August 17, 2025 • 44 mins
Episode 6 of The Island in the Pacific, brings us one step closer to the so-called island. Kathleen recaps all of the key points of the investigation into the missing Jeremy Wilson. Matthew begins his search through the mysterious landscape. A dumbfounding discovery is made.
The Island in the Pacific - Episode 6 - The Arrival
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Episode Transcript
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(00:03):
Where you start? Where you start?
What? What is it?
La Isla. Oh my God.
Oh my God. I can't believe it.
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I can't believe what I'm lookingat.
I can't believe it. It's the island.
I cannot believe I'm looking at an actual body of land.
I found it. Spen amigo.
(00:57):
Previously on the island in the Pacific.
I don't know if I'm crazy. I don't know if this is the.
Right thing to do. I'm about to get on a plane fly
over the Pacific Ocean to an imaginary.
Top secret island? Yeah, probably.
Crazy. OK, is this the same guy that
(01:18):
flew him to the island? Apparently it is, and he's
confirming the story that he dropped Jeremy off on this
island out there. OK.
So he's he's going to take me. Out there today.
He's taking you there today. He is, and if this thing is
real, I'm going there. I keep thinking about what the
Mexican said about the island yesterday.
(01:39):
When the contact. Asked him why he didn't go back
to look for. Jeremy After Jeremy never showed
up at the rendezvous spot, he said it was too dangerous.
And that the. Devil lived there.
What the hell does that mean? And you've coordinated with the
pilot. For a rendezvous.
Right. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The plan will be 3 days.
(01:59):
Based on the Mexican's description of the size of the
island, I think that should giveme enough time to circumference
check a lot of the areas. I want you to have hope as I do.
But we both have to be realisticabout what I may find.
Please Matthew, go get him and bring him back to.
Me, if there's an island out there, I think he'll take you
there. I, I don't think he's the kind
(02:20):
of guy that's just going to dumpyou at sea, you know?
How can I be certain of that? I guess you can.
Listen. Cath if I don't.
Come back, just know that. Just tell our story, OK?
(02:54):
My name is Kathleen Goldstein. I'm an investigative journalist,
and this is The Island in the Pacific Episode 6, The Arrival.
The unthinkable has occurred. Matthew Henches, an American
independent journalist searchingfor the missing Jeremy Wilson,
(03:17):
has found a body of land detailed by Jeremy himself.
A place that is on no maps. An island somewhere out in the
Pacific Ocean. An apparition, a mirage, a
miracle, a cover up. What this means is unfathomable.
(03:39):
How could the whole world miss this island?
Never map it. No satellite imagery, no
writings or documentation. It doesn't make any sense.
And this is where things start to truly get weird.
(04:01):
Matthew's route to get to this moment has been guided by his
intuition, personability, thorough investigating, and most
of all, his courage. There has been a lot happening
in this case to find Jeremy, whohad gone missing back in July of
2024. I think this is a good time to
take a breath and recap a few things and any investigation.
(04:23):
New information and theories cansometimes take us in all sorts
of different directions. Sometimes it can be good to
reground yourself in the currentfacts of the situation, take a
look at what we have discovered and what we know to be true, and
allow ourselves to rebuild the foundation of the investigation.
There's a lot of detail here. Here's where we are.
(04:48):
Jeremy Wilson, a naval aviator on leave, kissed his fiance
Sadie Maddox goodbye on July 11th, 2024, traveling from San
Diego into Tijuana, Mexico to goand search for a mysterious body
of land somewhere out in the Pacific Ocean that apparently
was not located on any maps anywhere, digital or print.
(05:12):
An island that Jeremy claimed heflew over during a military
exercise off of a naval aircraftcarrier just months before.
An island that is radar didn't pick up.
This flight included a visual sighting from Jeremy of some
sort of shiny reflective objectson it.
Jeremy recorded the coordinates of the small island for
(05:34):
reference. On July 12th, the day after
arriving in Mexico, Jeremy sent text messages to Sadie telling
her that he had met a contact inTijuana who would take Jeremy to
an undisclosed location somewhere down the Baja
Peninsula to meet a Mexican who may have information for Jeremy
(05:55):
regarding this so-called island.On the morning of July 13th, the
following day, Jeremy left his last voicemail to Sadie stating
that he had found someone who would take him to the island,
someone who claimed they knew where it was, confirming the
coordinates Jeremy had documented.
