The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

Something's caused so much interference that

a $35,000 drone couldn't connect to his controls.

Means there's a transmitter here somewhere.

Where is this transmitter?

I get my biggest readings looking up.

It's coming from the sky.

The measurements lead us to a spot

one‐mile high over the ranch. Start letting it go.

So, we can tether a weather balloon,

raise it up and see if we see something there.

So, what's disturbing is it has to come

from something off planet; it's not something

that humans have created on the face of the Earth.

This is homestead one.

‐Hey there. ‐Come on in.

Two weeks ago, Tom and Kandus

reported strange noises coming from the basement.

I was able to punch a small hole through the wall...

‐What is that? ‐..and we discovered that there was

possibly a room there.

I don't know what the black stuff is.

It looks like there's been a fire in there.

It does. ‐Well, yeah, it almost looks

‐like a cremation. ‐It looks like ash.

Hey, hold on a minute.

What are those white pieces right there?

It looks a lot like bones.

Bones?

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...The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.

Right there, perfect.

Don't‐don't move. Just stop right there.

There's actually something on the concrete

that looks like bones.

‐Do you see that? Mm‐hmm.

I mean, it could be remains, cremation remains.

That's what I'm thinking.

That's what it looks like.

What in the world?

Tom, see if you can lower it.

Thomas Winterton asked me to come with him

over to what they call Homestead One.

Homestead One is right next to the command center,

and it's where the two caretakers,

Kandus Linde and her boyfriend, Tom Lewis, live.

Keep going. You're right on top of it.

Kandus and Tom have been hearing a series

of strange noises coming from the basement,

where there's this room

completely walled off with concrete

several inches thick.

So, Thomas and I got this snake cam,

and we're putting this camera

down in there to see whatever this box was built for.

A little bit. Yeah, go that way. You're going the right way.

‐Stop! Right there, stop! Oh, wait, the...

At about three feet in,

there was a pile, and it looked like ash,

and maybe it even looks like remnants of bones.

That's just downright spooky.

All the ash around that and the‐the burnt.

It looks like there was a fire in there.

‐What in the world would...? Mm‐hmm.

Yeah, that is weird.

Yeah, and with all the crazy things

that have happened in this house.

There are so many things about this house

that just don't add up.

‐Yeah. ‐Yeah, yeah.

Yep.

We moved to the ranch about three months ago

to be caretakers.

And the house we live in is pretty spooky.

We've heard some strange things.

We've heard strange noises coming from the basement.

We've heard strange vibrations from the ground.

The sounds have mostly been at night.

There's been knock sounds in the house,

‐like the... ‐

One time, it was coming from under the floor

in the kitchen, like from the basement.

It was the triple knock, and I was standing...

I could feel it, the vibration of it.

People that lived in the house before us,

the Shermans,

I have heard some strange things about their experience.

They had UFO sightings,

very strange light orbs,

cattle mutilations.

There's been so many strange things

that have happened here.

Well, the big question is

why the hell they built the thing to begin with.

It makes no sense. ‐It makes no sense.

I've wondered

what the need was for such thick‐‐ I mean, this is,

‐this is almost two feet thick. Yeah.

That tells you just how strong it is.

That's heavy‐duty something.

So, it makes me wonder,

what are the purposes you build a concrete,

you know, rectangular box for?

‐Yeah. ‐So, we need to

knock that hole out right there.

And then we can get in and see what's really in there.

Yeah, I think we ought to

just saw through that, open that up.

‐Yeah. ‐All right.

Now, at first, seeing something

like tiny bones just makes me think

some kind of animal died, but how could anything

get inside a completely sealed‐up concrete room?

And what explains the pile of what looks like ashes?

This wall was not coming down easy.

Whoever did this wanted to either seal something in

or keep something out.

One thing I have to say about Tom Winterton

is this guy is tough as nails.

I mean, even with all the health scares he's had

on the ranch, it doesn't stop him from jumping in

feet first and doing what it takes to get stuff done.

Normally, dealing with

this kind of stuff wouldn't seem unusual to me.

But the three weeks I've been up here,

I've seen everything from

strange glowing lights at night...

That's a definite beam.

It is clearly a beam going across there.

...to RF radiation spikes that are extreme.

It is going nuts.

It's coming from up there.

It seemed to be coming from high above the ranch

with no apparent scientific explanation.

We all still don't have a clue what we're dealing with here.

One of the weirdest things about this chamber

underneath Tom and Kandus's house,

it's perfectly clean inside this box.

There are no water lines,

there's no mold, there's no dirt on the floor.

There's nothing. It looks like it's brand‐new.

And we found this pile in just a tiny spot.

How did those things get in there?

So, when you first looked through that hole,

I understand that we thought we were looking

at a pile, one pile in the,

basically in the middle of this...

‐That's right. Yes.

So the room was almost completely clean.

It was pristine.

And sealed... ‐Yeah.

‐...for a long time, yeah. ‐So, what would've,

what would've organized it into a pile like that?

‐I don't know. ‐It's a good question.

Yeah.

After we finally managed to poke a hole big enough

that we could crawl into this chamber

in the basement of Tom and Kandus's house...

You got a spoon? I'll scoop some out.

We got a Petri here.

...I used a dustpan

and some, uh, plastic bags

to sweep up a sample of some of this material.

Now we can look at it under a microscope

and see what it is.

What the heck is all this stuff?

All right, so just kind of

scroll around, Erik, just...

Right about...

somewhere in there.

You're slightly out of focus.

Yeah.

Stop right there.

‐Whoa. ‐Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. ‐What?

Whoa. Oh, wow, look at that.

Do you think that's a tooth?

It's either a tooth or a rib.

's get Yeah, look at that.

That's a bone, man. That's clearly a bone.

So is this a bone right here, this...?

‐Yeah, that's a bone. ‐And that is.

It's definitely hair, you know?

Yeah, that's hair. Yeah, right here.

‐Can you push the... I can.

Or can you translate the microscope? Whichever.

Stop right there.

‐Oh, those are bone fragments. Well,

‐and it looks like gnaw marks, too. Ugh.

‐It's either a tooth or a rib. This thing here?

Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know.