Original subtitles

Narrator: THEY'RE WATCHING YOU.

MORE THAN 4,000 SATELLITES CIRCLE THE EARTH.

EVERY DAY, THEY UNCOVER NEW, MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA

THAT DEFY EXPLANATION.

[ BEEPING, DISTORTED MUSIC ]

MONSTERS FROM A LOST JURASSIC JUNGLE...

COULD A PREHISTORIC CREATURE STILL BE ALIVE

AND FLYING AROUND? [ CREATURE SCREECHES ]

Narrator: ...STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE SKY

AND A GHOST TOWN THAT RISES FROM THE WATER...

THERE ARE NO PEOPLE. SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAPPENED HERE.

Narrator: ...THE TERROR FROM THE DEEP...

Kourounis: SOMETHING IS CREATING THIS VORTEX ON THE SURFACE

OF THE BALTIC SEA.

WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY BE?

Narrator: ...AND KILLER MONSTERS THE SCIENTISTS CAN'T STOP.

THEIR BABIES LITERALLY EMERGE FROM THE HUSK

OF THEIR DEAD BODIES.

BAFFLING PHENOMENA.

MYSTERIES FROM SPACE.

WHAT ON EARTH ARE THEY?

-- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com

CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS

**

2012, THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

PASSING OVER SOUTH AMERICA PHOTOGRAPHS

A LARGE LAKE 300 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUENOS AIRES,

NOTHING UNUSUAL,

BUT WHEN A SATELLITE CAPTURES THE SAME LAKE THREE YEARS LATER,

SOMETHING HAS RISEN FROM THE WAVES, A GHOST TOWN.

REMEMBER WHAT NEW ORLEANS LOOKED LIKE AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA?

THAT'S WHAT I SEE HERE.

**

Narrator: MIKE PAVELEC IS A HISTORIAN

AND MILITARY SPECIALIST,

PRACTICED IN ANALYZING SCENES OF DEVASTATION.

THIS IMAGE IMMEDIATELY RAISES THE QUESTIONS OF

WHAT HAPPENED HERE.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS TOWN?

Narrator: PAVELEC CAN ONLY TELL SO MUCH FROM THE SATELLITE IMAGE.

HE FLIES 4,000 MILES TO BUENOS AIRES,

THEN JOURNEYS SOUTH TO INSPECT

THE MYSTERIOUS GHOST TOWN UP CLOSE.

**

AS PAVELEC NEARS THE LAKE, THE LANDSCAPE CHANGES.

**

Pavelec: IT'S EERIE.

IT REMINDS ME OF SOME OF THE PLACES

THAT I'VE SEEN IN THE OLD WEST IN THE UNITED STATES,

THE GHOST TOWNS, THE ABANDONED MINES.

**

Narrator: ON THE EDGE OF TOWN,

PAVELEC ASSESSES THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE.

**

Pavelec: IT'S ONE THING TO LOOK AT THE SATELLITE PHOTOS,

BUT TO ACTUALLY SEE IT ON THE GROUND, JUST DEVASTATING.

**

Narrator: LIKE A VISION OF THE APOCALYPSE,

IT'S ALL THAT'S LEFT OF A TOWN CALLED EPECUéN.

THE HOUSES ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED.

THE TREES ARE ALL DEAD.

Narrator: PAVELEC CONFIRMS WHATEVER HAPPENED HERE,

THE DESTRUCTION WAS TOTAL.

Pavelec: THERE'S VERY LITTLE WILDLIFE.

THERE ARE NO PEOPLE.

SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAPPENED HERE.

IT COMPLETELY JUST WIPED OUT THIS ENTIRE TOWNSITE.

Narrator: PAVELEC NOTICES SOMETHING AMONG THE DEVASTATION

HE DOESN'T NORMALLY SEE IN DISASTER ZONES.

THE RUINS ARE COVERED IN A FINE WHITE POWDER.

**

HE ARRANGES TO MEET A LOCAL TRANSLATOR

TO HELP HIM MAKE INQUIRIES.

GISHA. MIKE.

COME ON IN.

HOW ARE YOU DOING?

GISHA LONGEE SUSPECTS PEOPLE LIVING LOCALLY

MAY PROVIDE PAVELEC WITH CLUES.

THE NEAREST INHABITED VILLAGE TO THE RUINS IS CARHUé,

AND THAT'S WHERE THEY HEAD NEXT.

Pavelec: GISHA HAS MADE AN APPOINTMENT WITH A LOCAL

WHO HOPEFULLY CAN SHED A LITTLE BIT OF LIGHT ON THIS MYSTERY.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO GISHA,

THE STRANGE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE DESTRUCTION

OF THE TOWN REMAIN CONTROVERSIAL.

**

LAWYER EZEKIEL ENCINAS BASO...

IS COLLECTING TESTIMONY FROM THE EPECUéN TOWNSFOLK

WHO FLED THE DISASTER IN TERROR.

**

BASO REVEALS SOME RESIDENTS

TELL OF STRANGE FLASHING LIGHTS OVER THE WATER

AROUND THE TIME OF THE TOWN'S DESTRUCTION.

[ SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]

HE TELLS PAVELEC THE APPEARANCE OF THE MYSTERY LIGHTS

COINCIDES WITH A TERRIBLE FLOOD THAT ENGULFS EPECUéN,

DESTROYING IT COMPLETELY.

**

FROM THE LOOK OF THE RUINS, PAVELEC SUSPECTS

THAT A CATASTROPHIC GEOLOGICAL EVENT WAS RESPONSIBLE,

BUT HE'S BAFFLED BY THE DESCRIPTION

OF STRANGE FLASHING LIGHTS.

**

HE VIDEO-CALLS GEOLOGIST ALAN LESTER.

[ COMPUTER BEEPS ]

A LOT OF THE LOCALS MENTIONED LIGHTS

IN THE SKY DURING THIS EVENT.

THAT IS CERTAINLY STRANGE-SOUNDING.

WELL, THERE'S A RARE PHENOMENON THAT'S REFERRED TO AS "E.Q.L.,"

OR EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS.

