1 00:00:01,016 --> 00:00:08,015 26 miles off the coast of Southern California lies the island of Santa Catalina. 2 00:00:08,015 --> 00:00:14,014 A unique team of psychics and scientists has gathered here. 3 00:00:14,014 --> 00:00:20,012 Aided by the world's most advanced deep ocean technology, 4 00:00:20,012 --> 00:00:26,011 they will attempt history's first experiment in undersea psychic archaeology. 5 00:00:32,010 --> 00:00:38,009 Three-quarters of the globe is covered by vast oceans. 6 00:00:44,008 --> 00:00:51,007 Undersea archaeology faces the problem of discovering artifacts from depths ranging down to seven miles. 7 00:00:53,006 --> 00:01:00,005 Low light, shifting sand and growing coral often obscure the outline of objects beneath the sea. 8 00:01:02,005 --> 00:01:07,004 The very act of diving is fraught with danger and difficulty. 9 00:01:07,004 --> 00:01:12,003 Man was not made to recover history underwater. 10 00:01:15,002 --> 00:01:22,001 Advanced equipment such as this undersea robot and this ocean power generator have solved some difficulties. 11 00:01:22,001 --> 00:01:26,000 But even technology cannot answer the most critical challenge. 12 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,999 Where to look? Where to find the objects which unlock the closed chapters of our past? 13 00:01:31,999 --> 00:01:36,998 Perhaps the answer lies not with machines, but within ourselves. 14 00:01:36,998 --> 00:01:45,996 Can some strange and as yet unexplained psychic ability help us to see that which is concealed from ordinary vision? 15 00:01:46,996 --> 00:01:51,995 In prehistoric times Santa Catalina was once part of Southern California. 16 00:01:52,995 --> 00:01:57,994 Free from pollution, the island is an ideal location for oceanographers. 17 00:01:57,994 --> 00:02:01,993 It is the home of the Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies, 18 00:02:01,993 --> 00:02:06,992 an internationally renowned center for the scientific study of the seas. 19 00:02:08,992 --> 00:02:14,991 It was here that an unusual team of psychics and scientists known as the Mobius Group 20 00:02:14,991 --> 00:02:19,990 came to demonstrate a never-before-tested psychic ability. 21 00:02:22,989 --> 00:02:30,988 Using an extraordinary new research submarine, the team would attempt to prove that man's psychic capabilities 22 00:02:30,988 --> 00:02:34,987 could indeed reveal the ocean's secrets. 23 00:02:36,987 --> 00:02:41,986 Organizing this experiment is philosopher and parapsychologist Stephen Schwartz 24 00:02:41,986 --> 00:02:45,985 of the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. 25 00:02:46,985 --> 00:02:55,983 Author of the Secret Vaults of Time, he is determined to see that psychic archaeology is accepted as a modern scientific discipline. 26 00:02:55,983 --> 00:03:03,982 He has researched the counts of psychic investigations being used to discover archeological sites on land. 27 00:03:03,982 --> 00:03:08,981 Based on this research, he now posed a startling question. 28 00:03:08,981 --> 00:03:13,980 Could psychic talents, he wonders, also be used for the more difficult problem 29 00:03:13,980 --> 00:03:16,979 of locating objects on the ocean's floor? 30 00:03:16,979 --> 00:03:21,978 To answer this question, he organized Project DeepQuest. 31 00:03:21,978 --> 00:03:25,977 I chose the sea because it offered a chance to close all the loopholes. 32 00:03:25,977 --> 00:03:32,976 If DeepQuest was going to be successful, the only explanation would be that we obtained information from psychic sources. 33 00:03:32,976 --> 00:03:38,975 In ten years of research, I had examined the work of about 75 scientists all around the world. 34 00:03:38,975 --> 00:03:45,974 It had never been done before. Nobody had ever tried a deep ocean psychic archaeology experiment, but I was convinced it would work. 35 00:03:46,974 --> 00:03:51,973 As real as a person is the research submarine, Taurus-1. 