Beyond Skinwalker Ranch (2023– ) User Reviews

Excellent Series!

[ianhapu · 10/10 · 24 November 2023]

This is a must see for everyone who is interested in paranormal, mystery and UFOs . A great addition to the Secret of the Skinwalker Ranch series as well.

Results of the scientific experiments conducted by the team are mind-blowing and mind-boggling. The series contributes to expanding our present understanding about certain paranormal phenomena that have been reported throughout the world for centuries.

The series does not get boring nor uninteresting for a second. Most of the sites chosen for the investigations are being investigated for the first time on TV. Truly exploring the unseen and the unknown for the first time.

The only negative point I see is that the research team should have spent more time on each location and created more episodes than one for each location. Need more episodes!

Paul Beban & Andy Bustamante is a perfect combination for the show!

Give it a chance. It had to grow on me.

[lostangelz · 10/10 · 15 January 2024]

So when I heard about this series and how it's a spin-off of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, I thought I need to see this! I seriously enjoy watching that series.

But watching episode episode 1 of Beyond Skinwalker Ranch was a cold shower. I binged two more. I just felt it didn't have what the Skinwalker Ranch series had. I felt the Skinwalker crew was just introduced so now and the to piggyback off of it's succes.

I left a 2 or 3 star review and I was done with it. I thought about it a couple of weeks later again. I figured it can't hurt to watch one more maybe and I had spare time. And this time I felt completely different! Episode 4 was far out! YES!! I was so happy about that. I had 5 more to look forward too now.

I'm halfway episode 5 now, and it's actually growing on me. But you must have gathered that much already. I just had to stop and write a review before I forget it. Probably will edit this review in the end but I was so happily surprised that I decided to give it another try.

I've heard about the episode with Chris Bledsoe, episode 8 I believe. And that's the one I'm curious about most. I've seen many podcasts and interviews with him and he just strikes me as this kind and honest man. And he has such a beautiful and exciting story. I'm 100% convinced he's telling the truth. So I don't need to see them testing his statements but I do just want to see more about him. He mentions being in this series on History Channel quite often and how he's happy with it. Discovery Channel did a docu about him back in 2007 or 2008 but they edited it so that it made him look like the town clown and it pretty much ruined his and his family's live for 5 years or so. The town's people mocked them and they got excommunicated from the Episcopal Church of which they were a member. Just all kinds of nastyness. Discovery Channel did a real number on them. I looked that docu up and he's right. It didn't make him look good. So unfair as he thought he could tell others about these events this way. So this on History Channel made it good. Haven't seen it yet but he mentions it so often in interviews. He also wrote a book called UFO of God and that's on top of my to read list. And they'll be making a movie of his live. Good stuff.

I digressed a bit right there but bottom line is, give it a chance. Don't expect exactly the same as The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. Go in open minded. Don't stop after episode 3 because it will get better.

Cheers.

Better science needed

[robinbroersen · 3/10 · 15 June 2023]

It frustrates me that they present themselves as gathering scientifically sound data when they are not performing scientific best practices. This also is also continuously the case in the skinwalkerer ranch series. For example, in this episode they record temperature changes when they play the 1.6 GHz signal on the ranch. To say that this is more than an artifact, they should repeated the same experiment several times on different days. Also they need to do the proper controls, such as playing another random sound while recording temperature (not 1.6 GHz) and perform the same experiment on a totally different location. You can't present N=1 observation as facts.

Lost hundreds of IQ points watching the first episode

[Tzaddiq · 3/10 · 6 July 2023]

The pseudoscience, the stilted expository conversations and performative amazement. It's as cringeworthy as you'd imagine. Particularly because it's not a parody. This show is delivered as though the work is sober and rigorous. Disco lasers "adding energy" to the environment... "This blob is an interference pattern"... These grown adults grasp each flicker from their instruments, turn it into a quirky hypothesis and then leap to scientific certainty, all while proclaiming to be skeptical and serious-minded.

