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On this episode of "expedition files"...

In 1979, terrifying events turn a home in amityville

into a house of horrors.

Now, 45 years later, new evidence helps find

the truth behind this demonic mystery.

Then, a bizarre phenomenon

known as spontaneous human combustion

incinerates its victims and baffles

the medical community.

Has science finally solved this red-hot riddle?

And america's first battle-tested submarine,

the h.L. Hunley,

vanishes moments after completing its mission.

Now, for the first time, we reveal its shocking fate.

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've spent my career trying to solve

the world's most enduring puzzles,

from legendary lost treasures

to terrifying paranormal phenomena.

I've investigated countless stories that, for centuries,

have defied explanation.

But the thing about mysteries is they don't always

remain a mystery.

And tonight, we turn our magnifying glass

to three of the strangest, unexplained cases of all time,

cases that may finally have jaw-dropping answers.

So, let's begin.

It is 1975, a week before Christmas in long island

amityville, long island.

I'd like to introduce you to the lutz family,

George, Kathy, and their three young children,

moving into their new home.

At $80,000, the property was a steal,

but, well, there's a reason for that.

You see, something terrible happened here.

Now, the lutzes are well aware

of the house's rather gruesome history, though they think

that's all in the past.

But just 28 days from now, they'll run out the front door

screaming for their lives.

Their dream home will turn into a waking nightmare,

not to mention the most infamous haunted house in the world.

The story of the amityville horror begins

a full year before the lutzes move in.

At this point, the house belonged to the defeo family.

And in the early morning of November 13, 1974.

Ronald defeo Jr. Walks through the house

with a.35 caliber rifle.

When police arrive, they discover

that this psychopath has executed his family of six.

At his trial, he claims voices told him his family

was plotting to murder him and that he needed

to kill them first.

The jury is unconvinced.

And Ronald defeo Jr. is sentenced to six consecutive

life terms in prison.

And so, the house goes on the market,

and the lutz family become the lucky buyers.

Almost as soon as the lutzes unpack, George decides

to have the house blessed.

It couldn't hurt, right?

Father, thank you for coming.

When a local priest arrives, he sprinkles each room

with holy water.

Suddenly, he's reportedly attacked by unseen forces.

Over the next four weeks, the family claims to be plagued

by bizarre and inexplicable events.

In the middle of the night, doors reportedly open

and slam shut.

The house is never warm, despite the furnace

blasting all day long.

And one room is even filled with buzzing flies,

though it's the dead of winter.

Even creepier, the lutzes' youngest daughter,

missy, says she sees and talks

to a disturbing pig-like creature.

One day, the family even claims they find

mysterious hoove prints in the snow,

leading to their house.

And George swears he repeatedly sees his young wife, Kathy,

transform into a 90-year-old woman before his eyes.

But the strangest event of all

will occur on January 14th, 1976.

George says he wakes in bed at 3:15 am,

the same time he's been unintentionally waking

almost every night.

This is also around the same time of night Ronald defeo

murdered his family roughly a year earlier.

As soon as his eyes open, he hears his kids' beds

slamming up and down on the floor above him.

He tries to get out of his own bed,

but an unseen force pins him down.

With day breaking, George and Kathy gather up

their three children and rush out the front door

in abject terror.

They leave everything they own behind, never to return.

Although the lutzes only spend less than a month in the house,

that short time will come to define their lives.

Local press gets wind of the incredible story

and it catches fire, making international news.

On march 6th, 1976,

paranormal investigators, ed and Lorraine Warren,

arrive with their own camera crew determined to document

the horrifying activity.

The warrens gained fame for their study

of notorious cases, like the Annabelle doll

and the so-called "conjuring" house,

but here at amityville, Lorraine Warren

is so overcome with fear that she tells her husband ed

that this is the closest she ever wants to get to hell.

Of all the evidence they captured, it's a photo

taken from one of the team's infrared cameras

that proves the most interesting.

On the main landing, peering out past one

of the banisters, seems to be the image of a small boy

with glowing demonic eyes.

The infamy of the house continues to grow

when the lutzes' experiences are adapted,

with their blessing, first into a bestselling book,

and then into 1979's blockbuster movie,

"the amityville horror."

The franchise is so successful that it will grow to include

a whopping, brace yourself, 46 films, all inspired

by this original case.

