Destination Truth (2007) s05e04 Episode Script
Alien Invaders; Swedish Lake Monster
- On this episode of "Destination Truth".
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My team bashes across Kazakhstan to investigate sightings of a crashed alien spacecraft and a potential government cover-up.
After you found the sphere, what happened to it? Deep in the surrounding forest, I search for evidence of UFOs and have an otherworldly encounter.
Ryder, look up in the sky right now.
I mean, that's way too fast to be a plane.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Am I looking at? Next, Team Truth cruises across Sweden to pick up on the 500-year-old mystery of a terrifying lake creature.
Diving to murky depths, and exploring the coastline at night, we discover that we're not alone in these frigid waters.
Whoa! On the thermal! Right over there! It looked like something breached the surface.
Hold on! I'm Josh Gates.
In my travels, I've seen some unexplainable things and I've done some things I can't quite explain.
Now I've pulled together a team armed with the latest technology in the search for answers to the world's strangest mysteries.
I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me, but I know what I'm looking for.
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The truth.
When you think of UFOs, you probably think of places like Roswell, but the highest number of UFO sightings World-Wide comes from Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
A lot of articles and eyewitness accounts coming out of the Western part of the country.
Same here.
I have a town in Western Kazakhstan that actually believes that a UFO fell from the sky.
So, I think we should check it out.
Not only have eyewitnesses records strange lights in the skies, spectacular vapor trails, and bizarre flying saucers, but two metallic spheres were said to have crashed to Earth in a fireball.
Eyewitnesses near the remote village of Razdolnoye now claim that alien beings are hiding in nearby forests.
Strange creatures have been spotted in the remote wilderness where Central Asia's mountains merge with dense forests.
These foreign visitors are said to move primarily at night.
They are reported to be extremely thin, with milky, translucent skin.
With terrified locals convinced that extraterrestrial visitors have taken up residence, and livestock having gone missing in the area, I assembled a team, loaded up our gear, and headed east to investigate.
From Los Angeles, we flew 7,000 miles to Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan.
This former capital has undergone major changes since the fall of the Soviet empire, but the remnants of the cold war era are everywhere.
Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture.
Just as many guns as you can put in there.
Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're going to get.
Considering the political changes in Kazakhstan, I was surprised to see its youngest residents training to drive tanks for the military.
But as we traveled across the city, we stumbled into a vibrant arts district.
Make sure you get the facial hair just right.
Does it look like me? Be honest? I've never seen this side of you before.
Literally.
Can I see? Oh, Sir, I don't know how you did it, but it looks just like me.
After our cultural diversion, it was time for our first interview atop Aktobe, the mountain peak which overlooks all of Almaty.
Here we go.
It feels safe as can be, this thing.
I'd arranged a meeting with a local man who claimed to have recently photographed a mysterious object flying above the city.
What did you see? What do you think you saw? The mountain peak isn't just renowned for UFO sightings, it's also famous for its local amusement park.
Tristan tried to muscle-up against the strongest member of the team, that being Ryder.
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They used to call me "Thor" on the rugby team.
Ryder gets a 280.
This is how it's done, Ryder.
Oh, my God.
Did you just hit yourself in the face? - Thing has quite a recoil on it.
- Oh, my God.
Back at ground level, we headed to the Almaty train station.
The lights seen over the city were shooting West in the direction of the most compelling eyewitness reports.
From Almaty we traveled over 2,200 miles across the nation by train, a minor detail I had yet to share with the crew.
Alright guys, we're headed toward the far Western part of the country.
We're going to the city of Uralsk.
It's going to take us about three days to get there.
- What was that? - Sorry? - What's that? - You mumbled something.
Oh, I just said it was going to take about three days to get there.
- What was that? - Don't worry about it.
Seems like you're speeding over a really important part right there.
I'm going to head to the dining car.
Anybody need anything? Cool.
After the initial shock wore off, the team and I settled in for the long ride.
We rode the rails across the vast plains of Central Asia, using the time to hone our investigation skills.
1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a thumb war.
God, what do you eat? And after nearly 72 hours, we arrived at the train station in Uralsk, where Ryder had secured us a car.
Ryder, this is a great car.
I know, right.
Oh.
Yeah, no, this one's good, too.
It's so roomy.
Yeah, it's roomy.
One of the problems with renting a bus, strangers tend to get on it.
Uh, this is not a public bus.
Welcome to the team.
Do you like hunting monsters for a living? After dropping off the local, we carried on the outskirts of Uralsk.
I had arranged to meet a man who claimed to have spotted the UFO and just days later saw a strange creature in the woods.
What did it look like? I also wanted to meet the man who actually found the mystery spheres that crashed to Earth.
We traveled deeper into the country where the impact occurred.
What exactly did it look like, the thing you found? And so after you found the sphere, what happened to it? The farmer's story left me with more questions than answers.
If I wanted to discover the origins of the spheres, I'd need to confront the government.
I threw caution to the wind, made an appointment at the appropriately-named.
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Department of Emergency Services, and settled in for a tense meeting.
Okay.
So what became of the spheres? Where is that warehouse, exactly.
They're here? They're actually in this building? And, is it possible for us to take a look at them? Yes? Let's do it.
Come on.
I was led through the back rooms of the complex to a secure warehouse where the officials revealed the sphere.
It looks like this side has been blasted open though.
And do you know what the metal is? Okay.
To my surprise, the government officials allowed me to photograph the orb and take a loose chip of metal that fell off the sphere for later analysis.
The most recent sightings were reported far from the city in rough terrain and deep woods where farmers claimed to have seen alien activity.
Fortunately, I had an old friend in Kazakhstan who owned the cold war version of a used car lot.
I owe you one, Vladimir.
Okay, here we go! Ryder, looks like it's pretty wet up ahead.
Why don't you keep the high ground? We'll try to cut through this marsh.
Sounds good.
Flanking left now.
Hang on! Come on, come on.
Ah, we're stuck.
Ryder, we're jammed up out here.
I can't move.
I think we're going to need a tow.
Yeah, copy that.
Tristan's going to jump out with a tow line, see if we can winch you out of there.
Yeah, bring it back.
Okay, I got it.
Okay, go ahead! Alright here we go.
Nice and slow.
The winch is moving it.
Go, go, go, go, go! Thanks to Tristan's tow, we were back on terra firma and ready to roll.
After a short drive, we reached the edge of the forest and the heart of our investigation.
We quickly unpacked the tanks and established a base camp.
Locals claimed to regularly see lights in the sky, as well as mysterious creatures in the forest interior.
We therefore strung out infrared and trap cameras around the site to try to capture evidence of either.
Trap Cam 2 is good to go.
There's so many sightings that come from the one country.
It's kind of this amazing phenomenon.
Why do so many of them come to Kazakhstan? That's the question.
I don't know.
I guess that's what we're trying to figure out.
That's right.
Although, if we do find an alien, I'm.
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Hoping for something of the Wall-E kind of variety.
What's that noise? Shh, shh, shh.
Quiet, quiet, quiet.
Where's it coming from? It's coming from right over there.
Adam, what is that? I have no idea.
It's like a deep metal roar.
And now it's just gone.
Completely vanished.
Oh, I got something on thermal! Dave, behind you, behind you! Oh, I got something on thermal! Dave, behind you, behind you! - Where is it? - Dead ahead.
Dead ahead.
Right ahead of you at the top of that field.
- Do you see it? - No, I'm not - picking up anything on the astroscope.
