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Can you take us to where you saw this animal?

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But Josh finds more than he bargained for in the jungle night.

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Oh, what is that?

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Oh, shi-

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Do you remember the first episode of Lost?

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It's that thing.

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Then Josh searches the Papua New Guinea coast

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for a mermaid-like creature

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said to lurk in the Pacific Ocean.

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Are you guys getting anything?

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What's that?

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BEEP

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BEEP

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BEEP

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BEEP

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BEEP

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I'm Josh Gates.

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My travels have taken me to the most exotic

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and mysterious places on Earth.

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I've seen some unexplainable things

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which have raised some strange questions.

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Now, I've pulled together a crack team

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armed with the latest technology to search for answers.

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I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me,

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but I know what I'm looking for.

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The truth.

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I come across all kinds of interesting articles in my research,

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and whenever I read about the authorities

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or police getting involved,

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it always makes me want to investigate further.

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So when I came across a piece in the largest

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and most trusted newspaper in Papua New Guinea,

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The National,

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about a SWAT team armed with M-16s

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and shotguns hunting down a dinosaur,

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I knew I had to get to the bottom of this.

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Apparently, the Papua New Guinea police got involved

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when several eyewitnesses in Tinga, Nivudu,

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a small village in Kokopo on the island of New Britain,

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claimed to have run into an iguanodon,

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a dinosaur thought to have been extinct for millions of years.

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But according to everything I read,

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the old guy was not only still kicking around,

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but eating small animals in the swamps of Tinga, Nivudu village.

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Now, if this story came out of anywhere but Papua New Guinea,

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I probably wouldn't give it the time of day.

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But since this is one of the least explored countries in the world,

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with well over 200,000 reptiles and amphibian specimens

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thought to exist there,

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and thousands of new species of flora and fauna discovered each year,

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even scientists refer to it as the lost world.

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So before you could say unnecessary Spielberg sequel,

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my team and I landed in Port Moresby with our vast array of tracking gear,

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so I could find out for myself if there really are dinosaurs living in the jungles here.

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The game plan was for the team and I to hit the ground running

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and head straight to the village where the iguanodon dinosaur had reportedly been spotted,

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to interview eyewitnesses and collect and analyze all the evidence we'd find there.

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There you go.

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You would not believe the captain we had in this flight.

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This guy came on and was like,

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to London.

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And then there was this long beat and he was like,

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Excuse me, Auckland.

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Not kidding, just like I had no idea what city you just wanted.

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On our way out of town, we stopped to see an anthropology professor

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who had received some interesting photos of what the natives were calling

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the bones of an iguanodon.

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That's big all right, that's huge.

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That's huge.

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Those are enormous.

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Look at the size of it.

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Look at the size of just one of them against this big man.

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Is it just vertebrae or do they have other skeletal pieces as well?

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I think they have the ribs as well.

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So very recent.

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It's very recent.

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And is it possible that what we're looking at here, the remains of something previously thought to be extinct?

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People are guessing that it's now that there's so many stories of...

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People think that it's a type of whale?

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No, they're all behaving like one of the dinosaurs.

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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued by these pictures,

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but the only way to find out if these bones were actually those of an iguanodon

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was to travel to the village where they were found.

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There was just one problem.

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The current estimate now is 11 hours to this village.

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Yeah, it's 3 o'clock almost.

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Looks like maybe we'll get there by 2 in the morning.

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Apparently, the village where these bones were unearthed

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and where several eyewitnesses claim to have come across a living, breathing iguanodon

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was on a remote island 495 miles from civilization.

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So the only way to get to Papua New Guinea's version of Jurassic Park

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is by flying to the small town of Caving, driving down the unpaved dirt roads along the coast of New Britain,

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and finally taking banana boats equipped with engines with about as much horsepower as a lawnmower

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across the open sea during monsoon season.

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It's times like these I think flying coach isn't so bad.

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We finally reached Calil Village around 4 a.m.

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and prepared our boats to launch to the iguanodon grounds of Tengenavuta.

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So this is our boat.

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It's always tears under, or always tears under.

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It's not a great name for a boat, but tears or tears we're going to see.

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What this is here is a personal rescue device.

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All we can is with me.

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If for some reason the boat sinks, what you need to do is if I haven't activated it, you need to activate this.

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Beautiful morning here at Papua New Guinea.

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Sun's up, no clouds, perfect boating weather.

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Our guide suggested we wait till dawn to launch across the ocean

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so we could at least see any trouble coming,

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which is exactly what you want to hear when getting into a boat without a life-preserve.

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This is like the end of Castaway.

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I mean, if we're going out, we're going out. We've got to drop it and go.

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We'll send this catch to see the core.

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Guys, we've got to move the **** boat.

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Holy ****.

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We've got to turn back now.

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Our own personal Poseidon adventure ended up costing us one camera, six pairs of socks, and Wilson,

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a volleyball I had found and became friends with.

