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I'd like to get to the bottom of whether there really is

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a cave system beneath this ranch.

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This is the hole we were talking about?

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Yeah.

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So we're going to fill it with water and put some dye in it.

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It's draining quickly.

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You guys need to get out there and start looking for this stuff.

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I don't see any green water.

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We saw 45,000 gallons of water disappear.

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It must be going somewhere rapidly.

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Yeah, I think it's going to be.

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We need to get below the ground.

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Every time that someone does a major digging on this property,

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then bad things happen.

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You guys should take a look at Caleb's phone.

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I don't have any control over it.

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It just goes right past my passcode.

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Something here is crying out for help.

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Or is it giving us a warning?

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Just a little more than eight hours after digging down at the pit,

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this rectangular shaped object instantly vanished.

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It was right there.

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Something you could never have imagined.

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It was right there.

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Something yellow and goldish color.

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That scared the f*** out of me.

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There is a ranch in northern Utah.

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It is considered the epicenter of the strangest

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and most disturbing phenomena on Earth.

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Animal mutilations, bizarre UFO sightings,

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and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans.

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For 20 years, the federal government

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tried to find answers and failed.

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Now, a new team of dedicated scientists, researchers,

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and experts has taken over.

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They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal

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the secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

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Hey, dragon, what's going on?

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We had some crazy stuff go down that we all want to share with you.

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Hey, Brandon, it's Travis.

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And Caleb and other guys are just going to jump in

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as we go through the story.

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But just after dark, Caleb actually heard something in the bushes,

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like very near to us, and it startled him enough that he jumped up.

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Caleb, you want to...

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I drew my pistol out, and I turned out the flashlight on,

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and I started going in the direction of where I was hearing this,

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and it was behind that old trailer and the canal bank there.

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Right as we got even with the trailer,

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there was something that was rectangular shaped,

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and it was shimmering yellowish-orange,

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and when Caleb shined his light on it, it instantly vanished.

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You're kidding.

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It didn't run off through the weeds.

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It didn't fly off. It didn't go through the ground.

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It didn't get in the creek.

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It just... I mean, just suddenly it was there, and suddenly it wasn't.

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Oh, so it had some type of stealth technology around.

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Yeah.

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There's this unmistakable, rectangular-shaped object

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that was maybe about two to two and a half feet in length

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and maybe a foot or so in height.

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And as Caleb brings his pistol fully on the target,

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it's like the light comes back at us like it was off of a mirror,

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and then the thing instantly vanished.

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I find it interesting that an object could be that close,

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right inside, close here to the command center,

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where we've got so many cameras, and we didn't pick anything up.

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Wow. I was not expecting this.

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It was scary as hell.

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And while we're walking back to the command center,

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I say, okay, guys, I'm gonna go ahead and turn my video off

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within seconds of me saying that something flies across the sky,

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uh-uh, looking due south over the command center porch,

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and something flies across the sky, and I'm like,

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oh, my God, did y'all see that?

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What?

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Eric was able to capture something on the camera surveillance, correct?

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Yeah, we... looking to the south...

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From the east field, we caught several frames of this thing

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streaking across the sky.

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You're kidding.

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At first glance, you might think it's a meteorite or a shooting star.

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Eric and I looked at it closely, and it kind of has a different trajectory.

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It's going more almost perfectly horizontal,

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as opposed to coming down like a meteorite does

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when it's on a trajectory impact course with the Earth.

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Maybe that's a telltale sign that it's not a meteorite.

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Can you send me a copy of that right away to review?

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Sure.

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Well, I would say that we need to emphasize

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on finding out a way to get more data

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on whatever this terrestrial ground phenomena was that we saw.

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If it's a thing in a suit, we need to know that.

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If it's a, uh, some Mother Nature phenomena, we need to know that.

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So it could have been something that was humanoid,

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but we didn't see any arms, legs, head, nothing.

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All we saw was a rectangular, shimmering, yellow-orange-ish phenomenon.

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All we can say is we felt in fear.

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We felt threatened. We felt we were in danger,

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and that's what we got to think about.

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What we're seeing are continued correlated events.

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All of this collectively speaks to something much more mysterious

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and potentially insidious going on.

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I mean, it really does give, I think, uh, evidence

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to the fact that we're definitely not alone on this ranch

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and we are being monitored.

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I think we've always suspected that we're being monitored.

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You know, happening upon strange objects and phenomena

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really speaks to the fact that we're not alone on this ranch.

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There's someone I think you should meet with

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who has a lot of experience and knowledge

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with similar happenings on the ranch.

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His name is Ryan Skinner.

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I'll arrange for him to come out right away this week.

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Okay, we'll do it.

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Well, I appreciate you checking in with me immediately,

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so please keep me posted.

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All right, thanks, Brandon. We'll talk to you soon.

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Hey, thank you, gentlemen.

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Yeah, so I'm anxious to get you to meet Travis.

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I know that we're glad that you'd be willing to come out

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and show us some of the stuff you found,

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because, as you know, it's a vast piece of property,

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and trying to cover all that area

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can be a little bit daunting.

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Glad to contribute to the team

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and really excited me, Travis.

