All language subtitles for 3 Mystery of Loch Ness

I'm in the Scottish Highlands, on
Loch Ness, investigating one of the

world's most enduring mysteries- the
beast, the monster of Loch Ness.

Over the past few years, new
evidence has come forth that

I've found rather interesting.

Sightings of the legendary lake
monster are once again on the rise.

And there have been accounts of similar
cryptids from all over the planet.

Canada, for example, has

Cressie and Ogopogo, Japan

has Issie, and Cameroon has

something called the
"Mokele-Mbembe."

All of these mysterious
creatures appear in early local

folklore, and some have
suggested that they look like

the offspring of a prehistoric
creature called Plesiosaurus.

But could it be something from
another world that came to Earth

millions of years ago?

And what if it's something even
more incredible than that?

Because, in my experience,
nothing is ever what it seems.

My name is Giorgio Tsoukalos.

I explore the world that exists
between reality and speculation,

the known and the unknown.

What we've been taught by

mainstream scholars is
not the whole picture.

But I'm convinced that every day

we are one step
closer to the truth.

In Scotland, the word "loch"
means "lake," and one lake here

is the most notorious
in the world.

For over 80 years, Loch Ness has
been the place where monster

hunters and cryptozoologists
have been hunting for an

allegedly prehistoric creature
that shouldn't even exist.

In 1933, the Loch Ness Monster
became a media sensation when a

local newspaper reported a sighting
of a beast of enormous size.

Almost immediately, dozens of
researchers, hunters, and even

Boy Scouts descended on the loch

to attempt to capture the beast
and claim a ?20,000 reward.

A year later, in 1934,

fascination with the monster
went worldwide with the

publication of this famous image,
known as the "Surgeon's Photo."

It seemed to show some sort of a

creature with a long neck
gliding along the loch.

Since then, millions have
come to Loch Ness in hopes of

catching a glimpse of
this so-called "monster."

In fact, the creature they now
call "Nessie" has become its own

industry, and the town of Fort
Augustus has played host to

thousands of Nessie
hunters over the years.

But one man could probably be

called the greatest Nessie
hunter of all time, because he's

been watching the loch every day
for more than 20 years, and he

lives right on the shores of the
loch itself- Steve Feltham.

Are you Steve?

Certainly am, yeah.

I'm Giorgio.
Hello, Giorgio.

Great pleasure to meet you.

The locals have told me, if I
want to learn more about Nessie,

you're the guy to talk to.

This is true.

This is true.

What do you need to know?

My area of expertise is
ancient astronauts, so I'm

not quite sure how Nessie
fits into that realm.

Okay, yeah, yeah.

But it is a part of the
unknown, and I'm always

interested in exploring the
unknown, and that's why I'm here.

Ah. Um, yup, you've come to
the right place, definitely.

Yeah?

Absolutely.
Yeah.

This is great.
"NessieHunter.com."

Yup.

"Nessie-sery
Independent Research."

It's necessary.
Somebody's got to do it.

That's true.

So what about these things right here?
Do you make these?

That's how I fund hunting
for the bigger ones.

Make a few of these.

Guaranteed accurate.

Prove it's not, get
your money back.

There you go.
I love it.

So I'll sit here,
make the models here.

This is my home.

Have a look, yeah, yeah.

This is great.

You know, essential ingredient-
wood-burning stove.

Amazing.

So, up... A piano.

Piano.

Essential, as well.

Observation area.

Excellent stuff.

This is my dream come true.

I'm living my life's ambition, to be fully
involved in this hunt for this animal.

There's one thing over here.

Look.

Guinness Book of Records. The
longest Loch Ness Monster vigil.

That is great.

That's me.

I love it.

Guinness Book of Records.
Anyway, come back out here.

Get a seat, and I'll
tell you all about it.

It takes a while
to take it all in.

Loch Ness was created by a
geological fault line called the

Great Glen around 400
million years ago.

It is almost 23 miles in length,
and in some places, estimated to

be 745 feet deep, which is deep
enough for two complete Statues

of Liberty stacked on
top of each another.

