1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,680 I'm in the Scottish Highlands on Loch Ness, investigating one of the world's most enduring 2 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:15,640 mysteries, the beast, the monster of Loch Ness. 3 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:21,080 Over the past few years, new evidence has come forth that I've found rather interesting. 4 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:25,560 Sightings of the legendary lake monster are once again on the rise, and there have been 5 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,760 accounts of similar cryptids from all over the planet. 6 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,600 Canada for example has Cressy and Ogopogo. 7 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:40,800 Japan has Issy, and Cameroon has something called the Mokale and Bembe. 8 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:47,040 All of these mysterious creatures appear in early local folklore, and some have suggested 9 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:52,120 that they look like the offspring of a prehistoric creature called plesiosaurus. 10 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:59,120 But could it be something from another world that came to Earth millions of years ago? 11 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,120 And what if it's something even more incredible than that? 12 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:09,120 Because in my experience, nothing is ever what it seems. 13 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,120 My name is Georgios Tsukilos. 14 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:20,120 I explore the world that exists between reality and speculation, the known and the unknown. 15 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:25,120 What we've been taught by mainstream scholars is not the whole picture. 16 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:31,120 But I'm convinced that every day we are one step closer to the truth. 17 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:46,120 In Scotland, the word Loch means lake, and one lake here is the most notorious in the world. 18 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:53,120 For over 80 years, Lochness has been the place where monster hunters and cryptozoologists 19 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:59,120 have been hunting for an allegedly prehistoric creature that shouldn't even exist. 20 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:11,120 In 1933, the Lochness monster became a media sensation when a local newspaper reported a sighting of a beast of enormous size. 21 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:18,120 Almost immediately, dozens of researchers, hunters and even boy scouts descended on the Loch 22 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:23,120 to attempt to capture the beast and claim a 20,000-pound reward. 23 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:29,120 A year later, in 1934, fascination with the monster went worldwide 24 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:34,120 with the publication of this famous image known as the surgeon's photo. 25 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:40,120 It seemed to show some sort of a creature with a long neck gliding along the Loch. 26 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:47,120 Since then, millions have come to Lochness in hopes of catching a glimpse of this so-called monster. 27 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:53,120 In fact, the creature they now call Nessie has become its own industry, 28 00:02:53,120 --> 00:03:00,120 and the town of Fort Augustus has played host to thousands of Nessie hunters over the years. 29 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:07,120 But one man could probably be called the greatest Nessie hunter of all time, 30 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:12,120 because he's been watching the Loch every day for more than 20 years, 31 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,120 and he lives right on the shores of the Loch itself. 32 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,120 Steve Feltum. 33 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:18,120 Are you Steve? 34 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:19,120 Certainly I am. 35 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:20,120 Yeah? 36 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:21,120 I'm Giorgio. 37 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,120 Hello. 38 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,120 Pleasure to meet you. 39 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,120 The locals have told me if I wanted to learn more about Nessie, you're the guy to talk to. 40 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:28,120 It's true. This is true. 41 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,120 That's true. 42 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:30,120 What do you need to know? 43 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,120 My area of expertise is ancient astronauts, 44 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:38,120 so I'm not quite sure how Nessie fits into that realm, 45 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,120 but it is a part of the unknown, 46 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,120 and I'm always interested in exploring the unknown, 47 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:46,120 and that's why I'm here. 48 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,120 Yeah, you've come to the right place, heavily. 49 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,120 Yeah? 50 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:50,120 Absolutely. 51 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,120 This is great. 52 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:52,120 Nessiehunter.com. 53 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:53,120 Yeah? 54 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,120 Necessary independent research. 55 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:56,120 It's necessary. 56 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,120 Somebody's got to do it. 57 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,120 It's true. 58 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,120 So what about these things right here? 59 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:01,120 Do you make these? 60 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,120 That's how I fund hunting for the bigger ones, 61 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,120 make a few of these guaranteed accurate, 62 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,120 prove it's not, get your money back. 63 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,120 There you go. 64 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,120 I love it. 65 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,120 So I'll sit here and make the models here. 66 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,120 This is my home. 67 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:18,120 Look, yeah, yeah. 68 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:19,120 This is great. 69 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,120 Essential ingredient, wood-burning stove. 70 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,120 Amazing. 71 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,120 So a piano. 72 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,120 Piano, essential as well. 73 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:27,120 Observation area. 74 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,120 Excellent stuff. 75 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,120 This is my dream country. 76 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,120 I'm living my life's ambition to be fully involved 77 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,120 in this hunt for this animal. 78 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,120 There's one thing over here, look, Guinness Book of Records, 79 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,120 the longest Loch Ness monster of visual. 80 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:43,120 Great. 81 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:44,120 That's me. 82 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:45,120 I love it. 83 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:46,120 Guinness Book of Records. 84 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:47,120 Anyway, come back out here. 85 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,120 Get a seat, and I'll tell you all about it. 86 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,120 It takes a while to take it all in. 87 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,120 Loch Ness was created by a geological fault line 88 00:04:54,120 --> 00:05:00,120 called the Great Glen around 400 million years ago. 89 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,120 It is almost 23 miles in length, 90 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,120 and in some places, 91 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,120 estimated to be 745 feet deep, 92 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,120 which is deep enough for two complete statues of liberty 93 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,120 stacked on top of each other. 94 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:20,120 It is the largest body of freshwater in the United Kingdom. 