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Since man took to the sea,

stories of monsters have followed them back to shore.

But while legends of serpents and sharks and Kraken

have found the basis in science and fact,

a sea monster off the Alaskan coast

remains undocumented.

A local legend for centuries,

the first intriguing evidence of the creature

was captured in 1969.

I heard stories from when I first got here 50 years ago.

That thing was huge under the water.

After going dormant, it once again resurfaced...

Something's big and something moving with us.

I really don't know what it was.

...ambushing boats at deep water sea life.

The bites on the actual ribs.

And many believe it to still be lurking

in the cold Alaskan waters...

This is it.

...to this day.

Dude, it's getting louder.

Hey, you gotta come and see this.

- Look at this. - What is that?

In the mid-20th century,

scientist Ivan Sanderson

set out to separate fact from fiction.

He investigated hundreds of frightening encounters

with unexplained creatures around the world.

Our next guest tonight

is one of the world's leading naturalists,

accumulating material for some 20 years.

As the founder of cryptozoology,

he built the most extensive archive

of unclassified creatures on Earth.

There seem to be a lot of these creatures

in our continent, and South America and Africa

and all over Asia.

But following his death in the 1970s,

that archive disappeared...

until now.

Armed with modern tech

and Sanderson's lost research...

We need to take this

and compare it to what's in the archives.

...a team of experts

will reinvestigate his unexplained cases

using up-to-the-minute research

and predator expertise.

I've never seen wildlife do this.

There's nothing like that

that should be doing that here.

Holy.

Can Sanderson's files

lead to an incredible new insight

and take another creature from myth...

Did you see that?

...to reality?

It's the Kodiak Sea Monster. - Mmm-hmm?

One of my favorites.

A big one in Sanderson's archives.

The vast expanse of the ocean,

the strange alien terrain,

there's a lot we don't know.

Sanderson believed the elusive creature,

named the Kodiak Sea Monster

is a 150-foot prehistoric relic.

According to indigenous accounts,

the creature lives and feeds in the deep trenches close to shore.

But in 1969,

a boat captain may have captured

the most compelling evidence yet.

Retired coast guard,

well respected captain Stanley Lee

actually sent Ivan Sanderson

many distressed type of letters talking about

the fact that a local shrimp boat

actually got an image of what looks like a dinosaur

on a Simrad read.

This letter from, uh, Captain Stanley

is one of great mystery.

Lee is a seasoned seafarer for over three decades.

He wrote to me that one day off the shores of Kodiak,

a rather large creature was detected

over 50 fathoms below the water's surface,

spanning over 100 feet long on the Simrad.

So, Simrad had started in World War II.

They used sound waves

to find objects under the water.

So, it would use echo sound.

So, the transmitter would function like a megaphone.

and it sends a big beam of sound through the sea.

And once it hits something,

those sound waves reflect back up...

- Mmm-hmm? - ...and then, that data is translated

to produce something like that.

When this went into publication on a newspaper,

they had the original Simrad strip,

and it would look like this.

And in order for them to see what they wanted them to see,

they zoomed in on that strip.

So, that's why this is heavily pixelated.

It was possibly altered,

but either way, it's a massive animal.

I mean, we know that we have whales that size,

but obviously not that.

But taking it back to Stanley's messages,

Ivan Sanderson believed

that there was the possibility of a prehistoric animal

living in the waters off the coast of Kodiak.

I really do believe that we were looking at a possibility

of a type of plesiosaur.

The plesiosaurus was an apex predator marine reptile

that first appeared 203 million years ago.

The dinosaur could grow to the size of a tractor trailer

and had hundreds of needle-like teeth set in a crushing jaw.

So, we're talking about another giant prehistoric creature.

Yeah, basically.

If you look at this,

you can actually see

a type of body with a long neck and a tail

and triangular looking fins.

The Kodiak Sea Monster has been compared

to what was supposed to be extinct prehistoric creature,

the plesiosaur.

