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Tonight on "Expedition Files"...

in the Arizona wilderness,

Travis Walton is taken by forces beyond our understanding.

Travis! Travis!

Now, new evidence suggests

the supposed alien abduction might actually be true.

At the turn of the century,

aviator Charles Lindbergh's family

is destroyed in the most horrifying way imaginable.

And a recent theory about the identity of a suspect is

almost too terrible to imagine.

And, at this very moment, American spies and diplomats

are under siege from a mysterious enemy.

For the first time ever, I'll uncover extraordinary

revelations behind these terrifying attacks.

In the corridors of time...

are mysteries that defy explanation.

Now, I'm traveling through history itself,

on a search for the truth.

New evidence.

Shocking answers.

I'm Josh Gates,

and these

are my "Expedition Files."

I was nine years old when my neighborhood nemesis,

Jimmy Donovan, walked up to me in the school yard and punched

me square in the face -- it hurt.

It's not pain I'll forget, and I won't forget who did it

either, Jimmy Donovan.

But disturbingly, some attackers are unknown,

hurting us without ever revealing who or what they are.

Tonight, we study the files of three people

whose brutal attackers remain unknown.

From a terrifying UFO abduction in the Arizona wilderness,

to an unimaginable crime that shocked the nation,

to a shadowy superweapon first fired at innocent

American diplomats in Cuba.

For each of our three stories, the question remains the same --

who was behind these shocking attacks?

We begin here, just after dark, in the White Mountains of

Arizona, in the fall of 1975.

When we get back, remind me that we need to put some

gas in the chainsaw for the...

For these seven young men, it's a night they'll both

never forget, and also struggle to remember.

They've been working all day, chopping down the pine trees

that cover these mountains.

What they don't know is that their drive back to town will

become a road trip like no other.

One of these men will suddenly vanish in jaw-dropping

circumstances, setting off one of the most gripping

and bizarre missing person cases in history.

Pretty soon, people all across the country and the world will

be asking, "What really happened to Travis Walton?"

Travis, get back!

In the summer of 1975, Travis Walton is a member of

a seven-man logging crew hired to thin out trees

in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.

They're a tight-knit, hardworking group.

Then, several months into the job, on November 5th,

as they head back to town,

everything in their world changes.

As they drive along the rocky forest road that

they've traveled countless times before, suddenly, the men are

stunned by a large, mysterious object

floating in the sky.

What the hell is that?

While fear grips the rest of the crew,

something inexplicably draws Travis Walton

towards the light.

Travis...

-Come back here! -Travis!

-Travis! -Travis, come back!

Hey, Travis, come on back here, man!

-Travis! -Travis!

-Travis! -Travis!

Trav--

Drive on.

Drive!

Gripped with panic, his friends flee the scene.

Travis! Travis!

15 minutes later, when the light appears to be

gone, they return to the site to find nothing, no craft,

no light, no Travis -- their friend has vanished.

So they race to the nearest phone to call the sheriff,

Chuck Ellison.

Our friend's been taken.

Though he's skeptical, Sheriff Ellison accompanies

the men back to the scene.

-Travis! -Travis!

Travis! Travis, come back!

Travis!

-Travis! -Travis!

But after a search that drags late into the night,

they're forced to call off the hunt

as the temperature plummets.

If Travis is out there somewhere,

he's in for a brutally cold night.

Over the next five days, the sheriff's office

and volunteers frantically search the area.

In an odd moment that would become relevant decades later,

the logging foreman and others recall an investigator

using a Geiger counter.

When they test the men's hard hats, the needle jumps way up.

But let's file that away for now, because this small logging

crew is about to have their feet held to the fire.

Three days after Travis goes missing,

the sheriff's department administers polygraph tests

for the six loggers.

The men deny any involvement in Travis's disappearance,

and they all recount the same bright light in the sky.

They pass with flying colors, but there's still

no explanation for where Travis Walton could be.

Five days after Travis's disappearance,

his brother-in-law receives a call.

Hello? Who is this?

It's Travis.

He's stumbled to a payphone on the outskirts

of a small town about 10 miles from where he disappeared.

Travis, buddy, you're gonna be OK.

When they find him, all he remembers is waking up

earlier that night, lying flat on the road,

with a light above him that disappeared.

But in the days to come, Travis would remember

more and more.

And what he remembers transforms this from a simple

missing persons case to an out-of-this-world

alien abduction nightmare,

unlike anything anyone had heard before.

