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Tonight on "Expedition Files,"
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deep in the wilds of Siberia,
nine young adventurers are
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violently killed by
someone or something.
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Finally, we may know how.
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In Egypt, the discovery of King
Tut's tomb is said to unleash
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a deadly curse.
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[coughing]
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But could the legend be real?
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And explorer Kenny Veach
investigates Area 51,
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then disappears off
the face of the Earth.
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Now, for the first time ever,
I'll share new revelations
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about history's most
bizarre deaths.
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In the corridors of time...
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are mysteries that
defy explanation.
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Now, I'm traveling through
history itself...
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on a search for the truth.
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New evidence,
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shocking answers.
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I'm Josh Gates,
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and these...
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are my "Expedition Files."
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While none of us like to think
about death, the fact is that
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it comes for us all.
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We hope when it does that
it's peaceful, at the end of
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a long life, surrounded by
our loved ones, but the hand of
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fate often has other plans.
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Some of us will die
strange, horrifying,
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and even unexplainable deaths.
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Tonight, we peer into three
files chronicling the most
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mysterious deaths in history.
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The settings for our stories
could not be more different,
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taking us from the icy
mountains of Siberia to
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the burning sands of Egypt,
to the vast Mojave Desert.
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But in each of these shocking
cases, one question remains
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starkly the same -- "How did
these people die?"
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We begin in 1959 with
a not-so-warm welcome
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to the Siberian wilderness of
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the Soviet Union.
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Deep in the Ural Mountains,
hundreds of miles from
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civilization, this frigid
tundra doesn't even
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have a name.
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That is, until this man,
Igor Dyatlov, leads eight other
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adventurers on an expedition
through the desolate
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Ural Mountains.
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In a matter of days, every one
of them will be dead,
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in a manner so disturbing, that
many will label these the most
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violent, unexplained deaths of
the 20th century.
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What happens next will be
debated by investigators for
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more than 50 years.
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Theories include
a secret weapon test,
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a murderous rampage,
a Yeti attack, or even
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a UFO encounter.
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Tonight, we will share
remarkable new discoveries that
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could unmask the culprit
and reveal the truth of
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the infamous
Dyatlov Pass incident
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for the very first time.
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Like most mysteries, this story
begins innocently enough.
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January 23rd, 1959.
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Buoyed by youth,
camaraderie, and adventure,
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ten college students venture
into the Siberian wilderness.
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Led by 23-year-old engineer Igor
Dyatlov, they're on a 16-day
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journey deep into
the Ortorten Mountains.
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And let's be clear,
although they're college kids,
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they are also well-trained
and well-experienced hikers.
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And they bring along several
journals and five cameras to
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document their trek,
not knowing that their words
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and photos will soon serve as
a trail of breadcrumbs in
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a terrifying mystery.
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Their journey is immediately
intense, as they hike and ski
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through the punishingly cold
Siberian wilderness.
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[speaking Russian]
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[Josh] But their mood remains
high, as team member
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Lyudmila Dubinina writes
in her diary.
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[translator reading from
Lyudmila's diary]
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[Josh]
But despite their high spirits,
after five days, one member of
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the team is injured
and can't continue.
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Yuri Yudin begins to experience
extreme joint pain, and on
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January 28th, leaves the group
to head back to civilization.
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[translator reading from
Lyudmila's diary]
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As Yuri parts ways with
his comrades, they head deeper
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into the foreboding wilderness.
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This is the last time that
he will ever see
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his friends alive.
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As the nine hikers reach higher
altitudes, they begin to
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experience the skin-shredding
weather that only the infamous
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sub-zero Siberian climate
can inflict.
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Showing remarkable fortitude,
the team battles on.
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Dyatlov writes...
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[translator reads from diary]
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[Josh] On their seventh day,
with temperatures plummeting to
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25 degrees below zero,
they pitch camp along
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the shoulder of a barren
and exposed slope that
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the local Mansi tribesmen call
"Dead Mountain," a fateful name
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since it is here that
our horrifying mystery
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is about to unfold.
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On the slope of the mountain,
they cut into a thick slab of
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ice and set up camp
for the night.
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No one knows exactly what
transpired after
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they hunkered down,
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only that night fell,
bringing with it dizzying cold
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temperatures and powerful winds
the group described as,
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quote, "the draft of
an airplane taking off."
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[wind whooshing]
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No more diary entries were
recorded after that day.
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A tragedy beyond understanding
was about to take place.
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When the hikers don't arrive at
their exit point on the day
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they're due, concern grows.
