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On this episode of Destination Truth, the team heads to the islands of Micronesia to conduct the world's first underwater paranormal investigation.

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Is there anybody here?

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At the scene of one of the most harrowing battles of World War II, hundreds of Japanese ships and planes have become an underwater graveyard.

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I'm definitely not going to ruin these if you're done.

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Now, locals on this tiny island claim that the many Japanese soldiers at the bottom of the ocean and those who died on shore are still waging the war from the other side.

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What was that?

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Next, Josh journeys to Japan to search for a centuries old river monster known as the Kappa.

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A wave of sightings in these frigid waters drives the team into subterranean caves. On the hunt, we're living legend.

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Hold on!

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I'm Josh Gates. In my travels, I've seen some unexplainable things and I've done some things I can't quite explain.

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Now, I've pulled together a team armed with the latest technology in the search for answers to the world's strangest mysteries.

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

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Some of the most spectacular and d-

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Toll was a critical naval base for Japanese forces.

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In 1944, the US launched Operation Hailstone, a surprise attack that sent more than 80 ships and 270 airplanes to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

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Nearly 70 years later, scuba divers and islanders report tales of unexplained underwater sightings, a feeling of being watched, and sounds of loud engine noises from within the twisted wreckage.

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Their explanation is simple. They believe the 3,000 Japanese soldiers who died in the attack are still fighting the war.

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Exploring the Japanese ghost fleet is a life-threatening endeavor. The vessels sit in a deep water maze of rusted metal, unexploded ordinances, and tiger sharks which regularly cruise the lagoon.

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For years I've wanted to dive into the mysteries of truck lagoon, I'm finally getting my chance.

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We packed up our gear for what was sure to be one of our most challenging and groundbreaking operations ever.

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Our mission? Conduct the world's first underwater ghost hunt.

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Our team kicked off a 7,000-mile journey with a flight from Los Angeles to Guam in the western Pacific Ocean.

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From there, we transferred on to the tiny islands of Chuk.

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Beneath the clouds, this lonely atoll appears as a speck in an otherwise endless sea.

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We touched down, eager to explore this tiny island with a tragic past.

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We made the best of the limited car rental options and sputtered our way into town.

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Is this the thing coming with a gas mask?

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I got some sort of a light on up here, hoping that's not an ejector seat.

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Select a Fred Flintstone car, I can actually see the road underneath me.

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All around the island are decaying artifacts of the Japanese occupation, including listing wrecks, overgrown armaments, and lighthouses that have long been extinguished.

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To learn more about the battle and help turn the tide of the war, I set up a meeting with government official Mason Fritz.

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What would it have looked like in this lagoon on that day?

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You see dead bodies are floating out in the ocean, but we know that there is at least over 3,000 Japanese that lost their life.

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And emotionally, what is it like inside these wrecks? Is it a scary place?

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When I swim around, I feel it. I could feel that somebody is looking at me.

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We're not only talking about people dying in the ocean, but we're talking about lots of locals and Japanese dying on land because they dropped bombs to on land.

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The entire island has to be under.

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Clearly, the bloodshed here didn't just take place in the waters of the lagoon.

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The entire islands themselves were battlefields.

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I traveled to meet a local woman who said she had a recent encounter with a spirit on land.

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What did you see?

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Like a light just disappeared.

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And where do you see these?

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The cave. The cave of a dead, that you like that so.

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And what do you think that that light is?

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I think it's a ghost.

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Really?

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Her intense sighting took place on nearby Aetan Island, where she and many others have had strange encounters.

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To learn more about the paranormal activity reported beneath the waves of Chook, I tracked down Kelvin Davidson, a local diving legend who has witnessed many strange occurrences in the lagoon.

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Do people talk about these as haunted wrecks?

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What are some of the things they report?

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Unusual noises. People see strange things in the periphery of their vision.

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For instance, the Hoki Maru. There's one hole that's completely full of trucks. It's got tractors, steam rollers, bulldozers.

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And at a certain point when you get into the wreck, you can actually hear the engines turn over and start up.

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Is this a dangerous place to investigate?

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These ships have been down there for 70 years. They're rusting, they're collapsing.

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It is a graveyard. It is a war grave. There's people down there.

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Eager to begin this one-of-a-kind investigation, the team and I headed to the docks and our waiting dive votes.

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We loaded up the gear, taking extra care with our most precious equipment.

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Got her.

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With the gear on board, we pulled away from the dock and steamed toward open water.

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Truck Lagoon is a watery graveyard for hundreds of ships.

