584: Cryptids Vol. 3: The Antarctic Cover-up | Predators Beneath the Ice

Speaker 3 You ever hear about the 1950s flight that vanished into thin air over Lake Michigan?

Speaker 4 No wreckage, no trace, nothing?

Speaker 5 Or the theory that Robin Hood might have actually been real, sneaking through underground tunnels to rob the rich?

Speaker 9 Yeah, same here.

Speaker 12 On Expedition Unknown, a podcast from Discovery, Josh Gates travels the globe to uncover the truth behind some of history's most bizarre and iconic legends.

Speaker 18 With direct audio from the hit TV show, you'll join him on authentic roughshot adventures, from diving into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart to chasing Captain Morgan's treasure through Panama.

Speaker 25 And the stories just keep coming, like uncovering our ancient origins in Africa, diving into the Bermuda Triangle's most baffling disappearances, and chasing lost treasure tied to a legendary warrior queen who nearly defeated the Roman Empire.

Speaker 28 If you're drawn to real-world mysteries, historical anomalies, and stories that blur the line between legend and fact, this show will pull you in.

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Speaker 33 The Russian team at Lake Vostok in Antarctica drilled through two miles of ice.

Speaker 34 They were inches away from hitting water that hadn't seen sunlight in 20 million years.

Speaker 8 Then communications went dark.

Speaker 22 Five days later, two scientists were dead.

Speaker 37 The official report said hypothermia.

Speaker 22 A witness statement tells a different story.

Speaker 40 No country owns Antarctica, but you need permission to visit.

Speaker 13 You're restricted to designated areas and you must have a government-approved escort.

Speaker 39 They say these rules are to protect the environment, but people who've been there know better.

Speaker 42 These rules are there to protect something else, something dangerous.

Speaker 39 At the bottom of the world, there are monsters, and we created them.

Speaker 46 A single image appeared on 4chan's paranormal board in February 2021.

Speaker 48 A user was scanning the Antarctic wasteland on Google Maps when they found something strange.

Speaker 49 Yeah, 4chan always brings the good stuff.

Speaker 50 A massive spider-like creature clearly visible against the ice and snow.

Speaker 39 Nothing could survive there, not for millions of years, but something does.

Speaker 49 I told you the good stuff.

Speaker 35 Then son of Aunt Anon logged on.

Speaker 51 Everyone called him Anton.

Speaker 52 His father Joe was a Navy lieutenant and a doctor.

Speaker 36 He served at McMurdo Station in the 1990s, and Joe knew exactly what that creature was.

Speaker 38 People were skeptical until Anton posted photos, his father's patches from Antarctic Development Squadron 6, military commendations on an Antarctica-shaped plaque, everything checked out.

Speaker 38 Joe was the type who asked questions.

Speaker 15 At McMurdo, they showed him the no-go zones.

Speaker 47 Most of Antarctica is restricted by international treaties, but there is one zone about 30 miles east of the base that even military expeditions avoided.

Speaker 61 When Joe asked about it, they said it was classified.

Speaker 47 Anton posted the coordinates.

Speaker 39 When you check them on Google Earth today, the entire area is blurred.

Speaker 36 Another user found something else in the area, a gray monolith.

Speaker 53 Soon that image was censored.

Speaker 47 On Joe's first night at McMurdo, there was an incident.

Speaker 64 Seven soldiers burst through the infirmary's door.

Speaker 65 They wore snow camo, but no insignia, no unit patches.

Speaker 61 SFODA, he figured. There were lots of special forces at McMurdo.

Speaker 52 The soldier they carried in was a mess.

Speaker 41 His white vortex parka was shredded.

Speaker 36 Steam rose from cuts, too precise for any animal.

Speaker 13 Razor thin lines that went straight to the bone.

Speaker 43 The bleeding wouldn't stop.

Speaker 34 The injured soldier was screaming.

Speaker 66 We let them loose! They were frozen and we let them loose!

Speaker 67 Joe needed to know what caused these injuries.

Speaker 34 He scanned each soldier's face looking for the leader.

Speaker 66 He asked, what did you let loose?

Speaker 39 He heard a familiar click behind him.

Speaker 64 He turned around.

Speaker 28 A gun was in his face.

Speaker 43 In the early 2000s, a Japanese vessel patrolling Antarctic waters spotted something unusual.

Speaker 18 At first, they thought it was an iceberg, a featureless white mass floating on the surface.

Speaker 39 Then it moved.

Speaker 37 As the ship approached, they realized it was alive.