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But I wasn't going to let a couple of shoddy canoes in a perfect storm

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stop me from getting to the bottom of this dinosaur investigation.

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So I called in the cavalry.

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Peter, hello. We need a helicopter.

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Helicopters don't come cheap, but maxing out my visa was well worth it

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because before I knew it, we were crossing the treacherous sea

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and headed to the small village where there had not only been multiple

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iguanodon sightings reported, but where the pictures of the giant bones had been taken as well.

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I didn't know what to expect when we arrived at Tingenevudu.

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Would the natives be friendly or would we suddenly find ourselves in some real-life mash-up

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of deliverance and apocalypse now?

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Mark, what is that noise?

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Ready?

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I'm not a wild man.

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I'm not a wild man.

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I'm not a wimp.

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I'm not a wild man.

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I'm not a wild man.

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I'm not a wild man.

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Thankfully, this dino village welcomed us with not only open arms, but open buffet.

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This is Tararu?

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Yeah.

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And what is this?

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It was like a jungle version of Vegas,

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minus the smokers and guys handing out flyers for prostitutes.

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So if you were looking for a wife, there was always shell money.

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Now, how much is the bride price?

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Does it depend on the bride?

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I want to buy her.

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I want to buy Virginia.

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How much is Virginia's bride price?

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That cost a million of this.

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A million? I know. Virginia is very valuable.

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Very expensive, Virginia.

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Things were going along great with the natives,

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until we were told that if you want to ask the villagers about the Iguanodon dinosaur,

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you have to be initiated into the tribe first.

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Oh, the buai.

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I had buai.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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I've had the buai before.

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What do we do?

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Okay, you need to take, the first thing you do is you take the bevelette out of the shell.

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Okay.

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That's step one.

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Just chew it, and then you take a piece of mustard,

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dip that in lime, and then you put that in your mouth.

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The 10 bottles of water we got in the truck are not enough to get the taste of this out of your mouth.

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Believe me.

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Eric, the first thing you'll notice when you eat it is how immediately delicious it is.

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You ready?

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Go.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Spring break, Papua New Guinea.

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Where's Mark Carter?

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It doesn't have his pants on.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Wow.

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Wow.

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After we recovered from our tribal initiation,

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everything was going according to plan

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till we asked if we could see the dinosaur bones.

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And Ishmail's house is back here?

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Yeah, Ishmail's house is just over there.

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I thought it was Ishmail, not Israel.

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Ishmail is right.

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Israel.

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Yeah.

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Didn't we just go through this?

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And it turns into Ishmail?

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Okay.

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But we want to talk to the chief of the village, where is he?

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Yeah.

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I think it was better that he spoke to I experiential first then to the chief.

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Ishmail, yeah.

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So let's go.

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We have heard a story about someone here having bone.

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having, um, bones.

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Does he know anything about that?

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I'm not a boomer, Mr. Abba.

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I'm a little bit like a flamboyant, you know?

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So we just saw it, you know?

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Ah.

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What does he say?

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It turned out Ishmael no longer had the bones.

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When was this?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Apparently treasure and bounty hunters are a big problem out here.

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So while I couldn't get my hands on the bones, I could track down the mayor and find out

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why exactly he had put together a swat team to hunt down a dinosaur that some say hasn't

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roamed the earth since the land before time.

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When I heard it for the first time, I thought that it might be dangerous to the people.

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The mayor agreed to take us to the other local eyewitnesses so I could find out if what they

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had seen indeed fit a dinosaur description.

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Did it look...

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Did it look like this?

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The body was like this.

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The hair like the dog.

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Dog's head.

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Eyes.

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Okay.

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The long neck, the long tails.

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The unique thing about this thing was that it was very huge, which never ever in this

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country we have sighted something so huge like that.

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What intrigued me the most about all of these eyewitness accounts is that the largest game

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typically found in this area of Papua New Guinea are spiders and wild pigs.

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But what these witnesses were describing did not sound like Wilbur and Charlotte to me.

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This is the foot.

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That's the foot.

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So how close to here did you see this animal?

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It was about a mile.

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One kilometer.

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One kilometer.

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Can you take us to where you saw this animal?

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We can go?

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Yep.

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Let's go.

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It is extremely dark and extremely creepy out here.

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Very creepy.

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What is that?

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What is that?

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Did it look like this?

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The body was like this.

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The hair like the dog.

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Dog's head.

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Can you take us to where we are?

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The head.

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The head.

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The head.

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The head.

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The head.

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The head.

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The head.

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This head.

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Can you take us to where you saw this animal?

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The neck.

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We can go?

280
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Yep.

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Let's go.

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So Mary, is this the area where you saw the creature?

283
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And where exactly did you see it?

284
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So the head was down here?

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The body was here.

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The body was here.

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The tail was all the way down here.

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We scoured the grounds where Mary claimed to have seen the dinosaur and were surprised

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to find large sections of broken tree branches and trampled Earth where it appeared that

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something of significant size might have traveled.

