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On this episode of Destination Truth, Josh travels to Thailand in search of a plant-like monster.

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Hacking through deep jungles, the team discovers a deadly underground cave where one misstep could lead to disaster.

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Josh!

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Next, team truth voyages to the island of Cyprus, where an ancient sea monster has turned into a modern-day menace.

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In a high seas adventure,

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Josh explores shipwrecks where the monster might be hiding and takes a daring leap in search of the truth.

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Hold on!

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I'm Josh Gates.

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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 looking for.

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The truth.

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When cataloging a new species, scientists start with the basics, like plant or animal.

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But in the jungles of Thailand, locals believe in a creature known as the Nari Paan that is both plant and animal.

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The legend of the Nari Paan started as a Buddhist myth, and though it sounds outlandish,

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the story is gaining international attention thanks to a Thai temple that claims to have the remains of two actual creatures on display.

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With recent reports of villagers disappearing into the jungles after pursuing the Nari Paan, the legend was ripe for investigation.

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The Nari Paan appeared to be part of the foliage around them.

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This camouflage is an effective defense.

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Hiding high in trees and deep in isolated caves, their minuscule size also helps to keep them hidden from view.

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When revealed, though, the animals clearly have humanoid features, a feminine form, and are said to make a high-pitched noise.

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According to eyewitnesses, these age-old beings move with incredible speed and agility.

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With an ancient myth, missing persons and mysterious remains to be investigated,

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I assembled my team and we packed up our gear in search of answers.

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We boarded a plane in Los Angeles and headed west across the Pacific more than 8,300 miles.

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We landed late in the evening, but fortunately, Thailand's vibrant capital is open for business 24-7.

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We wasted no time and raced out into the night.

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Chaos ride!

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I don't think he should be doing a hundred in this thing!

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Whoa, whoa, whoa! Look at that, three in!

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I did it! I did it!

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You're gonna die!

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That's the wrong side of the road.

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Whoa!

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After our harrowing ride into the city, we stopped to grab a bite to eat.

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We've got ants, we've got beetles, we've got grasshoppers.

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Basically the cast of a bug's life.

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Sir, are you just frying anything you find at this point? Is that what's happening here?

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Rider, I know what you want. You want the old flying cockroach. Boom.

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There it is. There it is.

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Reminds me of my old apartment.

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I used to wake up with these in my mouth all the time.

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With our bellies full of bugs, we made our way through Bangkok's frenetic late-night scene.

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You name it, they've got it.

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They got it all here. They got cufflinks, they got pens, they have lethal tasers.

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Anything you need, really.

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One of the great things about shopping in Bangkok are the stocking stuffers.

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Like cool gifts like this? That's like a stocking stuffer.

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Oh, come on. Rider, that's hilarious. Where's the key to this?

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Rider can't have to be put a handcuff on me, now she can't get it off. Of course.

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Shut up.

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Rider, before you make a handcuff joke, you make sure you have a key that works.

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Those are the rules.

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Oh, did you feel that? It loosened a little bit.

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Oh, no, it tightened.

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Anybody have a hammer or a hacksaw?

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This is the most humiliating experience of my life.

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Here, why don't you try it like this? There we go. Perfect.

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Take your time.

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I want you to know that I was not in a weird club when this happened.

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Thank you, folks. Thank you very much. I'll be here all night.

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I didn't mean it.

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You know, it was great of you. I really appreciate it.

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I didn't mean it.

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Good night.

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Josh! Anyone? Can I get a little help?

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With Rider on time out, the rest of the team and I headed in for the night after a long day of travel.

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Early the next morning, we picked up a new ride and hit the road.

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We immediately embarked on a drive to the temple with the strange remains,

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located three hours to the northeast of Bangkok.

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Upon reaching the stunning complex, we were granted an audience with the senior monk.

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I asked him about the mysterious Nari Paan and his possession.

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How did the Nari Paan specimen that you have here come to the temple?

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I don't know. I don't know.

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There was a man who gave this Nari Paan to a monk,

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and that monk passed that Nari Paan to this temple.

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Do you think it would be possible for us to take a closer look at the specimen that you have?

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The monk led me to a chamber where the Nari Paan were housed.

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I'd have to rely on my photo evidence for further examination back in Los Angeles.

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Before leaving, the monk directed us to a remote village where several men had gone missing after searching the jungles for the Nari Paan.

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He suggested we bring a unique fruit called noina, believed to be a favorite of the creatures.

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So we traveled to a massive open-air food market where unusual fruits weren't the only exotic offering.

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It's just like when rider needs their lunch. It's very dangerous.

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Fingers intact, the crew and I got back to searching for the mysterious fruit.

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Unfortunately, we'd already forgotten its name.

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I'm looking for this weird fruit. It's kind of dark and bumpy. No?