When the word gets out to the public, newspapers all over

the world run with the story, creating a feverish interest

that will last decades.

But doubters also come out of the woodwork.

The loggers are accused of fabricating an elaborate hoax

to get them off the hook from running behind schedule on

their logging contract.

Other skeptics write it off as ball lightning, a run-in with

a military craft, drug-induced hallucinations,

or simply a drunken prank.

But Travis and the rest of the logging crew

stand by their story.

And none of the alternative theories can be proven.

But if it all really happened, where is the evidence?

Well, some of the best evidence is Travis himself.

Blood tests taken soon after Travis's return come back

completely clean for drugs and any intoxicants.

Though he is dehydrated and a few pounds lighter,

five nights of no food in the forest should have

left his body much more malnourished.

You're gonna be OK.

And perhaps the most amazing thing

is that Travis survived at all.

At night, the forest can reach below freezing temperatures.

Few could survive such an ordeal wearing just jeans

and a flannel shirt.

Another point in Travis's favor is that he, just like the other

crew members, takes a polygraph test.

He too passes.

So, at the very least, Travis believes his own story.

And as days turn to weeks, months, years,

and even decades, Travis's story always stays

remarkably consistent, never changing or shifting

like lies sometimes do.

And Travis seemed genuinely honest that the event had

affected him deeply when I sat down with him 40 years later.

For years, the memory was so clear that every time

I recounted the events, that I would re-experience

that level of fear, my, uh...

heart and respiration would go way up, and I would just be

drenched in sweat after describing what had happened at

that time. -Well, thank you

for letting us consider the facts.

Thank you for sharing your story with us.

I really appreciate it.

The Travis Walton story has been a mystery for 50 years,

but it may not be a mystery for much longer.

Thanks to an unexpected find at the original site, we may be

able to reveal the remarkable truth of his story.

Was Travis Walton really abducted by aliens,

as he and his friends claim?

It's a question that has puzzled the public for decades.

But now, there may finally be an answer.

In 2014, UFO researcher and former federal agent

Ben Hansen returns to the clearing site of the original incident

with Travis by his side to try and uncover any remaining

evidence of the so-called UFO encounter.

They located the exact spot of the supposed abduction.

And as it turned out, they found compelling

new evidence that Hansen thinks could be the smoking gun.

I regard the Travis Walton incident as the most

well-documented case of alleged UFO abduction in history.

But a lot of people dismiss UFO cases because they say,

"There's no video of it. There's no hard evidence."

In my previous career as law enforcement investigation,

you have to approach things very methodically, as if you're

going to present this in court.

So when I went back with Travis to the scene of the original

1975 incident, it was very important that we actually

process the scene like a crime scene.

We quarantined an area, a boundary.

We defined it. We mapped it out.

We gridded it out.

And that's when we discovered that the area that was

surrounding where the craft was hovering had trees that seemed

to have grown -- like exponential growth

compared to the other trees.

And on one side of the tree, it's thicker, meaning

those rings after 1975 were spaced further apart.

But they also had an unusual quality about them.

They were all pointing towards

one specific point in the middle.

No matter where those trees were, they were growing thicker

and bigger facing the side where the craft was hovering.

After the 1975 event, there were high levels of

radiation that were documented over ground zero,

where the craft had been hovering.

I started to research radiation, and I came across

a couple of papers.

Now, these academic papers were written

after the Chernobyl incident in the Soviet Union.

Now, when the leak and the radiation had spread,

most people would assume any living organism

within that radius is dead.

But if you also remember, think about radiation

and its ability to mutate.

And what they found was there was a certain type of pine tree,

and these trees were growing much, much quicker

because there was

residual radiation left at the scene.

So I thought this is compelling, because with the Travis Walton

case, the side of the trees facing where the craft was is

where the exponential growth and the wide tree rings

were occurring.

So is it possible that the propulsion system,

or this discharge, or whatever the effects of this

craft had, had then radiated the trees, but only on the side

facing where the craft was?

And for years to come, it caused this unusual growth?

So now we have evidence that seems to support the idea that

something quite unusual happened in the forest

that night.

Will this remarkable new discovery silence the doubters

and finally prove the most high-profile case

of alien abduction in history?

Studying the data, it certainly does seem to show something

beyond our understanding happened, and it happened in

the very same place and at the very same time

as Travis's alleged alien attack.

But was Travis Walton taken by extraterrestrials?

