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On this episode of Expedition X,

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the team journeys deep into the Brazilian Amazon

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to investigate a mysterious abandoned city.

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The locals downriver? They're afraid of it.

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People here claim the land itself is haunted.

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Everything that people told us about this place is coming true.

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And the spirits of those who died here have driven out the living.

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That sounds like somebody's getting murdered.

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This is where people were as a curious.

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So loud, it might be so close.

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This is a town that shouldn't be.

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Are we getting hunted?

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Holy f***!

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Oh!

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My name is Josh Gates.

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In my travels, I've experienced strange things that defy logic

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and made me question everything.

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Oh my God.

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Now, I've put together a team to investigate the stranger side of the unknown.

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Let's go!

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Phil Torres is a scientist who hunts for rational explanations.

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This is a corner from actually found stone stones.

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Jessica Chobot's paranormal research has made her a true believer.

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There is a monster living in this forest.

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Phil, Phil, Phil. I just saw something right across.

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Together, we're searching for answers.

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What is that?

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The world's most extraordinary mysteries.

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This is Expedition X.

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Today's case involves one of the strangest stories I've ever heard.

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This is a story that begins centuries ago.

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A thousand miles up the Rio Negro, deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

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This is your territory.

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Oh, yes.

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This involves an area that locals say is cursed.

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It's a land they say is so cursed that it actually infects its inhabitants.

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People turn violent there, they say.

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Animals are more dangerous and more aggressive than usual.

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It's a place that has literally been settled and abandoned over and over again,

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with people continuously being driven away.

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I mean, there's tons about the rainforest that we still don't understand.

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Who's to say what's living out there?

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The Brazilian Navy even sailed at one point a thousand miles up this river

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just to bomb this place.

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The story begins millennia ago, deep in the Amazon.

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Indigenous tribes along the Rio Negro pass down legends of powerful spirits

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that control the land.

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When the Portuguese arrive in the 16th century,

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they dispatch slaving expeditions to the region,

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violently murdering many of the inhabitants.

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Despite rumors that the site has become cursed,

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the Portuguese build a missionary outpost here in 1694,

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forcibly converting the natives to Christianity.

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Incidents of murder, torture and deadly disease are common.

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But by the late 1800s,

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the settlement now known as Arao Velho finds a new lease on life.

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A rubber boom draws hundreds of people

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and the outpost is transformed into a wealthy town.

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But the rubber plantations demand for labor results in genocide.

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90% of the region's indigenous people are wiped out.

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After the rubber industry collapses in the early 20th century,

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the city is eventually abandoned, at least by the living.

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Today, travelers passing on the river claim to see ghostly apparitions

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and hear human screams from those who suffered here.

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Many believe malevolent forces even afflict the local wildlife,

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causing animals to be unnaturally aggressive.

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In the 1980s, the Brazilian Navy sends warships

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to use the jungle settlement for target practice

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and to erase all memory of this eerie frontier.

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But the ruins remain and according to legend,

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so does something else.

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Jess, what do you think?

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Well, I mean, it sounds like it's a cursed place.

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I mean, I definitely think that people can be affected by their surroundings,

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both positive and negative.

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So when you come to a place like this that has so much negative history,

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so much death, it kind of like seeps into the air and the ground

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and the area and affects those that are there.

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So I think that these stories could be real.

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What about you, Phil? You've lived and worked in the Amazon.

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This is your stomping ground. Have you heard of this place?

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I've not heard of this place, but listen,

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there's a forest full of the most bizarre creatures.

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There's carnivorous plants. There's ever-changing geology.

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that the Amazon rainforest isn't really dangerous

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and this is their way of interpreting it.

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For example, I went to one area that the local said was inhabited by a devil

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and what did I find there?

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Quicksand that was pulling people down.

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So I think we're going to be able to find a logical explanation for it.

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So then what makes this place so particularly dangerous?

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and yet all of these stories and legends are focused on this very specific place.

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What is it that makes this spot unique?

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I don't know and that's what we got to find out.

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That's right. That's the mission.

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Step one, you've got to get there, right?

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Out of LAO is not an easy place to reach.

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Once you're there, investigate.