Narrator: DURING SOME EARTHQUAKES,

WITNESSES REPORT FLASHES OF BRIGHT LIGHT

COMING FROM THE GROUND.

SCIENTISTS ARE STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND

WHAT FORCES COULD TRIGGER EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS.

OKAY, BUT STILL WITHIN THE REALM OF SCIENCE OR ON THE FRINGES?

WELL, IT'S HARD TO PROVE IT.

MAYBE THE ENORMOUS FORCES ASSOCIATED WITH SEISMIC ACTIVITY

COULD GENERATE HEAT OR ELECTRICITY

PROPAGATING UP INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.

ARE EARTHQUAKES SOMETHING THAT WE COULD EXPECT HERE?

WELL, I MEAN, THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM.

IT'S JUST NOT THE RIGHT PLACE.

Narrator: PAVELEC EXAMINES THE SATELLITE IMAGERY.

THE TOWN OF EPECUéN IS MILES FROM ANY FAULT LINE,

AND GEOLOGISTS HAVE NO RECORD OF SEISMIC ACTIVITY

AROUND THE TIME OF THE FLOOD.

I'M GOING TO KEEP LOOKING,

SEE IF I CAN FIND A RATIONAL EXPLANATION

FOR WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND HERE.

SEE YOU, MIKE.

THANKS A LOT. TAKE CARE.

Narrator: PAVELEC LEARNS FROM HIS TRANSLATOR

THAT AN INDIGENOUS TRIBE CALLED THE MAPUCHE

STILL LIVES ON THE EDGE OF THE RUINS.

**

THEY CLAIM THE LAKE HAS STRANGE, MAGICAL POWERS.

**

CAN THE BELIEFS OF THE MAPUCHE EXPLAIN THE FLASHING LIGHTS

VISIBLE AS THE TOWN WAS DESTROYED?

[ SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]

SO, THIS THIS PLACE HAS ALWAYS BEEN

REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT, SACRED IN THE SPIRITUAL TERMS,

FOR THE MAPUCHE PEOPLE.

Narrator: THE MAPUCHE TELL PAVELEC THEY BELIEVE THIS LAKE

HAS SPECIAL HEALING PROPERTIES.

[ SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]

Narrator: PAVELEC DISCOVERS THIS LAKE

CONTAINS 10 TIMES MORE SALT PER CUBIC INCH

THAN FOUND IN ANY OF THE WORLD'S OCEANS.

THE WATER IS HOT AND SALTY, AND IF YOU ARE IN THE WATER

AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME, IT WILL START TO COLOR WHITE YOUR SKIN,

AND THAT'S THE AMOUNT OF SALT THAT IT HAS.

**

YES, EXTREMELY SALTY.

Narrator: THE LAKE'S INTENSE SALTINESS WOULD ACCOUNT

FOR THE GHOSTLY WHITE POWDER

SHROUDING THE RUINS

AND PERHAPS FOR ITS REPORTED HEALING POWERS,

BUT THE MAPUCHE BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING OTHERWORLDLY

IS GOING ON WITH THESE WATERS.

THE MAPUCHE SAY THEIR ELDERS PREDICTED THE TOWN'S DEMISE

AND EVEN WARNED THE INHABITANTS.

THE ARGENTINEAN SETTLERS DISMISSED THE WARNINGS

FROM THE MAPUCHE ELDERS AS MERE SUPERSTITION,

AND FOR THIS, THEY PAY THE PRICE.

**

COMING UP, AN ENORMOUS DEADLY GREEN VORTEX...

SOMETHING IS CHURNING THE ENTIRE BALTIC INTO THIS WHIRLPOOL.

Narrator: ...AND PAVELEC EXPLORES IF ANCIENT FOLKLORE HOLDS

THE ANSWERS TO HIS ARGENTINEAN LAKE MYSTERY.

ONE OF THE LOCAL LEGENDS IS THAT THE LAKE CONTAINS A SPIRIT

THAT HAS TO BE APPEASED.

**

Narrator: IN ARGENTINA, A LOST TOWN EMERGES FROM LAKE EPECUéN.

HISTORIAN MIKE PAVELEC LEARNS OF A MYSTERIOUS FLOOD

AND UNEXPLAINED LIGHTS SHOOTING FROM THE WATER'S SURFACE.

**

HIS INVESTIGATION LEADS HIM TO THE LOCAL MAPUCHE TRIBE.

THEY HAVE THEIR OWN INTERPRETATION OF THE DISASTER,

ONE THAT'S FOUNDED ON THEIR ANCIENT BELIEFS.

ONE OF THE LOCAL LEGENDS HERE IS THAT THE LAKE CONTAINS A SPIRIT

THAT HAS TO BE APPEASED

AND THAT IF YOU TAKE SOMETHING FROM THE LAKE,

FISH OR WHAT HAVE YOU,

AND YOU DON'T MAKE A PROPER OFFERING,

THE LAKE WILL ACTUALLY FLOOD AND CAUSE GREAT DEVASTATION.

**

Narrator: PAVELEC HAS HEARD ONE EXPLANATION

THAT MIGHT EXPLAIN THE FLOOD.

ACCORDING TO LOCAL LEGENDS,

THE SPIRITS OF THE LAKE HAD BEEN ANGERED,

BUT HIS SEARCH FOR TANGIBLE EVIDENCE

TO EXPLAIN THE MYSTERIOUS FLASHES OF LIGHT CONTINUES.

Pavelec: WE'VE HEARD LOTS OF EXPLANATIONS AND THEORIES,

BUT I'M A HISTORIAN. I WANT TO HIT THE ARCHIVES.

I WANT TO LOOK AT THE REAL DOCUMENTS --

THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE REPORTS FROM WHAT HAPPENED.

**

AT THE LOCAL TOWN LIBRARY, PAVELEC UNCOVERS

THE ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC REPORTS.

THEY DESCRIBE A SHOCKING FLOOD ATTRIBUTED TO A FREAK OF NATURE.