It is the largest body of
freshwater in the United Kingdom.

Another interesting
characteristic of the loch is

the high amount of
quartz found here.

Quartz is a stone that sometimes

is associated with the
ancient astronaut theory.

Because of its crystalline
structure, some claim that

quartz has the ability to
convert the earth's natural

electrical vibrations into
usable energy by a property

known as piezoelectricity, and
many obelisks are constructed

from granite, a stone that may
contain high concentrations of

energy-responsive
quartz crystal.

One such example can be found at
the Egyptian sun temple of Abu

Gorab, which was known as
the "Place of the Gods".

Egyptologists say that this was
a place where the ancients

connected with
powerful energies.

But some say that these obelisks
could have been used to transmit

energy, possibly by vibration
flowing through the obelisks.

Now, is it possible that the
quartz content at Loch Ness is

somehow connected to the
sightings of the monster?

That is what I'm
here to find out.

Have you seen something where you
thought, man, what was that?

In the first year I was
here, something went

through the bay, like a torpedo.
And was it fast?

Or how fast did it move?

Very fast. Very fast.

Covered the distance of a

football pitch in less
than ten seconds.

Really, really going at speed.

Then, a sort of spray
of water off that.

Yeah.

Obviously I thought,
what is that?

I thought, right, brilliant,
I'm on the right track.

Mm-hmm.

Next time I see that,

I'm going to be ready, I'm going
to photograph it, and here we

are now, 23 years later, and I'm
waiting for that next glimpse.

Still chasing... Still chasing.

...the elusive creature?

Yes, still optimistic.

What are some of the most
compelling sightings or

reports that you're
familiar with?

The best thing I've ever
heard of since I've been

here was an echo chamber contact

made by Marcus Atkinson
about four years ago.

I can show you the image that he managed
to take, a photograph of the screen.

Yeah, I would love to, yes.

I've got that here.

I can show you that.

Thank you.

I've got it... I've got it here.

Look, look at this.

This is what he got. So,
Marcus was out on his boat,

and this is 600
feet of water here.

Mm-hmm.

This is the bottom of the
loch, and this object- they

estimate that that's about a

meter and a half, two
meters wide, deep that way.

Uh-huh. Right.

The thickness of this

animal as it passes
underneath the boat.

Marcus could explain
this to you better.

I can take you to meet
Marcus if you want.

So he's still around?

He's... Yeah, I can take you
to see him, no trouble.

He still has the equipment?

He can explain this
much better than I can.

All right.

This is incredible. An
actual sonar photo showing

what looks like some sort of a giant
object or creature in the lake.

The most famous photograph
of Nessie- the so-called

"Surgeon's Photo" taken in 1934-
was revealed to be a hoax

in the 1990s, when artist
Christian Spurling admitted he

made a model to look like
a giant sea creature.

But this sonar image is no fake.

And it might be the most
compelling evidence yet that the

so-called "Loch Ness
Monster" really exists.

So what are some of the

different theories that
you've heard about the loch?

Well, there's people that think
this is a portal to a hollow earth.

There's one guy down the other

end of the loch that thinks
there's a spaceship on the

bottom of the loch, and that
it's all connected with that.

A portal to a hollow earth?

A spaceship on the
bottom of the loch?

Incredible?

Yes.

But maybe not as far-fetched
as you may think.

The idea that the earth might
actually be hollow was first

introduced in the 1700s, and
while I don't subscribe to these

ideas, it was also believed that
there were other beings and

strange creatures living far
below our planet's surface.

Now, the idea of a spaceship is

also interesting, because many
people have proposed that

extraterrestrials may be hiding
from us deep underwater.

In Native American folklore
there is the legend of the

thunderbird, one of which is
said to reside at the bottom of

Lake Elizabeth in
southern California.

Stories dating back hundreds of
years say that the thunderbird

was often seen rising out of the
lake, shiny and glimmering,

breathing fire- like some
kind of a spacecraft.

