05x03 - Dead in the Water

[bunniefuu]

Look at that scapula.

That is a tooth that bit
all the way through.

It would have to be
larger than a wolf.

That's crazy.

Holy crap. Look at this.

That's a communication signal.

I think its two things
talking to each other.

Uh-oh.

ROYSTON:
There's a signal interference

to my controller.

ERIK:
There's a gap in the data

right where he called out
controller interference.

That UAP is basically
in the triangle airspace.

TRAVIS: Like it's turning
to make a final approach.

Like it's coming in
for a landing.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: 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.

ROYSTON: Erik, you copy?

Yeah, Jim. Go ahead.

ROYSTON: Hey, we've
been out at the triangle

and I've got to tell you,

we just picked up

some really
strange lidar up there

that we're trying to figure out.

What do you mean by strange?

We got this weird
anomaly over the triangle.

- What do you think he's talking about?
- I don't know.

Last week

we recorded images of a
UAP that suddenly appeared

right above the spot
that we call the triangle.

So this morning, Erik
and I asked Jim Royston

and Sam Deriso of
OmniTeq to scan the area

with their drone-based
infrared lidar device to see

if it could reveal what might
have caused that phenomenon.

We flew the drone one time.

Got some very interesting

kind of crazy lidar data, uh,

that does kind of confirm some
of the things we saw last year.

Yeah, we have it
recorded and, uh,

I'm gonna send you
the data right now.

And then we'll come
in and take a look at it.

Copy that. Go ahead
and sh**t it over.

I want to see it.

TRAVIS: Erik and I
were really stunned

when Jim said that he
thought his lidar data

may have confirmed what we
saw at the triangle last year...

Oh, we got a malfunction.
Everybody watch out.

There's something in the
sky above the rocket right here.

Because it was in that same spot

that we captured
high-speed camera images

of some kind of a blob
that might have caused

a rocket to explode
just 31 feet in the air.

- What is that red circle?
- Whoa.

TRAVIS: And then
later in the year,

it's also right
where Jim obtained

lidar images of a circular ring

with the black
void in the center.

So we couldn't wait to
find out what he captured

this time and hoped it might
explain the crazy phenomena

that keeps happening
at the triangle.

ROYSTON: Erik, did
you get those files?

There should've been some
movie files and some JPEGs.

Yeah, I see-I see images

and I see some,
uh, movie files here.

Uh, do you want me to
just start with the first file?

ROYSTON: Yeah,
let's start with that.

Okay, I'm gonna
put it over here.

- ROYSTON: This is my controller.
- TRAVIS: For the lidar?

ROYSTON: Yes. I called Sam over

and had him go ahead
and pull out his cellphone,

it's what he's
capturing this on.

So if you play this...

that's right in the center,
right above the triangle.

You'll see, as I
turn this around,

you'll see, one,
this weird symmetry.

TRAVIS: Looks like a doughnut
floating there as you turn it.

Keep it going and let's
look at the different views

that you give us.

Okay, so what the hell is
generating these returns?

ROYSTON: And look how
clean the lines are around it.

That's what just
kind of blew my mind.

TRAVIS: You know, the
interesting thing to me is

it looks kind of funnel-shaped.

ERIK: Whoa.

You know, the-the
really crazy piece to this is

this looks like it
could be an extension

of whatever that is
you saw last year.

That bright circle,

perfect circle you measured
last year on the ground.

- It's in the same location.
- Yeah. Yeah.

That is just tantalizing, guys.

It looks like a dadgum hourglass

or the, you know, the
pictures that you see on papers

and graphics of traversable
Lorentzian wormholes.

I mean, think about it.

Wow.

TRAVIS: For much
of the last century,

scientists such as
Albert Einstein have

theorized that wormholes...
Which are passageways

between two distant
points in space...

Could actually exist.

And what Jim and Sam
captured on their lidar device

appears to have
the very structure

of a theoretical wormhole.

Could that be what
exists above the triangle?

And is that what's causing all
these phenomena to happen

in this area?

I want to catch
this thing again.

- TRAVIS: Absolutely.
- I want us to do whatever it takes

to catch that thing again.

Yup. This triangle's got us.

You know what?

If that's going on right
now, there might be,

the anomaly might
actually be active right now.

- ERIK: All right. So let's head out.
- Yeah.

TRAVIS: Yeah, we need
to load all of that in the truck.