But with all this fame comes closer scrutiny,

and some things are not adding up.

In 1979, coinciding with the release of the movie,

William weber, the attorney of crazed killer Ronald defeo

comes forward with an astonishing claim.

Weber reports that, over several bottles of wine,

he, George, and Kathy lutz fabricated the whole story

of the family's traumatizing time in the house.

According to weber,

the lutzes were struggling financially,

and liked the sound of a book deal

about a haunted house.

And now, after falling out with the lutzes over a split

of the residuals, he's revealing all.

George and Kathy deny weber's accusations, but other factors

about their terrifying story leave the public wondering.

Investigators go back through weather reports,

and discover on the day the lutzes

claimed they saw hoof prints

in the snow, there was no snow on the ground.

The cromarty family, who buys the house

soon after the lutzes flee, report no problems.

Over the years, doubters have claimed

that a member of the Warren's crew named Paul bartz

triggered one of the infrared cameras while kneeling

by the staircase.

At the time, he had a hairstyle and shirt similar

to the one in the photo.

And the glowing eyes?

Just light reflecting from his glasses.

Based on mounting evidence, it's starting to look

like the lutzes may have cashed in, turning pretend

family terror into box office treasure.

But nothing in this story is exactly what it seems.

Facing allegations of perpetrating a hoax,

George and Kathy insist they're telling the truth,

even taking polygraphs tests, which they pass.

So, which is it?

Well, the real story behind the amityville horror

has at least one terrifying plot twist.

In 1975, the lutzes flee from the amityville horror house.

Was it all a hoax, or were they telling the truth?

Author and paranormal historian, Jeff belanger,

recently interviewed Christopher lutz,

one of the three lutz children,

and what he discovered is unsettling.

Christopher was seven when this all went down,

and he told me that this thing profoundly affected him.

When the story started to really break,

when the book came out and then the movies came out,

he said it was sort of fun. "I was a celebrity."

But then, as more and more time goes by,

and now people start calling it a hoax,

and those voices get louder and louder,

kids don't know any better, and they start saying

awful things to him... "you're a liar."

"Your mom's a liar. Your dad's a liar.

You... you're making this whole thing up."

So he dealt with that year after year.

What really happened is that George,

Christopher's stepfather, exaggerated certain things

that happened, and then the book exaggerated further,

and then the movies are just completely out of proportion

at this point.

Christopher stands by the claims

that paranormal events did happen at the house,

but he says they were subsequently

blown out of proportion in the book and film.

He said the house liked to play with people.

He would talk about it like it was

he personified the house.

It liked certain people, it ignored other people,

some people were just tuned into it.

He said there were little things, like there were

cold spots that were always there.

One in the basement, one in the boathouse,

one in the stairway.

He's like, "you couldn't explain it,

it was just this cold spot."

Him and his brother shared a room

on the front side of the house that faced the street,

and he said those windows,

would open and close by themselves

and they... they just don't do that and it was really weird.

He said sometimes they would get stuck in their bedrooms.

They'd be screaming, "I can't get out, the door's locked."

They'd go upstairs, they'd try to get it unlocked

from the outside and... and it's stuck,

it's stuck, it's stuck, but then it would open.

That is really gonna chip away at you, little by little,

when things like that happen.

And so, a real haunting is subtle,

and it's much more frightening what they actually went through.

But there's another twist.

Despite the house's horrifying past with six people

getting murdered on the property,

Christopher doesn't believe the home was haunted

when his family first moved in.

Instead, he says one of his family members

summoned a demonic presence.

George is Christopher's stepfather.

And one thing he did say, quite emphatically,

is that George was meddling in the occult and was opening

something up that might have been sort of dormant there

and bringing it into the house, so he blames George.

According to Christopher, the mystery

of the amityville horror is no mystery at all.

His house truly was haunted.

And even more shocking, the spirits were allegedly

summoned by his stepfather, George lutz.

Today, the amity house still stands

and has had several subsequent occupants,

none of whom have ever reported paranormal activity.

Still, the city changed the official address to prevent

tourists from disturbing the neighborhood,

and the property just resold in 2023.

Best of luck to its new owners.

Hopefully, this won't lead to movie sequel number 47.

Leaving behind a chilling mystery,

we now explore a scorching hot phenomenon.