Another story exists in Cuzco,
Peru, where locals say a silvery

craft resides at the
bottom of Lake Puray.

What if the Loch Ness Monster is
not a monster at all, but maybe,

as some people have
claimed, an alien craft?

It's far too early for me to

make that determination, but I
definitely know who I want to

speak with next- the man
who took that sonar photo.

I've got a rib boat right over
there at the Dores Inn, so...

We can go by that.

Can we take it?

Yeah, yeah, we can
go straight across.

Yeah, it's easy.

Let's do it.

The Nessie hunter Steve
Feltham and I are

conducting our own hunt for
the Loch Ness creature.

We're touring the loch with
Captain Marcus Atkinson, the

man who took the famous sonar

image of something
strange deep underwater.

It just might be the only
definitive evidence that some

sort of underwater
creature really exists.

So I'm not even gonna wait, I'm
gonna ask you flat out, have you

seen something strange
here in the loch?

Well, yes.

I have.

Three or four years ago, in
2011, I was running a trip on

our speed boats and down at the Urquhart
Castle about 20 miles from here.

And the sonar was
just ticking away.

Underneath the boat came my
sonar image, and, um, it was a

very, very mysterious
photograph.

You probably got it.

Actually, I have the
photo right here.

Steve gave it to me, and if you
can tell me more about this, I'd

be very interested
to find out more.

What we're looking
at here, actually.

The way that sonar works
is as you're going through

the water, you send
out a click of sound.

And this click travels down
through the water column, and as

it contacts things on the way
down, fish or the bed of the

loch or whatever else, you know,
you'll get an echo of it.

So a small fish, for instance,
you'll get a small echo.

Big fish, you get a bigger echo.

Now, the boat is on the
right-hand side of the... of the

picture, and I was coming
in from the deep water.

So this is all deep
water over here.

Well, first of all, start
noticing all these fish-

there's lots and lots
of fish around here.

And then right in the middle,
as I get closer into the shore,

came this... this object.

Now, the best way of looking at
it is to measure the width of it.

That little lump there.

Mm-hmm.

These are five-meter
graduations, that lump is gonna

be a meter, a meter and
a half in diameter.

Right.

That's a big thing.

This sonar image
really blows my mind.

According to the measurements,
the object would measure

approximately 20 feet long and
five feet thick in the center.

Almost identical to the
descriptions of Nessie provided

by many of the
eyewitness accounts.

What is your opinion
what this might be?

Well, that's the $64,000...
million dollar

question, there, you know?

I mean, what is it?

I don't... I don't know.

I've heard people say
it's an algal bloom.

Bloom of algae.

But algae needs light.

This is nearly 80 feet down.

There's no light down there
for algae to bloom on, so I

instantly discount that.

I've seen loads and loads of
shoals of fish and I've never

seen anything like that
sitting in the middle of it.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, that was actually my
next question- how would this,

what we see here, compare to
some of the other aquatic life

that Loch Ness definitely has?

It's pretty big.

You know, I mean, you can
see the dots around here.

These are little individual,
probably, arctic charlies.

They're all very small.

I'd love to find out.

Mm-hmm.

I would really

genuinely love to know what that
was that was under my boat on

that particular day.

Now, seeing that

sonar photo and meeting Captain
Marcus Atkinson- who actually

took the photo- helped convince
me that something strange may

very well be happening
right here at Loch Ness.

Over the years, there have been

more than 2,000 reported
sightings of Nessie.

It's still hard to say at this

point what these witnesses
are actually seeing.

So I really need to dig even
deeper if I'm going to find out

if there really is an ancient astronaut
connection to this phenomenon.

Steve Feltham and I took a
trip to the Loch Ness Centre.

Hello, Steve.
Good to see you again.

We're here to meet

naturalist and historian Adrian
Shine, who has been here

studying the Loch Ness legends
for the past 40 years.

So that's the submarine, huh?

It certainly is a submarine.

Uh, this was last here in 1969,

with a very brave American
called Dan Taylor.

The vessel wasn't quite
finished when it arrived.

