Search for the Lost Giants (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Into the Bone Cave - full transcript
Male narrator: TONIGHT ON
SEARCH FOR THE LOST GIANTS...
YOU HAVE A BONE CAVE WHERE
THEY'RE PULLING OUT GIANT
SKELETAL REMAINS...
THEY FOUND LARGE SKULLS.
MANY TIMES AS THE FLOODS
HAPPENED, WHOLE SKELETONS HAVE
WASHED OUT OF THE BANK.
JIMMY AND I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS.
A LIVE WITNESS.
I STILL... I GET GOOSE BUMPS.
IT'S A DANGEROUS PLACE...
WHOA, WHOA, [bleep].
THE BONE CAVE COULD BE
THE BURIAL PLACE OF A GIANT ROYAL CLASS.
[bleep]!
YOU GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE.
JIM!
THERE'S NO WAY I'M STOPPING NOW.
WOW, HOLY [bleep]!
WE COULD BE ON TO SOMETHING
REALLY, REALLY EXTRAORDINARY.
Narrator: FOR MILLENNIA
HUMANKIND HAS TOLD TALES OF
GIANTS THAT ONCE WALKED THE EARTH.
OZARK CAVES IN ARKANSAS, NINE FOOT.
PROVO, UTAH ARE 8'6".
Narrator: JIM VIEIRA BELIEVES
IT MAY BE MORE THAN JUST MYTH.
THE BIG MYSTERY, WHERE ARE THE BONES?
Narrator: JIM AND HIS BROTHER BILL...
HERE WE GO, BROTHER.
Narrator: WANT TO GET TO THE TRUTH.
IT JUST SEEMS IT SLIPPED
THROUGH THE HANDS OF HISTORY.
WHOA!
HOLY [bleep]!
WOW!
IT'S WICKED.
UNBELIEVABLE.
Both: WHOA!
[suspenseful music]
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[heartbeat]
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY OUT HERE.
IT IS!
ROLLING HILLS.
MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE, YEAH.
I THINK WE'RE GETTING CLOSE, THOUGH.
Narrator: BROTHERS JIM AND
BILL VIEIRA ARE BACK ON THE ROAD.
THIS TIME, TAKING THEIR QUEST
FOR GIANTS TO THE MIDDLE OF
AMERICA, WHERE THE LARGEST
CLUSTER OF REPORTED GIANT
SKELETON FINDS IS LOCATED.
IF WE COULD FIND AN ARTIFACT
TO PROVE OUR CASE, THAT WOULD BE
UNBELIEVABLE.
I COMPLETELY AGREE.
Narrator: IN THEIR HUNT FOR
EVIDENCE, THE VIEIRAS HAVE
ALREADY MADE HEADWAY ON SEVERAL FRONTS.
IN AN OZARK CAVE...
THERE'S AN EIGHT-FOOT GIANT
DUGOUT RIGHT OVER THERE.
Narrator: THEY FOUND A LARGE TOOTH...
I THINK JUST, LIKE, A BITER.
Narrator: AND SUBMITTED IT
FOR DNA ANALYSIS.
THEY'VE ALSO UNCOVERED
TANTALIZING CLUES AT THE GOSHEN TUNNEL...
BEAUTIFUL.
Narrator: A SIGHT SIMILAR TO
OTHER STRUCTURES WHERE GIANT
SKELETONS WERE REPORTEDLY FOUND.
AND WHERE THE VIEIRAS BELIEVE
THEY'VE LOCATED A HIDDEN CHAMBER
THAT COULD CONTAIN EVIDENCE OF GIANTS.
IN JUST A FEW WEEKS... >> MORNING.
Narrator: ARCHEOLOGISTS FROM
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
WILL BEGIN AN EXCAVATION AT THE SITE.
IN THE MEANTIME, JIM AND BILL
HAVE DECIDED TO SQUEEZE IN ONE
LAST TRIP TO A LOCATION KNOWN
SIMPLY AS THE BONE CAVE.
SO YOU'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
THIS BONE CAVE FOR ABOUT TEN YEARS.
I MEAN, THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST
STORIES THAT YOU'VE EVER TOLD ME, RIGHT?
BIG TIME.
JAWBONE OVER THE FACE, GIANT SKULLS.
DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS TOO, OVER 50, 60 YEARS.
Narrator: REPORTS FROM LOCAL
NEWSPAPERS IN THE 19TH AND EARLY
20TH CENTURY TELL OF A DEEP AND
WINDING CAVERN WHERE
SEVERAL OCCASIONS EMERGED WITH GIANT BONES.
MY FIRST IMPRESSION OF
THE BONE CAVE ACCOUNT WAS THAT
IT WAS A HOAX.
IT WAS A TALL TALE.
IT'S LIKE AN INDIANA JONES MOVIE.
THREE DIFFERENT TEAMS OF
EXPLORERS REPORTED ESSENTIALLY
THE SAME FINDS.
UNDERGROUND LAKE AND PASSAGES
GOING OUT IN EVERY DIRECTION.
THAT'S CRAZY.
Narrator: BUT WHAT MAKES
THE BONE CAVE SITE EVEN MORE
FASCINATING IS THAT IT IS RIGHT
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE REMAINS OF
AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WIDELY
KNOWN AS THE MOUND BUILDERS.
MOUND BUILDERS WERE INDIGENOUS
AMERICAN PEOPLES WHO LIVED IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE CONTINENT FROM
LOUISIANA TO THE GREAT LAKES AND
BUILT CEREMONIAL EARTHWORKS
BEGINNING AT 3,400 B.C.
THROUGH THE 16TH CENTURY.
FOR THAT REASON, SOME BELIEVE
THEY ARE THE BURIAL PLACES OF GIANTS.
BUT WHERE ARE THESE GIANT SKELETONS?
MANY REMAINS WERE REPATRIATED.
Narrator: POSSIBLY RETURNED
TO NATIVE TRIBES ACCORDING TO
FEDERAL REPATRIATION LAWS.
IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IT SLIPPED
THROUGH THE HANDS OF HISTORY.
KINGS AND QUEENS, GIANTS BURIED
IN BURIAL MOUNDS WITH COPPER
CROWNS AND TREASURES OF PEARLS.
IT JUST BOGGLES THE IMAGINATION.
THE UNBELIEVABLE NATURE OF
NATIVE CIVILIZATION.
Narrator: A CIVILIZATION THAT
HAS HAUNTED THE IMAGINATION OF
GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS,
INCLUDING THIS MAN, COMMONLY
HELD TO BE THE NATION'S GREATEST
PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
THE CORE OF LINCOLN'S
FASCINATION WITH THE MOUND BUILDERS?
GIANTS.
IN 1848, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WRITES ABOUT GIANTS FOUND IN
THE MOUNDS IN HIS NIAGARA SPEECH.
Narrator: LINCOLN WRITES,
"THE EYES OF THAT SPECIES OF
EXTINCT GIANTS, WHOSE BONES FILL
THE MOUNDS OF AMERICA, HAVE
GAZED ON NIAGARA AS OURS DO NOW."
AT THE TIME IT REALLY SEEMED
THAT PEOPLE JUST ACCEPTED
THE IDEA THAT THERE WERE GIANTS
BURIED IN BURIAL MOUNDS ALL
AROUND THE COUNTRY.
Narrator: LINCOLN EVEN TOOK
A LITTLE-KNOWN STEAMBOAT TRIP IN
NOVEMBER OF 1848.
HIS PURPOSE?
A PILGRIMAGE TO THE GREAT MOUND
SITES OF THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY.
BUT WAS LINCOLN CORRECT IN HIS
BELIEF THAT GIANTS WERE BURIED
IN THOSE MOUNDS?
SO HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF
THE SO-CALLED BONE CAVE?
I HAVE.
Narrator: JIM AND BILL MEET
WITH TENNESSEE PARK RANGER
KEITH WIMBERLEY, WHO MANAGES
A MOUND BUILDERS' SITE IN
THE AREA OF THE CAVE
AND WHO MAY BE ABLE TO HELP THEM FIND IT.
YEARS AGO, CHILDREN
SUPPOSEDLY FOUND LARGE SKULLS IN
THE CAVE THAT COULD ACTUALLY
FIT OVER THEIR HEAD.
WOW.
WOW.
SO THERE WAS ACTUALLY A BIRD
PIPE THAT WAS FOUND IN BONE CAVE THAT...
LIKE AN EFFIGY PIPE, RIGHT?
YES.
THAT'S PRETTY COOL.
THAT WAS HEARTENING TO HEAR,
BECAUSE AT A LOT OF THESE BURIAL
SITES YOU FIND EFFIGY PIPES.
NOW WE NEED TO FIND THE BONE
CAVE AND SEE IF WE CAN CONFIRM
ALL THOSE ACCOUNTS.
Narrator: WHILE JIM AND BILL
MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE BONE CAVE
IN TENNESSEE, BACK IN THE HILLS
OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
THE CARVING IS JUST DOWN ON THE EDGE...
narrator: THE VIEIRAS'
COLLEAGUE, HUGH NEWMAN, MEETS
WITH DAVID BRODY NEAR THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.
AND YOU SEE PARTS OF IT ON HERE.
Narrator: BRODY, AN EARLY
SITES RESEARCHER, IS WORKING
WITH HUGH TO DECODE
THE MYSTERIOUS INSCRIPTION...
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH
THE INSCRIBED BOULDER UP HERE?
Narrator: THE TEAM FOUND ON
A STONE JUST 300 YARDS FROM
THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.
IF YOU CAN SOLVE THIS RIDDLE,
YOU'LL BE ABLE TO FIND THE CHAMBER.
SOMETIMES WHEN YOU PUT WATER
ON THIS, GET SOME SHADE OVER IT,
AND THEN SOME LOW ANGLE LIGHT,
THEN YOU MIGHT SEE STUFF WE
HADN'T SEEN BEFORE.
LOOK AT THAT IN THE SUN.
NOW YOU CAN REALLY SEE WHAT THEY ARE.
OH, YEAH, IT'S ALL COMING OUT NOW.
YEAH, A.D., 1792.
WELL, DEFINITELY COLONIAL.
Narrator: THOUGH MOST OF
THE INSCRIPTION IS IN THE LATIN
ALPHABET, THERE ARE SOME
ELEMENTS THAT DON'T SEEM TO FIT.
I MEAN, IT'S JUST THESE BITS
HERE THAT GET ME.
WHAT ARE THESE DOING HERE?
TO ME, THIS LOOKS LIKE SOME KIND
OF CLASSIC SUN SYMBOL.
Narrator: A SUN SYMBOL?
COULD THIS BE AN INDICATION THAT
AT LEAST SOME PART OF
THE INSCRIPTION IS MUCH OLDER
THAN COLONIAL AMERICA?
AND IF SO, COULD IT BE A LINK TO
THE ANCIENT SUN-WORSHIPPING
CIVILIZATION, THE MOUND BUILDERS?
WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT
ALL THE SCRIPT IS IN ONE LINE HERE.
AND WE HAVE TWO CHARACTERS THAT ARE OFF.
IT KIND OF JUST DOESN'T FIT, DOES IT?
BUT I WONDER IF WE FOLLOW
THIS LINE TO THE HORIZON,
IS THAT THE DIRECTION OF THE TUNNEL?
PRETTY MUCH.
IS IT?
YEAH.
Narrator: BUT IF THESE
SYMBOLS ARE MARKING A DIRECTION,
WHAT ARE THEY POINTING TO?
DOES IT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO
WITH THE GOSHEN TUNNEL'S HIDDEN CHAMBER?
OR COULD THEY BE POINTING TO
SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY?
WHILE HUGH AND DAVID SLEUTH OUT
MORE SYMBOLS... >> ALL RIGHT, HERE'S WEST.
Narrator: IN MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE...
OH, MY GOD.
Narrator: JIM AND BILL ARE
APPROACHING THE ENTRANCE TO
THE LEGENDARY BONE CAVE.
WHOA.
WOW.
YEAH, I DON'T WANNA BE A DRAMA
QUEEN, BUT WE GOT TO KEEP OUR
GAME TIGHT BECAUSE THIS IS PRETTY FREAKY.
SO WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ACCOUNTS HERE.
YEAH.
THE ONE WE WANT TO FOLLOW IS THE 1872.
THAT'S THE MOST DETAILED ONE.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO
THE FIRST ACCOUNT PUBLISHED IN
THE MANCHESTER DEMOCRAT IN
1872, LOCAL BOYS DISCOVERED
A GIGANTIC MUMMIFIED SKELETON
IN A SECTION OF THE CAVE KNOWN
AS THE DEAD HOUSE.
AN EXPEDITION OF SIX MEN
FOLLOWED IN SEARCH OF THIS
STRANGE ROOM, THINKING IT COULD
BE A BURIAL CHAMBER.
IN THE ACCOUNT, THE MEN
EVENTUALLY REACHED A VAULTED
SPACE THAT BRANCHED OFF TO
A SERIES OF PASSAGES.
ONE, WHICH SUPPOSEDLY LED TO
THE DEAD HOUSE.
ONE, TO A STRANGE UNDERGROUND
LAKE WITH WALLS THAT APPEARED TO
HAVE BEEN MADE BY HUMAN HANDS.
LET'S SEE IF WE CAN FIND IT.
THESE ARE FLASHLIGHTS HERE.
OKAY.
Narrator: JIM AND BILL WILL
ATTEMPT TO FIND THE DEAD HOUSE...
WATCH YOUR DOME.
Narrator: AND EXPLORE BEYOND
TO SEE WHAT EVIDENCE REMAINS.
LOOK AT THESE GIANT SLABS
THAT HAVE FALLEN DOWN.
AS YOU ENTER THE CAVE,
YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY SEE THAT
IT'S A DANGEROUS PLACE.
THERE ARE ROCK FALLS EVERYWHERE.
Narrator: FROM THEIR
EXPERIENCE AS STONE MASONS,
JIM AND BILL CAN SEE THAT THE
ROCKS AROUND THEM HAVE SHIFTED.
YOU CAN SEE THEY CLEAVED OFF.
THAT FELL.
PIECES OF ROOF ARE ALL OVER
THE PLACE ON THE FLOOR,
AND THAT THING'S COMING DOWN.
IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME,
AND NOT TOO MUCH TIME.
NOW WATCH OUT.
THERE'S SOME BIG PIECES UP TOP.
OH, YEAH, IT LOOKS LIKE
THERE'S A COLLAPSE THERE.
I'M JUST HOPING THE TIME IS
NOT NOW WHILE WE'RE CRAWLING
AROUND UNDERNEATH IT.
Narrator: IT'S LIKELY THAT
THE INTERIOR OF THE CAVE HAS
CHANGED DRAMATICALLY SINCE 1872.
AT ONE TIME, THE CEILING
MIGHT'VE BEEN TEN-FEET HIGH
BEFORE ALL THESE ROCK COLLAPSES.
Narrator: THE WAY TO THE DEAD
HOUSE MIGHT NOW BE BLOCKED.
