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On this episode of Expedition X,

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my team investigates a mysterious cult in Thailand.

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No, Kamila. No, Kamila.

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How did you know Fukushima disaster was going to happen?

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They claim their knowledge of the future.

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We meditate here so we can contact aliens.

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Comes from extraterrestrials.

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What was that? What was that? What was that?

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And now, the group's latest prediction.

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A series of volcanic eruptions

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like the world has never seen.

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Ignore this message at your own peril.

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This is real.

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But a crackdown from law enforcement...

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You cannot be here.

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What are you hiding?

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...is sparking real fear of what they insist

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is already heading our way.

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My name is Josh Gates.

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In my travels, I've experienced strange things

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that defy logic 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

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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 incredible to actually found two stones.

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

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Phil, do you see that?

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I just saw some papers across.

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Together, we're searching for answers...

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What is that?

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...to the world's most extraordinary mysteries.

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This is Expedition X.

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Between the three of us, we have investigated

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a lot of very strange cases around the world,

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but the topic of today's investigation

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is quite literally out of this world.

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So I want to start by getting your take on a topic

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that has been the subject of spirited debate.

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Do you think that Earth has been contacted

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by extraterrestrial intelligence?

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Yeah, I do. I think out of all the reports you hear,

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some of those reports could be legit.

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You find some of them plausible.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And Phil?

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No, I think it's theoretically possible,

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but have I seen any evidence saying that intelligent aliens

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have been here? Not yet.

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You believe in life elsewhere in the universe?

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I do, absolutely.

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It may not be humanoid like us.

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It may be microscopic.

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But I do think we're not alone in the universe.

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I think we're all in agreement.

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Life is out there somewhere.

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But there's a group in Thailand

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who not only thinks there's extraterrestrial intelligence

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in the universe,

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they believe that intelligent life has come here to Earth.

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They even believe that that intelligence

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is communicating with us

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and issuing warnings about humanity's future.

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March 10th, 2011,

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a Bangkok-based financial planner named Mark Kuntemesta

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uploads a video to YouTube.

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We are the people who spread the warning

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of the upcoming natural disasters.

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There is a bending cataclysm.

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In it, he warns that Asia is in imminent danger

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of a devastating natural disaster,

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an earthquake and tsunami.

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March 11th, the very next day,

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an earthquake just off the east coast of Japan

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measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale

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unleashes the second deadliest tsunami in recorded history.

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When Mark is pressed for details

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on how he predicted the event,

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his answer is almost as shocking as the event itself.

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He says aliens told him.

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Mark was a member of a group called Kalkala UFO,

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whose members claim to receive messages

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from extraterrestrials via meditation.

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They say they receive information telepathically,

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hearing messages, and seeing powerful images

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in their mind's eye.

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They also claim to see orbs of light overhead,

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and in some cases, even descending to Earth.

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In addition to the Fukushima disaster,

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members say they were warned about other catastrophes,

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including the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia.

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Despite their out-of-this-world philosophy,

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Kalkala's membership is on the rise.

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And these aren't the stereotypical ET-loving oddballs.

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These are business executives, doctors, scientists,

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some of whom are quitting their jobs

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and flocking to the group's remote hilltop shrine

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in a town known as the City of Heaven.

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But the group has also become secretive.

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One of their leaders, Samjit Raypath,

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has avoided the spotlight since law enforcement

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began investigating Kalkala about six months ago,

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attempting to ban their gatherings altogether.

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But members of the group insist they are in contact

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with an alien intelligence

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that speaks to them telepathically

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and that a series of volcanic eruptions are headed our way.

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All right, so a lot to unpack here.

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Let's put the aliens aside for a second.

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First of all, do you think the human mind

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can traverse space and time?

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of the United States government as a great example,

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spent millions of dollars in the 70s and 80s

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to study remote viewing, which is basically

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you meditate and try to, quote-unquote,

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see a different location.

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theoretically, there's some ways that the mind

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can actually reach across locations

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and possibly even time.

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So who's to say?

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Probably Phil.

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What do you think?

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I mean, when I see this group, it worries me a little bit.

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When a group thinks that they're getting instructions

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or communication from another realm,

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that could turn dangerous or even deadly.

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They could become a cult.

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That's right.

