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An elusive killer with a taste for
blood.
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An ancient mountain shrine where demons
emerge from the underworld.
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And a frightening creature that roams
the frozen forest and hungers
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for human flesh.
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From an early age, we're all told
stories of scary monsters that lurk in
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shadows. From the big bad wolf and blood
-sucking vampires to evil witches and
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dangerous beasts, we learn early on that
the world can be a frightening place.
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But what if some of these tall tales are
based on real life?
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All around the globe, there are accounts
of terrifying creatures that defy our
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understanding of the natural world.
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Could the reports of gruesome beings
with glowing eyes or three -toed savages
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hiding in remote swamps be true?
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Well, that is what we'll try and find
out.
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Vlad the Impaler.
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Lycan of Arcadia.
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Nosferatu.
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The Beast of Jevudan.
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These are the names of grotesque and
terrifying monsters.
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Unearthly creatures that, according to
legend, thrived on human blood and
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feasted on human flesh.
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But could they actually be real?
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New Orleans, Louisiana, 1903.
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Police arrive upon a gruesome scene.
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A local prostitute lies bloody and
battered on the street.
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Her leg is shattered in three places.
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Based on eyewitness accounts, it's
believed she intentionally leapt from a
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balcony 20 feet above.
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She'd been with a wealthy man.
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He'd been friendly, generous, funny,
kind. He'd made no advances, though he
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for her time.
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But then he attacked her.
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He moved upon her with unnatural
swiftness.
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He wrapped his arms around her, pulled
her head to the side, and began to,
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quote, rip at her flesh.
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Her attacker was a man by the name of
Jacques Saint -Germain, an affluent,
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-known fixture in the New Orleans upper
class who claimed to be a direct
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descendant of French nobility.
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Historical accounts describe him as a
charming ladies' man, celebrated
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throughout the French Quarter for his
tales of adventure and elaborately
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parties. But curiously, his guests never
see him partake of so much as a morsel
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of the food he serves.
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Instead, he reportedly got all of his
sustenance from bottles that were
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to be filled with red wine.
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But when police went to question Jacques
Saint -Germain about the murder of the
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prostitute, they found that his
preferred wine was of a very unusual
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When they went to the house in the
morning, it was entirely empty. No
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everything was gone. Jacques had
completely disappeared.
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However, on the second floor, according
to the story, they found bottles of wine
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mixed with human blood.
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Bottles of wine mixed with human blood.
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Was Jacques Saint -Germain merely a
demented killer who preyed upon a
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woman?
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Or could his taste for blood have had a
more disturbing explanation?
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Jacques Saint -Germain resided in New
Orleans in the early part of the 20th
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century. And one must look back in
history at an eerily similar -looking
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named Comte Saint -Germain, who lived in
Paris, France, over a century earlier.
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The similarities between the two
gentlemen are pretty striking.
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Comte Saint -Germain was known to the
French court in the 1700s. He was a
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mysterious figure. He was rumored to be
an alchemist.
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And he let the rumor slip that he had
found the secret to...
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eternal life through his alchemy.
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He would speak as if he had lived in the
1500s, and he never looked a day over
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40 years old.
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We have portraits of the original Count
Saint -Germain when he's 40 years old.
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Jacques Saint -Germain was also 40 years
old when he disappeared, and some
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people commented that he looked like the
man in the portrait.
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Early 40s, maybe 5 foot 6 inches tall,
like 140 pounds.
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Pale skin and high cheekbones, thin
lips, hot nose, long curling dark hair,
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large blue -gray eyes.
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He's elegant, he's charming, he's
French.
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He spends money like it's water.
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Many people say that Jacques Saint
-Germain and the Count Saint -Germain
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same person.
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Jacques Saint -Germain and the Count de
Saint -Germain.
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One and the same?
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If so, that would have made him almost
170 years old at the time of his
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disappearance from New Orleans in 1903.
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That is...
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If he ever really disappeared.
