What's the matter?

-Hey.
-Hey.

[Eric] How'd it go?

I thought pretty good. Yeah.

We had some good readings
on the gravity meter.

-Did you really?
-We started seeing
some interesting ones,

some highs, some lows.

So, we'll go back
and take a look at 'em.

So, my goal here is to use
these geophysical tests

to narrow in to an exact spot
where we can
get into this cavern.

Well, the radiation drone

gave us a general area
where we might find something.

Then, the gravitometer
indicated several points

where we might be able
to get into this cave system.

But these readings
are still not accurate enough

to pinpoint
a drilling location.

I'm confident,
though, that,

you know,
with a few more tests,

we might be able to say,
"X marks the spot."

[Chad] Good.

You know, over on that ridge,
I think I found a smelter.

It's got, like,
a firepit-looking thing.

-I don't know what it is.
-Really?

Yeah, yeah.
It looks old as hell.

[Eric] Is it made
out of rocks?

Yeah, yeah. There's black soot
all over the rocks,

and all kinds of [bleep] .

I don't know if it's been
broken apart or what,

but it looks like
a smelter, though.

[Eric] Over in this area?

Yeah, where me and Charlie
were looking.

I'd like to see that.

[Chad] You want to go
check it out?

Yeah, let's go now.
We're losing our light here.

All right. Yeah, yeah.
Follow me.

-[Duane] I'll see
you guys later.
-[Chad] All right!

Yeah, it's just
right over there
on the cliffside.

[Eric] Okay.

About how far?

[Chad] I don't know,
half a mile.

Okay.

Awesome.

-Lead the way.
-All right.

Yeah, this is something
I didn't...

I've never seen it out here
before, and it was just

crazy. I saw it
from an airplane.

[over radio] Just along
that ridge.

[Chad] And what it looked like
to me was this hole,

like a... like a cavern.

-[Eric] Uh-huh.
-[Chad] Like a dry entrance,
really.

-[Eric] Okay.
-[Chad] But, when we
finally get over there,

it looked like a fireplace.

[Eric] Oh, nice.

[Chad] Yeah,
right over here.

Look at this [bleep] .

Yeah, it's right here.

-Look at that.
-Oh, yeah!

[Chad] You can see the black.
It goes all the way up there.

[Eric] Yeah.

Your first thought is,

was this a little place
where somebody camped?

But, it doesn't look like
a very good camp spot to me.

-It's not level...
-Right.

...um, and so, the way
the rocks are formed, it could

form sort of a, um,

almost like a furnace.

Obviously, you can see
the smoke stain there

-Right.
-You can see the outline

-of what may have been
a kiln right here.
-Right.

This looks like
it was patched with adobe,

and it was probably,
at one point,

a lot more extensive
than this.

Like, deeper, or bigger,
or something like that?

It was probably built up.
You make a kiln sort of

-shaped like,
almost like a beehive.
-Right.

-And you give it
the right venting.
-Yeah.

-And so, you create, sort of,
a blast furnace there.
-Gotcha.

[Eric] Smelters were used
in Utah in the 1870s,

for smelting gold, silver,
and zinc.

They were blast furnaces

that looked like giant beehive
adobe structures.

Maybe this was
a smaller operation
with smaller ovens.

Or, maybe this site here
is considerably older.

I just don't know.

[Chad] Well, do you think
that they could have

smelted the gallium here?

[Eric] Well, if this
is a smelter,

which I think it was
at one point,

in these instances,
you want to smelt the material

as close to the source
as possible.

So the mine could be
super-close to here, right?

Yeah. I mean,
the mine entrance could be

-anywhere in here,
or the cave entrance.
-Yep.

In fact, the spot where
your dad and I

were using
the gravity meter today

is just over that ridge.

[Chad] Right.

[Eric] We had
some anomalies over there

with the gravity meter,
and so,

um, I think we're right...

We're right
in the right zone, here.

-May be worth taking a look,
right down here.
-Yeah, yeah.

[Eric] When you're processing
any kind of ore,

and in this case,
smelting it,

you want to have that smelter
located as close as possible

to the cave or mine entrance,

for obvious reasons
of efficiency.

There's just no reason
why you'd want to carry

that material
any extra distance.