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Experience the sights and sounds and see if you can collect evidence

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of what these people say is a cursed place.

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Yeah, I'm in.

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Let's do it.

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To the Amazon.

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After traveling over 4,500 miles, the team touches down in Manaus, Brazil.

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Despite being located deep in the rainforest,

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Manaus is actually the largest city in the Amazon.

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It's here for one reason.

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Nearly 150 years ago, the trees in this region produced 90% of the rubber on Earth.

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Wealthy and cruel barrens controlled the trade,

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hiring European architects to construct lavish buildings,

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including a stunning opera house in the middle of the jungle.

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At the edge of town, the Rio Negro joins the mighty Amazon.

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To reach the purportedly cursed ruins,

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Phil and Jess will drive dirt roads along the river 112 miles

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to the tiny town of Novo Arao.

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That's where they'll meet their guide,

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and take them by boat the rest of the way to the abandoned city.

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We're going to go meet our guide, Sandro.

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You can just see, I mean, the forest is getting so much deeper.

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Oh, stop! Hey, hey, hey, hey, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!

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You are lucky that I saw that.

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At least we didn't hit it.

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Just move it out of the way.

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You want me to go on this end?

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Let me just see what happens next.

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Thanks for the help.

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Yeah, I know you're welcome.

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I just, you know...

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High five?

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Oh, yeah, I'm cool.

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High five?

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No, I'm cool, I'm cool.

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Concentrate on the road this time.

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You got it.

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it's only a short drive to the docks at Novo Arao.

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The team is meeting Indigenous guide Sandro Pedroso.

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He's been guiding travelers through this region for most of his life.

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And for generations, his relatives have told stories of the haunted ruins.

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Walk the plank.

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Walk in the plank.

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Despite the warnings, Sandro has agreed to take Phil and Jess to this supposedly cursed place.

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Hey, Sandro, how are you doing?

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How was your travel? Good?

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My phone's there as a captain.

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This is Raymond.

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Sandro assures us that the captain knows this river like the back of his hand,

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but that doesn't mean he's eager to make the journey.

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He's ready to take us to Airão Velho,

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but I don't think he's gonna step on the land there.

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Why is that?

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Honestly, it's a strange place,

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and many people have had bad experiences there.

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Recently, I was traveling upriver to visit my family.

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Just as we passed by the ruins,

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I heard a screaming coming from the forest.

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Horrific screams.

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They sounded like nothing I've ever heard before in the Amazon.

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He doesn't think that could have been animals or indigenous peoples there.

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No one lives there.

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The closest people are a small village several miles away.

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They stay far away from this place.

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Loud noises from the forest.

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Screams.

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Sounds like our perfect kind of place.

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Sounds like my perfect kind of place, yeah, for sure.

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But you'll come with us, yes?

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For sure.

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Because we're not alone.

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I'll take that.

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Ready to go.

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The abandoned city is about 60 miles away.

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To reach it, we will have to sail upriver and through the night

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into the darkest reaches of the Amazon.

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Sanjo, you've been to the abandoned city.

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What's it like being there?

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You always have the sensation that something's happening.

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During the rubber boom time, a lot of people got killed there.

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When the rubber boom took off in Brazil,

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and used forced labor to work the rubber plantations.

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Anyone who didn't fall in line suffered

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and even died horrible deaths.

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Their spirits are said to roam the ruins

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and their energy is said to afflict the surrounding jungle.

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So I've heard some reports of strange animal behavior

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at Arovelho.

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Have you heard anything about this?

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There is a lot of things like unnatural.

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Animals are behavior very strangely.

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Like almost they are possessed.

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Jaguars, wild animals.

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At the end of a long day, Phil and I set up hammocks

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to catch up on some much needed sleep

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before the investigation of the abandoned city.

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The more that I learn about this place, the weirder it gets.

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I mean the fact that the captain won't even go on...

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They won't even go on leave?

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Yeah, I mean the people here are definitely afraid of it, honestly.

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And I mean when they talk about hearing weird screams

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and that kind of thing, I do know there's so many animals.

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There are birds that sound like they're screaming.

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There are mammals that sound like they're screaming.

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These people have been around the jungle all their lives.