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Even down to modern times, there have
been sightings of St. Germain wandering
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our streets late at night.
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People will say that they have
encountered him, and now and then one of
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disappears.
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This is actually an account from some
people I know fairly well.
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A few years ago at Halloween, there in
the middle of the crowd on Burton
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when the crowd just parted itself,
almost of its own accord, and there was
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standing by himself in the middle of the
crowd.
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Maybe five foot six.
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Somewhat slight of build with a long
dark coat.
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And sunglasses on at night.
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Raised his head up like he was sniffing
the air.
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And the crowd kept partying around him.
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And then they said he just vanished.
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They swear that actually happens.
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And in New Orleans, how can I not
believe it?
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Whether he's called the Count or
Jacques, there are many who believe that
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vampire who haunted the streets of New
Orleans for over a century still...
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Walks the streets at night.
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If true, could it mean that other
seemingly absurd tales of undead
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living among us are also true?
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Vampires are just part of the human
imagination.
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Going back to time immemorial.
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In folklore, there are so many different
ways to become a vampire or to destroy
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a vampire or to avoid a vampire.
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The idea of the wooden stake recoiling
from the crucifix.
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The destruction by sunlight.
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Vampires liked the night because they
could skulk around and cover their
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terrible deeds in the shadows.
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In Romanian, the word for vampire
includes the word valhola.
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which really means werewolf. So you have
werewolf, vampire, vampire.
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So sometimes I can see how people can
coalesce and come out with something
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that's a mixture.
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The werewolf and the vampire merge and
morph and inform each other.
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When Bram Stoker wrote his novel,
Dracula had the power to become a wolf.
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He was a werewolf. He was a blood
-sucking vampire as well.
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And it was the kind of arbitrary grab
bag of characteristics that he chose
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we are still mostly playing with today.
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Vampires?
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Werewolves? Could these creatures
actually exist?
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And is it possible that there is a space
between the known and unknown where the
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supernatural crosses into our reality?
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Perhaps further evidence can be found at
a strange temple complex that some
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believe is the gateway to hell itself.
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High in the mountains of central China,
along the banks of the Yangtze River,
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lies a complex of shrines and temples
that is known as Hangdu Ghost City.
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According to Chinese legend, Fengdu is
considered to be a place where our world
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meets the underworld.
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As you're approaching Fengdu City on
Ming Mountain, you're imagining
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that's going to be beautiful, but
instead you see these depictions of
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images and devilish creatures are
actually devouring human beings.
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One of the first things that you
encounter when entering the complex is
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a gate that is shaped as the head of a
demon.
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And you have to enter it through its
open mouth. So it's a very impressive
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sight that the visitor encounters.
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Walking through this complex is like
walking through hell itself.
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It's supposedly the place where the
devil actually resides.
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The vast array of devilish statues and
carvings found throughout Fengdu have
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earned the city a ghoulish reputation.
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But why did the ancient Chinese feel the
need to create an entire city filled
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with such ghastly depictions of the
forces of evil?
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Well, Fengdu Ghost City is believed to
have been first built during the Han
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Dynasty, around the year 218.
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The city was constructed to represent
Chinese beliefs about the afterlife and
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how a person's soul is judged after
death.
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The Fengdu Ghost City is a type of
purgatory space in Chinese conceptions
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underworld.
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It's a place where the souls of recently
deceased people are brought so that
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they can be in front of the court of the
underworld and tried and judged.
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for all of the actions, the good deeds
and the misdeeds that they perform
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their life.
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If their karmic balance is positive,
then after their judgment, they are
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to various celestial realms where they
can enjoy nicer afterlife.
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If your misdeeds overshadowed your good
deeds during your life, then you will be
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unable to complete this trial and you
will be presented for judgment forthwith
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and then...
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Carry out your sentence.
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The final judgment takes place inside
the oldest temple in the city, where a
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person's soul is put on trial by King
Yama, the gatekeeper to hell.
