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On this episode of Destination Truth, Josh travels to East Africa to investigate these mysterious haunted ruins.

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Do you think that I can see a ghost?

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You can see.

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There's some type of worm back there. Holy s***.

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Next, the crew heads to Mongolia to search for a monster-sized sand worm that has locals in a panic.

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Guys, I think we have some movement. We got a worm going off in camper two.

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Will Josh worm his way out of the Gobi unharmed?

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AHHHHH!

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I'm Josh Gates. In my travels, I've seen some unexplainable things which have raised strange questions.

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Now I've pulled together a team armed with the latest technology in the 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. The truth.

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My friends Jason and Grant on Ghost Hunters seem to have an endless supply of hauntings to investigate.

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Heck, their operation has gone international.

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So typically I leave the spirit detecting to them, but every once in a while my research turns up something too enticing to turn down.

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Off the coast of East Africa lies a tiny island that locals say is haunted.

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Apparently some local fishermen outright refuse to go to Pemba Island in fear of being possessed by angry spirits.

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And why are these ghosts so angry?

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It turns out that Pemba Island was once the largest slave trading outpost on the East African coast.

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Locals claim the restless spirits on the island are of the former slaves who were tortured and sold there.

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I'd say they have every right to be angry.

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A slew of new reports of paranormal activity on Pemba have me intrigued, so my team and I packed up the investigation equipment.

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Casey was our lead cameraman, Brad was the producer in the field, and Araceli was lead assistant.

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Together we flew halfway around the world to Dar es Salaam Tanzania.

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It's the rich history of this ghost story that has me so interested.

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Paranormal investigators claim that spirits linger in this world instead of crossing over to the other side

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because of unresolved issues while they were alive.

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Cloaked in its horrific slave trade history, if ghosts do exist, this island would certainly be home to some very tormented spirits.

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Could this be a real haunting? I intended to find out.

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Since Southwest Airlines hasn't opened up that busy Los Angeles to haunted island direct route,

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we needed to transfer to an aging prop plane that would take us the rest of the way to our destination.

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In flight movie?

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Some turbulence, man.

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Some turbulence, okay.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Perfect.

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Just nervous flyer.

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So we're just flying it now over the island of Pemba, really beautiful down below.

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A sudden problem with the plane's fuel pump negated our flight over the ruins.

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An emergency landing threatened to turn our short flight into an all new season of lost.

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You don't see that sh** on Ghost Hunters. Ever.

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Yay.

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Thank you.

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Safely on the ground, I quickly realized just how primitive Pemba Island is.

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The nice thing about the Kouroume Airport here in Pemba is they really just compacted everything.

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They've got departures, arrivals, and a flight tower all in the same room.

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Innovation.

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Innovation.

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Sometimes referred to as the Spice Island, Pemba has existed in sleepy isolation for centuries.

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Locals cling to traditional spiritual beliefs, but is their island haunted?

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My research told me that the lion's share of paranormal activity on Pemba was occurring in a place called the Madani Ruins.

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The crumbling remains of a former slave trade settlement.

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So that's where I headed.

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This island didn't have much in the way of rental cars, but luckily our Rastafarian mystery machines handled the thick jungle terrain.

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Reaching the Madani Ruins unannounced, we were fortunate to receive a warm welcome from the only landowner for miles and tormented partner of Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley.

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This is your house?

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Yes, it is my house.

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And this is your family?

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That is my family.

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All these people? How many children do you have, Jacob?

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I have 25, but...

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You have 25 children?

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Yes, four, three wives.

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With three wives?

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Busy man, Jacob.

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And that is my farm.

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This is your farm?

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We were told that this is a place with spirits, with ghosts.

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Yes, it's true.

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A lot of ghosts, that is true.

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Do you think that I can see a ghost?

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You can see. During nighttime, you can see the past around this.

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I wasn't sure what was going on here, but something had scared the dick inside of Jacob Marley.

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We walked a quarter of a mile from his hut to the ruins deep in the jungle, and he explained why he's the only one who's able to live here.

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But when they tried to live here, most of them they passed away.

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They died when they tried to live here? Why did they...

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Once they see the ghost, the second day they passed away.

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How many people died here seeing ghosts?

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Less than 12 people.

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Definitely my daughter of 19 years old passed away.

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Your daughter died here?

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Why did she pass away?

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We got a quarrel here together, right? Together with the ghost.

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You got a fight with the ghost?

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Yes, the quarrel.

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She just died?

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Quickly?

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The ghost comes out at midnight?

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Every night?

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Every night.

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How many times have you seen the ghosts?

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If I wish to see them, I can come in and see them. They can't destroy me.

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And so, what would happen if I came here without you?

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If I came alone?

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Very bad?

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Definitely a good die.

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I would die?

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For sure?

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Sure, that is enough.

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Sure, I'm certain.

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You can die.

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You could be very angry.

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Okay, so we walk.

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So these are the ruins of what? What is this?

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This was a mosque.

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This was a mosque?

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Jacob explained to me that every night at the stroke of midnight, dozens of spirits make

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their way from the sea to a mysterious tree 50 yards from here.

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Dona ku, yaw ku.

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Where they come from?

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They come and then they penetrate along this hole.

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At midnight, this is a dangerous place.

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A dangerous position to come in.

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Smells nice.