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A search party is dispatched to
check on them.
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Searching the Urals is no easy
task, particularly when you're
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searching an area covering
hundreds of square miles.
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After a multi-day hunt,
the rescuers finally discover
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the missing hikers' tent.
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It's mostly intact,
but there's no one inside.
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And shockingly, given
the negative 35-degree
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conditions, the students have
left behind their warm winter
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clothing, shoes, food,
and an unused stove.
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Strangest of all, the tent has
been cut open from the inside
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as if to facilitate
a quick escape.
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But what were the hikers
running from?
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And where are they now?
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And then the searchers
find them.
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Almost a mile from the tent,
the search party discovers
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the frozen bodies of two of
the hikers, wearing only
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underwear, and near
the remains of a campfire.
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Horribly, their bare feet are
burned, suggesting they were so
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cold that they were willing to
force their naked feet directly
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into the fire for warmth.
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Three more of the victims are
found frozen to death on a path
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leading back to the tent.
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Searchers continue to scour
the area, but the other
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students are nowhere to
be found.
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It isn't until three months
later, when the spring thaw
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begins, that the missing hikers
are all found huddled together
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in a snow den.
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Had they hid there on
their own, or were they placed
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there by someone or something?
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The injuries alone are
the stuff of nightmares.
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chest wounds, broken ribs,
fractured skulls.
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Two were missing their eyes,
and one, her tongue.
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An autopsy concludes most of
the hikers likely died from
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internal bleeding.
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Their multiple broken bones
point to some sort of
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physical attack.
The mystery is only deepening.
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What caused
their horrific deaths?
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One theory immediately
presents itself.
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Perhaps a blizzard triggered
an avalanche, causing these
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brutal injuries.
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But experts say
that's unlikely.
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The slope of the hill next to
the campsite is under
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30 degrees.
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It's not steep enough to create
the force required for
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a typical snow avalanche.
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Speculation quickly
shifts elsewhere.
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Some theorize that the hikers
stumbled upon a secret military
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operation and were perhaps
killed by soldiers.
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1959 was the height of
the Cold War.
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[broadcaster]
On orders from the Kremlin,
Russia had launched one of
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history's most drastic
political, moral,
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and economic wars, a Cold War.
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[Josh]
The arms race in a full sprint,
the Soviets were surely engaged
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in secret military testing.
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Could the hikers have stumbled
across something they were
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never meant to see?
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Might the Soviet military have
accidentally killed the hikers
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with some kind of weapons test?
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Surely, if they had,
the Soviets would have been
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inclined to bury
the entire scandal.
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Others suggest something
stranger still.
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Local legend talks of a cryptid
that lives in these parts,
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something the local tribe
refers to as the Menk.
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But we would call it Bigfoot.
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Could the adventurers really
have encountered
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the mythical Menk?
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Some of the last photos taken
by the group seem to lend
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credibility to the theory,
such as this image.
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Then, in another final photo,
bright lights and massive lens
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flares imply lights in the sky.
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Did the hikers encounter
something from out of
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this world?
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And in recent years,
a new theory has gained
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traction -- infrasound.
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Sound waves below the level of
normal human hearing are known
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to cause sensations of
confusion and fear.
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Could wind coursing over
the Siberian mountains have
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created this
infrasound phenomenon?
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And could it have sent
the hikers running from
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their tent into
the unforgiving elements?
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But this theory does little to
explain the hikers'
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perplexing injuries.
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Decades passed with no answers
as to the cause of this strange
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and disturbing tragedy.
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But shocking new evidence might
show that one of these theories
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about how these young explorers
died might actually be true.
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Coming up,
the archaeological find of
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the century brings with it
a deadly curse.
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And later, the unsettling
mystery of an adventurer
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who goes missing near Area 51.
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Something about that cave
just spooked me.
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[Josh]
For 65 years, the world has
wondered what caused the savage
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deaths of nine
young explorers deep in
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the Siberian wilderness.
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I became fascinated by this
enduring mystery.
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[bodycam audio] Let's go.
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[Josh] And traveled to
the Dyatlov Pass in 2019.
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Every step of this journey is
just leading us further
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and further into the unknown.
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This just feels like
the end of the world.
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I investigated many theories
on that trip, including one in
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which people believe
the group ran into
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a cryptozoological monster.
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In some areas, it's known
as the Almas.
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Here, it's known as a Menk,
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a hulking six to eight foot tall
bipedal primate covered in
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reddish-brown fur.