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I thought it was important that we bring in Ryan Skinner,

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who has spent years researching

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not only the landscape of Skinwalker Ranch,

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but the surrounding area.

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And he's documented in great detail aspects of the property.

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As a result of exploring out here,

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I became very familiar with these mesas and hillsides.

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I'd have to say the strangest event that occurred to me

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was I was out on the ranch.

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A ball of light came up over one of these hillsides

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and started coming directly towards me,

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an immediately feeling of terror,

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unlike anything I've ever felt in my life before.

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I dropped everything I had, my expensive camera,

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all of my equipment, and started running back to the camp,

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and this thing is now trailing me.

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It was real, so I couldn't deny.

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No matter how many times I went back in my head,

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I couldn't rationalize it away.

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It really did happen.

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I hope to give any kind of help and input I can,

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and I want to help solve this mystery with the team.

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I think I know you two.

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Hey, Ryan.

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Hi.

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Good to see you again.

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What's up?

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Nice to see you again.

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Eric, what's going on, man?

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Hey, man.

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Travis Tyler.

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Travis, nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you.

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Good to have you guys up, Dragon.

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So, Ryan, what are you going to show us?

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I came across this location.

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It's up here on the mesa.

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Might give us some direction as to what's behind all this.

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Oh, OK.

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Well, let's grab the UTV and let's head up.

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OK, OK, I'm good.

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To me, what's exciting is the location of it.

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You know, it just stood out, and maybe it's

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going to jump up to you guys as well.

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I see that big, large rock over there.

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That's what we're going to aim for.

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So it's on which ridge?

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To the left of this big rock, right there,

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there's kind of those white shapes.

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Oh, the little squiggle lines and stuff.

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Is that what you're talking about?

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Yep.

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I came out here a few years ago,

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and we did come across the epictograph

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that I couldn't interpret.

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I have no idea what it meant, but it really

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stood out compared to the other rocks.

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This stuff is loose.

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Y'all be careful.

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I believe the ancient people were aware of whatever's

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happening to us right now.

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They left us clues through their rock art,

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and I hope the team and myself can contribute to that mystery

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in finding out some answers.

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Guys, y'all got to get up here and see this.

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Last time when we had a cow that died,

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no predators have touched this, which is highly unusual.

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Never seen one of those.

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The ice, the back end of the cow, were cut out.

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You witnessed this with your own eyes.

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Yeah.

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How did you find this, Ryan?

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And I've been walking all throughout these cliffs

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and looking at every rock face, looking for something

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just like this, and this one jumped out.

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We're halfway up the mesa on the northeastern corner

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of Skinwalker Ranch.

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And Ryan Skinner, a person with a long history here,

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has just shown us a really interesting petroglyph

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on a rock face that none of us have ever seen before.

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It looks like it may even be all the way over there.

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It looks like there might be a line there.

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Are you talking this?

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That right there is what I'm thinking.

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Oh.

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It pokes at us.

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I can't tell if it's the rock or if that continues on,

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but it's possible.

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Hey, guys, you know what I think this is?

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I think that's the big dipper.

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This is either Cassiopeia or Draco.

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Oh, wow.

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Dating back centuries, this entire region

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was inhabited by indigenous people of the Navajo

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and the Ute tribes.

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They were known to create rock art,

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such as petroglyphs, which are carved,

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and pictographs, which are painted.

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Now, these kinds of rock art were typically

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used to either report something or to tell a story

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about aspects of their heritage.

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Now, I've been studying outer space for more than 35 years,

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and I can't help but notice that some of these markings

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in this feature look a lot like possible depictions

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of constellations to me.

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We all know the big dipper, but Draco

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was a dragon or a serpent creature in Greek mythology.

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So I'm wondering, if that's what this is, who carved this?

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And just what were they trying to convey?

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I don't know which one this is,

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but I think it could be a star map.

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If that's North, look, look at this.

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There's the mesa, huh? It's the mesa.

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Look at that.

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This, if you look here and you trace all this like this,

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that looks just like the mesa, don't it, Tom?

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It does.

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It actually has a lot of the similarities, even the shape.

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Now, we have to be very careful not to jump to conclusions.

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But suddenly, I'm noticing that it looks almost like someone

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carved a map of the mesa in this rock art.

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Now, if that's what this is, the question is, why?

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Look here.

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There's two spots.

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Does that two spots look like a familiar place

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if this is the mesa?

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Oh, with the spot where we had the beam that came up

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or the Homestead area?

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When we shined the laser at the mesa,

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that's right where we were with the laser.

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You ready?

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Yep.

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Last summer, we were investigating a phenomenon

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that has been reported where parts of the mesa

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supposedly become illuminated.

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We started by shining a laser beam at it

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to see what would happen.

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There it is.

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Look, there's two.

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Look.

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Do that again.

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How is it doing that?

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That is so weird.

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Then, almost immediately afterwards,

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we all witnessed a strange glowing

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across the top of the ridge.

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Hey, guys, we just noticed on the screen here a second ago.

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You see the glow, the flicker?

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Yeah, it's flickering.

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It's just really strange to me to see something

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eerily similar, possibly being depicted in this rock art.

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Is it because whoever made this long ago

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experienced the same thing?

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I feel like I have to ask,

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so when you happened across this, Ryan,

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what jumped out to you?

