{"id":282,"date":"2012-07-15T01:16:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T08:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dt\/?p=282"},"modified":"2021-07-13T13:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:26:26","slug":"destination-truth-the-haunted-forest-search-for-the-tata-duende","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.net\/dt\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"Destination Truth: The Haunted Forest & Search For The TaTa Duende"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome back Destination Truth<\/a> fans!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Haunted Forest, Return to Romania:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Syfy<\/a>From the Destination Truth<\/a> Offices in Los Angeles, CA, Josh Gates<\/a> puts a call into Evan Stone<\/a>, inviting him to return to the Hoia-Baciu Forest in Romania.\u00a0 This will be Team Truth\u2019s second visit to Romania\u2019s Bermuda Triangle.\u00a0 The Hoia-Baciu Forest is one of the most paranormally charged areas in Europe.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is famous for producing strange lights, phantom noises, and terrifying apparitions.\u00a0 The Circle is located in the middle of the forest.\u00a0\u00a0 It is known for its electrically charged atmosphere and while located in the middle of a thriving forest; nothing will grow in this Circle.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Click<\/a>For our new viewers; this is where Evan, Josh\u2019s former cameraman and member of Team Truth, was picked up and thrown about 15 feet, from a sitting position, he was also scratched, through a thick coat; by a mysterious unseen force of energy.\u00a0 The entire encounter was caught on film was reviewed by Team Truth as well as Syfy\u2019s Ghosthunters<\/a>, Jason Hawes<\/a> and Grant Wilson<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So, now that you are caught up.\u00a0 Evan is on board for the Haunted Forest and ready for round two!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here we go, on to Romania!\u00a0 With new team members Tristant Icaza<\/a>; tech specialist, Richie Fung<\/a>; medic, Katy Murakam<\/a>i; field investigator, and Adam Butler<\/a>; audio specialist, Kyle Wheeler<\/a>; camerman, David D’Angelo<\/a>; camerman, along with Erin Ryder<\/a> and Josh; they traveled 6400 miles to the city of Cluj, Romania.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAfter meeting up with Evan, who has decided to face his fears.\u00a0 The team comes upon a local arts festival where they interact with the locals and make some new friends!\u00a0 They also witnessed a unique approach to childcare!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAdrian Patrut<\/a>; professor of inorganic chemistry, at Cluj University. Dr. Patrut relays that many people have been pushed back 3-4 meters from an energy surge in the Forest. In addition, Dr. Patrut reports that there have been 100\u2019s of occurrences of strange happenings in the forest since Team Truth was there 2 years ago.\u00a0 Josh shows him some video from the prior investigation and Dr. Patrut calls it an energy discharge, and says it has happened to quite a number of people.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nNext Team Truth travel to talk to Zelia Puscas an eyewitness who has lived near the forest for the past 35 years.\u00a0 She reports that she does not like to go into the forest at night she also states that she knows of at least seven people who have hanged themselves in the forest.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She believes that a negative energy is in the woods and that negative energy drove those people to hang themselves.\u00a0 The villagers were gracious and shared what they knew about the forest as well as inviting Team Truth for lunch.\u00a0 First, Josh and Ryder decided to help with the chores!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nJosh\u00a0 and Ryder both end up milking a goat, which is a Destination Truth first! Josh even tries the goat milk when they are done and comments that it tastes a little sour, but good!\u00a0 After the chores were done Team Truth enjoyed a local flavored lunch.\u00a0 From the look of the food at the table, nobody left hungry! Josh does call it their \u201cLast Supper\u2019 , they all laugh, but Evan and Josh both know what is ahead of them and
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On the previous expedition, while flying over the Circle, the roof came right off the plane!\u00a0 However, this trip they have a different plane, but it is the same airfield! So, with Josh, Evan and Adam on board they locate the Circle, in the middle of the Forest, and get a huge thermal hit! Then from nowhere the winds pickup and the airplane seems to be having problems with alarms going off!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Josh says \u2018Oh no, not again\u2019 as they decide to take the plane down because the winds are too strong.\u00a0 They come in for a very fast, but safe landing. Josh states that he needs to remember not to fly in planes over this Forest!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Destination<\/a>Team Truth transfers to all terrain vehicles and head for the forest.\u00a0 They find the place of their previous investigation and begin setting up the camp, they hang a tarp in case of bad weather then the infer-red and motion activated trap cameras throughout the forest in order to try to capture any paranormal evidence that may occur. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Team Truth is ready, for a Destination Truth first, returning to a previous site to re-investigate!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nBefore the investigation even gets going, Tristant notices a light just over the horizon on one of the cameras setup at camp.\u00a0 They are all excited and charged up for this investigation! Josh, Evan, Kyle and Adam decide to go sweep the field where the light came from immediately!