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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,967 --> 00:00:03,633 Narrator: THEY'RE WATCHING YOU. 2 00:00:03,633 --> 00:00:07,033 MORE THAN 4,000 SATELLITES CIRCLE THE EARTH. 3 00:00:07,033 --> 00:00:10,667 EVERY DAY, THEY UNCOVER NEW, MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENA 4 00:00:10,667 --> 00:00:12,100 THAT DEFY EXPLANATION. 5 00:00:12,100 --> 00:00:15,500 [ BEEPING, DISTORTED MUSIC ] 6 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:17,533 SATELLITES TRACK A MYSTERY MEGABEAST 7 00:00:17,533 --> 00:00:19,900 IN THE TEXAS BADLANDS... 8 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:22,167 THEY'RE HUGE! 9 00:00:22,167 --> 00:00:24,333 THESE ARE THE FOOTPRINTS OF A MONSTER. 10 00:00:24,333 --> 00:00:28,233 ...SIGNS FROM SPACE OF THE SORCERER'S KING... 11 00:00:28,233 --> 00:00:30,100 ARTHUR PULLS THE SWORD OVER HIS HEAD 12 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:32,933 TO PROVE THAT HE IS THE RIGHTFUL KING. 13 00:00:32,933 --> 00:00:35,500 ...AND A VANISHING VILLAGE. 14 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:39,500 SATELLITES SPY ON THE TERROR TYRANT KIM JONG-UN. 15 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:41,067 THIS VILLAGE HAS LITERALLY BEEN 16 00:00:41,067 --> 00:00:43,733 WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. 17 00:00:43,733 --> 00:00:45,367 BAFFLING PHENOMENA. 18 00:00:45,367 --> 00:00:46,967 MYSTERIES FROM SPACE. 19 00:00:46,967 --> 00:00:48,867 WHAT ON EARTH ARE THEY? 20 00:00:48,867 --> 00:00:51,100 -- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com 21 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:53,400 [ BEEPING ] [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING ] 22 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,133 [ WHIRRING ] 23 00:00:55,133 --> 00:00:59,133 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 24 00:00:59,133 --> 00:01:00,967 ** 25 00:01:00,967 --> 00:01:05,067 [ FREQUENCY WARBLING ] 26 00:01:05,067 --> 00:01:06,733 [ WHIRRING ] 27 00:01:06,733 --> 00:01:09,667 JUNE 2014. 28 00:01:09,667 --> 00:01:14,900 AERIAL CAMERAS CAPTURE A RIVERBED IN SOUTH TEXAS. 29 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:17,067 NOTHING UNUSUAL. 30 00:01:17,067 --> 00:01:21,333 BUT WHEN THE SAME RIVER IS PHOTOGRAPHED THE FOLLOWING DAY, 31 00:01:21,333 --> 00:01:24,067 SOMETHING APPEARS IN THE MUD. 32 00:01:24,067 --> 00:01:25,867 THESE SPOTS ARE VERY OUT OF PLACE. 33 00:01:25,867 --> 00:01:28,733 LIKE THEY DON'T BELONG THERE. 34 00:01:28,733 --> 00:01:32,200 THEY COULD ALMOST BE LIKE REALLY LARGE FOOTPRINTS. 35 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:33,667 THEY'RE HUGE! 36 00:01:33,667 --> 00:01:35,233 [ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ] 37 00:01:35,233 --> 00:01:37,333 THESE ARE THE FOOTPRINTS OF A MONSTER. 38 00:01:37,333 --> 00:01:38,733 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 39 00:01:38,733 --> 00:01:42,767 Narrator: ZOOLOGIST ROLAND KAYS STUDIES THE IMAGE. 40 00:01:42,767 --> 00:01:45,367 HE BELIEVES THAT THE BEAST THAT LEFT THESE PRINTS 41 00:01:45,367 --> 00:01:48,300 WALKS ON TWO LEGS. 42 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:50,067 BASED ON THE PATTERN, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE CREATED 43 00:01:50,067 --> 00:01:51,433 BY A BIPEDAL CREATURE, 44 00:01:51,433 --> 00:01:53,967 BUT IT'S GOTTA BE SOMETHING WAY BIGGER THAN A HUMAN. 45 00:01:53,967 --> 00:01:55,833 ** 46 00:01:55,833 --> 00:01:57,967 IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THESE FOOTPRINTS ARE ACTUALLY 47 00:01:57,967 --> 00:02:01,333 MAYBE BEARS STANDING UP ON HIND LEGS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 48 00:02:01,333 --> 00:02:02,533 [ RUMBLING ] 49 00:02:02,533 --> 00:02:04,333 Narrator: BUT EVEN THE BIGGEST BLACK BEARS 50 00:02:04,333 --> 00:02:06,900 CREATE PRINTS JUST 9 INCHES LONG, 51 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:09,067 TOO SMALL TO BE SEEN FROM SPACE. 52 00:02:09,067 --> 00:02:11,100 ** 53 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:12,867 SO THE QUESTION IS: WHAT CAUSED THEM? 54 00:02:12,867 --> 00:02:14,100 WHAT LEFT THEM THERE? 55 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:17,200 [ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ] 56 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,200 ** 57 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:20,767 Narrator: THE IMAGE COMES TO THE ATTENTION 58 00:02:20,767 --> 00:02:23,500 OF WILDLIFE TRACKER BALDEMAR GALVAN. 59 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:28,433 ** 60 00:02:28,433 --> 00:02:30,800 GALVAN ANALYZES THE FOOTPRINT IN THE PICTURE 61 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,700 IN AN EFFORT TO RECONSTRUCT THE SCENE. 62 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:36,667 IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS ACTUALLY COMING OUT OF THE FOREST 63 00:02:36,667 --> 00:02:39,367 RIGHT THROUGH HERE, 64 00:02:39,367 --> 00:02:43,867 AND IT PROBABLY SAW SOMETHING AROUND THIS AREA RIGHT UP HERE. 65 00:02:43,867 --> 00:02:45,833 Narrator: THE SHAPE AND THE PATTERN OF THE FOOTPRINTS 66 00:02:45,833 --> 00:02:49,500 ARE UNLIKE ANYTHING HE HAS COME ACROSS. 67 00:02:49,500 --> 00:02:51,533 Galvan: IT RAISES A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 68 00:02:51,533 --> 00:02:53,500 HE'S WALKING FORWARD LIKE THIS, 69 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:55,667 THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, FROM HERE, 70 00:02:55,667 --> 00:02:59,533 HE JUST STARTS PICKING UP SPEED, LIKE HE'S ACTUALLY RUNNING. 71 00:02:59,533 --> 00:03:01,500 IT'S VERY, VERY FASCINATING. 72 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:04,200 ** 73 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,833 Narrator: BUT THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH INFORMATION TO BE GLEANED 74 00:03:06,833 --> 00:03:10,233 FROM THE IMAGE. 75 00:03:10,233 --> 00:03:14,200 I HAVE TO GO DOWN OVER THERE AND JUST CHECK IT OUT FOR MYSELF. 76 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:19,500 IF I MISIDENTIFY SOMETHING, MY REPUTATION IS GONE. 77 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:22,500 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 78 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:25,300 ** 79 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:28,400 Narrator: HE AND HIS PARTNER HEAD 400 MILES TO THE STRETCH 80 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,067 OF THE BLANCO RIVER WHICH IS CAPTURED IN THE IMAGE. 81 00:03:31,067 --> 00:03:34,333 ** 82 00:03:34,333 --> 00:03:36,767 IN THE AREA, THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS 83 00:03:36,767 --> 00:03:41,167 OF STRANGE SOUNDS, AND SIGHTINGS OF UNUSUAL CREATURES. 84 00:03:41,167 --> 00:03:43,467 ** 85 00:03:43,467 --> 00:03:46,200 GALVAN STOPS OFF TO SPEAK TO SOME WITNESSES. 86 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:47,633 HE KNEW I WASN'T. 87 00:03:47,633 --> 00:03:49,133 TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT YOU HEARD. 88 00:03:49,133 --> 00:03:50,967 IT WAS A WEIRD SOUND. 89 00:03:50,967 --> 00:03:54,533 I'D SAY IT WAS ABOUT 9-FOOT TALL AND IT WAS ALL HAIRY. 90 00:03:54,533 --> 00:03:56,167 IT WAS COVERED IN HAIR. 91 00:03:56,167 --> 00:03:58,800 THERE WAS NOTHING THAT WASN'T HAIR. 92 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,500 I DID NOT SEE THE FACE. 93 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:02,067 IT WOULD HAVE TO HAVE BEEN ANOTHER 94 00:04:02,067 --> 00:04:04,633 COUPLE FEET TALLER THAN ME. -WOW. 95 00:04:04,633 --> 00:04:09,067 AND I'M KIND OF LIKE SPELLBOUND: "WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?" 96 00:04:09,067 --> 00:04:12,100 Narrator: COULD REPORTED SIGHTINGS LIKE THESE HAVE ANYTHING TO DO 97 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:14,700 WITH THE GIANT FOOTPRINTS IN THE SATELLITE IMAGE? 98 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:16,300 ** 99 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:18,267 [ LIGHTNING CRASHING, RAIN POURING ] 100 00:04:18,267 --> 00:04:20,333 THE ANIMAL DESCRIBED IN THE REPORTS 101 00:04:20,333 --> 00:04:24,533 DOES RESEMBLE A LARGE BEAST KNOWN TO HAVE EXISTED. 102 00:04:24,533 --> 00:04:26,100 THIS THING SOUNDS LIKE A CREATURE CALLED 103 00:04:26,100 --> 00:04:28,833 GIGANTOPITHECUS, WHICH WAS ACTUALLY REAL. 104 00:04:28,833 --> 00:04:31,733 THIS THING WAS 10 FEET TALL, IT WEIGHED 1,200 POUNDS, 105 00:04:31,733 --> 00:04:34,067 AND IT WAS RELATED TO ORANGUTANS. 106 00:04:34,067 --> 00:04:37,233 IT'S THE LARGEST APE THAT SCIENTISTS KNOW ABOUT. 107 00:04:37,233 --> 00:04:38,467 [ BIRDS TWEETING ] 108 00:04:38,467 --> 00:04:41,500 SO JUST IMAGINE LIKE A GIANT ORANGUTAN 109 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:43,367 WANDERING AROUND THE EARTH. 