Curse of Skinwalker Ranch: Season five recap and highlights
Curse of Skinwalker Ranch season six is beckoning, but have you watched season five yet? Here’s a quick but enlightening look back at its biggest highlights.
Image: (From L-R) Bryant ‘Dragon’ Arnold, Kaleb Bench, Dr Travis Taylor and Erik Bard conducted many experiments and investigations during 'Curse of Skinwalker Ranch' season five | Curse of Skinwalker Ranch
Skinwalker Ranch has been widely reported to be a hotbed of spooky happenings. However, findings of scientific studies into the phenomena — including UFOs, inexplicable cattle mutilations, and unexplained tech malfunctions — were long kept under wraps.
That all changed in 2020, when a team of scientists led by businessman Brandon Fugal decided that their research into the ranch would be televised. The resulting docuseries, Sky HISTORY’s Curse of Skinwalker Ranch, has now reached its sixth season, beginning in the UK on Wednesday, 10th September.
Before you start watching that, though, allow us at Sky HISTORY to remind you of jaw-dropping discoveries made in season five.
Did a UFO crash-land at the ranch in the 1980s?
Skinwalker Ranch’s current notoriety originally arose in the 1990s, when the Sherman family owned this 512-acre property in Uinta Basin and publicly reported their experiences.
The Shermans spotted glowing orbs flying in elaborate patterns, as if controlled by an intelligent entity. The Curse of Skinwalker Ranch team caught similar sightings on video over the course of the show’s fifth season.
The season’s strangest UFO story, however, was told in the tenth episode, ‘What the Gel?’ Retired sheriff Kris Porritt recalled how remains of 'some type of alien craft' were found at the ranch in the late 1980s.
That same episode, the team found evidence that a still-standing tree at the property may have incurred damage from such a craft flying through its foliage.
Is there an interdimensional portal at the ranch?
If aliens have been visiting Skinwalker Ranch, how did they arrive? One theory is through an interdimensional portal. Amazing though it may sound, studies at the ranch have actually lent support to this idea.
From 1996 to 2016, the property was owned by real-estate magnate Robert Bigelow, who had his own research team at the site. Two members of this team are said to have once seen what looked like a giant, snowball-like portal open up. The story goes that a dark, humanoid figure then visibly ventured out.
The Curse of Skinwalker Ranch guys have witnessed UFOs flying into and out of the Mesa. It’s said to be a common phenomenon, giving rise to speculation that the structure is itself housing some kind of portal. It all gives Dr Travis Taylor the idea for a new, enticing experiment in the season’s second episode, ‘Holy Cow’.
Travis opts to transmit a 1.6GHz signal through one end of the Mesa. At the other end, near the Triangle area, a receiver picks up that signal — to the shock of fellow physicist Erik Bard. He insists that it shouldn’t be able to get through the rocky structure intact. So, could the long-held portal theory genuinely hold weight?
Has a laser hit the top of a cone-shaped anomaly?
In the seventh episode, ‘The Cone Zone’, researchers fire a laser beam straight upwards in the Triangle. The beam bizarrely stops at about 2,000 feet, but it’s not long before the mystery is (somewhat) cleared up by a Terrestrial Laser Scanner.
The device’s digital mapping reveals a massive cone-shaped anomaly, its base stretching from Homestead Two all the way to the East Side Canyon. The cone’s tip lies where the laser beam ended.
Did the crew find a carcass of the extinct dire wolf?
If Skinwalker Ranch is indeed harbouring an interdimensional portal, it could help to explain one of the most famous stories associated with the ranch.
Near a cattle enclosure, the Shermans once saw a very large wolf. After it started attacking a calf, Terry Sherman attempted to shoot the wolf, but it didn’t even flinch. It eventually slinked away, its footsteps coming to a mysterious stop near a creek.
The Curse of Skinwalker Ranch crew explored that same creek in the fifth season’s third episode, ‘Dead in the Water’. They came across a canine-like corpse and decided to cut off its jaw, enabling biologist Ben Woodruff to closely inspect it.
To his surprise, it looked like the jaw of a dire wolf — a species extinct for about 10,000 years. Coincidentally or not, the Shermans believed their calf’s assailant also resembled a dire wolf. A disguised skinwalker of Native American legend, perhaps?
Prepare for Curse of Skinwalker Ranch season six
All episodes of season five are available to watch now on Sky HISTORY and HISTORY Play. It’s great preparation for watching Curse of Skinwalker Ranch season six, but your exploration of the unknown doesn’t have to end there.
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