THE EXPLANATION WAS THAT IT WAS A SEICHE,

WHICH IS A WATER EVENT IN SHALLOW LAKES

WHERE HEAVY RAINS PLUS WINDS CAN CAUSE A VIOLENT MOTION

WHERE WAVES CAN RESONATE AND GET EVEN BIGGER THAN USUAL.

IT'S SORT OF LIKE JUST A BIG WAVE IN A BATHTUB,

JUST BACK AND FORTH.

**

BUT TO CREATE A SEICHE, YOU NEED SOME SORT OF A FORCE.

YOU NEED AN IMPACT OR A LANDSLIDE.

Narrator: PAVELEC RETURNS TO THE DOCUMENTS,

BUT CAN FIND NO REPORTS OF LANDSLIDES BEFORE THE FLOOD.

**

THE MYSTERY DEEPENS WHEN HE DISCOVERS A CONSTRUCTION REPORT

MENTIONING A SMALL DAM BUILT BY THE ARGENTINEAN GOVERNMENT

ONLY A FEW YEARS BEFORE THE FLOOD.

IT SEEMS AS IF THE DAM WAS BUILT UP TO PROTECT THE TOWN

BECAUSE IT WAS LITERALLY RIGHT UP AGAINST THE LAKE.

Narrator: PAVELEC KNOWS THE DAM FAILS.

TO FIND OUT WHY, HE NEEDS TO TRACK DOWN SURVIVORS

WHO COULD'VE WITNESSED THE TERRIFYING MOMENTS

OF THE DAM BREAKING.

HE RETURNS TO THE SATELLITE IMAGE

AND IDENTIFIES HIGHER GROUND ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN

WITH SOME POSSIBLE SIGNS OF LIFE.

**

WHEN PAVELEC INVESTIGATES, HE FINDS BUILDINGS AND RUINS,

DAMAGED BUT NOT ABANDONED.

**

AMONG THE RUINS, A SOLITARY SURVIVOR,

85-YEAR-OLD PABLO NOVAC.

PAVELEC HOPES HE'S A WITNESS

TO THE DAM FAILING

JUST BEFORE THE FLOOD.

WHAT WAS THE REASON FOR THE FLOODING?

[ SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ]

Narrator: PABLO HIGHLIGHTS A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH THE DAM.

AFTER ITS COMPLETION, THE TOWN IS BATTERED

BY UNPRECEDENTED WINTER RAIN FOR THREE STRAIGHT YEARS.

THE RAIN'S INTENSITY IS ON A SCALE

THE PEOPLE OF EPECUéN HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED.

BUT THE DAM IS NEITHER MAINTAINED NOR REINFORCED

TO HANDLE THE RECORD RAINFALL.

THAT STARTS CAUSING PROBLEMS, SO WHEN THAT HAPPENED,

IT'S LIKE THE WATER

WAS INCREASING THE LEVEL BECAUSE OF THE RAIN,

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT COULDN'T GET OUT.

ON THE 10th OF NOVEMBER 1985,

UNDER THE PRESSURE OF MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER...

**

...THE DAM BEGINS TO COLLAPSE.

AT SHOCKING SPEED, THE TOWN IS ENGULFED, EVERYTHING LOST.

PAVELEC DISCOVERS THIS IS NO SIMPLE FLOOD.

DAY AFTER DAY, THE WATER LEVEL RISES

UNTIL THE WAVES SWALLOW EVERYTHING.

IT IS SLOWLY, METHODICALLY DROWNING THE ENTIRE CITY,

AND BEFORE LONG, EVERYTHING IS GONE.

**

Narrator: ACCORDING TO PABLO,

THIS WAS NO ORDINARY SEICHE WAVE POWERING ACROSS THE LAKE,

WHICH SUGGESTS TO PAVELEC OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

FOR THE FLOOD IS FLAWED.

THERE WERE SEASONS OF RAIN THAT WERE FED INTO THIS BODY OF WATER

THAT, IN 1985, BROKE THROUGH THE DAM

THAT PROTECTED THE TOWN,

ABSOLUTELY DESTROYING EPECUéN.

Narrator: PAVELEC HAS PIECED TOGETHER SOME OF THE EVENTS

THAT TRIGGERED THIS APOCALYPTIC FLOOD,

BUT THE STRANGE LIGHTS HOVERING OVER THE LAKE REMAIN A MYSTERY.

**

COMING UP, NAZI TICKING TIME BOMBS...

IT REALLY WOULD BE AN ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE.

Narrator: ...AND A MAN-MADE MONSTER IN THE CASPIAN SEA.

IT'S FREAKING HUGE. IT'S THE LENGTH OF A FOOTBALL FIELD.

**

Narrator: AUGUST 2015, A SENTINEL SATELLITE

ORBITING 488 MILES HIGH...

PHOTOGRAPHS AN EMERALD GREEN SWIRL.

IT'S THOUSANDS OF FEET ACROSS.

THE THING THAT REALLY THROWS ME OFF IS THAT CYAN GREEN.

I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.

**

THE SATELLITE CAPTURES THE IMAGES AS IT PASSES

OVER THE BALTIC SEA.

SOMETHING IS CHURNING THE ENTIRE BALTIC INTO THIS WHIRLPOOL.

**

HANG ON, THOUGH.

IF YOU LOOK CLOSER, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE SOMETHING FLOATING.

YOU CAN TELL IT'S ACTUALLY A SHIP.

**

Narrator: IF THIS IS A SWIRLING VORTEX

STRETCHING ACROSS THE SEA'S SURFACE,

A SHIP IS IN TROUBLE.

**

FOR MANY YEARS, ONLY THE BRAVEST OF SAILORS

ATTEMPT TO CROSS THE FREEZING, TREACHEROUS BALTIC.

IN MODERN TIMES, IT HAS BEEN NAMED "SHIPWRECK CENTRAL."

Pepper: OVER THE CENTURIES,

THE BALTIC HAS SWALLOWED THOUSANDS OF SHIPS,

AND THE BOTTOM NOW IS LITTERED LIKE A GRAVEYARD.

