1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,340 On this episode of Destination Truth, Josh heads to Japan, 2 00:00:04,340 --> 00:00:07,880 where a monster reportedly lurks in the waters of Lake Akita. 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,920 Come on, come on, come on! 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:12,920 Something dangerous. 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:15,760 Next, the crew ventures to Iceland, 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,920 where locals claim tiny elves have been wreaking some major havoc. 7 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,620 There have been serious accidents. 8 00:00:21,620 --> 00:00:25,200 Will Josh unearth fantastical evidence of these small creatures? 9 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,900 Or do they turn out to be nothing but tall tails? 10 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:29,900 You hear that? It's like a thud right there. 11 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:31,900 What the f***? 12 00:00:33,180 --> 00:00:34,540 I'm Josh Gates. 13 00:00:34,540 --> 00:00:37,020 In my travels, I've seen some unexplainable things, 14 00:00:37,020 --> 00:00:39,520 and I've done some things I can't quite explain. 15 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,460 Now I've pulled together a team armed with the latest technology 16 00:00:43,460 --> 00:00:46,760 in the search for answers to the world's strangest mysteries. 17 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,660 I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me, 18 00:00:48,660 --> 00:00:50,060 but I know what I'm looking for. 19 00:00:50,060 --> 00:00:51,560 The truth. 20 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:55,240 Hopefully Godzilla won't be jealous 21 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,840 when he finds out Japan has a new monster on the loose. 22 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:59,720 Only instead of attacking the cityscape, 23 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,680 this guy is reportedly terrorizing a rural lake. 24 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,680 His name is Isi, and he's become so famous in Japan, 25 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:07,480 he's practically a national treasure. 26 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,220 A treasure that could eat a man in one bite, that is. 27 00:01:10,220 --> 00:01:12,160 Locals claim this elephant-sized creature 28 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,720 has been threatening their waters for hundreds of years. 29 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,660 Gathering dozens of eyewitness accounts, 30 00:01:16,660 --> 00:01:18,640 we were able to create a digital rendering 31 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:20,640 of this scary swimmer. 32 00:01:21,300 --> 00:01:25,340 Isi is known to inhabit the depths of Lake Akita in Japan. 33 00:01:25,340 --> 00:01:28,940 This creature is reported to weigh more than 500 pounds, 34 00:01:28,940 --> 00:01:31,040 with a thick body and long neck 35 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,920 that have been spotted jutting up out of the water. 36 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,920 Eyewitnesses describe the creature as being dark in color, 37 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,180 with a head and face which are reported to resemble a dinosaur. 38 00:01:40,180 --> 00:01:42,720 Its broad fins are used to guide it through the water, 39 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,620 but more often than not, it's the two humps 40 00:01:44,620 --> 00:01:46,060 that sit atop the creature's back 41 00:01:46,060 --> 00:01:48,060 that are spotted floating in the lake. 42 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,740 On the heels of some very recent sightings, 43 00:01:51,740 --> 00:01:54,240 my team and I decided to hightail it to Japan 44 00:01:54,260 --> 00:01:57,200 to find out just exactly what's lurking in their lake. 45 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,140 We flew 11 hours through Tokyo, 46 00:01:59,140 --> 00:02:00,840 connecting on a quick flight to Osaka 47 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,140 before finally arriving in Kagoshima. 48 00:02:03,140 --> 00:02:04,780 As we reclaimed our gear at the airport, 49 00:02:04,780 --> 00:02:06,740 I noticed our local guide's high-tech 50 00:02:06,740 --> 00:02:08,980 all-in-one cell phone from the future. 51 00:02:08,980 --> 00:02:11,380 This is a crazy future phone you've got. 52 00:02:11,380 --> 00:02:12,880 Also back here. 53 00:02:14,060 --> 00:02:15,920 Our search for the Isi had begun, 54 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:18,360 and apparently there was no turning back. 55 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,360 I'd like to welcome you aboard our transport. 56 00:02:21,380 --> 00:02:24,520 I'll be doing karaoke for the next four hours. 57 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,380 If you have any requests, please let me know. 58 00:02:26,380 --> 00:02:28,860 There is no smoking here in the Doily Van. 59 00:02:28,860 --> 00:02:32,260 These beautiful doilies were handmade in May 15th century, 60 00:02:32,260 --> 00:02:33,760 specifically for this van. 61 00:02:34,860 --> 00:02:37,000 Since we wouldn't be able to make it to Lake Akita 62 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,100 until morning, we decided to spend our night 63 00:02:39,100 --> 00:02:41,540 with the Isi Club, a group of Isi enthusiasts 64 00:02:41,540 --> 00:02:43,580 who invited us onboard their homemade vessel 65 00:02:43,580 --> 00:02:44,680 in the nearby ocean. 66 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:47,240 We hopped at the chance to talk with these local experts 67 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:48,740 and Mr. Miyagi's stuntman. 68 00:02:48,740 --> 00:02:49,680 What did you see? 69 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:54,680 A strange wave with little shadow like a tail 70 00:02:55,980 --> 00:02:57,580 about 100 meters away from us. 71 00:02:57,580 --> 00:03:02,580 And we thought that was kind of two or three meters 72 00:03:03,260 --> 00:03:05,460 up from the surface. 73 00:03:05,460 --> 00:03:10,460 And that was not the big fish that was that monster. 74 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:13,140 Two things quickly became crystal clear to me. 75 00:03:13,140 --> 00:03:14,840 First, that these guys had brought enough beer 76 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,340 and sake on board to sink this rusty barge. 77 00:03:17,340 --> 00:03:19,600 And second, that this was the greatest club 78 00:03:19,620 --> 00:03:20,900 ever formed. 79 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:21,720 Hey! 80 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:22,560 Hey! 81 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:23,400 Hey! 82 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:24,220 Hi! 83 00:03:24,220 --> 00:03:25,060 Thank you! 84 00:03:25,060 --> 00:03:25,900 Thank you! 85 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:28,660 The rest of the evening was basically a blur. 86 00:03:28,660 --> 00:03:30,000 Oh, man down! 87 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:30,840 Hey! 88 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:31,680 That's no good! 89 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:32,500 That's it! 90 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:33,340 Come on! 91 00:03:33,340 --> 00:03:34,180 Hey! 92 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,580 I awoke with a monster sized hangover 93 00:03:38,580 --> 00:03:40,640 and after checking to make sure I wasn't sporting 94 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,420 an I Heart Isi tattoo, we made our way south 95 00:03:43,420 --> 00:03:45,580 to Isi's reported home of Lake Akita. 96 00:03:45,580 --> 00:03:46,420 Found it! 97 00:03:47,420 --> 00:03:50,480 This local fisherman saw Isi recently. 98 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:51,980 What exactly did you see? 99 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,420 The creature looked black and it was erupting white 100 00:03:59,420 --> 00:04:00,660 kind of like sprays. 101 00:04:00,660 --> 00:04:02,560 It's moving so wake was coming off it. 102 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:04,860 Do you think that it's a dangerous animal? 103 00:04:04,860 --> 00:04:07,940 If it was coming toward you, he thinks yes, 104 00:04:07,940 --> 00:04:09,540 it would be dangerous. 105 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:13,000 And there's many locals that have claimed to have seen it 106 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:14,440 and they go back in time. 107 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:15,280 So. 108 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:17,000 Wait a minute, they travel in time? 109 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:17,840 No, no, no. 110 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:18,840 There's a time machine in this town? 111 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:19,680 No. 112 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:22,480 Apparently Isi is not only a notorious lake monster 113 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:24,480 but also a cash cow. 114 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:25,840 Why do they have to do that to him? 115 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:28,180 Put a bowler hat and a bow tie on him. 116 00:04:28,180 --> 00:04:29,620 What? 117 00:04:29,620 --> 00:04:31,620 Watch Destination True? 118 00:04:31,620 --> 00:04:33,720 Just as I was starting to feel like Isi was more 119 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,720 like Disney's latest animated hero rather than the ominous 120 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,960 beast I'd read about, we met up with this man 121 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,900 who reminded us that what we were searching for 122 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:43,640 was definitely not a cartoon character. 123 00:04:43,660 --> 00:04:45,840 Tell me exactly what you saw on the lake. 124 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:50,840 The waves kind of rustled and then this big creature 125 00:04:51,980 --> 00:04:53,680 just moved like this. 126 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:54,760 Did it actually surface? 127 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:56,960 Did you actually see the animal itself? 128 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,920 Just the back, not the neck. 129 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,200 All local people have seen it and he had heard about it 130 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:05,280 from his father. 131 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:07,320 And so when he actually finally saw it, he's like, 132 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:09,880 oh, this is what everybody was talking about. 133 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:12,640 And when was the last time that volcano exploded? 134 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:13,680 5,000 years ago? 135 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:14,880 5,000 years ago. 136 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:15,800 So you think we're safe? 137 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,120 If that thing blows up, I'm gonna be furious. 