95 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,120 Another interesting characteristic of the Loch 96 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,120 is the high amount of quartz found here, 97 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,120 because quartz is a stone that sometimes is associated 98 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,120 with the ancient astronaut theory. 99 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,120 Because of its crystalline structure, 100 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,120 some claim that quartz has the ability to convert 101 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,120 the Earth's natural electrical vibrations 102 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:46,120 into usable energy by a property known as Pseoelectricity. 103 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,120 And many obelisks are constructed from granite, 104 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:54,120 a stone that may contain high concentrations 105 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,120 of energy-responsive quartz crystal. 106 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:01,120 One such example can be found at the Egyptian Sun Temple 107 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:06,120 of Abu Ghurab, which was known as the Place of the Gods. 108 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,120 Egyptologists say that this was a place 109 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:14,120 where the ancients connected with powerful energies. 110 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,120 But some say that these obelisks could have been used 111 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,120 to transmit energy, 112 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:23,120 possibly by vibration flowing through the obelisks. 113 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:30,120 Now, is it possible that the quartz content at Loch Ness 114 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,120 is somehow connected to the sightings of the monster? 115 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,120 That is what I'm here to find out. 116 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,120 Have you seen something where you thought, 117 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,120 man, what was that? 118 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,120 In the first year I was here, 119 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,120 and I was through the bay like a torpedo. 120 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,120 And was it fast or how fast? 121 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,120 Very fast. Very fast. 122 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,120 It covered the distance of a football pitch 123 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,120 in less than 10 seconds, really, really going at speed. 124 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,120 You know, the sort of spray of water off of that? 125 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,120 Obviously, I thought, what is that? 126 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,120 I thought, right, brilliant. I'm on the right track. 127 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,120 Next time I see that, I'm going to be ready. 128 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,120 I'm going to photograph it. 129 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,120 And here we are now, 23 years later, 130 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,120 and I'm waiting for that next glimpse. 131 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,120 Still chasing the elusive creature. 132 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,120 Yeah, still optimistic. 133 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,120 What are some of the most compelling sightings of reports 134 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,120 that you're familiar with? 135 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,120 The best thing I've ever heard of since I've been here 136 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,120 was an echo sound of contact made by Marcus Atkinson 137 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,120 about four years ago. 138 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,120 I can show you the image that he managed to take a photograph of the screen. 139 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,120 Yeah, I would love to. 140 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,120 I've got that here. I can show you that. 141 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,120 I've got it here, look. 142 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,120 Look at this. This is what he got. 143 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,120 So, Marcus was out on his boat, 144 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,120 and this is 600 feet of water here. 145 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,120 This is the bottom of the law. 146 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,120 And this object, they estimate that that's about 147 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,120 a meter and a half, two meters wide, deep, 148 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,120 that way, the thickness of this animal. 149 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:56,120 Right. 150 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,120 It passes underneath the boat. 151 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,120 Marcus could explain this to you better. 152 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,120 I can tell you to meet Marcus if you want. 153 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:03,120 So, he's still around? 154 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,120 Yeah, I can take you to see him. 155 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:06,120 He's still past the echo. 156 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,120 He can explain this much better than I can. 157 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,120 All right. This is incredible. 158 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,120 An actual sonar photo showing what looks like 159 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,120 some sort of a giant object or creature in the lake. 160 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:20,120 The most famous photograph of Nessie, 161 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,120 the so-called surgeon's photo taken in 1934, 162 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,120 was revealed to be a hoax in the 1990s, 163 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,120 when artist Christian Sperling admitted 164 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,120 he made a model to look like a giant sea creature. 165 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,120 But this sonar image is no fake, 166 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,120 and it might be the most compelling evidence yet 167 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,120 that the so-called Loch Ness monster really exists. 168 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,120 So, what are some of the different theories 169 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,120 that you've heard about the Loch? 170 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,120 Well, there's people that think this is a pothole 171 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,120 to a hollow Earth. 172 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,120 There's one guy down the other end of the Loch 173 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,120 that thinks there's a spaceship on the bottom of the Loch 174 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,120 and that it's all connected with that. 175 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:05,120 A portal to a hollow Earth, 176 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,120 a spaceship on the bottom of the Loch, 177 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,120 incredible? Yes. 178 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:12,120 But maybe not as far-fetched as you may think. 179 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,120 The idea that the Earth might actually be hollow 180 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,120 was first introduced in the 1700s, 181 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,120 and while I don't subscribe to these ideas, 182 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,120 it was also believed that there were other beings 183 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:30,120 and strange creatures living far below our planet's surface. 184 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,120 Now, the idea of a spaceship is also interesting 185 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,120 because many people have proposed that exterrestrials 186 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,120 may be hiding from us deep underwater. 187 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:47,120 In Native American folklore, there is the legend of the Thunderbird, 188 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:51,120 one of which is said to reside at the bottom of Lake Elizabeth 189 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,120 in Southern California. 190 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,120 Stories dating back hundreds of years say that the Thunderbird 191 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:01,120 was often seen rising out of the lake, shiny and glimmering, 192 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,120 breathing fire like some kind of a spacecraft. 