Speaker 40 It was 60 feet long with smooth white skin.

Speaker 34 Some crew members saw limbs, arms, hands, even fingers.

Speaker 39 Others reported a tail like a mermaid.

Speaker 49 A tail like a mermaid and smooth white skin, huh? I think I dated her in Atlantic City.

Speaker 39 Uh, you didn't.

Speaker 49 Because of that, Broad, I'm still not allowed at the Harris.

Speaker 71 Can I get back to work here?

Speaker 49 Who hits on 18 against a 6?

Speaker 43 Was it a soft 18?

Speaker 39 Don't you dear?

Speaker 39 All reports agreed on one detail. Its eyes were large, round, and black, they looked almost human.

Speaker 28 They weren't the first to see it, or the last.

Speaker 39 They have a name for it, ninyin, the Japanese word for human.

Speaker 18 The crews who encountered the ninyin never felt threatened.

Speaker 61 It just watched them floating silently in the darkness.

Speaker 18 These veteran sailors knew every whale, seal, and fish species in the area.

Speaker 63 This was something new.

Speaker 39 The pattern was always the same.

Speaker 53 First, a disturbance in the water, then a pale form rises to the surface, almost invisible against the ice.

Speaker 47 The creature observes the ships for a few minutes, then disappears silently underwater.

Speaker 70 In 2007, a Japanese magazine brought the ninyin to the mainstream.

Speaker 37 It published a blurry satellite image showing something enormous moving in Antarctic waters.

Speaker 39 People began searching Google Earth for evidence.

Speaker 22 They found coordinates showing shadowy white figures beneath the surface near the Antarctic coast.

Speaker 53 The shapes were too large to be whales, too defined to be icebergs.

Speaker 34 A few days later, the images vanished.

Speaker 57 Cryptozoologists believe the ninyon represents evidence of intelligent life in Earth's oceans, a species that evolved alongside us but remained hidden in the deep cold water.

Speaker 39 Others have a more disturbing theory.

Speaker 34 Its humanoid features are proof of genetic experimentation.

Speaker 47 Secret research facilities in Antarctica spliced whale DNA with humans and created the vaninia.

Speaker 36 Luckily, whales are peaceful, but what would happen if scientists altered the DNA of something more dangerous?

Speaker 28 The injured soldier wouldn't stop screaming, so the others gagged gagged him.

Speaker 74 Joe stared down the barrel of a.45 caliber M1911.

Speaker 47 The man holding it said, treat him.

Speaker 39 No questions. Joe got to work.

Speaker 69 The kid was losing blood fast.

Speaker 29 The soldier kept the gun trained on him for a few seconds, making a point.

Speaker 47 Joe grabbed a trauma kit and asked, Army?

Speaker 67 The guy nodded.

Speaker 39 Captain Jones, 10th SFG.

Speaker 36 Joe knew the 10th Special Forces Group, Green Berets trained for cold weather combat.

Speaker 39 Jones holstered his weapon.

Speaker 47 Joe glanced at it and said, no Beretta?

Speaker 65 Jones shook his head.

Speaker 62 Not enough stopping power.

Speaker 42 Joe wanted to ask, but anger flashed across Jones' face.

Speaker 15 Joe just said, I'll take care of your boy, Captain.

Speaker 68 Jones relaxed, then nodded toward the door. His men filed out.

Speaker 33 Jones said, Thanks, Doc.

Speaker 28 You'll be seeing a lot of me.

Speaker 68 And he was right.

Speaker 60 Day after day, bodies arrived with devastating injuries.

Speaker 39 These weren't tears or gashes.

Speaker 70 They were incisions, perfectly straight lines that went bone deep.

Speaker 41 Joe had seen bear attacks, shark bites, industrial accidents, but this was different.

Speaker 30 This was butchery.

Speaker 28 In every case, the base commander ordered the same cause of death, hypothermia, even when the body was still warm.

Speaker 47 But Joe's most disturbing experience happened during a storm.

Speaker 74 He was driving with another officer when they hit something big and heavy.

Speaker 34 Joe hopped out to check the damage, but his partner started screaming for him to get back in the truck.

Speaker 46 Joe ignored him and looked under the mangled front end.

Speaker 43 At that moment, the no-go zones, the secrecy, the injuries, everything made sense.

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Speaker 4 No wreckage, no trace, nothing?

Speaker 5 Or the theory that Robin Hood might have actually been real, sneaking through underground tunnels to rob the rich.

Speaker 9 Yeah, same here.