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How did you interpret this thing?

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The triangle jumped out to me a little bit.

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These sherman's on the west side of the property

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would see a portal open up,

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and these miniature triangles

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would come out of the portal and go over the property.

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The Sherman family bought the property in the early 90s.

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It was their dream to really farm and ranch on the property

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and really raise prized cattle.

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The Sherman's quickly found out, unfortunately,

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that they were not alone.

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The Sherman family reported all sorts of strangeness,

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anything from experiences with giant wolf-type creatures

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to their prized cattle showing up mutilated.

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They unfortunately got chased off of this ground

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by the paranormal activity

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shortly after they took possession of the ranch.

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When Ryan said the Sherman's actually believed

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they saw portals open on the ranch

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and strange illuminated objects suddenly appeared,

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that immediately made me think of what Caleb and I saw

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the other night.

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Now, it wasn't a triangle,

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but it was definitely an oddly shaped,

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illuminated phenomenon

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that I have no scientific explanation for.

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I can't say for sure that there's a connection

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between what this rock art is meant to convey

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and what we saw the other night,

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but it does mean we have to keep investigating

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and figure it out.

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I wonder if there's a way to date these things.

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It could have been 10,000 years ago.

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It could have been 400 years ago,

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but somebody drew that on there.

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That suggests to me we should get a glyph expert out here

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to have a look at this.

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Yeah, yeah, you don't need a physicist up here

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telling you how they did this.

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You need an archaeologist or whoever does glyphs for a living.

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Ryan, this is cool, dude. I appreciate it.

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Lightning to me, so...

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I agree. Let's get out of here.

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All right.

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DISTANT TELLER

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DISTANT TELLER

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DISTANT TELLER

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Morning, guys.

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This is Dr. Dean Taylor.

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While we were arranging for a petroglyph expert

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to come out to the ranch to examine the rock art on the mesa,

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Thomas headed up an important investigation

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related to one of the most bizarre things

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we encountered last year.

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Thomas Winnerton.

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We decided to call in a veterinarian

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with the Utah Department of Agriculture,

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Dr. Dean Taylor.

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Last summer, we had a cow that died from rapid onset,

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stress-induced pneumonia.

348
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What in the world?

349
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There's no cat tracks, there's no sign of struggle.

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Middle of the day. It's just dead.

351
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It's hard to kill a cow.

352
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Look at this. Look at this.

353
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Fill my phone.

354
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It's going to vibrate to mute, vibrate to mute.

355
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Like, crazy. Holy crap.

356
00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:09,840
Given the history of reported cattle mutilations

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on Skinwalker Ranch,

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we were all put on edge when this otherwise normal cow

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just dropped dead.

360
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And as soon as we started to investigate it,

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Thomas Winnerton's phone started glitching

362
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like it was being hacked.

363
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The meter's going nuts.

364
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And out of nowhere, we started getting meter readings

365
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for really high levels of radiation all around us.

366
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13, 14, we're at 15, 16.

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The day after the cow died last year,

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we were reviewing some of the footage.

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And we noticed this object up in the sky.

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The cow is right here.

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I can't help but also notice that there's

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something happening here.

373
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Oh, yeah, there it was. Right there.

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The cow reacted.

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The moment that that object appeared.

376
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I was sitting here this whole time just thinking it was a bird,

377
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but you watch at real time. I mean, that's fast.

378
00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,280
Yeah, there's no bird moving that fast.

379
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Not 1,000 feet per second.

380
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I have no idea what that is.

381
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Cows die. It's part of ranching, unfortunately.

382
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But the predators come in and scavenge it

383
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almost immediately.

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And we have this particular cow that died last year.

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OK.

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But the strange thing is, we took the cow out

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to a remote part of the property.

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And it sat there untouched for almost a year.

389
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OK, yeah, that is unusual.

390
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Because there should be coyotes.

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And we've got a lot of different predators out here that

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should clean that up.

393
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Well, I'll tell you what, I'll have you jump in this red UTV.

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OK.

395
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And we'll head out.

396
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All right, sounds good.

397
00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:38,880
All right.

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There's something there in this cow

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that's making it undesirable.

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And the birds haven't touched it.

401
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The predators haven't touched it.

402
00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,600
So hopefully with Dr. Taylor coming out,

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we'll be able to get the bottom of it.

404
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We try to find a remote place that's out of the way.

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And then the predators usually come in and take care of it.

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But in this case, as you can see,

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the predators haven't done their job.

408
00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,320
No, they haven't touched it.

409
00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:09,560
Yeah, that is unusual.

410
00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:15,960
You can see that nothing's been polin' at that.

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You'd see teeth marks.

412
00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:20,440
There's something about that carcass that I don't like.

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Snakes represents two different worlds.

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So it's a guardian to the portals.

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The portal is a window into the supernatural.

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Predators haven't done their job.

417
00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,640
No, they haven't touched it.

418
00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:38,440
You can see that nothing's been polin' at that.

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You'd see teeth marks.

420
00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:40,880
Yeah.

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Because this cow hasn't been touched for a year,

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we decided to call in Dr. Dean Taylor.

