The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch
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| The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality |
| Narrated by | Robert Clotworthy |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 72 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Kevin Burns |
| Camera setup | Multiple |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Prometheus Entertainment |
| Distributor | A&E Networks |
| Release | |
| Original network | History |
| Original release | 31 March 2020 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | The Curse of Oak Island |
| External links | |
| [{{#property:P856}} Website] | |
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The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch is a reality television series that follows a team of scientists investigating phenomena they describe as unexplained surrounding Skinwalker Ranch, located in Uintah County, Utah, United States. The show began airing on the History Channel in March 2020 and to date has run for six seasons.[1][2][3][4]
Overview
The series is set at Skinwalker Ranch, a 500-acre ranch that is the site of reported paranormal and UFO-related activities, and follows a team of investigators and skeptics looking into the phenomenon. Team members include Brandon Fugal, the ranch's owner,[5][6] and aerospace engineer Travis S. Taylor.[7][8][9][10][11][12]
The show features the team utilizing technologies such as ground-penetrating radar to investigate purported anomalies such as ionizing radiation, dire wolves, UFOs, a human bone discovered in an airtight cellar, and cattle mutilation.[13] Guests on the show include Linda Moulton-Howe.[14][15][6]
Cast
Ranch Investigators
- Travis S. Taylor, aerospace engineer[6]
- Brandon Fugal, owner of Skinwalker Ranch[6]
- Bryant "Dragon" Arnold, security chief[6][16]
- Tom Winterton, ranch superintendent[6]
- Jim Segala, skeptic[6]
- Erik Bard, principal investigator[6]
- Jim Morse, ranch manager[6]
- Tom Lewis, ranch caretaker[6]
- Kandus Linde, ranch caretaker[6]
Guests
- Linda Moulton-Howe appeared in episode seven of season one investigating an alleged cattle mutilation.
- Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok appeared in the fourth episode of the second season to conduct a ritual to open a portal.
- Ryan Skinner, author of Digging Into Skinwalker Ranch (2021), helped investigate rock carvings in season 2.
- James Keenan, a former military specialist appeared in season 2 recurringly as an investigator.
- Jenn Rook, station manager and radio DJ at Jack FM helps the team broadcast a strange signal they had received at the ranch.
- Former Governor Gary Herbert visits the ranch in the third season.
- Colonel John B. Alexander, who had previously investigated the ranch with Bigelow Aerospace, visits the ranch in the fifth episode of the third season.
- Seth Shostak informs the team of SETI's official protocols for verifying, validating, reporting, and responding to potential intelligent communications.
- George Knapp, investigative journalist and author of Hunt for the Skinwalker, joins the team in the ninth episode of the third season.
Development
The series was developed by the producers of The Curse of Oak Island for the History Channel, which green-lit the show for air in 2019.[17] The first season premiered on March 31, 2020 and ran for eight episodes, concluding on June 2, 2020.[18] A second season was greenlit and began airing on May 4, 2021.[7][19] Season 3 followed with more publicity on January 26, 2022.[20]
Episodes
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 8 | March 31, 2020 | June 2, 2020 | ||
| 2 | 10 | May 4, 2021 | July 13, 2021 | ||
| 3 | 11 | May 3, 2022 | July 19, 2022 | ||
| 4 | 15 | April 18, 2023 | August 8, 2023 | ||
| 5 | 14 | April 23, 2024 | July 23, 2024 | ||
| 6 | 16 | June 3, 2025[21] | TBA | ||
Season 1 (2020)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Bad Things Happen When You Dig" | 31 March 2020 | 2.7[22] | |
| Travis Taylor joins a tight-knit group of people dedicated to investigating the ranch. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "Night Visions" | 7 April 2020 | 2.1[23] | |
| When the team investigates beneath the ranch, they claim to experience karma. | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Looking Down" | 14 April 2020 | 1.9[24] | |