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As evidence, many people have
pointed to one photo from
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the hikers' cameras,
which shows the blurry image
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image of someone or something.
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But by examining the pictures
before and after it on
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the camera roll, we proved that
the blurry photo is one of
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the other hikers emerging
from the woods.
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And no mention of a Yeti ever
appears in their diaries.
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At an abandoned gulag,
we investigated the theory that
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an escaped prisoner
killed the hikers.
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Look at this.
That's a boot.
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Unbelievable.
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But no prisoners were reported
missing, and it's unthinkable
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that a fleeing convict wouldn't
have grabbed the hikers' money
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or warm clothes.
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I mean, I think we can discount
that theory out of hand.
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-[woman] Absolutely.
-Don't you?
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100 percent, mathematically,
no way.
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[Josh]
But incredibly, before leaving
Russia, I uncovered remarkable
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evidence of a possible
government cover-up.
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This is a document that
shouldn't exist.
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Do these documents prove that
the accepted timeline of events
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here is wrong?
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[translator speaking]
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Is this a smoking gun?
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It's possible.
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In the end,
our investigation
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made an impact.
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The questions I raised,
alongside the impending 60th
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anniversary of the deaths,
prompted the Russian government
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to officially reinvestigate
the Dyatlov mystery.
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The Russians asked a team of
Swiss scientists to reexamine
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a previously ruled out theory
that the hikers fell victim to
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some kind of avalanche.
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Swiss investigator Alexander
Puzrin may have proven that
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a smaller avalanche, known as
a slab avalanche, may have been
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the cause after all.
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We started exploring the slab
avalanche hypothesis.
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[Josh]
But if this theory that a small
avalanche fell on the tent is
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correct, how can we explain
the massive injuries
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the campers sustained?
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[Josh]
Imagine the horror of waking
up and being partially buried in
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your tent,
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your comrades all around
you screaming in pain.
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Injured but running on
adrenaline, you frantically cut
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your way out of the tent into
the violent elements.
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You have only minutes to make
life or death decisions.
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What do you do?
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The Swiss team has seemingly
brought fascinating new insight
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to a mystery that's haunted
the world for half a century.
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It's a remarkable theory,
but questions remain.
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Questions like, "How can
an avalanche explain the deeply
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"disturbing fact that some of
the bodies were missing
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their tongue, nose, and eyes?"
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Well, that may be the easiest
explanation of all --
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scavenging animals,
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known to feed on carcasses.
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Grim, yes, but it's
nature's way.
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So is the slab avalanche theory
enough to explain
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the mysterious deaths of
Igor Dyatlov and his intrepid
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friends once and for all?
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Given the strange nature of
this mystery, for some,
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perhaps no single theory will
ever be enough.
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But if we take the time to look
at the Dyatlov incident,
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it does seem that the murder
weapon is right in front of us,
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an unforgiving mountain in
a frigid wilderness where
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it's always easier to die
than it is to live.
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Still, for decades,
the story of the hikers has
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been remembered
for their demise.
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Yet, these remarkable young
adventurers deserve to be
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remembered for so much
more than that.
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In their final,
desperate moments,
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we can understand that truly,
this is a story of youth,
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of friendship, and of true
bravery at the ultimate cost.
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In our next file,
the deaths are just as
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mysterious, but the temperature
is a whole lot warmer.
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Welcome to the Valley of
the Kings, or under it, rather.
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The date is February 1923.
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The daring British Egyptologist
leading this group is hoping to
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make a name for himself as
he approaches a mysterious
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golden shrine.
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His name, Howard Carter,
and he is just one step away
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from discovering
the sarcophagus of the long
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lost pharaoh Tutankhamen,
better known as King Tut.
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Carter is joined by
his business partner,
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Lord Carnarvon,
the wealthy British nobleman
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bank-rolling
the years-long expedition.
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As they prepare to enter
the tomb, they're on the edge
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of the greatest archaeological
find, well, maybe ever.
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[man speaking Arabic]
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[Josh] Little do they know,
their discovery of a lifetime
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will be linked to a series of
mysterious deaths,
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including their own.
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[Josh] It's 1923, about 18 miles
from the city of Luxor.
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Egyptologist Howard Carter has
spent five long years searching
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for the tomb of King Tut.
Time and money are running out.
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His financier and business
partner, Lord Carnarvon,
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agrees to fund
one last season of digging.
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This is the final chance for
this self-taught Egyptologist.
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On November 4th,
Carter gets lucky at last.
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He hits pay dirt when
a 12-year-old local water boy
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stumbles over a low hill,
dropping his jar but revealing
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a hidden stair.