In theory, it's possible

that some of these could still exist today within our ocean

because only a certain percentage has been discovered.

1971,

people claim to see something

break the surface of the water near Raspberry Strait.

The creature was believed to be almost 100 feet long

with an elongated neck.

Then, in 2002,

there was a sighting off Raspberry Strait.

And in 2014,

there was a sighting of a spiked creature chasing orcas.

Sightings still are happening to date at the same location.

In fact, there's a surfer

that literally just had a sighting of, like,

a huge triangular fin that came out of the water.

He had it around the same location

as where the Mylark actually picked up the original image.

This is a guy that's literally on the water all the time.

He's used to seeing different types of marine life.

He would know the difference

between an orca and a blue whale.

The ocean is huge.

There's deep ravines.

We can't possibly cover enough ground,

so we need to really lean on technology

and Sanderson's research.

We've got a few key pieces of evidence here

that I think we can really work with.

- We have the surfer's account. - Mmm-hmm.

That-- That's a current day account

of someone seeing something.

Sanderson left us a depth in his notes

that we should be looking at, 300 feet.

And then we have the Kodiak Simrad

- from the archive. - Right.

I think we have enough to get started.

Large unpleasantnesses, or sea monsters, if you will,

appear to be exceptionally common around the Kodiak sea.

Further, this seems to be the one part of the world

where they have not been satisfactorily explained

as any known animals.

Some of them have not been explained at all.

Kodiak Island is a part of the Aleutian Island chain.

This whole entire island

is surrounded by nothing but water.

And what's amazing is that

we also have these little inlet channels that come in close

to a lot of the main fishing areas in town.

Kodiak Island,

which sits 100 miles off the Alaskan coast,

is as remote as it is punishing

with harsh winters, treacherous coastlines

and the most dangerous predators on Earth.

But according to Sanderson,

there could be another apex predator

lurking beneath the surface.

And Charlie and Brittany

have assembled the team in Alaska

to attempt to document it.

So, Ivan ultimately had two culprits on the table.

One was the possibility of the plesiosaur genus,

but also on the other side,

he was looking into the long neck grouping of the pinnipeds,

like, the long neck seal groups.

If it's a biological being... - Yeah.

...the usual suspects

that are gonna be around this area in the water,

you're gonna have the sharks, seals, sea lions.

- Killer whale. - Killer whale, yeah, 100%.

So, the Simrad has it estimated

at between 150 and 180 feet long.

If you look at the largest marine reptile

in the fossil record that we've recovered,

it's nowhere near that long.

We've got locals that are seeing something similar

to what we're looking at on the Simrad read.

It didn't just happen once.

The accounts continue to happen all the way up until today.

We have boats being hit almost seeming targeted,

whale carcasses coming up just dead right on the beach.

In early 2024,

locals discovered the beached carcass

of a Cuvier's beaked whale

with unexplained bite marks

and no other obvious cause of death.

This rarely seen species seldom comes near shore

with a habitat at depths of over 10,000 feet.

I think we should just get together and get out to the beach.

We can look for predatorial bites.

- That's... - Well, we have to see a body.

We can determine by what we see on the body.

We have to rule out, like,

scavengers and predators on land. - Uh-huh.

Which should be easy to do as far as bite marks go.

Have we given any thought to that it might not be an animal?

It could be a submarine or something of that nature,

because there's so many bases. - Right.

And you've got the coast guard, you've got the navy.

Those are both water borne.

I think in a situation like this

where you have a place like Kodiak

that is home to a few military installations

and has been for 80 years,

so there's no question that there were submersibles.

It's plausible, um, that they weren't testing

some kind of a new submersible under the water.

Right now, the investigation is wide open.

Tracy will continue her investigation.

Troy and Justin are off to find the beached Cuvier's beaked whale.

And Brittany and I,

we're going to interview a surfer

who had a recent encounter not far

from where the Simrad image was captured 54 years ago.

