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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.