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On this episode of Destination Truth, Josh heads to Vietnam, where a sea monster is

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said to lurk under the waters of Halong Bay.

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Something big just went by, let's get in the water and check it out.

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Holy s***.

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Huge hit on the fish finder.

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Josh, help!

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You got divers in the water!

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Next, the team travels to East Africa to hunt down an enormous bat-like creature that

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has reportedly been assaulting locals in their sleep.

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Did the Hupabala attack you?

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I f***ed with them.

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I just got a reading.

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I got flying in the southwest corner.

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Go, go, go!

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Stop, stop, stop, stop!

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I'm Josh Gates.

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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.

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The truth.

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Sailors have been telling tales of the sea for centuries.

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The watery world is brimming with legends of mermaids, serpents and sea monsters.

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But lately in a remote bay of Vietnam, locals say that something seriously fishy is going on.

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They allege that a mysterious creature known as the Tarasque has taken up residence in their waters.

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The story of the Tarasque is as old as Vietnam itself.

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A massive snake-like creature with a dragon's head and a segmented body.

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The Tarasque is thought to live deep in the murky waters of Hà Long Bay along the northern coast of Vietnam.

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The number of fishermen who have come forward with eyewitness reports of the beast have skyrocketed in the last few months.

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My team and I wasted no time in finding out if Vietnam's version of Nessie was the real deal.

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We immediately packed up all of our cameras and underwater investigation equipment

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and headed to the airport for a nearly 20-hour journey to Vietnam.

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My first stop was at the University of Hanoi where I sat down with the head of the biology department.

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I wanted to know if he thought the Tarasque could really exist.

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One of the stories I've heard about is this sea monster that lives in Hanoi.

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Sea marks are very interesting. I'll show you something about it.

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The professor told me that sightings of these aquatic beasts dated back for centuries

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and were first written down in the 1800s when a French captain detailed a sighting of the monster from his ship.

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How does he describe the creature? How does it look?

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Up to 25 meters.

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Up to 25 meters long?

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Yeah, 2 and 3 meters.

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2 to 3 meters wide?

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Yeah, just here.

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Does he describe it as like a snake?

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Yeah.

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And does it have any fins?

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Yeah, you know.

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Like there's something about like undulated.

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They undulate in the water.

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Do you think it's possible that there is some sort of large unidentified creature?

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Maybe.

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With countless documented sightings dating back hundreds of years,

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there was no question that locals were seeing something in the water.

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And after a quick hoop session with the undergrads,

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there was also no question that I posed no threat in the next NBA draft.

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Little short, little short, little short.

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That's done. That's how we do it.

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300 tries to get that tape.

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The biggest challenge to finding the Tarasque was knowing exactly where to look.

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My next stop was to the Hanoi Zoological Museum

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to meet with curator Vunak Fan to get a little more information about these waters.

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What are the largest creatures that live in Hanoi Bay?

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Sometimes the wind.

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Sometimes whales.

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Wind comes from the Gulf of China Sea.

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But it's uncommon if they're going to come into the Bay of Tonkin.

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That's not a common thing.

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Not common.

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There is, though, a food supply in Hanoi Bay

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that could support large carnivorous animals.

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Yes.

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If I wanted to go try to catch this creature...

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You?

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Yes.

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But be careful.

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I should be careful.

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Eat the sea snake by you.

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Right.

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You can go to the sky.

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Don't die in Vietnam, please.

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I'm going to do my best.

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I'm going to do my best to not die in Vietnam.

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So be no favour for Vietnamese.

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I'll do a favour for myself.

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Die in Vietnam.

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I'm afraid of the Vietnamese.

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I'm just going to try to get out of here alive.

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The curator directed me to a fishing town on the northern coast

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where recent eyewitnesses had reported seeing the creature,

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including a set of flooded caves where fishermen have seen something

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massive slithering through the water.

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We tagged the coordinates of the sightings to establish a preliminary course.

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We set out for a five-hour drive to Hà Long Bay

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where we'd charter a boat and then pay a visit to the eyewitnesses.

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Vietnam is a long sliver of land on the edge of the South China Sea.

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As we drove north, we stepped back into rural and traditional Vietnam

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to live and work as they have for centuries.

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What's the shits?

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We also stopped at a rural and traditional bathroom

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that hadn't been cleaned in centuries.

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What happened?

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It's too much.

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Oh my God.

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It's tough to smell.

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I'm almost cute, man.

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I can't do it.

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You couldn't do it?

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It's nasty, dude.

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There are no better experts than the men and women

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who fish these waters every day.

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And after a long drive, we finally arrived at the spectacular Hà Long Bay,

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a massive maze of waterways and inlets.