It is 1951, and I am in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Behind me, landlady pansy carpenter

is anxiously talking to the fire department

after making a grisly discovery.

The firefighters are about to enter the home

of a woman named Mary reeser, and, when they do,

they'll discover Mary isn't just dead.

Her body has been reduced to ashes,

as if cremated on the spot.

She's just the latest in the hundreds

of strange cases of seemingly normal people

inexplicably bursting into flames.

It's known as spontaneous human combustion,

and it's cause has mystified experts

for centuries, until now.

On top of a pile of ash, firefighters discover.

Mary's left foot, completely unburned,

still wearing her black satin slipper.

Mary reeser weighed 175 pounds in life,

but her remains have been reduced to less than ten.

Police are beyond perplexed as they begin

their investigation.

It would take almost 3,000 degrees of heat

to reduce a body to ash.

But other than Mary's chair, the apartment

and everything in it, is virtually undamaged.

Guys, you're not gonna believe this.

Authorities interview Mary's son,

Dr. Richard reeser, who tells them he saw his mother

the night before and that nothing

was out of the ordinary.

The 67-year-old widow was having trouble sleeping,

so she was going to take two sleeping pills

and go to bed.

He left her sitting in her chair.

The officers also speak to Mary's neighbors,

who say they heard and saw nothing unusual.

With no credible leads, the police are stumped.

In desperation, they send a box of evidence,

including some of the ash,

the surviving slipper, and a section

of the barely singed carpet to the FBI for analysis.

Now, all they can do is wait.

Mary reeser is one of at least 200 reported cases

of spontaneous human combustion in the last 400 years.

And curiously, almost all cases seem to share common traits.

There is frequently little or no fire damage

to the victim's surroundings, even though their body

has burned to ash.

And gruesomely, some part of the body, a leg or foot,

often remains.

And, hold on to your stomach, an oily, smelly residue

is commonly found on the walls around the victim.

The term "spontaneous human combustion" is coined in 1746,

when writer paolo rolli uses it to describe the bizarre death

of Italian countess Cornelia zangari bandi.

On the evening of march 15, 1731,

the 66-year-old countess complains of feeling dull

and heavy after a large dinner and retires to bed.

The next morning, her maid is said to open

the bedroom door to a horrific scene.

There's no sign of the countess, just a heap

of ashes on the floor next to an empty oil lamp.

Actually, there is some sign of the countess.

At the edge of the black pile are what's left

of bondi's legs.

Nothing else in the room is burnt,

not even the straw bed.

Everything is covered in soot and a thin layer of grease,

and a strange odor lingers in the air.

Some speculate this is the result

of a freak lightning strike, or even the handiwork

of a demonic spirit.

But experts remain confounded.

A hundred years after the death of countess bandi,

it's the writer Charles dickens, who really brings

spontaneous human combustion to the public's attention.

In his 1853 novel "bleak house", dickens kills off

one of his characters, the unscrupulous junk merchant,

Mr. Crook, by having him burst into flame.

All he leaves behind is a pile of ash and a, quote,

"dark, greasy coating."

And terrifying real-world cases would continue

over the course of the next century.

But what is the true cause of this seemingly

impossible phenomenon?

Nobody knows for certain until Mary reeser's death.

When the FBI scours the evidence,

they find a smoking gun.

In 1951, the remains of Mary reeser are found

in a pile of ashes.

She seems to have suffered from the phenomenon

known as spontaneous human combustion.

When the FBI investigates, they examine a sample

from Mary's carpet that contains melted human body fat.

This eventually leads to a shocking conclusion.

As forensic toxicologist,

Dr. Rakhshanda "Ruby" javed, explains

in a lot of these cases, when you come on scene,

you see the localized area where someone has somehow

been burned, but surrounding areas that includes

flammable objects, such as a newspaper,

you see that they're untouched.

One of the most notable things

that were seen by the fire department

when they went to Mary reeser's home.

They couldn't believe that they were seeing

part of Mary reeser's shin and foot

with a slipper still on, a black slipper.

It's one of the most notable documented things

that were noted in that particular case,

and it was very, I mean, gruesome for the individuals

that came on scene to see just a foot and nothing else.

You are not gonna believe this.

It's actually not that baffling when you look

at a lot of the similarities among the cases.

Scientifically speaking, what happens is just

like a candle for a human, the wick would be the clothing

that the individual is wearing, and the fuel

is going to be fat.

