All language subtitles for The Cannibal in the Jungle 2015

in 1977 three scientists went into the

jungles of Flores Indonesia to study

birds only one of them came out dr.

Timothy Dara the authorities eventually

found one of the missing members of

dara'a team his corpse was butchered

almost beyond recognition

investigators never found any remains of

the other victim

Tim Dara was charged with double

homicide and suspected of cannibalism

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Dara maintained his innocence throughout

the trial he claimed something else was

the culprit

you tried to convince the court that

creatures from the jungle were

responsible that our local myth had

murdered his friends no one believed him

Darren but he claimed to have seen what

he claimed killed his friends in 40 said

he saw was impossible

but I believe Timothy dalla was telling

the truth

Tim was the first in the family to go to

college and he became a PhD a scientist

his most wonderful older brother only

first heard about the crimes that he'd

been charged with but we couldn't

believe he was capable of it I would

describe the Tim Darrow case as the

Indonesian equivalent of your OJ Simpson

trial into a sir it was that big at the

time Darrow an American ornithologist

was convicted of killing a fellow

scientist Gary Ward and their Indonesian

field guide Rajat saputra or Reggie as

he was known but he didn't just kill

them he cannibalized them that's why we

gave him the name in the papers the

American cannibal the body of dr. Ward

was never recovered but investigators

did manage to locate the body of Raja

saputra

there were severe bone fractures

there were several cut marks to the

bones the skull had been smashed open

his body had been harvested and the fact

that he had done this to an Indonesian

citizen caused tremendous public outrage

the first thing I thought when I was

informed about Timothy Darrow

I thought crowds might storm the embassy

it's not a stretch to say that we were

worried about how the Tim Darrow case

would affect our standing throughout the

entire region I mean you have to

remember he was convicted of killing

them with a rock it was savage what he

did to them

the Indonesians elected not to execute

him which was was really more than we

could ask given that he never recanted a

story of what had happened the Darrow

came out of the jungle covered in blood

telling a ghost story that was a myth

his whole alibi was a myth he convinced

no one of anything except that he was a

very sick very deranged man

by the time I started working in Flores

nearly 25 years after he'd been

convicted he was regarded as Colonel

Kurtz like figure Tim Darrow the crazy

American ornithologist who entered the

jungle and killed his friends and then

claimed that little wild men in the

trees were to blame I was on Flores as

part of a research team from Wollongong

we were looking for evidence of early

human migratory routes to Australia when

we unearthed something completely

unexpected

we found an unknown species of human a

species of little wild men hello

everybody welcome to the Royal

Institution thanks for coming along to

hear news of this remarkable discovery

here we have a creature that was

substantially different from modern

humans a totally new species of our

genis living on the planet at the same

time as us Homo floresiensis was

probably the most important find in

anthropology maybe ever it made people

really think very very hard about how

human evolution works people have always

thought about it as a line walking from

gorillas and apes walking more and more

erect until they turn into a modern

human

but these creatures were bound to meet

at all

about the height of a kindergarten child

the skull was very very small and the

feet were really big it was really quite

unlike anything that anyone's ever seen

their scientific name is Homo

floresiensis which literally means

Flores man but we nicknamed them hobbits

after their characters from the talking

books for obvious reasons

now these hobbits weren't like

pipe-smoking waistcoat wearing Bilbo

Baggins living in his genteel hobbit

hole entertained visiting wizards they

were quite savage because they had to be

living in a very prehistoric lost world

full of predators and full of dangers

there were giant lizards like Komodo

dragons but two or three times the size

they hunted giant rats the size of

terriers

and they would have also hunted the tiny

elephants who staggered on that lived on

the island these creatures were tough

they had to be they were living in a

very tough world we know they hunted big

gang

we found staggered on bones alongside

the hobbit remains we also unearthed

their stone weapons they used to hunt

them with cutting blades and spear tips

made from Flint

we also found evidence of fire pits in

the cave so they used tools in the used

fire they were smart Homo floresiensis

lived until about 20,000 years ago which

in the scheme of things is like a blink

of an eye here we have this lost vestige

of an ancient prehistoric world walking

on the earth alongside us we knew

immediately that the hobbit remains

would change our understanding of human

history forever

all the Australian scientists were

elated but some of the Indonesians

reacted quite differently they were

quieted tentative a few of them even

visibly upset that was the first time I

heard of EBU gaga

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the double go-go myth or legend is a