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Given the physical evidence and the several eyewitness accounts,

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I decided that this would be the best place

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for capturing firsthand evidence of the reported dinosaur sightings.

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The first thing we should definitely do is break out the tarps

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given covered so we can get, if we're going to use the tent,

296
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so we can do that.

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This area here has a couple of trees.

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We can start rigging up the tarps somehow between them.

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We can use that as an A-frame or whatever,

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however you want to rig it up.

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But everything should be rain covered first,

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then we break out the gear.

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Perfect.

304
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Excellent. Excellent.

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So let's get all the equipment up on the table now.

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Let's see if it's warm now. All right. Warm business.

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Base camp up and running, we set up our infrared cameras and equipment

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in a 200 meter perimeter in the surrounding forest and valley.

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So if a dinosaur or any large animal for that matter walked through,

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we'd catch it on tape or see it with our own eyes.

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It's like half of the entire country has never been walked through.

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So, you know, if you're going on or not,

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it's just incredibly able to walk around in these parts of the country

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that are just totally untapped.

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You just don't know where you're going to come across.

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Since the locals reported that the dinosaur killed several animals in the village,

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we brought a chicken for bait, which I then hung from a tree high

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because if nothing larger than a pig is supposed to be in these woods,

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then only a sizable uncatalogged predator could reach our PNG KFC.

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I'm going to try to hit this chicken line of sight.

321
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So we'll catch anything that comes near it on camera.

322
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Something's eating this chicken tonight.

323
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It's not wasted chicken.

324
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Yep.

325
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Sun's going down. Purell, please.

326
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An entire shower of Purell in my mouth.

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Once we get the four cameras up and running in the infrared thermal imaging,

328
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we're going to need to be really quiet, really organized.

329
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We need to be as still as possible so we can pick up as much as we can

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that's, you know, not from our group.

331
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As soon as the sun went down, all sorts of insects and animals and frogs came out.

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You can just hear an unbelievable amount of sound right now.

333
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It's almost just definitely loud to be standing here listening to it.

334
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And it's just the entire thing has just sprung to life.

335
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So this is a bullard.

336
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It's essentially an advanced tactical sight.

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And what it does is that it seeks out heat signatures and footprints.

338
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So I'm just going to scan the whole area, see what I see.

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This is where our chicken camera is mounted.

340
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The camera itself is right here.

341
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And it is providing a view of our chicken, which is being monitored on a laptop back at base camp.

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It is extremely dark and extremely creepy out here.

343
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Very creepy.

344
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It's so dark out here that we need to use all of our senses to detect this supposed dinosaur.

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Let's listen for any twigs breaking, branches snapping, any rustling on the bushes.

346
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And if you feel any vibrations or shifts in the ground, let me know.

347
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What is that?

348
00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,400
What's this?

349
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It's somewhere in the phone moving.

350
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Look right there, right there, see it?

351
00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:45,400
What is that?

352
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Our cart, let's go.

353
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Let's go.

354
00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,400
Well, there's all this ground around here that looks trampled, looks freshly dug up,

355
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bigger than what I would imagine a pig's hooves would do.

356
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So let's see if we can find whatever's out here.

357
00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,400
What is that?

358
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Hello, what is that?

359
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and

360
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if

361
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What's that?

362
00:16:06,620 --> 00:16:09,520
Base camp is Josh. Can you read what's coming out of my infrared?

363
00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:14,300
Where?

364
00:16:15,580 --> 00:16:17,580
If there's something around me tell me

365
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You were cleaning it

366
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We thought we there it is there it is that is a dead chicken

367
00:16:28,340 --> 00:16:34,900
It is a chicken there's some broken branches here, so I think something definitely came after this chicken

368
00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:36,900
I'm gonna try and track whatever it was

369
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Stick a walk

370
00:16:50,380 --> 00:16:53,140
Pardon it looks like there's a trailer heading deeper in the jungle

371
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I

372
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Pretty far away at this point every once in a while I get a little bit of a signal but not much

373
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I

374
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What's that

375
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Are you rolling on this

376
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There's something seriously big moving around the tree dude

377
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Dude

378
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I

379
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Base camp come in everything okay well there's something seriously big out here with me

380
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Good

381
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I honestly tell you I don't know what it was but it's big and it's down there on the bushes

382
00:19:44,780 --> 00:19:52,140
I mean could it be a villager no like a big animal moving around the bushes remember the first episode of lost yes, it's that thing

383
00:19:53,780 --> 00:19:57,100
It's right behind that fall tree right up in here

384
00:19:59,260 --> 00:20:02,460
It's just all ripped out in here, you know like something's been through here

385
00:20:05,740 --> 00:20:08,540
Lots of broken branches and things are just ripped apart in here

386
00:20:21,460 --> 00:20:22,940
It's like a little

387
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Brain mantis unless it is the world's strongest praying at this it was not bad

388
00:20:27,740 --> 00:20:32,980
What we're gonna do is we're gonna go in and survey this area and we're gonna see if we can find any physical evidence

389
00:20:32,980 --> 00:20:37,740
Whatever it is. It's moving around in here are looking for heat signatures. We're looking for footprints

390
00:20:37,740 --> 00:20:39,740
We're looking for any physical evidence at all

391
00:20:39,900 --> 00:20:42,740
Because something big is definitely moving around in these bushes

392
00:20:44,780 --> 00:20:46,780
What is that

393
00:20:49,660 --> 00:20:51,660
Who was that?

