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On this episode of Destination Truth,

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I lead a perilous road trip across the Philippines

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and brave the dangerous wilderness

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searching for paranormal activity in hanging coffins.

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Nobody's allowed to go there. There are spirits in this place.

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In a death-defying investigation,

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my team searches for ghosts while hanging by a thread.

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And we make one of the most shocking paranormal discoveries in DT history.

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Oh my god, look at that.

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Next, my team races through Kazakhstan

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in search of Central Asia's Bigfoot.

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Climbing along sheer cliffs

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and searching traditional villages for answers.

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They still see this thing. They believe it's there.

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I show you exactly where it's going.

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The truth behind the legend may be closer than we think.

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Oh my god, right there.

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What did you see? What did you see?

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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

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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

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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,

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but I know what I'm looking for.

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The truth.

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In a remote valley in the Philippines,

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a unique type of burial has been practiced for over two millennia.

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Alright, so the Igarat people of the Philippines,

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they believe that the coffins they bury their dead in

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are notoriously haunted.

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That sounds pretty straightforward, so we go find these coffins?

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Yeah, the problem is they're a little bit hard to get to.

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How hard?

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I don't know if they're at heights, are you?

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The coffins are suspended against high cliffs,

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or stacked deep in caves, by the native Igarat tribespeople.

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It all happens in a place called Echo Valley,

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and the entire forest is notoriously haunted,

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thought to possess an incredible spiritual power.

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New reports streaming out of the nearby town of Sagata

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claim that the locals have been regularly seeing strange lights,

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unexplained figures, and hearing human voices emanating

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from the cliffs and caves.

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The Igarat people have grown to fear the valley,

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refusing to visit the area after dark.

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Disturbing the coffins, locals claim,

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comes with nightmarish consequences,

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like tortured hallucinations, violent illness,

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and fatal accidents.

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Reaching this area would push us to our limits,

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as we'd have to drive hundreds of miles on battered roads,

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cross churning rivers, and scale dizzying cliffs.

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Undaunted, we've packed up our gear,

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and headed to the Philippines to investigate a haunted graveyard,

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unlike any other in the world.

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From Los Angeles, we crossed the Pacific,

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flying 7,300 miles to Manila.

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So we've got lots of eyewitnesses who have had strange experiences

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around these hanging coffins and these burial caves.

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The problem is, the site is up in Sagada,

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which is very, very far from Manila.

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The drive was sure to be a challenge.

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With no airport to the north,

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there were 400 miles of treacherous mountain roads

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between us and Sagada,

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and I'd do whatever it took to get us there safely.

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Dr. I really like how you cover the sunshades and saran wrap.

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Oh, you got to.

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A lot of people don't know this,

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it's the most delicate part of the vehicle.

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What if I have chocolate on my fingers,

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and I go to adjust the sunshades?

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Ruin.

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The drive took a brutal two days on the road,

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but luckily I've got the best co-pilots in the business.

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You believe this?

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Finally though, we passed into the high mountains

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and our 4x4 reached Sagada,

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a picturesque town perched nearly a mile above sea level.

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After 16 hours in the car,

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we were just happy to stretch our legs.

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Alright everybody, this is the local market in Sagada.

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These are mostly Igorat people,

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so we gear up on supplies here,

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and then we talk to the eyewitnesses.

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Okay, let's go shopping.

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We walked into the market near closing

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to pick up a few supplies for the days ahead.

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Do you have a bigger, a bigger bottle of bug spray?

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Richie improvised some additions to his first aid kit.

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Butcher's knife, bone saw.

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Terrifying.

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Machete.

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And a sharpening stone.

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Are you preparing for 127 hours right now, Richie?

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And I took a moment to show Ryder my gift of clairvoyance.

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Alright Josh, you ready for your psychic test today?

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You kidding me?

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I'm gifted to a level that most people don't even realize.

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Hit me, come on.

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First card.

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Let us.

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Can you feel it right through the card?

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I can feel it, just keep going, I can sense it.

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Easy, eggplant.

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Carrots.

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Spinach.

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Is that a seody?

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You don't even know what seody is.

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I know that I can feel it in my brain right now.

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I can also read cards in the reflection of our camera lens.

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Chinese cabbage?

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Unbelievable.

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Across town, we met with a local who experienced the supernatural forces

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at the hanging coffins while hiking.

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When I was in Echo Valley, I saw a shadow like a man.

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I think it's a ghost.

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Why do you think Echo Valley is a haunted place?

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Because it's very close to the hanging coffin and many people died there.

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They sold, stayed there.

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At a nearby ceramic store, a local potter also claimed to have a terrifying encounter.

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And tell me about this experience you had when you were down in this cave.

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I was at the big cave in the dark.

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Suddenly, my lamp stopped working.

