All language subtitles for Mythical.Beasts.2018.S01E02.720p.WEB.H264-JFF_track3_[eng]

♪♪

Narrator: THE KRAKEN --

ONCE THE MOST FEARED
MYTHICAL MONSTER OF THE DEEP.

Regal: WAY BEFORE JAWS,

THE KRAKEN WAS THE SEA CREATURE

WHICH GAVE PEOPLE NIGHTMARES.

Narrator: FOR CENTURIES,
SAILORS LIVED IN TERROR OF IT.

I WOULD NOT WANT TO MEET
ONE OF THESE GUYS UNDERWATER.

FRIGHTENING.

Narrator: IT WAS
THE BIGGEST THING IN THE OCEAN,

THE SIZE OF AN ISLAND.

IT'S HUGE TENTACLES COULD
RIP BOATS TO PIECES IN MOMENTS.

YOU COULD BE OUT ON THE OCEAN
ONE MOMENT,

AND THE NEXT, SUCKED RIGHT DOWN
INTO THE DEPTHS.

IT WOULD DEVOUR
AN ENTIRE SHIP'S CREW.

YOU WOULD NOT SURVIVE
AN ENCOUNTER WITH A KRAKEN.

Narrator: IS THIS JUST A LEGEND,
OR COULD SOME KIND OF MONSTER

REALLY BE LURKING
BENEATH THE SURFACE?

SEAFARERS HAD A REASON
TO BE SCARED OF THESE WATERS.

Narrator:
NOW INVESTIGATORS USE

THE LATEST SCIENCE
AND ARCHEOLOGY

TO DISCOVER THE REALITY
BEHIND THE MYTH...

...EXPLORING THE HIDDEN DEPTHS

AND UNCOVERING FRESH EVIDENCE.

THIS IS NEW TO SCIENCE.
THIS IS NEW TO MANKIND.

Narrator:
WE'LL REVEAL THE TRUTH

ABOUT THIS NIGHTMARE MONSTER
OF THE DEEP.

BEHOLD, THE KRAKEN.

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♪♪

Narrator: NORWAY --

LAND OF HIGH-SOARING MOUNTAINS

AND DEEP, DARK SEAS.

♪♪

THESE WATERS DIDN'T JUST
GIVE BIRTH TO THE KRAKEN MYTH,

BUT TO STORIES OF MANY OTHER
LEGENDARY MARINE MONSTERS.

THIS 16th-CENTURY MAP REVEALS
HOW MANY STRANGE SIGHTINGS

HAPPENED IN THESE NORDIC SEAS.

ANCIENT SEA BEASTS HERE
CAME IN MANY FORMS.

ONE WAS THE SEA SERPENT.

200 FEET LONG,

IT COULD TOWER OVER SHIPS
WITH ITS SCALY BODY.

THE MYTHICAL PRESTERS WOULD
SPIT OUT HUGE TORRENTS OF WATER

TO SINK VESSELS,
AND THE LEGENDARY ZIPHIUS

COULD CUT OPEN BOATS WITH
ITS SWORDLIKE FIN.

BUT THE MOST TERRIFYING
OF THEM ALL WAS THE KRAKEN.

IT WAS ARMED WITH FIERCE TEETH
AND TENTACLES

AND WAS COLOSSAL IN SIZE.

♪♪

IN THE OCEAN,
YOU CAN BE INFINITELY BIG

BECAUSE THE OCEAN IS ACTUALLY
SUPPORTING YOUR WEIGHT,

SO ANIMALS COMING FROM THE DARK,
DEEP OCEAN HAD MASS,

AND THEREFORE, THEY HAD POWER.

HOW COULD YOU NOT FEAR
SOMETHING LIKE THAT?

THAT'S THE KRAKEN.

Narrator:
BIOLOGIST CHARLES PAXTON

IS ON THE HUNT TO DISCOVER
IF THERE WAS A REAL ANIMAL

BEHIND THE MYTH OF THE KRAKEN.

Paxton: THIS IS MORE THAN JUST
A MONSTER STORY.

FOR SOME PEOPLE,
THE KRAKEN IS VERY, VERY REAL.

♪♪

Narrator: HE BELIEVES
THE ANSWER MAY LIE

IN THE RECORD OF A SIGHTING
HIDDEN DEEP IN THE ARCHIVES

OF THE NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY
OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

IN TRONDHEIM.

IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE 18th CENTURY,

WE START GETTING
THE FIRST EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS

OF GIANT KRAKEN-LIKE ANIMALS

BEING DESCRIBED IN
THE SCIENTIFIC TEXT OF THE DAY.

SO HERE WE HAVE A NATURALIST.

HE SPEAKS OF ANIMALS WITH ARMS
54 FOOT IN LENGTH.

Narrator: IN THE REPORT,
THE CREW OF THE DANISH SCHOONER

HAS A TERRIFYING ENCOUNTER
WHILE STOPPING FOR REPAIRS.

[ BIRDS SQUAWKING ]

THREE MEN ARE BUSY
SCRAPING BARNACLES

OFF THE SIDE OF THEIR SHIP

WHEN SUDDENLY,
TWO OF THEM DISAPPEAR.

THEY'RE UNDER ATTACK
FROM A SEA MONSTER.

TENTACLES AS THICK
AS TREE TRUNKS

SHOOT FROM THE WATER
AND REACH FOR THE SHIP.

TERRIFIED THAT THIS BEAST
WILL DRAG THEM

TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN,
THE CREW TAKES UP ARMS.

THEY ATTACK THE MONSTER
WITH THEIR CUTLASSES

AND SHEAR OFF
ONE OF ITS TENTACLES.

WOUNDED, IT DISAPPEARS BACK INTO
THE DEEP WHERE IT CAME FROM.

THE FEAR OF THE KRAKEN
BECAME SO BIG

THAT PEOPLE WANTED ANSWERS.

WHAT WAS IT,
AND WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

REPORTS AMONGST US
ARE STILL COMING IN,

BUT NOW,
THEY'RE BEING CLASSIFIED

AND DISSECTED UNDER ZOOLOGY.

IN 1857, A NATURALIST,
JAPETUS STEENSTRUP,

MADE A BOLD MOVE.

HE CLASSIFIED THE KRAKEN.

HE SAID IT WAS A GIANT SQUID,

WHICH HE GAVE THE BINOMIAL NAME
ARCHITEUTHIS DUX.

A KRAKEN HAD BEEN TURNED
INTO AN ANIMAL.

Narrator: COULD THE GIANT SQUID
REALLY BE

THE MAN-EATING CULPRIT?

