1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,300 On this episode of Destination Truth, Josh leads his team across the sands of Jordan to Petra, one of the new seven wonders of the world. 2 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:14,900 Excavation workers say this ancient city, Carbden Stone, is haunted by an evil force known as the Gin. 3 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:18,100 You would found the Gin, absolutely. A promise. 4 00:00:18,100 --> 00:00:27,100 With astonishing evidence, Josh called on the ghost hunters to help him determine if this city has ghostly residents. 5 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:28,400 It's great evidence. 6 00:00:28,900 --> 00:00:38,900 Next, the team continues their quest for the truth in the deep south, where locals claim a mutant reptile is terrorizing the town and creating a path of destruction. 7 00:00:38,900 --> 00:00:41,400 Swarms out there, and it's mad. 8 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:47,400 Josh takes his investigation deep into the swamp, where he comes face to face with an unknown creature. 9 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:49,900 Holy s***! Right there! Right there! 10 00:00:49,900 --> 00:00:50,900 Come on, come on, come on! 11 00:00:51,900 --> 00:00:52,900 Hold on! 12 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:59,900 I'm Josh Gates. In my travels, I've seen some unexplainable things, and I've done some things I can't quite explain. 13 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:06,900 Now, I've pulled together a team armed with the latest technology in the search for answers to the world's strangest mysteries. 14 00:01:06,900 --> 00:01:10,900 I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me, but I know what I'm looking for. 15 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:12,900 The truth. 16 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,900 As ancient ruins go, few are more impressive than the sight of Petra Jordan. 17 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:23,900 Indiana Jones fans will recognize it as the fictional final resting place of the Holy Grail. 18 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:29,900 In reality, it is an archaeological gem that, according to local belief, is dangerously haunted. 19 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:36,900 The rose-pink structures of Petra were carved into the steep canyon walls more than 2,500 years ago by the Nabateans, 20 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:40,900 a civilization of skilled merchants that controlled trade routes throughout Arabia. 21 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:44,900 Today, their capital city of Petra has been crowned one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, 22 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:47,900 and is, without a doubt, Jordan's greatest tourist attraction. 23 00:01:47,900 --> 00:01:52,900 But at night, when the crowds have left, guards report hearing whispered voices over the desert winds 24 00:01:52,900 --> 00:01:56,900 and seeing mysterious, inky shadows raking along the canyon walls. 25 00:01:56,900 --> 00:02:00,900 Locals blame a paranormal spirit they call the Jinn for these nightly terrors. 26 00:02:00,900 --> 00:02:04,900 Jinn is an Arabic word for ghost and is mentioned frequently in the Quran. 27 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:09,900 It is said to have the power to possess humans and lives in the dark recesses of burial chambers. 28 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:15,900 There are over 800 carved tombs in Petra, and few would dare to spend the night alone in this sprawling necropolis. 29 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:20,900 In an unprecedented investigation, Team Truth was given an all-access pass to spend the night in Petra, 30 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:23,900 seeking evidence of the city's ghostly residents. 31 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:26,900 We packed up and headed to the airport to begin the search. 32 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:30,900 We flew 18 hours to Amman, the capital city of Jordan. 33 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:35,900 Our paranormal investigation was put on hold when we were faced with a new mystery, 34 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:37,900 the dreaded case of the missing luggage. 35 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:39,900 Vanessa doesn't have her bag? 36 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:42,900 So not yet. The bag hasn't shown up yet. She's wearing your underwear. Not mine. 37 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:45,900 She can wear my underwear as if it were pants. 38 00:02:45,900 --> 00:02:51,900 Amman has been inhabited for nearly 10,000 years, making it one of the oldest cities in the world. 39 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:56,900 It is littered with the remains of temples, theaters, mosques and ancient streets. 40 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:00,900 We headed to the local markets to pick up a few essentials for the journey ahead. 41 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:02,900 We're going to get you some new clothes. 42 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:04,900 Ooh, it's just good. 43 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:06,900 I feel like you're in Harry Potter right now. 44 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:08,900 I feel like I'm in Harry Potter. 45 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:10,900 Wait, hello? Hello? 46 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:14,900 I'll tell you what it really does. It really brings out your eyes. Just your eyes. 47 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:20,900 We were a long way from home, but I was lured into a shop by something that transcended the language barrier. 48 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:22,900 Yeah, by the way, the guisa. 49 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:25,900 And by the way, the bell, the bell. 50 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:27,900 Okay, I will buy it. It's made of. 51 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:29,900 I think every vegetable has its own theme song. 52 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:31,900 Hello, Vasulya, come here. 53 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:34,900 You're loud. You're louder than Ryder. 54 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:36,900 No way this guy is louder than me. No way. 55 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:39,900 Vasulya, come here. 56 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:42,900 Green beans, green beans, green beans. Get them all. They're hot. 57 00:03:42,900 --> 00:03:45,900 Help, help, help. 58 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:47,900 Help, help, help. 59 00:03:47,900 --> 00:03:53,900 Since locals claim the gin can be a deadly spirit, I picked up a local tool to defend myself against it. 60 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:56,900 So we've got evil eye amulets here. 61 00:03:56,900 --> 00:03:58,900 And then right here we actually have eyedrops. 62 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:01,900 So evil eyes and phycene. 63 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:04,900 Basically anything eye related they have here, which is good. 64 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:08,900 And this one could be like your flavor of glaive gin medallion. 65 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:10,900 Could you knock like 10 of my teeth out? 66 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:12,900 It would be my honor. 67 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:14,900 Feeling well protected for the journey ahead, we departed the market. 68 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:17,900 It's important not to have road rage here in Jordan because you will lose. 69 00:04:17,900 --> 00:04:23,900 I've made arrangements to speak with a local Jordanian expert who had intimate knowledge of the paranormal powers of the gin. 70 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:28,900 They inhabit ruins, old places, old homes. 71 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:33,900 These gins, are these something that people report that they can see or are they something more ethereal than that? 72 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:34,900 Both. 73 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:37,900 People see them, sometimes people just feel them. 74 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:40,900 Where in Jordan are our belief in the gin strongest? 75 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:44,900 I would say amongst the villagers and also the Bedouins. 76 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:46,900 Bedouins existed here before any of us existed. 77 00:04:46,900 --> 00:04:52,900 They are the people who roamed land and because they sleep so close to the land, they are more connected with the spiritual world. 78 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:56,900 The Bedouins in the south of Jordan are the direct descendants of the Nabateans. 79 00:04:56,900 --> 00:04:59,900 And their knowledge of Petra and of the gin would be invaluable. 80 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:06,900 We drove south from a mom through the desert of Wadi Rum, where Lawrence Moravia once lived with the Bedouins and where I was hoping to find them for myself. 81 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:08,900 These nomads are constantly on the move. 82 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:12,900 There are no roads here and they could be anywhere in this vast terrain. 83 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:15,900 Luckily, I was surrounded by a team of professionals. 