110 00:04:43,367 --> 00:04:47,067 [ OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS ] 111 00:04:47,067 --> 00:04:48,333 Narrator: BUT SCIENTISTS BELIEVE 112 00:04:48,333 --> 00:04:51,733 GIGANTOPITHECUS DIED OUT THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. 113 00:04:51,733 --> 00:04:53,633 [ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ] [ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ] 114 00:04:53,633 --> 00:04:55,133 WHEN IT COMES TO THE PICTURES, 115 00:04:55,133 --> 00:04:56,667 IT'S ALWAYS BLURRY [ SHUTTER CLICKS ] 116 00:04:56,667 --> 00:04:58,267 OR DIFFICULT TO SEE, 117 00:04:58,267 --> 00:05:01,800 SO THE CONCRETE EVIDENCE IS NOT THERE. 118 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,933 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR BIGFOOT FOR DECADES. 119 00:05:05,933 --> 00:05:09,233 IF WE HAVEN'T FOUND INCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE YET, 120 00:05:09,233 --> 00:05:10,833 DOES IT REALLY EXIST? 121 00:05:10,833 --> 00:05:13,500 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 122 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:16,400 ** 123 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,467 Narrator: MATCHING THE SATELLITE IMAGE WITH HIS GPS, 124 00:05:19,467 --> 00:05:21,367 GALVAN FINDS THE SECTION OF RIVER 125 00:05:21,367 --> 00:05:24,267 WHERE THE PRINTS WERE CAPTURED. 126 00:05:24,267 --> 00:05:26,633 THE FOOTPRINTS SHOULD BE RIGHT UP AHEAD. 127 00:05:26,633 --> 00:05:29,967 THIS IS AS FAR AS WE CAN GO WITH THE VEHICLE. 128 00:05:29,967 --> 00:05:31,833 [ KEYS JINGLING ] [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY] BLANCO. 129 00:05:31,833 --> 00:05:40,467 ** 130 00:05:40,467 --> 00:05:43,700 Narrator: THIS STRETCH OF RIVER IS ISOLATED AND ROCKY. 131 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:45,833 [ STONES RATTLING ] 132 00:05:45,833 --> 00:05:47,367 ** 133 00:05:47,367 --> 00:05:52,500 THE PRINTS ARE NOT AT ALL WHAT GALVAN WAS EXPECTING. 134 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:55,733 WOW. THIS IS AMAZING, 135 00:05:55,733 --> 00:05:57,900 BREATHTAKING. 136 00:05:57,900 --> 00:06:00,967 [ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ] 137 00:06:00,967 --> 00:06:04,733 ** 138 00:06:04,733 --> 00:06:08,700 GALVAN'S MONSTER HUNT TAKES A STRANGE TURN. 139 00:06:08,700 --> 00:06:16,567 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CLIMBS ] 140 00:06:16,567 --> 00:06:18,433 THEY'RE NOT FRESH AT ALL. 141 00:06:18,433 --> 00:06:21,133 THESE TRACKS HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A VERY, 142 00:06:21,133 --> 00:06:25,633 VERY LONG TIME, FOR A VERY LONG TIME. 143 00:06:25,633 --> 00:06:28,067 THIS ANIMAL IS WAY BIGGER THAN I EXPECTED. 144 00:06:28,067 --> 00:06:30,933 [ SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS ] 145 00:06:30,933 --> 00:06:33,067 THIS ONE HERE IS LIKE 146 00:06:33,067 --> 00:06:35,700 5 FEET LONG AND 4-FOOT ACROSS. 147 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:39,433 ** 148 00:06:39,433 --> 00:06:40,633 UP CLOSE, [ SHUTTER CLICKS ] 149 00:06:40,633 --> 00:06:44,900 GALVAN REALIZES THIS IS NO TWO-LEGGED BEAST. 150 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:47,900 THIS MONSTER WALKS ON FOUR LEGS. 151 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:49,867 THE PRINTS ARE GIGANTIC. 152 00:06:49,867 --> 00:06:53,533 THIS THING IS IMMENSELY BIG AND HEAVY. 153 00:06:53,533 --> 00:06:55,067 I DON'T KNOW THE SPECIES OF THE ANIMAL 154 00:06:55,067 --> 00:06:57,233 THAT MADE THESE TRACKS, BUT ALL THAT I KNOW: 155 00:06:57,233 --> 00:07:00,167 IT'S A HUGE ANIMAL. 156 00:07:00,167 --> 00:07:03,067 MANY TIMES BIGGER THAN THE BIGGEST ELEPHANT, 157 00:07:03,067 --> 00:07:04,833 THERE IS ONLY ONE KIND OF CREATURE 158 00:07:04,833 --> 00:07:07,967 THAT COULD POSSIBLY LEAVE FOOTPRINTS LIKE THIS. 159 00:07:07,967 --> 00:07:11,633 [ EERIE MUSIC CLIMBS ] 160 00:07:11,633 --> 00:07:13,833 THIS IS ANOTHER MYSTERY THAT WE HAVE HERE. 161 00:07:13,833 --> 00:07:22,067 ** 162 00:07:22,067 --> 00:07:25,200 THE ANIMALS THAT MADE THESE TRACKS, 163 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,067 THESE ARE PREHISTORIC ANIMALS, 164 00:07:28,067 --> 00:07:29,700 LIKE THE DINOSAURS. 165 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:31,100 ** 166 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:32,900 [ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ] 167 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:35,100 [ WHIRRING ] 168 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:36,133 COMING UP... 169 00:07:36,133 --> 00:07:37,800 REVEALED FROM ABOVE, 170 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,233 THE HORROR OF THE JUNGLE GHOST CITY... 171 00:07:40,233 --> 00:07:42,567 SOMETHING DISASTROUS HAPPENED TO ANGKOR, 172 00:07:42,567 --> 00:07:44,633 BUT WHAT WAS IT? 173 00:07:44,633 --> 00:07:47,900 ...AND GALVAN'S TEXAS MONSTER HUNT. 174 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:51,200 THIS HERD OF DINOSAURS WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ALONE. 175 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,633 IT JUST SHOWS THAT THERE'S A TON OF STUFF OUT THERE 176 00:07:53,633 --> 00:07:55,067 WE HAVE NOT DISCOVERED YET. 177 00:07:55,067 --> 00:07:57,233 [ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ] 178 00:07:57,233 --> 00:07:59,400 [ WHIRRING ] 179 00:08:01,667 --> 00:08:04,200 [ WHIRRING ] 180 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,333 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 181 00:08:06,333 --> 00:08:08,900 Narrator: WILDLIFE TRACKER BALDEMAR GALVAN 182 00:08:08,900 --> 00:08:11,867 IS ON THE TRAIL OF A MYSTERY MEGABEAST IN TEXAS, 183 00:08:11,867 --> 00:08:14,100 WHOSE PRINTS WERE SNAPPED FROM SPACE. 184 00:08:14,100 --> 00:08:17,467 ** 185 00:08:17,467 --> 00:08:20,600 ARRIVING AT THE SITE, HE'S AMAZED AT WHAT HE SEES... 186 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,200 [ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ] 187 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,433 ...DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS. 188 00:08:27,433 --> 00:08:30,433 I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF DINOSAUR MADE THESE TRACKS. 189 00:08:30,433 --> 00:08:32,967 ALL THAT I KNOW: IT'S A HUGE ANIMAL. 190 00:08:32,967 --> 00:08:37,400 [ SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS ] 191 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,833 SO, WHAT DO WE GOT HERE? 192 00:08:39,833 --> 00:08:44,200 Narrator: PHOTOGRAPHS ARE SENT TO A TEAM OF EXPERTS FOR ANALYSIS. 193 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,933 SO HOW LONG IS ONE OF THESE AS A GIVEN TRACK HERE? 194 00:08:46,933 --> 00:08:51,767 THEY'RE ABOUT 3 FEET ACROSS AND ABOUT 3 FEET LONG. 195 00:08:51,767 --> 00:08:55,067 EXAMINATION OF THE ANIMAL'S GAIT, THE SIZE OF THE PRINTS, 196 00:08:55,067 --> 00:08:56,667 AND THE SHAPE OF THE FEET 197 00:08:56,667 --> 00:09:00,267 LEADS THE SCIENTIST TO AN EXTRAORDINARY CONCLUSION. 198 00:09:00,267 --> 00:09:02,167 THESE ARE SAUROPOD TRACKS. 199 00:09:02,167 --> 00:09:04,667 [ CREATURE WARBLING ] [ THUDDING HEAVILY ] 200 00:09:04,667 --> 00:09:07,067 SAUROPODS WERE THE LARGEST DINOSAURS 201 00:09:07,067 --> 00:09:08,767 -[ROARING] -EVER TO HAVE ROAM THE EARTH. 202 00:09:08,767 --> 00:09:10,300 ** 203 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:13,267 THIS MONSTER HERBIVORE WAS 100 FEET LONG, 204 00:09:13,267 --> 00:09:14,633 STOOD 60 FEET HIGH, 205 00:09:14,633 --> 00:09:18,300 WITH A NECK SIX TIMES LONGER THAN A GIRAFFE'S. 206 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:21,067 IT WEIGHED OVER 60 TONS. 207 00:09:21,067 --> 00:09:22,200 [ ROARING ] 208 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:23,767 COULD YOU IMAGINE A HERD OF THESE 209 00:09:23,767 --> 00:09:26,500 THUNDERING THROUGH YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? 210 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:30,600 Schuttler: EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE GIGANTIC, THEY WERE ACTUALLY VEGETARIANS. 211 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:35,833 THEY'D WALK TOGETHER IN GROUPS, ROAMING AROUND IN TEXAS. 212 00:09:35,833 --> 00:09:38,133 Narrator: FURTHER ANALYSIS OF THE RIVERBED REVEALS 213 00:09:38,133 --> 00:09:41,600 OVER 90 INDIVIDUAL TRACKS. 214 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,833 YOU COULD IMAGINE THEM COMING DOWN TO THIS RIVERBED, 215 00:09:44,833 --> 00:09:46,500 PERHAPS TO GET SOMETHING TO DRINK. 216 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:49,100 [ RUMBLING ] 217 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:51,667 -[SCREECHING] -SAUROPODS WERE SO MASSIVE, 218 00:09:51,667 --> 00:09:52,967 [ SCREECHING ] 219 00:09:52,967 --> 00:09:57,100 ONLY THE MIGHTY T. REX DARED TO TAKE THEM ON. 220 00:09:57,100 --> 00:09:58,933 AN AMBUSH PREDATOR, 221 00:09:58,933 --> 00:10:01,467 THE T. REX WOULD CHOOSE LOCATIONS LIKE RIVERBANKS 222 00:10:01,467 --> 00:10:04,833 TO MOUNT AN ATTACK. 