| Tom Winterton's headache forces the team to re-evaluate the plan; human bone in the basement at Homestead 2. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "High Strangeness" | 21 April 2020 | 2.1[25] | |
| The team witnesses a double UFO in the sky while performing experiments with weather balloons. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Dangerous Curves" | 28 April 2020 | 1.7[26] | |
| New tests reveal that the team must dig. Brandon Fugal concedes. | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "Poking The Nest" | 12 May 2020 | 1.7[27] | |
| Travis claims to be attacked by "Ionizing radiation" when he opens an old sewer at Homestead 2. The team claims that Alpacas brought in for experiments are attacked by "dire wolves". Everyone's iPhones react in strange ways. | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "Surveillance" | 19 May 2020 | 1.5[28] | |
|
A Cow's mutilation makes the team bring Brandon on-site. Guest Star Linda Moulton-Howe | |||||
| 8 | 8 | "Revelations" | 2 June 2020 | 1.5[29] | |
| A flashback on the year; Strange, unidentified peeping toms. | |||||
Season 2 (2021)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | "Breaking Ground" | 4 May 2021[30] | 7.1 | |
| Returning to what they had done in 2020, Travis rejoins the team and this episode they dig at Homestead 2. | |||||
| 10 | 2 | "Carved In Stone" | 11 May 2021 | 7.1 | |
| A guest investigator tells the team there are some bizarre rock carvings depicting the mesa in an unexplored area. A new investigator takes a new look at season 1's "cattle mutilation" but it is a brown cow, not a black one. | |||||
| 11 | 3 | "Laser Focused" | 18 May 2021 | N/A | |
| An ex-military personnel officer tells the team about a disturbing phenomena from his experience. The team decides to conduct a laser experiment at Homestead 2. | |||||
| 12 | 4 | "There's No Place Like Homestead Two" | 25 May 2021 | N/A | |
|
A lidar scan reveals a dark mass at the bottom of Homestead two. This startles the team, so they bring Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok to the ranch, but while he's there, a UFO sighting is made at the command center. Guest Star Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok | |||||
| 13 | 5 | "The Ranch Strikes Back" | 8 June 2021 | N/A | |
| The team remakes the Rabbi's experiment, only this time with thermal imaging. The team claims their injuries are caused by the ranch taking revenge. | |||||
| 14 | 6 | "Skin Deep" | 15 June 2021 | N/A | |
| A new investigator shows the team a new cavern system circulating underneath the ranch. | |||||
| 15 | 7 | "Can You Dig It?" | 22 June 2021 | N/A | |
| The team proceeds with the drilling operation in the newly-discovered Triangle Area. They claim to find dangerously high energy levels and "an object from beyond". | |||||
| 16 | 8 | "Shocking Revelations" | 29 June 2021 | N/A | |
| The team discovers that the soil of the ranch is highly conductive when they experiment with Tesla coils. | |||||
| 17 | 9 | "Look, Up In The Sky" | 6 July 2021 | N/A | |
| The team claims to see UAPs immediately after high-tech rockets are shot into the ranch's atmosphere, just a mile into what is known as the "high zone". | |||||
| 18 | 10 | "It Follows" | 13 July 2021 | N/A | |
| On the season finale, the team claims that a strange body has caused a malfunction with the ground monitor in Brandon’s helicopter . The season finale ends with Travis driving home in his new red Jeep. | |||||
Season 3 (2022)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1 | "Above and Beyond Explanation" | 3 May 2022 | N/A | |
| The team resumes for the third time their research in 2021 and attempt to tie evidence between the mile-high zone and the mesa.[31] | |||||
| 20 | 2 | "Tic Tac 2" | 10 May 2022 | N/A | |
| The team invites government officials from the original Tic Tac incident to the ranch and claim they have simulated a similar event. | |||||
| 21 | 3 | "Inner Fear-Ence" | 17 May 2022 | N/A | |
| As new aerial experiments are underway at the triangle area, the team claims to have discovered evidence that radiation and UAP phenomena are stimulated by below ground anomalies in the mesa. | |||||
| 22 | 4 | "Scoped Out" | 24 May 2022 | N/A | |
| The team claims to witness UAPs when astronomers work at the triangle area. | |||||
| 23 | 5 | "Digging Up the Past" | 7 June 2022 | N/A | |