36 00:03:51,973 --> 00:04:00,971 This 34-foot-long, electric-powered, $3 million submersible is perfectly suited for the experiment Schwartz has in mind. 37 00:04:00,971 --> 00:04:09,969 With her large viewport, more than 1,000-foot depth limit, and the ability to retrieve objects from the sea floor, 38 00:04:09,969 --> 00:04:15,968 Taurus-1 offers the Mobius Group a real chance to prove their psychic claims. 39 00:04:20,967 --> 00:04:29,965 For months, Taurus-1 has dived off Catalina, carrying out a wide range of marine, biological, and geophysical undersea experiments. 40 00:04:31,965 --> 00:04:42,963 Now she will face a task of a different order, to prove that the psychic predictions about an undersea site are true. 41 00:04:44,963 --> 00:04:51,961 Al Whitcomb, Taurus-1's pilot, will play an important role if DeepQuest is to succeed. 42 00:04:52,961 --> 00:04:58,960 Al, we believe that somewhere in these waters we're going to make a psychic hit. 43 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:02,959 I found how far out can we go and get a reasonable day's dive? 44 00:05:02,959 --> 00:05:08,958 Well, our first limitation would be the diving depth capability of the submersible, which is 300 meters or 1,000 feet. 45 00:05:08,958 --> 00:05:14,957 After that, considering our toe out and our toe in, I say let's stay within the two-mile range, and it gives us a good working day. 46 00:05:14,957 --> 00:05:17,956 So it's somewhere over and here would be ideal if we go out that far. 47 00:05:17,956 --> 00:05:22,955 This appeared at first hand to many of our boys as just one of those mad ventures. 48 00:05:22,955 --> 00:05:31,954 I did persuade the boys that it could be a viable thing, it could be fun, and we were going to give these guys all the encouragement we could. 49 00:05:32,954 --> 00:05:39,952 For all his enthusiasm, Whitcomb knows from past dives that the odds are against success. 50 00:05:40,952 --> 00:05:47,951 We'd spent about 20 days, 20 diving days in the area. We'd covered a lot of ground. 51 00:05:47,951 --> 00:05:57,949 We hadn't seen anything other than just a few scraps on the bottom. It was flat and just a few rocks, a few bits of seaweed, certainly a multitude of fish, but otherwise nothing. 52 00:05:58,949 --> 00:06:11,946 Can a newly discovered psychic ability known as remote viewing or distant viewing locate previously undiscovered objects? 53 00:06:15,946 --> 00:06:19,945 The Mobius team turns to psychic Ingo Swan. 54 00:06:20,945 --> 00:06:28,943 Like all psychics selected by Schwartz, New York based Swan would not describe himself primarily as a psychic. 55 00:06:28,943 --> 00:06:31,943 Swan's description would be a painter. 56 00:06:34,942 --> 00:06:37,941 He is an artist whose works hang in the Smithsonian Institution. 57 00:06:37,941 --> 00:06:46,940 His psychic powers though have penetrated 30 feet of concrete and special shielding to stop the functioning of electronic apparatus. 58 00:06:47,940 --> 00:06:56,938 He has also accurately described conditions on Mars, Mercury and Jupiter, which were later proven correct by NASA's space probes. 59 00:07:00,937 --> 00:07:06,936 An artist he may be, but it was as a psychic that he undertook DeepQuest's assignment. 60 00:07:06,936 --> 00:07:12,935 Well, it takes a lot of guts to accept a challenge like this. 61 00:07:13,935 --> 00:07:34,931 Now DeepQuest, of course, was an ideal type of experiment along these lines where the psychics involved could sort of get into it at a creative level and discover things very distant from themselves and then go find out if they were really there. 62 00:07:35,930 --> 00:07:38,930 The task Schwartz assigns the psychics. 63 00:07:38,930 --> 00:07:45,929 Use your powers to locate an archaeological site of your choosing in the waters off Catalina. 64 00:07:45,929 --> 00:07:54,927 Identify specific objects within the site, draw pictures of what the objects look like, explain their history. 65 00:07:55,927 --> 00:07:58,926 This isn't an easy thing to do. 66 00:07:58,926 --> 00:08:11,924 At first you have to work up to it, you know, and sort of separate yourself from the physical environment and become as it is psychic for that particular task and then do it. 67 00:08:12,924 --> 00:08:26,921 Swan has never been to Catalina, is not an expert on nautical history and has been given no other guidance but the chart and the questions. 