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A German U -boat sunk by a colossal sea
serpent.
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A remote fishing village terrorized by a
giant man -eating lake monster.
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And horrific, unidentified sea creatures
that defy explanation.
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For centuries, tales have been told of
frightening encounters with strange
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creatures living deep beneath the
water's surface.
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Stories include sightings of giant
sharks, prehistoric serpents, and even
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-toothed mermaids. Might these
terrifying creatures be the real -life
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of legends and myths?
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Perhaps.
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Because every year, biologists discover
thousands of new and frankly bizarre
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species in Earth's vast aquatic realm.
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Could our planet's blue expanse be
hiding actual monsters within its watery
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depths? Well, that is what we'll try and
find out.
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The Atlantic Ocean, 2022
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Off the coast of Rhode Island,
researchers from the Atlantic Shark
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sweep the ocean depths with sonar, a
technology that uses sound waves to
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underwater images.
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To their dismay, they discover something
massive swimming underneath their boat.
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Suddenly, on the sonar screen was the
shape of a giant shark.
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You can see the fin, the face.
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It was about 50, 60 feet long, and for a
moment there, everybody on that ship
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just froze.
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There's a shark of unimaginable
proportions just under this boat.
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There is a 50 -foot sonar ping that
resembles a very large shark, which is
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extraordinary. Many people online
started to speculate that it was our
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evidence that there is a large shark out
there, possibly Megalodon.
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Megalodon was an extinct, huge shark
that existed from about 23 million years
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ago to about 3 .5 million years ago.
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Recent estimates put the shark up to
about 80 feet in total length, so that's
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two yellow school buses lined up front
to back.
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So that sonar image was pretty exciting.
However, the researchers, including
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myself, hypothesized that this was
probably just a huge school of fish that
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happened to be swimming in a shape that
resembled a shark.
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The image of the creature, or maybe
school of fish, on the monitor
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went viral. Everybody was sharing this.
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And what this tells us is we are so
fascinated with giant sharks and
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itself that even a momentary blip on a
screen is enough to send everybody into
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excitement and conjecture.
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While conventional wisdom tells us that
the Megalodon went extinct over 3
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million years ago,
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This story reinvigorated a truly
terrifying question.
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Is it possible that the mighty Megalodon
is still out there in the vast ocean?
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The reality is this terror of the deep
remains a fascinating mystery pieced
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together one tooth at a time.
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Megalodon was the most ferocious,
incredible shark that ever lived.
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Scientists estimate that... It weighed
about 50 to 75 tons.
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Its bite pressure was about 40 ,000
pounds per square inch.
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Its bite force was tremendous.
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Recent studies have shown that not only
could the megalodon have been the
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biggest apex predator of its time, but
ever.
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We know that because we've found the
teeth.
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The megalodon tooth is around 7 inches,
which means it would be a 65 -foot
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apex predator.
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And so we know the size, but to really
understand what the shark looks like,
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that's still a mystery.
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We haven't found a fossil of a megalodon
because sharks are mostly cartilage
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that breaks down.
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Megalodon is in the same order that the
great white is, so it's easy to assume
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that the megalodon looks like a big
version of a great white shark.
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But that's not necessarily true. Science
is always building on itself, and this
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is one more example.
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If megalodons existed millions of years
ago, why would we even consider the
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possibility that this colossal predator
might still be around today?
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Or... Could there be a relative of this
prehistoric terror that has yet to be
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identified?
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Perhaps clues can be found in a 1900s
tale of frightened fishermen off the
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of Australia.
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In 1918, in Port Stephens in Australia,
fishermen were
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terrified and refused to go back out
onto the water because they had seen
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something out there that had scared
them.
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They told of being fishing for lobster
in deep waters.
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For several days, they noticed something
was attacking their pot and stealing
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their catch.
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Then one day, the crew noticed a ghostly
white shark pass by them.
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They estimated it to be between 100 feet
and 300 feet in length,
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far larger than any known living shark.
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This was documented by a naturalist,
David Stead, who said that the men were
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insistent that this was not a whale.
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They recognized this as something they
had never seen before.
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So the question is, what did they really
see?
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While some experts propose that the
fishermen saw a whale shark, the largest
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stonefish on Earth,
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They don't reach anywhere near the size
of the shark said to have been spotted
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in 1918.