And although it got to the point
where it could submerge and just

about surface, it couldn't
do very much in between.

And the idea was that they would
fire these biopsy harpoons.

These tubes held harpoons.

Would be fired to
take tissue samples.

Of course it was 1969, DNA work

had not as... not gone
as far as it has today.

But that was the idea, because,
you see, it was the time when

the surface surveillance that
the Loch Ness investigation had

been carrying out for ten years
was really running out of steam.

For ten years, almost 1,000
people stood around this loch

with big cameras.

And what they were setting out
to do was to duplicate those

classic pictures that I'm
sure are in all our minds.

They failed utterly, and that is

why people like Dan
Taylor went underwater.

People like me went underwater.

I built my little
submersible hide.

Mine was a passive wait-and-hide
strategy, and it was somewhat

cramped with air being
passed down to me.

So, plenty of air.

But we failed utterly.

So the question
arose, what next?

Can you imagine yourself
in one of these?

I wish I... yeah, I

wish I'd been here in the
days of such expeditions.

You know, it's a shame they're not
going on any more things like that.

Well, you can start it again.

Get the funding, and, you know.

Yeah, yeah, I could.

Because this is 1960s,
1970s technology, and

just imagine what
could be done today.

We are looking at this
subject in new ways,

which are not necessarily
technology-based.

What are they?

But they are evidence-based.

They are ways of treating
anecdotes as data.

And if you'd like to come and

look at some sighting
reports, I can tell you more.

Yes, absolutely.

Great.

That's quite an
impressive volume.

This box contains some 300-odd
of the sighting report forms

that were drawn up by the Loch
Ness investigation of the 1960s.

This is from 1963, I think.

And this one will show you, I
suppose, the classic Loch Ness

Monster as described.

Of course, eyewitness
accounts of strange

underwater creatures
are nothing new.

One of the earliest dates all
the way back to 565 AD, when,

according to legend, an Irish
missionary named St. Columba

banished a water creature from
attacking Celtic tribespeople

known as the Picts.

Today, the locals call this
beast from their ancient

folklore the Water
Horse, or Kelpie.

Well, the Kelpie, or water
horse, was a sort of, um,

shape-shifting
piece of bad news.

It would frequent rivers, lakes,
lochs, and sometimes it would

appear as a horse to a weary
traveler- they might want to

get on its back and immediately
they stick to it, it charges

into the water and eats you,
and you go to hell, of course.

So it was bad news.

And even to speak of such
things was bad news.

The fact is, people have
been reporting a strange

creature in and around the
loch for almost 1,500 years.

The native people who lived here
in the 6th century believed it

to be a kind of shape-shifting
water horse, and even carved its

image on many stones that can
still be found around the area.

Now, why would they spend so
much time carving images of this

creature if it was
purely fictional?

Well, I think the next place I
need to go to find the answer is

not here in Scotland but back
home in America, because,

believe it or not, the United
States has its very own legends

of a so-called underwater
monster, in the form of a

giant sea creature
known as "Champ."

I'm in Burlington,
Vermont, on the edge of

beautiful Lake Champlain.

I'm on my way to meet
Katy Elizabeth, a local

cryptozoologist who claims to
have come face-to-face recently

with Champ, Lake Champlain's own
version of the Loch Ness Monster.

Like Nessie, there is no
scientific evidence of Champ's

existence- although there have been
over 300 documented sightings.

Some people even believe that
the two creatures are not only

similar, but possibly
even one and the same.

They think there could be some
vast underwater tunnel or link

between Lake Champlain and Loch
Ness, even though they are

more than 3,000 miles apart.

And what if the connection is
even more astounding than that?

That's what I'm here to explore.

All right.

Katy?
Hi. How are you?

Pleasure to meet you.
I'm Giorgio. How are you?

Nice to meet you.
So this is the place, huh?

Yes, it is.

All right, well, I can't
wait to hear the story.

I mean, what a place.

Absolutely beautiful.

Those are the
Adirondacks, I take it?

