0:13

Coming to the tree,

0:15

where they're strung up

0:18

a man, who they

0:20

say he murdered three.

0:22

Strange things have happened

0:24

there. No stranger would

0:26

it be if we

0:29

met at midnight in

0:31

the hanging to

0:33

the show. I'm your

0:35

host I'm host Chris James. Back

0:37

Back when I had a

0:39

job. job. We would occasion catch

0:41

a huge load of of

0:43

illegal stuff. as

0:46

in a ton or in a ton

0:48

or more. was either

0:50

in was either in

0:52

handcuffs or back in it

0:54

was the was take few take

0:56

a few hero shots.

0:59

Everybody involved in the arrest would

1:02

line up we would get a

1:04

few photos taken. taken.

1:06

just about every

1:08

image of me. I'm

1:10

holding a coffee cup. I don't know

1:13

if don't know if this

1:15

was my coffee cup, but

1:17

it did bring me joy

1:19

in life, so probably it

1:21

was. was. If you want you

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to trike dot shop and get

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1:54

best coffee in

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the delivered to to your front door.

1:58

door. Starchaser

2:01

2000 sent me an

2:03

email. She was passing

2:05

on a few UFO

2:08

sightings and she told

2:10

me about a book

2:12

she was reading by

2:14

Louis Lamar called The

2:16

Haunted Mesa. In the

2:18

book, the author writes

2:20

of people and ships

2:22

that disappeared all over

2:24

the world. including an

2:26

entire army that vanished

2:28

in China. The Chinese

2:30

army struck a chord

2:32

and I was convinced

2:35

I'd done a show

2:37

on it sometime in

2:39

the past. I did

2:41

some digging and I

2:43

found out that the

2:45

show was back in

2:47

2019. I find it

2:49

hard to realize it's

2:51

2024 and nearly 25.

2:54

What happened to December 21st,

2:56

2012? Mayans, you know, into

2:58

the world. Folks coming out

3:00

on coast to coast, like

3:03

Dr. Doom, are telling us

3:05

how, or no, it was

3:07

major doom, wasn't it? Telling

3:09

us about how the world

3:11

was going to end and

3:14

there wasn't a darn thing

3:16

we could do about it.

3:18

Books and movies and all

3:20

kinds of things telling us

3:22

about the Mayans and the

3:24

end of the world And

3:27

then it kind of went

3:29

poof and nothing happened. We

3:31

all woke up December 22nd

3:33

and well We were still

3:35

here Of course scholars coffee

3:38

shop did close at that

3:40

time It took three years

3:42

for Julio to replace and

3:44

then exceed them. I wonder

3:46

what happened to Harardo and

3:49

Carmen. I knew where they

3:51

lived and I stopped by

3:53

a couple of times and

3:55

wrung the bell and I

3:57

left my business card. I

3:59

even wrote them a couple

4:02

of notes and left it

4:04

under the windshields of their

4:06

vehicles. They vanished. As if

4:08

maybe the Mayans were talking

4:10

about them. That would be

4:13

a bit scary. I went

4:15

back and I looked at

4:17

these mass vanishing to see

4:19

if I could find anything

4:21

new about them. See what

4:24

I could find that I

4:26

hadn't already mentioned. You have

4:28

to admit the idea of

4:30

a bunch of people all

4:32

stepping from point A into

4:35

I don't know where can

4:37

be frightening. I hoped I

4:39

could find a new item

4:41

or two to add to

4:43

these stories instead of simply

4:45

rehashing the original show. What

4:48

with it being Christmas and

4:50

all? I was doing a

4:52

lot of things other than

4:54

preparing for the podcast. I

4:56

think I might have baked

4:59

a couple of hundred cookies.

5:01

We go around the neighborhood

5:03

handing out bags full of

5:05

cookies to all of our

5:07

neighbors. And then our neighbors

5:10

go around handing out various

5:12

dessert items as well. And

5:14

our neighborhood is a community.

5:16

It's not just a bunch

5:18

of people living in houses

5:20

that wave to each other

5:23

once in a while. We

5:25

walked around the neighborhood asking

5:27

everybody if there was anything

5:29

they needed. If we had

5:31

it, we were more than

5:34

willing to share. And our

5:36

neighbors came by asking if

5:38

there was anything we wanted

5:40

or needed. And we're more

5:42

of a community than most

5:45

places. People vanish all the

5:47

time. They disappear while on

5:49

their own or sometimes within

5:51

sight of their friends. You'd

5:53

think the best way to

5:56

not vanish would be to...

5:58

stay in a group, safety

6:00

in numbers. Back when I

6:02

had a job, it was

6:04

common thing to park in

6:06

some out of the way

6:09

location, and then take a

6:11

walk along the river, see

6:13

what you might find. There

6:15

were things buried in the

6:17

ground that would let us

6:20

know if the bad people

6:22

were crossing in certain areas,

6:24

but... These things were only

6:26

put in places where we

6:28

knew there was activity. In

6:31

order to know there was

6:33

activity, somebody had to go

6:35

look. So a lot of

6:37

times we would spend hours

6:39

walking up down the riverbank

6:41

trying to see if we

6:44

could find one of these

6:46

locations and a lot of

6:48

times it was just us

6:50

all on our own. I'm

6:52

surprised we never lost anybody.

6:55

The only person that knew

6:57

where we were was the

6:59

radio operator and the nearest

7:01

backup was usually 30 to

7:03

60 minutes away. Yes, I

7:06

was armed, but then all

7:08

of the people in the

7:10

following stories were not just

7:12

armed. They were heavily armed.

7:14

And yet, it seems to

7:17

have done them absolutely no

7:19

good. I

7:21

did several shows about people

7:24

vanishing from the face of

7:26

the earth with no known

7:29

cause. Tonight I'm going to

7:31

talk about mass disappearances. Large

7:33

groups of people who all

7:36

vanished together. Bringing up the

7:38

idea there is no safe

7:40

place anywhere on the planet,

7:43

whether you're alone or in

7:45

a group. Like

7:47

I said, I tried to do

7:50

a new show here, but unfortunately

7:52

there's only so much out there

7:54

to be found on these subjects

7:56

and I had a very limited

7:58

week. Like I said,

8:00

several hundred cookies had to be baked

8:02

cookies we had to go around and

8:05

visit all the neighbors, had to go Hope

8:07

you and show if you don't. So,

8:09

hope you bad, I'm sorry. show

8:12

if you not. Too bad, I'm

8:14

sorry. No I'm not. Way back

8:16

in time. when the the Romans

8:18

ruled most of the Middle East

8:20

and a lot of Europe as well,

8:23

they knew how to destroy

8:25

their enemies. They had

8:27

invented a thing called a

8:29

a that could launch a

8:31

spear a yards. five times

8:33

times the length

8:35

of a football

8:37

field. was the was

8:40

the equivalent of a

8:42

sniper's rifle. back in back in the

8:44

day. enemy leader An enemy leader

8:46

would be far away from

8:48

the action, secure in knowing

8:50

that nobody could reach out

8:52

and touch him. him. Along comes

8:54

a bolt, faster than the

8:56

eye can focus, and

8:59

the leader's nailed

9:01

to a tree several

9:03

yards behind where he'd been

9:05

standing. he'd been standing.

9:07

it came to killing,

9:09

killing, the Romans were top hat. A

9:11

Greek phalanx had

9:13

developed a had developed a way

9:16

of fighting that was nearly

9:18

impossible to defeat. to defeat.