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We left a couple of splashes of rose water for the ghosts, a kind of sweet smelling offering

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they apparently appreciate.

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Our plan was to set up four infrared cameras covering all of the ruins and to place a microphone

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in the hollowed out tree to listen for anomalous sounds.

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In addition, we'd scan the entire site with a night vision scope and look for heat readings

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with our thermal imager.

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With the sun setting, the countdown to midnight had begun.

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So we rushed setting up our equipment that we would use to try and record any paranormal

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activity.

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The only problem was, Jacob insisted we abandon our post at the ruins to take part in a ceremonial

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offering to the spirits that was happening more than a quarter of a mile from our equipment.

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So he's in this shack right now and he is communing with his spirit.

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And the thing is, it's like, it's frustrating as it is for us to just not peel off to those

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ruins.

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The notion of us like upsetting the balance here freaks these people out big time.

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We just gotta flip the switch back there.

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So this is more of the rose water?

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And some fruit?

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So these different things are part of the offering?

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And I can't help noticing this chicken.

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The chicken is there for a sacrifice.

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Where is that screaming?

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Who is that?

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That's one of Jacob's wives?

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She's possessed and she, the spirit speaking through here, is demanding to know who you are.

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For whatever reason, it seems like she's directing the anger in herself.

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Frida, can you translate for me what she's saying?

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The woman there, I'm in love with, the woman behind her.

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She's a male spirit.

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She's a woman in figure, but I am a man now.

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You got a quick reprieve.

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They were very angry at first there, Celia.

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And now, apparently...

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Do I get flowers?

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There's another one?

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Madda?

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So he seems to be possessed by a female spirit.

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I can speak directly to the spirit?

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Yeah, you can speak to her.

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Hello.

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I don't know how you kick these things off.

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We have left a number of pieces of equipment down there.

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Do we have permission to kind of, you know, turn on a couple of pieces of equipment and do our job?

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But what they're saying, we're not allowed to travel there at all or we're not allowed to turn your equipment on.

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Josh, we have less than an hour.

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We've got to get down there.

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Guys, we're running out of time.

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Okay?

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Great.

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Let's go.

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Let's get the POV fired up.

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Guys, we've got to go, go, go.

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Come on, we're almost out of time.

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That process of speaking to the spirits and all the agitation has obviously taken a lot

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of our time.

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Well, now we have under an hour.

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Let's get our cameras set up in everything in the right place because it took so much

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time to negotiate with these spirits to come down here.

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So I think our key thing now is to try to get one of these wireless mics into this tree

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where they say the spirits go to.

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Yes.

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Well, Jacob, can two of us go with you to the tree?

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What are you saying?

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It's not possible.

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Do you think he can allow you to go yourself?

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Can I go myself?

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Wait, wait a minute.

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Wait a minute.

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Wait a minute.

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She says it's okay.

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Yeah, it's okay.

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This is a wireless microphone.

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We're going to put this inside the tree cavity where these spirits are supposed to go, and

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it's turned on very high gain.

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It should be able to hear anything that happens inside the tree so we're just going to listen

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and see what we can do.

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This is a wireless microphone.

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We're going to put this inside the tree cavity

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where these spirits are supposed to go.

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And it's turned on very high gain.

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It should be able to hear anything that

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happens inside the tree.

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So we're just going to listen and see what we get.

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Some serious creepy crawlies in here.

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Brad, what's the story?

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They're freaking out.

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Like, the time is ticking down.

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And they say we cannot stay here right where our equipment is.

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OK.

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They say we're going to stand over there.

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This is right in the path of this tree.

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OK.

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So let's do that.

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Do we feel confident that we have our cameras

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in the trajectory?

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All this is covered.

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Yeah, the ruins are covered.

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So if it comes anywhere through the ruins,

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along this side of the ruins, we'll get it.

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Right.

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They're saying, can we be quick and then come back?

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Do they need to go back before midnight to do something?

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What do they want to do?

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They're reaching us.

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OK, we can go.

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We have to be coming back here in 10 minutes.

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All right, if we're going to do this, we got to do it quick.

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We have very little time, you guys.

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OK, we can go.

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We have to be coming back here in 10 minutes.

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All right, if we're going to do this, we got to do it quick.

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We have very little time, you guys.

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All right, Mrs. Schumann.

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Maybe let this one live.

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We are short on time.

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Jacob, is it possible to not kill the chicken?

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Is that possible?

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To not kill the chicken.

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Please don't kill the chicken.

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For the second.

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Yeah, please don't kill it.

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We're trying to persuade him that this chicken should live

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and that this is really not.

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And it's not.

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No, no, no, no.

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He's not biting the chicken?

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Jacob, please don't kill it.

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Please do not.

257
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You mean to say you don't like to be killed?

258
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Exactly.

259
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We don't want it to be killed.

260
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We can't advocate them killing this chicken,

261
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and we don't want that at the same time.

262
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This is like a really natural part of this practice for them.

263
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And negotiating those waters are very difficult.

264
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The clock is ticking.

265
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We got to get back down there.

266
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Like this chicken just got to reprieve.

267
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Spirit is satisfied?

268
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It's right.

269
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OK, it's time to go.

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Jacob.

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Ted.

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Time to go.

273
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OK, let's go, everybody.