Yes, they are.

All right.

It's gorgeous.

So, tell me your story.

What happened here?

Well, I was sitting at my
campsite at Button Bay State

Park, and I was looking
out at the water.

It was probably, I would
say, 11:30 in the morning.

Mm-hmm.

And I saw some
turbulence in the water.

And all of a sudden I seen this

dark-colored hump rise to
the surface of the water.

It was something I
could not explain.

And so whereabouts in the
water from here was it?

It was straight ahead right
towards the middle of the bay.

Okay.

Let me see.

I've seen sturgeon.

I've seen whales.

I've seen dolphins.

I can't explain what I saw.

All I know is a saw a hump come
up and there was no dorsal fin.

It had to be at least 15 feet.

But it didn't resemble anything
I've ever seen before.

So I ran to my car to get my

camera, and as soon as I got
to my camera, it submerged.

It was gone.

It was gone.

Mm-hmm.

I'd give anything to go back
at that time and grab my

camera faster or at least
have it on me, at hand.

Unfortunately, Katy didn't
manage to grab her camera

in time to document
her sighting.

But at least one now-famous
photo of the creature does

exist, and from what I've heard,
it might just be the best

evidence there is
that Champ is real.

Hello.
Are you Linda? Giorgio.

I am. Welcome.

Great pleasure to meet you.

This is some great
place you've got here.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

Let's go on a little tour.

I want to show you some of the
information that we have on

Champ before we get started, and
just fill you in on a little bit

of the background about this
great lake monster, and why it's

so important to us here at ECHO.

Awesome.

Lead the way.

Okay.

Lake Champlain is named
for the French explorer

Samuel de Champlain, and in
1609, he claimed that he saw a

strange creature emerging from the
waters while on an expedition.

Native Americans already had
their own legends concerning a

lake monster, which by some
accounts was 30 feet long.

By the late 19th century, the
creature they called Champ

became so popular that showman

P.T. Barnum put up a reward
of $50,000 for its capture.

Barnum wanted Champ, dead or
alive, so that he could include

it in his traveling show.

Let's go to the staff offices
now, and I'll show you

where the files of information are,
as well as... Secret archives.

Exactly.

Like the surgeon's photo
of Nessie, there is a

world-famous photo of Champ,
only this one has not been

debunked, and I can't wait
to see it with my own eyes.

You know, there have
been more than 300, 600

eyewitness accounts.

Every year, here, I get files
full of information from folks

wanting to share either their
stories or their clippings or

their encounters.

So, these sightings
happen to this day.

I mean, we're not talking about
stuff that happened 50 years

ago, but they actually continue.

Right.

I've been told that there's
one picture that exists

that apparently has undergone
all tests of authenticity, and

I was told you have it.

That's right, we do.

Yeah?

So... here we go.

This is it.

It's nicely protected-
I like that.

Yes. Yes.

So, this is the
original photograph.

Oh, wow.

I'm at the ECHO Center
in Burlington, Vermont,

with science education
specialist Linda Bowden.

She has just handed me what
is widely considered the best

photographic evidence that the

lake creature known as
Champ really exists.

So, this is the
original photograph.

Oh, wow. No kidding!

This is the one that
Sandra Mansi took in 1977.

I mean, this is... this
is crazy, it really is.

I mean... I don't even know what
to say right now, 'cause, like

I said, I've... I haven't
seen this before, and, um...

That is wild.

In July 1977, Sandra Mansi was
exploring the countryside around

Lake Champlain when she pulled
off the road to let her children

play on the shore.

As she watched them, she noticed
a huge disturbance on the

surface of the water,
about 150 yards out.

According to Sandra, a large
hump emerged from the lake.

The kids were playing in
the water before this

creature rose up and turned and looked
at her and then went back down.

She took the photo and then
dropped to her knees, realizing,

"Wow, what was this?

And my children were in
the water with this."

This is... it's crisp.

It's a crisp photograph.

In 1981, the famous Sandra
Mansi photo was submitted for

authentication to the Optical
Sciences Center at the

University of Arizona.