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This main building, which is actually
King Yama's court, is presided over by a
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statue of King Yama, very fearsome in
appearance.
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King Yama is the overseer of the
underworld in the Chinese tradition.
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So he judges the deeds and misdeeds of
the deceased and oversees all of this
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distribution of post -mortem justice.
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So he's bringing down the full power of
the underworld state to bear on the
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people that he judges.
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And he is also flanked by a retinue of
demons.
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Their role is to dole out the punishment
and to make sure that the punishment is
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respected.
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For those who don't go straight to the
celestial realm, they have to spend a
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certain amount of time in the 18 levels
of hell.
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And you have a variety of hells. You
have the hell of burning oil.
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You have the hell of fire.
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You have the blood pool hell in which
you have to spend a time sometimes close
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to eternity.
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The fact that this has become a major
site that is open to the public and that
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people can visit perhaps serves as a
kind of warning.
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or an incitement for people to live more
moral lives and to be kinder to others.
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The idea that your soul can be doomed to
hell for eternity is concerning, to say
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the least, but it also raises an
intriguing question.
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What led people to believe that this
particular location was so strongly
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connected to the devil and hell in the
first place?
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There's a long history of connecting
Fungi to the gate of hell, the
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or the gate of demons. And this is
considered to be the actual gate to
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the courts of the underworld.
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It's the actual entrance portal to the
netherworld.
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This portal to hell is actually a two
-way portal.
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So not only can the deceased enter it to
get to the netherworld, but you have
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demons of the netherworld who are
allowed to leave.
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who can emerge from it and sometimes
wreak havoc in the world of the living.
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The notion that Fandugo City could be a
portal to hell may sound far -fetched to
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some.
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But on the other hand, there are similar
places throughout the world that are
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also thought to serve as bridges where
Satan crosses over from his realm into
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ours.
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The idea of a portal to the underworld,
Doorway to Hell shows up in many
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different cultures and various
locations.
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There are certain caves in the
Mediterranean area. That is how you
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someone returns from Hades.
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There's a burning bowl in Turkmenistan.
It's actually a natural geological
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formation, but it is continually
burning, and it looks like a gateway to
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you would descend there.
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The concept was always, if Satan shows
up on the earth, people ask, how did he
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get here?
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Does he have a magic power where he can
just appear and just disappear?
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Or is there a way to a shortcut?
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And what happened in a lot of religions
is you had to have some kind of way to
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get from the underworld up to the
terrestrial plane. And so you needed to
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cave or some kind of portal.
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These can be in graveyards. They can be
in old mines.
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There's been a number of these reported
over time.
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These places have developed a folklore
or mythology that they are dangerous,
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scary places you should not be.
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And the belief about portals to hell is
that these are places where the
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dimensional walls are thin.
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These are places where it's easier for
Satan and his minions to cross over.
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Could it really be true that Satan and
his demons use portals to spread across
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the earth?
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According to many systems of belief, the
answer is yes.
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And there are some who believe that once
Satan has entered our world, he has the
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ability to take many different forms.
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It's recorded in ancient literature that
these forces,
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who we call Shadim, or demons.
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It is well known that they can sometimes
materialize into physical form, and
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they would look like whatever form they
would choose.
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In Christian demonology, angels don't
have bodies.
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Demons don't have bodies.
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So they can take whatever form they
want. They're natural shapeshifters.
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So we need to understand that these
entities, they're not relegated to the
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ancient past.
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These interactions.
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Miami, Florida, October 30, 2023.
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A group of psychiatrists from the
University of Miami School of Medicine
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an intriguing and unsettling study.
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Their report documents a rare mental
illness that is known as Wendigo
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Wendigo psychosis is a kind of
controversial condition in which a
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believed to have intense cravings for
human flesh.
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This could result from isolation, lack
of food, in which a person ends up
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getting a condition of high anxiety that
just sort of comes out in this bizarre
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cannibalistic craving.
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While Wendigo psychosis continues to be
studied by medical professionals, the
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name of this disturbing condition
actually has its origins in Native
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lore.
