Beyond Skinwalker Ranch
Beyond Skinwalker Ranch is an expansion spin-off of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. It premiered June 6, 2023. It is the logical successor to Beyond Oak Island.
Season 2, coming in Summer, will have 16 episodes.
Development
The HISTORY(R) Channel is expanding its investigation into unexplained phenomena outside the boundaries of Skinwalker Ranch in a new one-hour nonfiction series "Beyond Skinwalker Ranch" premiering Tuesday, June 6 at 10pm ET/PT. Utilizing a team of reputable professionals working alongside "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch" veterans including ranch owner, Brandon Fugal, Principal Investigator and Chief Scientist, Erik Bard, and Astrophysicist, Engineer and Lead Scientist, Travis Taylor, the series explores other sites of unusual activity and "high strangeness" phenomena in an effort to discover if the activity documented on Skinwalker Ranch is not only real, but pervasive.
While Skinwalker Ranch is a unique place, it is not the only place that has interesting phenomena to be observed. "Beyond Skinwalker Ranch" follows a team of professionals including a former CIA investigator, an award-winning investigative journalist, and others as they study eyewitness accounts, unpack visual evidence, and conduct measurable scientific experiments to investigate locales outside of Skinwalker Ranch including Bradshaw Ranch (Arizona), Bridgewater Triangle (Massachusetts), Rocky Mountain Ranch (Colorado) and more.
From orb detections to numerous UAP sightings, the phenomena studied by the team at each location aims to offer a broader perspective, larger data set, and deeper level of understanding to the team at Skinwalker Ranch.
"Beyond Skinwalker Ranch" is produced for The HISTORY(R) Channel by Railsplitter Pictures. David Carr, Tim Healy and Matthew Ginsburg serve as executive producers for Railsplitter Pictures. Brandon Fugal serves as an executive producer. Jennifer Wagman and Mary Donahue serve as executive producers for The HISTORY Channel.
Format
The show is filmed during the winter season. Much like its predecessor, Paul and Andy turn up in the Command center to present a new mission that they researched. They then are wished luck and safety and travel to the area, meet with some people, and conduct experiments by setting up a foldable table with computers for readings. They get spooked by the supernatural readings and sit by a fire to plan out the next strategy. They may interview the people they contacted, but the focus is on the experiment, where they invite "Skinwalker Ranch veterans" to perform duplicate experiments that provide similar results. They report back to Travis and Erik Bard, sometimes with Brandon Fugal, and their reactions are ones of making funny faces and being skeptical, but this soon turns to warning after the results are unsettling.
Important Episodes
By far the greatest episode (so far?) is S1E6. Andy and Paul go to Bridgewater Triangle, an area in Massachusetts with paranormal activity and haunted by a Pukwudgie (basically Yoda). The episode also goes to other places in Bridgewater, and they see UAPs and unsettling things. Episode 3 is fun, Episode 7 is also fun, and Episode 4 is worth watching...
Cast
The cast of Beyond Skinwalker Ranch can be thought of as The Next Generation vs. Original Series in terms of Star Trek.
Andy Bustamante
I am an improvement junkie; a former covert CIA intelligence officer, US Air Force combat veteran, and Fortune 10 corporate advisor. I surround myself with knowledge, experiences, and people who help me grow and I look for opportunities to share what I’ve learned with others at https://EverydaySpy.com and on my Everyday Espionage Podcast (Commander Riker)
Paul Beban
Emmy-award winning investigative journalist, writer & producer, shooter & recorder, editor & reporter. My most recent project is "Collapse: Disaster in Surfside," a 12-episode narrative investigation into one of the worst structural failures in history. You can listen to it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collapse-disaster-in-surfside/id1596363315. In the middle of the night on June 24, 2021, a 12-story section of the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside, Florida, slammed to the ground, killing 98 people. The podcast is the product of a unique partnership between the production team at Treefort Media and the journalists of the Miami Herald, winners of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for their coverage of the story. As a television correspondent, anchor, writer and producer, I've done features, investigations, and documentaries all over the United States and around the world. I've investigated WWII plane crashes in Greenland, violence in Venezuela, and chased Somali pirates on an Italian warship in the Indian Ocean. I've documented what it's like living in a massive dump in Manila and the health hazards of being a transsexual prostitute in India. I've interviewed Christo about his plan to drape a Colorado river in a tunnel of flowing blue fabric, and spent a couple days with a New York photographer who took two sets of portraits—25 years apart—of every single person living in the new home he'd made in the small town of Oxford, Iowa. I've been honored to win Emmys for my undercover reporting on human trafficking in South Africa and the changing economy of India. I've worked on all sides of the camera, in newsrooms and control rooms, from war zones and ski slopes, and if you'd like to talk about work—or anything else—drop me a line.
Guests
- Katie Page- Episode 3; A country music singer who was a 12-year old witness to paranormal UFO activity, revisiting the ranch.
- Matty Blake- Episode 6: An Oak Island investigator native to Massachusetts and helping the investigation at Skim Milk Bridge.
- Beaver- Episode 6: The team was in a dark forest and read about a strange animal in the water and swimming towards shore.
Associations with Sci-Fi/Star Trek
- Equipment can be referred to like Tricorders and walkie-talkies are communicators (But in this case should be on their chest instead of flip phones)
- Ep. 7) is like S02E18 of Original Series, where they get effected by a virus on an abandoned starbase /when they explore the homestead
- Ep. 6) Pukwudgies are like Yoda
Episodes
Series 1 (2023)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Bradshaw Ranch" | 6 June 2023 | N/A | |
| Ex-CIA agent Andy Bustamante teams with journalist Paul Beban to begin an investigation beyond the borders of Skinwalker Ranch- to Sedona, Arizona, where they claim to record temperature anomalies and see a UAP on the UFODap. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "Mt. Wilson Ranch" | 13 June 2023 | N/A | |
| Andy and Paul travel to Nevada and a ranch converted into a museum, once owned by Robert Bigelow at the same time as Skinwalker. They use explosives in the snow during a blizzard in a futile attempt to access depressions in the ground. | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Rocky Mountain Ranch" | 20 June 2023 | N/A | |
| Katie Page revisits her childhood ranch with Andy and Paul. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "Thomas Miller Ranch" | 27 June 2023 | N/A | |
| Andy and Paul visit a Colorado ranch to investigate what they claim are unexplained cattle mutilations. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Bradshaw Ranch Pt. 2" | 11 July 2023 | N/A | |
| Andy and Paul return to investigate Bradshaw Ranch during a wind storm and claim they are being "spied on" | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "Bridgewater Triangle" | 18 July 2023 | N/A | |
| The boys visit the Bridgewater Triangle area in Massachusetts where they team with Oak Island investigator Matty Blake at Skim Milk Bridge and hear the legend of a shapeshifter known as a Pukwudgie. | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "Navajo Nation" | 25 July 2023 | N/A | |
| Andy and Paul join Navajo rangers to investigate Skinwalker legends in Utah. | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "Chris Bledsoe" | 1 August 2023 | N/A | |
| Andy and Paul equip a person they believe is an alien communicator with a brain scan. | |||||
| 9 | 9 | "Batting A Thousand" | August 2023 | TBD | |
| Reviewing the missions of 2023 and featuring unseen footage of an encounter with an Owl. | |||||
Series 2 (2024)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 | TBA | 4 June 2024 | N/A |