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Over the next 24 hours,
Carter and his team uncover
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16 steps leading down to a wall.
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[rumbling, clattering]
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[man speaking Arabic]
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[Josh] What they find on
the other side
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of the wall is astounding --
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a room packed with
the treasures of a pharaoh,
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hundreds of artifacts,
chariots, and weapons.
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Never before has such
a complete royal Egyptian tomb
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been found.
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Carter has discovered
the antechamber containing
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the pharaoh's riches.
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But there is one thing
missing -- the sarcophagus of
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the king buried here.
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He believes the shrine might be
behind the next wall.
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However, before they continue,
Carter, Lord Carnarvon,
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and the crew have a hearty
lunch in the tomb of Ramses XI.
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The photo of this lunch will
take on tremendous significance
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as the years go by.
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Many of the guests at this
table will mysteriously die
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before the decade is through.
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[spooky, indistinct chanting]
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[Josh] After they finish eating,
Carter and his team break
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through another wall
in the antechamber.
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On the other side,
there's an open area leading to
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the door of a burial chamber.
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Carter's team is ready to break
through to the next room.
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But in Carter's way stands
a lock made of rope and a clay
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seal of Anubis, the god of
the underworld, that hasn't
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been touched by human hands in
over 3,000 years.
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Carter doesn't think twice
about cutting it open.
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[man speaking Arabic]
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Under four outer shrines,
the crew finds
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a quartzite sarcophagus.
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Inside is a series of nested,
gilded coffins.
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And at the center lies a mummy,
hidden behind a now-famous
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golden mask.
King Tut has been found.
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The Tutankhamen discovery makes
news around the world.
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But it doesn't take long before
very bad things
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start happening.
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[coughing]
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[Josh]
Just days after the discovery,
Lord Carnarvon falls ill,
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developing a nasty
blood infection.
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His condition worsens.
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Less than two months after
entering Tut's burial chamber,
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Carnarvon dies from pneumonia
and blood poisoning.
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His death makes
worldwide headlines.
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A new mania takes hold --
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fear of the pharaoh's curse.
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But is it merely a catchy
tabloid headline?
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One person who promotes
the curse is the master of
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whodunit murder mysteries,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
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creator of Sherlock Holmes.
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For all of Sherlock's cold
calculating reason, Conan Doyle
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is a spiritualist and a firm
believer in powers beyond
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the grave, an idea present in
some of his short stories.
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The day after Carnarvon's death,
Conan Doyle tells US reporters
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the death may have been due to
elementals -- primitive spirits
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invoked by ancient Egyptian
priests to guard tombs,
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and that this must have been
a peculiar element of
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an Egyptian curse.
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World leaders even get in
on the panic.
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After reading about Lord
Carnarvon's death,
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Italy's dictator Benito
Mussolini frantically orders
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a mummy he had received as
a gift to be removed from
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his private home in Rome.
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There is one man who is
certainly skeptical
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of the curse,
the man who discovered
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the tomb,
Howard Carter himself.
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Though Carter is distraught by
the death of his friend
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and patron, he calls
the curse "tommy rot."
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In other words, nonsense.
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Carter gets back to work.
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But then, rather
inconveniently, other people
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connected to the discovery of
the tomb start dying.
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George J. Gould,
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an American financier
and railroad executive,
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falls sick after visiting
the monument, and dies from
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pneumonia one month after
Lord Carnarvon.
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Two other men who helped
with the excavation,
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including Carnarvon's own
half-brother, die from pneumonia
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in the years following.
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Newspapers sensationalize
Tut's curse and report when
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a premature death strikes
anyone who enters the tomb.
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Multiple men are later killed
by gunshot,
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including an Egyptian prince
who was shot in the head
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by his wife.
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One man is smothered to death
with a pillow in a gentlemen's
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club, and archeologist Hugh
Evelyn White dies by suicide,
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reportedly leaving a note that
says, "I have succumbed to
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a curse which forces me to
disappear."
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The curse of King Tut is one of
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the great unsolved mysteries of
the 20th century.
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But is the curse real, or is it
just a series of
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unfortunate tragedies?
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In 2003, two London physicians,
Sharif and Tariq El-Tawil,
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publish a letter in the Lancet
Medical Journal proposing
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a possible origin for
the notorious curse.
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The unexpected culprit?
Fungus.
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It is believed that a toxic
fungus could have festered for
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centuries in the tomb.
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just waiting for Carter's crew
to breathe it in.