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I felt something weird in my body.

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Just coldness.

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I could not feel anything.

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I think spirits are down there at the big cave.

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And before leaving, Ryder decided to try her hand at the potter's wheel.

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Let's make a pot here.

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I wish I told you when I was alive that you are an awful, awful potmaker.

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Somebody get me whoopee Goldberg.

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where we needed to make one more important stop.

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especially at night, we really need the blessing of the community leaders

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of the traditional Igarat people.

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So we're going to go meet with them and hopefully get their permission to go to the site.

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Welcome to Sagada.

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Thank you very much.

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Upon arrival in the village, the tribe greeted us with a traditional ceremony.

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This dance is designed to call forth the spirits in the valley.

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And once it was over, I sat down with the community leader to get his guidance.

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During the olden times, nobody's allowed to go there.

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It's a taboo.

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There are spirits in this place.

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Every time that we go to the burial caves, we always feel that they're there.

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You know, we want to go there and show great respect for the place.

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So how would you advise us to proceed?

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To reach the coffins, we'd start out by car.

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The narrow roads here are literally carved into the cliffs

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and leave little room for driver error.

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To make matters worse, a recent storm had left the trail in muddy disrepair,

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hindering our progress.

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Oh, God, this road is totally washed out from the tight fillet.

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Nope, that's it.

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We hiked on and made our way to the river that runs through the valley.

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World's worst bridge.

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You know, this bridge has been on the cover of insane bridges monthly three times.

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It's a classic, really.

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This natural highway would hopefully lead us right to the hanging coffins.

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Gosh, I'm confused of why I'm pumping

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and you're getting to use that electronic thing over there.

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Follow my little car battery and hair dryer unit here.

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If I could have a towel for all the sweat dripping down my face right now,

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This place just got pounded by a typhoon,

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so the water level's going to be high.

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Everybody keep a wary eye out.

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we reached the area just below the hanging coffins.

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We beached our raft and continued on foot.

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So all of this is Echo Valley.

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As you can see, it's really linear.

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I believe this whole area is rife with spirits.

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and set up infrared surveillance,

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remote microphones,

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and sensitive trap cameras throughout the area

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before striking out on foot to find the coffins and the caves.

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You know, most people think that coffins in burial areas

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are haunted anyway,

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but the Igrots specifically believe that ghosts would come out of these coffins

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and hang around in these valleys.

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When you die, do you want to be buried, cremated,

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or have a hanging coffin?

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I don't know. I haven't seen the hanging coffins yet,

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but the real estate looks pretty good.

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Oh, my God.

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Careful, careful, careful, careful.

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You know, the stuff that's hard to translate through the camera

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is how muddy and slick this ground is.

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You okay?

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Rider!

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You okay?

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Rider!

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You okay?

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Rider!

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You okay? Rider! You okay?

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Yeah, I'm somebody pull me up. I'm like completely off this trail.

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I got you, I got you, I got you.

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Come on up. You got it, you got it. Step up onto it.

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You just almost went off that.

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There's no trail there.

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It's like a 20-foot drop.

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Are you okay?

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Guys, I'm hearing something.

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What are you hearing?

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Hearing voices.

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They sound like a low chatter, like, ah, bah, bah, bah, bah.

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Hello?

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Let's get down there. Go on.

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Something on thermal.

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It's like an overhang.

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It's a huge cave. Look at this.

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Looks like it drops down.

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Look at the size of this thing.

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Wow.

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We know the burial cave is linked to another cavern.

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If this is the right one, it may go all the way through

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and spit us out on that side.

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Okay, let's try to get through.

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Let's do it.

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Let's do it.

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Let's do it.

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Let's do it.

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Let's go through.

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There's like six coffins up here.

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This is crazy.

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You aren't kidding.

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This is insane.

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These aren't the main hanging coffins.

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This must be one of the smaller groupings.

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I wonder how they carry these things up here.

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That's got to be a Herculean task.

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I just really love people who do that.

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You see that?

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I heard a groan.

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What did you hear?

265
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I heard a groan coming over there.

266
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I have chills running on my arm right now.

267
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Please say that's a sign of spirits and ghosts around you.

268
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Yeah?

269
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Sometimes digital cameras can pick up things

270
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we can't see with the naked eye,

271
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so I'm going to go take some pictures over there.

272
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Okay.

273
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Richie, what do you see over there?

274
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That's a skull in there.

275
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And an eye socket.

276
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You see the whole head?

277
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You can see the right zygomatic arch,

278
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which leads to the right eye.

279
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And...

280
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Let's zygomatic it out of here.

281
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Okay.

282
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All right, one step at a time.

283
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You hear that?

284
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Oh, we got bats.

285
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Oh my God.

286
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There must be thousands of them.

287
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Let's do those bats.

288
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It sounds like voices.