So, we might just be near
a mine or cave entrance,

where they were
pulling out material

that they were smelting.

Normally, with cave entrances,

or if there's something
valuable underground,

-you're not going to want
to leave it open.
-Right.

You're gonna want
to hide it.

Sometimes, they'll put wood,
like logs, over it,

and then fill it with dirt.

Right.

Uh, break some vegetation,
things like that.

Oh, [bleep] !
Look at those!

-Look at those bats!
-Ooh!

-Those are bats?
-There's a whole flock
of 'em, right there.

-See those?
-Oh, my God. They're huge!

There's so many of 'em!
Wow!

Well, you know that bats,
where they live.

-They live in caves.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So...

[Chad] We need to follow
those bats, huh?

[Eric] We need to find out
where they're coming from.

Let's go around the corner,
here.

[Chad] Yeah, yeah,
see if there's more
coming out somewhere?

[Eric] Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

-Chad?
-Huh?

[Eric] Let's follow
this wash, here.

Sometimes, faults will follow
these canyons.

-These little canyons
like this?
-Right.

And so, we're looking
at a possible weakness zone
in the earth,

and maybe this is where
the cave is.

-[Chad] Okay.
-Yeah.

Just follow it up.

[Chad] Look at that.

[Eric] Oh, wow!

-Whew! We may be
close here, Chad.
-[Chad] Look at that.

[Eric] Is this
the general direction

you think those bats
came from?

[Chad] Yeah, it was
right in this area, for sure.

[Eric] All right.

[Chad] It's getting thick.
Man!

[Eric] Up in here?

[Chad] Through up here? Yeah.

Anything?

It's like getting hard to see
in there, it's so thick.

Look at this.

-This looks promising.
-Yeah.

[Eric] Well, look
at these ledges.

See that?

-[Chad] Yeah.
-See how the water
has just carved 'em?

[Chad] Right.

[Eric] You got, like,
potholes forming in here.

[Chad] Right.

You're saying a cave
could go in there?

[Eric] Yeah.

Anything in that crevice,
right in there?

[Chad] Ah, not really.

[Eric] Gotta be getting close.

[Chad] Holy [bleep]!

Look at this!
Look at this!

[Eric] Ooh!

[Chad] That's another one
right there, isn't it?

[Eric] This looks like
another smelter.

[Chad] Wow!

[Eric] There's more
smoke stains on the rock.

-[Chad] Yeah, there is.
-[Eric] That's crazy.

[Chad] No [bleep] way!
Look at this, Eric.

We got another one,
right here.

[Eric] They're so close!

[Chad] So if there's two
of these right by each other,

-then this might have been
a big operation, huh?
-[Eric] Yeah!

There's nothing in there.

[Chad] Holy [bleep] !
Here's another one!

-Look at this!
-You got another one?

[Chad] There's three!

-[Eric] Oh, my God.
This one's even bigger!
-[Chad] Three within 50 feet!

-[Eric] The same form!
-[Chad] Yeah, this one's
even bigger!

-Wow, this is great, man!
-[Eric] This is crazy!

-We have four smelters
in this little area,
-Yeah, and...

[Eric] ...bats that flew
out of a cave.

The cave opening has gotta be
somewhere right in here.

[Chad] Hell, yeah.
We are close.

[Eric] Let's continue
working our way down

[Chad] We gotta find that
tonight, man.

Yeah, this could lead
to something, maybe.

Yeah, that... That drops off
pretty good, right here.

[Eric] Okay.

-[bleep]!
-[Chad] You all right?

[Eric] Damn. [bleep] !

-[Chad] You okay, Eric?
-Yeah, yeah.

I don't know, Chad.

I can barely even see
at this point.

[Chad] Damn! I would've
thought we'd found it by now.

[Eric] I know, I know, me too.

Well, it's getting
kind of late,

and I don't think we're
doing ourselves any favors by

hiking around
in the middle of a...

Argh!

We're close, but yeah,

we're about at
the furthest reaches of the...

of the ranch here.

[Chad] Yeah, there's no
cell service out here at all.

-[Eric] No.
-[Chad] We gotta get back.

[Eric] I kind of lost
what direction we're going in.