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[coughing]
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[Josh]
This could explain the deaths
that were caused by respiratory
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diseases and pneumonia.
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Some say that toxic fungus is
the true culprit in the curse
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of King Tut's tomb.
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But there's one problem with
that theory.
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It doesn't explain the death of
the very first man inside,
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Howard Carter,
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who was killed by something
more deadly than any curse
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you could conjure.
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[Josh] Despite rumors of
a curse on King Tut's tomb,
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archaeologist Howard Carter
continues to catalog
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and examine the tomb
until 1932.
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That's a solid decade of
getting on the wrong side
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of the pharaoh.
What happens to him?
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Well, nothing for a long time.
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Carter, the man most
responsible for the excavation
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and the first one into
the tomb, does die relatively
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young at age 64,
passing away from lymphoma.
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That isn't a condition
a fungus could cause.
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If there were a curse on
King Tut's tomb, did it miss
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its main target?
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Or could there be some other
unseen force at play?
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In 2024, a scientific paper
makes a different case for
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the pharaoh's curse --
poisonous radon.
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Bioarchaeologist Rosalyn
Campbell has studied the theory
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and believes it makes sense.
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Radioactive gas could explain
the mysterious deaths.
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So the symptoms of radon
poisoning can be very similar
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or identical to the symptoms of
different types of cancers.
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One of the things that we know
about limestone is it emits
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radon, which is
a radioactive gas.
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And in the Valley of the Kings,
all of the tombs are cut into
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the naturally occurring
limestone that makes up
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this valley.
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Normally, this isn't
necessarily a huge problem,
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but if you're in an area with
a lot of limestone and very
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poor ventilation, then you are
being exposed to potentially
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unsafe levels of radon that can
cause serious health problems.
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Tutankhamen's tomb is actually
unusually small for
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a royal tomb.
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They would have been in daily
contact with a lot of this
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limestone that was
emitting radon gas.
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And we do see, for example,
various other people who worked
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in that tomb also were
diagnosed with cancer.
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And Howard Carter died
of lymphoma.
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So radon might have caused very
serious health concerns over
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the years and eventually led to
the death of these individuals.
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[Josh] The curse of the tomb of
King Tut has fascinated
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and frightened adventurers for
over a century.
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Did Howard Carter
and his team die because of
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an honest-to-goodness
Egyptian curse?
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Well, the newest evidence
suggests the shocking string of
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deaths may have been caused by
a hidden earthly power, be it
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fungus or radioactive gas.
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Still, that doesn't explain
the visitors who were
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shot, smothered,
or committed suicide.
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Today, though, most of
the tomb's 5,000 artifacts are
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housed at the Grand
Egyptian Museum.
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Tutankhamen himself is sealed
in an airtight case, with no
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signs of danger for visitors.
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It seems he and his curse are
now safely at rest.
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Our next file takes us to
another extreme landscape,
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but one that's a little closer
to home, just north of
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Las Vegas, near
the infamous Area 51.
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You know, the top secret
military base that may or may
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not be hiding UFO wreckage
and alien corpses.
486
00:31:55,934 --> 00:31:59,767
Anyway, it's here that a lone
explorer made a strange
487
00:31:59,767 --> 00:32:02,567
discovery that captured
the attention of millions on
488
00:32:02,567 --> 00:32:03,600
social media.
489
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,700
But then, Kenny Veach vanished
without a trace...
490
00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:13,700
...leaving the world to wonder
what happened to him.
491
00:32:23,467 --> 00:32:25,900
[Josh] It's November 10, 2014.
492
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,266
That's Kenny Veach,
inventor, dad,
493
00:32:31,266 --> 00:32:33,567
loving boyfriend,
and extreme hiker.
494
00:32:33,567 --> 00:32:35,200
I just came across
495
00:32:36,367 --> 00:32:40,166
these gigantic, sweet pine
nuts, or pinyon nuts,
496
00:32:40,166 --> 00:32:41,166
whatever you want to call them.
497
00:32:41,166 --> 00:32:43,166
This is the kind of food that
saves your life.
498
00:32:43,166 --> 00:32:47,066
[Josh]
It's on one of these extreme
hikes that he finds a cave that
499
00:32:47,066 --> 00:32:48,634
will change his life.
500
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:52,700
And he shares his extraordinary
discovery on social media.
501
00:32:56,967 --> 00:32:58,767
[Kenny, dramatized]
I found a hidden cave.
502
00:32:58,767 --> 00:33:02,867
The entrance to the cave was
shaped like a capital M.