- All right, let's run it. - Yep. All right.

I believe that there is something truly incredible

still lurking in our ocean because it's so vast

and undiscovered and uncharted.

And we don't know yet

a lot about these prehistoric creatures.

I believe it's possible something like this could exist.

Brittany and Charlie head to the eastern shore,

hoping that a surfer's recent account

can tell them where to start their investigation.

Why does it have to be so cold?

Oh, hey, guys.

- Hey. - Hey.

My name is Ryan Murdoch, I'm a Kodiak local.

And I've been surfing these waters for 20 years.

So, can you tell us about your encounter?

My buddies and I were, um, out surfing.

And it was kind of a windy day.

So, we, we decided that we wanted to go to this point

that, um, was a little bit more sheltered from the wind.

I caught a wave into the beach

and I was paddling back out to my friends,

and I looked behind them

and there's this giant triangle sticking up out of the water.

It's probably 10 to 20 feet tall

and the base was probably 15 or 20 feet wide.

- That's massive. - Significant.

I was like, "That's not a rock."

Then, I point and their eyes bug out.

They just start paddling in as quick as they can.

But I, I kinda stayed and watched it for a minute,

'cause I kinda wanted to figure out what it was.

It submerged into the water in, in kind of a weird way.

I could see around the object was a big boil,

which in surfer terms is an upwelling of water.

We're looking, trying to see if it was a whale

or what would come back up to the surface,

and we never saw anything come back.

So, we were kinda perplexed.

What the heck was that?

If a fin is roughly 20 feet,

I mean, we're looking at an animal

that has to be 90 feet or more.

This account tells us

that something very large is rising from the depths.

And the boil or upwelling water

could mean that there's a trench below the encounter

where the creature descended.

In my mind, that's where we have to go.

We're gonna need a boat and sonar

so we can find out where this thing lives.

On the west side of Kodiak,

Troy and Justin are heading to a reported beaked whale

that has washed up on shore.

Beautiful, isn't it?

That is pretty.

We're gonna look for some bear tracks

because we've seen the reports with the bears

feeding on the whale carcasses.

Trying to see if there's anything different out here

besides human and deer.

No other tracks yet.

Let's stay closer to the water here.

Bears are opportunistic

and can often be seen feeding on beached sea life.

Since a whale carcass would offer animals food for months,

Troy and Justin's plan is to find and follow recent bear tracks

that will hopefully lead them to the predator's last meal.

Bear right here, there we go.

J, you got here a big one. - Yeah, you got it.

All right, so, he's coming this way.

Still going.

This one actually is going towards the ridge.

So, we're gonna follow the tracks of the bear.

It's going that way.

We're gonna go back towards where he came from.

Hopefully, we can pick it up

on the other side of the stream here

and, uh, possibly find something he was feeding on.

Hey, looks like we're getting close.

What do you think that is?

- I'm not sure. - Yeah.

It's hard to tell with the, just the vertebrae.

J, look at this.

Look at him, dude!

Where the did the ribs go?

I was just talking to my otter friends.

There's a whole bunch of my friends.

So many of 'em.

He's still going.

Brittany and Charlie have enlisted

boat captain, Lucas Perry,

to help find where the surfer saw

a mysterious sea creature retreat beneath the sea,

and where, in 1969, a Simrad documented the monster at 300 feet.

After talking to Ryan, our eyewitness,

honestly, I now have a new perspective out here,

and I think what he saw was a deep-sea creature

at the top of its predation pattern.

The surfer said he saw an upwell.

That's when the nutrient-rich, deep-sea water

quickly rises to the surface,

and some creatures follow that food silo when they feed.

So, the goal here is to ID any canyons or trenches offshore

because that could be where our creature is hiding.

This is the transducer.

Normally, this would be mounted onto the back of the boat.

But we're just gonna rig this up into this two by four and drop it into the water.