[Chad] Wow.

[Eric] Well, this is
kind of weird.

[Chad] What is it?

[Eric] I've never seen
my compass act like this.

What's it doing?

[Eric] It's not acting right.

Look at that.
It's flickering.

That's weird.
What could cause that, huh?

[Eric] Yeah.
It's the magnetics.

If you're around
a big metallic object,

like a car, or a truck,
or something like that...

-[Chad] Yeah.
-...it will deflect
the needle.

But I don't... I don't ever
see it, you know,

oscillating like that.

[Chad] Right.
Right, right, right.

[Eric] Something's causing
this to go crazy here.

We know we have
metal in the area.

-[Chad] Yeah.
-There's evidence
of smelting in here.

-[Chad] Gotcha.
-And so, maybe it's
picking up the metal

that's in the cavern.

We're also not that far away
from the spot

where Duane and I got a hit
on the gravity meter.

-Is there an anomaly here?
-[Chad] Right.

[Eric] Is there something
large and metallic
underground?

That's weird.

[Charlie] You need
a little help, buddy?

[chuckling] Yeah!
Yeah, I sure do.

Son of a b*tch
is kinda tall!

So, last night,
Chad and Eric

found a bunch of old smelters,
way back on the property...

-Watch out!
-[chuckles]

[Duane] ...which means
that there could be

a mine shaft or an old cavern
somewhere close.

Well, Eric used radiation
and a gravity test

to find out where there
might be a cavern.

He wants to do
a few more tests

to pinpoint
the exact location.

You know, when you get
to my age,

patience is really not
a virtue, anymore.

The feeling in my gut's
telling me

that Eric's
narrowed it down enough,

and I want to get
this show on the road.

So I pulled the trigger,
and brought in
another rat hole rig.

The spot
we're looking to drill

is a real remote spot
on the ranch.

You know, we've never
had equipment like this

out on this location.

This is not gonna be easy,
but nothing's easy

when you're doing
what we're doing.

[over radio] Careful
going down that hill.

[operator] All right.

[Duane] Whoa, whoa!
Slow down.

[Chad] [bleep] damn!

I mean, I get up
this morning,

and my dad's got a freaking...

The rat hole rig,
rolling down the mountain.

I know my dad's been patient
my whole life,

but to be honest,
I think it's a waste of money.

Me and Eric found
the smelters

where all the bats
and everything were,

so I think we need
to go back over there,

and look for more of, like,
a natural entrance.

And I know Eric has more tests
he wants to run

to pinpoint
the exact drilling spot.

We're all trying
to figure this out,

and there's a lot of cooks
in the kitchen right now.

[Eric] I just hope we can
get down to that cave.

Duane's hell-bent on getting
into this cavern,

but, to be honest,
I think he's jumping the g*n.

At this point,
I only have a rough idea

of where this cave could be.

Yeah, I mean,
it's somewhere right in here,

but if we're off
just a few feet,

we're not gonna find it.

[Chad] Here we go.
Here we go.

[Duane] How're we looking?

[Eric] So far, so good, Duane.

We're chewing through it
pretty good.

Yeah, it looks like it.
It sure does.

So, what are we at now?

How deep?

[Eric] I'm checking samples
as we drill,

to test for calcite
and limestone.

This is hydrochloric.

That's what we found
when we drilled
on top of the box,

so if we drill here
and find the same thing,

hopefully, we find the cave.

It's not reactive to acid,
so it's not calcareous.

It's basically windblown sand,
is what it is.

-Oh it is?
-[Eric] Yeah.

So far, I'm not seeing
any of that stuff here.

[Duane] [bleep]

[Mike] I'm in.

[Duane] How's it
looking, boys?

[Eric] Still nothing.

[Duane] How deep, Eric?

[Eric] We're at about


We'll keep going, but, um,

this is the point where we'll
have to consider that we may
have missed it.

[Duane] [bleep], fellas.

Okay. All right.

I agree.

[bleep] go wild, man.

Son of a b*tch.

[Eric] We know from
my analysis that we're
in the right general area.

We may have missed
that cave by a few feet

or a couple hundred feet.

I'm not sure at this point.

But I am confident that I can
find the exact spot with a few
more geophysical tests.