223 00:10:04,833 --> 00:10:07,667 Kourounis: THIS HERD OF DINOSAURS WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ALONE. 224 00:10:07,667 --> 00:10:10,633 THERE WOULD'VE BEEN PREDATORS HIDING IN THE BUSHES AND TREES. 225 00:10:10,633 --> 00:10:12,167 ** 226 00:10:12,167 --> 00:10:13,767 -[ROARING] -[WAILS] 227 00:10:13,767 --> 00:10:17,333 [ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ] 228 00:10:17,333 --> 00:10:19,467 THE TEAM STUDIES THE LOCAL GEOLOGY 229 00:10:19,467 --> 00:10:22,967 TO GUESS WHEN THESE PRINTS MIGHT'VE BEEN MADE. 230 00:10:22,967 --> 00:10:26,033 THE GEOLOGY ON IT SHOWS THAT THEY ARE 231 00:10:26,033 --> 00:10:27,833 ABOUT 100 MILLION YEARS OLD. 232 00:10:27,833 --> 00:10:29,533 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 233 00:10:29,533 --> 00:10:30,800 THESE TRACKS WERE MADE 234 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,433 WHEN TEXAS WAS ALIVE WITH DINOSAURS... 235 00:10:33,433 --> 00:10:35,467 [ PIERCING CRIES ] 236 00:10:35,467 --> 00:10:38,467 -[SCREECH] -...THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD. 237 00:10:38,467 --> 00:10:40,333 100 MILLION YEARS AGO, NORTH AMERICA LOOKED 238 00:10:40,333 --> 00:10:41,733 NOTHING LIKE IT DOES TODAY. 239 00:10:41,733 --> 00:10:43,267 -[SCREECHING] -IT WAS LUSH. IT WAS GREEN. 240 00:10:43,267 --> 00:10:45,167 IT WAS WARM. 241 00:10:45,167 --> 00:10:47,533 THIS WAS DINOSAUR TERRITORY. 242 00:10:47,533 --> 00:10:50,300 Narrator: THE FOSSILIZED TRACKS HAVE BEEN BURIED UNDER MUD 243 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:52,833 FOR COUNTLESS MILLENNIA. 244 00:10:52,833 --> 00:10:54,100 ONE DAY, THIS IS SORT OF JUST 245 00:10:54,100 --> 00:10:56,267 ANOTHER BORING LANDSCAPE IN AMERICA. 246 00:10:56,267 --> 00:10:59,233 THE NEXT, A FLOOD COMES THROUGH AND EXPOSES THESE TRACKS. 247 00:10:59,233 --> 00:11:01,067 ** 248 00:11:01,067 --> 00:11:04,200 Narrator: A GIANT DINOSAUR, SEEN FROM SPACE. 249 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,300 BUT THE REAL PUZZLE REMAINS: 250 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:09,100 WHAT'S A VEGETARIAN DOING IN TEXAS? 251 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:11,567 THIS JUST SHOWS THAT THERE'S A TON OF STUFF OUT THERE 252 00:11:11,567 --> 00:11:13,067 WE HAVE NOT DISCOVERED YET. 253 00:11:13,067 --> 00:11:15,167 ** 254 00:11:15,167 --> 00:11:19,600 [ WHIRRING ] 255 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,733 Narrator: JUNE 2012. 256 00:11:21,733 --> 00:11:25,367 A SATELLITE PASSES OVER THE DENSE JUNGLES OF CAMBODIA. 257 00:11:25,367 --> 00:11:28,700 ** 258 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:30,733 BELOW IS ANGKOR, 259 00:11:30,733 --> 00:11:34,533 AN ANCIENT SITE SO MYSTERIOUS, ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE TURNING 260 00:11:34,533 --> 00:11:36,600 TO REVOLUTIONARY AERIAL TECHNOLOGY 261 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,300 TO UNLOCK ITS SECRETS. 262 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:42,067 ANGKOR'S BEEN THIS... ENIGMA FOR CENTURIES 263 00:11:42,067 --> 00:11:44,467 BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALL THESE TEMPLES 264 00:11:44,467 --> 00:11:47,967 DOTTED AROUND THE LANDSCAPE, NO REAL DISCERNIBLE PATTERN. 265 00:11:47,967 --> 00:11:50,400 ** 266 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,200 Narrator: FROM THIS EERIE PLACE, 267 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,633 KINGS ONCE RULED OVER THE KHMER EMPIRE, 268 00:11:55,633 --> 00:11:59,433 SO POWERFUL, ITS FOUNDER WAS DECLARED KING OF THE WORLD. 269 00:11:59,433 --> 00:12:02,500 ** 270 00:12:02,500 --> 00:12:05,167 BUT SOMETHING HAS ALWAYS PUZZLED HISTORIANS. 271 00:12:05,167 --> 00:12:08,867 ** 272 00:12:08,867 --> 00:12:10,867 WHY IS IT HERE? 273 00:12:10,867 --> 00:12:12,767 GREAT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD 274 00:12:12,767 --> 00:12:16,333 WERE BUILT AROUND WATER, GROWING UP BY MIGHTY RIVERS, 275 00:12:16,333 --> 00:12:18,967 LIKE THE NILE, EUPHRATES, AND THE TIBER. 276 00:12:18,967 --> 00:12:22,367 [ ROMANTIC TUNE SWEEPS ] 277 00:12:22,367 --> 00:12:25,867 THE WEIRD BUILDINGS HERE ARE BREATHTAKING, 278 00:12:25,867 --> 00:12:27,367 BUT THEY'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF DENSE, 279 00:12:27,367 --> 00:12:29,633 ALMOST IMPENETRABLE JUNGLE. 280 00:12:29,633 --> 00:12:31,700 ** 281 00:12:31,700 --> 00:12:36,733 WHY IS THIS CITY HERE, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO IT? 282 00:12:36,733 --> 00:12:43,800 AS FAST AS THE KHMER CIVILIZATION ROSE, IT FELL. 283 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:45,867 THE TEMPLES WERE ABANDONED. 284 00:12:45,867 --> 00:12:48,967 THE JUNGLE JUST COVERED OVER EVERYTHING. 285 00:12:48,967 --> 00:12:51,633 [ BIRDS CHIRPING, INSECTS BUZZING ] 286 00:12:51,633 --> 00:12:53,933 ** 287 00:12:53,933 --> 00:12:55,633 Narrator: HOW DID THIS CITY WORK, 288 00:12:55,633 --> 00:12:59,833 AND WHY WAS IT ABANDONED 600 YEARS AGO? 289 00:12:59,833 --> 00:13:03,800 TO FIND OUT, ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY 290 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:05,067 HAVE EQUIPPED HELICOPTERS 291 00:13:05,067 --> 00:13:07,633 WITH AN ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT DETECTION SYSTEM, 292 00:13:07,633 --> 00:13:09,100 KNOWN AS LIDAR. 293 00:13:09,100 --> 00:13:11,367 [ ROTORS WHIRRING ] 294 00:13:11,367 --> 00:13:14,600 LIDAR IS LIKE TAKING AN X-RAY OF THE GROUND. 295 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,433 YOU'RE ABLE TO REALLY GET A SENSE OF WHAT'S GOING ON, 296 00:13:17,433 --> 00:13:20,300 TO A GREAT DEGREE OF DETAIL. 297 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:22,333 ** 298 00:13:22,333 --> 00:13:25,200 Narrator: THE LIDAR ALLOWS THE AIRBORNE ARCHAEOLOGISTS 299 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,067 TO SEE ANGKOR AND THE SURROUNDING JUNGLE 300 00:13:28,067 --> 00:13:29,900 LIKE THEY'VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE. 301 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:32,400 ** 302 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,067 WHAT THEY FIND AMAZES THEM. 303 00:13:35,067 --> 00:13:38,667 IT'S, I THINK, ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING 304 00:13:38,667 --> 00:13:40,500 NEW DISCOVERIES IN ARCHEOLOGY. 305 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:43,600 [ WHIRRING ] 306 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:44,900 Narrator: COMING UP... 307 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:48,267 SATELLITES SPY ON NORTH KOREA'S DERANGED DICTATOR. 308 00:13:48,267 --> 00:13:49,733 [ ANTHEM PLAYS ] [ APPLAUSE ] 309 00:13:49,733 --> 00:13:52,967 IF YOU CROSS KIM JONG-UN, HE'S GONNA WIPE OUT 310 00:13:52,967 --> 00:13:55,267 ALL TRACES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 311 00:13:55,267 --> 00:13:59,300 AND, REVEALED FROM THE SKIES, THE SECRET JUNGLE MEGALOPOLIS. 312 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:01,233 THIS DISCOVERY ISN'T JUST BIG. 313 00:14:01,233 --> 00:14:03,633 IT REWRITES THE HISTORY BOOKS. 314 00:14:03,633 --> 00:14:06,200 [ WHIRRING ] 315 00:14:08,067 --> 00:14:10,633 [ WHIRRING ] 316 00:14:10,633 --> 00:14:12,800 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 317 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,533 Narrator: DEEP IN THE JUNGLE, ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE USING 318 00:14:15,533 --> 00:14:18,167 CHOPPERS ARMED WITH X-RAY LIDAR CAMERAS 319 00:14:18,167 --> 00:14:22,167 TO STUDY THE MYSTERIOUS ANCIENT RUINS OF ANGKOR. 320 00:14:22,167 --> 00:14:23,400 THEY HOPE TO FIND OUT 321 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,067 [ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ] WHY THE CITY IS HERE 322 00:14:25,067 --> 00:14:26,900 AND WHY IT WAS ABANDONED. 323 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:28,867 WHAT THEY SEE SHOCKS THEM... 324 00:14:28,867 --> 00:14:30,467 [ WHIRRING ] 325 00:14:30,467 --> 00:14:33,733 ...A TRULY GIGANTIC MEGACITY, HIDDEN FROM VIEW, 326 00:14:33,733 --> 00:14:37,067 COVERING HUNDREDS OF SQUARE MILES. 327 00:14:37,067 --> 00:14:39,733 THIS ISN'T JUST SCATTERED TEMPLES. 328 00:14:39,733 --> 00:14:42,367 IN FACT, THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF HOUSEHOLDS 329 00:14:42,367 --> 00:14:46,067 AND THIS WHOLE THING STRETCHED OUT FOR HUNDREDS OF MILES. 330 00:14:46,067 --> 00:14:47,667 [ BEEPING ] Narrator: A LOST WORLD. 331 00:14:47,667 --> 00:14:52,067 AN ANCIENT MEGALOPOLIS ON PAR WITH SPRAWLING MODERN CITIES. 332 00:14:52,067 --> 00:14:53,800 ** 333 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:55,633 WE KNEW THE CITY WAS BIG. 334 00:14:55,633 --> 00:14:58,300 BUT WE DIDN'T REALIZE HOW BIG IT WAS. 335 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:02,967 THIS DISCOVERY ISN'T JUST BIG, IT REWRITES THE HISTORY BOOKS 336 00:15:02,967 --> 00:15:04,900 OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION. 337 00:15:04,900 --> 00:15:08,067 ** 338 00:15:08,067 --> 00:15:10,633 Narrator: THE X-RAY EYES IN THE SKY REVEAL 339 00:15:10,633 --> 00:15:14,400 A CITY, AND CIVILIZATION, MORE ADVANCED AND SOPHISTICATED 340 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,800 THAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS EVER IMAGINED. 