His controversial story has perplexed the public for

50 years, and in all that time, Travis himself has never

wavered from his account.

Meanwhile, science has come a long way on the question

of extraterrestrials.

Experts now theorize there could be 40 billion

Earth-sized planets in our galaxy alone.

There is a growing consensus that it is not only possible,

but likely, that alien life does exist.

Our next file takes us from a tale of alien abduction to

the story of a kidnapping at the hands of someone

much more human and much more sinister.

It's March 1st, 1932.

In a New Jersey suburb, a man is putting his young son

down to sleep for the night, but this is no ordinary father.

He is world-renowned aviation pioneer and American hero,

Charles Lindbergh.

And the baby is his only son, Charlie Jr.

What Lindbergh doesn't know

is that soon, his son will vanish into thin air.

The tragic tale of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping

captivated and confounded the nation.

And now, nearly a century later, new analysis of evidence

is revealing overlooked suspects with darkly disturbing

motives who may have gotten away with murder.

On an icy, stormy evening, an intruder slips through

the window of Charlie Jr.'s second-floor nursery.

And just like that, the boy is gone.

When Charles and Anne Lindbergh

discover their son is missing, they're terrified.

They call the New Jersey State Police.

When detectives arrive, they find an envelope with

a ransom note inside.

The kidnapper wants $50,000 for the safe return of

Charlie Jr. -- they also find muddy footprints,

but there's no blood and no fingerprints.

Investigators also discover a ladder with a broken rung,

suggesting the kidnapper snapped it

while climbing up or down.

When the press catches wind of the kidnapping,

it sets off an international firestorm.

Not a single bed is overlooked

in the search for the most famous baby in the world.

Because Charles Lindbergh is a living legend.

In 1927, Lindbergh becomes the first aviator to fly

nonstop from New York to Paris across the Atlantic Ocean.

After he lands, he becomes the most famous man

on the planet.

And with so much fame comes incredible fortune.

Lindy becomes one of the wealthiest celebrities in

the world, making the Lindbergh family a target.

Stealing Charles Lindbergh's son is an audacious crime,

and police have little to go on.

They launch a nationwide manhunt to locate the kidnapper

and return Charlie Jr. home safely.

Desperate to get his son back, wealthy Lindbergh agrees to pay

the $50,000 ransom for Junior's release.

But to catch the kidnapper, the FBI marks

the serial numbers on the money used for the ransom payment.

The trap is set.

If so much as a single bill is deposited in a bank,

investigators will be able to trace it back to

Charlie's kidnapper.

The kidnapper receives the ransom and reveals that

the boy is at Woodlawn Cemetery,

at Whittemore and Fremont.

But when investigators arrive, there is no sign of the boy.

Charles and Anne are devastated.

It's a shocking setback.

But detectives begin to wonder, is there more to this case

than meets the eye?

Months later, the kidnapping case takes

a horrifying turn.

Just four miles from the flyer's estate,

Charlie Jr. is found dead in the forest.

And when detectives look closely at the boy's body,

there is little trace of blood, and Charlie has

a hole in his skull.

Even more alarming, several vital organs

are missing.

Investigators want to know, how did Charlie Jr. suffer

such ghastly injuries?

What they uncover will outrage the nation, but a fresh

analysis of the autopsy report almost a century later has

inspired a controversial new theory that suggests an even

more twisted and macabre motive for the young boy's death.

If accurate, the identity of the suspected killer is

almost unthinkable.

Months after the disappearance of Charles Lindbergh's

young son, he turns up dead, just miles from

the family estate.

And the condition of the boy's body is disturbing.

There's a hole in his skull, which is also crushed.

There is little sign of blood.

And in a bizarre twist, some of his organs

appear to be missing.

Looking at all the evidence, detectives believe

the kidnapper dropped Charlie while descending from

the nursery when their wooden ladder broke, creating the hole

in Junior's skull.

Police suspect that within minutes, the child dies from

the massive impact, and the abductor abandons

Charlie's body in the forest.

They suspect the toddler's internal injuries are caused by

wild animals.

When the press gets a hold of the story,

outrage spreads from coast to coast.

The son of America's greatest living hero dies in a grisly,

brutal murder.

And police still can't find Charlie's killer.

It isn't until two years later that some of the FBI's

marked bills from the ransom are spent at a gas station

in New York City.

Agents trace the money back to the man who buys the fuel,

German carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann.

You are under arrest.