9:21

would line up in five

9:23

rows, shoulder to shoulder. The The

9:25

front rank was all holding

9:27

huge huge shields made out

9:29

of wood. out of wood. things were

9:31

a bit heavy and hard to

9:33

maneuver, but hard weren't there to be

9:35

maneuvered. They were there for safety. to be

9:38

The next were there for safety.

9:40

The next four spears held

9:42

out past the

9:45

wall of shields. It

9:47

was a was a

9:49

of sharp pointy things. four

9:52

layers of pointed pointed

9:54

in the same direction. It

9:56

was It was nearly impossible

9:58

to get through. such a

10:01

mass. Any army charging

10:03

this wall of spears

10:05

would wind up getting

10:07

themselves impaled. The ranks

10:10

would begin marching forward,

10:12

pushing any adversaries away,

10:14

or inflicting a lot

10:16

of damage. The Romans

10:19

looked at the Greek

10:21

spear wall and they

10:23

had an idea. They

10:26

used that great big wooden

10:28

shield that was actually made

10:31

out of plywood, very light

10:33

and very sturdy. Then they

10:35

were armed with a short

10:38

sword called a gladious. The

10:40

Romans would march right up

10:43

to the first bunch of

10:45

spear points and then turn

10:47

to the right. The oblong

10:50

shield would... push the spear

10:52

to the side, trapping the

10:54

Greek soldiers in the middle

10:57

as the spear shafts all

10:59

were forced together. Then as

11:02

the Romans got close enough,

11:04

they used the gladious to

11:06

poke and prod the Greeks

11:09

into either surrendering or stop

11:11

breathing. Each Roman legion was

11:13

arranged in the same configuration.

11:16

A soldier could go from

11:18

one camp to another and

11:21

know exactly where everything was.

11:23

Soldiers trained to the same

11:25

guidelines, so each army would

11:28

work side by side in

11:30

knowing what those on the

11:32

right and those on the

11:35

left were going to do.

11:37

A spear is both a

11:40

fighting weapon and a throwing

11:42

weapon. The trouble is if

11:44

you throw a spear at

11:47

your enemies, well they pick

11:49

it up and throw it

11:51

back. The Romans made a

11:54

spear that had a wide

11:56

point on a long skinny

11:59

metal shaft. The

12:01

wide point would poke through

12:03

a shield, but then there

12:05

was no resistance to slow

12:08

the spear down once the

12:10

larger tip had gone through,

12:12

and it would just... it

12:15

would go right through a

12:17

shield. The long metal shaft

12:19

was designed that as soon

12:22

as it had done its

12:24

job, it would bend, making

12:27

the spear useless to throw

12:29

back. After the battle... The

12:31

men would go around and

12:34

they'd collect all of these

12:36

bent spears and they'd take

12:38

them to a blacksmith who

12:41

would then straighten them all

12:43

out and get ready for

12:45

the next battle. As the

12:48

Roman army would conquer a

12:50

territory, the people living there

12:52

would become part of Rome,

12:55

not citizens, but subjects. Roman

12:57

soldiers would be from every

13:00

country under this empire. Being

13:02

in the army was a

13:04

good thing. To begin with,

13:07

it was a steady job.

13:09

The soldiers built things when

13:11

not destroying other things. They

13:14

were paid better than most

13:16

folks who worked for a

13:18

living. They received the best

13:21

medical treatment since a strong

13:23

army meant a strong empire.

13:25

They did get moved around

13:28

a lot as rebellions broke

13:30

out. For a while there

13:33

the men were not allowed

13:35

to get married. Their loyalties

13:37

were to Rome and no

13:40

one else. The ninth Roman

13:42

legion was from Spain. In

13:44

43 AD Rome invaded what

13:47

is now the British Isles.

13:49

To maintain order and see

13:51

to it the taxes were

13:54

collected, the ninth legion was

13:56

sent to Britannia. Most of

13:58

what is now England was

14:01

under Roman rule. However... That

14:03

land to the north, that

14:06

is now known as Scotland,

14:08

was not just wild, it

14:10

was untamable. The mighty Roman

14:13

army was unable to control

14:15

the pits. The pits got

14:17

their name from drawing on

14:20

their skin with blue dye.

14:22

These drawings were called pits

14:24

or pictures. seeing

14:27

a group of wild men

14:29

and women, the Roman soldiers

14:31

decided it was a good

14:34

idea to build a bunch

14:36

of forts running from coast

14:39

to coast. This was not

14:41

Hadrian's wall, but it was

14:43

close to where it was

14:46

going to be. Hadrian's wall

14:48

was made from stone and

14:50

it was moved north a

14:53

few times so that emperors

14:55

could claim they had increased

14:58

to the size of Rome.

15:00

even if it was only

15:02

by a few yards. A

15:05

legion was about 6,000 men,

15:07

depending on how long ago

15:10

they'd been in combat. If

15:12

a century was really hammered

15:14

in battle, they might be

15:17

moved to someplace less volatile,

15:19

but their numbers would not

15:21

be increased. No sense putting

15:24

new men in an old,

15:26

unbattle-ready unit. The Ninth Legion

15:29

was made up of battle-hardened

15:31

men, who had seen action

15:33

in Germany, Greece, and Africa.

15:36

When you first joined the

15:38

Roman army, you were issued,

15:41

which is not the right

15:43

word, your basic kit. The

15:45

cost was deducted from your

15:48

pay for the next year

15:50

or so. Should you retire

15:52

or leave for whatever reason,

15:55

the gear was yours? You

15:57

paid for it. If you

16:00

go... called up for a

16:02

military campaign, you were expected

16:04

to show up with all

16:07

your gear and be ready

16:09

to fight. Not to get

16:12

ready, you were expected to

16:14

already be ready. You put

16:16

on your PBS, that's pistol

16:19

belt and stuff. Okay, there

16:21

was no pistol, but you

16:23

put on your gear and

16:26

then you had to take

16:28

a... a physical

16:30

training test to make sure

16:33

that you were ready. You

16:35

had to have all your

16:37

gear on, all your sleeping

16:39

gear, your cooking utensils, everything

16:41

that the military had issued

16:44

you. You had to have

16:46

it all tied to your

16:48

body, and then you had

16:50

to go 18.4 miles in

16:52

five hours. If you made

16:54

it, well, you were now

16:57

back in the army. If

16:59

you didn't make it, bad

17:01

things were coming your way.

17:03

You were pretty much going

17:05

to be forced to either

17:08

improve yourself or go looking

17:10

for a new job somewhere.

17:12

The ninth was briefly disbanded,

17:14

and then they were called

17:16

back up during the rebellion

17:19

of Sextus Pompeius in Sicily.

17:21

Aren't you glad we don't

17:23

have names like that anymore?

17:25

The thing about soldiers is

17:27

they do mostly what they're

17:30

supposed to do just about

17:32

all the time People do

17:34

not join the military with

17:36

hopes of leading some kind

17:38

of sedentary life It's the

17:40

action in the spoils of

17:43

war that they're looking for

17:45

when Caesar said go to

17:47

Britannia the ninth went Roman

17:49

soldiers did a lot more

17:51

than march around killing people

17:54

They built roads and fortifications

17:56

and... They came

17:58

up with

18:00

new weapons. weapons. Back

18:02

in in Burtainia, the Ninth got

18:04

busy doing what they were

18:06

there to do. to do.