503
00:33:02,867 --> 00:33:07,634
But as I began to enter this
particular cave, my whole body
504
00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:09,333
began to vibrate.
505
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,800
Suddenly, I became very,
very scared.
506
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,333
[Josh] Kenny is certain
something in the cave is causing
507
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,000
the terrifying vibrations,
508
00:33:20,266 --> 00:33:23,233
which become more intense
as he enters.
509
00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:26,934
He finally gives up,
running away from the cave
510
00:33:26,934 --> 00:33:28,500
all the way home.
511
00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:31,867
[bird calling]
512
00:33:33,467 --> 00:33:36,100
[Josh] Kenny's posts about
the terrifying experience
513
00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:38,867
quickly gain a following.
514
00:33:38,867 --> 00:33:42,867
But commenters suggest he is
exaggerating or was
515
00:33:42,867 --> 00:33:44,166
just dehydrated.
516
00:33:44,166 --> 00:33:48,100
Kenny feels challenged to prove
them all wrong.
517
00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:50,900
I talked to some people on
YouTube, and I told them,
518
00:33:50,967 --> 00:33:53,266
"Hey, I'm coming out here,
you know, because they kind of
519
00:33:53,266 --> 00:33:54,300
called my hand."
520
00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:57,333
And something
about that cave just
spooked me.
521
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,166
Closer I got to it,
the crazier my body felt.
522
00:34:00,166 --> 00:34:03,166
I got to relocate it.
If I do, I'm going in there.
523
00:34:03,166 --> 00:34:05,367
I'm gonna put on my light,
walk in there,
524
00:34:05,367 --> 00:34:07,600
see if I find anything.
We'll see.
525
00:34:11,266 --> 00:34:14,567
[Josh] Kenny spends an arduous
day looking for the cave,
526
00:34:14,567 --> 00:34:16,066
with no luck.
527
00:34:24,734 --> 00:34:26,600
It's a big freaking
mountain range.
528
00:34:30,834 --> 00:34:34,467
[Josh]
He posts a video of his failed
search, but with a promise to
529
00:34:34,467 --> 00:34:35,533
not give up.
530
00:34:35,533 --> 00:34:37,367
[Kenny, dramatized]
I'm going again this weekend.
531
00:34:37,367 --> 00:34:40,266
I'll be hiking solo for
three days.
532
00:34:40,266 --> 00:34:42,367
I plan on covering about
40 miles.
533
00:34:42,367 --> 00:34:46,266
[Josh] Kenny's growing fan base
encourages his risky return
534
00:34:46,266 --> 00:34:47,300
to the desert.
535
00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:50,100
Although, there is one
dissenting voice that gets
536
00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:53,734
everyone's attention,
an ominous warning not to enter
537
00:34:53,734 --> 00:34:56,734
the cave, adding that
if he does,
538
00:34:56,734 --> 00:34:59,233
Kenny will not get out.
539
00:35:00,934 --> 00:35:03,400
On November 10, 2014,
540
00:35:04,667 --> 00:35:07,367
Kenny straps on his gun
and ventures into
541
00:35:07,367 --> 00:35:09,934
the Mojave Desert on another
three-day quest
542
00:35:09,934 --> 00:35:11,867
to find the M Cave.
543
00:35:13,266 --> 00:35:16,000
This time, he's sure
he'll locate it.
544
00:35:17,967 --> 00:35:21,333
But, four days later,
Kenny's girlfriend reports
545
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,266
him missing.
546
00:35:23,266 --> 00:35:26,233
No one will ever see
Kenny Veach again.
547
00:35:32,567 --> 00:35:34,834
The discovery of Tutankhamen's
tomb a hundred years ago set
548
00:35:34,834 --> 00:35:37,667
off a worldwide frenzy of
"Tut-mania."
549
00:35:37,667 --> 00:35:39,734
It revolutionizes Egyptology,
550
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,066
and Egyptian motifs
find their way into artwork,
551
00:35:43,066 --> 00:35:48,433
architecture, music,
movies, and even fashion.
552
00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:51,900
Tut-mania even finds its way to
the White House in the form of
553
00:35:51,967 --> 00:35:54,233
Herbert Hoover's Belgian
shepherd named,
554
00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:56,600
you guessed it, "King Tut."
555
00:35:56,834 --> 00:36:00,433
It's amazing to think that
Tutankhamen only ruled for
556
00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:02,734
10 years,
had an uneventful reign,
557
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,233
and did not leave
an heir.