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And there are some real examples of this,

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the Heaven's Gate group.

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This was a cult that in 1997,

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39 people killed themselves because they were trying

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to board a spaceship that they thought

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was trailing the Hail Bob Con.

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is this Calcula UFO group heading in the same direction?

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Well, we don't know.

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This Skymark, who supposedly predicted

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the Fukushima disaster,

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he isn't speaking on the record with anyone.

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And so this is what I want the two of you to investigate.

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This is a fascinating story.

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So I'd like you to go to Thailand,

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try to find members of this group,

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talk to them, see if you can go to this place

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where they supposedly connect with extraterrestrials

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and find out what's the real story here.

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Because whatever's going on, it's fascinating.

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To me, this is a big one because either these people are right

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and they're actually communicating with aliens,

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which would be just mind-boggling news.

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Or they're completely delusional

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and therefore potentially dangerous.

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So definitely want to exercise caution here.

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This is a real thing.

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These are real people who really believe this.

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See what evidence you can find.

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The team travels more than 8,600 miles

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to the Thai capital of Bangkok.

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Welcome to the future.

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Or is it the past?

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Bangkok is a city that spills out in all directions.

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A humid maze of temples and tuk-tuk's,

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enlightenment and dark desires.

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It's known as the land of smiles,

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but this place also has an edge.

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From Muay Thai fighters to food that has its own kind of kick.

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It's also brimming with more than 10 million people.

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One way of avoiding some of the world's worst traffic

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is to avoid roads altogether.

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Along the Chow Priah River,

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Phil and Jess navigate their way past hundreds of other boats.

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Their destination?

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A meeting with the man who claims to have predicted the future.

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We've convinced a very cautious Mark Kuntemesta,

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who posted the YouTube video

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warning about the Fukushima disaster

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to share his inside knowledge on Kau Kala

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and how its members receive their prophetic messages.

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We've got a lot of questions.

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We want to hear your story first.

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I heard about Kau Kala in 2010 and was curious.

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I had heard that they receive messages from some sort of intelligence.

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I wanted to see if I could receive those messages as well.

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When I joined, the leader of Kau Kala showed me

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how to use Buddhist meditation to use my brain almost like an antenna.

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And since then, I have been able to receive messages.

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What types of messages were you first receiving?

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It was really intense,

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like a voice speaking to me along with vivid images,

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almost like seeing a movie in my mind.

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I received information about a great wave

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that was about to hit a nearby country.

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I uploaded the message to warn people.

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And the next day, the earthquake and tsunami occurred in Fukushima, Japan.

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What do you say to people who say this sounds crazy

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and you just got lucky uploading a video on the right day?

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It sounded crazy to me too, but it was accurate.

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I cannot deny that. Nobody can.

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This message came to me from an alien source

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and there are more messages being received now.

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So what has been some of the latest predictions?

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Recently, many members of Kau Kala

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observed a mysterious circle of light descending from the sky.

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When it hit the ground, they received a vision

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of a great circle of volcanoes erupting all over the world.

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The vision seems to focus on the so-called Ring of Fire,

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a 25,000 mile arc of tectonic hotspots around the Pacific

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with 452 volcanoes.

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This area contains 75% of the world's active volcanoes

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and 90% of the planet's earthquakes.

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I mean, that sounds kind of terrifying.

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Very serene.

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The messages are real and I can prove it.

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Jess and Phil are in Bangkok, Thailand,

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investigating a mysterious group known as Kau Kala UFO.

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The group claims to communicate with extraterrestrials.

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One of their members, Mark Kuntemesta,

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famously posted a video online

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that seemingly predicted the 2011 tsunami in Japan.

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Now, members of the group claim to be seeing strange lights

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and have received a new message,

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one that predicts a string of volcanic eruptions.

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How are Kau Kala members in general preparing for the future?

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The Kau Kala group is named for the remote village that acts as a home base.

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In the middle of town is the mountain where we gather to receive messages.

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It is a kind of stargate portal.

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This is where people have recently been seeing strange orbs of light.

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It also acts as high ground to protect them from the coming natural disasters.

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Who leads the group?

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The group was started by a former Thai military officer.

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He received the initial messages but has since passed away.

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Now the group is led by his daughter, a woman named Sonjit Raipeh.