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We only have a couple of minutes,

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so let's get down there fast.

276
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I'm going to go first.

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Guys, we only have a couple of minutes

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before the stroke of midnight, so this is going

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to be a real group effort.

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Ponsh, you're on audio.

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If you can isolate the track of the tree and listen to it,

282
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tell me if you hear anything out of the ordinary happening

283
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in that tree.

284
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You have the thermal imager.

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Keep scanning the area.

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See if you see any sort of shapes or bodies.

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I have the EMF detector.

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We'll see if we get any strange magnetic readings.

289
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We know our four cameras are hard at work over there.

290
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I think it's as many bases covered as we can have.

291
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You scared the heck out of me.

292
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You guys, it's almost midnight.

293
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I know.

294
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You can hear that?

295
00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:45,480
Yeah.

296
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Ponsh, can you hear that?

297
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I'm watching almost into that hole.

298
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Can you hear that?

299
00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:52,480
Yeah.

300
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Yeah, like a plane almost back.

301
00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:56,960
No, it's not a plane.

302
00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:57,960
It's not a plane.

303
00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:58,960
It's not a plane.

304
00:14:59,960 --> 00:15:00,960
Can you hear that?

305
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You hear a kid?

306
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Yeah.

307
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You hear the kid over there with him?

308
00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:07,960
Everybody heard a little girl laughing.

309
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Yeah.

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A big breeze.

311
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EMF detector's being a little funny.

312
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Getting funny little spikes on it.

313
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Ponsh, you listening to that back there?

314
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Huh?

315
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Can you hear anything coming out of that?

316
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That might look bad.

317
00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:24,960
Yeah, it's static.

318
00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:25,960
Nothing but static.

319
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All the equipment's getting buggy.

320
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The mic that Ponsh placed in that tree?

321
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Completely blown out.

322
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He's got no explanation for it.

323
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Whoa.

324
00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,960
Every case he's trying to get to that mic in the tree

325
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and see if we can figure out why it's being buggy.

326
00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:40,960
Josh.

327
00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:42,960
Yeah, I'm at the mountain.

328
00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,960
Over where that tree is, I'm getting a heat reading inside this thing.

329
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This is a poor thing.

330
00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:50,960
I'm getting a heat reading inside this thing.

331
00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:52,960
I'm getting a heat reading inside this thing.

332
00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:54,960
There's something that warps back here.

333
00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:56,960
I don't know what it is.

334
00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:57,960
Holy s***.

335
00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:04,960
Where you got?

336
00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:05,960
Saw nothing at the very front.

337
00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,960
Poked in a little bit deeper and I saw something deep.

338
00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:10,960
Everything obviously in here is fear that cold.

339
00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:11,960
It's all green.

340
00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,960
This was a red, red ball sitting up,

341
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sitting out on the half hour deep in there.

342
00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:18,960
And all of a sudden it went up to the right.

343
00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:19,960
It disappeared.

344
00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:21,960
That's when I called you.

345
00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:22,960
Hear that?

346
00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:26,960
That was interesting.

347
00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:30,960
Guys.

348
00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:33,960
Did you see something, Pa?

349
00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,960
I couldn't tell if it was...

350
00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,960
It looks like there's stuff someone walking.

351
00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:45,960
Hello?

352
00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:47,960
Hello?

353
00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:51,960
Hello?

354
00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:53,960
Brad, this is Josh.

355
00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:54,960
Come in.

356
00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:56,960
Yeah, go ahead, Josh.

357
00:16:56,960 --> 00:16:59,960
So we got something bumping around in the woods back here in the town.

358
00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:01,960
Annabelle, what do you got up there?

359
00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,960
About all this saw, figure, walk from the ruins

360
00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:08,960
across that opening stretch and back off towards that tree

361
00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:09,960
where we came from.

362
00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,960
It was like a white figure that's all any of us could make out.

363
00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:16,960
Okay, listen. Listen, let's just try to retrieve this mic

364
00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:18,960
and then we can all rendezvous back out by the ruins.

365
00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,960
Casey and I are going to go in and see if we can't pull this mic out of this tree.

366
00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:22,960
Alright, copy that.

367
00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:28,960
This is Josh retrieving the mic.

368
00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:30,960
12-22, trying to get down.

369
00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,960
So we all heard this kind of low rumbling.

370
00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:40,960
We all got kind of breezy.

371
00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:42,960
We all heard this sound of children.

372
00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,960
And then you picked up these two orbs on the...

373
00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,960
Yeah, two separate orbs.

374
00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:51,960
And then we went back there and suddenly all the electronics just totally crapped out.

375
00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:54,960
And then you guys saw what out here? You saw a figure?

376
00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,960
We're standing over there and looking this way.

377
00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,960
And they be telling from the edge of that ruin

378
00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,960
that it looks like something totally white.

379
00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,960
And do we have a beat on Jacob and the other guy?

380
00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:10,960
We know that they're over this way.

381
00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:12,960
It was fleeting or it was like...

382
00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,960
No, it was like a slow, steady...

383
00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,960
But neither of you had a handheld camera?

384
00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:21,960
I had a handheld camera. I can roll it back.

385
00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:23,960
From back there?

386
00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:25,960
But I mean, did you point the handheld at it?

387
00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:26,960
Did you try to get it?