84 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:17,900 Anybody have the GPS or the map? 85 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:19,900 Uh... 86 00:05:19,900 --> 00:05:22,900 I'll find these Bedouins and just hang on. 87 00:05:22,900 --> 00:05:24,900 Oh boy. 88 00:05:27,900 --> 00:05:31,900 So you're saying I shouldn't worry about this full tank of propane sitting back here? 89 00:05:31,900 --> 00:05:34,900 Hey, you don't need to worry about that, Mike. You're fine. 90 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:43,900 After hours of bashing the dunes, we finally found several members of the nomadic Bedouin tribe we'd been searching for. 91 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:50,900 I explained that we'd come a long way to find them and with the sun getting low in the sky, they offered to escort us to their campsite where we could sit and talk. 92 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:53,900 But first, we had to deal with our temperamental new mode of transportation. 93 00:05:57,900 --> 00:06:00,900 Nature's most agreeable animal, the camel. 94 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:02,900 Ride or your ride's ready. 95 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:09,900 Come on. 96 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:11,900 Okay guys, let's go. 97 00:06:16,900 --> 00:06:18,900 Mike, what happened to your camel? 98 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:20,900 Just had a bad attitude. 99 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:26,900 Just as darkness set in and the temperature began to drop, we were thrilled to see the Bedouin camp. 100 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:29,900 We dismounted our camels and made a few minor adjustments. 101 00:06:29,900 --> 00:06:36,900 We were invited to join the tribe by the fire where they shared stories passed down from their elders and their own experiences at Petro with the gym. 102 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:40,900 You know, all of us, we have a kind of story. 103 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:41,900 And have you seen the gym? 104 00:06:41,900 --> 00:06:42,900 Me. 105 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:44,900 I see it many times. 106 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:46,900 And what was his appearance? What did he look like? 107 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:48,900 You know, like human, but he's not real. 108 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:53,900 Sometimes you see nothing. Only you see, you know, someone repeat your name. 109 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:57,900 Example, Josh, and you are alone. There's nobody around. 110 00:06:57,900 --> 00:06:59,900 If I'm all alone in Petro, what do you think I will feel? 111 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:03,900 You will, you will find the gym. You will meet them. Absolutely. 112 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:04,900 You think so? 113 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:05,900 I promise. 114 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:09,900 After story time, it was bedtime and our sleeping arrangements were a little rustic. 115 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:10,900 Ryder. 116 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:11,900 What? 117 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:12,900 I can't fall asleep. 118 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:13,900 He's talking. 119 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:14,900 Ryder. 120 00:07:16,900 --> 00:07:17,900 Are you asleep yet? 121 00:07:17,900 --> 00:07:18,900 Still no. 122 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:19,900 Me neither. 123 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:25,900 In the morning, we took a desert bath, hopped back on our camels, and after the long ride back to the road, 124 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:28,900 we transferred to our Jeep and continued our journey to Petro. 125 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,900 I wanted to talk to people who have had recent experiences with the ghostly gym. 126 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:36,900 We headed west to the site and met up with workers on the Petra excavation team, 127 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:38,900 who say they've been terrified by these evil spirits. 128 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:40,900 Tell me about Petra at night. 129 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:44,900 Nobody will go there. That's a place that's dangerous. 130 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:52,900 I was walking in the dark and somebody shouting to me my name, and I stopped and nobody there. 131 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:58,900 And then I saw shadows without head and it's very huge. 132 00:07:58,900 --> 00:08:00,900 And what do you think this shape was? 133 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:02,900 I think it was a gym. 134 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:04,900 So sometimes you actually sleep in the treasure. 135 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:05,900 Yes. 136 00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:07,900 And what is it like in there alone at night? 137 00:08:07,900 --> 00:08:13,900 You find it very quiet and you hear people fighting, people talking, but you don't know, you don't understand what you're talking. 138 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:14,900 What do you mean fighting? 139 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:15,900 What do you hear? 140 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:16,900 Like by the knife. 141 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:17,900 Oh, you hear the sword fighting? 142 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:18,900 Yes. 143 00:08:18,900 --> 00:08:20,900 Sometimes at night, the gym, they throw some stone at people. 144 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:24,900 Once it was abandoned, Petra was lost to the world for over a thousand years. 145 00:08:24,900 --> 00:08:31,900 It is hidden beyond the sick, a mile long slot canyon that conceals and gives the only access to the mysterious city. 146 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:35,900 At the entrance to the sick are massive stones known as the gin blocks, 147 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:39,900 dedicated to the ghosts that are believed to reside in the ruins beyond. 148 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:42,900 At the very end of the sick, we finally caught sight of the treasury. 149 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:44,900 Welcome to Petra. 150 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:48,900 This tomb carved into the cliffs is the singular symbol of Petra, 151 00:08:48,900 --> 00:08:51,900 though the city ruins are much more extensive than most people realize. 152 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:56,900 Beyond the treasury, the site unfolds with one amazing building after another, 153 00:08:56,900 --> 00:09:02,900 crumbling cliff cut facades, an amphitheater, endless tombs, Roman roads, and on and on. 154 00:09:02,900 --> 00:09:03,900 The site is massive. 155 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:06,900 I think we should be setting up camp a little bit further away from the treasure, 156 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:07,900 maybe down by the amphitheater. 157 00:09:07,900 --> 00:09:09,900 And we'll see if we can find some shelter there. 158 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:11,900 Start stringing up the air cameras before it gets too dark. 159 00:09:11,900 --> 00:09:12,900 Yeah. 160 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:14,900 All right, let's do it, guys. Come on. 161 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:18,900 With darkness upon us, we set up base camp. 162 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:23,900 First, we cabled four stationary infrared cameras, each 400 feet from camp in different directions. 163 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:27,900 And well beyond them, we positioned multiple motion-activated trap cameras, 164 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:30,900 programmed to record images of anything moving in the ruins. 165 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:31,900 How's it look? 166 00:09:31,900 --> 00:09:33,900 It looks great. I can see the amphitheater. 167 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:37,900 Vanessa would track these cameras and communicate with sweet teams from base camp. 168 00:09:37,900 --> 00:09:39,900 Well, we are in the middle of Petra. 169 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:45,900 We've heard that these gin or these ghosts, they come in the form of shadows. 170 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:48,900 So we need to be really cognizant of what's around us. 171 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:51,900 So I'm going to take Ryder and Evan and Mike. 172 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:53,900 We'll go explore some of the tombs up on the high cliff. 173 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:55,900 All right, let's get to it. Come on. 174 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:05,900 Gosh, we're right there. 175 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:09,900 Looks like a cat. 176 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:10,900 Yeah. 177 00:10:10,900 --> 00:10:12,900 I came out of nowhere. 178 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:16,900 I mean, like, all of every building out here. 179 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:19,900 These cliffs are huge. 180 00:10:23,900 --> 00:10:25,900 Careful. The staircase is loose. 181 00:10:25,900 --> 00:10:35,900 Look at this. It's carved all the way to the very top. 182 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:39,900 Talk about making it feel small. 183 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:40,900 Yeah. 184 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:44,900 What was that? 185 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:45,900 What? 186 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:47,900 It was an orb that shot from right to left. 187 00:10:47,900 --> 00:10:49,900 Pack every one of this tape and show you right now. 188 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:50,900 Was it my flashlight? 189 00:10:50,900 --> 00:10:51,900 Nope. 190 00:10:52,900 --> 00:10:53,900 Well, let's get in there. 