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And this is not the only story of the
mysterious predators off the coast of
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Australia.
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In 2003, a great white shark was
reportedly swallowed by a massive
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unknown creature.
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And in 2019, an Australian fisherman was
reeling in a large Mako shark when
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something... Terrifying.
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Bit the miko in half.
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There are photographs around of animals
with really big bites in them.
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Those bites allude to other large apex
predators being of
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colossal proportions.
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I think there could be something out
here that we're not aware of, that we
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know about.
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We actually know nothing about the
ocean.
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And my hope is that the pursuit of the
unknown is enough of a
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driver for people to stop and appreciate
and respect the unknown.
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While Australia is certainly known for
its giant deadly sharks, stories of
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unidentified ocean predators can also be
found all over the world.
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In 2024.
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it was widely reported that another
large shark was swallowed by an
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carnivore off the coast of Bermuda.
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So in 2020, a group of researchers
tagged a poor beagle shark.
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Now, a poor beagle shark is a pretty
large fish, between 8 and 12 feet long,
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apex predator.
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And then, over the course of the next
month, it started going to much deeper
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levels of the ocean, where poor beagle
sharks usually aren't.
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And the researchers had to conclude that
tracking mechanism they put on the
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porbeagle is now in the belly of some
other creature.
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So now the question is, what could eat
an apex predator?
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They don't know.
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Could a creature like the mighty
megalodon be stalking the seas beneath
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Well, it's a frightening thought.
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And a fascinating mystery that has both
terrified and tantalized us for
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centuries.
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There's a real sense of vulnerability
when you are out on the water. The
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fathomless nature of the ocean when you
can't see the bottom.
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There's just an incredible sense of
one's own smallness in the universe.
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And that's where we start getting into
that realm of folklore and mythology and
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the fantastic.
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The belief in sea monsters is
unbelievably pervasive.
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We do know that this world was populated
by massive ancient creatures long
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before we were on the scene, and the
presence of their fossils might suggest
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that some of those creatures survived in
a way that made it into the oral
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traditions of contemporary cultures.
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If we have water, we will put monsters
in it.
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The Flannan Isles, Scotland, December
26, 1900.
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A ship named the Hesperus arrives at the
tiny rocky outcrop of Eileen Moor,
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about 80 miles west of the Scottish
mainland.
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The ship is there to bring provisions to
the three lone men living on the
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island, James Ducat, Thomas Marshall,
and Donald MacArthur, who are stationed
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there as keepers of the Flannan Isles
lighthouse.
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In 1899, they erected a lighthouse on
Eilean Mor, which is one of the Flannan
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Islands, to make sure people didn't
ground ashore on this island.
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Eilean Mor is small, 40 acres. It's
basically a rock with some grass on it
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the middle of the ocean.
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The coast is cliffs, so there's ramps
and stairs and railways.
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Usually there's a crew of lighthouse
keepers there, three people.
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They live on the island. They're always
there to maintain this light.
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In 1900, ships started noticing the
light was out.
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When the supply ship finally arrived to
bring supplies and to recrew the
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lighthouse, they found nobody there.
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It was as though they stumbled onto a
crime scene.
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The clock on the wall had stopped.
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The table had been set for a meal.
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but it hadn't been served.
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A chair was knocked over.
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It looked as though the men had raced
out of the house for some reason, but
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could not put the puzzle pieces together
as to what happened to these missing
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light keepers.
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The master of the Hesperus decides to
have the whole island searched.
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What all of them find deeply unsettling
is the damage that's happened to the
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West Landing.
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Concrete has been torn apart.
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The railings have been pulled out.
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The turf at the very top of the island,
which is up to 180 feet above sea level,
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has been chewed up. The rocks have been
thrown about.
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It's inexplicable what's happened.
They've never seen anything like it
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Despite extensive searches and people
investigating over the decades, there
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no trace of them ever found.
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What could have possibly happened to the
three men stationed at the Flannan
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Isles lighthouse over a century ago?
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The lack of obvious clues has led some
to unsettling speculation.
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There's several theories about what
happened to the three keepers.
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There's murder.
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They were swept away by a giant wave.
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But one of the theories is that
disappearance was caused by a sea
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Scotland is surrounded by water, and it
is known as an area where sea monsters
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were believed to roam.
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Scottish folklore includes many monsters
associated with the dark waters of its
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rugged coast.