289
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It sounds like whispering.

290
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That might also be what some of these folks are hearing.

291
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You know, these bats are like in and out of these caves

292
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by the thousands.

293
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I mean, it's certainly a possibility

294
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for some of these accounts.

295
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All right, let's keep moving. Come on.

296
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The sound of water is getting louder.

297
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You got to see this.

298
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It's an underground waterfall

299
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coursing down into a river.

300
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It's going to get wet.

301
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I'm very nervous about this.

302
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Nice and slowly through here.

303
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Okay, good. We're through.

304
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Let's recover the shoes and the bags and the backpacks.

305
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Keep pressing forward.

306
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Oh my God, look at this.

307
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This is the Icarat burial cave.

308
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Unbelievable.

309
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We're stacked all the way up to this ceiling.

310
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There must be hundreds of these coffins.

311
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I mean, this is really an ancient tradition right here.

312
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Oh my God, they're just totally exposed.

313
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Just to open graves.

314
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So it's going to be an EDP session going.

315
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We must be in the shadow of 100 coffins here.

316
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And there's been a lot of activity right in here.

317
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Let's kick it off.

318
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Is anybody with us in this cave?

319
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We've been told that there's a powerful presence in this cave.

320
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Can you make that presence known?

321
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I didn't do that.

322
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My light just went completely crazy.

323
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I've never seen it do that.

324
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No.

325
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And it just did it again.

326
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You saw that, right?

327
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I'm just feeling like all of a sudden just really cold.

328
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Okay.

329
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Is that you?

330
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Are you affecting her light?

331
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Is it possible for you to speak to us?

332
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And let us know that you are in this cave.

333
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My camera just stopped rolling.

334
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What?

335
00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,000
It literally just flashed from record to stop.

336
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Let's try to get a tape and battery there quick.

337
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Okay.

338
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If that's you doing that, that's very good.

339
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Can you make a noise for us as well?

340
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Guys, I'm rolling.

341
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Are you able to make any sort of noise or speak to us so that we know that...

342
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Whoa, my God, we're behind you! Kyle, behind you!

343
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Are you able to make any sort of noise or speak to us so that we know that...

344
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Whoa, my God, we're behind you! Kyle, behind you!

345
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Turn around, turn around, turn around!

346
00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,000
I just saw black mass right behind you in between this plant and that wall.

347
00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000
Kyle, do you see anything on the scope?

348
00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000
I don't see anything. You sure it wasn't my shadow?

349
00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000
I'm positive it wasn't your shadow.

350
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I looked over your shoulder and behind that plant, a tall, dark figure was standing right behind you, dude.

351
00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,000
Right where you're staying? There's a coffin right there.

352
00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000
There is a coffin right there, yeah.

353
00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,000
I feel like either I'm hallucinating or I just saw something.

354
00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000
You want to sit down for a little bit?

355
00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000
Just give me a second. Just freak me out.

356
00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000
I've never seen him like this.

357
00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000
Just off of Josh.

358
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Yeah, go for Josh.

359
00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,000
Hey man, I'm seeing a bright light in my IR camera number two.

360
00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,000
Could it be an insect? Could it be somebody with a flashlight?

361
00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,000
No, it's way too bright to be an insect and there's nobody in that area.

362
00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,000
Copy that, we've been having some strange experiences down here in one of the burial caves.

363
00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000
We'll head back out to the surface, see if we can find the source of that light.

364
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We'll let you know we find it.

365
00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000
Copy that.

366
00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,000
Alright, boss, leave the recorders running, see if we can figure out where that light came from.

367
00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000
I got something on thermal.

368
00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000
What do you see?

369
00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000
I see coffins, look at this.

370
00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,000
Look at this, come here.

371
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This is it.

372
00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000
Look at them.

373
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That is unbelievable, they're just bolted right into the side of the cliff face.

374
00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000
We're going to need to get some ropes rigged in here if we're going to get up to those things.

375
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We called to Richie, the most experienced man in the world,

376
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and had him and Katie meet us to rig ropes so that he and I could ascend the sheer cliff to the hanging coffins.

377
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Okay, here we go.

378
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Looking good, Richie.

379
00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000
There's nothing on up here.

380
00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,000
Alright guys, I'm pretty well in position here.

381
00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,000
Not a lot of purchase, I don't have a lot of room to really maneuver up here,

382
00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,000
but I'm definitely on level with the coffins.

383
00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000
How you doing?

384
00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000
Doing good, how are you doing?

385
00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,000
I mean, hanging off a wall is bad enough,

386
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000
being doing it next to 25 coffins is pretty terrifying.

387
00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000
Are you ready to kick this off?

388
00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000
Yeah, let's do this.

389
00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,000
Okay, world scariest EVP session, starting now.

390
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Nice and quiet.