394
00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:54,700
It was down in there

395
00:21:02,980 --> 00:21:06,860
Looks as though something might have broken through these trees here. Let's just follow this along and see where it goes

396
00:21:09,380 --> 00:21:11,380
All right, we're going to head after this thing

397
00:21:11,380 --> 00:21:15,780
I want everyone on fall alert because whether it is a dinosaur or not whatever it is

398
00:21:15,780 --> 00:21:21,340
It's huge and it went after that chicken so it's apparently hungry so everyone be on guard

399
00:21:32,980 --> 00:21:43,420
This looks like for the trailings

400
00:21:46,860 --> 00:21:48,820
All right guys, this is a no go at this point

401
00:21:48,820 --> 00:21:52,380
This is all just turning into swamp and it's way too thick. Let's just go back to base camp

402
00:21:52,580 --> 00:21:55,500
Look over what we got and we'll just make a new gameplay there

403
00:22:02,980 --> 00:22:04,980
Do you have it on tape

404
00:22:12,820 --> 00:22:15,260
What is that it's an animal something big

405
00:22:19,580 --> 00:22:25,340
It was something of significant size moving around the bushes here the whole right side of the screen was moving around

406
00:22:26,100 --> 00:22:31,860
There's definitely something big banging around with the bushes out there and rustling big trees definitely did not see

407
00:22:33,340 --> 00:22:39,140
The actual animal itself. I couldn't image anything on the thermal no footprints that I can make out just heard it

408
00:22:39,660 --> 00:22:44,540
No way it was person. No way it was a bird. There's something big in there walking around

409
00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:50,380
Okay, I want you guys to keep monitoring this your bail us can't receive whatever's out here to show itself

410
00:22:53,180 --> 00:22:57,660
With any hope of catching up with this nocturnal creature evaporating as the sunroofs

411
00:22:57,660 --> 00:23:01,580
I decided to put together a team to retrace our steps from the night encounter

412
00:23:01,580 --> 00:23:05,780
I think if we got a guy with the m16 we should bring him this is gonna be dinosaur out there, right? Okay

413
00:23:06,340 --> 00:23:08,020
Excuse me

414
00:23:08,020 --> 00:23:15,060
The gentleman with the m16 in the light of day we searched for any tracks broken branches or any other possible dino evidence

415
00:23:15,060 --> 00:23:20,020
We might have missed from the night before this area is really dense. It's also very difficult to search in here

416
00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:24,700
It's so thickly wooded that to do an exhaustive search this area is incredibly difficult before we came in here

417
00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:27,620
I didn't really realize just how thick and dense and swampy it would be

418
00:23:27,740 --> 00:23:34,600
The further into the jungle we forged the more it felt like we were getting closer to something

419
00:23:35,380 --> 00:23:36,980
Let's go look

420
00:23:36,980 --> 00:23:38,660
come

421
00:23:38,660 --> 00:23:43,980
But the something we found wasn't like anything I expected to come across in the jungles of Papa New Guinea

422
00:23:46,940 --> 00:23:52,420
For logging out here, what if it's weird they've got 20 guys in machetes, but our guys got an m16 so that helps

423
00:23:52,660 --> 00:23:54,460
What are these men doing?

424
00:23:54,460 --> 00:23:57,740
Crusty and before carried a couple of gold bars

425
00:23:59,340 --> 00:24:03,820
Just trying to restrict us because it might be spiced. It's not possible for us to look around

426
00:24:05,580 --> 00:24:07,580
We will not disturb anything or touch anything

427
00:24:10,940 --> 00:24:13,580
These guys seem really serious about us not looking around here

428
00:24:13,820 --> 00:24:19,700
I've done many crazy things in my life base jumping mountain climbing taking a first date to show girls

429
00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:24,260
So when faced with a militia of bounty hunters armed with machetes and pistols

430
00:24:24,260 --> 00:24:28,140
I made the executive decision any brave leader would let's go

431
00:24:29,620 --> 00:24:33,700
So they say we can skirt around the boundary of this area they're working in and continue looking

432
00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:39,340
Limited to the strange imprints broken branches and of course our encounter footage from the night before

433
00:24:39,540 --> 00:24:46,740
We decided to break down camp and head back to Port Moresby in order to send our visual and audio evidence back to the US for additional