18:08

In 50 AD, the the 9th

18:11

was one of two

18:13

legions that defeated the

18:15

forces of the forces of Keratacas

18:17

at Cyricorotic. That same same

18:19

year, the legion constructed

18:21

a fort, a fort, Lindom

18:23

Colonial, Lincoln. Under

18:26

the command of of CCS

18:29

they put down the

18:31

first revolt of revolt

18:33

of Venucius, 57. 52 and 57.

18:35

The ninth 9th suffered

18:37

a serious defeat under Quintus

18:39

Petilius, Cyrillius, in the rebellion

18:41

of of Budica in A

18:44

.D. may You may

18:46

recognize that name. you

18:48

If you don't, need

18:50

you need to read

18:52

more history. and

18:54

they they had to be reinforced

18:56

with from from Germania

18:58

province. Around AD AD,

19:00

they constructed a

19:03

in in New

19:05

York. soldiers from all from all

19:07

over Europe, to a this led

19:09

to a lot of different

19:11

languages being spoken. Not a Not a

19:13

problem because the folks in

19:15

charge all spoke Latin. Soldiers

19:17

did not need to communicate

19:19

directly with each other. each other. The

19:23

Roman Emperor Hadrian land to

19:25

the north of

19:27

Britain. north of Britain. So in

19:30

110-80, he sent he sent

19:32

the 9th up

19:34

to pound the locals

19:36

into submission. Something like

19:38

like 6 ,000 men, all

19:41

their equipment followers

19:43

headed north out of

19:45

York. of York.

19:47

about 8,000 people in all

19:49

people in all. in all.

19:52

Now the the Roman army

19:54

had done away with most

19:56

of the followers in order order to

19:58

make the military more self

20:00

-supportive. efficient, but there were always

20:03

folks were needed to

20:05

sow things and clean

20:07

things and stop the

20:09

bleeding and fix things.

20:11

The ladies of negotiable

20:13

affections would oppose as

20:15

being seamstresses or cooks

20:17

or washing women, anything

20:19

to stay close to

20:21

the customers. There's no

20:23

record of what happened

20:25

to them after that.

20:27

6,000 men and a

20:29

few thousand camp followers,

20:31

that's a lot of

20:33

bodies, to simply may

20:35

vanish. Each soldier had

20:37

65 to 70 pounds

20:39

of gear. 3,390,000 pounds,

20:41

that's just in personal

20:43

gear. The Legion would

20:45

have had wagon-mounted weapons

20:47

and horses, ferriers, blacksmiths

20:49

with all of their

20:51

equipment. There would have

20:53

been at least 60

20:55

standards. Those flags showing

20:57

which units were which.

21:00

Had the ninth encountered

21:02

a superior force... seeing

21:04

as the picks did

21:06

not play well with

21:08

others, there should have

21:10

been a collection of

21:12

these banners or the

21:14

vexalom somewhere in the

21:16

area. Somebody would have

21:18

collected these things and

21:20

hung a few on

21:22

their wall. The picks

21:24

were not big on

21:26

writing things down. To

21:28

them it was the

21:30

thing to pass on

21:32

stories by oral tradition.

21:34

The old guy, somebody

21:36

like me, somebody who

21:38

wasn't much good for

21:40

fighting or hunting, would

21:42

stay in the village

21:44

and remember things. Hopefully,

21:46

things that had actually...

21:48

happened. Every so often,

21:50

oh say when the

21:52

cable was down or

21:54

the kids were bored,

21:57

the old man or

21:59

sometimes even the old

22:01

woman would be poked

22:03

with a stick and

22:05

asked to tell the

22:07

kids about the time

22:09

great-granddad took on the

22:11

Roman army. Somebody would

22:13

have hung on some

22:15

kind of a mement

22:17

from the battle, but

22:19

no. There is no

22:21

oral record or any

22:23

artifacts to look at

22:25

and understand what happened

22:27

in the year AD

22:29

110. There should be

22:31

some record somewhere saying

22:33

what became of the

22:35

ninth, but there is

22:37

nothing. Shortly after the

22:39

ninth disappeared into what

22:41

is now known as

22:43

Scotland, Emperor Hadrian... had

22:45

the Roman army build

22:47

a wall across the

22:49

island to keep those

22:51

crazy people to the

22:54

north away from the

22:56

folks living in the

22:58

south. What happened to

23:00

the 9th Roman Legion

23:02

that not only wiped

23:04

them out but scared

23:06

the emperor in the

23:08

not wanting to head

23:10

north ever again? The

23:12

Celtic tribes living in

23:14

the area were not

23:16

organized. They fought each

23:18

other as much as

23:20

they fought the Romans.

23:22

How could a bunch

23:24

of disorganized tribes defeat

23:26

a legion of Roman

23:28

soldiers? And what happened

23:30

to the bodies and

23:32

the equipment? It's almost

23:34

like the ground opened

23:36

up and swallowed over

23:38

6,000 men and all

23:40

their gear. Did you

23:42

see the movie Gallipoli?

23:44

Good movie. It was

23:46

about the British trying

23:48

to capture and hold.

23:50

the Dartenellus straits. This

23:53

would have given Brits

23:55

access to the Black

23:57

Sea and they could

23:59

have attacked the German

24:01

lines from the rear.

24:03

This was during World

24:05

War I. The Russians

24:07

were dissatisfied with the

24:09

whole dying for the

24:11

motherland and they were

24:13

looking to pull out.

24:15

If this happened, the

24:17

German and Austrian armies

24:19

would have had only

24:21

one front to pour

24:23

all their attention into.

24:25

The Turks had sided

24:27

with the Germans and

24:29

they had dug in

24:31

on both sides of

24:33

the straits. The Turks

24:35

had artillery on both

24:37

sides of this body

24:39

of water, and the

24:41

water was filled with

24:43

mines. The British and

24:45

the French sent in

24:47

their old worn-out Navy

24:50

ships, figuring any losses

24:52

would not affect the

24:54

main Navy. Those sailors

24:56

were cheap and easy

24:58

to replace. After bombarding

25:00

the Turkish positions for

25:02

hours, the Navy was

25:04

surprised to discover the

25:06

artillery was still there.

25:08

The Turks would simply

25:10

move their guns away

25:12

from where the Navy

25:14

shells were landing. Wait

25:16

for the shelling to

25:18

stop and then move

25:20

everything right back into

25:22

position. After losing several

25:24

old ships, the high

25:26

command decided that A,

25:28

the Turks must be

25:30

getting low on ammo,

25:32

and B, what they

25:34

needed was ground troops

25:36

to walk in and

25:38

take over. Boots on

25:40

the ground, as they

25:42

like to say. A

25:44

military unit created by

25:46

King Edward VII and

25:49

known as the Fifth

25:51

Battalion Norfolk Regiment, the

25:53

Sandringhams, or more commonly

25:55

simply known as the

25:57

Norfolk, was put together

25:59

from men who worked

26:01

for the king on

26:03

the Sanderingham estate. These

26:05

recruits were from the

26:07

king's workforce. The Royals

26:09

in Britain own everything,

26:11

and the commoners work

26:13

for them, and they

26:15

live on land only

26:17

if they're allowed to

26:19

by the folks that

26:21

own everything. What a

26:23

system. Add to this,

26:25

the royal British family

26:27

were all from Germany,

26:29

and it makes you

26:31

wonder. Their last name

26:33

was Mount Baton, until

26:35

it was suggested that

26:37

they change it to

26:39

something less Germanic, seeing

26:41

as the British were

26:43

fighting the Germans. The

26:46

men who signed up

26:48

to fight for God

26:50

in country, all lived

26:52

in the same towns,

26:54

and they grew up

26:56

together. Nearly every man

26:58

over the age of

27:00

17 and under 50

27:02

joined and trained together.