388
00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:28,960
He got it at the end because he was closer to where you were.

389
00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,960
We saw it and we were just like...

390
00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:31,960
I don't know what I got.

391
00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,960
And off this guy you heard what? Static?

392
00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:36,960
Or nothing? Static. Just static.

393
00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,960
Alright, so we'll check these things.

394
00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,960
We've got to peel through all of our footage.

395
00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:44,960
For the figure?

396
00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:46,960
For the figure, for this footage, that footage, we've got to...

397
00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,960
Did you get the audio of the giggling child?

398
00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:51,960
I didn't hear it.

399
00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:53,960
But that was something... I mean, I heard it for sure.

400
00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:54,960
You heard it, you heard it. Do you hear a case?

401
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,960
So four of us heard it.

402
00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:59,960
Our investigation on Pemba Island left my team and I

403
00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:02,960
with hours of video footage and audio recordings to review

404
00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,960
and more than a few difficult questions to answer.

405
00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,960
We left the island and made the long journey back to Los Angeles

406
00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:10,960
where we set to work on searching for clues

407
00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:12,960
to explain the mysterious phenomenon we encountered

408
00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:14,960
during our investigation.

409
00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,960
For expert assistance, we sent our recordings to Dan Moini.

410
00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,960
His experience in reviewing recordings of possible

411
00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,960
paranormal activity far outweighs my own.

412
00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:25,960
He sat down to give us his interpretation of our footage.

413
00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,960
I found a couple interesting things within the clips.

414
00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,960
One was when you're approaching the tree to place the wireless microphone.

415
00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,960
There seems to be a sounder voice.

416
00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,960
It seems to be responding to you walking in and placing that microphone.

417
00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:42,960
It's within the range of a human voice.

418
00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:44,960
It's on the top range.

419
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,960
It's definitely a human guttural, growly vocalization.

420
00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,960
My initial thought was it was something saying get out.

421
00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,960
And what about from the recording inside the tree?

422
00:19:57,960 --> 00:19:59,960
This was a wireless microphone that was used.

423
00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:01,960
There were insects within the tree as well.

424
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,960
The gain on the microphone was turned up.

425
00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:05,960
This leads to potential interference.

426
00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:10,960
We can't positively say that paranormal activity caused the pops and the clicks

427
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:12,960
and the static that was heard.

428
00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,960
It was tough for us to hear on tape, but we also heard what sounded like children.

429
00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:18,960
We're laughing or playing.

430
00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,960
And we also heard this low, long-sustaining runway.

431
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:22,960
Yes.

432
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,960
It's not that bad.

433
00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:33,960
The interesting thing about the rumbling sound to us is that planes don't fly at night over Pemba.

434
00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:35,960
So there's no aircraft in the skies.

435
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:37,960
And it was a clear night. It was a starry night.

436
00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:39,960
So we were really outweather as well.

437
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,960
And it was a really distinct low rumbling sound.

438
00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,960
I did hear trails of it throughout the conversations.

439
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,960
And I also wondered if it could be an airplane, if it could be a train.

440
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:51,960
Yeah, I mean, this is such an isolated place.

441
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,960
No trains, no power, no electricity.

442
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:58,960
And certainly there's only one airstrip on the island and they don't have any flyovers at night at all.

443
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:03,960
You could also consider it within the earth plates shifting that that is something that could emanate up.

444
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,960
That would be something seismically you could go back and document.

445
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:12,960
It is an anomaly and it's definitely out of place with what you were all there experiencing.

446
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,960
I always favor logical explanations to mysterious events,

447
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:20,960
but I have to say, even I'm skeptical that what the crew and I heard was of seismic origin.

448
00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,960
Now I wanted to show Dan the footage of the orbs, case he captured on the thermal imager.

449
00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:31,960
We see it right here and then we continue to see it and then it kind of goes up this way and kind of vanishes.

450
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,960
It definitely kind of floated one up. It wasn't like an animal that was scurrying.

451
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,960
It just kind of was there and the photo went up and it was gone.

452
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,960
There's something that warps back here. I don't know what it is.

453
00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:43,960
Oh, f**k it.

454
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,960
I would say this is a critical piece of evidence.

455
00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,960
Do you typically see heat signatures with spirits or things?

456
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:55,960
Usually that happens in an inhuman situation, meaning we're involving something that is demonic.

457
00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:02,960
It does seem to be something more in the darker side of things.

458
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:08,960
As enticing as this little red orb may be for some, I'm not completely convinced that we're dealing with a dangerous and evil entity.

459
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:14,960
For me, the most compelling piece of evidence we brought back from the ruins is an image that my crew and I could not explain.

460
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,960
Let's show you this last clip. One of our infrared cameras picked this up.

461
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:25,960
I'll just let you take a look at it and let me know what your thoughts are.

462
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:32,960
We see something on the left side of this camera that looks almost translucent that just appears and then vanishes.

463
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:37,960
How long into this camera's filming did this happen? Was it a 20-minute segment?

464
00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:42,960
These are our motion detectors, so this just looked on and that's all on camera.

465
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,960
And you know all of the crew was accounted for, right?

466
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:49,960
For sure. That we know for sure. We know there's no possibility that someone's walking around.

467
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:58,960
I've looked at a lot of infrared footage and seen a lot of things, either false anomalies or real ones, and this is much more impressive.

