584: Cryptids Vol. 3: The Antarctic Cover-up | Predators Beneath the Ice
Two scientists died under mysterious circumstances, and the official reports don't match witness statements. Military operations, classified facilities, and blurred satellite images hint at darker secrets.
From massive spider-like creatures to shape-shifting predators, Antarctica's mysteries run deeper than anyone imagined. What are they trying to hide at the bottom of the world?
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You ever hear about the 1950s flight that vanished into thin air over Lake Michigan?
No wreckage, no trace, nothing?
Or the theory that Robin Hood might have actually been real, sneaking through underground tunnels to rob the rich?
Yeah, same here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gates brings the boots-on-the-ground investigation that makes these tales come alive.
Listen to Expedition Unknown wherever you get your podcasts.
The Russian team at Lake Vostok in Antarctica drilled through two miles of ice.
They were inches away from hitting water that hadn't seen sunlight in 20 million years.
Then communications went dark.
Five days later, two scientists were dead.
The official report said hypothermia.
A witness statement tells a different story.
No country owns Antarctica, but you need permission to visit.
You're restricted to designated areas and you must have a government-approved escort.
They say these rules are to protect the environment, but people who've been there know better.
These rules are there to protect something else, something dangerous.
At the bottom of the world, there are monsters, and we created them.
A single image appeared on 4chan's paranormal board in February 2021.
A user was scanning the Antarctic wasteland on Google Maps when they found something strange.
Yeah, 4chan always brings the good stuff.
A massive spider-like creature clearly visible against the ice and snow.
Nothing could survive there, not for millions of years, but something does.
I told you the good stuff.
Then son of Aunt Anon logged on.
Everyone called him Anton.
His father Joe was a Navy lieutenant and a doctor.
He served at McMurdo Station in the 1990s, and Joe knew exactly what that creature was.
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.
Joe was the type who asked questions.
At McMurdo, they showed him the no-go zones.
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.
When Joe asked about it, they said it was classified.
Anton posted the coordinates.
When you check them on Google Earth today, the entire area is blurred.
Another user found something else in the area, a gray monolith.
Soon that image was censored.
On Joe's first night at McMurdo, there was an incident.
Seven soldiers burst through the infirmary's door.
They wore snow camo, but no insignia, no unit patches.
SFODA, he figured.
There were lots of special forces at McMurdo.
The soldier they carried in was a mess.
His white vortex parka was shredded.
Steam rose from cuts, too precise for any animal.
Razor thin lines that went straight to the bone.
The bleeding wouldn't stop.
The injured soldier was screaming.
We let them loose!
They were frozen and we let them loose!
Joe needed to know what caused these injuries.
He scanned each soldier's face looking for the leader.
He asked, what did you let loose?
He heard a familiar click behind him.
He turned around.
A gun was in his face.
In the early 2000s, a Japanese vessel patrolling Antarctic waters spotted something unusual.
At first, they thought it was an iceberg, a featureless white mass floating on the surface.
Then it moved.
As the ship approached, they realized it was alive.
It was 60 feet long with smooth white skin.
Some crew members saw limbs, arms, hands, even fingers.
Others reported a tail like a mermaid.
A tail like a mermaid and smooth white skin, huh?
I think I dated her in Atlantic City.
Uh, you didn't.
Because of that, Broad, I'm still not allowed at the Harris.
Can I get back to work here?
Who hits on 18 against a 6?
Was it a soft 18?
Don't you dear?
All reports agreed on one detail.
Its eyes were large, round, and black, they looked almost human.
They weren't the first to see it, or the last.
They have a name for it, ninyin, the Japanese word for human.
The crews who encountered the ninyin never felt threatened.
It just watched them floating silently in the darkness.
These veteran sailors knew every whale, seal, and fish species in the area.
This was something new.
The pattern was always the same.
First, a disturbance in the water, then a pale form rises to the surface, almost invisible against the ice.
The creature observes the ships for a few minutes, then disappears silently underwater.
In 2007, a Japanese magazine brought the ninyin to the mainstream.
It published a blurry satellite image showing something enormous moving in Antarctic waters.
People began searching Google Earth for evidence.
They found coordinates showing shadowy white figures beneath the surface near the Antarctic coast.
The shapes were too large to be whales, too defined to be icebergs.
A few days later, the images vanished.
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.
Others have a more disturbing theory.
Its humanoid features are proof of genetic experimentation.
Secret research facilities in Antarctica spliced whale DNA with humans and created the vaninia.
Luckily, whales are peaceful, but what would happen if scientists altered the DNA of something more dangerous?
The injured soldier wouldn't stop screaming, so the others gagged gagged him.
Joe stared down the barrel of a.45 caliber M1911.
The man holding it said, treat him.