And this will give us a reading of how deep

- the water is under the boat? - Correct.

So, what we're doing right now is using sonar to try to identify

a deep, underwater canyon. Because what we think

this predator might be doing is lurking down in the depths

and then coming up higher to feed.

Ivan Sanderson's files and eyewitness accounts

all indicate that the mysterious creature

hunts along the steep underwater shelves

that are unique to the coastal geography of Alaska and Kodiak.

So basically, there's two parts to our experiment today.

The first involves a state-of-the-art sonar device,

which we're gonna use to try to find these underwater shelves.

The other thing we're looking for is areas

where there's a density of potential food for this creature.

This thing was thought to be twice the size of a blue whale,

so it could be hunting whales, sharks.

And out here, there's a lot of big prey for predators.

What's that?

That's probably a lot of little fish.

That's a big mass of little fish, then, right?

Would that be something maybe the whale would eat?

It's a lot-- a lot of little fish.

Yeah, whales, whales would eat that.

Come through and eat through that?

Are you seeing any sudden changes in the depths?

I mean, there's a pretty good drop here.

I mean, this goes from 170 to 700, 800.

Like a ledge.

This is our spot, right here.

Using the Raymarine sonar, we were actually able

to find a really good trench.

It's a little bit deeper, closer to shore.

We could be floating above the habitat of the Kodiak sea monster.

The next step is, we have to figure out a way to draw

this creature out.

I'm gonna gather up with the team.

And I'm really hoping that Troy and Justin's

examination of the whale carcass

can give us a clue into how we can do this.

So, this has to be where they stored ammunition.

Um, you know, it's kind of sunken into the earth

to really minimize any damage.

What I personally wanna know

is what kind of weapons or submersibles were stored here.

On the northeast fork of Kodiak Island,

Tracy begins her hunt at the relics

of military occupancy on the island.

Here, she hopes to find out

if any evidence points to the possibility

of a secret submersible program

to explain the sightings.

If I were going to build, like, a scout location

or a radar detection location,

this is exactly where I would build it.

You've really got the high ground here.

You can see the entry into the bay.

And actually, this isn't far from where the Simrad's sonar image was taken.

We're on the same shipping channel.

It was just off the coast

of Fort Abercrombie in 1969,

where the Simrad's sonar was recorded...

when the fishing vessel, Mylark, was navigating the same shipping channel

between Kodiak and Raspberry Island.

Military activity on Kodiak Island

really dates back to the 1800s.

Kodiak is pretty sequestered, and the high cliffs are great

for hiding classified programs.

The US had many military installations

on Kodiak Island,

but Fort Abercrombie was one of the most prominent.

I mean, we're talking about 80 years

of continuous military occupation

in some way, shape or form.

This is our entry into World War II.

When the Japanese had started to really island hop

or capture parts of the Aleutian Islands,

which is part of the island chain that we're on right now,

it became really important

to make sure that we fortify this area.

During the Cold War, this place was bustling with activity.

Clearly, there's no activity here now.

I haven't found any new information,

but I wanna rule out a military submersible to explain the sea monster.

So, I'm gonna reach out to some sources

for some new leads.

Man believes that he's taken hold of all features of the Earth,

yet we know practically nothing

of the great body of hydrospace.

Most of its several major aspects still baffle us.

And there seem to be things going on in it

that are presently quite beyond our comprehension.

J, look at this.

- Jesus! - I know.

Look at him, dude!

On Fossil Beach, Troy and Justin have found

the Cuvier's beaked whale carcass they were looking for.

I don't see any bite marks on what's left of the skin.

You can definitely tell bears have been chewing on this.

Look at the bites on the actual ribs.

Look at this.

You kind of wash off a little bit of this stuff here,

and you'll be able to see on this vertebrae

where there's actually teeth marks, where they pulled it.

It's a big whale. They've taken a lot of meat off.