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Similar to this. It's one of the rarest of all fruits, the mustache fruit.

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Yeah. Oh, yours is really coming in nicely.

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My shape.

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Do you have any fruit that's kind of wrinkly and dried out?

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It's like a dark fruit. You have it? Yeah? That's it. This stuff here. This is the stuff.

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Ma'am, considering these are covered in flies and nobody's buying them, I expect a hefty discount.

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Fruit in hand, we hopped back into our truck and pressed on.

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Getting to the isolated jungle village would be a challenge.

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From Ban Pong, we traveled by rail 200 miles northwest to Wang Yan.

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Tickets for eight, please.

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Rex and Chris did their best to blend in with the other passengers,

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and we even crossed over the most famous overpass in Hollywood history, the bridge over the River Kwai.

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We eventually arrived in the town of Wang Yan, but still had several miles to go to reach the jungle village.

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Rather than hike through the snake and spider infested forest,

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we opted for the only means of transportation available.

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Raaaaaah!

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All right, everybody. Saddle up. Here we go.

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This elephant is a lot less comfortable than the car seat, but it does come in full leather.

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All right, here's the village, guys. Okay, how do you get off this thing?

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Luckily, Rex headed all figured out.

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Back on our feet, we met with a woman who claimed to have seen the Nari Pan just days earlier.

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Still rattled from her traumatic encounter, she agreed to tell us her tale.

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Tell me about what you saw.

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Last month, I go to the forest, and then I see something under the tree,

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and when I look closely, I'm not thinking it's human. I think some kind of creature.

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And do you think this is the Nari Pan?

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Yes, I think so.

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Have other people from the village seen the creature?

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Yeah, some people in the village, they go to the jungle and they not come back.

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The woman directed us to a section of the jungle where she encountered the Nari Pan.

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This area had several large caves where the animals reportedly seek shelter.

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Steep in here, guys. Careful.

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With the trail far too narrow for our elephants, we headed in on foot.

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After several hours of hiking, we had nearly reached the caves said to be the home of the Nari Pan.

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We were making excellent time until we reached a tiny obstacle.

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That's steep, guys. We're going to need the ropes.

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We're going down the fast way, it looks like.

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Okay, rider. I'm clipped in. I'm headed down.

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Pretty much a free fall. Once you get over the lift.

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Down!

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Rider, remember that time when the Great Wall, when you flipped upside down?

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Ah! Ah!

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Don't do that.

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Oh, boy.

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There you go.

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Yeah, you got it, rider.

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Whoo!

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You didn't have a lot of faith in me.

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I had a lot of faith in you.

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I knew you were going to come down. I just thought you were going to come down a lot faster.

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Upside down, screaming.

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Rider made it down safe!

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Rex, I owe you five bucks.

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With riders safely on the ground, the rest of the crew and our gear quickly followed behind.

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After a short hike, we reached an open area and got to work assembling our base camp.

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Alright, guys. We got a good clearing here.

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Doesn't look like it's going to rain. We got a little bit of cover though, just in case.

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Let's get base camp set up and start getting all the gear strung out.

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First, we installed a network of four infrared cameras around the outer edge of the camp.

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Next, we placed multiple trap cameras that would fire automatically should anything pass by their lens.

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We also fixed three motion-activated sensors around the perimeter, creating a virtual fence around the base camp.

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Terminator 3 is up and running.

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Copy that.

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Tony would remain there and monitor the equipment for unusual activity.

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Alright, guys. So here's the plan. Look, we're obviously in a very remote location,

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and what we're looking for tonight is something really strange.

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There's a very old myth about the story of the Nari Pond.

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They say that it is like an animal, like a human almost,

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but that it's associated with trees, with plants, that it is sort of a hybrid between an animal and a plant.

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What makes it interesting though is that we have these people in these villages

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who claim that they're seeing something small, humanoid, and plant-like running around these jungles.

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We know some folks have gone missing, so we have something more than a myth here now.

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Let's get out there and see if we can put a face on what it is that they're seeing.

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I'll lead a team with Chris and Kyle and Ali.

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We'll head along the cliffs a little bit deeper into the jungle.

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Roger, you'll lead a team with Gabe and Rex. Why don't you head down to the river,

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make your way along there and see what you come up with in the opposite direction.

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Alright, let's get ready. Come on!

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This was a trail, but it hasn't been used in a long time.

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No shortage of wild animals living in here.

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I just really hope we don't run across a tiger.

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Looks like it opens up a bit here.

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Canopy's pretty thick. I'm not getting any starlight or moonlight at all tonight.

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Hear that? Wow.

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I guess it's right here. It does feel like it's right there.

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Must be some kind of cicada, but I've never heard that sound before.

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I got it on the thermal.

