[Josh] On this episode of Expedition X,
my team investigates a mysterious cult in Thailand.
[man speaking]
How did you know
the Fukushima disaster was gonna happen?
[Josh] They claimed their knowledge of the future...
[Anne speaking]
[Josh] ...comes from extraterrestrials.
[woman] What was that? What was that? What was that?
[Josh] And now the group's latest prediction,
a series of volcanic eruptions like the world has never seen.
Ignore this message at your own peril, this is real.
[Josh] But a crackdown from law enforcement...
You cannot be here.
[woman] What are you hiding?
[Josh] ...is sparking real fear of what they insist
is already heading our way.
My name is Josh Gates.
In my travels, I've experienced strange things
that defy logic and made me question everything.
Oh, my God!
Now, I've put together a team
to investigate the stranger side of the unknown.
Let's go.
[Josh] Phil Torres is a scientist
who hunts for rational explanations.
[Phil speaking]
[Josh] Jessica Chobot's paranormal research has made her a true believer.
Phil, did you see that?
I just saw something behind the rocks.
[Josh] Together, we're searching for answers...
[Phil] What is that?
[Josh] ...to the world's most extraordinary mysteries.
This is Expedition X.
Between the three of us we have investigated
a lot of very strange cases around the world.
But the topic of today's investigation is quite literally out of this world.
So I wanna start by getting your take on a topic
that has been the subject of spirited debate.
Do you think that Earth has been contacted by extraterrestrial intelligence?
Yeah, I do.
I think out of all the reports you hear,
some of those reports could be legit.
You find some of them plausible?
Yeah, absolutely.
And Phil?
No, I think it's theoretically possible.
But have I seen any evidence saying that intelligent aliens have been here?
Not yet.
You believe in life elsewhere in the universe?
I do. Absolutely. It may not be humanoid like us.
It may be microscopic.
But I do think we're not alone in the universe.
I think we're all in agreement. Life is out there somewhere.
But there's a group in Thailand who not only thinks
there's extraterrestrial intelligence in the universe.
They believe that intelligent life has come here to Earth.
They even believe that that intelligence is communicating with us
and issuing warnings about humanity's future.
March 10th, 2011,
a Bangkok-based financial planner
named Mark Kuntamestha uploads a video to YouTube.
[Mark speaking]
[Josh] In it, he warns that Asia is in imminent danger
of a devastating natural disaster, an earthquake and tsunami.
March 11th, the very next day,
an earthquake just off the east coast of Japan
measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale
unleashes the second deadliest tsunami in recorded history.
When Mark is pressed for details on how he predicted the event,
his answer is almost as shocking as the event itself.
He says, aliens told him.
Mark was a member of a group called Khao Kala UFO
whose members claim to receive messages
from extraterrestrials via meditation.
They say they receive information telepathically hearing messages
and seeing powerful images in their mind's eye.
They also claim to see orbs of light overhead
and in some cases, even descending to Earth.
In addition to the Fukushima disaster,
members say they were warned about other catastrophes,
including the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia.
Despite their out-of-this-world philosophy,
Khao Kala's membership is on the rise.
And these aren't these stereotypical ET-loving oddballs.
These are business executives, doctors, scientists,
some of whom are quitting their jobs
and flocking to the group's remote hilltop shrine
in a town known as the City of Heaven.
But the group has also become secretive.
One of their leaders, Somjit Raepeth,
has avoided the spotlight since law enforcement
began investigating Khao Kala about six months ago,
attempting to ban their gatherings altogether.
But members of the group insist
they are in contact with an alien intelligence
that speaks to them telepathically,
and that a series of volcanic eruptions are headed our way.
All right, so a lot to unpack here.
Let's put the aliens aside for a second.
First of all, do you think the human mind can traverse space and time?
Yeah, I mean, I do think it's a possibility.
Uh, the United States government,
as a great example, spent millions of dollars
in the '70s and '80s to study remote viewing,
which is basically you meditate and try to
quote-unquote see a different location.
I mean, it sounds crazy.