[Duane] Hey, Mike...

...let's shut this deal
down tonight.

[Mike] All right.

[Duane] You know,
this is not an exact science.

I've pulled the trigger
on this a little early.

And I lost.

That might be my bad
on that deal.

[Eric] Oh, that's okay.

[Duane] So, I'm gonna
let Eric do his thing.

And I trust he'll put
us right on the money.

Good job, Ian.

-Good job.
-[Ian] Thank you.

[Chad] That's the thing
with my Dad,

I mean, sometimes he just
kinda gets ahead of himself.

This was an expensive mistake.

[Jamie] Where is this place?

The past couple of weeks
has been pretty wild here.

We've had trespassers,

spy cams,

helicopters,

and equipment ransacked.

This has got to be it.

So I came out to talk
to this guy who I heard used
to work at Skinwalker Ranch.

Which isn't very far
from Blind Frog.

[crickets chirping]

[car door shutting]

[knocks on door]

[door opening]

Hey, I'm Jamie,
I gave you a call.

I didn't exactly tell
him I had a film crew
following me.

But he agreed that,
if I blurred his face
and hid his identity,

that he would talk.

Thanks for meeting me.

[Man] So, what do
you wanna know?

[Jamie] A contact of mine
told me that you worked
at Skinwalker Ranch.

[Man] For about 6 years.

[Jamie] Have you ever heard
of Blind Frog Ranch?

[Man] I'm aware.

[Jamie] So, the thing is,
we've been having some issues.

Seems like someone's
keeping tabs on the ranch.

We have choppers flying over.

Cameras.

Vandalism.

Ever experienced
anything like that?

[man chuckles]

That's a kind of
a funny question.

We were being watched
the whole time.

[Jamie] By who?

[Man] No idea.

See, I used to be, uh,
military intelligence.

Skinwalker brought me
in to look into

what they called
the "Gravity Anomaly"
on the property.

Specifically, how it
affected computers
and machinery.

Then they, uh, started
having us go look at, uh...

...well, off-site. We were
basically ordered to sneak
onto neighboring properties.

Trespassing and, uh,
do some tests there.

[Jamie] Did you
go to Blind Frog?

[Man] Um, in 6 years,
I'm sure I did, yeah.

I mean, we went a lot
of places and...

You know, what started
happening was then sometimes
we'd go somewhere,

when I'd come back,
someone had broken
into my trailer.

Gone through my files,
taken stuff, just thrown
[bleep] all around.

And then the debriefs
started getting weirder.

[Jamie] How so?

[Man] Well, instead of asking
me about the actual tests
I had done,

or data I'd collected,

they were asking about
my experience.

Physiological reactions,
they were taking my blood,
doing EKGs, CAT scans.

[Jamie] Wow.

Who are they?

[Man] It wasn't
the owner of the ranch.

It was some other
group responsible.

But someone is very, very
interested in this area.

You know, probably
your ranch, too.

[Eric] As Stefan
will do his survey,

-if he hits an anomaly,
he'll see a big spike.
-[Chad] Yeah.

[Eric] We're using the aerial
drone with the radiation
detector on it.

We were able to narrow our
search field from about
a thousand acres

to ten acres.

We're using a gravitometer,
we went from about ten acres

down to about the size
of a football field.

So, what we need to do
now is narrow the area
down even farther.

And, uh, the magnetometer's
gonna help us do that.

So, yeah, Stefan,

we wanna scan this area
in about 50 meters
in each direction.

See if you just get
any anomalies.

I mean, we were, we were
working the bottom of the wash

and so, maybe, kinda
focus on that.

There's a couple different
arms right there and

-[Stefan] Okay.
-[Eric] See what we got.

-[Stefan] I'll keep
a tear on that.
-[Eric] Okay.

So, this easier magnetometer
is capable of detecting
magnetic anomalies

under the surface
of the ground.

Which can be caught either
by a void in the ground.

Like a cave or a large
concentration of metal.

Like a big old
box full of gold.

But any hit we get means
we're right on top
of whatever it is.

Pretty steady.

That's pretty flat.

Not much going on in there.

[Stefan] What about,
what about this area?

-[Stefan] Is there
anything over here?
-[Eric] Uh, let's see.