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For centuries, when Native people heard
the word Wendigo, they understood it to
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be not a form of mental illness, but
rather a terrifying monster.
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The Wendigo.
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is a creature that comes to us from
Algonquin tradition. So the Ojibwe
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the Cree people, right around the Great
Lakes area in both the U .S. and in
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Canada.
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This is an area of the world, the Great
Lakes region, where winters are harsh.
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And starvation, that was a common thing.
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The key theme to the Wendigo story is
that this is a creature that eats human
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beings.
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Wendigo is a word from the Algonquin
language which translates into evil
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spirit that devours mankind.
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Descriptions of the creature vary from
tribe to tribe, but in general, the
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Wendigo is a very tall giant with
glowing red eyes, rows of sharp
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teeth, and an extremely long tongue.
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Many cultures believe that the Wendigo
is the most fearsome and deadly creature
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ever to set foot in North America. It
has an insatiable hunger for human
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The more it eats, the bigger it becomes.
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A skeletal monster that becomes bigger
and stronger with each human it devours.
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It's undoubtedly terrifying to say the
least. But could the legend of the
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Wendigo actually be true?
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Well... According to Native American
tradition, it is.
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And perhaps the most haunting part of
the legend is that these hideous
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were once human beings.
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According to the Native American
stories, the process for somebody
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Wendigo is either an evil spirit
possesses the person and then becomes
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Wendigo.
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Or the person simply transforms into the
monster.
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If you dreamed of the Wendigo, that
would welcome the Wendigo to come and
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you. So there were multiple ways that
you could be possessed by the Wendigo.
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While Native American legends of Wendigo
transformations might be easily
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dismissed as parables rather than real
events, that may not be the case.
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Perhaps those compelling argument that
Wendigo possession is in fact real can
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found by examining the horrific story of
a 19th century Cree trapper named
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Swift Runner.
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The story of Swift Runner is one of the
most gruesome and heartbreaking tales of
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a person becoming a Wendigo.
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During the winter of 1878 and 79, Swift
Runner took off with his family to their
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winter hunting grounds.
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But then the game disappeared.
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Times were tough and food was scarce.
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During this particularly brutal winter,
he actually killed and ate his wife and
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his children.
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And according to the story, Swift Runner
had been possessed by the spirit of the
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Wendigo. Swift Runner said an evil
presence overcame him.
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When authorities took him back to the
grounds, they discovered something out
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a horror movie.
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bones thrown all about, skulls
everywhere.
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He was eventually arrested and sent to
Edmonton and was hanged for being a
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Wendigo.
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Did Swift Runner commit shocking crimes
because he was possessed by the Wendigo,
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as some people believed at the time?
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Or was he simply afflicted with an
extreme form of psychosis, as the modern
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medical community now claims?
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Just like many tales regarding monsters
of myth and legend, the truth remains
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elusive.
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The key defining feature of the Wendigo
is about cannibalism.
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We can see that as a supernatural
creature, or we can see it as a medical
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condition. But as far as anyone can
tell, the Wendigo psychosis.
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is pretty specific to that cultural
area.
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And there are things known as culture
-bound conditions that only happen to
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people from a given cultural background.
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Now, the fact that we have a science
referring to the Wendigo, it doesn't
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that the Wendigo exists.
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but it just underscores the fact that
the Wendigo has transformed from Native
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American tales to something we're
talking about in modern times.
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The possibility of contracting a
psychosis that would make you crave
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is terrifying, to say the least.
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But Wendigo is not the only creature to
be concerned about encountering.
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If you find yourself lost in the
swampland of rural Arkansas, you just
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might come face to face with a dangerous
being known as the Falk Monster.
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Falk, Arkansas.
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Population 733.
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This small town near the eastern border
of Texas appears similar to hundreds of
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other rural communities in the region.
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The single highway cuts through the
town, which is surrounded by vast woods,
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creeks, and acres of mosquito -ridden
swampland.