kind of bogeyman told by the nage people

of central flurries they are described

as a frightening figure ugly hairy very

strong but small physically small this

story of the iboga appear to be just a

you know part of folklore until the

discovery of Homo floresiensis in

October 2004 in Flores there are legends

that speak in great detail about the

existence and behavior of a creature

they called EBU gogo that were about a

metre tall and interacted with the

modern Islanders until they found this

creature they would have dismissed them

as just tales of leprechauns but no

longer the find itself was quite

remarkable physically there does seem to

be agreement between Homo floresiensis

and the EBU gogo both short erect

bipedal both existed on Flores Island so

we have a kind of a a possible match

was it possible that their myth was real

that EBU gogo was the Hobby suite fan

that's what I began exploring

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the nagas descriptions were colorful but

consistent they all climbed that Eva

Geiger was small recovered in hey they

said that see them up in the trees but

also in the ground walking in the ground

on two legs that they were by people and

that they were afraid of them

Wow thousand dollars how about the moon

fall upon us all

pow-pow demo hi Ana to Lima hi get outta

here

Arthur

the Nagas vivid descriptions of the

creatures had been written off his

folklore their equivalent of the bogan

edge even the Naga claimed they hadn't

seen them for over a hundred years but

someone else had claimed to see nee Baga

go more recently than that an American

scientist who had stumbled into their

village back in 1977 you were present a

day to ten Dara came out of the jungle

into your age

poor condition with you only

zoomy knew Lamar to decide what had

happened to him in the jungle

okay

and this there's the stone blade that

was found inside missus of Patras corpse

and the authorities tied him to the

crime when he found this identical blade

in his backpack these two blades were

the key evidence used to prosecute Tim

for both murders even though we don't

really know what happened to Gary Ward

his body was never located now here's

what it gets really interesting this is

a photograph of the stone blades we

excavated with the hobbit remains in

2003 they're the weapons that the

hobbits used to hunt with and we

discovered these more than 25 years

after the darrell trial and as you can

see they're identical to the alleged

murder weapon now it was impossible that

Tim Darrow could have known this detail

that they existed nobody knew about

these blades until we found them even an

argument of their EBU gogo there was no

descriptions that they used tools or

weapons none at all so either he was a

clairvoyant psychopath when he fashioned

his alibi back in 1977 all there was

something more to his story that's when

I knew I needed to talk to Timothy

Darrow I wanted to find out where he got

that blade

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he was an odd request this Australian

scientist wanted to get into karabük and

prism to interview an American citizen

who had been convicted of a double

homicide

now the Indonesian government had to

deal with the paperwork on this they had

to approve it which they did finally in

2006 I don't think they were in any rush

I mean Timothy Darrow was serving two

life sentences he wasn't going anywhere

they sent Darrow to prison in the

caribou card

that's not a place they send you for

rehabilitation that's a place they send

you to die

I asked to record that first meeting and

they allowed it but they never allowed

me to film Tim again he told me what he

saw okay what do you think the word we

thought it was some kind of 8 and there

orangutangs in Indonesia but not on

Flores and that's not what this was it

was smaller darker covered in dark hair

except around the face and the eyes

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when we saw it up close you could see it

was smart you could just tell

and it wasn't afraid who's coming for us

I knew what they said about him he's a

psychopath delusional are likely

schizophrenic but I have to admit I

wasn't prepared for how convincing I'd

find him

and it was in that first meeting that

Tim told me he'd had a camera on the

expedition he claimed he filmed them not

just saw them but filmed them ku Tim

Dara have captured evidence actual proof

that the hobbits have managed to survive

until 1977 and if they were out there

then could they still be out there today

is there another species of humans still

out there hiding in one of the most

inaccessible places on earth I'm needed

to find out

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after interviewing Tim Darrow I was

