1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,840 On this episode of Destination Truth, 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:04,960 deep in the jungles of Central America, 3 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,800 I investigate the reportedly haunted remains 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:09,800 of the Mayan city of Tikal. 5 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:11,800 Some of these spirits come in a good way, 6 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,960 and some of them come in a bad way. 7 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,640 In one of the world's most spectacular ruins, 8 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,640 will my team come face-to-face 9 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,640 with the ghosts of sacrificial victims? 10 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,640 Hello? Oh, my God. 11 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:24,640 Too close. 12 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,640 Next, in the South Pacific, 13 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,640 I go fishing for a terrifying sea creature. 14 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,680 We just picked up something big on the sonar. 15 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:32,680 It looks like it's coming your way. 16 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,680 And come face-to-face with a real-world killer. 17 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:36,680 Ow! 18 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,680 Villagers in Fiji claim the beast is real. 19 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,680 It was some sort of monster. 20 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:43,680 I thought it would beat me alive. 21 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:45,680 And once the sun goes down, 22 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,680 my team wades into potentially deadly waters. 23 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,680 Oh, my God! 24 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:51,680 Hold on! 25 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:53,680 I'm Josh Gates. 26 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,680 In my travels, I've seen some unexplainable things, 27 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,680 and I've done some things I can't quite explain. 28 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,720 Now, I've pulled together a team 29 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,720 armed with the latest technology 30 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:04,720 in the search for answers to the world's strangest mysteries. 31 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:06,720 I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me, 32 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,720 but I know what I'm looking for. 33 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:10,720 The truth. 34 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,720 Deep in the jungles of Guatemala 35 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:15,720 are the ruins of one of the largest 36 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,720 ancient cities in the world, Tikal. 37 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,720 Once the crown jewel of the Mayan kingdom, 38 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:21,720 it now sits in ruins 39 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,720 and is rumored to be one of the most haunted places 40 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:25,720 in all of Central America. 41 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:27,760 At its height, the city boasted a population 42 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:29,760 of more than 100,000 people, 43 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:31,760 scattered amidst thousands of structures. 44 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,760 Unimaginable human sacrifice was common at Tikal, 45 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,760 part of the Mayan blood rituals 46 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:38,760 to appease temperamental gods. 47 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,760 1,200 years ago, 48 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,760 the entire city was mysteriously abandoned. 49 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:44,760 Modern archaeologists claim to have heard 50 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:46,760 disembodied voices at the site, 51 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,760 and former guards recount physical confrontations 52 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,760 with angry spirits. 53 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:53,760 Could these be the ghosts of the thousands of victims 54 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:55,800 that were murdered at Tikal 55 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,800 or the spirits of warriors who died in battle? 56 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:00,800 With daily paranormal reports, 57 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,800 we packed up our gear and headed to Central America 58 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:05,800 to investigate this Mayan mystery. 59 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,800 From Los Angeles, 60 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:09,800 it was a 2,200-mile flight 61 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:11,800 to the Central American country of Belize. 62 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,800 We breezed through customs in Belize City, 63 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,800 hopped into our 4x4, 64 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,800 and immediately noticed a national obsession 65 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:22,800 with driver awareness. 66 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:24,840 Okay, everybody, keep an eye out for snakes. 67 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:26,840 Watch out, guys, turkeys. 68 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:28,840 All guys, keep an eye out for whatever that thing is. 69 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:30,840 And jaguars. 70 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:32,840 That's the only one that really deserves a sign, I think. 71 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,840 There are hundreds of Mayan sites 72 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,840 scattered throughout the jungles of Central America, 73 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:39,840 and before we set off for the biggest one of all, 74 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,840 Tikal, we first set our sights 75 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,840 on the ruins of Lamanai, located in northern Belize. 76 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,840 There's a guide that's turned up in our research, 77 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,840 used to work at Tikal, 78 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:51,840 claims to have firsthand experiences with the ghosts there. 79 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,880 Lamanai is the only Mayan city 80 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:55,880 not fully reachable by road. 81 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:57,880 After driving 100 miles, we hit the end of the line 82 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,880 and turned in our wheels for a luxury watercraft. 83 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,880 This is gonna be a long boat ride. 84 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,880 Josh, you need a hand? 85 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:13,880 Maybe some muscle back there. 86 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:15,880 Appreciate it. I got it. Thank you. 87 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:20,880 With our engine finally cranking, 88 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:22,920 we were on our way. 89 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:29,920 Hi, guys, the ruins are about 25 miles up the river. 90 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:31,920 There's crocs in the water, too, 91 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:33,920 so keep your hands and feet in, everybody. 92 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:36,920 It is very hard to find the truth, but hooks for hands. 93 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:38,920 Here we go. 94 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,920 Before long, we reached Lamanai 95 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,920 and brought the boat into a dock. 96 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,920 We then hiked inland to the ancient city 97 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:48,920 and its breathtaking pyramids. 98 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:50,960 It was there that we found Amir Reyes, 99 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:52,960 who worked at the ruins of Tikal 100 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:54,960 and vowed never to return. 101 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:56,960 Tell me about these stories, about these ghost stories. 102 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,960 In the evenings, when everyone has left, 103 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:00,960 people who would hear sounds like they are still masons 104 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,960 working on the temples 105 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,960 as if the spirits haven't gone to rest yet. 106 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:08,960 Also here, noises in the forest. 107 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:10,960 There is a Mayan shaman in Guatemala. 108 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,960 He can help you protect yourself against these spirits, 109 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:15,960 because some of them come in a good way 110 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:17,960 and some of these spirits come in a bad way. 111 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,960 To meet this venerated shaman, 112 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:22,960 we'd need to cover some serious ground. 113 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,960 To begin with, we'd have to take the boat back 114 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:26,960 along the new river and then drive 70 miles 115 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:28,960 to the edge of Guatemala. 116 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,960 From there, we'd bank south 150 miles 117 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,960 to the village of Candelaria, where he practiced. 118 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,960 But first, we'd have to get into the country. 119 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,960 All right, let's do this. Everybody act cool. 120 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,960 I got a couple unpaid parking tickets in Guatemala. 121 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:42,960 Oh, this should be easy. 122 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:45,960 With the customs office closing for the weekend, 123 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:47,960 the race to cross the border was on. 124 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:50,960 Did we make it? 125 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:52,960 A biennato? 