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On this episode of Destination Truth...

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When do they first have reports of hunters here?

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There are a lot of evil spirits in this village.

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Josh travels to Thailand to investigate a real-life ghost town.

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You're scared of this place?

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Not now, but after some time.

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At night?

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Yeah.

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If you're gonna find a ghost in Thailand, this is the spot.

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He finds that in this cemetery, things go more than just bump in the night.

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The next crew heads to the Mekong River for the reported sightings of the legendary Naga.

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Does he believe that the Naga still lives here?

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God, yeah.

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Yes, he believes.

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If we get any chance of finding a Naga, that's the place to do it, on the Mekong.

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Does he discover the elusive serpent or does he find himself all wet?

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Whoa!

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What are you hearing?

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A little bit of movement.

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What is that?

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Did the camera get that?

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I'm Josh Gates.

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My travels have taken me to the most exotic and mysterious places on Earth.

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I've seen some unexplainable things which have raised some strange questions.

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Now, I've pulled together a crack team armed with the latest technology to search for answers.

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I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me, but I know what I'm looking for.

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The truth.

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Outside of my love for the film Poltergeist, I'm not a huge ghost buff.

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I usually leave the apparition searching to the boys over at Ghost Hunters.

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But when I read in the Associated Foreign Press about a village in Thailand under siege by ghosts,

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I figured it was about time to put my paranormal hunting skills to the test.

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We packed up our night vision cameras, thermal imager, and EMF detector in the hopes that we would be able to capture physical evidence of the hauntings.

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My crew and I then hopped a plane from Los Angeles to Bangkok, Thailand.

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While on the plane, I had some time on my hands, so I did some further research into the reported sightings.

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Descriptions of the sightings range from a flesh and blood human that had recently died to a disembodied red glow in the sky.

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What made this story stand out for me is that the hauntings had become so problematic in the province of Kanken,

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that the villagers were compelled to bring in professional ghost hunters to combat the evil spirits.

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Eight bad airplane movies later, I was in Thailand.

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You know?

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You got it? We got it?

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No idea.

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There wasn't a direct flight to Kanken, so we landed in Bangkok and made our way to the Shock Gallery,

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where we met with Tong, local translator and Freddy Cat, who had his own reservations about coming face to face with a supernatural entity.

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I assured him I wouldn't let a ghost get anywhere near him, unless of course the cameras were rolling.

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So, hauntings and ghosts very popular in Thailand?

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Very. Actually, they believe so. I'm sure it's popular everywhere else as well, but in Thailand especially.

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And so everything in here are just photographic evidence of hauntings?

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Uh-huh.

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These are quite famous among the Thai because they were published on local newspaper.

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This is actually kind of scary.

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Yeah.

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I didn't fly halfway around the world to look at some seriously fishy photos of extras from the ring,

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so the next morning we made our way out to the province of Kanken to meet with the village chief,

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who could shed more light on the sightings and hopefully direct us to where all the Thai ghouls reportedly hang out.

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Because you live in the Mubanilek.

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So even last year, there were still people who saw like a headless ghost.

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A headless ghost.

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Walking around, they freaked out, ran and got sick.

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Specifically where in the village have these sightings occurred?

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Have they been in different areas or all, they all centralized to one place?

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They have been to me, to me, to my people.

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There's this one specific location that people often see as spirits and ghosts.

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It was a long drive to where the witnesses claimed to have seen the headless ghost,

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and the chief set up a meeting for us with the two ghost hunters he'd hired to capture the spirits.

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He warned us that their attempt to rid the village of the paranormal entities had apparently failed.

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But who knows, maybe these ghost hunters could capture the ghost for me,

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and I could just go back to the hotel for one of those famous Thai massages.

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So if there are spirits nearby, it's like a technique device, it'll go very quickly.

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I will take this and then we'll scoop it into this container.

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This is like a ghost trap.

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Tum tum, tum tum, tum tum.

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Very low and it will go into the ghost trap.

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Tum tum tum.

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And then we'll cover the end of it with this.

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Ghost can't get through this?

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No, because it's a holy cloth.

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It's a holy cloth.

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Okay, I get it.

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Ladies, lead the way.

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Alright, so it wasn't the most scientifically credible investigation I've ever been on,

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but who was I to question their tried and true ghost hunting technique?