Speaker 12 On Expedition Unknown, a podcast from Discovery, Josh Gates travels the globe to uncover the truth behind some of history's most bizarre and iconic legends.

Speaker 18 With direct audio from the hit TV show, you'll join him on authentic roughshot adventures, from diving into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart to chasing Captain Morgan's treasure through Panama.

Speaker 25 And the stories just keep coming, like uncovering our ancient origins in Africa, diving into the Bermuda Triangle's most baffling disappearances, disappearances, and chasing lost treasure tied to a legendary warrior queen who nearly defeated the Roman Empire.

Speaker 28 If you're drawn to real-world mysteries, historical anomalies, and stories that blur the line between legend and fact, this show will pull you in.

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Speaker 13 The leg under the truck was bone white and spindly.

Speaker 39 not quite flesh but not quite exoskeleton.

Speaker 4 He couldn't see the whole creature, but it had to be enormous.

Speaker 41 The leg alone stretched seven or eight feet and was strong enough to crush the steel of the truck.

Speaker 68 It twitched once, then disappeared into the storm.

Speaker 59 A few days later, he learned what was filling his infirmary with bodies.

Speaker 50 Joe found a journal hidden in one victim's coat.

Speaker 39 It had descriptions of large white predators that could cross Antarctica's terrain in massive 50 to 60 foot leaps.

Speaker 18 The researchers called them striders.

Speaker 38 Joe became obsessed and started breaking into offices at night.

Speaker 28 He found classified files about winter operations at a facility in the Nogo zone east of the base.

Speaker 23 An expense report listed research equipment.

Speaker 37 But it was really a requisition for ammunition.

Speaker 93 Thousands of rounds of tungsten core penetrators.

Speaker 75 Not exactly standard issue.

Speaker 74 Whenever a soldier showed up with an injury, Joe would ask what happened, but nobody would talk.

Speaker 65 It was always a training accident.

Speaker 47 The base commander realized Joe was a security risk.

Speaker 61 He was notified he'd be shipping out within a week.

Speaker 94 Three days before leaving McMurdo, in the middle of the night, Joe was shaken awake.

Speaker 69 It was Captain Jones. He said, Doc, we need to talk.

Speaker 53 Joe started to tell him to sleep it off.

Speaker 67 Then he felt something heavy land on his chest.

Speaker 37 It was a piece of a strider's leg.

Speaker 22 Joe immediately started to panic.

Speaker 18 Jones put his hand over Joe's mouth.

Speaker 28 As Joe's eyes adjusted to the darkness, he saw Jones was covered in blood.

Speaker 39 He couldn't tell whose.

Speaker 45 Jones said he just returned from a mission.

Speaker 74 He needed to tell him about it.

Speaker 67 After months of trying to find the truth, Joe wasn't sure he wanted to know anymore, but Captain Jones was going to tell him anyway.

Speaker 36 Lake Vostok lies two miles beneath Antarctic ice. It hasn't seen sunlight in 20 million years.

Speaker 18 The Russians spent decades drilling toward it.

Speaker 35 In 2012, they broke through.

Speaker 15 Then, everything went dark.

Speaker 39 Hello, darkness, my old friend. Not now.
Sorry.

Speaker 59 For five days, nothing.

Speaker 36 No radio contact, no signals, just silence.

Speaker 47 When communications returned, two scientists were dead.

Speaker 42 The official cause?

Speaker 39 Hypothermia.

Speaker 42 But Dr.

Speaker 53 Anton Padalka's classified report tells a different story.

Speaker 36 The team found something in Lake Vostok that evolved in complete isolation for millions of years.

Speaker 28 They called it Organism 46B.

Speaker 51 The creature stretched over 30 feet long and looked like a giant octopus.

Speaker 49 No, did it have testicles?

Speaker 39 Tentacles. What'd I say?

Speaker 25 Yes, it had tentacles.

Speaker 18 But instead of eight, it had 14.

Speaker 49 Oh, so it tetradecapus. Yeah, you see what I did, dear?

Speaker 93 Its skin was almost transparent, perfect camouflage in the darkness.

Speaker 13 But its most terrifying feature wasn't its size, it was its intelligence.

Speaker 43 The first diver was 10 feet from the creature when it released a toxin into the water.

Speaker 75 He was instantly paralyzed.

Speaker 96 He tread water, wearing a blissful smile as organism approached him. We watched helplessly as it used its arms to tear off its head, then popped its remains in mouth.

