NARRATOR: On this episode of "Destination Truth,"
Josh and the team sail across treacherous seas in Antarctica.
In the ghostly remains of a frigid,
crumbling whaling station 1,000 miles from civilization,
Josh discovers that he may not be alone.
Whoa! Right there! Right there!
I just saw something inside this building.
NARRATOR: Next, the team sails farther south,
spending a perilous night investigating
a reportedly haunted British base.
Every time we leave one room,
I feel like there's a noise in the other room.
But in this freezing hut,
are former explorers still taking shelter?
Whoa!
♪♪
Hold on!
- I'm Josh Gates. - [ Piglet squeals ]
In my travels, I've seen some unexplainable things,
and I've done some things I can't quite explain.
Aah!
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 --
the truth.
When it comes to paranormal investigations
on "Destination Truth," we love a challenge.
From the faraway shores of lonely Easter Island
to the radioactive streets of Chernobyl,
to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean,
we haven't exactly made things easy on ourselves.
But nothing in "Destination Truth" history
compares to this -- Antarctica.
This is the coldest and most unforgiving place on Earth,
and with only a handful of visiting scientists,
the entire continent has a permanent population of zero.
But according to the few hardy visitors who travel here,
that doesn't mean that Antarctica is empty.
A powerful paranormal presence has been felt
in the long abandoned whaling station on Deception Island,
where sailors have been buried.
Ships that have sought refuge in this volcanic harbor
have radioed reports of lights
and the shapes of figures moving amidst the frozen ruins.
Further south, scientists working at Vernadsky Station
have noted unnerving activity at nearby Wordie Hut,
a long-abandoned British base.
The sounds of movement and voices
from within seem to indicate
that Wordie is still home to dead explorers.
With an unprecedented and close quarters voyage ahead of us,
I pared down my expedition team
and prepared for the most remote
paranormal investigation in history,
and a journey to the bottom of the world.
We boarded a plane in Los Angeles
and crossed the Americas,
landing in Rio Grande in southern Argentina.
While the team claimed our gear,
Ryder noticed something different about Tony and I.
Did you guys do something different with your hair?
Oh, well, you know, Tony and I are sporting
our sweet Arctic beards.
These are great. They let you do this...
- Hmm. Hmm. - So you can ponder things more?
You can ponder a lot more with this beard. Hmm.
GATES: Outside, we loaded up a 4-by-4,
which turned out to have some custom features.
This car has got a pretty sweet horn.
[ Car alarm sounding ]
♪♪
[ Car alarm chirps ]
To reach the end of the Americas,
we pointed our car south
for a 200-kilometer drive to the town of Ushuaia.
This stunning landscape is known as Tierra Del Fuego,
or The Land of Fire.
Here, South America falls apart
into a stunning archipelago of mountains and islands.
After a few hours, we arrived in Ushuaia,
a charming seaside port,
and the southern-most city in the world.
And as we stretched our legs in town,
it was easy to get caught up in the nautical vibe.
Fish sticks for sale.
Frozen fish sticks, anybody?
Can somebody please hold this lamp for me?
My arm is exhausted.
Oh. Thank you.
That actually takes a lot of weight off.
Ushuaia is also the jumping off point
for more than 80% of all Antarctic expeditions,
and since our journey would be perilous,
we stepped into a local outfitter
for critical cold-weather gear.
All right, guys. We got to pick up supplies.
We got to pick up food.
We need the leather jacket from "Thriller."
[ "Thriller" opening chords play ]
All right. Here we go.
Put on the suit legs first.
What do you think?
- Too much? - No.
I mean, if you're ever going to wear a hat like this...
You're yelling.
I just can't hear anything.
It's very insulated. Oh, yeah.
I am. I'm being quite loud, aren't I? Wow.
Ryder, I feel like Kurt Russell in "The Thing."
Since humans can survive
for less than 5 minutes in Antarctic water,
our most important purchase
was a set of emergency survival suits.
If the boat sinks, we all need to be able to get these on
in 1 minute or less.
- Can you do that? - 100%.
You have 1 minute. Are you ready?
- Of course. - Go.
♪♪
Done.
41 seconds.
GATES: With supplies in hand and our cameraman well-protected,
we carried on to our first interview.
♪♪
The nearby maritime museum is housed
within the eerie cellblocks of Ushuaia's former prison.