Looking into Hauptmann's background,

detectives are surprised.

They see no connection between Bruno and the Lindbergh family.

However, when they search Hauptmann's old junkyard shack,

they fined over $14,000 in marked ransom bills.

Bruno is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of

Charles Lindbergh Jr., but Hauptmann asserts he's innocent.

Around the world, newspapers hail Hauptmann's case

the trial of the century.

He wanted that money so he could, and he did,

live a life of luxury and ease so he wouldn't have to work.

He quit his job the day he collected the $50,000,

the very day!

During his trial, Bruno's attorney claims

the case against Hauptmann is weak.

Bruno testifies the money found in his garage belongs to

a deceased business partner.

Bruno's wife, Anna, testifies that Hauptmann was with

her the night of the kidnapping.

And Bruno's attorney reminds the court that none of

Hauptmann's fingerprints are ever found on the ladder,

the ransom note, or inside

the Lindbergh nursery.

But to the jury, the marked ransom bills are

compelling evidence.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann is found guilty of murder.

And on April 3, 1936,

he dies in the electric chair.

America is relieved.

Justice has finally been served for the terrible murder of

Charles Lindbergh's poor baby son.

But many begin to wonder, did authorities execute

the wrong man?

In the years following Charlie's death,

biographers discover Lindbergh was obsessed

with his son's physical appearance.

Authors contend, when Charlie is born in 1930,

his aviator father is unhappy with Junior's large head

and deformed toes on his right foot, symptoms of the condition

known as rickets.

Some allege that Lindbergh, America's rugged,

handsome hero fears his own son looks like a weakling.

Charles Lindbergh is also a believer in eugenics,

a now discredited science based on the theory that one could

use selective breeding to rid the world of

genetically inferior humans.

And Lindbergh was known to have a close relationship with

the nefarious godfather of eugenics, Alexis Carrel.

This leads a group of academics to come up with a new theory

for Charlie's disappearance.

In 2020, forensic pathologist Dr. Peter Speth

conducts new analysis

on the forensic evidence from the murder,

and what he finds is disturbing.

When I looked at the autopsy report,

there was something that caught my attention.

The body, when it was found, was in a state of

advanced decay, and the organs were gone,

but what struck me was the face.

The forehead

was so well preserved.

And the skin on the right foot

was white, and yet, the legs were skeletonized.

How did that happen?

How was it possible to preserve the face and the right foot?

It suggests chemicals.

So I began to research what do taxidermists use to

preserve the hide.

They use what is called tannic acid, or tannin.

Now I became interested in who had knowledge of

tannic acid, and I hit pay dirt.

Alexis Carrel.

As we know, Alexis Carrel is the godfather of the sinister

theory of eugenics, who Lindbergh counted as

a close friend.

Dr. Speth speculates that this evidence points to

a harrowing possibility.

I believe that Charles Lindbergh and Alexis Carrel

carried out surgical procedures to solve some of these many

problems that Chas Jr. had because he's abnormal

and then failed.

So they personally were involved in the killing

of that child.

Many find this theory too shocking to believe.

However, there is compelling evidence supporting

Dr. Speth's claims.

Why then preserve the face and the right foot?

Well, if the body's in advanced decay,

how are you gonna identify the baby?

And what are the two identifying features?

One, the prominent forehead,

and secondly, the overlapping toes on the right foot.

Dr. Speth further speculates that Lindbergh was certain that

he wanted the body of Charles Jr. recovered, so that no one

would come out later in life claiming they were the lost boy.

There's no doubt this is a highly controversial

allegation, but there's one more detail that may fuel

this theory even more.

Charles Lindbergh was leading the investigation and telling

the state police what they could or could not do.

He had the baby cremated and put out an order that none

of the evidence would ever undergo

further scientific investigations.

To this day, the governors,

the attorney general, and state police have been

upholding that.

Charles Lindbergh was a larger-than-life icon

who changed the world forever.

But he was also a very complex figure,

living a life of contradictions.

Will we ever know what really happened that stormy night

in 1932?

Most Lindbergh authors, scholars,

and historians dismiss this unsettling theory

as too lurid to believe.

My own take is that the evidence to support it

is highly circumstantial.

What cannot be doubted, though, is the true tragedy

here, the senseless death of an innocent child.

We now take you from the historic tragedy of

the Lindbergh baby to an assault on

American diplomats and secret agents in modern day.

Welcome to paradise.

