The team at The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch is lighting a fire to see what gets stirred up. In the upcoming episode, Smoke It Out, airing Tuesday at 8:00 PM ET on History, the investigators turn to a massive bonfire as their latest experimental tool. Their target is the area known as “the Bubble,” a hotspot for strange phenomena on the notorious Utah property.
The ranch itself is a longstanding source of mystery, with over 200 years of documented paranormal events, from UFO sightings to animal mutilations and Native American legends of otherworldly beings. Since 2020, the series has followed a group of scientists and experts as they use technology to try and get to the bottom of the property’s secrets.
This week’s method is decidedly more primal. By igniting a large-scale fire, the team hopes to trigger a reaction or perhaps reveal something hidden within the smoke and heat. The episode description hints that the experiment produces some frightening and unexpected results, which for this show, is par for the course. For a series that has deployed everything from ground-penetrating radar to rockets, a bonfire seems almost quaint, but it may prove to be one of their most revealing experiments yet.