Speaker 96 It's like it had hypnotized him telepathically.

Speaker 43 The second death was worse.

Speaker 41 The creature could shapeshift.

Speaker 96 It shaped itself into form of human diver. We thought it was one of colleagues swimming towards us in scuba gear.

Speaker 96 By the time the closest scientist realized what it was, it had grabbed him and torn him to bits.

Speaker 34 The research team captured it temporarily.

Speaker 33 But like everything else connected to Lake Vostok, Organism 46b vanished.

Speaker 47 Russia's official statement mentioned only bacteria.

Speaker 37 Then they restricted all access to the lake.

Speaker 47 The original drilling site was abandoned.

Speaker 39 Armed guards now patrol the area.

Speaker 45 In 2017, genetic researchers analyzed water samples from Lake Vostok.

Speaker 93 They found DNA sequences suggesting intelligence far beyond any known cephalopod.

Speaker 36 Then everything disappeared.

Speaker 63 The samples, the data, the reports.

Speaker 39 According to official records, the research never happened.

Speaker 76 What made Organism 46B so important that it had to be kept secret?

Speaker 54 Dr. Padalka's final report gives a clue.

Speaker 61 During its brief captivity, Organism 46B figured out how to disable security systems.

Speaker 43 It understood cameras and lights.

Speaker 96 This wasn't just ancient predator. This was something else.
Something that had evolved in complete isolation. Developing abilities we can't comprehend.

Speaker 96 The shape-shifting, the toxins, the intelligence. These weren't just survival adaptations.

Speaker 92 They were weapons.

Speaker 36 The lake remains under constant surveillance.

Speaker 47 Military vessels patrol its perimeter.

Speaker 52 Satellite images are scrubbed.

Speaker 36 For a lake with nothing but bacteria, there's a lot of effort being made to keep people out.

Speaker 39 Or

Speaker 31 keep something in.

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Speaker 22 Jones' team was ordered to secure a facility deep in the Nogo zone.

Speaker 97 They loaded up for war.

Speaker 34 Heavy weapons, body armor, an M134 minigun that could fire 4,000 rounds per minute.

Speaker 25 They weren't taking any chances.

Speaker 52 The entrance looked normal, just another research building in the middle of nowhere.

Speaker 41 That was the point.

Speaker 39 What was underneath wasn't normal at all. The first body they found was face down in a hallway.

Speaker 17 These weren't slash marks.

Speaker 68 These were surgical cuts, clean and deliberate.

Speaker 60 Then they heard skittering.

Speaker 17 Something moved in the shadows.

Speaker 40 Before anyone could react, it lunged.

Speaker 37 A strider the size of a large dog.

Speaker 41 The soldiers opened fire, but it was already on Henderson. The thing didn't just attack, it dissected with perfect cuts.

Speaker 69 Henderson was still conscious and screaming when the strider peeled his face off.

Speaker 74 11 11 men became 10.

Speaker 39 Large striders were dangerous, but at least you can see them coming. The small ones were the problem.

Speaker 45 Not much bigger than house cats, they moved in packs through the vents.

Speaker 39 They could climb.

Speaker 11 They could jump.

Speaker 28 The team learned to watch the ceiling after finding Mitchell.

Speaker 30 He'd been dragged down a hallway and into an office.

Speaker 69 His legs were still twitching while the striders went to work.

Speaker 39 10 men became nine.

Speaker 36 It took 18 hours to clear the facility.

Speaker 61 In the basement, they found a lab the size of an airplane hangar.

Speaker 41 There were cages of all sizes.

Speaker 39 Most were broken open and empty.

Speaker 63 Bodies were everywhere.

Speaker 41 Blood trails led to the vents.

Speaker 57 The largest cage held a strider nearly 40 feet tall.

Speaker 35 Then they realized this was a breeding facility and something went very, very wrong.

Speaker 43 But what they found in the next room is what broke them. Two medium-sized striders in a cage feeding on something.

Speaker 43 Joan's team moved closer.

Speaker 95 The air smelled sweet and tasted metallic.

Speaker 41 This cage wasn't broken.

Speaker 24 It was fully intact, with a chute for dropping in food.

Speaker 75 The striders were loud and violent as they tore through their meal.

Speaker 13 Then they saw small shoes, a tiny backpack.

Speaker 38 One of the men vomited.

Speaker 17 The striders were eating children.

Speaker 72 Documents scattered across the facility told a dark story.

Speaker 65 This was a joint operation between America, Chile, and China.

Speaker 39 They were breeding striders, trying to control them.