IT'S A STRANGE CREATURE
THAT'S RARELY SEEN.

WOULD ITS ALLUSIVE NATURE

EXPLAIN WHY THE KRAKEN MYSTERY
EXISTED FOR SO LONG?

FORTUNATELY, CHARLES HAS GAINED
EXCLUSIVE ACCESS

TO THE MASSIVE SPECIMEN
THAT WASHED UP

ON THE NORWEGIAN COAST
60 YEARS AGO.

COULD THIS BE
THE LEGENDARY MONSTER

BEHIND THE TERRIFYING ACCOUNTS?

♪♪

BEHOLD, THE KRAKEN.

♪♪

Paxton: SO THIS IS THE SPECIMEN
OF ARCHITEUTHIS,

THE GIANT SQUID,
NAMED BY STEENSTRUP IN 1857.

♪♪

HE THOUGHT IT COULD BE
THE KRAKEN.

♪♪

Narrator: IT'S RARE TO FIND
SUCH A WELL-PRESERVED SPECIMEN.

SHARP COASTAL ROCKS
AND SCAVENGING ANIMALS

MEAN FEW REMAIN INTACT.

LET ME SEE THE EYES.

ARE THEY...

YEAH.

I'M FULFILLING
ONE OF MY DREAMS HERE

TO ACTUALLY SEE A LARGE SPECIMEN
OF GIANT SQUID,

EVEN THOUGH IT'S PRESERVED.

I MEAN, ESPECIALLY LIKE THIS,
IT IS ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE.

TO THINK THAT AN ANIMAL
LIKE THIS IS ACTUALLY LIVING

IN THE SEA,
VERY RARELY SEEN AT THE SURFACE.

WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG
IT LIVES FOR.

WE DON'T KNOW HOW BIG IT GETS.

IT HAS EIGHT ARMS,
TWO TENTACLES.

THIS WOULD BE A PRIME SUSPECT
FOR THE KRAKEN.

♪♪

Narrator: THE GIANT SQUID
HAS ENORMOUS ARMS,

EXACTLY AS DESCRIBED
IN SOME KRAKEN SIGHTINGS,

BUT ARE THEY STRONG ENOUGH TO
PULL A BOAT DOWN INTO THE DEPTHS

SO IT CAN DEVOUR ITS CREW?

COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST
JOY REIDENBERG INVESTIGATES.

Reidenberg:
LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK

AT THE BODY SHAPE OF A SQUID.

WHAT I HAVE HERE
ARE TWO SMALLER SQUID,

BUT THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY
THE SAME BODY SHAPE.

TRAILING BEHIND IT HERE
ARE THE ARMS.

THESE ARE THE ARMS OVER HERE,

AND THESE TWO
VERY, VERY LONG ONES,

THESE ARE THE TENTACLES.

THE TENTACLES COME ROCKETING OUT
FROM THIS ANIMAL,

GRAB ITS PREY AND PULL IT BACK,
AND PULLS IT INTO THE MOUTH.

THE SQUID HAS A FEARSOME MOUTH.

IT HAS A BEAK IN IT THAT LOOKS
KIND OF LIKE A PARROT BEAK.

I WOULD NOT WANT TO MEET
ONE OF THESE GUYS UNDERWATER.

FRIGHTENING.

Narrator: GIANT SQUID ARE
CLEARLY FEROCIOUS HUNTERS,

BUT COULD THEY EVER
TAKE ON A SHIP AND WIN?

THE IMAGES YOU OFTEN
HEAR SAILORS

TALK ABOUT OF THE KRAKEN,

IT'S WRAPPED ITS ARMS

AROUND THE MAST
OF A SQUARING WOODEN SHIP.

THAT JUST COULDN'T HAPPEN
WITH A GIANT SQUID.

THAT WOULD REQUIRE
REALLY, REALLY BIG ARMS.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE ARMS
OF A SQUID, A GIANT SQUID,

THEY'RE BIG,
BUT THEY AREN'T THAT BIG.

♪♪

Paxton:
THE GIANT SQUID IS MONSTER.

I THINK IT EXPLAINS
SOME OF THE STORIES,

BUT NOT ALL OF THEM.

Narrator: SO IF THE KRAKEN
CAN'T BE FULLY EXPLAINED

BY A GIANT SQUID,

WHAT ELSE COULD HAVE INSPIRED
THE TALES OF THIS MONSTER?

Regal:
WE REALLY DON'T KNOW

THE COMPLETE
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF THE SEA.

THERE ARE CREATURES
OUT THERE STILL

THAT INHABIT THE DARKEST,
DEEPEST PARTS OF THE OCEAN,

AND EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE,
ONE WILL SHOW UP,

AND IT JUST FREAKS PEOPLE OUT.

Schwab: EVERY FISHERMAN WOULD
HAVE HAD A DIFFERENT TAKE

ON WHAT THIS THING COULD BE.

SOME MIGHT SAY IT WAS LIKE
A CRAB WITH CLAWS,

SOME MIGHT SAY
MORE LIKE AN OCTOPUS.

ITS FORM KEPT CHANGING,
DEPENDING ON WHO YOU ASKED.

♪♪

Narrator: CHARLES' INVESTIGATION
INTO THE IDENTITY

OF THE REAL KRAKEN
REMAINS WIDE OPEN.

THERE ARE MANY POTENTIAL
SUSPECTS TO INVESTIGATE.

WILL TRACKING DOWN
THE FIRST-EVER KRAKEN STORY

REVEAL THE ANSWER?

WHAT WAS IT THAT WAS REALLY
MAKING THESE NORDIC WATERS

SO TERRIFYING AND DANGEROUS?

AROUND 50% OF ALL WOODEN SHIPS
EVER BUILT

ENDED UP AS SHIPWRECKS.
-WOW.

[ ROAR, THUNDER RUMBLING ]

[ ROAR, THUNDER RUMBLING ]

♪♪

Narrator:
BIOLOGIST CHARLES PAXTON

REOPENS THE INVESTIGATION
INTO THE KRAKEN.

THIS MYTHICAL SEA MONSTER
STRUCK FEAR

INTO THE HEARTS OF SAILORS
FOR CENTURIES.

THE GIANT SQUID IS NO LONGER
THE PRIME SUSPECT,

SO WHAT INSPIRED THESE TALES?

TO FIND OUT,
CHARLES TRACKS THE MYTH BACK

TO ITS ANCIENT ROOTS
IN SCANDINAVIA.