convinced that there were elements of

truth to his story so in 2012 with some

documentary funding I led a seven man

expedition deep into the interior or

Flores we're now approaching the

outermost perimeter of where Tim Darrow

and his colleagues conducted their field

study back in 1977 the area but Tim says

he encountered them where he said he saw

the creatures

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our objective was simply to retrace

their our footsteps and look for

evidence of existing Homo floresiensis

population

but why undertake the expedition when

many considered it a fool's errand

because mammals considered extinct are

still found the solar for instance a

bovine species thought to have been

hunted to extinction long ago because of

its unique horns a camera trap caught

footage of one in the wild just last

year the Cupra is another presumed

extinct for nearly a thousand years it

was discovered alive

deep within the Cambodian jungle those

species found a way to persist in

uncharted environments why couldn't this

be the case with the hobbits even today

when you'd think that scientists would

have looked behind every bush and shaken

every tree on the planet large animals

still coming to the light that haven't

been discovered before so it's not

beyond the realms of possibility that

seem human type creatures live

undiscovered in some jungle elsewhere if

they were out there then I had to find

them

and one man held the que pide spoken

with dr. Hamburg on several occasions

about my reporting of the Darrow story

he wanted to know everything that I

remembered they even referred him to a

couple of my old contacts when he

requested additional information they

were on an eight-week research trip into

the remote interior of the island to

study birds they were all ethology now

that's quite a genteel profession not

the kind of background that you would

expect from a murderer

we were studying the impact of

forestation was beginning to happen the

forest Eagles population dairy and I

were doing postdoc research on the

effects

it was difficult to get to our study

side who's out there

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bridges are filled aid but they became a

colleague and front

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our grant was to follow Eagles but we

were also looking for another bird bird

that hadn't been seen for almost a

century

before his corpse ow

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- the thinking was that it got extinct

Perez swore he'd seen one on previous

track so we were hoping to find it again

record is calling on Agra maybe even

filmed it

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so we're setting out to find a lost

species

ironic right Tim was a birdwatcher for

as long as I can remember I guess it was

an unusual hobby for a kid growing up in

Bloomington but he loved them

he always had birds in the house he kept

them as pets

he built birdhouses and tended to

nestlings that had fallen out of trees

that sort of thing even took care of a

hawk that he found in a field ones she

had birdshot in her wing but he got to

fly again

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when we first heard about the crimes

that he'd been charged with of course we

couldn't believe it but when the facts

came out that Tim had really done these

terrible terrible things

it was hard after we moved my father

said we couldn't talk about him anymore

but I knew something must have happened

to him something must have snapped

when I spotted it first

the market

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and you don't see perfectly symmetrical

things in the jungle

what is it I briefly wondered if people

had made it

we were worried about headhunters

and they've been headhunters in that

jungle only a generation before but the

height seemed wrong was fairly low to

the ground we you make a quick sketch of

what the maca maca pop it up for cameras

no such markings ever existed 20 police

officers searched a three-mile perimeter

and found nothing and even if they had

found something what is to say dr.

Darrow did not make them himself

it was the markings on the body of mr.

saputra that interested us and these we

are quite certain were made by dr.

Darrell no one believed his story then

and no one should today

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navigating the map timid given as is