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Our investigation would target only the vessels with the most reports of paranormal activity, as well as Aetan Island,

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which is considered notoriously haunted by locals.

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Our GPS led us to our first dive location, the Shinkoko Maru.

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This 500-foot tanker, which participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor, now sits in 130 feet of water

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and has generated hundreds of paranormal reports from divers.

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Guys, we're coming up on the first rack. Let's get ready to throw some anchor lines down.

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My cameraman Gabe and I splashed in to begin the investigation.

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Ali would remote pilot an advanced underwater ROV as a second set of eyes on the ship's interior

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and direct us through the metallic maze with virtual computerized blueprints.

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Meanwhile, Mike would man the hydrophone, a sensitive underwater microphone that would allow him to record

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ambient sounds and aquatic EVP sessions during the dive.

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Support boat for Josh. We have the ROV up and getting a great picture of the mast.

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The boat is enormous. I'll head it down over to the main section of the deck.

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Josh for Ali, I found a sweet can of spam down here if you wanted.

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Bring it up, I'm hungry.

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I see an open hatch. I'm going to try to follow it in.

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I'm going to buy...

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There's definitely some holes in the roof that lead up to the floor above.

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Ali, what's up on the...

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Josh, it looks like the bridge is right above you.

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Copy that. I'm going to go up through the hole in the roof above me, standby.

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Alright Josh, I'm going to stay on the exterior with the ROV.

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I'm at the top level of the bridge. Absolutely amazing in here.

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The visibility is very good. It's going to get very dark in a second here, though.

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I think we're possibly in the hospital or the medical wing.

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I'll have what looks like the remains of the hospital table.

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Holy ****! I definitely got you the remains of your guys.

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A lot of seconds thought I saw something in here,

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but I just saw a shadow off to my left in one of these dark rooms, and that just went away.

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What if I just see my imagination, it's pretty freaking out here.

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Josh, where's Gabe? Could it be Gabe?

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I think see Gabe. He's off to my right with the camera.

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I put a flashlight in there, it's completely still.

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It was like a shadow or something, sort of a split second, then it was gone.

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Well, it's definitely not the ROV, Josh. We're staying on the exterior, so I don't know what that could be.

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Hello, ****! I got bombs in here, guys.

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We've got huge unexplored battleship ordinances.

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There's huge bombs all around me. We're going to pull out of this room.

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Yeah, please don't blow yourself up.

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There's actually been a few locals who've gone down there and have done just that.

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We'll recruit, move on to the next wreck site that shows us camp.

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Alright, we'll see you on your top side.

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At the surface, we fired up our engines and used our GPS to hone in on the site of the next wreck.

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Guys, I think we should be on top of the Hokimaru. Let's get anchors thrown, get the tanks ready, and get ready to get wet.

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The Hokimaru is one of the island's most notoriously haunted boats, but she is in a dangerous state of decomposition.

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The bridge is completely gone. The ship is obliterated.

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Looks like either a fire or a torpedo blast took it out.

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I am penetrating down inside the half section of the ship.

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There are a ton of trucks down there that are just sitting in the compartment still.

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Just so here. Very, very dark. Hard to see.

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I'm going to make my way through the compartment.

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I can hear a noise in here. It sounds like an engine running.

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I can hear a noise in here. It sounds like an engine running.

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It really does. It sounds like one of these truck engines just came to life.

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But to tell you right now, none of these trucks look like they should be running.

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The boats are not running top side, correct? The boat engines are off?

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Yeah, confirmed. Everything's off.

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It seems to be isolated to justice rule.

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This one is never recording of it. We have to take it back and analyze it further.

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Guys, we're running out of bottom time down here. We're leading the wreck and heading back to the surface now.

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Copy that, Josh.

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We logged the strange recordings captured inside the Hokimaru for analysis back in Los Angeles.

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With night quickly approaching, we fired up our engines and navigated toward lonely Eitan Island.

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This was once the site of the Japanese airfield as well as a command and operation center.

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I dropped off Bobby, Sean, Dan and Vanessa to establish a base camp in the jungle where locals have reported strange lights and unexplained noises.

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They'd use four IR cameras to set up a perimeter around the center of the island.

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Vanessa would monitor the equipment while the rest of the group explored the interior.

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Meanwhile, Gabe, Ali, Mike and I navigated back into the lagoon to continue the underwater investigation.

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Our destination was the Fuji Kalomaru, the wreck with the single most paranormal reports in the lagoon.

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Nightdiving on these wrecks is extremely rare and with packs of tiger sharks now on the prowl, we entered the dark waters with extreme trepidation.