Paxton: IT'S IN THESE WATERS
THE LEGEND BECAME FAMOUS,

AND I WANT TO EXPLORE
THE ORIGINS

AND TRUTH BEHIND THE MYTH.

Narrator: WHAT WAS SO SPECIAL
ABOUT THESE SEAS

THAT THEY WERE CONSIDERED
THE KRAKEN'S LAIR?

CHARLES BELIEVES THE FIRST
DESCRIPTION OF THE BEAST

COMES FROM THE ANCIENT PEOPLE
WHO MADE THIS AREA THEIR HOME --

THE NORSE.

Paxton:
THE IS THE ARROW-ODD SAGA,

A NORSE TALE OF REVENGE
FROM THE 13th CENTURY,

AND IT CONTAINS OUR EARLIEST
SCANDINAVIAN REFERENCE

TO THE MONSTER
THAT WOULD BECOME THE KRAKEN.

Narrator: THE STORY TELLS HOW
A VIKING HERO CALLED ARROW-ODD

HAS MAGICAL ARROWS
THAT MAKE HIM INVINCIBLE.

HE SAILS THE NORTHERN SEAS,
LOOKING FOR GLORY.

ONE DAY, HE PASSES BETWEEN
TWO ROCKY ISLANDS.

SUDDENLY, HE HEARS
A DEEP RUMBLING ROAR.

THESE ARE NO ORDINARY ISLANDS.
THEY'RE THE JAWS OF THE KRAKEN.

AN ANCIENT SORCERER HAS SENT
THE BIGGEST BEAST OF THE SEA

TO KILL HIM,

AND EVEN HIS MAGICAL ARROWS
ARE POWERLESS AGAINST IT,

BUT ODD NARROWLY ESCAPES.
[ ROARS ]

THIS ACCOUNT SUGGESTS THE KRAKEN
IS NOT A GIANT SQUID

BUT A VERY DIFFERENT PHENOMENON.

SO WHAT COULD REALLY BE LURKING
UNDERNEATH THE WATER

TO EXPLAIN SUCH A TALE?

MARINE ARCHAEOLOGIST PROFESSOR
OYVIND ODEGARD IS GOING TO USE

A SMALL, HULL-MOUNTED
SONAR SYSTEM TO FIND OUT.

♪♪

Odegard: THE SEABED IS USUALLY
INACCESSIBLE FOR US HUMANS,

SO AS A RESULT,
99% OF THE SEABED

IS STILL UNEXPLORED.

WE KNOW LESS ABOUT IT THAN,
FOR INSTANCE, MARS OR THE MOON.

WE NEED TO SCAN THE SEABED
USING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY.

Narrator:
THE SONAR SYSTEM WILL SHOW

A DEPTH MAP OF THE KRAKEN'S LAIR

AND COULD FINALLY PROVIDE
SOME ANSWERS.

Paxton: THE SAGA SAID
THESE WATERS WERE DANGEROUS.

I WANT TO FIND OUT WHAT
THOSE DANGERS ACTUALLY WERE.

♪♪

Narrator: THE SONAR SYSTEM SENDS
A SONIC PULSE INTO THE DEPTHS

THAT BOUNCES BACK.

THIS IS THEN READ BY
THE SCANNER.

THANK YOU.

WHAT WE CAN SEE HERE
IS THE SOUNDINGS.

IT'S A LIVE VIEW.

AS YOU CAN SEE, IT CHANGES
AS THE BOAT MOVES,

SO YOU CAN SEE THE DEPTHS
OF THE DEEPER AREAS,

ABOUT 100 METERS,

AND IT GOES ALL THE WAY UP
TO 8 METERS IN THE SAME SCAN.

Paxton: WOW.

Narrator:
THE SCAN DATA REVEALS

THAT THERE ARE
DANGEROUS SHALLOWS HERE.

THE SEABED DRAMATICALLY
CHANGES DEPTH

OVER A VERY SHORT DISTANCE.

THE EXTREME, SOARING,
NORWEGIAN PEAKS AND TROUGHS

ABOVE THE WATERLINE
CONTINUE FAR DOWN

INTO THE WATERS,
MAKING THEM A DEATHTRAP.

COULD THIS BE BEHIND
THE KRAKEN MYTH?

SO A LITTLE FISHING VESSEL
WITH A SAIL

COULD VERY RAPIDLY MOVE

BETWEEN DEEP WATER
AND SHALLOW WATER?

YEAH, YEAH. ABSOLUTELY.

AT LOW TIDE
AND AT A BOTTOM OF A WAVE,

YOU COULD PROBABLY HIT
THE SEABED

IF YOU WERE EXACTLY
WHERE WE ARE NOW,

SO IT COULD BE
POTENTIALLY FATAL.

Narrator:
THIS DANGEROUS MARINE LANDSCAPE

WAS CREATED DURING THE ICE AGE.

ONE MILLION YEARS AGO,
A VAST ICE SHEET COVERED NORWAY.

HUGE GLACIERS BULLDOZED THROUGH
THE LANDSCAPE,

PUSHING GIGANTIC PILES OF ROCKS
TOWARDS THE COAST

AND DROPPING THEM INTO
THE OCEAN.

WHEN THE GLACIERS RETREATED,

THEY LEFT BEHIND
AN UNPREDICTABLE

AND DANGEROUS SEABED
ALL ALONG THE COAST.

AROUND 50% OF ALL WOODEN SHIPS
EVER BUILT

ENDED UP AS SHIPWRECKS.

WOW. THAT'S AN INCREDIBLY
HIGH FIGURE.

Paxton: I'VE SEEN THIS COASTLINE
CAN BE A DANGEROUS PLACE,

A PLACE OF SHIFTING DEPTHS
AND OF JAGGED ROCKED.

SEAFARERS HAD A REASON
TO BE SCARED OF THESE WATERS.

Narrator:
WITHOUT MODERN TECHNOLOGY,

THE NORSE COULDN'T SEE
THE SUBMERGED ROCKS

THAT WERE SINKING THEIR SHIPS,

SO FEAR OF AN ISLAND-SHAPED
KRAKEN TOOK HOLD.

SOME BELIEVE AN ANCIENT TEXT
PUBLISHED AROUND 1250

COULD BE INTERPRETED
AS A WARNING

ABOUT THE DEADLY KRAKEN.

♪♪

WRITTEN BY A MEMBER
OF THE KING'S COURT,

THE "KING'S MIRROR"

IS A HANDBOOK
FOR THE RULERS OF NORWAY.

IT COVERS POLITICS
AND STATESMANSHIP,

BUT ALSO THE DANGERS
OF THE NORTHERN SEAS.