But I do think that theoretically,
there's some ways that the mind can actually reach across locations
and possibly even time, so who's to say.
Probably Phil?
- Probably. - Yeah.
What do you think?
I mean, when I see this group, it's, uh, it worries me a little bit.
Yeah.
When a group thinks that they're getting instructions
or communication from another realm,
that can turn dangerous or even deadly, they could become a cult.
That's right.
And there are some real examples of this, the Heaven's Gate group.
Yeah.
Yeah, this was a cult that in 1997, 39 people killed themselves,
because they were trying to board a spaceship
that they thought was trailing the Hale-Bopp comet.
- Right? - Yeah.
And makes you wonder: is this Khao Kala UFO group
heading in the same direction?
But we don't know.
This guy, Mark, who supposedly predicted the Fukushima disaster,
he isn't speaking on the record with anyone.
And so this is what I want the two of you to investigate.
This is a fascinating story.
So I'd like you to go to Thailand, try to find members of this group.
Talk to them.
See if you can go to this place
where they supposedly connect with extraterrestrials
and find out what's the real story here.
Because whatever's going on, it's fascinating.
To me, this is a big one because either these people are right
and they're actually communicating with aliens,
which would be just mind-boggling news.
Sure.
Or they're completely delusional and therefore potentially dangerous.
That's right.
So definitely, we wanna exercise caution here.
This is a real thing.
These are real people who really believe this.
See what evidence you can find.
Okay.
[Josh] The team travels more than 8,600 miles
to the Thai capital of Bangkok.
Welcome to the future, or is it the past?
Bangkok is a city that spills out in all directions,
a humid maze of temples and tuktuks,
enlightenment and dark desires.
It's known as the Land of Smiles.
But this place also has an edge, from Muay Thai fighters
to food that has its own kind of kick.
It's also brimming with more than 10-million people.
One way of avoiding some of the world's worst traffic
is to avoid roads all together.
Along the Chao Phraya River,
Phil and Jess navigate their way past hundreds of other boats,
their destination, a meeting with a man
who claims to have predicted the future.
We've convinced a very cautious Mark Kuntamestha,
who posted the YouTube video warning about the Fukushima disaster,
to share his inside knowledge on Khao Kala,
and how its members receive their prophetic messages.
- We've got a lot of questions. - Yeah.
We want to hear your story first.
I heard about Khao Kala in 2010 and was curious,
I had heard that they received messages from some sort of intelligence.
I wanted to see if I could receive those messages as well.
When I joined, the leader of Khao Kala showed me
how to use Buddhist meditation to use my brain almost like an antenna.
And since then, I have been able to receive messages.
What types of messages were you first receiving?
It was really intense, like a voice speaking to me,
along with vivid images, almost like seeing a movie in my mind.
I received information about a great wave
that was about to hit a nearby country.
I uploaded the message to warn people
and the next day the earthquake and tsunami occurred in Fukushima, Japan.
What do you say to people who say this sounds crazy
and you just got lucky uploading a video on the right day?
It sounded crazy to me too, but it was accurate.
I cannot deny that, nobody can.
This message came to me from an alien source.
And there are more messages being received now.
So what has been some of the latest predictions?
Recently, many members of Khao Kala
observed a mysterious circle of light descending from the sky.
When it hit the ground,
they received a vision of a great circle of volcanoes
erupting all over the world.
[Josh] The vision seems to focus on the so called Ring of Fire
a 25,000 mile arc of tectonic hotspots
around the Pacific with 452 volcanoes.
This area contains 75% of the world's active volcanoes
and 90% of the planet's earthquakes.
I mean, that sounds kind of terrifying.
Very scary.
The messages are real, and I can prove it.
[Josh] Jess and Phil are in Bangkok, Thailand,
investigating a mysterious group known as Khao Kala UFO,
the group claims to communicate with extraterrestrials.
One of their members,
Mark Kuntamestha, famously posted a video online
that seemingly predicted the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
Now, members of the group claimed to be seeing strange lights
and have received a new message,
one that predicts a string of volcanic eruptions.