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They know the difference between a human scream

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and an animal from the jungle making a noise.

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Like I've heard of other towns in the Amazon

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that will have like a huge amount of deadly spiders coming in.

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Or a lot of ants coming in.

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I mean this place has everything going wrong with it.

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What was that?

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What do you see?

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All I see are eyes.

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It's basically a giant alligator underneath those eyes.

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The black caiman is one of the largest predators of the Amazon

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measuring up to 16 feet in length

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and boasting a mouth full of razor sharp teeth.

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Along with the anaconda, the jaguar, and even the electric eel.

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The caiman is just one of the region's deadly residents

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that Phil and Jess will need to keep an eye out for.

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That's a big animal.

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A lot of teeth attached to him.

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Having met the neighbors, we retired to bed for an uneasy night's sleep

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as our boat steams on into the unknown.

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A new day breaks over the rainforests

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and we wake to find that we're approaching a Rao Velo.

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We quickly grab our gear,

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and head to shore.

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Look at this place.

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Ahead, the dense jungles obscure the ruins of a forgotten city,

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a place reported to be haunted by those who perished here.

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We approach prepared for anything

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and take our first steps on cursed ground.

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That is some deep jungle right there.

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Look at that.

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The team has been steaming overnight along the Rio Negro

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toward an abandoned and reportedly cursed city.

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Having arrived at the location,

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Phil and Jess are making their way ashore with their local guide, Sandro.

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The site is notoriously haunted and has a sinister reputation.

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Once teaming with indigenous people,

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Portuguese slavers conducted acts of genocide here

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and it was later turned into a violent rubber boom town

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that relied on forced labor.

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In fact, the Brazilian Navy once used warships

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to conduct target practice on the abandoned city

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in an effort to wipe it off the face of the earth.

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That is some deep jungle right there.

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Before hiking into the ruins, we strap on some snake-gaters.

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After all, the two square miles of this abandoned city

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are home to a number of deadly snakes

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and some of the most venomous spiders in the world.

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Look at this.

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Oh, there it is!

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Oh my God, look at that.

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Oh, oh, oh.

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Jess and Phil have arrived at the abandoned ruins of Arovelio.

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All around them are the crumbling remnants

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of a once-opulent frontier boom town from the late 1800s.

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That is imposing.

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Check this out. You can still see the old tile.

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Yeah.

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Right over here. Look at that old tile.

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That's gorgeous.

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People used to work and live in this area

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and they've completely abandoned it.

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Yeah.

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And it's obvious that this place has a really dark past.

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At its height, hundreds of people strolled these streets.

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There would have been ornate colonial buildings, busy storefronts,

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and of course, very rich rubber barons.

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Locals who were forced to work here

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called the barons Tigres Negros or Black Tigers

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for their quick and deadly tempers.

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This was like the wild west.

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There was no laws.

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And the rubber barons were very violent guys.

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They would kill someone just for nothing.

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This is where people were convicted and executed.

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And according to my relatives,

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this is where paranormal things are taking place.

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So this is like a courthouse?

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It's a courthouse.

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One time, my grandparents saw a baron

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and my grandparents saw an evil spirit coming out of this ruin.

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According to Sandro,

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a local was once accused of murder here

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and was hanged in this very spot.

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Later, Sandro's grandfather claimed to see the spirit of the condemned man

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walking amongst the ruins.

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So he was convicted of murder, hung,

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and then your grandparents saw him walking out of here?

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Yes.

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It just feels very repressed.

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It's not a comfortable spot.

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I mean, the jungle is completely taken over this place.

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There's no roof.

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There's vines growing everywhere.

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Kind of like the jungle wants to reclaim the area.

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Absolutely.

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Phil and Jess push on into the ruins.

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Everywhere they look, the past is being eaten alive.

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This is incredible.

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I mean, look, there's termites up here.

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I was going to say, what is that?

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That are taken down this wall.

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That's a termites nest?

335
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Yeah, termite nest up there.

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This place is creepy.

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It's really creepy.

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Do you know that thunder?

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The weather is unpredictable in the Amazon.

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There's not a cloud.

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There's skies.

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Yeah.