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Falk, Arkansas is thousands of acres of
very swampy area.
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And within that, there is plenty of
places that creatures could find
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and could easily survive.
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The woods and the swampy bottoms are
just so thick that they could travel
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through these woods and not be seen very
much, if at all.
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This rugged landscape is teeming with
wildlife.
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But according to locals, there is a
massive monstrous creature that stands
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from all others because it bears an
uncanny resemblance to a human.
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They call it the Falk Monster.
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By physical description, the Falk
Monster, it's very large, 7 to 10 feet
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Very thick, long, matted down hair.
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usually dark brown or a reddish tint.
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It's a biped walking and running upright
on its hind leg.
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The creature is often known to elicit a
frightening power.
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It's often said to have a very terrible
rank odor. It's said to be similar to a
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Bigfoot, yet more scraggly, more rugged
-looking.
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And witnesses often have a very
emotional reaction because of the fear
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creature. It's estimated that there have
been hundreds of sightings of the Falk
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monster dating back to the 1800s.
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And locals are convinced that tangible
evidence of the beast exists.
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Over the years, people have made
numerous plaster casts of unusually
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footprints said to have been left.
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by the massive creature.
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Today, many of them are preserved in a
town museum known as the Monster Mart.
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I like to look at the Monster Mart as a
place that is preserving the history of
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our town folklore here.
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We got people from all over the world
coming in, 36 foreign countries, 50
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states.
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You see a lot of cast here. Most of them
are big.
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Are these strange footprints proof that
a giant hairy beast roams the swamplands
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of southwest Arkansas?
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Perhaps. But, of course, many residents
don't need convincing because they claim
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to have actually seen the fog monster
with their own eyes.
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Back in the early 70s, my friend Karen
and I were riding in the back of a
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truck, and all of a sudden, we saw this
thing step out from behind a big tree.
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It was probably about three and a half
feet across the shoulders, and it turned
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and took another step and was gone into
the pond thicket.
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That's why we never went in the woods
anymore after that, because we knew how
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big it was, and that thing would snap
you like a twig.
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About 2004, I'm in a little canoe, and I
hear splashes.
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I could see the image, the silhouette.
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of something with two legs standing up
this thing was hairy it's big legs big
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trunk it was very impressive looking
after a while he just turned around and
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just walked off in the marsh and i
didn't see him again no i at that point
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believed in the monster or that there
was something else out there but my mind
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started getting open to the possibility
at that point many believe that the
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monster is not only real but Also, quite
dangerous.
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The most infamous incident that cemented
the Falk Monster's menacing reputation
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occurred on May 2, 1971, when it
reportedly attacked a local
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man named Bobby Ford.
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One of the most sensational and well
-known encounters with the Falk Monster
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originates at what's known as the Ford
House.
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On a Saturday night, the Ford family
started to hear something creeping
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on the porch.
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And all of a sudden, this big hairy hand
came in through the window.
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Bobby Ford went outside and shot at it.
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All of a sudden, something ran out from
beside the house and attacked it.
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He barely managed to escape, and
whatever had happened shook him up so
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they ended up having to transport him to
the Texarkana Hospital, where he was
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treated for shock and injuries as a
result of this attack.
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The Ford found a strange footprint,
which looked large and somewhat human
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yet had three toes.
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And so something...
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Very scary and something very
unexplainable happened.
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Following the publicity around the Ford
incident, a farmer found a
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track line of footprints that went
across a soybean field.
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And these tracks were roughly human
-shaped, yet had three toes.
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And this was investigated by the Miller
County Sheriff's Office, the game
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warden, wildlife officials.
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And none of them could really explain
what the heck these footprints were. So
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that built credibility to what the Fords
were saying.
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Perhaps what's even more remarkable than
the fact that inexplicable, three towed
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tracks were found shortly after the Ford
incident.
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is that a plaster cast of those
footprints can still be seen today in
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monster mart.
