DANGEROUS Levels of Radiation in HIDDEN Hole | The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

I think before you open that up or do anything like that, I would definitely— or maybe not.

MAN: What the crap is that? It’s filled with something.

All right, well, look, if you want to look down in there, it’s just filled with crappy water—I mean, muddy water, whatever. Maybe it’s a septic tank.

MAN: It’s seriously polluted.

Well, it looks pretty bad. There we go. It stinks, though. Whew. So there’s something in there.

[sighs] You know, and I don’t know if I want to say it or not, but I feel like… I don’t know, I’ve got a little bit of a headache or something happening.

So why don’t we get out of here? Maybe the smell may be some mildew or mold or something here. So let’s—let’s just get back out to the road where there’s more airflow.

MAN: I started getting this headache and this nausea feeling. I wasn’t sure what it was, but I realized, you know, I’ve got this dosimeter in my pocket.

All right. Well, maybe we should check our dose meters or whatever.

[beeping]

MAN: Holy—mine’s beeping. Your max dose rate is about 120?

OTHER MAN: Yeah, it’s 120-something. That’s pretty high.

MAN: This is really scary. My dosimeter device, which measures exposure to ionizing radiation, is showing that I just got hit with 120 millirads per second.

That’s like getting 20,000 full-body X-ray scans in an airport, which is five times more than the legal limit allows in a year.

So I just accumulated a semi-dangerous dose. So we’re reading the exact same amount of rate, but this thing accumulated more.

OTHER MAN: Well, and I was the one who stood over that hole when we opened it up. Yep. We were just exposed to ionizing radiation.

MAN: Wow. Now, I got to tell you that it’s not a lethal dose. It’s not a lethal dose. But it’s an accumulative dose that you’re not going to see out in the middle of nowhere, guaranteed.

OTHER MAN: Yep. And, well, it’s enough that they’re saying, hey, it’s dangerous. Get out of that place. Don’t stay in that place.

MAN: Yeah. So we need to stop the GPR. Let’s load the stuff up. All right? Cool.

[music playing]

MAN: What happened at homestead 2 really shook me up. And then, the next day, I noticed weird red marks on my hand and my head. I went to my doctor to get checked out, and he confirmed they were radiation burns.

I’m OK now, but I’m really anxious to get to the final results of our GPR scans to find out if it’s something in the ground that caused this.