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There it is. Just jump down right there.

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Where do you have it? You see it?

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It's a huge species of grasshopper.

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I mean, that was the sound that some of our eyewitnesses attributed to a nari pond.

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I mean, a very similar description.

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It's going to be really difficult to distinguish all these insects we're hearing and birds

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from what the eyewitnesses are hearing.

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I think that the noise of the nari pond may not prove to be the best way of identifying it tonight for us.

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It's super dark in this jungle.

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Oh yeah, the canopy just closes out any sign of moonlight or stars.

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It's pitch black. What do you think of the story of the nari pond?

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The Buddhists really hold this story in high regard.

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I mean, this is something that's been passed along for ages.

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There must be some kind of truth behind the myth.

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Look out, look out, look out!

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Look out, look out, look out!

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What do you see?

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A snake.

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Oh my god.

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I don't know if I scared me more or the snake.

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No, you scared me more. Definitely me more.

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Yeah, he's poisonous.

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Oh my god.

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There, let's back out here.

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Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, I got something unthermal.

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What do you see?

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Buddha.

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It's amazing you find these little shrines and statues all over Thailand everywhere.

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Out in the middle of nowhere and tiny villages and jungles.

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We've got Buddha statues everywhere.

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There's one here, one here, there's a reclining one over here.

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Pretty steep cliff face.

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Oh, big Buddha. Look at this thing.

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It's massive.

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They got a shrine here in this grotto.

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Looks like it's just a grotto. It doesn't go back any further.

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Let's keep moving. It looks like this trail ahead is along this cliff face.

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What is that?

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Base cam for BT.

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BT in the middle.

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Hey guys, are you guys anywhere near IR camera 4?

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We're pretty close. What's going on?

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I saw something move past the frame on the right hand side.

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I don't know, it looked like, to me it looked like hair kind of passing through the right side of the frame.

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You don't think it might have been a spider web or something else?

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No, it definitely didn't look like a spider web. It's too thick to be a spider web.

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You guys are near there. Do you think you can go and check it out?

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We're going to head down there right now, Tony.

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We'll update you as soon as we get there.

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Here's the camera. Rider, you check that side. I'll check over here.

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Do you see anything?

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I got nothing, Rider.

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There's nothing around the camera that could have made any other movement.

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I mean, it's completely free of debris or any branches or anything.

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We're X for base cam.

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Tony, we're down here at IRR camera number 4.

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There's nothing near the camera. There's no grass. There's no spider webs.

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It's pretty much clear.

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It's possible that maybe an animal or something passed by the camera?

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I mean, it's a possibility. You know, we'll have to play back that tape and see what we can see.

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Copy that.

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What do you think about baiting it with some of that fruit we got?

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Yeah, absolutely. Local eyewitnesses said that if anything was going to bring out the Nori pond, it would be this fruit.

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Tony, we're going to put the knowing off route in front of the IRR camera.

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Copy that, Rex.

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That's the best we're going to do for now. Let's keep searching the area.

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Alright.

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Looks like we're heading up part of the mountain here.

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Looks like a big rock face.

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Coming to one of the cliffs like the one that we came down.

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Oh, guys, we got a cave.

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Pretty big opening, but it gets real narrow down inside. Really narrow.

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I don't think these backpack cameras are coming in.

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I have to sacrifice the thermal imager too.

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Josh, your base camp, come in.

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Go for Tony.

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Tony, we found the entrance to what looks like a pretty substantial cave.

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We're going as far as we can, trying to explore it.

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We'll be in touch when we get back to the surface.

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Copy that.

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Here we go.

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Looks like there's some sort of rough ladder system.

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I don't know how strong this stuff is, but be very careful.

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Pretty roomy in this first chamber.

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The ceiling doesn't look very promising. These rocks are pretty loosely piled up.

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Oh, we got some huge tarantulas.

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What?

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Watch your hands on the walls, everybody.

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It's very narrow down here.

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Be very careful.

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Looks like a little shrine here.

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I don't know how strong this stuff is, but be very careful.

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Looks like a little shrine here.

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A Buddha with some naga serpents.

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The offerings are all dried up.

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Oh, there's another Nari-Bhan figure.

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Yeah, that looks just like the one we saw.

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So obviously they believe this cave to be sacred,

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and they're associating it with a Nari-Bhan.

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Maybe it's an offering because they think it lives in here.

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We're in the right place, for sure.

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Okay, another crude ladder going up here.

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Followed by a big rock.

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We're going up here. Follow it up.

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I don't think anyone's been down in here for quite a while.

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These ladders look pretty old and aren't very well maintained.

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Air still feels okay.

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It's pressing a bit deeper.

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Looks like we're coming up into a big chamber.

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Huge room.

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Opens up into a massive chamber.