138 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,960 I wanted to see if my team and I could see 139 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:21,640 what the locals were seeing. 140 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,080 So we divided up and triangulated our positions 141 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,400 around the lake, giving us eyes on almost the entire surface. 142 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,480 Can I see some water being churned up over there? 143 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:30,960 Do you have a visual of anything? 144 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:32,200 Nothing as of yet. 145 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:33,880 After hours of scanning the water, 146 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:35,600 I decided that I needed to get up higher 147 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,440 to investigate from a bird's eye view. 148 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,320 So we hired a pilot to take us up. 149 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:40,880 How long have you been flying for? 150 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:43,320 About 30 minutes. 151 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:44,800 30 minutes? You've been flying for 30 minutes? 152 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:45,800 Yeah, for 30 years. 153 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,320 I'm out of here. 154 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:48,320 Thank you. 155 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,400 A little bit of chop up here. 156 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:55,760 Beautiful down there. 157 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,080 Lake Akita is more than two miles wide and three miles long, 158 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:00,680 with the majority of sightings happening 159 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:03,840 along the Southwest Bank during both day and night. 160 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:05,720 We flew low and scrutinized the surface 161 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,840 of this now flooded volcano for signs of issy. 162 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:10,960 The pilot even let me take the stick for a while. 163 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,200 I probably shouldn't have lied about being able to fly a plane. 164 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,040 Can't believe this guy's letting me fly a plane. 165 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:17,240 Doesn't seem right. 166 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,200 We landed and decided that after investigating 167 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:22,760 on the ground and in the air, 168 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:25,840 it was time to get wet and look for issy beneath the surface. 169 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:29,520 I made my way to the only boat in town. 170 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:30,720 Every time. 171 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,160 Five horsepower motor from 1957. 172 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,040 That's like the first thing you don't ever want to see 173 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,560 in a boat is like a huge bailing bucket. 174 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:39,560 Almost. 175 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,440 At more than 750 feet deep, 176 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,760 Lake Akita is a nightmare to investigate. 177 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:49,360 But even lake monsters have to eat 178 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,000 and with nearly no vegetation beyond 30 meters, 179 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,160 we set out with the help of our sonar system and GPS locator 180 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,800 to make a map of the contours of the bottom of the lake 181 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,680 and establish a potential feeding area and dive site 182 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,760 that would give us the best chance of coming face to face with issy. 183 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:06,240 We know that the sightings, 184 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,480 the main eyewitness sightings have been coming from this region. 185 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,920 We also know this is probably the best area to focus our efforts 186 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:12,720 because it may be feeding in this area. 187 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:32,440 And then in the calm waters, 188 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,800 issy and I suddenly spotted an enormous shadow moving beneath us. 189 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:38,800 They're coming to behind you, Josh. 190 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:40,800 They're coming. 191 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:42,800 That was scary. 192 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:50,800 I don't know what you just said. 193 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,800 Something big is going to happen. 194 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,800 It's going to be a big, scary thing. 195 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,800 What's going on down there? 196 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,800 This one's horrible. I just have to chill. 197 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,800 Hey, guys, I need you guys to check in with me. 198 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,800 I'm having a hard time reading what you guys are saying. 199 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,800 Well, that was scary. 200 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,800 I saw a huge black shadow. 201 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:43,800 It was impossible to sort of see where it started and ended, 202 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:45,800 but it looked dark, but then it was sort of like, 203 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,800 it was like silvery, right? 204 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:48,800 I saw silver flashes. 205 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,800 And it just was right below where we were, 206 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:52,800 and it just cruised right by. 207 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,800 What's weird is there's not supposed to be any sizeable fish here at all. 208 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,800 Just these little fish that we saw and eels. 209 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:58,800 Right. 210 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,800 Whatever Casey and I saw was huge 211 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,800 and appeared larger than the cataloged fish known to live in the lake, 212 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,800 as the sun sat over Lake Iquita, 213 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:07,800 we decided to stay put and continue the hunt, 214 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:09,800 even if it took all night. 215 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,800 We'd scan the surrounding depths with our sonar and underwater camera 216 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:14,800 and use a fleer thermal imager 217 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:16,800 to detect anything biological at the surface. 218 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:18,800 Casey established a base camp on shore 219 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,800 where he could monitor our progress with infrared cameras 220 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,800 covering the entire southwest shore of the lake, 221 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,800 while Jared scanned the surface with a night vision scope. 222 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:31,800 This is Josh for Jared. 223 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,800 Gabe and I are in the northwestern corner of the lake. 224 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:35,800 We've cut the engine. 225 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,800 We're going to drop in the sonar first. 226 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:40,800 There's been some activity reported in this part of the lake, 227 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:42,800 so we're going to start our sweep here. 228 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:46,800 You hear something over there? 229 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:47,800 Yeah, that's an affirmative. 230 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:48,800 I just heard something. 231 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:57,800 Josh. 232 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,800 We've got something breaking the surface. 233 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,800 It's about 500 yards behind you. 234 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,800 It's been here for about 15 seconds now. 235 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:09,800 Jared, I can't see where you're at. 236 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:10,800 You're going to have to guide me in with a light. 237 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:11,800 I'm running blind over here. 238 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:12,800 I can't see the shore at all. 239 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:14,800 Give me a signal light, something. 240 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:18,800 All right, Josh, just continue going straight. 241 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:19,800 You need to go about 100 more yards. 242 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,800 Copy that. I'm coming in. 243 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:23,800 It's right in this area now. 244 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,800 Right around there, right around there. 245 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:26,800 Copy that. 246 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,800 Copy, I got a good visual on you. 247 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,800 I'm looking around you guys. 248 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:35,800 That is exactly where I saw what looked like a lot of job 249 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:36,800 is coming to the surface. 250 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,800 It's going to stay about 15 seconds and then submerge. 