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So hopefully we'll be able to get the bottom

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and identify why it is that these predators haven't

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wanted to eat this cow.

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Even if there's still quite a bit of the carcass left,

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you'll still find loose rib bones.

428
00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,600
But the bones are laying right where you dropped them.

429
00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,480
Had the predators just come in and did

430
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what they usually do, which is pick it over clean,

431
00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:10,960
and within a week, you can't tell that she was here.

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Right, scatter the bones over.

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Had they done that, then it would have been case closed.

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But nothing touched her.

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00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:22,720
She was perfect, perfectly fine, as far as we knew,

436
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up to that point.

437
00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,480
Did any other cows get sick after?

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00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:27,480
No.

439
00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,680
In fact, they were all at the other end of the field.

440
00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:32,960
Ignition.

441
00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,440
Last year, shortly before this cow drop

442
00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,440
did near the command center, we were launching rockets

443
00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,280
attempting to measure some electromagnetic anomalies we

444
00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,520
detected high above the ranch.

445
00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:44,800
Look at the cows.

446
00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,200
Never seen that before.

447
00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,000
Suddenly, the cows all began bunching up.

448
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,760
Clearly, they were spooked.

449
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:54,000
And then something even stranger happened.

450
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Look, look, look, look.

451
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We saw two different unidentified objects suddenly

452
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appear over the ranch.

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They made incredible aerodynamic moves,

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and then they just disappeared.

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It's gone.

456
00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,880
Not long after, this cow died right in the same area

457
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and at the same time as another UFO appeared

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00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,040
right above it in the sky.

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00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,480
So now that nothing has touched this carcass since,

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00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,720
I'm wondering if all these events are related in some way,

461
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including what we saw the other night.

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The thing that doesn't really fit is the sudden death.

463
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:29,920
There's not that many things that

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would cause that cow to be good in the morning

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and dead in the afternoon.

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Even if it was a rapid death from pneumonia,

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I would expect that cow to be standing off,

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open mouth breathing, coughing.

469
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With pneumonia, usually you're going

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to have a pretty clear indication that that's the case.

471
00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:52,040
Now, what about specifically a cow

472
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,400
that doesn't decompose right?

473
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:56,520
Never seen one of those.

474
00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,440
So the effect of an acute pneumonia

475
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:05,360
wouldn't be the reason something wouldn't eat this cow.

476
00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:07,360
No.

477
00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:10,600
In fact, predators probably would seek them out.

478
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:11,400
Yeah.

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00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,960
And that was another one of them was that I noticed,

480
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was no insects.

481
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,160
Yeah.

482
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:21,360
There's something about that carcass that I don't like.

483
00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:25,960
All of the intros are still within sight of the body cavity.

484
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,600
And I don't know what would cause animals

485
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,360
not to touch this cow in a year's time.

486
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,680
I think I'd like to take a sample of that hind leg

487
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,920
right there, where it's still got some covering around it

488
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,880
with the skin.

489
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:40,920
Looking at this animal, there isn't really

490
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,280
anything that is going to say this animal died of this.

491
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,320
So we're going to sample what we have available.

492
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:49,680
About right there, doctor?

493
00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,080
Yeah, that'll be perfect.

494
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,200
So hopefully with the lab diagnostics,

495
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,880
we can find something up there to send us down a path,

496
00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,520
at least.

497
00:21:58,520 --> 00:21:59,520
Thanks, Dr. Taylor.

498
00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:02,360
Is this him here?

499
00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:03,360
Yep.

500
00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:04,360
Alan.

501
00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:06,360
Hey, Eric, how are you?

502
00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:07,360
You doing great.

503
00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:08,360
How are you?

504
00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:09,360
Good.

505
00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:10,360
Welcome to the ranch.

506
00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:11,360
How you doing?

507
00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:12,360
Travis Taylor.

508
00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:13,360
Travis.

509
00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:14,360
I'm right here.

510
00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:17,360
Eric has invited Dr. Alan Garfinkel to come out to the ranch

511
00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:20,360
to examine the petroglyph that Ryan Skinner showed us

512
00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:23,360
on the side of the mesa a couple of days ago.

513
00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:26,360
Now, we're all hoping that he can shed some light on whether or not

514
00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:29,360
these carved images are going to be found.

515
00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:32,360
And so we're going to go out and take a look at some of the things

516
00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:35,360
we have on the ranch, not far from where we stand.

517
00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:36,360
Honored.

518
00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:37,360
Love to see him.

519
00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:40,360
I've been working in the field of ethnography and rock art

520
00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:42,360
studies for 40 years.

521
00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:47,360
My efforts and expertise are on the desert west, specifically

522
00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:51,360
the great desert, the desert, the desert, the desert, the desert.

523
00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:54,360
And I'm hoping that we can find something that will help us

524
00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:58,360
to see the efforts and expertise are on the desert west,

525
00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:02,360
specifically the great basin, and about the indigenous people

526
00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:03,360
of the great basin.

527
00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:05,360
Well, let's show him some adventure, Eric.

528
00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:06,360
Let's see some adventure.

529
00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:15,360
I knew there was a lot of supernatural activities

530
00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:18,360
that have been identified here at the ranch.