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Guys, look at this.

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Look at the size of this room.

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Geez.

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I mean, it's the size of a concert hall.

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See a path down here?

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Massive drop, guys, to our right.

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Be very, very careful.

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That's dead-up to death right there.

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Yep, nice and slow. This stuff is very slick.

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I don't see any evidence of anything living down here,

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other than a few bats and some creepy crawlies.

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There's obviously no food supply down here.

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I'm not seeing any waste material.

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No evidence that something's living down here.

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There's fresh water in here, it looks like.

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Let's try to get down to the bottom. Looks like a big drop-off here.

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Maybe we'll find something else down there.

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Josh!

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Let's try to get down to the bottom. Looks like a big drop-off here.

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Maybe we'll find something else down there.

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Josh!

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Josh!

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Come down!

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Hold on, hold on.

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Okay, I got my foot locked off, but I got a drop under me.

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Hold on, hold on, hold on.

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You're all right?

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Yeah.

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I got it.

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Okay, I'm up. I'm out.

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Don't do that again. We got no radio contact.

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Okay.

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You good?

320
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Yeah, it's very slippery.

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Your ankle okay?

322
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I just lost my footing right here. It's like an absolute slip and slide.

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You didn't twist anything?

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No, I'm good. Let's get moving.

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I'm pretty sure we're in the fifth layer of thontes inferno now.

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Moving on.

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Let our old wooden staircase here.

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Okay.

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Everybody ready? We go very slow, single file.

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Don't touch any of the wood supports they've used to block up the ceiling.

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A lot more bats.

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Some spiders on the stairs.

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Just watch your hands on the railings.

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Basically, watch your hands on everything.

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Wow, look at this.

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Okay.

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You good there?

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I'm down, I'm down.

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Okay, ready? Here we go, guys.

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Watch your head in here.

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Right there, right there!

342
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I just saw it's like a shadow go behind those rocks.

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I think an animal just moved back there.

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Chrissy, if you see anything over there, I'll switch to the night vision goggles.

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See if I can pick it up.

346
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I don't hear anything.

347
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Stand by.

348
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I don't see anything.

349
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It's either a shadow or wherever it was ducked down into that chamber.

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Let's head down there.

351
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See if we can follow up on what it is.

352
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I don't see anything moving around.

353
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Yeah, this chamber's a dead end down there.

354
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And this crack just goes down to nothing.

355
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If I did see something, I don't know where it would have gone.

356
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We followed all the way down here.

357
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It might just have been a trick of the light.

358
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Or a small animal, I guess.

359
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But I don't think it's anything the size of our Nari pond.

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Yeah.

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Good news is we're headed back towards the surface.

362
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Bad news is we're going back the same way.

363
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I had a feeling you were going to say that.

364
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Okay. Here we go.

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With a long hike back out of the cave and morning rapidly approaching,

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we started back to base camp.

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Then we'd head back to Los Angeles to examine our findings.

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We reviewed every frame of our footage and determined that the mysterious object

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seen in Tony's IR camera was nothing more than an insect.

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Our night vision camera while able to pierce the darkness did not reveal the

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animals seen scurrying in the subterranean cave.

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Since the centerpiece to the case for the Nari pond were the mysterious remains

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which we photographed, we headed to the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History

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to get the expert opinion of memologist Dr. Jim Dines.

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So Jim, my question is simple. What is this?

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I wish I could tell you.

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You know, my first impression looking at these is it's a mummified fetus.

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But if you look, some of the things that are troubling are if you look at

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what you would think are the arms, it's kind of a proportional problem.

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They're just not quite right proportionally.

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How do we reconcile the head?

382
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That's the hard part.

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You know, it reminds me of dried paws that fall off of trees.

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And in fact, that's what believers think it is.

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They believe the Nari pond is, you know, partially a plant.

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So the fact that it looks like that sort of supports their belief.

387
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So can we determine what this is then?

388
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Because we only have photographs and we're not able to remove these objects

389
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from the temple. It remains a mystery.

390
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It remains a mystery. Yeah.

391
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Tales of the Nari pond are forever interwoven with Buddhist mythology.

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And my instinct is to dismiss this story as nothing more than just that.

393
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A story. But there's just one small problem.

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The bodies locked away in a Thai temple.

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These undeniably physical remains are worshipped by the faithful

396
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and cannot be identified by skeptics with so many hiding places crawling

397
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with so many strange and sometimes terrifying creatures.

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I think an animal just moved back there until we can definitively debunk

399
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these tiny corpses.

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The case of the Nari pond remains ever so slightly open.

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The island nation of Cyprus floats in the eastern Mediterranean Sea

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just below Turkey and off the coast of Syria.

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And below the surface of its crystal clear waters swims a mystery thousands of years old.