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And at over 600 square miles,

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I couldn't help but think that due to the enormity of this body of water,

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it would not be impossible for a large creature to go undetected here.

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On the way to my boat charter, I passed through the local fish market,

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Vietnam's version of the food court, the mall.

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There's some kooky stuff in these tanks.

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A major seafood supply line for all of Vietnam,

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Hà Long Bay is home to more than 200 species of fish,

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as well as a lot of other very strange life.

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These guys are awesome.

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Those guys are cool.

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What is that thing?

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What are you able to do?

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Are you able to sting me?

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That thing is...

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What is that?

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The locals told us that delicious squid would be the best bait for terrasque hunting,

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and I bagged handfuls of them on the way out of the market.

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I may never eat calamari again.

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A lot of machetes, not a lot of fishing stuff.

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We headed next door to pick up some extra supplies and fishing gear.

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If we were going to catch this thing, we'd need some serious equipment.

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And regardless of the mounting warnings about how dangerous this was,

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I planned on diving in to search for the terrasque.

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Literacy.

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This is a fishing rod.

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But she understands I need to catch a sea monster.

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I don't know that that's going to be strong enough to hold a sea monster.

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Where was Quint from Jaws when I needed him?

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Well, now we're talking. Now we're getting better.

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Okay, great.

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An anchor?

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Yeah.

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Tie off on it.

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It's a sea monster.

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That's some fish.

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Sea monster's mouth is going to be the size of your body.

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If it's 30 meters, Randy, got it.

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If it's 30 meters, it doesn't matter what kind of hook we're using.

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It's going to drag the boat underwater.

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Listen, if something bites this and pulls on this,

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we know we caught something big.

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I think I'm going to buy fish hooks.

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I got four of these.

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You got four of these, and we got one of these guys.

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How much is this?

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And Brad wants to buy an anchor.

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All right, so we buy our rope, which goes in our anchor,

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and then we're buying four fish hooks with high-test line.

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Perfect.

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Okay, we got it.

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Got enough dung?

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I got a lot of dung.

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The currency in this country is about as out of control as I've ever seen a currency.

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There are 16,000 dung to $1.

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Six fish hooks, high-test line, and a rusty anchor,

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all for the low, low price of $2 million.

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We left the market in search of our own catch of the day

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and headed to the docks.

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If I stood a chance of surviving a fishing trip with a 100-foot fish,

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I'd need more than just a dinghy.

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And even though I told my contacts I wanted a boat that could help me kick some Tarasque,

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I wasn't expecting them to rent me the Titanic.

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We boarded the SS Destination Truth

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and made our way to the floating villages

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where people say they've encountered the monster.

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This is a super remote part of Howlong Bay.

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And literally there's an entire floating town here.

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It's really amazing.

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All these little floating houses and markets

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and they have a movie theater, two targets, two Starbucks.

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This is the floating village we were told about by the professors in Hanoi to come and visit.

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There's some of the fishermen that are out here every single day working in these waters.

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And so these are the guys we really need to talk to.

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Mr. Quinn, you had some sort of experience with this creature, yes?

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All right, I'm going to Tarasque you a few questions about it.

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You got it?

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My humor doesn't translate very well in Vietnam.

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It doesn't translate very well in America either, but I'm starting to sound a little Hanoi.

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Did you actually see the creature?

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It was dark.

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And the water just like a splash all over and it is about as big as this house.

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Biggest house, so really big.

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Did you think the creature was going to attack you?

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It was very scared, so he stayed away.

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We had heard that you had had a sighting of this creature that is supposed to live in Howlong Bay.

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He saw a dragon.

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He saw a dragon.

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Did the creature that he saw look something like this?

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Okay, well thank you very much. Thank you.

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We've heard these stories about this creature which lives in Howlong Bay.

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Can he show me where in Howlong Bay he saw this creature?

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The local fishermen showed me exactly where they saw the Tarasque.

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The men had three common things to say to me, that it was big, that it destroys boats, and that I should be scared.

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Perfect.

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We immediately set to work in turning our boat into a floating investigation.

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First thing to do, let's break out the hydrophone and let's break out the fish finder.

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Get those off the side.

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You know, we know there's nothing big in these waters, so if we get any big hits, that's really worth examining.

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Let's start with that.

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Our plan was to use a hydrophone, a sensitive underwater microphone to listen for anything large beneath the waves.

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For more accuracy, we employed a fish finder sonar to sweep the bay and visually alert us if anything Tarasque-ish swam by.

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With our equipment up and running, we scanned the surrounding waters and then we waited.

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And waited.

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And waited.

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Something really like a dark brown thing just went right in that shadow line.

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Big, really big.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, there's a big way.