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Tee-lee.

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Oooo.

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And there's a ghost in here now, for real.

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They sense a ghost.

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Okay, well....

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So um...

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Excuse me for one moment, hold on.

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Alright so supposedly this contains a ghost, but now what do we do do I let it go?

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Let it go. You let it go. No, let it go. Go ahead. Give it back to them. All right

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So I am inclined to believe that there is no ghost in here, but I will give this to you do with it

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What you will thank you very much

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Okay, let's go. I want to stick around and see if these two had a method for hunting Bigfoot

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I'm sure it would involve a banana and a lasso

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But it was getting late and the chief told us that the most haunted spot in the province was a monastery at the other end of

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Kanken there we would find a graveyard that had so much paranormal activity that many people refused to get anywhere near the premises

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It was exactly the invitation. I was looking for

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The first thing we're supposed to be listening for is howling

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We made our way to the monastery where the sightings had reportedly occurred with such a high incidence of paranormal encounters here

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Most locals avoided this place like the plague leaving it largely abandoned

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We sat down with one of the few remaining residents a monk who gave us his account of the hauntings

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Haunted with ghosts

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He thinks there are a lot of ghosts

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It's an old graveyard an old graveyard and that's an area with a lot of supernatural activity

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Yes, the monk gave us his blessing to set up our night investigation in the graveyard

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But warned us to keep our senses alert for the signs that precede the presence of a spirit

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First we should listen for the sound of howling dogs as they are believed to be able to see and hear what humans cannot

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Second he mentioned a foul noxious smell that fills the air when a ghost is present

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And just when I thought Tom couldn't get any more frightened by our investigation. We stumbled onto the crematorium

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You're scared of this place nothing not now

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But not after tonight yeah, the furnace had been used to cremate thousands of bodies over the years a fact which made our poor

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Translator a little uneasy. This is the most insane thing that anybody can do why because people wouldn't do it

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It's like you entering there like you know dead because you're opening a place that you know

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Now I'm scared officially

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It's a lot of ash in there

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It's okay now just imagine like at night. It's very creepy

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Okay, so this is where we'll set up the crew and I set up our night vision cameras thermal imaging system and remote audio

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Technology against the setting sun if anything even things undetectable to human senses were to move make a sound or even cause a

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Slight drop in temperature our gear would pick it up

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We could transform the graveyard into a maximum security surveillance center for spook hunting and with our cameras fixed on their targets

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I was ready to see where the night would take us

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So how often they say there's activity here? This is the spot this old kind of ruined areas very very active

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What makes sense obviously there's been thousands of people cremated here and remains and hundreds of people

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But just like if you're gonna find a ghost in Thailand

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This is the spot

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This tree over here is the spot where our monk claims he felt the presence of a spirit

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We've got one camera on that camera 2 is pointed directly at the crematorium cameras 3 and 4 are facing out that way towards the headstones

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Just like a dog whistle some sounds can't be heard by the human ear

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So what we're hoping to do is pick up these electronic voice phenomenon known as EVPs on the tape and then send them back to the

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US to be analyzed. This is a

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Electro 100 wireless microphone. It should pick up any noises

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That come from the inside the chamber

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Testing testing. Hello

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It's perfect levels are good, and it's really sensitive. You guys ready to go dark

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Okay guys, I'm gonna make my way up to the crematorium to place this bike

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Mark here with me we're gonna go out from place the unit

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If a spirit makes any sound inside the crematorium this might should pick it up

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Think testing but in the inside the crematorium

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Okay, the mic is in the crematorium

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Hopefully the mic will allow us to catch any disembodied voices or unexplained sounds

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So everybody's super quiet now. Let's just do like five or ten minutes of uninterrupted recording on this thing

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Do you hear that yeah, I hear it

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What is it I think it sounds like howling

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That's crazy it sounds like hiatus

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Local say the first thing we should be listening for is howling

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That is straight up terrifying whatever

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Local say the first thing we should be listening for is howling

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That sounds to me like a bird, but something is definitely freaking the animals out over there

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I think we should go and check out the perimeter

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I'm gonna take the board and the electromagnetic sensor. Okay, let's go

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Some people believe that fluctuations in temperature indicates the presence of the spirit

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It feels colder over there by the headstones, let's check the thermal imager