68 00:08:26,921 --> 00:08:33,920 Using only his psychic insight, he develops a list of items he believes are on the ocean floor. 69 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:39,918 Hela Hammad is the other psychic involved. 70 00:08:39,918 --> 00:08:46,917 She and Swan are regarded by many as the most successfully tested psychics in the United States. 71 00:08:46,917 --> 00:08:54,916 Like Swan, she has no familiarity with Catalina or marine archaeology. 72 00:08:54,916 --> 00:09:00,915 People think of a psychic as somebody who's wearing a turban and has a crystal ball. 73 00:09:00,915 --> 00:09:07,913 I don't think of myself as a psychic, I'm a photographer and I've been very interested in psychic functioning. 74 00:09:07,913 --> 00:09:22,910 And I guess I've spent a lot of time trying to learn how to be more receptive and more tuned to that other world that exists. 75 00:09:22,910 --> 00:09:27,909 To me, psychic is just to really be aware, not things with trappings. 76 00:09:27,909 --> 00:09:32,909 So I would rather call it to being very aware. 77 00:09:32,909 --> 00:09:47,906 I just sort of look at the map, not as much with my eyes as sort of get the feeling of it and I tend to feel a heaviness in certain areas. 78 00:09:47,906 --> 00:09:53,905 I can't describe it any other way, it just sort of gets heavy and that's where I mark the map. 79 00:09:57,904 --> 00:10:06,902 One of the charges leveled at psychic researchers is that experiments are rarely witnessed in their entirety by an uninvolved credible observer. 80 00:10:06,902 --> 00:10:16,900 To meet this criticism, Dr. Ann Kale, whose NASA satellite work has gained her international respect, is asked to accompany the team 81 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:22,899 and control all original documentation to avoid charges of fraud. 82 00:10:23,899 --> 00:10:31,897 The team is now complete. Reputations are on the line. 83 00:10:31,897 --> 00:10:39,896 Over the past ten years, more than 4,000 dives have been made in this area. 84 00:10:39,896 --> 00:10:48,894 Is it conceivable that the most thoroughly studied depths on the California coast can still yield secrets to the past? 85 00:10:49,894 --> 00:11:00,892 Only one step remains. The night before the dive, Institute official Brad Vick, himself a career submariner, takes the charts made by the psychics 86 00:11:00,892 --> 00:11:07,891 and prepares a composite chart which will be used to guide the team to their chosen target. 87 00:11:07,891 --> 00:11:19,888 He is amazed that both psychics have independently selected the same site, a few hundred yards out of a total area of more than 1,500 square miles. 88 00:11:19,888 --> 00:11:30,886 There is also a long list of specific objects including winches, chain and other remains of a wooden ship which had blown up and sunk. 89 00:11:31,886 --> 00:11:39,885 As Vick prepares the composite, Hammett feels impelled to reach out yet again through the dark ocean depths. 90 00:11:39,885 --> 00:11:52,882 Driven by an impulse she herself does not understand, there emerges in her mind a clear vision of several artifacts including an enigmatic block. 91 00:11:52,882 --> 00:12:00,881 As with all the psychic predictions, this strange, volunteered insight is logged into the experimental record. 92 00:12:00,881 --> 00:12:03,880 Will such a block be there? 93 00:12:11,879 --> 00:12:15,878 8 a.m. The morning of the dive. 94 00:12:16,878 --> 00:12:19,877 Surface control, this is Taurus. 95 00:12:19,877 --> 00:12:20,877 Surface go. 96 00:12:20,877 --> 00:12:26,876 Roger, all systems checked. I'll have secured. I'd like permission to open vents and dive at this time. 97 00:12:26,876 --> 00:12:30,875 Taurus, surface up. Roger, clear to open vents. Have a good dive. 98 00:12:30,875 --> 00:12:33,874 Taurus, Roger. Thank you. 99 00:12:46,872 --> 00:12:52,871 Surface Taurus, on the bottom at 8 0 meters. 