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The woman you were looking at is Dolly Broadbent
and she grew up here...
...on Majesty Ranch.
Majesty lies in a region of the country
that is not only recognized for being
one of the least populated,
but also for having some
of the darkest night skies in the northern hemisphere,
giving way to an otherworldly setting.
It is a striking display of beauty,
of sheer vastness, and its existence
serves as a warning for how little we truly understand
about the world that we live in.
Forget the wonders of the skies
because right here, in the high desert of the Wild West,
a tale is unfolding
that will make you second guess your next venture
out into the dark.
The area has been haunted by unexplained disappearances
and grizzly deaths.
What is going on out here?
What is behind this ominous threat that defies definition?
Our pursuit is to find some answers,
to uncover what is going on out here
and why it seems to be kept a secret,
and in doing so...
...we've discovered that we're not the only ones
who've set out on this venture
and that someone got started long before us,
decades ago, here on Majesty Ranch.
All right, welcome back to NNN,
Northern Nevada News,
your number one FM station
for all things Northern Nevada.
It's the top of the hour and whew,
my coffee was pretty strong this morning,
uh, but I wanna remind everybody to be safe
and responsible this summer when it comes to campfires.
Over the weekend, apparently a fire broke out
on Majesty Ranch in Eagle County.
Majesty is one of the largest ranches
in the state of Nevada,
uh, but fortunately for the owners,
Gerald and Dolly Broadbent,
they're reported to be safe and sound.
However, their home and all of their possessions
weren't as lucky.
Gosh, you just hate to hear that, huh?
Alright, well, up next, uh, surprise,
we have Dave here with some fire safety.
While they were packing up to move,
Dolly's husband inadvertently found...
...something a bit interesting,
a very vital piece of this puzzle.
The only things that survived the fire...
...were the things that we had in the root cellar,
and that's where Gerald found it.
Dolly and I have...
...been searching for this box for years.
Her family, her mom and her dad,
were convinced that it was stolen
by county officials,
um,
years ago, during a routine inspection.
It was hidden in a huge box
in c-- full of candy jars.
This box going missing was really a pretty big deal
to Dolly's family because...
...it was really the start of her father's mental decline.
I was shocked to see it
because I thought it was gone forever,
and my first thought,
"Why is it here?"
So the issue here is that even though I work
with the county...
...they don't wanna have anything to do with this.
They think it's all just a bunch of
and have written this off.
But after reviewing the contents of the box,
I'm confident that...
...they're gonna rethink that.
Him losing this box sent him over the edge.
I was 22 at the time, when I went to Vegas.
Uh, my parents thought that...
They wanted me and my sister to, like, go explore
and see what the world was like outside of the ranch.
Ever since Dolly was a little girl,
her mother, Nancy, suffered from a chronic disease
that over time just became more and more debilitating.
One day, my mom called me
and told me that I needed to come home.
So she had just come home from a trip
and she said, "I am not doing really well
and your father is doing really bad."
It was time for me to go home, anyways,
because city life was not for me.
It was a really sad situation.
Nancy was sick,
and Beau was losing his mind, couldn't take care of her.
When I got home, things were really bad.
I didn't realize how bad my mom
had declined with her health,
and my dad...
...was just so paranoid
that he was a completely different person.
We all had to know... what was in that box,
what was so damaging that Dolly's dad
lost his mind.
He had to have been scared to death.
When I opened that box, there were two documents on top.
One was a letter from Beau, and the second was a timeline.
We're not gonna cover Beau's entire timeline
because it's very lengthy,
but we wanna do is
cover the most important parts.
Who is this timeline for? We have no context.
The only thing we have is this letter addressed
to a man named Klamath.
And this is where our timeline begins.
From the time we moved onto the ranch,
we would often see people on the property at night,
at the edge of the floodlights.
My mom was definitely scared.
She couldn't help but think
that there was always a logical explanation.
Hoodlums that would, like, sneak onto our property
because we had that happen many times.
She always wanted to rationalize everything.
After my decades of living
this fever of a reality
and protecting my family from it,
I have come to understand
that there is more than one kind
of threat sharing this high desert with us.
He would rather have my mom think
that he was losing his mind
rather than us always to have
to be in fear all the time.
My mom really thought that my dad was losing his mind.
It was the most frightening sound I've ever heard.