One thing I did notice, though,

this darker stuff is still tissue

that's still left on the bone here.

I think due to the temperatures,

there's some fresh blood in there.

You see it? This type of whale lives deep.

Cuvier's beaked whale

executes some of the deepest dives among sea life,

reaching depths of 10,000 feet.

Due to the recesses of the ocean

the creature reaches, they have no known predators,

evading hunters like orca and great white sharks.

This animal has been here so long,

there's no way to determine

something in the water that bit it or killed it.

But what's interesting about it is, if you think about an animal

depending on the whale,

I mean, the size would be massive.

It would be like a, um, almost like a small school bus laying here.

So, a predator such as killer whale,

Sanderson's sea monster, et cetera

would have to be massive to hunt a whale of this size.

On Kodiak Island, the team hunts land and sea

for signs of an elusive apex predator lurking off the coast.

This is all chewed on.

Look at the bites, the grinding.

See it?

Thirty miles away,

Tracy gets a lead from an intelligence contact

she hopes will give her insight

into unusual activity in the area.

Hello.

Hey, I got something for you.

Do you have access to email?

I don't right now, but I can pull over and have access in a few minutes.

Okay. I'm sending you something right now.

Uh, let me know if you need anything else.

Okay. Thanks.

Working in the military like I did,

you make a lot of contacts.

And for me, investigating cryptids

is all about collecting information.

Being able to utilize a network of people

with access other people can't easily get is invaluable.

But because of where we have to go,

communicating can be a challenge.

We are in a very remote location.

Obviously, Internet's not easy to come by here.

So, in this car, I got a battery pack.

I've got the ability to connect to satellite for Internet.

I've got my phone, I've got my computer.

It's really an office on wheels.

Wow.

This is a 165-page document that was prepared

by the Army Corps of Engineers,

and it's basically talking about how 80 years ago,

ten tons of mustard gas, nerve gas was stored

right at the facility that I was looking at today

and disposed of in the ocean.

But here's why this is incredible,

the sightings of the Kodiak sea monster

started less than 30 years after the dumping started.

Mustard gas is a chemical warfare agent developed in the 1800s.

There is little information on its effect on sea animals,

but it is considered a mutagenic

due to its effect on DNA

and potential to cause abnormalities during cell division.

This stuff kills people.

This stuff causes birth defects, genetic mutations.

And all of it was dumped in the waters here.

I started out looking for submarines,

and ways the government was involved possibly in this here in Kodiak makes sense.

There is a Coast Guard installation here

that's really large,

and a submarine is a large submersible.

But this is what I was not expecting,

and I think this probably has a bigger impact

in terms of what we're looking at.

When it comes to deep-sea research,

we are hamstrung by the technologies of our time.

But for every step forward in technology,

uh, we discover something formally believed

to be undiscoverable or nonexistent.

I hope to see the day when our technological means

can, uh, match the bounds of our imagination.

And I believe, sometime in the near future,

we will have the ability to explore

the depths of the ocean

much like man landed on the moon.

After two days of dead ends in their hunt for the elusive sea monster,

the team regroups to determine a new direction.

Brittany and I met up with a really compelling witness.

And a... At his estimate, 20-foot fin

came up behind him and the surfer friends.

So, 20 feet is a little exaggerated to me for no one else to see.

That's massive. I mean, you--

That's a sailboat chasing you.

Based on what you're saying the eyewitness told you,

that's not shark behavior at all.

So, I would definitely rule out sharks

as... as a large predator.

But a large orca will come up

and it will show that fin sometimes.

If you see an orca in person,

Justin, I have seen real orcas in person,

their... their dorsal fin is giant.

So, if it's a male, and you're scared,

I mean, 11,000-pound animals is intense.

That's to say the least.

But the way this was described wasn't a dorsal fin.

It was a pectoral fin,

as if it was going this way underwater like this.

There was recently a new species of orca discovered,

and they're pretty aggressive.