THE MOST FEARSOME PERIL
IS THE KRAKEN,

A BEAST THE SIZE OF AN ISLAND.

IT CLAIMS ONLY TWO EXIST
IN THE WORLD

BECAUSE THE SEAS DON'T HOLD
ENOUGH FISH TO FEED ANY MORE.

WHEN THE KRAKEN IS HUNGRY,
IT OPENS ITS GIGANTIC MOUTH,

TRAPPING VAST SCHOOLS
OF FISH INSIDE.

AND WHEN THE MONSTER
HAS HAD ITS FILL,

IT DISAPPEARS INTO THE DEPTHS.

BUT THE "KING'S MIRROR" ONLY
MAKES THE KRAKEN MYSTERY DEEPEN,

BECAUSE THIS DESCRIPTION IS
NOTHING LIKE THE BEAST

THAT PULLED DOWN
THE DANISH SHIP.

WHY ARE ACCOUNTS SO VARIED?

DIFFERENT WITNESSES SEE
DIFFERENT THINGS.

Narrator: WHAT MAKES THE MYTH
EVEN MORE PUZZLING

ARE THE REPORTS THAT
SOME SAILORS WOULD DELIBERATELY

SEARCH OUT THE TERRIFYING
MAN-EATING KRAKEN.

WHAT DID THEY WANT SO BADLY
FROM THE BEAST

THAT THEY WOULD RISK
THEIR LIVES?

THIS WILL BE A VERY STRESSFUL
AND SCARY EXPERIENCE.

[ ROAR, THUNDER RUMBLING ]

[ ROAR, THUNDER RUMBLING ]

♪♪

Narrator:
BIOLOGIST CHARLES PAXTON

HUNTS FOR THE TRUTH BEHIND
THE MYTH OF THE MIGHTY KRAKEN,

A HUGE SEA MONSTER THAT
TERRIFIED SAILORS FOR CENTURIES.

♪♪

BUT DESCRIPTIONS OF THE BEAST
ARE SO VARIED,

THE MYSTERY OF WHAT REALLY
INSPIRED THE LEGEND

REMAINS UNSOLVED.

Paxton: DOES IT MEAN THAT PEOPLE
ARE SEEING DIFFERENT THINGS,

OR ARE THEY SEEING
THE SAME THINGS,

AND THEY'RE JUST DESCRIBING IT
IN DIFFERENT WAYS,

PERHAPS INFLUENCED
BY THEIR PRIOR BELIEFS?

Narrator: MUDDYING THE WATERS
YET FURTHER,

CHARLES UNCOVERS ANOTHER ACCOUNT
THAT INTRODUCES

A BIZARRE
NEW KRAKEN CHARACTERISTIC,

ONE THAT IS EVEN
MORE DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN.

[ ROARS ]

♪♪

Paxton: ERIK PONTOPPIDAN WAS
A DANISH BISHOP AT BERGEN

IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE 18th CENTURY,

AND HE WAS ALSO A NATURALIST.

HIS "NATURAL HISTORY OF NORWAY"
WAS WRITTEN IN 1752, AND IN IT,

HE HAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST
COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNTS

OF THE ANIMAL
WE KNOW TODAY AS THE KRAKEN.

Narrator: PONTOPPIDAN'S SOURCES
WERE NORWEGIAN FISHERMAN

WHO PASSED KRAKEN TALES
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION.

HE TELLS HOW
SOME ANCIENT MARINERS

ACTIVELY SEEK THE KRAKEN OUT
TO CATCH MORE FISH.

FISH ARE ATTRACTED TO THE BEAST

BECAUSE OF THE PUNGENT WASTE
IT SPEWS OUT.

♪♪

THE FIND IT SO IRRESISTIBLE THAT
HUGE SCHOOLS GATHER TO FEED,

BUT WHEN THE BEAST
HAS EATEN ENOUGH,

IT DIVES DOWN INTO THE DEPTHS.

AS IT IS SO BIG, IT DISPLACES
HUGE AMOUNTS OF WATER,

CREATING SUCTION SO POWERFUL,

IT CAN PULL WHOLE VESSELS DOWN
TO A WATERY GRAVE.

Paxton: SO FISHERMAN SEEKING
AN ABUNDANCE OF FISH

MAY ACTUALLY LOOK FOR
AND PURSUE THE KRAKEN.

THE KRAKEN ISN'T SOLELY
AN ANIMAL OF TERROR.

IT IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING
THAT COULD BE POTENTIALLY USED

AS A TOOL IN ORDER TO FIND FISH.

Narrator: BUT WHAT WAS REALLY
GOING ON IN THESE WATERS?

WHAT WAS THIS HUGE KRAKEN BELCH
THAT PEOPLE WERE SEEING?

♪♪

CHARLES INVESTIGATES.

HELPING HIM IS
HISTORIAN STURLA LETH-OLSEN.

HE'S AN EXPERT IN THE TECHNIQUES
USED BY EARLY NORDIC MARINERS.

♪♪

THEY WILL USE A BOAT
SIMILAR IN DESIGN

TO THE ONES USED
IN KRAKEN TIMES.

♪♪

STURLA HOPES
TAKING CHARLES FISHING LIKE

THE EARLY NORDIC SAILORS DID

WILL ENABLE THEM TO SEARCH FOR
THIS MYTHICAL MONSTER

THROUGH THEIR EYES.

Paxton: COAST IS SLOWLY
DISAPPEARING INTO THE DISTANCE.

THAT FILLS ME WITH SOME ANXIETY.

♪♪

IF I WAS ACTIVELY TRYING
TO CAST A NET OUT,

BRING A NET IN,

ESPECIALLY
A HEAVY NET LADEN WITH FISH,

THIS WOULD BE A VERY STRESSFUL
AND SCARY EXPERIENCE.

Narrator: TO FIND THE FISH,

SAILORS FIRST
HAD TO FIND THE KRAKEN.

THEY DID THIS BY SAILING
INTO DEEP WATERS,

BUT LOOKING FOR AN AREA OF
SHALLOWS WITHIN IT.

[ GROWLS ]

WHEN THE DEPTHS
GOT VERY, VERY SHALLOW,

THEN YOU KNEW THAT THE KRAKEN
WAS ARISING FROM THE DEPTHS.

♪♪

HOW WOULD TRADITIONAL FISHERMAN
HAVE GAUGED DEPTH, STURLA?

Narrator: CHARLES DROPS THE LINE
WITH A BELL-SHAPED LUMP

CALLED A SOUNDING WEIGHT.