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I'm not detecting any sort of change in temperature that would leave me to believe that we've got a ghost here

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That howling came from this direction, but I'm not hearing it anymore

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There's a belief that spirits emit an electrical charge that I should be able to read on the emf detector

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But I'm not getting anything over here

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Guys, let's just head back

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Something moving around inside there for sure

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It's too infrequent to be static it sounds it sounds almost like it's like a screaming the ground

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Stop stop stop that one right there right there. That's the right. Yeah, we had a straight up terrifying whatever

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It's crazy

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Not only is it just off the charts loud compared to what anything else that might pick up, but it's just

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Like rustling around

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No sound out of your home that things picking up. It's all internal on that chamber

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It's a sealed room

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Neil do you want to come and see what this thing looks like? Yes

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but it's that smell

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It's like

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Like burning garbage. It's a really sharp

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Hey, that's another side right?

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Okay, let's go

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Not picking anything up on a thermal amateur, but that smell is up here and it wasn't before

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There's no visual here

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Call through we're definitely hearing some weird stuff from that microphone in the crematorium

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And officially I can see on the waveforms and this funny spikes that I really can't account for the way of the review that later

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The hard drive is just chocolate data. I think at this point we should break everything down

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Head back we can review all this data later, but I think in terms of you know being here. We've got everything we're gonna get

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All right guys, let's break them all the cameras. Tom. Can you pull the car out for us?

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Tom where's Tom? Where the hell did he go?

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Tom

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You got the audio recordings we sent you from Thailand. Yes. Is there a more isolated way to listen to these sounds right there?

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Stop right there

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What is that?

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After packing up our gear I headed back to the town to track down our trustee guide

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Who in scooby-doo fashion had decided to flee the scene the middle of the night

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So first things first at one point tonight during our investigation you vanished first

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We hear it

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We are hurt. Okay, then I smell

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I don't want to stay to see anymore. So you're convinced based on the evidence that we collected that

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We had some sort of encounters tonight. Yes with something supernatural

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True a frightened guide was one thing but I wanted to find out exactly what we heard out there

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So while Tom went home presumably to triple lock his doors and hide under his bed

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I sent the recordings back to an audio forensics lab in california to be further analyzed before heading home to get the results

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I wanted to check out rumors of a long serpentine creature that reportedly lives deep in the Mekong river

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It is known as the naga and it had recently received lock nest monster status having reportedly been spotted on numerous occasions

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All along the river

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It's been described as having a long snake-like body with the head of a dragon similar to something you'd find tattooed on a biker's shoulder

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In the late 90s a photo surfaced of a bunch of men holding what was said to be the naga but was later debunked

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I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that all of these men were American and not in thailand

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Then there was the fireball sightings reported all along the river

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Some ties believe it is the naga blowing these glowing red orbs out of the water

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Lastly there's the footage that a woman had allegedly shot from the shore of the Mekong

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Obviously she never heard of youtube because the only way to acquire her little naga paparazzi video watch it and get more information

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From her about the naga was to travel all the way to nankai and track her down in person

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It was enough to extend my plane ticket for a few days and make our way to an expert who had written many books on the naga

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So what do you make of all the people who have these sightings of the naga?

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Do you think that these people are actually seeing something in the Mekong?

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Could be because uh, it's not only one happening. There's so many happenings. I have seen a few uh video footage

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that uh, some creatures you know swimming in the Mekong and uh, we don't know what they were

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Do you think it's possible that that video footage is of a naga? We believe so

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In the Mekong river uh in the Nankai province. Uh, you see naga five balls. What do you make of that experience? It happened

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I counted 32 five balls in one hour when I was there. But what do you think they are?

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The five balls, but we don't know what what caused it some people believe that it's a natural occurrence

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Some sort of a gas that emits from the Mekong that has yet to be proven that is yet to be shown scientifically

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Yes, uh-huh after my interview with Pongpaul. I made my way to a local market. It was the perfect place to start my investigation

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I knew it would take me hours to sift through all of the evidence analyzing every last detail to lead me to the naga

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All right, it had nothing to do with my investigation, but I was in Thailand

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Do you have any idea how little they charge for watches here?