How are Khao Kala members in general preparing for the future?
The Khao Kala group is named for the remote village
that acts as a home base.
In the middle of town is the mountain
where we gather to receive messages.
It is a kind of Stargate portal.
This is where people have recently been seeing strange orbs of light.
It also acts as high ground to protect them
from the coming natural disasters.
[Jessica] Who leads the group?
The group was started by a former Thai military officer.
He received the initial messages but has since passed away.
Now the group is led by his daughter, a woman named Somjit Raepeth.
[Phil] Can you connect us with her?
Will she talk on camera?
I'm not sure.
The authorities have become concerned about Khao Kala and are cracking down.
So everyone is being very cautious.
[Phil] Recently, local authorities raided
the Khao Kala Mountain meditation area.
Despite rising suspicion,
the group claims their activities are peaceful.
I can put in a call to see if she will meet you.
Recently, she has been meditating north of Khao Kala
at a place known as the Five Buddha temple.
I have a contact named Anne, who is traveling with her.
She is your best hope for meeting Somjit.
Thank you very much for your time.
We really appreciate you sitting down and talking with us.
Yeah, thank you.
[Jessica] Thank you.
[Phil] While we wait for Mark to get in touch with his contact.
Jess and I hop in a tuktuk,
eager to debrief as we head back into central Bangkok.
What do you think?
I definitely think it's worth tracking down this temple
and talking to Khao Kala and seeing what's going on.
[Phil] I think we do gotta go to the temple.
They're, they're taking it very seriously.
It's been shown that people who meditate are capable
of some, some truly extraordinary things...
[Jessica] Absolutely.
that are really hard for us to comprehend and accept.
So here in Bangkok, there's this guy, Dr. U-Yen,
he's one of the few people
studying this entirely understudied neuroscience of meditation.
And I think if we talk to him, we might be able to get some answers
as to what these people are doing if they're doing something special.
If they are doing something special
in order to talk to aliens and receive messages,
I want to know how they do that
because I am totally down to chat with some Grays.
Did you just...
[Phil] We motor over to Bangkok's
Chulalongkorn University Center for neuroscience
to find out whether Khao Kala's claims of telepathic communication
are even theoretically possible.
[Jessica] We've arranged a meet with Dr. Kongpop U-Yen,
a former NASA engineer turned neuroscientists
who's researching how humans can unlock the full potential
of our brains through meditation.
[Phil] And while it might look like science fiction,
his lab is doing serious work.
This device is an EEG or electro encephalography reader.
Electrodes all over the headset
measure the electrical activity inside a person's brain.
So what is happening right now?
So we are measuring brainwave of monks to look at different states of the mind.
Wow.
[Josh] Dr. U-Yen's work with Buddhist monks, the all-stars of meditation,
is revealing that brain function is significantly altered
and enhanced during the deepest states of relaxation.
When the mind is calm, peaceful,
we open up to answers
that can flow into us when the mind's clear.
It's like removing the cloud from the sky.
Is it possible for someone to use meditation
to reach out past space and time,
to make contact with something beyond?
We can try something even closer
or try to communicate with someone on Earth.
How about that?
[Jessica] Hm.
- But it's still-- - Phil, do you hear me?
Yeah.
I'm kidding.
- You want another cheeseburger? - I do.
- That's crazy. - Oh, my God. It worked.
[Josh] All joking aside, Dr. U-Yen is referring to a 2014 study
where two subjects in a Barcelona-based lab
were able to achieve brain to brain communication,
thanks to a computer-brain interface.
Scientists theorize that because human thought
can be broken down into bio-electric signals,
ideas may someday be transmittable through a kind of mental Wi-Fi network.
But could an advanced form of intelligence
have already mastered this kind of communication?
Khao Kala members would say, "Yes."
[Jessica] We're actually headed up to investigate the group Khao Kala
who say that they're able to speak with aliens
through meditation. Is it possible?
It's very interesting.
That's gonna require some scientific proof
but you know, we, we always open up to the possibility.
So, I can give you my EEG device,
and it would be interesting to see what you come up with.