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Can you connect us with her? Will she talk on camera?

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I'm not sure. The authorities have become concerned about Kau Kala

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and are cracking down, so everyone is being very cautious.

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Recently, local authorities raided the Kau Kala mountain meditation area.

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Despite rising suspicion, the group claims their activities are peaceful.

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I can put in a call to see if she will meet you.

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Recently, she has been meditating north of Kau Kala at a place known as the Five Buddha Temple.

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I have a contact named Anne who is traveling with her.

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She is your best hope for meeting Sonjit.

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Thank you very much for your time. We really appreciate you sitting down and talking with us.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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While we wait for Mark to get in touch with this contact, Jess and I hop in a tuk-tuk,

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eager to debrief as we head back into Central Bangkok.

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What do you think?

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I definitely think it's worth dragging down this temple

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and talking to Kau Kala and seeing what's going on.

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I think we do got to go to the temple.

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They're taking it very seriously.

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It's been shown that people who meditate are capable of some truly extraordinary things

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that are really hard for us to comprehend and accept.

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So, here in Bangkok, there's this guy, Dr. Yu Yen.

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He's one of the few people studying this entirely understudied neuroscience of meditation.

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And I think if we talk to him, we might be able to get some answers as to what these people are doing

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and if they're doing something special.

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If they are doing something special in order to talk to aliens and receive messages,

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I want to know how they do that because I am totally down to chat with some grays.

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We motor over to Bangkok's Chula Longkorn University Center for Neuroscience

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to find out whether Kau Kala's claims of telepathic communication are even theoretically possible.

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We have arranged to meet with Dr. Kon Pop Yu Yen, a former NASA engineer,

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turned neuroscientist who's researching how humans can unlock the full potential of our brains through meditation.

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And while it might look like science fiction, his lab is doing serious work.

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This device is an EEG, or electroencephalography reader.

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Electrodes all over the headset measure the electrical activity inside a person's brain.

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So what is happening right now?

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So we are measuring brain wave of monks to look at different states of the mind.

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Dr. Yu Yen's work with Buddhist monks, the All Stars of Meditation,

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is revealing that brain function is significantly altered and enhanced during the deepest states of relaxation.

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When the minds come peaceful, we open up two answers that can flow into us when the mind is clear.

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It's like removing cloud from the sky.

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Is it possible for someone to use meditation to reach out past space and time, to make contact with something beyond?

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We can try something even closer or try to communicate with someone on earth. How about that?

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But it's still...

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Still do you hear me?

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Yeah.

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I'm kidding.

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You want another cheeseburger?

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I do. Oh my god, it works.

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All joking aside, Dr. Yu Yen is referring to a 2014 study where two subjects in a Barcelona-based lab

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were able to achieve brain-to-brain communication thanks to a computer brain interface.

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Scientists theorize that because human thought can be broken down into bioelectric signals,

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ideas may someday be transmittable through a kind of mental Wi-Fi network.

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But could an advanced form of intelligence have already mastered this kind of communication?

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Calcala members would say yes.

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We're actually headed up to investigate the group Calcola, who say that they're able to speak with aliens through meditation.

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Is it possible?

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It's very interesting. That's going to require some scientific proof.

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But, you know, we always open up to the possibility.

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So I can give you my EEG device, and it will be interesting to see what you come up with.

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If we can record the brain waves of Calcala members while they're supposedly communicating with aliens,

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Dr. Yu Yen can then analyze the scans and tell us if anything otherworldly is happening.

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But getting access to the secretive group is, well, a work in progress.

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All right, so we got a little mission to collect some data.

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Yeah, that's perfect. Thank you.

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You're welcome.

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The next day we get a break in our investigation.

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Former Calcala member Mark Kuntemesta has arranged a meeting for us with his contact.

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A current Calcala member named Ann, who might be able to introduce us to the group's enigmatic leader, Somjit.

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To get to the meeting point, we're taking back roads from Bangkok to Khomsan.

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It's one step closer to our ultimate goal of witnessing the group's controversial conversations with ET.

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It seems like Calcala is a pretty secretive group.

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I find these groups always have the best of intentions, and then it just takes one incident to have it all heads out.

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So true.

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The temple, where we're told we will find Mark's contact, Ann, is in a remote area with little infrastructure,

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and supposedly where Calcala had their very first interaction with UFOs.