193 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,120 Another story exists in Cusco, Peru, 194 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:14,120 where locals say a silvery craft resides at the bottom of Lake Kurai. 195 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:18,120 What if the Loch Ness Monster is not a monster at all, 196 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,120 but maybe, as some people have claimed, an alien craft? 197 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,120 It's far too early for me to make that determination, 198 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,120 but I definitely know who I want to speak with next. 199 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,120 The man who took that sonar photo. 200 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:36,120 I've got a ribboat right over there at the door's in, so can we take it? 201 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,120 Yeah, you can take it. 202 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,120 Yeah, that's easy. 203 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:40,120 Let's do it. 204 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:44,120 Have you seen something strange here in the Loch? 205 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,120 Well, yes. 206 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,120 It would appear as a horse. 207 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,120 It charges into the water and eats you. 208 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,120 The Nessie hunters Steve, Feltham and I 209 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,120 are conducting our own hunt for the Loch Ness creature. 210 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,120 We're touring the Loch with Captain Marcus Atkinson, 211 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,120 the man who took the famous sonar image 212 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,120 of something strange deep underwater. 213 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:14,120 It just might be the only definitive evidence 214 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:18,120 that some sort of underwater creature really exists. 215 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:20,120 So I'm not even going to wait. 216 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,120 I'm going to ask you flat out, 217 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:27,120 have you seen something strange here in the Loch? 218 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:30,120 Well, yes. 219 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,120 Three, four years ago in 2011, 220 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,120 I was running a trip on our speed boats 221 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,120 and down at the Yerkett Castle, 222 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,120 about 20 miles from here, 223 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,120 and the sonar was just taken away. 224 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,120 Underneath the boat came my sonar image, 225 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,120 and it was a very, very mysterious photograph. 226 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:49,120 You probably got to... 227 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,120 Actually, I have the photo right here. 228 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:52,120 Steve gave it to me, 229 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:54,120 and if you can tell me more about this, 230 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,120 I'd be very interested to find out more 231 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,120 what we're looking at here, actually. 232 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,120 The way that sonar works is, 233 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:02,120 as you're going through the water, 234 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:04,120 you send out a click of sound, 235 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:07,120 and this click travels down through the water column, 236 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,120 and as it contacts things on the way down, 237 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:14,120 fish or the bed of the Loch, or whatever else, you know, 238 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,120 you'll get an echo of it. 239 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:17,120 So a small fish, for instance, 240 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,120 you'll get a small echo, a big fish, 241 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:20,120 you get a bigger echo. 242 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,120 Now, the boat is on the right-hand side of the picture. 243 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:25,120 I was coming in from the deep water, 244 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,120 so this is all deep water over here. 245 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,120 Well, first of all, starting out using all these fish, 246 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,120 there's lots and lots of fish around you, 247 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,120 and then right in the middle, as I get closer into the shore, 248 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:36,120 came this object. 249 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:37,120 Now, the best we're looking at it 250 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,120 is trying to measure the width of it, 251 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:40,120 that little lump there. 252 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:42,120 These are five-meter graduations. 253 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:44,120 That lump is going to be a meter, 254 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,120 a meter and a half in diameter. 255 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,120 That's a big thing. 256 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:52,120 This sonar image really blows my mind. 257 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,120 According to the measurements, 258 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:57,120 the object would measure approximately 20 feet long 259 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,120 and five feet thick in the center, 260 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,120 almost identical to the descriptions of Nessie, 261 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,120 provided by many of the eyewitness accounts. 262 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,120 What is your opinion of what this might be? 263 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,120 Well, that's the $64,000 million question. 264 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,120 I mean, what is it? 265 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:17,120 I've heard people say it's an old, old bloom, bloom-valgue. 266 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,120 But algae needs light. 267 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,120 Now, this is nearly 80 feet down. 268 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,120 There's no light down there for algae to bloom on, 269 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,120 so I instantly discount that. 270 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,120 I've seen loads and loads of shells of fish, 271 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:32,120 and I've never seen anything like that 272 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:34,120 sitting in the middle of it. Yeah, exactly. 273 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,120 I mean, that was actually my next question. 274 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,120 How would this, what we see here, 275 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,120 compare to some of the other aquatic life 276 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,120 that Loch Ness definitely has? 277 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,120 It's pretty big, you know? 278 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:46,120 I've seen a lot of fish around here. 279 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,120 These are all a little individual. 280 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:50,120 Probably Arctic Charleys. They're all very small. 281 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,120 I'd love to find out. 282 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,120 I would really genuinely love to know what that was 283 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,120 that was under my boat in that particular day. 284 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,120 Now, seeing that sonar photo 285 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,120 and meeting Captain Marcus Atkinson, 286 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,120 who actually took the photo, 287 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,120 helped convince me that something strange 288 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:09,120 may very well be happening right here at Loch Ness. 289 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,120 Over the years, there have been more than 290 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,120 1,000 reported sightings of Nessie. 