Speaker 55 They spliced genes to make the creatures more aggressive.

Speaker 39 They were also trying to make them more obedient.

Speaker 32 The trains used magnetic levitation technology decades ahead of its time.

Speaker 47 Lab notes mentioned delivery schedules, regular shipments from major cities.

Speaker 36 The striders were being conditioned to hunt specific targets.

Speaker 53 The shipments were people, mostly children.

Speaker 47 This was the largest human trafficking operation in the world.

Speaker 39 After his father died, Anton found his old computer, an Apple IIe, from McMurdo.

Speaker 43 The hard drives contained everything, DNA sequences, facility layouts, shipping manifests.

Speaker 69 All the evidence was there, but he needed help recovering the data.

Speaker 93 Users warned him to leave the drives alone.

Speaker 75 Some gave advice on not how to recover the drives, on how to destroy them.

Speaker 22 Others just said, run.

Speaker 31 Anton never posted again.

Speaker 69 The Google Earth image that started it all has been scrubbed.

Speaker 28 The coordinates show only ice and snow.

Speaker 39 But beneath the surface, the network still operates.

Speaker 47 What was once confined to Antarctica now has access to every continent on Earth.

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Speaker 4 No wreckage, no trace, nothing?

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Speaker 59 Antarctica is Earth's true last frontier.

Speaker 39 No country owns it.

Speaker 49 That's what the lizard people want you to think. They own everything below sea level.

Speaker 43 In 1947, Admiral Richard E.

Speaker 55 Byrd led Operation High Jump, one of the largest Antarctic expeditions in history.

Speaker 62 They loaded up with enough firepower to start a war.

Speaker 49 Operation High Jump linked down in your loose papoose.

Speaker 36 The expedition ended early.

Speaker 39 Very early.

Speaker 36 During World War II, the Nazis launched Operation Neuschwabenland.

Speaker 40 Rumors spread about discoveries beneath the ice, underground caverns, ancient ruins, evidence of something that predates humanity.

Speaker 35 We know high-ranking German officials fled to South America after the war.

Speaker 49 Linked to Operation Eagle flight down in your cakes dozer.

Speaker 76 Kikestosa?

Speaker 39 Yellow?

Speaker 18 Most Nazis fled to Argentina.

Speaker 28 Others, according to theories, escaped to a hidden base beneath Antarctica.

Speaker 47 The U.S. government took this theory seriously.

Speaker 36 In 1959, they locked down the entire continent.

Speaker 54 The Antarctic Treaty banned military presence, private exploration, unauthorized access.

Speaker 18 And it's true that some coordinates are censored.

Speaker 11 That's what allowed the Strider legend to start.

Speaker 28 Google does scrub images.

Speaker 45 I had to clean up Anton's posts to make them coherent.

Speaker 54 I tried not to add too much, but Anton typed like a typical 4chan user.

Speaker 94 All lowercase, no punctuation.

Speaker 19 Random slurs for some reason.

Speaker 59 Anton's military patches and documents seem compelling, but those are easy to fake.

Speaker 39 But the underground bullet train network stretching across continents?

Speaker 42 That's impossible.

Speaker 38 Subs can't go that deep.

Speaker 45 No hollow tunnel could survive that pressure.

Speaker 22 I couldn't help but notice a lot of his story mirrors the thing.

Speaker 39 Very underrated movie. Kirk Russell in the 80s is gold.
I agree.

Speaker 28 I can't say for sure that Anton's story is fake, but he was probably riffing on the thing.

Speaker 39 He got some things right though.

Speaker 54 McMurdo Station has restricted areas.

Speaker 39 Military personnel conduct classified operations there.

Speaker 18 The no-go zones are real.

Speaker 52 The Ninyin is another fun story.

Speaker 43 A massive humanoid creature with pale skin and human features lurking in Antarctic waters.

Speaker 59 But like most cryptid stories, the evidence doesn't hold up.

Speaker 42 The photos show exactly what you'd expect.

Speaker 43 Blurry white shapes in dark water, and most are icebergs.

Speaker 42 Some are photoshopped.

Speaker 33 Others are beluga whales, which have smooth white skin and round humanoid faces.

Speaker 73 But the ninyin is supposed to be 60 feet long.

Speaker 39 Beluga whales aren't that big, but sperm whales are.

Speaker 44 This big.

Speaker 39 Stop it. They sometimes hunt vertically, floating upright.

Speaker 42 Maybe that's what they saw.