FOR JIM, THE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER
ARTICLE IS THE CLOSEST THING HE
A PASSAGEWAY...
narrator: THAT PASSAGEWAY
SUPPOSEDLY ENDS IN A DROP OF 25 FEET.
IF THE ACCOUNT IS CORRECT,
THE DEAD HOUSE WHERE THE GIANT
SKELETONS WERE DISCOVERED
SHOULD LIE JUST BEYOND THAT DROP.
WE GO FROM PASSAGEWAY TO PASSAGEWAY.
THESE LITTLE ROOMS, YOU KNOW,
TAPERED DOWN TO NOTHING.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR A STEEP
DROP-OFF THAT GOES DOWN.
YEAH, THAT'S LEGIT.
THERE'S COLD AIR COMING UP FROM UNDER HERE.
DEFINITELY IS.
OH, YEAH.
IT GETS BIGGER.
OH, MAN.
OH, YEAH, IT GOES UNDER.
LET'S GO AROUND THE BEND BEHIND ME.
OKAY.
OH, BOY.
IT'S A TUNNEL.
IT'S A PASSAGEWAY FOR SURE.
WATCH YOUR DOME.
Narrator: GIANT HUNTERS JIM
AND BILL VIEIRA ARE MORE THAN
200 FEET DEEP AT A SITE IN
TENNESSEE KNOWN AS THE BONE CAVE.
THERE'S COLD AIR COMING UP
FROM UNDER HERE.
DEFINITELY IS.
Narrator: THEY'RE STRUGGLING
TO GET TO A SECTION OF THE CAVE
KNOWN AS THE DEAD HOUSE WHERE,
ACCORDING TO A LOCAL NEWSPAPER
FROM 1872, REMAINS OF A GIANT
WERE HAULED OUT BY LOCAL BOYS.
OH, BOY.
IT'S A TUNNEL.
IT'S A PASSAGEWAY FOR SURE.
HOLY [bleep].
THAT'S PRETTY TIGHT, MAN.
YOU DOING OKAY IN THERE?
IT'S REALLY TIGHT HERE.
TAKE YOUR TIME AND SEE IF YOU
CAN GET DOWN THERE.
YEAH, I CAN BARELY BREATHE.
HONESTLY, I HAD NEVER BEEN IN
SUCH A TIGHT SPOT.
I'M SMELLING A DIFFERENT ODOR
FROM DOWN HERE.
[groaning]
THIS MUST BE THE WAY.
[bleep].
THERE'S NO WAY TO GET THROUGH HERE.
WE CAN SEE THAT IT CONTINUES,
BUT IT'S NOT SAFE OR SANE TO CONTINUE.
IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE NOT
GETTING PAST THAT THING TODAY.
Narrator: JIM AND BILL ARE
CONFIDENT THEY'VE FOUND THE WAY FORWARD.
BUT THEY'RE GOING TO NEED HELP
TO GET THROUGH.
YOU HAVE A SPOT THAT HONESTLY
HASN'T BEEN EXAMINED BECAUSE
IT'S SO DIFFICULT TO GET TO.
Narrator: IN ORDER TO GO
DEEPER INTO THE SITE,
THE VIEIRAS WILL HIRE AN EXPERT
CAVER WHO CAN GUIDE THEM SAFELY IN.
MEANWHILE BACK IN MASSACHUSETTS...
TO ME, THIS LOOKS LIKE SOME
KIND OF CLASSIC SUN SYMBOL.
Narrator: INVESTIGATORS
HUGH NEWMAN AND DAVID BRODY ARE
STUDYING A SERIES OF STRANGE
SYMBOLS THEY HAVE FOUND EMBEDDED
IN AN INSCRIPTION NEAR THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.
WITH THESE TWO HERE YOU GOT
SOME KIND OF DIRECTIONAL THING,
EITHER THAT WAY OR THAT WAY.
Narrator: THE SYMBOLS POINT
IN A NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION...
GO FOR A WALK AND SEE WHAT WE FIND?
Narrator: INDICATING
A POSSIBLE SOLSTICE ALIGNMENT,
WHICH IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
COULD SIGNIFY THE PRESENCE OF
A SACRED SITE NEARBY.
BUT WHAT, IF ANYTHING, ARE THESE
SYMBOLS POINTING TOWARDS?
OKAY, CHECK IT OUT.
THAT IS RIGHT IN LINE.
I MEAN, THIS DOES LOOK LIKE
A KIND OF PERFECT CANVAS.
THERE'S SOMETHING HERE, ACTUALLY.
WHAT IS THAT?
Narrator: HUGH AND DAVID
CAN'T DECIPHER THE MARKINGS.
BUT THE PLACEMENT OF THE BOULDER
IN LINE WITH THE SYMBOLS ON
THE INSCRIPTION SUGGESTS THE
POSSIBILITY OF AN ALIGNMENT.
LET'S FOLLOW THE BREADCRUMBS
AND SEE WHERE THEY LEAD.
YEAH, LET'S DO THAT.
Narrator: RIGHT ON THE LINE,
THEY HIT A THIRD BOULDER.
IT LOOKS VERY CRYSTALLINE, THIS ROCK.
IT LOOKS LIKE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF ROCK...
IT IS A DIFFERENT KIND, YES.
IT DOESN'T SEEM NATIVE TO THIS AREA.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT COULD'VE BEEN PLACED HERE.
IT COULD STILL BE A MARKER.
AND WE'RE PLAYING CONNECT
THE DOTS HERE ON THIS LINE.
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, THREE I'LL
GIVE YOU IS A COINCIDENCE.
IF WE GET TO FOUR, I'M NOT
BUYING IT ANYMORE THOUGH.
SO WE'VE GOT THREE STONES.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.
WE'RE ON THE LINE.
AND IS THAT... THAT'S SOMETHING
RIGHT UP THERE.
THIS IS RIGHT ON THE LINE.
THAT IS PRETTY... THAT IS
EXACTLY ON IT, ISN'T IT?
THAT IS A FOURTH BOULDER.
RIGHT.
LOOK AT THAT.
THIS HOLE IS VERY INTERESTING.
SEE HOW THIS IS NOT PERFECTLY CIRCULAR.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S MACHINE MADE.
I DON'T THINK IT'S NATURAL.
WHICH MEANS IT'S PROBABLY
MAN-MADE GOING BACK A WAYS.
THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING'S
BEEN DRILLED IN THERE.
POTENTIALLY IT'S MARKING THEIR ALIGNMENT.
SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
Narrator: WHILE HUGH AND
DAVID CONTINUE TO HUNT FOR MORE
CLUES TO THE PRECISE NATURE OF
THE INSCRIPTION, JIM AND BILL
ARE MAKING THEIR WAY INTO OHIO.
SO ABOUT 40 MILES.
YOU ROAD WEARY YET?
ABSOLUTELY.
Narrator: THE BROTHERS HAVE
SECURED AN EXPERT CAVER TO HELP
THEM EXPLORE THE TENNESSEE BONE CAVE.
MEANWHILE, THEY HAVE DECIDED TO
MEET WITH A FELLOW EXPERT IN
THE FIELD OF GIANT RESEARCH, ROSS HAMILTON.
ROSS IS THE GODFATHER OF GIANTOLOGY.
I TRUST HIM, THAT'S FOR SURE, YOU KNOW?
Narrator: ROSS LIVES IN THE
HEART OF MOUND BUILDER COUNTRY.
AND HE'S WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY
ABOUT THE HISTORY AND FOLKLORE OF GIANTS.
HE LEARNED SO MUCH
INFORMATION FROM NATIVE ELDERS,
AND HE'S TAKEN ALL OF THIS ORAL
TRADITION AND HISTORICAL
EVIDENCE AND HAS SYNTHESIZED THE STORY.
SO I HAVE KIND OF A SURPRISE
FOR YOU GUYS.
Narrator: ROSS HAS BEEN
STUDYING THE PHENOMENON OF GIANT
SKELETON FINDS FOR TWO DECADES.
BUT HE HAS A NEW THEORY THAT
HE'S ABOUT TO REVEAL FOR
THE FIRST TIME TO JIM AND BILL.
WHAT DO WE GOT HERE?
WELL, THIS IS ONE OF MY
PRIZED POSSESSIONS.
THIS IS A MAP OF THE MOUNDS AS
THEY WERE KNOWN TO
THE SMITHSONIAN IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY.
EVERY ONE OF THESE RED DOTS
REPRESENTS SOME MAJOR GROUP OF
MOUNDS FOR THE NATIVE PEOPLE.
WE FOUND MANY ACCOUNTS OF PEOPLE
OF VERY TALL STATURE THROUGHOUT
EVERYWHERE THESE EARTHWORKS WERE.
AND THIS'LL BLOW YOUR MIND A LITTLE BIT.
ONE TIME THERE WAS A GREAT NATION.
AND THIS COUNTRY EXTENDED FROM
THE HUDSON BAY ALL THE WAY DOWN
TO THE GULF OF MEXICO.
AND THEY WERE CALLED THE ALEHANA.
I HAVE TO ADMIT, WHEN ROSS
FIRST STARTED TALKING ABOUT HIS
THEORIES I WAS SKEPTICAL.
IT'S PRETTY CRAZY STUFF.
AND WE'RE GOING BACK TO
THE MIDDLE ARCHAIC PERIOD,
PERHAPS AS LONG AS 6,000 YEARS AGO.
ROSS JUST BLEW OUR MIND.
HE'S TELLING US THAT HE BELIEVES
THAT THE REAL STORY GOES BACK
OVER 6,000 YEARS.
THEY HAD A SINGLE RULER.
AND THEY EVEN HAD A SINGLE
LANGUAGE, PERHAPS WITH LETTERS
THAT WAS ALL SWEPT AWAY IN PRE-HISTORY.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO ROSS,
THE CIVILIZATION LEFT BEHIND BY
THIS ALEHANA PEOPLE PRODUCED
THE MOUNDS WHICH TO THIS DAY
ARE ONE OF THE WONDERS OF
THE ANCIENT WORLD...
NORTH AMERICA'S ANSWER TO
THE PYRAMIDS, MACHU PICCHU, AND STONEHENGE.
THESE STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN
DEMONSTRATED BY SCIENTISTS TO
ACCURATELY PREDICT THE SOLSTICE
AND THE EQUINOX.
ROSS BELIEVES THIS SAME
CIVILIZATION MAY HAVE BEEN
FOUNDED BY A ROYAL CLASS OF COLLASI.
THEY WERE THE TRUE GIANTS.
AND IT WAS THEY WHO HAD
THE EMPIRE THAT STRETCHED FAR TO
THE WEST AND ALL THE WAY TO THE EAST COAST.
TAKING ALL THAT IN, IF YOU STEP
BACK FROM IT, THE FIGURE THAT'S
REPRESENTED IS IN THE SHAPE OF,
LIKE, THE AMERICAN EAGLE.
YOU CAN SEE IT.
NOW THAT YOU SAY IT, ABSOLUTELY.
Narrator: IF WHAT ROSS IS
SAYING IS TRUE, THEN THIS
CIVILIZATION MAY BE THE KEY LINK
BETWEEN THE GOSHEN MYSTERY
TUNNEL AND THE MOUND BUILDERS.
THIS PART IS FASCINATING.
PEOPLE OF TALL STATURE WERE
CONSIDERED TO BE AN EXECUTIVE CLASS.
AND THEY WERE THE ONES THAT WE
BELIEVE WERE REVERED LIKE THEY WERE GODS.
Narrator: THE IDEA OF A RACE
OF GIANT RULERS HAS HAUNTED
THE MIND OF MANKIND SINCE
THE DAWN OF RECORDED HISTORY.
LIKE THE TITANS OF GREEK
MYTHOLOGY, ROYAL SPAWNS OF GODS
AND MORTALS.
ATLAS, WHO HELD THE WORLD ON HIS SHOULDERS.
PROMETHEUS, WHO BROUGHT FIRE TO
THE HUMAN RACE.
BUT COULD THESE FANTASTIC NAMES
BE DIM ECHOES OF A LOST RACE OF
GIGANTIC RULERS WHO MAY ALSO
HAVE TOWERED OVER ROSS'
CIVILIZATION OF THE EAGLE?
THIS MAKES THE PICTURE SO MUCH CLEANER.
IT REALLY DOES.
THE IDEA OF UNUSUALLY TALL ROYAL
CLASS BURIED IN MOUNDS.
IT REALLY RESONATES.
Narrator: THOUGH ROSS'S
THEORY MAY PROVE TO BE
AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF THE PUZZLE
JIM IS TRYING TO SOLVE, IT'S NOT
THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE HE AND
BILL NEED TO FIND IF THEY'RE
GOING TO CONVINCE THE SCIENTIFIC
COMMUNITY THAT MYTHS AND LEGENDS
OF GIANTS WERE ACTUALLY BASED IN FACT.
YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE
A POTENTIALLY GAME-CHANGING LEAD
FOR YOU GUYS.
THIS'LL BLOW YOUR MIND A LITTLE BIT...
narrator: THE VIEIRA BROTHERS
ARE ABOUT TO GET A NEW LEAD IN
THEIR HUNT FOR PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
THAT COULD PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GIANTS.
YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE
A POTENTIALLY GAME-CHANGING LEAD
FOR YOU GUYS.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO ROSS
HAMILTON, A PUBLISHED AUTHOR AND
GIANT HUNTER, HE KNOWS A MAN
WHO'S COME CLOSER TO ACTUAL
GIANT REMAINS THAN ANYONE ELSE...
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK.
Narrator: BUT BECAUSE OF
THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING
THE SUBJECT, THIS MAN HAS NEVER
COME FORWARD.
HI.
ARE YOU VERNON?
WHO'S ASKING?
MY NAME'S JIM VIEIRA.
THIS IS MY BROTHER BILL.
ROSS HAMILTON SENT US.
OKAY. I KNOW ROSS.
HE'S GIVING US THESE LOOKS
LIKE WE'RE TRESPASSING ON HIS PROPERTY.
AND I'M WONDERING WHAT ROSS GOT US INTO.
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH ROSS'S WORK?
YEAH, I'VE PROBABLY DONE MORE
RESEARCH THAN HE HAS IN THE AREA.
HE'S VERY STANDOFFISH.
HE'S VERY RESISTANT.
WE DON'T GET A LOT OF SUPPORT
FOR THIS IDEA BECAUSE IT'S SO
CONTROVERSIAL AND WE JUST WANT HIS HELP.
MAYBE WE COULD SPEAK ALONE FOR A MINUTE.
WOULD THAT BE OKAY?
SO I PULL VERNON ASIDE AND I
TRY TO GET HIM TO WARM UP TO US
AND UNDERSTAND WHERE WE'RE COMING FROM.
HONESTLY, I'VE KIND OF
FALLEN DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE WITH
A PARTICULARLY CONTROVERSIAL
SUBJECT THAT ROSS IS FAMILIAR WITH.