After what Jim and Sam
showed us on their lidar scan,

Erik and I wanted
to get the team

out to the triangle immediately.

All right. Here we go.

We wanted to see if the
phenomenon would reappear

so we could figure
out exactly what it was.

- You got the plate?
- Yep.

TRAVIS: Because
rockets have repeatedly

helped us observe phenomenon

on the ranch, our
plan was to launch

several of them equipped
with GPS devices

straight up above the triangle

and then photograph each launch

with high-speed cameras.

The goal was to
see if we could cause

anything to appear that
was potentially related

to the ring-shaped lidar anomaly

that Jim Royston
had just recorded.

Rocket's hot!

And while we
finished getting ready,

Erik headed to a
brand-new observation post

we call the black box.

It's located southeast
of the triangle

and it enables him to monitor

the live GPS data
from each of the rockets

as they pass through the area

where we detected
the strange lidar ring.

Wait, watch out, that
doesn't go all the way.

TRAVIS: And finally, to help
us get an even wider view

of anything that might appear
during the rocket launches,

ranch caretakers Tom Lewis
and Kandus Linde set up

an additional high-speed camera

several hundred yards
southeast of the triangle.

Everyone be notified that we are

about to start doing
some launches,

uh, so be prepared to
catch it on the high-speed

and, uh, to help spot
where it comes down.

The wind's blowing,
uh, pretty hard right now,

so we may need as many eyes

as we can get.

Copy that. We'll be ready.

Kaleb, you can do
a countdown for me.

All right, you let me
know when you want me

to go hot on the battery.

I'm ready whenever
you are, man. Do it.

- Okay, we're armed.
- [high-pitched beeping]

Rocket's hot!

KALEB: We will be launching in

five,

four, three,

two, one.

- Oh, that's a good one.
- BRYANT: Yeah, that's perfect.

TRAVIS: What have
we got? Oh, wow.

Hey, Erik. You copy?

Yeah. Go ahead, Travis.

TRAVIS: Yeah, Erik.
I'm looking at this trace.

It got to about 2,000 feet high,

but this is showing it at only

about 150 feet or something.

TRAVIS: Holy crap. It sure does.

That is really weird.

Now, we all saw that
rocket sh**t straight up

a couple thousand
feet in the air.

But the data from the GPS
device inside of it showed

that at an altitude of 150 feet,

it turned northeast toward
the face of the nearby Mesa,

where last year we saw a UAP
exit from that very same spot.

All right, well, we're getting
ready for the next launch,

so just stand by.

ERIK: Perfect.
Standing by for launch.

TRAVIS: So, could all of
this be related to the thing

that Jim Royston spotted
today on his lidar scans?

Maybe launching
another rocket could get

something to happen
that would help us find out.

All right, everybody be
advised we're about to launch

- another rocket. -Okay.
- [high-pitched beeping]

In five, four,

three, two,

one.

ERIK: So, Travis?

Yeah. Go ahead, Erik.

Um...

the data looks really messed-up.

TRAVIS: Oh, wow.

Dragon, come look at this.

This is crazy.

TRAVIS: Dragon,
come look at this.

- BRYANT: Okay.
- TRAVIS: This is crazy.

You saw that rocket, right?

It went 2,000 feet high.

Look at what the
GPS is telling us it did.

The rocket on the launch
never got higher than the mesa

and it looks like it turned

and then it went
west of the triangle.

What?

I don't know what's really
going on above the triangle,

but right where we
captured new lidar images

of a ring-like
anomaly earlier today,

the rockets that
we just launched

are showing GPS data
that doesn't match at all

with their actual flight paths.

I have no idea
what to make of that.

- TRAVIS: That makes no sense.
- BRYANT: Okay.

- Well, we're gonna try again.
- TRAVIS: You're dadgum right we are.

Hey, everybody, be advised

we're gonna launch
in less than one minute.

So we wanted to keep launching
rockets up through the triangle

to see if whatever
was causing this

might actually be revealed.

You good there?

- I think so.
- All right.

BRYANT: Okay, we got juice.

Five, four,

three, two, one.

The GPS data from
that rocket is wrong, too.

It says the rocket
didn't go high at all.

Look, it just went to the
west of the triangle again.

You... [sighs]

TRAVIS: Hey, Erik.
It looks like it turned

and went west of the triangle.

Yeah, I get it. Uh,

Travis, this doesn't
make any sense.

I don't know what
we're looking at here.