Steady.

Pretty steady.

[magnetometer squeal]

-It's dropping. Dropping,
dropping.
-[Chad] There he goes.

-[Eric] There's
the spike. Stop.
-[Charlie] Woah, woah, woah.

-[Eric] Big drop.
-[Chad] Big drop. There it is.

-[Chad] Yep. Right there.
-[Eric] Big drop.

-[Chad] Look at that.
-[Eric] See it?
Still going down.

[Stefan] Sometimes you have
magnetic lows where you have
these drainage areas.

[Eric] Okay.

[Stefan] I'm gonna move
forward, let's see
which direction this is in.

[Eric] Okay.

[magnetomer squeal]

[Eric] Drop.

[Chad] It's staying down now.

[Stefan] If I back up.

[Eric] It's coming up now.

-[Eric] Coming up. Coming up.
-[Chad] Yeah, it's coming up.

[Eric] Coming up. Now
it's back up to your baseline.

[magnetometer squeal]

[Eric] There we go.
We're here.

There's something right across
that creek bed, it looks like.

[Stefan] The values
are changing.

From one moment to the next.
They shouldn't be changing
from one moment to the next.

-[Eric] No, no. They should
be consistent.
-[Stefan] Not like this.

[Eric] Yeah.

So there's an anomaly there.

[Stefan] Have me pinpoint
that exact low.

-I'll put the sensor
right over.
-[Eric] Okay.

Drop. Drop. Drop.

[magnetizer beeping]

-Stop.
-[Chad] Right there's
the bottom of it.

-[Eric] Right there.
-[Chad] Right there.

-[Eric] Perfect.
-[Stefan] There you go.

There's your anomaly.

[Eric] Yeah.

[Charlie] That anomaly,
would that indicate possibly

a, uh, an opening there?
A cavern?

[Stefan] You do have
a change in material

and that can have
an influence on
the magnetic field.

[Eric] Well, we got
something there, boys.

This is exciting.

We got a big hit
on that magnetometer.

Now we know there's
something right below us.

The only thing
that magnetometer
can't tell us

is exactly how deep below
surface that object is.

If it's down there 250 feet
or more, we can't get
down there with a drill.

So, I've gotta do one more
test to find out what
the exact depth is.

And if it's reachable...

...we're in.

[Chad] So, a couple of nights
ago, me and Eric were out here

and found a couple
of old smelters

and a bunch of bats
that flew out of the hillside
right over there.

So there has to be some kind
of cave or mine,
something around here.

I just have to find it.

I mean, cause we saw the bats
right in that area.

There could be something
up here, I don't know.

There's something, you know?

Argh, no.

I know that Eric has a lot
of scientific tests
and all this stuff,

but I know, I know for sure,
boots on the ground, us
getting out here and looking,

that's how we're
gonna find it.

[exhales]

The sun's already
going down, man.

I still got my light, though,
so I'm gonna, I'm gonna
keep looking.

These aren't optimal
conditions, obviously, but...

...we gotta find it
hopefully tonight.

Argh.

Ah...

[exhales deeply]

What the [bleep].

[bleep] damn.

[Chad] Look at this [bleep].

It's a [bleep] bat.

See that [bleep]?

Hey, Eric.

[Eric] Yeah, Chad,
what you got?

[Chad] Man, I found some
gnarly [bleep].

Get over here as fast
as you can. Where we did
the magnetometer scan.

[Eric] All right, man.
I'll be right over.

[Chad] Holy [bleep], man.

Hey, come check
this out, man. You are
not gonna believe this.

Look at this.

[Eric] Ugh, that's gross.

[Chad] Why does it
have those spots?

[Eric] They look like lesions.

[Chad] Man.

[Eric] It doesn't look
like any one thing just,
like, k*lled it.

It looked like a disease
of some sort.

I got an idea here.
I'm gonna grab something
from my wheeler.

-[Chad] Yeah.
-[Eric] Uh...

...this is strange.

[Chad] [bleep]

[Eric] I'll be right back.

[Chad] Damn.

[Eric] I know this might
sound kinda weird, but...

...let's give this guy
a check for radioactivity.

Bats live in caves.
Plain and simple.