- I just saw it one second ago.
It was at the far end of that field.
It almost looked like somebody was standing there for a second.
We're out in the middle of nowhere, Josh.
Let's get over to the end of that field.
See if we can figure out what that was.
You know I would say I'm.
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I'm definitely a skeptic when it comes to.
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UFOs and extra-terrestrial life, but I don't know what would happen if we came upon some other being.
I mean, already it's hard enough to work with Kyle.
So rude! Oh, you're (Bleep) Kidding me.
My camera light just went out.
Can you plug me back in? Oh yeah, sure.
- That's good.
- Yeah.
Okay.
Kyle? Kyle? Kyle? He was just right here.
Kyle? This is really freaking me out.
Kyle! Katy, anything? No, nothing.
I mean, he couldn't have even gone this far.
Ryder for Josh.
Yeah, go for Josh.
Hey Josh.
Katy and I stopped down to fix my camera, we turn around and Kyle's gone missing.
What do you mean, he's missing? I mean, we turn around and he's nowhere to be found.
We haven't seen his IR light from his astroscope we haven't seen him, nothing.
No sign of him at all.
Okay, we'll be right there.
Come on, guys, let's go.
Kyle! Josh for Kyle, come in.
Can you read me on this channel? Kyle! Tristant, do you see him on any of those infrared cameras? Is he anywhere around base camp? Got no sign over here.
I'm looking, though.
I'll keep my eyes out.
Kyle! Ryder! - Oh my God.
- Kyle! Where are you? I'm over hear.
My headlamp went out.
Ryder! Kyle, are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine.
I got completely turned around.
Wheeler, what happened? I just got real disoriented, I think.
It's really weird to me, too, because I usually have good sense of direction.
It's not like me to get lost.
And it's also not like me to like just kinda wander off.
Alright well we know the locals think that there's.
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You know strange magnetic energy in these woods, weird stuff going on.
So everybody stay tight.
Everybody stay together.
Here's the thing.
Totally.
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Just be completely honest.
Yup.
Were you anally probed? Uh, I don't want to talk about it.
I really don't want to talk about it.
- Blink once if you.
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- Really don't want to talk about it.
We are in the middle of nowhere right now.
Love to get the uh, night vision goggles out and see if I can spy something that we're not able to see with our human eyes out here.
Whoa.
- What? - What do you got? Something just.
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Almost looked like it fell from the sky.
Kind of halfway up my frame down to the ground.
We should definitely check this tape because I got it, for sure.
Tristant to all teams, I just saw something fall on the thermal surveillance camera.
Is anybody nearby to go check it out.
That must be what we just saw.
Look, if this thing came out of the sky, it may have some kind of metallic signature.
We'll grab the metal detector.
Let's sweep this field end to end, see if we can figure out what it was.
Copy.
We're on it.
Let's go, Katy.
Katy, do you have the tri-field out? I do.
Any kind of strange changes in the magnetic field around us? Nothing so far.
All right, guys, let's fan out.
Richie, you head to the right.
Take the thermal imager.
Adam, look for any impact craters over there.
I'll go down the center line with the metal detector.
Copy that.
Guys, I got something.
Come here.
What the hell is that? Some sort of metal.
How's it look on the thermal? - It's hot.
- Is it? Yeah, look.
- It is hot.
- Look.
Way hotter than anything around it.
Yeah, everything is blue except for that.
In the middle of this field at this time of night, it's freezing cold.
Why is that still hot? You're absolutely right.
This thing should be ice cold by now.
Alright let's look around, see if we can find any more pieces of whatever this thing was.
Okay.
Check this out.
Look at this.
- It's all burned out.
You see that? - Yeah.
That doesn't look like campfire.
No, it doesn't.
But it also doesn't look quite like an impact crater.
- No.
- It doesn't seem like anything hit this with any force.
Keep looking around it.
Holy (Bleep).
Check out the moving light up there.
- What do you see? - Right there.
Oh, my God.
Look at that right there.
- Holy (Bleep).
- What the (Bleep) Is that? It's not a plane.
That is not a plane.
Ryder, look up in the sky right now.
Crazy light going across the sky.
Oh, my God.
Josh, we copy.
Look right there.
Right there, right there.
- Two things.
There's two things.
- Oh that's so weird.
Copy that.
We see the thing behind it as well.
We're looking at both of them right now.
Look how fast that one's going.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Am I looking at? Look, right there.
Right there, right there.
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Two things.
There's two things.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Am I looking at? That's (Bleep) Real! - What is that? - That's for (Bleep) Real.
I can't hear anything.
It's completely silent.
Josh, what are we looking at right now? I don't have a clue.
I don't know what that is.
It's way too bright to be a plane.
It's way too high and it's way too fast.
And it's gone.
Do you guys have eyes on them any more? They're gone.
That first one just overtook it and passed it.
They're completely gone.
They just went from one side of the sky to the other.
I'm now a crazy person.
Just uh, Ryder.
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Ryder, arrange for me to be checked into a mental institution as soon as possible.
Well, if you're crazy, I guess we're all going.
Because that was it.
I'm done.
What the (Bleep) Was that? I have no idea.
I have the chills right now.
That was not a shooting star.
That was not a fighter jet.
That was not a stealth jet.
It way you know.
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That was not the Space Station.
Ryder, I don't know what to say.
We're going to head towards the section of sky that those two objects flew over to.
No, we're not.
We're calling it in, man.
What else do you want to go find? They're gone, man.
Case closed.
Those were aliens.
We're done.
That's the end of the show.
Aliens? Check.
Found them.
Still in shock, we packed up our gear and the next morning fired up the tanks and headed for civilization and the long flight back to Los Angeles.
We began with metal analysis of the strange sphere and the fragment recovered in the field.
Exhaustive testing revealed that the objects were crafted of an extremely pure grade of titanium.
Even more intriguing, the lab confirmed that the metal was subjected to intense heat and exhibited melting, supporting the theory that it punched through the Earth's atmosphere.
For more answers, we took our wealth of evidence to seasoned UFO investigator Steve Murillo.
We began by showing him images of the strange objects seen above the capital of Kazakhstan.
What do you think we're looking at here when you see these? What's your impression? To the untrained eye this.
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This could look like something.
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Alien or something strange.
You know.
I mean it's glowing, it's kind of dramatic-looking.
Uh, more than likely it's a missile shot.
You can see a trail.
Uh, this is taken at sunset, so the sun is glinting off the particulate left by the missile.
And uh, there is a space port very close to this area.
So.
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It's very possible this could have been one of their shots.
In fact, the nearby Cosmodrome is the world's largest space facility, propelling as many as 50 rockets into orbit each year.
It also explains the mysterious sphere we photographed, since technical schematics from the Cosmodrome revealed that the object is likely a Russian satellite.
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A modern-day relative of Sputnik, the first man-made object in space that sparked man's UFO fears to begin with.
With the sphere ID'd, we then turned to the two sets of lights we observed.
What was really interesting to us are two different sets of lights that we saw during our investigation, the first of which was seen low in the sky.
- Okay.
- Take a look at this.
Whoa.
Something looked like it fell from the sky.
The fact that it's falling in a downward motion and then sort of extinguishes, could be meteorite, something like that, coming into the Earth's atmosphere burning up and then extinguishing.
The second set of lights, however, wasn't so easy to dismiss.
This last piece of footage is something that everybody on my team saw.
