575: The Underground Grid: Electricity Linking Four Famous Monsters

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Speaker 10 In 2015, a routine study by the United States Geological Survey, or USGS, discovered strange electrical patterns and vast cave networks beneath New Jersey's pine barrens, formations that shouldn't exist in that area.

Speaker 10 When researchers compared their data with other surveys, they found identical formations and energy signatures in three other places, the hills of West Virginia, the Congo Basin, and eastern Oklahoma.

Speaker 16 Each site had vast underground cave systems, and each site showed unusual electrical activity, repeating patterns of energy too precise to be natural.

Speaker 6 The more the data was analyzed, the more connections were found.

Speaker 10 And there was one connection the government did not want to talk about.

Speaker 5 All four locations were connected to cryptid sightings.

Speaker 22 In 2018, the USGS quietly issued a final report.

Speaker 26 Despite being thousands of miles apart, the tunnels are laid out in the same mathematical grid, a grid that's slowly expanding toward a central point.

Speaker 10 It looks like that not only are the creatures living in the underground caves, now they're digging and they're digging toward the same destination. So, two questions: How are these cryptids connected?

Speaker 18 And what happens when their tunnels intersect?

Speaker 26 The earliest mention of the New Jersey Devil is 1735.

Speaker 30 Deborah Leeds gave birth to her 13th child. According to the legend, she cursed the child, saying it would be the devil.

Speaker 10 Then the child transformed into a monstrous creature.

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Speaker 34 I'm sorry, I know you don't like cryptids, so I'm trying to help you keep it moving.

Speaker 35 You don't need to.

Speaker 30 We're gonna talk about four different cryptids today.

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Speaker 36 No, please don't.

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Speaker 37 Local folklore says the Jersey Devil has bat wings, a goat's head, and a forked tail.

Speaker 31 You can sometimes see it flying around the pine barrens of New Jersey.

Speaker 34 The only thing scary at New Jersey at a drive is you ever seen him on a turnpike trying to wrangle a left turn out of a jug handle?

Speaker 28 All right, that's enough.

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Speaker 26 The most documented appearance of the New Jersey Devil was January 1909.

Speaker 11 Hundreds of residents across multiple counties reported seeing it.

Speaker 10 The wave of sightings transformed the local legend into national news.

Speaker 14 The creature was described the same way by many witnesses.

Speaker 38 It had wings like a bat, a head like a horse or a goat, and walked on two legs.

Speaker 39 From the side, its face was like a kangaroo, a long neck and eyes that were described as glowing red orbs.

Speaker 4 Several people said they smelled sulfur.

Speaker 38 It was awkward looking but fast and agile. It could launch itself straight up into the air and take flight.

Speaker 24 There were even hoof prints in the snow.

Speaker 11 The prints would suddenly disappear as if it jumped into the air.

Speaker 14 It was a big deal in the area.

Speaker 23 Schools were closed.

Speaker 42 Factory workers refused to work nights.

Speaker 6 Police officers, politicians, businessmen, they all filed reports.

Speaker 21 The Philadelphia Zoo offered a reward to anyone who could catch it.

Speaker 40 Multiple newspapers, including the New York Times, covered the incidents.

Speaker 31 Law enforcement records showed consistent physical evidence at multiple locations.

Speaker 10 Witness reports flooded in from Burlington, Gloucester, and Salem counties.

Speaker 29 A Burlington hunter reported being attacked and clawed by the creature.

Speaker 37 In Woodbury, a group of boys threw rocks at it, which caused it to screech and flap away.

Speaker 6 Modern analysis gives a clue why this area might be home to the devil.

Speaker 21 The New Jersey pine barrens sit on top of one of the largest aquifer systems in the country, more than 17 trillion gallons of water.

Speaker 4 Recent studies revealed extensive cave networks threading through the aquifer system.

Speaker 25 Geologists say these caves shouldn't exist in this type of sedimentary rock.

Speaker 33 During the 1909 sightings, there were also electrical anomalies reported.