291 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,120 It's still hard to say at this point 292 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,120 what these witnesses are actually seeing. 293 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:23,120 So I really need to dig even deeper 294 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,120 if I'm going to find out if there really is 295 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:31,120 an ancient astronaut connection to this phenomenon. 296 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:35,120 Steve Feltem and I took a trip to the Loch Ness Center. 297 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,120 Hello, Steve. Good to see you again. 298 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,120 We're here to meet naturalist and historian Adrian Shine, 299 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,120 who has been here studying the Loch Ness legends 300 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,120 for the past 40 years. 301 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,120 So that's a submarine, huh? 302 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,120 It certainly is a submarine. 303 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:55,120 This was last year in 1969 304 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,120 with a very brave American called Dan Taylor. 305 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:03,120 The vessel wasn't quite finished when it arrived, 306 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:07,120 and although it got to the point where it could submerge 307 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,120 and just about surface, 308 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,120 it couldn't do very much in between. 309 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:15,120 And the idea was that they would fire 310 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,120 these biopsy harpoons. 311 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,120 These tubes held harpoons 312 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,120 would be fired to take tissue samples. 313 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,120 Of course, it was 1969. 314 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,120 DNA work had not gone as far as it has today. 315 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,120 But that was the idea. 316 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:34,120 Because you see, it was the time when the surface surveillance 317 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:38,120 that the Loch Ness investigation had been carrying out 318 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:43,120 for 10 years was really running out of steam. 319 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,120 For 10 years, almost 1,000 people 320 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,120 stood around this Loch with big cameras. 321 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,120 And what they were setting out to do 322 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,120 was to duplicate those classic pictures 323 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,120 that I'm sure are in all our minds. 324 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,120 They failed utterly. 325 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:04,120 And that is why people like Dan Taylor went underwater. 326 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:07,120 People like me went underwater. 327 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,120 I built my little submersible hide. 328 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:15,120 Mine was a passive weight and hide strategy, 329 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,120 and it was somewhat cramped. 330 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,120 There was air being passed down to me, so plenty of air. 331 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,120 But we failed utterly. 332 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,120 So the question arose, what next? 333 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,120 Can you imagine yourself in one of these? 334 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:34,120 I wish I'd been here in the days of such expeditions. 335 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:38,120 It's a shame we're not going on any more, things like that. 336 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,120 Well, you can start it again. 337 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,120 Get the funding, and you know... 338 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:46,120 Because this is 1960s, 1970s technology, 339 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:49,120 and just imagine what could be done today. 340 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,120 We are looking at this subject in new ways, 341 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,120 which are not necessarily technology-based. 342 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:56,120 What are they? 343 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,120 But they are evidence-based. 344 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:05,120 They are ways of treating anecdotes as data. 345 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:09,120 And if you'd like to come and look at some sighting reports, 346 00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:12,120 I can tell you more. Yes, absolutely. Great. 347 00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:15,120 It's quite an impressive volume. 348 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:22,120 This box contains some 300-odd of the sighting report forms 349 00:17:22,120 --> 00:17:26,120 that were drawn up by the Loch Ness investigation of the 1960s. 350 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:29,120 This is for 1963, I think. 351 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:32,120 And this one will show you, I suppose, 352 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:38,120 the classic Loch Ness monster as described. 353 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:43,120 Of course, eyewitness accounts of strange underwater creatures 354 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:45,120 are nothing new. 355 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:50,120 One of the earliest dates all the way back to 565 AD, 356 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:54,120 when, according to legend, an Irish missionary named St. Colombo 357 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:58,120 banished a water creature from attacking Celtic tribes people 358 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:01,120 known as the Picts. 359 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:05,120 Today, the locals call this beast from their ancient folklore 360 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:08,120 the Water Horse, or Kelpie. 361 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:11,120 Well, the Kelpie, or Water Horse, 362 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:17,120 was a sort of shape-shifting piece of bad news. 363 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:22,120 It would frequent rivers, lakes, locks, 364 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:27,120 and sometimes it would appear as a horse to a weary traveler. 365 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:30,120 They might want to get on its back and immediately they stick to it. 366 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:33,120 It charges into the water and eats you. 367 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:36,120 And it goes to hell, of course. 368 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:40,120 So it was bad news, and even to speak of such things was bad news. 369 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:45,120 The fact is, people have been reporting a strange creature 370 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:49,120 in and around the Loch for almost 1,500 years. 371 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:53,120 The native people who lived here in the 6th century believed it to be 372 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:56,120 a kind of shape-shifting water horse, 373 00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:59,120 and even carved its image on many stones 374 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:02,120 that can still be found around the area. 375 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:04,120 Now, why would they spend so much time 376 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:10,120 carving images of this creature if it was purely fictional? 377 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:13,120 Well, I think the next place I need to go to find the answer 378 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:17,120 is not here in Scotland, but back home in America, 379 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:21,120 because, believe it or not, the United States has its very own legends 380 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:26,120 of a so-called underwater monster in the form of a giant sea creature 381 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:29,120 known as Champ. 382 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:34,120 I see in this dark hump rise to the surface of the water. 383 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:38,120 This is the original photograph of the creature. 384 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:40,120 Oh, wow. 385 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:49,120 I'm in Burlington, Vermont, on the edge of beautiful Lake Champlain. 