531
00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:22,360
And I also understand that part of my responsibilities

532
00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:26,360
are to see how that rock art and see how these images and those

533
00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:31,360
features might have innerfingered with this paranormal or supernatural

534
00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:33,360
realm.

535
00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:34,360
So this is it?

536
00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:35,360
Yeah.

537
00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:36,360
Here we are.

538
00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:37,360
OK.

539
00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:41,360
Well, look at this place.

540
00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:43,360
We're kind of in an amphitheater here, aren't we?

541
00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:44,360
Check this out.

542
00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:49,360
You hear that echo?

543
00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:50,360
Sure.

544
00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:55,360
That's one of the reasons that this area might be chosen to have

545
00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:58,360
rock art, because it echoes.

546
00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,360
When I approached the location, I immediately noticed that it was

547
00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:03,360
an echophonic area.

548
00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:05,360
The echoes would come back to me.

549
00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:10,360
Native people look at that and say, aha, here is an area of magic,

550
00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:12,360
of power, of the supernatural.

551
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:16,360
It's part of the archaeoacoustics or acoustic archaeology.

552
00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:17,360
Let's see.

553
00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:23,360
And the stones are talking, so it's communicating with us.

554
00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:27,360
It's really interesting to me how Dr. Garfinkel made the observation

555
00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:31,360
that this particular location may have been chosen because of the

556
00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:32,360
acoustics.

557
00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:35,360
But the real question is, could have been chosen for something

558
00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:37,360
more than that.

559
00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:40,360
We all have our opinion about what that is, what it means,

560
00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:41,360
what it tells.

561
00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:44,360
We'd love to hear what your take on it is without us tainting it.

562
00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:45,360
Great.

563
00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:46,360
Can we wander?

564
00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:47,360
Absolutely.

565
00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:56,360
Wow.

566
00:24:56,360 --> 00:24:58,360
Little bit of eye candy, huh?

567
00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:01,360
So what I'm looking at is these curves.

568
00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:05,360
This is part of this desert varnish as it's called, this blackened

569
00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:06,360
surface.

570
00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:12,360
And it's formed from water, wind, air, sun.

571
00:25:12,360 --> 00:25:14,360
And it gets darker and darker and darker.

572
00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:17,360
Then what do they use to remove it?

573
00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,360
Is it an acid or a rub?

574
00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:22,360
They usually have a quartz hammer stone.

575
00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:25,360
Now can you see pecking happening here?

576
00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:26,360
Yes.

577
00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:28,360
You can see if you look very, very closely, you can see that this

578
00:25:28,360 --> 00:25:32,360
has been pecked and incised into the rock.

579
00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:35,360
But what I'm looking at is these curves.

580
00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:38,360
It's a metaphor for a serpent or a snake.

581
00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:42,360
For the Yuto-I second people hailing from the Aztecs, etc.,

582
00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:48,360
we're talking about an animal that is a metaphor or symbol of life

583
00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:49,360
and death.

584
00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:52,360
Snakes represents two different worlds.

585
00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:55,360
So it's a guardian to the portals.

586
00:25:55,360 --> 00:25:58,360
The portal is a window into the supernatural.

587
00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:07,360
He just took it upon himself to investigate these sightings.

588
00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:08,360
There's something to this.

589
00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:11,360
The eyes, the back end of the cow were cut off.

590
00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:13,360
You witnessed this with your own eyes.

591
00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:15,360
Yeah, right here at the ranch.

592
00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:22,360
The portal is a window into the supernatural.

593
00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:26,360
That right there is very interesting and I don't know if you'd say

594
00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:32,360
important to our investigation, but there is a lot of mythos and

595
00:26:32,360 --> 00:26:36,360
legend about portals opening up around here for hundreds of years.

596
00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:38,360
I mean, that's exactly what this is saying.

597
00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:45,360
Native people would produce images like this and they would mirror

598
00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:46,360
their cosmology.

599
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:48,360
They'd mirror their world view.

600
00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:53,360
And so if they have a belief about a portal, if they have a belief

601
00:26:53,360 --> 00:27:00,360
about the heavens and the earth, this could be memorialized in the rock drawing.

602
00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:04,360
If this glyph really is a depiction of a portal that was carved by

603
00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:07,360
native people a long time ago, my questions are,

604
00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:08,360
why did they believe that?

605
00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:12,360
And could it not only help get us closer to an explanation of what

606
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:15,360
we're dealing with, but could it also explain the things that have

607
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:19,360
frightened people off this ranch for more than a century?

608
00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:22,360
The natural feature of the rock is almost the same shape as the mesa.

609
00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:29,360
And I have hypothesized that these are star patterns rising or setting

610
00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:33,360
or what have you at certain times of the year over the mesa.

611
00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:34,360
Right.

612
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:35,360
There's a thing called asterisms.

613
00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:41,360
And so within the rock art, within the petroglyphs, they depict the

614
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:44,360
celestial bodies and the horizon.

615
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:50,360
And so very commonly there's certain star patterns and certain stars

616
00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:52,360
that would be very significant.

617
00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:55,360
What it actually does align with, and I've looked at it,

618
00:27:55,360 --> 00:28:00,360
you know, I am an astronomer and this snake pattern at the top

619
00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:04,360
looks just like the constellation Draco, which is a dragon or a serpent.