404
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Ancient mythology is rich with tales of sea monsters that dragged sailors down

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to a watery grave.

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Now, a recent spate of sightings has many terrified that a timeless legend

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has reemerged as a modern day reality.

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Reports of a massive sea creature dot the island surrounding waters

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and though a local search party was formed to find the beast,

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they came back empty handed.

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The greatest concentration of sightings occurs near the town of Iannapa and Cape Breco.

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As a result, the locals have dubbed this unknown beast the Iannapa Monster.

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We combed through eyewitness testimony to create a 3D animation of this mysterious predator.

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The Iannapa Monster is believed to find haven deep beneath the waves

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where it lurks in flooded sea caves.

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It has a massive body with a shape similar to a crocodile.

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Its back is lined with razor sharp scales.

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Powerful pectoral flippers provide unparalleled speed

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and the tail is said to deliver a bone crushing blow to its prey.

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The carnivorous creature has a massive mouth lined front to back with sharp teeth

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making it a lethal hunter able to strike with no warning.

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With creature sightings on the rise, I assembled our team

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and prepared to investigate this Mediterranean monster.

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From Los Angeles, we flew nearly a third of the way across the planet

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traveling 7400 miles east to Cyprus.

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Upon landing in the city of Larnica, we hit the baggage claim

427
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only to realize that a good portion of our luggage had apparently missed our flight.

428
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,000
Okay, we got half the bags.

429
00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,000
Well, big shocker, mine didn't make it.

430
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,000
Well, we'll get you some skippy bathing suits, will we?

431
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During the investigation.

432
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This is going to be the highest rated episode ever.

433
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In addition to riders clothes, 13 of our equipment cases also fail to arrive.

434
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,000
We're not in that bad of shape.

435
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000
Do we have the cameras?

436
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,000
No.

437
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,000
The wetsuits?

438
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,000
No.

439
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,000
Scoopa gear?

440
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000
No.

441
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000
Audio equipment?

442
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,000
No, none of that showed up.

443
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,000
What do we have?

444
00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,000
We have the medical bag.

445
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000
Okay, so we have band-aids.

446
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,000
And aspirin?

447
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,000
That's good.

448
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,000
That's good.

449
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I do feel a headache coming on now.

450
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Happy that.

451
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:46,000
The airline informed us that our gear would most likely arrive on a later flight.

452
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We were now traveling light and rolled out of the airport and into Cyprus.

453
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As usual, rider called ahead and booked us the finest automobile our paltry budget could afford.

454
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So, we're at about 100 kilometers an hour here.

455
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I better slow this thing down a little.

456
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There we go.

457
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000
That's perfect.

458
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From the airport, we'd sputter three hours to the western corner of Cyprus and the ancient city of Papos.

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Cyprus is the mythological birthplace of Aphrodite.

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And from the rock-carved tomb of the kings to stunning temples, lavish theaters, and impressive harbor fortresses,

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the entire island is an archaeological wonderland befitting a Greek goddess.

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We admired a few sculptures.

463
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,000
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Gabe, Gabe, Gabe.

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It's a family show.

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Come on.

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And the well-preserved architecture of the past.

467
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Some of the craftsmanship here is incredible.

468
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This is a genuine ancient Roman water fountain.

469
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Mmm.

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The ruins here contain some of the finest ancient mosaics in the world, including at the house of Dionysus,

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a Roman villa that features a mosaic of a Mediterranean sea monster, perhaps a distant relative of our suspect.

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After a little sightseeing, we crossed through Papos' open-air market.

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Not a legend, it seemed, was everywhere.

474
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Gabe did his best to cash in with the tourists.

475
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,000
Excuse me, sir.

476
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:04,000
You interested in a fishing trip?

477
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,000
No fish.

478
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,000
You get your money back.

479
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:07,000
You don't need to wear a shirt.

480
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And we discovered that the Iron Appa Monster wasn't the only super-sized mutant in town.

481
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Sir, this is the largest cauliflower I have ever seen in my life.

482
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What are you doing to grow these so big?

483
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,000
Good soil.

484
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,000
Good soil, huh?

485
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,000
This is a cabbage?

486
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,000
Are you, like, what kind of soil are you people working with here?

487
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,000
This is a squash.

488
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:27,000
It's out of control.

489
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,000
This stuff is coming from outer space.

490
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,000
And Josh, check out the lemons.

491
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,000
That's a squash.

492
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,000
It's massive.

493
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,000
Finally, we picked up a few items for future use.

494
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000
This is a cane.

495
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,000
It's got a flashlight and a compass.

496
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,000
It's like season 19, when the rider and I are just hobbling along.

497
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000
I think I see something!

498
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,000
Eh?

499
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,000
I said I think I see something up ahead!