At launch, the GPS
data looks nothing at all

like the actual
trajectories of the rockets.

I'm watching them
in the cameras.

We really need to
understand what is happening

in this airspace
over the triangle.

- That's crazy, right there.
- Yeah.

ERIK: Hey Travis, I'm just
gonna shut down out here

and, uh, take a
look at the data.

Copy that.

Hey, everybody.
That's the last launch.

We're gonna start breaking down.

KANDUS: Thank you, Travis.

- Hello, hello.
- Hey, how you doing?

- KANDUS: Good to see you.
- Glad to have you guys out.

- Yeah, we're excited.
- Good to see you.

ERIK: While the rest of
the team review the data

from our experiment,
we're visiting

with Ben Woodruff at
the Hutchings Museum

in Lehi, Utah.

I want to show you
some amazing things,

kind of give you the results
of, uh, what we went over.

Okay.

On the starling, nothing has
eaten the inside of this bird.

But the brain is gone.

ERIK: I'm anxious
to find out his findings

on those specimens that
he collected from the ranch,

including a pair of birds

that didn't seem to be
decaying normally at all.

I'm just gonna take it off.

ERIK: And a rib specimen

from a cow that recently died,

with a puncture wound
that appeared to have

an entry point and
an expl*sive exit point.

BEN: The force that it
takes to go through that,

I mean, that would
break my teeth.

I've got a lot of samples
that we took on the ranch

the last time I was there.

The first thing... you
remember the starling?

The bird, we found a dead bird.

And you remember how
the brain was just gone?

- Yes. Yes.
- BEN: Completely just missing.

And you remember that
the muscle tissue was soft

and squishy, okay?
I've got a sample.

Now, first thing I want,
Erik, I want you to smell it.

Smell if you smell anything.

- Actually, I don't.
- Yeah, there's no smell.

This should either
be rotten to the core

or it should be mummified.

It should be totally
dried out, and it's neither.

So, I want you to look
on the screen over here

and take a look at
this tissue sample.

And what I want you
to see is that it is still

keeping its color
as if it's fresh.

- TOM: Weird. -KANDUS: Yeah.
- BEN: See how flexible that is?

ERIK: Wow.

BEN: Now, that's impossible.

Microbacteria
should be eating this,

consuming it, uh, and
it-it should not be soft.

And it should be discolored.

What on the ranch
could be making bacteria

- not consume something?
- Right.

Usually, when a small animal
dies of natural causes like this

what should happen
is the tendons tighten,

the muscles dry out,
rigor mortis sets in.

But in this case, that
has not been happening.

But what's really strange
is after I got home,

all the bird didn't decompose,
but the head started to.

Whatever at the ranch was
preventing decomposition,

started only on the
head, at my house.

- Now, that's interesting.
- BEN: Yeah.

It's like almost once it
was away from the ranch,

suddenly the laws of nature
were applying correctly.

Except for not to
the breast tissue.

-Mm. -BEN: It's really strange.

BRYANT: Skinwalker
Ranch is just that... it's a ranch.

There's times that
we find dead animals

like you would anywhere
else... birds, small animals.

But there's all sort of
strange things happening

with the decay
process of animals here.

And I wonder what in the
world happened on the property

that can cause
this sort of anomaly.

You guys brought
those two birds,

the starling that
we just looked at.

The grosbeak
was totally different.

Part of it did decompose
but I want to show you.

This is really, really strange.

From the bones, it looks
like it was flying along

and something went...
[mimics crunching]

- and just broke all the bones and left it.
- KANDUS: What?

The bones are busted up
and it hasn't been eaten.

Not by, like, a
predator or anything.

So, I wanted to show
you how this works.

We'll take a look at this

and you see how the
legs are just broken?

- TOM: Oh, yeah. -BRYANT: Contorted around.
- KANDUS: Whoa.

BEN: The wings,
see that break point?

So, this did not stay
squishy like the starling did.

But the bones... they're
all basically snapped.

ERIK: So, throughout
the entire body of this bird,

- the bones are broken?
- Mm-hmm.

Just... [imitates crunch]

It, again, the easiest
thing would be like

if it went "crunch,
crunch" and then dropped.

You don't just have
things break like that.

ERIK: Is there perhaps
some invisible force

that can be exerted
on a small bird

if it flies into a
particular region

of the space on the ranch?

Like, for example, the triangle,

and that could cause
that kind of physical trauma

to the extent that we're
breaking every bone in its body?