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Jeremy's plan was to land there by seaplane, explore the island
for three days, and then return to mainland after a rendezvous
point pickup by that same pilot.Jeremy's phone tracking had
pinged his location near a smallairstrip and a place called
Rancho Los Pinos. His phone never picked up a
signal after the morning of July13th, leaving his fiance Sadie
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Maddox to reach out for help. At this point, assuming Jeremy
was either dead, missing, or stuck somewhere out on that
island, if it even existed in the 1st place.
A little over a month later, on August 15th, my journalism
colleague Matthew Hinches, A childhood friend of Jeremy
Wilson, received a call from another friend of his that
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Jeremy had gone missing 33 days ago at the time.
Matthew then decides to begin his search for his old friend
Jeremy. Matthew flies to San Diego,
speaks with Detective Bellinger,a retired detective who had just
recently handed over the Jeremy Wilson case.
Matthew also vets Sadie Maddox, Jeremy's fiance.
(07:27):
Sadie gives Matthew details of Jeremy's disappearance that seem
to be extremely far fetched. How Jeremy flew over an unknown
island while on a military exercise for the Navy and how he
had plans to go find it once he was back on the mainland.
We have video evidence of Jeremyentering Mexico through the
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Tijuana, US border on July 11th,2024.
Outside of a few photos, some text messages and a couple
voicemails to Sadie, that is allof the information we have on
Jeremy's whereabouts other than a place 4 hours South of Tijuana
in the area of Rancho Los Pinos that Sadie claims Jeremy's phone
(08:11):
location was last pinged. Matthew has gone into Mexico
meeting with the Contact, the same American ex military man
who Jeremy had met upon his arrival into Mexico.
A man who is keeping his identity hidden due to his
current line of work with let's just say perhaps some nefarious
figures. Matthew has worked his way down
(08:33):
the Baja Peninsula with the Contact to meet a Mexican man
known as Hombre Pajaro or Birdman, an ex cartel member who
claims he knows where this so-called mystery island is out
in the Pacific Ocean and tell usof how he flew Jeremy to said
island back on July 13th, 2024 where he dropped him off.
(08:57):
The Mexican explained that when he returned to pick up Jeremy by
seaplane 3 days later at the rendezvous point, Jeremy never
showed and that he waited as long as he could before he had
to pilot back to the mainland ofMexico.
Matthew has convinced the Mexican to fly him out to the
mystery island so that he can search for Jeremy.
(09:20):
The Mexican had initially been reluctant to take Matthew,
citing in his words that the devil lives there.
On August 20th, 2024, against feelings of danger and possibly
life altering consequences, Matthew Hinges gets onto a
Grumman HU16 Albatross seaplane with a Mexican pilot flying over
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the Pacific Ocean and witnesses the impossible out of the small
window of the plane. Matthew Season Island not
located on any maps whatsoever. He has found a place that no one
knows exists. Jeremy Wilson has now been
(10:03):
missing for 38 days. This is incredible.
(11:01):
Absolutely incredible. I'm currently standing on the
beach of a mystery island, the place Jeremy was looking for,
and it's possible Jeremy's here.I just hope.
I hope he's alive. Unbelievable.
(11:24):
Wow. Holy shit.
Holy shit this is unbelievable. Matthew records his thoughts
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after being dropped off at the island.
He has made it, I'm sure. Somewhat shocked and also
relieved. Relieved to be alive and a step
closer to potentially finding Jeremy somewhere on that island.
Matthew Audio records most of what he witnesses here, as well
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as his thoughts regarding the island.
All right, Birdman took off, so I'm alone now.
I need to get everything up to aplace I feel will be a good
location to set up a campsite and use his base camp, so I'll
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do that now. Get settled.
Then we start looking for Jeremy.
Matthew now faces perhaps the biggest test of his journey to
find Jeremy Wilson, survival on an island in the middle of
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nowhere. But as we discussed earlier in
the past episode, Matthew has a fantastic skill set to make out
just fine in a place like this. An avid outdoorsman, an
excellent hiker with some know how of living off the land for a
short amount of time. He has supplies, including fresh
water that will last him for about a week.