126 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,960 We're so close. 127 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:56,960 Please. 128 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:58,960 Cut that one a little close. 129 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,960 In the morning, we found ourselves in a new nation 130 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,960 headed toward the small town of Candelaria. 131 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:05,960 This village has a huge cave 132 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,960 where we were told we could find the shaman 133 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:09,960 who allegedly has the power to invoke the spirits of Tikal. 134 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:11,960 We were told we could find the shaman 135 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,960 who allegedly has the power to invoke the spirits of Tikal. 136 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:15,960 We were told we could find the shaman 137 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,960 who allegedly has the power to invoke the spirits of Tikal. 138 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 All right, we should be getting close to these caves 139 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 where this mayan shaman practices. 140 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 We're gonna have to pull off the side of the road 141 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 and hike in from there. 142 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 We ditched our truck and hiked our way to the entrance. 143 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 This is it. 144 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Here's the cave. 145 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Look at this place. 146 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Unbelievable. 147 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Careful, it gets dark down here. 148 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Hello! 149 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,040 Looks like it's opening up. 150 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,040 Guys, here he is. 151 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,040 The shaman agreed to share his knowledge 152 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:57,040 of the Mayan spirits of Tikal 153 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,040 and Katie stepped into translate. 154 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:02,040 Tata Pedro, do you think that Tikal has a strong spiritual energy? 155 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,040 She, her energy is spiritual. 156 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,040 So these buildings aren't ruins. 157 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,040 They're sacred temples 158 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,040 that have the energy of the Mayan ancestors. 159 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:13,040 Where are the places that I should go 160 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,040 that have the most spiritual energy? 161 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,080 Or that have the most energy? 162 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,080 There, in the six temples. 163 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,080 The spiritual energy 164 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,080 is the most abundant around the seven temples. 165 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,080 He does believe you can see spirits in Tikal. 166 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,080 After interviewing the shaman 167 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,080 and taking part in a ceremony 168 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,080 to protect us from the dark spirits of Tikal, 169 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,080 we got back into our truck and headed north. 170 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,080 Our next stop is to meet an eyewitness who claims 171 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,080 he was actually attacked by a paranormal force of Tikal. 172 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,080 The man lived in the nearby Mayan settlement 173 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,120 of Flores where he ran a small antiquities museum 174 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,120 and oddly a local radio station. 175 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,120 Never one to pass up an opportunity, 176 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,120 Ryder and I kicked off our new morning drive time show. 177 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,120 Good morning Guatemala, 178 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,120 you're listening to the morning zoo on White Jaguar. 179 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,120 Bring you the greatest hits on earth 180 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,120 until the end of the world. 181 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,120 Today's segment brought to you by crazy Juan's used cars. 182 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,120 He's sacrificing prices, but never quality. 183 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,120 And that's why they call me Senior Seacrest 184 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:14,160 in Guatemala. 185 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,160 Next door, Oscar Costa told us about his 186 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,160 physical paranormal encounter at Tikal. 187 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,160 So he was at Tikal excavating in the side of time, 188 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,160 moving bodies and suddenly he felt like hands 189 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,160 grabbing his legs and pulling him away almost 40 meters. 190 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,160 No matter how hard he tried, 191 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,160 he couldn't hold on to anything. 192 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:44,200 He was cut being pulled by the supernatural force. 193 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,200 The name Tikal itself means place of voices 194 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:48,200 or places of spirits. 195 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,200 Having heard his frightening tale, 196 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,200 we set off from Flores for an hour drive 197 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,200 to the edge of the ancient Mayan city. 198 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,200 We unloaded the car, pressed through the jungles, 199 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,200 and finally emerged at the wondrous ruins of Tikal. 200 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:05,200 The majesty of the site can barely be expressed in words. 201 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,200 The size and scope of the ruins were simply awe-inspiring 202 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,200 and as the sun set, we began our daunting task. 203 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,200 The site covers 23 square miles 204 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,200 and contains over 3,000 structures. 205 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,200 However, we focused our search at the epicenter 206 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:22,200 of the paranormal reports. 207 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,200 We installed IR cameras facing the sprawling North Acropolis, 208 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,200 the Massacre Temple, and at the 150-foot-tall Temple 1, 209 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,200 notorious for supernatural activity. 210 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,200 We established base camp in the middle of it all 211 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,200 in Tikal's Great Plaza. 212 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,200 This is Temple 1. 213 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,200 It shows up pretty warm on the FLIR. 214 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,200 The blocks are probably holding the heat from the day. 215 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,200 Looks like a passageway around the back. 216 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,200 You know, you come to places like this at night. 217 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,200 No electricity. There's no people here. 218 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:59,200 This is exactly what it would have looked like 219 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,200 to the people that lived here. 220 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,200 Wow. 221 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,200 Look at this thing. 222 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,200 It is massive. 223 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:10,200 A lot of the high witnesses and experts say that 224 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,240 the energy flows from inside these buildings 225 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,240 all the way to the top, so if we're gonna feel something, 226 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:19,240 we should try to figure out a way to get up in there. 227 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,240 I hope you're ready for a Mayan workout. 228 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,240 At least you don't have to worry about a gym membership. 229 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,240 This thing's huge. 230 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,240 All right. 231 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:39,240 Voice recorder's running. 232 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:41,280 We've got the millimeter out just in case we get any strange 233 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,280 EMF spikes. 234 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:52,280 Feel that wind negging up. 235 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,280 Yeah, it just did. 236 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,280 Can you give us any sign that would let us know that you're here? 237 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,280 What was that? 238 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,320 Is that you? 239 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,320 Can you give us another sign? 240 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,320 My camera just waked out. 241 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,320 I'm sorry. 242 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,320 I'm sorry. 243 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,320 I'm sorry. 244 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,320 I'm sorry. 245 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,320 I'm sorry. 246 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,320 I'm sorry. 247 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,320 I'm sorry. 248 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,320 I'm sorry. 249 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,320 I'm sorry. 250 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,320 I'm sorry. 251 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,320 I'm sorry. 