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Whoa!

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Do you actually feel this presence?

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I can feel them watching over me.

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Dive!

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That was weird.

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All of a sudden, my walkie goes off.

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So you're seeing what I'm seeing.

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There is something under the boat right now.

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In three sides of the boat.

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Oh my god!

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There's a flying saucer.

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Getting a series of lights right there.

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Oh my god!

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What the heck is happening?

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Good morning.

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How's it going?

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How's it going?

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Good.

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Hey guys.

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Guys, what do we have today?

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Chilan, what do you have?

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I have a great ghost story, guys.

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It looks like it comes from a police officer's dash camp.

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You're going to see an entire human-like figure walk across the road.

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Totally spooky, guys.

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Check it out.

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Wow.

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There it is.

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Oh my god!

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What is that?

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The background on this video is a little mysterious.

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This is actually coming from David Fortin.

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He posted it online and the way that he found it was

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he had rented out a place to a retired police officer.

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This police officer passed away and as he was going in and cleaning out his items

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he found this video.

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The fact that it wasn't the police officer who posted it is my only big issue with this.

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We can't really talk to the witness who would be the police officer who did the filming.

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I agree with Chilan.

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We have an authenticated this actually came from a police officer's dash camp.

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What do you guys think about it?

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I really like it.

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I just think we need to get authenticated.

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Definitely.

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Let me work a little bit more on this case, guys,

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but I was just honestly so excited about the video I wanted to bring it to you right away.

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I like it too.

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It's a good one.

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I think that if we can get it authenticated it's really came from a police officer from his dash camp.

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Maybe we can go find other people he talked to.

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Right?

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Let's move on to Austin.

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Alright guys, so I got one I just recently discovered.

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Supposedly kind of like a triangle UFO.

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Check it out.

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Let me know what you guys think.

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You can hear the toddler in the background talking to his father.

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So here's one thing is that one of the lights actually moves and they change formations.

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That movement is kind of strange.

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I do know about this case.

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Oh you do?

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This video was created by a filmmaker named Blake Cousins.

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He's actually created a whole series of paranormal videos.

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Notice how these lights really appear to be simply two dimensional.

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Stop.

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These lights are supposed to be behind the pole but it pops to the front.

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Simply because it's very labor intensive to track it properly.

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That's a pretty clear evidence that it's a CGI.

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So did he pay some kid just act excited about seeing this?

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He's actually using his son for the child's voice to add to the realism.

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Creates an eyewitness feel to it.

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It was a pretty good job.

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It looks good for the moment until we figured that out.

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So it's a good video but it's not authentic.

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It doesn't warrant any further research we're looking into.

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So let's move on to Larry.

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Okay guys so the case I'm bringing you today is a little out of the ordinary but I really like it.

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It's some pictures that were taken in a smaller community in Hawaii called Mililani.

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And it's of this girl starting all the way back in 1994 when she was four months old.

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Her grandmother would take pictures of her and there would be an image.

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Which they're claiming to be her guardian spirit.

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Whoa that's creepy.

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It never appears by itself and it never appears with any other family member just with this girl.

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Now it's been happening all the way until now and she's 16 years old.

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It is odd how the granddaughter's hair seems to be smearing across the spiral.

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The granddaughter who wishes to stay anonymous says that she senses the presence of whatever this is.

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She can't see it until the photos developed.

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It could just be lens interference. It could be something physical. It could be something with the film.

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I mean there are all these different factors.

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She has used several different cameras. She's also claimed that she cuts the strap off the camera

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because that's one of the typical explanations of what this is.

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Does she seem pretty credible when you talk to her?

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Yeah it seems extremely credible to me. She has nothing to gain from this at all.

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I'd be very cautious before I say this is paranormal but it does look like the granddaughter is noticing this.

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What do you guys think? Is it worth our time to go out and look at this Austin?

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Yeah I think it's different than what we've done and I'm always up for trying new things.

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I've seen a lot of photos like this. I'd like to finally get to the bottom of it.

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Alright guys, well we have some more videos to look at. Here's one that's right up my alley.

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Some of you may have heard of this case before because it's been all over the news.

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In March of 2010 Eugene Ehrlich filmed for 8 days straight a series of objects that were coming over the horizon

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and moving in very strange ways.