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Look! That's the top of the wreck right there.

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Oh wow, look at that. There you go.

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Josh to Ali, we're headed down inside the left. We're confidence between the land sweep and these guys under water.

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We've certainly adapted to the view pretty well covered.

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Yeah, if there's anything in these jungles or under this water, I feel like we're gonna find it.

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Sean, what do you think it was like for the people on this island during the attack?

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All I can think of is just absolute fear and pandemonium. Bombs dropping, utter chaos, explosions.

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There's all kinds of wreckage over here.

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That's crazy. That's an old fighter plane. I can't tell what kind it was, but it was definitely an airplane.

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Wow. Yeah, I'm not getting anything on it. I'm a flier. We should probably keep moving.

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He laid the way.

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Josh to Ali, it is unbelievable we're back down here. Very, very difficult to see anything.

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I could use a little bit of direction here. Looks like the whole plan should end.

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The midsection is still intact. We're making our way along the back.

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And it's a way to follow the ship.

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Alright, Josh, go right. There should be an opening right above you.

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Stop that. You're very confusing here.

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We're doing as best we can to make our way through. The entire section of the ship is just massive.

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We're moving inside some storage space. I see there's a maze of what looked like Japanese zones.

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I've got aircraft in here. One after another, actual planes are sitting down here.

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Oh, I'm getting a huge hole on the side of that mountain right there. Look.

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Wow. Looks like a key or something right there. Let's head up there. Let's see what I find.

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I hear something. I hear like a footstep or something. Can you see anything on your fire?

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No, I'm not getting anything at all, Dan.

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You hear the noise? Yeah, it sounds like a stone is being displaced down there.

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I mean, it could be our echo, but we're not doing anything.

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We should do an EVP session in here.

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Yeah, let's do it.

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Sean, this will pick up any unnatural electromagnetic fields here in the tunnel.

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All right, good. Is there anyone here?

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Are we welcome here?

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Whoa. There shouldn't be anything this far down.

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See if you can get anything out of here.

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Oh, man. Let's bring it down here.

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Sean, let's keep looking around to try and see what that was.

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Watch out for the bats.

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Justin Halley, I'm going room by room to the superstructure.

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I can see the remains of plates and bottles.

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Gaff masks. It's unbelievable. There's just so many signs of light here.

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Halley, I'm hearing some crazy stuff on the hydrophone.

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What's it sound like?

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It sounds like gears cranking or machinery starting up.

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It sounds like nothing I've ever heard underwater before.

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We're actually over the end of the room right now.

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Josh, Mike has the hydrophone in the water and he's hearing some crazy sounds over the engine room.

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Confirmed. I'm hearing the same thing. It's like a high-winding sound.

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I'm not sure what it is.

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We're making our way up the staircase into the higher levels of the engine room to investigate.

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Just a mess of machinery in here.

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I can see what looks like huge generators and part of an engine system.

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That's crazy.

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Man, a lot of bugs out here.

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Getting eaten alive. What the hell is that?

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Looks like a prison.

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Out here in the middle of the jungle?

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This might be the communication center that we heard was on the island.

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Not getting anything on the thermal.

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Oh my goodness, look at this.

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Actually, something was bombed to bits.

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What did you hear?

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There's something just moved out there.

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What did you guys f***ing hear that?

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I see Mike.

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I hear that again.

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It's like footsteps.

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What was that?

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I just saw something move at the back of that hallway.

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Are you serious?

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Dude, we're supposed to be the only people here. Is that not correct?

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Just evaporated in thin air.

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We should do an EVP session in here.

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If there's somebody here, will you make your presence known?

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Are there any soldiers present here?

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Do you hear that?

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Are we welcome here?

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We just heard a noise.

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Do you hear that?

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Are we welcome here?

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We just heard a noise.

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Something just told the f***ing push me, dude.

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What the hell was that?

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What happened?

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Something touched my hand.

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Did you see anything, dude?

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I don't know what that was.

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I'm not picking up anything on my camera.

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I'm 100% free now.

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I'm continuing an EVP session now.

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Is there anybody here?

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Is there anybody in this room?

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Are you here, anything?

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Can you give us a sign of your presence?

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Wait a minute.

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Hearing this high-pitched machine sounds again.

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A pepidalli hearing some strange stuff in this engine room.

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What's a strange high-pitched sound?

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Can I tell where it's coming from?

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Thought I heard something coming out of the top section of this engine room.

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Headed to the staircase. Stand by.

