Case file · High strangeness
The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (TV series)
A History Channel reality series, running since March 2020, in which owner Brandon Fugal, aerospace engineer Travis Taylor and others test the ranch with radar, drones and sensors.
2020 CE · 40.26, -109.89 · status: claim
The account
Made by the producers of The Curse of Oak Island, the show investigates claims of radiation, UFOs, mutilations and other anomalies, with guests including Utah politicians and SETI's Seth Shostak. Season seven premiered in May 2026. A spin-off, Beyond Skinwalker Ranch, also airs.
The sceptical view
The series is entertainment produced with the landowner as executive producer and cast member. Critics such as Barry Greenwood see the ranch as being in the business of selling belief and hope, and no peer-reviewed finding has come from it.
Connections in the atlas
- Adamantium and the Fugal era
- Adrienne Keene's 'ethnographic refusal' (2016)
- The skeptical case on Skinwalker Ranch
- Skinwalker Ranch