251 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:41,800 Copy that, stand by. 252 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:42,800 Roger. 253 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,800 I'm definitely hearing something at the surface. 254 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:50,800 I lost it. 255 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:52,800 I lost it. 256 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,800 Jared, Josh. 257 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:56,800 Copy, Jared. 258 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,800 There's definitely some movement between you and I. 259 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:18,800 All right, listen. 260 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,800 We'll start with the Zonar system and the underwater camera. 261 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:21,800 We'll keep you posted. 262 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:23,800 How are we doing in the underwater camera? 263 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:25,800 What was that? What was that? 264 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:26,800 Oh, that was something. 265 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,800 There's something down there. 266 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:41,800 I'm getting hit all over the place. 267 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,800 I got something over there and I got more stuff underneath the boat. 268 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:45,800 That's the bottom. 269 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:46,800 Perfect. 270 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,800 Oh, something just went by it. 271 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,800 There's something on the front element. 272 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,800 It comes under water. 273 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:57,800 What the hell is that? 274 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,800 Is something swimming around it? 275 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,800 Whatever it is, it just knocked the camera around. 276 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:06,800 Yeah. 277 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:08,800 There it is again. 278 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:09,800 Yeah. 279 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,800 What the hell was that? 280 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:13,800 I don't know. 281 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,800 Josh for base camp, something huge just moved in front of our underwater camera. 282 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:17,800 Look at that. 283 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:19,800 What kind of visuals did you see? 284 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,800 We just imaged something go right in front of the camera and it was big. 285 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,800 I mean, it's almost like it's actually thrashing the camera around right now. 286 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:30,800 Look at that. 287 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:33,800 What's that? 288 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:38,800 Whatever it is, it's huge. 289 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:39,800 It's thrashing the camera. 290 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:41,800 It's pulling on it right now. 291 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:42,800 It's pulling on it. 292 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:43,800 It's pulling on the corner. 293 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:44,800 You can feel it. 294 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:45,800 It's pulling on it. 295 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:46,800 It's pulling on the corner. 296 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:47,800 You can feel it pull. 297 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:51,800 Oh my gosh, it's still... 298 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,800 Casey won't believe what it's doing with this camera. 299 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,800 I mean, it's just attacking it. 300 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:58,800 Look at... 301 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:02,800 Oh, can you see that? 302 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:03,800 Look at it. 303 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,800 Whatever it is, it might be attracted to the light of the camera. 304 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:09,800 Oh, it's a lot. 305 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,800 We got something under the boat. 306 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,800 You got technology to control it too. 307 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,800 I mean, I can't believe what it's doing right here. 308 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:29,800 Something under the boat. 309 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,800 You got technology to control it too. 310 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:34,800 I mean, I can't believe what it's doing right here. 311 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:40,800 Josh. 312 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:42,800 How are things looking? 313 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,800 Things looking okay right now. 314 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,800 We had something under the boat and attacking our underwater camera 315 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,800 and whatever it is seems to have moved on. 316 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,800 We are waiting to see if it comes back. 317 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:53,800 Copy. 318 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:58,800 Whatever that was actually pulled on the camera. 319 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:14,800 Pull the camera up. 320 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:15,800 This is Josh's base camp. 321 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,800 We're getting some interference on the camera now. 322 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,800 We're taking it out of the water. 323 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,800 Yeah, it's actually damaged. 324 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:27,800 Okay. 325 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:29,800 Josh's base camp, come in. 326 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:31,800 Go for base. 327 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,800 The underwater camera was damaged when it was attacked. 328 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,800 Whatever it is, actually, it looks like it bit into the camera 329 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,800 and broke the seal on the left light 330 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:43,800 and water has entered that part of the camera 331 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:45,800 and has shorted out the light. 332 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:50,800 Wow, I mean, that thing is a native solid carbonate 333 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:52,800 so I can't believe whatever... 334 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:54,800 It's been in the left thing. That's been great. 335 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:55,800 Pretty good size. 336 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:56,800 Looks like mission accomplished 337 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:58,800 or whatever did not light that light down there. 338 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,800 With our team now blind underwater, 339 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,800 our investigation was now seriously crippled. 340 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,800 We continued to observe the lake's surface 341 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,800 but whatever we saw on our underwater camera 342 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:09,800 vanished into the depths of Lake Akihita. 343 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,800 Is the underwater camera a battery system? 344 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,800 By daylight, we took the broken remains 345 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,800 of our underwater camera equipment back to Los Angeles 346 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:23,800 where we could analyze its footage. 347 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,800 For expert assistance, we sat down with Dr. Scott Cooper 348 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:28,800 from the University of California, Santa Barbara 349 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,800 to find out what he thought could have trashed our gear. 350 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,800 Here you can see a shrimp over. 351 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:34,800 See its eye shine. 352 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,800 Unfortunately, there's not a really clear shot of anything 353 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,800 in the frame but certainly the camera is turbulently moved around. 354 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:42,800 I don't know what that is. 355 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:44,800 See, that to me looks like a fish. 356 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,800 It's too regular, I think, to be a fish. 357 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,800 It looks like a piece of debris. 358 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:54,800 Like a piece of cloth or a piece of paper or plastic. 359 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:56,800 The camera actually broke 360 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,800 and when it came back up and was examined at the surface, 361 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:00,800 it has bite marks in it. 362 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,800 It looks like something has actually attacked the camera. 363 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,800 It looked like it had just been punched into in a series of places. 364 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,800 Well, eels have short, sharp teeth and rows 365 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:14,800 and so that sounds like it could be consistent with an eel bite 366 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,800 but I don't know anything else in the lake 367 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:21,800 that could leave those kinds of marks on your camera. 