Do we have some kind
of invisible, physical object

in the airspace
causing this to happen?

BEN: So, that's the birds.

What I also want to talk
to you about was the cow.

- Okay.
- So, I wondered how did it die?

We don't know, but the
really strange thing was the rib.

On this rib, there
was this hole.

So, you see this right
here? That was a tooth mark.

- Mm-hmm.
- And on this side over here

is where you see where
it shattered outward.

ERIK: Yes.

BEN: So, there's only a
few animals that would fit.

So, I wanted to
experiment and see, okay,

could it be a coyote or a dog
and something of that size?

So, I took some
teeth from coyotes

and from a black bear

and I rigged them
up in a drill press.

I didn't turn the
drill press on,

I just anchored them in and
then pushed it down into this rib.

So, I want to show you
what happened. [chuckles]

These are the results.

So, these are all coyote teeth,

and the big one is
a black bear tooth.

ERIK: So, these look shattered.

BEN: They completely
shattered when I pushed down

and I wasn't, like, going hard.

So, whatever went through this

was able to do it
without shattering.

So, your options are...

And we talked about it before...

These shouldn't fit the
bill, but these are perfect.

This is a dire wolf.

Which is an extinct species.

TOM: That's crazy.

BEN: These
shouldn't fit the bill,

but these are perfect.
This is a dire wolf.

Which is an extinct species.

And as you can see, the
size fits into that hole perfectly.

It's a pointed tooth, which
is gonna puncture through

- But you see this ridge right here?
- ERIK: Yes.

- It's called a sagittal crest.
- ERIK: Yes.

And this allows much
more musculature

back here to bite
through that rib.

You have to have that sagittal
crest to offer more power.

ERIK: I was not
expecting to hear

these words come
out of Ben's mouth,

but what he told us

is the best match, structurally,

to what we've brought
to his laboratory

is in fact a dire wolf.

I have absolutely no framework
in which to accommodate

the presence of
a extinct species

on Skinwalker Ranch.

How is this even possible?

BEN: It sounds
crazy, but that is what

fits perfectly is a dire wolf.

Now, I'm not saying
that you have dire wolves

running around your ranch.

But I'm just saying,
biologically speaking,

that's what fits the bill.

Anything else would
either shatter their own teeth

or shatter the
rib in the process.

- Take a look at that.
- That's crazy.

- Dire wolf.
- Mm-hmm.

BRYANT: We've heard stories

from when the Sherman
family owned the ranch.

About Mr. Sherman
sh**ting a dire wolf...

and having it not die.

And as they tracked
it across the field,

the tracks led to the river

and then never
came out of the river.

Could there really still be
dire wolves on this property,

scavenging on this carcass?

BEN: This makes sense to
this, but I'd feel a lot better

if you were handing
me a 10,000 year old

rib of a buffalo and
saying "What did this?"

and I'd be like, "Well, it's
pretty obvious what did it,"

but you've got a modern cow

and an animal that's
supposed to be extinct.

The whole thing doesn't
make sense to me.

ERIK: I really respect
the fact that you're not

jumping right into a hypothesis

when we don't have
enough information here.

Not at all. We just have bits
and pieces that tell a story.

But we've got to
have all the pieces

to understand what's going on.

Can't thank you enough.

- I feel like I'm learning something every time we talk.
- BEN: Mm. Great.

Well, thanks for coming out.

- Thank you.
- Appreciate it very much.

BEN: You're very
welcome. Thank you.

BRYANT: What are we
looking at today, Erik?

ERIK: The rocket launches
that we did out at the triangle.

I got to tell you, the data

just don't make a
lot of sense to me.

After a couple days of
processing the GPS data

and scouring the
high-speed camera images

that were collected during

our rocket experiment
at the triangle,

we were all on edge to see
just what might be revealed

about the ring-shaped
and blob anomalies

that were documented there.

Well, here's our familiar, uh,


And again, we're talking
about a rocket launch

from here at the
center of the triangle

going to, you know,
nearly 2,000 feet or so.

- Yep, yep.
- And we all saw it.

- Yes.
- Okay.

ERIK: Why is it going
right towards the out point

of that in and out event
that we've been studying?

Look at that.

TRAVIS: And look... it
takes off, goes toward

the in and out spot,
turned a 90-degree turn

and come back this way.

I don't think any of those
data points even correlate

with anywhere the rocket was.