proven to be a bit more difficult than

I'd imagined there we have a 20-mile

hike into the interior and the landscape

is very different to what it was back in

1977 many of the landmarks Tim spoke of

are no longer here though we're gonna

keep pressing on the trial locate the

sites where Tim claims he and his team

account at the creatures and that's what

we need to find we're assessing the

health of the Rufus belly

Eagles in the Flores Hawk Eagles and

both were unusual and that other birds

are a big part of their diet

so that's what we were catching in the

nets some of the birds that they preyed

on mist nets are basically nylon net

strung up between trees it's a

non-lethal way to catch birds you play

lure calls on the loop recording and it

alerts and other birds

we didn't think much of it at the time

but we were finding some of the nets

pulled down

this is a river the Tim reference the

close to the side where they have their

initial encounter with a creature it's

taken is a lot longer than we expected

to get this Jeep enter the jungle were

finally here

you were about to tell him about first

on the soy but we got up and we did our

normal routine and we were doing our end

of the day rounds to see if anything it

turned up in the Nets that's when we

heard it yeah let's find it

first thing I did I got my camera on my

back and I started running towards the

sound

we got to where we'd setting that up to

that morning and it was down then what

caught my attention

I saw markings on the trees now they

weren't there when we'd set the net up

that morning Gary slaw first tell me you

got that my face on this far away but I

think so yeah Mitch we didn't see it at

all

he was an ape that was a goddamn ape and

I remember thinking that this was too

good to be true of course the camera was

lost he said he lost it in the jungle

before he get out and I confess that at

that point I I thought that if he were

delusional then this was very convenient

and he could always maintain that there

was something out there that would prove

him right because that something would

never be found

tim was certain that his camera was gone

but the audio recordings the recordings

he said they captured of the creatures

call those might have survived

he said his narco recorder had to have

been with the Indonesian authorities at

some point it was in the same backpack

as the Flint blade they presented as

evidence in his trial so I began to

investigate dr. Horne back told me what

he was looking for and I said to him

that I didn't specifically remember the

items that were recovered at the time

all the items that the Indonesians

recovered in the jungle and were deemed

immaterial to the case they returned

them to us after the trial we just did a

very cursory inspection and then boxed

up their boxes and sent them back to his

University in Illinois

smart

stereos markings okay let's get a trap

up if you do come back to this song it

might just catch you wanna hey so this

is the area where Darryl filmed the

creature and recorded is called you know

just how dare would describe them and if

these are territorial markings is every

chance they might come back and if we do

come back and that's how we're going to

catch a winner on camera

now if the infrared sensor inside these

camera tracks picks up any kind of

movement they start recording now our

aim is to mount these cameras at every

location where Tim encountered the

creature like here Tim saw the creature

in the ground Superman and cameras down

here

they also saw them up in the trees so

remaining them up there as well right

away we knew it was something different

something new but it didn't look like an

orangutan or a given but it moves like

that break it is through the trees like

them there are no Apes on Florida's so

whatever it was we knew it was worth

trying to find because we quite possibly

just found a new species we start

monitoring the Eagles we even stopped

looking for the scalps out well we knew

we were on to something bigger now we

knew was attracted the mist nets for the

birds so we played the recording of the

lured calls of a few of the different

local bird species on a loop

we were hoping to get a better look at

the Reg hadn't seen it at all and I

wanted to get a better shot of it if I

could we just sat in our midship blind

and watched and waited we were gonna

wait for as long as we have to I guess

patience has its rewards

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we've been watching the trees but that's

not what we should have been looking

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we saw it and it saw us it was looking

right at us

I remember it turned around right before

it disappeared to turn back around to

look at us one more time

and then it disappeared back into the

forest

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and then we heard it we tracked down the

Nagra recorder it was just sitting in

the a/v equipment room at the university

gathering dust the recordings never

catalogued because the people who made

them never returned to Illinois to

document their findings so nearly 35

years after the fact this was you fine

now listen to this

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the calls captured on the Nara were