To see if the object might
have been superimposed on the

picture, technicians put the
photograph through a series of

sophisticated tests, including
examining the wave patterns

under a microscope and
constructing a digital code for

the picture to find
inconsistencies in lighting.

After a thorough examination,
they determined beyond a shadow

of a doubt that this
photo is 100% authentic.

What is your opinion on Champ?

When we first started telling
the story here at ECHO

11 years ago about this lake
monster, we were doing it

tongue-in-cheek to
start out with.

But the number of people that
started coming to us with their

stories and wanting a place
to share their stories...

I took on a different tone
with regards to this.

People are seeing, and they're

genuinely seeing, something
out in the lake.

Truly interesting.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

After seeing the famous
Sandra Mansi photo, and

hearing the account of someone
who claims to have seen Champ

firsthand, I'm more
intrigued than ever.

Now, does some large underwater
creature really exist?

And if so, does it have a
connection to the one at Loch Ness?

Although I'm not sure, I do believe
the eyewitnesses did see something.

The Abenaki tribe believe in
some sort of a spirit creature

named Gitsakog that lives within
Lake Champlain, and, according

to them, it has been there for
as long as the lake has existed.

Now, could there
be a connection?

To find out, I'm meeting with
Abenaki Chief Don Stevens.

The first thing I'd like to ask
him about is their creation

story, because, from the
little that I know, it may

just give a new perspective
on this entire investigation.

So, tell me about
your creator god.

Tabaldak was walking
across the universe

with his friend Tool-ba,
which is a turtle.

And they were coming across the
Milky Way, and they saw a planet

in the distance that was blue.

And they were pretty thirsty, so they
thought there'd be some water there.

Don told me the story of
how Abenaki gods shaped

the Earth, and explained that
when they made Lake Champlain,

they created the monster known
today as Champ to protect it.

What I find intriguing in your
creation story is it's a story

of a man and a story of a turtle

walking through the
universe, or the Milky Way.

And the reason why I'm blown
away by that is because all

around the world, in the most
ancient of cultures, the origin

stories usually begin with
the story of a cosmic turtle

appearing out of the depths of the
cold, or the depths of darkness.

In Guatemala, there is an
artifact that has the figure of

a man wearing a helmet lying
inside what appears to be a

turtle shell, and the
archaeologists there will tell

you that this is depicting the

ancient legends of the
giant flying turtles.

Now, when I hear about stories
of flying turtles, I don't think

that the ancient people
really saw turtles flying.

It was that they saw something
that looked to them like a turtle.

They used references that
were familiar to them.

And what was it they
were describing?

Perhaps they were talking about a
flying craft- a chariot of the gods.

Now, another strange aspect of
the Abenaki creation story are

their accounts of a monster that
is said to sometimes disappear

and reappear right
before people's eyes.

Now, that to me indicates that
maybe we are dealing with

something more than just some
large prehistoric creature.

I have talked to people, uh,
who have said that they have

seen him, and they have stayed there
for a while, and it has come to them.

It could be a state of mind at the time
and he has manifested himself there.

The more I investigate this, the more
I'm becoming convinced that maybe

there is an ancient astronaut
connection here, something much

more than what meets the eye.

What if the key to solving the
mystery may not be finding some

giant underwater "monster," but
by surveying the area where

these strange sightings occur?

I've arranged to meet with Dr.
Will Amidon, who

is a professor of geology
here in Vermont.

Permission to come aboard.
Permission granted.

Welcome.
All right.

Thank you.

Captain Steve Cluett is taking
us out on Lake Champlain for a

Champ hunt, and you never know
if this could be the day.

All right, so let's
head on out, then.

Let's see if we can find Champ.

Let's have a look.

All right.

Dr. Will Amidon is intrigued by
the similarities between Lake

Champlain and Loch Ness, and
speculates there may be numerous

connections that could help
explain the various sightings of

a so-called "sea monster."

I was on a boat on Loch Ness
trying to look for the creature

there, and then I came
here because of Champ.