558
00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:07,467
But 3,000 years later,
he's become so famous that he's
559
00:36:07,467 --> 00:36:10,533
the one Egyptian king that
almost everyone across
560
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:11,800
the world can name.
561
00:36:12,934 --> 00:36:15,100
Now that's one heck
of an afterlife.
562
00:36:18,767 --> 00:36:22,533
[Josh]
Kenny Veach has gone missing
in the desert during his search
563
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,200
for a mysterious cave.
564
00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:28,567
The Red Rock search and rescue
teams are dispatched,
565
00:36:28,567 --> 00:36:30,867
and his car is quickly located.
566
00:36:31,667 --> 00:36:36,033
Ground teams scour every peak
and canyon, but they
567
00:36:36,033 --> 00:36:37,734
find nothing.
568
00:36:37,734 --> 00:36:41,000
Then, eight days after Kenny
was reported missing,
569
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,667
they find his cell phone,
which miraculously
570
00:36:44,667 --> 00:36:46,333
still has battery life.
571
00:36:47,767 --> 00:36:50,367
It is found right next to
the derelict mine where
572
00:36:50,367 --> 00:36:53,567
he filmed his previous attempt
to find the strange
573
00:36:53,567 --> 00:36:55,467
M-shaped cave.
574
00:36:55,467 --> 00:36:59,000
The authorities lower
a camera into the mineshaft,
575
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,734
expecting the worst.
No trace of Kenny is found.
576
00:37:06,567 --> 00:37:09,767
After many heartbreaking weeks,
the official search is called
577
00:37:09,767 --> 00:37:12,900
off, and Kenny Veach is
assumed dead.
578
00:37:12,967 --> 00:37:14,266
But how did he die?
579
00:37:15,266 --> 00:37:17,734
It's possible that Kenny
had an accident.
580
00:37:17,734 --> 00:37:20,333
Perhaps he was bitten
by a snake...
581
00:37:21,834 --> 00:37:23,600
...or succumbed to the elements.
582
00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:28,867
But Kenny was an experienced
outdoorsman who should not have
583
00:37:28,867 --> 00:37:31,634
fallen into misfortune
so easily.
584
00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:33,900
Some have even suggested that
he might have
585
00:37:33,967 --> 00:37:35,100
committed suicide.
586
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:38,800
But if he was dead in
the desert, why has no one ever
587
00:37:38,867 --> 00:37:41,166
found his remains,
his clothes,
588
00:37:41,166 --> 00:37:42,900
or his camping supplies?
589
00:37:44,367 --> 00:37:47,567
The one thing authorities did
find, Kenny's cell phone,
590
00:37:47,567 --> 00:37:50,800
raises more questions
than answers.
591
00:37:50,867 --> 00:37:53,834
Those following Kenny's
disappearance find the cell
592
00:37:53,834 --> 00:37:55,166
phone discovery odd.
593
00:37:55,166 --> 00:37:58,667
Why did it take eight days to
find the phone in such
594
00:37:58,667 --> 00:38:00,066
an obvious spot?
595
00:38:00,066 --> 00:38:02,834
And how could the phone
reportedly have a charged
596
00:38:02,834 --> 00:38:04,634
battery after more than a week?
597
00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:07,433
Some believe the phone was
placed there,
598
00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:09,800
but by who and why?
599
00:38:09,867 --> 00:38:16,066
The fact that Area 51 is nearby
helps fuel the speculation.
600
00:38:16,066 --> 00:38:20,166
Many believe that Kenny got too
close to a restricted area,
601
00:38:20,166 --> 00:38:23,567
perhaps uncovered a secret that
the government could not allow
602
00:38:23,567 --> 00:38:24,600
to go public.
603
00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:29,367
Some propose that
the vibrations Kenny felt were
604
00:38:29,367 --> 00:38:32,166
the result of
a nonlethal weapon.
605
00:38:32,166 --> 00:38:35,634
Some have suggested even
alien technology.
606
00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:40,734
So we've got a guy missing,
trying to figure out what
607
00:38:40,734 --> 00:38:41,867
the truth is.
608
00:38:41,867 --> 00:38:44,900
[Josh] Ever since Kenny
vanished, investigative vlogger
609
00:38:44,967 --> 00:38:48,100
Sean Horlacher has been obsessed
with solving the case.
610
00:38:48,100 --> 00:38:50,734
So Kenny was talking about
finding these caves.
611
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,100
He's talking about it a lot.
612
00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:54,900
And I believe that's where
he got noticed, to where
613
00:38:54,967 --> 00:38:56,467
he started getting watched.