252 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:30,360 My camera just waked out. 253 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,360 Did it really? 254 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,360 Yeah. Can you hear this? 255 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,360 Oh my gosh, what does that mean? 256 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,360 It's the zoom and the focus toys that we've waked out. 257 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,360 You know, our cameras, 258 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,360 and even they were picking up some really strange energy up here. 259 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,360 Why don't we leave the voice recorder running, 260 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,360 do another quick sweep around this top floor, 261 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,360 and maybe head off to one of the other structures. 262 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,360 Sounds like a plan. 263 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,360 Okay. 264 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:02,360 This is amazing. 265 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,360 Look at these rooms. 266 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,360 Thermal imagers acting up. 267 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,360 What do you see? 268 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,360 It's freezing. 269 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,360 Could be the humidity maybe, but it usually, 270 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:23,360 it's pretty bulletproof. 271 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,360 My camera just started freaking out too. 272 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,360 Right now? 273 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,400 It's like strobing. 274 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:31,400 That's weird that both of these things 275 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,400 are malfunctioning at the same time. 276 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:35,400 They're totally unrelated. 277 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,400 They're not drawing off the same power source. 278 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,400 We're running on totally separate electronics. 279 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,400 Okay. That's weird. 280 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,400 Let's take a little cruise around the sucropolis. 281 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,400 I'm back. 282 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,400 I'm back too. 283 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,400 I've been shooting for ten years. 284 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,400 I've never seen that happen to a camera. 285 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,400 Okay. 286 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,400 So, things are weird in the sucropolis. 287 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:57,440 Let's have a look around. 288 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,440 Feels like something's playing around 289 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,440 with the cameras a little bit. 290 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,440 I'm gonna look in this main building. 291 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,440 Oh, what was that? 292 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,440 Hear that? 293 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:13,440 I just heard something right in there. 294 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,440 Like a low rumbling sound. 295 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,440 Be very careful. 296 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,440 It could be an animal. 297 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,480 What are you? 298 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,480 My heart is racing right now. 299 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:25,480 It's in here. Come on. 300 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,480 Careful. Stop. 301 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:33,480 Stop. Stop. 302 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:35,480 Huge drop. 303 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,480 Let me see if I can get anything on the thermal. 304 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,480 It sounds like a moaning, like a crying. 305 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,480 It's really deep. 306 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,480 Josh, yeah. 307 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,480 You see that? 308 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,480 No. 309 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,520 The base of the pyramid just lit up. 310 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,520 That's pyramid four. 311 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,520 That's the tallest pyramid at the site. 312 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:55,520 You saw light over there. 313 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,520 The base of the pyramid lit up 314 00:12:57,520 --> 00:12:59,520 and then went away, like a burst of light. 315 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:01,520 Ryder's team is nowhere near that temple. 316 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:03,520 It's not them. 317 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,520 Those noises are coming from over there as well. 318 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:07,520 Let's get through this jungle. 319 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,520 We can get over to that pyramid. 320 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:11,560 So this is the North Acropolis. 321 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:13,560 They say that there's over 322 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:15,560 hundreds of structures in this one building alone. 323 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:17,560 What? 324 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:19,560 Right down here. 325 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:21,560 What was that? 326 00:13:21,560 --> 00:13:23,560 What do you see? 327 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:25,560 I just saw it. 328 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:27,560 Like a white spot. 329 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:29,560 Just walk across there. 330 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:31,560 Let's go check this out. 331 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:33,560 Right through here. 332 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:35,560 I think it's a little bit deeper. 333 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:37,560 I think it's a little bit deeper. 334 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,600 Right through here. 335 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,600 I just got the chills. 336 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,600 I just got the chills. 337 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,600 I mean, it's warm. 338 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,600 It's absolutely warm. 339 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:49,600 It's like we're standing on one big tomb. 340 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:52,600 It's amazing how spread out 341 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,600 each of the complexes are. 342 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,600 I mean, you really have to get through the jungle 343 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:58,600 to get in between any two locations here. 344 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,600 God, look at it. 345 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:02,600 The whole backside of it's un-excavated. 346 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:04,600 It looks like a mountain. 347 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:06,640 Something's moving back up, back up, back up. 348 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:08,640 Whatever it is, I don't see it. 349 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:10,640 Do you see anything moving up there? 350 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:12,640 No. 351 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,640 No. 352 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,640 The rocks. 353 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,640 The rocks are coming out of the sky. 354 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:20,640 There it is. 355 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:22,640 It's a monkey. 356 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,640 You can see it. 357 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,640 Let's get around to the front of this temple 358 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:28,640 before we get knocked unconscious. 359 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,640 Come on. 360 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:32,680 We should be coming up on 361 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:34,680 some more of the 362 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:36,680 structures 363 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:38,680 through here. 364 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,680 What'd you hear? 365 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:46,680 Did you hear that? 366 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:48,680 Yeah, I heard that. 367 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,680 There's a lot of rustling, that's for sure. 368 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:52,680 I'm gonna go get the rest of the stuff. 369 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,680 I'm gonna go get the rest of the stuff. 370 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:56,680 I'm gonna go get the rest of the stuff. 371 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:58,680 I'm gonna go get the rest of the stuff. 372 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,720 I just heard like a cry right behind us. 373 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,720 Hello? 374 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,720 Something's up here. 375 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:06,720 I don't see anything. 376 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,720 No, I'm not hearing anything 377 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,720 over the beating of my heart 378 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:12,720 because it's so loud right now. 379 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:14,720 Where is that? 380 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:16,720 Whoa. 381 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,720 Whoa. 382 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,720 Alright, let's back away a little bit. 383 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,720 It sounds like a very big animal. 384 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,720 Yeah, I'm sorry. 385 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:26,720 I'm sorry. 386 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,760 Yeah, I'm sorry. 387 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,760 Rider for Tristan. 388 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:34,760 Go ahead, rider. 