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Please thank you

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Bright and early the next morning we began our drive to the Mekong river

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Pongpaul suggested we meet with a man that claimed to have found tracks of the naga on a storeroom floor

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He lived in a small town outside of Nankai entirely dedicated to the creature

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After a quick detour to a snake village where the locals get a little too intimate with the cobras. We arrived in naga central

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So this is ground zero for the naga. There's shrines and statues does he believe that the naga still lives here?

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Go out to that. Yes, he believes what evidence is there here over the naga?

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There's an evidence of his trace up here the evidence of his trace of his track of his track. Yes

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So it looks like it was muddy here

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And there are these drag marks on the floor that are supposed to be

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Scales from the bottom of the naga, but then they washed the floor or they didn't preserve it

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And then went all the way around it went all the way around the building

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But then but then why why isn't it here now? They put a glass box over it

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Uh-huh

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I did one month later. Uh, it was gone Spanish the serpent cleaned it. Yeah

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As much as I relish the thought of a giant serpent with no arms diligently tidying up after himself

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I had a hard time imagining how he'd pick up a broom

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As I continued through the village and passed the many shrines dedicated to the naga

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I was beginning to realize that the creature experiences in this town were more of the spiritual variety than the physical

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The naga is kind of a complicated creature because it's it's obviously a really important

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part of both Hindu and Buddhist religion. This place seems to be primarily

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Um a temple devoted to the naga. We know further up north. We have these eyewitnesses who've actually had physical encounters with the naga

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So we need to go and talk to those people and see if we can start to thread together some more material evidence

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I scanned the photos and sent them back to dr. Andrew and Gillis our zoologist in the u.s. To get his opinion

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I figured if anyone could tell me what was moving around on that floor

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He could meanwhile

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I wanted to find someone who'd actually seen the mighty creature in its physical form

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Our naga village tour guide told us about a local school teacher who had allegedly spotted the creature on several occasions

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Credible eyewitnesses would help us find the perfect spot to set up our investigation the spot where they said they saw the naga

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Swadikav

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They have explained to you that you and I are going to arm wrestle

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Have they explained that to you? We're going to have an arm wrestling competition

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To the death, okay

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No, okay

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So now so I understand that you

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Had an experience where you saw a naga. Yeah, I have seen you've seen the naga. Yes. Where were you by the river?

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By the meekong

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What did you see? Yeah

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From the bank about

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200 meters. I saw his head

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His head his head with horn like this with the horns two horns. It's too hot. Okay

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And it frightened me. Yes. It's naga

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All right, so we go to that place where she said she saw check it out. All right, let's do it

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My new friend took us to the meekong river

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So this is the spot where people saw the naga a few years ago. Yeah, two years, of course

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Where did they see it just out here in the water? Yeah, we understand that

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They

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look after

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Look after the pagoda and is this the pagoda here. Yeah, they're not kind around here

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A pagoda is a multi-tiered structure thought to be spiritually charged and usually built near a temple

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In this case our witness believed that the naga was protecting the religious tower

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The naga was starting to blur the line between the spiritual and the physical again

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But I found the woman credible. She seemed to see something physical moving in the river

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I decided it was time to meet with a marine biologist to get the scientific lowdown on whether or not this thing could exist

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Many people claim to have seen a naga in the meekong. What does he think these people are actually seeing?

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Maybe a naga there may be a naga. Yeah, ask him to give me a sense of of what large animals live in the meekong river

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Yep giant catfish

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And recently there's also a

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Giant Russian catfish a giant Russian catfish. Yes, because what's the difference between a giant catfish and a giant Russian catfish?

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I'm a meek. I'm a meek. The giant catfish has no scale. It's the largest non-scale fresh water

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Fish right and Russian catfish is about one and a half to two meters long

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Now the another difference is that the Russian catfish

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It's meat but the catfish it's plankton. It's plankton. Yeah

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I was pretty sure I'd be able to tell a catfish from a giant fire breathing serpent when I saw it

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Luckily we'd get an opportunity since the biologist told me exactly where we'd be able to find this mysterious

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Footage that led us on our journey on our way to find it. We got distracted by another less credible lead

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Believe in the naga. Yes, I do. You show me on this map where the naga is

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In Thailand show me exactly where the naga is on this map. We are here so that in in a man con lever

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Yeah, any con river. Yeah, that's where the naga is

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Apparently the woman worked in a local market down the street and the biologist said I couldn't miss it

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Have you seen the naga in the meekong river?