368 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,800 At up to six feet long, the eels living in Lake Akita are impressive 369 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:29,800 and could account for what Casey and I saw lurking on the edge of our dive 370 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:31,800 and while it would be extremely unusual for these animals 371 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,800 to act so aggressively, we can't rule out that our cameras 372 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,800 may well have been attacked by a seriously irked eel. 373 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,800 As to the eyewitness sightings at the surface, 374 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,800 bottom-dwelling eels are almost certainly not a suspect 375 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,800 and while I have serious doubts about the ability of a large, unknown animal 376 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,800 to survive here undetected, I can't totally rule it out either. 377 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,800 We know for sure that there's something swimming in the bottom of Lake Akita 378 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,800 and in time, it might just make its way to the surface. 379 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,800 Elves 380 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,800 These magical creatures are famous for a lot of things 381 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,800 protecting Middle Earth, baking cookies and trees 382 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,800 and helping Santa at the North Pole. 383 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,800 But to locals in Iceland, elves are much more than a pop culture reference. 384 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:12,800 To them, they are real. 385 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,800 So real in fact, Icelanders have been known to go so far 386 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,800 as to divert road construction in order to keep them safe. 387 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:19,800 Seriously. 388 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,800 And while the thought of looking for these creatures may seem futile, 389 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:24,800 I just couldn't resist the hundreds of eyewitness reports 390 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,800 from people who claim to have had personal contact with the elves. 391 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,800 We combined these first-hand descriptions 392 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:31,800 and loaded them into our creature-making software 393 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:35,800 to come up with this virtual version of these minuscule monsters. 394 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,800 Residents claim that elves reside in rocky outcroppings 395 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,800 and on the edge of forests. 396 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,800 Reported to be between three and four feet tall, 397 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,800 these small creatures are said to resemble humans 398 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,800 with some eyewitnesses reporting characteristically pointy ears. 399 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,800 They are known to have an unmistakable ethereal glow 400 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:53,800 and extremely fair skin. 401 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:57,800 Picking up where Tolkien left off, 402 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,800 my team and I packed up our gear and headed out to Iceland 403 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,800 for an improbable search for the truth behind these little beings. 404 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,800 We flew nine hours and arrived in the city of Reykjavik 405 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:08,800 on the west coast of Iceland. 406 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:15,800 Finally, it's cold somewhere. 407 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:19,800 Gently the gear. 408 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:21,800 Deadliest catch that's going on. 409 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,800 Driving into Reykjavik, 410 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,800 it was clear that Icelanders had elves on the brain. 411 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,800 Look at this one. Just trying to hide behind a picture frame. 412 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,800 Okay, so, Casey, just so I get this straight, 413 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,800 we're looking for elves. 414 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,800 This is correct. Elves. 415 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,800 There was never a point in my life where I thought, 416 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,800 one day I'll take a crew of people, 417 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:46,800 boxes of technology, night vision scopes, thermal imagers, 418 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,800 and I will hunt those elves. 419 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,800 I never thought that day would come. 420 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,800 Let it's here. 421 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,800 Our first stop was to a city park to speak with a prominent historian 422 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,800 who has dedicated his career to the study of elves. 423 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:01,800 Where does this story come from? 424 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:03,800 Nobody really knows because it's so old. 425 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,800 It has followed mankind from ancient time. 426 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:08,800 And so now, present day, 427 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,800 what percentage of people in Iceland would you say believe in elves? 428 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:17,800 54% of the Icelandic nation believes that elves and hidden people do it. 429 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,800 That's incredible. 430 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,800 It's very hard to explain to normal people that are probably watching us 431 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,800 that more than 100 Icelanders have been invited into Elfholm 432 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:29,800 and eat coffee and pancakes. 433 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,800 Elf and a coffee and pancakes? 434 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:32,800 Of course they do. 435 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,800 Is drinking a problem here in Iceland? 436 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,800 It was then that I noticed some very interesting real estate here in the park. 437 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,800 You will see this in a lot of places in Iceland where people believe elves live. 438 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,800 And they put these there to honor them 439 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,800 and remind people that elves are everywhere. 440 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,800 Elves everywhere. 441 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,800 This woman described her encounter with the elves. 442 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,800 Oh, sorry. I forgot to give you some more wood. 443 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,800 She saw light in the cliffs. 444 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,800 And then she saw elves coming out of the cliffs. 445 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,800 The largest one very close to our size. 446 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,800 How does angering elves, how does that manifest? 447 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,800 Do they, can elves hurt people? 448 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,800 There have been accidents, serious accidents. 449 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,800 They tried to break down all machinery, 450 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,800 tilt it over trucks. 451 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,800 And what about the government and government building projects? 452 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,800 The road company of Iceland, the official government, 453 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,800 they respect the elves. 454 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:29,800 And they do bend the roads around elf rocks. 455 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,800 Rather than build the road straight, 456 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,800 the government will actually curve a road 457 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,800 or move it around places that are suspected elf habitats. 458 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:38,800 They do, move it. 459 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:39,800 Wow, it's amazing. 460 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:41,800 Elves are believed to be mischievous 461 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,800 and when humans traipse through their natural environment, 462 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,800 it is said that they react by wreaking havoc 463 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,800 on mechanical equipment and electronic devices. 464 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,800 As incredible as this sounded, 465 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,800 it wasn't nearly as incredible as the complete lack of security 466 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,800 around the Icelandic White House that my translator alerted me to. 467 00:20:56,800 --> 00:20:57,800 Just, I want to understand this. 468 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,800 This is the president of Iceland's house. 469 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,800 And you can just drive right up to his front door. 470 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,800 And you can knock on the door. 471 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:05,800 No, that's insane. 472 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:06,800 I'll do it. 473 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,800 Why don't we go knock on his front door and just see? 474 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,800 Are you f***ing kidding me? 475 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,800 I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm speechless. 476 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,800 President's not home? 477 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,800 Maybe we'll come by later and bring him some pie or something. 