shared with half a dozen of the world's

leading primatologists and they all

agreed that it was primate but none of

them knew what it was

so something unknown was out there at

least as of 1977 and I thought we could

use this call to see if it was still out

there today

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thing this is it

it was after finding the Niagara that I

began to plan the expedition to find a

creature Tim described and I thought we

could use the calls to our advantage

for Manning one of these with a camera

strapped up in the canopy

these speakers will broadcast the call

that Tim recorded into the jungle over

regular time intervals day and night

Jack's go this is the bait the hope is

that this will lure one of them right to

us good again rajen know what it was

either but I think he was already

thinking about the myth about every go

go you know and the stories behind it

he was spooked I asked him if he was

okay and he said he was troubled that it

was looking at is that it looked like an

animal afraid you told him that it was

probably curious a we were as new to it

as it was to us I told him that he

should be excited

but we found a new species and I told

him that we were gonna be famous he

smiled

for found one of their old observation

platforms this is one of the platforms

that turned arrow in his colleagues

build over two decades ago that they use

to observe Eagles up in the canopy we're

going to go up for a closer look

so please get up here

this is a leg bone appears to be from a

pig a forest pig so clearly this is not

a a boreal animal

so when this could be an eagle kill or

with something else to get up there and

when was the next time you saw it we

didn't see it

we heard it the call started probably a

couple hours after we fought so he was

missing we made our way in the direction

of the calls it was a moon out but

nowhere near enough light from a camera

but we brought the Nagre

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why are they gone why

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chimpanzees kill with brute force they

rip their prey apart that's not what we

found

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this is where Tim saw the creature in

the canopy for the first time and this

is where we just left with Tim filmed it

in the blind and this is evil over the

volcano the legend among the Nagi is

that the the creatures lived in the

caves and the northern slopes harvey

biloba we are now heading towards an RGB

leech called aura which sits in e below

both shudder the people moved high up on

the slopes of willow go they gradually

came into contact with Leo go go go who

lived in in caves higher up the the

volcano they soon discovered that to the

obligor were taking crops were raiding

their field and the problem apparently

got worse there are stories would speak

of abduction of children

Nemo high on a jewel Lima high get Appa

he thought there is a suggestion that

cannibalism was practiced

bah

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Oh

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Joe get a shot of this

are you what is this

it is a warning buko go come to the

village they will be burned

buko go remember if the wood can be

burned and so can they

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the first light we were getting ready to

pack up that's one rich dog

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they'd come into our camp there were

prints facing the opening I have been

watching this they probably been

watching this whole time

that's why Rachel said it it will go go

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they're talking us

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you wanted to get out of it

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as I mentioned there's this notion that

the abou go-go are a threat to children

so a decision was taken to try and kill

him or Olaf

as the story goes the or people set fire

to the cave in which the bukuvu lived

and that's how they met their end except

according to some variants of the story

there were a couple of the Google male

and female that escaped the fire and

that their descendants still survived

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all right guys he's gonna flush lice and

good and have a look

Joe

joke me see

in Chardon fire

and it's needs to be a belly button a

small quarter pad probably pick this

beef cut these are moms

this was food

this chart you see bigger fine

joe-joe

this is a mandible and human jawbone

adult probably male you can tell it's

more than by the silver fillings in the

mouth

I hate to speculate but I believe we may

have found the remains of Gary Ward I

came to Flores to find a creature

involved in the deaths of two scientists

35 years ago I never could have imagined

that I might find the remains of one of

those scientists we've improvised

packing material from the case of our

pistol Alton

and we're bringing the bones back with

us to Jakarta for testing we found a few

more animal bones but no further human

remains but I think we've already found

the most important bone in their cage

I've decided to lead for us as soon as

possible but before we do there is one

final location where we need to mount

traps

McCann the site for register Patras

mutilated body was found

well reg was convinced they were

following us

I've never seen him so unsettled before

Bridgers from florence near the jungle

better than anyone seeing him a friend

that's what maybe afraid like no one

wanted to make a fire that night we

didn't use our camping stove we just had

strips of beef jerky washed down with

spoonfuls of peanut butter

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this is where register Patras body was

found and standing here well this isn't

just a site and a map anymore especially

not carrying what may be the remains of

Gary Ward with us my guides tell me that

to the noggin

this place is blighted the skulls were

put here to water why the evil there's

definite aura that hangs over the site

you just feel it here

you just feel that some atrocity took

place here

by that afternoon we were back in

familiar environments coming in on the

platform site in the heart of our study

area

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remember feeling a sense of relief being

back on our territory seeing a place

that I was familiar with

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I was walking behind wretch

and suddenly I saw him stop froze

and then I heard what it made rich hope

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it was an extinct we found it