500
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,000
Why are we from the south now?

501
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:58,000
Across town, we tracked down the woman behind the most recent sighting to hear her first-hand account.

502
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000
So tell me about your experience.

503
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,000
What did you see?

504
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,000
In the middle of July, I heard a loud noise in the car.

505
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,000
There were so many strong birds, so many strong birds.

506
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,000
One day, I heard a loud noise.

507
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,000
She turned back.

508
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:18,000
There was this massive creature, like one meter in width.

509
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:24,000
Big mouth, red eyes and teeth that were, like, very sharp, like a soul.

510
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,000
She still believes that this creature is alive and is still in the water.

511
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,000
And she's scared to go there again by herself.

512
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:39,000
I believed our best chance of learning more about the creature would be to drive to the seaside town of Ayanappa

513
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,000
and interview the fishermen who had regularly reported sighting the beast.

514
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,000
After a five-hour drive that spanned the length of the island, we finally reached the city of Ayanappa.

515
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:56,000
At the Maritime Museum, we marveled at ancient sailing charts that depicted sea monsters just off the coast of nearby Cape Greco,

516
00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,000
as well as a reminder about real-world dangers that cruise the local waters.

517
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:07,000
In the harbor, we met a local fisherman who was convinced that the creature was finding shelter in nearby underwater caves.

518
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000
She's moving to the different caves.

519
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:14,000
One week, you can see her here outside of the harbor of Ayanappa.

520
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,000
You're going to see a massive cave there. She's leaving there.

521
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000
Or either she's moving in Cape Greco.

522
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,000
I saw her have to Cape Greco a lot of times.

523
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,000
I came back up.

524
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,000
Yes.

525
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000
And she's massive, huh?

526
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,000
Yeah.

527
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,000
Massive.

528
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000
Probably is two tons.

529
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000
Paolo suggested that we explore the sea caves at Cape Greco.

530
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:41,000
Created through countless years of erosion, this could be the perfect hideaway for the Ayanappa monster.

531
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,000
But before we could search the caves, we had to figure out how to reach them.

532
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,000
Boy, that is a little bit steeper than I was picturing.

533
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,000
That is a long way down.

534
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000
I guess we just take the express route.

535
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,000
Josh, I'd like to formally put in a request for a raise.

536
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,000
Request denied. Here we go.

537
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000
This is crazy!

538
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000
So, uh, Josh, what's your plan here?

539
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,000
Well, we got to check out these sea caves down here.

540
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Guess we just take the express route.

541
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,000
This is crazy!

542
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000
No!

543
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,000
Once we took the plunge, we got to work scouring the caves for any evidence of the creature,

544
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,000
searching below the water, as well as in partially flooded caverns above.

545
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000
The water's definitely a lot colder.

546
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:48,000
It smells really bad back here, you guys, but it's probably just rotting fish, not a lot back here.

547
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000
The cave definitely goes back away as if it shallows out.

548
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,000
There's no way anything substantial could swim in here.

549
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000
If our creature's alive, it isn't in here.

550
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:06,000
With our search of the sea caves complete, we climbed back up the cliffs and headed to the main harbor.

551
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:11,000
I tracked down another fisherman, who said his nets were destroyed in a run-in with an unknown monster.

552
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,000
They were fishing at night. He turned in the dark.

553
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:24,000
He saw a huge animal in the water that was flapping, and he went close to it.

554
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:31,000
And when the boat got closer, it was a terrible smell, and then the animal went away.

555
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,000
When something large comes in and rips up the nets, what do the nets look like?

556
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000
Can you describe it for me?

557
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,000
Sometimes you just find the net with just the string. The net is completely missing.

558
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,000
The fisherman's unexplained encounter occurred just a few miles offshore,

559
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,000
so we chartered a boat, loaded up our equipment, and headed out to sea.

560
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:02,000
So guys, the plan is this. We're going to head down the coast to a couple of daytime dives in these locations where there have been recent eyewitness sightings.

561
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Then we're going to make our way to Cape Greco anchor. We'll get ready for a night dive here.

562
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:12,000
We know there's a cave system that underlies Cape Greco. We'll anchor the boat here and get ready to explore these underwater caves.

563
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,000
Ryder, you'll man the ROV from the surface. Tony, you'll get base camp operational up here. Will it sound good?

564
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000
Sounds great.

565
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000
We reached the area where the fisherman's nets were destroyed.

566
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:26,000
I quickly strapped on my tanks and hit the water, searching for any signs of the INFA monster.

567
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:34,000
Ryder and Tony would remain topside to operate the ROV, an advanced remote control submersible that provided us with an extra set of eyes.

568
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Josh, we have a huge shipwreck down here. Massive.

569
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,000
Josh, can you describe the site a little bit?