468
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:05,960
Based on this visual evidence, based on the audio that we hear, do you think that there's a promising chance that we're looking at something paranormal here?

469
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:13,960
If you have the scientific proof of something happening, you have the personal experiences of others as well as something happening, and you have a history of something happening.

470
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:19,960
That combination usually puts out a good, solid, decent piece of evidence that is hard to rip apart.

471
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,960
We always go in looking skeptically at everything because a lot of evidence can be faked.

472
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,960
In this situation, I would say that most likely this is paranormal.

473
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:34,960
The Island of Pemba is home to rich folklore and deep-rooted spiritual beliefs.

474
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:37,960
Did we have a paranormal encounter?

475
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,960
Jacob promised us that at the stroke of midnight, ghosts would reveal themselves to us.

476
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:52,960
And with equipment malfunctions, strange sounds, disembodied heat signatures, and a disturbing image on our infrared cameras, it would certainly seem that something was trying to get our attention.

477
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:54,960
I know it got mine.

478
00:23:54,960 --> 00:24:01,960
With our investigation of the ghosts of Pemba Island complete, we set our focus on a story from the far reaches of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia,

479
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:06,960
where nomadic yak herders tell tales about a creature they call the Mongolian Deathworm.

480
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,960
Now, if you've ever seen the movie Tremors with Kevin Bacon, then you get the idea.

481
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,960
Giant sandworms rise up from the earth and attack us humans.

482
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:22,960
The nomads in Mongolia describe their slitherers the same way, and add that the beasts come out at night, spit lethal acid, and electrocute their prey on contact.

483
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:28,960
It all sounded like science fiction to me, but scores of recent reports have made headlines in Mongolia,

484
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,960
and have me wondering what people are seeing in the sand.

485
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:40,960
So I pushed aside the thought of a giant worm spitting acid in my face, and our lead cameraman Casey, our producer Brad, and our main assistant Araceli packed up our equipment.

486
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,960
Together, we headed to the ends of the earth to investigate the Mongolian Deathworm.

487
00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:51,960
Our journey to the southern Gobi Desert in Mongolia began in Los Angeles, where we flew all the way to Mongolia's capital, Ulan Vator.

488
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,960
The Deathworm, or Alkhoj Hojai as locals call it, means blood-filled intestine.

489
00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:05,960
The worm is reported to be more than four feet long, and though most sightings have been recorded in summer months, these new eyewitness reports were being generated in the dead of winter.

490
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,960
What were people seeing in this isolated part of the world? I intended to find out.

491
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:19,960
Traveling to Mongolia is like traveling to another century. This is the least populated nation on earth, and maybe, just maybe, home to one of the planet's least friendly worms.

492
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,960
I decided to search out the word on the street about the Deathworm.

493
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,960
Could I try it?

494
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,960
You've heard of the Mongolian Deathworm?

495
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:35,960
I've heard of it, but I don't know if I've heard of it.

496
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:45,960
Not only were many of the locals true believers in the Deathworm, many people I talked to told me about a village deep in the southern part of the Gobi that had recently been completely abandoned by its residents.

497
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,960
Apparently, the Deathworm was to blame. This piece of information was key.

498
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:56,960
With the daunting vastness of the Gobi, I decided to focus my search for the Deathworm in the region of this evacuated town.

499
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:05,960
Before heading out into the desert, I met with the director of the Mongolian Institute of Sciences to find out what he thought people were seeing in the sand, and what he knew of these recent sightings.

500
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,960
My interpreter Chinzo translated.

501
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:14,960
Does he think that there's any chance, any chance at all, that this Deathworm could be real?

502
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:20,960
He says there's no Deathworm.

503
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:28,960
Are there animals living in the Gobi that people are mistaking for this legend?

504
00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:35,960
He's making a sample of some insects called bombardier. They spoke out some anaceae.

505
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,960
He thinks that's the genesis for this story.

506
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:46,960
That because there is an insect that has this acidic discharge, that this has become a story that's passed along.

507
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:56,960
The doctor said he believed that nomads, fearful of many things in the desert, concocted the story of the Deathworm years ago to teach younger generations to be wary of anything that moved in the sand.

508
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:58,960
Not a bad idea for any worried parent.

509
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:09,960
But that still didn't explain the numerous reports over the years that described these giant sandworms in nearly exactly the same way, and as for the evacuated town, the doctor could offer no explanation.

510
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:18,960
My mission was clear. Early the next morning, I wrangled a couple of 4x4s that would carry me and my team far into the desert in search of this mysterious village.

511
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:25,960
You get a choice, it's going to be paved, the rest of the way is going to be rolled. You're basically going to have any paved roads, we're going to make it on roads or it'll be GPS in it.

512
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:36,960
Navigating by GPS, it would take my team and I more than two days of continuous off-roading to reach our final destination, assuming we didn't get lost or drop a tranny off one of these rickety vehicles along the way.

513
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:43,960
If all went well, we would stop in Dallengasad, one of the few outposts in the desert to refuel the jeeps and our stomachs.

514
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:53,960
The drive seemed like a breeze at first. Sure, the scenery was a little spartan, but at least the highway was paved, until it wasn't.

515
00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:02,960
Just busted a tire here, but luckily it's a densely populated area, so plenty of service stations around here.