we were the first people in almost a

hundred years to see the florists cops

out

we were gonna record it right across

from the platform

and I wanted to be the first person ever

to film it

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I think that was the fast as they ever

scaled the tree

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that's what I saw

they just been up there

there was no sound falling out of

scrapes

and before I could even signal over to

wrench our dancing

I came down so quickly I forgot to put

on my gloves

I didn't know what had happened I

thought it must have been some sort of

equipment failure or something that

maybe registro pit snapped

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Carrie was devastated me blamed herself

he felt responsible me he'd rigged the

lines and he thought it was his fault I

told him that it wasn't his fault it was

the rope that there must have been some

sort of weak spot in the rope that

wasn't him

I wasn't him

the Rope discovered that the crime scene

was cleanly severed and dr. Darrow cut

it just as he cut the body of mr.

saputra after his fall before butchering

him the story of the cuts to his hands

the equipment failure EBU gogo Oliver

the deluded attempt to deceive

investigators and indeed himself his

psychiatric evaluation at the time was

that his story was an attempt to spare

himself the realization of his own guilt

but how can Dara have cut a rug with

Gary Ward watching investigators believe

that dr. Darrow killed dr. Ward first

before cutting the rope on mr. saputra

with the camera traps mounted Wade left

forwards and returned to Jakarta to run

tests on the bones were recovered

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there weren't any DNA results from the

jawbone was too severely charred from

the fire for any extractable DNA but the

authorities were able to identify who

would belong to by using a bit of

old-fashioned police work the dental

records we didn't find the remains of

Gary ward it was someone else he was an

Indonesian logging company Forester he

went missing in the 1960s his name was

karim napela gaba and he was side

surveying an area for clear-cutting more

than three kilometers from the cave

where we found it now the police took

possession of the jawbone but I don't

know if they'll officially reopen the

case but if they do we might be

searching for the same subject because

it appears there was a cannibal out

there long before Tim Darrow ever set

foot in Flores

surprisingly even more relevant to our

expedition with the animal remains we'd

brought back with us

now analysis revealed that the gouges

and the animal bones were found were

caused by a small blade an electron

microscopy detected small flecks of

flint in the notches the cuts were made

by stone plates similar to the hobbit

weapons we unearthed during the dig in

2003 despite the charring we were able

to extract DNA which revealed that these

were all contemporary annals these were

recent kills something is still out

there on Flores hunting with a similar

weapon to the ones Tim Dara was

convicted of murdering his friends with

in 1977

even after highly damning evidence was

presented at his trial like the stone

blades like the severed rope he

maintained his story and that story was

so delusional if the evidence almost

didn't matter he was a US citizen so I

was sent to advise him periodically

during the legal proceedings the court

psychiatrist found that he had

schizophrenic tendencies and he believed

his own story and I agreed with the

court's findings and totally disregarded

what he had to say it wasn't until much

later on that I realized what had really

happened

I now know they did it

I know they cut the rope after the

analysis from the bones I was becoming

more and more convinced that someone or

something other than Tim Darrow had

committed the murders

so before returning to Flores to check

the traps that arranged to meet Epona /

Witte a / nur had been an instrumental

part in the DOE investigation back in

1977 I wanted to go over Epona's

recollections to see if there were any

other details who remembered that might

help with what was becoming a case for

turned arrows exoneration

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silicon thank you he insisted on showing

me something something from his time

working in the dairy case

yeah mumble effect she had a transferred

VHS copy of the Indonesian national news

report and he was in it it was the first

time I'd ever seen the report I had seen

photos of the crime scene but seeing it

captured a film really brought home the

horror of what occurred then right at

the end of the footage I saw something

that I simply could not believe I didn't

know the Indonesian word for wine I

started check yeah I should have started

chatting put Dortmunder but I could not

believe what I was seeing amongst all of

their recovered possessions was

something I thought was lost forever the

camera

the film camera Tim said he'd lost

running out of the jungle well there it

was it found it just a few hundred

meters from the Cannes site neither

their consulate nor the University had

any record or receiving Tim's super a

camera so at that point I only had one

hope and I was told that protocol would

be that any other personal effects would

have been returned to Tim's family but

there are no records of where the Darryl

family relocated to after they left

Bloomington Illinois shortly after Tim's

conviction it was like they disappeared

along with any chance of proving that

the story had been telling for over 30

years may have been the truth

we finally returned to Flores in

September 2012 to see what the camera

traps had recorded if we were ever going

to gather definitive evidence of the

creatures existence then this was our

best chance

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now just a few of us have come back for