434
00:24:46,780 --> 00:24:50,900
Expert analysis to see what explanations they might have for what's out in those jungles

435
00:24:51,460 --> 00:24:54,460
But instead of twiddling my thumbs while waiting for the results

436
00:24:54,460 --> 00:24:57,900
I decided to make the most of my time and investigate a local legend

437
00:24:57,900 --> 00:25:04,540
I kept hearing over and over again as I traveled around Papua New Guinea that there is an aquatic animal with features resembling a

438
00:25:04,540 --> 00:25:07,300
Mermaid living in a reef off the coast of New Ireland

439
00:25:07,740 --> 00:25:11,220
Plus there was a fisherman who claimed to have not only seen this remermaid

440
00:25:11,220 --> 00:25:13,660
But caught it chopped off its head and buried its bones

441
00:25:13,660 --> 00:25:20,100
I had to get to the bottom of this and if there was anywhere to start an investigation into the truth behind these re-stories a

442
00:25:20,140 --> 00:25:22,140
Mermaid graveyard would be it

443
00:25:24,140 --> 00:25:27,060
You saw a mermaid this morning. Yeah, well, let's go to sea

444
00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:30,100
Tell me that's not a mermaid

445
00:25:36,740 --> 00:25:40,020
The one thing I didn't expect to hear when traveling through Papua New Guinea

446
00:25:40,020 --> 00:25:45,860
Was that there was a local creature with features resembling a mythical mermaid living off the coast of New Ireland?

447
00:25:45,860 --> 00:25:50,580
If you're like me the first thing that pops into your mind when someone mentions a mermaid is either

448
00:25:50,940 --> 00:25:55,460
Daryl Hannah or a cartoon musical featuring a talking crab with a Jamaican accent

449
00:25:55,700 --> 00:26:01,140
But there were several reports of fishermen spotting what they called a re in the waters of Papua New Guinea

450
00:26:01,140 --> 00:26:03,740
Which are some of the least cataloged waters in the world

451
00:26:04,260 --> 00:26:10,820
But the most compelling information I came across in my research was that there was a fisherman who claimed to not only have seen this creature

452
00:26:10,860 --> 00:26:13,780
But caught it chopped off its head and buried its bones

453
00:26:14,340 --> 00:26:20,700
If there was anywhere to start an investigation into the truth behind these re-stories a mermaid graveyard would be it

454
00:26:21,620 --> 00:26:24,180
Unfortunately Papua New Guinea Airport had other plans

455
00:26:25,020 --> 00:26:27,540
Our flight was to leave at 9 15 and it's now

456
00:26:28,300 --> 00:26:31,180
Five past nine and we're still trying to get on the flight

457
00:26:31,780 --> 00:26:33,780
Problems with our excess baggage

458
00:26:34,940 --> 00:26:39,140
And the Papua New Guinea Airport is not the most efficient

459
00:26:44,980 --> 00:26:51,620
Ticket finally in hand we made it through security with some extra friendly patting down and headed toward a small village

460
00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:59,100
No con where the man who claimed to have the remermaid bones lived and where several fishermen reported seeing it in the waters of Elizabeth Bay

461
00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:03,380
We landed in caving and grabbed some vehicles for the long journey to mermaid ground zero

462
00:27:05,060 --> 00:27:08,820
No con village it's by Elizabeth Bay. This is where the mermaid's head

463
00:27:09,620 --> 00:27:10,780
BC

464
00:27:10,780 --> 00:27:15,700
Supposedly there is a gentleman there that has a skeleton of the mermaid would not show any interest

465
00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:22,340
Our security team advised us to stop for supplies at Namaton Eye because after that we'd be beyond the civilization barrier

466
00:27:22,420 --> 00:27:26,700
While I grabbed water and power bars Neil was checking out the local delicacies

467
00:27:26,940 --> 00:27:28,940
Why do you keep picking up corn beef?

468
00:27:29,580 --> 00:27:34,860
You're out of your mind. Go ahead get local corn beef enjoy that tonight. It'd be good

469
00:27:35,420 --> 00:27:37,420
Just make sure you get an extra six pack of toilet paper

470
00:27:40,820 --> 00:27:42,820
Highway chicken

471
00:27:45,420 --> 00:27:47,420
No

472
00:27:50,460 --> 00:27:54,060
Eric this guy on the left this support guy

473
00:27:54,860 --> 00:27:59,860
He's got a cigarette hang out of his mouth is he sitting on the gasoline canisters right there

474
00:27:59,860 --> 00:28:02,260
He's actually right down on top of the gas containers

475
00:28:02,780 --> 00:28:06,220
He's a pro after a long and slightly treacherous drive

476
00:28:06,220 --> 00:28:11,860
We finally reached the village of the man who claimed to have the remains of the remermaid. That's his house the little blue house

477
00:28:12,580 --> 00:28:14,580
perfect

478
00:28:15,580 --> 00:28:17,580
He knows of the story of the mermaid

479
00:28:18,180 --> 00:28:20,180
You kill a long story blog made

480
00:28:20,220 --> 00:28:25,460
Yes, he does yeah, and we heard a story about a mermaid that was found dead

481
00:28:26,140 --> 00:28:30,220
Whose head was cut off does he know does he know about this mermaid neck?