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Based on this road, they chose one heck of a remote place to build their extraterrestrial-inspired tombsday temple.

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Well, you don't want to build it at a shopping mall.

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As we reach the perimeter of the temple complex, though, we realize there isn't exactly a welcome mat to greet us.

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Ah!

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Shoot.

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Based on the barbed wire fence and the chain here, I don't think they want anyone going in here.

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Maybe there's a spot that's opened up where they haven't closed it off yet.

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Ooh, here's a good snake tip.

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When you're stepping over a log, you want to tap it first, so if there's a snake on the other side, it scurries away.

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What do you mean snakes?

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There's a lot of venomous snakes around here.

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It's one of my favorite things about this rainforest.

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Hey, opens up over here.

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Hello.

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Hi.

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We're here to meet with Anne or Sanjeet if she's here.

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You cannot be here.

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No, come with us.

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No, come with us.

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Can we meet with Sanjeet?

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Remain here.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Clearly, we're nearby their compound slash temple.

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Oh.

343
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Hi.

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I'm so excited.

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Sawadee ka.

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Hi.

347
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Hi, hello.

348
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Hello.

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Hi.

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Are you speaking English?

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Yes.

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Oh.

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Stroke of good luck alert.

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The woman turns out to be Mark's contact, Anne.

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We'd like to speak to Sanjeet and maybe see the temple.

356
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Oh, Sanjeet is not here.

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We're interested in learning more about Kaukula.

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And seeing the temple.

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Is that possible?

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Yes, sure.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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All right, we'll follow you.

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She explains that Sanjeet has returned to the town of Kaukula,

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but Anne is still willing to show us the temple where the group

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claims to have had their initial contact with extraterrestrials.

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And the location is nothing short of spectacular.

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This is the so-called temple on the glass cliff.

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Constructed in 2004, it features nested statues of the five Buddhas

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that visited Earth.

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It is also covered in more than five million mosaic tiles

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and strange mirrored orbs that supposedly show planetary alignments.

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The rumor is that the monks who helped design it were inspired by,

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you guessed it, extraterrestrials.

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So what's been your experience with Kaukula?

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My group, sometimes we will sit here and meditate.

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So we can contact aliens.

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You see that mountain over there?

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My friends and a lot of members, sometimes they see some mysterious

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circle light fly through the mountain to this temple.

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So that's how this place was chosen to build the temple?

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Yes.

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In fact, during the temple's construction,

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Kaukula members even photographed what they claim is a UFO hovering above the site.

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But the real hotspot of sightings is the town of Kaukula itself,

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where, on a remote mountain,

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members have reportedly been receiving messages from UFOs.

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The group's leader, Samjit, is at the center of all of this.

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Miss Samjit is the main person who received contact from aliens.

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Is there any way you could arrange an introduction for us?

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We would love to meet with Samjit in order to get an education.

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It would be my pleasure to take you guys to visit Samjit.

393
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Okay.

394
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That would be great.

395
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That would be amazing.

396
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Huge honor. Thank you.

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A meeting with Samjit will hopefully get us access to the group's secret

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meditation where they claim to communicate with aliens.

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We drive 150 miles to the town of Kaukula,

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not really knowing what to expect.

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Hello.

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Should we go inside?

403
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Thank you.

404
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Meeting the leader of a UFO group, I wasn't exactly sure what to expect.

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But as Samjit invites us in, she seems surprisingly open.

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And that wasn't the only surprise waiting for us.

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She has some evidence and she wants to show you guys.

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Phil and Jess have traveled to Thailand to investigate a group known as Kaukula UFO

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that claims to be able to meditate and receive messages from extraterrestrials.

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Now they're in the group's headquarters in the town of Kaukula

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where they've been invited to meet with the group's reclusive leader named Samjit.

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She has some evidence and she wants to show you guys.

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Samjit tells us that in order to understand Kaukula, we need to know how it started.

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So that's your father?

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Yeah.

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I named him Fadir.

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He was a former Sergeant Major in the Army and in 1997,

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he was deep in Buddhist meditation when he started receiving messages.

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A few months later, he predicted that there would be a UFO

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that would appear on the third of the month on a nearby peak that we call Kaukula Mountain.