Human body fat is composed of hydrocarbons, and it's known

to create a very low and slow flame.

So, typically, you need at least two hours

for the body to burn.

And since the fat is serving as that source of fuel,

it creates a very slow burning effect.

It is a grisly revelation that our own bodies can burn

like a controlled fire.

But how do those fires start in the first place?

And why don't the victims just wake up and put themselves out?

One of the puzzling scenarios with a lot of these

spontaneous human combustion cases

is a... a normal person, if you see some type of fire

starting on your clothing, you'll immediately jump

and try to put it out as quickly as you possibly can.

In a lot of these cases, it's well documented

that either they're heavy smokers,

they utilize sedatives,

or they've drank so much that they're basically

incapacitated to the point that when the fire is started,

they're not feeling it

because they're completely incapacitated,

and if they do wake up, it's too late.

For Mary reeser, it was documented

that she took sleeping pills the evening of the event

that this occurred, and she was smoking.

She must have fallen asleep,

and because of the sedatives, the cigarette fell

on her clothing... she was wearing a rayon nightgown,

which we know today is very flammable.

So it just fueled that fire to where it just consumed her.

So in Mary's case, the fire was sparked

by a cigarette, and in nearly all reported cases in history,

there was some kind of open flame nearby.

For countess bandi, it was an oil lamp.

But that still doesn't explain why Mary's left foot remained

when the rest of her body became ash.

In a lot of the documented cases,

there are extremities that are typically found.

Mary reeser's case, it was the unburned foot

with the slipper still on, with the "wick effect,"

it's the... the fire burns vertically, not laterally.

And the extremities are very... there's not as much fat

that remains in those areas, so it makes sense as to why

the fire would not continue to those specific areas.

And that's why you see some remaining extremities at scene.

So, the mystery of spontaneous human combustion

is now extinguished.

And as horrible as it is, it should also give us

a sense of relief.

If we watch our weight, drink in moderation,

and quit smoking, the chances of us

bursting into flame are essentially zero.

It really gives you something to focus on

the next time you're making those new year's resolutions.

Our next mystery begins in February, 1864.

It's the height of the civil war,

and here in the port of Charleston,

young confederate lieutenant, George Dixon,

stares out at the harbor on a mission to make history.

He, and a crew of seven, are making final preparations

to board a small iron submarine, the h.L. Hunley,

and do something that no sub has ever

done before, sink a ship in battle.

But immediately after completing their mission,

they and their vessel will disappear without a trace.

It's 1864, and the union Navy

has spent three years running a blockade along 3,000 miles

of america's southeastern coastline,

strangling the confederacy's ability

to import food and supplies to fortify their troops.

With losses on the battlefield piling up, the confederacy

is getting desperate.

They must break the blockade by any means necessary,

and they think the answer is a submarine attack.

There's just one problem, it's never been done.

But that is about to change.

The American civil war is raging,

and the confederacy offers a reward

for anyone who can invent a submarine

that sinks a union battleship.

Americans have tried using submarines in the war before,

but they all sink themselves long before

sinking an enemy ship.

However, 38-year-old engineer and southern plantation owner,

Horace Lawson hunley, boldly accepts the challenge,

personally funding the development

of a combat submarine.

Submarine prototypes were built as early as the 1600s

with hand-cranked propellers.

The first practical submarine was built in 1800 in France

with a Grant from Napoleon.

But no sub has ever successfully attacked

another ship in battle.

Hunley has his work cut out for him.

With input from several designers and engineers,

he builds two prototypes.

The first is the pioneer, which proves it could submerge

and resurface, but then has to be scuttled

to avoid capture from union forces.

The second sub is named American diver,

but it sinks when its ballast tanks are overfilled.

Undeterred, hunley takes what he's learned

and comes up with a third design,

this time naming the sub after himself.

The hunley is 40 feet long, four feet tall

and only three feet wide.

Inside is a central propeller that takes seven men to turn.

The captain sits at the front of the ship to steer.

A candle is the only source of light.

The submarine will tow an explosive, and hook it

to a target ship as it passes underneath.

That's the plan, anyway.

With the design finalized, the hunley is hammered

out of iron and, once complete, is shipped by train

from Alabama to south Carolina.

The h.L. Hunley is a tight fit, to say the least.