391
00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:50,000
We've heard that there's a powerful presence at these coffins, on these cliffs.

392
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Can you make that presence known to us?

393
00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,000
We don't mean to disturb your resting place.

394
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000
Can you give us some sign that you're here?

395
00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,000
Josh, I've been on the radio right now, it just climbed a tail.

396
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000
Are you trying to communicate with us?

397
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,000
What's that?

398
00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000
It's a shark.

399
00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,000
What's that?

400
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,000
It sounded like a coffin was meant to open.

401
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,000
Can you give us some sign of your presence?

402
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000
Can I just look? Any readings?

403
00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000
I gotta get a new job.

404
00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000
It's a bad position to get the freak down in.

405
00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,000
Let's let the recorder roll out for a few more minutes and we'll be laid back down.

406
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,000
With the coffins not yielding up any other audible noises,

407
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,000
and with our fingers too numb to hang on any longer,

408
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,000
we climbed down to rejoin the rest of the team, packed up our gear,

409
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and began the long journey home to review our findings.

410
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We began by analyzing the strange noises we heard during the investigation.

411
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000
Can you guys hear that? I heard a crone.

412
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000
I heard a crone come over there.

413
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,000
Oh wow.

414
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,000
You hear that?

415
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,000
Yeah. To me at first I thought it was an animal,

416
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,000
but you played again and I don't know what animal could make a sound like that.

417
00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,000
It's a really unnatural noise,

418
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:41,000
and in fact Richie and I heard another strange noise during our EDP session at the hanging coffins.

419
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Listen.

420
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000
Are you trying to communicate with us?

421
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,000
It sounded like a coffin was meant to open.

422
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000
You know, the fear factor is already heightened

423
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,000
because you're literally perched on a cliff doing this EDP session,

424
00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000
then all of a sudden the tri-field goes off and you hear something up there.

425
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000
We then examined our EDP recordings.

426
00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,000
There is one other thing we found though in the EDP recordings,

427
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000
and this is pretty amazing. Listen to this.

428
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000
Is anybody with us in this cave?

429
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,000
Hear that?

430
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000
That's really strange.

431
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,000
It sounds like it says me.

432
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000
Between that and these sort of phantom noises from the coffins,

433
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,000
definitely aligns to eyewitness claims,

434
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,000
and you know we had some pretty intense experiences during the EDP session.

435
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000
Absolutely. First my flashlight stopped working.

436
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000
You saw that right?

437
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000
And then the camera stopped rolling.

438
00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000
My camera just stopped rolling.

439
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,000
And then right after that I saw something behind Kyle.

440
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000
Speak to us so that we know that-

441
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,000
Oh my god! Right behind you! Kyle! Behind you! Turn around! Turn around!

442
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,000
Why'd you saw the black mass right behind you?

443
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,000
If we just step through this frame by frame,

444
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,000
it takes a minute for Kyle's camera to swing around.

445
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,000
By the time it gets over there you can see there's nothing visible on the wall.

446
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,000
It wasn't Kyle's shadow, I really saw something down there.

447
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:02,000
You know we've been doing this for a long time and it's really rare to see you shook up like that.

448
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,000
For me this is a really troubling moment.

449
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,000
The camera doesn't see what I saw, but I know that I saw something there.

450
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,000
Finally, we turned to the photos Ryder took in the cave.

451
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,000
In a number of photos we get this really strange miss.

452
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,000
And it's weird because there was no fog down there at all.

453
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,000
No.

454
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,000
It's just showing up in the photos.

455
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000
And then moments later we get this.

456
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,000
Oh my god, look at that.

457
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000
In a number of photos we get this really strange miss.

458
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,000
And then moments later we get this.

459
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000
Oh my god, look at that.

460
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,000
That looks like a person in profile looking across the frame.

461
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,000
That's exactly what I saw.

462
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,000
I can see two arms, a face, it looks like a body, that looks like an apparition.

463
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000
That's incredible.

464
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,000
We don't have a flash, you're not seeing a reflection, there was no mist.

465
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:55,000
This is an incredible find.

466
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,000
This is probably one of the most compelling pieces of photographic evidence we've ever discovered.

467
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,000
That's amazing.

468
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,000
The Igarat people go to great lengths to entour their dead.

469
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:12,000
Their final resting place is far from cities and difficult to reach.

470
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:17,000
For those who make it though, Echo Valley is just that, a place of intense reverberation.

471
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:25,000
Call it a feeling, a presence, or a fleeting shadow in these sacred caves.

472
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000
Whoa my god, look behind you Kyle, behind you.

473
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,000
Our compelling personal experiences and disturbing EVPs helped build the case.

474
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:38,000
But this astounding photo represents some of the most chilling paranormal evidence we've ever collected.