341 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,433 [ BIRDS TWEETING ] 342 00:15:19,433 --> 00:15:23,300 BUT THE IMAGES ALSO LEAVE THEM BAFFLED. 343 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:26,067 WHY WAS THIS MEGACITY EATEN BY THE JUNGLE, 344 00:15:26,067 --> 00:15:29,167 ITS BUILDINGS STRANGLED BY THE TREES? 345 00:15:29,167 --> 00:15:32,633 THREE-QUARTERS OF A MILLION PEOPLE THAT LIVED HERE 346 00:15:32,633 --> 00:15:37,233 IN THE ANGKOR AREA, AND THEY'RE ALL GONE. 347 00:15:37,233 --> 00:15:40,333 [ BIRDS TWEETING ] 348 00:15:40,333 --> 00:15:43,833 WHAT CAUSED A CITY OF THIS SIZE TO BE ABANDONED SO QUICKLY? 349 00:15:43,833 --> 00:15:45,933 [ BEEPING ] 350 00:15:45,933 --> 00:15:49,800 Narrator: INVESTIGATORS STUDY THE LIDAR IMAGES FOR CLUES. 351 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:55,400 THEY REVEAL A GRID OF LINES RUNNING ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY. 352 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,500 ANALYSIS SUGGESTS THEY ARE THE REMNANTS 353 00:15:57,500 --> 00:16:00,433 OF A HIGHLY ADVANCED WATER SYSTEM. 354 00:16:00,433 --> 00:16:02,467 IT'S A NETWORK OF WATER CHANNELS 355 00:16:02,467 --> 00:16:04,500 THAT FORM THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE CITY. 356 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:05,867 [ BEEPING ] 357 00:16:05,867 --> 00:16:09,433 WATER IS THE KEY TO LIFE AND WHAT THE KHMER CIVILIZATION 358 00:16:09,433 --> 00:16:14,767 WERE ABLE TO DO WAS HARNESS WATER IN ALL SORTS OF WAYS. 359 00:16:14,767 --> 00:16:17,600 TO THINK THAT THIS COMPLEX ENGINEERING FEAT WAS ACHIEVED 360 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:23,733 OVER 600 YEARS AGO REALLY SHOWS HOW COMPLEX THE SOCIETY WAS. 361 00:16:23,733 --> 00:16:27,667 Narrator: THE LIDAR IMAGES REVEAL, AT LAST, THE INCREDIBLE STORY 362 00:16:27,667 --> 00:16:31,067 OF HOW THIS REMARKABLE JUNGLE CITY WAS CREATED. 363 00:16:31,067 --> 00:16:32,700 [ BIRDS TWEETING ] 364 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:36,100 A WATER ENGINEERING SYSTEM OF SUCH SOPHISTICATION, 365 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:37,467 IT WOULD'VE CALLED FOR TECHNIQUES 366 00:16:37,467 --> 00:16:40,500 LIKE THOSE USED TODAY IN THE DUTCH NETHERLANDS. 367 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:45,767 ** 368 00:16:45,767 --> 00:16:51,967 INCREDIBLY, THAT'S HOW THIS JUNGLE CITY MANAGED TO THRIVE. 369 00:16:51,967 --> 00:16:55,100 BUT DID THE WATER CHANNELS THAT BROUGHT LIFE 370 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:57,233 ALSO BRING DEATH? 371 00:16:57,233 --> 00:16:59,900 ** 372 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:02,767 IF YOU'RE FACED WITH A WATER SYSTEM THAT'S FAILING, 373 00:17:02,767 --> 00:17:05,067 YOU HAVE A FEW OPTIONS. 374 00:17:05,067 --> 00:17:07,867 ONE IS GO SOMEPLACE ELSE, 375 00:17:07,867 --> 00:17:12,500 AND THE OTHER IS TO TRY TO MODIFY IT. 376 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:14,700 Narrator: THE HUMID JUNGLES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA 377 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:16,633 ARE A BREEDING GROUND FOR PARASITES 378 00:17:16,633 --> 00:17:20,100 AND VIRULENT WATERBORNE DISEASES. 379 00:17:20,100 --> 00:17:22,067 COULD IT HAVE BEEN SOME MEGAPLAGUE 380 00:17:22,067 --> 00:17:24,833 THAT JUST WIPED EVERYTHING OUT? 381 00:17:24,833 --> 00:17:27,800 Narrator: HISTORY TELLS US THAT LIVING CLOSE TO STAGNANT WATER 382 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:29,100 CAN BE DEADLY. 383 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:32,100 [ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ] 384 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:33,900 WATERBORNE PLAGUES, LIKE CHOLERA, 385 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:37,267 HAVE KILLED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 386 00:17:37,267 --> 00:17:41,067 WITH ANGKOR, WHAT YOU'VE GOT IS VERY LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE 387 00:17:41,067 --> 00:17:42,667 LIVING VERY CLOSE TO ONE ANOTHER 388 00:17:42,667 --> 00:17:46,433 AND SO THEY'RE VERY VULNERABLE TO DISEASE. 389 00:17:46,433 --> 00:17:48,333 Narrator: BUT DISEASE WAS A CONSTANT THREAT 390 00:17:48,333 --> 00:17:50,600 AND SCOURGE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. 391 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,367 POPULATIONS WERE USED TO DEALING WITH IT AND RECOVERING. 392 00:17:53,367 --> 00:17:55,867 ** 393 00:17:55,867 --> 00:17:58,267 [ SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS ] [ BIRDS CHIRPING ] 394 00:17:58,267 --> 00:17:59,767 Horton: IT'S ONE OF THOSE EXPLANATIONS. 395 00:17:59,767 --> 00:18:03,067 WE CAN SAY, "WELL, LET'S NOT RULE IT OUT, BUT, AT THIS STAGE, 396 00:18:03,067 --> 00:18:06,867 WE HAVE NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT." 397 00:18:06,867 --> 00:18:11,333 Narrator: ARCHAEOLOGISTS RETURN TO THE LIDAR IMAGES OF THE CITY'S DAMS. 398 00:18:11,333 --> 00:18:13,100 THEY NOTICE SOMETHING UNUSUAL. 399 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:14,500 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] [ PINGING ] 400 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:17,400 [ WHIRRING ] 401 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:19,133 SOME OF THE DAMS HAVE BEEN BREACHED 402 00:18:19,133 --> 00:18:20,933 IN KEY AREAS, WHICH COULD'VE LED 403 00:18:20,933 --> 00:18:24,567 TO CATASTROPHIC FLOODING OF THE CITY. 404 00:18:24,567 --> 00:18:28,467 Narrator: IS THE DAMAGE THE RESULT OF DECAY, OR VIOLENCE? 405 00:18:28,467 --> 00:18:30,367 ATTACKING WATER MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE 406 00:18:30,367 --> 00:18:35,100 IS A GOOD WAY TO GO BECAUSE, WITHOUT WATER, THERE'S NO LIFE. 407 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:36,400 ** 408 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,067 Narrator: HISTORICAL TEXTS OF THE REGION 409 00:18:38,067 --> 00:18:40,667 YIELD A POSSIBLE CLUE. 410 00:18:40,667 --> 00:18:44,867 THERE IS RECORD OF A MILITARY CAMPAIGN 411 00:18:44,867 --> 00:18:49,400 FROM WHAT'S NOW MODERN THAILAND INTO THE KHMER AREA. 412 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:50,767 [ NEIGHING ] 413 00:18:50,767 --> 00:18:52,100 Narrator: 600 YEARS AGO, 414 00:18:52,100 --> 00:18:56,767 THE EMPIRE OF THE KHMER IS OVERSHADOWED BY ANOTHER: 415 00:18:56,767 --> 00:18:59,167 THE SIAMESE KINGDOM OF AYUTTHAYA, 416 00:18:59,167 --> 00:19:02,433 WHOSE WARRIORS INVADE THE GREAT CITY OF ANGKOR. 417 00:19:02,433 --> 00:19:04,867 100,000 PRISONERS ARE TAKEN, 418 00:19:04,867 --> 00:19:06,633 THE CITY OCCUPIED AND PILLAGED 419 00:19:06,633 --> 00:19:08,367 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CLIMBS ] FOR 7 TERRIBLE MONTHS. 420 00:19:08,367 --> 00:19:09,467 [ SUSPENSEFUL CHORD STRIKES ] 421 00:19:09,467 --> 00:19:10,900 [ BIRDS CHIRPING ] 422 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:14,233 BUT WHEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS ATTEMPT TO DATE THE BREACHED DAMS, 423 00:19:14,233 --> 00:19:18,633 IT SEEMS THEY COLLAPSED BEFORE THE CITY WAS ATTACKED. 424 00:19:18,633 --> 00:19:21,900 CLEARLY, SOMETHING DISASTROUS HAD ALREADY HAPPENED TO ANGKOR, 425 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:22,767 BUT WHAT WAS IT? 426 00:19:22,767 --> 00:19:26,167 [ CLANKING ] 427 00:19:26,167 --> 00:19:28,967 Narrator: ARCHAEOLOGIST MARK HORTON HAS SPENT 20 YEARS 428 00:19:28,967 --> 00:19:31,733 STUDYING ABANDONED ANCIENT CITIES. 429 00:19:31,733 --> 00:19:37,233 HE DISCOVERS POSSIBLE EVIDENCE IN CLIMATE RECORDS OF THE AREA. 430 00:19:37,233 --> 00:19:39,567 ITS COLLAPSE HAS SEEDS, I THINK, 431 00:19:39,567 --> 00:19:44,500 IN ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, RATHER THAN MILITARY ONES. 432 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:47,067 Narrator: THE SO-CALLED MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD 433 00:19:47,067 --> 00:19:51,367 WAS A TIME WHEN EARTH WAS HOT, POSSIBLY MUCH HOTTER THAN TODAY, 434 00:19:51,367 --> 00:19:54,433 BAKED DRY AT TIMES, BUT ALSO, IN THIS REGION, 435 00:19:54,433 --> 00:19:56,900 SUBJECT TO TROPICAL DOWNPOURS. 436 00:19:56,900 --> 00:20:00,467 FOR OVER 150 YEARS, THE CITY WAS WRACKED 437 00:20:00,467 --> 00:20:05,533 WITH THIS EXTREME WEATHER, FROM CRAZY MONSOONS TO DROUGHT. 438 00:20:05,533 --> 00:20:08,733 LIKE HURRICANE KATRINA COMES IN, DESTROYS EVERYTHING. 439 00:20:08,733 --> 00:20:09,900 REBUILD. A DROUGHT. 440 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:11,467 YOU CAN'T EVEN GROW CROPS. 