516
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,960
Just took a little elbow grease and we were on our way.

517
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:16,960
The hours went by like sand through an hourglass, and after the better part of a day making tracks through the Gobi, we came upon a family of nomads who were nice enough to invite us into their yurt to chew the fat.

518
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,960
Quite literally it turned out.

519
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:19,960
That's sheep.

520
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:20,960
Sheep?

521
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:21,960
Yeah.

522
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:22,960
Looks delicious.

523
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:23,960
Okay.

524
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:24,960
Good.

525
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:25,960
Eat it?

526
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:26,960
Oh boy.

527
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,960
Chinzo, will you ask him if he's familiar with the story of the Algoi Ho-hai?

528
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,960
Do you know the story of the Algoi Ho-hai?

529
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:53,960
Does he think that I'm in great danger to look for this thing?

530
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,960
My goggles friend had been doing some digging around of his own, and it turned up something in the dunes nearby.

531
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:14,960
There was no doubt the remains buried here were of an animal. Bits of teeth and part of a mouth were beginning to come into view as we brushed away the sand, and after delicate excavation, we made a discovery that shocked us all.

532
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:26,960
My goggles friend had been doing some digging around of his own, and it turned up something in the dunes nearby. It was a dinosaur.

533
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,960
Is it common to find stuff like this out here?

534
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,960
It's not common.

535
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:41,960
We took a fossil sample for carbon dating tests and tagged the coordinates on GPS to send back to the museum in Ulaanbaatar.

536
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:48,960
As much as I wanted to stay and live out a nerdy Jurassic Park fantasy, I had to press on to continue my investigation.

537
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,960
We will see what we find when we go further south.

538
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:55,960
The sun dropped beneath the horizon of the Gobi Desert, and the thermometer reading fell with it.

539
00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:04,960
We blazed on through the night toward Dalangazad, an isolated southern city where we'd rest before continuing on to investigate the death worm in an abandoned village deep in the Gobi Desert.

540
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:17,960
After a 21-hour drive, we arrived in the drab, tiny town of Dalangazad. This being the only urban outpost before our final destination, I decided to search out the word on the street about the death worm.

541
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,960
My first interview was with a man named Ergi, who relocated here from the abandoned village.

542
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,960
Where did you have this sighting?

543
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:38,960
When he saw this creature, his horse got agitated, and he saw something sticking out from the ground, reddish-looking color.

544
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:48,960
Ergi also mentioned that it wasn't smart to wear yellow when traveling around the Gobi because the color seemed to attract the death worm.

545
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,960
Does this in any way resemble what he saw?

546
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:55,960
They weren't any teeth.

547
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,960
But did the body look smooth, or was it segmented?

548
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,960
They were not very deep, but it did have small segments in the body.

549
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:13,960
And even though the idea of attracting this creature with the color yellow sounded pretty far-fetched to me, I was following every lead I could and decided to head to the local market in search of yellow fabric.

550
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,960
Do I blend with the locals?

551
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:16,960
I think so.

552
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:20,960
Hello.

553
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:21,960
Hello.

554
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,960
Does he know what death worm is?

555
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:29,960
Tell him that I was told that the death worm is attracted to the color yellow.

556
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:35,960
If this fabric catches the death worm, I'm coming back here. I'm going to have you make me some robes.

557
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:41,960
You can't go hunting for a death worm on an empty stomach, so I decided to investigate the market for some local delicacies.

558
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:42,960
And what's this stuff?

559
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:43,960
Dry new...

560
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:44,960
Huh.

561
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:45,960
You want to try some?

562
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:47,960
Yeah, sure.

563
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,960
Boy, they really do dry it out, don't they?

564
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,960
They're really good, yeah. It's delicious.

565
00:31:54,960 --> 00:32:01,960
Yo-Play or Dan and Reps take note, the market for yogurt snacks in Mongolia is wide open.

566
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:09,960
We were now in a race against the sun. It was imperative that we got to our investigation site by dusk in order to avoid setting up our gear in subzero temperatures.

567
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:10,960
We had no time to lose.

568
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:17,960
The journey from Dalangazad to our village in the west took us through more spectacular desolation and deeper into outer Mongolia.

569
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:22,960
With time nearly out, we finally arrived at the remains of the deserted settlement.

570
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,960
The locals pointed us to this area again and again and said that this is the spot to be, so...

571
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:28,960
Right.

572
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:37,960
As the team raced to set up the investigation equipment, I discovered that there was in fact one last resident in the area that was in Mongolia.

573
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:44,960
I went to talk to him to find out what happened here to get any final deathworm words of wisdom.

574
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,960
Is he familiar with the story of the deathworm?

575
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,960
I was looking for the dead worm.

576
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:52,960
Has he seen the worm personally?

577
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,960
He heard a lot of noises.

578
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,960
And the noises from around the neighbors.

579
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:02,960
That's why they all left.

580
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,960
If these people have all left, why does he stay here? Why does he stay in this remote place?

581
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:13,960
He says he stays here in respect of his father and brothers who died here.

582
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,960
Thank you very much for your time.

583
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:20,960
Our plan was to canvas the entire settlement with infrared cameras mounted to give us a wide view of the valley.

584
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:26,960
We've heard the deathworm is a sucker for yellow, so one of the cameras would be fixed on our bait, a bolt of yellow fabric.