It chronicles the deadly history of Antarctic exploration,
showcasing some of the more than 100 vessels that have been lost,
as well as chilling photographs
of explorers that never returned.
Historian Monica Shillat warned us about
the dangers inherent to Antarctic exploration.
Tell me about the crossing from Ushuaia to Antarctica.
When it came to discussing Deception Island,
her reports were no less ominous.
♪♪
GATES: With no commercial air service to Antarctica,
we'd need a boat to get there.
We brought our gear down to the docks in Ushuaia,
which was brimming with massive icebreakers,
including the impressive Clelia II,
which was undergoing repairs.
Just 1 week before our arrival, the Clelia II was crippled
while attempting to cross to Antarctica on our same route.
Compared to these giant vessels,
our boat was a little more modest --
a 54-foot steel-hulled sailboat called the Sarah Vorwerk.
- Little smaller than I expected. - Well, listen.
We got a lot of work to do before we sink -- set sail.
Let's get to it, gang. Come on.
♪♪
After loading gear and supplies aboard,
I took a little tour of our new home away from home.
This is our capable captain, Hank.
- Hank, how we doing? - Hey. Excellent, Josh.
Good. Good to see you. How's the weather look?
- Excellent. - Yeah?
- Oh, yeah. - Going to be a calm crossing?
A smooth crossing.
- Hank is a very good liar. - All downhill.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
All right. Good. I'm looking forward to it.
Here we go. Into the galley.
This is our galley, where I'm sure we'll be
spending a lot of time.
Kyle, you're, I assume, preparing dinner for tonight?
Yes. Would you like some braised short ribs?
Braised short ribs sounds terrific.
And I'll take you back to the living quarters,
give you a little tour of the front of the boat.
And here we have Ryder's room.
Ryder, how do you like your room?
You know, I thought I ordered the large.
Looks like I got the petite.
Do you actually fit in the bed?
Not really. Not really.
I have to do some adjusting, maybe carve out
a little head hole in one of these walls.
- Perfect. - Yeah.
It's going to be cozy. And, continuing on, we have...
This is Gabe and Kyle's room here.
Here's our little modest bathroom,
with, of course, an actual bathtub.
I'm sure we'll be taking a lot of baths on this trip.
And then I hopefully will be nice and dry
in here with the medic, Shawn.
And that's the boat.
That's the tour.
Late in the evening, once everything was stowed away,
we cast off from the docks and set sail for Antarctica.
♪♪
Below decks, the crew and I nervously settled in
for our first night's sleep at sea.
The next day, I awoke like a kid on Christmas morning
and headed topside for a beautiful view of...
We're back at the dock.
♪♪
Well, something is wrong.
In fact, our boat's transmission had failed in the night,
and Hank brought us back to port under sail.
And without a major repair, we weren't going anywhere.
Okay. Screwdriver.
Wrench.
No. Tony, give me the real wrench.
There we go. Okay.
Guys, we'll be out of here in no time.
I mean, how long could this possibly take?
Unable to fix the transmission, we were thrilled at the arrival
of an admittedly battered replacement unit,
which was shipped in all the way from Chile.
If this unit were to stop working in the open ocean,
it could be a fatal malfunction.
Coming down.
Once the part was installed, we crossed our fingers
and were back on the high seas, bound for Antarctica.
♪♪
The first part of our journey would take us from Ushuaia
and through the Beagle Channel
toward toward the outlying edge of South America.
The day started out like a dream.
The beautiful Channel islands drifted by,
and dolphins jumped along our bow.
Our captain put the crew to work,
and Tony just tried his best to keep up.
Am I jimming? What am I doing?
How long is this rope?
GATES: But by evening, the weather began to turn
as we approached the open ocean.
In order to round the tip of South America,
sailors must pass Cape Horn.
Beyond the horn is the dreaded Drake Passage,
the most deadly stretch of ocean on Earth.
For the next 4 days,
our boat sailed in the open seas of the Drake.
Moving around below deck became something of a challenge.
The boat listed so hard
that portholes suddenly became aquariums,
and eating dinner was no picnic since everything in the galley
would sway, rock and slide at will...
Oh,s boy.
including the human stomach, which can only take so much.
I love my job.
GATES: Even sleeping was a chore,
as we had to strap ourselves into our bunks
to avoid being thrown out onto the floor.
If it wasn't for this little thing right here,
I would be down there with my shoes.
GATES: In order to go topside,
we had to harness ourselves to the boat.