this phase of the expedition to check

the camera traps

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now this trap didn't have anything on it

but we've got a lot more to check so I'm

quite optimistic here well several traps

have been triggered but we don't know

would set them off

we have more camera traps to check over

the next few days we might find

something yet

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Wow

with ourselves about Miyake removal

equals all pow pow

that was a macaque the commotion up in

the trees was coming from the cactus

there must have been something up there

they didn't like Python Eagle maybe and

that was probably an alarm call they

were making

we have to bury rich

it took us a couple hours to take it

down to the river

there were stones there and softer

ground we didn't have the tools to dig

very deep

so we we're gonna bury in here the

ribbon that place Danzo right

I could Karen to protect him

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neither dairy and I was particularly

religious but we built a cross how two

branches

we said a few words for Reggie I thanked

him for being such a valued colleague

and

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and for being such a valued friend

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I brought my camera I didn't know if it

would help locate the Karen later on if

the family ever wanted to bring his body

back

maybe if I you know ever had a chance to

show it or it it might afford some small

comfort to his mother

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it's quieting for all of us to be here

again the guys really don't want to set

up camp here and I can understand the

reluctance so we're gonna get much

further into the jungle and I can't okay

guys you ready we'll move off

we just started hiking back to the

previous science camp we were just sort

of sleepwalking our way back still in a

state of shock over at all

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it was a call that snapped us out

we saw it cut back on the path behind us

is heading back towards reg man

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yeah

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I thought it was an acro

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was a lacquer it was that

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my chief responsibility is the safety of

my thing and to be honest I'm not too

keen staff here either we're heading

back

let's get going

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we had the audio from the footage

analyzed and we were able to confirm it

the calls were recorded were identical

to the ones that Tim Darrow and his team

captured on this very Nara back in 1977

they were made by the same creatures now

this was incredibly exciting but I

realized that this was more than just a

matter of scientific interest now you

see the Crown's the marking the fact

that the animal remains wood found were

recent kills these findings could all

help with Tim Daris case we were

confirming his story doctor Hornbeck

shared his findings with me which were

really extraordinary no question but

legally there was circumstantial

they weren't enough to reopen a 35 year

old double murder case short of having

indisputable evidence of the creature

Tim Darrow described we weren't gonna

force a reexamination of his case

we needed to find them we needed proof

that the hobbits were still out there

three months later I led another

expedition back into the interior of

Flores

we were taking greater precautions we

were better armed and had much greater

expectations that we would find them

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what is it

this is saying

I remember sitting there crouched over

in the middle of the jungle in total

darkness but without any internal debate

about whether to turn on my flashlight

or not I was terrified of a time - I

think that was the most scared I was the

entire time I was out there

finally I turned it on

I covered it with my hand at the reading

on the compass it was in my time as soon

as I did it turned it off and then I

started walking again I just kept

walking and walk-in until I couldn't

walk anymore

a little after sunrise the next morning

I knew I'd guessed wrong I saw one of

our study Eagles flying overhead one

with knots flight feather I knew where a

nest was and that she was headed towards

it near the river

I followed the river I might get out

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I stayed in a channel away from the

banks and away from the trees

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some kind of problem up there I'm not