585
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:31,960
In addition, our night vision cameras would cut through the darkness to help us scan the terrain.

586
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,960
Underground microphones and a seismic sensor would help us search beneath the sand.

587
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:42,960
And our most powerful ally, the Fleer Thermal Imager, would pinpoint any creatures in the biting cold from hundreds of feet away.

588
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,960
Do you think it's worth throwing a camera on them?

589
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,960
Yeah, these holes all interconnect underground.

590
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,960
So that's our opening to be realm of the deathworm.

591
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,960
Oh, shoot, just a minute.

592
00:33:54,960 --> 00:34:01,960
So anything that the computer picks up coming through that screen, we're going to hear an alarm.

593
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,960
That alarm will go off.

594
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,960
Great. Sounds great.

595
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:06,960
Cool.

596
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,960
I decided to leave the team and go on a little recon of the area.

597
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:14,960
This thermal imager will pick up anything that gives off heat and it displays it in colors.

598
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,960
The darker the color, the colder the object.

599
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,960
Blues and blacks are very cold.

600
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,960
The hottest objects on here will be seen as white.

601
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,960
It's a moth.

602
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,960
Anything that's white or red or yellow is giving off enough heat that it has to be organic.

603
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,960
Josh, committee's on radio contact.

604
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:33,960
Can you hear me out?

605
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,960
Did anything go up there?

606
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,960
Pretty icy right now. The flea is not picking up very much.

607
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:40,960
There's a lot of cold rocks right now.

608
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,960
Our batteries are dying awfully quick in this cold.

609
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,960
Okay. I'm going to swing back around the side of this bank.

610
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,960
I'll find me and you guys back there in 10 minutes.

611
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:53,960
Guys, can you read me?

612
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:55,960
I think I found something down here.

613
00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:02,960
There's another one of these holes in the ground that we saw earlier, but there looks like a trail or a drag mark coming out of it.

614
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:04,960
Why don't you break out that evidence kit?

615
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,960
Let's take some samples of the sand here.

616
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,960
This definitely looks like a drag mark or a trail of some kind.

617
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:16,960
We can test the soil, see if there's any organic material present or any sort of acidity levels that are out of the ordinary.

618
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,960
Copy that. Let me go switch here.

619
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,960
Well, that certainly looks like something went in or out of there.

620
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,960
Yeah, absolutely.

621
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:31,960
Right?

622
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:35,960
As even you can see, there's even residual heat along the trail. See it?

623
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:36,960
Yeah.

624
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,960
All in here.

625
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,960
Everybody we talked to was saying it was about this big around.

626
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:43,960
Right.

627
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,960
I mean, this big around is that track.

628
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,960
There's a real trace of something, you know, moving in or out of there.

629
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,960
Or something still in there.

630
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,960
Brad, stick your hand in there.

631
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,960
Well, let's get punch. See if we can pick up anything inside there.

632
00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:58,960
For sure.

633
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:03,960
Brad, why don't you use the seismograph and see if you can pick up any vibrations coming from the ground around the hole.

634
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,960
You got the underground microphone?

635
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:06,960
Yes.

636
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,960
Okay.

637
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:12,960
Everybody appears to have to be super still.

638
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,960
Yeah, because it sounds like something's moving.

639
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,960
We're going to stop for a minute.

640
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,960
I just saw a small seismograph hit on here.

641
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,960
Yeah, it sounds like something's shuffling a little bit.

642
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:27,960
Yeah.

643
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:29,960
Yeah, I just heard that.

644
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,960
Yeah, there's one more.

645
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:36,960
There certainly are rodents, and marmots and things like that that live here.

646
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:41,960
What's really uncharacteristic though is to see like this kind of a drag trail leading out of one of these holes.

647
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:42,960
Right.

648
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,960
It's just not something we would associate with rodents coming in and out of these.

649
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:46,960
Now holes.

650
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,960
Why don't we take some samples of the soil to test for high levels of acidity,

651
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,960
which could indicate the presence of the dead one.

652
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:55,960
Oh my God.

653
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:56,960
The treading.

654
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:58,960
Hit tracks.

655
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,960
Oh, I don't want to do this.

656
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,960
Are you sticking your hand down in there?

657
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:09,960
I'm all for it, baby.

658
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,960
Get the shot.

659
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,960
Are you sticking your hand down in there?

660
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,960
It's nothing organic.

661
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,960
Droppings, sort of rodent kind of.

662
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,960
You want to dig it out, Josh?

663
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:40,960
Something is definitely moving down there.

664
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,960
Maybe we should kind of bust it open a bit, see what we can see.

665
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,960
I just go straight down.

666
00:37:58,960 --> 00:37:59,960
Did you see that?

667
00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:00,960
No.

668
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:02,960
Like an orange flash.

669
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,960
Twice I saw it.

670
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:05,960
Like at the ground level.

671
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:06,960
It's like a pin size.

672
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:07,960
Like an orange.

673
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:09,960
But there's nobody in this valley.

674
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:10,960
No.

675
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:11,960
We'll peel over there.

676
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:12,960
All right, guys.

677
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:13,960
I think the trail to this hole is run dry.

678
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,960
Let's pack it up here and head on to investigate the flashes that Brad saw.