27:04

And when duty called,

27:06

they went off to

27:08

fight together. The North

27:10

folks were transported from

27:12

England to the Mediterranean.

27:14

They arrived at the

27:16

British front lines on

27:18

August 10th of 1915.

27:20

England is a cool

27:22

climate. These men were

27:24

now in the Middle

27:26

East where it was

27:28

hot and dry. The

27:30

Norfolk Regiment was made

27:32

up of 16 officers,

27:34

250 men, led by

27:36

Sir Horace Proctor Bo

27:38

Camp. Many of the

27:40

men were suffering from

27:42

seasickness. Some had come

27:45

down with dysentery. Dissentery

27:47

is a really bad

27:49

case of food poisoning.

27:51

Two days later, while

27:53

still suffering from seasickness

27:55

and dysentery and this

27:57

horrible changing, climate, they

27:59

were sent into battle.

28:01

The maps used by

28:03

the British High Command

28:05

were way off. Nobody

28:07

really knew the area

28:09

or how well dug

28:11

in the Turks were.

28:13

There was a lack

28:15

of drinking water and

28:17

not nearly enough supplies.

28:19

The High Command was

28:21

focusing most of their

28:23

attention as well as

28:25

most of the supplies.

28:27

on the real fighting

28:29

in Europe. The Turks

28:31

knew the area well

28:33

and they had fought

28:35

a few battles there

28:37

already. Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa

28:39

Kamel was familiar with

28:42

the Gallipoli Peninsula from

28:44

his operations against the

28:46

Bulgarians in the Balkan

28:48

Wars. His army was

28:50

equipped with detailed maps

28:52

showing any defensive locations

28:54

and how to utilize

28:56

them to their fullest.

28:58

The British High Command

29:00

had maps drawn up

29:02

mostly out of guesswork

29:04

while looking at the

29:06

coast through binoculars. The

29:08

Turks were being supplied

29:10

by Germans, who were

29:12

making all kinds of

29:14

goodies that could be

29:16

used to kill people.

29:19

They also had German

29:21

officers on their side

29:23

at the battle, giving

29:25

advice. The North folks

29:27

were under the impression

29:29

that they were going

29:32

to attack a village

29:34

called Anafarda Saga. Try

29:36

saying that without laughing.

29:38

They had no idea

29:40

that the Turks were

29:42

not only dug in

29:44

there. but they were

29:47

well acclimatized to the

29:49

heat. They had plenty

29:51

of water and they

29:53

had plenty of supplies.

29:55

The battle plans of

29:57

the days were. Unload!

30:00

your rifle. You're not

30:02

supposed to stop and shoot,

30:04

and the soldiers might accidentally

30:06

shoot one of their own

30:08

men. of their was no There was

30:10

no in the chamber. in

30:12

the chamber. They would fix

30:14

bayonets. wait for for

30:16

the signal. and and everybody would

30:18

jump out of the trenches and

30:21

run at the bad guys. at the bad

30:23

are sitting behind

30:25

defensive barriers, had

30:28

lots of bullets and were

30:30

were able to use them.

30:32

running straight into men

30:34

running straight into oncoming

30:37

machine as high as well as

30:39

high explosive shells going

30:41

off all around, the

30:43

battlefield would quickly turn into

30:45

a lot of smoke and debris.

30:47

debris. Anything Anything made of wood

30:49

would catch fire, adding a lot

30:51

of smoke to the field. field.

30:54

The guy guy in charge was

30:56

expected to an eye on an eye

30:58

on the regiment on his right

31:00

and keep an an eye on the

31:02

regiment on his left left keep

31:04

all of his men together

31:06

in a group a the same

31:08

line of attack, while at the

31:11

same time time to not trip

31:13

over anything or get himself

31:15

shot. shot. All of this of

31:17

this while the Turks did their best

31:19

to kill everyone. The

31:21

men of the Norfolk regiment to

31:24

get to of the ahead on either

31:26

side of them. on either side the

31:28

ensuing confusion, they got turned

31:30

around and began running in

31:32

the wrong direction. the wrong direction.

31:35

commanding officers managed to get the

31:37

troops headed in the right

31:39

direction the right to find that none

31:41

of the rest of the

31:43

British the was anywhere to be

31:45

seen. anywhere to be seen. At some some

31:47

point in the attack, they must

31:49

have realized their mistake. mistake. When When

31:51

you look right and left and you

31:54

don't see any of your fellow soldiers,

31:56

you kind of you kind of realize

31:58

on your own. your own. The

32:00

men continued to advance

32:02

towards Kavik Tepai without

32:04

reinforcements or support. They

32:06

were met with a

32:08

rain of machine gun

32:10

fire and numerous snipers

32:13

were taking them out

32:15

one by one. Somehow,

32:17

Colonel Bo Camp in

32:19

the North Folk Regiment

32:21

managed to push the

32:23

Turks back into a

32:25

forest. Artillery fire from

32:27

the British rear lines

32:29

had started the woods

32:31

on fire. The Norfolks

32:33

continued into the burning

32:35

forest, and that was

32:38

the last anyone ever

32:40

saw of any of

32:42

them. By the end

32:44

of the day, the

32:46

British High Command gathered

32:48

the reports and looked

32:50

at what was left

32:52

of their troops. They

32:54

soon realized the Norfolk

32:56

regiment was missing. Everybody

32:58

agreed that the Turkish

33:00

army must have overrun

33:02

the unit, captured what

33:05

was left of the

33:07

survivors. Oh well, sucks

33:09

to be them. The

33:11

war went on and

33:13

eventually British pulled out

33:15

of Gallipoli, 213, 980

33:17

troops, made up from

33:19

India, Australia, England, New

33:21

Zealand, and France, died

33:23

trying to push the

33:25

Turks out of their

33:27

positions. The High Command

33:30

was using 19th century

33:32

tactics in a 20th

33:34

century war. At the

33:36

end of the war,

33:38

the British began looking

33:40

for any records of

33:42

what had happened to

33:44

the Norfolk regiment. Families

33:46

wanted to know what

33:48

had become of their

33:50

husbands sons relatives neighbors.

33:52

All the men from

33:54

those villages were all

33:57

missing. Everybody in the

33:59

town knew everyone in

34:01

the Red Cross. The

34:03

Turkish army handed over

34:05

all their records, but

34:07

there was no mention

34:09

of any of the

34:11

men being captured or

34:13

even encountered. During the

34:15

ensuing interviews, Turkish and

34:17

German officers told about

34:19

what they had seen

34:22

during that fateful battle

34:24

at Kavaktepe. There were

34:26

a few stories told

34:28

of how a group

34:30

of British soldiers had

34:32

been seen running into

34:34

the forest encountering a

34:36

mysterious fog. When the

34:38

fog had vanished the

34:40

soldiers had vanished as

34:42

well. Had just one

34:44

Turkish officer told this

34:46

story it could have

34:49

been written off as

34:51

fantasy. Dozens of both

34:53

Turkish and German officers

34:55

as well as a

34:57

lot of the soldiers

34:59

were telling the exact

35:01

same story. In 1965,

35:03

a sailor from New

35:05

Zealand named Frederick Reichard

35:07

gave a statement on

35:09

what he had seen

35:11

from the deck of

35:14

his ship. He said

35:16

he witnessed the strange

35:18

disappearance of the fifth

35:20

Norfolk in 1915. He

35:22

and three other sailors

35:24

watched as a group

35:26

a bunch of strange

35:28

clouds had formed above

35:30

the men's position. As

35:32

they watched one of

35:34

the clouds looked like

35:36

it settled to the

35:38

ground covering the soldiers.