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Well, maybe the storm's coming, so let's keep moving.

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Sandro leads us to another paranormal hotspot

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where people say you can hear screams echoing through the jungle.

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The ruins of an abandoned school.

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Here's the school.

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We've got to check it out in here.

349
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Yeah.

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Oh, gosh.

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Be careful with this wood.

352
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Let's take this a little bit at a time.

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All right.

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Stay left, stay left.

355
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Okay, just walk along that seam.

356
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Oh, be real careful here.

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Okay.

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These are, do you see it?

359
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It's real loose.

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Yeah, you got it.

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Kind of favor your left.

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Okay.

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All right.

364
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All right.

365
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Wow.

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Oh, oh, oh.

367
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Be careful, guys.

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Yeah, not going to step there.

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Wow, I mean, there's old newspaper in here.

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Yeah.

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Engine part.

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There's termite nest up in the corner.

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That probably explains why all the wood's breaking apart.

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I mean, it looks like they're just literally up and left,

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just like that.

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There's still evidence of people.

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I mean, no one cleared this out.

378
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Looks like they left in a hurry.

379
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Oh, wow.

380
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A lot of termites right here.

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They're everywhere.

382
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Oh, that is this.

383
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Oh, it's an old picture.

384
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It's an old woman.

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An old woman, man.

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It's...

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Maybe it's the teacher.

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Could be.

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We continue on and Sandro leads us beyond the ruins.

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Finally, we reach the settlement's northeastern edge

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at a bend in the Rio Negro.

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It's here that Sandro shows us some strange symbols

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carved into the rocks.

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Wow.

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Look at that.

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These are petal griffs

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they're more than thousands of years old.

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These eerie images were carved

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by the ancestors of those who settled this land millennia ago.

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Many of the glyphs depict strange scenes

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of what appear to be people in distress.

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Some believe they're intended as a warning.

403
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There's definitely more over here.

404
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Oh, yeah.

405
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Oh.

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It looks like somebody's screaming.

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Yeah.

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To me, that is the locals maybe crying out in fear

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for the place that they're in.

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But they're in.

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Maybe that's what all of these carvings of people and faces are

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is that they're crying out about the evil that's in the area

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which is why they moved.

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It's like people have left in modern times,

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but they also left here in ancient times.

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Did you hear that?

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Sounds like a human scream.

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Come on, let's track it down.

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As we head off towards the sound we all just heard,

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we come across our producer.

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The abandoned city seems to have claimed another victim.

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Whether the expedition can continue is now in question.

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My team is deep in the Brazilian Amazon,

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pursuing the source of a strange sound they've heard

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amidst these supposedly cursed ruins.

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When they come across one of their field producers,

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doubled over.

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I don't know what hit me.

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Though he was fine just a moment ago,

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he is suddenly unable to remain standing.

431
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Sit down, sit down, sit down.

432
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There's mice.

433
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:34,000
There's mice.

434
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Sit down.

435
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I feel really weird and weak.

436
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He complains of dizziness and feeling disoriented.

437
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His pulse is erratic and blood pressure is elevated.

438
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We have to get you to the boat.

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We all head back to the boat to let our producer rest.

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Amazingly, the minute he leaves the ruins

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and sets foot on the boat, he feels entirely better.

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Relieved that he's okay, we decide to check in with Josh.

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How's the Amazon treating you?

444
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,000
It's good.

445
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,000
It's scary.

446
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000
It's been wild out here.

447
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000
Okay, so let's talk about Irovelio.

448
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We've heard all these stories about this place.

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Does it live up to its reputation?

450
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It's quite scary.

451
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000
It looks like just a ton of ruins.

452
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The jungle is completely retaken this area.

453
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It's a little ominous.

454
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000
Yeah, Ghost Town does not do justice.

455
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There are Ghost Towns and then there's Irovelio.

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Are there any indigenous people around the site still?

457
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There's nobody living at the site itself,

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but they are further into the forest

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and they just give this place a wide berth.

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They do not want to go anywhere near it.

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I don't know if you can reach those people or not,

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but that would be my advice is to try to

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actually connect with the indigenous people

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that you can hear their actual stories.