Just another beautiful day here in the Drake Passage.
And after days on a landless sea, we established ice watches.
While the boat powered forward on autopilot, around the clock,
members of the team took turns on the freezing deck
watching for lethal chunks of runaway ice.
Iceberg! Hey! Ice!
♪♪
Dead ahead!
Okay! Coming to starboard. Hold on!
We're gonna clip it!
♪♪
Iceberg! Hey! Ice!
Dead ahead!
Okay! Coming to starboard. Hold on!
We're gonna clip it!
[ Ice scrapes ]
- Okay! We're okay! - Clear on port side.
RYDER: There is a whole ice field coming up.
That is a lot of ice.
♪♪
Before us was an endless seascape of floating ice.
Okay. We'll just take this nice and slow.
And rising up from the ocean,
the seventh continent, Antarctica.
♪♪
This jaw-dropping desert of ice
contains 70% of the fresh water on Earth,
and is nearly twice the size of the United States.
We slowed our boat to navigate
safely through the shifting floes.
Having survived the Drake, though,
Captain Hank cracked open some bubbly,
and for the first time in 4 days,
we managed to keep some liquid down.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
GATES: To meet the most recent eyewitnesses at Deception,
we sailed to the harbor of nearby King George Island,
located 75 miles off the coast.
This lonely scrap of land houses several remote research bases,
including the Russian Bellingshausen Station.
We dropped anchor in the bay,
lowered our Zodiac, and motored to shore,
hopeful to receive a warm welcome
in this most inhospitable place.
I hope these Russians like Americans
dropping in totally unannounced.
Why didn't we bring Russian vodka?
- Hello. - GATES: How are you?
Uh, who are you?
GATES: Luckily, we were met by the only English-speaking member
of the 17-person Russian crew.
His team were well aware of the paranormal reports
from nearby Deception Island.
And can you sort of feel the presence of the people
who used to work there?
Yeah...
GATES: After the interview, we were invited to warm up
inside the station.
Okay. Come along.
GATES: Seeing as these scientists had been
cooped up here for more than a year,
I think they were just thrilled to have someone new to talk to.
We don't want to impose. I don't want to...
No problem. No problem. No problem. Okay.
♪♪
GATES: In a flash, they whipped up a traditional Russian dinner.
Okay. So this is brandy. This is vodka.
GATES: And, of course, insisted that we have a drink, or two...
or 15.
Here's a toast for our sudden guests,
and we are so happy to have them.
- [ Speaks Russian ] - Cheers.
GATES: After dinner,
we were treated to a tour of the station,
which includes weather-tight living pods,
a hand-built mini Russian Orthodox Church
with room for 10 worshippers, and even a sauna,
which Gabe and Tony were eager to try out.
Unfortunately, Russian tradition dictates that
after a spell in the steamy sauna,
patrons have to jump into a vat of Antarctic water.
[ Screaming ]
It's freezing!
- Keep moving! - [ Laughing ]
Go!
GATES: We dried off our flash-frozen team members,
bid our Soviet scientists farewell,
and headed back to the Sarah Vorwerk
to begin our first investigation.
Our boat sailed on from King George
toward the crescent-shaped caldera of Deception Island.
This active volcano is an impressive sight to behold.
Towering cliffs guard the entrance
to one of the safest harbors in Antarctica,
although it's called Deception for a reason.
Just beneath the surface of the water are shallow,
jagged rocks and the evidence of boats
that failed to negotiate the narrow entrance.
We're here.
We passed the channel, dropped anchor and headed to shore.
This harbor was once used as a whaling station.
It also contains the remains of a British base,
which was partially destroyed by a volcanic mudslide.
Since the sun never quite sets in Antarctica this time of year,
we constructed our base camp under an eerie twilight sky
amidst the freezing ruins.
We'd still need night vision to image the murky landscape
and dark interiors of the structures.
We strung infrared cameras throughout the buildings
and facing the remains of the old cemetery,
where long dead whaler's graves
have been disturbed by volcanic eruptions.
If anything moved on camera,
Tony would be able to record it at base camp.
This is the most remote location we've ever investigated in.
We are at the bottom of the world.
I think you just need to be a little extra cautious tonight,
because if you get hurt, it's just such a bad situation.
There's really no extraction plan
that can be put into place quickly.
Tonight we're looking to validate or try to explain away
these really amazing reports
that we've heard about people sighted here,
voices of the whalers that used to work here and who died here.