It's interesting, you
know, Loch Ness and Lake

Champlain actually weren't so far apart
hundreds of millions of years ago.

Back when the Atlantic Ocean
was closed, the same mountain

collision that formed the Green
Mountains here in Vermont is

actually what formed a lot of

the Scottish Highlands,
where Loch Ness sits.

What's the deepest spot
here in Lake Champlain?

It's called Split Rock.

The lake narrows to about a half mile wide,
and it's 500 feet deep at that point.

Wow. Okay.

So, when you get out there,
you can almost feel the

gravity change as you're
sitting, you know, right between

these two rocky points with
this 500 feet below you.

I like the way you talk- you
can "feel the gravity change."

Only poets and scientists speak like that.
I like that.

Right.

So, I've got a personal
question for you.

Do you actually think that there
is a possibility that some type

of uncategorized creature
lives here in Lake Champlain?

Sure, I think it's an
absolute possibility.

But one of the things a lot of
people don't know about Lake

Champlain is that at one time it
was actually connected to the

broader ocean in this body of
water called the Champlain Sea.

Right after the glaciers
retreated, the land surface was

depressed and the ocean water

actually flowed in, filled this
entire basin, to the point that

there's even been whale
skeletons found.

Okay.

So in the sense that you
could have had whales

swimming in here, why
not other creatures?

You know, the fact that
hundreds, if not thousands, of

people have sighted Champ
independently, you have to place

some stock in that body of
observations, and that people

aren't crazy, they're not dumb,

and they may know what they're
seeing in some cases.

So, talk to me about granite,
and the whole idea of quartz.

I mean, is this an area where
that type of stone is prevalent?

Vermont is famous for
granite, actually.

But most of that comes from the
core of the Green Mountains.

There's very little granite here
in the actual Lake Champlain

basin, but we do have
a lot of quartz.

Hmm.

There it is again.
Quartz.

Parts of Loch Ness are
also rich in quartz.

Could it merely be coincidence
that both of these lakes feature

high concentrations of the same
mineral, one that the ancient

Egyptians, for example,
associated with cosmic energy?

Could the shared geology of
these lakes be one of the

reasons for all these
mysterious sightings?

I have one last stop to make,
and that has taken me all the

way back to Southern California.

Dr. Brandenburg!

Giorgio!

I'm here to meet

with renowned physicist Dr. John
Brandenburg, who has set up

a demo to help explain what

might be going on at Loch
Ness and Lake Champlain.

So, from everything I've read
and the people that I've talked

to, the experts, one thing that
I found interesting is when the

geologist explained to me that
in both cases- whether it was

Lake Champlain or Loch Ness-
the topography there is very

similar, and the one thing that
is the same in both cases is

that there's a lot
of quartz there.

Quartz.

Yes.

The quartz is the secret.

When you stress the quartz,
an enormous amount of

electromagnetic field
can be created.

We know that the ultimate basis
of space-time is electromagnetic.

This is the basis for what's
called the Casimir effect.

We're surrounded with a sea of
electromagnetic oscillations

created by the quantum mechanics
of the vacuum itself.

The structure of space-time
itself, including gravity, is

due to this zero-point
fluctuation.

Geologic stresses on the quartz
can generate enormous amounts of

power, as is seen in
earthquake lights.

Plasmas are created in the sky due to the
stresses on the quartz in the ground.

Once completely dismissed
or mistaken for UFOs,

an earthquake light is a
phenomenon that appears as a

ball of orange light in the sky at
or near areas of tectonic stress.

Both Lake Champlain and Loch Ness were
formed due to tectonic plate shifts.

The plasma is just an indicator
that you have enormous

electromagnetic fields
being generated.

Okay.

So after all this information,
is it at all possible that there

is any correlation to a
potential alternative idea

besides that these sightings are
of a prehistoric creature that

has survived all these
millions of years?

So could there be another idea?
An alternative hypothesis?

Yes.

An alternative hypothesis
is time travel.

Time travel.

Yes.