\u00a0 Here we go!\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Josh does not see anything through the FLIR<\/a> camera but he does find a trail leading into the forest.\u00a0 They decide to follow the trail and see if they find anything.\u00a0 While traversing the trail through the dense forest, they all hear a voice, a kid\u2019s voice Josh says! They press on to try to find the source of the strange sounds.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Destination<\/a>Ryder, Katy, Richie, and Dave are on another trail when Ryder hears something.\u00a0 Ryder sees something run across the trail in front of them.\u00a0 Then they all hear a screaming sound.\u00a0 They are seeing lights thru the astro-scope, between the trees but see nothing thru the night vision goggles or with the naked eye.\u00a0 thru push further into the forest heading in the direction of the strange noise they heard. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Josh and his team hear a noise also.\u00a0 Josh thinks it sounds human and they start an EVP session.\u00a0 Josh starts with \u2018Is there anybody here\u2019?\u00a0 The EMF detector starts going off like crazy, jumping all over the place.\u00a0 Evan begins talking and asks if this is the same presence that has touched him before, right then they all seem to jump and yell at the same time.\u00a0 Kyle swears he saw a shadow going for Evan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThey press on and shortly find themselves walking right into familiar ground.\u00a0 They have arrived in the Circle.\u00a0 Evan says \u2018Hell No\u2019 as they enter the Circle and that he is already getting a weird feeling.\u00a0 Josh calls Ryder\u2019s team and they all converge at the place of the prior investigation.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A mobile base-camp is setup and they begin by each taking 30 minutes in the Circle.\u00a0 As Josh takes his place in the Circle, he asks for a sign from the presence, his thermal imager goes out immediately.\u00a0 Ryder remembers that is exactly what happened last time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Evan goes next.\u00a0 They have four cameras on him.\u00a0 All seems calm but then with 8 minutes left, Evan stands up and starts moving around.\u00a0 The walkie-talkie\u2019s are acing up, Evan begins running and falling and and saying that he has a ringing in his ears really bad.\u00a0 They all react and go to help Evan, thats when they notice that Evans ears are bleeding from the inside.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAfter experiencing strange events, Evan tells Josh that he is ready to leave.\u00a0 Josh agrees, gets everyone to settle down, while they get Evan stabilized. Then they get their gear packed up and begin the journey back to Los Angeles, CA and Destination Truth\u2019s Headquarters.
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\nAfter going through all their recordings, video and audio.\u00a0 Josh sits down with Ryder and Evan to discuss the findings.\u00a0 They see lights above the horizon and per eyewitness reports, what they captured matches the previous reports.\u00a0 Then they begin listening to the audio EVP recordings.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A child\u2019s voice does come through; actually, it is a child\u2019s laughter.\u00a0 They asked and received a response.\u00a0 That is exactly when Kyle saw the shadow going for Evan.\u00a0 Then they review footage from the Circle.\u00a0 Evan said when he stood up he was feeling dizzy and hearing ringing in his ears.\u00a0 Evan was a skeptic before experiencing activity in the Circle, on Destination Truth\u2019s previous visit, now he is a true believer. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Circle did not disappoint, energies not understood and best left alone.\u00a0 Team Truth will not be returning to Romania or the Hoia-Baciu Forest, this one is in the books!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jungles of Belize – Belize City<\/p>\n


\nWe are in search of a primate that lives in the jungles of Belize called the\u00a0 TaTa Duende it runs through the jungle causing havoc and whistles a warning, it has sharp claws, stands about 30 inches tall. \u00a0 Witnesses say that they lack thumbs and their feet are turned backwards which make them impossible to track.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Destination<\/a>Un-Belize-able! Hot and humid is the word of the day.\u00a0 Ryder whistles for their ride.\u00a0 Do not look a gift horse in the mouth she says, at least it runs!\u00a0 Ryder has booked them a horse drawn Carriage!\u00a0 They did upgrade to a real running Jeep.\u00a0 To get where they need to be they have to cross a Swing Bridge, Team Truth joins in and they succeed in opening the Bridge.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Destination<\/a>They need to figure out if another animal could be mistaken for TaTa Duende.\u00a0 Spider monkeys could be the culprit but there seems to be more reports of the TaTa Duende than spider monkeys in the wild.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Josh talked to primate expert Kayla Hartwell, she noted that the each have 4 fingers to aid in swinging through trees and feet slightly turned backward to help with balance.\u00a0 Kayla says there are many undiscovered animals living in the jungle and anything is possible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

josh uncovers a local, Winston Harris, a local farmer who claims to have personally seen the TaTa Duende.\u00a0 While walking through the jungle, near the place where he saw the TaTa Duende he actually found and has in his possession a strange skull.\u00a0 Josh asks if he would be able to take some photos of the skull for review when they return to Los Angeles, CA.\u00a0 Winston takes Josh to the skull and here is one of the pictures Josh took.