482
00:28:33,460 --> 00:28:35,460
Where did that happen

483
00:28:40,940 --> 00:28:43,260
They buried the mermaid under a coconut tree

484
00:28:44,260 --> 00:28:49,540
And he can show me that spot he can take me to the spot where the mermaid was buried you can just like my regular

485
00:28:56,540 --> 00:28:58,540
Yes, let's go

486
00:29:02,660 --> 00:29:04,660
Okay

487
00:29:05,980 --> 00:29:09,180
This spot right here, how deep did they bury?

488
00:29:09,940 --> 00:29:11,940
That mermaid was

489
00:29:13,940 --> 00:29:17,860
And then it was brought in here a broken in and that is where it was buried

490
00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:21,820
Okay, oh shovel can I can I have a shovel? Thank you very much

491
00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:29,100
You dug the mermaid all himself together with other boys how deep

492
00:29:29,940 --> 00:29:33,500
We're not a meter yeah, or a little more. Yeah

493
00:29:35,820 --> 00:29:41,020
Is this the only shovel we have that's the only one that's the only show that we have yes

494
00:29:44,540 --> 00:29:51,540
I'm looking for a mermaid underground already seems extremely dubious

495
00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:01,700
I

496
00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:17,100
Well

497
00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:20,260
We're way past a meter. I mean it's all roots down here

498
00:30:20,260 --> 00:30:23,180
I just don't I don't know they could dig it any prism this and I feel like

499
00:30:23,740 --> 00:30:25,300
If something was in this

500
00:30:25,340 --> 00:30:27,860
If something was in between these two trees I would have found it by now

501
00:30:28,020 --> 00:30:31,340
There's other villages though down a ways with people to talk to you right

502
00:30:32,260 --> 00:30:36,460
Let's go find a mermaid finding nothing but sand and roots at the mermaid graveyard

503
00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:41,740
I decided to travel further down the shore to meet the fishermen who claimed to have seen the remermaid in Elizabeth Bay

504
00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:48,980
JV. I'm Josh nice to meet you. Is this your boot? Yeah, you've you've seen her. Yeah, when did you see her?

505
00:30:51,180 --> 00:30:54,980
You saw one this morning you saw a mermaid this morning

506
00:30:55,380 --> 00:30:58,220
You sure yeah, well, let's go to see

507
00:31:01,540 --> 00:31:04,580
Tell me that's not a mermaid. Are you guys getting anything?

508
00:31:11,820 --> 00:31:18,340
This is your boot. Yeah, you've you've seen her. Yeah, when did you see her this morning? You saw a mermaid this morning

509
00:31:18,740 --> 00:31:25,260
You sure yeah, well, let's go to see we grabbed a boat and headed to the tiny island reef where our fishermen had claimed

510
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:30,540
To have seen a remermaid earlier that day the team would split in two with myself Neil and Mark

511
00:31:30,540 --> 00:31:36,820
Searching underwater for the creature while the rest of the crew monitored our surveillance equipment which included a piranha max fish finder

512
00:31:36,820 --> 00:31:42,740
Sonar unit which would detect anything large like a shark or a mermaid for that matter swimming in the water and

513
00:31:43,540 --> 00:31:50,580
Adolfineer hydrophone underwater listening device hooked up to our laptop to record any abnormal sound which could be the remermaid

514
00:31:51,260 --> 00:31:54,900
If you were to hear a mermaid, what do you what do you think that would sound like?

515
00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:57,780
I

516
00:31:59,260 --> 00:32:03,460
Sounds like a whale calls it sounds like a whale. I think it would sound more like a dolphin

517
00:32:03,460 --> 00:32:09,820
How do you tell that it's not a whale that it sounds like a whale call you look there you go? Yeah little mermaid boys to men

518
00:32:11,780 --> 00:32:18,060
The dive team and myself got ready to explore some caves along the underwater reef where the remermaid is supposed to hide

519
00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:21,300
Tell me that's not a mermaid

520
00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:23,300
I

521
00:32:23,780 --> 00:32:30,320
Think it's a log you may think it's a log, but I know as an expert that that is a mermaid how many mermaids you've seen in your life

522
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:35,940
Well, you've just seen one well that is a little flipper

523
00:32:36,140 --> 00:32:38,820
Keep looking there had been numerous sightings here

524
00:32:39,020 --> 00:32:44,460
Suggesting the rea would be the size of a human with a tail of a fish and would be hiding in the caves along this reef

525
00:32:44,940 --> 00:32:48,260
Luckily, we brought a sonar unit to scan inside the dark crevices