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Two sets of lights, one really bright.
And uh, I have to tell you, I'm an open-minded skeptic, but I have no idea what this could be.
- Okay.
- Take a look.
Oh, my God.
Look at that right there.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Is that? - It's not a plane.
- That is not a plane.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Am I looking at? - That's (Bleep) Real.
- What is that? What is this? Don't know.
Unidentified object.
Normally planes have navigation lights.
You're not seeing that here.
You're seeing constant light.
One of them's brighter than the other.
This is not flares.
This is something strange.
I think you have something here.
I don't know what it is, but it's something unidentified.
Well, you're going to make a believer out of me.
This is um, this is really something that I you know, can't put to bed.
You'll see them again.
They're out there.
You just have to keep your eyes to the skies.
UFO sightings are a World-Wide phenomenon.
But beyond the hoaxes and misidentified artifacts, is there something real? Planet-hunting astronomers have now identified thousands of distant Earth-like worlds, and it seems increasingly likely that extra-terrestrials may exist.
And much closer to home in the barren out lands of remote Kazakhstan, we also search for alien life.
But alien life might already be here.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Am I looking at? In Sweden, the belief in a massive beast called the great lake monster is so popular that the government protected the animal by law.
Okay, we're going after Sweden's Loch Ness Monster.
Reports of this thing go back more than 350 years.
We've got hundreds of different eyewitness accounts.
Really, really impressive.
Yeah, it's incredible.
We took all the data from those reports, and created a model of the creature.
Check it out.
The animal lurks in the deepest waters of Lake Storsjon, feeding on the abundant marine life.
Ripping through the water with Stealthy speed, it measures more than 20 feet in length.
According to eyewitnesses, the beast's head is dragon like in appearance.
A formidable predator, the great lake monster crushes its prey in its muscular jaws, and tears through flesh with its protruding teeth.
Its sleek body is long and snake like, and is capable of generating a burst of speed, or delivering an immobilizing blow.
To make matters worse, Lake Storsjon, the creature's purported home, is freezing cold.
Nevertheless, the team and I packed up our dive gear, underwater equipment and a flask of whiskey, and headed east in pursuit of Sweden's only monster with diplomatic immunity.
We flew across the Atlantic to Scandinavia and touched down in Ostersund, Sweden.
Situated on the northern banks of Lake Storsjon, the city is home to the northern most Viking Rune Stone in the world.
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A thousand year old marker that shows a serpentine creature in the lake.
Famished, we popped into a local festival on our way to our first interview.
Ryder opted for a burger.
It's 100% moose meat.
Yeah, Bullwinkle tastes delicious.
And a local licorice was irresistible.
Oh yeah.
- Oh my gosh.
- I stayed with it.
I stayed with it.
After grabbing a bite, we made quick work of also grabbing the lake monster.
- I caught the lake monster.
- I saw that, that's impressive.
Yeah, I didn't think I'd be able to reel him in with this tiny fishing rod, but I did.
- Yeah.
- Where were you? Oh, I'm just, you know, I was out there swimmin' in my 1950s bathing suit.
Looking good, though.
Well case closed, I guess.
All right.
Just behind the fair, we made our way to the Jamtli Museum, which chronicles the history of the region.
Exhibits about the great lake monster were everywhere.
Including actual traps used to try to snare the beast.
There was even a lake monster slide to reach the lower gallery.
Ow.
That creature is really dangerous.
Deep in the archives, we spoke with the museum's Curator.
So tell me about what you've archived here in the museum.
It's mostly observations.
The first written document is from 1635.
- This is one from 1898.
- Wow.
It describes seeing an animal out in the lake with humps moving very fast in the water.
How many article do you think you have here in total? I think we have around a thousand.
- A thousand articles? - Yeah.
And as a Curator here, what do you think? You think it's real? I'm pretty sure that the people who have seen it.
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They've seen something.
She pointed me South toward the most recent reports of the creature.
The drive took us along the shores of the lake, and after 50 miles, we reached the town of Svenstavik.
It was clear that the lake monster had made quite an impression in this community.
Our next stop is a couple, two eyewitnesses who recently saw the creature from their house.
So tell me exactly what you saw.
They were watching TV, and suddenly through the window, they see something moving.
He ran down to the patio, grabbed his camera on the way and took the photo.
Can I see the photo that you took? Oh, wow.
Look at that.
They were watching TV, and suddenly, through the window, they see something moving.
He ran down to the patio, grabbed his camera on the way and took the photo.
Can I see the photo that you took? Oh, wow.
Look at that.
So there's this large object moving across the lake and when you saw this, what did you think this was? This was something mysterious moving over the lake, it was not a log or birds.
There is something out there.
We weren't the only people looking for proof of the great lake monster.
In the center of town sits a government sponsored organization with the sole aim of finding proof of the creature's existence.
I met with the Director and tech specialist inside.
- So this is the nerve center.
- Right.
- This is a pretty impressive set up here.
- It is.
Can you launch an attack on the monster from here? No, we can't.
The center boasts real-time feeds from both underwater and surface level cameras, as well as a sophisticated radar system.
They also showed me recent recordings they captured of something in the lake.
Oh, we certainly see something moving in the frame here.
Do you think it's one of the creatures in the lake? It could be one of them.
This is maybe a baby of the great lake monster, yes.
This is a new picture.
No one actually have seen this.
- Oh! - We don't know what it is.
Well, we certainly see what look like a couple of humps moving through the water.
For us, this is something very interesting.
Do you think that could be the creature? It could be the great lake monster.
I want to go out and look for this creature.
Where would you send me to look? There is an opportunity here to work together, because this center has lots of cameras, but we can't see everything.
So your team can search in places where we don't have any cameras.
And any information that we find on our search, we will bring to you, and if you find any other images on these cameras, - you'll let us know.
- Of course.
With our new allies at the research center on board to help, I headed down to the docks to kick off our investigation.
While I took a seaplane and searched from above, Katy and Richie surveyed from the shore.
And Ryder, Adam, Tristant and Kyle secured jet skis, which would allow them to navigate quickly across the lake if I spotted anything unusual from the air.
Okay, guys, let's head out.
The lake is more than 150 square miles, and we worked together scanning as much of the surface area as possible.
Yeah, Josh.
The water looks pretty clear, I don't see anything just yet.
Negative over here.
It's pretty clear.
Copy that, just North.
Copy that, Josh.
We don't see anything.
Whatever I had seen submerged, so the team and I rendezvoused back at the dock, grabbed our dive gear, and raced to the coordinates of the sighting to continue the search beneath the surface.
We arrived at one of the research center's nearby high tech camera outposts where Ryder came ashore and set up our gear.
Here we go.
Okay, we're moving the submersible camera in.
With our advanced ROV Submersible deployed, Richie and I hit the icy water and Dave followed behind with the camera.
With the water only a few degrees above freezing, it would be vital to our safety to stay together in the dangerously cold lake.
Yeah, we're experiencing the same thing with the underwater camera.
Copy that, what did you see? Be careful, it could be something bigger next time.
Copy that, visibility is really bad.
Stay together and be safe.
All right, guys, eyes out.
If they surface, you gotta let Josh know.
They gotta be pretty close to running out of air.
Come on, guys.
Dave and Richie, do you copy? The must have about five minutes left.
I don't know what else to do.
They must have about five minutes left.
I don't know what else to do.
- I just saw Dave pop up.
- Hey there's Richie.
- Richie's up.