WE'VE BEEN LOOKING INTO REPORTS
OF UNUSUALLY LARGE SKELETONS.
I DRAG MY BROTHER ALONG,
MY FRIENDS ALONG, AND NOW WE'VE
PUT OUR BUSINESS ON HOLD, BURNED
THROUGH A LOT OF OUR SAVINGS
JUST TRYING TO INVESTIGATE.
YOU KNOW, I'M ASSUMING ROSS SENT
US IN YOUR DIRECTION BECAUSE OF
YOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THESE THINGS.
SO I GUESS THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM.
THE HISTORY WE WERE TAUGHT
WAS BASICALLY WRONG.
THEY LEFT OUT A LOT OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT STUFF ABOUT
THE PRE-HISTORY OF AMERICA.
I BELIEVE THAT THE ANCIENTS HAD
FAR, FAR GREATER KNOWLEDGE THAN
WE THINK THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE
EVEN POSSIBLY HAD.
LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, SERPENT MOUND.
TO MY UNDERSTANDING THEY DID NOT
REALIZE EVERY SINGLE PART OF IT
POINTS TO SOMETHING.
NORTHERN MOONRISE, SUNSET,
SUNRISE, SOLSTICES.
EVERY PART OF IT.
AND I'VE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE.
THERE WAS AN OLD MAN THAT HAD
A COLLECTION, WILLIAM WERTZ,
THAT HIS FATHER ACTUALLY STARTED.
HE DUG WITH THE EARLIEST ARCHEOLOGISTS.
THE FIRST BIG DIGS EVER DONE.
I WAS INVOLVED IN MOVING
THE COLLECTION FROM THE WERTZ'S
HOUSE TO THE MUSEUM.
BUT IN DOING IT, I HANDLED EACH
AND EVERY PIECE.
I STILL... I GET GOOSE BUMPS.
I HAD... HAIR WOULD STAND UP ON
MY ARMS WHEN I TOUCHED... >> I SEE THEM.
THE MORE HE TALKS, THE MORE
I REALIZED THAT EITHER HIMSELF
OR ONE OF THESE OLDER GENTLEMEN
THAT DID EXCAVATIONS MAY HAVE
UNEARTHED OR HANDLED GIANT BONES.
YOU HANDLED ARTIFACTS.
DID YOU EVER ENCOUNTER HUMAN REMAINS?
ANY SKELETAL REMAINS?
OH, YEAH.
DID YOU GET ANY INDICATION OF
THE SIZE OF SOME OF THESE SKELETONS?
YEAH, I SAW MANY OF THEM AND
I TOLD ROSS.
THERE WAS ONE THAT WAS WAY BIGGER.
DEFINITELY BIGGER THAN THE REST
THAT I REMEMBER VERY DEFINITELY.
SO JIMMY AND I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS.
A LIVE WITNESS.
LET'S TAKE A WALK.
WE GOING DOWN TO THE RIVER?
YEAH, LET'S WALK DOWN THIS WAY.
MANY TIMES IS THE FLOODS HAPPEN
AND THE RIVER RECEDES, THE BANK COLLAPSES.
THERE IS TIMES THAT WHOLE
SKELETONS HAVE WASHED OUT OF
THE BANK, JUST BECOME EXPOSED.
WELL, I'VE NEVER TOLD THIS STORY
TO ANYONE, BUT I WAS ASKED TO
HELP A DEAR FRIEND REBURY SOME
OF THE BONES THAT WERE IN HER POSSESSION.
WE WENT BACK TO THE RIVER BANK
WHERE THEY'D COME FROM.
I HELD THEM IN MY HANDS AND I
SAID A PRAYER AND I REBURIED THEM.
I WAS SWORN TO SECRECY AS FAR AS
LOCATION OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
AND I BELIEVE THAT I SHOULD
STAND BY MY WORD.
Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
VERNON ONCE HELD IN HIS HANDS
THE REMAINS OF A GIANT?
AND IF SO, COULD THE GIANT
SKELETONS THAT VERNON SAYS
WASHED ASHORE ALONG THIS RIVER
BE KIN TO THE BONES FOUND IN
THE TENNESSEE CAVE?
BILLY AND I HAVE TO GO BACK
TO THE BONE CAVE AND SEE IF WE
CAN GET FURTHER DOWN INTO IT.
BUT THAT'S OUR BEST OPPORTUNITY
TO EXPLORE THIS MYSTERY FURTHER.
Narrator: WHILE JIM AND BILL SET
COURSE FOR TENNESSEE AND
THE BONE CAVE, BACK IN THE HILLS
OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
LET'S FOLLOW THE BREADCRUMBS
AND SEE WHERE THEY LEAD.
HUGH NEWMAN AND DAVID BRODY
ARE PIECING TOGETHER EVIDENCE
THAT COULD SHOW A CONNECTION
BETWEEN THE GOSHEN MYSTERY
TUNNEL AND THE ANCIENT MOUND
BUILDER EARTHWORKS WHERE GIANTS
WERE REPORTEDLY BURIED.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ALIGNMENTS.
THAT'S AN INTERESTING HOLE.
IT'S PROBABLY MAN-MADE, GOING BACK A WAYS.
POTENTIALLY IT'S MARKING AN ALIGNMENT.
SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
I THINK WE HIT A DEAD END.
YEAH.
WE GO FURTHER WE'RE JUST INTO
THAT BACK YARD.
IT'S BEEN DISTURBED.
WHATEVER LINE THERE WAS IS GONE.
OKAY, WELL, WE'VE GOT FIVE
STONES IN A ROW.
THE FIRST ONE WITH THE
INSCRIPTIONS ON COULD BE MARKING
OUT AN ANCIENT PATHWAY.
TO ME THAT'S FASCINATING.
YEAH.
Narrator: A SERIES OF
BOULDERS SEEMINGLY ALIGNED TO
THE SUN SYMBOLS ON THE INSCRIPTION STONE.
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THESE
BOULDERS WERE PLACED HERE BY
AN ANCIENT PEOPLE IN
A PARTICULAR ALIGNMENT?
THEIR INVESTIGATION CONTINUES ON.
USING GPS, HUGH PLOTS
THE COORDINATES OF EACH STONE TO
DETERMINE WHAT IF ANYTHING IT
REVEALS ABOUT THEIR QUEST FOR
GIANT EVIDENCE AT THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.
Narrator: IN ASHFIELD,
MASSACHUSETTS, JIM AND BILL
VIEIRA'S ANCIENT STONEWORK'S
EXPERT HUGH NEWMAN... >> INTERESTING.
Narrator: IS USING GPS
TECHNOLOGY TO EXAMINE
THE ALIGNMENT OF STRANGE
CHARACTERS ON AN INSCRIBED
BOULDER WITH SEVERAL LARGE
STONES IN THE WOODS.
COULD THIS ALIGNMENT HAVE
A CONNECTION TO THE GOSHEN
TUNNEL AND ULTIMATELY TO
THE EXISTENCE OF GIANTS?
AS HUGH PLOTS THE BOULDERS ON
A MAP, ONE BY ONE A STRAIGHT LINE EMERGES.
ALIGNED ALMOST EXACTLY WITH
THE SUMMER SOLSTICE SUNRISE.
[phone rings]
HEY, HUGH.
HEY, JIM, YEAH, I'M JUST
GIVING YOU THE HEADS-UP ABOUT
THE GOSHEN STONE ALIGNMENT.
GOOD, GOOD.
WHAT'D YOU FIND?
WE FOUND, LIKE, THREE OTHER
STONES ACTUALLY HEADING OFF
NORTHEAST FROM THE INSCRIPTION
STONE, AND THESE STONES DO ALIGN
TO THE SOLSTICE.
HOLY [bleep].
YOU THINK THERE'S A CORRELATION
TO THE GOSHEN TUNNEL?
INTERESTINGLY IT IS 300 YARDS
FROM THE INSCRIPTION STONE.
WOW.
IT'S JUST TOO CLOSE TO DISMISS.
YEAH, I AGREE.
THAT'S PRETTY CRAZY.
FINDING THESE ASTRONOMICAL
ALIGNMENTS DEFINITELY EXPANDS
THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.
Narrator: THE PRESENCE OF
A SERIES OF BOULDERS SEEMINGLY
ALIGNED TO THE SUN SYMBON
THE INSCRIPTION STONE WHICH
POINT TO THE SUMMER SOLSTICE
SUNRISE IS SIGNIFICANT.
A MERE 300 YARDS FROM THE TUNNEL
SITE, IT IS TOO GREAT
A COINCIDENCE FOR THE TEAM OF
GIANT HUNTERS TO IGNORE.
COULD THIS SUGGEST AN ANCIENT
MOUND BUILDER INFLUENCE IN GOSHEN?
BACK IN TENNESSEE, JIM AND BILL
ARE ABOUT TO AMP UP THEIR
INVESTIGATION AT THE LEGENDARY BONE CAVE.
SO BILLY AND I CALL UP
CLAYTON, WHO'S AN EXPERIENCED
CAVER TO JOIN US.
WE'VE HAD A LOT OF RAIN ALL WEEK.
DOES THAT AFFECT CAVES AT ALL WHEN...
IT DOES.
WE COULD HAVE A INTERESTING
EXPERIENCE TODAY I THINK.
REALLY?
YEAH.
CLAYTON APPRISED ME THE AREA
GETS A LOT OF RAIN AND WE COULD
EXPERIENCE A RISE IN WATER LEVELS QUICKLY.
OOH, I CAN SEE THE MOUTH.
SO THIS IS IT, HUH?
YEAH.
THIS IS IT.
Narrator: THEIR MAIN GOAL IS
TO REACH THE DEAD HOUSE.
THERE, THE BROTHERS HOPE TO FIND
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OR ARTIFACTS
THAT TIE BACK TO THE GIANT
SKELETONS THAT WERE REPORTEDLY
UNEARTHED IN 1872.
THERE'S A REPORT OF AN UNDERGROUND LAKE.
YEAH, IN THE 1872 REPORT WE'VE
BEEN FOLLOWING.
I GUESS WE MIGHT NEED THESE.
Narrator: AFTER 1872, SEVERAL
MORE TEAMS OF GIANT HUNTERS
ENTERED THE BONE CAVE.
IN 1915, THE EXPLORERS CAME
ACROSS WHAT WAS DESCRIBED AS
THE FIGURE OF A PETRIFIED MAN OF
ENORMOUS SIZE.
THEY SPECULATED THAT THIS
PETRIFIED MAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN
A PRISONER HURLED TO HIS DEATH
BY THE BUILDERS OF THE NEARBY MOUND SITE.
COULD THE GIGANTIC MUMMY STILL
BE DOWN THERE?
FOR JIM, WHO HAS SPENT YEARS
STUDYING THE ACCOUNTS, IT'S TIME
TO FIND OUT.
WE HAVE A LOT OF MOISTURE,
SO BE CONSCIOUS ABOUT ANY KIND
OF FLOODING IN THIS CAVE OR...
SO I GUESS WE'RE AT A GOOD SPOT
TO KIND OF GO AHEAD AND PUT SOME
CAVING SUITS ON SO WE CAN STAY
IN HERE FOR A WHILE AND NOT BE
GETTING ANY STAGES OF HYPOTHERMIA.
HOW ARE WE FEELING?
I'M NERVOUS.
PROBABLY THE BIGGEST GUY HERE.
PROBABLY THE MOST CLAUSTROPHOBIC.
ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA HEAD ON
DOWN HERE AND SEE HOW DEEP IT IS.
HOW DEEP DOWN CAN YOU SEE?
I SEE A PRETTY STEEP DROP AND
THEN I JUST SEE A BLACK HOLE.
I HAVE SOME CAVING EXPERIENCE
BUT NOTHING LIKE THIS.
I'M GONNA HOOK YOU UP AND
START HEADING DOWN.
YOU READY TO ROCK AND ROLL, BIG JIM?
GAME TIME.
SHAKE AND BAKE.
[sighs]
IT'S TIGHT.
IT SEEMS TOUGH TO BELIEVE
A GIANT COULD'VE BEEN MOVED THROUGH HERE...
OKAY, LET ME GET MY [bleep]
TOGETHER HERE.
BUT AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND
ALL THESE ROCK COLLAPSES,
IT'S REALLY TIGHT IN THERE.
SO AT THIS POINT WE FEEL
LIKE IF WE CAN GET TO THIS DEAD
HOUSE WE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ABLE
TO FIND EVIDENCE,
POSSIBLY SKELETAL REMAINS.
LET US KNOW WHAT YOU SEE
SO WE CAN... WE'RE STARTING TO
LOSE SIGHT OF YOU.
A LITTLE MORE SLACK.
OKAY.
OH, GOD.
IT'S VERY DARK, AND I CAN'T
REALLY MAKE OUT THE BOTTOM OF IT STILL.
IT GOES FATHER.
AND I'M STARTING TO GET ANXIOUS.
YOU KNOW, HOW DEEP DOES THIS GO?
IF YOU GOT A LEDGE THERE,
JUST KNOW THAT IT'S PROBABLY NOT
A VERY STRONG LEDGE.
SO TRY TO BE REAL LIGHT ON IT.
SO I FIND MYSELF REACHING
DOWN ABOUT SEVEN FEET OR EIGHT FEET.
I'M TRYING TO GRAB A FOOTHOLD,
AND THEN I COME TO, LIKE, A PLATFORM.
BUT THEN I GO DOWN TO A SECOND
TIER AND I FIND A SIMILAR SITUATION.
I'M REACHING DOWN ANOTHER SEVEN,
EIGHT, NINE FEET.
I FIND ANOTHER PLATFORM TO STAND ON.
IT'S, LIKE, AT LEAST TEN MORE DOWN.
SO YOU GOT ME?
YEAH, WE GOT YOU.
CAREFUL.
SO AT THAT POINT I DO THE SAME THING.
I CONTINUE OFF THE LIP A BIT.
AND THEN I FIND MYSELF IN KIND
OF A FREE FALL.
[bleep]!
[groans]
WHOO!
ALL RIGHT, I'M DOWN HERE.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?
IT'S AMAZING DOWN HERE.
IT'S LIKE 10X10.
Narrator: COULD THIS SPOT BE
THE PRECISE LOCATION OF
THE 1872 DEAD HOUSE?
WOW.
Narrator: THE ORIGINAL
ACCOUNT SPOKE OF SOFT MATTER ON THE FLOOR.
REMAINS OF DEAD ORGANIC LIFE.
JIM CAN SEE NO EVIDENCE HERE OF
THAT MATERIAL.
AND THERE ARE NO BONES.
COULD THE DEAD HOUSE LIE FURTHER AHEAD?
IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S ANOTHER
TUNNEL HERE, BILL.
THIS IS... OH.
WHOA.
HOLY [bleep]!
THIS IS... WHOA.
WHOA.
HOLY [bleep]!