386 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:53,120 I'm on my way to meet Katie Elizabeth, a local cryptozoologist 387 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:58,120 who claims to have come face-to-face recently with Champ, 388 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:03,120 Lake Champlain's own version of the Loch Ness monster. 389 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:08,120 Like Nessie, there is no scientific evidence of Champ's existence. 390 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:13,120 Although, there have been over 300 documented sightings. 391 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:17,120 Some people even believe that the two creatures are not only similar, 392 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:20,120 but possibly even one and the same. 393 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:24,120 They think there could be some vast underwater tunnel 394 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:27,120 or link between Lake Champlain and Loch Ness, 395 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:32,120 even though they are more than 3,000 miles apart. 396 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:35,120 And what if the connection is even more astounding than that? 397 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:38,120 That's what I'm here to explore. 398 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:42,120 All right. 399 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:43,120 Katie? 400 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:44,120 Hi. How are you? 401 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:46,120 Pleasure to meet you. I'm Georgie. How are you? 402 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:47,120 Pleasure to meet you, too. Nice to meet you. 403 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:49,120 So this is the place, huh? 404 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:50,120 Yes, it is. 405 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:52,120 All right. Well, I can't wait to hear the story. 406 00:20:55,120 --> 00:20:58,120 And what a place. Absolutely beautiful. 407 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:00,120 Those are the Gendurandaks I take? 408 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:01,120 Yes, they are. 409 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:03,120 All right. It's gorgeous. 410 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:06,120 So tell me your story. What happened here? 411 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:09,120 Well, I was sitting at my campsite at Button Bay State Park, 412 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:11,120 and I was looking out at the water. 413 00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:14,120 It was probably, I would say, 11.30 in the morning. 414 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:17,120 And I saw some turbulence in the water. 415 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:21,120 And all of a sudden, I seen this dark-colored hump 416 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:24,120 rise to the surface of the water. 417 00:21:24,120 --> 00:21:27,120 It was something I could not explain. 418 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:30,120 And so whereabouts in the water from here was it? 419 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:33,120 It was straight ahead, right towards the middle of the bay. 420 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:35,120 OK. Let me see. 421 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:40,120 I've seen sturgeon. I've seen whales. 422 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:42,120 I've seen dolphins. 423 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:44,120 I can't explain what I saw. 424 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:46,120 All I know is I saw a hump come up, 425 00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:48,120 and there was no doors in the fin. 426 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:50,120 It had to be at least 15 feet, 427 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:53,120 but it didn't resemble anything I've ever seen before. 428 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:56,120 So I ran to my car to get my camera, 429 00:21:56,120 --> 00:21:59,120 and as soon as I got to my camera, it submerged. 430 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:01,120 It was gone. 431 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:04,120 I give anything to go back at that time 432 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:08,120 and grab my camera faster or at least have it on me at hand. 433 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:12,120 Unfortunately, Katie didn't manage to grab her camera 434 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:15,120 in time to document her sighting. 435 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:20,120 But at least one now famous photo of the creature does exist. 436 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:22,120 And from what I've heard, 437 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:27,120 it might just be the best evidence there is that champ is real. 438 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:28,120 Hello, are you Linda? 439 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:29,120 I am. 440 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:30,120 Welcome. 441 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:31,120 Great pleasure to meet you. 442 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,120 It's a nice place. 443 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:33,120 This is some great place you've got here. 444 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:35,120 Oh, thank you. Thank you. 445 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:36,120 Let's go on a little tour. 446 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:38,120 I want to show you some of the information 447 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:41,120 that we have on Champ before we get started, 448 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,120 and just fill you in on a little bit of the background 449 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:46,120 about this great lake monster 450 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:48,120 and why it's so important to us here at Echo. 451 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:50,120 Awesome. Lead the way. 452 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:51,120 OK. 453 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:56,120 Lake Champlain is named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, 454 00:22:56,120 --> 00:23:00,120 and in 1609, he claimed that he saw a strange creature 455 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:04,120 emerging from the waters while on an expedition. 456 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:07,120 Native Americans already had their own legends 457 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:09,120 concerning a lake monster, 458 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:13,120 which by some accounts was 30 feet long. 459 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,120 By the late 19th century, 460 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:19,120 the creature they called Champ became so popular 461 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:25,120 that showman P.T. Barnum put up a reward of $50,000 for its capture. 462 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:28,120 Barnum wanted Champ dead or alive 463 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:31,120 so that he could include it in his traveling show. 464 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:33,120 Let's go to the staff offices now, 465 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:37,120 and I'll show you where the files of information are. 466 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:39,120 Secret archives. Exactly. 467 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:41,120 Like the Surgeon's Photo of Nessie, 468 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:43,120 there's a world-famous photo of Champ. 469 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:45,120 Only this one has not been debunked, 470 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:48,120 and I can't wait to see it with my own eyes. 471 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:52,120 You know, there have been more than 300, 600 eye-witness accounts. 472 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:58,120 Every year here, I get files full of information from folks 473 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:01,120 wanting to share either their stories or their clippings 474 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:03,120 or their encounters. 475 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:05,120 So these sightings happened to this day. 476 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:08,120 I mean, we're not talking about stuff that happened 50 years ago, 477 00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:10,120 but they actually continue. 478 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:11,120 Right. 479 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:15,120 I've been told that there's one picture that exists 480 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:20,120 that apparently has undergone all tests of authenticity 481 00:24:20,120 --> 00:24:23,120 and I was told you have it. 482 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:25,120 That's right. We do. 483 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:30,120 So, here we go. This is it. 484 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:33,120 It's nicely protected. I like that. 485 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:34,120 Yes. 486 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:37,120 So this is the original photograph. 