679
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,960
They say the death firm has an electrical charge and can electrocute its victims.

680
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,960
So I think it's worth chasing down the orange flashes you saw.

681
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,960
So this river is partially frozen and our first real challenge is going to be finding

682
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:30,960
a safe spot to cross over it.

683
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,960
We should press up a little bit further.

684
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:45,960
What's that?

685
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:46,960
It's a 2.

686
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:47,960
It's a 0-2.

687
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:48,960
Yeah, come on, son.

688
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:49,960
Guys, I think we have some movement.

689
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:50,960
We got a wire.

690
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:51,960
I'm going off the camera too.

691
00:38:58,960 --> 00:38:59,960
I'm out of here.

692
00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:00,960
Camera too.

693
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,960
Looks like it's probably just this fabric blowing in the wind and put off the motion sensor.

694
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,960
Let us know if you hear anything else.

695
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,960
You've had people claiming sightings of this creature for over 100 years, you know?

696
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:12,960
Right.

697
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,960
And there are these really specific characteristics that it has.

698
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:16,960
It's its acid.

699
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,960
It has this specific color, all these certain things.

700
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:23,960
And yet the amount of physical evidence for this creature's existence is almost none.

701
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:24,960
Right.

702
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:26,960
Nobody's been able to produce anything on it.

703
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,960
Let's split up and move around the ruins for a bit.

704
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,960
Maybe something will surprise us.

705
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,960
I think I got something going on over here.

706
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:39,960
Hey, Josh?

707
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,960
I'm getting a pretty strong reading over here.

708
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,960
Obviously, the EMF detector reads an electrical charge in the air.

709
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:52,960
And I brought it because they say the death worm emits an electrical charge.

710
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,960
I mean, I can't explain what else on the ground would put off a charge like this.

711
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:56,960
Something's eating over here.

712
00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,960
There's your entry point right here.

713
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:02,960
Huge hole.

714
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,960
It's pretty hot on a thermal imager, too.

715
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,960
Yeah, I read you what's going on.

716
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:20,960
I've lost a seismograph computer as well as one of our night vision surveillance camera computers.

717
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,960
We've got equipment dropping like crazy up here.

718
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,960
But whatever equipment you can keep up and running, just stay with it.

719
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,960
Despite an exhaustive search, we found no evidence of what may have caused the orange lights

720
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,960
or what could have set off the EMF detector.

721
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,960
Our frigid investigation left us with a couple of hot leads.

722
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:42,960
I intended to further analyze all of our evidence, including the soil sample from the hole where the EMF detector went crazy

723
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:47,960
and the sample from the hole with the mysterious track or drag mark coming in and out of it.

724
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:58,960
Oh, f**k, what's that?

725
00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:01,960
Something just flipped out down here.

726
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:03,960
You hear that?

727
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:05,960
Yeah, I heard that.

728
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,960
That came about right on the other side of the water.

729
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:10,960
That was loud.

730
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:12,960
Careful, man.

731
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:13,960
Oh, yeah.

732
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:19,960
Oh, that's what that monk told us.

733
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:23,960
He said that people vacated here because they just heard these weird noises over and over,

734
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,960
which they thought was the death worm.

735
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:28,960
I don't hear it now.

736
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:36,960
Well, we've had seismograph go down as well as our main monitoring station for all of our cameras that are placed out.

737
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:37,960
What's that? A product of the cold?

738
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,960
Yeah, I think the batteries are just freezing everything up.

739
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:46,960
Okay, well, obviously we have only this camera and one other one that haven't been just torn apart by the cold.

740
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:52,960
So I think at this point we should break it down and look over the soil samples and stuff.

741
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,960
It's really the only thing that we can really analyze at this point.

742
00:41:54,960 --> 00:42:01,960
With 95% of our equipment failed, I think it's time we maybe find some nomads to let us shack up for the night with them.

743
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,960
We flew back to Los Angeles to meet with Carol Case, a researcher at Babcock and Sun's Labs.

744
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:14,960
By checking the pH levels of the samples, she would be able to conclude whether or not a highly acidic creature had borrowed through the ground that night.

745
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:24,960
We sent you a base sample from just surrounding soil and then a couple of target samples for us that we were hoping would indicate a different level of pH or a different level of acidity.

746
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,960
Is there any difference in the soil samples at all?

747
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:30,960
Yeah, they were all basically about neutral, all four samples that we tested.

748
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,960
So no high levels of acidity anywhere in the soil?

749
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:35,960
No.

750
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:40,960
With the soil samples not acidic and yielding zero organic matter from which to pull a DNA strand,

751
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,960
we turned our attention to the seismograph readings and strange sounds coming from the first hole we found.

752
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:50,960
Upon further review, we found no evidence that could even begin to build a case for the death worm.

753
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,960
My team and I were ready to close the books.

754
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:57,960
The dry soil and frigid temperatures of the Gobi Desert are too great a match for any worm.

755
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:02,960
Locals here may have been seeing anything from a desert snake to the acid spraying Bombadier beetle.

756
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,960
Perhaps this is just a cautionary tale to scare nomadic children.

757
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:13,960
Whatever the case may be, the vast dunes of Mongolia hold the remains of some of the most mysterious animals on Earth still waiting to be discovered.

758
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,960
And as for me, I had a flight to catch and another adventure waiting for me.