389 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:36,760 Pretty deep in the jungle right now. 390 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:38,760 We've heard a lot of really strange noises. 391 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:40,760 Unfortunately, looks like we've just stumbled on 392 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,760 some sort of a large animals habitat. 393 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,760 Oh my god. 394 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,760 It is close. 395 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:52,760 Looks like we've just stumbled on 396 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,760 some sort of a large animals habitat. 397 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,800 Oh my god. 398 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,800 It is close. 399 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,800 It's coming toward us, whatever it is 400 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,800 coming toward us. Watch your back. 401 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,800 Get out of there, come back to base camp. 402 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,800 Rider, are you there? 403 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,800 Rider, come in. 404 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:11,800 Copy, we're here. We're just trying to 405 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,800 take a farther vantage point 406 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,800 so we can collect ourselves a little bit. 407 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:17,800 Okay, copy that. Stay safe. 408 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,800 Let me know. 409 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,800 You know, safety's the main concern 410 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,800 and I don't think we can investigate any further 411 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,840 safely through here, so... 412 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,840 Let's get out of here. 413 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:29,840 I couldn't agree more. 414 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:31,840 God, it's huge. 415 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:33,840 Oh, man. 416 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:35,840 The front staircase is damaged, 417 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:37,840 doesn't go all the way up. 418 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,840 That's exactly where I saw the light 419 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:41,840 from that black hole up there. 420 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:43,840 Yeah, right up in here, right? 421 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:45,840 Let's see if we can get all the way to the top. 422 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:47,840 It'll give us the best view over the site. 423 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,840 Oh, great. 424 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:51,840 The scariest ladder in the world. 425 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:54,840 Okay, here we go. 426 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:00,840 This is crazy. This is crazy. 427 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,840 Slow moves. 428 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:06,840 Oh, my God. 429 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,840 Guys, we're about 150 feet up here. 430 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:11,840 Be very careful. 431 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:13,840 Look how this is where that light was. 432 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:15,840 I mean, now that we're up here, 433 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,840 there's clearly nothing up here 434 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:19,840 that could make that light. 435 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:21,840 I don't even know what to say. It was right here. 436 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:23,840 Now I see nothing. 437 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,840 Oh, Josh, Josh, Josh. 438 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:27,840 I can hear like a breathing sound. 439 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:29,840 Be very careful. Let's go check it out. 440 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:33,840 Oh, I hear it. I hear it. 441 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:35,840 It's coming from here. 442 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:37,840 Look at that. 443 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:41,840 Yeah, it's definitely coming from there. 444 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:46,840 It's weird. It sounds like the building's talking. 445 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:48,840 That might explain what some of the people are hearing. 446 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:50,840 They say they hear voices coming from these pyramids. 447 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:52,840 It may just be wind whistling through them. 448 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:54,840 It's alive. This building is alive. 449 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,840 Oh, Scorpion, Scorpion. 450 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:58,840 Careful, careful, careful. You got no room in the right. 451 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:00,840 Yeah, let's get out of here, you guys. Come on. 452 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,840 Death trap up here. 453 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,840 We continue to search the overgrown pyramids 454 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:07,840 until the sun broke up through the rainforest. 455 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:09,840 We hiked back to the Great Plaza, 456 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,840 packed up our supplies, and jetted home 457 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,840 to conclude our investigation. 458 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:16,840 Back at our HQ, 459 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,840 Ryder and I poured over hundreds of hours of recordings 460 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,840 for paranormal evidence. 461 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:24,840 So one of the things that we've heard is that there's a great energy at Tikal. 462 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:26,840 A lot of people do believe that paranormal energy 463 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:28,840 can affect electronics. 464 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,840 You know, if that's the case, this place is haunted out of the gate, 465 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,840 because our cameras just weren't working right. 466 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:36,840 Thermal image is acting up. 467 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,840 My camera just started freaking out, too. 468 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:40,840 My camera just wiggled out. 469 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:42,840 It's not just a power outage. 470 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:44,840 It's not just like losing power. 471 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,840 Power's being sapped. 472 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:48,840 It's actually something's taking over the cameras, 473 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:50,840 which is really incredible. 474 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,840 When the equipment was working, though, it picked up some really weird stuff. 475 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:57,840 What was that? 476 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,840 You hear that? 477 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:01,840 And look, there's a lot of animals out there. 478 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,840 I think one of the things we have to keep in mind 479 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,840 is the amount of biodiversity in this region. 480 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,840 But even if that is an animal, we chase down that noise 481 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:09,840 and check out what we found on the other side. 482 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,840 Look at this. 483 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:13,840 Yeah. You see that? 484 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:15,840 Yeah. 485 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,840 You know, that's pretty far from where we're standing, 486 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,840 and it's pretty high up off the ground. 487 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,840 We know it's not your team. 488 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:24,840 We're in a completely different area. This is on the other side of the complex. 489 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:26,840 It looks like something the temple is illuminating. 490 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,840 Along with our intense personal experiences, 491 00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:32,840 our EVP recordings also yielded up unsettling results. 492 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,840 We did a number of EVP sessions throughout the night. 493 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,840 We got some good results when we amplified the recordings, 494 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,840 but this is the one I want to play for you. Listen to this. 495 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:41,840 Is that you? 496 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:43,840 Can you give us another sign? 497 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:45,840 Wow. 498 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:47,840 You hear that? Yeah. 499 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:49,840 We're trying to find different things that it might have been. 500 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,840 It almost sounds like it says fuera, 501 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,840 which is Spanish for go away. 502 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:58,840 You know, of course, the site predates the conquistadors, 503 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:00,840 but it could be from later in history, 504 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,840 or it could be some sort of my own word that we don't know. 505 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,840 And this is a response to a direct question that I ask. 506 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,840 Look, I don't think you can discount that a lot of the things that you're hearing at Tikal 507 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,840 are the sounds of the jungle. They're animals everywhere. 508 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,840 But some of these visual encounters, these lights that we saw all over the site, 509 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:17,840 you know, I don't have an explanation for those things. 510 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,840 But I think something strange is going on there. 511 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,840 It's something that we, at this point, can't identify. 