Speaker 40 Telegraph equipment behaved erratically.

Speaker 14 Messages were garbled with strange sequences of numbers. When modern cryptographers analyzed these sequences in 2018, they found a pattern.

Speaker 48 One that matched electrical wavelengths now being recorded by the USGS.

Speaker 29 In 1909, police reports documented footprints in the snow.

Speaker 11 Cloven hooves that started and stopped impossibly as if the creature just vanished.

Speaker 43 They even took plaster molds of the tracks.

Speaker 5 The Jersey Devil moved with an unusual gait unlike any other animal animal on record.

Speaker 4 In 2021, the Philadelphia Police Department finally released their complete files from 1909.

Speaker 4 Among them was a sealed report about the plaster casts.

Speaker 29 Modern analysis revealed rare minerals in the prints that don't exist in surface soil, they only exist in deep cave systems thousands of feet underground.

Speaker 11 They finally discovered the lair of the New Jersey Devil.

Speaker 32 On September 12th, 1952, seven people in Flatwoods, West Virginia saw something that changed their lives and the town forever.

Speaker 10 Witnesses included Kathleen May and Eugene Lemon serving in the National Guard.

Speaker 4 Their encounter would become part of Project Blue Book, the Air Force's official UFO investigation program.

Speaker 38 The entity they described was at least 10 feet tall.

Speaker 10 It hovered above the ground in a column of mist with glowing orange eyes. Its body appeared both mechanical and organic.

Speaker 29 A metallic, dark pleated skirt-like structure tapered to a point.

Speaker 6 Most distinctive was its head.

Speaker 4 People said it was shaped like an ace of spades and it had small claws on its sides.

Speaker 25 It emitted a nauseating metallic odor that made witnesses violently ill.

Speaker 6 There was physical physical evidence as well.

Speaker 14 Seven witnesses suffered nausea and throat irritation lasting several days.

Speaker 4 Ground analysis revealed an unusual oily residue at the site, and military investigators said radiation in the area was twice the normal level.

Speaker 33 The Air Force had an official explanation.

Speaker 26 It was an owl perched on a branch.

Speaker 34 An owl? What about the physical evidence?

Speaker 2 Oh, they ignored it. No, they didn't.

Speaker 34 They just didn't tell anyone.

Speaker 12 That's probably true.

Speaker 31 That night, dozens of people across four counties reported similar lights in the sky.

Speaker 52 Local radio stations complained about widespread electrical interference.

Speaker 23 Military radar tracked an unknown object moving at over 13,000 miles per hour before stopping over flatwoods.

Speaker 43 Project Blue Book investigators arrived almost immediately.

Speaker 4 The report was declassified in 1975.

Speaker 2 The electrical readings at the site matched no known pattern, but the radiation signature did match other locations.

Speaker 40 Readings taken in New Jersey and later, Oklahoma.

Speaker 10 Recent geological studies revealed why the creature may have appeared in flatwoods.

Speaker 4 It's the same story.

Speaker 40 The location is the intersection of three underground rivers.

Speaker 45 This creates electrical conditions like those found in the pine barrens, and according to the USGS data, that energy is getting stronger.

Speaker 14 When the reports from 1952 were reanalyzed, they found that precise geographic coordinates of sightings happened near the electrical disturbances,

Speaker 10 and the highest energy readings matched the most vivid accounts of the Flatwoods monster.

Speaker 20 Now, based on the locations of the reports, the creature seemed to be leading people somewhere, and it turned out that that place was the entrance of an underground cave system.

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Speaker 15 For generations, the tribes living deep in the Congo have told stories about a monster living in the swamp.

Speaker 49 According to legend, it's a massive creature with a long neck, tiny head, and powerful tail, and it leaves behind huge footprints.

Speaker 41 They call it M. Kelly Bembo.

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Speaker 45 Mkele Bembe has brownish-green, scaly reptilian skin and three huge claws on each foot.

