Emergency Call Leads to Hidden Cave (Season 1) | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch | History
Emergency Call Leads to Hidden Cave (Season 1) | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch | History
While investigating the sinkhole, the team uncovers a hidden cave and faces shocking, unexplained phenomena that leave them stunned. See more in this clip from Season 1, Episode 2, “Night Visions.”
So, where’s the north border on the other side of the mesa?
How far does it go?
Just to the about the back cliff over there.
Oh, really?
Yeah. Just short of it.
Huh? It looks different from the
You do you copy?
Yeah. Bryant, go ahead.
We are up at the sinkhole doing this radiation sweep. You guys should get just straight over here. We found some crazy stuff you’re going to want to see.
While Tom Winterton and I are taking a tour of the ranch, we get this emergency call and it’s from the team that’s up on the mesa scanning for harmful levels of radiation and microwaves.
All right, we will head straight over there. You’ll see us soon.
My first thought was whether or not the guys were getting the kinds of crazy readings we measured yesterday when we were up on the Mesa.
I mean, that’s a significant amount of energy right there.
We found electromagnetic radiation that could be harmful to humans.
Oh, and it’s shifted now.
Now it’s coming from that direction and it’s all radiation.
See him standing there?
Oh, you see him up there?
We got to walk from here on up.
Okay.
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Hey guys, the sinkhole is right over here.
Obviously, Thomas knows these guys picked up stuff I thought you guys would be interested in seeing yourselves.
Wow, look at that.
Oh, Jim down in there.
How far does it go?
It goes down ways.
We get up there and there’s a hole in the ground.
And it’s kind of like a little cave and it’s big enough for three or four people to get down in.
This one is interesting just because air flows out of it and things like that.
Yeah, you can feel it.
We’ve had a few people that have climbed down in that hole and experienced some pretty extreme vertigo and nauseousness.
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The sinkhole is a spot that I found one day when I was hiking up above Homestead 2.
And the thing that made it remarkable the first time I found it was there is a cavity that continues down.
We’ve been trying to figure out how far down there it goes.
And it was just blasting cold air just like a air conditioner.
Myself as well as uh several other individuals that I was there to witness have had experiences when we climbed down inside that hole.
You know, I kind of shrugged it off as heat stroke at the time, but then other individuals that we’ve taken up there since then have experienced the same thing.
Jeff is with Simper and he’s measuring radio wave frequencies and things like that.
Travis and Casey are with Qual.
They’re doing a full radiation sweep.
All right. We’re also while we’re in there looking for VOCC’s uh and other chemicals
such as
such as nerve agents or toxic chemicals.
Okay. And we actually got a really high hit uh on our VOC levels.
Uh about 3,600 parts per billion, which is a really high abnormality.
Dangerous level or just high?
Dangerous levels. Certainly.
That was a real quick hit.
It was almost as if there was a ventilation that plumemed.
We got a reading off of that and then um it disappeared.
It disappeared.
Really?
Yep.
That’s intriguing.
There are all sorts of volatile organic compounds like formaldahhide, benzene, but this sinkhole is pretty far away from anything man-made.
So, their presence here is really strange.
DevO level, I thought that was significant.
3,700 parts per billion.
That’s It was very concerning.
Well, let me ask you this.
Did Did you take the RF meter down inside?
I haven’t been down in there yet.
Cuz it’d be interesting to see if you’re getting anything in there RF wise.
What if I go down in there with you?
You guys think it’s safe to go down in there, right?
I mean, it wasn’t It was transient, right?
We’ll keep an air monitor with you so we can make sure there isn’t any air displacement, oxygen displacement.
All right. Well, let’s go down in there and see.
We want to send in the O2 sensor first.
Makes the most safety sense.
I think that’s that’s smart.
I like not dying.
I’ll jump in and make sure O2 sensor good.
I like having the air quality sensor in there first.
For sure.
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All right. We got normal levels here.
So,
all right. Bring it on in.
Hop over there so you can see down inside of that.
Oh, yeah.
I don’t know.
Anyone brought a flashlight?
You can see you got one.