I'll lead a team with Ryder and Kyle.
We'll start by heading over to the remains
of the British station.
Shawn, why don't you and Gabe head over
the derelict structures on this side of the bay?
See what you guys can find over there.
Okay. Let's get to it, guys. We got a long night.
♪♪
Pretty desolate.
Temperature is definitely dropping, too.
I feel like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man right now.
I know, but I'm still freezing. Aren't you?
Let's head up inside the old British base,
maybe warm up a little bit. - Okay.
Be really careful in here.
As you can see, it's all falling apart.
It looks like most of the foundation
was washed out of this one.
The mudflow came right through the center of the building.
Wow.
Thermal doesn't show anything moving around inside.
Where was the epicenter of the volcano?
Is it from over...
I think the mudflow came from back there.
Whoa! Whoa! Right there!
I just saw something in this window.
I just saw something inside this building.
♪♪
GATES: Thermal doesn't show anything moving around inside.
Whoa! Whoa! Right there!
I just saw something in this window.
I just saw something inside this building.
- Which one? - This one right here.
This far right window.
I saw something down in here.
♪♪
There's no animals.
There's nothing in here.
Place is totally empty.
It was like something moved right across this window frame.
RYDER: There's no glass to make a reflection.
No. There's no prints.
There's no evidence that any animal was in here.
It's just completely empty.
- Is there anybody here? - Hello?
Looks like there's a hallway down here
that leads to another building.
I'll try to check it out.
♪♪
Hello?
Oh, my god. Look at this.
- It's the engine room. - Oh, my god.
It's where they must have ran the diesel engines
to heat the place.
I mean, you can actually sense
what it was like when people were here.
Obviously, it's rusted and a little bit wrecked out,
but you can see where the tables and chair
and shelves, equipment,
where everything would have been.
All right. Well, there's nobody in here.
I say we check out the rest of the bay.
Sounds good.
Okay. Let's get out of here.
♪♪
Oh, my god. My fingers are numb.
Yeah. I know. Mine are, too.
Oh, Shawn. Look at this.
I just saw a light in that little house over there.
Where?
Directly across.
Gabe for Josh. We just saw a light in one of
the little shacks directly east of us.
Are you guys anywhere near there?
It's definitely not us. We're in the center of the bay.
I would say hustle over there and see if you can
figure out what it is. Okay. Copy that.
♪♪
SHAWN: Oh, dude.
This looks crazy, Gabe.
I don't see the light.
Josh, this is Shawn. We know there have been
some sightings in this building anyway,
so I think we're going to go ahead and do an EVP session.
GATES: Copy that.
All right. [ Sighs ]
Is there anyone here that would like to speak with us?
We have traveled a great distance to come here.
Is there anything you would like to tell us?
- Hear that? - Could just be the wind.
I mean, there's noises everywhere.
The wind is definitely picking up.
♪♪
Base camp to Josh.
I'm getting some weird color shifts on this I.R. Camera
which is facing the old graveyard site.
Is it a technical problem?
Do you think it's a bad connection or something?
Negative. It is not a bad connection.
I tested the connectors.
Just keep an eye on that camera,
and we'll get up there and check it out.
Oh, that's warm. Whoo.
♪♪
That's the cemetery?
- That's all that's left? - Yeah.
There were almost 50 graves here at one point,
but the volcanic eruptions covered them all.
You know, a lot of people think that
because those bodies were disturbed,
that's the reason there's so much activity here.
- Is that a coffin? - What?
- That's a coffin. - Oh, wow.
And just two other crosses,
both unmarked.
Pretty lonely place to be buried.
Josh for Tony. Come in.
We're in the remains of the cemetery, now.
- Do you see us? - Yeah. I see you guys.
It looks like you've got a good signal.
Batteries are connected. Cables are connected.
I have a good signal.
It's just, the color keeps shifting on me, which is odd.
Did it just happen then?
It totally just happened then.
You know what? The I.R. Camera might be autosensing
because of the light.
It might be trying to turn the I.R. On and off.
Is there a lot of glacier ice behind it?
Yeah, there is, a lot of white ice up in the hill,
and the sky is pretty white there, too.
We're kind of stuck in this perpetual twilight.
I think maybe the camera is just getting confused.
Yeah. I think you're right.
Let's keep moving on to the main buildings,
get a break from this wind.