The rocket didn't sh**t across
the top of the ground like that

and then decide
to go up over there

at the exit point
of the in and out.

ERIK: I see what
you're talking about.

TRAVIS: And
then-then turn around.

But, really, the rocket went
up to 2,000 feet straight up.

ERIK: Why is it going this way?

We're still seeing this-this

pathological mismatch

between what the
rockets actually did

and what the GPS
data are telling us.

THOMAS: So what you're telling
me is the data that we're seeing here

in no way represents what
you guys watched happen.

- BRYANT: Not even remotely.
- It's just wrong.

But how it's wrong might
have something to teach us.

So, now I'm excited
to see the others.

I'll show you the second one.

THOMAS: Oh, wow.

- That's similar.
- TRAVIS: About the same thing.

And look at... all these
rockets went 2,000,

- 1,500 feet at a minimum.
- KALEB: Yeah.

TRAVIS: There's no point

in that whole thing
that's 1,500 feet.

ERIK: Uh, there's no
mistaking the difference

between this and 2,000 feet.

THOMAS: So is it
this way for all of them?

- Yeah.
- THOMAS: Wow.

- It's definitely interesting.
- Yep.

ERIK: So I might expect
this type of behavior

from a rocket that has a problem

with the fins, okay,

but, no, it did not do this.

- Let me give you the next launch.
- Yeah.

TRAVIS: And again,
it jogs around some

with randomness and
then it goes to the west

of the triangle.

What the crap?

And now, here's the weird thing.

Look at where the
data points stop.

That's right where the Lunasonde

and Juniper targets were
identified underground.

BRYANT: Really?

That's what I was
expecting someone to say.

In the past few years,
we've conducted

two underground scanning
surveys of the ranch.

One was a magnetometer
survey conducted in 2020

by a company named
Juniper Unmanned.

And the other, which was
just done last year in 2022,

was a weather balloon
based radar scan

conducted by Jeremiah Pate

and representatives from his
company called Lunasonde.

Incredibly, both
companies identified

a possible underground tunnel

between the triangle
and the mesa.

And now the crazy
GPS data from yesterday

shows that the rockets
diverted from their actual paths

and landed right
in that same area.

ERIK: So I've taken
the Lunasonde data

that we got with Jeremiah
Pate and his team last year

and I've added that
to the rocket launches

that we did out at
the triangle together

with the magnetic data
that we got back in 2020.

- TRAVIS: Okay.
- ERIK: There's the Juniper data.

This is the Lunasonde data
and there's the rocket launches.

THOMAS: Oh, wow.

BRYANT: It's interesting to
see how they do line up though.

It's especially
interesting to me

that the location where
the Lunasonde data

lines up with the Juniper
magnetometry data

has been described to us
as a possible tunnel structure.

We've long heard about
the tunnel system here

on the ranch, which we've
never found real evidence for,

and now hearing
those terms all used

in one data set... you know,
conductive, metallic, tunnels...

I think that we need to
go investigate further.

Yeah.

I've heard all kinds

of crazy stories
about this mesa.

Spacecraft going in it,

tunnels, caverns,
underground bases.

It really makes me wonder what's
going on below the surface here.

ERIK: In that general vicinity,

we've got something
going on under the ground.

I... I-I agree and I think

from the rocket
launches that we've seen,

this whole thing makes no sense.

Wow, all right.

Well, this is amazing, Erik.

ERIK: I have
something else to share.

- There's more?
- ERIK: There's more.

Wait till you see
what else I've got.

You-you guys probably
remember we were, uh,

- you know, taking high-speed.
- Okay.

Well, let me bring up the,
uh, the camera footage.

So, this is a single camera

looking up this launch tower.

You know, this is
the post process

where we have that embossed
effect and so here you see

just immediately after
the first rocket launch.

You can see there is something

that shows up
that... it's not a rocket.

TRAVIS: What is it
that we're looking at

that's kind of coming
out at that thing?

I don't know... I don't
know what that is.

I just don't even know... I
just can't decide if it's a...

BRYANT: That's not the rocket.

TRAVIS: What the crap?

- BRYANT: That's not the rocket.
- TRAVIS: What the crap?

What is that we're
looking at that's

kind of coming
out of that thing?

ERIK: Yeah, you're
talking about these lobes

- on either side.
- Yeah, what the crap is that?

ERIK: So we've got this,
I'll call it a cylindrical center.