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That's going to give you the best information possible.

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We can absolutely do that.

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Okay, well listen guys, stay safe, stay dry,

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and stay away from the creepy crawlies, okay?

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Will do.

470
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Yeah, I may not do that last one,

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but I'll try to stay safe and dry.

472
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I'll do it.

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We take Josh's advice and ask Sandro

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to arrange passage to the nearest village.

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He agrees, but warns us that he doesn't have any strong

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contacts there and it's a community not used to outsiders.

477
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They may not take kindly to strangers arriving unannounced.

478
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Wow, look at this.

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Sandro makes introductions and assures the men

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that we're only here looking for information about Aralvelio.

481
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000
Okay guys, you can come in.

482
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Luckily for us, he manages to negotiate a meeting

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with the village shaman.

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Inside, we're invited to sit down

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and we receive a welcome blessing from the elder shaman.

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He agrees to answer any questions he can.

487
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What do you know about Aralvelio?

488
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000
It's a ghost town.

489
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,000
There are dark spirits that live there.

490
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,000
We've been there and we've actually seen the petroglyphs

491
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of the screaming people and the victims of the town.

492
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000
The carvings on the rocks do not depict the people of the town.

493
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,000
They depict the spirits.

494
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000
They depict the spirits.

495
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The ghosts of people who passed there.

496
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But also the evil that seeped into the land itself.

497
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So he believes that those petroglyphs aren't the scared people.

498
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000
Those are petroglyphs of the actual evil spirits.

499
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,000
Actually according to what he said, the evil lives in the rocks.

500
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Wow.

501
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,000
Then how does that evil manifest itself?

502
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,000
You will hear voices and screams of the deceased

503
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,000
and even see the spirits of the people of the town.

504
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000
Even see the spirits.

505
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,000
It is a dangerous place to spend too much time.

506
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,000
If there are spirits at the abandoned city,

507
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evil or otherwise, it's our job to try and document them.

508
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To do that, we need to know how to bring them out into the open.

509
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,000
What can we do to make a connection with the spirit?

510
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,000
It's very dangerous to summon the spirits, but it can be done.

511
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You must go to the place of worship, the church in the center of the city.

512
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If you build a fire and give a blood offering to the flames,

513
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this will act as a beacon so the spirits can come forward.

514
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What type of blood?

515
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,000
Could you put a sign?

516
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Sign it to say,

517
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Maria Dinda, your own blood.

518
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Okay.

519
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After thanking the shaman, we head back down river towards the abandoned city.

520
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,000
I'm anxious to conduct a paranormal investigation of the ruins tonight.

521
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,000
And while the idea of a blood offering is extreme,

522
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,000
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued by his confidence

523
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that this would conjure the spirits.

524
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We come ashore and hike back into the ruins,

525
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which seem much more imposing in the pitch black darkness of the Amazon.

526
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,000
To begin our investigation, we're arming infrared trail cameras

527
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at the city's main landmarks and the locations where strange phenomena have been reported.

528
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Let me get you my camera trap.

529
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,000
Near the petroglyphs where we heard the strange crying sound,

530
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,000
outside the ruins of the old schoolhouse,

531
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:57,000
and near the courthouse where visitors have reported seeing ghostly apparitions.

532
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:03,000
As a scientist, I'm keen to capture evidence of some of the more than 400 species of mammal,

533
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:09,000
1200 species of bird, and 375 kinds of reptiles that call this jungle home.

534
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:17,000
I believe people passing by here may be misidentifying the presence of these creatures as paranormal activity.

535
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,000
With our cameras all set, we get to work.

536
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:33,000
Since this is the location where people were executed,

537
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,000
some of the town's most evil people walked through these halls.

538
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:43,000
The fact that Sandro even said that his grandparents saw somebody that had been executed here

539
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,000
two years prior and then walked out.

540
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000
I want to see what we can get.

541
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,000
Okay.

542
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,000
So I'm going to bust out the audio recorder.

543
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,000
Do you want to do the thermal?

544
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,000
Yeah, I can do thermal.

545
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,000
Okay.

546
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,000
From jungle predators to the potential energy of a spirit,

547
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,000
the thermal imager will help us see anything giving off heat.