Narrator: STREWN ACROSS THE SEABED ARE COUNTLESS SHIPS,

SUNKEN CARGO, EVEN AIRPLANES.

AFTER THE TITANIC, THE WORST PEACETIME MARITIME DISASTER

IN EUROPEAN HISTORY TOOK PLACE HERE

WHEN THE MS ESTONIA GOES DOWN,

TAKING WITH IT ALMOST 900 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN.

Krueger: WHY IS IT THAT WE'RE FINDING SO MANY SHIPWRECKS IN THIS REGION?

COULD THERE BE SOMETHING IN THE WAY

THAT THE CURRENTS FLOW THAT IT DRAWS PEOPLE

INTO SOME TYPE OF A WHIRLPOOL?

Narrator: MARITIME EXPERTS CONSIDER IF THE SATELLITE IMAGE

HAS CAPTURED EVIDENCE OF A GIANT WHIRLPOOL OR MAELSTROM.

**

THESE SINISTER VORTICES, RATHER LIKE BLACK HOLES,

SUCK IN ANYTHING THAT DRIFTS TOO CLOSE.

**

IS THIS SHIP BEING DRAGGED INTO A WATERY GRAVE?

SOMETHING IS CREATING THIS VORTEX ON THE SURFACE

OF THE BALTIC SEA.

Narrator: BUT THE VORTEX LOOKS TOO BIG TO BE A WHIRLPOOL.

WHAT'S MORE, OCEAN MAELSTROMS AREN'T USUALLY

A LIVID DAY-GLO GREEN.

WHAT IF SOMETHING WERE ACTUALLY LEAKING FROM SOME POLLUTION

SOURCE WAY UNDERNEATH OF THE BALTIC SEA?

Narrator: WHEN INVESTIGATORS SCOUR

THE AREA'S HISTORIC RECORDS,

THEY DISCOVER A DEADLY CHEMICAL SECRET,

AND IT'S A SECRET THAT GOES BACK TO THE NAZIS.

**

THE NAZIS USED GAS TO KILL MILLIONS.

IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, NAZI SCIENTISTS

ALSO TEST TOXIC CHEMICAL WEAPONS ON THEIR PRISONERS.

**

AFTER THE WAR, MILITARY INVESTIGATORS DISCOVER VAST

NAZI STOCKPILES OF NOVEL CHEMICAL WEAPONS.

THE ALLIES NEED TO DISPOSE OF THESE LETHAL TOXINS URGENTLY.

THEY CHOOSE THE MURKY DEPTHS OF THE BALTIC SEA.

THE BRITISH AND THE SOVIET UNION DUMP 65,000 TONS

OF NAZI CHEMICALS THEY'VE SEIZED RIGHT INTO THE BALTIC.

Krueger: COULD THIS BEAUTIFUL EMERALD SWIRL IN THE BALTIC SEA

ACTUALLY BE A TOXIC STEW OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS

USED BY THE NAZIS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR?

Narrator: ALLIED SCIENTISTS SEAL THE LETHAL CHEMICALS

IN METAL BARRELS IN A VAIN ATTEMPT TO PREVENT CORROSION

FROM THE BALTIC SALTWATER,

**

BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH.

THIS IS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF CHEMICALS,

AND IT'S GOING TO COME OUT AT SOME POINT,

THIS NOXIOUS NAZI CLOUD OF POISON.

A TEAM OF SPECIALIZED DIVERS RECENTLY DISCOVERS TRACES

OF MUSTARD GAS ON THE SEABED.

NOW SCIENTISTS ARE EXAMINING THE SUNKEN NAZI STOCKPILE

TO CHECK FOR WIDER CONTAMINATION.

IT REALLY WOULD BE AN ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE.

Narrator: BUT WHEN MARINE BIOLOGISTS

EXAMINE THE SATELLITE IMAGE, THEY BELIEVE THE GREEN VORTEX

IS NOT THE RESULT OF NAZI CHEMICAL WONDER WEAPONS,

BUT THEY THINK IT'S SOMETHING POTENTIALLY JUST AS DEADLY --

A PLAGUE OF KILLER MICROBES.

SO, WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE?

IT'S ACTUALLY AN ALGAL BLOOM ON THE BALTIC SEA.

Narrator: IF THIS IS THE CASE, IT'S DEEPLY DISTURBING.

THESE ALGAL BLOOMS CAN BE JUST AS DANGEROUS OR TOXIC

AS ANY RELEASED NAZI CHEMICAL WEAPONS.

BILLIONS OF ORGANISMS SWARM TO CREATE A DEADLY TOXIC VORTEX

AS LARGE AS 145,000 SQUARE MILES.

THE NATURAL CURRENTS IN THE BALTIC TAKE THESE ALGAE

AND CAUSE THESE SWIRLS AND EDDY CURRENTS

THAT MAKE UP THIS BEAUTIFUL, GEOMETRIC PATTERNS

THAT LOOKS LIKE A SWIRLING VORTEX.

Narrator: AND THE ALGAE SUFFOCATES ALL LIFE IN ITS PATH.

THESE ALGAE BLOOMS TAKE ALL THE DISSOLVED OXYGEN

OUT OF THE WATER, CREATING THESE HUGE DEAD ZONES.

AND IT CAN BE VERY, VERY DEVASTATING

TO THE SURROUNDING AREA WHERE IT OCCURS.

Narrator: TO SOME MARINE BIOLOGISTS, THIS GREEN IS THE COLOR OF DEATH.

IT FASCINATES ME HOW THESE THINGS CAN BE SO BEAUTIFUL

BUT YET SO DESTRUCTIVE AT THE SAME TIME.

**

Narrator: COMING UP, A NATURAL-BORN KILLER IN RHODE ISLAND...

Rice: THIS IS REALLY EERIE.

SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT HERE WITH THIS FOREST.

Narrator: ...AND MULTIPLE REPORTS

OF A PTERODACTYL-LIKE MONSTER IN A JURASSIC JUNGLE.

THE LOCALS POINTED TO THAT IMAGE AND SAID, "YEAH, THAT'S IT.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE SAW."