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Guys, I have human remains down here.

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Repeat, we have human remains.

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I thought I just saw a shadow.

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Went from left to right.

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No idea what it was.

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I thought I just saw something cruise right through here.

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It was moving very fast.

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It was what the large, black shape just came right through the room.

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I know that it's tiger sharks,

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but I know no more stuff to cruise around here at night.

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So I'm keeping my eye peeled.

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Disability is getting worse and worse.

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The light has been afresh. I don't know.

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I was made our way back to the anchor line.

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We're going to send the line to the water surface.

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Yeah, Josh, conditions are getting pretty rough up here.

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Oh, you see their light? Yeah, they're there.

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Once topside, we navigated back to Aiton Island,

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headed to the team and headed for shore.

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We flew back to Los Angeles to continue our investigation at our headquarters.

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We carefully scrutinized our footage and audio recordings from above and below the waves

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for any signs of the paranormal.

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We then took our findings to the ghost hunters, Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson.

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This was a world first case and we wanted to hear their take on the evidence.

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I want to play some audio files for you first from an underwater EVP session.

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Is there anybody here? Is there anybody in this room?

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Definitely a creepy sound. It does have potential to be a voice,

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but this really is a new territory.

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There's just so much that we don't know about it.

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We don't have all the information to say definitively that that is bad.

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Okay, this is from the other team.

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They thought they saw a figure in this doorway.

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Let me know if you think this is something of interest.

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Okay, I see it right here.

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What's that?

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See that?

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No, that I think is, I think that's an actual person just from the heat coming off of him.

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I think you combine that image with the fact that they were hearing footsteps.

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If they didn't hear footsteps, it caught that. That would be more intriguing.

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It's possible that they caught one of these locals just walking by.

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One of the other things that's reported by divers that penetrate these wrecks

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is the sounds of the machinery inside the wrecks still functioning.

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It's very hard to cut through this, but give it a listen. You can, I think, make it out.

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I can hear something.

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I can hear the sounds of the connection running.

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Wow. It really, it sounds like an engine.

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And you know there's no possible way anything's running on it.

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Absolutely. There's nothing in the vicinity of where we are.

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In other sections of the ship, I didn't hear any noises.

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That's neat. I don't, I don't even know how to explain that.

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When you were down there, did the sounds start while you were in there?

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I went into the room and as I swam into this room that's loaded with these trucks,

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it just turned on.

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Well, that's, it's a great piece of evidence. It really is.

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Very possibly you do have something.

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It validates the eyewitness claims. What they're hearing in there, we heard distinctly.

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Whether or not that's paranormal is the question.

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Of course, if you can't disprove it, then one is it's paranormal.

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I look forward to seeing more of these investigations happen.

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It's just a whole new ballgame.

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I'm excited. I'd love to see more people do it.

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And I'd like to get into our sounds, you know.

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The events that took place in the crystalline waters of Truck Lagoon

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helped to write the ending of the Second World War.

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Today, life on these islands co-exists peacefully alongside the rusting remnants of the past.

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The only conflicts here come in the form of ceremonial battles.

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But beneath the surface, this steel boneyard tells a darker story.

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With amazing audio evidence and supporting expert analysis,

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that this inner space may be paranormal-y charged,

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our aquatic experiment proved that we have successfully expanded the frontier of paranormal research.

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A whole new world of investigations are possible, and resting just beneath the waves.

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As a monster hunter, I'm offended when terrifying mythical creatures are reinvented as pop culture icons.

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I'm looking at you, trendy TV vampires.

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And that's exactly what's happened in Japan, where a centuries-old water monster called the Kappa

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that is part turtle, part demon, has evolved into a beloved national obsession.

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Once a creature that was respected and feared, the Kappa has been relegated to the world of kitty lunchboxes and stuffed toys.

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However, a recent string of sightings haven't exactly left frightened eyewitnesses with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

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Locals report seeing a terrifying reptilian creature in area rivers,

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and many claim the beast has dragged livestock, even horses, into the water.

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We combine ancient mythology and these recent reports to generate a living model of this aquatic beast.

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The Kappa is reported to lurk in the waters of the eponymous Kappaboochee River, though it conceals itself in nearby caves.

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A diminutive amphibious creature, the Kappa stands a skint three to four feet tall,

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but powerful limbs and lethal claws pack a fearsome punch.

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The Kappa is also reported to have a strong, beaked mouth used to crush its prey,

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and a strange depression in its forehead that is often filled with water.

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Its defensive abilities are rounded out by an impervious mossy green shell, which also serves to camouflage the Kappa.