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That includes enough to take care of what we can only assume
is a depleted Jeremy if he is still alive somewhere on that
island. But if for some reason the
Mexican pilot herd man does not come back to get Matthew and I
may be put into a situation of forming an additional rescue
mission. Let's hope that's not the case.
(13:51):
The trick will be to find some sort of shelter area.
Wow, it's beautiful here. I do see some rocky formations.
It's just just a bit inland here, not too far at all.
(14:16):
Some cliffs and Bluffs. Looks like this place has some
interesting terrain. The plan will be to get my gear
away from the water. Probably just going to have to
do this in a couple trips and upinto a cave or carve out area if
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I can find one. Someplace I can make a fire and
set up camp for the night. OK, one thing that I definitely
have discovered is that I'm out of hiking shape.
I'm carrying this gear. Wow, fuck.
(15:17):
I want to find Jeremy as soon aspossible, but in any rescue
scenario, your own safety is priority one.
(15:39):
OK. Shit, this is blocked.
All right, let's work up to thiscliffs over there.
(16:01):
Matthew is right, he needs to set up a safe camp for himself
first before he goes treading around this island, which by the
sounds of it, has some pretty serious terrain on it, including
rocky ledges and jungle throughout.
Shortly after Matthew's recording of these initial
moments of his arrival onto the island, I get a phone call.
(16:22):
It's Matthew calling from his satellite phone.
He recorded it as usual. Maddie.
Maddie, can you hear me? Hey, hey, Cat, I got you.
Yes. Hey, Oh my God, I can't believe
you're there. I'm here.
This is unbelievable. I am on a frickin island.
This is such a surreal. Moment.
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My God. Just a note for this podcast,
Matthew's satellite phone does tend to crackle and get some
static at times. I've done my best to fix that
audio for clarity. But you may.
Hear it occasionally. How does it look?
It's beautiful. I mean, it's like I'm standing
with my feet in the sand and this place is it.
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It's here. It's and it's rugged.
It's just like untouched my. Gosh, I'm glad your phone was
able to connect to me. I know, thank God.
Yeah, as long as I have like a clear line of sight, no
obstructions, my satellite phoneshould be good and and as long
as the. Battery holds.
I think we can get these phone calls out.
Oh, it's awesome. Yeah, it's awesome.
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I I mean, is it, is it too soon to tell?
But like, are there like any signs of Jeremy so far?
Well, actually on my way from the beach to to find a campsite
up the island a little bit, I found what looks like a
bracelet. It was just sticking out of the.
Sand I have no. Idea if it's.
Jeremy's or not? Yeah, that's interesting.
Yeah, I mean, someone was here, right?
I mean, how are you feeling? Do you think he could be alive
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there? I, I mean, it's possible, but
this place looks like a tough place to survive.
I mean, if I'm being honest, I mean, if he could have found
some, some water source then maybe.
So I'm just going to go and set up camp first.
You know, probably. Up in these Bluffs that I'm
looking at right now, just somewhere up the beach a little.
(18:14):
Bit I. I think I can see a couple carve
outs and the rocks up ahead up there.
It might be a good place to. Spot up some shelter.
Then I'll just go out on foot for a bit, you know, before
nightfall and see what I can find.
Yeah, it sounds great. And just so you know, I checked
the updated weather maps area. I I checked the updated weather
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maps just in case. OK.
You should be OK for the next few days although.
There looks to. Be a weather pattern forming to
your West. I mean, I'm not a meteorologist
and not sure how long it takes for those things to travel
across the ocean. OK, but you'll probably want to
make sure you get back to your rendezvous point in three days
Max. OK, copy that.
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Yeah. Does it?
Does it look bad? What are we talking in here?
I mean, it doesn't look good. I I can't really tell, but it's
just it's forming OK. It's pretty big.
All right, keep your eye on it for me.
Yeah, I will. I will.
What do you, what do you think is going on with that place?
I mean, why would it not be on any maps?
(19:21):
I've looked again. I.
I don't know. I'm standing here.
It doesn't make any sense, Kath.Like I'm literally standing on a
body of land right now. And it's not incredibly small
either. Like from the air, I'd say it
looked to be about 5-6 miles in circumference.