- Mm-hmm.
- ERIK: It's a line.

And then we have these
two lobes on either side.

TRAVIS: I don't
know what that is.

The UAP that Erik noticed in
the high-speed camera video

from our rocket
experiment at the triangle

two days ago was amazing.

It didn't just appear like some
of the orbs that we've seen.

But it had distinct features

like it could actually be
some kind of an aircraft.

Is it possible it
could be an insect

and those are the
wings moving back and...

Always the first question
that comes to mind, you know?

We-we usually see some
kind of undulating feature

on either side of the body.

I got to look closer.
I just can't tell.

Would you like... Uh, you
know what, I can dive in, Travis.

Oh, yeah. Do that.

ERIK: I'll take us
back out to the original.

So watch as this evolves.

Okay, so I'm gonna
go forward one frame.

Okay.

- TRAVIS: Go forward again.
- ERIK: Mm-hmm.

TRAVIS: Go one more.

ERIK: Whatever this
additional feature is

on the side of the
main body of this thing,

it goes from, uh, what would be

the aft portion of it
to the fore portion of it.

Yeah, at least that's
what it looks like to me.

TRAVIS: It looks like wings.
I mean, not like bird wings

or insect wings, it
looks like airplane wings.

- Folding down.
- Mm-hmm, interesting.

TRAVIS: One more
time, go one more frame.

So look at the top.
It's shinier than...

- ERIK: You're speaking of this part here?
- Yeah, whatever that is.

- ERIK: Okay.
- It seems to be shinier

than the rest of it.

It has a very
defined, rigid edge.

KALEB: That seems like
it stays very consistent.

ERIK: Yeah. So,
it's got definition.

And I don't know

that I've ever seen anything
exactly like this before.

Now wait till you
see what else I've got.

This is in that same time frame,

within a few minutes.

You see it over here?

TRAVIS: Look at that.
Oh, that's crazy, man.

- ERIK: And then we'll dive in here.
- TRAVIS: All right.

Well, I'll tell you,
my brain's telling me

it's the same object

as the previous one or
the same type of object.

ERIK: Same class of object.

Well, let me move
to the next one.

So, here we have
a third instance of...

BRYANT: It looks
similar to the same thing.

TRAVIS: I think it's the same
thing. I don't know what it is

but it looks like
it's the same thing.

So we have three, uh, videos
of the same category of objects

right after the first launch,
but I don't think there's

any decision we can
make on it right now.

- Yeah.
- ERIK: Obviously,

the data is the other
important half of this exercise.

And we got these really mangled

GPS results and it correlates
with Lunasonde radar data

which, according to
the-the Juniper data,

were on top of a
magnetic anomaly.

So, what do you guys
think about getting

Jan Francke to come
back out, you know,

with his
ground-penetrating radar?

THOMAS: Well,
it's-it's a starting point.

Yeah.

Could Erik be right

that the answers to all the UAPs

and other phenomena
we've recorded between

the triangle and the mesa

and the east field might
actually be underground?

Is there a connection
between the ring-like anomaly

we've detected on lidar
and the possible tunnel

that was identified by
Lunasonde last year?

What I want to do this
time when he's with us

is to actually do a
grid-like, you know, uh, uh,

like a push broom
pattern on the ground

with that instrument.

And see if we don't, uh, get
some returns that correlate

with what we see in the
Lunasonde and the Juniper data.

- BRYANT: That's a great idea.
- I agree.

ERIK: Okay, well, you know,
this has been a great review.

I appreciate you guys
sitting at the table with me.

- THOMAS: Thanks, guys.
- ERIK: Thank you so much.

TRAVIS: The next day,
while we were awaiting

the arrival of GPR
expert Jan Francke...

I say we, uh, figure
out what goes in here.

Erik wanted us to follow
up on the unbelievable

findings of biologist
Ben Woodruff,

who believes something
with the jaw structure

of the extinct dire wolf k*lled
one of the cows on the ranch.

- Okay. Just set it down for a sec.
- All right.

Where's that dry bag?

So, we decided to
conduct an investigation

in the river that runs
along the south field

called Dry Gulch Creek.

THOMAS: Okay, so,
we've got the GPS tracker.

We should probably
check in with Erik

and see if he's
picking it up still.

- Yeah. Let him know we're here.
- Yeah.

Hey, Erik, do you have a copy?

ERIK: Yeah, Thomas, go ahead.