But it's a paradise that's soon to be lost.

It's 2016 on the island of Cuba in a quiet,

upscale neighborhood considered

the Beverly Hills of Havana.

It's a popular location for foreign diplomats

and US embassy workers, but soon, they'll be

seemingly attacked by something terrifying,

something beyond all comprehension.

Doug Ferguson and Kate Husband are a married couple working at

the US Embassy in Havana.

They're enjoying a relaxing evening after work.

What they don't know is that their world is about to be

turned upside down.

As they prepare for dinner, a high-pitched sound suddenly

fills their home, and it feels like something is drilling into

their skulls and somehow piercing their brains.

Is it all in their heads?

Or are there far more sinister forces involved?

Embassy workers Doug Ferguson and Kate Husband

are suffering the worst headaches of their lives after

a high-pitched noise penetrates their home in Havana, Cuba.

But Kate seems to get the worst of it.

She deals with a constant state of vertigo, nausea,

as well as brain fog.

What they're experiencing doesn't have a name yet.

At work, Doug makes a shocking discovery --

the same strange things

are happening to his co-workers.

Dozens of US embassy workers in Havana are experiencing

the same strange collection of symptoms -- dizziness,

trouble sleeping, vomiting,

and short- and long-term memory loss.

This is definitely not the office flu.

The media catches wind, and the mystery illness is

dubbed "Havana Syndrome."

But it's not just limited to Havana.

Cases with similar symptoms start popping up,

affecting US employees all around the world.

There are incidents in Poland, Taiwan, Australia,

Colombia, Tbilisi, Georgia, and Moscow.

All the victims are either State Department employees,

CIA intelligence officers, or their families.

Is this all just a strange coincidence,

or are dark forces at work?

December 2017,

CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos is in Moscow,

visiting intelligence contacts.

Little does he know he's about to get taken out by

an invisible attack.

I wake up in the middle of the night in early December 2017

in a hotel room in Moscow, and something really

extraordinary is happening.

My ears are ringing.

I have tinnitus, which is very disorienting.

It's a sound that never stops in your ear.

I have an incredible case of vertigo.

The room is spinning uncontrollably.

I'm physically sick.

I have a splitting headache, a migraine, and I'm realizing

that something is going on much more than food poisoning.

Something is happening to me,

which was something that was very disconcerting,

because I've been shot at in places like

Iraq and Afghanistan.

I put my life at risk numerous times.

This is a feeling I've never experienced before,

because I had no control over what was happening.

I was terrified.

It seems Mark is the latest victim of Havana Syndrome.

One year since cases began, people start asking the obvious

question, if American diplomats and spies are

the only people affected, could this be some sort of

targeted attack?

The US State Department is eager to find answers

and sets up a study at the University of Pennsylvania.

In March of 2018, 21 victims from Havana,

including Doug Ferguson and Kate Husband,

are flown to Philadelphia

and put through a battery of tests at University of

Pennsylvania's Center for Brain Injury and Repair.

Paging Doctor...

The doctors are looking for any possible causes of

Havana Syndrome, a virus, neurotoxins, even mass hysteria

or group psychosis.

What they find is even more bizarre.

Scans reveal brain damage in these patients, consistent with

what you'd expect to see after a series of

repeated concussions.

But none of these patients have sustained any kind of

physical head injury.

For some victims, like Doug Ferguson, he'll make

a full recovery nine months after the attack.

But his wife, Kate, is told that her brain looks as though

it's aged 25 years almost overnight

and is forced into medical retirement.

And then researchers at the University of Pennsylvania

come to a truly shocking conclusion.

They believe they've determined the cause of all of this --

microwave radiation.

Researchers point to the screeching cricket sound

that often accompanies Havana Syndrome.

It's consistent with something called "the Frey effect,"

the sound microwave radiation makes

when it penetrates your skull.

And exposure to microwaves results in the excruciating

symptoms that line up with those reported

by syndrome victims.

The Penn study doesn't pinpoint where the microwaves come from,

but at the end of their report, they do mention that Russia has

been developing capabilities around microwave weapons.

OK, feels like they might have buried the lede on that one,

but come on, the idea that Russian spies are shooting

beams of microwave energy at Americans?

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie

or a cheap spy novel -- except it isn't,

because they've already done it.

American attorney Mark Zaid, who represents

more than two dozen victims of

Havana Syndrome, is leading the campaign to find answers to

this mysterious illness.