478 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:26,800 While the president was off doing who knows what, 479 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,800 we had the very important business of elves to get to. 480 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,800 Iceland is one of the most rugged countries on earth 481 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,800 and with volcanoes, waterfalls and glaciers around every corner, 482 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,800 sometimes driving here can be an adventure all by itself. 483 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,800 Little deep, hang on. 484 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,800 Finally, outside of the city, we stopped to speak to this woman 485 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,800 and elf fashion enthusiast who experienced a visit 486 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,800 from a female elf in the woods one day. 487 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:58,800 She said to me, this rocks is some kind of church. 488 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,800 And I heard the sound from the rocks. 489 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,800 It was music. 490 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,800 Is it possible for someone like me to come here and see them? 491 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,800 Yes, yes, yes, yes. You can. 492 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,800 How do I go to look for them? 493 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:10,800 Many places. 494 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:11,800 In nature? 495 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,800 Is there any way to kind of attract elves or hidden people? 496 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,800 Can you kind of draw them out towards you? 497 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:17,800 Is that possible? 498 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,800 You can just sit in silence, even just alone or in silence. 499 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,800 That's very important. 500 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,800 One of the things we also hear is that if you don't have a respect for nature, 501 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,800 if you, if you sort of come trampling through these outcroppings, 502 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,800 you bulldoze them, you do construction, 503 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,800 that you can anger these, these elves and these hidden people. 504 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,800 Persighting took place near the site of the new road we'd heard about 505 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,800 that was recently under construction, 506 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,800 but was diverted in order to protect the elves. 507 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,800 Clearly this would be an ideal location for our investigation. 508 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,800 The road was in Borger Fjord, 509 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,800 about a two hour drive north of Reykjavik. 510 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,800 We arrived and realized that we had an enormous amount of ground to cover 511 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:52,800 in the surrounding area. 512 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,800 We opted for a little off-road transportation 513 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,800 to investigate the rugged surrounding hills. 514 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,800 Can you even see through this thing? 515 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,800 Who is cutting the hair of these horses? 516 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,800 This horse is wearing a wig. It's embarrassing. 517 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,800 This is too much. This is like, 518 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,800 you gotta tone this down. 519 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,800 You don't see any shit on Battlestar Galactica, 520 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,800 but you do see a lot of naked women in spaceships that blow up, 521 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,800 so I guess that's cooler. 522 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,800 Since elves are believed to reside in rocky outcroppings on the edge of forests, 523 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,800 we investigated the entire area for any signs of their presence. 524 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,800 We know all this is rock outcroppings down here. 525 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,800 Let's check out behind this ridge. 526 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,800 Yeah! After all, if I was going to look for elves, 527 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,800 I was at least going to be thorough about it. 528 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,800 Casey, you see any elves yet? 529 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,800 With evening closing in and with elves largely believed to be nocturnal, 530 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,800 we threaded back to the side of the road diversion to set up our investigation. 531 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,800 We got open fields, rocky outcroppings on the edge of this forest here. 532 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,800 We know there have been eyewitness sightings in this area. 533 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:55,800 This is the spot. 534 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,800 There was just one more delay. 535 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:00,800 The sun didn't seem to be cooperating. 536 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,800 Iceland is apparently in its own dimension. 537 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,800 It is now 11.30 at night, which is nonsense. 538 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,800 Finally, with darkness upon us, we assessed the situation. 539 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,800 If people weren't seeing elves here, what were they seeing? 540 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,800 We would hopefully find out. 541 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,800 There are two ways to look at this story. 542 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:24,800 One way is that we are a group of people standing here with expensive technology hunting for elves, 543 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,800 which seems ridiculous. 544 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,800 The other way to look at it is that you have 50% of the people who live in this country 545 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:34,800 who have a real respect and a real belief for these creatures. 546 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:40,800 We don't want to dismiss them out of hand, so we are going to be open minded and go check it out. 547 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,800 We have run all of our infront cameras out from here. 548 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,800 We have one behind us shooting off into this farm field, 549 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,800 a couple more up in these rocky outcroppings, 550 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:50,800 a few more down here following some trails. 551 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,800 They are all rolling. They are up and going. 552 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,800 We are just going to see what we capture. 553 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,800 I never thought in all my years on this planet that I would say this, but let's go hunt for elves. 554 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:05,800 With a very late start to our investigation, we set out in the rocky hills in dense forests that surrounded our base camp. 555 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:10,800 There can be windows right there. They can be peeking at us right now. 556 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,800 There is a little bit of heat in the rock. 557 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:13,800 Is it really? 558 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,800 Yeah. I don't see any windows, but the rocks are very warm. 559 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,800 I mean not all of them, but the surrounding spots where a hearth might be. 560 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,800 Or a window. 561 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,800 A window would be warm across the window. 562 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,800 Well it would be if it were letting the heat out of the house. 563 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,800 There are not many shape windows. There are no shape of rocks. 564 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,800 Are we really debating about this right now? 565 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:45,800 I'm not saying it's elves, but this thermal imager, which works flawlessly for seasons, is completely screwed tonight. 566 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,800 It keeps freezing. 567 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:51,800 Charged it up full. 568 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:56,800 The battery is full. It's not that. It keeps kind of blacking out and just, I don't know. 569 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:01,800 The people that we spoke to said it's strange energy will sort of manifest itself. 570 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,800 How does angering elves, how does that manifest? 571 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,800 They tried to break down all machinery. 572 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:08,800 What was that? 573 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:09,800 I don't know. 574 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,800 I heard it over there and then over here. 575 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:16,800 I mean this thermal imager is like, stuff is happening on the screen. I've never seen it in my life. 576 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:23,800 We have it in hand. 577 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,800 This is just production. 578 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,800 пал's like, used just nearly all the pain from the domains of fashion. 579 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,800 It just blames it. 580 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,800 He's always been in my thoughts. 581 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,800 I gotta mess with this thing for a minute. Take a seat. 582 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:58,800 Is everybody else's gear working okay? 583 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,800 Listen to it. It's making clicking noises. 