- There they are, there they are.
Dave, are you okay? Josh, we have eyes on both Dave and Richie, they've reached the surface.
I repeat, Dave and Richie are safe and they've reached the surface.
With the deep murky water hindering our chances of seeing the creature, or even each other, we decided to focus our efforts topside.
With daylight fading, we zipped across the lake to prepare for the night ahead.
We found an accessible dock, unloaded our gear, and set up base camp.
So the big challenge tonight is, obviously, covering this huge body of water.
We have the underwater cameras from the research facility, which we're able to view, we have our own cameras set up here now, we've got the strung up and down the coast here, we have thermal imagers running, but we're gonna have to get out of these boats if we want to cover a significant amount of this lake.
A couple things I want you guys to look at here.
We know that a lot of these sighting have been in the Southern part of the lake.
But some of the more recent ones have been in this northern sector, so we're gonna head up there to investigate.
We'll work the Western bank on the way up, we'll come back down on the eastern coast.
So, we'll split up into the two boats.
Richie, you, myself, Adam and Dave will head out in the dive boat, and Ryder, you'll lead a team with Tristant and Kyle in the other boat.
Katy, we're gonna keep you here at base camp, if you see anything on our cameras or the underwater cameras for the research center, - you'll let us know.
- Copy that.
- You guys ready? - Yeah.
It's gonna be cold out there.
Let's bundle up, come on.
Okay, and we're off.
Get away from this dock, guys, it's rough as hell.
Beautiful night.
Weather's warming up, Richie.
The weather's not warming up at all, Josh.
That's they hypothermia kicking in.
What are you talking about? It's like T-shirt weather.
That's the fresh sea breeze, you just feel it.
All right, keep your eyes peeled.
We're very close to the place we had the sighting in the airplane.
All right, guys, I'm gonna cut the engines.
Adam, let's get that hydrophone in the water.
Richie, keep looking with those night vision goggles, we'll see if you can hear anything beneath the surface.
Yeah, it's going in.
What do you got, Adam, what's it sound like? We must be in about 20 meters of water.
You can hear the waves just hitting against the bottom of the boat.
And uh.
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Whoa! Hold on a sec.
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What do you got? I'm picking up, like, a.
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A low tone, it sounds like there might be something moving around there.
- Something big? - Yeah.
It's.
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It's a really deep, deep noise.
Whatever it is, it's moving off, though.
Okay, let's pull it in.
Come on.
Okay, guys, keep your eyes peeled.
You seeing anything? Nothing yet.
All right, well, I say we get the fish finder out.
Get some sonar going.
Maybe it's a good time to drop the Aqua Cam.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Sounds good.
I'm gonna give it a little bit of a toss.
Just kind of scanning this entire area.
- Getting anything? - Nothing yet.
No animal or plant life through here.
Lots of rocks.
You seeing anything on the sonar? Negative.
- Kind of some weird shadows in there.
- A lot of weird shadows.
- Oh.
Oh.
- Fish.
- Ooh, what was that? - What was that? Really close to camera.
Looked like something big, too.
Ryder for Josh.
Go for Josh, Ryder.
Looks like something in front of us is kicking up a lot of sediment, really large objects moving by, can't really get a good, good look at it them, and some strange shadows coming from behind the camera.
Well, copy that.
We're not that far from your position.
We're gonna head over there and see if we can get them on the thermal imager.
Katy, we're not that far from shore, why don't you grab a camera, head down the coast, see if you can catch it.
Copy that, will do.
Okay, let's go, let's see if we can catch this thing.
Katy, we're along the shore now, I don't have a visual of anything, the thermal looks clear.
Can you see movement? Josh, I can't see anything right now, it's just dark water.
Richie, throw on those night vision goggles, see if you can see anything moving around just off the shore here.
Richie, any sign of anything? I see a lot of movement in the water, I see lots of chop.
Everybody, keep your eyes peeled.
Whoa, on the thermal.
Right over there.
It looked like something breached the surface right over there.
Everybody, keep your eyes peeled.
Whoa, on the thermal.
Right over there.
It looked like something breached the surface.
Dave, right over there, over there.
Hold on, I'm coming around.
Ryder, we just got a clear hit on the thermal, we're not that far from you, do you see anything? Kyle, do you see anything on the astroscope? Nope, the lake looks pretty calm.
I'm seeing some ripples here and there.
Josh, Josh, we just picked up something big on the sonar.
Looks like it's about 14 meters down it's pretty wide in size, and it looks like it's heading near the North.
All right, copy that.
See if you can stay with it on sonar.
Ryder, follow us, see if you can track it.
Sun's coming up soon.
We'll just hang with it as long as we can.
Yeah, we've lost it as well.
I got nothing else on the thermal.
I think this thing might have dove.
All right, let's take it back to base camp.
Sun's up.
We got a long trip home, we've got great evidence to bring with us, though.
With numb fingers, we navigated back to the dock, and made the long trip home to Los Angeles to continue our investigation.
We headed to nearby Pepperdine University to meet with biologist, Dr.
Lee Kats.
We began by showing him some of the many amateur photos of the creature.
As a biologist, this image is the most interesting because you see some rippling in the.
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In the lake, which indicates movement.
I suspect it is a living organism, some kind of animal.
There are some large fish in the lake, there is a pike, which is a large fish predator, they can be three or four feet long.
The surveillance cameras that are set up in the lake seem to have captured the pike.
Do you think it's safe to say that maybe this fish could account for some of what people are seeing in these waters? I think any time somebody sees something more than a foot or two long, it gets our attention, and certainly this animal would be something that gets people's attention.
Other footage from the research center appeared to show something else.
What do you think we're seeing in these videos? These are interesting images to look at because they're long.
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Uh, almost snake like.
That reminds me of long strands of algae you get in fresh water lakes.
You'll see them kind of wafting in the current.
And what about these things that they actually see at the surface? Well, that's a good question.
It's very difficult for me to tell how fast this is moving.
I don't see any movement by the objects that indicates swimming, and which leads me to think it's something drifting.
But could all of the evidence be explained? The underwater footage from Ryder's boat was compelling.
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- Oh! Oh.
- Fish.
- What was that? - What was that? But ultimately inconclusive.
We then reviewed the thermal hit detected from the sea plane, and from our overnight investigation.
When you look at this, what do you think? I think this is very interesting because you have a bunch of organisms in there that shouldn't be giving off heat.
If it's a fish or a reptile, you wouldn't expect a heat signal like that.
I suspect it's some kind of animal, given the movement, given the diving activity, but I wouldn't know exactly what it would be.
At more than 15 feet long, this was no pike.
But could also not be positively ID'd, and therefore remains a tantalizing mystery.
I think there are any number of things that could be leading people to suspect they're seeing something unusual or out of the ordinary.
But um, that's not to say that a clearer picture or a clearer video down the road doesn't show up.
The story of the creature in Lake Storsjon is one of the most compelling we've ever heard.
An Ancient Rune marks the beginning of a steady stream of reports that haven't let up for a thousand years.
The community is convinced.
And their government sanctioned research center is sate of art.
But, it's evidence that counts.
And what we have here is decidedly out of focus.
With blurry images, murky waters, and indecipherable video.
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The culprit clearly isn't ready for its close-up.
Some of the sighting can now be written of as debris, or known species.
But thousands of other encounters, including our own seem to defy an easy explanation.
But with cameras continuing to roll 24 hours a day.