So, seeing these weird
lesions on the bat...

...I started wondering
if the cave that the bat came
from had radiation in it.

Just like the cavern.

I'm not a veterinarian, but,
you know, it's worth a shot.

[radiation monitor beeping]

-[Chad] Is that it, it's going
off right now?
-[Eric] It's going off, yeah.

It could be radiation.

-[Eric] Look, look, look.
-[Chad] No!

-[Chad] That's what
it is? Radiation?
-[Eric] Oh, man. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't wanna even
touch the freaking thing.

[Chad] Gosh.

[radiation monitor beeping]

[Eric] It's gross,
but it's good news,
actually.

It's good news.

We've got another
little clue here.

This bat is definitely
emitting radiation.

So I'd say the odds
are pretty good that it was
living in our dry cavern.

[Chad] Damn.

This, to me, is proof
that there is some kind of

natural opening somewhere
right around here.

We need a new plan.

Going to find the dry
entrance. And find it fast.

Lights are still on,
he's still awake.

Hey! Hey! Dad.

Hey.

[Duane] Hey, what's going on?

[Eric] Hey, Duane.

[Chad] Look at this.

[Duane] The hell is that?

[Chad] It's a bat. We found it
out there by those smelters.

There's that canyon
on the south-east
side of the ranch.

[Duane] Really?

[Chad] Yeah, we found that
under a bush. With those
little, like...

-...sores.
-[Eric] It's got sores
all over it.

[Duane] Look at that [bleep].

[Eric] The weirdest
thing is, um,

we checked it with the Geiger
counter and we had radiation
emitting from the bat.

-[Duane] Really?
-[Eric] Yes.

-[Duane] Wow.
-[Eric] Those sores
are indicative

of a long-term exposure
to radiation.

[Duane] Holy cow.

[Eric] So, presumably it came
from an entrance to that cave
where we found radiation.

[Duane] No [bleep].

[Eric] That's,
it's the weirdest
thing I've ever seen.

[Duane] Let me get that map,
let's roll that out.

Let's see what in the hell
you're talking about here.

Damn, fellas, it's getting
kinda wild here.

Here, let's roll
this out, fellas.

Let's see what we
got going on here.

[Eric] All right, so, the bat
was found approximately...

...as I recall,
somewhere right in this area.

[Chad] Yeah, I'd say
right in there up the curve.

[Eric] So, this is
the same area,
the general area that our

gravitometer, um,
sort of narrowed it down
a little bit further.

-[Duane] Wow.
-[Eric] Yeah.

[Duane] Wow, wow, wow.

So, what do we,
what are we thinking on this
deal, what you wanna do?

[Chad] So, we know that came
out of a natural cave.

If we just get some guys
around and we all search
that whole area,

we can find this entrance.

Instead of just wasting
more and more days,

we can do this,
we can do this tomorrow
and have it done.

[Eric] Wait a minute,
wait, wait, wait,
what the [bleep].

That bat, yeah,
it may have come out
of a natural entrance,

but bats fly. And so,
you know, where the hell
is the entrance?

[Chad] We saw that whole,
the whole flock
of bats right there.

[Eric] But we could
spend days, if not
weeks doing that, Chad.

I need one more day.

Look, this area right here

is where we found the bat,
yeah, but it's also
the place where

that gravity meter survey
gave us an area of about that.

And then we did
the magnetometer survey,

it narrowed it down
right on a spot.

Right there.

[Duane] The only thing
I don't know now is the depth

and I need to know
if it's reachable
with a drill.

And that's what I'm hoping
the seismic refraction survey
will give us.

I'm just sayin' if we get
a bunch of guys out there,
no more money spent

we just find it and that's it.

I mean I wanna find it
just as much as you guys do,

-but I mean I'm just trying
to convince you.
-I just feel we're

spinnin' our wheels,
we're just wasting
all this [bleep] damn time.

One more survey.

That's all we need,
one more survey.

One more day.

-Just give me one more day
with the seismic refraction
-[Duane] One more day.

[Eric] And we're in.

I mean, I always told you
this is a multi-step process,

when you're using
scientific method,
one day is all I need.

I can do it in one day,
if you'll give me that.

-One more day.
-Okay.