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Ten thousand people went up there and it appeared at the exact moment he said it would.

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You can see how it kind of looks like a flying saucer

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but I just have a really hard time believing that that's actually what it is.

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It kind of looks like just clouds that are shaped like that.

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I mean, but there's no other clouds in the sky and you have everybody else also seeing the same thing.

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How many people were there?

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Ten thousand people.

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When her father said it would happen, that's the kicker to me.

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Were you there?

430
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And you saw it.

431
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We all did.

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At first, people thought we were crazy,

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but as people started to learn how to communicate with the aliens,

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they started having more sightings and getting warnings about impending natural disasters.

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So how much is the group growing?

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We are growing fast.

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We now have thousands and thousands of members.

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So we've heard that the authorities have kind of looked into and even arrested some members of Kaukula.

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The authorities are threatened because they don't want the messages getting out and starting a panic.

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But the world needs to hear this message.

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We have seen volcanoes erupting and great earthquake-shaking cities.

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We'd love to try and go to the top of Kaukula Mountain.

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We would love permission to observe the meditation to study the effects for ourselves.

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Is that possible?

445
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I'm not sure.

446
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We have a major gathering there tomorrow,

447
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but the authorities are still giving us trouble and they might not take well to seeing cameras.

448
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We'd really love to go.

449
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We promise to be respectful.

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Is that okay?

451
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Could we go to the top?

452
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If you have good intentions, you can come.

453
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Okay.

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Great.

455
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So tomorrow I will take you guys to Kaukula Mountain.

456
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Thank you so much.

457
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Thank you.

458
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Thank you.

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By the light of a new day, we prepare for our journey to the top of Kaukula Mountain.

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Before we depart, we head over to the local temple to check in with Josh about how to proceed.

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So update, we have you been able to make contact with members of this group?

462
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Yes.

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And listen, this group is interesting.

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Their ideas are obviously pretty out there.

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They are like an apocalyptic group.

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So are they dangerous?

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Are they strange?

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What's your vibe on them?

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I think when you meet them one-on-one, they're very polite, they're very nice, they're very accommodating.

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But you take a group that thinks the world's going to end and is getting specific instructions from extraterrestrials.

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You just kind of don't know what they might do.

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To date, Kaukula has been a totally peaceful movement, steeped in Buddhist meditation traditions.

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But there is also historic precedent for groups predicting apocalyptic events to turn deadly.

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In the 1970s, Jim Jones formed the Jones Town Cult in Guyana.

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Orchestrating the mass suicide of more than 900 cult members.

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The Branch Davidians created a compound in Waco, Texas, and in 1993, engaged in a fatal standoff with federal agents.

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And in 1996, 39 members of the Heavens Gate group killed themselves, believing they would be transported to an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

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For these reasons, the authorities are wary of Kaukula and their mass gatherings atop the local peak.

479
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They're not dangerous yet.

480
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I think there's more going on beneath the surface of these people.

481
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And so what's your plan of attack?

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We got pretty good access to one of their meditation sites.

483
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This is an area that they all go to train, to meditate and mass, and to try to basically communicate with extraterrestrials.

484
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Plan is to go there and to document in every way possible.

485
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You guys are in uncharted territory here, obviously.

486
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You know, look, even though this does have Buddhist underpinnings and it's ostensibly peaceful,

487
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these are a group of people who believe the world is coming to an end.

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So I'm really intrigued to hear what you discover up there.

489
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Obviously, be careful.

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We travel with Anne to the base of the mountain, which sits surrounded by remote farmland and forest.

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We proceed on foot through the fields towards the summit.

492
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Let's get a pick up here.

493
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We need to go down.

494
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Go up there?

495
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Yes.

496
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Inside the dense brush, Anne guides us to an obscured dirt road that leads to the shrine where the members claim to receive extraterrestrial communications.

497
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And this is the entry to Calgola Mountain.

498
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Okay.

499
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At least it is most of the time.

500
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What are they saying?

501
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They're not allowing us to go to the hill.

502
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Cameras down, cameras down, cameras down.

503
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,000
And what's happening?

504
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They say we need to leave now or we'll be arrested.

505
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:23,000
The team is trying to reach the summit of Calgola Mountain, where members of a mysterious cult are about to engage in a mass meditation to contact UFOs.