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It's only a matter of time before something swims in to frame.
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My team bashes across Kazakhstan to investigate sightings of a crashed alien spacecraft and a potential government cover-up.
After you found the sphere, what happened to it? Deep in the surrounding forest, I search for evidence of UFOs and have an otherworldly encounter.
Ryder, look up in the sky right now.
I mean, that's way too fast to be a plane.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Am I looking at? Next, Team Truth cruises across Sweden to pick up on the 500-year-old mystery of a terrifying lake creature.
Diving to murky depths, and exploring the coastline at night, we discover that we're not alone in these frigid waters.
Whoa! On the thermal! Right over there! It looked like something breached the surface.
Hold on! I'm Josh Gates.
In my travels, I've seen some unexplainable things and I've done some things I can't quite explain.
Now I've pulled together a team armed with the latest technology in the search for answers to the world's strangest mysteries.
I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me, but I know what I'm looking for.
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The truth.
When you think of UFOs, you probably think of places like Roswell, but the highest number of UFO sightings World-Wide comes from Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
A lot of articles and eyewitness accounts coming out of the Western part of the country.
Same here.
I have a town in Western Kazakhstan that actually believes that a UFO fell from the sky.
So, I think we should check it out.
Not only have eyewitnesses records strange lights in the skies, spectacular vapor trails, and bizarre flying saucers, but two metallic spheres were said to have crashed to Earth in a fireball.
Eyewitnesses near the remote village of Razdolnoye now claim that alien beings are hiding in nearby forests.
Strange creatures have been spotted in the remote wilderness where Central Asia's mountains merge with dense forests.
These foreign visitors are said to move primarily at night.
They are reported to be extremely thin, with milky, translucent skin.
With terrified locals convinced that extraterrestrial visitors have taken up residence, and livestock having gone missing in the area, I assembled a team, loaded up our gear, and headed east to investigate.
From Los Angeles, we flew 7,000 miles to Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan.
This former capital has undergone major changes since the fall of the Soviet empire, but the remnants of the cold war era are everywhere.
Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture.
Just as many guns as you can put in there.
Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're going to get.
Considering the political changes in Kazakhstan, I was surprised to see its youngest residents training to drive tanks for the military.
But as we traveled across the city, we stumbled into a vibrant arts district.
Make sure you get the facial hair just right.
Does it look like me? Be honest? I've never seen this side of you before.
Literally.
Can I see? Oh, Sir, I don't know how you did it, but it looks just like me.
After our cultural diversion, it was time for our first interview atop Aktobe, the mountain peak which overlooks all of Almaty.
Here we go.
It feels safe as can be, this thing.
I'd arranged a meeting with a local man who claimed to have recently photographed a mysterious object flying above the city.
What did you see? What do you think you saw? The mountain peak isn't just renowned for UFO sightings, it's also famous for its local amusement park.
Tristan tried to muscle-up against the strongest member of the team, that being Ryder.
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They used to call me "Thor" on the rugby team.
Ryder gets a 280.
This is how it's done, Ryder.
Oh, my God.
Did you just hit yourself in the face? - Thing has quite a recoil on it.
- Oh, my God.
Back at ground level, we headed to the Almaty train station.
The lights seen over the city were shooting West in the direction of the most compelling eyewitness reports.
From Almaty we traveled over 2,200 miles across the nation by train, a minor detail I had yet to share with the crew.
Alright guys, we're headed toward the far Western part of the country.
We're going to the city of Uralsk.
It's going to take us about three days to get there.
- What was that? - Sorry? - What's that? - You mumbled something.
Oh, I just said it was going to take about three days to get there.
- What was that? - Don't worry about it.
Seems like you're speeding over a really important part right there.
I'm going to head to the dining car.
Anybody need anything? Cool.
After the initial shock wore off, the team and I settled in for the long ride.
We rode the rails across the vast plains of Central Asia, using the time to hone our investigation skills.
1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a thumb war.
God, what do you eat? And after nearly 72 hours, we arrived at the train station in Uralsk, where Ryder had secured us a car.
Ryder, this is a great car.
I know, right.
Oh.
Yeah, no, this one's good, too.
It's so roomy.
Yeah, it's roomy.
One of the problems with renting a bus, strangers tend to get on it.
Uh, this is not a public bus.
Welcome to the team.
Do you like hunting monsters for a living? After dropping off the local, we carried on the outskirts of Uralsk.
I had arranged to meet a man who claimed to have spotted the UFO and just days later saw a strange creature in the woods.
What did it look like? I also wanted to meet the man who actually found the mystery spheres that crashed to Earth.
We traveled deeper into the country where the impact occurred.
What exactly did it look like, the thing you found? And so after you found the sphere, what happened to it? The farmer's story left me with more questions than answers.
If I wanted to discover the origins of the spheres, I'd need to confront the government.
I threw caution to the wind, made an appointment at the appropriately-named.
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Department of Emergency Services, and settled in for a tense meeting.
Okay.
So what became of the spheres? Where is that warehouse, exactly.
They're here? They're actually in this building? And, is it possible for us to take a look at them? Yes? Let's do it.
Come on.
I was led through the back rooms of the complex to a secure warehouse where the officials revealed the sphere.
It looks like this side has been blasted open though.
And do you know what the metal is? Okay.
To my surprise, the government officials allowed me to photograph the orb and take a loose chip of metal that fell off the sphere for later analysis.
The most recent sightings were reported far from the city in rough terrain and deep woods where farmers claimed to have seen alien activity.
Fortunately, I had an old friend in Kazakhstan who owned the cold war version of a used car lot.
I owe you one, Vladimir.
Okay, here we go! Ryder, looks like it's pretty wet up ahead.
Why don't you keep the high ground? We'll try to cut through this marsh.
Sounds good.
Flanking left now.
Hang on! Come on, come on.
Ah, we're stuck.
Ryder, we're jammed up out here.
I can't move.
I think we're going to need a tow.
Yeah, copy that.
Tristan's going to jump out with a tow line, see if we can winch you out of there.
Yeah, bring it back.
Okay, I got it.
Okay, go ahead! Alright here we go.
Nice and slow.
The winch is moving it.
Go, go, go, go, go! Thanks to Tristan's tow, we were back on terra firma and ready to roll.
After a short drive, we reached the edge of the forest and the heart of our investigation.
We quickly unpacked the tanks and established a base camp.
Locals claimed to regularly see lights in the sky, as well as mysterious creatures in the forest interior.
We therefore strung out infrared and trap cameras around the site to try to capture evidence of either.
Trap Cam 2 is good to go.
There's so many sightings that come from the one country.
It's kind of this amazing phenomenon.
Why do so many of them come to Kazakhstan? That's the question.
I don't know.
I guess that's what we're trying to figure out.
That's right.
Although, if we do find an alien, I'm.
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Hoping for something of the Wall-E kind of variety.
What's that noise? Shh, shh, shh.
Quiet, quiet, quiet.
Where's it coming from? It's coming from right over there.
Adam, what is that? I have no idea.
It's like a deep metal roar.
And now it's just gone.
Completely vanished.
Oh, I got something on thermal! Dave, behind you, behind you! Oh, I got something on thermal! Dave, behind you, behind you! - Where is it? - Dead ahead.
Dead ahead.
Right ahead of you at the top of that field.
- Do you see it? - No, I'm not - picking up anything on the astroscope.
- I just saw it one second ago.
It was at the far end of that field.