512 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,840 The Mayan Empire has long receded into history 513 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:29,840 and is today guarded by croc infested rivers 514 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:31,840 and overgrown with clinging vines. 515 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,840 The ruins that remain are the last calling card 516 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,840 of a once mighty civilization. 517 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,840 But amidst these crumbling blocks, 518 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,840 there is also a lingering presence that's hard to shake. 519 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,840 Is it the wind? 520 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,840 It's weird. It sounds like the building's parking. 521 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:47,840 Or a predatory growl. 522 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:48,840 Where? 523 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,840 Or is it an echo, the long ago sounds 524 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,840 and illuminating energy of tortured souls 525 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,840 bouncing off the high pyramids? 526 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,840 In the mid-1800s, infamous showman P.T. Barnum 527 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:04,840 thrilled circus-goers with the doctored remains 528 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,840 of a horrifying sea monster he called the Fiji Mermaid. 529 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,840 Now, a century and a half later, 530 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,840 it appears a real-life version of this nightmarish creature 531 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,840 may have emerged from the depths of the Pacific Ocean 532 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,840 to terrorize a tranquil island population. 533 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,840 The creature is believed to have come from the inky depths 534 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,840 of the South Pacific Ocean, 535 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,840 but recent sightings have taken place in the usually peaceful shallows 536 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:27,840 of Fiji's coastal mangrove swamps. 537 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,840 It has a diamond-shaped head and rows of razor-sharp teeth, 538 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,840 ideal for locking down on its prey and ripping through flesh. 539 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,840 The skin is covered in heavy angular scales, 540 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:38,840 creating a virtual suit of armor. 541 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,840 It surges through the water using two powerful pectoral fins, 542 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,840 and its body and tail are strong enough that the beast 543 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,840 can thrust itself forward at terrifying speeds. 544 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,840 Fiji's army was even called in to investigate, 545 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,840 and local villagers are now on high alert after recent close calls. 546 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:55,840 So we packed up our traveling caravan 547 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,840 and headed to Fiji in search of the beast. 548 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,840 We boarded a plane in Los Angeles and traversed the Pacific, 549 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,840 flying 5,500 miles to the city of Suva, 550 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,840 on Fiji's main island of Viti Levun. 551 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:12,840 Once in baggage claim, we patiently waited for our gear to get unloaded. 552 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,840 This is like the baggage belt in nowhere. 553 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:20,840 That is a Mili-AirHeart suitcase that has been on there for 75 years. 554 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,840 Once the luggage finally appeared, 555 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,840 we marched out of the airport and embarked on the next leg of our journey. 556 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,840 Alright everybody, welcome to Fiji. 557 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,840 We need to get to the other island of Vano-Elevo. 558 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,840 So the easiest way to get there right now, actually, is for us to take a ferry. 559 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,840 So we're going to head down to the docks and sail on over. 560 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:40,840 Sounds nice. 561 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:41,840 Yeah, it's not. 562 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:47,840 Once on board, you couldn't help but notice the less than luxurious accommodations. 563 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,840 It's supposed to be in great shape. 564 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,840 It might be a maiden voyage. 565 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,840 When we finally reached the lone passenger cabin, 566 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,840 I had the team draw straws to determine which two members would get the only bed. 567 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:01,840 Richie lucked out and so did I. 568 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,840 The rest of the team found places to crash on various uncomfortable corners of the ferry, 569 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,840 while Richie and I enjoyed our cushy digs. 570 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,840 The boat spent the night crossing the churning seas of the South Pacific, 571 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:21,840 carrying us 150 miles to the port town of Savu-Savu. 572 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,840 Like all of Fiji, the island of Vano-Elevo is a volcanic wonderland, 573 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,840 in some places still hissing and boiling from deep ocean tectonic vents. 574 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,840 We immediately picked up a car, crossed the island, 575 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,840 and made our way to a marine research facility to meet with a professor 576 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,840 who has investigated the reports of this unexplained beast. 577 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,840 You've heard of the story, yeah? 578 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:44,840 Yes. 579 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:45,840 And what do you make of it? 580 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,840 Well, I'd have to say that I really don't know what to make of it, 581 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,840 because the real experts are the Fijians themselves. 582 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,840 So when a woman goes out and says there's something new that she's seen, 583 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,840 I really am very curious myself as to what that could possibly be. 584 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,840 Do you think it's likely there are new species still to be discovered here? 585 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,840 Without a doubt, there are many, many new species to be discovered. 586 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:09,840 The fact of the matter is, much of the area around Fiji is unexplored. 587 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,840 The interview fueled my excitement to talk with the locals, 588 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:14,840 and we immediately sought out a fisherman, 589 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:18,840 who said he had encountered an unknown sea creature just days earlier. 590 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,840 Tell me about your experience, what happened to you? 591 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,840 I was fishing, something came up from the back of my boat. 592 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,840 And when I turned around, I saw something really big. 593 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,840 It came and hit the boat. 594 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,840 I told my friend to quickly pull the anchor up, and we just left from there. 595 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,840 I don't know what it was, I've never seen it before. 596 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,840 It was really big, and I thought it would take me alive. 597 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,840 The fisherman's tale was not unique. 598 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,840 Dozens of sightings of the animal had been documented in the past year 599 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:44,840 along the coast of the island. 600 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,840 I decided it was time for us to head to the beach 601 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,840 and investigate the surrounding waters for ourselves. 602 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,840 To cover the greatest possible area, we broke into three teams. 603 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,840 Tristan and Richie would survey the saltwater mangrove rivers on foot. 604 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,840 Rider, Katie and Dave would take a boat on a sweep of the shallow ocean reefs 605 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,840 beyond the mangroves, and Kyle, Adam and I would search both areas from above 606 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,840 in a helicopter. 607 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:09,840 Here we go. 608 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,840 Rider, we're heading over to these mangrove swamps, 609 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,840 starting to scan with a thermal imager now so far, no sign of anything. 610 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,840 Copy that, Josh, closing in on the mangrove swamps now. 611 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,840 We scanned the waters around the island for more than an hour 612 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,840 when Rider and Katie suddenly got a hit. 613 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,840 Whoa, look at that! 614 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,840 Right off the port side of the boat, Dave, did you get a glimpse of that? 615 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:32,840 No, I just missed it. 616 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,840 The black shape just flew right by the side of the boat. 617 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:40,840 Josh, Katie and I just saw something, a dark sheep swim right by the side of the boat. 618 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,840 Copy that, I'm scanning for it right now. 619 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,840 Alright, let's get the aquacammon and try to get eyes underwater. 