548
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,000
Are you getting anything on your thermal?

549
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,000
Nothing hot enough that would tell me it's an animal.

550
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000
I'm Jessica.

551
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,000
I'm here with Phil, and we want to make contact with you.

552
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,000
What is that?

553
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,000
Whoa.

554
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,000
What is that?

555
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:26,000
Come on.

556
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,000
It sounds like it came from that direction over there.

557
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,000
Let's go.

558
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,000
Whoa!

559
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,000
Whoa!

560
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,000
Whoa!

561
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,000
Phil and I are deep in the Amazon,

562
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,000
investigating an abandoned city with a violent past

563
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,000
that is believed to be cursed by powerful spirits.

564
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:07,000
We're in front of the old courthouse where locals abused by landowners were punished

565
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,000
and even hanged in public.

566
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,000
Are you getting anything on your thermal?

567
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,000
A little bit active, nothing hot enough that would tell me it's an animal.

568
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,000
What is that?

569
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,000
Whoa.

570
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,000
What is that?

571
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,000
Come on, let's go.

572
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,000
It sounds like it came from this direction over here.

573
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,000
Whoa!

574
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,000
Whoa!

575
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,000
You all right?

576
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,000
Oh, f***, all right?

577
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,000
Yeah, I'm okay, I'm okay.

578
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:36,000
What is it?

579
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,000
What is it?

580
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,000
Did you hear something over here?

581
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,000
Yeah, a huge f***ing brick.

582
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,000
That wasn't something you stepped on?

583
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:41,000
That's not something I stepped on.

584
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000
That was in the woods.

585
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,000
Right over here?

586
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,000
Like right, right, right, like so close, like next to me close.

587
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,000
Maybe an animal.

588
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000
Is that what made this sound?

589
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,000
Do you see anything on the thermal camera?

590
00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,000
I don't.

591
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,000
It's weird, because if it was an animal, we'd definitely see it on the thermal.

592
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,000
That scream did not sound like an animal to me.

593
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:22,000
Everything that people told us about this place is coming true.

594
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,000
Having already experienced the phantom screams that have been reported here,

595
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,000
I want to see if we can actually make direct contact with the evil spirits

596
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,000
that the shaman said reside here.

597
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:40,000
To do that, he told us to make a blood sacrifice in a fire near the church in the center of town.

598
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000
Do you know how far up the church is?

599
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,000
It looks like there's a couple old house runes over here.

600
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000
Yeah, you can see that up ahead.

601
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,000
Usually the church is in the center of town, so I think we just try to head that way.

602
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,000
Oh, whoa, look at this.

603
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000
Oh, for sure this is a church.

604
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,000
Gothic style arches right here.

605
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,000
Oh yeah, it keeps going.

606
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,000
Yeah, it keeps going.

607
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,000
This church is huge.

608
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,000
I mean, look at the size of this thing.

609
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,000
This must have supported a big community at some point.

610
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000
It could probably fit a few hundred people inside.

611
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000
Well, and that's the thing, right?

612
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,000
The church acted as a community center, as a place of worship.

613
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,000
So it usually was the most important building in a town.

614
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,000
And you can see, I mean, they were here to stay.

615
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,000
This thing is solid.

616
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,000
This isn't a temporary church.

617
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,000
They thought they were going to have a community here for hundreds of years,

618
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,000
but that didn't happen.

619
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000
We decide to post up here to investigate.

620
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,000
First, we search the area for kindling and begin to build a small fire.

621
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:55,000
Though we're far from medical attention, Jess is determined to follow the shaman's advice

622
00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:00,000
in attempt and offering, shedding her blood to provoke the spirits.

623
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,000
I'm actually wondering if the scent of blood might summon other jungle creatures.

624
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,000
Oh, fire's looking good.

625
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,000
It does look nice.

626
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,000
Blood offering?

627
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Go for it.

628
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,000
All right, ready?

629
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,000
Yeah.

630
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000
All right, we got blood.

631
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,000
There you go.

632
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,000
No turning back now.

633
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,000
While I'm not convinced that this blood offering is going to produce results,

634
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:49,000
if a shaman in the Amazon believes it will help me encounter a ghost, I'm in.

