Beyond Skinwalker Ranch

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. -Oh, my gosh.

Look at that, look at that, look at that, 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.

Well, gentlemen, it's good to be back together.

What do you have for us?

So, we've actually been following up

on some of our previous investigations,

and one area that just keeps coming back up again and again

is Bradshaw Ranch.

And the thing about Bradshaw Ranch, I mean,

you remember how much data we brought back?

We found aerial phenomena.

-Right there! -There it is. Look at that.

Look at that, look at that, look at that.

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

We found strange thermal phenomenon.

Look at that.

The temperature went up.

It just did it again.

And I'll never forget what you've shown us

with the gamma cam.

-Oh, right. -Yeah.

What the hell?

What is that that we're looking at?

I don't know.

It's an incredible effort, unprecedented.

We still have more things to follow up on,

and I think we've got a pretty strong case to go back

to Bradshaw Ranch and try and run down

some more of these leads.

So, what we've done is we've rekindled our human network

on the ground that we built during our first visit.

What we're looking to do this time,

we wanna start looking at the area around the ranch,

what's going on in this area at a larger scale.

-Great. -Instead of focusing so tightly

on the ranch itself, our network is telling us

that there might be some things that are relevant

and interesting off the ranch as well.

There's several people on the ground laying out

what sounds like a history of questions

about possible military involvement,

unusual infrastructure, maybe even a tunnel under the ranch,

a connection to maybe a secret military base.

So, there's just a lot more intelligence

that we think we should try to run down.

So, if you recall Bradshaw Ranch,

we're looking at it here, and the open field here

is the area that's got the heavy fence around it.

In 2000 and 2001,

there was an actual government appropriation of money

to buy this property from the previous owner of the ranch,

which was a multigenerational ranch prior to that.

-Why? -What? What was the reasoning?

The reasoning was that it was being used

for some kind of conservation effort.

Huh.

Why would the government buy this property,

really, out in the middle of nowhere,

just to turn it into an agricultural research center?

It's not a--you know,

it's not like this is a high-priority place

of tactical or strategic value, is it?

And how would the government actually...

-Yeah. -...justify this location?

Right.

There has to be something much more to it than that.

Right. So, that's one of the things

we're gonna be trying to figure out.

Because we know we're looking for

signs or indicators of some sort of government involvement,

we're gonna try and put more equipment out there

to look for the telltale signs of government involvement.

And at the same time,

we're gonna try to go underground as well.

We're gonna try to do some surveys around the ranch,

if there's any truth to these rumors that there might be

some kind of mysterious structures under the ranch.

If you discover chambers or voids under the ranch,

that would, uh, lead us in a whole other direction.

Right.

That's something that, uh, is very similar to what

we've encountered here at Skinwalker Ranch.

The historical narrative speaks of underground chambers,

of voids, of potentially a base beneath the property.

I thought it was a bunch of baloney.

But as we've conducted studies,

I've had a humbling awakening to the fact that things

aren't necessarily what they may seem.

There is so much that doesn't add up,

that just doesn't add up about this entire region.

And I'd like to get to the bottom of the truth.

There's more to the story at Bradshaw.

-Yeah. -There's got to be. Has to be.

I think having a heightened degree of security,

or at least awareness, is going to be important.

I agree. Watch your back. Keep your head on a swivel

and look over your shoulder constantly

'cause you never know what's gonna happen.

Good luck. I can't wait to see what you find out.

Andy and Paul returned to Bradshaw Ranch to meet

with former resident John Bradshaw and his son Mason.

-How's it going? -Hi there.

Hey, gentlemen. How are you? Thanks for coming out for us.

They're following up on reports of covert government activity

close to Bradshaw Ranch.

So, Andy and I were just saying we've talked to you

and so many other people about the UFO sightings out here,

the orbs, you know, all the other mysteries.

But there's a big question about

stories about secret military operations.

Well, you know, there's a--

there's a lot of rumors and speculations and stories,

and, uh, I think there's a little bit of truth

with each story that there is.

And supposedly there is a military site

that is back over here in these rocks over here

on this side called Secret Canyon.

People that have seen people with military-type guns

are back in Secret Canyon, so there's...

I mean, just little curious stories like that.

We are as close to sort of the middle of nowhere

as you can possibly be.

For a secret military base to be out here,

It just doesn't seem likely.

At the same time, this is also a tourist area.

There are thousands of people out here every year.

I'm trying to figure out, make sense of it all,

but so far, it's just not adding up to me.

So, this is a good spot to kind of

show you the house a little bit.

And you can see the window from the kitchen

is that first window, and it looks directly at that tree.

And, uh, right in that tree, my stepmom Linda and my dad,

um, they took a picture of a portal

that they got from the kitchen window.

Right. Yeah.

So, that tree pretty much

was the backdrop for that portal.

The sign at the gate to get onto the ranch,

they have a little sign saying that

it's to study Western plants and animals,

which is kind of weird to me, because they have a big fence

that they put up all the way around the property.

Right. One of the things that it's interesting to me, Paul,

is that we've got new locks here.

-Like, this is maintained. -Yeah.

And when I look at the house,

if you look at the air ducts on the house, you can see

that they're modernized, and they're sturdy, which,

if we had rangers living here, I would expect that.

But if nobody's living here,

I would expect those to show more signs of age.

I see some of the large equipment

that they have over here as well.

We've got an oversized solar panel.

It's got underground electrical wiring.

This is a facility that could have run 24 hours a day,

seven days a week,

without anybody from the outside tampering with it.

This could be a controlled research environment, or...

The question is, for what?

It could be a contained terrarium.

Right.

And they're watching whatever's inside here.

Or it could be that they're keeping an eye

on where Linda and Bob saw the portal.

Yeah, well, you know, you start putting all those things

that are weird together, and pretty soon you want

to know what's going on. -Right.

After meeting with the Bradshaws,

Andy and Paul head to the ranch's Old West Town

to reconnect with Jeremiah Horstman,

who spent the last 10 years researching

the strange phenomena in the area

and has additional information

about the rumored secret military presence nearby.

This entire area are small breakoffs of smaller mountains

which include Secret Mountain here before us.

The rumors of the underground base

seems to be that there's a massive tunnel complex

that we've heard from numerous whistleblowers,

which would go straight through this area.

Supposedly the terminus of those is to the south of us

at a strange facility which is a cement plant

in a very small town called Clarkdale