It almost looked like somebody was standing there for a second.
We're out in the middle of nowhere, Josh.
Let's get over to the end of that field.
See if we can figure out what that was.
You know I would say I'm.
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I'm definitely a skeptic when it comes to.
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UFOs and extra-terrestrial life, but I don't know what would happen if we came upon some other being.
I mean, already it's hard enough to work with Kyle.
So rude! Oh, you're (Bleep) Kidding me.
My camera light just went out.
Can you plug me back in? Oh yeah, sure.
- That's good.
- Yeah.
Okay.
Kyle? Kyle? Kyle? He was just right here.
Kyle? This is really freaking me out.
Kyle! Katy, anything? No, nothing.
I mean, he couldn't have even gone this far.
Ryder for Josh.
Yeah, go for Josh.
Hey Josh.
Katy and I stopped down to fix my camera, we turn around and Kyle's gone missing.
What do you mean, he's missing? I mean, we turn around and he's nowhere to be found.
We haven't seen his IR light from his astroscope we haven't seen him, nothing.
No sign of him at all.
Okay, we'll be right there.
Come on, guys, let's go.
Kyle! Josh for Kyle, come in.
Can you read me on this channel? Kyle! Tristant, do you see him on any of those infrared cameras? Is he anywhere around base camp? Got no sign over here.
I'm looking, though.
I'll keep my eyes out.
Kyle! Ryder! - Oh my God.
- Kyle! Where are you? I'm over hear.
My headlamp went out.
Ryder! Kyle, are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine.
I got completely turned around.
Wheeler, what happened? I just got real disoriented, I think.
It's really weird to me, too, because I usually have good sense of direction.
It's not like me to get lost.
And it's also not like me to like just kinda wander off.
Alright well we know the locals think that there's.
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You know strange magnetic energy in these woods, weird stuff going on.
So everybody stay tight.
Everybody stay together.
Here's the thing.
Totally.
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Just be completely honest.
Yup.
Were you anally probed? Uh, I don't want to talk about it.
I really don't want to talk about it.
- Blink once if you.
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- Really don't want to talk about it.
We are in the middle of nowhere right now.
Love to get the uh, night vision goggles out and see if I can spy something that we're not able to see with our human eyes out here.
Whoa.
- What? - What do you got? Something just.
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Almost looked like it fell from the sky.
Kind of halfway up my frame down to the ground.
We should definitely check this tape because I got it, for sure.
Tristant to all teams, I just saw something fall on the thermal surveillance camera.
Is anybody nearby to go check it out.
That must be what we just saw.
Look, if this thing came out of the sky, it may have some kind of metallic signature.
We'll grab the metal detector.
Let's sweep this field end to end, see if we can figure out what it was.
Copy.
We're on it.
Let's go, Katy.
Katy, do you have the tri-field out? I do.
Any kind of strange changes in the magnetic field around us? Nothing so far.
All right, guys, let's fan out.
Richie, you head to the right.
Take the thermal imager.
Adam, look for any impact craters over there.
I'll go down the center line with the metal detector.
Copy that.
Guys, I got something.
Come here.
What the hell is that? Some sort of metal.
How's it look on the thermal? - It's hot.
- Is it? Yeah, look.
- It is hot.
- Look.
Way hotter than anything around it.
Yeah, everything is blue except for that.
In the middle of this field at this time of night, it's freezing cold.
Why is that still hot? You're absolutely right.
This thing should be ice cold by now.
Alright let's look around, see if we can find any more pieces of whatever this thing was.
Okay.
Check this out.
Look at this.
- It's all burned out.
You see that? - Yeah.
That doesn't look like campfire.
No, it doesn't.
But it also doesn't look quite like an impact crater.
- No.
- It doesn't seem like anything hit this with any force.
Keep looking around it.
Holy (Bleep).
Check out the moving light up there.
- What do you see? - Right there.
Oh, my God.
Look at that right there.
- Holy (Bleep).
- What the (Bleep) Is that? It's not a plane.
That is not a plane.
Ryder, look up in the sky right now.
Crazy light going across the sky.
Oh, my God.
Josh, we copy.
Look right there.
Right there, right there.
- Two things.
There's two things.
- Oh that's so weird.
Copy that.
We see the thing behind it as well.
We're looking at both of them right now.
Look how fast that one's going.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Am I looking at? Look, right there.
Right there, right there.
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Two things.
There's two things.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Am I looking at? That's (Bleep) Real! - What is that? - That's for (Bleep) Real.
I can't hear anything.
It's completely silent.
Josh, what are we looking at right now? I don't have a clue.
I don't know what that is.
It's way too bright to be a plane.
It's way too high and it's way too fast.
And it's gone.
Do you guys have eyes on them any more? They're gone.
That first one just overtook it and passed it.
They're completely gone.
They just went from one side of the sky to the other.
I'm now a crazy person.
Just uh, Ryder.
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Ryder, arrange for me to be checked into a mental institution as soon as possible.
Well, if you're crazy, I guess we're all going.
Because that was it.
I'm done.
What the (Bleep) Was that? I have no idea.
I have the chills right now.
That was not a shooting star.
That was not a fighter jet.
That was not a stealth jet.
It way you know.
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That was not the Space Station.
Ryder, I don't know what to say.
We're going to head towards the section of sky that those two objects flew over to.
No, we're not.
We're calling it in, man.
What else do you want to go find? They're gone, man.
Case closed.
Those were aliens.
We're done.
That's the end of the show.
Aliens? Check.
Found them.
Still in shock, we packed up our gear and the next morning fired up the tanks and headed for civilization and the long flight back to Los Angeles.
We began with metal analysis of the strange sphere and the fragment recovered in the field.
Exhaustive testing revealed that the objects were crafted of an extremely pure grade of titanium.
Even more intriguing, the lab confirmed that the metal was subjected to intense heat and exhibited melting, supporting the theory that it punched through the Earth's atmosphere.
For more answers, we took our wealth of evidence to seasoned UFO investigator Steve Murillo.
We began by showing him images of the strange objects seen above the capital of Kazakhstan.
What do you think we're looking at here when you see these? What's your impression? To the untrained eye this.
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This could look like something.
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Alien or something strange.
You know.
I mean it's glowing, it's kind of dramatic-looking.
Uh, more than likely it's a missile shot.
You can see a trail.
Uh, this is taken at sunset, so the sun is glinting off the particulate left by the missile.
And uh, there is a space port very close to this area.
So.
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It's very possible this could have been one of their shots.
In fact, the nearby Cosmodrome is the world's largest space facility, propelling as many as 50 rockets into orbit each year.
It also explains the mysterious sphere we photographed, since technical schematics from the Cosmodrome revealed that the object is likely a Russian satellite.
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A modern-day relative of Sputnik, the first man-made object in space that sparked man's UFO fears to begin with.
With the sphere ID'd, we then turned to the two sets of lights we observed.
What was really interesting to us are two different sets of lights that we saw during our investigation, the first of which was seen low in the sky.
- Okay.
- Take a look at this.
Whoa.
Something looked like it fell from the sky.
The fact that it's falling in a downward motion and then sort of extinguishes, could be meteorite, something like that, coming into the Earth's atmosphere burning up and then extinguishing.
The second set of lights, however, wasn't so easy to dismiss.
This last piece of footage is something that everybody on my team saw.
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Two sets of lights, one really bright.
And uh, I have to tell you, I'm an open-minded skeptic, but I have no idea what this could be.