475
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:43,000
And is perhaps a fleeting image of a spirit that these coffins can't contain.

476
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,000
Belief in Bigfoot is a worldwide phenomenon.

477
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,000
But no place on earth may have a habitat more suitable for this beast than the country of Kazakhstan.

478
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,000
So there are long standing rumors in Kazakhstan about a Bigfoot-like creature known as the Kiyakadal.

479
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:02,000
It seems like the most recent reports are coming out of the Tian Shan Mountains,

480
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,000
pretty unexplored area east of the city of Almaty.

481
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,000
Yeah, you know a lot of the eyewitnesses report that this creature is very aggressive.

482
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,000
The Kiyakadam is a hulking beast with a bad disposition.

483
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:19,000
Known to attack without provocation, the territorial creature lives deep in thickly wooded mountains.

484
00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:25,000
At 9 feet tall, it could be the largest Bigfoot species on earth, with wide shoulders and powerful limbs.

485
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,000
This massive primate leaves 15 inch footprints in its wake.

486
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:35,000
It's well camouflaged in thick, dark colored fur and has lethal fangs for tearing apart its prey.

487
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,000
It's believed that the Kiyakadam has lived in isolation for ages.

488
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:45,000
However, a rash of new sightings has locals worried the creature is extending his range and his appetite.

489
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With no time to spare, we packed our gear and headed to the fringes of the former Soviet Union

490
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in hopes of finding this giant of giants.

491
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,000
We left Los Angeles and flew east 7,000 miles to the city of Almaty.

492
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This former Soviet state is the largest landlocked nation in the world, and despite its rural reputation, Almaty is an impressive modern city.

493
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,000
Alright everybody, welcome to Kazakhstan Rider, what is the number one rule?

494
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No Borat jokes.

495
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,000
That is correct, that movie did not go over well here.

496
00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,000
I like.

497
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,000
Easy.

498
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:24,000
Our first stop was to meet Dr. Alexander Zhedanko, a prominent professor who claims to have had a personal run in with the creature.

499
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So tell me what this encounter that you had.

500
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,000
We were already sleeping, started to rain, but something did not go to sleep.

501
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:37,000
He was camping in the mountains with his assistant when they heard some strange noises of something big and heavy.

502
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:42,000
It stopped 30 meters away from the tent and it screamed very loudly.

503
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:47,000
The scientists in the tent were terrified and the creature stood there for a moment and then it moved away.

504
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:55,000
By the sound it made, he could tell that this is definitely not a known animal.

505
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000
And so as a scientist, what do you think this was?

506
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000
There have been many sightings of that creature.

507
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,000
It lives in those mountains and they believe it's the Kiyakadam.

508
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:13,000
In our research we learned about a farmer who claimed to have seen the Kiyakadam just days earlier.

509
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,000
So we set our sights on a local market where he sold his goods.

510
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,000
Once there we encountered an assortment of local delicacies.

511
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Thank you and I encourage the team to dig in.

512
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000
Okay, what do we got here?

513
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000
This is the top off of a rooster.

514
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,000
Is this what this is?

515
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,000
I never knew this was edible.

516
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,000
Turns out it's not actually that edible.

517
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,000
Josh, it looks like they have pony rides here.

518
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,000
Uh, yeah, why don't you come over here?

519
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,000
Why can't we ride the ponies?

520
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000
Yeah, no pony rides today.

521
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:56,000
We scoured the market and eventually tracked down the farmer and I asked him to describe what he saw.

522
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000
He was in the mountains with his dog.

523
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:09,000
He found a footprint in a snow and he looked around and he saw this huge human-like creature about 8 feet tall.

524
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000
It had grayish fur.

525
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000
Did the animal make any sort of noise? Did he hear anything?

526
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000
It made some kind of a whistling sound.

527
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,000
Do you think that this creature or other creatures are still up in these mountains?

528
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,000
He thinks it's deeper in the mountains, but yes, absolutely, it's there.

529
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:35,000
With many encounters reported in the distant rural villages, we decided to continue our investigation there.

530
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:42,000
From Almaty, we would head 160 miles east to the virtually unexplored Tien Shan Mountains.

531
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:49,000
We drove deep into the hills up breathtaking roads, seeking out locals who have encountered the creature for generations.

532
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:54,000
In a traditional village, we were directed into a yurt for a formal introduction to the community.

533
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:59,000
The gracious locals greeted us with open arms and treated us to a performance.

534
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:20,000
After the show, Adam tried out the musicians' unique instruments and started an impromptu jam session.

535
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,000
This is full-dealing banjos right now. Adam, this is for the pride of the nation. Do not let us down.

536
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:47,000
For the sake of diplomacy, we called it a draw. I then took aside the leader of the group who told me more about the history of the Kiyok Adam.