| Former NIDS employee, retired Army Colonel John Alexander, visits the ranch, who claims that an experiment "may have opened a portal". The team claim they have received a mysterious signal they interpret as an attempt to communicate. | |||||
| 24 | 6 | "Where There’s Smoke…" | 14 June 2022 | N/A | |
| While the team digs up a cave system beneath the ranch, they also broadcast what they describe as "an alien sound effect" on the local radio station. | |||||
| 25 | 7 | "Full Metal Mesa" | 21 June 2022 | N/A | |
| While drilling, the team say they find a void containing "an impenetrable object". | |||||
| 26 | 8 | "Dome of the Rock" | 28 June 2022 | N/A | |
| The team recover metal fragments from what they claim is "a massive dome buried in the mesa" on Skinwalker Ranch. | |||||
| 27 | 9 | "Closer Encounters" | 5 July 2022 | N/A | |
| The team conducts an ambitious experiment at the Triangle. | |||||
| 28 | 10 | "Photo Finish" | 12 July 2022 | N/A | |
| The team performs a three-dimensional scan of Skinwalker Ranch. | |||||
| 29 | 11 | "The Strangest Things So Far" | 19 July 2022 | N/A | |
| The team reviews all the experiences and evidence of the last three years. | |||||
Season 4 (2023)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 1 | "Over and Out of This World" | 17 April 2023 | N/A | |
| Brandon Fugal and his team return with Travis Taylor to continue “the most interesting science experiment of our time”. | |||||
| 31 | 2 | "Who’s Your Data" | 24 April 2023 | N/A | |
| The team conducts a drone light experiment above the Triangle they claim indicates activity in the mesa. | |||||
| 32 | 3 | "The Blob" | 2 May 2023 | N/A | |
| The team claims to have discovered metallic objects beneath the Mesa and conducts an experiment. | |||||
| 33 | 4 | "The Watchers" | 8 May 2023 | N/A | |
| The team claims to find more evidence of something buried in the mesa. Brandon returns to the ranch with Utah's Attorney General Sean Reyes. | |||||
| 34 | 5 | "Here’s The Drill" | 15 May 2023 | N/A | |
| The team begins drilling at the Mesa and conducts new experiments at the Triangle. | |||||
| 35 | 6 | "What A Mesa" | 22 May 2023 | N/A | |
| The team drills into the Mesa on Skinwalker Ranch. | |||||
| 36 | 7 | "The Return" | 5 June 2023 | N/A | |
| A former ranch investigator and government official return. | |||||
| 37 | 8 | "Between the Lines" | 12 June 2023 | N/A | |
| A new, subsurface investigation leads to a discovery near Homestead Two. | |||||
| 38 | 9 | "Something's Up" | 19 June 2023 | N/A | |
| The team perform a radar experiment above the Mesa and Triangle. | |||||
| 39 | 10 | "A Frequency Occurrence" | 26 June 2023 | N/A | |
| Multi-tribal Native Americans perform a drum ceremony. The team find the results interesting. | |||||
| 40 | 11 | "In the Heat of the Night" | 10 July 2023 | N/A | |
| The team uses aerial LIDAR above the triangle. They are baffled by the results. | |||||
| 41 | 12 | "In and Out" | 17 July 2023 | N/A | |
| After more rocket and helicopter experiments, the team feel the result is a phenomenon which might prove an ancient legend. | |||||
| 42 | 13 | "Everything in the Air All at Once" | 24 July 2023 | N/A | |
| The team conducts complex experiments at the Triangle, and claim a number of events are bizarre. | |||||
| 43 | 14 | "Living in a Metamaterial World" | 1 August 2023 | N/A | |
| The team makes further experiments and say they reveal more evidence of activity in the skies above the ranch. The team feels they have discovered anomalies underground. | |||||
| 44 | 15 | "Looking Back and Far Beyond" | 8 August 2023 | N/A | |
| Clips show recapping the most important and interesting discoveries of the series thus far. | |||||
Season 5 (2024)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 1 | "What's Up?" | 23 April 2024 | N/A |
| 46 | 2 | "Holey Cow" | 30 April 2024 | N/A |
| 47 | 3 | "Dead In The Water" | 7 May 2024 | N/A |
| 48 | 4 | "Bad Taste" | 14 May 2024 | N/A |
| 49 | 5 | "The Flash" | 21 May 2024 | N/A |
| 50 | 6 | "Beaming Up" | 4 June 2024 | N/A |
| 51 | 7 | "The Cone Zone" | 11 June 2024 | N/A |
| 52 | 8 | "Graves Concern" | 18 June 2024 | N/A |
| 53 | 9 | "Spinning Out" | 25 June 2024 | N/A |
| 54 | 10 | "What the Gel?" | 2 July 2024 | N/A |
| 55 | 11 | "Bad to the Drone" | 9 July 2024 | N/A |
| 56 | 12 | "Drone-Ageddon" | 16 July 2024 | N/A |
| 57 | 13 | "The Breakthrough" | 23 July 2024 | N/A |