I was provided an unclassified memorandum by NSA

in October 2014, two years before Havana,

that revealed the existence of

intelligence information concerning a foreign adversary,

quote, "with a high-powered microwave system weapon that

"may have the ability to weaken, intimidate, or kill an enemy

over time and without leaving evidence."

Despite this testimony, the government continues to

deny that Havana Syndrome is a real medical condition.

In summer of 2020, my symptoms are getting much worse.

And so I make a decision to go public with my story,

because I was so desperate for healthcare.

The agency is refusing to send me to a doctor.

Again, it's the notion, all I want to do is see a doctor.

For over eight years, Havana Syndrome has affected

American diplomats and officials, but its origin,

and indeed its very cause, are still shrouded in

controversy and mystery.

Then, in March of 2024, a bombshell investigative

report is published, perhaps revealing all.

Long before Travis Walton, the idea of aliens captivated

pop culture all the way back to the pulp magazines of the '20s

and Orson Welles' famous radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds"

in the '30s.

But in 1959, Soviet astrophysicist Iosif Shklovsky

dropped a cosmic bombshell that sent UFO fever

into a global frenzy.

He suggested that Phobos, one of Mars's moons,

might actually be an artificial satellite.

That's right, a Martian Death Star.

Shklovsky believed the strange orbit and low density of

the moon were clues that it was a secret spacecraft built by

an advanced civilization of ancient extraterrestrials.

And even though his bold theory was categorically debunked,

it did nothing to diminish our collective obsession with

the hope that we aren't completely alone

in the universe.

The truth is out there, right, guys?

Starting in Havana, Cuba, in 2016, cases of a strange

sickness affect over 200 Americans working for

the government all around the world.

Many victims believe it's a deliberate attack,

but US authorities remain stubbornly unconvinced.

A new investigative report could change all that.

October 2021, in Tbilisi, Georgia, a quiet

Eastern European town along the Russian border.

The wife of an American diplomat is home,

doing laundry.

Suddenly, as acute ringing fills her ears, her head feels

like it's in a vice grip, and a knife is

stabbing her brain.

Panicked, she sees a car outside she doesn't recognize.

Standing next to it is a tall, well-dressed young man.

She locks eyes with him before he turns and leaves.

For three years, she suffers with

the painful effects from that day.

Severe daily migraines, hearing problems,

and two major surgeries to repair holes

in her ear canal that her doctors can't explain.

She doesn't know what happened to her, but she's convinced

the man she saw outside her home played a part.

It's a face she can't forget, but never expects to see again.

March 2024, investigative journalist

Christo Grozev is working on his biggest story yet,

trying to uncover the origins of Havana Syndrome.

As part of his investigation,

he is interviewing the diplomat's wife.

We want to see if you can identify this man.

And shows her a picture of a young, blonde man.

She is instantly filled with fear and dread.

It's the man she knows is responsible for her three years

of torture and torment.

The man in the picture --

Albert Averyanov, a Russian military

intelligence operative.

He's part of a secret unit inside Russian military

intelligence, known only by its code number, 29155.

In March of 2024, Grozev and his magazine,

"The Insider," released the shocking findings

of their investigation.

Grozev uncovers a secret Russian cable, showing members

of Unit 29155 receiving awards for work on the development of

non-lethal acoustic weapons.

After 10 years of confusion and suffering, this document

and the entire investigation possibly confirm the cause

and the culprits behind Havana Syndrome.

This issue becomes very problematic,

because in my view, and I think in the view

of many others, this is an act of war.

And so it then calls into question, what does

the United States government do about this?

Perhaps that's one of the reasons they don't want

to get to the bottom of it,

because then the question, as you sit around

the National Security Council or in the White House is,

"What do we do?"

Officially, the US government still says

they do not believe Havana Syndrome is caused by

any kind of weapon.

The CIA, the House Intelligence Committee,

and the National Intelligence Council all state

that there's no conclusive evidence

a foreign adversary is responsible for the phenomenon.

But try telling that to Kate Husband, Marc Polymeropoulos,

and the hundreds of others who are convinced they've

suffered and are still suffering due to

some kind of secret attack.

So, is a Russian intelligence operation really to blame

for Havana Syndrome?

And are we standing on the precipice of a new

and terrifying kind of warfare?

Hopefully, the answers will soon be definitively

on the record.

But be warned, the truth could be extremely painful.

I'm Josh Gates.

Until next time, travel adventurously.