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I just heard something big to you guys.

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There's a big guy.

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Josh?

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Josh!

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Big guy.

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I got it on the hydrophone too.

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Big guy.

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Awesome, just cruise right back.

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Suit up, bruvles.

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A sizable hit on the sonar told us that something massive was passing underneath the boat.

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It was time to get wet.

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Though the sun was setting and we hadn't fully scouted the area, I knew that we might only have this one chance to get up close and personal with the Tarasque.

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You sure you want to go now?

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If it's under the boat, I'm going, dude.

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I'm going to get out of the water.

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Hey, when do we start warring?

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They've been down there a little while.

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Yeah.

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You guys see anything?

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There's almost no visibility.

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I mean, it's like a foot or less.

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I lose him instantly.

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I have no idea how deep you are.

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No idea what's around you.

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It's very disorienting.

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We're going to go back, circle the boat one more time.

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Is there any more hits on the fish finder?

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No.

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If they do come across that thing, all they're going to see is shadow coming by them.

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Holy s***.

253
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Huge hit on the fish finder.

254
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Same thing.

255
00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:37,200
Right under the boat.

256
00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:40,200
Josh?

257
00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:01,200
You guys coming up?

258
00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,200
The ladder is on the other side.

259
00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,200
What is this boat doing?

260
00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,200
Do we know what this boat is doing?

261
00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,200
I'm asking, but it doesn't come out.

262
00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,200
Our lights and cameras drew the attention of another boat on the water,

263
00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,200
and our dive for the Trask suddenly became even more dangerous.

264
00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,200
You guys are s***ing the whole time.

265
00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,200
Hey, other way, other way, David.

266
00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:21,200
Other way.

267
00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:22,200
Get out.

268
00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,200
Tell this s*** to cut his engine.

269
00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,200
It's got your engine.

270
00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:27,200
It's got your engine.

271
00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:28,200
It's got your engine.

272
00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:29,200
It's got your engine.

273
00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:30,200
It's got your engine.

274
00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,200
It's got your engine.

275
00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:32,200
It's got your engine.

276
00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,200
It's got your engine.

277
00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:34,200
It's got your engine.

278
00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:35,200
It's got your engine.

279
00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:36,200
It's got your engine.

280
00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:37,200
It's got your engine.

281
00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:38,200
It's got your engine.

282
00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,200
It's got your engine.

283
00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:43,200
Do you know what this boat is doing?

284
00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:44,020
In the Bay Nation,

285
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an old man asking about the duck.

286
00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:46,200
We got s*** and the whole thing.

287
00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:47,200
Other way.

288
00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:48,200
Other way, David.

289
00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:50,200
Other way.

290
00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:51,200
Get out.

291
00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:54,200
Tell this s*** to cut his engine.

292
00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,200
It's got your engine.

293
00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:58,200
It's got your engine.

294
00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,200
It's got your engine.

295
00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:02,200
That guy just whipped up a wicked undertow.

296
00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,200
He started pulling us into that huge buoy.

297
00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:05,200
There we go.

298
00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,200
He could just keep out of that.

299
00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:08,200
He's killing us.

300
00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:09,200
Jeez.

301
00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:13,200
There was a huge hit underneath the boat before you guys came up.

302
00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,200
Did you see anything?

303
00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,200
The visibility is awful.

304
00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:18,200
That's what I figured.

305
00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:19,200
Yeah, come on out.

306
00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:20,200
Let's move this thing.

307
00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:21,200
I'm gonna go get you.

308
00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:22,200
I'm gonna get you.

309
00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:23,200
I'm gonna get you.

310
00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:24,200
I'm gonna get you.

311
00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:25,200
I'm gonna get you.

312
00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:26,200
I'm gonna get you.

313
00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:27,200
I'm gonna get you.

314
00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:28,200
I'm gonna get you.

315
00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:29,200
I'm gonna get you.

316
00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,200
Come on out.

317
00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,200
Let's move this out so they can get out.

318
00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,200
You all right?

319
00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,200
The boat whipped up a wicked undertow.

320
00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,200
It just started pulling everything over to it.

321
00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,200
And we just get sucked into that buoy.

322
00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,200
That huge metal mooring that we're tied off to.

323
00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:44,200
Right.

324
00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:49,200
Which is like this horrible rusted thing which just cranked over and pulling us underneath it.

325
00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:50,200
Right.

326
00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:53,200
Certainly just the dangerous dive all around is because there's all such a junk down there

327
00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,200
and netting and mud and it's like you just can't see anything.

328
00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,200
You just, you're on top of it and you see it.

329
00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:03,200
Let's get you guys dry and some clothes and reset for our next move.