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In fact, some victims see only its piercing red eyes.

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To investigate the Kappa, we'd have to wade through the frigid rivers of northern Japan.

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We packed up our cold weather gear and waterproof equipment for this icy investigation.

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We flew 5,500 miles west across the Pacific Ocean to Japan, where we touched down in the capital city of Tokyo.

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We wanted to see the national obsession with the Kappa for ourselves, so we headed downtown to the heart of the action.

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Tokyo is unlike any other city in the world.

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It's a crowded sea of humanity, co-mingling with bizarre and frenetic pop culture, cutting-edge technology, and some very confusing signs.

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Finally, I saw one that I fully understood.

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The food offerings in Japan are also not for the faint of heart.

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The old pizza, potatoes, bacon, macaroni and cheese, clamps, casino, broccoli, shrimp, pasta dish.

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Yeah, that's the bathroom blowout platter.

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A light rain started to fall as we explored the city looking for signs of the Kappa craze.

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A few blocks over, we hit Kappa Mecca, street after street of Kappa representation, and a store filled entirely with Kappa products.

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Oh, Kappa towels, already a good sign.

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Kappa coaster for your drinks.

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Kappa, Kappa, Kappa, gizmo.

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Sure it is. The Kappy Meal.

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Ah, we got a visual. I think we're hot on the trail.

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We're gonna need to keep this for evidence, ma'am.

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We had a glimpse of the commercialized version of the creature, but wanted to learn more about the Kappa that has been both feared and revered for centuries.

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A nearby Kappa temple claimed to have remains of the creature. This I had to see.

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Tell me a little bit about the Kappa remains that I see here. Where are those from?

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Look, the Kappa is located next to Tokyo.

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They found it in Tokyo.

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But the origins of it are unknown.

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Unknown.

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And do you believe it's real?

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It's a place called the Gashu Kyō.

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Yes, they believe that it's real, and that's why they have it in a sacred place like this.

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The monk wouldn't allow the sacred foot to be removed from its case, so he photographed the artifact for later analysis.

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To find a living Kappa, the monk directed us to the town of Tonno, the bull's eye of current sightings of the creature.

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Thank you.

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With the day growing short, we would travel to Tonno in the morning.

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Exhausted, we checked into Tokyo's version of a cheap motel.

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The miniscule storage closets were, unfortunately, a sign of things to come.

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Oh, Japan. You never cease to weird me out.

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Oh, God, this is luxurious.

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I think I'm too tall for this.

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This is like the opening of the Brady Bunch where we all just look at each other's squares and smile.

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Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up three very lovely girls.

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All of them had hair of gold.

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Like their mother, the youngest one in curl.

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After a claustrophobic night in a coffin motel,

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Oh, that was not comfortable,

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we were more than ready for the freedom of the open road.

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Our six-hour drive would take us north to the rural city of Tonno.

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We left the hustle and bustle of modern Tokyo in the dust and quickly found ourselves on a journey back in time,

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through the traditional countryside of rural Japan.

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Where's your Japanese coming back there?

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My name is Mike.

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Where are you from, Mike?

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America.

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That Rosetta Stone program is no joke.

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By afternoon, we arrived in Tonno.

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For the last hundred years, this city has been so inextricably linked with the creature

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that its parks, mailboxes, and even its police station all pay homage to the Kappa.

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We immediately sought out Toshiro Kappayanagi,

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his official Kappa researcher, to tell us more about the mysterious animal.

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What is a Kappa?

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Can you describe it for me?

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What does it look like?

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It looks like a turtle.

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Does it carry a samurai sword and love pizza?

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No.

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It's just in Tonno, but everywhere in Japan, Kappa will suck your intestines out.

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It will suck your intestines out?

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Correct.

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Next, I tracked down a local man who had seen the creature just days earlier in a remote

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section of the Kappabuchi River.

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Thank you for talking with us.

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I appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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Yes, and big fan of your work in Mortal Kombat, you saw a Kappa.

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And what did you see?

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In between the bushes, he saw a Kappa, and its eyes were glowing.

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Its eyes were glowing.

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Where do you think it actually dwells?

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It's in the small hole, or rather, a small hole.

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So he thinks it lives by the river, or when it's cold, it lives in a cave.

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He pointed out the location of his fighting which was near a watery cave.

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We drove out of Tonno in preparation for our investigation, which would carry us to the

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remote headwaters of the river, where the creature could potentially hide undetected.

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From there, we have to hike another three miles upstream, before negotiating our way

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back across the water.