Narrator: JIM AND BILL
VIEIRA, ALONG WITH EXPERT CAVE
EXPLORER CLAYTON LAPRIS,
ARE 60 FEET BELOW THE GROUND IN
THE HILLS OF COFFEE COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
THE BROTHERS ARE DEEP INTO
THE LEGENDARY BONE CAVE,
A SPOT WHERE, ACCORDING TO
AN 1872 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE,
GIANT SKELETONS WERE FOUND BY
A SUCCESSION OF EXPLORERS.
BILLY, I THINK I FOUND THE CARVED NAMES.
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.
Narrator: OLD WRITING ON
THE WALL IN WHAT IS NOW,
AFTER YEARS OF EROSION, A NEARLY
INACCESSIBLE CAVE...
I ALMOST COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
THEY CARVED IN A NAME.
THEY CARVED IN THE DATE.
Narrator: WHILE THE
INSCRIPTION DATES TO 1899 AND
NOT 1872, THE DATE OF THE
ORIGINAL ACCOUNT, THIS IS STILL
AN IMPORTANT CLUE,
AN INDICATION THAT JIM AND BILL
ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK IN THEIR
SEARCH FOR THE DEAD HOUSE.
ALL RIGHT, HANG TIGHT.
DON'T GO ANYWHERE.
Narrator: ENCOURAGED BY JIM'S
FIND, BILL NOW BEGINS HIS OWN DESCENT.
JIM JUST BARELY GETS THROUGH,
AND I'M A COUPLE INCHES BIGGER
THAN HIM IN THE CHEST.
SO I'M WONDERING IF I CAN GET THROUGH.
TAKE YOUR TIME.
WE DON'T WANT TO DISLODGE
ANYTHING AS WE GO DOWN.
OKAY, YEAH.
I'M TRYING TO GET THROUGH THIS
FIRST CHOKE POINT AND I'M REALLY
NOT FITTING.
SLOW MOVEMENTS, ALL RIGHT?
THIS IS CRAZY TIGHT.
TAKE A BREATH.
RELAX.
I'M GONNA HANG NOW.
YOU GOT ABOUT SIX MORE FEET, YEAH.
OKAY.
THE INSCRIPTIONS.
OH, MY GOD.
CRAZY.
THE ONLY THING MISSING IS
A GIANT SKULL RIGHT NOW.
WELL, CHECK THIS OUT.
THERE'S A TUNNEL IN THAT DIRECTION.
AND THERE'S ANOTHER ONE.
THE ACCOUNT TALKED OF TWO
TUNNELS LEADING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
SO TUNNEL ONE IS COMPLETELY
BLOCKED BY ROCK FALL.
500 POUND STONE RIGHT THERE
AND THERE'S ALL THIS RUBBLE.
AND THE LEGENDS SAY THAT THERE
IS ANOTHER TUNNEL THAT HEADS EAST.
THEN THIS ONE.
THAT'S THE ONE.
THAT'S THE ONE.
I COULD TELL YOU IT IS RIGHT NOW.
[laughter]
WHACKED OUT.
IT ALSO TALKED ABOUT GOING
TOWARDS A BODY OF WATER DOWN HERE.
THE ACCOUNT SPECIFICALLY TALKS
ABOUT WATER IN AN UNDERGROUND PASSAGEWAY.
THAT IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
Narrator: THESE CLUES
INDICATE THAT JIM AND BILL MAY
BE CLOSE TO MAKING THE DISCOVERY
THAT HAS ELUDED GIANT HUNTERS
FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY.
THEN... >> HEY, BILLY!
Narrator: JIM SPOTS SOMETHING
STRANGE IN THE DARKNESS.
I JUST FOUND AN OLD SIGN.
"OLD STONE FORT, JULY 1983."
narrator: THE OLD STONE FORT
IS THE NAME GIVEN TO THE CLOSEST
MOUND BUILDER SITE TO THE BONE CAVE.
LESS THAN A MILE AWAY.
IT'S ALL WATERLOGGED.
THIS COULD'VE WASHED IN FROM ONE
OF THESE TUNNELS.
Narrator: THIS COULD BE
A SIGN, LITERALLY, THAT THERE IS
AN UNDERGROUND TUNNEL CONNECTING
THE BONE CAVE AND THIS ANCIENT STRUCTURE.
SO IF THIS SIGN DID WASH IN
FROM THE OLD STONE FORT, WHERE
IS THIS CONNECTION?
WE COULD BE ON TO SOMETHING
REALLY, REALLY EXTRAORDINARY.
Narrator: THERE ARE THOSE,
COULD BE AN UNDERGROUND CATACOMB
FOR THE MOUND BUILDERS OF THAT
ANCIENT EARTHWORK?
THERE MUST HAVE BEEN
SKELETONS RIGHT HERE.
Narrator: WHILE THE SIGN IS
AN INTRIGUING CLUE, JIM AND BILL
NEED TO FIND THE DEAD HOUSE IF
THEY HOPE TO LOCATE ANY EVIDENCE
FROM THE 1872 GIANT ACCOUNT.
JIM!
YEAH?
THERE'S A PASSAGEWAY DOWN HERE.
AND OFF TO THE RIGHT, I LOOK DOWN, WATER.
THREE FEET OF WATER IN IT.
JUST LIKE THE ACCOUNT SAID.
JUST LIKE THE ACCOUNT SAID.
OH, MAN.
HEY, CLAYTON.
WE'RE GONNA NEED THE WET SUITS.
ALL RIGHT.
GOT YOU.
WE'RE COMING DOWN, BILLY.
HOLY [bleep].
LOOK AT THAT.
THE OTHER THING IS... >> YEAH.
IT'S POINTING EAST,
TO THE OLD STONE FORT.
Narrator: COULD THIS BE
THE TUNNEL THAT THEY'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR?
THAT COULD BE THE PLACE OF
THE GIANT BURIALS.
CLAYTON, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT
ME GOING IN THIS WATER AND
GETTING SUITED UP?
WE'LL KEEP A CLEAR LINE OF
SIGHT SO WE CAN SEE EACH OTHER.
WE DON'T WANT HYPOTHERMIA TO SET IN.
SO WE WANT TO MAKE IT PRETTY
QUICK AND GET OUT.
SO AFTER HE GOES IN,
THE CLOCK'S TICKING.
HOW MUCH TIME DOES HE HAVE?
ABOUT 30 MINUTES.
Narrator: JIM AND BILL ARE AT
A CROSSROADS.
BUT THEY BELIEVE THAT THE DEAD
HOUSE HOLDING POSSIBLE
ARTIFACTS, OR EVEN GIANT
SKELETONS, LIES AHEAD.
WE TOOK A SECOND TO
CONTEMPLATE WHAT NEXT,
BUT I WANTED TO GO RIGHT IN.
WE CAN'T TURN BACK NOW.
SO THERE'S A WHOLE HOST OF
DANGERS GOING INTO THIS PASSAGEWAY.
HYPOTHERMIA'S THE FIRST CONCERN.
THERE COULD BE A FLASH FLOOD.
ANOTHER POSSIBILITY IS BAD AIR.
AT ANY POINT HE COULD INHALE
A BUNCH OF AIR THAT HAS NO
OXYGEN IN IT AND PASS OUT IN THERE.
IF SOMETHING WERE TO HAPPEN,
IT'S GAME OVER BASICALLY.
ALL RIGHT, I'M READY.
CLOCK'S TICKING.
HALF HOUR.
OKAY.
IT'S REALLY TIGHT HERE.
WHOA, WHOA.
OH, [bleep].
SOMETHING JUST FELL ON ME.
THERE'S PIECES FALLING DOWN,
THAT'S FOR SURE.
IT'S UNSTABLE.
HOW FAR AWAY FROM US ARE YOU RIGHT NOW?
HUNDRED FEET.
WE CAN BARELY HEAR YOU NOW.
SO EVERY 10 OR 15 SECONDS MAKE
SURE YOU'RE CALLING OUT LOUD.
I'M GONNA GO OUT TO THIS TURN
AND THEN GIVE AN UPDATE OKAY?
GIVE ME 20 MORE FEET.
THE FLOOR IS LIKE QUICKSAND.
WHAT'D YOU SAY ABOUT QUICKSAND?
THE MUD WAS VERY SLIPPERY AND
VERY DIFFICULT.
I WAS HONESTLY CONCERNED RIGHT AWAY.
I SAW THAT IT WAS NATURAL BUT
VERY SYMMETRICAL.
IT JUST WAS STRAIGHT.
TO THE UNTRAINED EYE, THE WALLS
OF THIS TUNNEL MAY LOOK MANMADE
OR CHISELED.
WOW.
THIS IS CRAZY.
JIM, CAN YOU HEAR US?
HEY, JIM, KEEP TALKING TO US,
'CAUSE WE DEFINITELY CAN'T SEE YOU.
HE'S DEEP IN.
THE FURTHER I WENT, THE WORSE
THE AIR QUALITY WAS.
I COULD FEEL GETTING A LITTLE DIZZY.
I STARTED TO GET VERY CONCERNED.
DO I GO FURTHER?
DO I GO BACK?
WHAT'S GOING ON?
OH, MY GOD.
OH, [bleep], IT GETS REALLY LOW.
OH, [bleep].
IT'S TOO LOW TO PASS THE CAMERA THROUGH.
I... YEAH.
[bleep], I DON'T KNOW THAT I
CAN GET ANY FURTHER.
Narrator: THE CEILING IS TOO
LOW FOR THE CAMERA TO PASS
THROUGH WITHOUT RISKING DAMAGE
TO THE EQUIPMENT... >> ALL RIGHT.
Narrator: BUT JIM CONTINUES ON.
I'LL CHECK BACK IN, IN 30 SECONDS.
JIM IS SUPPOSED TO CALL BACK
EVERY TEN SECONDS, BUT HE'S NOT DOING IT.
YOU GOT TO KEEP COMMUNICATING.
WE CAN'T HEAR YOU.
HE'S BEEN IN THERE, LIKE, 22 MINUTES.
YEAH.
HE SHOULD GET OUT OF THERE.
IT'S TIME.
WE CAN'T HEAR HIM.
WE CAN'T SEE HIM.
TALK TO US, JIM.
YOU GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE.
THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED
GETTING CONCERNED.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
HEY, JIM!
HEY, JIM!
JIM, CAN YOU HEAR US?
Narrator: BILL VIEIRA IS
CALLING OUT TO HIS BROTHER, JIM.
THE TWO ARE 60 FEET DOWN IN
THE BELLY OF THE INFAMOUS AND
NOW UNSTABLE BONE CAVE IN COFFEE
COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
CLAYTON TOLD US WE HAD 30 MINUTES.
WE'RE AT THE 30 MINUTE MARK
RIGHT NOW, AND I'M GETTING
PRETTY CONCERNED.
HE SHOULD GET OUT OF THERE.
IT'S TIME.
WE CAN'T HEAR HIM.
WE CAN'T SEE HIM.
Narrator: THE BROTHERS
DESCENDED INTO THE CAVE HOPING
TO FIND THE SECTION CALLED THE DEAD HOUSE.
ACCORDING TO AN ACCOUNT FROM
1872, IT'S WHERE GIANT SKELETONS
WERE RECOVERED.
TALK TO US, JIM.
YOU GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE.
Narrator: BILL ASKED JIM TO
CHECK IN EVERY 20 YARDS.
BUT IT'S BEEN SEVERAL MINUTES
SINCE HE'S HEARD HIS BROTHER'S VOICE.
EVERYTHING'S GOOD.
COMING THROUGH.
SO WHEN JIM COMES OUT OF
THAT PASSAGEWAY, I FEEL GREAT RELIEF.
AND YOU COULD SEE ON HIS FACE
THAT HE'S BLOWN AWAY.
WHAT'D YOU SEE IN THERE, JIM?
I'VE GONE AS FAR AS I CAN GO.
THERE'S A ROOM DOWN THERE.
I JUST CAN'T GET TO IT.
YOU ALMOST GOT TO GO UNDER
THE WATER TO GET INTO THIS
VAULTED ROOM THAT'S OUT THERE.
IT'S LIKE A CATHEDRAL.
IT'S JUST NOT SAFE.
IT'S JUST... IT'S WAY... IT'S
ANOTHER 100 FEET AND IT KEEPS
GOING AND GOING, AND IT MIGHT GO
RIGHT TO THE OLD STONE FORT.
Narrator: THE BROTHERS
WEREN'T ABLE TO GET TO
THE SECRET DEAD HOUSE.
HEY, JIM, WELCOME BACK.
YOU WERE MAKING US NERVOUS.
WE COULDN'T SEE OR HEAR YOU.
Narrator: BUT THEY DID FIND
INTRIGUING EVIDENCE...
IT'S LIKE THE MOST DANGEROUS
BUT COOLEST PLACE I'VE EVER BEEN.
Narrator: WHICH SUGGESTS THAT
THIS CAVE WAS ONCE CONNECTED TO
THE NEARBY OLD STONE FORT.
IT DEFINITELY WAS LIKE
A BURIAL TOMB OR SOMETHING LIKE
THAT, I SWEAR TO GOD.
I WAS AWESTRUCK JUST AFTER THIS
LONG PASSAGEWAY.
THE CEILING GETS LOW.
I LOOKED BEYOND THAT AND I SEE
THAT THERE'S A ROOM THAT OPENS
UP INTO A GREAT, EXPANSIVE PLACE.
AND IT CONTINUES.
MY INTUITION TELLS ME THAT,
THAT WAS A SACRED SITE,
THE BURIAL CRYPT OF THE RULERS
THAT BUILT THE OLD STONE FORT.
TO FIND THIS PLACE, IT JUST
CORROBORATES THE WHOLE STORY.
I TOTALLY THINK THAT THIS AT ONE
POINT COULD HAVE BEEN A BURIAL
PLACE OF GIANTS.
THIS BONE CAVE IS SO WILD,
AND WE VERIFIED THESE INCREDIBLE ACCOUNTS.
BUT IT'S TOTALLY FRUSTRATING
BECAUSE WE JUST RISKED OUR
LIVES, AND WE'RE LEAVING
TENNESSEE WITHOUT ANY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.
AH, IT'S A PRETTY SIGHT.
YEAH.
DAYLIGHT.
BUT THIS GETS ME FIRED UP
ACTUALLY TO CONTINUE ON THE QUEST.
AND NOW WE'RE BACK TO NEW
ENGLAND TO SEE IF WE CAN FIND
SOMETHING COMPELLING IN GOSHEN.
NEXT WEEK ON SEARCH FOR
THE LOST GIANTS...
BREAKING GROUND, BROTHER.
IT'S GONNA GET REALLY FREAKY.
WHAT I FOUND THERE WAS
ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING.
THIS IS CLOSE TO NINE FEET!
WOW!
THIS ENORMOUS SKULL WITH
DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH COULD BE RIGHT HERE.
WE'RE GONNA TRY TO THREAD
THIS THROUGH THAT ZIPPER AND SEE
IF THERE'S ANYTHING ON THE OTHER SIDE.
[bleep]! WHOA!
HOLY [bleep].
SEARCH FOR THE LOST GIANTS...