441 00:20:11,467 --> 00:20:13,333 AS SOON AS YOU GET THROUGH THAT PERIOD, 442 00:20:13,333 --> 00:20:14,900 [striking palm] A NEW HURRICANE KATRINA 443 00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:18,033 COMES IN, WIPES EVERYTHING OUT. 444 00:20:18,033 --> 00:20:22,800 IT WOULD FEEL LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD WAS COMING TO AN END. 445 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,933 FINALLY, YOU'RE JUST GONNA SAY, "SCREW IT. LET'S LEAVE." 446 00:20:25,933 --> 00:20:27,033 [ WHIRRING ] 447 00:20:27,033 --> 00:20:28,667 Narrator: BUT A CIVILIZATION CAPABLE 448 00:20:28,667 --> 00:20:30,533 OF BUILDING A COMPLEX MEGACITY 449 00:20:30,533 --> 00:20:35,467 COULD SURELY REBUILD AFTER STORMS, NO MATTER HOW VIOLENT. 450 00:20:35,467 --> 00:20:38,733 DESPITE RECENT DISCOVERIES, ANGKOR WAT IS A PLACE 451 00:20:38,733 --> 00:20:41,100 THAT STILL HIDES ITS SECRETS WELL. 452 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:43,000 ** 453 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,233 [ WHIRRING ] 454 00:20:46,233 --> 00:20:47,300 COMING UP... 455 00:20:47,300 --> 00:20:49,300 A MYSTERY MOUND IN THE LOST REALM 456 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:50,600 OF KING ARTHUR... 457 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,133 NOBODY KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT THIS ROUND FORMATION IS 458 00:20:53,133 --> 00:20:55,033 OR WHO BUILT IT OR WHAT IT WAS FOR. 459 00:20:55,033 --> 00:20:57,167 [ APPLAUSE ] ...AND MADMAN KIM JONG-UN 460 00:20:57,167 --> 00:20:59,267 GOES CRAZY. 461 00:20:59,267 --> 00:21:02,167 SEEING A VILLAGE COMPLETELY GONE 462 00:21:02,167 --> 00:21:03,667 IS FRIGHTENING FOR ANYONE. 463 00:21:03,667 --> 00:21:06,300 THEY WOULD'VE BEEN OBLITERATED. 464 00:21:06,300 --> 00:21:09,067 [ WHIRRING ] 465 00:21:10,633 --> 00:21:15,400 [ WHIRRING ] 466 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,067 Narrator: AUGUST 2015. 467 00:21:18,067 --> 00:21:21,767 A U.S. SATELLITE SPIES A VILLAGE IN NORTH KOREA. 468 00:21:21,767 --> 00:21:23,467 [ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ] 469 00:21:23,467 --> 00:21:26,133 A YEAR LATER, WHEN IT FLIES OVER THE SAME AREA... 470 00:21:26,133 --> 00:21:28,533 ** 471 00:21:28,533 --> 00:21:31,867 ...IT'S LIKE A NUCLEAR BOMB HAS DESTROYED IT. 472 00:21:31,867 --> 00:21:34,400 IT LOOKS AS IF THIS VILLAGE HAS LITERALLY BEEN 473 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,700 WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH, LIKE SOMEBODY ERASED IT. 474 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:43,367 SEEING A VILLAGE COMPLETELY GONE IS FRIGHTENING FOR ANYONE. 475 00:21:43,367 --> 00:21:45,833 ** 476 00:21:45,833 --> 00:21:48,167 COULD THERE HAVE BEEN PEOPLE HERE WHEN THIS HAPPENED? 477 00:21:48,167 --> 00:21:50,100 IF SO, THAT WOULD BE DISASTROUS 478 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:52,700 BECAUSE THEY WOULD'VE BEEN OBLITERATED. 479 00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:55,067 [ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ] 480 00:21:55,067 --> 00:21:56,967 ** 481 00:21:56,967 --> 00:22:00,100 Narrator: COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA IS PERHAPS THE MOST SECRETIVE, 482 00:22:00,100 --> 00:22:02,633 ISOLATED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. 483 00:22:02,633 --> 00:22:05,533 THERE'S VERY FEW PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN INTO NORTH KOREA 484 00:22:05,533 --> 00:22:09,333 AND ARE ABLE TO GET INFORMATION AND GET IT OUT. 485 00:22:09,333 --> 00:22:13,633 BECAUSE THEY'RE SO CLOSED AND BECAUSE THEY'RE SO CENSORED, 486 00:22:13,633 --> 00:22:16,500 WE REALLY ON IMAGERY FROM ABOVE 487 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:20,200 TO TELL US WHAT'S GOING ON IN NORTH KOREA. 488 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:25,433 Narrator: ANALYSTS SCOUR THE IMAGE FOR CLUES AS TO WHAT HAPPENED HERE. 489 00:22:25,433 --> 00:22:28,700 YOU CAN SEE THE REMAINS OF SOME BUILDINGS THAT WERE HERE 490 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:33,067 AND THERE'S EVEN QUITE A BIT OF DEBRIS LEFT OVER. 491 00:22:33,067 --> 00:22:35,233 SATELLITE ANALYST AMANDA MARCHETTI 492 00:22:35,233 --> 00:22:38,900 TAKES A CLOSER LOOK, TO CHECK FOR SIGNS OF A NATURAL DISASTER. 493 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:42,167 ** 494 00:22:42,167 --> 00:22:43,800 AS I LOOK AT THE SATELLITE IMAGERY 495 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,600 WE HAVE OF THE SURROUNDING AREA, NOTHING ELSE WAS AFFECTED. 496 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,300 [ EXPLOSION ] 497 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:51,067 SO WHAT I'M MOST FEARFUL OF 498 00:22:51,067 --> 00:22:53,533 IS THAT THIS WAS CAUSED BY HUMANS. 499 00:22:53,533 --> 00:22:55,667 [ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ] 500 00:22:55,667 --> 00:22:58,067 Narrator: ANALYSIS SUGGESTS THAT WHATEVER HAPPENED HERE 501 00:22:58,067 --> 00:23:01,333 WAS AN ACT OF DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION. 502 00:23:01,333 --> 00:23:04,133 EACH BUILDING IS DESTROYED PERFECTLY. 503 00:23:04,133 --> 00:23:08,833 IT'S PINPOINT DESTRUCTION, LIKE A SURGICAL MILITARY STRIKE. 504 00:23:08,833 --> 00:23:13,067 Narrator: EVIDENCE POINTS TO A CRIMINAL ACT OF STATE-SANCTIONED TERROR. 505 00:23:13,067 --> 00:23:14,833 [ ANTHEM PLAYS ] [ APPLAUSE ] 506 00:23:14,833 --> 00:23:18,067 THE IMPOVERISHED COUNTRY IS RULED BY KIM JONG-UN, 507 00:23:18,067 --> 00:23:20,667 CHAIRMAN OF THE WORKERS' PARTY OF KOREA. 508 00:23:20,667 --> 00:23:23,433 KIM JONG-UN, HE'S A MADMAN. 509 00:23:23,433 --> 00:23:27,467 KIM JONG-UN HAS THREATENED TO BEAT AMERICA LIKE A RABID DOG 510 00:23:27,467 --> 00:23:31,400 AND TO REDUCE IT TO ASHES AND DARKNESS. 511 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,633 THEY'VE GOT ATOMIC WEAPONS. 512 00:23:33,633 --> 00:23:35,067 THEY'VE GOT MISSILES. 513 00:23:35,067 --> 00:23:38,600 THEY HAVE CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS. 514 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,633 Narrator: ANALYSTS BELIEVE THE DICTATOR IS EASILY CAPABLE 515 00:23:41,633 --> 00:23:44,600 OF TESTING WEAPONS ON HIS OWN PEOPLE. 516 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,367 I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THEY WERE TESTING 517 00:23:46,367 --> 00:23:48,233 TARGETED SURGICAL-STRIKE MUNITIONS 518 00:23:48,233 --> 00:23:52,367 ON AN OCCUPIED VILLAGE, JUST TO PROVE THAT THEY WORK. 519 00:23:52,367 --> 00:23:55,433 Narrator: BUT WHEN MARCHETTI STUDIES PREVIOUS SATELLITE IMAGES, 520 00:23:55,433 --> 00:23:57,500 SHE NOTICES SOMETHING STRANGE. 521 00:23:57,500 --> 00:23:59,767 ** 522 00:23:59,767 --> 00:24:04,267 HERE'S BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURES AND MONUMENTS AND FEATURES 523 00:24:04,267 --> 00:24:06,700 THAT JUST LOOK LIKE THEY WERE DESIGNED 524 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:10,400 TO ATTRACT PEOPLE TO COME. 525 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,533 Narrator: ACCORDING TO THE SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT, 526 00:24:12,533 --> 00:24:16,900 THE PEOPLE OF NORTH KOREA ARE DELIRIOUSLY HAPPY AND FULFILLED, 527 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:19,467 MUCH MORE SO THAN THE POOR, OPPRESSED MASSES 528 00:24:19,467 --> 00:24:21,700 OF THE CAPITALIST WEST. 529 00:24:21,700 --> 00:24:25,433 TO PROVE IT, THEY HAVE BUILT THEIR OWN SOCIALIST THEME PARK. 530 00:24:25,433 --> 00:24:28,833 ** 531 00:24:28,833 --> 00:24:32,567 THIS IS ACTUALLY SORT OF A NORTH KOREAN DISNEYLAND, 532 00:24:32,567 --> 00:24:35,067 YOU KNOW, FOCUSING ON THE HISTORY OF NORTH KOREA 533 00:24:35,067 --> 00:24:38,467 AND, OF COURSE, THE MIGHT OF THEIR GREAT LEADER. 534 00:24:38,467 --> 00:24:40,367 KIM'S UNCLE IS GIVEN THE JOB 535 00:24:40,367 --> 00:24:43,800 OF BUILDING THIS COMMUNIST DISNEYLAND. 536 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:48,067 BY WESTERN STANDARDS, IT IS TRULY DREADFUL, 537 00:24:48,067 --> 00:24:51,167 BUT THE NORTH KOREAN COMMUNISTS CONSIDER IT A SUCCESS. 538 00:24:51,167 --> 00:24:54,333 [ APPLAUSE ] 539 00:24:54,333 --> 00:25:00,300 KIM JONG-UN BEGINS TO SEE THE MAN WHO BUILT IT AS A THREAT. 540 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:02,833 KIM JONG-UN IS KNOWN FOR HIS PARANOIA 541 00:25:02,833 --> 00:25:05,200 AND HE FELT THREATENED 542 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,867 THAT HE WOULD SOMEHOW OVERTAKE HIS POWER. 543 00:25:07,867 --> 00:25:09,300 [ CHEERING AND APPLAUSE ] 544 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:11,833 Narrator: KIM JONG-UN, LIKE OTHER COMMUNIST DICTATORS, 545 00:25:11,833 --> 00:25:13,833 RULES BY TERROR. 546 00:25:13,833 --> 00:25:18,267 THE SMALLEST PERCEIVED INSULT CAN RESULT IN EXECUTION. 