584 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,800 Like there's a hamster wheel on there or something. It's not supposed to do that. 585 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,800 You ready for an elf off? 586 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,800 I'm gonna die in for an elf off. 587 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:12,800 Keeper elf. 588 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:13,800 Christmas elf. 589 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:14,800 Will Ferrell in elf. 590 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,800 Totally more. Crabby Christmas movie. 591 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,800 That black magid from Patsana. 592 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:20,800 Prentice the dentist. 593 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:21,800 What the hell is that? 594 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:22,800 A leader pan. 595 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,800 He's not an elf. He's a boy. 596 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:25,800 Dress like an elf. 597 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,800 Are there any other elves? Can you guys think of any? 598 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:32,800 You lost, my friend. 599 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:34,800 You win the elf off. 600 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:35,800 It's time. 601 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,800 Hey guys, just a different base. I'm gonna go from here to the wall. 602 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,800 It is pretty. 603 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,800 Brother's Graham creepy fairy tale Christmas tree forest in here. 604 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,800 Okay, cover that for the quiet so far. 605 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:59,800 The only real occurrence we've had so far is that we've had a lot of trouble with the thermal imager, which is just been really finicky. 606 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,800 This may have been freezing. We'll try to make our way back over there in the next hour or so. 607 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,800 Sounds good to see that. 608 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,800 Copy over. 609 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:12,800 Having already experienced one glitch with our gear, our tech problems went from bad to worse. 610 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:16,800 What just happened? 611 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:28,800 So all of a sudden the camera just turned off and I went to go look for a battery and a couple seconds later it shone right back on, which that has never happened before. 612 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,800 Gabri, you prepared to say that elves mess with your camera? 613 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,800 I wouldn't say it's for sure elves, but it's definitely a possibility. 614 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,800 Josh, to base camp. Come in, Casey. 615 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,800 So our electronics problems continue. 616 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,800 We're heading back to camp to put batteries out of the... just kind of assess the gear. 617 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,800 Copy that. 618 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:57,800 Hello. 619 00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:58,800 Hey guys. 620 00:28:58,800 --> 00:28:59,800 How's it going? 621 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:00,800 Good. 622 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:07,800 A lot of electrical snafus, you know, I certainly... that's the one thing that's kind of happening that lines up with high witness testimony. 623 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:08,800 Okay. 624 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:09,800 Anything going on with the cameras? 625 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,800 No, it's been really quiet so far. 626 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,800 Let's get the parabolic dish going. 627 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,800 We'll reload the batteries, get some more tape. 628 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,800 We'll head back out and see if we can find anything in the audio room. 629 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:21,800 Okay, let's do it. 630 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:22,800 Where are we headed? 631 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,800 We're going to go up this ridge and kind of get towards these rocky outcroppings up here. 632 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:27,800 Maybe do some EVP stuff? 633 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,800 Yeah, dude, that's a good idea. 634 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,800 Call and response and see if we get anything there. 635 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:32,800 Hello. 636 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:37,800 Hello, what's that? 637 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:38,800 I heard that. 638 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:40,800 Did you hear that? 639 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:41,800 Yeah, I did hear that. 640 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:42,800 Sounded like a hello. 641 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:43,800 Did you hear that? 642 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:44,800 I did hear that. 643 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,800 It was like a real high... I hope this picked it up. 644 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,800 Did Josh the bass cam come in? 645 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,800 Yeah, go ahead. 646 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,800 We're on the rocky outcropping near bass cam. 647 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,800 All three of us just heard the voice. 648 00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:00,800 Just the left of us, it sounded like someone in a high pitched voice just said hello. 649 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:03,800 I just heard it again. 650 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:04,800 Is it on? 651 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:05,800 No. 652 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:06,800 Wow. 653 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:08,800 I'm pretty sure we're just saying that. 654 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:13,800 It sounded like hello again? 655 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:14,800 It seemed tone. 656 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,800 I don't know about hello. 657 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,800 We're going to leave this spot and start heading a little bit further up the outcropping. 658 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,800 Yeah, I should have caught you. 659 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,800 It's quiet here, yeah? 660 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:25,800 Yeah, it is. 661 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:26,800 You want to try it right here? 662 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,800 Well, this is kind of like where I feel like I heard it. 663 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:29,800 So let's give it a shot. 664 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:30,800 Come over here somewhere. 665 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:31,800 Let's give it a shot. 666 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:32,800 I'll go for it right now. 667 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:34,800 Hear that? 668 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:35,800 Yeah. 669 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:36,800 Yeah. 670 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:39,800 What is that? 671 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:40,800 I heard that again. 672 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:41,800 I don't think you guys hear anything. 673 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:42,800 We were just on the way. 674 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:44,800 What's going on down there? 675 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:46,800 You hear something on the hill behind us. 676 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:48,800 It's a cat. 677 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,800 Can you pick it up on any of the cameras down there? 678 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,800 I have no idea if it's little things. 679 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,800 That bass cam is able to pick it up. 680 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:58,800 I'll hold this. 681 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,800 The rigid behind us. 682 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,800 You guys can do some soups with parabolic. 683 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:03,800 We'll do. 684 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:04,800 Let's go. 685 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:05,800 Let's do it. 686 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:09,800 Pretty quiet here. 687 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,800 You want to try that parabolic? 688 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:11,800 Yeah, sure. 689 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:12,800 Or is it too windy? 690 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:13,800 No, let's go for it. 691 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:14,800 Parabolic's up. 692 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:22,800 Hello! 693 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:31,800 Hello! 694 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:34,800 Hello! 695 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:36,800 Hello! 696 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:45,800 Hello! 697 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:48,800 Hello! 698 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:50,800 Hello! 699 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,800 I don't know what that was. 700 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,800 It sounded like something dropping. 701 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:10,800 Maybe a branch or... 702 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,800 Let's see what we got up here. 703 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,800 I just heard something moving around the trees. 704 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,800 We could try just barreling through it. 705 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:27,800 Let me see how thick it is. 706 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,800 It thins out here a little. 