sure what it is cuz I can understand

these guys I'm gonna go look it up here

we discriminate those a camera trapping

a speaker up here

they're gone

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come on guys

something was able to dislodge this

tribe from the tree forcibly dislodge it

nearly 100 feet off the ground

we proved something was out there but we

hadn't proved what that something was

what we had was very suggestive but not

conclusive and we hadn't found anything

out there that would help Tim we didn't

get them on camera but Tim Darrow did

doctor Hornbeck mentioned to me that he

was attempting to find any remaining

members of Timothy Darrow's family the

parents had died several years previous

so through the US State Department I

tracked down Timothy Darrow sister her

married name was Susan Clemens and we

had an address in Parsons Kansas and we

had a telephone number it took a while

before I finally managed to get her on

the phone and when I did I explained

that I had reason to believe that Tim

had been telling the truth I just

couldn't process at all he'd seen my

brother my father wouldn't even let us

say his name

It was as if he was dead

he said he'd visited him in prison and

believed his story

we couldn't even say his name

understandably she became very emotional

but after explaining my findings to her

I was able to ask her what I needed to

know had any of Tim's possessions ever

been returned to her or her family a

couple of years after the trial a big

packing box arrived my father wouldn't

even open it he took it out to the curb

and dumped it to be picked up at the

trash but I went straight out there and

I brought it back inside

because he was my brother and whatever

else I couldn't let the last part of him

that we had be hauled away with the

trash the odds that the camera ever made

it back were long the odds that the film

stock hadn't degraded over time were

long and the odds that there was

anything captured in those films at all

those odds were now said against Tim

Daris chance for vindication

she had the camera

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there were three reels of film that were

recovered from Tim Darrow super8 camera

the first reel clearly depicts an

ape-like creature breaking through the

canopy the second reel was shot from the

blind where they lured it in with bird

calls and they're clearly what was

filmed was a bipedal creature had walked

into legs

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and what's significant about these first

two wheels is that it demonstrates that

the Tim film was a creature that was

capable in the trees and they could walk

in the ground just like we know hobbits

could from analyzing the remains

just like the Naga stories claimed they

could

and what the creature is sparc huge

debate there are a number of competing

theories there is speculation that this

could be a pond boy tape an orangutan

relative that there might be an

undiscovered orangutan population that

had evolved in Flores independently

developing unusual traits there's

another theory that this was a

subspecies of macaque worth variant

coloration and incidental bipedalism the

only thing there wasn't debate about is

that this creature had never been seen

before

what was on the third reel was also

consistent with what the Nagi said about

them and it was very difficult to watch

it confirmed the horror of what Tim

Darrow and his friends went through and

it held huge ramifications for Tim's

case

the films are undoubtedly very

compelling and they do seem to

corroborate Timothy Darrow's account of

the events so based on this new evidence

we would have one of these films

reviewed in a US courtroom and we would

have made a formal application to the

Indonesian government to have Timothy

Darrow extradited back to the United

States

when I first met Tim at the hospital my

purpose was to advise him but after

seeing the footage I had a profound

sense of regret because the fact is I

would have advised him differently had I

considered that he might be telling the

truth

but like everyone else I just

disregarded him I was the one person

whose job it was to listen to him and to

try to help him and I did not do that I

wasn't imagining things I wasn't hearing

things

it was one of them

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we just stood there for a minute didn't

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I just watched me watching me

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that's the last little memory I have of

being outside all the times I spoke with

Tim he never once asked me if I believed

him and I very much regret that I never

told him that I do

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dr. horn that brought my brother back to

me

and so for that I'm very grateful I have

one of his old birdhouses outside the

kitchen window no and I love watching

the birds coming to nests there

and I think it would make him happy to

know they're still using it

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I thought it was very important that Tim

be remembered as a scientist remembered

for his discoveries in June 2014 a

scientific team filmed the forest scopes

out they filmed it and recorded its call

it hadn't gone extinct they found it now

this is the last recording the 10 Darrow

graduates of Putra and Gary Ward ever

captured on their Niagara

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as for them how many of them are still

out there the forest has changed so much

even during the period of our expedition

and the forests are going so whatever

the creature was that he filmed Tim

Darrow may have been the last person to

see it but it won't be the last to go

looking

I'm still looking

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