YOU HAVE A BONE CAVE WHERE
THEY'RE PULLING OUT GIANT
SKELETAL REMAINS...
THEY FOUND LARGE SKULLS.
MANY TIMES AS THE FLOODS
HAPPENED, WHOLE SKELETONS HAVE
WASHED OUT OF THE BANK.
JIMMY AND I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS.
A LIVE WITNESS.
I STILL... I GET GOOSE BUMPS.
IT'S A DANGEROUS PLACE...
WHOA, WHOA, [bleep].
THE BONE CAVE COULD BE
THE BURIAL PLACE OF A GIANT ROYAL CLASS.
[bleep]!
YOU GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE.
JIM!
THERE'S NO WAY I'M STOPPING NOW.
WOW, HOLY [bleep]!
WE COULD BE ON TO SOMETHING
REALLY, REALLY EXTRAORDINARY.
Narrator: FOR MILLENNIA
HUMANKIND HAS TOLD TALES OF
GIANTS THAT ONCE WALKED THE EARTH.
OZARK CAVES IN ARKANSAS, NINE FOOT.
PROVO, UTAH ARE 8'6".
Narrator: JIM VIEIRA BELIEVES
IT MAY BE MORE THAN JUST MYTH.
THE BIG MYSTERY, WHERE ARE THE BONES?
Narrator: JIM AND HIS BROTHER BILL...
HERE WE GO, BROTHER.
Narrator: WANT TO GET TO THE TRUTH.
IT JUST SEEMS IT SLIPPED
THROUGH THE HANDS OF HISTORY.
WHOA!
HOLY [bleep]!
WOW!
IT'S WICKED.
UNBELIEVABLE.
Both: WHOA!
[suspenseful music]
♪
[heartbeat]
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY OUT HERE.
IT IS!
ROLLING HILLS.
MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE, YEAH.
I THINK WE'RE GETTING CLOSE, THOUGH.
Narrator: BROTHERS JIM AND
BILL VIEIRA ARE BACK ON THE ROAD.
THIS TIME, TAKING THEIR QUEST
FOR GIANTS TO THE MIDDLE OF
AMERICA, WHERE THE LARGEST
CLUSTER OF REPORTED GIANT
SKELETON FINDS IS LOCATED.
IF WE COULD FIND AN ARTIFACT
TO PROVE OUR CASE, THAT WOULD BE
UNBELIEVABLE.
I COMPLETELY AGREE.
Narrator: IN THEIR HUNT FOR
EVIDENCE, THE VIEIRAS HAVE
ALREADY MADE HEADWAY ON SEVERAL FRONTS.
IN AN OZARK CAVE...
THERE'S AN EIGHT-FOOT GIANT
DUGOUT RIGHT OVER THERE.
Narrator: THEY FOUND A LARGE TOOTH...
I THINK JUST, LIKE, A BITER.
Narrator: AND SUBMITTED IT
FOR DNA ANALYSIS.
THEY'VE ALSO UNCOVERED
TANTALIZING CLUES AT THE GOSHEN TUNNEL...
BEAUTIFUL.
Narrator: A SIGHT SIMILAR TO
OTHER STRUCTURES WHERE GIANT
SKELETONS WERE REPORTEDLY FOUND.
AND WHERE THE VIEIRAS BELIEVE
THEY'VE LOCATED A HIDDEN CHAMBER
THAT COULD CONTAIN EVIDENCE OF GIANTS.
IN JUST A FEW WEEKS... >> MORNING.
Narrator: ARCHEOLOGISTS FROM
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
WILL BEGIN AN EXCAVATION AT THE SITE.
IN THE MEANTIME, JIM AND BILL
HAVE DECIDED TO SQUEEZE IN ONE
LAST TRIP TO A LOCATION KNOWN
SIMPLY AS THE BONE CAVE.
SO YOU'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
THIS BONE CAVE FOR ABOUT TEN YEARS.
I MEAN, THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST
STORIES THAT YOU'VE EVER TOLD ME, RIGHT?
BIG TIME.
JAWBONE OVER THE FACE, GIANT SKULLS.
DIFFERENT ACCOUNTS TOO, OVER 50, 60 YEARS.
Narrator: REPORTS FROM LOCAL
NEWSPAPERS IN THE 19TH AND EARLY
20TH CENTURY TELL OF A DEEP AND
WINDING CAVERN WHERE
SEVERAL OCCASIONS EMERGED WITH GIANT BONES.
MY FIRST IMPRESSION OF
THE BONE CAVE ACCOUNT WAS THAT
IT WAS A HOAX.
IT WAS A TALL TALE.
IT'S LIKE AN INDIANA JONES MOVIE.
THREE DIFFERENT TEAMS OF
EXPLORERS REPORTED ESSENTIALLY
THE SAME FINDS.
UNDERGROUND LAKE AND PASSAGES
GOING OUT IN EVERY DIRECTION.
THAT'S CRAZY.
Narrator: BUT WHAT MAKES
THE BONE CAVE SITE EVEN MORE
FASCINATING IS THAT IT IS RIGHT
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE REMAINS OF
AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WIDELY
KNOWN AS THE MOUND BUILDERS.
MOUND BUILDERS WERE INDIGENOUS
AMERICAN PEOPLES WHO LIVED IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE CONTINENT FROM
LOUISIANA TO THE GREAT LAKES AND
BUILT CEREMONIAL EARTHWORKS
BEGINNING AT 3,400 B.C.
THROUGH THE 16TH CENTURY.
FOR THAT REASON, SOME BELIEVE
THEY ARE THE BURIAL PLACES OF GIANTS.
BUT WHERE ARE THESE GIANT SKELETONS?
MANY REMAINS WERE REPATRIATED.
Narrator: POSSIBLY RETURNED
TO NATIVE TRIBES ACCORDING TO
FEDERAL REPATRIATION LAWS.
IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IT SLIPPED
THROUGH THE HANDS OF HISTORY.
KINGS AND QUEENS, GIANTS BURIED
IN BURIAL MOUNDS WITH COPPER
CROWNS AND TREASURES OF PEARLS.
IT JUST BOGGLES THE IMAGINATION.
THE UNBELIEVABLE NATURE OF
NATIVE CIVILIZATION.
Narrator: A CIVILIZATION THAT
HAS HAUNTED THE IMAGINATION OF
GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS,
INCLUDING THIS MAN, COMMONLY
HELD TO BE THE NATION'S GREATEST
PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
THE CORE OF LINCOLN'S
FASCINATION WITH THE MOUND BUILDERS?
GIANTS.
IN 1848, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WRITES ABOUT GIANTS FOUND IN
THE MOUNDS IN HIS NIAGARA SPEECH.
Narrator: LINCOLN WRITES,
"THE EYES OF THAT SPECIES OF
EXTINCT GIANTS, WHOSE BONES FILL
THE MOUNDS OF AMERICA, HAVE
GAZED ON NIAGARA AS OURS DO NOW."
AT THE TIME IT REALLY SEEMED
THAT PEOPLE JUST ACCEPTED
THE IDEA THAT THERE WERE GIANTS
BURIED IN BURIAL MOUNDS ALL
AROUND THE COUNTRY.
Narrator: LINCOLN EVEN TOOK
A LITTLE-KNOWN STEAMBOAT TRIP IN
NOVEMBER OF 1848.
HIS PURPOSE?
A PILGRIMAGE TO THE GREAT MOUND
SITES OF THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY.
BUT WAS LINCOLN CORRECT IN HIS
BELIEF THAT GIANTS WERE BURIED
IN THOSE MOUNDS?
SO HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF
THE SO-CALLED BONE CAVE?
I HAVE.
Narrator: JIM AND BILL MEET
WITH TENNESSEE PARK RANGER
KEITH WIMBERLEY, WHO MANAGES
A MOUND BUILDERS' SITE IN
THE AREA OF THE CAVE
AND WHO MAY BE ABLE TO HELP THEM FIND IT.
YEARS AGO, CHILDREN
SUPPOSEDLY FOUND LARGE SKULLS IN
THE CAVE THAT COULD ACTUALLY
FIT OVER THEIR HEAD.
WOW.
WOW.
SO THERE WAS ACTUALLY A BIRD
PIPE THAT WAS FOUND IN BONE CAVE THAT...
LIKE AN EFFIGY PIPE, RIGHT?
YES.
THAT'S PRETTY COOL.
THAT WAS HEARTENING TO HEAR,
BECAUSE AT A LOT OF THESE BURIAL
SITES YOU FIND EFFIGY PIPES.
NOW WE NEED TO FIND THE BONE
CAVE AND SEE IF WE CAN CONFIRM
ALL THOSE ACCOUNTS.
Narrator: WHILE JIM AND BILL
MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE BONE CAVE
IN TENNESSEE, BACK IN THE HILLS
OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
THE CARVING IS JUST DOWN ON THE EDGE...
narrator: THE VIEIRAS'
COLLEAGUE, HUGH NEWMAN, MEETS
WITH DAVID BRODY NEAR THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.
AND YOU SEE PARTS OF IT ON HERE.
Narrator: BRODY, AN EARLY
SITES RESEARCHER, IS WORKING
WITH HUGH TO DECODE
THE MYSTERIOUS INSCRIPTION...
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH
THE INSCRIBED BOULDER UP HERE?
Narrator: THE TEAM FOUND ON
A STONE JUST 300 YARDS FROM
THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.
IF YOU CAN SOLVE THIS RIDDLE,
YOU'LL BE ABLE TO FIND THE CHAMBER.
SOMETIMES WHEN YOU PUT WATER
ON THIS, GET SOME SHADE OVER IT,
AND THEN SOME LOW ANGLE LIGHT,
THEN YOU MIGHT SEE STUFF WE
HADN'T SEEN BEFORE.
LOOK AT THAT IN THE SUN.
NOW YOU CAN REALLY SEE WHAT THEY ARE.
OH, YEAH, IT'S ALL COMING OUT NOW.
YEAH, A.D., 1792.
WELL, DEFINITELY COLONIAL.
Narrator: THOUGH MOST OF
THE INSCRIPTION IS IN THE LATIN
ALPHABET, THERE ARE SOME
ELEMENTS THAT DON'T SEEM TO FIT.
I MEAN, IT'S JUST THESE BITS
HERE THAT GET ME.
WHAT ARE THESE DOING HERE?
TO ME, THIS LOOKS LIKE SOME KIND
OF CLASSIC SUN SYMBOL.
Narrator: A SUN SYMBOL?
COULD THIS BE AN INDICATION THAT
AT LEAST SOME PART OF
THE INSCRIPTION IS MUCH OLDER
THAN COLONIAL AMERICA?
AND IF SO, COULD IT BE A LINK TO
THE ANCIENT SUN-WORSHIPPING
CIVILIZATION, THE MOUND BUILDERS?
WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT
ALL THE SCRIPT IS IN ONE LINE HERE.
AND WE HAVE TWO CHARACTERS THAT ARE OFF.
IT KIND OF JUST DOESN'T FIT, DOES IT?
BUT I WONDER IF WE FOLLOW
THIS LINE TO THE HORIZON,
IS THAT THE DIRECTION OF THE TUNNEL?
PRETTY MUCH.
IS IT?
YEAH.
Narrator: BUT IF THESE
SYMBOLS ARE MARKING A DIRECTION,
WHAT ARE THEY POINTING TO?
DOES IT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO
WITH THE GOSHEN TUNNEL'S HIDDEN CHAMBER?
OR COULD THEY BE POINTING TO
SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY?
WHILE HUGH AND DAVID SLEUTH OUT
MORE SYMBOLS... >> ALL RIGHT, HERE'S WEST.
Narrator: IN MANCHESTER, TENNESSEE...
OH, MY GOD.
Narrator: JIM AND BILL ARE
APPROACHING THE ENTRANCE TO
THE LEGENDARY BONE CAVE.
WHOA.
WOW.
YEAH, I DON'T WANNA BE A DRAMA
QUEEN, BUT WE GOT TO KEEP OUR
GAME TIGHT BECAUSE THIS IS PRETTY FREAKY.
SO WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ACCOUNTS HERE.
YEAH.
THE ONE WE WANT TO FOLLOW IS THE 1872.
THAT'S THE MOST DETAILED ONE.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO
THE FIRST ACCOUNT PUBLISHED IN
THE MANCHESTER DEMOCRAT IN
1872, LOCAL BOYS DISCOVERED
A GIGANTIC MUMMIFIED SKELETON
IN A SECTION OF THE CAVE KNOWN
AS THE DEAD HOUSE.
AN EXPEDITION OF SIX MEN
FOLLOWED IN SEARCH OF THIS
STRANGE ROOM, THINKING IT COULD
BE A BURIAL CHAMBER.
IN THE ACCOUNT, THE MEN
EVENTUALLY REACHED A VAULTED
SPACE THAT BRANCHED OFF TO
A SERIES OF PASSAGES.
ONE, WHICH SUPPOSEDLY LED TO
THE DEAD HOUSE.
ONE, TO A STRANGE UNDERGROUND
LAKE WITH WALLS THAT APPEARED TO
HAVE BEEN MADE BY HUMAN HANDS.
LET'S SEE IF WE CAN FIND IT.
THESE ARE FLASHLIGHTS HERE.
OKAY.
Narrator: JIM AND BILL WILL
ATTEMPT TO FIND THE DEAD HOUSE...
WATCH YOUR DOME.
Narrator: AND EXPLORE BEYOND
TO SEE WHAT EVIDENCE REMAINS.
LOOK AT THESE GIANT SLABS
THAT HAVE FALLEN DOWN.
AS YOU ENTER THE CAVE,
YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY SEE THAT
IT'S A DANGEROUS PLACE.
THERE ARE ROCK FALLS EVERYWHERE.
Narrator: FROM THEIR
EXPERIENCE AS STONE MASONS,
JIM AND BILL CAN SEE THAT THE
ROCKS AROUND THEM HAVE SHIFTED.
YOU CAN SEE THEY CLEAVED OFF.
THAT FELL.
PIECES OF ROOF ARE ALL OVER
THE PLACE ON THE FLOOR,
AND THAT THING'S COMING DOWN.
IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME,
AND NOT TOO MUCH TIME.
NOW WATCH OUT.
THERE'S SOME BIG PIECES UP TOP.
OH, YEAH, IT LOOKS LIKE
THERE'S A COLLAPSE THERE.
I'M JUST HOPING THE TIME IS
NOT NOW WHILE WE'RE CRAWLING
AROUND UNDERNEATH IT.
Narrator: IT'S LIKELY THAT
THE INTERIOR OF THE CAVE HAS
CHANGED DRAMATICALLY SINCE 1872.
AT ONE TIME, THE CEILING
MIGHT'VE BEEN TEN-FEET HIGH
BEFORE ALL THESE ROCK COLLAPSES.
Narrator: THE WAY TO THE DEAD
HOUSE MIGHT NOW BE BLOCKED.