RYDER: Yeah. Sounds good.
♪♪
Oh, Shawn. Look at this.
Whale bones.
Holy jeez.
Biggest "DT" bone find ever.
Oh, my gosh.
We're going to need an evidence kit the size of the boat.
♪♪
There's an airplane hangar in the British base.
Let's see if we can get inside.
It's in pretty good shape inside.
It's enormous.
This is the first building that's had a...
[ Sniffs ] really strong smell to it.
It smells like wet and decay.
Ugh. A lot of rotting wood.
♪♪
[ Loud clank ] - [ Gasps ] Oh!
- You okay? - Did you hear that?
It sounded to me like something just dropped
right in the middle of the room. - Yeah. Oh. That was loud.
It's just one big tin panel room.
I don't think anything fell.
I'm going to check out this side, Ryder.
- Yeah. - You check out over here.
♪♪
RYDER: Not much left in here.
[ Loud clank ]
- Oh! - Whoa!
That was loud, way louder than the first time.
I don't see any big pieces of debris
that fell down from the ceiling.
I don't see any animals, any birds.
- Is there anybody here? - Hello?
Maybe there's something we're not hearing right now.
Someone is trying to get our attention.
[ Gasps ] Oh, my gosh! What is that?
♪♪
Is there anybody here?
GATES: Hello?
Maybe there's something we're not hearing right now.
Someone is trying to get our attention.
[ Gasps ] Oh, my gosh! What is that?
- What? What? What do you see? - What is that?
It looks like someone is right over here where that door was.
There's nobody there. What are you talking about?
It looked like a dark shadow.
- Here? - Right there.
It looked like a person?
Could you make out any features?
I don't know. I... I'm freaking out.
This whole place is freaking me out.
It looked like someone was right there.
Ryder, I don't know what to tell you.
- There's nobody there. - I don't know.
I just might be scaring myself now.
The way that the snow is reflecting,
it might have been a shadow I saw.
We'll leave the digital audio recorder running.
Maybe we'll pick up some EVPs,
and let's just keep walking around the building.
If we can't identify the noise, or we don't see
the shadow again, we'll move on.
- Okay. - You okay?
Yeah. I'm just a little on edge.
I know. You seemed freaked out.
GATES: We continued to scour the hangar's perimeter,
but never discovered the source of the noises
or the shadows we encountered inside.
With dawn breaking over the bay, we packed up our equipment
and got back onboard the Sarah Vorwerk.
We were done at Deception but had plenty more
to investigate as we sailed on.
Despite a night with no sleep, the crew seemed in good spirits
as we hit the high seas.
And with so many icebergs around,
I just couldn't help but get inspired.
♪♪
Okay, Ryder. Close your eyes.
♪♪
I feel like I'm flying, Josh.
♪♪
I'm the king of the world!
Oh, what do you want?
I mean, there's ice. We're on a boat.
What, am I not gonna make that joke?
If we sink now because of this hilarious joke...
- God, it's freezing. - Why don't we go inside?
- I'll paint you naked. - All right. Go. Let's go.
GATES: Our course would take us to more frigid latitudes
as we sailed south toward the Argentine islands
and our next overnight investigation
at distant Wordie Hut, several days away.
This building was built in 1947 as Base F,
one of a number of early British research outposts
that have long been forsaken.
But according to polar explorers,
the building retains a powerful presence,
the lingering spirits of those who tried to survive
in the early days of this desolate shelter.
As we sailed on toward this unsettling destination,
we took solace in a noticeable sea change.
With calm waters ahead,
life below decks became much more palatable.
We finally ate meals without spilling them
all over ourselves,
buried our faces in books instead of the toilet bowl,
and got schooled by Ryder in a few hundred games of chance.
- Ah! Come on. - Ah! [ Laughs ]
Read 'em and weep. Read 'em and weep.
Read 'em and weep, boys.
GATES: After days at sea, we arrived at Port Lockroy.
This British base and whaling station was used
from World War II until being abandoned in 1962.
Though the settlement seems to be primarily run by penguins,
human base leader Nicki Rickett told us
about the eerie state of Britain's Wordie Hut.
♪♪
GATES: We sailed on for another 24 hours and finally reached
the Ukrainian Vernadsky Station.
Originally owned by the Brits,
the Ukrainians bought the entire base,
including neighboring Wordie Hut,
for the bargain price of $1.