Speaker 21 The locals were describing a sauerpot, a dinosaur.

Speaker 37 But this was before the first dinosaur was discovered.

Speaker 4 For centuries, these were just local stories and nothing more.

Speaker 26 But that changed when Western explorers started reporting their own terrifying encounters with Mkele Bembe.

Speaker 5 In 1913, German explorer Captain Ludwig Führer von Stein led an expedition near Lake Tele.

Speaker 10 He was searching for a race of dwarves rumored to be living in the area.

Speaker 26 What he found instead were enormous footprints over three feet long.

Speaker 15 They showed signs of a massive body being dragged.

Speaker 5 Local guides weren't surprised at all.

Speaker 39 They said the tracks belonged to Mkele Bembe.

Speaker 12 More sightings emerged over the following years.

Speaker 10 In 1919, American missionary Eugene Thomas reported a dinosaur-like creature crossing the Jha River. In 1932, famous cryptozoologist Ivan Sanderson was charged by a huge animal during an expedition.

Speaker 4 He described it as a reptilian beast about six feet high.

Speaker 24 The scientific community remained skeptical until the 1980s.

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Speaker 26 Roy Mackle's team uncovered a fresh set of three-foot-long footprints near Lake Tele.

Speaker 10 They could only have been left by an extremely large, heavy bipedal reptile.

Speaker 24 In other words, a dinosaur.

Speaker 37 In 1992, a Japanese film crew captured footage of a large creature swimming across the lake.

Speaker 74 A Japanese expedition traveled to remote Lake Tele, in the heart of the Congo forest.

Speaker 74 We're looking for a dinosaur, a long-lost leftover from the Cretaceous period.

Speaker 74 They even claimed to have seen and shot footage of a klesiosaur-like creature swimming in the waters of the lake.

Speaker 11 Other witnesses have come forward over the years with similar reports.

Speaker 10 In 2003, a group of miners claimed to have seen a rhino-sized creature with a long tail and small head drinking from a river.

Speaker 32 Locals reported a dinosaur attacked their crops in 2021.

Speaker 43 All these sightings occurred in the same area, directly above one of the sprawling underground tunnel systems identified by the USGS, and all are electrical hotspots.

Speaker 10 In 2016, researchers from National Geographic were exploring those caves.

Speaker 36 Carved into the walls were a series of ancient illustrations.

Speaker 41 They depicted Mkele Benbe.

Speaker 17 Small head, large body, and the artwork dated back over 20,000 years.

Speaker 26 When first discovered researchers assumed the drawings were fiction.

Speaker 11 Now it seemed like whoever lived in those caves all those years ago was writing down history.

Speaker 4 In eastern Oklahoma for years something has been stalking the dense forests.

Speaker 43 Locals call it the Aidair Beast or the Oklahoma Bigfoot. It's a massive creature, covered in hair.

Speaker 26 It walks upright like a man, but its footprints are definitely not human.

Speaker 4 The earliest reported sightings date back to the 1970s around Silom Springs.

Speaker 47 Delbert and Ernestine Harris were driving home one night when a huge hairy beast crossed the road directly in front of them.

Speaker 10 It was at least eight feet tall with an overpowering stench like a skunk.

Speaker 24 In August 1971, Adair County Sheriff saw a creature he couldn't explain.

Speaker 11 It stood over eight feet tall, its body covered in dark reddish-brown hair.

Speaker 4 Witnesses described a face that looked like a cross between an ape and a dog, or an ape and a wolf.

Speaker 5 It has long, powerful arms and hands with claws.

Speaker 34 Whoa, it sounds like a crab kid.

Speaker 2 No, I think it's a crazy.

Speaker 34 It has the body of a crab and the face of a cat. I know what.

Speaker 23 Its eyes are amber-colored and reflect light like a predator's.

Speaker 2 The crab kit.

Speaker 43 But the witnesses say behind those eyes is an unsettling intelligence. Multiple police officers encountered the Adair beast that summer.

Speaker 32 They said it moved much too quickly for its size.