191 00:10:53,900 --> 00:10:54,900 Okay. 192 00:10:56,900 --> 00:10:57,900 Wow. 193 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:00,900 Wow, it's huge. 194 00:11:01,900 --> 00:11:03,900 This is enormous. 195 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:07,900 This was built from one of the kings. 196 00:11:10,900 --> 00:11:13,900 These are where the bodies would have been interred right here. 197 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:14,900 On the walls. 198 00:11:15,900 --> 00:11:16,900 They've been looted. 199 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:17,900 What? 200 00:11:24,900 --> 00:11:25,900 This thing's great, Mealon. 201 00:11:25,900 --> 00:11:27,900 Yeah, but what's this good person? 202 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:30,900 What the hell was that? 203 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:36,900 This thing's great, Mealon. 204 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:38,900 Yeah, but what's this good person? 205 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:42,900 What the hell was that? 206 00:11:42,900 --> 00:11:43,900 Right here. What was that? 207 00:11:43,900 --> 00:11:44,900 Was that a rock? 208 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:45,900 Where's that? 209 00:11:45,900 --> 00:11:46,900 Where's that dolly scub from? 210 00:11:46,900 --> 00:11:47,900 It was a rock. 211 00:11:47,900 --> 00:11:49,900 Where the hell's the rock come from? 212 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:51,900 There's no those rocks in the ceilings. 213 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:52,900 It's just a solid carve. 214 00:11:52,900 --> 00:11:53,900 Where did that come from? 215 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:56,900 What was that? 216 00:11:57,900 --> 00:11:58,900 It was like the sound of metal. 217 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:00,900 What is going on here? 218 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:04,900 It's exactly what witnesses describe sounds of metal, knives, and rocks being thrown. 219 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:05,900 Why don't we get Mike in here? 220 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:07,900 Mike? 221 00:12:07,900 --> 00:12:09,900 It was like we heard a couple of rocks. 222 00:12:09,900 --> 00:12:12,900 I was outside and I couldn't hear anything, so whatever it was, 223 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:14,900 I think it probably was coming from inside this tomb. 224 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:18,900 We should try to get a trap camera in here if we can. 225 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:19,900 That's good. 226 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:20,900 That's a great idea. 227 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:23,900 Yeah, it's pretty quiet now. 228 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:24,900 Josh, the base camera. 229 00:12:24,900 --> 00:12:26,900 Well, we thought we saw something on a couple of the cameras. 230 00:12:26,900 --> 00:12:29,900 Evan thought he saw some sort of orb on the astroscope. 231 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:30,900 We chased everything down. 232 00:12:30,900 --> 00:12:32,900 We're hearing weird noises like the sound of rocks. 233 00:12:32,900 --> 00:12:35,900 Let's have Rex run the trap camera out here, see if we can image anything moving around. 234 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:37,900 We're going to make our way out of here and over the treasure itself. 235 00:12:45,900 --> 00:12:47,900 Rex, we're base camp. 236 00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:48,900 We're heading back in. 237 00:12:48,900 --> 00:12:50,900 Yeah, we're heading back. See you soon. 238 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:57,900 The stairs are not existent. 239 00:12:57,900 --> 00:12:59,900 Your sheer cliffs all along here. 240 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:03,900 Oh my god! 241 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:05,900 Oh my god! 242 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:06,900 Oh my god! 243 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:07,900 Oh my god! 244 00:13:07,900 --> 00:13:08,900 Oh my god! 245 00:13:08,900 --> 00:13:09,900 Oh my god! 246 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:10,900 Oh my god! 247 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:11,900 Oh my god! 248 00:13:11,900 --> 00:13:12,900 Oh my god! 249 00:13:12,900 --> 00:13:13,900 Oh my god! 250 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:14,900 Oh my god! 251 00:13:14,900 --> 00:13:15,900 Oh my god! 252 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:16,900 Oh my god! 253 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:17,900 You okay? 254 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:20,900 I have nothing to hold on to right now. 255 00:13:21,900 --> 00:13:22,900 Ryder? 256 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:23,900 Yeah. 257 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:24,900 Is he any Jins yet? 258 00:13:25,900 --> 00:13:28,900 No, no Jins. Not yet. 259 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:30,900 I need a Jinn at Tonic. 260 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:32,900 Maybe a Jinn Martini. 261 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:36,900 We should be close to the treasure at this point. 262 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:39,900 Yeah, it's just up here, right? 263 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:40,900 Yeah. 264 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:42,900 There it is. 265 00:13:43,900 --> 00:13:44,900 Wow. 266 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:49,900 So this is where they say a lot of the main activity happens. 267 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:55,900 Noises, sounds of people talking, fighting, sword fighting. 268 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:06,900 Okay, so main central chamber. 269 00:14:07,900 --> 00:14:09,900 Three small anti-chambers. 270 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:10,900 And that's it. 271 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:13,900 Well, let's sit down and see if we can hear anything in here. 272 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:16,900 Let's get an EDP session going. 273 00:14:16,900 --> 00:14:19,900 And we'll take out the trifle meter and see if we can get any readings in here. 274 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:28,900 So we shouldn't have any sort of magnetic, you know, or electrical activity in here of any kind. 275 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:31,900 Do you hear that? 276 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:33,900 What is that? 277 00:14:33,900 --> 00:14:35,900 Sounds like chanting. 278 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:37,900 Are you getting that? 279 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:38,900 Yes. 280 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:40,900 Sounds like somebody moaning. 281 00:14:40,900 --> 00:14:42,900 I know, it stopped. 282 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:44,900 Mike, are you still hearing it? 283 00:14:44,900 --> 00:14:45,900 No, it stopped. 284 00:14:45,900 --> 00:14:46,900 That was the weirdest thing. 285 00:14:46,900 --> 00:14:48,900 It was like a moan on the wind. 286 00:14:49,900 --> 00:14:50,900 Okay. 287 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:52,900 Is there anybody here? 288 00:14:53,900 --> 00:14:55,900 Is someone here saying yes? 289 00:14:55,900 --> 00:14:57,900 I just heard someone say yes. 290 00:15:01,900 --> 00:15:03,900 What the hell was that? 291 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:05,900 Hello? 292 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:07,900 I don't think there's nobody else in here. 293 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:10,900 My clearest thing, I just heard a f***ing voice in here. 294 00:15:11,900 --> 00:15:12,900 I just got the chills. 295 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:13,900 You heard that too. 296 00:15:13,900 --> 00:15:14,900 Yeah, I was disdanged. 297 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:18,900 We just got a spike. 298 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:23,900 What around here would be disturbing the magnetic field? 299 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:25,900 Your walkie-talkie, but it's all the way up there. 300 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:26,900 My walkie-talkies are off. 301 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:29,900 And besides, it took a baseline reading to account for our equipment. 302 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:32,900 It's not going crazy going on in the Treasury. 303 00:15:32,900 --> 00:15:34,900 It just seems like a lot of activity right now. 304 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:37,900 Let's keep the recorders going and see if anything else happens today. 305 00:15:38,900 --> 00:15:41,900 We left the voice recorder behind to try to collect more evidence. 306 00:15:41,900 --> 00:15:45,900 With the night growing short, we decided to split up and maximize our coverage. 307 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:49,900 Bobby, Evan and I headed to the very north end of Petra where tourists aren't allowed. 308 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:52,900 Meanwhile, Ryder and Gabe headed to the southern part of the site. 309 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:57,900 We're definitely getting out of the main part of the city. 310 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:02,900 Let's get her out of the backside of the site. 311 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:06,900 They say that the gin live in the most remote parts of ruins. 312 00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:11,900 Look at this place, just pieces of columns and pediments. 313 00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:17,900 You have to be careful, these rocks are really loose, guys. 314 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:20,900 I don't have a trail. 