506
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:28,000
But local law enforcement is cracking down and blocking access on the road to the peak.

507
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,000
We can't go down.

508
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,000
We can't go down.

509
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,000
These two brothers are from Thien and I want them to learn about it.

510
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,000
And what's happening?

511
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000
They say we need to leave now or we'll be arrested.

512
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000
And is it because of Calgola?

513
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,000
What's happening here?

514
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,000
Okay, we're going.

515
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:55,000
While the police have cordoned off the main road, Ann tells us that there is another way up to the compound, but it's definitely off the beaten path.

516
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,000
In other words, through the wild jungle.

517
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:04,000
With daylight fading, we strap on snake gators to protect us and get ready to start the climb.

518
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:05,000
So Ann, up here?

519
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,000
Yes.

520
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:07,000
Okay.

521
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,000
Let's go.

522
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,000
Alright.

523
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,000
Alright, watch yourself over here.

524
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000
A lot of rock sinks can hide in.

525
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,000
Alright.

526
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,000
Great.

527
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000
I can barely bend my leg because of the snake gators.

528
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,000
Yeah, well, you probably want them because we got all sorts of deadly vipers.

529
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,000
Oh, great.

530
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,000
We have king cobras, which mind you is the largest deadly venomous snake in the world.

531
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,000
Oh, lovely.

532
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,000
Wow, big hole to the right.

533
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,000
Yes, this way.

534
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,000
You can hold onto this.

535
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,000
Yeah, it's all good.

536
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,000
Yeah.

537
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,000
We keep climbing into an eerie twilight.

538
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,000
And before long, darkness is upon us.

539
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,000
Suddenly, this place feels very spooky.

540
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:08,000
As we approach the peak, the mountain offers us an ominous welcome.

541
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000
Got a storm coming in.

542
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,000
Let's keep moving.

543
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000
Finally, we see a structure ahead.

544
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,000
And to our amazement, it's filled with people.

545
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000
So welcome, you guys, to Khao Kala.

546
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,000
This place is huge.

547
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,000
As we approach, it looks like the members are already starting their meditation.

548
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,000
So it is Khao Kala, remember?

549
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000
Now they are meditating.

550
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,000
And if there's any messages, they can feel it in their head.

551
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:48,000
How do you know when somebody receives a message, do they raise their hand?

552
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000
Is there a signal they get off?

553
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,000
It's a personal experience.

554
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,000
If they want to tell us, they will do it after meditation.

555
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,000
Got it.

556
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,000
It's time for us to investigate.

557
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,000
Since members here claim to regularly see UFOs above the mountain,

558
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,000
I set up cameras and strategic points around the compound.

559
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:11,000
If anything flies overhead tonight, these cameras should catch it.

560
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,000
Okay, how's that looking?

561
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,000
Looking good.

562
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000
I've got one wide shot set up on the whole group.

563
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,000
And then now that the rain's have cleared, I'm going to be filming the skies.

564
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000
And then we'll see if anything flies over.

565
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,000
The Khao Kala group members claim they enter meditation so deep

566
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000
that they receive telepathic messages from aliens.

567
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:37,000
Ann introduces us to one member willing to let us measure her brain waves in real time.

568
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,000
Hi.

569
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,000
Do you mind if we have you wear this?

570
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,000
This isn't EEG reader.

571
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,000
Back in Bangkok at his lab, Dr. Yu Yan showed us how cognitive thought

572
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,000
reveals itself in the EEG monitor as the color red,

573
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:59,000
while the color blue indicates a difficult to reach deep meditative state of mind.

574
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000
Wow, now it's going deep.

575
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:09,000
Look, we're getting tons of blue at this frequency here.

576
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,000
This represents a low frequency and indicates a really intense meditative state.

577
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,000
These levels are much higher than back at the lab.

578
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:22,000
To me, this is the data we need to figure out if anything special is happening.

579
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000
Just look at the deep blue here.

580
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:32,000
This is a level of concentration that I just have not seen before.

581
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:39,000
Ann tells us that Khao Kala members often become intensely warm as they're receiving a message.

582
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:45,000
So I activate a mobile thermal camera to see if I can detect an increase in anyone's body temperature.