620 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,840 I don't have anything right next to the boat, I'm looking a little farther out. 621 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:55,840 Hold on, we're just winding our search a little. 622 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,840 Right there, Josh, right there! 623 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,840 Got it, got it! We got it on thermal! 624 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,840 Something big just came to the surface on the thermal. 625 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,840 Coming around again to see if we can see it. 626 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,840 Josh, we're gonna go up on you, Zach, cause I got no visual. 627 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,840 Rider, I don't see you, we're coming around again, stand by. 628 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,840 Looks like a one-time shot came to the surface and it's gone back down. 629 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,840 Copy that, Josh, we'll meet you back at the dock. 630 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:27,840 Both Rider and I tagged the location of her sighting on GPS in about 60 feet of water. 631 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,840 We quickly landed the helicopter and the entire team rendezvoused back at the dock 632 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,840 as we raced to get a closer look at the area. 633 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,840 Let's get out to the spot where we saw that thermal, 634 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,840 hand will strap the tanks out, we'll get down. 635 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,840 We suited up, strapped on our tanks and splashed into the water on the edge of a reef 636 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,840 that surrounds the island. 637 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,840 This barrier separates the deep ocean from the island's beaches. 638 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,840 How's the visibility? 639 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,840 Rider, that's supposed to be beautiful down here. 640 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,840 Some people think this thing may have come up from the depths, 641 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,840 so let's see what's living up there in the reef. 642 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,840 That's a good plan, we'll deploy the ROV and we'll get you back. 643 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,840 Rider for Josh? 644 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,840 Yeah, go for Josh. 645 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,840 Hey Josh, we just picked up something big on the sonar, 646 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,840 it looks like it's under the boat, might be coming your way. 647 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,840 No sign of anything large down here. 648 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:26,840 Bro! 649 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,840 Hey Josh, we just picked up something big on the sonar, 650 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,840 it looks like it's under the boat, might be coming your way. 651 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,840 No sign of anything large down here. 652 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,840 Bro! 653 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,840 We got a shark, we got a bull shark in the water. 654 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,840 We just saw a bull shark down there. 655 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,840 Yeah, I've seen a few on the video ray as well. 656 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:48,840 How close were they? 657 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,840 They're really close actually. 658 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,840 Looks like four or five moments, that's four or five bull sharks just came in at a feeding 659 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:01,840 present, very dangerous, very big, we're looking for a way to get out of here, 660 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,840 but there's some big, big boys starting on here. 661 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:09,840 We got a couple that are in excess of six or seven feet long circling us right now. 662 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,840 They need to get back up. 663 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,840 Guys, you're in a pretty vulnerable place down there, why don't you start surfacing right now? 664 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,840 Rider, we're going to break through the surface, we're going to get out of here. 665 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,840 Pull them in, pull them in! 666 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:25,840 We're going to stop. 667 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:26,840 We're going to stop, we're going to stop. 668 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:27,840 Go, go, go, go, come on. 669 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:28,840 You guys okay? 670 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,840 Get out, get out, come on. 671 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,840 Big, big bull sharks down there. 672 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,840 Doesn't match the profile of what those people saw in the village, but still huge. 673 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,840 Everybody got their fingers, fingers check? 674 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,840 Okay, let's get back inside the reef to pick up the investigation there. 675 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:47,840 Our dive was a terrifying and dangerous encounter that I didn't care to repeat. 676 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:52,840 I wanted to narrow our search area and pinpoint exactly where the creature had last been seen. 677 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,840 So we returned to the island and drove along the coast to a small fishing village along 678 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:01,840 the Saltwater River and mangroves where nearly all of the recent sightings of the beast took place. 679 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,840 Upon arrival, we began searching for eyewitnesses. 680 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,840 The locals directed us to a woman who was said to be the first one on the island to ever see 681 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,840 the creature when you had this sighting. 682 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:12,840 Where were you? 683 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:20,840 I was fishing and then she saw a huge black thing in the water. 684 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:25,840 She said it was about 15 feet long and it has a diamond shape head. 685 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:27,840 It was some sort of monster. 686 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,840 Do you think that it could have been a shark? 687 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,840 Do you think that it could have been a crocodile maybe? 688 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:45,840 She has been fishing in that area for 43 years and she hasn't seen anything like that in her entire life. 689 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:51,840 Next, we spoke with the village chief who tirelessly searched for the creature in the surrounding waters. 690 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,840 When you heard the story, what did you do? 691 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,840 I called to the police, I called to the army and they came straight here. 692 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:01,840 And I collected some speargun and we went to the sea and looked for it. 693 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,840 Despite a few close calls, his team never got a good look at the animal. 694 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,840 So do you think that whatever this thing was, do you think it was dangerous? 695 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,840 It is dangerous. It is dangerous anymore. 696 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,840 If you go there, it might attack you and eat you. 697 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:19,840 He directed me to the exact spot where the sightings took place and even loaned us his boat for the journey. 698 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,840 We loaded up our gear and headed out onto the river. 699 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:33,840 The river took us along the inside of a thin peninsula and eventually led us to the edge of the open ocean, the location of the sightings. 700 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:38,840 We quickly beached our boat and with night approaching, we immediately got to work setting up base camp. 701 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:49,840 You know, these witnesses are really adamant that they saw something unknown. 702 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,840 We know that out in the deeper waters, we've got big fish, we know there are predators, we've seen sharks. 703 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,840 Inside this reef though, it's a lot shallower. 704 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,840 We've heard this thing comes up at night, we've heard there have been a lot of sightings right after dark. 705 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,840 So if we see anything large surface in here, we've got to move quick. 706 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,840 I'm going to head out with Dave and Katie and Adam. 707 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,840 We'll take the boat, we'll head up and down the mangroves here along the coast. 708 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,840 And Ryder, why don't you head up a team with Richie and Kyle and move up and down this peninsula. 709 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:15,840 You guys ready to catch a sea monster? 710 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:16,840 Yeah. 711 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:17,840 Let's do it quick. 712 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:23,840 I mean, whatever these people saw shouldn't be in water to shell. 713 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:24,840 At all. 714 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:25,840 Primary eyewitness. 715 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,840 I mean, it sounds like Shenmuella saw a crocodile or something, which they don't have here. 716 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,840 So, it's a real mystery. 717 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:35,840 Just off of Josh. 718 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:36,840 Go for Josh. 719 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,840 Hey man, I just saw a pretty good splash. 720 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,840 Pretty good ripples on my IR camera number three. 721 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,840 It looked like something big went through the water. 