Beau calls the police,
and the sheriff himself drives all the way out to the ranch.
Now, the ranch is nowhere near town.
So it was a journey to get out there and when he does...
And Beau thinks to himself,
"I have to document this, I have to document this
because when this happens again,
I can't look like a lunatic.
And three months later, it happens again.
This time--
This time he's ready.
So he calls the police again,
and believe me, this is something
that Beau doesn't easily do
because he believes that he's fully capable
of protecting his family,
but he also knows that this is something that is just
beyond his control.
And they don't take him seriously.
I mean, they go as far as...
...laughing at him.
Beau and his family became known as...
...the crazy family up at the ranch,
and he really wanted to right his reputation
by documenting what was happening to him.
He was humiliated.
It wasn't easy to document
what was happening back in those days
because it wasn't like he just had a cell phone
and he could just record it as soon as it started.
You know, he had a film camera and an audio reel,
and it was just way, way more difficult for him
to get that out and to capture what was going on.
And with the whole Mantis situation,
we didn't know what to believe.
If you've been following the story,
then you probably remember that Mantis Mining Company
and Freight Pacific purchased this enormous piece
of land in northeastern Nevada.
Now, a section of that land ran along Majesty Ranch,
and there was a certain portion of that
that Mantis Mining Company...
...really wanted.
It had an old mine on it,
and it was something that they deemed very valuable.
And Beau...
...he fought against them and was like,
"No, that's on my property.
That's-- That's my mine, that's-- that's mine."
And this went back and forth for a long time.
And finally a judge came forward
and deemed it Beau's property
Before the judge ruled that it was Beau's land,
they were very interested in that mining entrance.
So, one day, Beau caught them in the act
and he took a picture of them to show it to the judge.
One week after that photo was taken,
they came back in the middle of the night
and tried to blow up the entrance.
They were not gonna give up.
At first, they tried to buy the ranch
for j-- just a ridiculous price,
but it could never leave the family,
so my dad w-- would've never sold it.
This...
...was when things started to get...
...very strange.
Then...
...his animals start turning up dead.
Shortly after his animals started coming up dead,
he comes across a freshly butchered calf.
Now, this dead calf wasn't
what he was concerned about capturing on film
because something else caught his eye.
It was someone that worked for Mantis.
They were trying everything they could
to scare us out of there.
The sheriff and the foreman
at the Mantis Mining Company were really good friends.
So when Beau called,
they never took him seriously
and just thought he was a joke
and treated him like one, really.
Knowing what I know now...
...in light of everything....
...I'm very heartbroken.
And terrified.
On the far side of the property, um,
there's this cute A-frame cabin
that Dolly's mom really loved
and it's really close to the border
of the Mantis Mining Company's property.
What she really wanted was a big, beautiful deck
that overlooked the ranch so she could, you know, sit,
have a cup of coffee in the morning,
maybe a glass of wine at night.
And so Beau ended up building her one.
They called this cabin the vacation house,
because when they were tired
or needed a break from their everyday life
in the house in the valley,
they could go up to the mountains
and they could stay at this cute little cabin
and have a little bit of a getaway.
Not far from this cabin,
this, uh, vacation home,
is the Ambler Mine.
Now, this mine was one of the things
that, uh, the Mantis Mining Company...
...really fought over and really wanted their hands on.
It also seemed to be...
...a hotbed of activity
that Beau was really trying to document.
This was the experience that...
...really changed him and...
...made him become obsessed.
What he saw that day in the shadows was not human.
This is also where the timeline takes a huge break
and doesn't pop back up until the late 1980s.
He knew what was going on at the ranch,
that the sheriff came.
That deeply troubled me.
He insisted that we meet in person,
a small house off Highway 50.
And this is where we have made
a very interesting connection.
This is the part in the timeline
that changed everything.
This is the house right next to the trailer
that Minerva Sound died in.
Seeing Beau pull up to this house...
...was surreal
because Gal and I had just made an interesting connection.
A few years ago when a woman named Minerva Sound
was found dead in her trailer,
some very frightening tapes were also found.
Minerva discovered some pretty graphic
and disgusting tapes
that were recorded in the basement of her trailer.
These tapes have really
disturbed our viewers and...
...they've really bothered me as well.
I've lost sleep watching them over
and over again trying to figure out
what exactly it all means.