330
00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:04,200
For sure.

331
00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:05,200
All right.

332
00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:10,200
Whatever was swimming around under our boat seemed to vanish with all the commotion.

333
00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,200
And then with night upon us and the water too murky to dive in,

334
00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:19,200
we made a plan to head to the nearby flooded caves that our eyewitnesses theorize the sea monster may inhabit.

335
00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:20,200
Check, check, radio check.

336
00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:21,200
Yeah.

337
00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:26,200
We needed smaller boats to navigate the narrow caves and switch to a kayak and rowboat.

338
00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:33,200
Just go.

339
00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,200
Okay.

340
00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:35,200
All right.

341
00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,200
Guys come in.

342
00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,200
I think I found a mouth for cave.

343
00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,200
We're just a bit behind you.

344
00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,200
We don't see it but we can see you.

345
00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:50,200
It's actually a really large opening.

346
00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:51,200
So Josh, hold there.

347
00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,200
Let us get up to the mouth.

348
00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,200
Oh, luckily I hear a lot of bats.

349
00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,200
Bats?

350
00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,200
Yeah, a lot of them.

351
00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,200
It's going to get in our way.

352
00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,200
Oh, God.

353
00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,200
Yeah, why don't you guys hang here?

354
00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,200
I'm going to go check it out and see how far in it goes.

355
00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:21,200
You guys should drop the fish finder and let me know if you have any questions.

356
00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:28,200
Okay, copy that.

357
00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:35,200
Josh, how are you doing in there?

358
00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:40,200
I've just come from the water.

359
00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:46,200
I'm just going to go check it out.

360
00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,200
I'm going to go check it out.

361
00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:50,200
Okay.

362
00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:52,200
I'm going to go check it out.

363
00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:53,200
Okay.

364
00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,200
I'm going to go check it out.

365
00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:56,200
There.

366
00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,200
I've just come through another tunnel in this cave.

367
00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:05,200
It branches off a little bit, but if you bear over to the right, it actually opens back up again.

368
00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,200
I thought I was back out in the open, but I'm not.

369
00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,200
I think I'm in some sort of huge lagoon.

370
00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:17,200
Take the boat towards the right and come in, and you should pass out into this huge open area.

371
00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,200
I think I'm in an enormous enclosed lagoon.

372
00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:24,200
We're going to come on in deeper in then.

373
00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,560
I'm gonna try to fire up one of these tortures and shed a little more light on this

374
00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,480
Copy that

375
00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,480
Whatever we're tracking in the water will be attracted to the light surface

376
00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,600
Going which way

377
00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:07,480
I

378
00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:19,880
Something splashing around in here

379
00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:24,520
Go again Josh go again

380
00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:27,880
Something is splashing around in here for sure

381
00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:38,360
I see anything you're just hearing

382
00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:46,120
No, I just heard something which sounded pretty substantial moving around off to my left

383
00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:48,120
Did you hear that?

384
00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:05,480
Yeah, I'm good. I'm just chasing a noise

385
00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,840
I keep I keep hearing the same thing I just

386
00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:18,120
I

387
00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,480
Was that Josh weird that all the way over here

388
00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:41,240
Josh Josh you're all right

389
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,720
I'm not sure what you say go again

390
00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:55,640
Josh

391
00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,640
Josh come back go ahead go again

392
00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,720
Josh do you copy come back? Josh

393
00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,280
Josh we got massive reading on the fish finder it's coming right inside the cave

394
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:18,920
Oh

395
00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,440
Go again

396
00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:36,680
Josh do you copy come back

397
00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,600
Josh what's going on?

398
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,480
I went dark just to sort of see if I could

399
00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,480
Turn where that splashing was going from but you know

400
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,960
It's so difficult here. It's like this huge echoey space

401
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:03,480
And there's definitely something splashing around in here and a couple of times it's really sounded like something

402
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,480
Significantly large

403
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,200
Every time I chase it's like I'm chasing a ghost that just can't get up close to it

404
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,760
Hey Josh

405
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,360
Yeah, copy that we'll make our way up to and beat you out by the mouth of the cave

406
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:42,120
Our strange sighting sonar hits and audio evidence had me feeling I wasn't alone out there

407
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,120
I wasn't ready to say it was a sea monster

408
00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:49,080
But I was determined to catch this thing or at least see if I could lure it up to the surface where my team could photograph it

409
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,400
It was time for a Tarasque midnight snack

410
00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,520
Plan is we're gonna bait up these hooks

411
00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,200
We're gonna drop them on an anchor down to the bottom off a set of buoys. We're gonna wait

412
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,880
Sounds like a pretty solid plan

413
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:12,040
We baited a couple of buoys with the Tarasque's supposed favorite food squid

414
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,000
If this doesn't ink the deal, I don't know what will

415
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,840
We've lit the whole area up because that attracts fish at night here fish finder sonar is scanning

416
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:26,920
Uh the bottom

417
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,040
Hydrophone is listening to the water. So we are pretty well surveilled here

418
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,360
Can you see anything on those? Nothing yet

419
00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,160
What's happening on a collie?