570
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:55,000
I'm headed along a site of a deck right now. It's an absolutely massive shipwreck.

571
00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:05,000
According to the GPS, we had located a ship called the Zenobia. The massive ferry sank mysteriously years earlier and could be a perfect hiding place for a large animal.

572
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000
I headed in for a closer look.

573
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,000
Can you have a really good visual on you right now? How's it going down there?

574
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,000
It's going good. We are continuing our sweep.

575
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Dwarfed by the 584-foot vessel, we passed by her enormous propellers and explored the eerie remains of the cargo hold, which were filled with entire big rig trucks and massive containers.

576
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,000
After thoroughly searching the wreck, I was running low on air and returned to the boat.

577
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:39,000
With the sun beginning to set on the horizon, we fired up our engines and headed straight to Cape Greco.

578
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:49,000
The stretch of the Cypriot coastline is the epicenter of eyewitness sightings and with a massive network of undersea caves, many locals believe the Cape is the home of the Iannapa monster.

579
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,000
Chris and Gabe would join me in the dangerous nighttime dive in the labyrinth of caves.

580
00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:03,000
Back at our floating base camp, Ali would monitor the hydrophone for unusual activity while Ryder and Tony would continue to pilot the ROV.

581
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,000
The ship is now ready to sail.

582
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,000
Okay, here we go guys.

583
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,000
Alright, I'm dropping the ROV.

584
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,000
According to our GPS info, that cave network should be somewhere in this area.

585
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:31,000
Copy that, Josh.

586
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,000
We've reached the bottom now and it's incredibly dark down here.

587
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:42,000
Visibility is, any second Ryder looks like we have a cave down here.

588
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,000
We've found a cave opening. We're headed into investigating.

589
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:51,000
Copy that, Josh. We have you in position and we will maneuver the ROV to the cave.

590
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,000
Some of these past cranes are tight, Chris. Be very careful.

591
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:08,000
There's some old fishing nets here that are just torn to shreds.

592
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Yeah, those fishermen today did say that something was attacking their nets and they didn't know exactly what it was.

593
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,000
But if there's some other torn nets down there, you guys might be in the right spot.

594
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,000
We're in the cave system. These fishing nets look pretty beat up.

595
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

596
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,000
I do not have control of the ROV right now.

597
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,000
I just saw something swimming by.

598
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

599
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,000
I do not have control of the ROV right now.

600
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000
I just saw something swimming by.

601
00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,000
It looked like a fish root. Something huge!

602
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,500
Josh, right now I do not have control of the ROV.

603
00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:07,000
Something is pulling and tugging at the ROV down there.

604
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Oh, Chris, did you see that?

605
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,500
Just so it looks like a huge animal.

606
00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:16,500
Big, big fish just went by in the darkness.

607
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:17,500
Do you have control yet?

608
00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:21,500
I do, but whatever it was, it might still be around.

609
00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:29,000
As soon as we think it's clear, I'll go ahead topside

610
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,500
and get back in the boat.

611
00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:31,500
Yeah, sounds good, guys.

612
00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:32,500
Why don't you make your way up?

613
00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:34,000
Don't be sea cowboys down there.

614
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,500
We definitely want you to come up alive.

615
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:44,500
OK, OK.

616
00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:47,500
RON, did you see anything in the ROV?

617
00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:49,500
No, Josh, we didn't see anything from the surface.

618
00:35:49,500 --> 00:35:52,000
Well, caves are empty and some big fish

619
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,500
swimming around down there, but so far,

620
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:56,000
no sign of a sea monster.

621
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,500
Definitely some damaged nets down there.

622
00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:00,000
Caves are empty.

623
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000
We'll just continue to search topside.

624
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,000
After returning to the boat, we separated into two teams

625
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
and continued our search.

626
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,500
Rex and Chris hopped into kayaks

627
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:11,500
to explore the exposed cave openings along the shoreline,

628
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:13,500
while Ryder, Ali, Gabe, and I

629
00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:16,000
headed for deeper water in the Zodiac.

630
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Come off the anchor.

631
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Tony would remain on the ship and monitor our activity.

632
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,000
No shortage of myths and legends about creatures

633
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000
and the Mediterranean.

634
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000
Certainly a lot of sea life in the Mediterranean.

635
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,000
People could be sea dolphins, they could be sea sharks,

636
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,000
seals, large tuna, I mean, all sorts of stuff

637
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,500
would be breaking the surface around here.

638
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:39,000
They got large eels, but at the same time,

639
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
people have been talking about strange animals

640
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000
and these water turned into eels in two years.

641
00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:54,500
Rex, looks like there was something big there along the cliffs.

642
00:36:54,500 --> 00:36:56,000
Tony, that looks like a cave.

643
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Let's get out.