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I believe I seen and there's video footage of that correct that that you filmed. Yes. I

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With my friend with your friend. And so you believe that was a naga. I believe 100 percent newspaper

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Can tell half naga in the con river 100 people looking together with me in

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funds my shop

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The woman gave us two different videos shot in two different places that supposedly captured the mighty naga on the meekong

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I gathered my team and sat down to watch the elusive footage. The only thing missing was the popcorn

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We have the footage. This is the perfect spot to look at in the shadow of what has got to be the tallest naga in the world

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Here we go

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Yep, well some moving around out there

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We got any chance of finding a naga that's the place to do it on the meekong. I'll jump in for the sake of the show

334
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Eric you'll immediately disintegrate it

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Eric you got company in there

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Here we go

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Some moving around out there

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What is something big in the water right there see?

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It's kind of cool looking

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Well, it definitely looks like something alive swimming around in the river. All right next up

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Oh, no, that's definitely something in the water. What is that looks like a head of something, right?

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Yeah, that's definitely a head

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It's strange looking so I don't know. I mean, I'm definitely buying that this is the head of something

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All right, that's weird. We should do our investigation. Yeah. I mean we definitely have to get out there

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Yeah, you know if we got any chance of finding a naga that's the place to do it on the meekong

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You got a boat big one this huge one. You gotta do this. They're set up right now

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So we take the barge down river right the pagoda that's the pagoda where the sightings occur

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And we'll set up the cameras there

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That scan the water we'll see if we can drop the main camera in the underwater housing and see if we can scan the river floor

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See what we see down there. How many get it down?

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Meekong is like I don't know who the what's down there dirty

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I'm not diving in this. There's no way with the sun setting quickly

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I knew we had to get out on the river as soon as possible

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The crew took the equipment and set up while we headed up river to the spot where most of the sightings had occurred

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All right

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So now I'm supposed to protect this pagoda and the old pagoda collapsed is that right?

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Yep. Yeah, there's just one piece of it left sticking out of the water

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Once we reached the pagoda we made a curious discovery and it wasn't the naga

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But what's the driver's plan? Is he able to drop an anchor or we can stop here

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But you cannot step on it. You cannot step on it. But how will how will he stop the boat from moving?

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I don't think this guy's got an anchor

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I had a feeling we're just gonna ram right into the silence

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Naga

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Let's not get ish

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Well, uh, we forgot an anchor

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So now we're going to try to tie off directly to the pagoda which seems dubious and sacrilegious at the same time

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We decided to head to shore to see if we could find an anchor on another boat

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There's no anchor on this boat either faced with the revelation that apparently no boats in thailand ever need to stop

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We decided to just travel up river and let the boat float with the current

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It was time to figure out how we could record an image beneath the surface of the maycong

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The underwater housing unit helps us shoot video at very deep depth and is primarily used during our diving investigations

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We hoped it would catch a glimpse of any large underwater creature that approached the boat

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I think we can light it in a little bit like a footer too

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Unsure how we were going to get an underwater housing unit to sit at the water's surface

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Eric came up with a grand solution. I'll jump in the sake of the show. Yeah, I'll do it

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You're gonna jump in the maycong river. Eric, you'll immediately disintegrate. It's like it's like a pool of acid

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All right, I got let me just think about this just for a second

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What are you talking about?

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It once I know I mean I'm getting in I'm just wondering what the plan of attack is once I'm way over there and the boat's up here

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If I do the camera, what are you talking about?

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All right, all right, okay

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This thing is heavy. Eric you can swim right? I'm holding on to something that weighs 30 pounds

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I hate to admit it but watching one of my producers struggle to stay afloat in some of the filthiest water in southeast asia made the entire trip worthwhile

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We wanted to find another way to survey the surrounding area

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So we attached the piranha max fish finder to the side of the boat

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The fish finder is a radar device used to track large marine life in the water such as a giant catfish or a giant sea serpent

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Eric splash a lot. Yeah, sound like you're fishing distress. Right. I'm right in front of it

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There he is

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You see it. Yeah, I see you probably having sealed his fate to weeks of painful treatments against typhoid

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dysentery, malaria, SARS and bubonic plague

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Eric agreed to help focus the radar in the right direction

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Many of the witnesses had reported seeing the creature at night

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This gave me hope that our investigation would pick up once the sun fell below the horizon

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Lindsay, why don't you get some of the head lamps out and see if you can rig them to hang them on the boat so we get some light in here

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No

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Yes

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The fish finder is going crazy

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Eric you got company in there

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Yeah, you got something down there

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Yeah, what is that noise fish alarm?