526
00:32:52,140 --> 00:32:58,460
Make kind of low sweep so that in the water it'll detect the objects about six on our waves

527
00:32:59,180 --> 00:33:02,380
Off of the back of the unit. That's a great way of detecting moving things

528
00:33:05,140 --> 00:33:13,300
Carter this is like Apollo era. I'm gonna be buzz all over this thing. This just takes the cool factor, right? I mean this is ridiculous

529
00:33:22,140 --> 00:33:27,380
There's a wall out here that goes straight down. It's almost a straight vertical drop and that goes down to over a hundred meters

530
00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:30,340
So what we'll do is we'll descend down the wall

531
00:33:30,820 --> 00:33:35,180
There's a series of caves and caverns underneath the island here. We'll take a look in those and

532
00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:38,100
explore those as best we can and

533
00:33:38,380 --> 00:33:41,100
Probably bottom out at around 20 or 30 meters

534
00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:54,020
This is the island where supposedly the mermaids came from according to the witnesses we talked to so

535
00:33:55,020 --> 00:33:57,260
If we're gonna find a mermaid probably be down there

536
00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:02,500
I'm seeing a little bit of activity here

537
00:34:05,580 --> 00:34:07,580
Looks like something's approaching them on the sonar

538
00:34:12,060 --> 00:34:14,060
You hear something strange

539
00:34:18,460 --> 00:34:25,020
Do you check this out? There's something what's that?

540
00:34:30,700 --> 00:34:34,540
I hear something sounds like bubbles I have something that sounds like like scratching

541
00:34:41,220 --> 00:34:43,220
Doesn't sound like

542
00:34:44,060 --> 00:34:47,540
What do you think on the the fish finder looks like it's about

543
00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:50,340
Me either now maybe two meters. What is this though?

544
00:34:51,580 --> 00:34:57,700
All right, so what do you think that blob would be stuff sad really don't know I've been looking at this for hours

545
00:34:57,700 --> 00:34:59,700
I didn't see anything like that

546
00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:01,700
I

547
00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:12,020
You guys get anything I

548
00:35:15,580 --> 00:35:17,620
Don't know what it is, but it's heading for that sunken boat

549
00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:31,700
I

550
00:35:42,060 --> 00:35:44,420
See if we can amplify whatever that scratching lines is

551
00:35:54,340 --> 00:35:57,420
It's gone where did it go is that it?

552
00:35:59,740 --> 00:36:01,740
See bubbles

553
00:36:10,940 --> 00:36:13,380
I don't know what it is, but it's heading for that sunken boat

554
00:36:20,420 --> 00:36:24,800
Where did it go, I don't know but it's not there anymore, so we just wait

555
00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:31,700
I

556
00:36:45,860 --> 00:36:47,540
See bubbles I think they're coming out

557
00:36:54,180 --> 00:36:56,180
Shut down

558
00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:01,700
I

559
00:37:09,140 --> 00:37:13,700
Lots of fish lots of coral big sunken boat

560
00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:19,820
No, I'm not finding a mermaid or long John Silver's treasure in the sunken ship

561
00:37:19,820 --> 00:37:25,740
I decided to take another swing at our native eye witnesses as I had a few more questions about what exactly it was

562
00:37:25,740 --> 00:37:28,660
They were seeing out there in the sea. What does she look like? What is her appearance?

563
00:37:31,860 --> 00:37:35,700
And her hair is black or her hair is black a pig

564
00:37:36,980 --> 00:37:39,740
Her hair is like a pig the head looks like a do-gone

565
00:37:40,180 --> 00:37:42,700
Well, then how are you then how do you know it's not a do-gone?

566
00:37:43,660 --> 00:37:47,940
The tail is different. So the head is like a do-gone, but the tail is like a fish

567
00:37:50,580 --> 00:37:52,140
You sure

568
00:37:52,140 --> 00:37:58,180
JB said he was sure but I was pretty sure I'd heard something like this before in regards to the European mermaid myth

569
00:37:58,180 --> 00:38:01,740
Which gained popularity after sailors spotted manatees in the tropics

570
00:38:02,620 --> 00:38:06,940
Armed with this new information. I decided to regroup the team and go over our findings

571
00:38:06,940 --> 00:38:12,900
I think more than anything what we've got here is just people passing down a story and passing down a myth and also people

572
00:38:12,900 --> 00:38:15,980
Visually seeing a do-gone it does have a head that's kind of human ish

573
00:38:15,980 --> 00:38:18,180
And I think that that's probably what this is

574
00:38:18,180 --> 00:38:22,280
So unless that log in the water actually turns out to be a petrified mermaid

575
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:28,180
I'm pretty confident in saying that the mermaid sightings in Papua New Guinea are do-gongs unless somebody wants to argue with me

576
00:38:28,180 --> 00:38:32,900
I think that we can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that there are no mermaids here