**

Narrator: JULIAN BAYLISS IS A BIOLOGIST AND EXPLORER.

HIS MISSION IS TO SEARCH UNCHARTED TERRITORY

FOR CREATURES UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE.

Bayliss: FINDING NEW SPECIES IS REALLY WHAT GIVES YOU

THE MOTIVATION, OFTEN, TO CARRY ON,

TO TAKE THAT EXTRA STEP.

Narrator: TO ASSIST HIS SEARCH, BAYLISS IS TURNING TO SATELLITE IMAGERY.

Bayliss: IT'S LIKE OPENING A WINDOW INTO ANOTHER WORLD.

Narrator: BAYLISS IS EXAMINING SATELLITE IMAGES

TAKEN OVER SOUTHEAST AFRICA

WHEN HE SPOTS SOMETHING INCREDIBLE --

A JUNGLE WHICH APPEARS ON NO MAPS.

WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THERE WAS A FOREST THERE.

THEN YOU LOOK ON THE SATELLITE IMAGERY,

AND YOU JUST SEE HOW BIG AND EXPANSIVE THIS IS.

Narrator: FOR SOMEONE LOOKING FOR UNDISCOVERED CREATURES,

THIS IS THE HOLY GRAIL.

THIS IS THE BIGGEST DISCOVERY IN MY LIFE.

NO BIOLOGIST, NO SCIENTIST HAS EVER VISITED BEFORE.

Narrator: BAYLISS IS UNSURE OF WHAT HE WILL DISCOVER HERE.

THIS IS A GENUINE LOST WORLD.

Krueger: WHAT COULD BE THERE?

COULD THERE BE A CURE FOR A DISEASE?

COULD THERE BE SOME MYSTERIOUS ANIMAL

THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW HAD EXISTED BEFORE?

Narrator: CLOSE TO THIS LOST WORLD, PREVIOUS EXPLORERS

HAVE ENCOUNTERED TALES OF FIERCE, APELIKE CREATURES.

Kays: IN THE REGION NEAR THIS STRANGE FOREST,

THERE'S LEGEND OF A GIANT APE.

THEY CALL IT "UFITI,"

WHICH ROUGHLY TRANSLATES TO A GHOST.

Narrator: LOCALS DESCRIBE THE ANIMAL

AS BEING AROUND 5 FEET TALL

WITH A BABOON-LIKE FACE AND BROAD CHEST.

**

MANY SCIENTISTS BELIEVE IT IS A MYTH.

YET IN 2004,

PRIMATOLOGISTS REVEAL THE EXISTENCE OF A CREATURE

MATCHING THIS DESCRIPTION

IN THE JUNGLES OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO.

[ ANIMAL SCREECHING ]

IT'S SOME KIND OF LARGE PRIMATE THAT WALKS AROUND ON ITS HIND LEGS

AND IS BIG ENOUGH TO BE REFERRED TO AS A LION KILLER.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO RESEARCHERS,

THE CREATURES ARE FEARLESS OF HUMANS

AND HAVE BEEN WITNESSED FEASTING ON THE CARCASS

OF A LEOPARD.

THEY BECOME KNOWN AS BILI APES.

THIS KIND OF EXAMPLE ACTUALLY PROVES

THAT LOCAL LEGENDS AND FOLK TALES ARE USEFUL TO SCIENTISTS.

THEY CAN LEAD TO REAL DISCOVERIES.

**

Narrator: BAYLISS AND HIS TEAM OF SCIENTISTS

TRAVEL TO MOZAMBIQUE

AND THEN DRIVE THE 700 MILES NORTH

TOWARD A MOUNTAIN CALLED "MABU."

Bayliss: IT'S DANGEROUS. THERE'S A LOT OF RISKS.

THERE IS NO BACKUP, AND THERE ARE NO EMERGENCY SERVICES.

YOU'RE REALLY CUT OFF. YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN.

Narrator: HIS MISSION --

TO DISCOVER HIS OWN ANCIENT CREATURES

IN THIS REMOTE, LOST WORLD.

**

AS THE TEAM PENETRATES THE EDGES OF THE UNEXPLORED JUNGLE,

THEY ARE HIT BY A TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR.

Stenstrom: THERE IS A REASON WHY IT'S CALLED THE RAIN FOREST,

AND THAT IS THAT IT RAINS PRETTY MUCH EVERY DAY.

Narrator: THIS HEAVY RAIN,

COUPLED WITH THE JUNGLE'S TROPICAL HEAT

AND RARE PLANT LIFE

DRIVES THE EVOLUTION OF UNIQUE SPECIES.

WE WERE VERY LUCKY TO FIND THIS. IT'S AMAZING.

THIS IS THE BEAUTY OF BEING THE FIRST BIOLOGIST

TO VISIT A PLACE LIKE MABU.

Narrator: BAYLISS SOON SEES CREATURES HE DOESN'T RECOGNIZE.

VERY BEAUTIFUL, VERY INTERESTING DAY-FLYING MOTH.

IT COULD BE A NEW SPECIES.

Narrator: BUT HE HAS YET TO PENETRATE THE HEART OF THIS LOST JUNGLE.

IT'S EVIDENT THAT THERE'S A LOT MORE TO DISCOVER

IN THIS FOREST THE DEEPER IN WE GO.

Narrator: BAYLISS STUDIES SATELLITE MAPS

TO PINPOINT THE EXPEDITION'S PRECISE LOCATION.

WE'VE ACTUALLY DONE A CIRCLE, AND NOW WE'RE ABOUT HERE.

Narrator: HE IDENTIFIES A CLEARING

IN THE DENSE UNDERGROWTH JUST A FEW MILES NORTH --

THE PERFECT PLACE TO LAUNCH HIS RECONNAISSANCE DRONE.

**

Bayliss: WE'RE JUST GOING TO GO OVER THE FOREST

AND THEN AROUND THE PEAK AND BACK HERE.

**

Narrator: THE DRONE REVEALS THE SCALE OF THIS LOST WORLD.