Your phone will work.
That’s what they’re made for, right?
Oh, wow.
You know, there’s no telling how far that thing goes down in there.
If anything coming out of there, you’re going to get it, right?
That’s right.
I did see a spike, instantaneous spike at around 120, let’s call it.
And I’m seeing only background levels here.
But when I put the antenna down by the hole, I clearly see some spikes forming.
I’ve got some peaks showing.
You sure do?
Yeah.
So, right at the opening.
Right at the opening when I put the antenna down in there.
Okay, Eric, we’re on preset number two.
Let me ask a question real quick, guys.
Do any of y’all feel swimyed at all?
No. You good?
You feeling it? Okay. I don’t know.
Slightly I felt like I was not holding my balance well for a second there.
That’s why I put my hand over on the rock.
And I’m feeling it now, too.
Any change in the oxygen level?
Yeah, that’s what I was wondering.
No, I was consistent.
Sure. Shaky.
It’s weird.
Feels weird.
Yeah, my my knees are starting to to actually kind of starting to tremble.
I’m I’m feeling kind of shaky.
Are we safe to continue?
I am going to crawl out just in case I’m not, you know, for a second cuz I’m I’m feeling kind of shaky.
It’s weird.
Watch your head.
That was weird.
I mean, I feel like like I just worked out and I didn’t eat before, you know?
Feels weird.
Are any of you other guys feeling anything bad down there at all?
No.
I just felt like I was going to bonk.
Dude, I tell you, my phone battery just went.
Your battery is dead on your phone?
Yeah.
Huh?
Your battery is dead, too, ain’t it?
It shut off.
Clearly, something is in that hole that that made me have a weird, you know, like low blood sugar feeling.
And I uh I don’t know what it was.
We have what we believe to be safe practices here, but there are no guarantees here.
And no one knows that better than Tom.
You guys got all the measurements that y’all plan to take up here, right?
We’ve got a good surveillance of the entire ranch at this point.
We get back down the truck, we can dive into our results, take a little look deeper look at that and then uh we can get some further analysis and try to look at some deeper details.
Let’s let’s go look at that.
I’m I’m good for that.
Good to me.
Everyone be safe going down.
I’m convinced that whatever came over me while I was down in that cave had nothing to do with oxygen deprivation or toxic gas levels.
Our oxygen meter was indicating there was plenty of air.
But then all of a sudden the batteries in our cell phones go dead.
Boom.
Just like that.
We’ve seen some stuff that we expected to see, some stuff that we didn’t expect to see.
Our concern seems to be around these underground emissions.
That’s where we’re seeing the most of these phenomenons.
I want to tell you, we’re we’re still going to be looking for more holes to crawl into and more things to dig into and look under and and and it’s possible we’ll uncover something that’s dangerous.
Right.
Correct.
In some of the confined spaces, those are areas you might want to be aware of when you’re working in those areas.
But in the open spar, in the ranch and so forth, uh, nothing of concern.
It’s okay to walk around out here.
We’re not getting cooked, but we might find some weird transient things.
Absolutely.
And in that hole, there’s something that we can’t explain yet.
Right.
So, in summary, on the radiation exposures, one of the things we haven’t figured out across the entire ranch, and we don’t know this, um, is the exact levels of that.
So, we brought something for you guys’ team that’ll kind of watch you guys on individual level.
This is a dosimter.
This is going to primarily work from a radiological perspective.
If you’re getting above the normal background radiation exposure, we want to know.
It’s looking for stuff that you are immediately your body is in.
So, anything that’s really in the window of harmful to humans or impactful to humans, our instrumentation sets will see.
Okay, guys.
So, we’ll hand these out to you guys.
Travis, there’s yours.
Thank you, man. Thank you.
Here’s yours.
These doimeters will work like a canary in a coal mine.
They’re going to be very helpful in alerting us if we run into any more sudden burst of harmful radiation.
We’ll lead you out and escort you off the ranch.
Thank you again.
Appreciate all your time.
We’ll pack up our stuff and we’ll be ready to roll.
Okay. Sounds great.
