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Josh Gates has found his aliens.

Destination Truth – Alien Encounter?

By Erika Blake
Multipleverses.com Admin

“If it was easy, this would be someone else’s show.”

Somewhere along the way something odd has happened this season but I think that “Destination Truth” has surpassed “Ghost Hunters” as my favorite reality TV series. Considering that I’ve been a fan of both “Ghost Hunters” shows since they both premiered, this is a rather shocking development for me.

This season is seriously rocking for “Destination Truth” and I think it comes from a shake-up with how they’re presenting the series. They’ve taken on the “Ghost Hunters” approach and are introducing us to more members of their team this season which helps to take the focus entirely off of host Josh Gates and instead has provided us with a series that rather reminds me of what would’ve happened had Fox Mulder been given a reality/adventure/travel show and told to televise his crazy cases along with a team of equally crazy adventurers. (Think more athletic versions of the Lone Gunmen and one often terrified young woman named Jael.) Combine the expanded team members with hysterical adventures getting to and from their final destinations and you’ve got television gold. It’s always exciting to see exactly what the team will be driving each week – will their transportation break down or fall apart?

Last night Josh and his team headed to Chile looking for extra-terrestrials and to Turkey to look for a sea monster.  During each of these adventures Josh and his team member Bisha partook in receiving local barbering experiences. Josh got a South American cut that he was less than delighted about, “Yes, please accentuate my bald spot.” Whereas Bisha got his beard shaved and was given a full blown mustache that made him look rather like a Middle Eastern hit-man or pimp.

Their first stop in South America took them on a long ass car ride to Chile where they finally arrived at a series of underground mines where the team had to climb down into the mine shaft. Reports varied from strange beings living in the mines to bright mysterious lights that appeared out of nowhere.

I’m personally not a cave person and get highly claustrophobic, seeing Josh trying to navigate his 6’ plus frame around in those short tunnels was uncomfortable to watch. As they were exploring the tunnels one of the camera men caused a sink hole to appear in the ground, upon further investigation Josh discovered that something was buried inside of it. They exhumed a skull-less ½ decomposing carcass of unknown origin. The thing was shrouded in fabric, had weird webbed looking feet and no hands. When they later took photos of it back to the US two different biologists were stumped in trying to determine its identity. It’s too bad that Josh couldn’t have swabbed the remains for a full DNA analysis.

The second odd thing that happened was Josh spotted a bright light in the tunnels, followed it, and was led outside. There the light shot across a huge crevasse pulsed and eventually vanished. While he and a couple of his team members were staring at the light, one of the guys carried their parabolic dish that picks up sounds from long distances. The dish was turned OFF and it began emitting a series of very strange electronic sounds. The dish wasn’t designed to emit sounds but to absorb them. Overall it was a lot of weirdness that couldn’t be explained.

Their second adventure took them to a lake that bordered on Iran and Turkey that was roughly the size of Rhode Island. In it was supposed to live a massive creature. Josh and his team spent the night in sleet and rain on the water trying to track it. They found some large water ripples, once Josh thought that something banged into his boat, a couple of weird hits on the thermal, but nothing concrete to prove to them that the lake was home to Nessie’s Middle Eastern cousin.

Next week they’re heading to the Bermuda triangle – you just have to know that no good could possibly come from that.  Be sure to check it out next Wed at 10PM after “Ghost Hunters” on SyFy. Be sure to follow Josh on Twitter!