IT'S VAST -- THE BIGGEST RAIN FOREST IN SOUTHERN AFRICA,

AND IT'S ALMOST ALL UNEXPLORED.

**

YET ONLY THE BRAVEST DARE TO VENTURE THERE.

Bayliss: A LOT OF VILLAGERS DON'T GO TO THE FOREST,

AND IT'S ONLY THE HUNTERS AND THE MEDICINE MEN

WHO WILL ACTUALLY GO TO THE FOREST.

THERE'S A FEAR THAT BAD SPIRITS LIVE

AND RESIDE INSIDE THE FOREST.

**

Narrator: SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THE CREATURES OF MABU

ARE SHAPED BY ITS UNIQUE GEOGRAPHY.

THE RAINFOREST ON THE MOUNTAIN IS SURROUNDED BY SAVANNA,

AND SO THE SPECIES THAT LIVE IN THE FOREST

ARE UNABLE TO ESCAPE.

IT'S LIKE BEING ON AN ISOLATED ISLAND.

WHEN SPECIES GET ISOLATED WITHIN A HABITAT,

THEY CAN GET BIGGER AND BIGGER AND BIGGER.

**

Narrator: STUDIES OF SIMILARLY ISOLATED HABITATS

IN PLACES SUCH AS MADAGASCAR

SUGGEST THAT THE CREATURES IN MABU

COULD ALSO HAVE EVOLVED TO TAKE UNUSUAL PHYSICAL FORMS.

MABU HAS BEEN ISOLATED FROM OTHER JUNGLE HABITAT

FOR LITERALLY MILLIONS OF YEARS,

SO WHO KNOWS WHAT LIVES IN THERE

OR, INDEED, WHAT HAS EVOLVED IN THERE.

**

Narrator: AS THE TEAM PUSHES DEEPER INTO THE JUNGLE, CONDITIONS WORSEN.

**

YOU HAVE DENSE VEGETATION

THAT YOU HAVE TO CUT YOUR WAY THROUGH.

YOU HAVE ANIMALS THERE THAT COULD POTENTIALLY ATTACK YOU,

BUT THEN YOU HAVE THE BUGS THAT COULD KILL YOU

BY JUST INJECTING THEIR TOXINS AND DISEASES.

Narrator: THEN ANOTHER SPECIES BAYLISS DOESN'T RECOGNIZE...

Man: GEEZ, HE CAN MOVE FAST WHEN HE WANTS.

Narrator: ...A SNAKE, BUT ITS MARKINGS ARE UNUSUAL.

Bayliss: IT IS DANGEROUS. IT IS VENOMOUS.

**

ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE EVER TO HOLD

THIS NEW SPECIES OF SNAKE.

IT'S A DREAM COME TRUE.

Narrator: WHAT HAS SO FAR ELUDED BAYLISS THIS EXPEDITION

IS EVIDENCE OF LARGER ANIMALS UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE,

WHICH MAY BE HIDING IN THIS LOST WORLD.

IRONICALLY, THE LARGER CREATURES CAN BE HARDER TO FIND.

Bayliss: IT'S DIFFICULT TO ACTUALLY SEE

A LOT OF THE LARGE MAMMALS

BECAUSE THEY CAN HEAR YOU COMING,

AND THEY GET OUT OF YOUR WAY, SO YOU NEVER SEE THEM.

Narrator: BAYLISS HAS A PLAN TO HELP HIM UNCOVER THESE BEASTS --

MOTION-SENSOR CAMERA TRAPS.

HIS TEAM ATTACHES THE CAMOUFLAGE CAMERA TRAPS TO TREES.

LIKE THIS.

IF SOME UNKNOWN CREATURE STIRS IN THIS PART OF THE JUNGLE...

PERFECT.

...BAYLISS HOPES HIS CAMERAS WILL CAPTURE ITS IMAGE.

Bayliss: WE CAN GO BACK MAYBE MONTHS OR EVEN A YEAR LATER.

THEN WE CAN SEE WHAT'S BEEN MOVING AROUND IN THE FOREST.

Narrator: AS THEIR SUPPLIES RUN LOW,

BAYLISS AND THE TEAM ARE FORCED TO HEAD BACK,

BUT THEIR EXPLORATORY VISIT TO THIS LOST WORLD

HAS SURPASSED ALL EXPECTATIONS.

WHAT STARTED WITH LOOKING AT GOOGLE EARTH

THEN TURNS OUT TO BE THE LARGEST DISCOVERY I'VE MADE.

YEP. I'VE GOT THEM BOTH.

I'VE DISCOVERED OVER 20 NEW SPECIES TO SCIENCE.

Narrator: FOR BAYLISS, THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.

HE IS ALREADY ORGANIZING A RETURN EXPEDITION

TO HIS INCREDIBLE LOST WORLD.

THIS IS THE BIGGEST THING THAT A BIOLOGIST CAN EVER DO.

WE'VE ONLY SCRATCHED THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG

AT DISCOVERING THE ANIMALS THAT MIGHT EXIST IN THIS REGION.

**

Narrator: COMING UP, AMERICA IS UNDER THREAT OF MORTAL ATTACK.

THEY COULD BE INVADING SAN FRANCISCO IN THREE HOURS,

AND WE WOULDN'T KNOW THEY WERE THEY UNTIL THEY ARRIVED.

**

Narrator: JUNE 1960 -- THE COLD WAR.

AND THE WORLD LIVES IN THE SHADOW

OF A GROWING NUCLEAR THREAT.

THE U.S. IS LOCKED IN A COVERT BATTLE WITH THE SOVIETS

FOR SUPREMACY IN ESPIONAGE.

**

THE C.I.A. LAUNCHES ITS TOP-SECRET CORONA...

A SATELLITE PROGRAM, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND,

ORBITING 100 MILES ABOVE THE EARTH'S SURFACE,

GATHERING OVER 800,000 IMAGES.

ORBITAL STAGE MADE AND READY.

THEY WOULD DROP CANISTERS OF FILM AND PICTURES FROM SPACE.