315 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:22,900 I think it ends right there. 316 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:26,900 If that even is a trail, that goes way down. 317 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:28,900 Oh, wow. 318 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:29,900 That's about 200 feet. 319 00:16:29,900 --> 00:16:33,900 Bobby, let's grab the bag with the ropes in it and take the express ride down to the bottom, huh? 320 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:34,900 I got it. 321 00:16:39,900 --> 00:16:40,900 Oh, look at that. 322 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:42,900 What is that? 323 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:44,900 It looks like somebody's sitting right there. 324 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:53,900 Oh, look at that. 325 00:16:55,900 --> 00:16:56,900 What is that? 326 00:16:56,900 --> 00:16:58,900 It looks like somebody's sitting right there. 327 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:00,900 Yeah. 328 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:01,900 Right in the blue light. 329 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:03,900 Where is Ryder and Gabe? 330 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:10,900 Base Captain Ryder. 331 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:12,900 Copy, Ryder. 332 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:16,900 Look here, the fire and camp, the crew. 333 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:20,900 It looks like someone's sitting in the amphiborid. 334 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:25,900 Bobby, is it like a shadow that you saw on one way? 335 00:17:26,900 --> 00:17:27,900 No, it's a corn stand. 336 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:28,900 A corn stand. 337 00:17:28,900 --> 00:17:31,900 So it's sitting inside the tower. 338 00:17:31,900 --> 00:17:32,900 What do you mean? 339 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:33,900 You're here. 340 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:34,900 Bobby, we're going to make a wall over here. 341 00:17:34,900 --> 00:17:36,900 Yeah, I'll let you know if we see anything. 342 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:53,900 I mean, the area that you guys said you're in, I don't see anything. 343 00:17:53,900 --> 00:17:56,900 I'm going to go down, I'm going to go dark, and I'm going to do an APP session. 344 00:17:57,900 --> 00:17:58,900 Copy that. 345 00:17:58,900 --> 00:17:59,900 That sounds like a great idea. 346 00:18:02,900 --> 00:18:04,900 Oh, I do not like being out here. 347 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:09,900 If you are here, can you give me a sign? 348 00:18:12,900 --> 00:18:14,900 Is someone here with me right now? 349 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:18,900 Oh. 350 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:26,900 Ryder for Base Captain. 351 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:28,900 There's a guy over here. 352 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:30,900 You're right here. 353 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:35,900 I don't know if I might be sitting down here. 354 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:37,900 I'm going to get up and steal the move around. 355 00:18:37,900 --> 00:18:42,900 I'm going to leave the voice recorder running, and check back on it later and see if we can't pick something up. 356 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:44,900 Copy that. That's a good idea. 357 00:18:51,900 --> 00:18:53,900 Alright guys, let's see at the bottom. 358 00:18:57,900 --> 00:18:59,900 I'm going to go down. 359 00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:03,900 Hey guys, I'm down. 360 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:05,900 Coming down. 361 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:10,900 There you go buddy, you're owning it. 362 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:11,900 Okay, let it loose. 363 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:14,900 This is you, the professional. 364 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:17,900 Alright guys, let's get all the gear in the backpacks, and we'll keep moving. 365 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:18,900 We'll see if we can find through here. 366 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:19,900 There should be some more caves and tombs. 367 00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:21,900 They're kind of off the beaten tracks. 368 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:26,900 This part of the site is basically not visited by tourists, so it'll be very terrible in here. 369 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:34,900 I mean this is definitely off the beaten path. 370 00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:42,900 But these are basically the areas where a lot of the Bedouins have traveled to where they used to live and sleep. 371 00:19:46,900 --> 00:19:48,900 That's a dog, I believe, not a chin. 372 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:50,900 Guys, does it have a saddle on it? 373 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:52,900 Looks like a hyena. 374 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:59,900 It had been an incredible experience exploring the ruins of Petra, a first for any paranormal investigation team. 375 00:19:59,900 --> 00:20:04,900 With the sun nearly on the horizon, my team was exhausted from negotiating the steep and treacherous terrain. 376 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:10,900 We packed up and flew 18 hours back to the States, and after reviewing the evidence myself, I wanted a second opinion of its authenticity. 377 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:14,900 So I paid a visit to my good friends, Jason and Grant, from the Ghost Hunters. 378 00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:20,900 First, I had them examine audio recordings of the strange sounds of rock and metal that we heard in one of the tombs. 379 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:24,900 What the hell is that? 380 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:25,900 It's a rock. 381 00:20:25,900 --> 00:20:27,900 Where did that come from? Where did that noise come from? 382 00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:29,900 It was like the sound of metal. 383 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:32,900 It's easily possible that something would have thrown rock at you. 384 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:37,900 It's common theory is when it comes to a human type entity, they're moving objects about 3 to 10 pounds, 385 00:20:37,900 --> 00:20:40,900 but a negative type entity can move objects much larger. 386 00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:44,900 The sound of metal is what's really intriguing, I mean, where would that even come from? 387 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:47,900 Where did that come from? Where did that noise come from? 388 00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:51,900 It definitely could be a residual sound of two people, you know, during a knife battle, a sword battle. 389 00:20:51,900 --> 00:20:56,900 Then again, you are in a rock cave, so you really can't discount that something might have fallen. 390 00:20:56,900 --> 00:21:00,900 We got a quick identification of the mysterious orb that Evan cited. 391 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:02,900 Bug. 392 00:21:02,900 --> 00:21:03,900 Yeah, it's a bug. 393 00:21:03,900 --> 00:21:07,900 Honestly, it looks like, well, I wouldn't say a bug, I would say some sort of a bird. 394 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:10,900 So if it is a ghost, it is the ghost of a bird or a bug. 395 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:11,900 Exactly. 396 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:12,900 Yeah. 397 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:14,900 But it was our audio evidence that spoke the loudest. 398 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:16,900 Hear that? 399 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:18,900 Yeah, that's me. 400 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:19,900 Swing. 401 00:21:19,900 --> 00:21:21,900 Exactly. 402 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:24,900 Yeah. 403 00:21:24,900 --> 00:21:27,900 It's important to remember that this is the middle of nowhere. 404 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:29,900 It's a really isolated place. 405 00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:31,900 I think it's a real cool piece of evidence. 406 00:21:31,900 --> 00:21:34,900 I think that's cool. If we had caught that, I would be impressed. Zero contamination. 407 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:36,900 That's a wild piece, man. 408 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:39,900 But Jason and Grant really reacted to what they heard next. 409 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:40,900 Is there anybody here? 410 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:42,900 It's great evidence. 411 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:52,900 We played a recording for the ghost hunters of a disembodied voice that Ryder and I heard while we were all alone in the treasury. 412 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:54,900 Is there anybody here? 413 00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:56,900 In a quick little... 414 00:21:56,900 --> 00:21:57,900 Yes. 415 00:21:57,900 --> 00:21:59,900 And it's no other word. It can't be any other word. 416 00:21:59,900 --> 00:22:01,900 Yes, it's very clear. 417 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:02,900 So I mean, I don't know what to make of that. 418 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:04,900 It's great evidence, though. 419 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:07,900 Is there anybody here? 420 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:08,900 Someone is here. 421 00:22:08,900 --> 00:22:10,900 What can you say? I mean, you've got... 422 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:12,900 Clearly, you've got some activity there. 423 00:22:12,900 --> 00:22:14,900 The place definitely seems... seems active. 