583
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:50,000
At these settings, the yellow and red signatures indicate normal body heat.

584
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,000
But amazingly, one man in the back is registering completely white,

585
00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:00,000
meaning the surface temperature of his face must be over 103 degrees.

586
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,000
Look at this.

587
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000
He is absolutely glowing.

588
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,000
Something was different with him, and we got to talk to him.

589
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,000
Yeah, absolutely.

590
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000
I filmed everybody here. This was the guy who stood out.

591
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,000
Alright. Hello.

592
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:24,000
Everybody else was very red, and then that is you.

593
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000
White, which means hot.

594
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:32,000
To me, I felt normal, but in a deep, trans-like state, I could hear a message,

595
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000
but haven't been able to understand it.

596
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000
But there's no doubt that UFOs are here.

597
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000
He was the only one in the group who was glowing like this.

598
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000
Well, and he said he received a message.

599
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000
Yeah? So you think they're here?

600
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,000
What was that? What was that? What was that? What was that?

601
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,000
Did you see it?

602
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000
Wow, it is right there.

603
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000
There, there. Oh, it's okay. Oh, I think it's going down.

604
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000
It went behind that hill.

605
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000
Oh, dude, that's so cool. Let's go check it out.

606
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000
Let's go.

607
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,000
Did you see it? Did you lose it?

608
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Nope, I think it's over here.

609
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,000
It's got to be right around here, right around here.

610
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,000
Right around the corner. To the left, to the left.

611
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000
Did you see that?

612
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Whoa, looks like it's going right over the hill.

613
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,000
That's going in front of the hill. That is super close.

614
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
Go on, keep going.

615
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,000
Hold up.

616
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,000
Shhh.

617
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,000
Do you hear that?

618
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,000
That wishing?

619
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,000
Yeah, I'm hearing it.

620
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,000
But I don't know what I'm hearing right now.

621
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000
I mean, that sounds mechanical.

622
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Now it's moving off. Let's head it that way.

623
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,000
Shhh, it stopped.

624
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000
Where is this thing?

625
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000
I don't know.

626
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,000
I was just trying to figure out what did we just see.

627
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,000
Oh, the sound. There it is.

628
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,000
I hear it.

629
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000
It's up ahead.

630
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,000
Every time we get close to it, it disappears.

631
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,000
Alright, well, we're seeing lights over there.

632
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,000
Here, and some over here. Why don't you go and track it that way?

633
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:32,000
I don't know.

634
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,000
Lights, we're not.

635
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000
You got your marker?

636
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,000
Yeah, the general one.

637
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000
Got it.

638
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,000
It's kind of mechanical.

639
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000
It moves.

640
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000
I don't know what this is.

641
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,000
I'm going to get out the audio recorder so that we don't fight about what we actually heard

642
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000
when we review our footage.

643
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000
Jesse, getting anything?

644
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Yeah, I mean, the sound's coming and going.

645
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000
It's that pulsing noise from before.

646
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:28,000
Yeah, I can't stand down what I'm actually chasing right now.

647
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Hang on, hang on. Stand by.

648
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000
Light is back. Move enough to the right.

649
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000
Jess, Jess, I think I got something.

650
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000
It's moving off to the right.

651
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000
Stay with it.

652
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000
Went around the corner.

653
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:57,000
The Calcala UFO group that Jess and Filler are investigating definitely have some apocalyptic views about our future.

654
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,000
But they're not alone.

655
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:06,000
Back in December of 2012, people got, shall we say, nervous about the so-called Maya apocalypse.

656
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:14,000
The fear stemmed from a belief that the 5,125-year Maya calendar was going to come to an end on December 21,

657
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,000
heralding the end of the world as we know it.

658
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:24,000
People also misinterpreted a prophecy that supposedly predicted that a planet or asteroid would impact Earth.

659
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:30,000
It was so widespread that NASA scientists had to ease people's minds with some actual, you know, science.

660
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:36,000
They released a video statement assuring everyone that there was no mysterious object hurtling toward the planet.

661
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,000
And as you may have noticed, 2012 came and 2012 went, and yet, here we are.

662
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:48,000
The end of the Maya calendar is just the beginning of a new cycle, and reports of our destruction were greatly exaggerated.

663
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Jess and I are investigating a mountaintop where the members of Calcala claim to have regular contact with aliens.