614
00:38:56,467 --> 00:38:59,634
They knew he was going out
there, so I believe
615
00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:02,266
the government just flew
a couple guys out at night
616
00:39:02,266 --> 00:39:03,634
and covered it up.
617
00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:07,266
So this time, as I'm walking
through, I'm looking
618
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,567
for, you know,
not a cave this time.
619
00:39:10,567 --> 00:39:11,734
I'm looking for a cover up.
620
00:39:11,734 --> 00:39:15,233
We were all looking for a real
cave that was still open.
621
00:39:16,033 --> 00:39:17,667
I don't think that's
the case anymore.
622
00:39:17,667 --> 00:39:19,567
That changes everything.
623
00:39:19,567 --> 00:39:23,000
One of the things that drew me
to this case was,
624
00:39:23,066 --> 00:39:26,033
Kenny witnessed something that
the government did not want
625
00:39:26,033 --> 00:39:29,734
the general public to know
about, and may be why Kenny's
626
00:39:29,734 --> 00:39:32,166
not here anymore.
627
00:39:32,166 --> 00:39:33,266
It's right here.
628
00:39:33,266 --> 00:39:35,767
I think this is
a clever little coverup.
629
00:39:35,767 --> 00:39:39,500
That's not a normal piece
of the landscape.
630
00:39:40,967 --> 00:39:44,667
This and this aren't really
matching up.
631
00:39:44,667 --> 00:39:47,100
This is, like,
632
00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:50,300
looks like it might have been
the top of the cave right here.
633
00:39:51,133 --> 00:39:55,000
And then this was put here,
this was put here, this was
634
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,867
put here.
This was put here.
635
00:39:56,867 --> 00:39:58,433
This was put here.
636
00:39:59,367 --> 00:40:00,734
And then, down here,
637
00:40:01,934 --> 00:40:02,800
you have this seam.
638
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,000
And it's got
this white stuff in here,
639
00:40:06,066 --> 00:40:07,100
sort of like a sealant.
640
00:40:07,100 --> 00:40:09,166
This is a freaking
covered-up M cave.
641
00:40:09,166 --> 00:40:13,266
[Josh]
Perhaps the most convincing
evidence that this is the M cave
642
00:40:13,266 --> 00:40:16,934
was the physical effects Sean
experienced after being close
643
00:40:16,934 --> 00:40:19,000
to the barricaded entrance.
644
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:20,834
Something's hitting me
right now.
645
00:40:20,834 --> 00:40:24,166
I start getting sick,
like deathly ill.
646
00:40:24,166 --> 00:40:26,567
This is where that cave was
that Kenny witnessed,
647
00:40:26,567 --> 00:40:28,066
but it's covered.
648
00:40:29,266 --> 00:40:33,333
Intrigued by Sean's discovery,
I've gone back through Kenny's
649
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,367
final video
before he disappeared.
650
00:40:35,367 --> 00:40:39,934
[Kenny, archived]
The kind of cave I'm looking
for is deep, and it's dark.
651
00:40:39,934 --> 00:40:44,066
I wanted to see if he recorded
this same strange rock
652
00:40:44,066 --> 00:40:47,533
formation, or perhaps it was
still an open cave.
653
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:48,767
And there it is.
654
00:40:48,767 --> 00:40:53,367
It seems Kenny really was at
the exact same strange place
655
00:40:53,367 --> 00:40:54,634
Sean found.
656
00:40:54,634 --> 00:40:58,066
Even more haunting, listen to
what Kenny says, as he seems to
657
00:40:58,066 --> 00:41:00,433
pause here, 10 years ago.
658
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:04,066
It's about level with
the ground, like right in
659
00:41:04,066 --> 00:41:05,333
an area, like this.
660
00:41:05,333 --> 00:41:07,934
So I really got to keep my eyes
peeled, because I don't want to
661
00:41:07,934 --> 00:41:09,033
pass it.
662
00:41:09,033 --> 00:41:13,166
If this is the M Cave,
it's as if Kenny instinctively
663
00:41:13,166 --> 00:41:15,367
knew where it should be.
664
00:41:15,367 --> 00:41:19,000
Whatever happened that day in
the desert, there is one thing
665
00:41:19,066 --> 00:41:22,166
we can sincerely say --
wherever Kenny is,
666
00:41:22,166 --> 00:41:24,066
we hope he's at peace.
667
00:41:24,066 --> 00:41:25,467
I'm Josh Gates.
668
00:41:25,467 --> 00:41:27,934
Until next time,
travel adventurously.
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