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More fish

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Little fish I think let's see if we have anything from earlier today from the underwater camera housing unit

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Eric, let's get you back in the boat. Let's see what we got. I can't wait to see what's on this thing man coming in

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How was it Eric?

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It was paradise. Here we go ready. Let's see if we got anything up and over

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God I guess it's so dark

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Okay, I can't see a thing down there

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I mean, this is obviously no no help to us at all. It's just totally silted up. You can't see anything in there

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Unless I know I got swims up to the camera

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I

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With night upon us we turned our attention to the four night vision surveillance cameras pointed off the edges of the boat

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These cameras would capture anything breaching the water's surface

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Where are we with the camera setups?

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I think we're pretty good to go all the cameras are up. We got none over there

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Two on this side and one towards the front. Okay camera one is pointing towards Laos

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That's Laos. Yeah camera two is pointing towards Laos three and four are pointing towards the Thailand shore

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How deep do you want the dolphin air? Let's get it just off the uh just off the floor

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It should be sensitive enough to pick up the faintest noises down there

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What's our depth here the bottom of the river or how far down is the dolphin air?

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Both dolphin air right now is about 20 feet down

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And I think the bottom of the river is 30 ish, but I mean you saw that pagoda and you saw I mean

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I think there's ruins and stuff like scattered throughout up and down but all the average it's about

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Let's say 30 feet

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So

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Let's see I think those are just reflections in the water

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It's noisy out here

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Eric you have any activity on the fish finder the river is definitely getting deeper in this area 40 feet

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Yeah about that. Um, I'm not seeing anything when I was seeing a few fish earlier. I'm seeing nothing now. It's just nothing

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Lindsay are you picking up anything in the dolphin here? The sounds haven't changed very much. Um, since we started drifting and killed the engines

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What are you hearing?

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What is that do you guys see that?

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What the hell was that I don't know

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I don't see ever pick that up three there's something bumping around out there

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What is that?

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The camera picked that up. Did you guys see that?

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What is that? I don't know

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I don't see ever picking up three the hell was that I got nothing on the fish. I know I heard it

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The fish finders also on that side. Yeah, I mean that's the problem is the fish finders on that side of the boat

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And it's scanning just directly below anything into the surface up here, which whatever that was definitely was up on surface

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It's not gonna be detected. I mean it was right there was like

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Eight feet off

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And there's a lot of big things these giant catfish and things that live in the meekong

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Oh, they say the catfish go what do they say?

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20 feet long

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No, really they caught some giant one. It was like the biggest fresh water fish in the world

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The van's catching it

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For sure though, there is something out in this water. There's something out here

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And this is exactly the place where the nanga footage was shot

449
00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:55,020
Will you make these cameras anymore? It's really deep right now. It looks like we're gonna hit something a little higher now in a second

450
00:34:56,300 --> 00:34:58,300
It's the deepest it's been for a while

451
00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:02,380
There's something bumping around out there. Can you turn the boat lights on?

452
00:35:04,460 --> 00:35:08,060
It's creepy out there. Carter you seeing anything? No, I'm not seeing anything

453
00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:12,300
Lindsay can we take a look camera three again?

454
00:35:15,020 --> 00:35:17,020
It's too dark

455
00:35:17,340 --> 00:35:21,100
It's tough because this camera uses all the available light, but there really isn't very much

456
00:35:21,180 --> 00:35:26,380
Yeah, and with no ambient light. There's just no contrast between the water and the if it were a full moon I'd be

457
00:35:27,340 --> 00:35:29,340
A little easier to see but

458
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:33,980
I mean you can see something to start the surface of the water for sure, but beyond that you can't I mean

459
00:35:33,980 --> 00:35:35,980
It's really difficult to discern anything

460
00:35:36,060 --> 00:35:41,260
I'll see if we can look around a bit more. Can you can you kill the lights for me, please?