[Phil] If we can record the brainwaves of Khao Kala members
while they're supposedly communicating with aliens,
Dr. U-Yen can then analyze the scans
and tell us if anything other worldly is happening.
But getting access to the secretive group is well, a work in progress.
All right, so we got a little mission to collect some data.
Yeah, that's perfect. Thank you.
You're welcome.
[Jessica] The next day we get a break in our investigation.
Former Khao Kala member Mark Kuntamestha
has arranged a meeting for us with his contact,
a current Khao Kala member named Anne,
who might be able to introduce us to the group's enigmatic leader, Somjit.
[Phil] To get to the meeting point, we're taking backroads
from Bangkok to Khaem Son.
It's one step closer to our ultimate goal
of witnessing the group's controversial conversations with ET.
It seems like Khao Kala is a pretty secretive group.
[Jessica] I find that these groups always have the best of intentions
and then it just takes one incident to have it all head south.
So true.
[Jessica] The temple where we're told we will find Mark's contact Anne
is in a remote area with little infrastructure,
and supposedly where Khao Kala
had their very first interaction with UFOs.
Based on this road, they chose one heck of a remote place
to build their extraterrestrial inspired Doomsday temple.
Well, you don't wanna build it at a shopping mall.
[Jessica] As we reach the perimeter of the temple complex, though,
we realize there isn't exactly a welcome mat to greet us.
Agh!
[Phil] Shoot.
Yeah.
Based on the barbed wire fence and the chain here,
I don't think they want anyone going in here.
Maybe there's a spot that's opened up or...
Yeah.
they haven't closed it off yet.
Oh. Here's a good snake tip.
When you're stepping over a log, you wanna kind of like tap it first.
If there's a snake on the other side, it scurries away.
What do you mean snakes?
There's a lot of venomous snakes around here.
It's one of my favorite things about this rainforest.
[Phil groans]
Hey, opens up over here.
- Hi. - Hello.
[speaking foreign language]
[Phil] We're here to meet with Anne or Somjit if she's here.
[speaking foreign language]
You cannot be here.
[man speaking]
Can we meet with Somjit?
Remain here.
Okay. All right.
Clearly, we're nearby their compound-slash-temple.
Oh.
[speaking foreign language]
- Hi. - Hi.
- Hello. - Hello.
Hello. Hi.
- Can you speak English? - Yes.
[Jessica] Stroke of good luck alert.
The woman turns out to be Mark's contact, Anne.
We'd like to speak to Somjit and maybe see the temple.
Oh, Somjit is not here.
We're interested in learning more about Khao Kala.
And seeing the temple.
Is that possible?
Yes, sure.
- Okay? - Okay.
Okay. All right. We'll follow you.
[Jessica] She explains that Somjit has returned to the town of Khao Kala.
But Anne is still willing to show us the temple
where the group claims to have
had their initial contact with extraterrestrials,
and the location is nothing short of spectacular.
This is the so called Temple on the Glass Cliff.
Constructed in 2004,
it features nested statues of the five Buddhas
that visited Earth.
It is also covered in more than five million mosaic tiles
and strange mirrored orbs that supposedly show planetary alignments.
The rumor is that the monks who helped design it
were inspired by, you guessed it, extraterrestrials.
So what's been your experience with Khao Kala?
[Anne speaking]
- [Phil] Yeah. - [Jessica] Yes.
[Anne speaking]
So that's how this place was chosen to build the temple?
Yeah.
[Phil] In fact, during the temple's construction,
Khao Kala members even photographed
what they claim is a UFO hovering above the site.
But the real hotspot of sightings is the town of Khao Kala itself,
where on a remote mountain,
members have reportedly been receiving messages from UFOs.
The group's leader, Somjit, is at the center of all of this.
[Anne speaking]
[Phil] Is there any way you could arrange an introduction for us?
We would love to meet with Somjit in order to get an education.
It will be my pleasure to take you guys to visit Somjit.
- Okay. - It'd be great.
- That'd be amazing. - Huge honor. Thank you.