**

THE HEAT SHIELD WAS JETTISONED, PARACHUTE POPS OUT.

**

Pepper: THEY HAD TO THEN CATCH IT WITH AN AIRPLANE

BEFORE IT FELL INTO SOMEBODY ELSE'S HANDS.

THAT'S STRAIGHT OUT OF "JAMES BOND."

Narrator: ON A PASS OVER THE WEST SHORE OF THE CASPIAN SEA,

THE SATELLITE CAPTURES A LARGE, STRANGE-SHAPED CRAFT

IN THE DOCK OF A MILITARY SHIPYARD.

**

IT'S NOT A SHIP OR A SUB OR FLOATING CRANE.

IT'S UNLIKE ANYTHING THE C.I.A. ANALYSTS HAVE SEEN.

WHATEVER IT IS, IT'S ENORMOUS.

Pepper: IT'S FREAKING HUGE.

YOU KNOW, IT'S THE LENGTH OF A FOOTBALL FIELD.

Narrator: THE IMAGES RAISE FEARS

THE RUSSIANS ARE DEVELOPING A POWERFUL, NEW WEAPON.

Capp: IT'S THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR.

WE CAN'T IMAGINE HOW SCARED THE ANALYSTS WERE WHEN THEY SAW IT.

EVERYBODY WOULD'VE BEEN LIKE, "WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?!"

**

Narrator: C.I.A. ANALYSTS NAME IT "THE CASPIAN SEA MONSTER."

ITS SHAPE SUGGESTS SOME KIND OF FLYING CRAFT,

BUT IT'S TOO BIG TO BE A REGULAR PLANE.

THE LENGTH OF THIS THING IS ANYWHERE BETWEEN 350, 400 FEET.

THE WINGSPAN IS MAYBE ONLY 100 FEET.

HOW IS THAT GOING TO FLY?

Narrator: IF IT'S AN ENTIRELY NEW TYPE OF FLYING CRAFT,

IT'S TWICE THE SIZE OF THE LARGEST COMMERCIAL AIRLINE

BUILT TO DATE, THE GIANT 747.

**

SUCH A MACHINE COULD DELIVER AN ENORMOUS NUCLEAR PAYLOAD.

Pepper: THIS IS REALLY FRIGHTENING.

THE C.I.A. HAD TO GET IN THERE

AND GET MORE INTEL TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON.

Narrator: THE C.I.A. COMMISSIONS AN AMBITIOUS NEW TASK FORCE.

DECLASSIFIED RECORDS REVEAL IT GREEN LIGHTS PROJECT AQUILINE,

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TOP-SECRET SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM

BASED IN AREA 51.

SOMEBODY SAYS, "HEY, HOW ABOUT A BIRD

THAT'S REALLY A DRONE TAKING PICTURES?"

THEY SAY, "SURE. LET'S DO IT."

WELL, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE START OF OUR DRONE PROGRAM.

Narrator: THE PROJECT AQUILINE DRONE LOOKS LIKE A BIRD.

IT GLIDES LIKE A BIRD, BUT IT'S THE FIRST-EVER UNMANNED AIRPLANE

WITH A CAMERA FOR A HEAD.

THE PROBLEM IS, AT THIS TIME,

IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO FLY SUCH A THING,

SO THEY KEPT CRASHING IT IN THE TESTS.

IT WAS TOO RISKY. THEY COULDN'T USE IT FOR THIS.

Narrator: EVENTUALLY, CONTINUING RECONNAISSANCE

FROM THE CORONA SATELLITE PROJECT YIELDS

THE DATA THE C.I.A. ANALYSTS NEED.

WHAT IT REVEALS IS TERRIFYING.

**

THE MYSTERY CRAFT IS NEITHER A PLANE NOR A BOAT,

BUT A DEADLY HYBRID.

IT'S A BOAT THAT FLIES, AND IT'S A BOAT

THAT FLIES ONLY A FEW FEET OFF THE GROUND.

A PLANE MOVES FORWARD, DISPLACES THE AIR.

THE IDEA IS IF YOU'RE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE GROUND,

THE AIR FORCES BACK UP, MAINTAINS LIFT.

THAT WAS, IN VERY SIMPLE TERMS, THE THEORY BEHIND THIS PLANE.

**

IT HAS THE WEAPONS PAYLOAD OF A SHIP, THE SPEED OF A PLANE,

AND IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE COMING.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PART ABOUT THIS DESIGN IS IT FLIES SO LOW,

IT FLIES RIGHT UNDERNEATH RADAR, SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT,

THIS CAN JUST APPEAR OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.

Capp: THEY COULD BE INVADING SAN FRANCISCO IN THREE HOURS,

AND WE WOULDN'T KNOW THEY WERE THERE UNTIL THEY ARRIVED.

IT'S MIND-BLOWING.

Narrator: RECENTLY DECLASSIFIED SOVIET FOOTAGE SHOWS

A RARE TEST FLIGHT OF THE CASPIAN SEA MONSTER.

THE SOVIETS CALL IT THE EKRANOPLAN,

AND THERE'S NOT JUST ONE,

BUT A WHOLE FLEET OF DIFFERENT MODELS.

**

FORTUNATELY FOR THE FREE WORLD,

THE FULL FORCE OF THE RUSSIAN FLAGSHIP MEGAWEAPON

IS NEVER UNLEASHED.

AFTER ALL OUR SLEEPLESS NIGHTS LOOKING AT THE EKRANOPLAN,

TURNS OUT THEY HAD A CRASH,

THEY WERE HAVING FUNDING PROBLEMS,

AND IT JUST NEVER GOT OFF THE GROUND.

THEY NEVER PUT THEM IN SERVICE.

Narrator: IT'S A COLD WAR EPISODE

THAT MAY HAVE REMAINED A SECRET

HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE C.I.A.'s REVOLUTIONARY SATELLITE PROGRAM.

**

STILL TO COME, A RHODE ISLAND INVASION.

IT'S LIKE A PLAGUE OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS.