420
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:56,360
After hours of waiting and watching nothing remarkable turned up on any of our equipment

421
00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:02,760
Our crew exhausted we decided to let the cameras continue to roll and monitor the area while we turned in for a few hours rest

422
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,560
When we returned to the deck in the morning, we made a startling discovery

423
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,960
So this hook is bare as of this morning along with the uh two other buoy hooks

424
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,920
With the bait gone the only thing left to do was check the video something ate that squid

425
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:22,440
Bait is still there at the end of the tapes. So we rolled out a tape before roll out a tape just for sunrise

426
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,800
While these cameras didn't pick anything up. We still had unexplained footage from our sighting the day before

427
00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:34,360
We rolled back the tapes to review what our cameras had recorded. It's right in that shadow line, but there's definitely something there

428
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,160
Looks like it's got some size to it too

429
00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,360
Got something on here

430
00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:42,360
See it pop through us right

431
00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:46,360
There see it moving

432
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,320
It almost looks like a giant head

433
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:59,720
To be honest it does it looks like a giant giant giant head box box. Hey sally come here. Oh, wow

434
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,280
Yeah, exactly. Oh my god

435
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,520
So we have some evidence we're gonna take back

436
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:09,320
We have a piece of video that we can't really explain yet. Uh, so I don't think we can close the books on it either way

437
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,200
All right, good

438
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,280
Unable to identify the creature in the footage

439
00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:22,200
We traveled back to los angeles to enhance and analyze the tape and get a better idea of what went swimming by us in vietnam

440
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,760
All right case. Do you have a chance to analyze the footage from vietnam?

441
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,400
Yeah, we we've got this creature that we saw in the water is kind of moving on right to the left here

442
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:34,200
So we're able to freeze frame and push it in and they just see it's super super blurry

443
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,360
You can still see a little bit of an outline of something. Mm-hmm and with some software

444
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,080
We're able to kind of clean it up a little bit and a little bit more definition

445
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:48,760
A little bit more on the color wise to kind of see the shape of this creature whatever it was but it's still tough to tell

446
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:54,520
It is still tough to tell. I mean, there's no doubt looking at it now enhance that it's organic

447
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,680
It looks like a fish of some sort clearly we can see some sort of terminus

448
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,120
On that end looks like we're seeing what looks like could be an eye here

449
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,240
What looks like a mouth here, and then it's it's just unclear though

450
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,440
Exactly how long it is because it kind of trails off

451
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:14,040
Too deep for us to really get an image on yeah, it doesn't really reveal for us exactly what it is

452
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:20,040
The enhancement clearly revealed that whatever we saw was in fact some sort of animal

453
00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:24,600
And we immediately emailed professor voonak fan and hanoi to help us ID our find

454
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,240
Professor hi, this is josh gates. How are you?

455
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:28,520
Yeah

456
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:34,040
Good i'm uploading that image to you right now. We had a chance to run it through our enhancement software

457
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,120
And it looks like something organic to us, but we were hoping maybe you could

458
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,600
Help identify exactly what it is. I am sending it over to you right now

459
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,200
I'm uploading that image to you right now

460
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,000
We had a chance to run it through our enhancement software

461
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:55,080
And it looks like something organic to us, but we were hoping maybe you could

462
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,560
Help identify exactly what it is. I am sending it over to you right now

463
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:06,920
Upon examination that professor believed the characteristic mouth seen in our footage to be of a small whale shark swimming near our boat

464
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,640
Well, thank you very much for your help. We appreciate it

465
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,520
Yep, cheers. Bye bye

466
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:18,200
On one hand with such rich folklore in this dramatic body of water people in vietnam clearly have sea monsters on the brain

467
00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:23,080
On the other hand the wealth of eyewitness sightings here of an abnormally large animal cannot be ignored

468
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,080
The most rational explanation to the story of the terrasque is that on rare occasions

469
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:33,480
Animals such as the whale shark a creature that can grow up to 45 feet in length make their way into the bay and locals

470
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,720
Unfamiliar with these massive creatures believe them to be the monsters of their mythology

471
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:43,640
The animal we saw certainly looked mysterious to us although wasn't nearly large enough to account for what our sonar

472
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,840
Imaged beneath our boat or what we saw in the cave leaving a question mark at the end of our investigation