OKAY, SO I'LL TEST
THE DEPTH HERE.

THERE WE GO.

♪♪

OKAY, THAT'S IT. THAT'S IT.
-[ SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY ]

YEAH, WE'VE HIT IT.
WE'VE HIT IT, YEAH.

Narrator: NORDIC SAILORS
WOULD HAVE IDENTIFIED THIS

AS KRAKEN TERRITORY.

LARGE NUMBERS OF FISH
NATURALLY CONGREGATE

IN SHALLOW WATERS IN THE MORNING
AND EVENING TO HUNT FOR PREY.

♪♪

BUT WOULD COULD EXPLAIN
THE MONSTER'S FOUL BELCH

AND THE CLOUD
OF SEMI-DIGESTED FOOD

THAT WAS SAID TO ATTRACT
EVEN MORE FISH?

TO START, THE FISHY BELCH
OF THE KRAKEN,

DOES THAT REMIND YOU OF
ANYTHING YOU SEE AT SEA TODAY?

Narrator: PHYTOPLANKTON ARE
MICROSCOPIC PLANT-LIKE ORGANISMS

THAT FLOURISH IN THE SUNLIGHT
OF THE SUMMER MONTHS.

TINY SHRIMP-LIKE CREATURES
FEED ON THE PLANKTON.

SMALL FISH THEN FEED
ON THE SHRIMP-LIKE CREATURES,

AND BIGGER FISH
ON THE SMALL ONES.

PLANKTON BLOOM CAN FORM
HUGE PATCHES IN THE OCEAN

AND ATTRACT AN INCREDIBLE
AMOUNT OF SEA LIFE.

SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW

JUST HOW IMPRESSIVE
THIS PHENOMENON CAN BE,

BUT NORDIC SAILORS
MAY HAVE INTERPRETED IT

AS EVIDENCE
THAT THE GIANT KRAKEN

REALLY WAS IN THESE WATERS.

THE BEAST COULD EASILY
KILL THEM,

BUT IT WAS ALSO THE KEY
TO THEIR LIVELIHOOD.

Hersch: ANCIENT PEOPLE HAD

A FRAUGHT RELATIONSHIP
WITH THE SEA.

ON THE ONE HAND,
IT PROVIDED LIVELIHOOD,

USED THE SEA TO TRADE,
TO GO TO WAR, TO GET MORE GOODS.

YOU GOT FOOD FROM THE SEA.

ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU COULD DIE
DOING THOSE VERY THINGS.

EVEN TODAY, THE FISHING INDUSTRY

IS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS
INDUSTRIES IN THE WORLD.

IN THE DAYS WHEN YOU WERE
IN LITTLE BOATS LIKE THIS ONE,

IT WOULD BE
VERY, VERY DANGEROUS, INDEED,

SO HAVING EXPERIENCED THIS,

I CAN WELL UNDERSTAND WHY THERE
WERE SO MANY ACCIDENTS

AND WHY THERE WERE
SO MANY TRAGEDIES

AND WHY YOU NEEDED A FOLKLORE
TO TRY AND EXPLAIN THAT.

Narrator: BUT IF ROCKS AND
PLANKTON WERE REALLY TO BLAME,

WHY DID SIGHTINGS BECOME
FAR MORE DETAILED

AND EVEN MORE CONFLICTING?

AND IF THE KRAKEN WAS BELIEVED
TO LIVE IN THE NORDIC WATERS,

WHY DID SIGHTINGS INCREASE

WHEN SHIPS TRAVELED
FAR BEYOND ITS TERRITORY?

WHEN YOU'RE OUT AT SEA,

THERE'S A LOT OF STRESSORS
TO YOUR BRAIN.

[ ROAR, THUNDER RUMBLING ]

[ ROAR, THUNDER RUMBLING ]

♪♪

Narrator:
BIOLOGIST CHARLES PAXTON

INVESTIGATES THE TRUTH
BEHIND THE MYTH OF THE KRAKEN.

HE'S UNCOVERED DOZENS OF
ACCOUNTS OF KRAKEN SIGHTINGS

AND HOW IT TERRORIZED
THESE WATERS FOR CENTURIES.

[ ROARS ]

Paxton: REPORTS ARE NOT ALWAYS
CONSISTENT.

THE KRAKEN WOULDN'T ALWAYS
BE DESCRIBED IN THE SAME WAY,

BUT IT'D ALWAYS REPRESENT
THE SAME THREAT.

[ ROARS ]

Narrator: CHARLES FINDS THAT
NO ONE NATURAL PHENOMENON

CAN EXPLAIN
THE MANY CONFLICTING REPORTS.

AND THIS CASE
BECOMES EVEN MORE INTRIGUING

AS MORE RECENT KRAKEN ACCOUNTS
COME TO LIGHT.

♪♪

Paxton: THESE NEW PRECISE
REPORTS ARE NOT JUST COMING

FROM THE NORWEGIAN COAST,
BUT FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.

HERE, WE HAVE AN ACCOUNT
RECORDED

BY THE APOSTLE OF GREENLAND,
HANS EGEDE, IN 1734.

THERE ARE NO LONGER
VAGUE HEARSAYS

BUT PRECISE
EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY.

Narrator: JULY 6, 1734.

A NORWEGIAN EXPLORER
AND HIS CREW

ARE SAILING OFF
THE WEST COAST OF GREENLAND

WHEN SUDDENLY, A TERRIBLE
CREATURE RISES FROM THE SEA.

IT SHOOTS OUT OF THE OCEAN
50 FEET HIGH

TO THE TOP
OF THE SHIP'S MAST.

HERE, IT SPITS OUT
TORRENTS OF WATER

BEFORE PLUNGING BACK INTO
THE WATERY DEPTHS.

AS THE TERRIFIED SAILORS CHECK
TO SEE IF THE COAST IS CLEAR,

THEY SPOT A GIANT SHAPE
STILL STICKING OUT OF THE WATER.

Li: THE INTERESTING THING
ABOUT THE KRAKEN

IS THAT, AT A CERTAIN POINT,
ROUGHLY AROUND THE 18th CENTURY,

PEOPLE THAT WERE SAILING AROUND

STARTED TO MAKE NOTES
IN THEIR LOGS,

SAYING THAT, "I SAW A KRAKEN
ON THIS SPECIFIC DATE,

AND IT LOOKED LIKE THIS."

Narrator:
AS MARITIME TECHNOLOGY IMPROVED,

VAST UNEXPLORED AREAS
OF THE OCEAN

COULD BE NAVIGATED
FOR THE FIRST TIME.