- Okay.
- Take a look.
Oh, my God.
Look at that right there.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Is that? - It's not a plane.
- That is not a plane.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Am I looking at? - That's (Bleep) Real.
- What is that? What is this? Don't know.
Unidentified object.
Normally planes have navigation lights.
You're not seeing that here.
You're seeing constant light.
One of them's brighter than the other.
This is not flares.
This is something strange.
I think you have something here.
I don't know what it is, but it's something unidentified.
Well, you're going to make a believer out of me.
This is um, this is really something that I you know, can't put to bed.
You'll see them again.
They're out there.
You just have to keep your eyes to the skies.
UFO sightings are a World-Wide phenomenon.
But beyond the hoaxes and misidentified artifacts, is there something real? Planet-hunting astronomers have now identified thousands of distant Earth-like worlds, and it seems increasingly likely that extra-terrestrials may exist.
And much closer to home in the barren out lands of remote Kazakhstan, we also search for alien life.
But alien life might already be here.
Holy (Bleep).
What the (Bleep) Am I looking at? In Sweden, the belief in a massive beast called the great lake monster is so popular that the government protected the animal by law.
Okay, we're going after Sweden's Loch Ness Monster.
Reports of this thing go back more than 350 years.
We've got hundreds of different eyewitness accounts.
Really, really impressive.
Yeah, it's incredible.
We took all the data from those reports, and created a model of the creature.
Check it out.
The animal lurks in the deepest waters of Lake Storsjon, feeding on the abundant marine life.
Ripping through the water with Stealthy speed, it measures more than 20 feet in length.
According to eyewitnesses, the beast's head is dragon like in appearance.
A formidable predator, the great lake monster crushes its prey in its muscular jaws, and tears through flesh with its protruding teeth.
Its sleek body is long and snake like, and is capable of generating a burst of speed, or delivering an immobilizing blow.
To make matters worse, Lake Storsjon, the creature's purported home, is freezing cold.
Nevertheless, the team and I packed up our dive gear, underwater equipment and a flask of whiskey, and headed east in pursuit of Sweden's only monster with diplomatic immunity.
We flew across the Atlantic to Scandinavia and touched down in Ostersund, Sweden.
Situated on the northern banks of Lake Storsjon, the city is home to the northern most Viking Rune Stone in the world.
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A thousand year old marker that shows a serpentine creature in the lake.
Famished, we popped into a local festival on our way to our first interview.
Ryder opted for a burger.
It's 100% moose meat.
Yeah, Bullwinkle tastes delicious.
And a local licorice was irresistible.
Oh yeah.
- Oh my gosh.
- I stayed with it.
I stayed with it.
After grabbing a bite, we made quick work of also grabbing the lake monster.
- I caught the lake monster.
- I saw that, that's impressive.
Yeah, I didn't think I'd be able to reel him in with this tiny fishing rod, but I did.
- Yeah.
- Where were you? Oh, I'm just, you know, I was out there swimmin' in my 1950s bathing suit.
Looking good, though.
Well case closed, I guess.
All right.
Just behind the fair, we made our way to the Jamtli Museum, which chronicles the history of the region.
Exhibits about the great lake monster were everywhere.
Including actual traps used to try to snare the beast.
There was even a lake monster slide to reach the lower gallery.
Ow.
That creature is really dangerous.
Deep in the archives, we spoke with the museum's Curator.
So tell me about what you've archived here in the museum.
It's mostly observations.
The first written document is from 1635.
- This is one from 1898.
- Wow.
It describes seeing an animal out in the lake with humps moving very fast in the water.
How many article do you think you have here in total? I think we have around a thousand.
- A thousand articles? - Yeah.
And as a Curator here, what do you think? You think it's real? I'm pretty sure that the people who have seen it.
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They've seen something.
She pointed me South toward the most recent reports of the creature.
The drive took us along the shores of the lake, and after 50 miles, we reached the town of Svenstavik.
It was clear that the lake monster had made quite an impression in this community.
Our next stop is a couple, two eyewitnesses who recently saw the creature from their house.
So tell me exactly what you saw.
They were watching TV, and suddenly through the window, they see something moving.
He ran down to the patio, grabbed his camera on the way and took the photo.
Can I see the photo that you took? Oh, wow.
Look at that.
They were watching TV, and suddenly, through the window, they see something moving.
He ran down to the patio, grabbed his camera on the way and took the photo.
Can I see the photo that you took? Oh, wow.
Look at that.
So there's this large object moving across the lake and when you saw this, what did you think this was? This was something mysterious moving over the lake, it was not a log or birds.
There is something out there.
We weren't the only people looking for proof of the great lake monster.
In the center of town sits a government sponsored organization with the sole aim of finding proof of the creature's existence.
I met with the Director and tech specialist inside.
- So this is the nerve center.
- Right.
- This is a pretty impressive set up here.
- It is.
Can you launch an attack on the monster from here? No, we can't.
The center boasts real-time feeds from both underwater and surface level cameras, as well as a sophisticated radar system.
They also showed me recent recordings they captured of something in the lake.
Oh, we certainly see something moving in the frame here.
Do you think it's one of the creatures in the lake? It could be one of them.
This is maybe a baby of the great lake monster, yes.
This is a new picture.
No one actually have seen this.
- Oh! - We don't know what it is.
Well, we certainly see what look like a couple of humps moving through the water.
For us, this is something very interesting.
Do you think that could be the creature? It could be the great lake monster.
I want to go out and look for this creature.
Where would you send me to look? There is an opportunity here to work together, because this center has lots of cameras, but we can't see everything.
So your team can search in places where we don't have any cameras.
And any information that we find on our search, we will bring to you, and if you find any other images on these cameras, - you'll let us know.
- Of course.
With our new allies at the research center on board to help, I headed down to the docks to kick off our investigation.
While I took a seaplane and searched from above, Katy and Richie surveyed from the shore.
And Ryder, Adam, Tristant and Kyle secured jet skis, which would allow them to navigate quickly across the lake if I spotted anything unusual from the air.
Okay, guys, let's head out.
The lake is more than 150 square miles, and we worked together scanning as much of the surface area as possible.
Yeah, Josh.
The water looks pretty clear, I don't see anything just yet.
Negative over here.
It's pretty clear.
Copy that, just North.
Copy that, Josh.
We don't see anything.
Whatever I had seen submerged, so the team and I rendezvoused back at the dock, grabbed our dive gear, and raced to the coordinates of the sighting to continue the search beneath the surface.
We arrived at one of the research center's nearby high tech camera outposts where Ryder came ashore and set up our gear.
Here we go.
Okay, we're moving the submersible camera in.
With our advanced ROV Submersible deployed, Richie and I hit the icy water and Dave followed behind with the camera.
With the water only a few degrees above freezing, it would be vital to our safety to stay together in the dangerously cold lake.
Yeah, we're experiencing the same thing with the underwater camera.
Copy that, what did you see? Be careful, it could be something bigger next time.
Copy that, visibility is really bad.
Stay together and be safe.
All right, guys, eyes out.
If they surface, you gotta let Josh know.
They gotta be pretty close to running out of air.
Come on, guys.
Dave and Richie, do you copy? The must have about five minutes left.
I don't know what else to do.
They must have about five minutes left.
I don't know what else to do.
- I just saw Dave pop up.
- Hey there's Richie.
- Richie's up.
- There they are, there they are.