722 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:47,840 Copy that. 723 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:48,840 Listen, we're going to flip around right now. 724 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:49,840 We're going to come over and check it out. 725 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:50,840 Stand by. 726 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:51,840 Copy that. 727 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:52,840 Let me know when you're near. 728 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,840 Alright, just now we're just passing by where the camera is right now. 729 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,840 Water is still in its glass. 730 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,840 I don't see anything moving out here yet. 731 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,840 Yeah, I think you guys might have just missed it. 732 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:12,840 No worries. 733 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,840 We're going to get the thermal imager up and just start scanning right up and down the mangroves here. 734 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:16,840 I just moved off a little bit. 735 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:17,840 Copy that. 736 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:18,840 I'll keep my eyes on the camera. 737 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,840 If you saw something large moving here, it may still be hanging out right in this area. 738 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:23,840 So, we'll just be systematic about it. 739 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,840 We'll go up one bank and down the other. 740 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,840 See if we see anything disturbing the surface. 741 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:28,840 Sound good? 742 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:29,840 Absolutely. 743 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:30,840 I'll keep my eyes peeled. 744 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:31,840 Alright, let's do it. 745 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:32,840 Come on. 746 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:40,840 You know, I think the real interesting thing is that all these eyewitnesses are, you know, 747 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,840 local Fijian people that they know these waters better than anyone here. 748 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:49,840 When these people are too scared to actually fish in the areas that they fished all their 749 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:50,840 lives, it's pretty significant. 750 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:51,840 What's that? 751 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:52,840 Right there. 752 00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:53,840 What do you see? 753 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,840 I see a dark black object moving through the water right there. 754 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:57,840 Where? 755 00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:58,840 Right there. 756 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,840 Oh my God, guys, right up there. 757 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,840 I just picked up a heat signature on the thermal. 758 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,840 Yep, something just crested. 759 00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:11,840 Nothing. 760 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,840 Now it's gone. 761 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:17,840 Whatever it was, popped up, swam right away from us and went down. 762 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:18,840 This thing's fast. 763 00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,840 Whatever it is. 764 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,840 Nothing on the thermal. 765 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,840 Oh my God! 766 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,840 Nothing on the thermal. 767 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,840 Oh my God! 768 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,840 Something just swam through my legs. 769 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,840 There was fish right by your foot. 770 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,840 That was terrifying. 771 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,840 But whatever we got on the thermal was bigger than a fish. 772 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,840 Looks like it was heading off this way, which is right directly towards that mouth of the 773 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:52,840 river. 774 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,840 Let's cut in through this mangrove, head down to the shore there, see if we can spot it 775 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:57,840 again. 776 00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:58,840 Sounds great. 777 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,840 Did you guys hear that? 778 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:11,840 Yeah. 779 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,840 It's right under us. 780 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,840 Keep your arms and hands inside the boat, kids. 781 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,840 Let's get out the aquacam and let's get the hydrophone out, Adam. 782 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,840 Let's give it a little bit of a whiff. 783 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,840 I'm not sure if it's a good idea to get out of here. 784 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,840 I'm just going to get it. 785 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:28,840 I'm going to get it. 786 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,840 I'm going to get it. 787 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,840 I'm going to get it. 788 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,840 I'm going to get it. 789 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,840 I'm going to get it. 790 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,840 I'm going to get it. 791 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,840 Let's get the hydrophone out, Adam. 792 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:42,840 Let's give a listen under the water. 793 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,840 There's something big swimming around right near this boat. 794 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,840 Okay, hydrophone's ready, Josh. 795 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,840 Going in. 796 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,840 Okay, aquacam's going in the water. 797 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,840 Okay, got you clear. 798 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:57,840 Hard to make anything out. 799 00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,840 A lot of soft sand down there. 800 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:01,840 You can hear something swimming down there, definitely. 801 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,840 I don't see it. 802 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,840 Oh, oh, I just saw something. 803 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:06,840 Hold on, something just swam by. 804 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,840 Oh, I got it. I got it. I got it. Come here. 805 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,840 I just had it. I just had part of the body. 806 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,840 I saw tail of the big part of the body. Hold on. 807 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,840 Okay, do you see it? 808 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,840 I don't see any movement. 809 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,840 There's too much silt. I can't see it. 810 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:22,840 I think it just peeled out of here. 811 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,840 Adam, you hearing it? 812 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:26,840 No, I think it's moved away. 813 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,840 Yeah, it just silted up the whole camera. 814 00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,840 I think it just shot off. 815 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,840 I think it moved out toward the open ocean. 816 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,840 Let's hang with it. Adam, keep that hydrophone in the water. 817 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,840 Okay. 818 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,840 There's so many little nooks and crannies in these mangroves 819 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,840 that you could see how it'd be possible 820 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,840 for something big to hide out in here 821 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,840 and not be found for quite some time. 822 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,840 Oh, what's that? 823 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,840 Kyle, Kyle, Kyle, right here. Did you see that? 824 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,840 Yep, something's there. 825 00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,840 Something is right in the water right there. 826 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,840 It went down in the water. I just saw it. 827 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,840 I can't get it on thermal. 828 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,840 It looked long. 829 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,840 And from here it looks kind of shiny 830 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,840 because I caught it with my light. 831 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,840 It just popped up. 832 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:13,840 It almost looks like it's checking us out. 833 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,840 I'm just seeing the head of something. 834 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,840 And it's gone. 835 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,840 It just submerged. 836 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,840 It's gone. You got it on film though, right? 837 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,840 Yep. 838 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,840 It was the same thing I saw before. 839 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,840 Proves one thing. 840 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,840 Moves from the ocean into this river. 841 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:32,840 Definitely uses this estuary. 842 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,840 I got to get ahold of Josh. 843 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,840 Rider for Josh? 844 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:38,840 Yeah, go for Josh, Rider, what's up? 845 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,840 So we're legitimately seeing something big, 846 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,840 you know, towards the middle of this riverhead. 847 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,840 It looked like something popped its head up, 848 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:48,840 went back down and swam away. 849 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,840 We thought we might have seen something here 850 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,840 on our aqua cam as well, but it's been quiet for a while. 851 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,840 It's possible we're either seeing the same animal 852 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:56,840 or that there's more than one of these things. 