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But perhaps the most terrifying of them
all is a true massive sea serpent known
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as the Kirin Kroen.
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The name Kirin Kroen translates to gray
crest, which was due to a large fan
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-shaped fin that ran down the length of
its body.
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It was said to also have the powers to
shapeshift.
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It could transform itself into a smaller
fish, which could then be caught by
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fishermen and pulled onto the boat.
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At that point, it could shift back into
its regular form and destroy the ship,
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devour the sailors. This is a
frightening sort of creature.
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The Kirin Kroen is gargantuan.
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According to folklore, this is a
creature that would make a meal out of
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whales. And it lives off the coast of
Scotland, where there's all of these
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outlying islands where people are making
their living, working in the sea as
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fishermen.
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This is a relevant story to their lives.
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Many have proposed that the Kirin Kroen
was responsible for the missing
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lighthouse keepers. When you take into
account of all the damage that was
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it would have taken something with
immense power.
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That's exactly where they believe the
Kirin Kroen came in.
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Could a legendary monster really have
been responsible?
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for this mysterious disappearance at the
Flannan Isles lighthouse.
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Surprisingly, some believe there's
actual evidence that a dangerous sea
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lurks in these dark waters.
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In 1808, a massive, unidentified carcass
washed ashore at one of Scotland's
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Orkney Islands.
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It became known as the Stronsay Beast.
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The Stronsay Beast.
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attracted a great deal of interest.
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It had a long serpent -like body, and
the whole thing is very, very long, and
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there was no known answer for what it
actually was.
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So these animals, these creatures, were
huge.
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It's quite possible that they also sunk
ships.
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In 1918, during World War I, A German U
-boat, UB85,
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was navigating the waters between
Ireland and Scotland when they were
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And the captain of the ship, Gunther
Kretsch, claimed that the reason the
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sunk was because of some huge creature
that rose out of the water with horns
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glinting teeth.
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And it damaged the boat.
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Eventually, the creature went back into
the depths of the water.
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Unfortunately, the damage had been done.
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The U -boat is starting to sink. Just
before it makes its way to the bottom of
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the sea, the British arrive and are able
to save the crew.
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That's when the German captain begins
his story of the horrific sea monster.
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Could the multiple reports of so -called
sea monsters offer some proof that the
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local Scottish folklore is true?
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And could a real terror of the deep be
responsible for the disappearance of
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three unfortunate light keepers over a
century ago?
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The Flannans' Mystery is basically a
story of three lighthouse keepers who
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disappeared into thin air in 1900.
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The biggest question for me is what
happened to the bodies of the men. It
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be said that if they had fallen into the
water, wherever they are, most times
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one of them will wash up somewhere, but
the bodies just completely disappeared.
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If they had been taken by a giant sea
monster, they would have been eaten.
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I've never discounted the sea monster
theory because...
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people still don't know what lies under
the ocean.
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Are the waters off the coast of Scotland
inhabited by a dangerous sea serpent?
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Without any physical proof of the
monster, all we can do is speculate.
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But in Japan, the discovery of a bizarre
mummified creature
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may provide the truth behind the legend.
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The hideous, razor -toothed mermaid.
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Asakuchi City, Japan.
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This small coastal town is home to the
serene Buddhist sanctuary known as the
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Enjun Temple.
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Here, a very peculiar artifact is
carefully enshrined in a fireproof box.
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It is the resting place.
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of a grotesque mummified creature known
as a ningyo.
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There's probably stories that date back
to the 8th century in Japan about
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ningyo. So ningyo is usually translated
into English as mermaid.
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When you first look at it, it is quite
horrifying, and it does look to be like
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some kind of half -human, half -fish.
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It's about a foot long, and it has two
hands, which it's holding up to its
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mouth. and its face looks to be
screaming.
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It's just totally just a mystery.
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While it's unclear how or when this
Ningyo mummy came to the temple, the
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tangible clue is a handwritten note that
says the creature was caught in a
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Japanese fishing net sometime between
1736 and 1741.
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And despite its murky history, today the
Anjuan Temple's 34th chief priest,
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Kozin Kuita, is its dedicated caretaker.
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There are many legends about mermaids in
this area.
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There is an old legend that if you eat
the blood and flesh of a mermaid, you
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will live a long life and never die.
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Visitors to the temple in the past would
peel off and eat the scales, thinking
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it would grant them a longer life or
even immortality.