Bill and I have poured over every detail in these tapes,
and it's in these tapes that...
...we have found a connection.
We don't know what it means or...
...if it means anything yet.
Charity Henderson, the woman identified as the victim
of the unseen assailant in one of the videos...
...is a distant relative
of the founding member of Mantis Mining Company.
It could be a coincidence...
...but, uh...
...I don't believe in those.
I arrived at our agreed time and waited.
I walked around looking for him.
I stayed until it started to get dark.
I felt uneasy,
like I was being watched,
so I left.
When I got home, I found my front door wide open.
Later that night, I discovered
something truly disquieting.
He had taken my camera out of the truck
while I walked around looking for him.
He left a surprise on it.
The majority of the evidence in this box, um, is labeled
and we can see exactly on the timeline
where everything is supposed to be.
But there's also a bunch of other evidence,
like audio recordings, videos, photographs...
...that are just unlabeled.
And with these...
...there's no description.
So, we're just left to wonder.
Since we started sharing Dolly's side of the story,
one of the biggest questions we get from people is, "W--
why didn't they just move?
You know, if this place is so scary,
why didn't they just get out when they could?"
People have to understand,
these things didn't happen every day,
and when it did happen,
it's so surreal...
...that it's easy to disconnect
y-- from, you know, my life.
Ranchers can't just pick up and move to the city
and start a new career.
It doesn't work like that.
Selling Majesty Ranch
never was,
and never will be an option.
I was on the mountain on this day
and I saw smoke coming from Ambler.
I know, hearing all this, it sounds terrifying,
but growing up on the ranch,
it wasn't always like that.
Unfortunately, for Dolly's mother, Nancy,
after, uh, the girls had grown up
and left the home,
this cute little vacation cabin, um,
sort of became more of...
...a place that Beau would retreat to as he became
deeper and deeper obsessed
with what was happening at the ranch.
And he would go there
and he would spend a lot of time there alone,
just with his thoughts.
And he was obsessing more
and he just kinda became a recluse up there.
Okay, we're testing out my homemade motion light.
And then we reach this...
...really perplexing entry.
There's no number. It's...
It's as if he...
...changed his mind or...
...didn't finish the entry.
Why is he afraid of putting this in writing?
And...
...you know, who's this--
who's this odd man that he met with?
We haven't answered those questions yet,
but it's this very next entry...
...that you just have to see for yourself.
Sometimes...
...what you can't see...
...is worse than the things that you can.
What we see him hitting here with his hammer
is the head frame to a mine shaft.
You might notice that this one here has been filled in.
Hello?
Wait, wait.
There really is no way for us to know for sure
who this person is.
No deaths in the county matched this type of death
that we see in the videotape.
So it turns out that Klamath...
...was a practicing attorney in Nevada.
Unfortunately, he has passed away.
He was preparing to defend himself.
I would be a--
a disaster too...
...if there was a tape of me murdering somebody out there...
...that had just gone missing.
Put yourself in Nancy's shoes for just a moment.
You know, she's been gone for a whole month with her sister.
It's probably the last time she's ever gonna see her sister.
You know, she's very ill.
She's not doing well,
and she has no idea what has just transpired
with her husband while she was away.
And she just comes home and finds him a paranoid mess,
and she fears that he is just
never gonna come back from this.
You know, he's...
...basically gone deeper and deeper into...
...trying to collect this evidence,
and trying to prove what has been happening to him.
And she just feels that he's just gone off the deep end.
So her solution, at the time...
...hide the box,
get rid of the problem.
This was taped to the box.
"My dearest Beau.
I will love you forever...
...and always...
...in this life...
...and in the next.
I pray...
...that wherever I go...
...after I leave this earth...
...that you...
...will come and you will find me.
Because I will be waiting for you.
If you find this after I leave...
...please...
...forgive me.
You have let...
...this consume you...
...and I worry greatly about your health.
And when I'm gone,
the girls will need you.
I know they are grown,
but they will always be...
...our little girls.
I love you...
...and I hope...
...that when I see you again...
...you'll be sitting in the sunshine...
...under our old pine tree.
Godspeed,
my love.
You gave me life worth living."
Whatever is going on out there...
...it didn't end with Nancy hiding the box,
and...
...it didn't end with Beau's death.
And it didn't end with Gary vanishing.