620
00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:05,360
There you go.

621
00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:11,360
There are a lot of strange and interesting things happening on this ranch.

622
00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:15,360
Like seeing this pictograph or this petroglyph and giving all the stories

623
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:18,360
in the history of what have been called portals opening up here at

624
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:22,360
Skinwalker Ranch, it really has us all taking a step back and wondering

625
00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:26,360
what in the heck really was going on way back when on this property.

626
00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:29,360
You know, this gives us a lot of things to think about.

627
00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:31,360
We really appreciate you coming out and talking with us.

628
00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:33,360
Thank you so much.

629
00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:39,360
Hey, here's Jim.

630
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:41,360
You got somebody with you.

631
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,360
Hey, guys, how you doing?

632
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,360
Hey, Jim.

633
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,360
I've got the lovely Hicks family here.

634
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:48,360
Oh, hey.

635
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,360
While we await the lab results that will hopefully help explain why the

636
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:55,360
cow carcass on the ranch has gone untouched by predators for nearly a year,

637
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,360
Jim Morse has brought the family of Junior Hicks out to meet with us.

638
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,360
I'd love for you to come on over and chat and get better acquainted.

639
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:03,360
Okay.

640
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:04,360
Yeah, I'd love to.

641
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,360
You go ahead.

642
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:06,360
Headquarters.

643
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:07,360
Yes, sir.

644
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:08,360
All right, we'll see you there in a second.

645
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:09,360
Thank you so much.

646
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:10,360
Appreciate it.

647
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:11,360
Great.

648
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:12,360
See you.

649
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,360
Sadly, Junior recently passed away, but he was the preeminent researcher of

650
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,360
UFO phenomena and cattle mutilations right here in the U.N.

651
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,360
to Basin for more than 60 years.

652
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:25,360
And it's our hope that Mr. Hicks' research might help us going forward

653
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,360
as we continue to investigate the same phenomena.

654
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,360
Junior Hicks was a science teacher here at one of the local schools

655
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:37,360
and took it upon himself to start documenting all of these UFO sightings.

656
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,360
Any time there was any reports, Junior would drive out there,

657
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:45,360
interview them, collect any evidence that was left behind.

658
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:50,360
Shortly after purchasing the property, I had the opportunity to meet with Junior Hicks.

659
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:55,360
One thing that really piqued my interest was that Junior had experienced events

660
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,360
on the ranch predating not only the Bigelow investigation,

661
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,360
but also the Shermans.

662
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,360
Welcome to Skinwalker Ranch.

663
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:04,360
Hi there.

664
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:05,360
Good to see you.

665
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:06,360
Thank you.

666
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,360
Come up and have a seat.

667
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,360
We loved, you know, your father and grandfather so much,

668
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,360
and so we're excited to have you guys here, too.

669
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:15,360
Sounds amazing.

670
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:16,360
I hate that I never got to meet him.

671
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,360
He loved the area, and he was fascinated by the geology and the terrain,

672
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:25,360
and he just took it upon himself to investigate these sightings that people had,

673
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,360
and there began to be a lot in the mid-1960s,

674
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:33,360
and so over the years he just kept a file of these sightings.

675
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,360
Well, I noticed that y'all brought a box of stuff.

676
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,360
I was curious what you might have brought to show us.

677
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:38,360
Sure.

678
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:39,360
You want to look at it?

679
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,360
Something kind of interesting.

680
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:46,360
Jim, he asked me to bring documents to be able to show to the team.

681
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,360
There were a lot of things that I thought were fascinating,

682
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:54,360
but this one I thought really gave a very broad perspective of all of the data

683
00:30:54,360 --> 00:31:00,360
that had ever been recorded, that my grandpa had researched all in that small folder.

684
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:06,360
He's even done some statistical analysis on all the things that people have said they had seen,

685
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:12,360
where they are, how big they are, time and day.

686
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,360
I mean, he just, he wanted to look at it from a scientific approach.

687
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,360
No, I don't think anybody's ever shown data like that before.

688
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,360
What a meticulous study he has conducted for decades.

689
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:30,360
Material I'd never seen before that attempts to find some line of reasoning through all the data.

690
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,360
This doesn't exist anywhere in a place where researchers can go look at it

691
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:38,360
and then start really throwing out the crackpot stories versus the stories that,

692
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,360
hey, there's something to this.

693
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,360
This is impressive.

694
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:48,360
So maybe we should take all this data that Junior has done so well and put it in an actual database

695
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:54,360
and we'll be able to pull and see things in different ways that, you know, maybe we don't even expect.

696
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,360
Well, let me ask you this.

697
00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:02,360
Did any of you get the opportunity to go with him and meet with individuals or hear any of it firsthand?

698
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,360
Yeah, yeah.

699
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:10,360
Yeah, we, he brought us and he brought a compass with him and he says, hey, look at this, watch this.

700
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,360
And we would watch the compass and it would just go wonky.

701
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,360
It was just nothing made sense on it.

702
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,360
You're saying it was right here on the property?

703
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,360
Yeah, yeah, right here, here at the ranch.

704
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:23,360
That's important.

705
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,360
And we looked at a cattle mutilation.