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That was weird.

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That's weird.

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You see how rapidly that changed course.

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And it yet speeds off.

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I can tell you commercial aircraft they don't make turns like that.

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It'd be a whiplash city.

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A military craft can tackle maneuvers like that.

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The Pentagon actually weighed in on it and there's a NASA research facility there.

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And they both said that they were not conducting any exercises or experimenting.

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I'm a huge UFO skeptic and I like this video.

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Eugene Ehrlich has cited these since that time I believe but it does seem that they have subsided.

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The problem with this is that there's not enough reference points to really see anyone looking at.

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I think it's great but maybe we can wait and see if it happens again.

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Well I'm going to stay in touch with Ehrlich and we'll see if we can get something really fresh.

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So let's put it off for now and see what else we have today.

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Tiaela here you have a really interesting case for us.

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Yes I do.

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Well guys I have something that I'm really really excited about.

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We're going to be dealing with a mythical creature that's very famous the mermaid.

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Oh I like it already.

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So it comes from an Australian filmmaker in 2009 he was testing an underwater camera in the Great Barrier Reef.

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And he sees something but he didn't realize what it was until later when he went home and reviewed the footage.

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So take a look.

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Check that out.

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I mean this is huge it was a huge hit on the internet as well.

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What did he think it actually was when he first saw this?

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Well he wasn't sure and the visibility wasn't that great so after he went home and reviewed it he said to himself this looks so much like a mermaid.

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Now the only problem we do have is that the witness wants to stay anonymous.

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I think he believes that maybe people will start to think he's a little crazy for claiming that he has seen a mermaid.

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But we have a very compelling video.

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We have ways to test this.

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I love the fact that we've never ever seen a mermaid video nor heard of a mermaid case.

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This is a first on a number of levels.

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Who votes that we do the mermaid case?

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Okay and let's choose our other case.

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I've seen photos like we see in the Hawaiian Girl Scro pictures.

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It's a case that I want to get to the bottom of.

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I think that the photos from Hawaii would make a compelling case.

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My vote goes for Hawaii Ghost Girl.

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Well Chilan I think you have to be there in Hawaii and being a ghost case Bill I'd like to see you out on more of those.

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Well Ben if you and I do the mermaid case we're both certified scuba divers so I think that's a great way to start a hunt.

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Austin want to join us?

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I don't see any reason why not.

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Hawaii and Australia?

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So Kansas Australia.

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The gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.

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So guys this mermaid film that we're investigating.

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Even though the filmmaker wants to remain a mermaid,

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I think we have all the information we need to launch a full investigation.

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He did give us information as to where in the Great Barrier Reef it was filmed.

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So the first thing I think we should do is do an investigation of the location where this was filmed.

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A reef hunt.

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Well the Great Barrier Reef is home to the Great Barrier Reef.

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This could easily be a case of mistaken identity.

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This is the marina.

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Let's go find our boat.

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This is the marina.

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This is the marina.

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This is the marina.

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This is the marina.

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This is the marina.

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This is the marina.

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That's it.

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You must be Marcus.

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Welcome aboard the Florida.

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So we're launching our investigation right here at the Great Barrier Reef where the mermaid video was shot.

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Jaya and I are going to get under the water.

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We're going to be searching for any signs, anything that could look like a mermaid.

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We're exploring the possibility.

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The visor is the case of mistaken identity.

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It might just be another creature that's indigenous to the area.

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Execute a reef hunt in three, two, one, dive.

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While Ben and Jaya are underwater, I'm going to be here manning the sonar.

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So we're going to be having a full scan of everything that's in the water around us.

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Ben, do we have clear communication over?

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Austin, we copy.

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Austin, we're down about 15 to 20 feet at this point over.

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I'm picking it up on the sonar.

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We're going to swim toward the coral to see what we find.

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We see quite a bit of marine life down here.

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How does our location look compared to the original video?

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We're going to be looking for the same fish.

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We're going to be looking for the same fish.

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We're going to be looking for the same fish.

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Jaya, Austin. Something about 30 feet away.

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There it is. I'm seeing it now. I'm picking it up on sonar.

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I'm turning it closer to it.

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It looks pretty sizable. I don't know where it is.