635
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,000
We break out our audio recorder and thermal camera and try to make contact.

636
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,000
We gave you what you wanted, a blood offering,

637
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:05,000
and now it's your turn to give us what we want, which is your appearance.

638
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,000
Why did you drive the people away from here?

639
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:23,000
What was it about this town that bothered you so much?

640
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000
You know what you said to me?

641
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,000
What?

642
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000
This is a church.

643
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,000
Yeah.

644
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000
This is also where they do funerals.

645
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Yeah, I didn't think of that.

646
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,000
During the years that this was a boom town, that is when yellow fever,

647
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:46,000
dengue, malaria, typhoid, all of these tropical diseases were thriving in this area.

648
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,000
And that meant a lot of sick people, a lot of dying people, a lot of people with fevers.

649
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000
Yeah, they did their plagues come through here.

650
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Yeah, when you have a fever, you have hallucinations,

651
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,000
and you add that to everything that this jungle is throwing at people.

652
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000
Everything is throwing at us.

653
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,000
I think the jungle is just so intense here.

654
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,000
You add in those diseases, it just defeated the town.

655
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,000
But that's the point, right?

656
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:15,000
The entity is using the jungle as a way to manifest and cause problems.

657
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Do you hear that?

658
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,000
That's the screen.

659
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,000
Come on, this way.

660
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,000
What is that?

661
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000
Let's go, let's go.

662
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,000
I want to check this out.

663
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Go.

664
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:33,000
Really close.

665
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Damn, we got a trail, we got a trail.

666
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000
We got a trail?

667
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,000
Whoa, whoa, we got a building up here.

668
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,000
What is this place?

669
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,000
The ruined city of Arau Velio that Jess and Phil are investigating

670
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,000
was devastated by the collapse of the rubber market in 1912.

671
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:07,000
Panics set in, violence erupted, and people fled the city.

672
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,000
But why exactly did the Brazilian rubber industry go bust

673
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,000
at a time when the automotive industry was taking off

674
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
and the global demand for rubber tires was on the rise?

675
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000
The answer is a guy named Sir Henry Alexander Wickham,

676
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000
a daring English explorer.

677
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:29,000
This self-proclaimed biofif had smuggled nearly 70,000 rubber plant seeds

678
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,000
aboard a ship out of Brazil back in 1876.

679
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,000
That proved enough to plant rubber tree saplings

680
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,000
in the then British-controlled colonies in Malaysia and Indonesia.

681
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,000
35 years later, the trees were mature.

682
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,000
Rubber production began to thrive in Asia,

683
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000
and the Brazilian boom went bust.

684
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Although Wickham's efforts earned him a knighthood in England,

685
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:56,000
back in Brazil, he, understandably, was seen as more of a pirate.

686
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:06,000
After performing a blood sacrifice to the spirits of the abandoned city,

687
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000
Jessica is conducting a call and response,

688
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,000
and hears something coming from the woods behind the church.

689
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000
There it is, Kim. It's back by the church. I'm going to go.

690
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Why are you here? What brought you here?

691
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,000
What did you do to this town?

692
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:44,000
We are not leaving. We are staying.

693
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000
What's happening?

694
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000
Phil! Get over here! Phil! Phil!

695
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,000
What's happening? What's happening?

696
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000
I was inside the church. I was doing call and response,

697
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,000
and I basically said, we did the offering, we did the blood ritual,

698
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,000
we're not leaving until we hear something,

699
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,000
and boom! Right outside the church there was this crazy noise.

700
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000
It was a definite war. It was right outside the building.

701
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,000
Are we getting hunted?

702
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000
Listen, listen.

703
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000
We continue to chase the sound,

704
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,000
which seems to lead us deeper and deeper into the jungle.

705
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Just when it seems close at hand, we hear something else.

706
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,000
As if on cue, the skies around the city begin to crack and rumble.

707
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,000
A storm is nearly upon us.

708
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,000
Before the rain arrives, we trek back to base camp to assess our situation.

709
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000
You know what? We've got the camera traps.

710
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,000
Oh, we do.

711
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,000
You know, the audio recording.