35:41

After an hour or

35:43

so, the cloud lifted

35:45

and dissolved into the

35:47

sky. Once the sailors

35:49

could see the forest

35:51

where the Norfolk's had

35:53

been, there was nobody

35:55

there. To this day,

35:57

nobody has found any

35:59

record of the man.

36:01

in the Norfolk regiment,

36:03

being killed, captured, lost,

36:06

or anything. No remains

36:08

have been uncovered and

36:10

none of their equipment

36:12

has been found. Two

36:14

hundred and sixty-six men

36:16

charged into battle and

36:18

disappeared. Hrer Verde were

36:20

living their lives like

36:22

anybody else, living in

36:24

Brazil. They had a

36:26

town of 600 people

36:28

with a church, a

36:30

school, and a marketplace.

36:33

1823, something changed. A

36:35

visitor to the village

36:37

discovered the people were

36:39

all gone. It looked

36:41

as if everybody had

36:43

simply walked out of

36:45

town without bothering to

36:47

take any. personal possessions,

36:49

or leaving behind any

36:51

clue as to why

36:53

they left or where

36:55

they were going. The

36:58

authorities were notified and

37:00

a house-to-house search ensued.

37:02

Everything looked as the

37:04

if the occupants had

37:06

simply stepped out the

37:08

door but would be

37:10

right back. In the

37:12

schoolhouse they found a

37:14

note scrawled on a

37:16

blackboard. It simply said,

37:18

There is no salvation.

37:20

Laying on the floor,

37:22

they found a pistol

37:25

with one spent round

37:27

in it. The pistol

37:29

had been fired the

37:31

day before the visitor

37:33

had arrived, but there

37:35

was no blood or

37:37

any bullet holes anywhere

37:39

in the building. How

37:41

do you fire a

37:43

gun inside a building

37:45

and not hit? Something?

37:48

The searchers began to look

37:51

outside the village hoping to

37:53

find some indication of where

37:55

the villagers had gone, but

37:58

they found no clues. was

38:00

thrown out that the folks

38:02

had run from their homes

38:05

to avoid contact with rebel

38:07

forces in the forest around

38:10

town. Had this been the

38:12

case, where did they run

38:14

too? Even years later the

38:17

relatives of the missing villagers

38:19

have not seen or heard

38:21

from a single one of

38:24

them. No bodies have ever

38:26

been found. And they didn't

38:28

take anything with them. It

38:31

was all left in the

38:33

village. How could 600 people

38:36

all vanish without leaving behind

38:38

a trace? Why have none

38:40

of them ever turned up

38:43

again? To this day, the

38:45

answer to the disappearance of

38:47

Raverde is still unknown. And

38:50

yes, that is organic man

38:52

coffee trite coffee. It's

38:56

unknown when Erkam Iowa was

38:58

Erkam Iowa was established. It

39:00

was a standard little town

39:03

that attracted no real attention

39:05

until 1929. Sometime that year

39:07

a traveler entered the town

39:09

on his way to some

39:12

place else. He drove along

39:14

the streets and became uneasy

39:16

when he noticed there was

39:18

nobody around. The traveler stopped

39:21

at a store and he

39:23

looked around to see if

39:25

anybody was there, but he

39:28

soon came to the conclusion

39:30

that the town had been

39:32

abandoned. A photo showed up

39:34

taken from an airplane that

39:37

was passing overhead. It showed

39:39

the town was in a

39:41

bad state of disrepair. Fields

39:44

were overgrown and the streets

39:46

were filled with dripari. The

39:48

buildings were all in need

39:50

of repair. The

39:53

Great Depression had just gotten

39:55

kicked off and the world

39:57

had other things to look

39:59

into other than the state.

40:02

of some small town in

40:04

Iowa. A driver on his

40:06

way to someplace else stopped

40:08

at the local gas station

40:11

to fill up only to

40:13

run out of gas just

40:15

outside of town. When he

40:17

tried walking back into town,

40:19

he couldn't find the place.

40:22

Some folks driving by on

40:24

Route 41 said they had

40:26

seen people in town. It

40:28

looked as if the town

40:31

was doing all right, but

40:33

anybody driving into town later

40:35

was shocked to find the

40:37

place was falling apart and

40:40

abandoned. As people began to

40:42

travel across the country looking

40:44

for work, caravans would form

40:46

as people banded together for

40:48

support. Some of these folks

40:51

were known as oakies, having

40:53

come from Oklahoma. One caravan

40:55

stopped just outside of her

40:57

camera to spend the night.

41:00

A few of the men

41:02

went into town to see

41:04

if they could beg or

41:06

borrow food for the night.

41:08

When they arrived in town,

41:11

they found that the place

41:13

seemed to be vanishing before

41:15

their very eyes. Returning

41:18

to camp, they told people

41:20

what they had seen, and

41:22

of course, nobody from camp

41:24

believed them, so more people

41:26

went into town to have

41:28

a look, and when they

41:30

returned with the exact same

41:32

stories, it was decided they

41:34

should pack up and leave.

41:36

Middle of the night, the

41:38

entire caravan simply moved on

41:40

down the road. After

41:42

the Great Depression was finally

41:45

resolved, the mystery of our

41:47

camera was still being bandered

41:49

about. Folks attempting to go

41:51

have a look for themselves

41:54

found the town was no

41:56

longer there. You could find

41:58

it on a map. but

42:00

you couldn't find it on

42:03

the ground. Some folks have

42:05

come out claiming that this

42:07

story was made up. Kind

42:09

of like they're crash in

42:12

Roswell or the Laredo incident.

42:14

They say the town never

42:16

existed and that this story

42:18

was just made up on

42:21

a slow news day. I

42:23

searched and I found just

42:25

about as many people say

42:27

the story of our camera

42:30

is true as those who

42:32

say that it is not.

42:34

The world being such a

42:36

strange place, I would be

42:39

surprised if this hadn't actually

42:41

happened. People who fear mysteries

42:43

will go to great lengths

42:45

in order to make them

42:48

go away. The

42:50

Cyclops was launched May

42:52

7th 1910 by the

42:54

William Crap and Sons

42:56

of Philadelphia and it

42:58

was placed into service

43:00

November 7th 1910 with

43:02

Lieutenant Commander George Worley

43:04

in command. Worley had

43:06

kind of a weird

43:08

history as seeing as

43:10

he had actually jumped

43:13

a ship back in

43:15

18. Under his real

43:17

name, Johann Frederick Weikman,

43:19

from Hanover Germany, he

43:21

changed his name and

43:23

he joined the Navy

43:25

Reserve. Having had a

43:27

lot of previous maritime

43:29

experience, he quickly cloned

43:31

the latter. The Cyclops

43:33

sailed under the Navy

43:35

Auxiliary Service Atlantic Fleet.

43:37

She was a collier

43:39

which meant the ship

43:42

carried coal. Back then,

43:44

ships burned coal to

43:46

create steam. A ship

43:48

can only travel as

43:50

far as its coal

43:52

supply lasted, so the

43:54

idea of a supply

43:56

ship carrying... nothing but

43:58

coal was a

44:00

good idea

44:03

These colliers had a very

44:05

a very distinct look

44:07

to them. Most ships ships

44:10

with more than one funnel,

44:12

or or smoke stack, had

44:14

them lined up in front of

44:16

the other. the other. The

44:18

Cyclops had the the set

44:20

side by side. side. There

44:23

was a huge superstructure a midship,

44:25

used to move coal from

44:27

the the holes the ships they

44:30

were servicing. The bridge

44:32

was set up above the

44:34

deck on four steel legs

44:36

and there were four enormous

44:38

towers that resembled on the

44:41

bridge and the rear bridge and the

44:43

rear structures. The Cyclops

44:45

the Baltic from May

44:47

to July May 1911.