But before we motored over to Wordie,
we headed inside the manned station.
It was in this very room
that the ozone hole above the Earth was discovered,
but that's not the only reason this base is famous.
25 years ago, the scientists here received
a shipment of wood to build a new pier.
Instead, they built the Faraday Bar,
unarguably the finest watering hole in Antarctica.
This is like a real deal bar. This is great.
Our research revealed that the bar accepts
a rather unique payment option.
So what's with the bras, Andre?
They drink for free if they give the bra?
Wait, snacks as well?
All right. Only because there are free drinks and snacks.
Fine.
How is that?
- Hold on a second. - [ Laughs ]
- There we go. There we go. [ Applause ]
You can have both of ours.
I drink for free, too, though, right?
- Oh! [ Laughs ] - Why for girls only?
I want my bra back. I want my bra back.
GATES: And though he reneged on my free drinks,
Andre is the Ukrainian base leader
who held the key to investigating
Wordie Hut, literally.
Would you like to spend a winter in there?
- And you have a key? - Yes.
Can we borrow it for the evening?
Yes.
GATES: With the key in our possession,
we left Vernadsky Station and motored over to Wordie
under the perennial glow of the Antarctic night sky.
The hut's Ukrainian landlords and occasional visitors
have recently reported strange happenings from within.
Voices and the sounds of habitation
have been documented here
as well as the shadows of figures in the windows.
We set to work constructing our base camp,
stringing infrared cameras
around the site for surveillance.
Tony would monitor the sweep teams
as well as the video feeds from around the hut.
Gabe and I took the key to the building
and proceeded inside to investigate,
while Ryder, Shawn, and Kyle explored the outlying areas.
All right, Gabe.
Here we go.
I got the key.
Here goes nothing.
♪♪
[ Door creaking ]
Okay. Here we go.
Pretty dark.
Oh, my god. Look at this.
The original equipment is still sitting on the desk.
There's an old theodolite typewriter.
It's amazing, all the stuff that's here.
Look at this.
Let's go and check out the other rooms.
♪♪
I can see some tracks through here.
They look like little penguin footprints.
Let's hope it's nothing too big.
That is a massive leopard seal.
He's looking right at us. [ Groans ]
From across the bay, that might account
for some of the sounds people are hearing, though.
♪♪
GATES: So we got our little bunk room and our old cot.
Some old brushes up on the shelf.
Look at this handbook.
"The inherent dangers of boating in Antarctica
cannot be strongly stressed."
- No kidding. - Oh, Josh. A diary.
Okay. Let's see here.
♪♪
"Southerly gale. Temperature -- 0 degrees.
"The hut is bitterly cold. Not a very pleasant outside.
Wonder what the winter will be like."
Wait. Shh. "John decides to sew up his blankets --"
I just heard something right here.
What'd you hear? I heard a little click by this light.
I don't think that light has clicked for a long time.
Yeah. It's all disconnected.
I just got the chills a little bit.
"Miserable day, and after yesterday's disaster..."
I just heard it again.
- Let's see. - Whoa. What was that?
- I heard that. - Yeah.
It did. It sounded like it was the light switch.
That light is completely disconnected.
It sounded like it just turned on.
♪♪
Yeah. There's no way that could flip by itself.
It's impossible.
It sounding like that thing clicked.
Yeah. And it happened twice, too,
and both times, you were reading in the journal.
Well, if it couldn't be from there,
maybe it's on the other side of the wall.
Let's go check out what's behind this. Okay.
♪♪
Oh. This must have been the main room.
One, two, three, four. It's six bunks.
Got a kitchen, a stove.
It's probably the warmest room in the hut.
Well, I don't see anything in here
that could have been making that clicking sound.
GABE: It's creepy being in here at night
with other people's stuff,
other people's clothing.
[ Clank ] - Whoa! What was that?
♪♪
GABE: It's creepy being in here at night
with other people's stuff,
other people's clothing.
[ Clank ] - Whoa! What was that?
[ Metal rattling ]
Where did that come from?
It didn't just move itself over there, did it?
- I don't know. Maybe we... [ Loud bang ]
[ Whispers ] What was that?
What about this other room over here?
I feel like somebody is in here. Hello?
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Oh, my god. Look at this place.
Look at this room. It's the old storage room.
Ooh. This is creepy.
Rusty nails,
old cans, and disgusting old rags.