712
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,000
Yeah, I've had it running the whole time.

713
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,000
I've got some solid evidence.

714
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Okay.

715
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Yeah, let's do this.

716
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Within minutes, the skies open up.

717
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000
We retreat to the safety of our boat offshore and hunker down

718
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000
as torrential rain drenches the ruined city of Arrelveilio.

719
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000
A misty morning arrives in the Amazon,

720
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:16,000
and Phil, Jess and their guide make the long trip back toward civilization.

721
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000
They braved the night in the supposedly haunted jungle city,

722
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000
and the location did not disappoint.

723
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000
They heard the phantom noises that have been reported here

724
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:31,000
and experienced firsthand the fear that has turned so many others away.

725
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,000
Now, it's time to review the evidence.

726
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,000
Sandro.

727
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,000
Hey.

728
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:43,000
Jess starts by isolating the audio of the voice they thought they heard at the petroglyphs.

729
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Dude, to me, this sounds like a human scream.

730
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000
Let me give you a listen.

731
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Back home, bobcats make a scream like that, and it sounds like a screaming woman.

732
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Even foxes, when they make a mating call.

733
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,000
So animals make weird noises.

734
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000
In two different spots, like, you heard the same sound?

735
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,000
Three different spots.

736
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,000
Do you hear that?

737
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,000
There it is again.

738
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,000
Very strange.

739
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,000
Sandro, what do you think it is?

740
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Do you recognize this at all?

741
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,000
Let me listen to this.

742
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,000
What do you think?

743
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,000
This is like, never have heard this type of sound in the forest.

744
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,000
You've never heard that?

745
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000
It sounds very strange to me, this sound.

746
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000
All right, now the trail cams. We haven't seen this yet.

747
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,000
To check whether an animal could be responsible for such a sound,

748
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000
the team reviews the images from their trail cameras.

749
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000
All right, I want to see the next one.

750
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:06,000
They examine the memory cards one by one,

751
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000
and they do see various residents of the abandoned city.

752
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:14,000
But they don't see anything that could account for whatever made the mysterious sound.

753
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Even stranger, nothing physical tripped the cameras in the vicinity of the church,

754
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000
where they heard the noises.

755
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Whatever it was, it seems to be invisible.

756
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,000
What do you think?

757
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,000
To me, never heard such sound.

758
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,000
Finally, Jessica listens to the audio from her call and response

759
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,000
after performing the blood offering for any electronic voice phenomena,

760
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,000
or EVPs, answering back to her questions.

761
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,000
You're not leaving.

762
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,000
You're staying.

763
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,000
Yep, right there.

764
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,000
Dude, that totally sounds like va.

765
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,000
That's Portuguese for go, right?

766
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Ah.

767
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,000
Yeah, it does sound like that,

768
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,000
but it also sounds like it could be an animal.

769
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,000
In the end, the ruins remain a place of intense mystery.

770
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,000
Jess, Sandro, and many others believe this abandoned settlement

771
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,000
is indeed haunted by its violent past.

772
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,000
There's something weird out there for sure, absolutely.

773
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,000
While Phil saw enough wildlife and rational explanations

774
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,000
to remain a steadfast skeptic.

775
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000
People who live here, they kind of mix folklore and nature.

776
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,000
Whatever it was that the team encountered in the depths of the Amazon,

777
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,000
there's no denying that this place is a kind of living ghost.

778
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Its haunting architecture is obscured by the cloying vines of the jungle,

779
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,000
appearing like a phantom to those who dare venture inside.

780
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000
From Portuguese slavers to greedy rubber barons,

781
00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:00,000
the darkest chapters of this region's past seem to hang in the humid air.

782
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:04,000
Iron Valley is a mysterious place, I told you.

783
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:05,000
Thanks for taking us.

784
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,000
Thank you, Sandro.

785
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:07,000
Thank you.

786
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Thank you.

787
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Our own producer was struck down here.

788
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:16,000
An event that locals would say was the direct result of powerful spirits.

789
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Even the stones themselves seem to speak with warnings from the distant past.

790
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000
The message is clear.

791
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
Sail on by.

792
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
This is no place for the living.