644
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
Looks like there's a little opening here to another cave system.

645
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,000
It's too small for our boats to get through.

646
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000
They're gonna have to get out of the kayaks

647
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000
and do a little searching on foot. What do you think?

648
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,500
Yeah, I mean, if something wanted to hide back here,

649
00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:25,000
it could definitely remain back here and not be spotted.

650
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000
I think we're gonna have to get out of here.

651
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,000
How far do you think that goes back?

652
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000
Looks like we're gonna have to go far.

653
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,000
A lot of these cave systems are hidden pockets of deep water

654
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000
that connect to the sea.

655
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,000
That could be how a Travis Rwanda harbors the Great Navy.

656
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

657
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Chris, there's something in here.

658
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
I don't know if these cave systems...

659
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,000
...is all the sound that goes.

660
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000
It sounds like a cave back here.

661
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000
It's pretty small.

662
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Come back to me.

663
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,000
It sounded like whatever was came from this direction.

664
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
It goes back here.

665
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,000
Again, it looks like a ways.

666
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000
There's no way we're getting there.

667
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000
No, you're right.

668
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000
Oh, stop the boat. Stop the boat.

669
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,000
Shh, right over there, right over there.

670
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Whoa, coming around, coming around. Here we go.

671
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000
Hold on one second.

672
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000
I saw a really big black shape, really long.

673
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000
But that's it.

674
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,000
We'll cruise right by it.

675
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Whatever I saw, I think it's a little bit of a big one.

676
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000
I think it's a little bit of a big one.

677
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000
I think it's a little bit of a big one.

678
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,000
I think it's a little bit of a big one.

679
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Whatever I saw was about half as big as this boat right now.

680
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Right, I got nothing over here.

681
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000
It was just a long, dark shape.

682
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,000
It could have been a shark or a dolphin,

683
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,000
but it was really big in size.

684
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,000
Thermal's clear.

685
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000
Definitely see some disturbances at the surface,

686
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000
but it's just water.

687
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000
I'm going to push forward slowly.

688
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000
I'm going to turn this around this area.

689
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000
See if whatever it is spins back around.

690
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Oh, something on thermal, something on thermal.

691
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,000
Oh, something on thermal, something on thermal.

692
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

693
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,000
What do you see?

694
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,000
It's a long, serpentine.

695
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,000
It just came to the surface and went back down.

696
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:53,000
Really big.

697
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,000
What did it look like?

698
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,000
Thin and long, it just came to the surface.

699
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
Well, I want to get that aqua came in the water now more than ever.

700
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
For sure, let's get that camera in the water

701
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,000
and see if we can image down below.

702
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000
Okay, I'm just going to feed the line out.

703
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,000
See if I can get a picture.

704
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
I'm at about 50 feet.

705
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Oh.

706
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000
And that is the bottom.

707
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:23,000
A lot of sand, very little plant life, no aquatic life.

708
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,000
Nothing swimming around at all?

709
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,000
No, nothing.

710
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,000
Let's get eyes and ears down there.

711
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Let's get that hydrophone in the water.

712
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000
Maybe we can hear something swimming around.

713
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,000
What do you hear?

714
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,000
I'm not hearing anything.

715
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000
With the waves and the chop,

716
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000
I'm just having a hard time making anything out down there.

717
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,000
We scoured the area where Ryder and I saw the unknown creature,

718
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000
but didn't turn up any further evidence.

719
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000
With the night coming to an end,

720
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,000
we headed back to Port and began the journey to Los Angeles

721
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,000
where we'd analyze our findings.

722
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,000
We began by examining our underwater footage,

723
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,000
which revealed a stunning shipwreck and eerie underwater caves,

724
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,000
but little evidence of a sea monster.

725
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,000
During our night dive, however, we did see something.

726
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,000
I just saw something swimming by.

727
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,000
Our thermal imager appears to have glimpsed it at the surface as well.

728
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Based on recent events in Cyprus,

729
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,000
and after reviewing eyewitness testimony,

730
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,000
it is our belief that this Leviathan may well have been a basking shark.

731
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000
These imposing but generally harmless giants

732
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,000
lurk in the open waters off of Cyprus

733
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:31,000
and can cause spectacular damage to fishing nets when they approach the coast.

734
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,000
Then again, perhaps it is something else.

735
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,000
Marine monsters have been a fixture of every civilization

736
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000
that ever sailed the high seas.

737
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000
To the ancient Greeks who used the Mediterranean as a vast highway,

738
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,000
these creatures were a proxy for all the mysteries lurking beneath the waves.

739
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:50,000
Thousands of years later, we have the same desire to define the unknown,

740
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,000
but the ocean hides its inhabitants well,

741
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,000
and in the blackest depths, there may still be discoveries to be made.