100 00:12:52,871 --> 00:12:56,870 There's a body 7 to 10 meters current nil. 101 00:12:56,870 --> 00:13:02,869 Wood Deep Quest produce results or pictures of an MDC floor. 102 00:13:06,868 --> 00:13:10,868 10 a.m. Two hours into the dive. 103 00:13:10,868 --> 00:13:14,867 This is Surface, any progress? 104 00:13:14,867 --> 00:13:18,866 Surface Taurus, nothing so far, bottom is clean. 105 00:13:22,865 --> 00:13:28,864 Surface Taurus, we're having trouble locating our position relative to the target. 106 00:13:28,864 --> 00:13:31,864 There just isn't any landmark down here. 107 00:13:35,863 --> 00:13:39,862 11 a.m. Three hours into the dive. 108 00:13:44,861 --> 00:13:47,861 This is Surface, any luck? 109 00:13:47,861 --> 00:13:54,859 Surface, negative on that. We cannot find the location nor I guess there's nothing there. 110 00:13:54,859 --> 00:14:01,858 Taurus, blow some air premier tanks. We'll try and fix your location relative to the psychic's target area. 111 00:14:03,858 --> 00:14:08,857 Surface Roger, we have your bubbles Taurus, but you're nowhere near the target area. 112 00:14:09,856 --> 00:14:14,856 Taurus, it's now 1200, we've been at this for half a day. 113 00:14:14,856 --> 00:14:22,854 To resolve her location difficulties, the Taurus asks the surface ship to lower a sonar homing device. 114 00:14:22,854 --> 00:14:27,853 The surface ship is directly above the predicted target. 115 00:14:28,853 --> 00:14:34,852 The team knows this is their last chance. 116 00:14:34,852 --> 00:14:40,851 They have perhaps another hour to produce a hit or deep quest will fail. 117 00:14:43,850 --> 00:14:50,849 Ingo Swan feels he is receiving psychic impressions and he advises submarine pilot Al Whitcomb. 118 00:14:50,849 --> 00:14:55,848 Ingo pointed in a direction and said go there, go there. 119 00:14:55,848 --> 00:15:00,847 So I just turned the submersal and drove it along his finger. 120 00:15:00,847 --> 00:15:06,846 He pointed to a shadow on the bottom and he said that's it, that's it. 121 00:15:06,846 --> 00:15:14,844 So I said well okay and I extended my articulated manipulator and dug it into the bottom and pulled out the first artifact. 122 00:15:14,844 --> 00:15:21,843 It was astounding because to me it wasn't there period, it just didn't exist. 123 00:15:21,843 --> 00:15:34,840 It is clear to everyone in the submarine that the object they have found with Swan's psychic guidance has lain undisturbed for many decades. 124 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:42,839 Its heavy encrustation and almost buried position unequivocally demonstrates this. 125 00:15:42,839 --> 00:15:46,838 But one object does not make a wreck. 126 00:15:46,838 --> 00:15:51,837 Those in the submarine are torn between elation and doubt. 127 00:15:51,837 --> 00:15:56,836 Can they find the actual wreck described by the psychics? 128 00:15:56,836 --> 00:16:01,835 The search intensifies. 129 00:16:05,835 --> 00:16:10,834 That was that contact. 130 00:16:10,834 --> 00:16:13,833 Hey we've got something. 131 00:16:13,833 --> 00:16:15,833 It's part of a ship. 132 00:16:15,833 --> 00:16:17,832 We found an artifact! 133 00:16:17,832 --> 00:16:20,832 It is a winchwork, you see the drum? 134 00:16:20,832 --> 00:16:22,831 Yeah, that's the drum. 135 00:16:22,831 --> 00:16:27,831 Roger we have our first positive contact, a piece of machinery in front of us. 136 00:16:27,831 --> 00:16:31,830 It gave us the immediate feeling that we were there right on-site. 137 00:16:31,830 --> 00:16:33,829 There's no way people throw winches overboard. 138 00:16:33,829 --> 00:16:38,828 It had to be from the deck of a ship that went down. 139 00:16:38,828 --> 00:16:43,828 Taurus 1 glides over the target area, illuminating relic after relic. 140 00:16:43,828 --> 00:16:49,826 I believe we have our ship and wheel with a long shaft on it, over. 141 00:16:49,826 --> 00:16:52,826 Roger. 142 00:17:02,824 --> 00:17:08,823 Still the team wants more. 143 00:17:08,823 --> 00:17:12,822 Go on and investigate other target areas. 144 00:17:12,822 --> 00:17:15,821 Roger, you're doing good. Get back to that. 145 00:17:15,821 --> 00:17:21,820 They decide to make one last pass. 146 00:17:21,820 --> 00:17:36,818 Hela Hammett's block. The strange monolith she had predicted. 