Looks like a scene from "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
Dude, it's like every time we leave one room,
I feel like there's a noise in the other room.
- Yeah. - Pretty spooky in here.
Let me get the trifield meter out.
Get a baseline reading.
There shouldn't be any electricity here.
I got a little spike. Not much, though.
It's almost like a pulse of electricity,
but I have no idea where that would be coming from.
We've calibrated it for our gear. It's not us.
- Yeah. [ Meter warbling ]
There it is again.
There shouldn't be anything in here
disrupting the electromagnetic field.
GATES: With so much strange activity in Wordie Hut,
I decided to call in the cavalry and conduct simultaneous
isolation sessions in different rooms.
Tony repositioned cameras in the interior,
and Ryder, Shawn, and Kyle came in from the cold to assist.
Kyle sat alone in the officer's room,
while Ryder took up a position in the old storage room.
Is there anybody here?
Josh. You there?
Tell me what's going on, man.
I'm hearing a weird clicking sound,
and it doesn't sound like a light switch.
They sounded the same, but there is a typewriter to my right,
and it's almost like a really faint tapping on the typewriter.
All right. Well, if you heard it, we might have it
on the mics as well, so we got a bunch of different
audio recorders in there that might have picked it up.
Really, really, really, really, really creepy.
Mnh, I just got the chills
all over my body.
Can you show me a sign of your presence?
[ Static hissing ]
My camera just went out.
I'm not sure if that means anything,
that I just asked to show a sign of its presence,
and this camera to my left just went out,
literally right after I said it.
Yeah. Copy that, Ryder.
We see a loss of signal on that camera as well.
That's certainly strange timing at the very lease.
Definitely creeped me out.
The cold does suck the juice out of the batteries faster,
but, I mean, it should be warmer in here.
Right.
[ Object clatters ]
GATES: Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Kyle, what's going on?
Something just fell behind me.
Did you knock it, or did it just fall off?
I was sitting perfectly still,
and this thing just fell from the desk onto the floor.
That's the exact same kind of thing
that happened to Gabe and I in this kitchen.
It was, like, the top of that kettle,
which was sitting on the counter as far as we could tell,
was suddenly just on the floor.
Wow. How much time do I have left?
I'm not really looking to stay here much longer.
In the name of good will, we can get you out of there.
- Why don't you come on out? - Yes.
Time is up, Ryder. You are relieved.
Not a moment too soon, so good luck to whoever is next.
GATES: Next, Shawn and I took our turns in isolation.
Earlier, we heard banging noises
coming from this room and footsteps.
Can you make that sound again?
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Does he feel something?
I mean, could it be a draft, the wind coming in?
No. This room is pretty small and airtight.
Actually, it's very stuffy.
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GATES: I'm hearing footsteps just outside this room
in the corridor.
There's no one out there.
Do you want us to send somebody to look?
No. I know there's nobody out there.
It just sounds like light footsteps
right outside the room.
It's the weirdest thing.
It's like they recede a little bit,
and then they get stronger, and then they just stop.
Whoa!
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I'm hearing footsteps just outside this room
in the corridor.
It's the weirdest thing.
It's like they recede a little bit and then they get stronger.
Whoa!
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- Where'd he go? - Josh. Josh.
I just -- I swear to God,
I just thought I saw someone outside this door.
Right as we were talking about it,
I thought I saw someone out here.
I was certain somebody was going to be out here.
I feel the same way I did the first time
I was in that room with Gabe.
I feel like somebody is lurking around right outside the door.
Nobody out here. Just... chasing nothing.
Weird.
We spent the rest of the chilly night
within the confines of the hut, recording unusual sounds.
The entire team also noted a general feeling
of not being alone.
In the morning, we boarded the Sarah Vorwerk
and laid in a course for home.
That is, if Ryder could get the sail up.
Ryder, hoist the sail!
I'm hoisting!
Can't you see the hoisting going on up here?
Don't you call me your hoister.
GATES: Finally underway, we sailed for 6 days
up the Antarctic peninsula
and across the stormy Drake Passage,
before flying back to Los Angeles
to dry out and analyze our findings.
We began by examining the FLIR footage from Deception.
The most impressive piece of visual evidence
we got at Deception Island is in the form of this thermal hit.
When you and I were going to check out the British base,
as we walk up to the building,
I have this really strong reaction
because I saw something on the thermal.
Now take a look at exactly what it was that I saw.