706
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,360
What was missing are done to the cow.

707
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,360
It was not an animal.

708
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:35,360
Not a predator?

709
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:36,360
No.

710
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:37,360
You witnessed this with your own eyes.

711
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:38,360
Yeah.

712
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,360
I'm not exactly sure necessarily the origin of this photo.

713
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:51,360
Well, let me ask you this.

714
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:58,360
Did any of you get the opportunity to go with him and meet with individuals or hear any of it firsthand?

715
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,360
Yeah, yeah.

716
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,360
We looked at a cattle mutilation.

717
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:13,360
We're meeting with the family of the late UFO researcher, Junior Higgs, who spent more than 60 years documenting bizarre phenomena in the UN to base.

718
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:19,360
But what we didn't know was that members of his family had their own experiences right here on Skinwalker Ranch.

719
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,360
Well, I get too graphic about it.

720
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,360
I mean, what was missing are done to the cow.

721
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:34,360
The eyes were kind of cut out, and the back end of the cow was very, I mean, very precise.

722
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,360
It was not an animal.

723
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:37,360
Not a predator?

724
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,360
No, no, not anything that we would know, like a wolf or a dog or anything.

725
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:42,360
You know what I'm saying?

726
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:43,360
Nothing natural.

727
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:44,360
You witnessed this with your own eyes.

728
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:45,360
Yeah.

729
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:46,360
That's amazing.

730
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:50,360
Although there have been cattle mutilations going back through history for hundreds of years,

731
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:55,360
it wasn't until around the 1970s when enough of them were occurring

732
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,360
that some people in the scientific community had to start taking it seriously.

733
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:10,360
In almost all of these cattle mutilation cases, they find no blood, and the cows have been mutilated in a way

734
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:14,360
like it was done with surgical precision and surgical instruments.

735
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:20,360
Instead of what you would think, a predator would do like a large cat that might tear it apart.

736
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:28,360
Well, everything we've discussed so far has only piqued my interest in what else is inside of that box.

737
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:38,360
So I'm not exactly sure necessarily the origin of this photo, but I do know that this is something connected to the ranch.

738
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:39,360
I think I recognize this.

739
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,360
Yeah, he's brought that out before and showed us.

740
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:49,360
These were rods that the Big Lowe team found out here in this field.

741
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:53,360
He actually had the opportunity, though, to take and try to identify.

742
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,360
He tells a story of trying to cut it.

743
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,360
They weren't able to cut them.

744
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,360
They weren't able to melt them.

745
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:04,360
And Mr. Big Lowe ended up taking them, and then Junior said that he followed up with Mr. Big Lowe,

746
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,360
and Mr. Big Lowe said, oh, they're nothing.

747
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,360
And he said, well, can we have them back?

748
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:09,360
No.

749
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:18,360
In 1996, the Sherman sold Skinwalker Ranch to billionaire airspace entrepreneur Robert Big Lowe.

750
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:28,360
He then assembled a team of scientists who spent the next two decades studying and investigating it as the National Institute for Discovery Science, or NITS.

751
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:32,360
Big Lowe even received financial support from the federal government.

752
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:40,360
Much of what they found here has been kept a secret, but rumors have leaked out about some pretty disturbing discoveries.

753
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:54,360
Soon after taking possession and occupancy of the property, Robert Big Lowe's NITS team actually started seeing everything from cattle mutilations to UFOs to portals that would open up above the old homesteads.

754
00:35:54,360 --> 00:36:02,360
And those events, I think, underscored how special this property was as a center of gravity for paranormal activity.

755
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:09,360
They found one of those bars. Junior told of Mr. Big Lowe having the team.

756
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:10,360
Were they on their hands and knees?

757
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:11,360
Yeah, hands and knees.

758
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,360
Hands and knees crawling through this field here.

759
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:23,360
And I guess what it was explained to him was that they thought they were possibly used energy cells that were dropped by, you know, some of the UFO phenyl on it.

760
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,360
Isn't that how you recall the story?

761
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:26,360
That's how he described it.

762
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:27,360
Yeah.

763
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:42,360
Seeing these pictures that the Hicks family brought us of these rods actually makes me think of the stories that you hear from the NITS team from Big Lowe Airspace saying that they found metamaterials here on the ranch.

764
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:51,360
A metamaterial is something that has specific properties that change the way light and energy passes through it different than normal materials.

765
00:36:52,360 --> 00:37:00,360
It does make you wonder if Big Lowe's actually got them and he's got them hidden away somewhere, could they really be related to UFOs?

766
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:05,360
And will we find more of them somewhere on the ranch?

767
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:14,360
Thank you so, so much. This has been an absolute pleasure and we're so grateful that you'd come spend some time with us. This has been an absolute treat.

768
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,360
I really appreciate it. Thank you very much.

769
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:17,360
Thank you very much.

770
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:18,360
You're welcome.

771
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,360
We appreciate it coming out.

772
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,360
Thank you.

773
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,360
Hello Dr. Taylor. Can you hear us?

774
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:34,360
Yeah, I can. Good morning.

775
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:35,360
Good morning.

776
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,360
I want you to meet Dr. Travis Taylor.

777
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,360
Nice to meet you, Dr. Taylor.