Dave, are you okay? Josh, we have eyes on both Dave and Richie, they've reached the surface.
I repeat, Dave and Richie are safe and they've reached the surface.
With the deep murky water hindering our chances of seeing the creature, or even each other, we decided to focus our efforts topside.
With daylight fading, we zipped across the lake to prepare for the night ahead.
We found an accessible dock, unloaded our gear, and set up base camp.
So the big challenge tonight is, obviously, covering this huge body of water.
We have the underwater cameras from the research facility, which we're able to view, we have our own cameras set up here now, we've got the strung up and down the coast here, we have thermal imagers running, but we're gonna have to get out of these boats if we want to cover a significant amount of this lake.
A couple things I want you guys to look at here.
We know that a lot of these sighting have been in the Southern part of the lake.
But some of the more recent ones have been in this northern sector, so we're gonna head up there to investigate.
We'll work the Western bank on the way up, we'll come back down on the eastern coast.
So, we'll split up into the two boats.
Richie, you, myself, Adam and Dave will head out in the dive boat, and Ryder, you'll lead a team with Tristant and Kyle in the other boat.
Katy, we're gonna keep you here at base camp, if you see anything on our cameras or the underwater cameras for the research center, - you'll let us know.
- Copy that.
- You guys ready? - Yeah.
It's gonna be cold out there.
Let's bundle up, come on.
Okay, and we're off.
Get away from this dock, guys, it's rough as hell.
Beautiful night.
Weather's warming up, Richie.
The weather's not warming up at all, Josh.
That's they hypothermia kicking in.
What are you talking about? It's like T-shirt weather.
That's the fresh sea breeze, you just feel it.
All right, keep your eyes peeled.
We're very close to the place we had the sighting in the airplane.
All right, guys, I'm gonna cut the engines.
Adam, let's get that hydrophone in the water.
Richie, keep looking with those night vision goggles, we'll see if you can hear anything beneath the surface.
Yeah, it's going in.
What do you got, Adam, what's it sound like? We must be in about 20 meters of water.
You can hear the waves just hitting against the bottom of the boat.
And uh.
.
Whoa! Hold on a sec.
.
What do you got? I'm picking up, like, a.
.
A low tone, it sounds like there might be something moving around there.
- Something big? - Yeah.
It's.
.
It's a really deep, deep noise.
Whatever it is, it's moving off, though.
Okay, let's pull it in.
Come on.
Okay, guys, keep your eyes peeled.
You seeing anything? Nothing yet.
All right, well, I say we get the fish finder out.
Get some sonar going.
Maybe it's a good time to drop the Aqua Cam.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Sounds good.
I'm gonna give it a little bit of a toss.
Just kind of scanning this entire area.
- Getting anything? - Nothing yet.
No animal or plant life through here.
Lots of rocks.
You seeing anything on the sonar? Negative.
- Kind of some weird shadows in there.
- A lot of weird shadows.
- Oh.
Oh.
- Fish.
- Ooh, what was that? - What was that? Really close to camera.
Looked like something big, too.
Ryder for Josh.
Go for Josh, Ryder.
Looks like something in front of us is kicking up a lot of sediment, really large objects moving by, can't really get a good, good look at it them, and some strange shadows coming from behind the camera.
Well, copy that.
We're not that far from your position.
We're gonna head over there and see if we can get them on the thermal imager.
Katy, we're not that far from shore, why don't you grab a camera, head down the coast, see if you can catch it.
Copy that, will do.
Okay, let's go, let's see if we can catch this thing.
Katy, we're along the shore now, I don't have a visual of anything, the thermal looks clear.
Can you see movement? Josh, I can't see anything right now, it's just dark water.
Richie, throw on those night vision goggles, see if you can see anything moving around just off the shore here.
Richie, any sign of anything? I see a lot of movement in the water, I see lots of chop.
Everybody, keep your eyes peeled.
Whoa, on the thermal.
Right over there.
It looked like something breached the surface right over there.
Everybody, keep your eyes peeled.
Whoa, on the thermal.
Right over there.
It looked like something breached the surface.
Dave, right over there, over there.
Hold on, I'm coming around.
Ryder, we just got a clear hit on the thermal, we're not that far from you, do you see anything? Kyle, do you see anything on the astroscope? Nope, the lake looks pretty calm.
I'm seeing some ripples here and there.
Josh, Josh, we just picked up something big on the sonar.
Looks like it's about 14 meters down it's pretty wide in size, and it looks like it's heading near the North.
All right, copy that.
See if you can stay with it on sonar.
Ryder, follow us, see if you can track it.
Sun's coming up soon.
We'll just hang with it as long as we can.
Yeah, we've lost it as well.
I got nothing else on the thermal.
I think this thing might have dove.
All right, let's take it back to base camp.
Sun's up.
We got a long trip home, we've got great evidence to bring with us, though.
With numb fingers, we navigated back to the dock, and made the long trip home to Los Angeles to continue our investigation.
We headed to nearby Pepperdine University to meet with biologist, Dr.
Lee Kats.
We began by showing him some of the many amateur photos of the creature.
As a biologist, this image is the most interesting because you see some rippling in the.
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In the lake, which indicates movement.
I suspect it is a living organism, some kind of animal.
There are some large fish in the lake, there is a pike, which is a large fish predator, they can be three or four feet long.
The surveillance cameras that are set up in the lake seem to have captured the pike.
Do you think it's safe to say that maybe this fish could account for some of what people are seeing in these waters? I think any time somebody sees something more than a foot or two long, it gets our attention, and certainly this animal would be something that gets people's attention.
Other footage from the research center appeared to show something else.
What do you think we're seeing in these videos? These are interesting images to look at because they're long.
.
Uh, almost snake like.
That reminds me of long strands of algae you get in fresh water lakes.
You'll see them kind of wafting in the current.
And what about these things that they actually see at the surface? Well, that's a good question.
It's very difficult for me to tell how fast this is moving.
I don't see any movement by the objects that indicates swimming, and which leads me to think it's something drifting.
But could all of the evidence be explained? The underwater footage from Ryder's boat was compelling.
.
- Oh! Oh.
- Fish.
- What was that? - What was that? But ultimately inconclusive.
We then reviewed the thermal hit detected from the sea plane, and from our overnight investigation.
When you look at this, what do you think? I think this is very interesting because you have a bunch of organisms in there that shouldn't be giving off heat.
If it's a fish or a reptile, you wouldn't expect a heat signal like that.
I suspect it's some kind of animal, given the movement, given the diving activity, but I wouldn't know exactly what it would be.
At more than 15 feet long, this was no pike.
But could also not be positively ID'd, and therefore remains a tantalizing mystery.
I think there are any number of things that could be leading people to suspect they're seeing something unusual or out of the ordinary.
But um, that's not to say that a clearer picture or a clearer video down the road doesn't show up.
The story of the creature in Lake Storsjon is one of the most compelling we've ever heard.
An Ancient Rune marks the beginning of a steady stream of reports that haven't let up for a thousand years.
The community is convinced.
And their government sanctioned research center is sate of art.
But, it's evidence that counts.
And what we have here is decidedly out of focus.
With blurry images, murky waters, and indecipherable video.
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The culprit clearly isn't ready for its close-up.
Some of the sighting can now be written of as debris, or known species.
But thousands of other encounters, including our own seem to defy an easy explanation.
But with cameras continuing to roll 24 hours a day.
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It's only a matter of time before something swims in to frame.