44:49

1911. supplying the Second

44:51

Division ships. 1912, she

44:53

returned to Norfolk, she returned

44:55

to Norfolk, Virginia the

44:57

then operated along the

44:59

east coast from Newport,

45:01

Rhode Island to the

45:04

Caribbean, servicing the fleet

45:06

during the Mexican when the when

45:08

the United States Navy occupied

45:10

Veracruz, Mexico, the and the was

45:13

was called on to supply

45:15

ships patrolling the coast of

45:17

Mexico. When

45:21

the United States entered

45:24

World War World the

45:26

I, the was commissioned

45:28

in May in May 1917 with

45:30

Lieutenant Commander George aka

45:32

a .k .a. activated

45:34

activated as

45:36

a The Cyclops crossed the

45:39

Atlantic crossed the Atlantic

45:41

several times and sailed along

45:43

the east coast of

45:45

the United States States and America

45:47

many times. times. The

45:50

ship sailed from Rio

45:52

de Janeiro de Janeiro on

45:55

1918, carrying

45:58

carrying 306 crewmen

46:00

and passengers. They entered

46:03

Salvador February 20th. Few

46:05

days later, she departed

46:07

for Baltimore, Maryland, with

46:09

no stops scheduled in

46:12

the middle. They were

46:14

carrying Manganese ore. Before

46:16

leaving Port, Commander Warley

46:19

had submitted a report

46:21

that the starboard engine

46:23

had a cracked cylinder

46:25

and it was not

46:28

operating. One report

46:30

claims the Cyclops had been

46:32

overloaded when it left Rio

46:35

de Janeiro, but the Navy

46:37

reports all state the ship

46:39

was loaded correctly and it

46:42

was in good enough condition

46:44

to sail to Baltimore under

46:46

just one engine. Cyclops was

46:49

not due in Baltimore until

46:51

March 13th. There was no

46:53

way of tracking the ship's

46:56

progress. A ship would sometimes

46:58

run into a storm and

47:00

make it run a little

47:03

bit late. It wasn't until

47:05

the Cyclops was reported as

47:07

overdue that the Navy sent

47:10

out a call for other

47:12

ships to keep an eye

47:14

out for the Collier. Shortly

47:17

it was determined the Cyclops

47:19

was indeed missing and a

47:21

search went into action. Ships

47:24

passing through the route of

47:26

travel. never found any sign

47:28

of the Cyclops. No lifeboats,

47:31

no life preservers, no wooden

47:33

debris of any kind. Even

47:35

though the Cyclops was a

47:38

steel ship, it had tons

47:40

of wood for decking, stairs,

47:42

flooring, furniture. About half the

47:45

ship was actually wood. The

47:48

Navy never decided that the

47:51

Cyclops, the Navy did decide

47:53

that the Cyclops must have

47:55

been fired on by a

47:58

submarine and sunk without being

48:00

able to... send out a

48:02

distress call. Wireless transmissions meant

48:05

a radio message in the

48:07

form of Morris Code could

48:10

be broadcast just about anywhere

48:12

on the planet. Because there

48:14

was only one channel being

48:17

used a distress signal had

48:19

to be developed to make

48:21

sending it out quick and

48:24

easy. S-O-S was chosen because

48:26

it was simple. and it

48:29

didn't require translating. It did

48:31

not stand for save our

48:33

ship or save our souls.

48:36

The letter K was also

48:38

sometimes used. It was a

48:40

fast way to say, oh

48:43

crap, we need help. You

48:45

would hear somebody just sending

48:48

out K, K, K. That

48:50

meant they were under attack.

48:54

At the end of

48:56

World War I, Germany

48:58

had no records of

49:01

any of its subs

49:03

sinking any colliers along

49:06

the U.S. coast. The

49:08

Navy listed the Cyclops

49:10

as missing. Its last

49:13

known position was inside

49:15

the Bermuda Triangle. Following

49:18

her fitting out and

49:20

shakedown, Proteus. steamed out

49:22

of Norfolk, Virginia, November

49:25

11th, 1913, on the

49:27

first of four runs

49:29

to Veracruz, to supply

49:32

coal to the battleships

49:34

and the cruisers of

49:37

the Atlantic Fleet off

49:39

Mexico. William Crampinsons of

49:41

Philadelphia used the same

49:44

blueprints for the Proteus

49:46

as they had used

49:49

to build the Cyclops.

49:51

The two ships were

49:53

identical. Sailing again from

49:56

Norfolk on September 25th

49:58

1914, Proteus supplied coal,

50:00

oil, men, and stores

50:03

for ships of the

50:05

Atlantic Fleet at Rio

50:08

de Janeiro and Montevideo.

50:10

Montevideo. Need more coffee.

50:12

Montevideo. A sign to

50:15

the Navy Overseas Transportation

50:17

Service, she operated between

50:20

Norfolk, Boston, and New

50:22

York City for the

50:24

next several years. In

50:29

the aftermath of World

50:31

War II, the Proteus

50:33

fruised from Norfolk to

50:35

replenish the U.S. fleet

50:37

in the Caribbean. Crossing

50:39

the Panama Canal four

50:42

times, she delivered fuel

50:44

and stores to Pearl

50:46

Harbor in 1920, and

50:48

Kayy Peru in 1921.

50:51

She was decommissioned at

50:54

Norfolk May 25th 1924

50:56

and it was inactive

50:59

until her name was

51:01

stricken from the Naval

51:04

Vessel Register in December

51:06

5th 1940. She was

51:09

sold to the Saginney

51:12

Terminal Limited of Montreal,

51:14

Quebec March 8th in

51:17

1941. It's Saginaw. It's

51:20

not spelled Saginaw, but

51:22

it's pronounced Saginaw. They

51:24

begin operations in the

51:26

Canadian Merchant Navy under

51:28

the command of Master

51:30

Walter Henry Miller. The

51:32

Proteus would sail from

51:34

Canada to South America

51:36

and back, carrying coal

51:38

and other heavy loads

51:41

used in the manufacture

51:43

of steel. Proteus was

51:45

lost at sea along

51:47

with 58 men. that

51:49

it due to unknown

51:51

causes November 23rd 1941

51:53

being a Canadian registered

51:55

ship the proteus was

51:57

at risk of being

51:59

torpedoed by the Germans.

52:01

German records show no

52:03

U-boat claim for this

52:05

vessel. Once again, it

52:07

was being a collier.

52:09

It had a very

52:11

distinct look and it

52:13

would have been easily

52:15

identified. The last known

52:17

location for the Proteus

52:19

was in the Bermuda

52:21

Triangle as well. U.S.S.S.

52:26

Norius was one of

52:28

four Proteus class colliers

52:30

built through the United

52:32

States Navy before World

52:34

War I. The Builders,

52:36

William Crampinsons of Philadelphia,

52:38

where have we heard

52:40

that name before, had

52:42

used the same blueprints

52:44

once again? Named for

52:46

Norius an aquatic deity

52:48

from Greek mythology, she

52:50

was the second U.S.

52:52

Navy vessel to bear

52:54

the name. If you

52:56

follow Navy doings, the

52:58

reuse of names is

53:00

as common as bad

53:02

food in long hours.