461
00:35:45,900 --> 00:35:47,900
I'll start near recording

462
00:35:52,780 --> 00:35:54,780
Still nothing on the fish finder

463
00:35:56,380 --> 00:36:01,180
Captain says that we're drifting back towards the rocks again, so we're gonna need to pull up the dolphin area

464
00:36:01,260 --> 00:36:03,660
And we're gonna have to like head back towards the tiling side

465
00:36:06,940 --> 00:36:08,940
Well

466
00:36:10,460 --> 00:36:13,740
I mean it's been a while now since we've had anything disturb the surface of the water

467
00:36:13,820 --> 00:36:19,740
We're really I think looking for a needle in a haystack here at this point. I think we should we should wrap this up

468
00:36:20,860 --> 00:36:25,100
before we end up shipwrecking somewhere on the last border and uh

469
00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:29,180
Head back up towards the docks and call it a night and pack this stuff up

470
00:36:30,140 --> 00:36:34,780
We didn't capture the mysterious naga on camera

471
00:36:34,860 --> 00:36:38,940
But at least we had the photos of the naga tracks on the linoleum floor that could be analyzed

472
00:36:39,180 --> 00:36:44,860
We call dr. Andrew and gillis a zoologist who has specialized in marine creatures for the past 15 years

473
00:36:45,100 --> 00:36:47,980
To take a look and give us his opinion of what was in these photos

474
00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:53,500
Andrew, hey, it's chosh gates. How are you? Hey, how's it going? I'm well. Thanks. Uh, did you get the email that I sent you?

475
00:36:53,660 --> 00:36:55,340
Yes, I'm looking at them right now

476
00:36:55,340 --> 00:36:59,340
The markings you see on the floor that the locals are claiming are the traces of a naga

477
00:36:59,420 --> 00:37:02,220
Which is like a serpent that has slithered across the floor

478
00:37:02,300 --> 00:37:05,580
Does that seem consistent with the kind of markings that a snake could make?

479
00:37:06,140 --> 00:37:09,820
Well, just looking at the marks that's left behind it's just seems like something

480
00:37:09,980 --> 00:37:14,540
I've never seen a pattern like this ever left behind by a snake before usually they leave

481
00:37:15,180 --> 00:37:19,820
Sort of concentric rings. Does it seem consistent with the markings of any animal that you know about?

482
00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:24,140
I don't know it doesn't look like something that i'm familiar with that that an animal could leave

483
00:37:24,620 --> 00:37:29,740
As I expected the pictures from the naga village didn't prove to be much help in tying up this investigation

484
00:37:30,060 --> 00:37:32,780
But we still had the two naga videos to take a look at

485
00:37:33,260 --> 00:37:35,740
But before I gave them back to the doctor for analysis

486
00:37:35,820 --> 00:37:42,700
We traveled back to the us to meet with a team of video audio forensic specialists to see if they could reconstruct the images of the shaky

487
00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:47,340
Pixelated video being that they were leaders in forensic investigation. I was confident

488
00:37:47,420 --> 00:37:52,860
They would give the doctor and myself a clearer picture to look at so this is the ripples in the water video

489
00:37:53,580 --> 00:37:58,780
Okay, so were you able to do anything with this this one? I wasn't there's nothing that appears to come up out of the water

490
00:37:58,940 --> 00:38:03,340
Anything I can focus on okay. Do we have better luck with the other piece of footage? Yes, we do. Okay great

491
00:38:03,420 --> 00:38:07,580
Well, let's take a look at that. Okay, this one. I took still photos and did the enhancement from there

492
00:38:07,820 --> 00:38:08,940
Over on the side here

493
00:38:08,940 --> 00:38:14,380
You can see each photo that is that is layered to just act on top of each other to get the definition

494
00:38:14,860 --> 00:38:20,460
Of this image right in here. Do you think that what we're looking at here is organic? It's my opinion. That's organic

495
00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:25,180
It's some kind of life form. There appears to be an eye. It's my opinion that that is

496
00:38:25,980 --> 00:38:30,620
An organic life form with a newly reconstructed image of our submerged star

497
00:38:30,860 --> 00:38:34,700
I emailed the files to dr. Engelis to get his opinion of what we were looking at

498
00:38:34,780 --> 00:38:42,060
I've looked at this image and it clearly shows an animal that sort of begins and ends I think in a fish like structure and