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\nThey are now going to a local village but must take food as an offering.\u00a0 While looking through what is available at the local market, Ryder is frustrated because she cannot find what they are supposed to take.\u00a0 Finally, they end up locating Plantains and Casaba!\u00a0 Gifts in hand they head south.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Destination<\/a>We have Mango Swamps and an Airboat, a thermal Imager and Josh Gates.\u00a0 Whow! Right There in the water, Josh yells for the boat to stop, he has seen something on the thermal Imager, in the water. \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Richie at the front of the boat sees what Josh saw it is a crocodile.\u00a0 Josh says they need to investigate the smaller rivers near the swamp.\u00a0 To do this they are going to need smaller boats.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Destination<\/a>They head back to the docks, to get smaller boats.\u00a0 They get kayaks.\u00a0 After 2 hours of paddling Team Truth finally arrives at the Garjfuna Village.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They are welcomed to the community by the local residents.\u00a0 Josh talks to Jabbar Lamby a tribal elder,\u00a0 about the Tata Duende and where he thinks the team should search.\u00a0 He tells Josh that they should keep going south and that the TaTa Duende will be in a cave.\u00a0 He shows Josh on a map where they should travel to.
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\nAfter hiking south through, the rain forest for 3 hours Team Truth comes upon the site of the most recent sighting.\u00a0 They go about getting base camp setup.\u00a0 They have infer-red cameras and trap cameras and a perimeter alarm, so they will know if anything comes within the range of base camp.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Destination<\/a>As darkness falls, Josh heads off South with Richie, Adam and Dave.\u00a0 We all hear a screaming and get the chills.\u00a0 They head toward the screams.\u00a0 Ryder, Katy and Kyle headed north and are hearing screaming noises where they are walking.\u00a0 They see nothing.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ryder saw something.\u00a0 Looked like an animal with fur, right in front of her.\u00a0 It begins moving around Ryder and her team.\u00a0 They see nothing.\u00a0 I hope that it moved off, they do not want to corner anything.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Destination<\/a>Back to Josh and his team.\u00a0 They come upon a ridge and then josh gets a heat signature, maybe a cave?\u00a0 They have the biggest cave, it is flooded though.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Josh decides to proceed into the cave, they jump in, swimming with pared down gear.\u00a0 Something is in the frakking water!\u00a0 Josh is not kidding!\u00a0 Says for everyone to get out now!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Team Truth headed back through the Belize rain forest and returned to their home office in Los Angeles, CA.\u00a0 After analysis it was determined that the scurrying noises heard while in the caves eluded the cameras.\u00a0 The noises in the jungle did match the reports of what people were calling the TaTa Duende.\u00a0 However, they turned out to be local Haller monkeys.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Josh took the pictures of the skull to Jim Dines<\/a>, at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, Ca.\u00a0 These pictures show a broken skull with parts missing, Mr. Dines deducts that it is hard to draw a conclusion.\u00a0 Nevertheless, concludes that it is not a TaTa Duende.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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These were both unique investigations.\u00a0 In addition, least you forget deep in the jungles there could be anything, still undiscovered and yet to be named.\u00a0 I was so happy to see our Monster Hunter, Ryder, Evan and the new members to Team Truth.\u00a0 Syfy has made many viewers happy with the return of our beloved #Destination Truth!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Click<\/a>Many thanks to Kenn<\/a> for image staging, additional image selections, and video embedding and even more thanks to you for visiting WormholeRiders News Agency<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Please feel free to leave a comment here or if you prefer, click the social media icons below to share this news article. Or as many of our readers and visitors often do, visit WHR on Twitter<\/a>, or visit and chat with me on Twitter<\/a> by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I and Team WHR look forward to Seeing You on The Other Side<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you. \"Visit<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Regards,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Holly<\/a>,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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