53:05

Detached from Navy Overseas

53:07

Transportation Service, September 12th,

53:09

1919, Naurius served as

53:12

the Atlantic Fleet until

53:14

being decommissioned at Norfolk

53:17

June 30th, 1922. The

53:19

Aluminum Company of Canada

53:22

bought the Naurius February

53:24

27th, 1941. Norius operated

53:27

out of Montreal carrying

53:29

buxite from the Caribbean

53:32

to aluminum plants in

53:34

the United States and

53:36

Canada. Her master was

53:39

John Thomas Bennet of

53:41

the Canadian Merchant Navy.

53:44

Nurious was lost at

53:47

sea sometime around December

53:49

10th, 1941, while steaming

53:51

from St. Thomas in

53:54

the Virgin Islands, following

53:56

the same route where

53:58

her sister shipped the

54:01

cyclots. had disappeared. It

54:03

was carrying ore destined

54:05

to make aluminum for

54:08

Allied aircraft. There were

54:10

236 people on board

54:12

when it vanished. Nurious

54:15

was presumed sunk after

54:17

being torpedoed by a

54:19

German U-boat. However, there

54:22

are no German U-boat

54:24

claims for this vessel.

54:27

If you were a U-boat

54:30

commander and you sunk a

54:32

ship, you made a note

54:34

of it in the logbook.

54:37

This was how you got

54:39

promoted. It also helped advance

54:41

your career. Yet, nobody claimed

54:43

any of these three ships

54:46

that all went missing in

54:48

the Bermuda Triangle. 600 men

54:50

and three ships all vanished

54:53

without a trace. Picture

54:57

this, Sicily 1932. No,

54:59

China 1937. This is

55:01

the story that Starchaser

55:04

2000 had asked me

55:06

about. This was during

55:08

the Second Sino-Japanese War,

55:10

in China. In China

55:12

they refer to themselves

55:14

as being the Han,

55:17

as in the Han

55:19

dynasty. In Latin, comes

55:21

out as sino. So

55:23

instead of calling it

55:25

the China-Japanese War, they

55:28

called it the Sino-Japan

55:30

War. The war is

55:32

known as the war

55:34

of resistance against Japan

55:36

by China. After the

55:38

Boxer rebellion, all the

55:41

countries with interests in

55:43

China were allowed to

55:45

maintain small military forces

55:47

to keep their delegates

55:49

safe. Each country had

55:51

a few hundred men.

55:54

but Japan

55:56

kept sending

55:58

in more

56:00

and more

56:02

soldiers, a

56:04

saying they were just there to

56:06

keep the embassy safe. safe.

56:09

Soon, Japan Japan had a

56:11

large enough force to

56:13

push most of the Chinese

56:15

military out of out of Bancheria.

56:18

Japan and China were set

56:20

up on either sides of the

56:22

Marco Polo Bridge. bridge. Japan was

56:24

occupying a large portion of

56:26

China, and the bridge

56:28

was the only means of

56:30

crossing the Yangtze crossing the Yang

56:32

kept sending in more

56:34

men sending in more men side

56:36

of the river. side of

56:39

China complained about this buildup, but

56:41

Japan along with the rest

56:43

of the world along with them.

56:45

of the world, To understand

56:48

this better this

56:50

better, in war. War.

56:52

The war to to all all

56:54

wars, a .k .a. World

56:56

War I, Japan, as well as

56:58

Italy, as well as Italy, had

57:01

both been allied with

57:03

the US, Britain

57:05

and France. Wilson and while

57:07

Woodrow Wilson and his all divvied

57:09

up all of Europe, making

57:11

the map more to their

57:13

liking. was was

57:15

given carte blanche to do

57:18

as they would in all those

57:20

Asian countries. Italy

57:22

was handed an enormous

57:25

screw screw told to, well,

57:27

go away. Go away. out

57:30

abusing their started out abusing

57:32

their power just a little

57:34

bit. a lot, by to a

57:36

a lot. they were until, to

57:38

a point, they were

57:41

actually abusing, wholeheartedly, all those

57:43

Asian countries that they

57:45

were pretty much allowed to

57:47

abuse. by the the rest of

57:49

the world. world. It It

57:51

wasn't until Japan began

57:53

stealing land that had

57:55

been claimed by the

57:58

western countries, you know. the

58:00

big three that people began

58:02

to take notice. You can't

58:05

have the Philippines. Those belonged

58:07

us. That sort of thing.

58:09

The Japanese commanders began firing

58:12

on the Chinese troops and

58:14

this led to more Chinese

58:16

troops being sent to reinforce

58:19

their positions. One thing led

58:21

to another, and soon an

58:23

all-out shooting war broke out

58:26

on both sides of the

58:28

Marco Polo bridge. To keep

58:30

the Japanese out of Nanjing,

58:33

which was called Nan King,

58:35

a Colonel Li Fu Sin,

58:37

a set up a defensive

58:39

force along the Chinese side

58:42

of the Marco Polo bridge.

58:44

3,000 heavily armed men with

58:46

artillery and machine guns were

58:49

placed along a two-mile stretch

58:51

of the river. Once the

58:53

army was in place, the

58:56

colonel returned to his bunker

58:58

for the night. In the

59:00

morning, the colonel was awoken

59:03

by a messenger who said

59:05

they couldn't make contact with

59:07

the troops along the river.

59:10

Colonel Lee Fu's sin

59:12

sent a squad to

59:14

the river to see

59:16

why the communications were

59:19

down. The squad returned

59:21

and told him the

59:23

men are all gone.

59:25

The equipment was still

59:27

there. The machine guns

59:29

were there along with

59:31

the artillery. There was

59:33

ammunition, food, all of

59:35

the equipment needed to

59:37

do battle. Everything was

59:39

ready. Everything was ready.

59:41

There was nobody there

59:43

to do the fighting.

59:46

There was no sign

59:48

of a mass exodus.

59:50

It looked as if

59:52

the men had simply

59:54

disappeared in the night.

59:56

Men were sent out

59:58

to outpost stationed on

1:00:00

all sides of the

1:00:02

defensive line to try

1:00:04

and find out what

1:00:06

it happened. None of

1:00:08

the soldiers in the

1:00:10

outposts knew of what

1:00:13

had happened. In the

1:00:15

middle of the night,

1:00:17

3,000 men had walked

1:00:19

away from their positions

1:00:21

without making a sound.

1:00:23

And they left everything

1:00:25

behind? With nobody to

1:00:27

stop them, the Japanese

1:00:29

army crossed the bridge

1:00:31

and invaded Dankingan King.

1:00:33

Once the city was

1:00:35

in the Japanese army's

1:00:37

hands, they turned into

1:00:40

a frenzied bloodbath. Murder

1:00:42

and rape. Over 300,000

1:00:44

Chinese civilians were tortured

1:00:46

and murdered. When

1:00:48

Japan finally surrendered a

1:00:50

search was taken of

1:00:52

their records to see

1:00:55

if maybe the Japanese

1:00:57

had something to do

1:00:59

with all those soldiers

1:01:01

vanishing. Nothing was found.