We've arrived over
here on the western side

of the ranch and
we're just preparing

the equipment and getting
ready to go in the river.

Can you, uh, see the tracker?

Copy that, I'm watching.

Okay, we're gonna
get in the river.

Okay.

Let's go.

Let's do it.

TRAVIS: Back in the 1990s,

the Sherman family
actually claimed

that they had followed
a dire wolf out here

after it attacked
one of their cattle,

but then reported
that its tracks just

disappeared right at this creek.

Let's just put it right here.

TRAVIS: Yup.

THOMAS: All right.

Okay. I think we're ready.

TRAVIS: Since the
water is very shallow,

we're going to wade
down the river with a kayak

that we've equipped
with GPS devices

as well as energy
and radiation detectors.

Erik, this is Thomas.
You got a copy?

Yeah, go ahead, Thomas.

THOMAS: Got all the equipment

strapped down and ready to go,

and we're entering
the river now.

Well, that is really
interesting because

that is not what
I'm looking at here

According to the GPS,

you're at 5,000
feet underground.

You mean to tell me right now

we're about 5,000 feet
lower than what we are?

I've never seen this before.

- Did you guys hear that?
- BRYANT: Yeah.

Right now, Erik's GPS tracker

is telling us we're


- where we're at.
- TRAVIS: Really?

THOMAS: Yeah.

TRAVIS: That's crazy, man.

THOMAS: Right now,
Erik's GPS tracker

is telling us we're 5,000
feet below where we're at.

TRAVIS: That's crazy, man.

Well, let us know when
we portal back to reality.

Copy that, Thomas.

ERIK: I watched the
real-time GPS tracking data

as reporting its position
going underground.

This isn't the first and
won't be the last time

we're asking
ourselves the question:

why is it that something
that works perfectly fine

in one scenario

suddenly doesn't
work at all in another?

KALEB: Could the water
be somehow affecting that?

TRAVIS: Uh, it shouldn't,
it's above the water.

THOMAS: That's interesting.

TRAVIS: That's crazy, man.

THOMAS: Right off the bat,

Erik tells us that
the GPS tracker

that we have has suddenly
gone 5,000 feet below us.

I don't know what's going on,

but we haven't even walked,

you know, ten
feet down this river,

we're already starting to
see interesting phenomena.

TRAVIS: Let's get
this thing in the water.

BRYANT: Okay, let's roll.

TRAVIS: Yep. Here we go.

THOMAS: We've
never explored the river.

Even Bigelow's people

claim that they had
never been down around it.

We're looking at a
large section of the ranch

located on the south side

where we've seen so much
strange activity in the past,

and it makes me
wonder, you know,

what is in store for us?

TRAVIS: Dude, it is
thick right here, though.

If we lost a rocket in
here, you wouldn't get it.

-BRYANT: Man, this is not
-TRAVIS: We've been walking

- easy walking.
- For a while. Yeah.

That's a lot of walking. It's...

We haven't gone
very far linearly

- because the river's just winding, right?
- KALEB: Yep.

Well, I can tell you,

we haven't had anything
on the gamma rays at all.

Yeah, the TriField meter

has been at zeros
the entire time, too.

TRAVIS: We almost never
see that with that thing.

BRYANT: Was this-was
this TriField meter's

battery full when we started?

- Yeah, yeah. We checked it before we left.
- BRYANT: Because it's almost...

- it's almost dead.
- Really?

- BRYANT: Yeah.
- TRAVIS: Well, that's interesting.

Maybe something's
drained the battery.

We often see batteries on
our equipment suddenly drain

just before and even during

strange events
like UAP sightings

and mysterious
signal detections.

So, we were all wondering
if our TriField meter,

which detects energy
spikes, was malfunctioning

because something much
crazier was about to happen.

Ugh. Let's go.

THOMAS: Look at
this tree right here.

Has that been...

I mean, it almost looks...

charred.

TRAVIS: Hey, Dragon, if you can,

cut-cut us off a sample of that.

Okay.

THOMAS: Yeah, why is this black

- and this one is just...
- TRAVIS: Take a picture of that,

too, if you don't mind.

It's not far from that
burnt post either, right?

THOMAS: Where the thing
burned through it, right?

TRAVIS: The river is
not real far from that at all.

BRYANT: Last year,

we found that
mysterious burned post

in the south field.