[Phil] A meeting with Somjit will hopefully get us access
to the group's secret meditation
where they claim to communicate with aliens.
We drive 150 miles to the town of Khao Kala
not really knowing what to expect.
- Hello. - [speaking foreign language]
[Anne] Should we go inside?
- Thank you. - Thank you.
[Jessica] Meeting the leader of a UFO group,
I wasn't exactly sure what to expect.
But as Somjit invites us in, she seems surprisingly open.
And that wasn't the only surprise waiting for us.
She have some evidence and she wants to show you guys.
[Josh] Phil and Jess have traveled to Thailand
to investigate a group known as Khao Kala UFO
that claims to be able to meditate
and receive messages from extraterrestrials.
Now, they're in the group's headquarters in the town of Khao Kala,
where they've been invited to meet
with the group's reclusive leader named Somjit.
She have some evidence and she wants to show you guys.
[Phil] Somjit tells us that in order to understand Khao Kala,
we need to know how it started.
So that's your father?
- Yeah. - Father.
[Somjit interpreter] He was a former Sergeant Major in the army.
And in 1997, he was deep in Buddhist meditation
when he started receiving messages.
A few months later, he predicted that there would be a UFO
that would appear on the third of the month
on a nearby peak that we call Khao Kala Mountain.
Ten thousand people went up there
and it appeared at the exact moment he said it would.
You can see how it kind of looks like a flying saucer.
But I just have a really hard time believing that that's actually what it is.
It kind of looks like just clouds that are shaped like that.
I mean, but there's no other clouds in the sky.
And you have everybody else also seeing the same thing.
How many people were there?
Ten thousand people.
When her father said it would happen...
That's the kicker to me.
- Were you there? - Yeah.
And you saw it?
We all did.
At first, people thought we were crazy.
But as people started to learn how to communicate with the aliens,
they started having more sightings,
and getting warnings about impending natural disasters.
So how much is the group growing?
We are growing fast.
We now have thousands and thousands of members.
So we've heard that the authorities have kind of looked into
and even arrested some members of Khao Kala.
The authorities are threatened
because they don't want the messages getting out
and starting a panic.
But the world needs to hear this message.
We have seen volcanoes erupting and great earthquake shaking cities.
We'd love to try and go to the top of Khao Kala Mountain.
We would love permission to observe the meditation
to study the effects for ourselves.
Is that possible?
I'm not sure, we have a major gathering there tomorrow,
but the authorities are still giving us trouble.
And they might not take well to see in cameras.
[Jessica] We'd really love to go, we promise to be respectful.
Is that okay? Could we go to the top?
If you have good intentions, you can come.
- Okay. - That is great.
So tomorrow I will take you guys to Khao Kala Mountain.
- Thank you so much. - Thank you.
Thank you.
[Phil] By the light of a new day, we prepare for our journey
to the top of Khao Kala Mountain.
Before we depart, we head over to the local temple
to check in with Josh about how to proceed.
[Josh] So update me, have you been able to make contacts
with members of this group?
Yes.
And listen, this group is interesting,
their ideas are obviously pretty out there.
They are like an apocalyptic groups, so are they dangerous?
Are they strange?
What, what's your vibe on them?
I think when you meet them one on one, they're very polite.
They're very nice. They're very accommodating.
[Phil] But you take a group that thinks the world's gonna end
and is getting specific instructions from extraterrestrials,
you just kind of don't know what they might do.
[Josh] To date, Khao Kala has been a totally peaceful movement
steeped in Buddhist meditation traditions,
but there is also historic precedent
for groups predicting apocalyptic events to turn deadly.
In the 1970s, Jim Jones formed the Jonestown cult in Guyana.
I came to show you
that the only God you need is within you.
[Josh] Orchestrating the mass suicide of more than 900 cult members.
The Branch Davidians created a compound in Waco, Texas,
and in 1993, engaged in a fatal standoff with federal agents.
And in 1996,
39 members of the Heaven's Gate group killed themselves,
believing they would be transported to an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
For these reasons, the authorities are wary of Khao Kala
and their mass gatherings atop the local peak.