Whoa! Right there! Right there!
- See that? - Can I see it one more time?
Uh-huh. Right as the thermal imager comes around,
you see what looks like movement in this corner of the window,
and then it goes away. - Yeah. Right there.
There's definitely a shape that's moving to the window.
It's almost like it's moving out of the way of the camera.
And it's not part of the frame of the window
or debris in the background. - No.
It's moving independently of the thermal imager.
Right. We looked through it.
We didn't find any evidence of any other animals.
We know that that place is deserted.
It's a pretty amazing piece of evidence.
Yeah. Absolutely.
And it leaves us with this troubling question,
which is, you know, what or who is standing in that window?
But I think for now,
that's going to have to remain a mystery.
This is an EVP session that Shawn and Gabe
were conducting in one of the structures on the island.
Let's listen in on this.
Is there anyone here that would like to speak with us?
Hear that?
At one point, you hear him say, "Can you hear that?"
so we actually went in and boosted the audio
to see if we could hear what they were hearing.
And check this out. This is what we hear back.
Is there anyone here who would like to speak with us?
[ Thumping sounds ]
It almost sounds like a beating, but it's rhythmic.
You get these low tones underneath the wind
and the gulls and all those things.
You do hear this low tone.
And it does. It sounds rhythmic, right?
So we went back and tried to clean up the waveform
a little bit so that we just saw the low, bass-y noise.
And, in fact, there is a pattern.
We get these three short, low banging noises,
three longer ones, and then three shorter ones,
which is the International Morse Code for "S.O.S."
Oh. That's really eerie.
It's really eerie.
Certainly could be a coincidence,
as they only hear the pattern one time.
It doesn't continue to repeat.
But for this one instance, we get three short noises,
three dashes,
and three more dots, and that's an S.O.S signal,
which would have been used from that base.
That could be communication.
He asked a question, and this is legitimately an answer.
It may not be a vocal answer, but that's an answer.
GATES: We then turned to our investigation at Wordie Hut
and the strange noise that Gabe and I heard
in the officer's quarters.
"The hut is bitterly cold. Not very pleasant outside.
Wonder what the winter will be like."
- You hear that? - Yeah.
What does that sound like to you?
It sounds like a switch is being thrown.
That's exactly what it sounds like, right?
In fact, there is in this room this old light switch,
and Gabe goes over and checks it out,
and this is the two noises side by side.
And they don't sound exactly the same,
but they do sound like they're related.
To me, this evidence is really compelling.
It sounds a lot like that switch.
But there was more going on in here than
just this clicking noise.
We had a lot of strange occurrences
happen inside of Wordie.
During your isolation session, your camera malfunctioned.
And it wasn't just that. We had trifield hits.
[ Meter warbling ] - There it is again.
Of course, I thought I saw someone
during my isolation session,
which caused me to bolt out of the room after it.
Whoa!
I think for me, one of the most compelling things
was actually earlier in the night,
when Gabe and I first came into the hut.
Whoa! What was that?
And, you know, you take any one of these things by itself,
and it could be a coincidence,
but it was one thing after another after another.
The fact that all these different events
happened to completely different people,
but in the same night --
physical, auditory, electrical --
it just was too much to not say that it's compelling evidence.
And this again lines up to what people claim
happens inside Wordie,
and so I think Wordie absolutely lived up to its reputation.
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GATES: For my team and I, the journey to Antarctica was
the most difficult in "Destination Truth" history.
A week pounding through the Drake Passage in close quarters
was a trial of patience and nerve.
We're going to clip it!
[ Ice scrapes ]
But, boy, was it worth it,
for at the other end of a seemingly endless sea
is a hidden part of our world.
Within its long silenced whaling stations,
the shadows of the past can still be seen,
and cries for help can still be heard.
Is there anyone here that would like to speak with us?
Hear that?
GATES: At a lonely British base, time has frozen,
but the past seems to reach out at every turn.
[ Clank ] - Whoa! What was that?
In the end, Antarctica is a place
that resists being described.
It is sometimes a fairy tale, and at other moments,
it seems to be a nightmare.
In reality, it's both.
Antarctica is lethally beautiful,
with alabaster landscapes
that can only be witnessed at great peril.
But it is also a land of survivors,
dedicated scientists, and hardy explorers
who have staved off the continent's frosted grip.
And like those who came before them,
they leave a permanent mark on this place,
a mark that echoes into the future.
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