The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

We're going to get a 3-d model of homestead two.

I've got some stuff to show you.

Something odd happened here.

When you walked inside the building,

it didn't take any data.

This ground here is the gateway for skinwalkers.

What I saw, it doesn't belong here.

I'm a little nervous. Hold on.

- Hey. - These entities are out there.

- I already sense it. - -Holy!

Right there!

Hey, are you guys seeing anything?

- We're looking at an eye. - The temperature

around the homestead began to drop.

There is one other feature.

I want you to see this thing.

Whoa! Whoa!

What is that?

There is a ranch in northern utah.

It is considered the epicenter

of the strangest and most disturbing phenomena on earth

Animal mutilations,

bizarre ufo sightings

and unusual energies that have proven harmful to humans.

For 20 years, the federal government

tried to find answers and failed.

Now a new team of dedicated scientists,

researchers and experts has taken over.

They are determined to solve the mystery and reveal.

The secret of skinwalker ranch.

Right there.

What is that?

We have some moving, unidentified...

Sort of object that appears to be animate.

Why is it cold?

Yeah, if it were an animal,

- it would be hot. - It would be hot.

As we're watching the thermal camera footage

that we took last night during rabbi ariel tzadok's

portal experiment down at homestead two,

we're seeing not only what looks like a possible vortex

with a much lower temperature than its surroundings,

but also some kind of black object moving across the frame

that is giving off absolutely no heat signature.

I don't know what to make of that.

Wow, so, yeah, we need to understand that better.

- To me this is... - Yeah.

This is... Startling.

It's exciting in that

it looks, at least, in the same sort of

genre of experience as what the nids guys talked about,

although it wasn't a monster that crawled out of this portal,

it was... we see a weird thing,

and we did see something in the flir,

but we didn't see it with our eyes.

A couple weeks ago, retired army colonel john alexander,

who was part of robert bigelow's

national institute for discovery science,

that investigated skinwalker ranch from 1996 to 2016,

he gave an incredible assessment of what he believes

is causing all the weird phenomena that happens here.

It's my view that these things

are all connected in some way.

I would say the area

is a portal.

Well, we saw this strange anomaly.

Could it have been something like that they saw?

I don't know, but there is a correlation,

and there's a comparison that one could make.

Well, we have the luxury of following up.

You know, we can always take this instrument back out

to the exact same spot.

I would like to have more than one infrared camera

looking there, maybe from a couple

- of different directions. - Yeah.

And maybe even have,

night vision goggles going.

Everything we can think of and redo this experiment

and see if we can see anything like we saw the other night.

People say that when you try to stimulate

strange phenomena on the ranch, the ranch sometimes responds.

Last night with the rabbi here performing

that ancient hebrew ceremony.

It may have caused whatever that was

that we recorded on the thermal camera to appear.

Hopefully, we can do it all again but this time

really figure out just what the heck it is.

- Well, I appreciate the time, guys. - Well, of course, erik.

- Thanks. - Thanks for letting us look at it.

- All right, man. - Thank you, erik. - Sure thing.

While erik and I were preparing

for the follow-up experiment at homestead two,

thomas winterton met up with someone with past experiences

on the ranch named steven wall.

He's actually a member of the sherman family,

who not only reported very bizarre and traumatizing

incidents here back in the mid-1990s

but also similar phenomena to what we've been investigating,

including the possible existence of portals.

How many years has it been since you've been

- on the ranch? - Almost, almost 30 years, I believe.

I-I'm curious what your feelings are about coming back on.

Nervous, just anticipating it.

Just seeing it. Seeing if it's still the same.

Steven is the nephew of gwen and terry sherman and lived

four years here on the ranch, when he was a child.

The sherman family bought the property in the early '90s.

It was their dream to raise prized cattle.

The shermans quickly found out, unfortunately,

that, they were not alone.

And it's well documented that the sherman family

experienced everything from ufo sightings on the ranch

to disturbing daylight cattle mutilations.

To really what could only be described

as terrifying events on a regular basis.

All of the strange events that were plaguing the sherman family

motivated them to sell the property.

Got to be kind of hard to talk

about some of these things

as far as, does it dredge up old memories,

- old emotions? - It does. Right now I have

a lot of emotions going through me right now.

It's bittersweet, I guess, coming back, though.

I lived here as a small child.

There was some crazy, bizarre things

that happened that I can remember as a kid that

I just remember feeling a little scared, a little nervous.

I think bringing steven on

and getting to the bottom of some of these stories

that we've heard about the ranch

is going to help us in our investigation

by leaps and bounds.

- Hey, thomas. - Hey, guys.

I'd like to introduce you to steven wall.

- Nice to meet you guys. - Hey, man.

How you doing?

Good, good.

So, erik and travis are the scientists here

on the ranch, and bryant is head of security

and also our safety officer.

I'm just wondering if you can walk us through

some of the things as they come to mind,

some places that we can look at,

where there are stories associated with it.

Okay. Well, y'all want to walk over here.

- All right. - Everything I know

about the time when terry and gwen sherman

lived on the ranch is known through the public record.

I've never had the opportunity to speak with them personally.

I think it's special for our whole team to hear from steven.

We are walking down to an area where we've been told

about some dogs that were killed.

The vaporizing dogs, right?

They weren't vaporized.

- They were compressed into the ground. - Compressed?

What do you mean by compressed? Like something fell on them

- or what? - Like something heavy smashed them.

Really?

Something actually looked like

- they were just squashed into the dirt? - Yeah.

From what I remember, a blue orb

came bouncing down off them rocks right there.

They believe a blue orb killed the dogs?

Is that what you're saying? Really?

You heard that story from the people

who actually saw it with their own eyes?

- I saw it with my own eyes. - You saw it?

- Yeah. - Wow.

When I was a kid, me and my uncle saw something

coming down off from the mesa.

As we were standing by the house,

it looked like a bouncing ball, an orb,

I guess you would call it, but it was like a blue color.

I remember hearing the dogs whimper.

And then I remember finding the dogs smashed.

I don't really know what happened,

but I just know that man couldn't do that.

I've been told about an area having been burned

in the vicinity of each of the animals,

like, a circle in the ground and...

Did that actually happen?

- Like, it was charred... - It looked like something hot

sat right there in-in the weeds.

- Really? - And this is around the dog,

almost like whatever compressed them was hot

- and it burned the earth? - It was one big circle,

- or was it a circle around each animal? - Each animal.

So, almost like the outside edge was hot,

and whatever smashed them down to the ground wasn't

and just pressed them into the dirt?

When I hear these detailed stories

like orbs appearing and crushing the shermans' dogs,

they're hard to believe at face value.

But just a month ago, right after we excavated

a mysterious pit near homestead two,

that night, while we were eating dinner,

both kaleb bench and I saw a glowing object near my trailer.

It was right there.

Something yellow and goldish color,

and it was rectangular.