424 00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:16,900 Welcome to our world. 425 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:21,900 Our Jordanian expedition for the mythical chin was a spectacular adventure. 426 00:22:21,900 --> 00:22:26,900 We were flung headlong into an exotic culture that took us on a distant journey far off the beaten path. 427 00:22:26,900 --> 00:22:33,900 Our unique night in Petra's sprawling ruins resulted in some of our clearest ever audio evidence that is hard to explain away. 428 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:37,900 When all is said and done, it comes down to one simple question. 429 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:38,900 Is there anybody here? 430 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:41,900 And in this case, the answer seems clear. 431 00:22:42,900 --> 00:22:49,900 If you've ever traveled to the deep south, you know that the people are friendly and they love their southern expressions. 432 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:55,900 So you might say the folks of Bishopville, South Carolina are more scared than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, 433 00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:58,900 because they say a monster is on the loose and terrorizing their town. 434 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:04,900 The story begins on a fateful night in 1988 on a lonely road that cuts through scape or swamp. 435 00:23:04,900 --> 00:23:07,900 A young man encountered a creature described as half-man, half-lizard, 436 00:23:07,900 --> 00:23:10,900 which charged his car before retreating into the darkness. 437 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:16,900 Then, a few days later, another report filtered in, describing a similar attack on a second vehicle. 438 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:20,900 Local law enforcement concluded that a very large, very strong animal was on the loose. 439 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:23,900 But just what kind of animal remained a mystery? 440 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:27,900 The events thrust the otherwise anonymous town of Bishopville into overnight celebrity, 441 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:30,900 but then things fell quiet and the story became the stuff of legend. 442 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:32,900 That is, until it happened again. 443 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:37,900 Recently, a car was attacked in the same telltale manner as those 20 years earlier, 444 00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:42,900 and new sightings have been cropping up along the edges of the nearly impenetrable scape or swamp. 445 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:47,900 Matching up the eyewitness accounts both new and old, we rendered a digital model of this southern swamp thing. 446 00:23:47,900 --> 00:23:51,900 The lizard man is said to slither undetected through the murky swamp, 447 00:23:51,900 --> 00:23:53,900 but is able to rise upright when on the attack. 448 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:58,900 Described as half-reptile, half-man, the creature stands at more than six feet tall. 449 00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:02,900 It is thought to possess an incredible degree of strength, most notably his powerful jaw, 450 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,900 which has been blamed for tearing the bumper right off a car. 451 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:09,900 He is said to have a grotesque face with green scaly skin and piercing red eyes. 452 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:13,900 His calling card comes in the form of distinct pre-fingered claw-lined footprints 453 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:16,900 that have been spotted throughout the scape or swamp. 454 00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:21,900 Intrigued by the case, we packed up our gear, dusted off our cowboy boots, 455 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:26,900 and headed south of the Mason Dixon to figure out what the Sam Hill was going on in his backwood swamp. 456 00:24:26,900 --> 00:24:31,900 We flew six hours cross-country to Columbia, South Carolina. Cue the banjoes. 457 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:38,900 Normal car? Normal car? Normal car? Definitely my car. 458 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:39,900 How'd you guess? 459 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:40,900 Give me the keys. 460 00:24:40,900 --> 00:24:41,900 Went in South Carolina. 461 00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:43,900 It's like Clark Griswold. 462 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:45,900 E-Haul. 463 00:24:47,900 --> 00:24:50,900 Purring right along in our family truckster, my team and I set out to road trip 464 00:24:50,900 --> 00:24:52,900 that would take us 40 miles east of Columbia. 465 00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:54,900 It's the tiny town of Bishopville. 466 00:24:54,900 --> 00:24:58,900 Based on the roadside food offerings, it seemed like we were headed in the right direction. 467 00:24:58,900 --> 00:24:59,900 What is that sound? 468 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:01,900 Oh, she sounds good, a person can kidnap. 469 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:04,900 Yeah, the kidnap is stuck in the wheel well. 470 00:25:11,900 --> 00:25:13,900 Any of you cows seen the lizard man? 471 00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:15,900 You look delicious. 472 00:25:17,900 --> 00:25:20,900 Two hours of country music later, we rolled into the town of Bishopville, 473 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,900 a snapshot of down home Dixie, population 3,670 humans, 474 00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:27,900 and according to locals, one reptilian monster. 475 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:31,900 At the local diner, the lizard man even has his own signature sandwich. 476 00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:33,900 The lizard man, everybody. 477 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:34,900 The lizard man. 478 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:37,900 And at the Cotton Museum in the center of town, the company's store was 479 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:39,900 literally overflowing with lizard man merchandise. 480 00:25:39,900 --> 00:25:41,900 For the wagon ear. 481 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:44,900 Oh, for sure. What is this, what is this going to do for you, Bobby? 482 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:47,900 When a snake falls on your head, this is going to protect you from a bite. 483 00:25:47,900 --> 00:25:49,900 I don't know about that one. 484 00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:51,900 How much shore leave, Bobby? Leave me alone. 485 00:25:51,900 --> 00:25:53,900 Lizard man grease hits. 486 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:54,900 Nice. 487 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:55,900 Good call. 488 00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:57,900 I treated myself to a lizard man makeover. 489 00:25:57,900 --> 00:25:59,900 Well, this thing fit me? 490 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:01,900 It was made for a small person. 491 00:26:01,900 --> 00:26:03,900 Sure, you saying I'm fat? 492 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:05,900 It'll fit me like you don't love me. 493 00:26:05,900 --> 00:26:09,900 I wanted to get the townspeople talking, so I papered Main Street with flyers 494 00:26:09,900 --> 00:26:12,900 for a good old fashioned town meeting, inviting residents to come and share 495 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:15,900 their experiences with the lizard man. 496 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:18,900 With the whole day ahead of me until our town meeting, I headed straight to see 497 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:22,900 Liston Trousdale, who was sheriff of Bishopville for nearly two decades, 498 00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:26,900 and who was responsible for organizing a manhunt for the creature in 1988. 499 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:31,900 Well, we've interviewed ten people that sold, and we feel like, well, we're hurting us some more, 500 00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:35,900 but nobody really wants to get mixed up with this thing. 501 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:37,900 What do you think they saw? 502 00:26:37,900 --> 00:26:38,900 I don't know. 503 00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:44,900 And then these footprints were collected, were collected shortly after Chris Davis' sighting, correct? 504 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:45,900 Yeah. 505 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:46,900 How many prints like this were found? 506 00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:48,900 Well, we pulled six prints. 507 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:51,900 The sheriff wouldn't part ways with his famous footprints, 508 00:26:51,900 --> 00:26:53,900 and photographed them for later analysis. 509 00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:57,900 Next, I wanted to get a closer look at the lizard man's most recent chew toy. 510 00:26:57,900 --> 00:27:00,900 The sheriff tipped me off to the location of resident Dixie Ross. 511 00:27:00,900 --> 00:27:02,900 Something just pulled this right off? 512 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:03,900 Yeah. 513 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:05,900 There wasn't a mark on this car. 514 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:10,900 You know, I would believe a dog could do this, but not that over there. 515 00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:13,900 Oh, yeah, this is all pulled out. 516 00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:16,900 It took a lot of jaw strength to do that. 517 00:27:16,900 --> 00:27:21,900 It comes out there, and it's strong, and it's mad. 518 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:25,900 Dixie isn't the only person in Bishopville who claimed to have a close encounter. 