-HELLO. NICE TO MEET YOU.
-Madsen: WELCOME.

SO THIS IS THE SHIP
I WANT TO SHOW YOU.

OKAY, GREAT.

Narrator: CRAFTSMAN GEIR MADSEN
IS RESTORING A LARGE SHIP,

SIMILAR TO THE ONES USED
BY NORDIC FISHERMEN

IN THE 19th CENTURY.

♪♪

Paxton: SO A VESSEL LIKE THIS
COULD RANGE A LOT FURTHER

THAN PREVIOUS VESSELS I'VE SEEN.

Narrator: WHAT SAILORS
ON LONG VOYAGES SOON REPORTED

WAS THAT THE KRAKEN
WASN'T A NORDIC BEAST AT ALL.

IT SEEMED TO BE A TERRIFYING
WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON.

♪♪

ONE CAPTAIN TELLS OF SEEING
A CREATURE

THREE TIMES BIGGER THAN A WHALE
OFF THE COAST OF IRELAND.

IT HAS SCALY SKIN,
JUST LIKE AN ALLIGATOR.

ANOTHER SPOTS
A 200-FOOT-LONG FISH

ON THE JOURNEY TO NEW YORK.

IT'S COVERED IN A SHELL

AND HAS SEVERAL BIRDS
RESTING ON ITS BACK.

AND ONE COMES ACROSS A GIGANTIC
BEAST IN THE INDIAN OCEAN

WITH FLAPS RESEMBLING WINGS,

AND ITS SKIN IS SPOTTED
WITH SOMETHING LIKE EYES,

BUT WHY WOULD REPORTS
OF THE KRAKEN

BECOME SO DIVERSE
AND CONFLICTING?

THE SEA CAN PLAY TRICKS
WITH OUR PERCEPTION.

WHAT WE SEE ISN'T
A DIRECT REFLECTION OF REALITY.

IT'S IMPACTED BY LIGHT,
BY DISTANCE, BY BALANCE,

SO ON THE SEE, ALL OF THESE
ELEMENTS COME TOGETHER

AND CAN RESULT IN SOME
PRETTY DISTORTED PERCEPTIONS.

Narrator:
NEUROLOGIST PROFESSOR ALEX OLSEN

BELIEVES THAT THE LONGER PERIODS
SPENT AT SEA

COULD ALSO HAVE PLAYED A ROLE.

HE'S CONVINCED THEY RESULTED
IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS

THAT DIRECTLY AFFECTED
WHAT SAILORS WERE SEEING.

Olsen: WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW
IS THAT WHAT WE PERCEIVE,

WHAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING
IN THIS WORLD,

IS NOT A PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE OF
WHAT IS COMING THROUGH OUR EYES.

IT'S INTERPRETED BY THE BRAIN,
AND THAT INTERPRETATION IS BASED

ON YOUR PRIOR KNOWLEDGE,
YOUR MEMORY.

IT'S BASED ON THE CULTURE
THAT YOU'RE BROUGHT UP IN.

WHAT KIND OF STORIES
HAVE YOU HEARD BEFORE?

SO A COLD, STRESSED,
TIRED NORWEGIAN FISHERMAN

BROUGHT UP WITH FOLKTALES
ABOUT SEA MONSTERS

COULD ACTUALLY PERCEIVE
AND REPORT SEA MONSTERS?

YES. WHEN YOU'RE OUT AT SEA
FOR WEEKS, EVEN MONTH,

THEN THERE'S A LOT OF STRESSORS
TO YOUR BRAIN.

YOU HAVE HYPOTHERMIA.
YOU HAVE THE VITAMIN DEFICIENCY.

YOU HAVE SLEEP DEPRIVATION.

ALL OF THESE MIGHT CAUSE
CHANGES IN OUR PERCEPTION.

-SO YOU CAN MISPERCEIVE THINGS?
-YEAH, BASICALLY.

Narrator:
THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT

THE KRAKEN CAN NEVER
BE EXPLAINED

BY PHYSICAL PHENOMENA ALONE

BECAUSE THE HUMAN MIND
PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN ITS BIRTH.

IT WOULD NOT BE UNREASONABLE
TO THINK THAT

IN A KIND OF
AGITATED MENTAL STATE

FROM JUST THE RIGORS OF SAILING,

WOULD CAUSE SAILORS
TO SEE THINGS

AND SEE THEM DIFFERENTLY FROM
WHAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY SEEING.

♪♪

Narrator:
BUT IF REPORTS OF THE KRAKEN

BECAME INCREASINGLY
CONTRADICTORY,

WHY DIDN'T THE BELIEF
IN THIS BEAST SIMPLY DIE OFF?

COULD THE ANSWER LIE
IN AN ANCIENT SUPERSTITION

THAT SOME CREATURES
CAN PHYSICALLY CHANGE FORM?

AND WAS A SCOTTISH WATER MONSTER

THE ORIGIN
OF THIS BIZARRE BELIEF?

THE CREATURE WILL ALWAYS CHANGE
TO SUIT THE SITUATION

AND ITS PREY.

[ GROWLS ]

[ ROAR, THUNDER RUMBLING ]

[ ROAR, THUNDER RUMBLING ]

♪♪

Narrator: CHARLES PAXTON
INVESTIGATES THE TRUTH

BEHIND THE MYTHICAL SEA MONSTER
THE KRAKEN,

BUT THE MANY EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
HE'S UNEARTHED

ARE RIDDLED WITH CONTRADICTIONS.

DID SAILORS BELIEVE THIS BEAST
COULD CHANGE FORM?

AND WHERE DID SUCH AN IDEA
FIRST COME FROM?

ARE THERE ANY OTHER
WATER MONSTERS THAT CAN HELP US

UNDERSTAND THE CHANGING NATURE
OF THE KRAKEN?

♪♪

Narrator: CHARLES WORKS WITH

SCOTTISH FOLKLORE EXPERT
TONY BONNING.

FOR DECADES, HE'S INVESTIGATED
THE ANCIENT ORIGINS

OF LEGENDARY
SHAPE-SHIFTING MONSTERS.

SCOTLAND HAS A LONG HISTORY
OF MYTHICAL WATER CREATURES.

THE MOST FAMOUS OF THEM,
OF COURSE,

IS THE LOCH NESS MONSTER.

Narrator: GRAINY
BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS

HAVE MADE THIS CREATURE
WORLD-FAMOUS.

THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT
IS THE LOCH NESS MONSTER

STARTED IN 1933,
BUT THERE'S EVIDENCE HERE

TO SHOW THE STORIES GO BACK
MORE THEN 1,000 YEARS.