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Team, are you catching this? Are you seeing what I am seeing?

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There is something under the boat right now.

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Do you actually feel this presence?

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I can feel them beside me.

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Did you guys just hear that over the walkie?

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I can feel it.

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searching for anything that could look like a mermaid.

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Team, are you catching this? Are you seeing what I am seeing?

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Something about 30 feet away. I'm turning it closer to it.

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Ben, this looks big. What is it?

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Austin, there's a shark down here. I have eyes on a shark.

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It's about four and a half, five feet.

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We see quite a bit of a marine life down here.

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Nothing bigger than that and nothing that resembles a mermaid.

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How was it?

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Well, it kind of like the video.

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You know, visibility is probably about 30, 40 feet.

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Once we got close, you actually start seeing that this is a shark.

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The movement is totally different than what we're seeing in the video.

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So we're dealing with something else.

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Still could be a case of mistaken identity.

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There's only actually six dugongs in captivity in the world and they have two of them here.

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Nice to meet you. Hi Ben.

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I'm John L. Such a pleasure.

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Well, we hear that you're the dugong expert.

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Have you ever heard of the theory that dugongs have been mistaken for a mermaid?

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I actually have. I have heard of many, many times.

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In fact, it's so widely believed that we even named our oceanarium mermaid lagoon.

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So now we're going to explore the popular theory that mermaid sightings are actually just a case of mistaken identity.

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And the culprit, the dugong.

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Oh, look what there is.

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Look at how huge she is.

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That is way bigger than I thought it was going to be.

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I can see already that the tail's got that kind of graceful movement.

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Yeah.

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So for our next test, we're going to be filming the dugong underwater

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and we're going to be looking for its form, shape and movement

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to see if it actually replicates the footage we have of our regimen mermaid.

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Even though I would love to jump in this tank and film with the dugongs,

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the ecosystem here is actually pretty delicate.

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So we've attached our underwater camera onto a long pole

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so we can get that underwater shot.

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I'm going to stay up top.

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And you guys can go to the underwater tunnel

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and try to capture everything as it comes around.

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So I'm going to try to replicate the original footage.

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Hopefully we can get the dugong to swim away from us

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so I can get the fin going further and further in that direction

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and that way we can get that same look.

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Yep, go ahead, Austin.

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Giles got the camera framed up.

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Let's go ahead and get this dugong to move.

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Okay guys, we're going to fish some more lettuce.

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Hopefully the lettuce tray will entice the dugong

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to follow the same path that the mermaid did in the original footage.

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Hopefully she'll pass by and come to find something to eat.

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The dugong is approaching underwater can as we speak.

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As soon as he dropped the lettuce, we were able to control exactly where the dugong went.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!

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That's good.

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Oh Austin, this might be our money shot.

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There we go, disappearing into the distance.

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It's a good shot.

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Okay, okay.

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As you can see, the swimming motion is very similar.

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The tails were almost exact.

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The swimming pattern almost exact.

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Better visibility in this water, I think, than in the video.

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It's just way too bulky.

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Let's be honest, anatomically speaking, not an exact match.

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I agree.

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You know what? I think it's time to move on to our next theory,

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which is that this could just be a woman in a mermaid suit.

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So my suggestion is that we go back to the Great Barrier Reef and we try just that.

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We put a woman in a mermaid suit.

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Coming up on Fact or Faked Paranormal Files.

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I have to say that I'm quite nervous.

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I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen.

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Three, two, one.

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We've come as close as we can to trying to replicate the video with animals

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that are indigenous to this area.

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Let's be honest, anatomically speaking, not an exact match.

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I agree.

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So now we're heading back to the same spot with the original footage

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we shot to get Jai-Yel in a mermaid suit.

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I've made my own mermaid tail out of lycra and a monofin.

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I'm going to be the guy under the water.

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I'll see if I can frame it up and get the exact picture we saw in the original video.

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I've got my mermaid tail on.

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It feels totally unnatural.

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My legs are bound together.

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And I have to say that I'm quite nervous to just jump into the water this way

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because I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen.

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Alright, man, it's on standby. Ready to shoot.

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In three, two, one.

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Good job.

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Yeah.

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I'm truly tiring.

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One of the only problems I've found is even from up here.