FOR JIM, THE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER
ARTICLE IS THE CLOSEST THING HE
A PASSAGEWAY...
narrator: THAT PASSAGEWAY
SUPPOSEDLY ENDS IN A DROP OF 25 FEET.
IF THE ACCOUNT IS CORRECT,
THE DEAD HOUSE WHERE THE GIANT
SKELETONS WERE DISCOVERED
SHOULD LIE JUST BEYOND THAT DROP.
WE GO FROM PASSAGEWAY TO PASSAGEWAY.
THESE LITTLE ROOMS, YOU KNOW,
TAPERED DOWN TO NOTHING.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR A STEEP
DROP-OFF THAT GOES DOWN.
YEAH, THAT'S LEGIT.
THERE'S COLD AIR COMING UP FROM UNDER HERE.
DEFINITELY IS.
OH, YEAH.
IT GETS BIGGER.
OH, MAN.
OH, YEAH, IT GOES UNDER.
LET'S GO AROUND THE BEND BEHIND ME.
OKAY.
OH, BOY.
IT'S A TUNNEL.
IT'S A PASSAGEWAY FOR SURE.
WATCH YOUR DOME.
Narrator: GIANT HUNTERS JIM
AND BILL VIEIRA ARE MORE THAN
200 FEET DEEP AT A SITE IN
TENNESSEE KNOWN AS THE BONE CAVE.
THERE'S COLD AIR COMING UP
FROM UNDER HERE.
DEFINITELY IS.
Narrator: THEY'RE STRUGGLING
TO GET TO A SECTION OF THE CAVE
KNOWN AS THE DEAD HOUSE WHERE,
ACCORDING TO A LOCAL NEWSPAPER
FROM 1872, REMAINS OF A GIANT
WERE HAULED OUT BY LOCAL BOYS.
OH, BOY.
IT'S A TUNNEL.
IT'S A PASSAGEWAY FOR SURE.
HOLY [bleep].
THAT'S PRETTY TIGHT, MAN.
YOU DOING OKAY IN THERE?
IT'S REALLY TIGHT HERE.
TAKE YOUR TIME AND SEE IF YOU
CAN GET DOWN THERE.
YEAH, I CAN BARELY BREATHE.
HONESTLY, I HAD NEVER BEEN IN
SUCH A TIGHT SPOT.
I'M SMELLING A DIFFERENT ODOR
FROM DOWN HERE.
[groaning]
THIS MUST BE THE WAY.
[bleep].
THERE'S NO WAY TO GET THROUGH HERE.
WE CAN SEE THAT IT CONTINUES,
BUT IT'S NOT SAFE OR SANE TO CONTINUE.
IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE NOT
GETTING PAST THAT THING TODAY.
Narrator: JIM AND BILL ARE
CONFIDENT THEY'VE FOUND THE WAY FORWARD.
BUT THEY'RE GOING TO NEED HELP
TO GET THROUGH.
YOU HAVE A SPOT THAT HONESTLY
HASN'T BEEN EXAMINED BECAUSE
IT'S SO DIFFICULT TO GET TO.
Narrator: IN ORDER TO GO
DEEPER INTO THE SITE,
THE VIEIRAS WILL HIRE AN EXPERT
CAVER WHO CAN GUIDE THEM SAFELY IN.
MEANWHILE BACK IN MASSACHUSETTS...
TO ME, THIS LOOKS LIKE SOME
KIND OF CLASSIC SUN SYMBOL.
Narrator: INVESTIGATORS
HUGH NEWMAN AND DAVID BRODY ARE
STUDYING A SERIES OF STRANGE
SYMBOLS THEY HAVE FOUND EMBEDDED
IN AN INSCRIPTION NEAR THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.
WITH THESE TWO HERE YOU GOT
SOME KIND OF DIRECTIONAL THING,
EITHER THAT WAY OR THAT WAY.
Narrator: THE SYMBOLS POINT
IN A NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION...
GO FOR A WALK AND SEE WHAT WE FIND?
Narrator: INDICATING
A POSSIBLE SOLSTICE ALIGNMENT,
WHICH IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
COULD SIGNIFY THE PRESENCE OF
A SACRED SITE NEARBY.
BUT WHAT, IF ANYTHING, ARE THESE
SYMBOLS POINTING TOWARDS?
OKAY, CHECK IT OUT.
THAT IS RIGHT IN LINE.
I MEAN, THIS DOES LOOK LIKE
A KIND OF PERFECT CANVAS.
THERE'S SOMETHING HERE, ACTUALLY.
WHAT IS THAT?
Narrator: HUGH AND DAVID
CAN'T DECIPHER THE MARKINGS.
BUT THE PLACEMENT OF THE BOULDER
IN LINE WITH THE SYMBOLS ON
THE INSCRIPTION SUGGESTS THE
POSSIBILITY OF AN ALIGNMENT.
LET'S FOLLOW THE BREADCRUMBS
AND SEE WHERE THEY LEAD.
YEAH, LET'S DO THAT.
Narrator: RIGHT ON THE LINE,
THEY HIT A THIRD BOULDER.
IT LOOKS VERY CRYSTALLINE, THIS ROCK.
IT LOOKS LIKE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF ROCK...
IT IS A DIFFERENT KIND, YES.
IT DOESN'T SEEM NATIVE TO THIS AREA.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT COULD'VE BEEN PLACED HERE.
IT COULD STILL BE A MARKER.
AND WE'RE PLAYING CONNECT
THE DOTS HERE ON THIS LINE.
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, THREE I'LL
GIVE YOU IS A COINCIDENCE.
IF WE GET TO FOUR, I'M NOT
BUYING IT ANYMORE THOUGH.
SO WE'VE GOT THREE STONES.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.
WE'RE ON THE LINE.
AND IS THAT... THAT'S SOMETHING
RIGHT UP THERE.
THIS IS RIGHT ON THE LINE.
THAT IS PRETTY... THAT IS
EXACTLY ON IT, ISN'T IT?
THAT IS A FOURTH BOULDER.
RIGHT.
LOOK AT THAT.
THIS HOLE IS VERY INTERESTING.
SEE HOW THIS IS NOT PERFECTLY CIRCULAR.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S MACHINE MADE.
I DON'T THINK IT'S NATURAL.
WHICH MEANS IT'S PROBABLY
MAN-MADE GOING BACK A WAYS.
THAT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING'S
BEEN DRILLED IN THERE.
POTENTIALLY IT'S MARKING THEIR ALIGNMENT.
SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
Narrator: WHILE HUGH AND
DAVID CONTINUE TO HUNT FOR MORE
CLUES TO THE PRECISE NATURE OF
THE INSCRIPTION, JIM AND BILL
ARE MAKING THEIR WAY INTO OHIO.
SO ABOUT 40 MILES.
YOU ROAD WEARY YET?
ABSOLUTELY.
Narrator: THE BROTHERS HAVE
SECURED AN EXPERT CAVER TO HELP
THEM EXPLORE THE TENNESSEE BONE CAVE.
MEANWHILE, THEY HAVE DECIDED TO
MEET WITH A FELLOW EXPERT IN
THE FIELD OF GIANT RESEARCH, ROSS HAMILTON.
ROSS IS THE GODFATHER OF GIANTOLOGY.
I TRUST HIM, THAT'S FOR SURE, YOU KNOW?
Narrator: ROSS LIVES IN THE
HEART OF MOUND BUILDER COUNTRY.
AND HE'S WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY
ABOUT THE HISTORY AND FOLKLORE OF GIANTS.
HE LEARNED SO MUCH
INFORMATION FROM NATIVE ELDERS,
AND HE'S TAKEN ALL OF THIS ORAL
TRADITION AND HISTORICAL
EVIDENCE AND HAS SYNTHESIZED THE STORY.
SO I HAVE KIND OF A SURPRISE
FOR YOU GUYS.
Narrator: ROSS HAS BEEN
STUDYING THE PHENOMENON OF GIANT
SKELETON FINDS FOR TWO DECADES.
BUT HE HAS A NEW THEORY THAT
HE'S ABOUT TO REVEAL FOR
THE FIRST TIME TO JIM AND BILL.
WHAT DO WE GOT HERE?
WELL, THIS IS ONE OF MY
PRIZED POSSESSIONS.
THIS IS A MAP OF THE MOUNDS AS
THEY WERE KNOWN TO
THE SMITHSONIAN IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY.
EVERY ONE OF THESE RED DOTS
REPRESENTS SOME MAJOR GROUP OF
MOUNDS FOR THE NATIVE PEOPLE.
WE FOUND MANY ACCOUNTS OF PEOPLE
OF VERY TALL STATURE THROUGHOUT
EVERYWHERE THESE EARTHWORKS WERE.
AND THIS'LL BLOW YOUR MIND A LITTLE BIT.
ONE TIME THERE WAS A GREAT NATION.
AND THIS COUNTRY EXTENDED FROM
THE HUDSON BAY ALL THE WAY DOWN
TO THE GULF OF MEXICO.
AND THEY WERE CALLED THE ALEHANA.
I HAVE TO ADMIT, WHEN ROSS
FIRST STARTED TALKING ABOUT HIS
THEORIES I WAS SKEPTICAL.
IT'S PRETTY CRAZY STUFF.
AND WE'RE GOING BACK TO
THE MIDDLE ARCHAIC PERIOD,
PERHAPS AS LONG AS 6,000 YEARS AGO.
ROSS JUST BLEW OUR MIND.
HE'S TELLING US THAT HE BELIEVES
THAT THE REAL STORY GOES BACK
OVER 6,000 YEARS.
THEY HAD A SINGLE RULER.
AND THEY EVEN HAD A SINGLE
LANGUAGE, PERHAPS WITH LETTERS
THAT WAS ALL SWEPT AWAY IN PRE-HISTORY.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO ROSS,
THE CIVILIZATION LEFT BEHIND BY
THIS ALEHANA PEOPLE PRODUCED
THE MOUNDS WHICH TO THIS DAY
ARE ONE OF THE WONDERS OF
THE ANCIENT WORLD...
NORTH AMERICA'S ANSWER TO
THE PYRAMIDS, MACHU PICCHU, AND STONEHENGE.
THESE STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN
DEMONSTRATED BY SCIENTISTS TO
ACCURATELY PREDICT THE SOLSTICE
AND THE EQUINOX.
ROSS BELIEVES THIS SAME
CIVILIZATION MAY HAVE BEEN
FOUNDED BY A ROYAL CLASS OF COLLASI.
THEY WERE THE TRUE GIANTS.
AND IT WAS THEY WHO HAD
THE EMPIRE THAT STRETCHED FAR TO
THE WEST AND ALL THE WAY TO THE EAST COAST.
TAKING ALL THAT IN, IF YOU STEP
BACK FROM IT, THE FIGURE THAT'S
REPRESENTED IS IN THE SHAPE OF,
LIKE, THE AMERICAN EAGLE.
YOU CAN SEE IT.
NOW THAT YOU SAY IT, ABSOLUTELY.
Narrator: IF WHAT ROSS IS
SAYING IS TRUE, THEN THIS
CIVILIZATION MAY BE THE KEY LINK
BETWEEN THE GOSHEN MYSTERY
TUNNEL AND THE MOUND BUILDERS.
THIS PART IS FASCINATING.
PEOPLE OF TALL STATURE WERE
CONSIDERED TO BE AN EXECUTIVE CLASS.
AND THEY WERE THE ONES THAT WE
BELIEVE WERE REVERED LIKE THEY WERE GODS.
Narrator: THE IDEA OF A RACE
OF GIANT RULERS HAS HAUNTED
THE MIND OF MANKIND SINCE
THE DAWN OF RECORDED HISTORY.
LIKE THE TITANS OF GREEK
MYTHOLOGY, ROYAL SPAWNS OF GODS
AND MORTALS.
ATLAS, WHO HELD THE WORLD ON HIS SHOULDERS.
PROMETHEUS, WHO BROUGHT FIRE TO
THE HUMAN RACE.
BUT COULD THESE FANTASTIC NAMES
BE DIM ECHOES OF A LOST RACE OF
GIGANTIC RULERS WHO MAY ALSO
HAVE TOWERED OVER ROSS'
CIVILIZATION OF THE EAGLE?
THIS MAKES THE PICTURE SO MUCH CLEANER.
IT REALLY DOES.
THE IDEA OF UNUSUALLY TALL ROYAL
CLASS BURIED IN MOUNDS.
IT REALLY RESONATES.
Narrator: THOUGH ROSS'S
THEORY MAY PROVE TO BE
AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF THE PUZZLE
JIM IS TRYING TO SOLVE, IT'S NOT
THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE HE AND
BILL NEED TO FIND IF THEY'RE
GOING TO CONVINCE THE SCIENTIFIC
COMMUNITY THAT MYTHS AND LEGENDS
OF GIANTS WERE ACTUALLY BASED IN FACT.
YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE
A POTENTIALLY GAME-CHANGING LEAD
FOR YOU GUYS.
THIS'LL BLOW YOUR MIND A LITTLE BIT...
narrator: THE VIEIRA BROTHERS
ARE ABOUT TO GET A NEW LEAD IN
THEIR HUNT FOR PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
THAT COULD PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GIANTS.
YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE
A POTENTIALLY GAME-CHANGING LEAD
FOR YOU GUYS.
Narrator: ACCORDING TO ROSS
HAMILTON, A PUBLISHED AUTHOR AND
GIANT HUNTER, HE KNOWS A MAN
WHO'S COME CLOSER TO ACTUAL
GIANT REMAINS THAN ANYONE ELSE...
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK.
Narrator: BUT BECAUSE OF
THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING
THE SUBJECT, THIS MAN HAS NEVER
COME FORWARD.
HI.
ARE YOU VERNON?
WHO'S ASKING?
MY NAME'S JIM VIEIRA.
THIS IS MY BROTHER BILL.
ROSS HAMILTON SENT US.
OKAY. I KNOW ROSS.
HE'S GIVING US THESE LOOKS
LIKE WE'RE TRESPASSING ON HIS PROPERTY.
AND I'M WONDERING WHAT ROSS GOT US INTO.
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH ROSS'S WORK?
YEAH, I'VE PROBABLY DONE MORE
RESEARCH THAN HE HAS IN THE AREA.
HE'S VERY STANDOFFISH.
HE'S VERY RESISTANT.
WE DON'T GET A LOT OF SUPPORT
FOR THIS IDEA BECAUSE IT'S SO
CONTROVERSIAL AND WE JUST WANT HIS HELP.
MAYBE WE COULD SPEAK ALONE FOR A MINUTE.
WOULD THAT BE OKAY?
SO I PULL VERNON ASIDE AND I
TRY TO GET HIM TO WARM UP TO US
AND UNDERSTAND WHERE WE'RE COMING FROM.
HONESTLY, I'VE KIND OF
FALLEN DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE WITH
A PARTICULARLY CONTROVERSIAL
SUBJECT THAT ROSS IS FAMILIAR WITH.
WE'VE BEEN LOOKING INTO REPORTS
OF UNUSUALLY LARGE SKELETONS.