547 00:25:18,267 --> 00:25:20,467 FOR CALLING HIM SHORT AND FAT, 548 00:25:20,467 --> 00:25:24,233 THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH. 549 00:25:24,233 --> 00:25:27,200 KIM'S UNCLE IS, IN THE WORDS OF THE DICTATOR, 550 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,567 "DESPICABLE HUMAN SCUM, WORSE THAN A DOG, 551 00:25:30,567 --> 00:25:33,100 AND HE IS SENTENCED TO DEATH." 552 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:37,933 HE SIGNS THE ORDER TO HAVE HIS OWN UNCLE EXECUTED. 553 00:25:37,933 --> 00:25:43,067 [ APPLAUSE ] IT'S ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS. 554 00:25:43,067 --> 00:25:44,900 Narrator: AS WELL AS KILLING HIS UNCLE, 555 00:25:44,900 --> 00:25:48,167 KIM JONG SETS OUT TO ERASE ALL MEMORY OF HIM. 556 00:25:48,167 --> 00:25:50,333 ** 557 00:25:50,333 --> 00:25:52,667 HE EXECUTES HIS UNCLE'S FAMILY. 558 00:25:52,667 --> 00:25:55,500 HE ERASES HIS DIGITAL SIGNATURE. 559 00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:59,100 HE HAS ALL RECORDS OF HIS UNCLE REMOVED. 560 00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:02,333 Narrator: THE SATELLITE REVEALS WHAT HAPPENED NEXT. 561 00:26:02,333 --> 00:26:04,733 HIS UNCLE'S SOCIALIST FUN PARK? 562 00:26:04,733 --> 00:26:06,567 THAT, TOO, WOULD HAVE TO GO. 563 00:26:06,567 --> 00:26:07,900 [ OMINOUS CHORD STRIKES ] 564 00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:09,700 ** 565 00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:12,333 KIM JONG-UN BELIEVES THAT THIS PLACE 566 00:26:12,333 --> 00:26:16,067 IS A PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION OF HIS FORMER UNCLE. 567 00:26:16,067 --> 00:26:18,333 HE WOULD DRIVE PAST, ALMOST EVERY DAY, 568 00:26:18,333 --> 00:26:20,867 THIS LITTLE NORTH KOREAN DISNEYLAND 569 00:26:20,867 --> 00:26:22,367 THAT HIS UNCLE HAD BUILT, 570 00:26:22,367 --> 00:26:25,300 AND SO IT WAS THE OBVIOUS DECISION: RAZE IT. 571 00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:27,833 ** 572 00:26:27,833 --> 00:26:30,933 Narrator: THE COMMUNIST SYSTEM HERE HAS GIVEN ABSOLUTE POWER, 573 00:26:30,933 --> 00:26:32,200 NOT TO THE PEOPLE, 574 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,700 BUT TO A TYRANT WHO RULES WITH SHOCKING BRUTALITY. 575 00:26:36,700 --> 00:26:38,967 IF YOU CROSS KIM JONG-UN, 576 00:26:38,967 --> 00:26:42,100 HE'S GONNA WIPE OUT ALL TRACES OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 577 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:44,433 [ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ] 578 00:26:44,433 --> 00:26:47,233 [ WHIRRING ] 579 00:26:47,233 --> 00:26:48,233 Narrator: COMING UP... 580 00:26:48,233 --> 00:26:49,767 THE PRINCESS, THE MONSTER, 581 00:26:49,767 --> 00:26:52,533 AND THE BRIDGE BUILT BY MONKEY GODS... 582 00:26:52,533 --> 00:26:55,267 THE EVIL, 10-HEADED MONSTER RAVANA 583 00:26:55,267 --> 00:26:58,367 TAKES HER TO THIS FARAWAY ISLAND. 584 00:26:58,367 --> 00:27:00,867 ...AND THE REAL KING ARTHUR. 585 00:27:00,867 --> 00:27:03,100 HE PUT HIS FOOT INTO THE FOOTPRINT, 586 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:05,700 LITERALLY TOOK A SWORD FROM A STONE. 587 00:27:05,700 --> 00:27:07,067 [ SUSPENSEFUL CHORDS STRIKING ] 588 00:27:07,067 --> 00:27:09,800 [ WHIRRING ] 589 00:27:11,333 --> 00:27:16,567 [ WHIRRING ] 590 00:27:16,567 --> 00:27:19,300 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] Narrator: 2014. 591 00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:23,267 A NASA SATELLITE PASSING OVER STIRLING CASTLE IN SCOTLAND 592 00:27:23,267 --> 00:27:26,067 CAPTURES AN OCTAGONAL SHAPE SET INTO THE EARTH. 593 00:27:26,067 --> 00:27:28,533 ** 594 00:27:28,533 --> 00:27:31,200 IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE'S TAKEN A GIANT ORNATE STAMP 595 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,667 AND PUNCHED IT INTO THE GROUND. 596 00:27:34,667 --> 00:27:36,633 IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE AN ORNAMENTAL GARDEN, 597 00:27:36,633 --> 00:27:40,133 BUT, THERE ARE NO BUSHES OR OTHER PLANT LIFE. 598 00:27:40,133 --> 00:27:41,600 IT'S A LITTLE BIT STRANGE. 599 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,733 [ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ] 600 00:27:43,733 --> 00:27:46,700 Narrator: ARCHAEOLOGISTS CALL THIS SITE THE KING'S KNOT 601 00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:50,833 AND BELIEVE IT'S WHAT'S LEFT OF A 17th-CENTURY ROYAL GARDEN. 602 00:27:50,833 --> 00:27:53,767 ** 603 00:27:53,767 --> 00:27:58,667 BUT HISTORIAN ANDREW GOUGH HAS COME ACROSS A 1983 AERIAL IMAGE 604 00:27:58,667 --> 00:28:03,300 THAT SUGGESTS THIS SHAPE IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS. 605 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:08,200 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT NICE, ORNAMENTAL GARDEN. 606 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,400 IT'S A MESSAGE IN THE GROUND. 607 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,367 ** 608 00:28:15,367 --> 00:28:17,633 Narrator: GOUGH THINKS THIS ROYAL GARDEN IS HIDING 609 00:28:17,633 --> 00:28:19,767 AN INCREDIBLE ANCIENT SECRET. 610 00:28:19,767 --> 00:28:22,067 ** 611 00:28:22,067 --> 00:28:24,633 WHAT REALLY STRIKES ME ARE THESE THREE LINES, 612 00:28:24,633 --> 00:28:26,700 THESE THREE DITCHES. 613 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:29,800 ** 614 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,500 THEY CLEARLY PREDATE THE 17th-CENTURY DESIGN 615 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:35,233 THAT IS THE KING'S KNOT. 616 00:28:35,233 --> 00:28:37,633 Narrator: BESIDE THE SHAPE IS A HILL, 617 00:28:37,633 --> 00:28:42,100 ON WHICH FORTS AND CASTLES HAVE STOOD FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. 618 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:44,767 THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A VERY COMPLICATED SITE, 619 00:28:44,767 --> 00:28:48,067 WITH LOTS OF LAYERS OF HISTORY IN IT. 620 00:28:48,067 --> 00:28:52,233 SO WHAT I'M WONDERING IS: WHAT IS BURIED UNDERNEATH IT? 621 00:28:52,233 --> 00:28:54,767 ** 622 00:28:54,767 --> 00:28:58,100 Narrator: TO FIND OUT, GOUGH SETS OUT TO EXAMINE THE SITE. 623 00:28:58,100 --> 00:29:02,733 ** 624 00:29:02,733 --> 00:29:07,400 HE DRIVES 400 MILES NORTH FROM LONDON TO STIRLING CASTLE, 625 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:12,533 ONE OF THE GRANDEST AND MOST IMPORTANT IN SCOTLAND. 626 00:29:12,533 --> 00:29:15,533 WHAT A HISTORICAL PLACE. 627 00:29:15,533 --> 00:29:18,267 WILLIAM WALLACE, "BRAVEHEART," FOUGHT HERE. 628 00:29:18,267 --> 00:29:22,767 ROBERT THE BRUCE ALSO FOUGHT, AND WON, AGAINST THE ENGLISH. 629 00:29:22,767 --> 00:29:26,233 YOU CAN SEE WHY ROYALTY HAVE LIVED HERE 630 00:29:26,233 --> 00:29:29,367 AND, WHEN YOU HAVE ROYALTY, YOU HAVE TREASURE. 631 00:29:29,367 --> 00:29:37,133 ** 632 00:29:37,133 --> 00:29:41,867 Narrator: AT THE KING'S KNOT, GOUGH IS STRUCK BY THE SIZE OF THE MOUND. 633 00:29:41,867 --> 00:29:43,100 [ WIND WHIPPING ] IT'S REALLY ELEVATED, 634 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:45,900 MAYBE 10 FEET OR MORE, 635 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:48,700 MUCH BIGGER [panting] THAN I THOUGHT IT WAS. 636 00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:57,867 ** 637 00:29:57,867 --> 00:30:00,567 Narrator: AS HE SURVEYS THE SITE, HE IDENTIFIES 638 00:30:00,567 --> 00:30:05,100 THE SAME THREE DITCHES HE SAW IN THE AERIAL PHOTO. 639 00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:07,400 Gough: YOU SEE THOSE SORT OF LUMPS OVER THERE? 640 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,067 IT'S KIND OF GOING IN A CIRCLE. 641 00:30:09,067 --> 00:30:11,733 IT'S CUTTING THROUGH THE SQUARE. 642 00:30:11,733 --> 00:30:14,100 Narrator: THIS IS NO GARDEN. 643 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:18,400 IN THESE DITCHES, GOUGH SEES THE ECHOES OF AN ANCIENT HENGE, 644 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,533 A CIRCULAR EARTHWORK MADE UP OF DITCHES AND BANKS, 645 00:30:21,533 --> 00:30:25,000 DATING BACK AS FAR AS THE STONE AGE. 646 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,067 IF THIS IS A HENGE, THOSE ARE NEOLITHIC. 647 00:30:28,067 --> 00:30:30,167 I MEAN, THOSE ARE THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD. 648 00:30:30,167 --> 00:30:33,600 ** 649 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,867 WHAT'S SO EXCITING ABOUT THAT IS THERE MAY HAVE BEEN 650 00:30:35,867 --> 00:30:38,700 AN ANCIENT MONUMENT RIGHT WHERE I'M STANDING NOW. 651 00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:43,700 ** 652 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:46,433 Narrator: GOUGH'S HUNCH MAY BE CORRECT. 653 00:30:46,433 --> 00:30:49,000 ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW 654 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,367 RECENTLY CONDUCTED A GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY 655 00:30:51,367 --> 00:30:52,633 OF THE KING'S KNOT. 656 00:30:52,633 --> 00:30:55,400 ** 657 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,333 IT APPEARS THERE IS SOMETHING BURIED HERE, 658 00:30:58,333 --> 00:31:00,433 DEEP UNDERGROUND. 