Beyond Skinwalker Ranch

Tonight on Beyond Skinwalker Ranch...

According to the weather,

we got maybe two hours before full blizzard,

so we gotta move fast.

It looks like it's trying to fly through a force field.

It's a huge magnetic disturbance.

That's typically gonna be indicative of a void.

There might be a UFO buried

somewhere on the mountain and underground.

There's something under there

and it's trying it's darndest not to be found.

Oh, my gosh.

Hopefully, this is enough to breach the tunnel.

So we're not just kicking the hornet's nest,

we're just blowing the out of it.

Fire in the hole.

For years, scientists have been working

to reveal the secrets of Skinwalker Ranch.

But is it possible that the clues to unlock the mystery

are located beyond the borders

of this hub of high strangeness?

-Now-- -Whoa!

...an ex-CIA agent and a veteran journalist

have been recruited by the Skinwalker team

to go on a high stakes mission across America.

Look at all this activity that's happening.

-That's unbelievable. My gosh. Look at that!

The goal, uncover evidence

that may finally expose the truth.

-What is that thing? -It's getting more intense?

You ever seen anything like this before?

No.

This is just the beginning.

Guys, welcome back to Skinwalker Ranch.

I know when you left, you had some exciting things

that you wanted to go and explore

and we're really excited to see what you may have come up with.

This one's a little bit different because Brandon

has actually set us up with an outside investigator.

Yeah, an investigator named Carl Andreasen.

Carl is the guy who's been working

on a place called Mount Wilson Ranch in Nevada,

and he's really been trying to dig into

the high strangeness going on there

-and there's a lot. -So where is Mount Wilson Ranch?

So, we're about 80 miles from Area 51.

And near the Nevada Test Range?

Yes, sir. Right on top of it.

And we're not quite sure exactly where the boundary is

'cause it's a very rural part of Nevada.

Well, that brings me to the question then.

What can you tell us about the interest?

Like, what's the commonality with the--

with the research that's gone on here?

The connection between Mount Wilson and this place

is pretty extraordinary.

It's another property that Bob Bigelow owned,

really at the same time as Skinwalker.

Aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow

owned Skinwalker Ranch before Brandon Fugal.

In 1996, Robert Bigelow,

bought Skinwalker Ranch.

When his team conducted

a very aggressive scientific investigation,

the Bigelow team ended up

having all sorts of strange things happen.

They started seeing everything

from electromagnetic anomalies, cattle mutilations.

It involves the full gamut

of unexplained phenomena that we continue to monitor.

It has only recently been learned

that Robert Bigelow was conducting

a similar investigation at Mount Wilson Ranch.

Yeah, so we've got some archival images

that show Bigelow on this ranch.

The main thing that was of interest to Bigelow

was that he suspected there was a crashed

or downed UFO underground a portion of the ranch.

-Okay. Yeah, what we don't know

is what kind of testing Bigelow carried out there

or-- or what they found.

We don't have any of their results or research.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that problem.

But then what we've heard from Carl

who actually investigates and explores the ranch,

is that there is a potential existence

of some sort of top secret tunnel system on Mount Wilson.

There's all kinds of reports of strange lights,

noises underground, vibrations.

You know, there are voids

and potentially, spaces underground,

but we don't know the extent of that network

or how much of it may be manmade

and how much of it is naturally occurring.

One of the most interesting things about this

is that the current property owner, Jeff MacBurnie,

actually bought the property from Bigelow.

Yeah, what we don't know is what Bigelow may have told

or not told Jeff when he bought the property.

So, we've got a couple of field realities

that we're also trying to work through here.

We only have a few days that we can be on site

and our weather reports are showing that there is a storm

that is due to hit about six days after we land.

It's gonna be-- it's gonna be tight.

And you-- and you don't know how much property

you have to-- to investigate.

Yeah. And it's just a big remote place.

We're gonna be trekking around out there

trying to figure it out.

But what we do know is that we wanna make sure

that our efforts in Mount Wilson

help the Skinwalker investigations

that you guys are carrying out here as well.

Who knows? Maybe you'll find something large,

something significant.

If you do find a buried UFO,

you better call me at that moment.

'Cause I'll be there-- I will be there instantly.

Yes, all right, stay in touch

and let us know what you find out.

-We'll see you in a week. -All right, guys.

Stay in touch guys. -All right, man.

-Thanks guys. Be safe.

We have been driving for hours, man,

-and look at what greets us. -It's just amazing.

I can't believe we're in the desert right now.

I know, well, high desert and winter, right, this is it.

Yeah.

You know, I'm not surprised that Robert Bigelow

would buy a place out here to do experimentation

because it fits his MO, right?

Find a place way off the map

where you're not gonna be bothered,

you're not gonna be disturbed,

carry out whatever research you want.

And we know that Bigelow was here with his team

for more than a decade.

That's a lot of time to be researching--

-Yeah, that's true. -A plot of land.

Ten years up here in the mountains.

I mean, they must have been

-on the trail of something. -Something big.

Something that still is a secret.

From the 1960s through the '80s,

Mount Wilson Ranch was a Wild West themed hotel

and resort property

before being purchased by Robert Bigelow in 1996.

All right. Wow. Look at this.

This place looks like genuine old West.

Absolutely. Right out of the movies, man.

I'm excited to meet Jeff.

Yeah.

Hello there, gentlemen.

Hey, Jeff. Andy.

-Andy. You got it, man. -Nice to meet you.

-Great to finally see you. -Welcome to the ranch.

This is amazing. Thank you.

Tell us the story of this place.

My whole goal was to basically buy a big chunk of property,

build a center building,

let my family and relatives live around me.

Got it.

So, I was looking for property

and I read this little listing in the back

of a 25 cent newspaper article.

No way.

And I purchased the ranch directly

from Mr. Robert Bigelow.

It was in 2007.

-And you've been here since? -Yes.

And what has been your personal firsthand experience?

You see a lot of things in the sky around here.

I hear 'em explained as orbs, but they're just lights.

Whether they're orange or they're white,

almost like a haze.

And the lights just...

...and, you know, some of them are fast

and you look and it's...

Others are just slow.

And they all seem to go right towards

the actual Mount Wilson.

And they just... ...and just poof, disappear.

Wow.

Did you know about that beforehand?

Did you buy this place because...

-No, not at all. -...of the stories?

-Not even at all. No. -Got it.

One of the things that interests me the most

is that when Jeff was looking into buying a ranch,

he didn't know anything about this place.

Not until he got very close to actually closing the deal

did he find out just the beginning

of the lore of what had happened here.

So, he didn't come here with a predetermined notion

of what was out here.

What has happened to him is-- is authentic.

Bigelow bought this place in '96.

-Yes. -Sold it to you in 2007.

-Yes. -So, he had it