- They're not dangerous... yet. - [Josh] Totally.
I think there's more going on beneath the surface of these people.
[Jessica] Yeah.
And so what's your plan of attack?
We got pretty good access to one of their meditation sites.
This is an area that they all go to train, to meditate and mass
and to try to basically communicate with extraterrestrials.
Plan is to go there and to document in every way possible.
[Josh] You guys are in uncharted territory here, obviously,
you know, look, even though this does have Buddhist underpinnings,
and it's extensively peaceful,
these are a group of people who believe the world is coming to an end.
So I'm really intrigued to hear what you discover up there.
Obviously, be careful.
[Jessica] We travel with Anne to the base of the mountain
which sits surrounded by remote farmland and forest.
We proceed on foot through the fields towards the summit.
- [Phil] It's getting thick up there. - [Jessica] Yeah.
[Anne] We need to go there.
- Go up there? - Yes.
[Jessica] Inside the dense brush, Anne guides us to an obscured dirt road
that leads to the shrine
where the members claim to receive extraterrestrial communications.
And it is the entry to Khao Kala mountain.
[Phil] Okay.
[Jessica] At least it is most of the time.
[speaking foreign language]
What are they saying, Anne? What are they saying?
They are not allow us to go to the hilltop.
Cameras down. Cameras down. Cameras down.
[speaking foreign language]
Anne, what's, what's happening?
They say we need to leave now or we will be arrested.
[Josh] The team is trying to reach the summit of Khao Kala mountain
where members of a mysterious cult
are about to engage in a mass meditation to contact UFOs.
But local law enforcement is cracking down
and blocking access on the road to the peak.
[speaking foreign language]
Anne, what's, what's happening?
They say we need to leave now or we will be arrested.
[Phil] And it's because of Khao Kala?
What's, what's happening here?
[speaking foreign language]
[Phil] Okay, okay. We-we will go down.
[Jessica] While the police had cordoned off the main road,
Anne tells us that there is another way up to the compound,
but it's definitely off the beaten path.
In other words, through the wild jungle.
[Phil] With daylight fading, we strap on snake gators to protect us
and get ready to start the climb.
- So Anne, up here? - [Anne speaking]
Okay.
Let's go.
[Jessica] All right.
All right. Watch yourself over here.
A lot of rock snakes can hide in.
[Jessica] All right.
Oh, great, I can barely bend my leg because of the snake gators.
[Phil] Yeah, we'll probably want them because we got all sorts of deadly vipers.
Oh, great.
We have king cobras which, mind you, is the largest,
deadly venomous snake in the world.
[Jessica] Oh, lovely.
Wow, big hole to the right.
[Anne speaking]
[Phil] You can hold on to this.
Yeah? It's all good?
Yeah.
[Jessica] We keep climbing into an eerie twilight.
And before long, darkness is upon us.
Suddenly, this place feels very spooky.
As we approach the peak,
the mountain offers us an ominous welcome.
[Phil] Got a storm coming in. Let's keep moving.
[Jessica] Finally, we see a structure ahead
and to our amazement, it's filled with people.
So welcome you guys to Khao Kala.
[Jessica] This place is huge.
As we approach, it looks like the members are already starting their meditation.
[Anne speaking]
How do you know when somebody receives a message?
Do they raise their hand, a signal they give out?
[Anne speaking]
[Jessica] Got it.
[Phil] It's time for us to investigate.
Since members here claim to regularly see UFOs
above the mountain,
I set up cameras in strategic points around the compound.
If anything flies overhead tonight, these cameras should catch it.
[Jessica] Okay, how's that looking?
It's looking good.
Uh, I've got one wide shot set up on the whole group.
And then now that the rains have cleared,
I'm gonna be filming the skies and then, we'll see if anything flies over.
The Khao Kala group members claim they enter a meditation so deep
that they receive telepathic messages from aliens.
Anne introduces us to one member
willing to let us measure her brainwaves in real time.
- Hi. - Hi.
Do you mind if we have you wear this?