The Bigg's killer whale

is a newly identified species of orca

that travels in small groups, preys primarily on squid

and has no natural predators.

They have distinct features,

including a pointed dorsal fin,

closed saddle patches

and unique oversized paddle fins

that set them apart from other orcas.

So, Tracy, you brought up a really good point about

maybe we're looking at something non-biological.

I wanna add another military explanation into the mix.

I have a really interesting report

from the Army Corps of Engineers.

So, mustard and nerve gas

was dumped immediately after World War II,

um, into the ocean around the area.

And so the question then, is, what can this do to sea life?

It actually can alter your DNA.

And that takes decades, right?

So, I would imagine you would start to see mutations.

It might account for some of this...

the spottings of animals that don't look like animals

that we're familiar with.

This is baffling for me.

Because now, this just opens up a whole new culprit

that we never would have even thought about, honestly.

So, listen to this,

we did find a whale carcass.

It's been there a while.

It really was heavily decayed.

Could you kind of tell perhaps how it died?

What could have killed? Or you think it was natural?

We don't know what killed it. We have no idea.

But there was still flesh on it,

and it was pumping all this oil and juice out of its blubber.

It smelt wonderful.

There's still flesh and guts on that whale.

We need to grab some of it and mix it up with the chum.

That's awesome.

So, if you get the boat out there, then you can chum and see,

I mean, it's gonna be tempting.

'Cause, I mean, that's tasty water to them.

Maybe it will draw in whatever creature dines on it in the first place.

So, that just means that we need to get back on the boat,

and I need to call the captain, like, right away,

and get us back out there.

Sightings of sea monsters and sea serpents,

um, have, of course, been reported throughout history.

With the principle of scientific inquiry

were laid down in the 18th century,

the whole subject was dismissed as fantastic nonsense.

Still, the reports have persisted.

Science is defined, in the dictionaries,

as the pursuit of the unknown.

Yet science today is coming more and more to insist

that it not be bothered with this,

and it has reached a point

where anything that is not already known is frowned upon.

Well, I, for one, am convinced

that somewhere in the icy waters

off the southern coast of Alaska,

there's at least one monstrous marine long-neck swimming around,

and, uh, who knows how many more.

So are we coming up on the trench here?

Yeah. Looks like we're almost there.

Start prepping the fish and getting them ready.

Armed with a new strategy,

the team returns to the deep water trench they located in Kodiak Bay.

They plan to chum the water

and lure the mysterious creature to the surface.

Pretty pumped we're back on the water today

because we're gonna run a brand new experiment.

Earlier today, Troy and Justin took flesh and blood off

of the Cuvier beaked whale that was beached.

- Bro, that is gross. - So, here, look. Look at the blood coming out.

- You wanna get a sip? - No, I don't wanna get a sip.

Look at that.

Come on. Get you some.

Oh, my God, that's gross.

This is the leftover blubber and tissue

that... you know, that keeps the whales, you know, around,

all of their bone structure, and kind of keeps them warm in the weather.

This is pure blubber right here.

We then used that to mix in with some chum.

Chum is ground bait and blood

that is introduced into water

to attract large fish and mammals to the surface.

We think by mixing in the Curvier beaked whale,

a possible prey of the Kodiak sea monster,

we might be able to lure it out.

Troy and Justin are going with the theory

that we're working with a known predator.

This bait is gonna bring in any predator, known or unknown.

I mean, this is exactly how they documented the giant squid.

Tales of giant squid with 20-foot tentacles,

dating back to the 4th century BC,

were always believed to be the stuff of myths.

But in 2012, scientists lured out the mysterious creature,

and documented it for the first time

in its natural habitat.

These biologists used artificial luminescence

to mimic a panicked Atolla jellyfish.

These jellyfish have a defense mechanism

where they light up whenever they're attacked.

This signals to larger predators

that smaller predators are around.

We're there. Let's drop the anchor.