The men must sit shoulder to shoulder,

hunched on a narrow wooden bench with an air supply

that last only two hours.

It's a desperate design,

but it's also a desperate moment in the war.

The confederate Navy needs a win... fast.

But, while preparing for its first attack mission,

the sub suddenly breaks from its mooring and sinks.

Five of the crew drown, three escape.

For Horace hunley and his team,

this is a terrible setback.

The confederacy pushed the sub out too soon,

so hunley makes a bold choice

he goes to Charleston, and once the sub is recovered,

decides he will captain the vessel himself

and lead the next attack.

It's a fateful decision.

On October 15th, hunley holds a demonstration

of his submarine to reassure confederate officials.

The sub pushes off, but after it disappears

below the waves with hunley at the rudder,

the vessel never returns.

Three weeks later, on November 7th,

the hunley is finally found on the bottom of the harbor.

The entire crew, including Horace hunley, is dead.

Examination of the wreck reveals that a valve

was left open, allowing water to seep in.

Curiously, there are also signs that bolts

on the bottom of the sub were loose.

It becomes clear the crew knew the sub was in trouble

and were trying to get out.

Their bodies are found flung about the cabin

as if in a state of panic.

For the second time after causing a tragic loss of life,

the hunley is raised from the depths and repaired.

Its own inventor just went down with the ship.

Who could possibly be willing to get into this death trap

for its third voyage?

Lieutenant George Dixon, that's who.

Lieutenant George Dixon has cheated death before.

In April of 1862, he survives a major civil war battle

thanks to a $20 gold coin

given to him for good luck by his sweetheart,

queenie Bennett.

When Dixon is shot in the thigh, the coin

deflects the bullet, saving his life.

He inscribes on the coin, "my life preserver,"

and carries it with him everywhere he goes.

Later, Dixon serves in mobile, Alabama,

where he first hears of the hunley submarine.

When he discovers the sub has sunk for a second time,

he takes up the cause and volunteers as captain.

Third time's the charm, right?

Unfortunately, the risk for the mission

is even greater now.

The union Navy has reinforced their warships

with chain netting underneath, making it challenging

to attach a bomb.

So the hunley's plan pivots.

The soldiers refurbish the sub with a 16-foot pole

on its bow and a live torpedo on the end of it.

The audacious plan is to ram the warship head-on,

detonating the torpedo on impact.

And the confederacy is so desperate to see

this mission go off without a hitch,

that the hunley crew is ordered

to keep their craft floating on the surface

at all times, minimizing the chances

of accidental sinking, but massively increasing

the chances it'll be spotted and fired upon.

The stage is now set for the third voyage

of the h.L. Hunley.

On the evening of February 17, 1864,

it's time to make history, in more ways than one.

The hunley's chosen target is the USS housatonic,

anchored four miles off the shores of south Carolina.

The men pile into the submarine and push off from port,

Dixon steering them toward the enemy ship.

At about 8:45 pm, a sailor on the deck of the housatonic

notices an object in the water.

At first, he thinks it's a porpoise,

but soon realizes the ship is under attack.

Something off the starboard bow.

He sounds the alarm, and the crew begins

to fire their rifles at the hunley.

Dixon and the crew shrug off the hail of gunfire

and continue steadily on.

And then, it happens... they hit their target.

Brace for impact!

The torpedo detonates, ripping a hole in the hull

of the housatonic.

The warship sinks in less than five minutes.

The third mission of the h.L. Hunley is a success.

It is the first time in history that a submarine

has sunk a ship, forever changing

how naval battles are waged.

But it is far from a complete success

because the submarine immediately vanishes.

Was it blown up by its torpedo?

Or did its leaky hull strike again?

And where is the wreckage?

For over a century, the truth behind

the hunley's dramatic disappearance

remained a complete mystery.

But now, there's a remarkable revelation.

The amityville horror house isn't the only high-profile

home with a supposedly haunted history.

California's Winchester mystery house is what happens

when grief meets ghosts.

The house was conceived in 1881 by Sarah Winchester,

the widow of William Winchester,

heir to the famous rifle fortune.

After his death, Sarah became obsessed

with the idea that the spirits of people

killed by the Winchester rifle were seeking revenge.

So, Sarah spent the next 38 years designing

and ever redesigning her 160-room home

staircases lead to nowhere, doors open into walls.