519 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:29,900 She directed me to a local pilot who says he spotted the creature in raw daylight. 520 00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:33,900 I loaded the plane right here on the pad, taxed it out to the road, took off. 521 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:35,900 This thing crosses the runway. 522 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:40,900 He stops and takes a quick look at me, and just walks right on across the runway. 523 00:27:40,900 --> 00:27:41,900 Do you think it's dangerous? 524 00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:45,900 Well, I can tell you one thing, it stopped me from roaming around it, not like I used to do it. 525 00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:49,900 I don't know much about the land that's back here, and about skateboard swamp. 526 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:52,900 Is it the kind of area where you think something could be living undetected? 527 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:56,900 There's a lot of places where something could, in fact, I can show you in this plane, 528 00:27:56,900 --> 00:28:02,900 places that something could survive and never be seen. 529 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:03,900 Well, let's take a look. 530 00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:08,900 Well, I've already looked the plane over, but there's one thing I didn't do, and that's to get a fuel sample. 531 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:09,900 Take as much time as you need with the fuel. 532 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:10,900 Okay. 533 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:11,900 I'm in no rush. 534 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,900 I like that it says experimental on the side. 535 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:19,900 You always want to see the word experimental on the side of any plane you're about to climb into. 536 00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:24,900 You want to swat on this liquor? 537 00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:26,900 All right, get in. 538 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:33,900 Dressed like a World War II Bombardier, Frank Mitchell turned out to be more than just an eye witness. 539 00:28:33,900 --> 00:28:36,900 He's also the craziest son of a bitch in Lee County. 540 00:28:39,900 --> 00:28:42,900 The flight revealed an expansive and untouched wilderness. 541 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:47,900 We canvassed 100 square miles of swamp land, identifying the most remote sections for our investigation, 542 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:51,900 as well as tagging a clearing on GPS that would serve us well in base camp. 543 00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:56,900 Navigating this area on the ground was going to be tricky, and apparently, so was our touchdown. 544 00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:00,900 I can climb all that, but if I ever could learn how to land this thing, I'd be all right. 545 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:06,900 We landed safely, though. Mission accomplished. 546 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:11,900 Still queasy from my Kamikaze flight, we head back into town to get our meeting with the locals underway. 547 00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:14,900 We rented out the town's Civic Center, also known as the Button Museum, 548 00:29:14,900 --> 00:29:17,900 lured it over by, who else, the Button King. 549 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:18,900 Come in. 550 00:29:18,900 --> 00:29:19,900 Hello, sir. How are you? 551 00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:20,900 Fine. How are you? 552 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:22,900 I am looking for the Button King. 553 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:23,900 Well, you found him. 554 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:24,900 You're the Button King. 555 00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:25,900 I'm the Button King. 556 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:26,900 I would never have guessed that. 557 00:29:26,900 --> 00:29:27,900 I love it. Show me around. 558 00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:29,900 All right, sir. What do we got? 559 00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:32,900 I like yours. The first thing I've done was this suit. 560 00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:33,900 That is sharp. 561 00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:36,900 Now, this is the casket that I'm going to go in. 562 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:37,900 Many years from now. 563 00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:38,900 I hope it's many years. 564 00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:39,900 Many, many years. 565 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:40,900 Yes, sir. It's going to be many years from now. 566 00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:44,900 I'm not a specialist, but that appears to be a toilet covered in buttons with your 567 00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:46,900 face just above the rim there. 568 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:47,900 Right. Yeah, that's right. 569 00:29:47,900 --> 00:29:49,900 What is the story with that toilet? 570 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:52,900 I'll never give something different. I made that for the children. 571 00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:53,900 Children love a toilet. 572 00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:54,900 Yes, they do. 573 00:29:54,900 --> 00:29:57,900 Well, it's so nice to meet you, and let's get next door and see who shows up. 574 00:29:57,900 --> 00:29:58,900 All right, we'll do that. 575 00:29:58,900 --> 00:29:59,900 Let's do it. 576 00:29:59,900 --> 00:30:00,900 Okay. 577 00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:03,900 We headed next door to discover that practically all of Bishopville turned out to our impromptu 578 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:04,900 lizard palouse. 579 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:06,900 Hi, everybody. How are you tonight? How's everyone doing? 580 00:30:06,900 --> 00:30:07,900 Woo! 581 00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:13,900 The town was all a buzz about the lizard man and had no shortage of stories, rumors, and 582 00:30:13,900 --> 00:30:16,900 descriptions as to what the reptilian creature looked like. 583 00:30:16,900 --> 00:30:18,900 Big teeth. Anything else? 584 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:19,900 Claws. 585 00:30:19,900 --> 00:30:22,900 Claws. And tomorrow night, we're going to head into Skate Force Swamp. 586 00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:25,900 You think there's a chance that any of us will make it out alive? 587 00:30:25,900 --> 00:30:26,900 Thanks. 588 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:28,900 You're taking a big chance. 589 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:29,900 You're taking a big chance. 590 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:30,900 Taking a big chance? 591 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:31,900 Yeah. 592 00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:32,900 I don't like hearing that. 593 00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:33,900 Alligators. 594 00:30:33,900 --> 00:30:34,900 Alligators. 595 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:35,900 Oh, this is sounding better and better. 596 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:36,900 Be afraid. 597 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:37,900 Be very afraid. 598 00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:43,300 For the entertainment portion of the evening, we hired the best band in town. Turns out pilot 599 00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:45,900 Frank Mitchell plays a mean bass guitar. 600 00:30:45,900 --> 00:30:50,900 You know the lizard man. He's got a country band. 601 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:56,900 After a while, even the lizard man showed up and we all got into the act. 602 00:30:56,900 --> 00:31:00,900 Two stepping the night away into the wee hours of the morning. 603 00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:05,900 All right. 604 00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:09,900 Thank you. 605 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:13,900 The next day, armed with local knowledge, we drove into Skate Force Swamp and ditched 606 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:18,900 our wood-paneled wagon-ear for a fleet of ATVs, able to navigate the muddy wilderness 607 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:24,900 and carry us to our investigation location that we tagged on GPS the day before. 608 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:28,900 What is if Ryder didn't kill herself along the way? 609 00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:34,900 Against the setting sun, we arrived at the clearing and constructed our base camp. 610 00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:39,900 For surveillance, we first cabled four stationary infrared cameras in different directions more 611 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:41,900 than 400 feet away from camp. 612 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:46,900 Well beyond those, we mounted a series of motion-activated trap cameras to identify and photograph 613 00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:48,900 anything moving in the deep swamp. 614 00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:53,900 Around all of these cameras and our centralized camp, we activated an infrared perimeter beam 615 00:31:53,900 --> 00:31:57,900 trying to trigger an alarm at base camp if anything crosses inside. 616 00:31:57,900 --> 00:31:59,900 Camera one is set up, we're turning to base camp. 617 00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:01,900 Copy that, good job. 618 00:32:01,900 --> 00:32:04,900 Vanessa would monitor signals from all of the equipment during the investigation. 