Speaker 37 A deputy tracked it through Creek Bottom.

Speaker 5 It left behind a trail of mutilated livestock and footprints 17 inches long with distinct claw marks.

Speaker 25 The pattern showed it wasn't wandering aimlessly, it was hunting for food.

Speaker 42 More encounters were reported over the following years across Cherokee and Adair counties.

Speaker 43 In 1976, a truck driver almost ran into it as it lumbered across the highway.

Speaker 52 He said it was half man and half animal with matted reddish-brown fur and glowing eyes that reflected his headlights.

Speaker 40 In 1997, a state wildlife officer took casts of enormous footprints found near Silom Springs.

Speaker 45 Footprints that measured 17 inches long and 8 inches wide, with clear definitions of an arch and five distinct toes.

Speaker 15 The sightings continued into the 2010s.

Speaker 32 There was a 2012 encounter where a young woman and her children reported being followed by something big and growling when they were driving home.

Speaker 26 When they finally got home, they found a series of 14-inch footprints leading up to the front door.

Speaker 14 I don't know if anything was found inside.

Speaker 75 I can't find what happened to them.

Speaker 52 I'm sure they're fine.

Speaker 22 All these incidents occurred directly above the underground electrical hotspot identified in the USGS reports.

Speaker 31 The area has the same cave networks found at the other cryptid sites.

Speaker 10 A local rancher captured the creature on film in 1971.

Speaker 4 Eight seconds of footage that still defies explanation.

Speaker 20 Analysis confirmed the subject's height is exactly 8 foot 3 inches.

Speaker 43 But the footage showed something else.

Speaker 10 It was examining the ground in a grid pattern that matched the underground geometric formations.

Speaker 36 In 1971, no one knew about the underground water system or the cave networks beneath Adair County.

Speaker 43 When they were finally discovered in 1982, the readings were identical to the other three locations.

Speaker 15 And when researchers mapped sightings against the electrical anomalies, they formed a perfect pentagon.

Speaker 26 with each point corresponding to a deep tunnel in the cave system.

Speaker 33 The local sheriff's final report included one chilling detail.

Speaker 32 Deep in those caves, they found claw marks in solid granite.

Speaker 21 Chemical analysis confirmed the rock was 300 million years old.

Speaker 49 But the claw marks, they were fresh.

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Speaker 36 Four locations, four creatures.

Speaker 37 For over 100 years, there have been sightings of the Jersey Devil, Flatwoods Monster, Mkele Bembe, and the the Adair Beast.

Speaker 32 Today we covered a theory that the sightings weren't isolated events.

Speaker 43 They were connected, tied to locations that hide vast underground tunnel systems and unusual electric phenomena.

Speaker 37 But is it true?

Speaker 33 Well, hard evidence is tricky.

Speaker 6 There is hard evidence of all four of these, but is it definitely evidence of a cryptid?

Speaker 21 Well, we don't know.

Speaker 4 Skeptics say the Adair Beast footprints are a hoax.

Speaker 25 But that part of Oklahoma is a Bigfoot sighting hotspot.

Speaker 13 There's been so many reports that for the past 16 years, Hanobia, Oklahoma has hosted an annual Bigfoot festival.

Speaker 33 Now, I don't know if these people have seen a Bigfoot, but I believe that they've seen something.

Speaker 21 The Jersey Devil has been seen by thousands of people, over a thousand in January 1909 over the course of just a few days.

Speaker 37 But the story has a few problems.

Speaker 30 First, there's no record of a Deborah Leeds or her 13 children, but I didn't expect there to be.

Speaker 24 But Daniel Leeds was a local politician in the early 18th century.

Speaker 43 He was so unpopular that locals called him the devil.

Speaker 27 In fact, the Jersey Devil creature was first known as the Leeds Devil.

Speaker 10 The 13th child legend emerged from around that, but the truth is, this was political name-calling that stuck.

Speaker 34 300 years before Trump did it.