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Pretty modern boat.

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By modern, I mean feudal Japan.

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We made our way up the ancient Kappabuchi River on a boat as old as the legend of the

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Kappa itself.

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Nothing, nothing on the motor at all, Bobby?

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No, just giant poles.

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Okay.

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Despite the recent eyewitness accounts, I was still fairly skeptical about the existence

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of the Kappa.

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As we headed into the wild, I wondered if these witnesses had seen some other creature.

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This river was the site of thousands of these unexplained sightings, so we were careful to

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scan the water as we traveled upstream.

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Oh, right there, right there, look at that, right there, see it?

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Oh, right there, right there, look at that, right there, see it?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, right there.

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God, man.

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What is that?

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It just went off into that shadow.

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I think it was like a big coin.

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I mean, it was, whatever it was, it was big for a fish.

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It was big for a fish, but I don't believe that was definitively a Kappa.

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All right, guys, we're here.

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Let's go.

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Let's offload the stuff.

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To reach the area where the Kappa was most recently sighted, we'd have to travel the

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rest of the way by foot.

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Bridge is out.

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Well, we're going to have to get all the gear across the hard way, guys.

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Our equipment was vital to the investigation, and we had to make sure to keep it dry.

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We decided to use our ropes to ferry the gear across the near freezing waters.

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Cool.

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All right, son.

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Thanks to a little teamwork and genuity and a dry change of socks, we got the job done.

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We got the rest of the team across the river as darkness approached, and after a short

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hike, we finally reached the most remote area in proximity to recent sightings.

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Let's set base camp up here, start rigging the shelter in case it rains.

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With our base camp under construction, we prepared our equipment for the night ahead.

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We set up four IR cameras on opposite sides of the river to maximize our search view.

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Further down the river, we set up four trap cameras that would begin firing photos if

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anything crossed their path.

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Vanessa would monitor the cameras back at base camp and alert us to any unusual activity.

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I think we're here to answer a question, and that question is, what are people seeing in

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the water here?

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They would say that it's something called Kappa.

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We've heard this lives in the water.

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We've heard it lives near caves, so we're going to look out for those as well.

455
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I'm going to take a team consisting of Sean and Dan.

456
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,000
We're going to head north along the river banks here.

457
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000
I want you to sweep to points to south of base camp.

458
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,000
The important thing to remember here is that the water is very cold.

459
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,000
We are going to be wearing hip waders this evening.

460
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,000
If you slip, if you fall, the hip waders can be a death sentence.

461
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,000
Drag you to the bottom of the river, and you can drown real quick.

462
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000
So look after each other.

463
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,000
You might turn around, and next thing you know, the person behind you is gone.

464
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000
Hey guys, we got a game plan.

465
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000
We got a lot of ground cover.

466
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,000
Let's do it.

467
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000
All right.

468
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000
Come on.

469
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:42,000
It's not easy to investigate in these conditions, I'll tell you that.

470
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,000
This water is literally just a couple of degrees above freezing.

471
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000
You can barely get a foothold.

472
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000
I know, it's really slick.

473
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000
It's a tough story, you know?

474
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,000
I mean, it's got all the hallmarks of something that's really folkloric.

475
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,000
On one hand, the description of it is pretty outlandish sounding,

476
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,000
but people's experiences date back hundreds of years.

477
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:07,000
They're saying that it's half turtle, half human.

478
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Do they have big turtles in this area?

479
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000
They have turtles, yeah.

480
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Basecamp for Josh?

481
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:20,000
Josh, they just saw something huge on the IRCAM 2, a headed downstream fast.

482
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,000
I'm just a little bit strange now.

483
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
How big was it? What did it look like?

484
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,000
It's a big figure. I couldn't make out exactly what it was.

485
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,000
It just looked like a big black blob in the water.

486
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000
You might want to check it out right now.

487
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,000
Copy that, V, we're on our way. Stand by.

488
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000
You see me in front of the camera?

489
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000
Yeah, I see you.

490
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,000
Where was it exactly?

491
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000
It was right in front of you on the left.

492
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000
Yeah, right there, right there, exactly right there.

493
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000
I'm looking there right now, dude. I don't see anything at all.

494
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000
What did it look like?

495
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,000
I'm just glad to hear I couldn't make out what it was,

496
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,000
but it was definitely alive in the movie.

497
00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,000
We're going to keep looking for whatever it was, but so far nothing.

498
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,000
You okay, Sean?

499
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000
Yeah, doing good, man. Doing good.

500
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,000
You can really feel the cold through the boots.