473
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,040
I had to press on to more adventures and another destination

474
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,360
But was left wondering exactly what swims beneath the waters of how long bay

475
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,920
From sea creatures to flying creatures we turn our attention to the world of bats

476
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,680
And if you're among those who think bats are scary then listen up because something

477
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:12,280
Decidedly nasty is said to be circling the skies over the coast of east africa and the small island of zanzibar

478
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:17,800
The suspect is something the locals call the popa bower an enormous bat-like creature with a single eye

479
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:23,960
It's reported that the popa bower emits a strange light flies through open windows and attacks its human prey at night

480
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,160
While they sleep leaving cuts bruises and sometimes worse

481
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:32,840
Native islanders say the creature appears in cycles having last terrorized zanzibar in 1995

482
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:38,360
Now after 12 years the popa bower is back and the numerous sightings are making international headlines

483
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:43,880
What's even more interesting is that the current sightings are no longer relegated to the remote areas of zanzibar

484
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,800
But are happening in the center of the most populated part of the island stone town

485
00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:52,600
The island's crumbling capital lies beneath the sleepy maze of cobbled streets and ruined buildings

486
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,200
If a gigantic bat creature is flying over this populated region

487
00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:01,880
I aim to find it my team and I packed up our investigation equipment and headed to one of the most remote islands on earth

488
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:07,800
My team and I traveled a grueling 25 hours from Los Angeles to Dar es Salaam Tanzania

489
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:14,920
Where we headed to the docks to catch the only ferry to zanzibar an island covered in dense jungle and dotted with lagoons and sprawling swamps

490
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:21,240
I wondered if it was possible that a creature has been hidden in the forests here and flying under the radar of modern science

491
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,480
I was determined to find out

492
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:29,160
I was able to find out that the creature was hiding in the forest here and flying under the radar of modern science

493
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,400
I was determined to find out

494
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:39,800
Once we arrived we made our way through stone towns bustling night market an open air buffet of all things aquatic

495
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,280
Where I sampled some of zanzibar's local delicacies

496
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,280
I'm no authority on the zanzibari dining scene

497
00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:02,040
But I'm pretty sure that my popa bower skewer was just under done calamari and I was going to have to continue my investigation

498
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:09,160
The next morning I made my way around stone town where news reports claimed the popa bower had recently been spotted at night

499
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:14,680
This ramshackle maze is full of open windows where a creature could enter and attack sleeping victims

500
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:18,680
And the outline jungle would provide ample hiding places for this giant bat

501
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,640
But is that really what's going on here? I asked some of the locals what they knew of the story

502
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,720
But do you think it's real? Yeah, really so many people that

503
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,520
Is going to hospital to

504
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:39,480
To get a treatment. Yeah many people go to the hospital. Yeah, so what do you think is happening? Do you think it's popa bower? Yeah

505
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,240
I perused the local meat market how much for the whole thing?

506
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,800
It's a good deal looks fresh not a lot of flies on it, which is good

507
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,640
You guys know the popa bower

508
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,640
No batman batman

509
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,120
Which one popa bower is a batman

510
00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:02,680
You like batman batman batman the new one hell. I even joined in with an african band

511
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:20,040
But what about the victims i'd read about in the news reports i was about to find out

512
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,240
Farida a local woman translated for me. What did you see?

513
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,440
I was at night

514
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,320
When he comes I felt like i've seen something

515
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:41,480
Flying over the roof and then I felt some strange smell. So did the popa bower attack you?

516
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:49,160
Attack me but I fought with him with him. You followed the popa bower. Yeah, and could you see him when you were fighting with him?

517
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,360
Yeah, I have not much power but I fight with him

518
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,160
Ashraf was apparently able to fight off the popa bower and save himself from serious injury

519
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:02,520
I can't say his story had turned me into a believer, but nevertheless. I paid a visit to another victim. I'd read about

520
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:10,120
When I met the second victim I learned the details of his attack by the popa bower were so horrifying that he refused to go on camera

521
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,960
This man claimed that he was not just physically attacked by the popa bower

522
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:19,720
He was violated as well

523
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,040
He asked that we shoot him in shadow to protect his identity and tell me exactly what happened. Okay

524
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,840
He was kind of half asleep and he felt something was

525
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:37,960
Coming near him something that can fly

526
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:47,720
There were some fries so he had bruises the bruises but he could not fight anymore

527
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,200
More specifically like what like what had happened

528
00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:00,120
And then he lost conscious do you believe that this was popa bower?