1:01:03

It was as if

1:01:05

3,000 soldiers simply vanished

1:01:07

in a puff of

1:01:09

smoke. 1945

1:01:12

a train left from Guangdong

1:01:14

China in route to Shanghai,

1:01:16

about 880 miles. Due to

1:01:18

the conditions of the tracks

1:01:21

and the engine, well the

1:01:23

trip was going to take

1:01:25

all day. Between 10 and

1:01:27

20 hours. There were a

1:01:29

few hundred people on board,

1:01:32

but the records are sketchy

1:01:34

as to exact numbers. The

1:01:36

train failed to arrive on

1:01:38

schedule. So the train master

1:01:40

sent a crew south to

1:01:42

see if there had been

1:01:45

a breakdown or some other

1:01:47

possible problem along the tracks.

1:01:49

The crew traveled from Shanghai

1:01:51

all the way to Guangdong

1:01:53

without encountering the train. The

1:01:56

tracks were fine. and there

1:01:58

was no place to hide

1:02:00

a train along the way.

1:02:02

The war was still on,

1:02:04

but Japan was in a

1:02:07

defensive position trying to hold

1:02:09

on to what little they

1:02:11

still had. There was no

1:02:13

sign of a derailment, and

1:02:15

there was no indication that

1:02:17

the train had stopped anywhere.

1:02:20

There was no place for

1:02:22

it to stop. Nothing. There

1:02:24

were no sidings, there were

1:02:26

no connecting rails. It was

1:02:28

just a straight shot from

1:02:31

point A to point B.

1:02:33

The train, along with somewhere

1:02:35

over 200 passengers, had simply

1:02:37

disappeared. To this day, there

1:02:39

have been no answers to

1:02:42

this disappearance either. I used

1:02:44

to have the encyclopedia of

1:02:46

World War II. It told

1:02:48

the war from the United

1:02:50

States and the British side,

1:02:52

as well as from the

1:02:55

German and the Japanese side

1:02:57

of things. It was filled

1:02:59

with personal accounts from the

1:03:01

men who were there. I

1:03:03

read the whole thing, and

1:03:06

then one day, needing shelf

1:03:08

room, I took the books

1:03:10

to Corpus Christi, and I

1:03:12

sold them at the half-price

1:03:14

bookstore. A few

1:03:17

months later, Fred, the

1:03:19

IT guy at work,

1:03:21

handed me a bookmark

1:03:23

that I had left

1:03:26

in the last volume.

1:03:28

It was a deposit

1:03:30

slip from my bank.

1:03:32

He had bought the

1:03:34

set of books while

1:03:37

visiting Corpus Christi, and

1:03:39

he found my bookmark.

1:03:41

It's their paratroopers division.

1:03:43

They were used in

1:03:45

World War II to

1:03:47

take out a lot

1:03:50

of forts all over

1:03:52

the Mediterranean. They would

1:03:54

literally drop out of

1:03:56

the sky. and then

1:03:58

hold a position until

1:04:01

reinforcements could arrive. Tough

1:04:03

cookies. Towards the end

1:04:05

of the war Germany

1:04:07

was falling short on

1:04:09

everything. Things like parachutes.

1:04:12

Did a bid to

1:04:14

see how this problem

1:04:16

could be overcome. The

1:04:18

Germans tried experimenting with

1:04:20

prisoners. to see how

1:04:23

far they could survive

1:04:25

a drop and how

1:04:27

slow the plane had

1:04:29

to be traveling. Lots

1:04:31

of prisoners were thrown

1:04:33

from planes trying to

1:04:36

find the magic height

1:04:38

and speed. As the

1:04:40

war was slowly grinding

1:04:42

down the paratroopers took

1:04:44

off in a desperate

1:04:47

mission to stop the

1:04:49

allies. I don't know

1:04:51

exactly how many men were

1:04:53

in the division that went,

1:04:55

but those who took off

1:04:57

that night, just a guess,

1:04:59

15,000, none of them have

1:05:01

ever been found. The troops

1:05:03

did their duty. They jumped

1:05:05

from a plane in the

1:05:07

dead of a night into

1:05:09

the mountainous area so they

1:05:11

could sneak up on the

1:05:13

allies. At the end of

1:05:15

the war, the false Sherm

1:05:17

Jager had 43,896 enlisted men

1:05:19

and 889 officers, all listed

1:05:21

as missing. I know not

1:05:23

all of these were at

1:05:25

the end of the war,

1:05:27

but an entire division jumped

1:05:29

into the night and they

1:05:31

have never been found. They

1:05:33

talk about D.B. Cooper disappearing

1:05:35

while here's an entire division

1:05:37

vanished and they have found

1:05:40

and not a trace. Not

1:05:42

a single piece of equipment

1:05:44

has ever come to light.

1:05:46

The Devil's Sea, or the

1:05:48

Dragon's Triangle, is one of

1:05:50

12 vial vortices, which is

1:05:52

a location near the Japanese

1:05:54

coast and the Pacific Ocean.

1:05:56

A vial vortices is an

1:05:58

area where the pull of

1:06:00

the planet's electromagnetic waves is

1:06:02

very strong. The devil's sea

1:06:04

is a triangle between Japan

1:06:06

and the isle of Bonin,

1:06:08

including a major portion of

1:06:10

the Philippine Sea. For hundreds

1:06:12

of years, people and ships

1:06:14

have vanished inside this three-sided

1:06:16

area of water. A Japanese

1:06:18

pilot flying over the area

1:06:20

saw a 150-foot-long dragon thrashing

1:06:22

about in the water. 1952,

1:06:24

the Japanese government sent out

1:06:26

a research vessel, the Kaya

1:06:28

Maroo No. 5, to investigate

1:06:30

the mysteries of the Devil's

1:06:32

Sea. The Kaya Maroo No.

1:06:34

5, and its crew of

1:06:36

31 people, vanished. The Japanese

1:06:38

government then declared this area

1:06:40

unsafe for marine voyaging and

1:06:42

transportation in the 1950s in

1:06:44

the 1950s in the 1950s

1:06:46

in the 1950s in the

1:06:48

1950s in the 1950s in

1:06:50

the 1950s in the 1950s

1:06:52

in the 1950s in the

1:06:54

1950s in the 1950s in

1:06:56

the 1950s in the 1950s

1:06:58

in the 1950s in the

1:07:00

1950s in the 1950s in

1:07:02

the 1950s in the 1950s

1:07:04

in the 1950s in the

1:07:06

1950s in the 1950s in

1:07:08

the 1950s in the 1950s

1:07:10

in the 1950s in the

1:07:12

1950s in the 1950s I

1:07:16

hope you enjoyed tonight's show. Like

1:07:18

I said, it's kind of a

1:07:20

rehash of some of my past

1:07:23

show from five years ago. I

1:07:25

only have so many minutes in

1:07:27

a week and I used up

1:07:29

most of them baking. It got

1:07:31

so exciting around here I had

1:07:34

to wash my apron. It looked

1:07:36

like I'd been in battle. It

1:07:38

was smeared with chocolate chips and

1:07:40

raisins and sugar and all the

1:07:42

things that you used to make

1:07:44

cookies. Well, if you did enjoy

1:07:47

the show tell your neighbors tell

1:07:49

your friends tell people you don't

1:07:51

even know They should be listening

1:07:53

to strange things with Chris James

1:07:55

If you didn't enjoy the show

1:07:58

Why are you? still

1:08:00

listening. Until

1:08:02

next Saturday, this is Chris

1:08:04

James... or

1:08:06

Till next

1:08:10

Saturday,

1:08:13

this is Chris

1:08:15

James, for Strange

1:08:18

Thanks. who they

1:08:21

say he murdered

1:08:23

three. Strange things

1:08:26

have happened there.

1:08:28

No stranger would

1:08:31

it be if

1:08:33

we met at

1:08:36

midnight in the

1:08:39

hanging tree.