659 00:31:00,433 --> 00:31:04,300 WHAT THEY FOUND, USING GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR, 660 00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:05,967 IT'S REMARKABLE. 661 00:31:05,967 --> 00:31:09,867 APPARENTLY, ANOMALOUS STONE CIRCULAR STRUCTURES 662 00:31:09,867 --> 00:31:12,400 UNDERNEATH THE KING'S KNOT. 663 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,467 THESE CIRCULAR STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN BUILT 664 00:31:14,467 --> 00:31:19,067 UPON LAYER AFTER LAYER AND GO BACK TO THE IRON AGE. 665 00:31:19,067 --> 00:31:20,533 THE REALLY INTERESTING THING, THOUGH, IS, 666 00:31:20,533 --> 00:31:21,967 IN THE VERY CENTER OF THE SITE 667 00:31:21,967 --> 00:31:24,567 IS PROBABLY THE OLDEST PART OF THE FORMATION. 668 00:31:24,567 --> 00:31:27,600 ** 669 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:32,233 Narrator: A WIDE, RAISED, ANCIENT, CIRCULAR STONE STRUCTURE 670 00:31:32,233 --> 00:31:34,600 LYING NEXT TO A CASTLE 671 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,233 OCCUPIED BY KINGS SINCE THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES. 672 00:31:38,233 --> 00:31:40,700 WHAT SOME OF THE HISTORIANS ARE NOW SAYING 673 00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:46,067 IS THAT THESE ANOMALOUS CIRCULAR STONE OBJECTS 674 00:31:46,067 --> 00:31:47,700 [ ICE RATTLING NEARBY ] ARE NONE OTHER 675 00:31:47,700 --> 00:31:50,533 THAN THE ROUND TABLE OF KING ARTHUR, 676 00:31:50,533 --> 00:31:52,300 HERE IN SCOTLAND. 677 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:55,433 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CLIMBS ] 678 00:31:55,433 --> 00:31:56,933 ** 679 00:31:56,933 --> 00:31:58,833 [ OWL HOOTS ] OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ROUND TABLE 680 00:31:58,833 --> 00:32:01,467 DATES BACK 1,000 YEARS. 681 00:32:01,467 --> 00:32:04,433 HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS SAY THE WIZARD MERLIN CREATES IT 682 00:32:04,433 --> 00:32:09,500 IN IMITATION OF THE TABLE USED BY CHRIST AT THE LAST SUPPER. 683 00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:11,667 THE TABLE HAS 12 SEATS: 684 00:32:11,667 --> 00:32:14,600 ONE LEFT EMPTY FOR THE MISSING JUDAS. 685 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:15,900 IT WILL REMAIN EMPTY 686 00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:18,267 UNTIL A KNIGHT RETURNS WITH THE HOLY GRAIL. 687 00:32:18,267 --> 00:32:20,567 [ NEIGHING ] 688 00:32:20,567 --> 00:32:23,567 MERLIN ERECTS THE ROUND TABLE AT CAMELOT, 689 00:32:23,567 --> 00:32:27,533 THE MIGHTY FORTRESS WHERE ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS HOLD COURT. 690 00:32:27,533 --> 00:32:30,833 CAMELOT AND THE ROUND TABLE 691 00:32:30,833 --> 00:32:35,100 FIRST APPEAR, REALLY, FROM THE 12th CENTURY. 692 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:37,533 THE IDEA OF THE ROUND TABLE IS A FASCINATING ONE: 693 00:32:37,533 --> 00:32:41,367 THAT EVERYONE IS EQUAL AROUND THIS GREAT CIRCULAR TEMPLE. 694 00:32:41,367 --> 00:32:43,433 ** 695 00:32:43,433 --> 00:32:44,967 Narrator: IN THE EARLIEST TEXTS, 696 00:32:44,967 --> 00:32:47,967 ARTHUR IS DESCRIBED AS A MONSTER-SLAYER, 697 00:32:47,967 --> 00:32:52,233 LEADING A SMALL GROUP OF SUPERHUMAN HEROES. 698 00:32:52,233 --> 00:32:55,600 BUT THE REAL IDENTITY OF ARTHUR AND THE LOCATION OF CAMELOT 699 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,533 IS DISPUTED. 700 00:32:57,533 --> 00:33:01,600 MOST HISTORIANS BELIEVE KING ARTHUR WAS ENGLISH. 701 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:06,133 PEOPLE IN CORNWALL LIKE TO THINK THEY HAVE THE REAL KING ARTHUR. 702 00:33:06,133 --> 00:33:08,133 Narrator: HUNDREDS OF MILES SOUTH OF STIRLING 703 00:33:08,133 --> 00:33:10,500 IS THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE OF TINTAGEL, 704 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:14,067 WHICH SOME CLAIM IS KING ARTHUR'S BIRTHPLACE, 705 00:33:14,067 --> 00:33:17,500 BUT NO ONE HAS YET FOUND CAMELOT AND THE ROUND TABLE. 706 00:33:17,500 --> 00:33:21,367 ** 707 00:33:21,367 --> 00:33:22,733 GOUGH HAS NOW DISCOVERED 708 00:33:22,733 --> 00:33:25,667 A 14th-CENTURY MEDIEVAL SCOTTISH POEM 709 00:33:25,667 --> 00:33:28,333 THAT HE THINKS PROVIDES MORE EVIDENCE. 710 00:33:28,333 --> 00:33:32,067 THE FIRST LINE TALKS ABOUT BENEATH THE CASTLE, 711 00:33:32,067 --> 00:33:34,700 BENEATH STIRLING CASTLE. 712 00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:38,067 THE SECOND LINE REFERENCES THE ROUND TABLE 713 00:33:38,067 --> 00:33:39,767 [chuckle] BELOW STIRLING CASTLE. 714 00:33:39,767 --> 00:33:47,833 ** 715 00:33:47,833 --> 00:33:51,267 Narrator: WHAT'S MORE, GOUGH LEARNS OF AN ANCIENT HILLFORT, 716 00:33:51,267 --> 00:33:54,533 59 MILES FROM THE KING'S KNOT AT STIRLING CASTLE, 717 00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:58,567 WHICH HAS BEEN LINKED TO THE KING ARTHUR LEGEND. 718 00:33:58,567 --> 00:34:01,533 THIS LAND, ACCORDING TO ANCIENT SCOTTISH TEXTS, 719 00:34:01,533 --> 00:34:04,300 WAS ONCE RULED BY A GREAT WARLORD. 720 00:34:04,300 --> 00:34:05,600 HIS NAME? 721 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,133 ARTHUR. 722 00:34:08,133 --> 00:34:11,633 GOUGH ARRANGES TO MEET SCOTTISH HISTORIAN ADAM ARDREY 723 00:34:11,633 --> 00:34:13,200 AT THE SITE. 724 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,267 FANTASTIC VIEWS UP HERE. 725 00:34:15,267 --> 00:34:16,900 I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT YOU'RE GONNA SHOW ME. 726 00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:19,700 ** 727 00:34:19,700 --> 00:34:22,800 [ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ] 728 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,433 ON TOP OF THIS HILLSIDE IS A STONE WHICH, ARDREY BELIEVES, 729 00:34:26,433 --> 00:34:31,067 GAVE RISE TO ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ARTHURIAN LEGENDS. 730 00:34:31,067 --> 00:34:32,600 THIS IS THE STONE OF DUNADD 731 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,533 AND IT WAS HERE -WOW! 732 00:34:35,533 --> 00:34:36,867 IN ABOUT 574 THAT ARTHUR, 733 00:34:36,867 --> 00:34:39,233 THE ONLY HISTORICAL ARTHUR, 734 00:34:39,233 --> 00:34:42,967 LITERALLY TOOK A SWORD FROM A STONE. 735 00:34:42,967 --> 00:34:44,300 ACCORDING TO LEGEND, 736 00:34:44,300 --> 00:34:48,233 ARTHUR PULLS THE MAGIC SWORD EXCALIBUR FROM A STONE. 737 00:34:48,233 --> 00:34:51,567 ARDREY BELIEVES IT WAS A REAL STONE, A REAL SWORD, 738 00:34:51,567 --> 00:34:53,067 AND A REAL MAN: 739 00:34:53,067 --> 00:34:57,167 A 6th-CENTURY SCOTTISH WARLORD CALLED ARTUR mac AEDAN. 740 00:34:57,167 --> 00:34:59,367 HE PUT HIS FOOT INTO THE FOOTPRINT 741 00:34:59,367 --> 00:35:01,700 AND WAS GIVEN A SWORD TO HOLD 742 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:05,133 AND, WHEN HE STEPPED OUT OF THE FOOTPRINT, HOLDING THE SWORD, 743 00:35:05,133 --> 00:35:08,200 HE LITERALLY TOOK A SWORD FROM A STONE. 744 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,267 [ BLADE SLICES ] 745 00:35:09,267 --> 00:35:10,667 ARTHUR STANDS ON THE STONE, 746 00:35:10,667 --> 00:35:12,333 PULLS THE STONE OVER HIS HEAD, 747 00:35:12,333 --> 00:35:15,867 TO PROVE THAT HE IS THE RIGHTFUL KING. 748 00:35:15,867 --> 00:35:18,767 Narrator: AND THERE ARE MORE HISTORICAL CLUES IN THE AREA. 749 00:35:18,767 --> 00:35:20,700 [ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ] 750 00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:24,967 GOUGH LEARNS THAT 95 MILES TO THE EAST IS ANOTHER STONE, 751 00:35:24,967 --> 00:35:26,767 THIS ONE DATING FROM THE 8th CENTURY, 752 00:35:26,767 --> 00:35:30,600 DEPICTING A WOMAN BEING SAVAGED BY BEASTS. 753 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:35,233 Rose: SHE WAS TORN TO DEATH BY A PACK OF WILD DOGS. 754 00:35:35,233 --> 00:35:38,067 THIS GRISLY SCENE IS SAID TO BE PORTRAYED ON THE STONE 755 00:35:38,067 --> 00:35:40,433 AS HER MEMORIAL. 756 00:35:40,433 --> 00:35:42,433 Narrator: THIS, ACCORDING TO ONE ACCOUNT, 757 00:35:42,433 --> 00:35:45,267 WAS THE FATE OF KING ARTHUR'S WIFE GUINEVERE 758 00:35:45,267 --> 00:35:47,467 WHEN HE LEARNED OF HER LOVE FOR LANCELOT. 759 00:35:47,467 --> 00:35:48,667 [ EERIE MUSIC CLIMBS ] 760 00:35:48,667 --> 00:35:49,833 [ SNARLING ] 761 00:35:49,833 --> 00:35:53,833 [ MELANCHOLY TUNE PLAYS ] 762 00:35:53,833 --> 00:35:55,400 BACK AT THE KING'S KNOT, 763 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,400 GOUGH REFLECTS ON THE AERIAL IMAGE 764 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:58,967 AND THE SUPPORTING EVIDENCE THAT, 765 00:35:58,967 --> 00:36:03,467 BURIED HERE, IS ARTHUR'S ROUND TABLE. 766 00:36:03,467 --> 00:36:08,600 I HAD NO IDEA THERE WAS SO MUCH EVIDENCE FOR ARTHUR IN SCOTLAND. 