577
00:38:33,140 --> 00:38:36,660
What I still wasn't positive about though was whether or not the giant animal

578
00:38:36,660 --> 00:38:40,940
I came across in the jungles outside of Tengenivuto was an iguanodon dinosaur or not

579
00:38:41,380 --> 00:38:46,940
So I headed back to the states to meet with a zoologist who had lived and studied in Papua New Guinea to go over our night

580
00:38:46,980 --> 00:38:50,180
Encounter footage and the pictures of the mysterious giant bones. I

581
00:38:51,260 --> 00:38:55,980
Mean it's safe to say that whatever we're looking at here is enormous. Yeah. Yeah, it's a big animal

582
00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:58,100
Yeah, this is bigger than a

583
00:38:58,340 --> 00:39:00,340
This is bigger than an iguanodon

584
00:39:02,220 --> 00:39:09,340
Yeah, so it's definitely a really really large animal the thing about these vertebrae that are compelling to me is these little

585
00:39:09,580 --> 00:39:15,700
Markings here, so this makes me think that they look like maybe the tail section of maybe some kind of a cetacean

586
00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:23,660
What would be a cetacean that's large enough to well the one that comes to mind is is sperm whale as as as a large whale that occurs

587
00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:29,100
Periodically into guineas waters sometimes whole pods, you know whole group of them will reach

588
00:39:29,620 --> 00:39:32,220
Which it can account for the numbers of bones that

589
00:39:32,820 --> 00:39:35,980
That you see here. We definitely came across something at night

590
00:39:35,980 --> 00:39:38,340
So we have some footage of that which which we'd like you to look at you

591
00:39:38,340 --> 00:39:43,980
Okay, so this is footage we shot in the property of guineas and obviously it's late at night. It's dark

592
00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,700
I

593
00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:58,260
See this extends way up to we were talking about maybe 15 feet of tree really moving

594
00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:05,060
Is there anything in your experience that you think lines up with what's catalogued and what's known to live in Papua New Guinea

595
00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:09,260
The one animal that that can occur in these areas is the saltwater crocodile

596
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:15,260
How large did these saltwater crocodiles get 20 22 24 feet in length? That's huge a 20 foot crocodile

597
00:40:15,260 --> 00:40:17,260
Yeah, so you say this was near a

598
00:40:18,060 --> 00:40:24,380
Actual swamp was it it was near a swamp was a swamp that was treed or a swamp that had just it was a swamp

599
00:40:24,380 --> 00:40:27,500
She read okay, you know, maybe they found the swamp area

600
00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:33,060
There's lots of food and they do live in these in these waters and they can come obviously come on land at least a few of the eye

601
00:40:33,060 --> 00:40:36,900
Witness reports that that would be somewhat consistent with because it seems like some of the descriptions

602
00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:38,900
We got were something that was reptilian

603
00:40:39,260 --> 00:40:43,060
But there wasn't necessarily that high off the ground just something very large and lizard

604
00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:49,060
They're big if they bumped up against something, you know a tree and they can move fairly quickly when they need to they need to

605
00:40:49,060 --> 00:40:52,700
They can move quickly and you know seems like you would see them more often walking around at night

606
00:40:52,980 --> 00:40:55,540
You know that would be a time you would you would think that a

607
00:40:56,180 --> 00:41:01,740
Large reptile would be would be out walking so if it's swampy area that that's that's the only thing

608
00:41:01,740 --> 00:41:05,460
I can think of that would be large enough that could make sounds like that

609
00:41:06,260 --> 00:41:07,380
and

610
00:41:07,380 --> 00:41:10,380
You know be mistaken for something like a large dinosaur

611
00:41:10,380 --> 00:41:16,980
The doctors saltwater crocodile theory was the most logical answer that I'd come across for what might really be out there in the jungles of

612
00:41:16,980 --> 00:41:17,660
Papua New Guinea

613
00:41:17,660 --> 00:41:24,440
The only thing he couldn't explain though was how a saltwater crocodile could affect trees and break branches that high off the ground

614
00:41:24,780 --> 00:41:28,340
Look, I can't say with any sort of certainty that we had a running with a dinosaur out there

615
00:41:28,340 --> 00:41:33,580
But it is safe to say we had some sort of close encounter with a large animal of some sort out in the forest

616
00:41:34,060 --> 00:41:37,740
Possibly something not previously cataloged to live in that region a guaninon

617
00:41:37,740 --> 00:41:41,780
I don't know big scary creature thrashing trees around very close to me. Yes

618
00:41:41,780 --> 00:41:46,060
I only know what I experienced firsthand out there in the jungles of Papua New Guinea

619
00:41:46,060 --> 00:41:52,820
And ultimately the rest of the world will have to make up their own minds because I had a flight book to another country with other mysteries to investigate

620
00:41:52,820 --> 00:41:59,580
So I boarded my plane and kept my fingers crossed that my next search wouldn't involve treacherous boat rides or digging up mermaid bones