Narrator:
CAN TRACING THE ORIGINS

OF THE LOCH NESS MONSTER

LEAD TO THE MYTHICAL
SHAPE-SHIFTING BEASTS

THAT WERE THOUGHT
TO INHABIT SCOTTISH LOCHS?

AND WHAT WOULD THEY REVEAL
ABOUT WHY PEOPLE

THOUGHT THE KRAKEN COULD
CHANGE FORM?

THE ANCIENT PEOPLE OF SCOTLAND
BELIEVE

THAT CREATURES CALLED KELPIES
LIVED IN THESE PARTS.

THESE BEASTS TRANSFORM
TO BECOME ANYTHING THEY WANT.

WHEN THEY TAKE THE SHAPE
OF BEAUTIFUL HORSES,

THEY WEAR SILVER BRIDLES

AND ENTICE SMALL CHILDREN
INTO THE WATERY DEPTHS.

AS SOON AS THE UNSUSPECTING
VICTIMS TOUCH THEM...

[ SCREECHES ]

...THE KELPIE HAS THEM TRAPPED.

THEY DRAG THEIR PREY UNDERWATER,
WHERE THEY DEVOUR THEM.

THEN THE KELPIE HIDES AGAIN
IN THE DARKNESS OF THE LOCH

UNTIL IT'S TIME
FOR THEIR NEXT VICTIM.

♪♪

WHAT COULD MAKE PEOPLE HERE

BELIEVE SUCH A BIZARRE
SHAPE-SHIFTING TALE?

IN THE SMALL VILLAGE
OF ABERLEMNO,

TONY TRACKS DOWN
ONE OF THE OLDEST DEPICTIONS

OF THE KELPIE MYTH --

A STANDING STONE
MORE THAN 1,000 YEARS OLD.

THIS IS MORE THAN JUST
A PIECE OF ROCK. IT'S A BOOK.

IT'S A STORY FOR PEOPLE
WHO COULDN'T READ NOR WRITE.

IT TELLS THEIR HISTORY,

THE GREAT BATTLE OF DUN NECHTAIN
ON THE BACK THERE.

YOU'VE GOT RELIGION.

YOU'VE GOT THEIR ART,

ALL THE WAY THROUGH
THE CELTIC DESIGNS

THAT YOU'VE GOT AROUND HERE.

Narrator: JUST AS THE BIBLE
PROMOTED BELIEF

IN FANTASTICAL CREATURES,
FROM ANGELS TO DEVILS,

STONES LIKE THIS PRESENTED
DANGEROUS SHAPE-SHIFTING BEASTS,

LIKE KELPIES,
AS TERRIFYING FACT.

Bonning: THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.

YOU'VE GOT, FIRST OF ALL,
THE SERPENT'S TAIL,

THE FISH'S TAIL,

WINDING AROUND HERE,
THE DORSAL FIN.

AND THEN WHAT HAVE YOU GOT?
HORSE'S HEAD, HORSE'S HOOVES.

THIS IS MORE THAN JUST
A DESIGN HERE.

THESE WERE LIVING CREATURES

AS FAR AS THE PEOPLE
OF ANCIENT TIMES WERE CONCERNED.

♪♪

Narrator:
BUT WHAT INSPIRED SUCH CARVINGS?

TONY HEADS 60 MILES WEST
OF ABERLEMNO

TO A TYPICAL LOCH
TO FIND ANSWERS.

Bonning: IT WAS SAID THAT
EVERY SINGLE RIVER, LOCHAN, LOCH

HAD ITS OWN PARTICULAR KELPIE.

THE KELPIE WAS A SHAPE-SHIFTER.

THE KELPIE WILL ALWAYS CHANGE TO
SUIT THE SITUATION AND ITS PREY.

Narrator: THOUSANDS OF
YEARS AGO, HOMES LIKE THIS ONE

WERE BUILT OUT OVER THE LOCH
FOR THE LEADERS OF THE VILLAGE.

Bonning:
THIS BUILDING HERE TELLS ME

THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE TIME
VENERATED THE WATER,

BUT THE TALES
OF THE KELPIE TELL ME, ALSO,

THAT THEY HAD SOMETHING TO FEAR.

[ GROWLS ]

Narrator: TONY BELIEVES THAT
THE MYTH OF THE KELPIE BEGAN

NOT TO WARN OF A DEADLY CREATURE
BENEATH THE SURFACE,

BUT TO WARN OF THE DANGEROUS
WATERS THEMSELVES.

♪♪

THE KELPIE WAS A CODED MESSAGE.

♪♪

Bonning: SCOTTISH WEATHER IS
INFAMOUSLY BAD AT TIMES,

I MEAN, HORRENDOUS.

WHAT KIND OF CLOTHING ARE YOU
WEARING BACK 2,500 YEARS AGO?

WOOL. DEFINITELY WOOL.

IN FACT, WHAT I'M JUST
SITTING ON,

THIS WOOL AND CLOTH,

THAT WOULD BE, CERTAINLY,
SOMETHING WORN AT THE TIME.

ALL RIGHT. WELL,
PEOPLE WERE WEARING THIS.

YOU WERE IN A ROCKY BOAT,
BAD CONDITIONS.

NEXT THING,
THE BOAT'S CAPSIZED,

AND THIS IS UNDERWATER,

AND YOU ARE WEARING IT.

DRAGGED DOWN BY
THEIR VERY GARMENTS,

AND THEY'RE TRYING TO
PULL THAT OUT OF THE WATER,

AND THAT IS HEAVY.

Narrator: TONY BELIEVES THAT
THE KELPIE WAS CREATED

AS A WARNING TO ENSURE FEWER
PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES HERE.

♪♪

[ GROWLS ]

Bonning: IF YOU SAY TO A CHILD,
"DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER,"

THE FIRST THING THEY'LL DO
IS GO NEAR THE WATER.

IF YOU SAY TO A CHILD,
"YOU GO NEAR THAT WATER,

THERE'S SOMETHING
IN THERE CALLED THE KELPIE.

IT WILL DRAG YOU DOWN
AND EAT YOU,"

YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET
IN THE WATER.

Narrator: BUT IF THE KELPIE MYTH
WAS CREATED

JUST TO WARN AGAINST DROWNING,

WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF ITS ABILITY TO SHAPE-SHIFT?

TONY THINKS IT COULD COVER
FAR MORE EVENTUALITIES.