147 00:17:36,818 --> 00:17:39,817 The block was alien to any shipwreck. 148 00:17:39,817 --> 00:17:44,816 I approached the block and extended the manipulator to touch the block. 149 00:17:44,816 --> 00:17:46,816 The arm just bounced off. 150 00:17:46,816 --> 00:17:50,815 I was no way able to penetrate the surface with my claws. 151 00:17:59,813 --> 00:18:04,812 Such a unique psychic prediction coming through stunts Schwartz. 152 00:18:04,812 --> 00:18:08,812 I'm not sure we'll ever know exactly what it was. 153 00:18:08,812 --> 00:18:15,810 The fact is that woman who was in every way a perfectly normal person somehow reached out with her mind 154 00:18:15,810 --> 00:18:22,809 and accurately saw and was able to draw something that should not have been there. 155 00:18:22,809 --> 00:18:28,808 Here was clear confirmation of the psychic's description of a sunken ship. 156 00:18:28,808 --> 00:18:35,806 Here were the chains, pipes and debris and Hammett's block. 157 00:18:35,806 --> 00:18:39,806 With nothing more than the psychic predictions on charts 158 00:18:39,806 --> 00:18:50,804 and Ingo Swann's on-site guidance for fine-tuning Deep Quest has made history. 159 00:18:50,804 --> 00:18:57,802 If Deep Quest is to have its full impact on science, questions need to be answered. 160 00:18:57,802 --> 00:19:04,801 Is the site a known wreck? Could the psychics have read about it in a book? 161 00:19:04,801 --> 00:19:08,800 It turns to Thomas Cook of the Bureau of Land Management. 162 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:13,799 Finding a wreck, even when you know where it is, is an art in itself. 163 00:19:13,799 --> 00:19:18,798 It is very, very difficult to get back to the same spot on the ocean floor, 164 00:19:18,798 --> 00:19:23,797 even when you know exactly the point that you've seen before. 165 00:19:23,797 --> 00:19:32,796 We have had to go through, catalog and identify all of the existing known wrecks or suspected wrecks, 166 00:19:32,796 --> 00:19:36,795 which number better than 1,100 wrecks. 167 00:19:36,795 --> 00:19:43,794 Taking a look at the over 53 wrecks reported in the Catalina Island area, 168 00:19:43,794 --> 00:19:53,792 I am convinced that there has been no known reported wreck in this area or of a ship of this type. 169 00:19:54,792 --> 00:20:02,790 Finally, all the information is reviewed by the Director of the Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies 170 00:20:02,790 --> 00:20:09,789 of the University of Southern California, Don Walsh. Could Deep Quest be a fraud? 171 00:20:09,789 --> 00:20:17,787 There are a lot of difficulties and I don't see that they could have put together such an elaborate scheme 172 00:20:17,787 --> 00:20:21,787 because we know diving, we know submersibles, we know oceanography, 173 00:20:21,787 --> 00:20:24,786 and they had to beat us across the board and all of these things. 174 00:20:24,786 --> 00:20:31,785 The salting of the site that is putting these items down that were later described by the psychics 175 00:20:31,785 --> 00:20:39,783 will be a very difficult thing to do because 270 feet of water is clearly beyond the depths of most divers. 176 00:20:39,783 --> 00:20:44,782 But I'm just saying that my knowledge of the oceans and ocean engineering and the parameters involved 177 00:20:44,782 --> 00:20:47,782 is extremely difficult in this case. 178 00:20:52,781 --> 00:21:06,778 Coming up next, agents hunting down a ring of drug dealers get help from a courageous father on FBI, The Untold Stories. 179 00:21:06,778 --> 00:21:11,777 Then, history's crimes and trials chronicles the career of Army Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, 180 00:21:11,777 --> 00:21:14,777 a.k.a. the Green Beret Killer. 181 00:21:15,776 --> 00:21:21,775 And later tonight, History's Mysteries brings you the story of intelligence mastermind George Washington 182 00:21:21,775 --> 00:21:27,774 and his spies of the Revolutionary War at 8, here on the History Channel, where the past comes alive.