I DRAG MY BROTHER ALONG,
MY FRIENDS ALONG, AND NOW WE'VE
PUT OUR BUSINESS ON HOLD, BURNED
THROUGH A LOT OF OUR SAVINGS
JUST TRYING TO INVESTIGATE.
YOU KNOW, I'M ASSUMING ROSS SENT
US IN YOUR DIRECTION BECAUSE OF
YOUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THESE THINGS.
SO I GUESS THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM.
THE HISTORY WE WERE TAUGHT
WAS BASICALLY WRONG.
THEY LEFT OUT A LOT OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT STUFF ABOUT
THE PRE-HISTORY OF AMERICA.
I BELIEVE THAT THE ANCIENTS HAD
FAR, FAR GREATER KNOWLEDGE THAN
WE THINK THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE
EVEN POSSIBLY HAD.
LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, SERPENT MOUND.
TO MY UNDERSTANDING THEY DID NOT
REALIZE EVERY SINGLE PART OF IT
POINTS TO SOMETHING.
NORTHERN MOONRISE, SUNSET,
SUNRISE, SOLSTICES.
EVERY PART OF IT.
AND I'VE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE.
THERE WAS AN OLD MAN THAT HAD
A COLLECTION, WILLIAM WERTZ,
THAT HIS FATHER ACTUALLY STARTED.
HE DUG WITH THE EARLIEST ARCHEOLOGISTS.
THE FIRST BIG DIGS EVER DONE.
I WAS INVOLVED IN MOVING
THE COLLECTION FROM THE WERTZ'S
HOUSE TO THE MUSEUM.
BUT IN DOING IT, I HANDLED EACH
AND EVERY PIECE.
I STILL... I GET GOOSE BUMPS.
I HAD... HAIR WOULD STAND UP ON
MY ARMS WHEN I TOUCHED... >> I SEE THEM.
THE MORE HE TALKS, THE MORE
I REALIZED THAT EITHER HIMSELF
OR ONE OF THESE OLDER GENTLEMEN
THAT DID EXCAVATIONS MAY HAVE
UNEARTHED OR HANDLED GIANT BONES.
YOU HANDLED ARTIFACTS.
DID YOU EVER ENCOUNTER HUMAN REMAINS?
ANY SKELETAL REMAINS?
OH, YEAH.
DID YOU GET ANY INDICATION OF
THE SIZE OF SOME OF THESE SKELETONS?
YEAH, I SAW MANY OF THEM AND
I TOLD ROSS.
THERE WAS ONE THAT WAS WAY BIGGER.
DEFINITELY BIGGER THAN THE REST
THAT I REMEMBER VERY DEFINITELY.
SO JIMMY AND I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS.
A LIVE WITNESS.
LET'S TAKE A WALK.
WE GOING DOWN TO THE RIVER?
YEAH, LET'S WALK DOWN THIS WAY.
MANY TIMES IS THE FLOODS HAPPEN
AND THE RIVER RECEDES, THE BANK COLLAPSES.
THERE IS TIMES THAT WHOLE
SKELETONS HAVE WASHED OUT OF
THE BANK, JUST BECOME EXPOSED.
WELL, I'VE NEVER TOLD THIS STORY
TO ANYONE, BUT I WAS ASKED TO
HELP A DEAR FRIEND REBURY SOME
OF THE BONES THAT WERE IN HER POSSESSION.
WE WENT BACK TO THE RIVER BANK
WHERE THEY'D COME FROM.
I HELD THEM IN MY HANDS AND I
SAID A PRAYER AND I REBURIED THEM.
I WAS SWORN TO SECRECY AS FAR AS
LOCATION OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
AND I BELIEVE THAT I SHOULD
STAND BY MY WORD.
Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
VERNON ONCE HELD IN HIS HANDS
THE REMAINS OF A GIANT?
AND IF SO, COULD THE GIANT
SKELETONS THAT VERNON SAYS
WASHED ASHORE ALONG THIS RIVER
BE KIN TO THE BONES FOUND IN
THE TENNESSEE CAVE?
BILLY AND I HAVE TO GO BACK
TO THE BONE CAVE AND SEE IF WE
CAN GET FURTHER DOWN INTO IT.
BUT THAT'S OUR BEST OPPORTUNITY
TO EXPLORE THIS MYSTERY FURTHER.
Narrator: WHILE JIM AND BILL SET
COURSE FOR TENNESSEE AND
THE BONE CAVE, BACK IN THE HILLS
OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...
LET'S FOLLOW THE BREADCRUMBS
AND SEE WHERE THEY LEAD.
HUGH NEWMAN AND DAVID BRODY
ARE PIECING TOGETHER EVIDENCE
THAT COULD SHOW A CONNECTION
BETWEEN THE GOSHEN MYSTERY
TUNNEL AND THE ANCIENT MOUND
BUILDER EARTHWORKS WHERE GIANTS
WERE REPORTEDLY BURIED.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ALIGNMENTS.
THAT'S AN INTERESTING HOLE.
IT'S PROBABLY MAN-MADE, GOING BACK A WAYS.
POTENTIALLY IT'S MARKING AN ALIGNMENT.
SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
I THINK WE HIT A DEAD END.
YEAH.
WE GO FURTHER WE'RE JUST INTO
THAT BACK YARD.
IT'S BEEN DISTURBED.
WHATEVER LINE THERE WAS IS GONE.
OKAY, WELL, WE'VE GOT FIVE
STONES IN A ROW.
THE FIRST ONE WITH THE
INSCRIPTIONS ON COULD BE MARKING
OUT AN ANCIENT PATHWAY.
TO ME THAT'S FASCINATING.
YEAH.
Narrator: A SERIES OF
BOULDERS SEEMINGLY ALIGNED TO
THE SUN SYMBOLS ON THE INSCRIPTION STONE.
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THESE
BOULDERS WERE PLACED HERE BY
AN ANCIENT PEOPLE IN
A PARTICULAR ALIGNMENT?
THEIR INVESTIGATION CONTINUES ON.
USING GPS, HUGH PLOTS
THE COORDINATES OF EACH STONE TO
DETERMINE WHAT IF ANYTHING IT
REVEALS ABOUT THEIR QUEST FOR
GIANT EVIDENCE AT THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.
Narrator: IN ASHFIELD,
MASSACHUSETTS, JIM AND BILL
VIEIRA'S ANCIENT STONEWORK'S
EXPERT HUGH NEWMAN... >> INTERESTING.
Narrator: IS USING GPS
TECHNOLOGY TO EXAMINE
THE ALIGNMENT OF STRANGE
CHARACTERS ON AN INSCRIBED
BOULDER WITH SEVERAL LARGE
STONES IN THE WOODS.
COULD THIS ALIGNMENT HAVE
A CONNECTION TO THE GOSHEN
TUNNEL AND ULTIMATELY TO
THE EXISTENCE OF GIANTS?
AS HUGH PLOTS THE BOULDERS ON
A MAP, ONE BY ONE A STRAIGHT LINE EMERGES.
ALIGNED ALMOST EXACTLY WITH
THE SUMMER SOLSTICE SUNRISE.
[phone rings]
HEY, HUGH.
HEY, JIM, YEAH, I'M JUST
GIVING YOU THE HEADS-UP ABOUT
THE GOSHEN STONE ALIGNMENT.
GOOD, GOOD.
WHAT'D YOU FIND?
WE FOUND, LIKE, THREE OTHER
STONES ACTUALLY HEADING OFF
NORTHEAST FROM THE INSCRIPTION
STONE, AND THESE STONES DO ALIGN
TO THE SOLSTICE.
HOLY [bleep].
YOU THINK THERE'S A CORRELATION
TO THE GOSHEN TUNNEL?
INTERESTINGLY IT IS 300 YARDS
FROM THE INSCRIPTION STONE.
WOW.
IT'S JUST TOO CLOSE TO DISMISS.
YEAH, I AGREE.
THAT'S PRETTY CRAZY.
FINDING THESE ASTRONOMICAL
ALIGNMENTS DEFINITELY EXPANDS
THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSHEN TUNNEL.
Narrator: THE PRESENCE OF
A SERIES OF BOULDERS SEEMINGLY
ALIGNED TO THE SUN SYMBON
THE INSCRIPTION STONE WHICH
POINT TO THE SUMMER SOLSTICE
SUNRISE IS SIGNIFICANT.
A MERE 300 YARDS FROM THE TUNNEL
SITE, IT IS TOO GREAT
A COINCIDENCE FOR THE TEAM OF
GIANT HUNTERS TO IGNORE.
COULD THIS SUGGEST AN ANCIENT
MOUND BUILDER INFLUENCE IN GOSHEN?
BACK IN TENNESSEE, JIM AND BILL
ARE ABOUT TO AMP UP THEIR
INVESTIGATION AT THE LEGENDARY BONE CAVE.
SO BILLY AND I CALL UP
CLAYTON, WHO'S AN EXPERIENCED
CAVER TO JOIN US.
WE'VE HAD A LOT OF RAIN ALL WEEK.
DOES THAT AFFECT CAVES AT ALL WHEN...
IT DOES.
WE COULD HAVE A INTERESTING
EXPERIENCE TODAY I THINK.
REALLY?
YEAH.
CLAYTON APPRISED ME THE AREA
GETS A LOT OF RAIN AND WE COULD
EXPERIENCE A RISE IN WATER LEVELS QUICKLY.
OOH, I CAN SEE THE MOUTH.
SO THIS IS IT, HUH?
YEAH.
THIS IS IT.
Narrator: THEIR MAIN GOAL IS
TO REACH THE DEAD HOUSE.
THERE, THE BROTHERS HOPE TO FIND
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OR ARTIFACTS
THAT TIE BACK TO THE GIANT
SKELETONS THAT WERE REPORTEDLY
UNEARTHED IN 1872.
THERE'S A REPORT OF AN UNDERGROUND LAKE.
YEAH, IN THE 1872 REPORT WE'VE
BEEN FOLLOWING.
I GUESS WE MIGHT NEED THESE.
Narrator: AFTER 1872, SEVERAL
MORE TEAMS OF GIANT HUNTERS
ENTERED THE BONE CAVE.
IN 1915, THE EXPLORERS CAME
ACROSS WHAT WAS DESCRIBED AS
THE FIGURE OF A PETRIFIED MAN OF
ENORMOUS SIZE.
THEY SPECULATED THAT THIS
PETRIFIED MAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN
A PRISONER HURLED TO HIS DEATH
BY THE BUILDERS OF THE NEARBY MOUND SITE.
COULD THE GIGANTIC MUMMY STILL
BE DOWN THERE?
FOR JIM, WHO HAS SPENT YEARS
STUDYING THE ACCOUNTS, IT'S TIME
TO FIND OUT.
WE HAVE A LOT OF MOISTURE,
SO BE CONSCIOUS ABOUT ANY KIND
OF FLOODING IN THIS CAVE OR...
SO I GUESS WE'RE AT A GOOD SPOT
TO KIND OF GO AHEAD AND PUT SOME
CAVING SUITS ON SO WE CAN STAY
IN HERE FOR A WHILE AND NOT BE
GETTING ANY STAGES OF HYPOTHERMIA.
HOW ARE WE FEELING?
I'M NERVOUS.
PROBABLY THE BIGGEST GUY HERE.
PROBABLY THE MOST CLAUSTROPHOBIC.
ALL RIGHT, I'M GONNA HEAD ON
DOWN HERE AND SEE HOW DEEP IT IS.
HOW DEEP DOWN CAN YOU SEE?
I SEE A PRETTY STEEP DROP AND
THEN I JUST SEE A BLACK HOLE.
I HAVE SOME CAVING EXPERIENCE
BUT NOTHING LIKE THIS.
I'M GONNA HOOK YOU UP AND
START HEADING DOWN.
YOU READY TO ROCK AND ROLL, BIG JIM?
GAME TIME.
SHAKE AND BAKE.
[sighs]
IT'S TIGHT.
IT SEEMS TOUGH TO BELIEVE
A GIANT COULD'VE BEEN MOVED THROUGH HERE...
OKAY, LET ME GET MY [bleep]
TOGETHER HERE.
BUT AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND
ALL THESE ROCK COLLAPSES,
IT'S REALLY TIGHT IN THERE.
SO AT THIS POINT WE FEEL
LIKE IF WE CAN GET TO THIS DEAD
HOUSE WE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ABLE
TO FIND EVIDENCE,
POSSIBLY SKELETAL REMAINS.
LET US KNOW WHAT YOU SEE
SO WE CAN... WE'RE STARTING TO
LOSE SIGHT OF YOU.
A LITTLE MORE SLACK.
OKAY.
OH, GOD.
IT'S VERY DARK, AND I CAN'T
REALLY MAKE OUT THE BOTTOM OF IT STILL.
IT GOES FATHER.
AND I'M STARTING TO GET ANXIOUS.
YOU KNOW, HOW DEEP DOES THIS GO?
IF YOU GOT A LEDGE THERE,
JUST KNOW THAT IT'S PROBABLY NOT
A VERY STRONG LEDGE.
SO TRY TO BE REAL LIGHT ON IT.
SO I FIND MYSELF REACHING
DOWN ABOUT SEVEN FEET OR EIGHT FEET.
I'M TRYING TO GRAB A FOOTHOLD,
AND THEN I COME TO, LIKE, A PLATFORM.
BUT THEN I GO DOWN TO A SECOND
TIER AND I FIND A SIMILAR SITUATION.
I'M REACHING DOWN ANOTHER SEVEN,
EIGHT, NINE FEET.
I FIND ANOTHER PLATFORM TO STAND ON.
IT'S, LIKE, AT LEAST TEN MORE DOWN.
SO YOU GOT ME?
YEAH, WE GOT YOU.
CAREFUL.
SO AT THAT POINT I DO THE SAME THING.
I CONTINUE OFF THE LIP A BIT.
AND THEN I FIND MYSELF IN KIND
OF A FREE FALL.
[bleep]!
[groans]
WHOO!
ALL RIGHT, I'M DOWN HERE.
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?
IT'S AMAZING DOWN HERE.
IT'S LIKE 10X10.
Narrator: COULD THIS SPOT BE
THE PRECISE LOCATION OF
THE 1872 DEAD HOUSE?
WOW.
Narrator: THE ORIGINAL
ACCOUNT SPOKE OF SOFT MATTER ON THE FLOOR.
REMAINS OF DEAD ORGANIC LIFE.
JIM CAN SEE NO EVIDENCE HERE OF
THAT MATERIAL.
AND THERE ARE NO BONES.
COULD THE DEAD HOUSE LIE FURTHER AHEAD?
IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S ANOTHER
TUNNEL HERE, BILL.
THIS IS... OH.
WHOA.
HOLY [bleep]!
THIS IS... WHOA.
WHOA.
HOLY [bleep]!