Now you've got my attention.

Dr. John Brandenburg is
a nationally renowned

physicist whose theories about
the planet Mars have rocked the

scientific community, and he
wonders if the key to solving

the mystery of the so-called
Loch Ness Monster may be found

by a close examination of the
geography in and around the

loch, particularly the area's
high concentration of quartz.

He also theorizes that the area
of Loch Ness may very well be a

gateway or a portal
for time travel.

So, are you suggesting
that the potential

for a temporary traversable
wormhole actually exists?

Hypothetically, yes.

As proposed first by
Kip Thorne at Caltech.

The quartz is the secret.

You have enormous electromagnetic
fields being generated.

Okay.

That means that we can create,
perhaps, a traversable wormhole.

So what we are seeing is creatures
from the past, in the present.

Time travel?

Wormholes?

A rift in space-time?

This is incredible.

What if the reason why we can't
find Nessie or Champ is that

they're really not there?

What if the witnesses and
photographers have seen not a

physical sea creature, but an
animal that may have existed

tens of thousands or even
millions of years ago?

In other words, what Dr.
Brandenburg suggests is that

Loch Ness and Lake Champlain
could very well be some sort of

a gateway, as incredible
as it may sound.

I have a demonstration here.

Mm-hmm.

Here we can create... waves.

Now, we can't create them as uniformly
as the surrounding in space-time.

We're surrounded by these waves.

These waves that you see on the

surface of the water are very
much like the quantum waves.

Now, if we place these bars in
here, we can see, as I place

them, that the waves change their
structure in between the bars.

They become parallel waves,

whereas before they
were very chaotic.

Now, if I release these,
they cling together.

They're forced together by the
pressure of the waves outside.

So how does this apply
to time travel?

When we disturb the
space-time continuum with

electromagnetism, we can create,

possibly, wormholes
traversable to the past.

You know, this is
interesting, because when

Dr. Amidon, the geologist,

talked to me about Lake
Champlain, he told me that

there's a spot where there are
these sheer cliffs that go

straight down about 500 feet.

And he suggested that the
gravity there might change.

Would that be a place where this

Casimir effect would
be more prevalent?

Because it...

That's right, just like between
the Casimir plates, you are

creating a zone of
negative energy.

This is incredible.

According to Dr. Brandenburg,

the high concentrations of
quartz, coupled with the

narrowness and depth of both
Loch Ness and Lake Champlain,

create a perfect storm
of highly-charged

electromagnetism- the type that

could generate wormholes
or portals in time.

My head just exploded.

It almost is the perfect
solution, because that means

that everyone is right.

Yes.

Because people who are
looking for it, they're not

seeing it because it's not
there, and the people who saw it

or who took some photographs,
they truly photographed

something, because it appeared
in that split second.

You know, the idea is very
fascinating, especially in the

context of the ancient
astronaut theory.

Mm-hmm.

Because that suggests
that Earth was visited

by extraterrestrials in the
remote past and that is only

possible if a society has
mastered the technology with

which to traverse the vast distances
between the solar systems.

Absolutely.

Dr. Brandenburg, thank you
very much for your time.

Thank you.

And before I leave, I wanted
to give you one of these.

Ah.

Which is something I give
to everyone whom I ask

questions, and...
What-what is this?

This, here, is a
pre-Columbian artifact.

What does this remind you of?

Amazing.

Looks like an airplane.

There you go.

Oh, this is wonderful.

Thank you.

It's definitely a
conversation starter.

Absolutely.

I will use it to start
many conversations.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Until next time.

The mystery of Loch Ness is actually
more fascinating than I ever imagined.

And while we can't say for
certain that wormholes really

exist at places like Loch
Ness or Lake Champlain, it is

intriguing to speculate that
space-time rifts might explain

how sightings like Nessie and
Champ are possible, and how

extraterrestrials may have traveled
to Earth in the remote past.

But this is just the tip
of a giant iceberg.

With many more places to explore
and many more mysteries to solve.

And that's why I'm off, once
again, in search of aliens.