767 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,533 THERE ARE MANY PLACES ASSOCIATED WITH KING ARTHUR IN SCOTLAND, 768 00:36:12,533 --> 00:36:15,800 SO IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE THAT KING ARTHUR 769 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,400 HAS BEEN GIVEN A SCOTTISH IDENTITY 770 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,667 THAT'S THEN BEEN REFLECTED AT STIRLING CASTLE. 771 00:36:22,667 --> 00:36:26,333 Gough: IS THE ROUND TABLE BENEATH ME? 772 00:36:26,333 --> 00:36:28,533 NOW, I'M THINKIN' 773 00:36:28,533 --> 00:36:30,133 THIS COULD BE IT. 774 00:36:30,133 --> 00:36:34,167 THIS COULD BE THE REALM OF KING ARTHUR, AFTER ALL. 775 00:36:34,167 --> 00:36:36,667 ** 776 00:36:36,667 --> 00:36:40,267 Narrator: UNTIL ARCHAEOLOGISTS FULLY EXCAVATE THE KING'S KNOT, 777 00:36:40,267 --> 00:36:43,133 THE MYSTERY OF WHAT REALLY LIES BENEATH HERE 778 00:36:43,133 --> 00:36:45,367 WILL REMAIN JUST THAT. 779 00:36:45,367 --> 00:36:48,567 [ WHIRRING ] 780 00:36:48,567 --> 00:36:49,767 COMING UP... 781 00:36:49,767 --> 00:36:53,567 SEEN FROM SPACE, A HIDDEN BRIDGE BENEATH THE WAVES. 782 00:36:53,567 --> 00:36:55,833 AND THE BUILDERS ARE EVEN STRANGER. 783 00:36:55,833 --> 00:36:58,533 A WHOLE ARMY OF SEMIDIVINE MONKEYS. 784 00:36:58,533 --> 00:37:00,500 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 785 00:37:00,500 --> 00:37:02,600 [ WHIRRING ] 786 00:37:04,833 --> 00:37:09,067 [ WHIRRING ] 787 00:37:09,067 --> 00:37:11,300 Narrator: MAY 2012. 788 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:13,133 A NASA SATELLITE PASSES 789 00:37:13,133 --> 00:37:16,700 OVER THE SHALLOW WATERS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN. 790 00:37:16,700 --> 00:37:20,400 IT SENDS BACK IMAGES OF A CHAIN OF LARGELY SUBMERGED OBJECTS 791 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,733 RUNNING BETWEEN SRI LANKA AND INDIA. 792 00:37:22,733 --> 00:37:24,267 ** 793 00:37:24,267 --> 00:37:27,567 LOOKS LIKE A STRING OF PEARLS BETWEEN TWO ISLANDS. 794 00:37:27,567 --> 00:37:31,167 IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE A ROCKY JETTY, 795 00:37:31,167 --> 00:37:34,867 BUT, THIS THING LOOKS PRETTY BIG. 796 00:37:34,867 --> 00:37:37,633 Narrator: ON CLOSER ANALYSIS OF THE SATELLITE IMAGE, 797 00:37:37,633 --> 00:37:42,133 INVESTIGATORS CALCULATE THE LINE OF ROCKS IS OVER 30 MILES LONG. 798 00:37:42,133 --> 00:37:44,267 ** 799 00:37:44,267 --> 00:37:46,967 WHAT MAKES THE IMAGE ESPECIALLY INTRIGUING 800 00:37:46,967 --> 00:37:49,567 IS THAT THE ROCKS ARE IN AN AREA OF SEA MENTIONED 801 00:37:49,567 --> 00:37:52,833 IN AN ANCIENT HINDU POEM. 802 00:37:52,833 --> 00:37:56,967 A POEM WHICH ALSO REFERS TO A MAGIC BRIDGE. 803 00:37:56,967 --> 00:38:03,100 THERE ARE HINDU LEGENDS THAT THE GOD RAMA PLACED A BRIDGE HERE, 804 00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:06,767 CONNECTING INDIA TO SRI LANKA. 805 00:38:06,767 --> 00:38:10,500 THE HINDU POEM "RAMAYANA" TELLS AN EPIC STORY 806 00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:13,567 IN WHICH LORD RAMA BATTLES TO RESCUE HIS WIFE 807 00:38:13,567 --> 00:38:15,400 FROM THE MANY-HEADED RAVANA. 808 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,333 [ SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS ] 809 00:38:17,333 --> 00:38:20,067 THE EVIL, 10-HEADED MONSTER RAVANA 810 00:38:20,067 --> 00:38:23,833 CAPTURES HER AND TAKES HER TO THIS FARAWAY ISLAND. 811 00:38:23,833 --> 00:38:27,167 [ EERIE MUSIC PLAYS ] 812 00:38:27,167 --> 00:38:30,200 Narrator: LORD RAMA ENLISTS THE HELP OF A MAGIC ARMY 813 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,067 TO BUILD A BRIDGE LONG ENOUGH TO REACH HER. 814 00:38:33,067 --> 00:38:35,833 A WHOLE ARMY OF SEMIDIVINE MONKEYS 815 00:38:35,833 --> 00:38:37,733 BUILD THIS CHAIN OF ISLANDS, 816 00:38:37,733 --> 00:38:43,267 CARRYING STONES TO CREATE A LAND BRIDGE. 817 00:38:43,267 --> 00:38:45,967 Narrator: THE STONES IN THE SATELLITE IMAGE ARE SITTING ON SOMETHING 818 00:38:45,967 --> 00:38:50,967 OCEANOGRAPHERS CALL A SHOAL, OR SANDBAR. 819 00:38:50,967 --> 00:38:54,267 THESE OCCUR IN AN AREA WHERE THERE ARE SHALLOW WATERS 820 00:38:54,267 --> 00:38:57,900 AND SAND COULD ACCUMULATE BETWEEN THE TWO LAND MASSES. 821 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:01,067 Narrator: THE SANDBAR MAY BE NATURAL. 822 00:39:01,067 --> 00:39:04,533 BUT WHAT'S SITTING ON TOP OF IT IS NOT. 823 00:39:04,533 --> 00:39:06,200 THIS ISN'T JUST A SIMPLE SANDBAR. 824 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:11,333 THERE'S OBJECTS IN HERE THAT HAVEN'T BEEN ERODED AWAY. 825 00:39:11,333 --> 00:39:14,067 THERE ARE STONES THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FROM AFAR 826 00:39:14,067 --> 00:39:18,867 AND SET ON TOP OF OUR SANDBAR ISLAND CHAIN. 827 00:39:18,867 --> 00:39:20,800 ** 828 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,400 Narrator: HOW THESE STONES GOT HERE IS A MYSTERY. 829 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,367 AND WHEN A TEAM OF GEOLOGISTS DATE THE STONES, 830 00:39:28,367 --> 00:39:31,267 THE MYSTERY DEEPENS. 831 00:39:31,267 --> 00:39:36,333 THE ROCKS ON TOP OF THE SAND ACTUALLY PREDATE THE SAND. 832 00:39:36,333 --> 00:39:38,767 SO THERE'S MORE TO THE STORY. 833 00:39:38,767 --> 00:39:43,633 Narrator: SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS REVEALS THE ROCKS ARE 7,000 YEARS OLD, 834 00:39:43,633 --> 00:39:49,100 BUT ARE SITTING ON TOP OF SAND THAT IS ONLY 4,000 YEARS OLD. 835 00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:52,367 THESE RESULTS SUGGEST THE STRUCTURE IN THE SATELLITE IMAGE 836 00:39:52,367 --> 00:39:54,933 ISN'T NATURAL, BUT BUILT BY HUMANS. 837 00:39:54,933 --> 00:40:00,367 OR, ACCORDING TO SACRED TEXTS, DEMIGOD MONKEYS. 838 00:40:00,367 --> 00:40:03,767 IT'S POSSIBLE THAT ANCIENT PEOPLE 839 00:40:03,767 --> 00:40:09,300 TRANSPORTED STONES IN TO COVER AREAS, TO MAKE THEM HIGHER 840 00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:13,500 AND MAKE IT MORE PASSABLE, TO KEEP THE BRIDGE INTACT. 841 00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:16,467 [ SINISTER MUSIC PLAYS ] 842 00:40:16,467 --> 00:40:19,233 Narrator: SOME SCHOLARS BELIEVE THE ANCIENT TEXTS REFER 843 00:40:19,233 --> 00:40:22,633 TO A TIME 5,000 YEARS AGO. 844 00:40:22,633 --> 00:40:25,867 AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY, BUILDING SUCH A LONG BRIDGE 845 00:40:25,867 --> 00:40:29,400 WOULD'VE BEEN A SUPERHUMAN ACHIEVEMENT. 846 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:34,033 HOW COULD HUMANS, SO LONG AGO, BUILD SUCH STRUCTURES? 847 00:40:34,033 --> 00:40:36,167 BUT WE ACTUALLY KNOW THAT THEY CAN. 848 00:40:36,167 --> 00:40:38,600 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS ] 849 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,533 THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT THAT ARE 4,500 YEARS OLD, 850 00:40:41,533 --> 00:40:44,933 GIGANTIC STRUCTURES. 851 00:40:44,933 --> 00:40:48,300 AND EVEN PLACES TODAY IN TURKEY, ANCIENT ANATOLIA, 852 00:40:48,300 --> 00:40:50,067 LIKE GOBEKLI TEPE, 853 00:40:50,067 --> 00:40:54,333 HUGE TEMPLE STRUCTURES, 20 FEET AND HIGHER, 854 00:40:54,333 --> 00:40:58,300 AND WE KNOW WE CAN SECURELY DATE THESE, AT GOBEKLI TEPE, 855 00:40:58,300 --> 00:41:00,967 TO 11,000 YEARS AGO. 856 00:41:00,967 --> 00:41:03,100 [ BIRDS CHIRPING, CAWING ] 857 00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:04,900 Narrator: IN INDIA AND SRI LANKA, 858 00:41:04,900 --> 00:41:07,967 POWERFUL ANCIENT DYNASTIES RULED THE LAND, 859 00:41:07,967 --> 00:41:10,500 CAPABLE OF MOBILIZING THOUSANDS TO BUILD 860 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:15,167 INCREDIBLE, GRAND PALACES AND MYSTERIOUS RELIGIOUS MONUMENTS. 861 00:41:15,167 --> 00:41:20,233 WE SHOULD NEVER UNDERESTIMATE PEOPLE OF THE PAST. 862 00:41:20,233 --> 00:41:22,433 THEY ACTUALLY WERE VERY CLEVER ENGINEERS 863 00:41:22,433 --> 00:41:24,100 AND THEY CERTAINLY WOULD'VE FOUND THE WAY 864 00:41:24,100 --> 00:41:27,900 TO MAINTAIN THIS CONNECTION USING OTHER STONES 865 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:29,200 AND BRING THEM IN TO ACTUALLY MAKE 866 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:32,833 SOME TYPE OF A BRIDGE BETWEEN SRI LANKA AND INDIA. 867 00:41:32,833 --> 00:41:34,133 ** 868 00:41:34,133 --> 00:41:37,300 NOW, A TEAM OF INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE 869 00:41:37,300 --> 00:41:41,067 ABOUT TO EMBARK ON THE FIRST-EVER UNDERWATER EXPEDITION 870 00:41:41,067 --> 00:41:44,167 TO EXPLORE THIS MYSTERY STRUCTURE. 871 00:41:44,167 --> 00:41:47,667 IF ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION ACTUALLY FINDS 872 00:41:47,667 --> 00:41:53,933 THAT THESE CHAINS OF ISLANDS WAS, INDEED, MADE BY HUMANS, 873 00:41:53,933 --> 00:41:57,333 IT REALLY COULD CHANGE OUR UNDERSTANDING 874 00:41:57,333 --> 00:42:00,367 OF ANCIENT PEOPLES AND TIMES AND TECHNOLOGIES. 875 00:42:00,367 --> 00:42:03,400 [ SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CLIMBS ] 66396

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