**

Narrator: MAY 2016 --

NASA'S TERRA SATELLITE BEAMS BACK ROUTINE IMAGES

OF RHODE ISLAND'S FORESTS, BUT SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG.

YOU HAVE THIS HUGE AREA OF GREEN TREES

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOREST,

AND IT LOOKS LIKE THERE ARE BROWN PATCHES

THAT ARE SPREADING OUT ACROSS THE FOREST.

**

Narrator: SATELLITE IMAGERY REVEALS THESE DEADLY PATCHES

APPEAR TO BE SPREADING AND FAST.

THIS IS REALLY EERIE.

SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT HERE WITH THIS FOREST.

**

Narrator: CLOSER ANALYSIS OF THE IMAGES

REVEALS MILLIONS OF LIFELESS TREE AND CONFIRMATION

THIS DEAD ZONE HAS BEEN CREATED IN JUST A MATTER OF WEEKS.

IT'S SHOCKING, AND IT'S BARE AND DEAD AND BARREN --

TOTAL DEVASTATION.

WHAT IS GOING ON? WHAT'S KILLING THESE TREES?

Narrator: INVESTIGATORS EXAMINE THE SATELLITE IMAGE FOR CLUES.

30 MILES FROM THE DEVASTATION LIES WHAT REMAINS

OF A NOTORIOUS COLD WAR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMPLEX

ON PLUM ISLAND.

IT'S KIND OF LIKE A CREEPY MOVIE RESEARCH FACILITY

WHERE YOU DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE.

Narrator: THE BIO LAB CARRIED OUT TOP-SECRET EXPERIMENTS,

AND MANY LOCALS ARE CONVINCED

THAT THE EFFECTS OF THESE EXPERIMENTS

ARE NOT CONFINED TO THE ISLAND.

IT HAS BEEN LINKED TO THE OUTBREAK OF LYME DISEASE,

BIRD FLU, A NUMBER OF CONTAGIONS

THAT ARE QUITE ALARMING AND DANGEROUS.

WHEN SUDDENLY YOU HAVE THIS MASSIVE DIE-OFF EVENT OF TREES

JUST MILES AWAY FROM PLUM ISLAND,

IT CERTAINLY IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RESIST LINKING THE TWO EVENTS.

Narrator: WHEN INVESTIGATORS VISIT THE SCENE,

THEY ARE SHOCKED BY WHAT THEY DISCOVER,

OR TO BE PRECISE, WHAT THEY HEAR.

THE FOREST IS ALIVE WITH A STRANGE SOUND.

[ CHITTERING ]

A LOW-LEVEL RASPING ECHOES THROUGH THE TREES.

**

IT'S THE SOUND OF MANDIBLES...

...INSECT JAWS,

BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS OF INSECT JAWS.

Cerveny: THIS IS AN ARMY OF LITERALLY BILLIONS

THAT ARE GOING THROUGH THESE FORESTS

AND EATING TREE AFTER TREE AFTER TREE.

IT'S LIKE A PLAGUE OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS.

Narrator: INVESTIGATORS SCOUR HISTORICAL RECORDS AND DISCOVER

IT'S A PLAGUE OF VORACIOUS LARVAE

FROM A GENETIC EXPERIMENT GONE HORRIBLY WRONG.

THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS IN THE 1860s WHEN ECCENTRIC SCIENTIST

LéOPOLD TROUVELOT ATTEMPTS TO CREATE

AN ENTIRELY NEW SPECIES OF INSECT,

A SILKWORM LESS VULNERABLE TO PREDATORS.

A FRENCH ENTOMOLOGIST WAS TRYING TO CROSSBREED A SILKWORM

WITH A GYPSY MOTH.

Narrator: TROUVELOT CREATES HIS BEAST

FROM A VORACIOUS EUROPEAN INSECT LARVAE

WITH THE NICKNAME "DESTROYER"...

BUT HE DOESN'T CARRY OUT HIS BIO EXPERIMENTS

IN A SECURE LABORATORY, AND HIS MONSTERS BREAK FREE.

HE BRED THEM IN HIS BACKYARD AND WAS SURPRISED WHEN THEY ESCAPED.

OF COURSE THEY ESCAPED.

THE INSECTS MULTIPLY UNCONTROLLABLY.

COUNTLESS FUGITIVE LARVAE EATING 1,000 TIMES

THEIR BODY WEIGHT COVER THE FOREST

LIKE A LIVING, WRITHING, DEADLY BLANKET.

THE DESTRUCTION IS SO SEVERE, IT IS VISIBLE BY SATELLITE.

**

SCIENTISTS ARE NOW TRYING TO HALT THE SPREAD OF THIS MONSTER

BY INTRODUCING ANOTHER TERROR TO RHODE ISLAND.

WE HAVE BROUGHT IN THESE PARASITIC WASPS THAT COME IN

AND LAY THEIR EGGS INSIDE THE INSECTS,

AND THEIR BABIES LITERALLY EAT THEM ALIVE

AND EMERGE FROM THE HUSK OF THEIR DEAD BODIES.

**

Narrator: NOW THE FOREST IS ALIVE WITH TERMINATOR WASPS,

BUT THE DEAD ZONE CONTINUES TO GROW.

THE DESTROYER LARVAE SEEM UNSTOPPABLE.

Rice: IT USUALLY WORKS TO SOME DEGREE,

BUT FOR THESE GUYS, IT JUST DOES NOT WORK.

THE INSECTS ARE TOO FAST AND TOO NUMEROUS.

NOTHING WORKS.

Narrator: WORSE STILL, THE LARVAE ARE NOW ESCAPING

THE FORESTS AND HEADING FOR HUMAN HABITATIONS.

SCIENTISTS HAVE IDENTIFIED AN ARMY OF THEM

AS FAR AWAY AS TENNESSEE.

WELL, IT'S REALLY KIND OF SCARY BECAUSE NOTHING WE'VE DONE

HAS BEEN ABLE TO CULL THE POPULATION.

Narrator: THE PLAGUE IS SPREADING RAPIDLY.

SCIENTISTS CAN'T PREDICT WHERE IT WILL HEAD NEXT.