| 58 | 14 | "Shock and Awe" | 23 July 2024 | N/A |
Season 6 (2025)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Original air date | Viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 69 | 1 | "Bubble Trouble" | 3 June 2025 | N/A | |
| The team relaunches their investigation and are soon surrounded by a distrubing phenomenon. | |||||
See also
- Skinwalker Ranch
- Skinwalker Ranch (film)
- Paranormal
References
- ↑ Gonzalez, Shivani (12 July 2021). "What's on TV This Week: 'Catch and Kill' and the MLB All-Star Game". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ↑ Forgie, Adam (23 February 2021). "Post Malone visits Utah's 'Skinwalker Ranch,' most-studied paranormal hotspot on Earth". KUTV. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ↑ Wynne, Kelly (31 March 2020). "The 3 Craziest UFO, Odd Creature and Unexplained Happenings From Utah's Secretive Skinwalker Ranch". Newsweek. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ↑ Siegfried; Jensen (15 January 2022). "Utah's most infamous UFO sightings will have you believing in the unexplained". KSL.com. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ↑ "Why The Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch Don't Stay on Skinwalker Ranch". Den of Geek. 2021-05-25. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 Why Utah's Brandon Fugal Bought an Otherworldly Ranch, and What He's Seen There: Part 1 TechBuzz, 3 May 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "The Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch Season 2 Cast Guide & Team Roles Explained". ScreenRant. 2021-06-03. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ↑ Stone, Zara (13 September 2021). "The strangest tech to come out of Utah: September edition". Utah Business. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ↑ Jenkins, Mark (23 June 2021). "Site long associated with tales of the paranormal is the focus of a decidedly earthbound photo show". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ↑ Mencimer, Stephanie (3 May 2022). "Utah wants to build an oil railway through a wilderness area". High Country News. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ↑ Nelson, Russ (26 May 2020). "UAH scientists brave curses, spooky anomalies to unravel secrets at Skinwalker Ranch". The University of Alabama at Huntsville. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ↑ Walter, Meg (10 August 2022). "Flying high with Utah's most mysterious mogul". Deseret News. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ↑ "Why One Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch Scientist Doesn't Like The Word Paranormal For History Series". CINEMABLEND. 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
- ↑ Petski, Denise; Petski, Denise (21 June 2019). "History Greenlights Paranormal Nonfiction Series 'The Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch'".
- ↑ "A+E Networks". www.aenetworks.com.
- ↑ "Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch Viewers Are Fed Up With Security Head Dragon". CINEMABLEND. 7 May 2020.
- ↑ History Greenlights Paranormal Nonfiction Series ‘The Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch’ Deadline, 21 June 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2021
- ↑ "History's The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch Tasks Scientists to Investigate Paranormal Ranch". Den of Geek. 2020-03-30. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
- ↑ "Will There Be A Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch Season 3?". ScreenRant. 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
- ↑ Season 3 of “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch” returns May 3 at 10PM ET/PT | The HISTORY Channel, retrieved 2022-04-22
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Further reading
- Skinwalker Ranch - Spookiest Place on Earth
- Robert Bigelow's Ranch
- Archived Skinwalker Ranch Newspaper
- Why a millionaire real-estate mogul bought Skinwalker Ranch
- Brandon Fugal – Supercar owner & Steward of Skinwalker Ranch
- University of Alabama in Huntsville scientists at Skinwalker Ranch
External Links
- Official website
- The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch on IMDb Search this movie on
- Mystery Of Utah’s Skinwalker Ranch Very Much Alive at KSL-TV
- Official Fansite
- History On Demand
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