It's more maze than mansion.

She believed the constant construction

would torture the spirits.

At the very least, it must have tortured her contractor.

Today, the Winchester mansion is open to the public.

Everyone is welcome.

Except, of course, ghosts.

In 1995, after 131 years, a salvage crew finally locates

the wreck of the hunley at the bottom

of Charleston harbor.

Part of the mystery is solved, but then comes

the much bigger question, why did it sink?

The sub is pulled onto land and the hull panels are removed.

What researchers find is shocking.

The skeletons of the hunley crew are all there,

all at their original stations.

The sub was not completely obliterated

by the detonation of the torpedo,

as some had theorized.

What's more, there is no sign the crew knew

they were in trouble or had made any move

to escape drowning.

So how and why did these men die?

Biomedical engineer, Dr. Rachel Lance has spent years

exploring this question.

Being a biomedical engineer is a lot like being a detective

looking at how someone died.

You make a list of the usual suspects

of the things that can kill us, the things that will cause

our frail bodies to fail, and then you try

and narrow them down one at a time using science.

So, in the case of the hunley, we saw all the usual suspects.

We saw a lack of oxygen,

we really need oxygen to keep living,

we saw gunshot wounds, possibly to the hull,

possibly to the crew.

But the discovery of the remains of the crew,

each at their crank position,

was a huge scientific revelation

because it meant that these theories

were probably not really plausible.

Based on my experience with explosions

and looking at previous case reports of blast trauma,

I immediately developed the hypothesis that the crew

had been instantly incapacitated by this 200-pound bomb

just off their bow.

To determine if the crew were killed by the bomb itself,

Dr. Lance conducts a detailed simulation of the explosion.

She builds a one-sixth scale model of the submarine,

recreating the conditions on the hunley

when the torpedo detonated and sank the housatonic.

It is really common in the world of blasts

to set up a scale model.

Blasts actually scale remarkably well

as long as you're conscientious about the physics that you use.

With a model, I was able to create different experiments

and different setups

where I could vary the parameters,

and I could make small changes to see how big of an impact

they had on the results.

What Dr. Lance discovers during this test is sobering.

To understand how a shock wave or even a lowly pressure wave

can cause trauma to the body, it's helpful to think of it

more as traveling energy.

So, when that bomb explodes, it's essentially creating

a omnidirectional hammer that's now pounding against

the housatonic on one side, but then the ocean

everywhere else.

Most of our human body handles blast waves fairly well.

They actually transmit right through

because we're pretty flexible.

We absorb that energy and diffuse it overall.

The organ that is the greatest exception is the lungs.

With the blast wave, the pressure wave

from the bottom of the hunley, there was about an 85% chance

of immediate fatality for each one of the crew members inside,

just from the lung trauma alone.

Even if they survived, if they... if each one had

that lucky 15%, there still was an over 99% chance

that they would have had a severe lung injury.

So we now know that the remains of the crew

and the whole incident overall show these classic hallmarks

that it was the bomb itself that took down the lives

of the eight inside.

So, the very same explosion that makes

the hunley historic is also the thing that dooms it.

The torpedo that sinks the USS housatonic

causes a shockwave so intense, it leads

to catastrophic lung damage, killing the entire crew

almost instantly.

This is why they didn't try to escape.

They never had a chance.

All eight members of the crew of the henley

died during her final mission.

As a result of their sacrifice, they killed five union sailors,

and they took the USS housatonic

to the bottom of the ocean in less than five minutes.

But all eight of those crew members brought with them

on this mission tokens, pins, coins of value

that indicated that they thought they were going to survive.

So the question is, like with so many other

incidents of warfare, if they'd known

the actual end results, would they have

considered it worth it?

And so the mystery of the h.L. Hunley is solved,

and the craft itself leaves behind an important legacy.

Submarines would go on to play a pivotal role

in nearly all major naval conflicts.

Once propelled by human hands and barely

able to submerge, today, nuclear-powered submarines

and their crews stay underwater for months at a time.

Their innovative dual hulls now ensure robust protection

from the deepest depths and powerful shock waves,

providing safety the crew of the hunley

could never have imagined.

And as for George Dixon and his crew, in 2004,

they were buried together, their fates finally explained.

I'm Josh gates, and I'll see you

on the next expedition.