Danger Below the Surface (S1) | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch | History

In July 2019, before drilling could begin, the team conducted one last radiation sweep—hoping to uncover what lies beneath the ranch without disturbing the earth, but the investigation took a shocking turn when unexplained injuries occurred. See more in this clip from Season 1, Episode 6, “Poking the Nest.”

TRAVIS: Before we start drilling, we want to do one more sweep of the target site.
Hopefully, there’s no danger of any of us getting sick.

THOMAS: There’s Qal-Tek.

BRANDON: When the team requested to proceed forward with digging, to find out exactly what was underground, I was hesitant.
We’re always concerned about disturbing the earth, because we’ve seen bad things happen.

BRANDON: You guys remember Casey from Qal-Tek?

CASEY: Hey, guys.

BRANDON: We’ve had people in the emergency room with serious injuries that, frankly, to this day, remain unexplained.
So, uh, what do we got going on?

BRANDON: Well, we’d like you guys to do another, uh, radiation sweep down at Homestead Two,
’cause we planned on drilling out there, but Jim and I, and, uh, and another guy were in there, our meters went crazy, and they had weird readings.
I-I got, uh, nauseous and a headache and I had some burns come up on my body.

CASEY: Really?

BRANDON: T-They formed blisters, just like I’d been sunburned.
And my doctor looked at them and he said,
“It looks like when we do radiation treatment on people, that’s the kind of burns that you see.”

BRANDON: Yeah, we want to definitely double-check that area, do a more thorough search through there,
make sure that there isn’t anything there, make sure you guys are safe, so—

TRAVIS: Well, let’s grab the gear, get in the two vehicles and head out.

CASEY: Sounds good.
So we’re ready to go.

TRAVIS: That’s a pretty big drill.

BRANDON: Yeah, this is on Brandon’s mandate.
It certainly wasn’t mine.

TRAVIS: It’s gonna be all right, Dragon.

BRYANT: I still have some reservations about digging or drilling on the property.
A lot of the activity associated with digging on the ranch isn’t necessarily what you’re gonna pull out of the ground,
but what may happen when you do disturb the earth.

TRAVIS: How we doing?

JEREMY: Yeah.

BRYANT: I guess we’ll have you come on in, then.

TRAVIS: Ground-penetrating radar said there’s something under the road that’s anomalous,
and the only way to get down there and look at it is to dig a hole.
So that’s what we’re going to do.

TRAVIS: The first hole we’re gonna drill today will be at the far end of Homestead Two.
Now, Jeremy Lebeau has been instructed to go easy, in case we hit something really dangerous.

TRAVIS: We’re drilling today with hollow-stem augers.
They’re hollow in the middle.
That allows us to go down through the middle with our sampler.
We’d bring up the sample, look inside of it, and you can do whatever readings you need to do at that point.
And that would be before we drill down and really disturb it.

TRAVIS: Yeah, I like that.
Well, let’s get him located where we want to plunge that first hole.

ERIK: Unusual things happen out at Homestead Two. It’s undeniable.
There’s talk about things being buried here.
There are rumors that there is some kind of alien activity beneath this property,
and here we are, at that very spot, ready to start exploring what’s beneath the ground,
but we really don’t know what we’re going to find.

THOMAS: So, guys, before you drill, I’m gonna remove myself.
Keep us posted on how you’re doing.

THOMAS: My rational mind says that there’s no problem digging on the ranch.
My experience makes me very superstitious.
I didn’t believe in the paranormal when I came out on this ranch.
It wasn’t until my injury that I really bought into the whole notion of digging.

THOMAS: We can check for radiation or gases that come out,
but show me the scientific meter that can pick up bad spirits or bad energies.
And until we have that, we can’t say that we can monitor for every bad thing
that could possibly be coming out of the earth.

SEGALA: So, is this the core sample now?

JEREMY: Yep. He’s getting a sample.

TRAVIS: There are a couple of reasons why we don’t just bring excavation equipment out
and just dig the whole ranch up.
Number one, we’re not sure what’s down there.
And so, it’s safer to do core samples first.

CASEY: Nothing there. Got nothing.

SEGALA: We are all kind of apprehensive.
GPR showed that there’s something down there, but what it is, we don’t know.

SEGALA: If we do find something that shows dangerous radiation levels,
that’s the end of this investigation.

TRAVIS: Anything?

CASEY: Nothing. Nothing.

SEGALA: This is the one that, if we find radiation gradients or increases of radiation,
this is where it’s gonna happen.

BRYANT: Look at that. The whole power line’s wobbling.

TRAVIS: The wire’s going nuts. It was violent.

ERIK: Holy sh— Yeah. It’s crazy.

SEGALA: That is really weird. That’s crazy.

TRAVIS: I think what we’re finding is that there isn’t a radioactive source underneath us
that’s permanent, anyway.

TRAVIS: That just looks like fill dirt.
That’s like it has just been put there not long ago because they were making a road.

BRYANT: Boy, that thing sounds like it’s hitting something hard.

MAN: We hit a hard layer.
There’s some kind of natural layer, I think, that’s about this thick or so.

BRYANT: We’re at 29 feet, and that’s just kind of normal dirt at this point.

TRAVIS: What do you think about digging on the ranch now?

BRYANT: It’s kind of a complicated answer.
Just because we didn’t find anything today,
that doesn’t mean that things aren’t gonna happen as a result of us drilling.

TRAVIS: Maybe it’s gonna help us say,
“Digging may not necessarily be such a heebie-jeebie thing that people think it is.”