Beyond Skinwalker Ranch

Tonight on "Beyond Skinwalker Ranch"...

I felt this intense cold move right past my back,

as if it was a person.

Oh, my gosh. Look at that.

We're seeing four or five times

the average level of magnetic activity.

Do you see the orange right above the trees?

Can you see this? - Yes, I can.

That's a solid glowing ball.

We have a burning hot burrow of some sort.

That's hot like there's something in it.

I had an orb experience not too far from here.

It's coming straight toward the shore right now.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

All of a sudden, I am much less excited

about going out there looking for this.

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 happened.

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.

Paul and Andy, it's good to have you at the table again.

Good to be back. - Yeah.

Well, from the looks on your faces, I feel like

we're at the top of a new adventure.

Absolutely, and our thought here is to go back as far as we can

to kind of the starting place of high strangeness

in the United States.

This area predates the United States itself.

It's an area called the Bridgewater Triangle.

It's outside of Boston.

Really, the oldest recorded UFO sighting

in the United States was in Boston in 1639.

John Winthrop reported seeing some kind of fireball in the sky

that moved about for hours.

As you can see, it's, you know, now

you know, highly populated,

but still to this day, lots of incidents of high strangeness.

Why the particular points of the triangle? Do we know?

This triangle was actually built in the 1970s by an investigator

who was investigating claims of different types of phenomenon

throughout the area and literally just putting

a point on a map over the course of multiple data points

and came up with this triangle.

And those reportings include UFOs,

orb sightings, cryptids,

and other types of paranormal activity.

This was the scene of a particularly bloody chapter

in the country's history.

Are you familiar with King Philip's War?

Heard of it.

During this-- this war between the British,

well, then the British colonists and the native Wampanoags,

on a per capita basis, it was deadlier than the Civil War.

Really ended with a-- with a surrender

and then a massacre

not too far from an area called Anawan Rock.

Did it leave some kind of mark on the landscape?

Some kind of history being left in the land itself,

not unlike what we hear about here with the curse.

You said cryptid.

Is there any mention of anything akin to a Skinwalker?

There's a cryptid that they call a Pukwudgie.

A what? - A Pukwudgie.

Pukwudgie. - Pukwudgie.

Pukwudgie. Yeah.

This woodland creature

that would almost lure people, uh, to their death.

Is that a Wampanoag term? - Yes.

We understand this idea of a curse,

and we understand that there's cryptids locally,

but we want to dig more into what is the explanation.

Do they mimic the Skinwalkers that we hear about here

in Skinwalker Ranch... - Mm-hmm.

...and other parts of the United States?

Yeah. If there's a curse, who knows?

They might have put some being or entity or demon, uh,

to protect or terrorize the location,

so-- which would fit

in the Skinwalker sort of, uh, description.

I think one of the things that's really

gonna make this investigation unique

is that Bridgewater Triangle has this verbal history.

There's no hard data behind it. - Right.

So... I'm okay with taking the stories,

the ghost stories, as data.

Right. - But then we got to figure out

what hard scientific measurements and data

we can gather from that.

Once we're boots on the ground, our goal is to go out there

with the instrumentation that we have

and see if we can't put some data

behind the claims that exist verbally.

I really like the sounds of that.

It looks like swampy area, so, uh, be prepared to, uh,

trudge through some mud and some...

...some muck.

Well, be careful, guys. - Yeah.

And, uh, be safe, right? - Yeah.

Well, good luck. - Thanks, gentlemen.

Yeah. - Thank you.

Go forth and conquer.

I'm really excited about this one.

This feels like we're going sort of

deeper into history than we have before.

The curse that we're chasing down here

predates the Skinwalker curse at Skinwalker Ranch

by more than 200 years.

In many ways, this is where it all began,

and this is where these stories of high strangeness began.

And what's fascinating is, as you drive through here,

you see that we're not in the middle of nowhere.

We're in the middle

of essentially suburban neighborhood.

People live here full-time, year round.

Yeah. - And this phenomenon

is happening just in their backyard.

It's very concentrated.

I mean, in the middle of it all is the Hockomock Swamp,

I mean, which is-- which means in Wampanoag,

"the place where the spirits dwell."

I mean, it's-- it's written all over the landscape.

And I'm actually really excited that we get to have

a resident along with us on this investigation.

We actually have Matty Blake joining us.

People know him from "Drilling Down"

and from "Beyond Oak Island,"

but what they don't realize is that he's actually a native

from not far from here.

Right, right, and long before those shows.

I mean, investigating the Bridgewater Triangle

has been his passion for-- for decades.

It's really gonna be a big asset for us.

Andy and Paul are meeting with Matty Blake

to check out a spot known as the Skim Milk Bridge,

where many strange anomalies have been documented.

Welcome to my original home state

and the Bridgewater Triangle.

The Hockomock Swamp, to be specific.

The crazy thing is it feels like sort of

a little middle of nowhere in the middle of everywhere.

A suburb. - That's really well said.

In a little short walk,

you won't feel like you're in the middle of civilization.

I promise you that. It's vast, and it is desolate.

I'm excited to see it. Let's get to it.

All right. Straight ahead. I'll lead.

It's gonna be a cold one, boys, so bundle up.

Yeah. - Yeah.

One of the common things

you'll hear about this whole area

is that you feel like you're being watched.

I do believe that to be true.

In fact, I stopped coming out here, to be completely honest.

What happened?

Well, um, I had an orb experience

not too far from here,

and I saw a classic orange orb following me as I walked.

I started walking quicker.

Every time I looked up, it was there.

I felt like I was being urged to just leave.

So, the history, I mean, people have been seeing

strange things here for hundreds of years, right?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you have reported UFO sightings

you know, hundreds of years ago outside of Boston,

not far from here.

Whatever's happening has been going on a long time.

I think the most compelling UFO sighting

happened right over there in the '70s.

Two local newscasters saw it.

Hundreds of witnesses

said it was the size of a football field.

That's a ton of eyewitnesses. - That's massive.

That's massive, yeah. - And a local woman,

according to reports, said that that craft

landed here in this swamp. Uh-huh.

What, disappeared into the swamp?

Yeah. And I'm not sure that science

is gonna give you the answers you want.

I think it's maybe beyond science,

but they might decide to show you--

put on a little show for you tonight.

How do you feel about being out here at night with us?

Uh, however I can help you guys, I will.

I mean, I'm still apprehensive.

It's-- It's-- It's not-- I'm not comfortable.

I'll be-- I'll be honest. Um, I think it's a bit of