All right, we'll tether it up.

And that way, hopefully, whatever we've been chumming

will be drawn in even closer to us. - Closer. Yeah.

Dropping the bait in the water to lure out the creature

is the first part of the experiment.

The second part of the experiment involves sound.

We're actually dropping a speaker in and using a hydrophone,

and I'm really hoping for a lot of success.

This is sensitive right here.

This is what picks up the sounds.

So you definitely don't want anything hitting that,

so this is necessary before we throw it over.

The hydrophone is a super high-tech underwater microphone.

It's very sensitive and picks up

even the faintest of sounds,

like a crab crawling along the ocean floor.

We're gonna use a speaker as well.

We wanna play some whale sounds,

and we're hoping that the chum

and sound of potential prey can lure it out.

We're gonna do everything we can to put eyes and ears

on whatever we can in the water.

So while Troy and I are listening,

Brittany's gonna be looking out topside,

and Charlie's gonna be watching the sonar.

This whole case started with Sanderson and a sonar image.

What we have now is far more technologically advanced,

and that's gonna help us build on that investigation.

Hydrophone deployed.

Okay, so we're good here.

All right.

Under the general heading of "collecting,"

field work and expedition are the most invigorating parts of the hunt.

Printed and taped material acquired by secondary means is beneficial,

but capturing physical evidence

and having a first-hand account are far superior.

Okay, Brittany, Charlie, you ready?

Time to bring in some animals.

So at this point in the investigation,

there's only a few culprits left that we can look into.

We're really only down to two things,

something we've never seen before,

or it's gonna be something in the whale family

- or a marine mammal... - Or possibly mutated.

...that's extremely large.

Well, I'm gonna give you the killer whale first.

All right. Ready? Go.

The way it sounds, it's really clear.

All right, we've got orcas.

Let's see if we can attract something bigger.

What about an orca distress call?

That's really gonna lure something big in, you know?

And if you're looking for... something that's not normal,

um, most big predators are attracted to distress,

and they're gonna learn that behavior quick.

Let me see what we got here.

There's a distress call.

Let's just listen for a moment.

Wait a minute. Did you hear that?

Holy It's getting louder.

Hey, Brittany!

- Britt! - Yeah?

Listen.

Oh!

Troy, Justin!

Hey, you've got to come see this!

What is it?

- Look at this. - What is that?

- Look at this. - What is that?

I don't know.

Were you guys getting any audio?

Yeah. We heard something that sounded

like it was coming from afar and moving in.

What sound were you guys playing?

Uh, distress call. Blue whale.

- Look at that. - Yeah, blue whale distress.

- Look at that. - We also had some killer whales,

uh, well, earlier on.

I'm gonna go ahead and save this.

- That is-- - We're not getting any clicks back either, so it's not...

- It's not. - I don't think it's a killer whale.

That is not nothing.

That's not small either. - No.

I don't really know what that is.

Charlie is monitoring the sonar to see if there's any type of animals

coming under our boat.

And right when our mic started picking up a mysterious sound,

an 80-foot-long figure popped up on the sonar.

We don't know yet if these two elements are connected.

Good job, Charlie. Good catch.

Well, something's around.

Something's big, and something's moving with us.

We've got data points. - I know.

So now we just have to correlate 'em. - And that... is awesome.

The fact is, our sonar picked up

something large under our boat.

Combined with the sound Justin and Troy picked up,

we could be looking at evidence of a large marine animal.

We have to dig deeper for more proof.

All right. You gotta hear this, man.

From the same time when you called us, from that timestamp,

Wait... you gotta back... Justin's played it back for you.

It's already playing.

- Play it - And listen hard.

What is that? What could that be? - I have no idea.

I was thinking at first, maybe a whale in the distance,

but as it got closer, it was just too deep.

That's biological.

- Yeah. - It is crazy, but I've never heard that before.

It was only after we did a distress call.