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However, since this was harmful to the
mummy, we have asked visitors to refrain
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from doing so.
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There are allegedly more than 14 similar
ningyo mummies in Japan.
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But tales of mermaids can be found
around the globe and have been told for
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thousands of years.
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In ancient Syria, it is said that when
the goddess Atagatas jumped into a lake,
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she sprouted a fishtail.
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In Thailand, folklore describes an
ancient mermaid named Savanamaka.
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And the Melusine is from European
folklore.
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Many of these mermaids of myth and
legend can be quite deadly.
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Mermaids traditionally are a half
-woman, half -fish creature.
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And this is something that in literature
and in popular culture...
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is often portrayed as sort of a
peaceful, beautiful creature that men
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sailors fall in love with easily.
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And when we look at folkloric tradition,
they're actually pretty bloodthirsty
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and dangerous.
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A beautiful woman with a fishtail is
often hiding multiple rows of incredibly
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sharp razor -like teeth.
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and you will be torn limb from limb by
this very same creature.
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Japan's mummified mermaid certainly
doesn't look like an object of desire.
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The question is, just what is this
strange, snarling specimen?
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Well, in 2022, that's exactly what
Japanese researchers were determined to
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out.
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The ningyo was sent to the Kurashiki
University of Science and the Art.
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for some experiments.
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Led by Professor Kato Takafumi,
researchers performed CT scans, x -rays,
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and DNA analysis on the artifact.
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The results suggested that the specimen
was not a single creature, but instead
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was pieced together artificially.
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It was probably made in the late 1800s.
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The teeth and the body is a fish, and it
has two hands made from different
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animal parts.
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There's lots of puffer fish scales all
over it, and some cloth and cotton
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in as well to bring it all together.
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Once the researchers realized that this
was artificially made, the question
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immediately arises, why?
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Why was it made?
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Is it based on some kind of truth, some
kind of creature they saw out in the
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water?
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That's the really big question when it
comes to Zinio.
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They are all over Japan.
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They're in temples. They are venerated.
They are worshipped.
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Why? Why do they exist? What inspired
them?
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The results have not changed my feelings
or beliefs that such a creature might
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have existed in the sea, perhaps a half
-human, half -fish being.
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As I have always said, Buddhist temples
and statues of Buddha are merely objects
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made of wood or stone.
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Yet people still worship them with
reverence.
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There are many creatures that people
believe exist.
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Many things in the world remain
undiscovered.
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The specimen found in the Injun temple
is just one of many of these alleged
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specimens just waiting to be analyzed.
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Could one of these specimens turn out to
be proof?
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that mermaids do exist.
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We just can't say for sure.
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It's remarkable to think that modern
science may eventually prove that the
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fabled and frightening Ningyo actually
existed.
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But there's another terror of the deep,
rumored to inhabit a lake in the
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northeastern United States, a species
believed to be so ancient.
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That dates back to the time of the
dinosaurs.
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The South Pacific, April 1977.
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Thirty miles off the coast of New
Zealand, a Japanese fishing vessel drags
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massive net nearly 1 ,000 feet under the
water, hoping to fill it with tons of
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macro.
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The crew is shocked when the net pulls
up a horrifying carcass of a creature
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that will spark awe and curiosity.
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around the world.
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This fishing boat picked up this
enormous, disgusting creature, and there
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a famous photo that you can see of it
where it's hanging from the boat's
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and the skin is kind of dripping off the
bones. It's got this long neck and
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these gangly arms.
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Back in Japan, there was a marine expert
named Tokio Shikama, and he was looking
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at the photos.
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And he proposed that it might be a
plesiosaurus, which has been extinct for
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million years.
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The plesiosaur had razor -sharp teeth in
its mouth.
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It could get up to 40 feet in length.
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Researchers believed that it would
attack its prey from underneath, from
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like the great white shark.
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It had an extremely powerful bite force.
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It was a deadly predator.
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Did Japanese fishermen discover the
decayed carcass of a prehistoric
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It's an audacious claim.
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Yet throughout the 20th century, there
have been intriguing reports to suggest
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that large, plesiosaur -like creatures
are very much alive.
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And of course, the most iconic example
is said to reside in a large lake in the
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Scottish Highlands, called...
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The Loch Ness Monster is undoubtedly the
most
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famous alleged plesiosaur -like
creature, but it's not the only one.