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I can see the imprint of your legs through that suit.

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I can see that they're legs.

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As you can see, I don't have the ability to stay down there for a very long time.

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I need to take a lot of practice to be able to go back and forth.

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And also, it just kind of feels unnatural. I'm not used to these monofins.

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Alright guys, I got the video footage, the bench shot of your dive.

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You did a really good job getting the mermaid motion.

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It's just being able to stand her water and seeing your legs.

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You know, if you had somebody that had a lot of practice

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and you had a better costume, a better fin,

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I think we could make it look almost exact.

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Being bound that way, it was really difficult for me to replicate the movement from the original footage.

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The good news is there's actually a professional mermaid that works here in Australia.

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So we're going to phone her. We're going to find out if she can come out and meet us.

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Hi, this is Hannah. We were wondering if you were available because we need your help today.

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So, how was it?

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Okay, Larry.

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Wasn't it?

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I am just...

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So guys, Australia, it was amazing.

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Now if you remember, in 2009, we have this videographer

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who comes out of the Great Barrier Reef saying that he's filmed some type of creature he thinks to be a mermaid.

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He was very reluctant to talk to us.

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But he did point out the location and the area where this was filmed.

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So that's where we headed.

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So the first thing we did was a reef hunt, hoping that maybe we could find some kind of large mammal in the water that would resemble a mermaid.

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At one point, we thought we found something, but it actually turned out to be a reef shark.

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I'm no king.

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Yeah.

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Even though we couldn't find a mermaid, we decided, you know what?

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There is a creature that has been mistaken for a mermaid for centuries.

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The dugong.

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So we went to the Sydney Aquarium to test this theory. Check out the video.

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Wow.

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Look at that.

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The dugong has a horizontal tail, which is different than fish which have a vertical fin.

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But in this video, it definitely wasn't an exact match.

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So we decided that we should make our own mermaid suit.

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I got into it and dove in.

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Not bad.

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Look at the motion that she's able to create.

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I'm really surprised how similar it looks.

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It turned out well, but at the end of it, you know, I really couldn't hold my breath for very long and I didn't get the movement exactly right.

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So we decided that maybe we should look for a pro.

356
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And I actually found a professional mermaid.

357
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Really?

358
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Wait, there's actually professional mermaids in existence?

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Yes.

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Now this girl's name is Hannah. She has years of experience and she has a suit that she's made that looks perfect.

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And being a professional, she could hold her breath a really long time and have that movement nailed.

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Look what happens.

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This is amazing, guys. You guys totally nailed it with this recreation.

364
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This is a hoax.

365
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As much as I would love to believe the mermaid theory, I think this is fake.

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Not only that, but if a mermaid really did exist, it wouldn't be the classic depiction that we know of this beautiful woman half fish creature.

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I had a CG model created.

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Humans can't survive in water that's colder than 98.6 for a very long time.

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So they would need a thicker skin insulation, probably something very blubbery.

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That's weird.

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Not only that, the salt water would create this skin that kind of shrivels up because of osmosis.

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And the hair would only get in the way and would cause drag, so it would probably be hairless.

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So it would look a lot like a dugong.

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That's what you call a debunk slam dunk.

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Tell me about Hawaii, huh?

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Let me start off by saying it was visually stunning.

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If you recall the case, this is where our witness, Norma, had been taking photographs of her granddaughter.

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And in the photos, we have this ghostly apparition, which Norma believes and the family believes that is one of the guardian spirits protecting her granddaughter.

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Hawaii is beautiful.

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Really, do we get a case that has such a connection to the local culture like this case does?

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We get in with this story about a young girl her family believes that a guardian angel watches over her.

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It's called the Oumakua.

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The fact that there's physical evidence of it is just astonishing.

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A lot of people think that it's more of a mistaken identity with a camera strap.

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She claims that she cut the camera strap off. She claims that she's used several different cameras.

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I'm really looking forward to being able to actually meet the family and talk with Norma's granddaughter as well as Norma.

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This is it right down here.

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Aloha.

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Aloha.

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You're the photographer.

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Yeah.

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You think you can tell us your experience here?

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I started taking pictures, just regular pictures of my granddaughter and we ended up having these white anomalies.

