The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

Of all these phenomena that happened when you were here,

- what do you think it is? - It's a portal.

- You got the trackers? - Got the trackers.

Each cow we put on the place becomes a bio sensor.

Animals seem to have that sixth sense.

There was matted grass

where something heavy had sat.

I presume

that it was a spaceship.

Have you ever tried to open up a portal?

That I haven't done, but we're gonna give it a shot tonight.

Look, you can see the mesa glow in that camera.

Thomas has spotted

a light.

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Right here.

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.

Is this your guy?

Hey, guys. I want you to meet Pete Kelsey.

- Hi, Pete. I'm Bryant. - Hey, Bryant.

Erik invited Pete Kelsey, who's a lidar expert,

out to the ranch to help us with a follow-up investigation

on homestead two.

After our meeting last week with retired army colonel

john Alexander, who believes that portals might exist there,

we conducted a laser experiment to try and prove it.

No definitive evidence was obtained,

but we did experience a sudden drop in temperature

- inside the old building. - Hey, Travis.

Did you feel that temperature drop?

And then we saw a strange light in the field nearby.

And that indicates that something was happening.

Wait, wait, stop. Thought I saw something move.

We've got these sites on that end of the ranch

that, we would really like to get a higher resolution

imagery of and maybe even a 3d model if, you know,

- if that-that works out. - That's what I do.

Great, get your equipment, let's load up and let's go down, then.

If the lidar scanning device that Pete has brought

can create a 3d image of the homestead area,

and we see anomalies in the visual data such as bends

or strange shapes that shouldn't be there...

Y'all ready?

We can then pinpoint those exact spots

for more precise investigations

and hopefully figure out what the heck is happening there.

What's going on here?

Well, this is, what we call homestead two.

This area right here is a hotbed of, activity.

Obviously, we inherited a narrative around here,

and a lot of the stories... well, and even

some of the experiences we have had personally...

Have been centralized around the old homesteads.

In addition to possible portal phenomena,

there are lots of other stories about homestead two

going back more than a century,

where early ranchers and native people

believe they saw ufos, heard disembodied voices,

and even encountered mysterious, wolf-like creatures.

I've got little bit of a headache

or something happening.

Last year, I had my own experience there

when I was hit by a dangerous spike of ionizing radiation.

Mine's beeping.

And right after wards, really bizarre burn marks

appeared on my face and hand.

Anything we can learn about this place,

I realize that this is just geometric data

that we're getting, but that's-that's where we start.

- Okay. - You want, you want to just start here

then and go through these?

Yeah, I think we use the mobile hand held

'cause we can make quick work of this.

This piece of gear I have with me

is a slam-based scanner called a hover map.

So slam scanning, the slam stands

for simultaneous localization and mapping.

Just think of it as a-an amazing laser scanner that can

create super, super accurate three-dimensional data.

The lidar works by sending out

infrared laser beams that will

bounce off of any objects or structures in the local area.

And this will ultimately bounce back and be detected

and enable us to create a 3d replica of the entire area.

Now, this is going to help us look for strange phenomena

that might be at homestead two

that we can't see with our naked eye.

So, I'm just gonna hit "scan."

It's gonna take a second.

You are scanning.

Off you go.

You can walk at normal speed.

And just sort of paint the air.

Just swing your arm in an arc.

Yeah, cause the more that scanner head is pointed at,

the more data you're gonna get.

Okay, I'm gonna go inside of this.

I'm gonna poke my head back here.

I don't mind telling you this place is creepy.

- Okay, I'm gonna be coming back out. - Okay. Sure.

And I'm going to swing to the left.

And catch this space between these two buildings.

- Just sweep with it and you'll get more. - Got it.

There you go.

So, I'm gonna finish this portion of the homestead

and then I'll probably make a sweep back that way.

Okay.

Effectively, we've made a complete loop on this...

Yeah.

- Homestead. - It's-it's gonna be good data.

- So you got that covered? - Yeah. I think so.

All right, guys, we'll see y'all in a bit.

Yep.

- Well, hello. Hey, guys. - How are you doing?

Hello there. Hey, jim.

I want to introduce you to Roland, a very close friend

- and confidant. - Hi.

- Kandus. Nice to meet you. - This is kandus. Roland.

- I'm tom. - A couple weeks ago,

the family of the late junior hicks,

a man who spent more than 60 years documenting

the high strangeness of skinwalker ranch

and the uinta basin,

shared some of his archived research

to help us with our investigations.

You know, I don't think anybody's ever shown

data like that before.

Roland mccook is someone who is not only referenced

in junior hicks' research but also claims to have had

a traumatic experience right at homestead two.

So, while we were waiting for the lidar data to be processed,

jim Morse was able to get Roland to come and share his story.

So, you're very familiar with this area.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it looks, it looks a lot different.

- Does it? - I bet.

I was born and raised here in the basin.

Skinwalker ranch was approximately about

two to three miles away from my house.

So, about ten years old, I'd go up on top of these mesas

and hunt for rabbits.

What I saw, it's always haunted me for years.

I stayed mainly up on these ridges,

on the mesas rabbit-hunting, and that house down there,

at that time, was abandoned, with the trees around it.

- One of the homesteads? - Yeah.

- Probably homestead two, yeah. - Yeah. Yeah. -Yeah.

And so, that's where things, I think, started for me.

Should we... do you want to drive, tom?

Great, let's go.

This is really important,

to hear these stories, because it's painting

a picture of what this ranch is about,

and all the strange phenomena that happens here.

You know, there's the science side,

but there's also this human aspect involved.

So, how does it feel right now to be back here?

It's a little... I'm a little nervous.

- Yeah. - Not-not... you know, to be honest.

A little nervous. This is... I think this is where it, um...

- Began? - It-it began here, yeah.

The-the... Everything from there.

All... everything...

Went from there. Yeah.

- You okay? - Yeah.

How did it start? Tell us... walk us through...

Well, when we was up there, the weather was moving in

and we was looking for a place to shelter,

um, get out of the weather.

We came in here, and I didn't really want to go

into... All the way into the building,

um, but the person I was with, he just said,

"come on in, let's get in farther in, into the building."

And so, we went farther on in,

and when we got in there, while we was waiting,

I was looking out the door and I heard,

like, scurrying.

Something moving, and I turn,

and farther in, that back corner,

some stuff fell over, just got knocked over.

I told him, "that sounds bigger than a raccoon."

I took off, grabbed my gun,

- and out the door I went after it. - Wow.

We thought it was raccoons at the beginning,

raccoons or squirrels or mice running around,

and then things started getting knocked over,

and that's when we thought, "well, there's-there's

something else going on in here,"

and then you get that cr... kind of creepy feeling

that s... there's something more.

We were looking, looking for tracks.