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There are many lakes and lochs around
the world that have stories of unknown
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creatures swimming in them.
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One of the best examples is Lake
Champlain, located between Vermont, New
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and the province of Quebec in Canada.
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Lake Champlain is 120 miles in length
and 13 miles at its
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widest point.
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It's three times the size of Loch Ness.
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And many people believe that a large
lake monster lives in the waters of Lake
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Champlain.
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The Lake Champlain monster, also known
as Champ, is described as having a large
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body and four fins.
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A long neck with a small head, very much
like a plesiosaur.
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The Lake Champlain monster,
affectionately called Champ or Champy,
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legend for those who live along this
huge North American lake.
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The creature is celebrated with historic
markers that claim hundreds of
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sightings of the beast.
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And it's featured in museums as a large
Jurassic plesiosaur.
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But is Champ just folklore? Or could
there really be a monstrous creature
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lurking the depths of Lake Champlain?
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Lake Champlain gained international
attention in 1977 when Sandra Mancy and
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her two children and her fiancé were
taking a leisurely drive up the coast of
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Vermont along the lake.
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They decided to pull over to have a
little picnic, let everyone stretch
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legs, and the kids to splash around in
the water.
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Sandra Mansi saw a large head break out
from the surface of the water, attached
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to a long neck.
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Mansi was able to snap one photograph of
the creature that appeared to be
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looking away from her.
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The photo shows what looks...
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like a plesiosaur -like creature with
its body in the water and its head and
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neck sticking up. And this is something
that's become sort of the image of what
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we believe Champ to look like.
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The Mansi photo has been analyzed by
photo experts who agree that this is a
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genuine photo and has not been altered
in any way.
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It's very convincing that at least some
sort of mysterious creature is lurking
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in the waters of Lake Champlain.
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Sandra Mancy's extraordinary photograph
has provided tantalizing proof of
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Champ's existence for a half a century.
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And what's even more remarkable is that
it corroborates sightings of the
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creature that people have described in
Lake Champlain for hundreds of years.
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Champ is probably America's... best
-known lake monster, and he's been
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for a long, long time.
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We see this reflected in the local
native lore.
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The Abenaki had a name for this
creature, the Gitteskog, that was this
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inhabiting the lake.
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Now, in their version, this is a
serpentine thing with horns, and some
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have even suggested that this could go
much further back, related to some other
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mythological creatures and native
traditions.
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Legends of a monster inhabiting Lake
Champlain were already well established
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when Samuel de Champlain discovered this
body of water in 1609.
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It is said that Champlain himself
spotted a large unidentified creature in
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lake. And ever since, hundreds of
eyewitness reports of Champlain have
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to accumulate.
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Perhaps the most compelling recent
evidence surfaced in 2024 when
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Kelly Tabor, and Richard Rossi were
reviewing aerial footage they shot over
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Champlain and noticed that they captured
something extraordinary.
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We were just getting an aerial shot of
the lake. The water is clear.
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It was a nice summer day.
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We're out on our rickety 12 -foot -long
rowboat in the middle of Lake Champlain,
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not even realizing there's this huge
creature that we caught swimming right
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behind us.
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Champ is following our boat from behind,
swimming under the surface of the
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water.
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When I saw the video of Champ swimming
behind our boat after the fact,
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it gave me chills.
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I just started to shake and get tremors.
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And I felt this fear, this awe of just
how massive and how close it was just.
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Yards away.
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We weren't looking for a champ. We
weren't expecting anything like this.
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contacted scientists with their own
doctorates, and those in this field say
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it has the body of a plesiosaur, and
it's moving, it's swimming, and it's
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than your boat.
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And so this is a real game changer if
this creature has survived.
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Could there be a living, breathing relic
from the age of the dinosaurs?
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Murking deep in the waters of Lake
Champlain?
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It's an intriguing thought.
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But there is a lake in Alaska that holds
an even bigger mystery because locals
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have long believed its frigid waters are
home to a creature so big and so
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powerful that it can sink boats with a
single bite.
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Alaska, June 2017.
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200 miles southwest of Anchorage lies
the largest body of freshwater in the
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state,
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Lake Gileana.
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At over 1 ,000 square miles, this
massive lake is roughly the size of
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Island. And from its southern shore,
onlookers notice a strange disturbance
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in the water.