[Duane] One more day,
let's do it.

And then Chad, put your team
together by two days from now.

Yeah, I'll start
roundin' people up
just in case.

Fair enough, fair enough.

-We good?
-All right, yeah, yeah,
let's do it.

All right.

So between finding
the bats there
and the smelters around there

it's like, I know we're
in the vicinity right there.

And if we were to get
a few guys together
we could,

we could round 'em up
and we could just search
everything.

Boots on the [bleep] ground,
we're [bleep] there.

It's like what are we wasting
our time for

with more science [bleep],
we can find it tomorrow.

Appreciate it, fellows.

Yup, thank you, Duane.

Ultimately, my dad thought
we should just go
one more test

Eric said it's his last one

and if it doesn't work,
then we're bringing people in
and we're gonna find it.

I know you're enthusiastic
about it but that's all I need
man is just one more day.

-The pressure's on me
at this point, so.
-Yeah.

All right, cool man.

I guess I can see
the frustration of the guys

putting up with
this scientific method.

But, I know what I'm doing.
I'm a professional geologist,
that's what they hired me for.

And so, if this
seismic refraction survey

show the cavern
is shallow enough,

then we'll drill into it.

If we don't,

I'm a hero, or zero.

-So what do you think?
-So, Brett,

this is the area right in here
where we think we may have
an underground cavern.

And so, my thinking is...

we lay the line east to west,

generally following
the axis of the wash.

Okay, makes sense.

This whole exploration process
of using different
geo-physical tools,

and exploration techniques
to, you know, you get all
these little discoveries

that may add up to a big one.

We know we've got
a great, big opening
that we're right on top of.

We just don't know
if it's accessible
because of its depth.

Our final step is to bring in
a seismic survey.

We kind of set
in the middle somewhere
and then just play out the...

-Okay. Okay.
-cable from both sides.

Let us know how we can
help you. Chad and Duane
are here to help.

-Let's do this deal. Awesome.
-We've got plenty
of muscles here.

All right.

[grunting]

So, what we're gonna do is
we're gonna lay out a number
of geo-foams.

In a straight line,
right in the area where
we have that magnetic anomaly.

We'll then set off
a small charge which will
simulate seismic waves.

-As these waves pass through
the rock,
-[waves beeping]

the system will record
their speeds.

This data is then
fed into a seismic
refraction software.

It'll tell us exactly
what's down there
and how deep.

-Yeah, yeah.
-So these are the geo-foams
that pick up--

Oh, so these are
the geo-foams. That's correct.
Good deal.

-All right.
-[Duane] And this is where
we'll set off the charge.

-Yep. Now we can dig the hole.
-Okay.

-Like, right here?
-That's the first foam, so...

That'd be okay, yeah.

-How deep do you need it?
-About two feet.

[Duane] Okay.

-Is that good?
-That's fine.

So now, we gotta set
everything up.

So whenever you set that
charge off, it's gonna give us
a echo,

-and give us a read out there.
-Yeah, it could show us
exactly where it is.

Yeah. Good deal.

-Yeah.
-That's good stuff.

[chuckles]

You know, Chad got
pretty heated last night.

And I understand
his impatience.
Believe you me.

But Eric says this is the last
testing he needs to do to find
out if there's a dry cavern.

-Okay, so shell's ready
to launch. [chuckles]
-All right,

Good deal. Let's set off
this charge.

-Yeah.
-Really, this is
the good part.

-Yeah!
-Yeah.

Okay, so now,
we got this bad boy.

Glorified shotgun. Saw...

What you do is put that
right in there.

-Okay.
-And then, just screw it on.

And then, just put her
down in. Bury it.

-And then, let this one...
-And then, yeah,
exactly. Exactly.

-So, ready to go here.
-All right.

-How hard do you want it?
-Doesn't take much.

[both grunting]

-Ow! That was a shocker, man.
-[chuckles] That was awesome.

-[chuckling] It was. Oh, yeah.
-So, it's doing its thing,
right?

So after this test drive here,
what are we gonna have to do
to get the data?

You just take the data
and you run it through
a...

It's called
a dispersion program,

where you see
how the energy moves out.

And then, I take those data
and put them into
a modelling program that

takes that seismic energy
and determines
what kind of layering

with depth you get.