537
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:57,000
The story of Kiyok Adam is many centuries old, but hunters and shepherds still see this thing. They believe it's there.

538
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000
Where have these recent sightings been coming from?

539
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:09,000
You will have to go deeper into the Malatow part of the Tien Shan Mountains and talk to the shepherds and hunters who live there.

540
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:18,000
The musicians suggested I head next door to speak with a man who hunted in the mountains with the aid of a trained falcon and who encountered the creature last week.

541
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000
So tell me about this encounter that you had.

542
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:28,000
I saw only the shape and it was big and have a long, long reddish hair. The falcon was very, very scared and I was afraid he would fly away.

543
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000
So where exactly did the sighting happen?

544
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,000
In this gorge.

545
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,000
So is it possible for you to take us up there?

546
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,000
Yes, we need some horses and I show you exactly where it was.

547
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000
Okay, great. Let's go.

548
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,000
We secured horses from a neighboring farm and prepared to head into the wilderness.

549
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,000
We know this thing has been sighted here recently so everybody keep your eyes peeled.

550
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,000
Radar, how's it look?

551
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,000
Nothing yet, Josh.

552
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,000
Alright guys, we're almost at the top of the ridge.

553
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,000
This is a place.

554
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,000
This is it?

555
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,000
Yes.

556
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,000
So let's see what he sees today.

557
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,000
According to the falconer, his bird was terrified of the Kiyakodam.

558
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:16,000
If the falcon detected any sign of the creature while flying above, it would not land until the beast moved on.

559
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:31,000
The bird returned to the falconer, indicating that in this area, the coast was clear.

560
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000
Alright guys, no sign of the Kiyakodam. We still got a long ways to go though.

561
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,000
A lot of ground to cover. Let's get moving.

562
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:43,000
We continued to search the mountains for any sign of the creature, but after three hours of riding, we came up empty handed.

563
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:48,000
We decided to head back to the village below and continue our trip up the mountain in the SUV.

564
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:53,000
The dirt roads were nearly impassable and if we wanted to get to the area where the beast was rumored to live,

565
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000
we'd need something faster than horses to fall back on.

566
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:03,000
Luckily, the locals who live deep in these mountains get around using their unique version of a 4x4.

567
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,000
Here we go!

568
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:13,000
Josh for Ryder.

569
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000
We know this thing's been sited up here.

570
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Looks like these trails have been used in a while though, so definitely keep your eyes open.

571
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,000
There might be some drop offs or dangers ahead.

572
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000
Buggy down, we'll take it slow.

573
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,000
The buggies may have been all terrain, but they were no match for a sheer wall of rock.

574
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:48,000
It looks like this cliff face skirts the whole edge of this valley. I think we're going to have to go up and over. Richie?

575
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:54,000
Yeah, I'll go up and lead this way, traverse across, set up an anchor and drop a rope down the crack for you guys to come up top rope.

576
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,000
Sounds good.

577
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:03,000
Richie methodically worked his way up the precarious cliff. His only lifeline was creating anchor points every few feet.

578
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Looking good Richie!

579
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,000
He's got it.

580
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,000
Oh my god!

581
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,000
Richie, hang on!

582
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,000
Looking good Richie!

583
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,000
Oh my god!

584
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,000
Richie, hang on!

585
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,000
The rock is real greasy up here.

586
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,000
Yeah.

587
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000
Nice Richie.

588
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000
Nice work man.

589
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,000
I'm at the top!

590
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000
One by one the team and I made our way up the slippery rock wall.

591
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,000
Tristan, you doing okay?

592
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000
Doing great Josh.

593
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000
Having any trouble with those hipster sunglasses on?

594
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,000
No, they actually helped.

595
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,000
Okay, you got it buddy.

596
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,000
According to the locals, these higher elevations were the creature's home.

597
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:11,000
After a short hike, we found a suitable base camp and prepared for the night ahead.

598
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000
This is a pretty uncharted environment.

599
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000
Richie, let's talk about dangers out here tonight.

600
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000
We have to watch out for roaming bears and packs of wolves.

601
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,000
Also steep ridges and steep rock walls.

602
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,000
So if you take a step the wrong way, slip and fall coming a long way down to the bottom.

603
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000
Tristan, what are we doing for surveillance tonight?

604
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:30,000
We got a number of infrared cameras that are scouring this whole ridge line plus a thermal.

605
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,000
Yeah, you know tonight it's actually a full moon.

606
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000
So we're going to see a lot more than we're used to seeing.

607
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000
So it's going to give us a real leg up to see if there's any animals out there.

608
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000
Ryder, what do you want to do for teams tonight?

609
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:47,000
I think to start Richie, Katie, Kyle, why don't you guys head up that dry riverbed and me, you, Adam and Dave.

610
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,000
We'll head into the forest and see what we can find.