707 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:37,800 Oh man. 708 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,800 I never needed an elf. It was right now. 709 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,800 We poked around in the thick brush for more than an hour. 710 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,800 Richie continued to use the parabolic dish, 711 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,800 but whatever we heard, we didn't hear again. 712 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:49,800 Hi. 713 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,800 So we heard a couple of things in the trees. 714 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,800 It sounded like something dropping. 715 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,800 Like a branch maybe or something. 716 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,800 But for me, the only thing that really kind of unnerved me 717 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,800 was just hearing that, but sounded like a voice. 718 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,800 Did it sound menacing or was it kind of a welcoming voice 719 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:06,800 that people do report? 720 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,800 Honestly, it sounded kind of high pitched. 721 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,800 It just sounded like someone saying hello. 722 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,800 For me, the only thing that really kind of unnerved me 723 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,800 was just hearing that, but sounded like a voice. 724 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:22,800 Other than that though, it's cold and it's woodsy. 725 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:23,800 Yeah. 726 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:24,800 That's it. 727 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:25,800 What's going on here? 728 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:26,800 Nothing. 729 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,800 I've been completely quiet all night so far. 730 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:31,800 Okay. 731 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,800 No little dudes in funny hats. 732 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,800 No cookies or wrapping presents. 733 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:37,800 No. 734 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:45,800 Head up to these rocks? 735 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:46,800 Yeah. 736 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:51,800 Whoa. 737 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,800 I almost pulled a big rock down on my head. 738 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:56,800 That was not really good. 739 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,800 Josh, do base camp come in? 740 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,800 Hey Josh, go for base camp. 741 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,800 Anything going on over there? 742 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,800 Actually, yeah, I went to go look at this camera that went down. 743 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,800 I thought I was going to just be changing batteries 744 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,800 and followed the cord forward all the way out here 745 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:26,800 and it wasn't attached to the camera anymore. 746 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,800 There's two different cords on it, right? 747 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,800 The actual signal cord and the power cord, 748 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:31,800 they were both disconnected. 749 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:34,800 Yeah, both disconnected. 750 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,800 I just found the battery pack. 751 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,800 It was kind of scattered a little bit of ways. 752 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,800 I actually haven't found the camera yet. 753 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,800 It's weird too because not the power cord 754 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,800 but the signal cord actually locks into place. 755 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,800 You actually have to twist lock it to connect the two cables. 756 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,800 It's almost impossible for it to just come undone. 757 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,800 I just found the camera. 758 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,800 It's face down, completely unplugged 759 00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,800 and you can see where we had a gaff to the fence. 760 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:00,800 It was a way of the way. 761 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:01,800 Copy that. 762 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,800 We'll look around and see if you can kind of figure out 763 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,800 if the camera, if it's possible that it fell 764 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,800 and disconnected itself and kind of rolled away 765 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,800 or if that's, if there's another explanation. 766 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:14,800 Copy that. 767 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,800 Give me a couple minutes and I'll radio back. 768 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:17,800 Over. 769 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:20,800 Okay. 770 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,800 So, I'm going to plug this camera back in 771 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,800 and see if it was damaged at all during this. 772 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:34,800 What is that? 773 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,800 You guys, you hear a loud bang? 774 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,800 Like rocks falling? 775 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,800 No, no type of rocks falling. 776 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,800 It's a rock. 777 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,800 Come on, but you didn't see anything. 778 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,800 Now we're a good half hour away from you 779 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:05,800 at least at this point. 780 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:06,800 Copy a while. 781 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,800 I'm going to check this camera and go in that mic. 782 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,800 Okay, let us know what you find. 783 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,800 While Ryder examined the camera, 784 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,800 Casey and I investigated the adjacent hillside 785 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,800 with the thermal imager in search of a suspect. 786 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:21,800 So, you hear that? 787 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:22,800 It's like a thud. 788 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,800 Whatever it was, it was really small, you know? 789 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:25,800 Yeah. 790 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:26,800 That was a low branch. 791 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,800 Casey, see if you can get it on the thermal. 792 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,800 Yeah, I've got nothing right now. 793 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,800 It was that like thud. 794 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:37,800 It was that super big thud. 795 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,800 That was right behind you, Casey. 796 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 797 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,800 Dude, there's nothing here. 798 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:53,800 Something was moving. 799 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:54,800 Did you see the branch move? 800 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, something was right there. 801 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:08,800 Something got something over there? 802 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:09,800 Yeah. 803 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:10,800 Did you see the branch move? 804 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:11,800 Yeah, yeah, something was right there. 805 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,800 I saw something move, but there's no, there's, 806 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,800 it's not giving any heat. 807 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:24,800 It happened right here, there's not, there's no heat. 808 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,800 No, there's nothing here giving off any type of heat 809 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,800 that would see right through all the bushes, all the plants. 810 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,800 There's nothing in here. 811 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:33,800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 812 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,800 All right, I'm gonna go get some of those, 813 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:42,800 but wait a minute. 814 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,120 All the plants. There's nothing in here. 815 00:37:47,220 --> 00:37:48,220 Behind you. 816 00:37:48,620 --> 00:37:49,720 That was behind you. 817 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:50,720 I was so happy to know that. 818 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:53,800 The first noise is right here. 819 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:54,800 First two were in there. 820 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,520 The next one's right there. 821 00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,360 Nothing crossed right here. 822 00:37:58,720 --> 00:38:00,800 Oh, maybe it's like some chipmunky thing. 823 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:01,800 I don't know. 824 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:02,800 Yep, there's no sound. 825 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:03,800 It's that thug, don't it? 826 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:04,800 It's one of those weird things. 827 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,800 It's like a black-weighted noise. 828 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:12,520 There's nothing here. 829 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,800 It'd be nice to get something on the thermal, but... 830 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,800 I'm not prepared to chalk it up to the elf column just yet. 831 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:21,800 No. 832 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:23,800 Something... 