664
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:07,000
We spotted some kind of mysterious light which were chasing on the hills below their compound.

665
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000
Jess, Jess, I think I got something.

666
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000
It's moving off to the right.

667
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000
Stay with it.

668
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Went around the corner.

669
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,000
Woo!

670
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Phil!

671
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Phil, where are you?

672
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,000
I was looking up at the light.

673
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:30,000
And then I fell on the ditch and the light just vanished. It's gone.

674
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,000
Are you okay?

675
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000
Physically fine pride injured.

676
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,000
Meet me over by the hill where we split up.

677
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000
Alright, come back.

678
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,000
Oh!

679
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,000
We regroup in the clearing which seemed to be directly under the light we observed.

680
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Do you smell that?

681
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Yeah.

682
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,000
That's so weird. What is that?

683
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Smells like ozone, honestly.

684
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Something smells really weird in the air right now. Let's get the EMF reader out.

685
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000
How's it looking?

686
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,000
Whoa, check that out.

687
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000
Actually, that's pretty strong readings here.

688
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Very strong, especially right here.

689
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
See? Look at that.

690
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:22,000
This measures electromagnetic fields and there's nothing on this hill that should be spiking the readings.

691
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:30,000
But some UFO investigators have theorized that a light orb or alien craft might leave behind an energy disturbance in its wake.

692
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:34,000
Those readings are pretty strange, but Jess, what are we talking about here?

693
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:39,000
These Calcala people think they're getting messages from extraterrestrials.

694
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,000
That's a big leap from just a strange EMF reading.

695
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000
But you saw stuff.

696
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,000
I mean, how can you explain that?

697
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
We're in the middle of nowhere in Thailand.

698
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,000
We don't even get cell service out here and we got EMF readings that were off the chart.

699
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,000
I think it's a huge leap to say that's alien.

700
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,000
I'm not saying it's aliens.

701
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,000
I'm not saying that Calcala is actually getting these messages.

702
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,000
I'm just saying you've got to admit that it's weird.

703
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000
And we did capture other evidence as well.

704
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:10,000
I bring out the audio recorder so Phil can listen to an isolated playback of the sound we both heard.

705
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,000
Ready?

706
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,000
Hit me.

707
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,000
Sita, hear that?

708
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,000
It does have a rhythm to it, but I just don't know.

709
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,000
We could be hearing anything.

710
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,000
Yeah, like a UFO.

711
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:38,000
I think we got a lot of great evidence out here and back at the compound and where the f*** is the compound?

712
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,000
Looking for you.

713
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,000
Have a GPS.

714
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,000
Get us home.

715
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,000
Let's get out of here.

716
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:57,000
As the team makes the long trip home, it's fair to say that they did encounter a UFO in the strictest definition of the term.

717
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:03,000
They've seen a flying object that they can't identify and captured it on camera.

718
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:10,000
In addition, the strangely mechanical sound they heard seemed to move away from them as they approached.

719
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,000
Where's this thing?

720
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,000
And what about the members of Calcala themselves?

721
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:18,000
Phil captured an extreme heat signature on the thermal camera.

722
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,000
He is absolutely throwing something was different with them.

723
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:27,000
As well as unusual brain activity picked up on the EEG reader.

724
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:32,000
After returning to Bangkok, the team shares the scans with Dr. Yuyan's lab.

725
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,000
His analysis?

726
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:38,000
The practitioners of Calcala appeared to be in an extremely deep state of meditation.

727
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:46,000
And while the readings are dominated by theta brainwaves, that certainly doesn't prove that they're receiving messages telepathically.

728
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:54,000
In the end, Calcala is reminiscent of many other supposedly prophetic groups to come before them.

729
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000
Their leaders are seemingly welcoming.

730
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000
I will take you guys to Calcala Mountain.

731
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Thank you so much.

732
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:07,000
Their followers unwavering in their beliefs and the authorities understandably nervous about their presence.

733
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:18,000
But the idea that their messages are being delivered by an extraterrestrial intelligence is a claim so out there that it will take more than strange lights to convince most of us.

734
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:28,000
Having said that, it probably couldn't hurt to keep our eyes not only on the stars, but on the continued activity of the peaceful prophets of Calcala.