611
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,000
Sounds good. You guys ready for this?

612
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Yeah.

613
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,000
Let's do it gang, come on.

614
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,000
Full moon is really lightening up the sky.

615
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000
I mean the one creature living up here that even has the potential to be a candidate for the night.

616
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,000
I guess is the bear, but these people are convinced they've seen something that's a primate.

617
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:14,000
I think it's so interesting that almost every culture has their form of a yeti or bigfoot.

618
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000
Absolutely.

619
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Guys, once we get to these woods, let's try to run as quiet as we can.

620
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,000
We have no idea what's living in here.

621
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,000
Okay.

622
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,000
Dave, behind you, come here. Back up, back up, back up.

623
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,000
What do you see?

624
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,000
Dude, I panned over with this thermal for a split second and we're waving at it and there was a heat mass right behind you.

625
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:36,000
And I mean it took off like a shot. I just caught it in the edge of the thermal for a second.

626
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:41,000
So whatever that was, only had one way to go and that straight down was no way it's going up these sheer walls.

627
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,000
We'll just track it down.

628
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Okay.

629
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,000
We'll go down.

630
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,000
We'll go down.

631
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,000
We'll go down.

632
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,000
We'll go down.

633
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,000
We'll go down.

634
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,000
We'll go down.

635
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,000
We'll go down.

636
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000
We'll go down.

637
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,000
We'll go down.

638
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,000
We'll just track it down, slow and quiet, see if we can sneak up on it again.

639
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000
Oh, you okay?

640
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000
Oh my goodness.

641
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,000
I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.

642
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000
You okay?

643
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Yeah, this is trying to get a shot here.

644
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Oh, you meant to do this?

645
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000
This is my move. I came around to get the shot.

646
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000
To me it looked like you completely slipped like on a banana peel.

647
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000
Yeah.

648
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

649
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
I see you have to get into it.

650
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000
I have a feeling you got the shot.

651
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,000
Got an answer for it all, Dave.

652
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,000
Of course I do.

653
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
I'm a professional.

654
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000
Nice work though, it's a hell of a shot.

655
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Hey, the heck.

656
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,000
Okay, watch your step, Katie.

657
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000
You sidestep off this thing if you start to slip.

658
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000
There's rocks falling all over the place.

659
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,000
What was that?

660
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Oh, I heard a two.

661
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000
What did you hear?

662
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,000
It sounded like a squeaking kind of whistle.

663
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000
Oh, it sounds close.

664
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000
You know, we had reports of whistling from the eyewitnesses

665
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,000
and that's definitely what we just heard was some whistling.

666
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,000
Reach into the night vision goggles.

667
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000
Yeah, let me break them out.

668
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000
Hey guys, I can see all the way to the top of this ridge line

669
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000
and there's a few groves of trees that are really dense.

670
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,000
I think if we go up there we might find something.

671
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,000
Let's head that way.

672
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000
Getting anything on the slayer?

673
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000
It's almost got nothing.

674
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Does it feel like it's getting darker?

675
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,000
Hey guys, so much for the light of the full moon.

676
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000
There's an eclipse.

677
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Yeah, look at that.

678
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000
It's gonna get a lot darker in the next hour or so.

679
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,000
Josh?

680
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,000
Yeah.

681
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,000
It looks like something was through here.

682
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,000
What do you got?

683
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
There's like some trampled grass through here.

684
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,000
Yeah, here as well.

685
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,000
It looks like it goes this way.

686
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Looks pretty fresh.

687
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,000
Yeah, no opportunities for prints.

688
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Yeah, it doesn't look like any hair, feces left behind.

689
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,000
But we do know it's moving in this direction.

690
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Ground shows up warm in the thermal.

691
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Whatever this is came through here just a couple minutes ago.

692
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Guys, let's not waste too much time.

693
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,000
We'll get a couple photos of this.

694
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,000
Keep moving.

695
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,000
Come on.

696
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000
Does it pick up again?

697
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000
Let's track it back up into the tree line.

698
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,000
Okay.

699
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Be careful guys.

700
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Josh?

701
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,000
Yeah?

702
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:20,000
Do you see something right in the distance right there on the thermal?

703
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,000
See that like, it's almost like a light spot?

704
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,000
Yeah, that's it.

705
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,000
Hold on, hold on, hold on.

706
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000
It's moving, whatever that is, it's alive.

707
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000
Adam, are you hearing anything?

708
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Not yet.

709
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,000
It's just hovering on the edge of the field.

710
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,000
I can't believe how long this thing's been on thermal for.

711
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,000
It's just sitting right at the edge of that field.

712
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,000
Hey Josh, I hear something.

713
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,000
What are you hearing?

714
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,000
Sounds kind of breathy.

715
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Why don't you get the parabolic out and see if you can hold it and get a good recording.