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So Norma, a lot of people believe that this is proof that there are guardian angels.

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Does your granddaughter still feel the presence around her of a protective spirit?

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She's seen it.

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She has seen it?

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Yes.

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Is it possible we can meet your granddaughter?

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Yes.

401
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Aloha.

402
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You're the photographer.

403
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Yes.

404
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Does your granddaughter still feel the presence around her of a protective spirit?

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She's seen it.

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She has seen it?

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Yes.

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Is it possible we can meet your granddaughter?

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Yes.

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Hi there, I'm Shilan.

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I understand that you want your identity disguised, so what we've planned on doing is setting up a really bright light behind you.

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It'll actually disguise your features and pretty much make you just a silhouette.

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We just want to talk to you about some of your experiences.

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Do you actually feel this presence when the pictures are being shot?

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Not actually when the pictures are being shot, but mostly at night.

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It's just a sense of someone watching you.

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Now in a lot of these photographs, it seems like you're looking at the object.

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Something tells me to look like unconsciously.

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I'm wondering if you would give us permission to take pictures of you as you are right now?

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Yeah, that's okay.

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We're going to give it a go ourselves.

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We're going to use your camera.

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We're going to take some pictures of your granddaughter.

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We're going to see if we can capture any apparitions, okay?

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So you just sit there, I'm just going to take a couple pictures, and we're going to see if we can capture anything ourselves.

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Even if nothing comes out in these pictures, we're going to set up a control lab next door to test a number of popular theories as to what these ghostly images could be.

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Right now we're building our examination room.

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In it, we're going to have Chilan's photo handling table with all the equipment to handle the physical prints.

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We'll also have Larry's digital processing station where we can scan in and zoom on any of the photos.

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I was lucky enough to get a color processor so that we can process all of the film and we can eliminate any outside contamination.

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Now I'm going to develop pictures of Norma's granddaughter to see if anything unusual materializes.

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I'm going to take a look at the camera.

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Guys, here's the first roll that I was able to print.

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And this is just from our interview right now.

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Honestly, I'm not seeing anything remarkable in this. This just looks like we disguised her.

436
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I'm not really surprised.

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To really address the skeptics view of what those pictures are, the next thing we have to do is really decide on the experiments and decide what picture we're going to replicate.

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Kind of drawn towards this one, guys.

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Well, it seems like it's obvious the next thing to do is to see if we can replicate this picture as closely as possible.

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Right.

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Now, I'm not sure how we're going to get this sort of smearing. I think we'll be able to get pretty close to the streaking.

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You look at this right now. I think we nailed it.

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This matched it perfectly.

444
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Yeah, it's an amazing replica.

445
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Let's not mess with it anymore. Let's start our experiments.

446
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Let's do it.

447
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The camera strap is a no-brainer. I mean, it was really common for that to happen before there were LCD viewfinders.

448
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People would look right through the camera and then the strap would fall through right in front.

449
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They wouldn't notice it. They would snap the picture and there you would have it.

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We're going to put a camera strap in front of it, kind of in the same way that it appeared in the picture.

451
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Let me frame this up, though.

452
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Maybe she jumped into the bed of presence and the camera was maybe swinging.

453
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But wouldn't the camera, the picture be blurred as well? I mean, if there's movement?

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Not if this is really fast speed camera. It's a welded environment and with the flash, these automatics adjust.

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Alright guys, now that we've shot these photographs, I'm going to go ahead and process this film.

456
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Wow.

457
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Doesn't that look... doesn't that look... yeah, good, right?

458
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Surprisingly, really young. But it almost didn't come out transparent enough.

459
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I'm not seeing the texture. It's way too blown out, way too wide.

460
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We've managed to show that, yes, you can do a very close approximation to the original photos, but our work isn't done yet.

461
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I'm sure you guys have noticed how hot and humid it is here.

462
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You know that heat and humidity totally degrade film.

463
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The film stock that Norma had, if it had degraded, then yeah, perhaps the film itself was damaged and it malfunctioned.

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I think the next thing we have to do is test how climate can wreak havoc on film.

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Heat and humidity cause film to release an acid, and that acid gives off a type of very strong vinegary odor.

466
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So it's actually called the vinegar syndrome.

467
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Now what we have here is some acetic acid that we're going to mix with some water.