And it just so
happens that we saw

this purple light
that seemed to fly off

into that area...

a strange silver orb that
shows up on our game cameras.

TRAVIS: Yeah, that way
we can see the rings on it.

BRYANT: And now we're seeing

some of the
vegetation in the river

that looked as though there
was a strange burn property,

it makes me wonder
if these instances...

Are they related somehow?

Oh, look. You got a good piece.

Fantastic.

THOMAS: We got
some great samples.

TRAVIS: Now, is this natural
or is this a beaver dam?

- THOMAS: Beaver.
- KALEB: It's a beaver dam.

- BRYANT: Whoa, what is that?
- TRAVIS: What is it?

BRYANT: Right there.

THOMAS: What is that?

KALEB: Hard to tell.

TRAVIS: We're about
to find out what it is.

BRYANT: Ew. God.

THOMAS: What is that?

TRAVIS: We're about
to find out what it is.

THOMAS: Look at those fangs.

BRYANT: Ew. God.

TRAVIS: We've got a
dead animal right here.

BRYANT: I wonder what that is?

Just a few hundred
feet down the river

from where I found this
burnt tree, we came across

some sort of animal here
in late stages of decay.

As soon as we lifted
its head out of the water,

we saw massive canine teeth,

so we knew it was a
canine of some type,

but these teeth are pretty big.

It doesn't look like a
coyote or a dog to me,

so what is dead
here in the water?

TRAVIS: Think
you can hold it up?

All right, let's
get it in the bag.

BRYANT: We're still gonna
try and get a sample of it

and give it to Ben the biologist

that's been working
with us on the ranch.

[grunts]

- THOMAS: Ooh, I got a whiff of that.
- TRAVIS: Yeah, it stinks.

BRYANT: Good God.

TRAVIS: That decayed carcass

that we found in
the south field creek

was really disgusting,

but it was also

one of the strangest things

we'd ever seen on
Skinwalker Ranch.

The body wasn't very big,

but the teeth were huge.

TRAVIS: Whoa, those
teeth are sharp, dude.

Gah! I touched it.

I didn't know
what to make of it,

but no matter how
bad that thing stunk,

we had to get a
piece of that jaw

so Ben Woodruff could
analyze it to figure out

what kind of animal
it actually was.

THOMAS: Oh, man that stinks.

TRAVIS: Well, let's load
up and get out of here.

Yep, sun's getting lower.

- Get away from that smell, too.
- TRAVIS: Yeah, right?

THOMAS: We're seeing
interesting things with our equipment

along with this burned tree

and a dead animal in the water,

so it makes me wonder

is this spot dangerous?

I don't know. It's hard to say,

but these are
definitely all things

that warrant more investigation.

THOMAS: Hey, Erik,

do you copy?

ERIK: Yeah, Thomas. Go ahead.

THOMAS: Uh, we've reached
our destination point on the river.

Just came upon a
really large, dead animal.

We've got some, uh,
maggots along with its jawbone.

So, uh, we've got quite
a few samples to bring in

and we're excited to come
back to command center

- and compare notes.
- ERIK: That's fantastic.

I'd call that a success,
guys. Way to go.

I'll see you when you get back.

- THOMAS: All right.
- TRAVIS: Well, I think it was,

uh, very informative.

We found a zone on
this river where there was

absolutely no
electromagnetic information.

And right after that,
we found a dead animal.

Yeah, so there's a dead
zone back there in the river.

So, that's something
we need to really

think about and look into.

BRYANT: All right, let's
get the heck out of here.

TRAVIS: Yeah.

ERIK: I don't think
any of us is content to

marvel at anomalous results.

I know that we are all
very hungry for answers.

Could this creek
be the point of origin

of some phenomenon
yet to be explained

that may have something to do

with the carcasses
of dead animals

that we're seeing on the ranch?

I'm especially interested

in getting the answer
to that question.

BRANDON: The disturbing reality

surrounding animal
deaths at Skinwalker Ranch

is something that
has left us baffled.

Is there something unique about

the nature of these areas,

these previously unexplored
regions of the ranch?

As the investigation continues,

we hope to get more answers.

TRAVIS: There are so many
crazy stories from the past

about things like portals,

underground tunnels
and even extinct animals

supposedly existing
on Skinwalker Ranch.

And just this week,
we found evidence that suggests

these things could be based
in reality and are true.

I don't know
what to make of that,

but I'm more determined than
ever to keep working with

this team to figure it out.