Maybe it sells, to some audiences. But, to anyone with any exposure to physics, audio, science, data analysis, or just common sense, you're in for a rough time.

In a nutshell, adults behave like imaginative kids who just got new toys, except with no humour.

Weird Science

[scottmahrle · 1/10 · 29 June 2023]

I had the sensation of feeling stupid when I watched Episode 1, and I'm uncertain as to how to prevent this. Watching through a sideways squint with wrinkled nose did not seem to help; nor did watching over the top of my glasses with fingers pressed together. Part of it is certainly the cliche "ominous music" (as I'm sure the closed cation would say on Netflix) which is known to accompany any serious scientific investigation. The people in it seemed more like overpaid actors than investigators. And it made me go to Google to see if they had any credentials they were selling out. And I don't mean to denigrate the stories under investigation themselves.

But it's a shame, because I came to this series on the word of Chris Bledsoe, whom I find to be a sincere author and experiencer (whose property will be investigated in a later episode). I had read how Chris and his family were mistreated by a years-ago Discovery/MUFON documentary, which revealed itself to be a cynical sham for ratings. Well, based in this History show, it seems ratings are still king, though this time they may be targeting the gullible rather than the cynical.

NOT the same as The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, note anywhere as good.

[fparolek-29667 · 3/10 · 13 June 2023]

NOT the same as The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. Paul Beban is horrible. Replacing him would go a long way to improving this show. The narrator is no Robert Clotworthy, but then again, nobody is. The feel is off and is obviously piggybacking off the success of TSoSR. It just feels like they want to make money off the success of TSoSR, not really advance discoveries.

Another thing that is bothersome is that Beyond Skinwalker Ranch is using newer technology than TSoSR is using. They could really use some of the real-time displays at Skinwalker and the tech would be better applied there.

Time will tell, but so far this is a big thumbs down for me.

It's a stretch

[dasnico · 4/10 · 20 July 2023]

This show is not the same as SOSW. I generally enjoy shows like this, particularly SOSW. Andy Bustamante is just plain irritating. Both hosts just seem to be trying way too hard to take the show seriously and have developed use of trying to coin sophomoric phrases like "high strangeness" which in itself is hard to take seriously. Not surprisingly, on this show, they immediately have success finding abnormalities, and also not surprisingly, using much more modern equipment than their sister show, SOSW. These exceptionally more modern experiments would be more exciting on the original show.

I like the concept of exploring other sites that experience UFO-like abnormalities, but this show falls too short. Perhaps a new set of hosts and a less rushed pace. When Travis makes appearances on the show, even he has a "ahhh, sigh" look on his face when dealing with these guys. Do yourselves a favor and stick to the original show.

Over the top

[danieljoleneaudrey · 1/10 · 21 June 2023]

This show is too exagerated, they have a ex CIA and a journalist, they seem to find something crazy almost immediatly they get to the range.lame too obvious they are trying too hard. Spoiler alert!!! They start off with better equipment. They have questionable experts that like always never seen their equipment pick up strange data or act strange. They get amazed when rockets dont land near by or they dont work as they expected. Its a rocket it has no wings!!! It doesnt always shoot straight up, it doeant land where you expect it to land. They even gone so far to make it look like there is a ghost making foot prints that disapear or even tries to communicate.

Whew this is painful

[johnbaggs · 3/10 · 31 July 2023]

First of all, Andy Bustamante is a hack. He was on the Shawn Ryan show and spent three hours talking about nothing. He was introduced as retired Air Force which he is Not retired! He got out without fulfilling qualifications for retirement. Retirement=pension, at least get that part right, Paul.

Paul Beban is frankly a terrible host, he really adds no value to the show what so ever. He's in the background like a mushroom, staring blankly at the camera.