487 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:40,120 Oh, wow. 488 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:52,120 Does heา 489 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:54,120 know youÊ 490 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:57,120 Councillor General Friend 491 00:24:57,120 --> 00:25:00,120 can notice me right now. 492 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:17,120 I'm Estamos Makifat 493 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:22,120 This is the one that Sandra Mansi took in 1977. 494 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:26,120 I mean, this is crazy. It really is. 495 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:29,120 I mean, I don't even know what to say right now, 496 00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:32,120 because, like I said, I haven't seen this before, 497 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:38,120 and that is wild. 498 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:44,120 In July 1977, Sandra Mansi was exploring the countryside 499 00:25:44,120 --> 00:25:48,120 around Lake Champlain when she pulled off the road 500 00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:51,120 to let her children play on the shore. 501 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:54,120 As she watched them, she noticed a huge disturbance 502 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:58,120 on the surface of the water about 150 yards out. 503 00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:03,120 According to Sandra, a large hump emerged from the lake. 504 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:09,120 The kids were playing in the water before this creature rose up 505 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:14,120 and turned and looked at her and then went back down. 506 00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:18,120 She took the photo and then dropped to her knees, 507 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,120 realizing, wow, what was this? 508 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:23,120 And my children were in the water with this. 509 00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:27,120 This is... it's crisp. It's a crisp photograph. 510 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:31,120 In 1981, the famous Sandra Mansi photo was submitted 511 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:34,120 for authentication to the Optical Science Center 512 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:38,120 at the University of Arizona to see if the object 513 00:26:38,120 --> 00:26:41,120 might have been superimposed on the picture. 514 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:45,120 Technicians put the photograph through a series of sophisticated tests, 515 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:49,120 including examining the wave patterns under a microscope 516 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:52,120 and constructing a digital code for the picture 517 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:55,120 to find inconsistencies in lighting. 518 00:26:55,120 --> 00:27:00,120 After a thorough examination, they determined beyond a shadow of a doubt 519 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:04,120 that this photo is 100% authentic. 520 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:08,120 What is your opinion on Champ? 521 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:13,120 When we first started telling the story here at Echo 11 years ago 522 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:18,120 about this lake monster, we were doing a tongue-in-cheek to start out with, 523 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:22,120 but the number of people that started coming to us with their stories 524 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:25,120 and wanting a place to share their stories, 525 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,120 I took on a different tone with regards to this. 526 00:27:28,120 --> 00:27:33,120 People are seeing, and they're genuinely seeing, something out in the lake. 527 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:35,120 Truly interesting. Thank you very much. 528 00:27:35,120 --> 00:27:37,120 You're welcome. 529 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:40,120 After seeing the famous Sandra Mansi photo 530 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:45,120 and hearing the account of someone who claims to have seen Champ firsthand, 531 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:48,120 I'm more intrigued than ever. 532 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:51,120 Now, does some large underwater creature really exist? 533 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:56,120 And if so, does it have a connection to the one at Loch Ness? 534 00:27:56,120 --> 00:28:02,120 Although I'm not sure, I do believe the eyewitnesses did see something. 535 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:07,120 The Abnaki tribe believe in some sort of a spirit creature named Gitsagog 536 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:10,120 that lives within Lake Champlain, 537 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:16,120 and according to them, it has been there for as long as the lake has existed. 538 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:18,120 Now, could there be a connection? 539 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:22,120 To find out, I'm meeting with Abnaki chief Don Stevens. 540 00:28:22,120 --> 00:28:26,120 The first thing I'd like to ask him about is their creation story, 541 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:33,120 because from the little that I know, it may just give a new perspective on this entire investigation. 542 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,120 So tell me about your creator god. 543 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:41,120 The Baldac was walking across the universe with his friend Tova, which is the turtle. 544 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,120 And they were coming across the Milky Way, 545 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:48,120 and they saw a planet in the distance that was blue. 546 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,120 And they were pretty thirsty, so they thought there'd be some water there. 547 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,120 Don told me the story of how Abnaki gods shaped the Earth 548 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,120 and explained that when they made Lake Champlain, 549 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,120 they created the monster known today as Champ to protect it. 550 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:10,120 What I find intriguing in your creation story is the story of a man 551 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:16,120 and the story of a turtle walking through the universe, or the Milky Way. 552 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:21,120 And the reason why I'm blown away by that is because all around the world, 553 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:28,120 in the most ancient of cultures, the origin stories usually begin 554 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:35,120 with the story of a cosmic turtle appearing out of the depths of the cold, 555 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,120 or the depths of darkness. 556 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:42,120 In Guatemala, there's an artifact that has the figure of a man wearing a helmet, 557 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:46,120 lying inside what appears to be a turtle shell. 558 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:51,120 And the archaeologists there will tell you that this is depicting the ancient legends 559 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,120 of the giant flying turtles. 560 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,120 Now, when I hear about stories of flying turtles, 561 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:02,120 I don't think that the ancient people really saw turtles flying. 562 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,120 It was that they saw something that looked to them like a turtle. 563 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,120 They used references that were familiar to them. 564 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,120 And what was it they were describing? 565 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:18,120 Perhaps they were talking about a flying craft, a chariot of the gods. 566 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:23,120 Now, another strange aspect of the Abenaki creation story 567 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,120 are their accounts of a monster that is said to sometimes disappear 568 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:31,120 and reappear right before people's eyes. 569 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:36,120 Now, that to me indicates that maybe we are dealing with something more 570 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,120 than just some large prehistoric creature. 