853 00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,840 Let's have Tristan grab the ROV and we'll pick you up. 854 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,840 Sounds good. Yeah, we definitely want the submersible camera 855 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,840 in the water as soon as possible. 856 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,840 What's going on? Thanks. 857 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,840 Everybody in? 858 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,840 This is the area, right, Rider? 859 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,840 Yeah, right in here. 860 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,840 Alright, Josh, we're all hooked up. 861 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,840 We're going to deploy? Yeah, let's do it, come on. 862 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,840 Alright, deploying the video ray. 863 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,840 It's pretty murky out there, Josh. 864 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,840 Oh, guys, I see something. 865 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,840 What do you see, Josh? 866 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,840 It's something at the surface, it's not an animal. 867 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,840 Is it driftwood? 868 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,840 It's one of these old Fijian rafts, you see it? 869 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,840 Oh yeah, see at the end of it. 870 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,840 What is that? You see something? 871 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,840 Yeah, we got something down here. What do you see? 872 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:04,840 I don't know, it's kicked up a lot of sediment. 873 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,840 We should get the boat over there. 874 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,840 I could try to get on that bamboo raft, at least it's quiet. 875 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,840 That boat edge is probably going to scare it away. 876 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,840 Let's see if I can get over there. 877 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,840 Let me know if it comes back in that camera. 878 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,840 Alright, we'll do. 879 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,840 Just be careful on that. 880 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,840 Guys, it's pretty stable. 881 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,840 We have nothing but dark water out here. 882 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:34,840 Do you see it moving around? 883 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,840 No, nothing. 884 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,840 Let me know if you see anything on that camera. 885 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,840 Alright, we'll do. 886 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,840 Oh, something's moving. 887 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,840 Guys, behind me, behind me. 888 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,840 What do you see? 889 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,840 Get that ROV over here, something's moving behind the raft. 890 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,840 Coming to you, Josh. 891 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,840 I'm going to get the boat out of here. 892 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,840 I'm going to get the boat out of here. 893 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,840 Whoa, something's underneath this raft. 894 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,840 Sonar's going off like crazy. 895 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,840 Whoa, be careful, Josh! 896 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,840 Whoa, be careful, Josh! 897 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,840 Whoa, be careful, Josh! 898 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,840 No, no, no! 899 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,840 Josh! 900 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,840 Josh! 901 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,840 Josh! 902 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,840 Josh! 903 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,840 Josh! 904 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,840 Josh! 905 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,840 Josh! 906 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,840 Josh! 907 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,840 Hold it, are you okay? 908 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,840 Hold it! 909 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,840 You guys got anything? 910 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,840 No, nothing, Josh. 911 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:34,840 We'll try to follow up the river, come on. 912 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:36,840 We continued to sweep the river, 913 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,840 but didn't turn up any additional evidence of the creature. 914 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,840 With the sun coming up, 915 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,840 we returned to base camp, packed up our gear, 916 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,840 and began a long trip back to Los Angeles 917 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,840 where we could review our findings. 918 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,840 At nearby Pepperdine University, 919 00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,840 Dr. Lee Katz discussed the possibility 920 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,840 of such a creature existing in the first place. 921 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,840 Well, Fiji is interesting in that it's one of those 922 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,840 biodiversity hotspots. 923 00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:58,840 It's still fairly unexplored. 924 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,840 There are a lot of species of animals there, 925 00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:02,840 plants there, and it's very potential. 926 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,840 There are new species of fish 927 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,840 and other vertebrates that we've not seen before. 928 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,840 With the potential for an unknown species, 929 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,840 we scanned our footage, 930 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,840 but whatever we saw on the aqua cam 931 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,840 kicked up too much silt to be IDed. 932 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,840 And the animals seen swimming 933 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,840 past our IR camera never breached the surface. 934 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,840 The fleer of the fish 935 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,840 never breached the surface. 936 00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,840 The fleer hit from the helicopter was a good lead. 937 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,840 We got it on thermal! 938 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,840 It's interesting in terms of its shape. 939 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,840 It's hard to tell how big it is. 940 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,840 It's very difficult to say what that is. 941 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,840 But it was our thermal image in a lagoon 942 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:36,840 that may have cracked the case. 943 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,840 This is interesting because it appears to be something living. 944 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,840 It seems to be something that surfaces 945 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,840 and then disappears. 946 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,840 Could be a marine mammal, 947 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,840 some kind of marine reptile. 948 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:48,840 There is one possibility. 949 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:50,840 We've identified an invasive iguana, 950 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,840 one that's not normally in Fiji. 951 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,840 Those are very different than the native iguanas. 952 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,840 They're double or triple the size. 953 00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,840 It has a very large head 954 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,840 that can be kind of diamond shaped. 955 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:02,840 They occasionally will get in the water. 956 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,840 If a local person saw one of these invasive iguanas, 957 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:06,840 I think it would be very startling. 958 00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,840 The Central American green iguana 959 00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:10,840 can grow to a whopping 6 feet long 960 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,840 and does exhibit the same head shape 961 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,840 and scaled body as our eye witness reports. 962 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,840 With several specimens having been killed 963 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,840 in Fiji's outlying islands, 964 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,840 this may well be the culprit we'd been looking for. 965 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:22,840 Fiji is, after all, 966 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,840 a place that sparks the imagination. 967 00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,840 Its misty primordial interior 968 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,840 and seemingly bottomless seas 969 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,840 are filled with mystery. 970 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,840 But this lost world clearly has teeth. 971 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,840 The villagers here may have seen 972 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,840 one of the island's behemoth men eating sharks 973 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,840 or misidentified an outside species 974 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:40,840 and cried monster. 975 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,840 Either way, we close the case confident 976 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,840 that whatever we see, 977 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:46,840 from above, 978 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,840 and from below, 979 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,840 is probably not a monster at all 980 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,840 and that the Fijians can relax 981 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,840 and get back to enjoying paradise.