833 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:25,800 You got something over there? 834 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:26,800 Yeah. 835 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:27,800 What do you got? 836 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:28,800 I don't know yet. 837 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:29,800 I can't tell. 838 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,800 There's too much cover over it, but there's... 839 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,800 There's something in there giving off heat. 840 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:37,800 See that? 841 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:38,800 Yeah, it's something kind of isolated, too. 842 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:39,800 Yeah, it's all by itself. 843 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,800 But it's underneath these bushes here. 844 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:43,800 What's with your hand in there, Crowley? 845 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:44,800 No. 846 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:47,800 Whatever it is, it's hot. 847 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:49,800 Yeah, but it's underneath all those bushes. 848 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:52,800 What's it gonna be? 849 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:55,800 Do you see it? 850 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:57,800 Where'd it go? 851 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,800 It's like something showed up in the thermal and it just vanished. 852 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:04,800 But I don't see... 853 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:05,800 How deep does that go? 854 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:06,800 It doesn't. 855 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:07,800 There's no burrow hole here at all. 856 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,800 But nothing's scurried or scampered away. 857 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:11,800 No, it's just an animal. 858 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:12,800 Like an animal. 859 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:13,800 And there's no... 860 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:14,800 There's no burrow hole there. 861 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:15,800 I don't know where it's going. 862 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,800 Oh, you've got to be kidding me. 863 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:23,800 Damn it. 864 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:29,800 Right over Josh. 865 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:31,800 Yeah, go for Josh. 866 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,800 A dark camera that was on a tripod doing a time lapse was knocked completely over. 867 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,800 My walkie talkie's malfunctioning again a little bit, 868 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,800 but it sounded like you said that our time lapse camera was knocked over. 869 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,800 I seriously feel like I'm being sh** with the minute I leave up here if something else happens. 870 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,800 I'm gonna check the tape and make sure nothing was damaged on it. 871 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:50,800 Copy that. 872 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,800 We're headed back your way now so we can do a full kind of debrief when we get there. 873 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:03,800 Hey. 874 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:04,800 Hey. 875 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:05,800 You got an elf over here messing with you? 876 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:06,800 I'm rolling back the tape right now. 877 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,800 You can see when it goes down this camera. 878 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:11,800 Jeez. 879 00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:12,800 I mean... 880 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:13,800 And it was still on this tripod? 881 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:14,800 Yeah. 882 00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,800 The tripods are so low to the ground that I've got such a wide stance on them. 883 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:19,800 We've never had one go down before. 884 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:20,800 Never. 885 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:21,800 And it's not that windy. 886 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,800 But looking back at the tape, it doesn't look like anything was really thrown at it. 887 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,800 It looks like it was pretty gently pushed. 888 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,800 But the IR camera, I mean, that physically had to be... 889 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:33,800 That had it been handled. 890 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,800 It couldn't have just fallen over and come on down like that. 891 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:40,800 Well, let me go up there and take a look at it. 892 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:42,800 See if I can see anything weird. 893 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:45,800 Okay, let's see. 894 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:55,800 Uh-huh. 895 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,800 You know, it takes two connector points to make this camera work. 896 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,800 And Ryder said they were both disconnected. 897 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,800 This one can kind of become dislodged, 898 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,800 even though it takes a pretty good amount of force to disconnect it, as you can see. 899 00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,800 But this one has a locking mechanism. 900 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,800 And if it's not fully locked, it doesn't get a signal. 901 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,800 And so it's amazing to me that this could come undone. 902 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:18,800 That the both of them could come undone. 903 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,800 Seems almost completely impossible. 904 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,800 But that's what happened, I guess. 905 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,800 I admit I'm kind of intrigued by all the strange electrical snafus 906 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,800 and the physical things that have gone wrong. 907 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:34,800 I think it's a leap to go from mechanical and physical malfunctions to elves messing with us. 908 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,800 But let's take back what we have and run it through the hopper 909 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:41,800 and see if we can dissect what we've collected and make anything of it. 910 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,800 After a long night investigating in the woods, 911 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,800 we hightailed it back to Los Angeles with evidence in hand 912 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:51,800 to determine if our experiences in Iceland were tantamount to a close encounter of the elf kind. 913 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,800 We sat down with paranormal expert Troy Tackett to review our recordings. 914 00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:02,800 Alright, so the first thing, you and the sound guy, I believe, were out doing some EVP work. 915 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,800 And you guys commented that you heard a voice. 916 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:07,800 Hello! 917 00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:09,800 What was that? 918 00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:10,800 I have no idea. 919 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:11,800 Hello! 920 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:14,800 It's definitely saying yeah. 921 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,800 Sounds like someone's saying yeah. 922 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,800 So this one, I thought this was one of the best ones. 923 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,800 It's static, it's not changing. 924 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,800 It sounds like somebody in the background is going, whee! 925 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,800 It's static, it's not changing. 926 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:32,800 That sounds like an elf. 927 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:33,800 Yeah, I was going to say that. 928 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,800 That's the first elf thing I've heard on here. 929 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,800 It's static, it's not changing. 930 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:42,800 I would say there's definitely no real paranormal activity, 931 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,800 even though you did catch a few things, 932 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,800 but we can't say exactly what it was. 933 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:52,800 Perhaps not surprisingly, we didn't find much evidence to support the existence of elves in Iceland. 934 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:58,800 The disembodied voice resulting from our EVP session is likely nothing more than a slight interference playing tricks on our ears. 935 00:42:58,800 --> 00:42:59,800 It's static. 936 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,800 And the equipment failure we experienced in the field may be coincidental, 937 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,800 but with so many stories about mechanical malfunctions and elf intervention, 938 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,800 it did give me momentary pause. 939 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:14,800 But consider this, believe in these creatures represents a fundamental respect for the mystery and preservation of nature. 940 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,800 And though it may seem incredible that more than half of the population in Iceland believes this story, 941 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:24,800 it bears noting that in an era of rising oil prices, economic instability and environmental peril, 942 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:32,800 Icelanders with their geothermal power, clear blue skies, pure glacial drinking water and belief in elves are most certainly having the last laugh.