529
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,320
He was one of those people who did not believe but after what happened to him

530
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:14,120
Is there a way to protect yourself against popa bower one way is you could go to the

531
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,680
traditional doctors

532
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:21,880
Who have the power to deal with them I tracked down the island's most prominent medicine man

533
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:29,000
It turned out he's actually a healer who was and get this officially contracted by the government to help them with their popa bower epidemic

534
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,960
How does popa bower choose its victims?

535
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,840
So they can choose any house popa bower does not come through the door

536
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,400
Maybe can come through the window or through the the wall

537
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,920
Like santa. Yeah. Yeah

538
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:57,320
They travel at night they come at night the president of this country has officially

539
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:03,160
Thank you for the work that you did. Is there anything that you can give me that will attract the popa bower

540
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:09,160
The healer mixed up a medicine that he claimed would help draw the popa bower out and at the same time protect me from it

541
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,280
Though to me it looks suspiciously like nasty dirt

542
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,520
And then I and then I eat it I've no idea what this is, but I just eat it

543
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,040
Okay, that's why he's eating it so that you can feel yourself

544
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:22,920
How long will it last?

545
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,360
until when you die like the natural death

546
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,760
Is the towing I died that may be in about four minutes

547
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,520
I wasn't sure if the magic dirt was going to do me much good

548
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:37,080
But the medicine man told me the exact location in stone town where the recent attacks had occurred

549
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:41,240
So far I had a lot of hearsay, but where was the physical evidence for this creature?

550
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:48,360
Since we heard from eyewitnesses that the light emitting popa bower flies over the rooftops before attacking its victims through open windows

551
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:53,480
We set up our equipment on the roof of the tallest building in the area with hopes of photographing it

552
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:59,000
The way the locals talk about the frequency of these sightings. There should be swarms of popa bower filling the skies

553
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:10,200
Okay, so this gives us a 360 degree view is great. We can look down a lot of rooftops right allows us best possible field of view

554
00:34:11,240 --> 00:34:13,000
We've got cameras

555
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,360
On the balconies. What's our story with that setup? We've got cameras on the balconies

556
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:21,080
One's gonna be kind of mobile kind of panning around see if we pick anything up a couple more stationary

557
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:28,040
Great, we've certainly heard that the popa bower is active. He's around right people say you can see him in the night sky

558
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,800
And we know that it's really

559
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,240
Kind of horrid stench

560
00:34:31,240 --> 00:34:35,640
associated with him when he arrives and remember also they say to mix some sort of light

561
00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:37,880
Okay with kasey in position on the roof

562
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:42,440
We headed out into the dark and narrow streets of stonetown if kasey saw anything in the skies

563
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:47,240
It would be a foot race for me to get on the scene. I took the fleer thermal imager to be my eyes in the dark

564
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,760
Base discounting

565
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,840
Hope we'll see you in the base

566
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:08,760
Guys just checking in how our things looking things looking good. We're just getting into the old city now

567
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,480
Copy that kind of vision on you up here, but uh

568
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,360
Stand contact. She's on good radio range

569
00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:17,240
Well, do over now

570
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,160
Let's don't do this quite literally a lab. It's just a mess

571
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,960
90 narrow streets

572
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,960
There's almost no rhyme or reason

573
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,760
There's definitely a lot of open windows in this place

574
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,920
Whoa, what was that?

575
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:59,640
Hey, uh, josh josh, you hear me josh? We're picking up some sort of mist or light

576
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:05,240
I can't tell what it is. It's like a pulsing light behind a church steeple out there. You guys see that

577
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,600
I guess it is probably 400 yards east where you are

578
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,960
It's weird man. When you look at it with the naked eye, you don't see anything

579
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,240
But in the astroscope, you're definitely picking up some type of pulsing light out there

580
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:20,280
But I read you uh, we'll track over to where's the steeple and see if we can pick up anything on the thermal

581
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,840
All right, copy sounds good. Let me know what you find

582
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:29,480
It's not like they say that about amid some sort of strange light, so we should probably check out whatever case he's seeing over there

583
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,840
We're gonna go around the grass here at the same time

584
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,840
We're picking up anything on the uh, on the thermal at this point though

585
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,840
Josh for Casey

586
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:25,640
Go ahead

587
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:30,120
You've been all around this church to cover the block radius around it. We're not getting any readings or seeing anything

588
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,120
usual here. We're gonna press on

589
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,120
Yeah, the light has to be here for the astroscope as well

590
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:45,800
Based on mobile

591
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,800
This is mobile team come in base

592
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,800
We're gonna go ahead and get the light out

593
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:55,240
Based on mobile this is mobile team come in base uh, Josh. Hey, man. I just got a reading

594
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,240
I got a bad view of the skyline right now you say you can see it in the sky right now

