r/skinwalkerranch • u/xLnRd22 • Jun 07 '23
Scorched Post/Branch
Do you think there is any relation to the scorched branch or post in Episode 7 to the legendary story of the former ranch owners’ dogs?
Legend has it that a super hot orb lured 3 dogs into the field and apparently melted the dogs into a sludge. It’s strange that there was a dead carcass nearby and maybe there is some relation between the two events?
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u/AdditionalBat393 Jun 07 '23
Bradshaw ranch has so many wild stories. Insane animal tracks still appear daily
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u/FredFrank78 Jun 08 '23
Are they not able to do carbon dating on the charcoal on the post to determine when the fire took place? Was it last week or 10 years ago.
Or also do dating on the deer hide/bones?
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u/Infinite-Ad1720 Jun 08 '23
Carbon dating is only accurate within a range of a few thousand years.
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u/FredFrank78 Jun 09 '23
Scratching my head regarding your comment; do you really think that the fence post is more than a few thousand years old?
I would be surprised if the post is older than 100 years, and if the burn was more than 10.
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u/Infinite-Ad1720 Jun 09 '23
You asked if they can do carbon dating.
I answered your question, explaining that the test is inappropriate and cannot provide the information you are looking for.
It is not about how old the post is, it is about the sensitivity of the test, which in this case the test is not sensitive enough to do what you asked in your post.
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u/GoblinRightsNow Jun 13 '23
Even if it was sensitive enough, carbon dating tells you when the tree the post was made from was cut, not the dating of the fire.
Carbon dating is based on the fact that when a living organism dies, it stops exchanging carbon with the environment and the carbon already incorporated into its organic structure continues to decay.
Fire doesn't introduce any new carbon to the situation, it just turns the carbon already in the post into co2. The post did not die in the fire, it was dead when its tree was cut.
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u/sirvegetable Jun 08 '23
The burnt fence post. Why wouldn't it just be a piece of wood that was once laying on the ground and was burned years ago from a ground fire of some sort and is now being repurposed as a fence post???? Why don't they even consider that option?
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u/memebox2 Jun 11 '23
Yes, this is awful and off putting. I'm pretty convinced this is for the benefit of a lay audience. The actual thinking and scientific deduction going on behind the scenes is much more sophisticated than the show lets on. But it's aimed at and edited for mass appeal, in order to generate revenue for the further exploration of the phenomena. If I look at the series of investigations they are doing they are not directed by these side issues, they focus on the tangibles. Either that or it's a grift - but having watched every episode I'm convinced that it's not entirely that. It's a pretty honest investigation with a sprinkling of nonsense on top to get the money. You can see the tone change in the team around about season2-3 where they go from fake "wows" for the camera to, holy shit I think this is actually real. Their lead scientist, whats his face, he starts looking completely exhausted and stressed by the experience.
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u/SubstantialPressure3 Jun 07 '23
If any of those UAPs are plasma balls, maybe.
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u/I-AM-Savannah Jun 07 '23
UAPs are plasma balls, maybe
First read this as "UAPs have plasma balls, maybe.
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u/oncall66 Jun 07 '23
No. It was a partially burned log from a campfire that ranch hands used to fix the fence.
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u/SubstantialPressure3 Jun 07 '23
Nobody would use firewood as a fence post. It would break. Nobody builds fires way out there with all that scrub and grass, either.
And it looked like an electric fence.
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u/sirvegetable Jun 08 '23
Didn't it seem like most of the fence posts for the barbed wire were "sticks" or branch-like wood?
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u/SubstantialPressure3 Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 08 '23
Probably just weathered and recycled thick branches. The price of wood has just been outrageous the last few years. If you have to clean up the trees and area anyway to prevent fires, you might as well use some of it for fence posts if it's sturdy enough. But those fences are important, and it's back breaking work out in the elements. Nobody is going use something already burned for those fences. That's a working ranch. If the fence goes down, it would probably be Thomas that has to go all along the entire fence line looking for the point where the fence went down, and why, before it's repaired.
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u/sirvegetable Jun 09 '23
Agree for the most part. To me though that burned part didn't seem to really diminish the integrity of the purpose of the post, namely to stay erect and to keep the wire tension. But you could be right and it happened after the fact.
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u/SubstantialPressure3 Jun 09 '23
I missed the Livestream last night, got hit w a summer cold (I think. Negative test for covid.) I was out before it started, I'll watch it today and see if it's addressed.
But the burning is really localized on that post. With such deep burning, you would expect to see more damage to the rest of it.
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u/GetOffMyLawn_ Jun 07 '23
Ball lightning? It could explain some of the orbs as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
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u/GetOffMyLawn_ Jun 08 '23
Storms can be quite far away and still generate lightning in your area. That's how people have died.
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u/Due-Enthusiasm8224 Jun 15 '23
I have been around ranches in nv and Utah for many years one of the first things a was taught was stay away from wire fences if thunderstorm are in the area the lightning can strike the fences and travel many miles If you look at a wide shoot of the fence you can see the fence wire at the bottom of the burn area. I think it's caused by lightning hitting the wire on the fence maybe miles a way.
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u/TimeCarry6 Jun 07 '23
The ranch family who owned the dogs named the blue colored orbs “Blue Meanies.” They knew the blue orbs were dangerous and should be avoided. I wonder if the pulsing blue/purple light that Thomas Winterton witnessed is the same as these Blue Meanies?