No questions.
Joe got to work.
The kid was losing blood fast.
The soldier kept the gun trained on him for a few seconds, making a point.
Joe grabbed a trauma kit and asked, Army?
The guy nodded.
Captain Jones, 10th SFG.
Joe knew the 10th Special Forces Group, Green Berets trained for cold weather combat.
Jones holstered his weapon.
Joe glanced at it and said, no Beretta?
Jones shook his head.
Not enough stopping power.
Joe wanted to ask, but anger flashed across Jones' face.
Joe just said, I'll take care of your boy, Captain.
Jones relaxed, then nodded toward the door.
His men filed out.
Jones said, Thanks, Doc.
You'll be seeing a lot of me.
And he was right.
Day after day, bodies arrived with devastating injuries.
These weren't tears or gashes.
They were incisions, perfectly straight lines that went bone deep.
Joe had seen bear attacks, shark bites, industrial accidents, but this was different.
This was butchery.
In every case, the base commander ordered the same cause of death, hypothermia, even when the body was still warm.
But Joe's most disturbing experience happened during a storm.
He was driving with another officer when they hit something big and heavy.
Joe hopped out to check the damage, but his partner started screaming for him to get back in the truck.
Joe ignored him and looked under the mangled front end.
At that moment, the no-go zones, the secrecy, the injuries, everything made sense.
You ever hear about the 1950s flight that vanished into thin air over Lake Michigan?
No wreckage, no trace, nothing?
Or the theory that Robin Hood might have actually been real, sneaking through underground tunnels to rob the rich.
Yeah, same here.
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.
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.
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.
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The leg under the truck was bone white and spindly.
not quite flesh but not quite exoskeleton.
He couldn't see the whole creature, but it had to be enormous.
The leg alone stretched seven or eight feet and was strong enough to crush the steel of the truck.
It twitched once, then disappeared into the storm.
A few days later, he learned what was filling his infirmary with bodies.
Joe found a journal hidden in one victim's coat.
It had descriptions of large white predators that could cross Antarctica's terrain in massive 50 to 60 foot leaps.
The researchers called them striders.
Joe became obsessed and started breaking into offices at night.
He found classified files about winter operations at a facility in the Nogo zone east of the base.
An expense report listed research equipment.
But it was really a requisition for ammunition.
Thousands of rounds of tungsten core penetrators.
Not exactly standard issue.
Whenever a soldier showed up with an injury, Joe would ask what happened, but nobody would talk.
It was always a training accident.
The base commander realized Joe was a security risk.
He was notified he'd be shipping out within a week.
Three days before leaving McMurdo, in the middle of the night, Joe was shaken awake.
It was Captain Jones.
He said, Doc, we need to talk.
Joe started to tell him to sleep it off.
Then he felt something heavy land on his chest.
It was a piece of a strider's leg.
Joe immediately started to panic.
Jones put his hand over Joe's mouth.
As Joe's eyes adjusted to the darkness, he saw Jones was covered in blood.
He couldn't tell whose.
Jones said he just returned from a mission.
He needed to tell him about it.
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.
Lake Vostok lies two miles beneath Antarctic ice.
It hasn't seen sunlight in 20 million years.
The Russians spent decades drilling toward it.
In 2012, they broke through.
Then, everything went dark.
Hello, darkness, my old friend.
Not now.
Sorry.
For five days, nothing.
No radio contact, no signals, just silence.
When communications returned, two scientists were dead.
The official cause?
Hypothermia.
But Dr.
Anton Padalka's classified report tells a different story.
The team found something in Lake Vostok that evolved in complete isolation for millions of years.
They called it Organism 46B.
The creature stretched over 30 feet long and looked like a giant octopus.
No, did it have testicles?
Tentacles.
What'd I say?
Yes, it had tentacles.
But instead of eight, it had 14.
Oh, so it tetradecapus.
Yeah, you see what I did, dear?
Its skin was almost transparent, perfect camouflage in the darkness.
But its most terrifying feature wasn't its size, it was its intelligence.
The first diver was 10 feet from the creature when it released a toxin into the water.
He was instantly paralyzed.
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.
It's like it had hypnotized him telepathically.
The second death was worse.
The creature could shapeshift.
It shaped itself into form of human diver.
We thought it was one of colleagues swimming towards us in scuba gear.
By the time the closest scientist realized what it was, it had grabbed him and torn him to bits.
The research team captured it temporarily.
But like everything else connected to Lake Vostok, Organism 46b vanished.
Russia's official statement mentioned only bacteria.
Then they restricted all access to the lake.
The original drilling site was abandoned.
Armed guards now patrol the area.
In 2017, genetic researchers analyzed water samples from Lake Vostok.
They found DNA sequences suggesting intelligence far beyond any known cephalopod.