501
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000
Yep, you're not doing much.

502
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000
It's a little bit deeper than I expected, too.

503
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000
Yeah, I know, in fast water.

504
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
If somebody goes down out here, it's going to be bad news.

505
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,000
Well, let's make our way to the shoreline here

506
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,000
and see if we can advance up the river a little bit quicker, yeah?

507
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,000
Yeah, absolutely.

508
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Let's do it.

509
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000
It gets real deep in here.

510
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Yep.

511
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000
I feel like I'm in NAM.

512
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000
Be quiet. Charlie's going to hear us.

513
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000
It's murky, too.

514
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
Murky, murky water.

515
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,000
What the f*** is that right there?

516
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Something just touched my leg.

517
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,000
What the f***, where?

518
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,000
I'm not kidding you. I'm not kidding you.

519
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,000
Someone just f***ing moved against my foot right over here.

520
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,000
Right over here.

521
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000
Wait, just look.

522
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000
Look, watch the ripples right there.

523
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Just went out that way. See that?

524
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,000
It's just a little bit out of there.

525
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000
It's a little bit out of there.

526
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,000
So, let's go.

527
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000
It's just a little bit.

528
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Alright.

529
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Let's go.

530
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Okay, let's go.

531
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,000
Okay, let's go.

532
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,000
Alright, let's go.

533
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,000
Alright.

534
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000
You got it, Sean?

535
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000
Alright, that's the way it goes.

536
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000
Alright, I'm going to go.

537
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,000
Alright, alright.

538
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Alright, guys, let's go.

539
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Let's go.

540
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
Just went out that way. See that?

541
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:27,000
Whatever it was, it just took off like a shot downstream.

542
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,000
That freaked me out.

543
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000
I thought it was the mic. I thought it was your foot.

544
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000
No, dude. I was like a good four feet behind you.

545
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,000
And then Allie was a good three feet behind me.

546
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Well, she could be 70 and behind me.

547
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,000
I could still echo you.

548
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,000
That's true.

549
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,000
That's a 12 feet long.

550
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,000
That's true, but it's not slimy and scaly.

551
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,000
This one is better. These legs.

552
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Look at that.

553
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000
Looks like a path to some sort.

554
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000
Something's been coming up and down here from the water.

555
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,000
Yeah, whatever it is. It's clearing those reeds away.

556
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,000
Well, maybe we follow it up inland, yeah?

557
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000
Look for tracks or droppings on the way, maybe.

558
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000
Definitely hear some rushing water ahead, guys.

559
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000
Be very careful.

560
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,000
It's an old spillway.

561
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,000
There's a ton of water going through it.

562
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
The river continues down there,

563
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
but we got to get across these old spillways.

564
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000
We can hike down there and keep walking down the stream, yeah?

565
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,000
Yeah.

566
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Can you jump that with all this stuff on?

567
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000
Have you seen my legs, Caves?

568
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,000
Show off!

569
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
Okay, go for it.

570
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,000
Okay, good, good, good.

571
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,000
All right, here we go. Let's check it out.

572
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Let's go right through here.

573
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000
What's that bottle?

574
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,000
Hey Josh, you got some evidence.

575
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000
Oh, no.

576
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,000
Aw, looks like little Cat was been drinking again.

577
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000
He promised he was going to go straight.

578
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Probably sitting in some strip club right now.

579
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,000
Smoking?

580
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,000
Making it rain.

581
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Now we have even more reason to find him.

582
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Come on, let's go.

583
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,000
Look at this, man.

584
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,000
Wow, it's almost like some sort of a layer.

585
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000
It's like something that's kind of made its home in here, yeah?

586
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,000
Yeah, this is certainly made, and not just here.

587
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,000
All this, uh, all these reeds have been laid down.

588
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:52,000
And yeah, you're right. Look at the, uh, paths going in and out of here.

589
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Something's calling this place home.

590
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
I just don't know what.

591
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000
Little spooky, yeah?

592
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000
I'd like to go with a lot spooky.

593
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,000
Well, there's nothing moving, so, uh,

594
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:05,000
why don't we finish up our sweep here and head on back to base camp?

595
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,000
All right.

596
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,000
Guys, come here, come here.

597
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,000
Look at that, you see that?

598
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,000
Looks like a cave right there, you see that?

599
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Definitely a cave.

600
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,000
How far back does it go?

601
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,000
It looks like it goes a ways. Let's see if we can get through.

602
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000
It opens up in here.

603
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Oh, wow.

604
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000
It goes back quite a ways.