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Back in 1971, this cast was found in a
soybean field back out in the country
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about three and a half miles from here.
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And here's my uncle's soybean field. And
that's where they found petroleum
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tracks. But it's a three -toed. And that
was kind of unique for the monster down
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here to have a three -toed.
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Well, the outside world may be
skeptical.
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Many people in Falk, Arkansas remain
utterly convinced that their town is
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to a monster that is not the stuff of
myth and legend, but rather flesh
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and blood.
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Do the three -toed tracks recovered from
an Arkansas farmstead prove that a
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dangerous beast is on the loose?
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Maybe it's this physical evidence that
will finally turn skeptics into
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believers.
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Like in the case of an extraordinary
discovery in rural China that just might
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authenticate the existence of giants.
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Northern China, June 2021.
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Paleontologists from China's Hebei GEO
University analyze an astonishing
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discovery from the bottom of an ancient
well.
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Their study is of the largest human
skull ever found.
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The extraordinary find makes headlines
around the world and sparks intense
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debate about this ancient skull, which
scientists have nicknamed the Dragon
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The Dragon Man skull is arguably the
most mysterious cranium that's ever been
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discovered in this world. It is the
largest ever.
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It's actually around nine inches long by
six inches across.
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And it was discovered in 1933 by a
Chinese workman.
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And because at the time that part of
China was occupied by the Japanese, he
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that the best thing to do was to hide it
away in a well.
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And it was left there until 2018.
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When he revealed the location to his
grandson, the grandson went and dug it
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up, and it was still there in absolute
perfect condition.
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And he gave it to a local university,
and it obviously came to the attention
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the scientific community.
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The Dragon Man skull is interesting
because the cranial shape is shaped like
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American football, being very elongated.
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Whereas a modern human skull, Homo
sapiens would be more rounded in shape.
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The skull is generally very robust,
including a very pronounced brow ridge.
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The eye sockets on Dragon Man are also
very large and more square in shape,
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versus modern humans, which are smaller
and more rounded.
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Based off of what we know about the
skull, it probably dates to around 200
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years ago.
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Dragon Man is such a new discovery that
lots of ideas are coming out of the
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field about exactly what does this
population look like and how do they
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to us.
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Dragon Man is bringing us face to face
for the first time with a new Asian
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version of human, which very likely we
also interbred with, whose DNA we
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probably also carry in us today as well.
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It's one of these finds which
occasionally comes along which is really
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what we know about our human story.
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Experts agree that the discovery of the
Dragon Man redefines our understanding
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of humanity's past.
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And there are some researchers who
believe that further investigation of
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skull will reveal shocking truths about
this previously unknown cousin of man.
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that the dragon man may well have been
not only large in size but also of great
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height, possibly as much as seven to
seven and a half feet tall. And if you
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to imagine them, just think that in the
past you'd have had the small guys that
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would have been the Neanderthals who
were about five to five and a half feet
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tall. You'd have had our own modern
human ancestors that were around six
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tall and you'd have had the much bigger,
much stronger.
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Dragon Man.
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With the discovery of the Dragon Man
skull, we might have the first real
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evidence that giants once walked the
Earth.
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Is it possible that the Dragon Man was
actually a giant?
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Perhaps clues can be found by examining
the numerous historical accounts of
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people claiming to have encountered
ancient giants.
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Giants are a stark character of folklore
throughout the world.
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For example, the Bible clearly states
that there were giants on the earth.
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In North America, Native American
cultures have many of these giant
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For example, in Mi 'kmaq tradition, we
find stories of giants that would hunt
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people and eat them.
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00:34:50,860 --> 00:34:55,359
There are similar stories in Algonquin
-speaking natives of North America as
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well. And traditions, even up to a
relatively recent time, would honor
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ancient giants.
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And this is something that's prevalent
in different parts of the world.
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There are many skeptics who write off
tales of giants as nothing more than
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exaggeration or fantasy.
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00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:16,560
But there are others who insist that
giants were, in fact, quite real.