Narrator: JIM AND BILL
VIEIRA, ALONG WITH EXPERT CAVE
EXPLORER CLAYTON LAPRIS,
ARE 60 FEET BELOW THE GROUND IN
THE HILLS OF COFFEE COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
THE BROTHERS ARE DEEP INTO
THE LEGENDARY BONE CAVE,
A SPOT WHERE, ACCORDING TO
AN 1872 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE,
GIANT SKELETONS WERE FOUND BY
A SUCCESSION OF EXPLORERS.
BILLY, I THINK I FOUND THE CARVED NAMES.
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.
Narrator: OLD WRITING ON
THE WALL IN WHAT IS NOW,
AFTER YEARS OF EROSION, A NEARLY
INACCESSIBLE CAVE...
I ALMOST COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
THEY CARVED IN A NAME.
THEY CARVED IN THE DATE.
Narrator: WHILE THE
INSCRIPTION DATES TO 1899 AND
NOT 1872, THE DATE OF THE
ORIGINAL ACCOUNT, THIS IS STILL
AN IMPORTANT CLUE,
AN INDICATION THAT JIM AND BILL
ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK IN THEIR
SEARCH FOR THE DEAD HOUSE.
ALL RIGHT, HANG TIGHT.
DON'T GO ANYWHERE.
Narrator: ENCOURAGED BY JIM'S
FIND, BILL NOW BEGINS HIS OWN DESCENT.
JIM JUST BARELY GETS THROUGH,
AND I'M A COUPLE INCHES BIGGER
THAN HIM IN THE CHEST.
SO I'M WONDERING IF I CAN GET THROUGH.
TAKE YOUR TIME.
WE DON'T WANT TO DISLODGE
ANYTHING AS WE GO DOWN.
OKAY, YEAH.
I'M TRYING TO GET THROUGH THIS
FIRST CHOKE POINT AND I'M REALLY
NOT FITTING.
SLOW MOVEMENTS, ALL RIGHT?
THIS IS CRAZY TIGHT.
TAKE A BREATH.
RELAX.
I'M GONNA HANG NOW.
YOU GOT ABOUT SIX MORE FEET, YEAH.
OKAY.
THE INSCRIPTIONS.
OH, MY GOD.
CRAZY.
THE ONLY THING MISSING IS
A GIANT SKULL RIGHT NOW.
WELL, CHECK THIS OUT.
THERE'S A TUNNEL IN THAT DIRECTION.
AND THERE'S ANOTHER ONE.
THE ACCOUNT TALKED OF TWO
TUNNELS LEADING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
SO TUNNEL ONE IS COMPLETELY
BLOCKED BY ROCK FALL.
500 POUND STONE RIGHT THERE
AND THERE'S ALL THIS RUBBLE.
AND THE LEGENDS SAY THAT THERE
IS ANOTHER TUNNEL THAT HEADS EAST.
THEN THIS ONE.
THAT'S THE ONE.
THAT'S THE ONE.
I COULD TELL YOU IT IS RIGHT NOW.
[laughter]
WHACKED OUT.
IT ALSO TALKED ABOUT GOING
TOWARDS A BODY OF WATER DOWN HERE.
THE ACCOUNT SPECIFICALLY TALKS
ABOUT WATER IN AN UNDERGROUND PASSAGEWAY.
THAT IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
Narrator: THESE CLUES
INDICATE THAT JIM AND BILL MAY
BE CLOSE TO MAKING THE DISCOVERY
THAT HAS ELUDED GIANT HUNTERS
FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY.
THEN... >> HEY, BILLY!
Narrator: JIM SPOTS SOMETHING
STRANGE IN THE DARKNESS.
I JUST FOUND AN OLD SIGN.
"OLD STONE FORT, JULY 1983."
narrator: THE OLD STONE FORT
IS THE NAME GIVEN TO THE CLOSEST
MOUND BUILDER SITE TO THE BONE CAVE.
LESS THAN A MILE AWAY.
IT'S ALL WATERLOGGED.
THIS COULD'VE WASHED IN FROM ONE
OF THESE TUNNELS.
Narrator: THIS COULD BE
A SIGN, LITERALLY, THAT THERE IS
AN UNDERGROUND TUNNEL CONNECTING
THE BONE CAVE AND THIS ANCIENT STRUCTURE.
SO IF THIS SIGN DID WASH IN
FROM THE OLD STONE FORT, WHERE
IS THIS CONNECTION?
WE COULD BE ON TO SOMETHING
REALLY, REALLY EXTRAORDINARY.
Narrator: THERE ARE THOSE,
COULD BE AN UNDERGROUND CATACOMB
FOR THE MOUND BUILDERS OF THAT
ANCIENT EARTHWORK?
THERE MUST HAVE BEEN
SKELETONS RIGHT HERE.
Narrator: WHILE THE SIGN IS
AN INTRIGUING CLUE, JIM AND BILL
NEED TO FIND THE DEAD HOUSE IF
THEY HOPE TO LOCATE ANY EVIDENCE
FROM THE 1872 GIANT ACCOUNT.
JIM!
YEAH?
THERE'S A PASSAGEWAY DOWN HERE.
AND OFF TO THE RIGHT, I LOOK DOWN, WATER.
THREE FEET OF WATER IN IT.
JUST LIKE THE ACCOUNT SAID.
JUST LIKE THE ACCOUNT SAID.
OH, MAN.
HEY, CLAYTON.
WE'RE GONNA NEED THE WET SUITS.
ALL RIGHT.
GOT YOU.
WE'RE COMING DOWN, BILLY.
HOLY [bleep].
LOOK AT THAT.
THE OTHER THING IS... >> YEAH.
IT'S POINTING EAST,
TO THE OLD STONE FORT.
Narrator: COULD THIS BE
THE TUNNEL THAT THEY'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR?
THAT COULD BE THE PLACE OF
THE GIANT BURIALS.
CLAYTON, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT
ME GOING IN THIS WATER AND
GETTING SUITED UP?
WE'LL KEEP A CLEAR LINE OF
SIGHT SO WE CAN SEE EACH OTHER.
WE DON'T WANT HYPOTHERMIA TO SET IN.
SO WE WANT TO MAKE IT PRETTY
QUICK AND GET OUT.
SO AFTER HE GOES IN,
THE CLOCK'S TICKING.
HOW MUCH TIME DOES HE HAVE?
ABOUT 30 MINUTES.
Narrator: JIM AND BILL ARE AT
A CROSSROADS.
BUT THEY BELIEVE THAT THE DEAD
HOUSE HOLDING POSSIBLE
ARTIFACTS, OR EVEN GIANT
SKELETONS, LIES AHEAD.
WE TOOK A SECOND TO
CONTEMPLATE WHAT NEXT,
BUT I WANTED TO GO RIGHT IN.
WE CAN'T TURN BACK NOW.
SO THERE'S A WHOLE HOST OF
DANGERS GOING INTO THIS PASSAGEWAY.
HYPOTHERMIA'S THE FIRST CONCERN.
THERE COULD BE A FLASH FLOOD.
ANOTHER POSSIBILITY IS BAD AIR.
AT ANY POINT HE COULD INHALE
A BUNCH OF AIR THAT HAS NO
OXYGEN IN IT AND PASS OUT IN THERE.
IF SOMETHING WERE TO HAPPEN,
IT'S GAME OVER BASICALLY.
ALL RIGHT, I'M READY.
CLOCK'S TICKING.
HALF HOUR.
OKAY.
IT'S REALLY TIGHT HERE.
WHOA, WHOA.
OH, [bleep].
SOMETHING JUST FELL ON ME.
THERE'S PIECES FALLING DOWN,
THAT'S FOR SURE.
IT'S UNSTABLE.
HOW FAR AWAY FROM US ARE YOU RIGHT NOW?
HUNDRED FEET.
WE CAN BARELY HEAR YOU NOW.
SO EVERY 10 OR 15 SECONDS MAKE
SURE YOU'RE CALLING OUT LOUD.
I'M GONNA GO OUT TO THIS TURN
AND THEN GIVE AN UPDATE OKAY?
GIVE ME 20 MORE FEET.
THE FLOOR IS LIKE QUICKSAND.
WHAT'D YOU SAY ABOUT QUICKSAND?
THE MUD WAS VERY SLIPPERY AND
VERY DIFFICULT.
I WAS HONESTLY CONCERNED RIGHT AWAY.
I SAW THAT IT WAS NATURAL BUT
VERY SYMMETRICAL.
IT JUST WAS STRAIGHT.
TO THE UNTRAINED EYE, THE WALLS
OF THIS TUNNEL MAY LOOK MANMADE
OR CHISELED.
WOW.
THIS IS CRAZY.
JIM, CAN YOU HEAR US?
HEY, JIM, KEEP TALKING TO US,
'CAUSE WE DEFINITELY CAN'T SEE YOU.
HE'S DEEP IN.
THE FURTHER I WENT, THE WORSE
THE AIR QUALITY WAS.
I COULD FEEL GETTING A LITTLE DIZZY.
I STARTED TO GET VERY CONCERNED.
DO I GO FURTHER?
DO I GO BACK?
WHAT'S GOING ON?
OH, MY GOD.
OH, [bleep], IT GETS REALLY LOW.
OH, [bleep].
IT'S TOO LOW TO PASS THE CAMERA THROUGH.
I... YEAH.
[bleep], I DON'T KNOW THAT I
CAN GET ANY FURTHER.
Narrator: THE CEILING IS TOO
LOW FOR THE CAMERA TO PASS
THROUGH WITHOUT RISKING DAMAGE
TO THE EQUIPMENT... >> ALL RIGHT.
Narrator: BUT JIM CONTINUES ON.
I'LL CHECK BACK IN, IN 30 SECONDS.
JIM IS SUPPOSED TO CALL BACK
EVERY TEN SECONDS, BUT HE'S NOT DOING IT.
YOU GOT TO KEEP COMMUNICATING.
WE CAN'T HEAR YOU.
HE'S BEEN IN THERE, LIKE, 22 MINUTES.
YEAH.
HE SHOULD GET OUT OF THERE.
IT'S TIME.
WE CAN'T HEAR HIM.
WE CAN'T SEE HIM.
TALK TO US, JIM.
YOU GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE.
THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED
GETTING CONCERNED.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
HEY, JIM!
HEY, JIM!
JIM, CAN YOU HEAR US?
Narrator: BILL VIEIRA IS
CALLING OUT TO HIS BROTHER, JIM.
THE TWO ARE 60 FEET DOWN IN
THE BELLY OF THE INFAMOUS AND
NOW UNSTABLE BONE CAVE IN COFFEE
COUNTY, TENNESSEE.
CLAYTON TOLD US WE HAD 30 MINUTES.
WE'RE AT THE 30 MINUTE MARK
RIGHT NOW, AND I'M GETTING
PRETTY CONCERNED.
HE SHOULD GET OUT OF THERE.
IT'S TIME.
WE CAN'T HEAR HIM.
WE CAN'T SEE HIM.
Narrator: THE BROTHERS
DESCENDED INTO THE CAVE HOPING
TO FIND THE SECTION CALLED THE DEAD HOUSE.
ACCORDING TO AN ACCOUNT FROM
1872, IT'S WHERE GIANT SKELETONS
WERE RECOVERED.
TALK TO US, JIM.
YOU GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE.
Narrator: BILL ASKED JIM TO
CHECK IN EVERY 20 YARDS.
BUT IT'S BEEN SEVERAL MINUTES
SINCE HE'S HEARD HIS BROTHER'S VOICE.
EVERYTHING'S GOOD.
COMING THROUGH.
SO WHEN JIM COMES OUT OF
THAT PASSAGEWAY, I FEEL GREAT RELIEF.
AND YOU COULD SEE ON HIS FACE
THAT HE'S BLOWN AWAY.
WHAT'D YOU SEE IN THERE, JIM?
I'VE GONE AS FAR AS I CAN GO.
THERE'S A ROOM DOWN THERE.
I JUST CAN'T GET TO IT.
YOU ALMOST GOT TO GO UNDER
THE WATER TO GET INTO THIS
VAULTED ROOM THAT'S OUT THERE.
IT'S LIKE A CATHEDRAL.
IT'S JUST NOT SAFE.
IT'S JUST... IT'S WAY... IT'S
ANOTHER 100 FEET AND IT KEEPS
GOING AND GOING, AND IT MIGHT GO
RIGHT TO THE OLD STONE FORT.
Narrator: THE BROTHERS
WEREN'T ABLE TO GET TO
THE SECRET DEAD HOUSE.
HEY, JIM, WELCOME BACK.
YOU WERE MAKING US NERVOUS.
WE COULDN'T SEE OR HEAR YOU.
Narrator: BUT THEY DID FIND
INTRIGUING EVIDENCE...
IT'S LIKE THE MOST DANGEROUS
BUT COOLEST PLACE I'VE EVER BEEN.
Narrator: WHICH SUGGESTS THAT
THIS CAVE WAS ONCE CONNECTED TO
THE NEARBY OLD STONE FORT.
IT DEFINITELY WAS LIKE
A BURIAL TOMB OR SOMETHING LIKE
THAT, I SWEAR TO GOD.
I WAS AWESTRUCK JUST AFTER THIS
LONG PASSAGEWAY.
THE CEILING GETS LOW.
I LOOKED BEYOND THAT AND I SEE
THAT THERE'S A ROOM THAT OPENS
UP INTO A GREAT, EXPANSIVE PLACE.
AND IT CONTINUES.
MY INTUITION TELLS ME THAT,
THAT WAS A SACRED SITE,
THE BURIAL CRYPT OF THE RULERS
THAT BUILT THE OLD STONE FORT.
TO FIND THIS PLACE, IT JUST
CORROBORATES THE WHOLE STORY.
I TOTALLY THINK THAT THIS AT ONE
POINT COULD HAVE BEEN A BURIAL
PLACE OF GIANTS.
THIS BONE CAVE IS SO WILD,
AND WE VERIFIED THESE INCREDIBLE ACCOUNTS.
BUT IT'S TOTALLY FRUSTRATING
BECAUSE WE JUST RISKED OUR
LIVES, AND WE'RE LEAVING
TENNESSEE WITHOUT ANY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.
AH, IT'S A PRETTY SIGHT.
YEAH.
DAYLIGHT.
BUT THIS GETS ME FIRED UP
ACTUALLY TO CONTINUE ON THE QUEST.
AND NOW WE'RE BACK TO NEW
ENGLAND TO SEE IF WE CAN FIND
SOMETHING COMPELLING IN GOSHEN.
NEXT WEEK ON SEARCH FOR
THE LOST GIANTS...
BREAKING GROUND, BROTHER.
IT'S GONNA GET REALLY FREAKY.
WHAT I FOUND THERE WAS
ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING.
THIS IS CLOSE TO NINE FEET!
WOW!
THIS ENORMOUS SKULL WITH
DOUBLE ROWS OF TEETH COULD BE RIGHT HERE.
WE'RE GONNA TRY TO THREAD
THIS THROUGH THAT ZIPPER AND SEE
IF THERE'S ANYTHING ON THE OTHER SIDE.
[bleep]! WHOA!
HOLY [bleep].