Their equipment always seems to fail and the key moments and sorry, dude, you're in a fricken desert, there's a lot of heat! The use the gamma cam, and genius Paul says "where there's Radon, there's probably Uranium". Geez, Paul, you are officially an idiot. There is ZERO correlation between the presence of Radon and the presence of Uranium. Radon frequently travels through the ground water, so smoke doesn't necessarily mean fire.

The whole thing is so obviously staged, it's painful to watch and takes so much away from the original show.

Hard pass. It's another Oak Island, endless drama about nonsense.

Beyond Skinwalker Ranch

[carolynandlorne · 1/10 · 2 October 2023]

I have enjoyed all episodes of Skinwalker Ranch to date, but find 'Beyond Skinwalker Ranch' not plausible.

The actor who plays a retired CIA analyst is not believable at all, the investigative reporter is most recently playing on BigFoot episodes.

The entire new show, in my opinion, detracts from the original Skinwalker Ranch, and is not plausible at all.

Perhaps if Brandon Fugal were to expand The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch and the studies being performed it would be more interesting to the public.

A no-watch for me. My apologies for the negativity but this pushes all plausibility in the entire concept being investigated.

Thx.

Viewers are being taken for fools.

[gharwen · 2/10 · 11 December 2023]

I'm a fan of The secret of Skinwalker Ranch and at the beginning this here was quite interesting.

But in the meantime, viewers are probably just being taken for fools.

When the computers supposedly broke down at the beginning of episode 6, it was said that they wanted to install something in terms of security to protect themselves against viruses. And all by themselves.

In fact, however, a firmware update was triggered, which can be clearly seen on the Dell notebook.

It's also worth noting that something always fails suddenly, but NEVER the camera team's equipment (which is also the case at the Skinwalker Ranch).

It's just bad and boring.

Wow this show is beryond bad.

[rageinblack · 3/10 · 5 September 2023]

I was excited at the first episode when we were introduced to two interesting new crew members, and the theories behind each episode are pretty interesting, but soon you realize every episode is the same. Mind-blowing equipment data, but poor experiementation methods, and absolutely zero closure every time. Like they don't even bother to take a road that would lead into actually something. There was one guy that said he caught a skinwalker, and the crew went oooh really?!, but in reality he just startled him, he was just bad at expressing himself, and the team never mentioned this sensationalistic phrase again that he "caught" one. Then there was one instance where they "supposedly" found the nest of skinwalkers at Satan's Butte. Like there is a native village nearby where skinwalkers are the order of the day. And we as viewers are expecting to see something idk, something more than nothing this time. But the crew is scared and the wind starts blowing all of a sudden, and after reading some intruments data they just decide "this is enough" and they flee the place just before the skinwalkers allegedly manifest themselves.

Even more, they say afterwards "Us researching into skinwalkers apparently made them scared, they don't want people talking about them, and since we were there, no more skinwaker episodes occured at the native village" Oh, so convenient.

The whole show was a waste of time.

Don't take this rubbish

[jkane-70397 · 1/10 · 6 November 2023]

More of the same old narrative. Another ranch ( The Bradshaws Ranch ) we add a couple more characters to keep it fresh, but keep are two main characters plus the owner of skinwalker in the show for their base. The good old layers lights in the sky and thermal readings all come into play in the first episode. For as a UFO/UAP researcher for more than fifty years I get angry when I saw them disgusing a photograph of a portal that had been taken recently by an eyewitness. The actual photo shown is one of three photos known as "The McMinnville UFO photographs ", also known as the Trent UFO photos, which were taken by a farming couple, Paul and Evelyn Trent near McMinnville, Oregon, United States on May 11, 1950. To date the three photos taken have been regarded in the scientific world of a large object, and taken from a distance and size by calibration of objects in the forgound on the Trents farm. It's a disgrace that items like this can be slid in, just to bring some form of authentication to the program. Remember this is a 'SHOW' and nothing more than this. There are famous UFO researchers out there who see this for what it is and just laugh at the whole concept and the characters brought in for the show.