Bonning: THE KELPIE TALE'S
A VERY USEFUL MEANS

OF WARNING THE PEOPLE AGAINST
MANY DIFFERENT DANGERS

THAT ARE OUT THERE.

Narrator: OFF THE WEST COAST
OF SCOTLAND,

VICIOUS KELPIES
RESEMBLING MERMAN ATTACK SAILORS

WHO STRAYED TOO FAR OFF COURSE.

ON LAND, A KELPIE DISGUISED
AS A WOMAN AMBUSHES MEN

FOOLISH ENOUGH
TO WALK THE HIGHLANDS AT NIGHT,

AND IN THE OUTER HEBRIDES,
A STORY OF A KELPIE

DISGUISED AS A HANDSOME MAN

IS TOLD TO GIRLS
TO KEEP THEM CLOSE TO HOME.

MYTHICAL STORIES,
ESPECIALLY OF SEA MONSTERS,

WERE USED AS A FORM OF
SOCIAL CONTROL.

[ ROARS ]

ONE OF THE BEAUTIES OF
MONSTER LEGENDS IS,

A LOT OF TIMES,
THE DETAILS DON'T MATTER.

IT'S THE OVERALL IDEA,
THE WARNING,

THE ETHICAL CHALLENGE
TO THE READER OR THE VIEWER.

Bonning: KELPIE UNIFIES
ALL THE DANGERS TO PEOPLE

IN ONE BEAST,

ONE TREMENDOUSLY DEMONIC,
HORRIBLE, NASTY BEAST.

YOU DON'T EVER WANT TO MEET ONE.

[ GROWLS ]

Narrator: THE KELPIE MYTH
SERVED TO WARN

OF MANY DIFFERENT PERILS.

DID THE KRAKEN LEGEND
SERVE AS A SIMILAR PURPOSE?

AS SAILORS TRAVELED FURTHER,
THEY ENCOUNTERED MORE DANGERS,

FROM TYPHOONS TO WHIRLPOOLS

AND LARGE MAN-EATING SHARKS.

DID THE KRAKEN CHANGE SHAPE
TO FIT THE CULPRIT?

BUT THIS IS NOT THE END
OF THE MYSTERY.

COULD A NEW MARINE DISCOVERY
SHED FRESH LIGHT

ON ANOTHER VERY DIFFERENT REASON
THE KRAKEN MYTH FIRST BEGAN

AND WHY IT ENDURED FOR SO LONG?

[ ROAR, THUNDER RUMBLING ]

[ ROAR, THUNDER RUMBLING ]

♪♪

Narrator: EXPERTS INVESTIGATE
THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MYTH

OF THE MIGHTY MARINE MONSTER
THE KRAKEN.

♪♪

THIS WAS JUST ONE OF THE MANY
FANTASTICAL SEA BEASTS

THAT TERRORIZED SAILORS
FOR CENTURIES.

MARINE BIOLOGIST
GRO VAN DER MEEREN REALIZES

HOW SCARY THESE WATERS WERE
FOR OUR ANCESTORS.

Van Der Meeren: THIS IS ONE OF
THE MOST MAGNIFICENT MAPS

OF THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES
EVER MADE.

THIS IS THE CARTA MARINA.

WHAT'S REALLY MAGNIFICENT IS
ALL THESE SEA MONSTERS.

Narrator: BUT WHILE THE ORIGINS
OF MANY HAVE COME TO LIGHT,

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND
THE KRAKEN REMAINS ELUSIVE.

♪♪

THE DEADLY SEA SERPENT
MAY HAVE BEEN BASED

ON THE RARE OARFISH...

♪♪

...A STRANGE CREATURE WITH
A STRIKING RED CREST

THAT GROWS NEARLY 30 FEET LONG.

♪♪

THE MYTHICAL PRESTERS

COULD SHOOT
POWERFUL TORRENTS OF WATER.

WAS THIS BASED
ON SPOUTING SPERM WHALES?

♪♪

AND THE LEGENDARY ZIPHIUS,
WITH ITS DEADLY SWORDLIKE FIN,

MAY HAVE BEEN INSPIRED
BY THE ORCA

WITH ITS TRIANGULAR DORSAL FIN
UP TO 6 FEET TALL.

♪♪

BUT A NEW DISCOVERY COULD
POTENTIALLY THROW FRESH LIGHT

ON THE ORIGIN
OF THE KRAKEN MYTH.

♪♪

Narrator: IN THE MURKY,
PLANKTON-FILLED WATER,

SOMETHING UNBELIEVABLE
EMERGES --

3-FOOT WIDE GELATINOUS SPHERES.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: GRO WORKS
WITH SPECIALIST DIVERS

TO HUNT DOWN MORE
OF THESE MYSTERIOUS SPHERES.

[ BREATHING DEEPLY ]

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator:
THE TEAM IS IN POSITION.

THEY ENTER THE WATER AT A SPOT

KNOWN TO BE
PARTICULARLY RICH IN LIFE.

THEY DESCEND...

...AND THE LAIR OF THE KRAKEN
IS REVEALED.

♪♪

Narrator:
GRO SUSPECTS THE JELLY BALLS

MAY BE RELATED
TO THE SQUID FAMILY,

BUT FURTHER INVESTIGATION
WILL BE REQUIRED

BEFORE IT CAN OFFICIALLY
BE IDENTIFIED.

♪♪

[ ROARS ]

THE UNCERTAINTY,
THE UNKNOWING OF THE SEA,

IS REALLY WHAT LENDS ITSELF

TO CREATING THESE
MYTHICAL BEASTS AND CREATURES.

A SHIP GOES DOWN, AND YOU NEVER
KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.

IN THE SEA,
THERE ARE NO ANSWERS.

THERE IS NO CLOSURE.

CONSIDERING THAT 90% OF
THE OCEANS ARE STILL UNEXPLORED,

IT MAKES SENSE THAT STORIES
LIKE THE KRAKEN

WILL ENDURE WITH US FOR
A VERY LONG TIME.

Paxton: IN MANY WAYS,
THE MYTH OF THE KRAKEN

REFLECTS THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP
TO THE SEA.

IT IS A PLACE OF MYSTERY,
DANGER, AND ULTIMATELY, REWARD.

ABOVE ALL, THE KRAKEN IS ABOUT
THE UNKNOWN

AND REFLECTS OUR LACK
OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE SEA.

Narrator: WITH SO MUCH OF
OUR PLANET'S OCEANS

STILL TO EXPLORE,

STORIES LIKE THE KRAKEN WILL
ENDURE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.

♪♪

[ ROARS ]

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