468
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We're probably going to do about 2 grams, and that'll give us the acid that we're going to put onto the film.

469
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This is unexposed film, so it has to be done completely in the dark.

470
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Lights out. 3, 2, 1, dark.

471
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Coming up on Fact or Faked, Paranormal Files.

472
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Did you guys just hear that?

473
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So the team is actually going to undertake an experiment where we'll see and test the weather damage on film.

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Lights out. 3, 2, 1, dark.

475
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I've pulled the film out, now I'm going to dip the Q-tip in the acid solution that I've made.

476
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Great. Now I'm actually putting the acid on the emulsion side of the film.

477
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That'll mimic the same effects that weather has on the film here.

478
00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:02,000
We're going to wind this film back up, take pictures with it, and expose it traditionally, just like we would with a regular roll of film.

479
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,000
So we can turn the lights on now.

480
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,000
Perfect. Ooh, that's great.

481
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:22,000
So I've loaded the vinegar syndrome photographs onto the monitor, and I'm pulling those up right now.

482
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:32,000
I mean, we have a nice little streak there, but the color's wrong. I mean, obviously it's blue, and what are we seeing in the picture?

483
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:38,000
It's almost like you were able to get this sort of just pattern, almost like randomness.

484
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,000
This is by no means anything similar to what Norma got.

485
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:53,000
I think it's safe to say that this was definitely not it, but I think it's time we start to explore the possibility that maybe this was a hoax with a more elaborate setup.

486
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:06,000
For this next test, we're creating a hologram, which consists of four parts. A clear plexiglass sheet, which is in front of our mannequin.

487
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:18,000
A bright light, and a black backdrop, and on the backdrop, I'm going to be attaching what is going to be our ghost.

488
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:26,000
So I'm going to be hitting the tubing with this light at a 45-degree angle, and that hopefully will give us the reflection in the plexiglass.

489
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,000
Yeah, that's right about right. If I stand on this, and I think we'll get it.

490
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000
Yeah, you know, it has to be real low. It's kind of a surprise.

491
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Yeah, it's right over her head.

492
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,000
Not perfect by any means, but you do see a ghostly apparition.

493
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:54,000
If this was a hoax, they had to go through a very elaborate setup like we had to do here, and I'm guessing that it wasn't a hoax.

494
00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,000
Even though we can replicate the results of creating a light streak that appear ghostly,

495
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:07,000
that doesn't say that that's how these images were being formed in the first place.

496
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:13,000
We owe it to the family, and we owe it to ourselves to have a nighttime investigation.

497
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:25,000
So we're all set up for the nighttime investigation, Chee-Won. You're going to be here at a control center.

498
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,000
That's right.

499
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,000
Yep, we're each going to have a walkie-talkie, so we're going to stay in radio contact.

500
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:35,000
You have a surveillance camera in the living room, where the main photograph has been taken of the apparition,

501
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:41,000
another one covering the stairs, and yet a third one up in Noma Granddaughter's bedroom.

502
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000
Here are your walkies. This one's for you. It's already set up.

503
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,000
Thank you.

504
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,000
This one's yours, Bill, and I will be down here with mine.

505
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Yeah.

506
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,000
Ready to go green?

507
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,000
Yes, we are.

508
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,000
On three, two, one, dark.

509
00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:06,000
I'm going to start Noma's granddaughter's funeral.

510
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,000
I will capture anything you see, Larry.

511
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,000
So we're going to do our sweep, see if we have any interesting things that are happening.

512
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000
Are you getting any anomalous readings up there?

513
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,000
In the room itself, I'm not really getting anything.

514
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,000
On my eternal imager.

515
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,000
Call me that, Larry.

516
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000
It is definitely warmer in this closet.

517
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:58,000
I have no idea why. I mean, there's no, it's like a wall of warmth right here.

518
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000
Chilon for Bill.

519
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,000
Cover Bill.

520
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,000
I said that she shot the picture.

521
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Did you guys just hear that over the walkie?

522
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000
I did not hear anything. Over.

523
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,000
What did you hear, Larry?

524
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000
I honestly have no idea what it was.

525
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000
The sound was, I had never heard anything like it.

526
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,000
I'm going to go ahead and come back down.