Speaker 39 There's no mention of the ninyin before the early 2000s, but there is Japanese folklore about creatures called ninyo, which means human fish.

Speaker 18 Again, I can't prove it's fake, but it's probably fake.

Speaker 76 Now, organism 46b, the psychic shapeshifting cephalopod.

Speaker 49 Touch me, Degapus.

Speaker 48 That one is pure fiction.

Speaker 47 The story comes from a post on a tabloid site in 2013.

Speaker 74 Dr. Anton Podalka doesn't exist.

Speaker 39 In 2012, Russian scientists did drill into Lake Vostok, and it's true that an actual freshwater lake two miles under the ice that hasn't been exposed for about 20 million years is there.

Speaker 39 That's fertile ground for an urban legend to be born.

Speaker 41 So one was.

Speaker 37 These three stories don't hold up.

Speaker 28 But Antarctica's mysteries, those are real.

Speaker 98 UFO sightings, strange lights in the sky, unexplained crashes.

Speaker 13 Satellite images showed massive structures with entrances under the ice.

Speaker 52 Once the coordinates got out, the images were blurred.

Speaker 49 And if you want to see this for yourself, go watch Mysteries Beneath the Ice, an episode so nice I linked it twice.

Speaker 59 Antarctica is bigger than Europe and Australia.

Speaker 74 It's much bigger than the United States.

Speaker 48 Yet only a tiny fraction is open to the public.

Speaker 47 You can visit if you're from a signatory country and can get a permit.

Speaker 39 Good luck with that.

Speaker 53 Most of the continent is specially protected or specially managed.

Speaker 28 You need another permit for those areas.

Speaker 39 You won't get one.

Speaker 47 Antarctica is one of Earth's most restricted places.

Speaker 73 Maybe that's for a reason.

Speaker 40 We're told the rules are there to protect the environment.

Speaker 54 But until we can see for ourselves, we'll always wonder if they're protecting something else.

Speaker 43 I don't believe in these cryptids, but doing this show has made me believe other things.

Speaker 39 Crop circles are real.

Speaker 28 The moon is weird.

Speaker 18 And there's something under the ice at the bottom of the world.

Speaker 39 I don't know why, but I have a very strong feeling that whatever it is, we should probably leave it alone.

Speaker 36 Thank you so much for hanging out today.

Speaker 43 My name is AJ. There's Hecklefish.

Speaker 49 Stay frosty, humans.

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Speaker 39 I played Polymius and Area 51.

Speaker 66 A secret code inside the Bible said I would.

Speaker 66 I love my UFOs and paranormal fun, as well as music, so I'm singing like I should

Speaker 66 But then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth, my friends

Speaker 66 And it never ends

Speaker 66 No, it never ends

Speaker 66 I feel the crap guy down, got stuck inside Mel's home. With them chaotrup, I'm being only too aware.

Speaker 66 Dude, Stanley Kubernetes fake the moon landing alone

Speaker 66 on a film set of shadow people

Speaker 66 there.

Speaker 66 The Roswell aliens just fought the smiling man, I'm told.

Speaker 66 And his name was Cole.

Speaker 66 And I can't believe

Speaker 66 I'm dancing with the fish shit. And we'll fish on Thursday, nights, Wednesday, J2.
And whampers that body all through the night.

Speaker 66 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. And whambover feet all through the light.

Speaker 66 The Mothman sightings and the solar storms still come. To have got the secret city underground.

Speaker 66 Mysterious number stations, planet surfaced to Project Starcade, and what the Dark Watchers found.

Speaker 66 We're in a simulation, don't you worry though.

Speaker 66 The Black Knight satellite told to me. So I can't believe

Speaker 66 I'm dancing with the feeling.

Speaker 66 Had no fish on Thursday, nights when they changed you. And we're glamping me all through the night.

Speaker 66 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So the weapon's rubber feet all through the night.

Speaker 66 Had no fish on Thursday night, swift day, J2. And we're clamping beat all through the night.

Speaker 66 All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth. So we're both up with me all through the

Speaker 66 light.

Speaker 66 Gurdy loves to dance.

Speaker 66 Girdy loves to dance.

Speaker 66 Gurdy loves to dance.

Speaker 66 Gurdy loves to dance.

Speaker 66 Yeah, Gurdy loves to dance on the dance floor because she is a camel.

Speaker 66 And camels love to dance when the feeling is wild wasting

Speaker 66 time.

Speaker 66 Gurdy loves to dance.

Speaker 66 Gertie loves to dance.

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