Then everything disappeared.
The samples, the data, the reports.
According to official records, the research never happened.
What made Organism 46B so important that it had to be kept secret?
Dr.
Padalka's final report gives a clue.
During its brief captivity, Organism 46B figured out how to disable security systems.
It understood cameras and lights.
This wasn't just ancient predator.
This was something else.
Something that had evolved in complete isolation.
Developing abilities we can't comprehend.
The shape-shifting, the toxins, the intelligence.
These weren't just survival adaptations.
They were weapons.
The lake remains under constant surveillance.
Military vessels patrol its perimeter.
Satellite images are scrubbed.
For a lake with nothing but bacteria, there's a lot of effort being made to keep people out.
Or
keep something in.
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Or the theory that Robin Hood might have actually been real, sneaking through underground tunnels to rob the rich?
Yeah, same here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gates brings the boots on the ground investigation that makes these tales come alive.
Listen to Expedition Unknown wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jones' team was ordered to secure a facility deep in the Nogo zone.
They loaded up for war.
Heavy weapons, body armor, an M134 minigun that could fire 4,000 rounds per minute.
They weren't taking any chances.
The entrance looked normal, just another research building in the middle of nowhere.
That was the point.
What was underneath wasn't normal at all.
The first body they found was face down in a hallway.
These weren't slash marks.
These were surgical cuts, clean and deliberate.
Then they heard skittering.
Something moved in the shadows.
Before anyone could react, it lunged.
A strider the size of a large dog.
The soldiers opened fire, but it was already on Henderson.
The thing didn't just attack, it dissected with perfect cuts.
Henderson was still conscious and screaming when the strider peeled his face off.
11 11 men became 10.
Large striders were dangerous, but at least you can see them coming.
The small ones were the problem.
Not much bigger than house cats, they moved in packs through the vents.
They could climb.
They could jump.
The team learned to watch the ceiling after finding Mitchell.
He'd been dragged down a hallway and into an office.
His legs were still twitching while the striders went to work.
10 men became nine.
It took 18 hours to clear the facility.
In the basement, they found a lab the size of an airplane hangar.
There were cages of all sizes.
Most were broken open and empty.
Bodies were everywhere.
Blood trails led to the vents.
The largest cage held a strider nearly 40 feet tall.
Then they realized this was a breeding facility and something went very, very wrong.
But what they found in the next room is what broke them.
Two medium-sized striders in a cage feeding on something.
Joan's team moved closer.
The air smelled sweet and tasted metallic.
This cage wasn't broken.
It was fully intact, with a chute for dropping in food.
The striders were loud and violent as they tore through their meal.
Then they saw small shoes, a tiny backpack.
One of the men vomited.
The striders were eating children.
Documents scattered across the facility told a dark story.
This was a joint operation between America, Chile, and China.
They were breeding striders, trying to control them.
They spliced genes to make the creatures more aggressive.
They were also trying to make them more obedient.
The trains used magnetic levitation technology decades ahead of its time.
Lab notes mentioned delivery schedules, regular shipments from major cities.
The striders were being conditioned to hunt specific targets.
The shipments were people, mostly children.
This was the largest human trafficking operation in the world.
After his father died, Anton found his old computer, an Apple IIe, from McMurdo.
The hard drives contained everything, DNA sequences, facility layouts, shipping manifests.
All the evidence was there, but he needed help recovering the data.
Users warned him to leave the drives alone.
Some gave advice on not how to recover the drives, on how to destroy them.
Others just said, run.
Anton never posted again.
The Google Earth image that started it all has been scrubbed.
The coordinates show only ice and snow.
But beneath the surface, the network still operates.
What was once confined to Antarctica now has access to every continent on Earth.
You ever hear about the 1950s flight that vanished into thin air over Lake Michigan?
No wreckage, no trace, nothing?
Or the theory that Robin Hood might have actually been real, sneaking through underground tunnels to rob the rich?
Yeah, same here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gates brings the boots on the ground investigation that makes these tales come alive.
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Antarctica is Earth's true last frontier.
No country owns it.
That's what the lizard people want you to think.
They own everything below sea level.
In 1947, Admiral Richard E.
Byrd led Operation High Jump, one of the largest Antarctic expeditions in history.
They loaded up with enough firepower to start a war.
Operation High Jump linked down in your loose papoose.
The expedition ended early.
Very early.
During World War II, the Nazis launched Operation Neuschwabenland.
Rumors spread about discoveries beneath the ice, underground caverns, ancient ruins, evidence of something that predates humanity.
We know high-ranking German officials fled to South America after the war.
Linked to Operation Eagle flight down in your cakes dozer.
Kikestosa?
Yellow?
Most Nazis fled to Argentina.