This is an EEG reader.
[Phil] Back in Bangkok at his lab,
Dr. U-Yen showed us how cognitive thought
reveals itself in the EEG monitor as the color red.
While the color blue indicates a difficult-to-reach deep meditative state of mind.
Wow. Now it's going deeper.
Here it goes.
Look, we're getting tons of blue
at this frequency here. This represents a low frequency,
it indicates a really intense meditative state.
These levels are much higher than back at the lab.
To me, this is the data we need to figure out
if anything special is happening.
Just look at the deep blue here.
This as a level of concentration that I just have not seen before.
[Phil] Anne tells us that Khao Kala members
often become intensely warm as they're receiving a message.
So I activate a mobile thermal camera
to see if I can detect an increase in anyone's body temperature.
At these settings,
the yellow and red signatures indicate normal body heat.
But amazingly, one man in the back is registering completely white,
meaning the surface temperature of his face must be over 103 degrees.
Look at this. He is absolutely glowing.
Something was different with him.
And we got to talk to him.
[Jessica] Yeah, absolutely.
[Phil] I filmed everybody here.
This was the guy who stood out.
Hi.
[Jessica] Hello.
Everybody else was very red.
And then that is you, white, which means hot.
[Jessica] Hot.
To me, I felt normal, but in a deep trance like state,
I could hear a message but haven't been able to understand it.
But there's no doubt that UFOs are here.
He was the only one in the group who was glowing like this...
And he received the message.
and he's receiving the message.
Yeah. Do you think they're here?
[Jessica gasps] What was that?
What was that? What was that? What was that?
- Do you see it? - [Phil] Wow.
- It is right there. - [Jessica] Yeah.
Oh, I think it's going down.
[Phil] It went behind that hill.
[Jessica] Oh, dude, that's so close. Let's go, check it out.
Let's go.
[Phil] Did you see it? We lose it?
[Jessica] No. I think it's over here.
It's got to be right around here. Right around here.
Right around the corner. To your left, to your left.
- [Jessica] Do you see that? - [Phil] Look.
Looks like it's going right over the hill.
[Jessica] That's going right in front of the hill.
That is super close.
[Phil] Keep going. Keep going.
Hold on. Shh. Shh.
Did you hear that?
That whooshing?
Yeah, I'm hearing it.
But, I don't know what I'm hearing right now.
I mean, that sounds mechanical.
[Phil] Now it's moving off. It's headed that way.
[both panting]
Shh. It stopped.
Where's this thing?
I don't know.
I'm just trying to figure out what did we just see?
[rhythmic vibrations]
Oh, the sound.
There it is.
[Phil] I hear it.
[Jessica] It's up ahead.
Every time we get close to it,
it disappears.
All right, well, we're seeing lights over there.
Hearing sounds over here.
Why don't you go and track it that way
and I'll go this way?
- All right. Splitting up? - [Jessica] Yeah. Split up...
Yeah, channel one?
- Channel one. - [radio beeps]
Got it.
[rhythmic vibrations]
Shh, shh, shh, shh.
[mechanical sound]
It's kind of mechanical.
It moves.
I don't know what this is.
I'm going to get out the audio recorder
so that we don't fight about what we actually heard
when we review our footage.
Jess, you getting anything?
[Jessica] Yeah, I mean, the sound's coming and going,
it's that pulsing noise we heard before.
Yeah, I can't pin down.
What I'm actually chasing right now. Hang on, hang on. Standby.
Mine is back. Went off to the right.
Jess, Jess, I think I got something.
It's moving off to the right.
[Jessica] Stay with it.
I'm right around the corner.
[Phil grunts]
The Khao Kala UFO group that Jess and Phil are investigating
definitely have some apocalyptic views about our future.
But they're not alone.
Back in December of 2012.
People got, shall we say, nervous
about the so called Maya Apocalypse.
The fear stemmed from a belief that the 5,125-year Maya calendar
was going to come to an end on December 21st
heralding the end of the world as we know it.
People also misinterpreted a prophecy that supposedly predicted that a planet
or asteroid would impact Earth.
