If you’ve never seen it, the show Destination Truth on the Syfy channel (sci-fi, but all cool-like) investigates ghosts and supposed creatures all over the globe in an attempt to, as host Josh Gates calls it, uncover the truth.
There are basically two elements of the show. One is more on the paranormal side and one is on the nature side.
On the paranormal side, Gates’ team takes recording equipment to sites supposedly haunted by ghosts and they spend the night walking around and sitting in rooms listening and whatnot, trying to find any evidence of paranormal activity.
Believe it or not, the paranormal side of the show is actually the more normal side. (Not kidding.) They usually go to places will long histories of reported ghost sightings or hearings and they usually find something. A voice. Unexplained footsteps. On rare occasions objects moving. They catch some of it on video and audio recordings.
On the nature side of the show, Gates and his team basically do the same thing as with the ghosts—they go and set up motion-detector cameras and audio recorders and walk around trying to find evidence of strange creatures, including scat or hair or bones or whatever.
Nothing Gates and crew do makes this part the less normal side—it’s just that the creatures are always so fantastical you’re kind of like, “Seriously?”
It’s always in some remote village and the villagers are convinced there’s a man-eating creature with the head of a goat, the body of a monkey and the legs and arms of an octopus. Either that or the descriptions bear striking resemblances to the more usual animals in the area—sloth, dog, bear, monkey, cat.
But the technology they use is the same as what the leading natural researchers in the world use. And it’s amazing to think how technology is opening up such remote areas.
Like this video, for example, of a rare jungle cat—first time ever caught on camera…