595
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:08,280
Yes, I just saw it past my screen. We're gonna get up somehow. Okay. I just I gotta get up to uh

596
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,920
I just gotta get a pie. I don't have a access point right now

597
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,640
Yeah, get a pie there flying door

598
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,280
What is this place? Uh, okay, I'm trying to find roof access there. Hold on. There's there

599
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:26,840
This place is like

600
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,280
Under construction or something

601
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,120
Go go go stop stop stop stop

602
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,120
I

603
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,120
I

604
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,120
I

605
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,120
I

606
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,120
I

607
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,120
I

608
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,120
I

609
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,120
I

610
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,120
I

611
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,120
I

612
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,120
I

613
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,120
I

614
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,120
I

615
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,120
I

616
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,920
This place is like

617
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,360
Under construction or something

618
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,280
Go go go stop stop stop

619
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,080
Get down get down get down

620
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:25,720
Up here

621
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,520
I

622
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,440
Josh is I got a partial view of the sky from here

623
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,480
I'm gonna kind of wreck that building a lot of scaffolding

624
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,520
I'm as high as I can get I can't quite get to the roof

625
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,800
I've got a pretty good view of the sky from here

626
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,040
and

627
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,000
Yeah, nothing I got nothing on the thermal. I can't see anything from here either

628
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,080
Yeah, they were moving at a really really good clip

629
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:52,600
So by the time you got up there

630
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,480
They may may definitely be out of your view because they're moving quick

631
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,760
All right case I might quite up the verify where you're at. I'm gonna come back down

632
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,240
Uh get down on the street in a safer position and I'll radiate you back. All right copy

633
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,320
Hobel team to base we see your lights now. We're coming in we should be there in a few minutes

634
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,600
I

635
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,200
Want you're coming off the right frame

636
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,520
Straight ahead over this building

637
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,680
and then drops

638
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:38,520
Also looking like that's to me. I mean it looks big. It just doesn't look monster big and uh, you know for me

639
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:45,240
You got to say is there any sort of base of real physical evidence here that something cryptozoological is a foot?

640
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,880
I don't think we have that. No, you know

641
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:49,720
um

642
00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:53,400
This is not panning out for us. I don't think I don't know what else we can do

643
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:57,960
I mean it's a little frustrating at this point because we don't have a whole lot of evidence to to go back with

644
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,120
I think the fact that we feel frustrated and the fact that there isn't a lot to go on says something

645
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:06,600
But let the cameras run out. They pick something up. Sure analyze them later. Yeah

646
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:12,440
The next day all I could think about was the huge disconnect between what the eyewitnesses and medicine man described as a

647
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:18,440
Popabala epidemic here in zanzibar and the absolute evidence goose egg my team and I turned up during our investigation

648
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:24,520
I began to wonder if this story could be fueled by a culture here in zanzibar that is filled with supernatural traditions and

649
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,200
superstitious folklore

650
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:31,000
I went back through the streets retracing my steps talking to a larger sampling of the city's residents

651
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,800
You think it's real or not real

652
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,480
Listen, do you know the story of the popabala this guy here?

653
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,480
Me I don't believe that you don't believe him not only did this man not believe in the popabala

654
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:51,640
He explained to me that the newly elected government officials had dismissed the story as well

655
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,640
The fact that the popabala epidemics reported here in zanzibar occur

656
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,720
Cyclically as opposed to randomly had been nagging at me and then it hit me

657
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:05,960
During my interview with the medicine man. He told me the last popabala panic had swept the island in 1995

658
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:11,160
Just before the local elections and now popabala is back during the current elections

659
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:17,240
Coincidence I needed just one more interview to be sure that my emerging theory of how and why this story was being

660
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:24,600
Retreated was correct zanzibar's prominent history professor abdul-shareef held the key. What can you tell me about your knowledge of the story?

661
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,760
Popabala in fact, I had never heard of before until the elections came

662
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,200
It was part of the political tensions and the opposition people

663
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:36,920
You know in the streets begin to talk about that if you steal the election, you know popabala will get you

664
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:44,120
The professor went on to explain that the opposition party uses the folkloric belief system of their supporters to sway the political process in zanzibar

665
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:49,480
They peddled the story of a terrible monster during election time creating hysteria among the locals

666
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:55,160
Who in turn explain everything from bad dreams to horrific abuse as an attack by the infamous popabala

667
00:42:55,720 --> 00:43:00,440
In 1995 the reported popabala attacks lined up perfectly with the local elections

668
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:06,680
Likewise the current reports line up perfectly with you guessed it the elections currently underway in the city

669
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:11,960
I now believe the popabala is a political tool employed to cause disruption during elections

670
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,240
And you thought the american political landscape was corrupt