Speaker 2 Yep.

Speaker 23 It was so effective that Daniel Leeds left the country.

Speaker 43 In 1909, thousands of people did see the Jersey Devil, but what they saw was proven to be a hoax. It was a live kangaroo that had wings attached to it with a harness.

Speaker 23 Well, people believe what they want to believe.

Speaker 28 I'll prove it. Look, are alien abductions real?

Speaker 34 Of course they are.

Speaker 76 See?

Speaker 26 Now, to be fair, there were prints in the snow.

Speaker 43 What they never tell you is they were tiny, maybe an inch or two wide.

Speaker 24 Lots of birds in the area have prints just like them.

Speaker 30 And of course, birds can fly.

Speaker 32 Still, there are official reports of people being terrorized by something in South Jersey.

Speaker 34 Yeah, the drivers.

Speaker 37 You did that joke already.

Speaker 34 Sorry, sorry. I lost my place in the script.
Can we pick it up from Kelly and

Speaker 36 would you stop that?

Speaker 34 Come on, we can get a new t-shirt out of this.

Speaker 52 Yeah, it's not worth it.

Speaker 10 That footage from 1992 is real, but it's up for interpretation.

Speaker 6 Without being prompted, most people don't see a dinosaur.

Speaker 5 I didn't.

Speaker 32 They see a canoe.

Speaker 26 Just like the Loch Ness monster, there's that footage of it that looks pretty compelling until you realize you're looking at a boat.

Speaker 11 Even if Mkele Bembe is real, it's not going to be a water-based sauerpod.

Speaker 6 They didn't stay submerged that long.

Speaker 24 They breathed air.

Speaker 27 The ancient legend of Mkele Bembe can be traced back to the early 20th century.

Speaker 4 Captain Ludwig Ver von Stein, he's the first person to document the story, and he was repeating local folklore.

Speaker 24 But even he said he didn't believe the story.

Speaker 10 Mkele Bembe took off in 1907 when actual giant dinosaur bones were found in the area.

Speaker 13 Finally, the Flatwoods monster.

Speaker 4 To me, this is the weirdest one. It's classified as a cryptid, but technically it started out as a UFO sighting.

Speaker 11 Just after 7 p.m., a light streaked across the sky.

Speaker 23 A few boys were playing football outside.

Speaker 43 They called for help and chased it.

Speaker 26 Eight or nine people followed it over a hill, and they were trapped in a mist that smelled like sulfur.

Speaker 10 Then they saw the creature hovering near a tree.

Speaker 52 Now the group was terrified.

Speaker 32 They ran to the sheriff who was already out investigating a plane crash.

Speaker 34 Oh, I said, I think it was a plane.

Speaker 51 Probably not.

Speaker 26 There was no wreckage.

Speaker 23 The creature was gone.

Speaker 31 All that was left was the smell and something oily in the grass.

Speaker 28 Now later, we've learned that one of the witnesses drove his truck over the area, which would explain the oil and the tracks.

Speaker 14 And there are sulfur springs in the area, which could explain the smell.

Speaker 24 But there still isn't a full and reasonable explanation for any of this.

Speaker 11 Whatever was in the sky, it was important enough for the Air Force to send investigators.

Speaker 23 Now, the theory about aquifers and electrical energy is interesting.

Speaker 30 Aquifers do create energy.

Speaker 43 We covered this a few times.

Speaker 31 We go into detail in the episode about the pyramid power plant theory.

Speaker 34 Link the Tesla pyramid down in your pickle barrel.

Speaker 4 Connecting the four cryptids together is a stretch.

Speaker 31 The cave systems are there.

Speaker 49 The aquifers are mostly there.

Speaker 13 There might be a pattern, though I don't see it.

Speaker 4 According to believers, the electrical readings at these sites produced numeric sequences that shouldn't be possible in nature.

Speaker 45 The implication being they're being generated by advanced technology.

Speaker 11 Okay, I love the theory, but I don't see the pattern.