[Duane] So, what are
we talking? Maybe two hours
or something like that?

-Okay.
-Yeah, something like that.

If you've got all you need
right here, let's wrap it up.

-All right.
-We can do it at the cabin.

-Okay.
-We might have an answer here.

-Let's do it.
This is good stuff.
-Good. Good, good.

All right.

[Duane] Did the field work.
Brett did the seismic survey,

and so, he's working up
the data now.

And uh, crossing
my fingers, man. I hope
he gets some good information.

-What do we got here?
-Well...

Not to get too into
the weeds here, but,
this is called a dispersion.

This whole method measures
this...

energy that goes along
the ground, this way,
the surface ways.

Which only works
through solids.

If you get into air,
it usually doesn't work.

So, the density change
is great from here to here.

And so, this is probably
the upper stuff that, uh,

you were digging a hole into,
and...

But then, at eight feet,

these velocities,
maybe 1105 per second,

if that is the pressure
wave velocity, that's right
on the money with air.

-Oh, really?
-You're saying air?

As in air in a cave.

[Duane] That's what
we wanna hear, you know?

So what you're telling me
right now is you think we have
a target or a void?

-Could be, yes.
-Okay.

And we can mark that spot
where we can drop down
and not miss it by?

I wouldn't think you'd miss it
if these caves are
of any size at all.

-That's good news.
-That's awesome.

-[Chad] Right, boys.
We did it.
-That's really good news.

So, let's...
That's what it shows.

-And we're right on top of it?
-Well, if it's...

According to that line,
if that's what we're seeing,
we're on top of it.

[Duane] We got our dry cap.

We have the exact spot.

It took a bunch of tests
to get to this point.

But the seismic, the last test
we did, showed that we have
a big ol' entrance

to a cave at about


So we know exactly where
to drill now.

That, that's perfect.
This is good.

Hell, yeah.

This is, I think the best news
we've had so far.

-This technique is valid,
and...
-It's pretty big, yeah.

[Duane] We were not just
spinning our wheels here.
We know exactly

where to put that rig
and punch in.

Hopefully, into that void.

[Chad] Well, Eric was right.
Patience can actually be
a good thing.

When we looked at the results
that Brett showed us
in the cavern,

and it looks like there is
a void under there.

So, we're all excited.

We're gonna bring in
the rat hole rig,
and we're gonna

drill a hole and get in there.

-Yeah, this is good stuff.
-Thank you, Brett.

-That'll be fun. No problem.
-Good deal.

[Charlie] This is it.

After all that searching
and testing, we finally found
the new way into the cavern.

We're so close,
I can taste it.

But, out here on this ranch,
that's when things seem to
fall apart.

So I'm not about to start
celebrating yet.

You know, we got a lot of work
to do before this deal's done.

[narrator] On the final
two episodes of
Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch...

[Chad] We are right on top of
cavern, right there.

It's time to start
drilling, baby.

-[Duane] Whoa!
-[Chad chuckles]

-[Chad] Holy [bleep], man.
-It's dry!

[Chad] Oh, this is gonna
change everything.

[Dave] Hey, guys, you're gonna
wanna see this.

There's three cars all around.

[Charlie] They're up to
something.

[Dave] Let's go.

Whoever's been watching us
is getting more aggressive.

Seems like they just keep on
coming at us.

[Chad] But we have
to move forward.

-Good job today, guys.
-All right.

I'm real excited about getting
into this cavern, but,

we detected radiation
in the bottom.

-[device whirring]
-Oh, boy...

And so we're gonna need
to suit up.

Going down the hole.
It's the closest thing
to a suicide mission.

[machine creaking]

-Going down!
-[machine whirring]

[breathing heavily]

[Duane] Once we start
getting into that cave...

Hey! You're going off!
You're blinking red!

...things can change
like that.

-[Chad] Oh, my God!
-What's happening? It's not--

[Chad] Go, go, go, go!
Get him outta there!

-[Duane] Okay, I'm on!
-Go! Pull up! Pull him up!

-We gotta get Duane!
-Hold in!

[indistinct]

[Eric] Go get Duane!

I'm not in here, but...

[indistinct]