527
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Did you see anything?

528
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000
I didn't see anything.

529
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:38,000
I heard a sound over the walkie that I've never heard anything like it before.

530
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,000
Now I'm a skeptic at heart.

531
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:50,000
And it makes me think that all the noises could just be a malfunction of wires crossing or a bad battery.

532
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:55,000
I want to call Norma in here and have an EVP session or at least try to.

533
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Larry and Chilon, I've brought Norma in here. Norma, if you could have a seat here on the couch.

534
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:11,000
If there is a spirit, a guardian spirit or any of the other spirits that may visit this house with this,

535
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000
can you please identify yourself?

536
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Did you guys just hear that?

537
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,000
Well, let me stop by saying Hawaii is stunningly beautiful.

538
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:40,000
If you recall the case, this is where our witness, Norma, had been taking photographs of her granddaughter

539
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:47,000
and in the photos you have this ghostly apparition which Norma believes and the family believes

540
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:51,000
that is one of the guardian spirits protecting her granddaughter.

541
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,000
So we started out by taking pictures of Norma's granddaughter. Take a look.

542
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,000
Of course she wanted to stay anonymous so we blurred out her face a little bit

543
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:07,000
but you can also see that there's nothing around her at all that could be mistaken as a guardian spirit.

544
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Now we decided to take one picture from when she was little and try to replicate that for our experience.

545
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,000
The most popular theory is that this is just a camera strap so we tested that.

546
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,000
Now you see the bounce from the flash of the camera strap is not matching the original photo that we chose.

547
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,000
It's way more solid.

548
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,000
It is very reflective.

549
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,000
Yeah.

550
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:40,000
We decided to move on to the possibility that it maybe had some sort of atmospheric solution.

551
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:45,000
That's right. When you think about Hawaii, it's a very hot, humid climate and a lot of people don't know this

552
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:50,000
but you know hot weather can actually corrode film. It's called the vinegar syndrome.

553
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,000
So we decided to run our own vinegar syndrome test on the film.

554
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:02,000
I took some acid and painted it on to the unexposed negative.

555
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:06,000
The smear with the acid does not appear to be cylindrical.

556
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,000
So the test got even more labored after this.

557
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:16,000
We decided to test the theory that maybe it was a hoax and we did that by generating a hologram.

558
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000
But it was just such an elaborate setup that we decided it wasn't a hoax.

559
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:28,000
At that point we decided, you know what, let's go ahead and do a night-time investigation.

560
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:34,000
And this is the crazy thing guys. Bill and Larry did not have their walkie-talkies on.

561
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:42,000
My walkie was on and all of a sudden I hear a pop, a hum of interference, some crackling and then it just shuts off.

562
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,000
It's strange.

563
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000
Bill's rang an EVP. All of a sudden, same crackling.

564
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Was it a sound that's not typical for the walkie?

565
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,000
Well, go ahead and play this EVP and you guys let me know what you hear.

566
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,000
Excited to hear this.

567
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:09,000
If there is a guardian spirit or any of the other spirits that may visit this house with us, can you please identify yourself?

568
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,000
Very pronounced.

569
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:16,000
Yeah, it's really, really clear.

570
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,000
It could have just been a walkie interference.

571
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,000
But it's a little strange that it sounds like somebody saying, I'm watching you right now.

572
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,000
That is weird.

573
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:37,000
You possibly had some electromagnetic interference and you guys heard your walkies going off and breaking squelches.

574
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,000
It's interesting.

575
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:52,000
So even though we didn't get any definitive proof of paranormal activity in the house, we cannot discount the personal experiences that we all had.

576
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,000
Okay, fair enough.

577
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,000
What do you think, Shilohan?

578
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,000
I gotta say, I was there when I first looked at these pictures.

579
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:03,000
The most obvious explanation for me is the answer. It is a camera strap.

580
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,000
I could agree with that.

581
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:05,000
I could agree with that.

582
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Yeah, I agree. I think she nailed it.

583
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:14,000
It sounds like we all agree pretty much that what was going on is some type of lens interference.

584
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:17,000
A camera strap.

585
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,000
A camera strap.

586
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:26,000
But perhaps there is something paranormal going on that may not be related to what they saw in the photos.