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00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:22,599
And as evidenced, they point to accounts
of large human bones being discovered
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00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,160
throughout North America.
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00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:31,829
During the mid -1800s, the Smithsonian
Institution, had an edict where they
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would collect all the different
skeletons of Native American cultures
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mounds, from caves, from all over the
country, basically.
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00:35:40,610 --> 00:35:45,229
And they started finding these
remarkable skeletons and discoveries
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00:35:45,230 --> 00:35:49,570
suggested there was a very advanced race
of giants living in North America.
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00:35:51,030 --> 00:35:56,369
And even in their Smithsonian annual
reports in the late 1800s, specifically
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00:35:56,370 --> 00:35:58,250
5th and the 12th annual reports,
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00:35:59,210 --> 00:36:02,909
They documented between seven and eight
foot tall skeletons that their
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00:36:02,910 --> 00:36:05,560
Smithsonian employees actually dug up
themselves.
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00:36:06,770 --> 00:36:12,349
And yet in 1910 onwards, when Ailes
Hadleacher became the director of the
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00:36:12,350 --> 00:36:17,129
Smithsonian, he put a news report out
saying giants are no more and tried to
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00:36:17,130 --> 00:36:22,869
delete this idea that giants ever
existed, even though they discovered
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00:36:22,870 --> 00:36:25,990
themselves in the late 1800s.
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00:36:26,670 --> 00:36:31,889
So there's a definite mystery here when
it comes to trying to find evidence of
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00:36:31,890 --> 00:36:34,050
these giant skeletons of North America.
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00:36:35,030 --> 00:36:41,169
Hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of
these giant skeletons have been
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00:36:41,170 --> 00:36:45,950
But the problem with this is that all of
them today have been lost.
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00:36:46,350 --> 00:36:50,829
Everything that was inside the
Smithsonian Institute had to be given
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00:36:50,830 --> 00:36:52,450
they were just destroyed.
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00:36:53,770 --> 00:36:59,109
And so the importance of the discovery
of the dragon man's skull is in the fact
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00:36:59,110 --> 00:37:05,229
that this archaic human that once
existed in this region of China has been
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00:37:05,230 --> 00:37:10,890
brought back into reality and is being
studied by the scientists today.
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00:37:11,590 --> 00:37:14,830
You can discover so much information
from just a single bone.
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It opens up a whole world of opportunity
for what we could learn about them, who
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00:37:19,550 --> 00:37:21,170
humans are and where we came from.
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00:37:24,430 --> 00:37:25,750
Yucca Valley, California.
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00:37:27,650 --> 00:37:33,329
This rustic town located in the Mojave
Desert is adjacent to Joshua Tree
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00:37:33,330 --> 00:37:34,349
National Park.
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00:37:34,350 --> 00:37:40,169
Each year, millions of people visit
Joshua Tree to hike through its twisting
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00:37:40,170 --> 00:37:43,570
expanse of boulders and oddly shaped
trees.
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00:37:43,970 --> 00:37:50,109
But unfortunately, many adventure
seekers who trek into this wilderness
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00:37:50,110 --> 00:37:51,160
return.
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00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:57,259
On occasion, human remains have been
found out in the area of the Joshua Tree
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00:37:57,260 --> 00:37:58,310
National Park.
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00:37:58,460 --> 00:38:02,240
And these are presumably hikers who have
gone missing over the years.
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00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:09,379
So while it's a beautiful, striking
-looking place, it's also very secluded
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00:38:09,380 --> 00:38:10,430
very dangerous.
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00:38:11,620 --> 00:38:16,299
It's easy to see how tourists hiking in
Joshua Tree could get lost and fall
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00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:19,670
victim to the scorching temperatures of
this desert environment.
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00:38:20,810 --> 00:38:26,229
However, some locals believe that
mysterious deaths in the park are the
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00:38:26,230 --> 00:38:31,050
a frightening monster who is referred to
as the Yucca Man.