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It was a relatively calm day and sunny,
good visibility.
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I happened to have my phone with me, and
we witnessed something emerge out
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of the water, and I caught it on video.
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Look right there. Look at that right
there.
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What is that?
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There's three of them. What is it?
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What you could see was a shape, and the
shape was smooth and rounded.
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It was very dark in color, and it kind
of came out of the water and submerged
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itself back under the water.
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I had my binoculars, and I was glancing
out to the island, and these humps
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appeared, and these things were huge.
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Look, Gary!
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Holy!
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I don't know what that is.
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I thought if there was anything on the
lake that could match that size.
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It made your heart race a little bit.
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Because these were like, I can't stress
it enough, big.
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What was this huge creature breaching
the surface of Lake Iliamna?
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To this day, no one knows for sure.
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Yet for centuries, native inhabitants of
this area have claimed that it's an
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unidentified terror known as the Lake
Iliamna Monster.
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Well, there's many, many supernatural
aquatic creatures in the native lore and
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contemporary legends of Alaska.
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These things are known in the stories
for eating people, for capsizing boats,
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for causing death and destruction.
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Maybe none are more famous or more well
-known than the Lake Iliamna monster.
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The locals even had a name before this,
something like the large black fish.
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Since the 1940s, there have been
credible sightings of something big, 10
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25 feet long, that has a broad anvil
-like head that it uses to smash
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into boats.
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And Lake Iliamna is very difficult to
get to. It's very secluded.
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If there's a perfect habitat for a lake
monster to reside in, it's Lake Iliamna.
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What is this dangerous large black fish
said to lurk the depths of Lake Iliamna?
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After decades of speculation, in 2015,
retired pilot Mark Stigar
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and marine ecologist Bruce Wright
decided to identify the monster
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once and for all.
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00:34:58,990 --> 00:35:03,289
Mark and I talked to local people, and
they were telling all these different
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stories.
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I had some people draw some pictures of
it.
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Surprisingly, some of the pictures
looked a little bit like sleeper sharks.
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And they can get up to 20, 21 feet, 22
feet, something like that.
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They're pretty big fish.
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And they're in Alaska, all over the
place.
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I told Mark, I said, you know, we could
solve this maybe right away by trying to
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catch it.
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We started putting these large hooks
baited with a full salmon head down on
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bottom of the lake and left them out
there overnight.
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There were 14 hooks designed to catch
halibut for commercial halibut fishing,
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and we baited it with 14 fish heads.
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We put it in over 100 feet of water with
the intention to come out every day.
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Check the line. So if we did get the
animal on the line, we could take a
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to figure out exactly what it is.
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Mark and Bruce spent two years setting
and checking their bait without much
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luck.
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But one day, when they pulled up their
equipment out of the water, they were
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shocked at what they found.
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00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:24,000
Something got some of the head.
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00:36:25,860 --> 00:36:32,599
Something's taken our bait. The 38
-pound anchor had been moved at least 50
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00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,779
yards. So do we want to pop them off and
then reset it? You want to try doing
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that? Yep. We pulled up basically a knot
of the entire rope minus the anchor.
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Look at all these.
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And all the hooks and everything were
all tangled up. The part that the hooks
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were attached to were totally ripped off
the line.
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For me, at that point in time, it was,
okay, there are no doubts there is a
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large animal in this lake.
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I've caught halibut 300 pounds and had
sharks on that were 500 pounds, and they
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00:37:10,290 --> 00:37:12,010
wouldn't do damage like that.
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00:37:12,490 --> 00:37:19,429
I was reluctant to believe this myth
until I saw the damage that this
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did to the longline gear.
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00:37:21,870 --> 00:37:24,810
And that kind of changed my mind.
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I believe this is truly a fish of some
sort or some sort of animal that has
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skills.
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00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,120
It stays underwater.
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00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:38,780
It's not a whale.
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This animal, whatever it is, it will
dive and nobody will see it again.
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00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:49,920
I tend to lean towards the sweeper shark
or something similar to that.
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00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:56,059
And so some of us just want to see what
we can do to solve some of those
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00:37:56,060 --> 00:37:57,110
mysteries.
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00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:06,159
Ever since mankind has taken to the high
seas and explored the lakes and
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waterways of our world, there have been
tales of terrifying aquatic monsters.