Others, according to theories, escaped to a hidden base beneath Antarctica.
The U.S.
government took this theory seriously.
In 1959, they locked down the entire continent.
The Antarctic Treaty banned military presence, private exploration, unauthorized access.
And it's true that some coordinates are censored.
That's what allowed the Strider legend to start.
Google does scrub images.
I had to clean up Anton's posts to make them coherent.
I tried not to add too much, but Anton typed like a typical 4chan user.
All lowercase, no punctuation.
Random slurs for some reason.
Anton's military patches and documents seem compelling, but those are easy to fake.
But the underground bullet train network stretching across continents?
That's impossible.
Subs can't go that deep.
No hollow tunnel could survive that pressure.
I couldn't help but notice a lot of his story mirrors the thing.
Very underrated movie.
Kirk Russell in the 80s is gold.
I agree.
I can't say for sure that Anton's story is fake, but he was probably riffing on the thing.
He got some things right though.
McMurdo Station has restricted areas.
Military personnel conduct classified operations there.
The no-go zones are real.
The Ninyin is another fun story.
A massive humanoid creature with pale skin and human features lurking in Antarctic waters.
But like most cryptid stories, the evidence doesn't hold up.
The photos show exactly what you'd expect.
Blurry white shapes in dark water, and most are icebergs.
Some are photoshopped.
Others are beluga whales, which have smooth white skin and round humanoid faces.
But the ninyin is supposed to be 60 feet long.
Beluga whales aren't that big, but sperm whales are.
This big.
Stop it.
They sometimes hunt vertically, floating upright.
Maybe that's what they saw.
There's no mention of the ninyin before the early 2000s, but there is Japanese folklore about creatures called ninyo, which means human fish.
Again, I can't prove it's fake, but it's probably fake.
Now, organism 46b, the psychic shapeshifting cephalopod.
Touch me, Degapus.
That one is pure fiction.
The story comes from a post on a tabloid site in 2013.
Dr.
Anton Podalka doesn't exist.
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.
That's fertile ground for an urban legend to be born.
So one was.
These three stories don't hold up.
But Antarctica's mysteries, those are real.
UFO sightings, strange lights in the sky, unexplained crashes.
Satellite images showed massive structures with entrances under the ice.
Once the coordinates got out, the images were blurred.
And if you want to see this for yourself, go watch Mysteries Beneath the Ice, an episode so nice I linked it twice.
Antarctica is bigger than Europe and Australia.
It's much bigger than the United States.
Yet only a tiny fraction is open to the public.
You can visit if you're from a signatory country and can get a permit.
Good luck with that.
Most of the continent is specially protected or specially managed.
You need another permit for those areas.
You won't get one.
Antarctica is one of Earth's most restricted places.
Maybe that's for a reason.
We're told the rules are there to protect the environment.
But until we can see for ourselves, we'll always wonder if they're protecting something else.
I don't believe in these cryptids, but doing this show has made me believe other things.
Crop circles are real.
The moon is weird.
And there's something under the ice at the bottom of the world.
I don't know why, but I have a very strong feeling that whatever it is, we should probably leave it alone.
Thank you so much for hanging out today.
My name is AJ.
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I played Polymius and Area 51.
A secret code inside the Bible said I would.
I love my UFOs and paranormal fun, as well as music, so I'm singing like I should
But then another conspiracy theory becomes the truth, my friends
And it never ends
No, it never ends
I feel the crap guy down, got stuck inside Mel's home.
With them chaotrup, I'm being only too aware.
Dude, Stanley Kubernetes fake the moon landing alone
on a film set of shadow people
there.
The Roswell aliens just fought the smiling man, I'm told.
And his name was Cole.
And I can't believe
I'm dancing with the fish shit.
And we'll fish on Thursday, nights, Wednesday, J2.
And whampers that body all through the night.
All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.
And whambover feet all through the light.
The Mothman sightings and the solar storms still come.
To have got the secret city underground.
Mysterious number stations, planet surfaced to Project Starcade, and what the Dark Watchers found.
We're in a simulation, don't you worry though.
The Black Knight satellite told to me.
So I can't believe
I'm dancing with the feeling.
Had no fish on Thursday, nights when they changed you.
And we're glamping me all through the night.
All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.
So the weapon's rubber feet all through the night.
Had no fish on Thursday night, swift day, J2.
And we're clamping beat all through the night.
All I ever wanted was to just hear the truth.
So we're both up with me all through the
light.
Gurdy loves to dance.
Girdy loves to dance.
Gurdy loves to dance.
Gurdy loves to dance.
Yeah, Gurdy loves to dance on the dance floor because she is a camel.
And camels love to dance when the feeling is wild wasting
time.
Gurdy loves to dance.
Gertie loves to dance.
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