716
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,000
Yeah, I've definitely got it.

717
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,000
It's coming from that direction.

718
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000
Josh, would Tristan come in?

719
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,000
Go ahead Josh.

720
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,000
Tristan, we have a clear thermal hit on something at the other end of this large field that

721
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000
may be backing into the trees.

722
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Keep your eyes open and maybe head it toward your cameras.

723
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,000
Okay, copy that.

724
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Okay, my eyes open.

725
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,000
It's gone, it's out of frame.

726
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,000
I don't have any more.

727
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
All right, so what do we do?

728
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,000
I think we go after it.

729
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,000
The question is how?

730
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000
We can go straight through the field, but we're totally exposed.

731
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:25,000
I say we go around back into these trees, stick inside the forest and see if we can catch up with it that way.

732
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,000
The moon's almost gone, guys.

733
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,000
It's getting inky dark up here.

734
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000
Nice and slow.

735
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,000
Hey guys, I just saw something moving in the bush just over there.

736
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,000
What'd you see?

737
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,000
I have no idea.

738
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,000
Getting anything on with her, won't?

739
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,000
No, I don't have it, but the ridge drops off steep there.

740
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Oh my God, right there.

741
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,000
What'd you see?

742
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,000
Hey guys, I just saw something moving in the bush just over there.

743
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,000
What'd you see?

744
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,000
I have no idea.

745
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Oh my God, right there.

746
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,000
What'd you see?

747
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
Right over here, right over here.

748
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000
Dave, night vision, night vision in there.

749
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Where's the crack? You see that?

750
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,000
Do you see a little bit of a pair of eyes?

751
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,000
I see it.

752
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000
What is that?

753
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,000
Something just got the reflection on my flashlight for a split second.

754
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:27,000
You see it?

755
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,000
Yeah, someone's it's catching the IR.

756
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000
Oh, right there, right there, right there, right there, right there, right there.

757
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,000
It's back there, it's back there.

758
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,000
Show me really good chasing after this.

759
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:39,000
I don't know if we're chasing after her if it's lowering us down here to be honest with you.

760
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,000
Well, it's gone, it's out of frame, I don't have anymore.

761
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,000
Let's follow it, let's head that way, come on.

762
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:51,000
We scoured the forests but whatever we encountered, backed off and never reemerged.

763
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,000
And with the lunar eclipse waning, the sun wasn't far behind.

764
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,000
By the light of a new day, we made the trek back down toward Almaty,

765
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,000
where we flew home to Los Angeles to put the puzzle pieces of our investigation together.

766
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,000
We sat down with former Los Angeles Zoo curator Mike D

767
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,000
and examined the thermal footage of whatever I saw moving behind my cameraman Dave.

768
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
Dave, behind you, come here.

769
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Back up, back up, back up, stop, stop, stop.

770
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Well, I definitely see something, but it's too small to be what the folks up there claim to be seeing.

771
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,000
Yeah, I mean this is not a large bipedal animal.

772
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,000
No.

773
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:28,000
But what about the strange noises we heard, often attributed to the Kia Kedam?

774
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,000
The locals believe this creature makes a whistling noise.

775
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,000
I'm going to play you two different sounds we heard during the investigation.

776
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,000
What was that?

777
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,000
What's here?

778
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000
It sounded like a squeaking kind of whistle.

779
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,000
Well, it's certainly not from a large animal at all.

780
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:51,000
My best guess would be avian or a bird of some type, two different types of birds.

781
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000
Finally, we turned to the large animal we saw in the field.

782
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,000
See that like, it's almost like a light spot?

783
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Yeah, that's it.

784
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000
There's something there.

785
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,000
It looks like it could be a tall creature.

786
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,000
So you've got a number of different species that have found in that area that the people could be mistaking.

787
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:16,000
Could be bear, could be an elk, could be some deer species, or an ibex.

788
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,000
Do you think it's possible that there could be something unidentified in this area?

789
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Oh, absolutely.

790
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Just because of the remoteness of it.

791
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000
And it's not an area that a lot of scientists have been into.

792
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
So perhaps there's another chapter in the story still.

793
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,000
Let's hope so.

794
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000
Kazakhstan is a place of extremes.

795
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:35,000
Its glittering modern cities seem a world away from the humble farmers, cultural heritage,

796
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,000
and age-old traditions that have shaped this emerging nation.

797
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,000
But legends die hard.

798
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,000
And on the dusty back roads, at soaring heights.

799
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,000
Oh my God!

800
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,000
Richie!

801
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,000
It's easy to imagine that there may be something to these stories.

802
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,000
Dave, behind you.

803
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,000
Come here.

804
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:57,000
With so little of the expansive Tian Shan Mountains explored, there's plenty of room for discoveries still to be made.