619 00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:09,900 Our due diligence tonight is to cover as much of the Skate Force Swamp as possible. 620 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:11,900 We've been told by tons of locals there's snakes out here. 621 00:32:11,900 --> 00:32:13,900 We just need to be really careful about all that stuff. 622 00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:16,900 Wherever your hands go, especially just look before you touch anything. 623 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:19,900 Ryder and I are going to take off and do a first sweep with the thermal imager. 624 00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:22,900 You guys let us know if you see anything on those infrared cameras and we'll just start from there 625 00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:24,900 and we'll take off and land. Let's take off, let's go. 626 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:32,900 You know, it looks like a lot of this swamp actually has these old, I don't know if they're game trails. 627 00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:36,900 There's definitely some old ATV trails and stuff out here, but at least there's some walking around area for us. 628 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:38,900 Yeah. 629 00:32:38,900 --> 00:32:43,900 And we know there's been some footprints found, so we definitely need to be vigilant about always checking in our feed. 630 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:48,900 Looks like it's a little swampier down here. 631 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:50,900 Everybody be really careful. 632 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:52,900 Every what we've talked about is there's a lot of snakes out here. 633 00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:55,900 Rattlesnake has caught and mounts water moccasins. 634 00:32:57,900 --> 00:32:59,900 Hey Ryder. 635 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:01,900 Looks like a deer stand. 636 00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:03,900 Looks like an old one. 637 00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:07,900 They use these things to get higher off the ground so they can see out through the canopy. 638 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:09,900 See if there's any game moving around. 639 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:12,900 I'm going to go up there with a flare, see if I can get a better view. 640 00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:13,900 Okay, be careful. 641 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:14,900 Yep. 642 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:16,900 Don't stand right underneath it. 643 00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:20,900 Josh. 644 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:21,900 Yes? 645 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:24,900 The whole thing just went to the ground like six inches. 646 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:25,900 Be careful. 647 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:26,900 Okay. 648 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:29,900 Okay, I'm good. 649 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:30,900 I'm good. 650 00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:32,900 I've got a good view of the swamp from up here. 651 00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:33,900 See anything? 652 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:36,900 Stand by, I'm going to do a sweep of the thermal. 653 00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:40,900 I don't see anything moving around. 654 00:33:43,900 --> 00:33:45,900 Hold the **** up on thermal. 655 00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:51,900 I got something real far and real faint. 656 00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:54,900 It looks like it's just passed that water over there. 657 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:57,900 It's just like a little speck, but it's moving whatever it is. 658 00:33:57,900 --> 00:33:59,900 It's moving inside the trees. 659 00:34:00,900 --> 00:34:02,900 It's the only thing I see moving around up here. 660 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:04,900 Okay, I'm coming down. 661 00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:07,900 Whatever I saw came right down here. 662 00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:09,900 I'm going to go down here. 663 00:34:09,900 --> 00:34:11,900 I'm going to go down here. 664 00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:13,900 I'm going to go down here. 665 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:15,900 I'm going to go down here. 666 00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:18,900 Whatever I saw came right through here. 667 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:20,900 I just looked like a red blob of heat, 668 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:22,900 but it was pretty far away, so whatever it was 669 00:34:22,900 --> 00:34:24,900 must have been pre-sizeable. 670 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:27,900 Bob, thanks for Josh. 671 00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:29,900 Yep, go for Josh. 672 00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:32,900 Hey Josh, we just got an alert from the perimeter along. 673 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:34,900 Copy that, which zone went off? 674 00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:36,900 You always end zone three. 675 00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:37,900 We're headed that way. 676 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:39,900 We've got something in the thermal that might have tripped that alarm. 677 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:40,900 Stand by. 678 00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:41,900 Copy that. 679 00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:45,900 Careful, these old logs are pretty sneaky sometimes right there. 680 00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:47,900 There's a lot of old fallen stuff down here. 681 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:50,900 It's cool. 682 00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:52,900 It's sounding like a gun shot. 683 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:54,900 Scared the hell out of me. 684 00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:57,900 That's all I need is for some odd or blow my face off. 685 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:02,900 What was that? 686 00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:03,900 What did you hear? 687 00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:04,900 Shoo, shoo, shoo. 688 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:05,900 The rustling that direction. 689 00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:06,900 What was that? 690 00:35:08,900 --> 00:35:10,900 What is that like? 691 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:11,900 That's what I sound like. 692 00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:13,900 It sounds like a grunt. 693 00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:15,900 Thermal's still all clear. I got nothing. 694 00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:19,900 Let's keep moving this direction and see if I can catch up to whatever it is. 695 00:35:26,900 --> 00:35:28,900 Shoo, shoo, shoo. 696 00:35:28,900 --> 00:35:29,900 Do you hear something? 697 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:31,900 No, no, I have an animal. 698 00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:33,900 What? 699 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:35,900 Don't move a muscle. 700 00:35:35,900 --> 00:35:37,900 Did you catch something in the thermal? 701 00:35:37,900 --> 00:35:39,900 Yes, yes, I got a thermal. 702 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:42,900 I lost it. 703 00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:44,900 Here we go. 704 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:56,900 Hey Josh, I'm pretty sure we're going the right way. 705 00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:01,900 Josh, the base camp, come in. 706 00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:03,900 Go for base camp, Josh. 707 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:06,900 You said zone three on the perimeter alarm, yeah? 708 00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:08,900 Ep zone three. 709 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:10,900 Yeah, we're coming up on it now. 710 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:12,900 We're here at the transmitter, hold on. 711 00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:18,900 Bobby, we're on top of the transmitter now. 712 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:21,900 We're actually hearing something right in the bushes in front of us right now. 713 00:36:21,900 --> 00:36:22,900 The transmitter. 714 00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:27,900 Yeah, it went off again just before you guys got there. 715 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:38,900 Holy sh**, right there. 716 00:36:38,900 --> 00:36:40,900 Yeah, everything happens right there, right there. 717 00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:42,900 There was a black shape that was pretty low to the ground. 718 00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:44,900 I went right behind the tree. 719 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:02,900 Back up, back up, everybody back up. 720 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:03,900 Back up. 721 00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:05,900 Get out, get out, get out. 722 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:08,900 Pretty back up. 723 00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:10,900 That's how I look around. 