605
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Get in winter.

606
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,000
They say cap is living caves, and this is a flooded cave, so,

607
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,000
it seems like prime capital territory if it exists.

608
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Baths.

609
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,000
Baths? How many?

610
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Two or three or four or five thousand.

611
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,000
A lot of baths.

612
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000
It's okay, they're sleeping.

613
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000
All we need is one of them to wake up, and it's Bath City in here.

614
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,000
All right, guys, come on, let's see where this thing goes.

615
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Oh, boy.

616
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Oh, boy.

617
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,000
Everybody just be cool.

618
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Don't wake up and go all crazy.

619
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000
What's going on, dude?

620
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,000
First of all, we've seen a cappa.

621
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000
Green turtle shell.

622
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,000
It drags kids and horses into the river.

623
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,000
What are your thoughts on the Copa Dracula?

624
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,000
Gary Oldman. Good choice.

625
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,000
Pretty warm like a fellow with a go-suit hat.

626
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,000
That's cool.

627
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000
Oh, I just don't want to move behind you.

628
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Yeah!

629
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,000
What's going on, dude?

630
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,000
First of all, we've seen a cappa.

631
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000
I just don't want to move behind you.

632
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Oh, God!

633
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,000
Whoa!

634
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:20,000
It just practically brushed against my head.

635
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,000
Oh, you see me cappa down here?

636
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,000
Who gives a s*** about cappas right now?

637
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,000
Let's get out of here. They're waking up.

638
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,000
Let's get the s*** out of here.

639
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:35,000
After having scoured the river and explored subterranean caves,

640
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,000
and with the sun nearly on the horizon,

641
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,000
the early night on the cappa buchi had come to an end.

642
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,000
The team headed back to base camp and we packed up our evidence

643
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,000
for further analysis back in Los Angeles.

644
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,000
At the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History,

645
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,000
I showed the photographs from the so-called cappa foot

646
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,000
at the Tokyo Temple to expert Jim Dines for analysis.

647
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
Well, what do we have here, Jim?

648
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Kind of imposing, almost monster-like looking.

649
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Yeah.

650
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000
It's definitely the foot of some sort of animal.

651
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,000
Not from an amphibious animal, and from what I understand.

652
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,000
The cappa is supposed to be some sort of amphibious creature.

653
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,000
We're not seeing any webbing or anything like that between the toes,

654
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,000
which you always see in amphibious creatures.

655
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:17,000
And so what do you think it is then?

656
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,000
I think what we have here are the foot bones of a canine of some sort.

657
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,000
Of course, this doesn't prove that cappa doesn't exist,

658
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,000
but based on the photograph, I think that cappa is not in this temple.

659
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,000
After giving the foot the boot,

660
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,000
we then showed our video recordings from our investigation

661
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000
that we had from the Kubriomarine Aquarium.

662
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,000
So we set up a number of infrared cameras along the Cappabucci River,

663
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000
and one of them does catalog something splashing in the water.

664
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000
So why don't you take a look?

665
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000
Let me know if you can make anything of this.

666
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000
Josh, I just saw something f***ing huge on the IR cam, too.

667
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,000
I'm heading downstream fast.

668
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Right up here. What do you think people could be seeing?

669
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,000
Well, from what I see, it could be a fish that's breaking the surface of the water,

670
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,000
some trout or salmon-awade type of fish.

671
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,000
Also, it could be a Japanese river otter, and those are very rare,

672
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,000
so people aren't going to come across them very often.

673
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,000
In the investigation, I brushed against something in the water,

674
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,000
but let's talk about what could be in this river.

675
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,000
Oh, f***! What the f***? Right there!

676
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:17,000
Something just f***ing touched my leg.

677
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,000
You know, in these rivers, it was probably an eel-like fish,

678
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000
and in that case, you would have stepped on it and would have scared you.

679
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000
Yeah, well, it didn't scare me, Mike. Let's be clear about that.

680
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000
I was startled. It's different.

681
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:33,000
From the frenetic streets of Tokyo, where the Kappa has become a candy-colored mascot,

682
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,000
to the distant countryside, where his presence is feared,

683
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000
the creature is an enigma.

684
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:42,000
It is our belief that the Kappa was and is an imaginative character of folklore,

685
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:47,000
a member of a rich menagerie of beasts that are an indelible part of Japan's identity.

686
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,000
His relics are dubious, and sightings of the creature so fleeting

687
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:55,000
that we are left to conclude that his true identity lies at the crowded intersection

688
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,000
of misidentification and superstition.