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Yet every now and then, these terrors of
the deep aren't spotted in the open
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00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,840
water, but instead found washed up on
the shore.
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00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:29,339
These mysterious and often grotesque
carcasses are called unidentified sea
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00:38:29,340 --> 00:38:30,390
objects.
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00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:36,959
An unidentified sea object is when
something washes ashore, a carcass of
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form, usually in a shapeless blob of
blubber.
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00:38:41,740 --> 00:38:47,099
In the early days, these were called
globsters. People would just simply
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00:38:47,100 --> 00:38:52,739
them, move on, avoid them. But over the
years, people took more interest in
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00:38:52,740 --> 00:38:59,060
globsters as possible evidence of
unknown species washing up on the shore.
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00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:04,899
Now, so many of these have washed up,
begging the question of, are they
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00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:10,560
something out of the ordinary or
something that we can simply explain?
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00:39:11,580 --> 00:39:16,239
Perhaps the most famous unidentified sea
object was discovered on the shore of
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00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:18,680
Long Island, New York, in July of 2008.
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00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:25,440
It's a strange creature that has come to
be known as the Montauk Monster.
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The Montauk monster had a large body
with four legs, and its face was rather
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00:39:31,850 --> 00:39:36,710
horrifying. It had sharp, protruding
teeth and what looked like a beak.
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00:39:37,430 --> 00:39:42,529
This thing has never definitively been
identified, fueling all sorts of
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00:39:42,530 --> 00:39:48,209
speculation as to what this thing could
be. But there's countless other cases of
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00:39:48,210 --> 00:39:49,910
unidentified sea objects.
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00:39:50,750 --> 00:39:54,270
The St. Augustine monster from 1896.
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00:39:55,950 --> 00:39:57,810
The Rock Ness Monster, 2015.
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00:39:58,610 --> 00:40:03,230
With all of these things washing up on
shore, it leaves the obvious question,
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00:40:03,310 --> 00:40:06,030
what unknown creatures may we yet find?
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00:40:06,310 --> 00:40:08,950
It's just a mystery that's waiting to be
solved.
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00:40:10,610 --> 00:40:13,350
About 70 % of our planet's covered in
water.
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00:40:14,550 --> 00:40:19,350
Yet we've only been able to explore a
fraction of our oceans, rivers, and
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00:40:20,330 --> 00:40:23,210
What might we find in our underwater
world?
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00:40:23,870 --> 00:40:27,730
Could there be dangerous creatures of
the deep we have yet to discover?
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00:40:28,330 --> 00:40:33,990
The oceans are teeming with life, and
there are over a million species,
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00:40:34,490 --> 00:40:39,390
two -thirds of which have not been
discovered or not fully described.
542
00:40:39,890 --> 00:40:46,449
The largest species on Earth are found
in the ocean, and it's impossible to say
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00:40:46,450 --> 00:40:50,770
that there aren't large animals that
haven't been found.
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00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:54,620
The oceans are this massive part of the
planet.
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00:40:54,860 --> 00:40:59,580
They're deep and dark, and yet we have
no real access to them as people.
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00:40:59,581 --> 00:41:01,459
It's an inhospitable atmosphere.
547
00:41:01,460 --> 00:41:04,599
We know there are giant creatures down
there, strange -looking creatures. And
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00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,599
yet all we see is this surface, right,
which can be flat, choppy, wavy,
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00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:09,359
it is.
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00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,850
But everything it has, all of its
mysteries, are all hidden below the
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00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:18,739
When looking at the strange and unknown
creatures that have been hiding deep
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00:41:18,740 --> 00:41:20,300
underwater, you have to wonder.
553
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,000
Could the sea monsters of myth and
legends also be real?
554
00:41:25,780 --> 00:41:29,400
Could the mighty Megalodon still be
lurking beneath the waves?
555
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,680
And what about the bizarre -looking
Nenguil?
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00:41:34,220 --> 00:41:37,240
Are they all hiding somewhere in the
murky depths?
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00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:44,859
The fact is that the vast oceans of our
planet are an excellent place for
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00:41:44,860 --> 00:41:49,000
creatures of all types to remain safely
out of sight.
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00:41:50,030 --> 00:41:55,749
And until they surface, the mystery
surrounding these terrors of the deep
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00:41:55,750 --> 00:41:58,850
remain unexplained.
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00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:03,450
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