571 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,120 I have talked to people who have said that they have seen him, 572 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,120 and they stayed there for a while, and it has come to them. 573 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:52,120 It could be a state of mind at the time, and he's manifested himself there. 574 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:56,120 The more I investigate this, the more I'm becoming convinced 575 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,120 that maybe there is an ancient astronaut connection here, 576 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,120 something much more than what meets the eye. 577 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,120 What if the key to solving the mystery 578 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,120 may not be finding some giant underwater monster, 579 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:14,120 but by serving the area where these strange sightings occur? 580 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:19,120 The lake is 500 feet deep and almost feel the gravity change, 581 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,120 but we do have a lot of quartz. 582 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,120 The quartz is the secret. 583 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,120 I've arranged to meet with Dr. Will Amidon, 584 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,120 who is a professor of geology here in Vermont. 585 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,120 Permission to come aboard. 586 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,120 Permission granted. 587 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,120 Alright, thank you. 588 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:44,120 Captain Steve Cluitt is taking us out on Lake Champlain for a champ hunt, 589 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,120 and you never know if this could be the day. 590 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,120 Alright, so let's head on out, then let's see if we can find champ. 591 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,120 Let's have a look. 592 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,120 Alright. 593 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:13,120 Dr. Will Amidon is intrigued by the similarities between Lake Champlain and Loch Ness, 594 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,120 and speculates there may be numerous connections 595 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:21,120 that could help explain the various sightings of a so-called sea monster. 596 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:26,120 I was on a boat on Loch Ness trying to look for the creature there, 597 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,120 and then I came here because of champ. 598 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,120 It's interesting, you know, Loch Ness and Lake Champlain actually weren't so far apart 599 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,120 hundreds of millions of years ago. 600 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,120 Back when the Atlantic Ocean was closed, 601 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,120 the same mountain collision that formed the Green Mountains here in Vermont 602 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:46,120 is actually what formed a lot of the Scottish Highlands, where Loch Ness sits. 603 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,120 What's the deepest spot here in Lake Champlain? 604 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,120 It's called Split Rock. 605 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,120 The lake narrows to about a half mile wide, 606 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,120 and it's 500 feet deep at that point. 607 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,120 Wow, okay. 608 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,120 So when you get out there, you can almost feel the gravity change 609 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:09,120 as you're sitting right between these two rocky points with this 500 feet below you. 610 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,120 I like the way you talk. 611 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,120 You can feel the gravity change. 612 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,120 Only poets and scientists speak like that. 613 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,120 I like that. 614 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,120 So I've got a personal question for you. 615 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:25,120 Do you actually think that there is a possibility 616 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:32,120 that some type of uncategorized creature lives here in Lake Champlain? 617 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,120 Sure, I think it's an absolute possibility. 618 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,120 But one of the things a lot of people don't know about Lake Champlain 619 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,120 is that at one time it was actually connected to the broader ocean 620 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:47,120 in this body of water called the Champlain Sea. 621 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,120 Right after the glaciers were treated, 622 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,120 the land surface was depressed, 623 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,120 and ocean water actually flowed in, 624 00:33:54,120 --> 00:34:00,120 filled this entire basin to the point that there's even been whale skeletons found. 625 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,120 Okay. 626 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,120 So in the sense that you could have had whales swimming in here, 627 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,120 why not other creatures? 628 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:11,120 You know, the fact that hundreds, if not thousands of people have sited champ independently, 629 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:15,120 you have to place some stock in that body of observations 630 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,120 and that people aren't crazy, they're not dumb, 631 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,120 and they may know what they're seeing in some cases. 632 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:25,120 So talk to me about granite, the whole idea of quartz. 633 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:29,120 I mean, is this an area where that type of stone is prevalent? 634 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,120 Vermont is famous for granite, actually, 635 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,120 but most of that comes from the core of the Green Mountain. 636 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:39,120 There's very little granite here in the actual Lake Champlain basin, 637 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,120 but we do have a lot of quartz. 638 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,120 There it is again, quartz. 639 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,120 Parts of Loch Ness are also rich in quartz. 640 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:54,120 Could it merely be coincidence that both of these lakes feature high concentrations of the same mineral, 641 00:34:54,120 --> 00:35:00,120 one that the ancient Egyptians, for example, associated with cosmic energy? 642 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:06,120 Could the shared geology of these lakes be one of the reasons for all these mysterious sightings? 643 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:13,120 I have one last stop to make, and that has taken me all the way back to Southern California. 644 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,120 Dr. Brandenburg, Georgia. 645 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:19,120 I'm here to meet with renowned physicist Dr. John Brandenburg, 646 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:26,120 who has set up a demo to help explain what might be going on at Loch Ness and Lake Champlain. 647 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:31,120 So from everything I've read and the people that I've talked to, the experts, 648 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:36,120 one thing that I found interesting is when the geologist explained to me 649 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:41,120 that in both cases, whether it is Lake Champlain or Loch Ness, 650 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,120 the topography there is very similar, 651 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:51,120 and the one thing that is the same in both cases is that there's a lot of quartz there. 652 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:52,120 Quartz. 653 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:53,120 Yes. 654 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,120 The quartz is the secret. 655 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:04,120 When you stress the quartz, enormous amount of electromagnetic field can be created. 656 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:08,120 We know that the ultimate basis of spacetime is electromagnetic. 657 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,120 This is the basis for what's called the Casimir effect. 658 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:18,120 We're surrounded with a sea of electromagnetic oscillations created by the quantum mechanics of the vacuum itself. 