724 00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:16,900 Low growl, right like that thing must have been a few feet from us. 725 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:19,900 I think we're right up in its home, in its den. 726 00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:21,900 I did too. 727 00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:23,900 I don't hear anything anymore. 728 00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:26,900 It just took off, we got close. 729 00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:28,900 That's quiet now. 730 00:37:28,900 --> 00:37:30,900 Alright, let's go. 731 00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:33,900 Hey guys. 732 00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:37,900 Well, we followed up on the alert transmitter 733 00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:40,900 and almost directly across from in the bushes, 734 00:37:40,900 --> 00:37:42,900 there was something rustling around. 735 00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:44,900 We got as close as we could to it. 736 00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:47,900 We don't have video of it, we have great audio of it growling. 737 00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:49,900 But I think the growling is a good start at least, 738 00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:51,900 it gives us some evidence to bring back and look at. 739 00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:55,900 We're going to have to get those snake waders out. 740 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:57,900 We're going to have to greet here to get wet 741 00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,900 and it's going to be a good start. 742 00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:01,900 We're going to have to get the water to get wet 743 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:03,900 and get in a little bit deeper. 744 00:38:03,900 --> 00:38:06,900 Bobby, Evan, Mike and I took the ATVs around to the other side of the swamp 745 00:38:06,900 --> 00:38:09,900 where we would deploy on foot into the deepest part of the wilderness. 746 00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:14,900 Meanwhile, Rex added additional trap cameras to the area where we heard the growling. 747 00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:16,900 This tree here. 748 00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:19,900 She's snapped some photos of it. 749 00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:22,900 Rex for base camp. 750 00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:24,900 Thanks for base camp. 751 00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:26,900 I have trap camera number one set up and baited. 752 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:28,900 Let us know if you guys are not here or see anything. 753 00:38:34,900 --> 00:38:37,900 Whoa, I just heard something in there. 754 00:38:37,900 --> 00:38:39,900 Really, heard something there. 755 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:43,900 Right there, right there, right there. 756 00:38:43,900 --> 00:38:45,900 Right there. 757 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:55,900 Whoa, I just heard something in there. 758 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:58,900 Really, heard something there. 759 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:02,900 Right there, right there, right there. 760 00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:12,900 Lost it. 761 00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:17,900 Yeah, Bobby, here's that stream. 762 00:39:17,900 --> 00:39:19,900 Yeah. 763 00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:21,900 Okay. 764 00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:28,900 Yeah. 765 00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:30,900 Guys, we got some tracks here. 766 00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:34,900 Oh, wow. 767 00:39:34,900 --> 00:39:36,900 Look at that. 768 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:38,900 It's like a dog right there, something canine. 769 00:39:38,900 --> 00:39:40,900 That's pretty large. 770 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:42,900 Coyote, maybe. 771 00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:44,900 I got something on my camera. 772 00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:46,900 Whatever. 773 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:49,900 So two big eyes, right in front of where we came from, but like 20 feet away, 774 00:39:49,900 --> 00:39:51,900 like it's always coming in a skull down. 775 00:39:51,900 --> 00:39:53,900 Right through there? 776 00:39:53,900 --> 00:39:55,900 Yeah. 777 00:40:01,900 --> 00:40:03,900 Quiet, quiet, quiet. 778 00:40:04,900 --> 00:40:06,900 Hey. 779 00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:08,900 That's a coyote, I think. 780 00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:10,900 That's a coyote. 781 00:40:10,900 --> 00:40:12,900 So, you know, some birds are here. 782 00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:14,900 One, two, three, four. 783 00:40:14,900 --> 00:40:16,900 What? 784 00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:18,900 It's a pack of coyotes. 785 00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:20,900 Hey, that's a bunch of coyotes. 786 00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:23,900 It might be that these coyotes were just chasing deer through the woods. 787 00:40:23,900 --> 00:40:25,900 I mean, I'll say this one, 788 00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:27,900 I think it's a lot of coyotes. 789 00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:29,900 I mean, I think it's a lot of coyotes. 790 00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:31,900 I mean, I think it's a lot of coyotes. 791 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:34,900 I mean, I'll say this much, 792 00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:37,900 this goes on for almost 20, 30 miles like this. 793 00:40:37,900 --> 00:40:39,900 It is almost impossible to move through here. 794 00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:44,900 Certainly, ample room for a wildlife to be living completely undetected in these swamps. 795 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:47,900 There may well be bears and other big animals out here that people are seeing. 796 00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:50,900 Or lizard men, yet to be found. 797 00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:54,900 It had been a long night in the swamp, and my team and I were exhausted. 798 00:40:54,900 --> 00:40:57,900 But there was something that had been eating at me since we got to Bishopville. 799 00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:01,900 From the lizard man's sandwiches at the diner to the lizard man's stickers at the general store, 800 00:41:01,900 --> 00:41:04,900 it all seemed, well, it all seemed a little much. 801 00:41:04,900 --> 00:41:08,900 We flew home to Los Angeles to see if the physical evidence could hold out. 802 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:13,900 We sat down with former LA Zoo curator Mike D to discuss the damaged cars from Bishopville. 803 00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:15,900 This is highly unusual. 804 00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:19,900 This is not the behavior of a normal animal that I am aware of. 805 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:24,900 The other thing is that current lizards all have straight teeth. 806 00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:26,900 They're all the same size. 807 00:41:26,900 --> 00:41:30,900 So if you looked at this one here, these are all over the place. 808 00:41:30,900 --> 00:41:32,900 So nothing reptilian would really have done that? 809 00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:35,900 No. No, certainly not even a crocodile. 810 00:41:35,900 --> 00:41:39,900 We then examined the growling noises we heard in the bushes, which, while not conclusive, 811 00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:42,900 were most likely a coyote or feral dog. 812 00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:45,900 Back up, back up, already back up. 813 00:41:45,900 --> 00:41:48,900 Finally, we turned to the key physical evidence in this case. 814 00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:52,900 The half-dozen suspicious-looking footprint casts collected from the scape or swamp. 815 00:41:52,900 --> 00:41:55,900 Anatomically, it's wrong. It doesn't look right. 816 00:41:55,900 --> 00:42:01,900 An animal or human could not stand upright like this. They're too stiff. 817 00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:07,900 They don't have any give to them, no variation. They're all exactly the same. Boom, boom, boom, boom. 818 00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:11,900 Building on Mike's analysis, we let our computer compare the prints side by side 819 00:42:11,900 --> 00:42:17,900 and discovered that in fact they are 100% identical, and they are therefore fake. 820 00:42:17,900 --> 00:42:21,900 Likely produced by someone with a stamp and replicated throughout the swamp. 821 00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:24,900 In the end, I see this investigation as a great success story. 822 00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:27,900 After all, my job as a defiant monsters is to find the truth. 823 00:42:27,900 --> 00:42:31,900 And the truth about the lizard man, as best I can tell, is that he's a harmless hoax. 824 00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:34,900 The town has certainly benefited from his rumored existence, 825 00:42:34,900 --> 00:42:37,900 and you can't really blame them for having a little fun with the story. 826 00:42:37,900 --> 00:42:40,900 After all, it's given them an identity that's all their own. 827 00:42:40,900 --> 00:42:44,900 So if you do find yourself driving an I-20 east of Columbia, South Carolina, 828 00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:46,900 be sure to stop off in Bishopville. 829 00:42:46,900 --> 00:42:49,900 Not for the monsters, but for the down home cooking, the local celebrities, 830 00:42:49,900 --> 00:42:51,900 and that sweet southern hospitality. 831 00:42:51,900 --> 00:42:53,900 You want to swat him with this liquor? 832 00:42:53,900 --> 00:42:56,900 Oh, just don't park too close to Skateboard Swam.