499
00:38:42,860 --> 00:38:48,460
In my mind clearly show a catfish under the under the water. I don't think it represents any sort of serpent

500
00:38:48,460 --> 00:38:53,900
I just doesn't seem logical to extend it to something that's real long and snake like sure

501
00:38:54,060 --> 00:38:57,820
But that still didn't explain the numerous eye witness accounts. One thing was for sure

502
00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:04,940
I saw no horns and found no fireballs in the photos. It was time to leave the naga and turn our attention to our audio files from the crematorium

503
00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:07,900
So you wanted to go ahead and play this

504
00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:15,340
First of all, we wanted to have you send us the reporting equipment that you created

505
00:39:15,500 --> 00:39:21,500
And so we did test that we did not see anything that was identical to what you've sent us in the crematorium

506
00:39:21,820 --> 00:39:26,540
The forensics guys were unable to recreate the static patterns we picked up in the crematorium

507
00:39:26,620 --> 00:39:31,660
Even using the same exact equipment we used this ruled out the possibility of a faulty microphone

508
00:39:32,140 --> 00:39:36,540
But I decided to listen to the recording a little more carefully with a section of the audio isolated

509
00:39:36,700 --> 00:39:38,700
It was then that I noticed something strange

510
00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:48,300
Can you amplify it even more?

511
00:39:59,900 --> 00:40:03,900
But this is definitely something talking there. Can you amplify that for me?

512
00:40:16,220 --> 00:40:18,220
What does that sound like here?

513
00:40:24,940 --> 00:40:28,700
It does sound like speech it does sound like speech right it does sound like speech

514
00:40:35,820 --> 00:40:37,820
That definitely sounds like whispering

515
00:40:38,220 --> 00:40:44,220
Do you think maybe your office speak Thai? No

516
00:40:45,580 --> 00:40:52,620
Whispering voices we immediately took our recording to a Thai translator back in Los Angeles to see if she could make out what was being said

517
00:40:59,660 --> 00:41:01,420
What do you think?

518
00:41:01,420 --> 00:41:03,420
Is that like over here more?

519
00:41:04,140 --> 00:41:06,140
Oh, I am

520
00:41:06,140 --> 00:41:08,380
I mean get out of here everybody get out of here

521
00:41:09,660 --> 00:41:11,660
Please get out of here

522
00:41:12,220 --> 00:41:14,220
That's very scary

523
00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:19,740
Uh, all right. Well, thank you so much. You know this this place that we went it was a completely abandoned cemetery

524
00:41:19,820 --> 00:41:26,060
There were no people around and we have this really dynamic audio recording with sounds and what appeared to be voices on it

525
00:41:26,060 --> 00:41:30,220
So this is a place that may actually have paranormal activity

526
00:41:30,540 --> 00:41:37,740
My search for the naga revealed it to be more of a complex phenomenon that I ever could have imagined

527
00:41:38,140 --> 00:41:39,420
Steeped in Buddhist history

528
00:41:39,420 --> 00:41:45,260
It seems to be a mythological meeting point between the physical and spiritual worlds as for its eyewitness accounts

529
00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:49,660
I believe the Mekong river is sort of like a religious worship test and that in Thailand

530
00:41:49,980 --> 00:41:53,180
Hints of that revered serpent are what the faithful see in those waters

531
00:41:53,660 --> 00:41:59,020
However, our zoologists felt that the cause of many of these sightings might be nothing more than a giant catfish

532
00:41:59,420 --> 00:42:02,780
And as for me well my instincts tell me that it's a mystery for a reason

533
00:42:03,260 --> 00:42:09,180
Regarding the monastery and the sounds we recorded in the crematorium a voice telling us to get out in the native tongue

534
00:42:09,260 --> 00:42:14,700
Is definitely outside of normal but paranormal. I suppose that too is open to interpretation

535
00:42:15,180 --> 00:42:21,660
One thing is for sure those whispering voices apparently demanding that we get out and of course the site of my producer

536
00:42:21,740 --> 00:42:25,500
Flailing around in the Mekong are both going to stay with me for quite a while

537
00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:29,100
Even as we push onward in search of the next dark corner of the globe

538
00:42:55,500 --> 00:42:57,900
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