659 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:24,120 The structure of spacetime itself, including gravity, is due to this zero point fluctuation. 660 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:29,120 Geologic stresses on the quartz can generate enormous amounts of power, 661 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,120 as is seen in earthquake lights. 662 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:38,120 Plasmas are created in the sky due to the stresses on the quartz in the ground. 663 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,120 Once completely dismissed or mistaken for UFOs, 664 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:49,120 an earthquake light is a phenomenon that appears as a ball of orange light in the sky 665 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,120 at or near areas of tectonic stress. 666 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:58,120 Both Lake Champlain and Loch Ness were formed due to tectonic plate shifts. 667 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:03,120 The plasma is just an indicator that you have enormous electromagnetic fields being generated. 668 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:12,120 So after all this information, is it at all possible that there is any correlation to a potential alternative idea 669 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:19,120 besides that these sightings are of a prehistoric creature that has survived all these millions of years? 670 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,120 So could there be an alternative hypothesis? 671 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:23,120 Yes. 672 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,120 Alternative hypothesis is time travel. 673 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,120 Time travel? Yes. 674 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,120 Now you've got my attention. 675 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:44,120 Dr. John Brandenburg is a nationally renowned physicist whose theories about the planet Mars have rocked the scientific community. 676 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:49,120 He wonders if the key to solving the mystery of the so-called Loch Ness monster 677 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:55,120 may be found by a close examination of the geography in and around the Loch, 678 00:37:55,120 --> 00:38:00,120 particularly the areas high concentration of quartz. 679 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:08,120 He also theorizes that the area of Loch Ness may very well be a gateway or a portal for time travel. 680 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:17,120 So are you suggesting that the potential for a temporary, transversible wormhole actually exists? 681 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:22,120 Hypothetically, yes. It's proposed first by Kip Thorne of Caltech. 682 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,120 The quartz is the secret. 683 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,120 We have enormous electromagnetic fields being generated. 684 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:31,120 That means that we can create perhaps a traversable wormhole. 685 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:35,120 So what we are seeing is creatures from the past in the present. 686 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:41,120 Time travel? Wormholes? A rift in space time? This is incredible. 687 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:46,120 What if the reason why we can't find Nessie or Champ is that they're really not there? 688 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:52,120 What if the witnesses and photographers have seen not a physical sea creature, 689 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:57,120 but an animal that may have existed tens of thousands or even millions of years ago? 690 00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:09,120 In other words, what Dr. Brandenburg suggests is that Loch Ness and Lake Champlain could very well be some sort of a gateway as incredible as it may sound. 691 00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:17,120 I have a demonstration here. Here we can create waves. 692 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:22,120 Now, we can't create them as uniformly as they're surrounding in space time. 693 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:30,120 We're surrounded by these waves. These waves that you see on the surface of the water are very much like the quantum waves. 694 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:40,120 Now, if we place these bars in here, we can see as I place them that the waves change their structure in between the bars. 695 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:44,120 They become parallel waves whereas before they're very chaotic. 696 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:51,120 Now, if I release these, they cling together. They're forced together by the pressure of the waves outside. 697 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,120 How does this apply to time travel? 698 00:39:53,120 --> 00:40:01,120 When we disturb the space time continuum with electromagnetism, we can create possibly wormholes, 699 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,120 diversable to the past. 700 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:09,120 You know, this is interesting because when Dr. Amidon, the geologist, talked to me about Lake Champlain, 701 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:15,120 he told me that there's a spot where there are these sheer cliffs that go straight down about 500 feet. 702 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:19,120 And he suggested that the gravity there might change. 703 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:24,120 Would that be a place where this chasmere effect would be more prevalent? 704 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:29,120 It's right. Just like between the chasmere plates, you're creating a zone of negative energy. 705 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:39,120 This is incredible. According to Dr. Brandenburg, the high concentrations of quartz coupled with the narrowness and depth of both Loch Ness and Lake Champlain 706 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:49,120 create a perfect storm of highly charged electromagnetism, the type that could generate wormholes or portals in time. 707 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,120 My head just exploded. 708 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:57,120 It almost is the perfect solution because that means that everyone is right. 709 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:02,120 Because people who are looking for it, they're not seeing it because it's not there. 710 00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:11,120 And the people who saw it or who took some photographs, they truly photographed something because it appeared in that split second. 711 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:19,120 You know, the idea is very fascinating, especially in the context of the ancient astronaut theory. 712 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:25,120 Because that suggests that Earth was visited by extraterrestrials in the remote past. 713 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:35,120 And that is only possible if a society has mastered the technology with which to traverse the vast distances between the solar systems. 714 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,120 Absolutely. 715 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:39,120 Dr. Brandenburg, thank you very much for your time. 716 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,120 Thank you. 717 00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:48,120 And before I leave, I wanted to give you one of these, which is something I give to everyone whom I ask questions. 718 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:49,120 What is this? 719 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:54,120 This here is a pre-Columbian artifact. What does this remind you of? 720 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,120 It looks like an airplane. 721 00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:56,120 There you go. 722 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,120 Oh, this is wonderful. Thank you. 723 00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,120 It's definitely a conversation starter. 724 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,120 Absolutely. I will use it to start many conversations. 725 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:03,120 Thank you very much. 726 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:04,120 Thank you very much. 727 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:05,120 Until next time. 728 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:15,120 The mystery of Loch Ness is actually more fascinating than I ever imagined. 729 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:23,120 And while we can say for certain that wormholes really exist at places like Loch Ness or Lake Champlain, 730 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:31,120 it is intriguing to speculate that space-time rifts might explain how sightings like Nessian Champ are possible 731 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:36,120 and how extraterrestrials may have traveled to Earth in the remote past. 732 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:45,120 But this is just a tip of a giant iceberg with many more places to explore, many more mysteries to solve. 733 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:50,120 And that's why I'm off, once again, in search of aliens.