So that was what was unique to me.

We were playing distress calls.

When it came in, there was another call.

So I don't know if it was something coming to assist

or it was coming to kill.

I really don't know.

So there's a lot of animals that make the sounds underwater.

Justin and I had the hydrophone playing a bunch of different sounds.

Killer whales, blue whales, et cetera, all distress.

And then we heard something completely different that we didn't hear before.

It's almost like echolocation,

which is high-pitched, clicking sounds,

almost like a door creaking.

But this is something different.

It has more bass, and it's much, much deeper.

Could that have been a distortion?

I don't know. The water out here is very deep,

so we're just gonna have to look further into this.

- This is awesome! - Sounds great. Are you happy?

- I'm really happy. - I know you're into this stuff.

- And I'm proud of you. - I'd rather just stay out.

That's good.

We obviously know we have activity out here,

but we really need to dig deeper and get more data.

We'll keep this, and what we'll do is we'll use that and this,

and we'll play... we have so many sounds that Troy and I

have been going through, that we'll kind of go through

and see if we can match it to anything

and start marking things up.

We're gonna stay out here for a few more hours

and see if we can gather any more evidence to add to the archive.

I don't know what that is. That does not sound like a whale call to me.

- Mmm-mmm. - It's like it's from outer space.

Yeah.

Based on that sound and the Simrad image in particular,

I've worked with radar and sonar before,

in my opinion, it's definitely not a submarine.

I mean, it's... it's either...

an unknown type of whale, possibly,

or it's something mimicking a whale or trying to,

'cause that's...

the only thing in there that I kind of hear

that sounds a lot like orca

would be almost in the faint click

that they would do under water that you would pick up on,

and all that comes from the infrasound.

But it's even more eerie

than it was even on the boat.

Personally, my theory, coming back from Kodiak,

I have a few more questions, more than answers, personally,

because we didn't actually get to see anything with our eyes,

but we heard something so incredible.

But I think there is still something lurking around Kodiak Island,

and I really wanna know what it is.

Look, there's no question, at least ten tons

of mustard gas and nerve gas went into the ocean.

I mean, that is confirmed.

There's a government report. There's no question.

And there's no question it had an impact on sea life.

What that impact is, obviously, I don't know.

But I researched some of the currents in the area,

and the currents around Kodiak

move from west to east.

And most of the sea monster sightings

were on the east side of the island.

In my opinion, it absolutely had an impact.

I think we cannot dismiss that.

It's just a question of, did that mutation create a sea monster?

Anytime you're messing with an ecosystem,

much like the ocean, there's gonna be a cause and effect.

You're either gonna throw off the natural existence of these animals in there

to do things they normally wouldn't do,

behaviorally, or even genetically.

The fact that the government was doing

chemical dumping into the ocean,

that alone is a massive game changer

for anybody trying to look into the Kodiak sea monster.

Well, we have three culprits of this then.

We either have a genuine sea monster,

or an unknown hybrid whale species,

or, Tracy, as you mentioned,

chemicals in the water,

we might have a mutation on our hands.

Under Sanderson's classification index.

All three of these possibilities would fall

under the "new species" category.

But while our evidence points in that direction,

We just don't have enough proof to make a definitive call,

which means our work is not done here.

For me, I am a believer that there

is an unknown species of marine life,

much larger and capable of doing things

that our whales, our common whales don't do,

that people are seeing.

And it's just not documented yet.

I think this kind of discussion

is exactly what Ivan would want.

He was driven by a desire

to spark imagination and exploration,

and that's what we're doing.

So let's put it in.

All right, we'll put the file in the archive.

We'll go back to Kodiak in the near future

and continue our investigation.

Just keep adding on.

Most professional skeptics are insufferably conceited,

and have never even bothered to collect the facts.

Some are deliberately misleading

and designed to promote further skepticism

without any regard for truth.

Uh, the truth is real,

but takes real effort to uncover.