Speaker 4 Another theory is that these beings are extra-dimensional.

Speaker 30 They slip into our world through cracks in reality created by the electrical anomalies.

Speaker 11 This would explain their prehistoric origins and how they appear and disappear without a trace.

Speaker 6 It kind of reminds me of the liminal spaces and the backrooms.

Speaker 52 That's still one of my favorite episodes.

Speaker 6 So that's a thing now, huh?

Speaker 34 Hey, just giving the people what they want.

Speaker 11 So we can rationalize footprints as hoaxes or pareidolia.

Speaker 6 We know most of the videos and photos are fake.

Speaker 36 This is true with just about every cryptid story.

Speaker 26 That's why I don't like them.

Speaker 13 But when I stumbled upon the electrical connection theory, I became interested.

Speaker 11 That's the kind of theory that keeps me coming back because it's scientifically grounded.

Speaker 50 Electrical pun not intended.

Speaker 47 But it's a stretch to connect cryptids to electromagnetism.

Speaker 46 But that's only for now.

Speaker 6 Connecting space and time and electromagnetism wasn't a thing 150 years ago, but general relativity says that any form of energy can cause space-time to curve.

Speaker 43 Extra dimensions also might be physically proven one day.

Speaker 51 The math works.

Speaker 32 As science progresses, we'll find more and more connections to things that were once considered supernatural.

Speaker 6 And who knows?

Speaker 14 Maybe someday someone will invent a machine that can pierce through our reality and show us another reality, invisible yet right in front of us.

Speaker 10 This device would be like x-ray vision, but for other dimensions.

Speaker 11 And wouldn't it be fun if we turned on that machine, machine, looked through the lens, and there was a family of eight-foot-tall hairy humanoids staring back at us.

Speaker 11 Without missing a beat, one of them stares at the camera and says, we've been here the whole time.

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Speaker 19 Those are kind of the darker stories.

Speaker 49 Still a lot of fun.

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Speaker 46 Until next time, be safe, be kind, and know that you are appreciated.

Speaker 46 I played Polymius and Area 51.

Speaker 71 A secret code inside the Bible said I would.

Speaker 71 I love my UFOs and paranormal fun, as well as music. So I'm singing like I should.

Speaker 76 But then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth, my friends.

Speaker 71 And it never ends.

Speaker 71 No, it never ends.

Speaker 71 I feel the crap cat and got stuck inside Mel's home with them chaotic trucks. I've been only too aware.

Speaker 76 Dude, Stanley Kewberry fake the moon landing alone

Speaker 2 on a film set.

Speaker 71 I would shadow people

Speaker 71 there.

Speaker 71 There are well aliens just for the smiling man.

Speaker 71 I'm told,

Speaker 76 and his name was Cole.

Speaker 76 And I can't believe I'm dancing with the bitches.

Speaker 76 And no fish on Thursday nights when they change you. And we're about to be all through the night.

Speaker 76 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So the wild balls are free all through the light.

Speaker 76 The Mothman sightings and the solar storm still come.

Speaker 71 To have got the secret city underground

Speaker 71 Mysterious number stations, planets surfbo to Project Stargate, and what the Dark Watchers found

Speaker 76 in a simulation, don't you worry though

Speaker 76 The Black Knight satellite and told me so

Speaker 76 I can't believe

Speaker 76 I'm dancing with the field.

Speaker 76 Henry Fish on Thursday nights with Day J2 and Watbo's love for me all through the night.

Speaker 76 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. WAPO's love and me all through the night.

Speaker 76 Had the fish on Thursday night, swift day, J2. And we'll stop and be all through the night.

Speaker 76 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So while I was beat all through the

Speaker 76 light,

Speaker 76 Gurdy loves to dance.

Speaker 76 Gurdy loves to dance.

Speaker 76 Gurdy loves to dance.

Speaker 76 Yeah, Gurdy loves to dance on the dance floor because she is is a camel.

Speaker 76 And camels love to dance when the feeling is right on the way.

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