Ancient Aliens

In a remote valley in Utah,

there is a ranch that some say is evil.

Bad things happen to people on that property.

There's danger there. It's real.

Terrifying creatures prowl the land.

There's stories of cloaked beasts

running out of the woods and chasing people.

This thing comes right up to this guy and roars.

Ominous lights appear in the sky.

I have personally watched as

portions of the mesa appeared to glow.

Animals are found slaughtered.

They had prized cattle taken and mutilated.

It's not just UFOs.

It's not just strange creatures.

It's not just animal mutilations. It's everything.

There are things that have happened here

that have shaken me to my core.

What is behind the strange phenomena

that takes place on Skinwalker Ranch?

And could solving the mystery

change our entire reality?

There is something profound that is going on at Skinwalker Ranch

and it begs to be studied.

There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

Uintah County, Utah.

Nestled in a deep valley,

surrounded by some of the highest mountain peaks

in North America,

is an infamous 512‐acre patch of land

known as Skinwalker Ranch.

The native Utes warn of a dark presence

that exists in this area,

where strange sightings in the sky,

encounters with terrifying creatures,

animal mutilations,

and numerous other paranormal activities

have been reported for centuries.

Skinwalker Ranch has become this nexus of activity

where people are reporting strange things.

It's in an area in Utah that's very much like a desert terrain,

and what's there now

is high desert prairie, kind of, area.

Now what it actually is

and what's going on there is a whole other question.

It's a very unique place in the world

where the phenomenon expresses itself

in dramatic form.

It's also the most scientifically studied

UFO or paranormal hotspot in history.

Native American legends say

that there has been an otherworldly presence

at Skinwalker Ranch for as long

as humans have existed in the area,

which, according to archeological evidence,

is at least 10,000 years.

And the very first European settlers

to pass through this land

in the late 1700s had their own bizarre experiences,

which they recorded in their journals.

The first Europeans

to cross the Uintah Basin, the, uh, Franciscan monks,

reported seeing things over their campfires at night,

really weird objects that we would call UFOs.

The Native Americans, the indigenous tribes

have been there, have had these experiences for generations.

It has, for as long as humans have lived there,

it's been the site of paranormal activity...

strange things in the sky, UFOs.

There are so many stories about Skinwalker Ranch

that range from cattle mutilations going on.

There're stories that if you dig on the property,

you'll get sick.

Even strange stories

of cloaked beasts running out of the woods.

You've seen UFOs.

They have seen different creatures.

They have seen weird things happening up in the sky.

So you have all these different phenomena

that happened on that ranch,

so some have referred to it

as a veritable Disneyland of the paranormal.

The most notorious of the paranormal phenomena

associated with Skinwalker Ranch

is the creature for which the property is named.

The association of the skinwalker

with this mysterious plot of land

can be traced back to the mid‐19th century.

In January of 1864,

land disputes between Navajos, Utes,

and the United States military in Utah and Arizona

reached a fateful tipping point.

After decades of conflict,

the military removed the Navajo people from the area,

forcing them to make what became known

as "The Long Walk" to New Mexico.

The Navajos blamed the Utes for helping the military,

and so they cursed the land

that the Utes lived on up there.

And it must've been a pretty strong curse because,

even today, there are really interesting things

that happen up there.

Cursing the land,

the Navajo witch doctors attempted to conjure an entity

called a "yee naaldooshii," or "skinwalker."

The skinwalkers, they're sort of typically

six to seven feet tall,

very dangerous.

It's described as being wolf‐like,

but walking on two limbs.

So, inevitably, it sort of provokes imagery of a werewolf.

The subject of skinwalkers is as serious as a heart attack.

This is not something to trifle with.

Even talking about them puts me in some danger.

The skinwalker

is somebody who is evil.

They want to control people,

communities, regions,

and have that power over people,

and they do this by fear.

The Utes, to this day, are very respectful.

They're very mindful. Matter of fact, they stay

at an arm's length, um, from the Skinwalker Ranch.

Uh, they firmly believe

that this ground is cursed and that, not only the Uintah basin,

but this concentration of this phenomenon,

this host is on the Skinwalker Ranch.

Could a monster known as the skinwalker

really stalk the grounds of Skinwalker Ranch?

And if so, was it conjured up by Navajo witch doctors?

Or is it connected to the paranormal,

and perhaps otherworldly, activity

that has been reported on the property for centuries?

Investigative journalist George Knapp

was one of the first reporters to expose the strange stories

at Skinwalker Ranch

back in the mid‐1990s,

when he conducted extensive interviews with the Shermans,

the family of ranchers that owned the property.

This guy shows up one day

while the ranching family is still there.

He's built like Grizzly Adams, big burly guy with a beard,

he said he'd been drawn to the property,

and he talks to the rancher and says, "I just need

"to meditate for a couple of minutes.

"I'm drawn here. I need to do this.

Can you let me on the property?"

The rancher kind of bemusedly says, "Okay,

come on in." He lets the guy in.

The rancher and his son escort him to the middle homestead

and the rancher and his son are watching the guy

and just kind of chuckling to themselves.

They hear this thing in the brush,

and then they look over and there's something moving.

And then it comes out of the brush,

right up to where this guy is,

and it‐it looked like the creature in Predator

with the camouflage, the opaque c‐camouflage,

the invisibility technology.

This thing comes right up to this guy and roars.

Scares the hell out of this guy who opens his eyes, flies back,

lands on his back.

The rancher and his son go rushing over to him.

He's petrified, grabbing them, won't let go.

They escort him off the property and he swears it's the devil,

it's Satan, you're gonna burn for this kind of stuff.

Is it possible that the terrifying creature

witnessed by both the ranchers and their mysterious visitor

was what the Navajo call a skinwalker?

Was it a being from another world?

Even another dimension?

Such stories have inspired countless curiosity seekers

to make pilgrimages to the ranch.

But for those who have lived and worked there,

like current ranch superintendent Tom WINTERTON,

Skinwalker Ranch is not a place to be taken lightly.

I'd been warned not to dig on this ranch,

which I thought was absolutely ridiculous.

Yeah, it's‐it's a ranch, for crying out loud.

That's what you do. You dig fence holes, you dig ditches.

And so I paid zero attention to it.

And whether it's related or not,

I ended up getting this severe head injury

that causes my head to swell up.

I had fluid that separated the fatty tissue from my skull,

and to this day, my doctors

still haven't come up with an explanation of what happened.

What they did say was that what happened to me

just was not medically possible,

but I'd be lying if I didn't say that there are things

that have happened here that have shaken me to my core.

When we patrol the‐the perimeter of the place,