778
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:40,360
You too.

779
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:48,360
Tom and Candice and I are very eager to hear Dr. Dean Taylor's analysis of the tissue sample he took from the cow carcass here on the ranch.

780
00:37:48,360 --> 00:38:02,360
As three people are actually living here right now, day in and day out, we're more than simply curious as to any explanation he can give us as to why no predators have touched this carcass in nearly a year.

781
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:10,360
So, I understand you have the results of this strange cow that we have on our south end of our property.

782
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:11,360
I do.

783
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:15,360
With that animal being dead that long, there's going to be limited sampling.

784
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:23,360
So, the things that became pertinent history to me were the fact that this animal was untouched by predators.

785
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,360
So, I found that unusual.

786
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:35,360
I had a conversation with the lab and he indicated that certain types of poisons would cause predators to stay away from those carcasses.

787
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:40,360
Luckily, those are the things that we could test for with these samples.

788
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:46,360
So, we tested this animal for arsenic, cadmium, lead, and then selenium.

789
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:52,360
So, when we ran these samples, though, all of these samples, they were negative.

790
00:38:53,360 --> 00:39:02,360
The fact that all toxicology reports came back negative, it means this cow didn't die for any mundane reasons like accidentally eating poison.

791
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,360
So, what killed it?

792
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:08,360
Why other animals refused to go near it still remains a big mystery.

793
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:09,360
This is the...

794
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,360
So, we're into the lungs.

795
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:13,360
Lungs in heart.

796
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,360
Do you not see anything that shows disease or...

797
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:17,360
Just the lungs.

798
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:24,360
Last year, immediately after the cow died, we had a vet perform a necropsy on it to try and determine the cause of death.

799
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,360
We have a lot of consolidation of the lungs right here.

800
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:32,360
Most of this black color is post-mortem pooling of the blood.

801
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,360
It's very, very possible that it's stress-induced pneumonia.

802
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,360
Cows may get stressed.

803
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:41,360
Stress will bring on pneumonia.

804
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,360
We measured around the cow right after it died.

805
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,360
It had to be less than an hour after it died.

806
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:53,360
High electric field measurements and high magnetic field measurements.

807
00:39:53,360 --> 00:40:01,360
And that's one of the things we thought that it might have been electrical exposure that could have caused whatever killed the cow.

808
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:10,360
But have you ever seen anything like that or heard weird stories out here in the UN to basin where people claim something rapidly killed their cows or anything like that?

809
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:18,360
Yeah, I've heard the stories, but I don't personally know how that would affect the animal with the electricity.

810
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:24,360
They probably have batikia and micro-hammerages that you could see throughout the body.

811
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:32,360
I asked the lab also about radiation and they didn't feel like that would chase predators off by doing that.

812
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:39,360
So I've told clients my whole life that sometimes a negative answer is still information.

813
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,360
We still have ruled out things even though in this particular case,

814
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:51,360
given the length of time that this animal is dead, a definitive diagnosis way this animal died can't be given.

815
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:56,360
Yeah, thanks Dr. Taylor. We'll be in touch if anything happens out here.

816
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,360
Thank you. Nice to meet you. Thank you very much.

817
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,360
Yeah, you too. Have a good day. Bye-bye.

818
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:10,360
It's still crazy that even this veterinarian can't really say for sure what he thinks killed this cow or why predators did not eat it.

819
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:18,360
Yeah, why it's still out there and nothing's touching it. And there's dead deer carcasses that have just been gone like instantly almost.

820
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:24,360
Well, we got a lot of information. Most of it is non-information, but that still tells us something.

821
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:33,360
Actually, knowing sometimes what the answer isn't at least helps us look for different possible answers.

822
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,360
Another mystery to figure out.

823
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:44,360
I was really skeptical when I heard all the crazy bizarre stories that people told about Skinwalker Ranch.

824
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:51,360
Now I have to admit that I have my own. I can't deny what Caleb and I saw the other night.

825
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:58,360
How is it connected to what happened to that cow? And what does the petroglyph have to do with it?

826
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,360
Could it be a key clue that might help reveal the truth?

827
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:10,360
You know, the thing with petroglyphs is it's a big guess. Nobody knows exactly what story those are telling.

828
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:16,360
But to find that on the ranch adds mystery to who was it that put it there? What is it trying to tell us?

829
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,360
What's the story that they were trying to leave?

830
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:25,360
One of the reasons why I acquired the ranch in the first place was due to the mystery.

831
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:31,360
Due to, you know, the nature of the claims that were associated with the property.

832
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:44,360
I want to get some answers. I want to better understand what is causing the phenomenon that have not only occurred under our watch, but for decades if not millennia.

833
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,360
You got the trackers?

834
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:56,360
Each cow we put on the place becomes a biosensor. Animals seem to have that sixth sense.

835
00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:00,360
All of these phenomena that happened when you were here, what do you think it is?

836
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,360
It's a portal.

837
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:06,360
Have you ever tried to open up a portal? That I haven't done, but we're going to give it a shot tonight.

838
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,360
Oh, yeah!

839
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,360
Oh, there's a light down in those trees.

840
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,360
Guys, I'm something over here. Hey, hey, hey, hey! Right here!