It was so widespread that NASA scientists
had to ease people's minds with some actual, you know, science,
they released a video statement assuring everyone
that there was no mysterious object hurdling toward the planet.
And as you may have noticed,
2012 came and 2012 went and yet, here we are.
The end of the Maya calendar is just the beginning of a new cycle,
and reports of our destruction were greatly exaggerated.
[Phil] Jess and I are investigating a mountaintop
where the members of Khao Kala
claimed to have regular contact with aliens.
[Jess gasps]
[Phil] We spotted some kind of mysterious light
which we're chasing on the hills below their compound.
[Phil] Jess, Jess, I think I got something.
It's moving off to the right.
[Jessica] Stay with it.
I'm right around the corner.
[Phil grunts]
[Jessica] Phil? Phil, where are you?
[Phil] I was looking up at the light then I fell in a dish.
The light is finished, it's gone.
[Jessica] Are you okay?
Uh, physically fine, pride injured.
Meet me over by the hill where we split up.
All right, I'm coming back.
[groans]
[Jessica] We regrouped in the clearing
which seemed to be directly under the light we observed.
Do you smell that?
Yes.
That is so weird. What is that?
It smells like ozone, honestly.
[gasps]
Something smells really weird in the air right now.
Let's get the EMF reader out.
How's it looking?
- [Phil] Woah. - [Jessica] Woah. Check it out.
Actually, that's pretty strong readings here.
That's very strong, especially right here.
See?
Look at that.
This measures electromagnetic fields,
and there's nothing on this hill that should be spiking the readings.
But some UFO investigators have theorized that a light orb
or alien craft might leave behind an energy disturbance in its wake.
Those readings are pretty strange, but Jess, what are we talking about here?
This Khao Kala people think they are getting messages
from extraterrestrials.
That's a big leap from just a strange EMF reading.
But you saw that stuff.
I mean, how can you explain that?
We're in the middle of nowhere in Thailand.
We don't even get cell service out here.
And we've got EMF readings that were off the chart.
I think it's a huge leap to say that's alien.
I'm not saying it's aliens.
I'm not saying that Khao Kala is actually getting these messages.
I'm just saying you've got to admit that it's weird.
And we did capture other evidence as well.
I bring out the audio recorder so Phil can listen
to an isolated playback of the sound we both heard.
- Ready? - Hit me.
[rhythmic vibrations]
You see that? You hear that?
It does have a rhythm to it,
but I just don't know, we could be hearing anything.
Yeah, like a UFO.
Well, I think we got a lot of great evidence out here
and back at the compound and where the [bleep] is the compound?
Lucky for you.
I have a GPS to get us home.
Let's get out of here.
[Josh] As the team makes the long trip home,
it's fair to say that they did encounter a UFO
in the strictest definition of the term.
They've seen a flying object that they can't identify
and captured it on camera.
In addition, a strangely mechanical sound they heard
seemed to move away from them as they approached.
What is this thing?
[Josh] And what about the members of Khao Kala themselves?
Phil captured an extreme heat signature on the thermal camera.
He is absolutely glowing.
Something was different with him.
[Josh] As well as unusual brain activity picked up on the EEG reader.
After returning to Bangkok,
the team shares the scans with Dr. U-Yen's lab.
His analysis, the practitioners of Khao Kala
appeared to be in an extremely deep state of meditation.
And while the readings are dominated by theta brain waves,
that certainly doesn't prove
that they're receiving messages telepathically.
In the end, Khao Kala is reminiscent
of many other supposedly prophetic groups to come before them,
their leaders are seemingly welcoming.
I would take you guys to Khao Kala mountain.
Thank you so much.
[Josh] Their followers unwavering in their beliefs
and the authorities understandably nervous about their presence.
But the idea that their messages are being delivered
by an extraterrestrial intelligence is a claim so out there
that it will take more than strange lights to convince most of us.
Having said that, it probably couldn't hurt to keep our eyes,
not only on the stars,
but on the continued activity of the peaceful prophets of Khao Kala.