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00:38:32,550 --> 00:38:37,730
The Yucca Man is seen in the southern
regions of the California area.
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00:38:38,330 --> 00:38:42,650
Sightings of the Yucca Man date back to
at least the 1960s.
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00:38:43,510 --> 00:38:49,090
It's described as being very tall,
covered in hair over its entire body.
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00:38:50,510 --> 00:38:55,049
The Yucca Man is what you might call a
desert -based Bigfoot. People go missing
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00:38:55,050 --> 00:38:57,550
in the Yucca Valley and its various
campgrounds.
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00:38:58,270 --> 00:39:03,069
Part of the evolving lore of this
creature is perhaps it is preying on
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00:39:03,070 --> 00:39:05,090
when it finds people who are vulnerable.
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00:39:05,930 --> 00:39:12,049
The idea that a giant monster roams this
remote area and preys upon
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00:39:12,050 --> 00:39:14,710
unsuspecting hikers is chilling.
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00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:20,239
But according to local lore, another
fearsome encounter involving the Yucca
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00:39:20,240 --> 00:39:24,960
allegedly took place at a nearby U .S.
Marine Corps base.
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00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:32,559
One of the more famous Yucca Man
encounters occurred in 1971 at the 29
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00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:33,610
Marine Base.
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00:39:33,740 --> 00:39:40,259
A Marine was on night duty and
encountered this 8 -foot -tall blonde
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00:39:40,260 --> 00:39:41,460
Sasquatch creature.
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00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:49,779
He then became unconscious, and when he
was found, his rifle was bent in half
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00:39:49,780 --> 00:39:51,600
with no explanation.
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00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:57,959
He was unharmed, but it's pretty scary
to think of a Marine being knocked
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00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,640
unconscious and a rifle being bent in
half.
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00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:06,619
While it's impossible to verify the
young man's alleged run -ins with
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00:40:06,620 --> 00:40:10,160
personnel, many locals are convinced
that this...
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00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:15,679
dangerous creature actually lives in the
mojave desert and like other monsters
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00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:20,839
that have been widely reported by
eyewitnesses but not officially
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00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:27,299
science the possibility of its existence
both tantalizes and
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00:40:27,300 --> 00:40:33,519
terrifies we love believing in these
creatures and monsters because we love
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00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,360
getting scared but we also love the
unknown
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00:40:38,220 --> 00:40:41,960
Not knowing if we've discovered every
species on the planet.
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00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:45,300
The mystery is the best part of it all.
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00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:52,619
We are often inclined to see belief in
fantastical creatures as somewhat
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00:40:52,620 --> 00:40:57,580
irrational, maybe fantastical, something
that isn't scientific.
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00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:02,779
And yet, there's news reports of people
interacting with creatures that maybe we
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00:41:02,780 --> 00:41:03,830
can't identify.
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00:41:04,650 --> 00:41:09,070
That keeps it alive. It is not
fundamentally proven false.
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00:41:09,330 --> 00:41:15,150
And that kind of monster is what we are
continuing to be obsessed with.
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00:41:17,010 --> 00:41:18,090
So what do you think?
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00:41:18,870 --> 00:41:23,309
Are these dangerous and frightening
creatures real or just a figment of our
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00:41:23,310 --> 00:41:24,360
imagination?
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00:41:24,530 --> 00:41:28,870
Could the stories we've been told about
scary monsters be strictly fantasy?
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00:41:29,730 --> 00:41:32,950
Or are these tales based on actual
experiences?
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00:41:34,090 --> 00:41:39,789
with terrifying entities. What exactly
are people encountering when they come
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00:41:39,790 --> 00:41:41,550
against these strange savages?
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00:41:43,110 --> 00:41:48,449
It's a spine -tingling mystery, but one
that's best explored from the comfort of
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00:41:48,450 --> 00:41:54,769
your own home, because nothing can
guarantee your safety while the truth
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00:41:54,770 --> 00:42:00,050
these creatures of the night remains
unexplained.
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