Yeah, I mean, that's a complete guess, but this place is big
(19:42):
enough to see with the naked eye, like up in the sky.
I mean, well, big enough that size doesn't make it look like.
Water on Google. Earth, you know.
Yeah. If something is up, I just.
Don't know what yet. Hey, can you look into any
history of a place like this? And I'm talking like.
(20:03):
There just has to be something out there, or at least why a
body of land wouldn't show up onsatellite imagery or or even on
Jeremy's radar on a in his jet, remember?
Yeah, it's so. Weird.
I'll yeah, I'll totally look into that.
I'll just keep digging around onmy end.
Where do you think Jeremy would go on a?
(20:24):
Place like that. Your guess is as good as mine
for now. Like, I don't know, I'd I'd have
to assume he took. Shelter somewhere, possibly up
in those. Bluffs.
So I should, I should probably get going to to find out, you
know? Yeah, totally.
That sounds like a good plan. Hey, Maddie.
(20:47):
Yeah. I'm so thankful you made it.
Me too. Oh my God.
Any updated info or recordings you know once you're set up?
I will listen. I'll check back in tomorrow and.
I should probably call Sadie real quick.
(21:08):
OK. Yeah, right.
Matthew does just that. After our call wraps, he reaches
out to Sadie to extend her the news.
Hello. Sadie, it's Matthew.
Matthew. Where are you?
I found it. I found the island.
I'm here. I knew.
What? I fucking knew I.
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Knew. He was telling the.
Truth. I just got here.
I I started looking for Jeremy soon.
OK, Yeah. Yeah, but thank you so much.
Oh my God. Sadie, did Jeremy wear a
bracelet? Yeah, sometimes.
Like, yeah, actually he he likedto wear one that had skulls on
it. OK then I think I found this
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bracelet on the beach. What?
What does that mean? No, it doesn't mean anything
other than we know he was here. That's a good sign.
Why wouldn't he have it on him? OK.
No, don't, don't overthink this,Sadie.
It may have come off when he gotonto the island and he was
carrying his gear OK. OK.
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It's a good. It's it's good.
It's good. Yeah, it's good, right?
Listen, I want, I wanted to let you know I got here and I'm
gonna find Jeremy, OK? OK.
Thanks so much. Call me back when you find him,
OK? I will.
I will. And I'll update you as soon as I
possibly can. I'm using the satellite phone
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and so as long as I have a clearsignal and a charge I should be
able to reach you. Just stay by your phone.
I will. And this may not happen quickly.
OK, this place looks way. Bigger than I expected.
I'm, I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna have to cover a decent
amount of land. You'll find him.
I I know it. Just call me back when you do.
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I I want to talk to him so. Badly I.
Understand, I know and. Remember.
Sadie, please prepare yourself for both kinds of news, OK?
I hate saying that to you, but Jeremy has been.
Gone a long time. He's alive, I know it.
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I truly hope so. All right, I have to go now.
OK? I'm going to go get them, OK?
Thank you. Matthew ends the call with
Sadie, a very hopeful Sadie. But Matthew is right, Jeremy has
been gone a very long time, and generally that's not a good
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trend towards survival in an unknown wilderness with possibly
no drinking water. It's an extremely profound
thing, finding a body of land inthe middle of an ocean,
unmapped, undiscussed, unknown, under the cloak of, well, what?
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We just don't know. This is one of those situations
where even if I went to authorities, told them that
Matthew had landed on an unmapped island in the Pacific
and that they needed to send a rescue team to retrieve he and
Jeremy, they will laugh in my face, discredit me as a
journalist, ignore one of, if not possibly the greatest
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mysteries of our modern day. It's almost like telling someone
you were abducted by aliens. A stigma is placed on you in a
certain way, a stigma you cannotescape.
As a public professional now, I don't necessarily care about all
of that. Ultimately, I know what the
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truth is and I will do my damnedest to help Matthew find
Jeremy and bring them home safely.
Matthew sends me his next recording through his satellite
phone setup. He has found a place that will
work for a campsite. It's Tuesday.
(25:12):
August 20th, 2024 I found a location for camp and it's about
200 yards from the shoreline up some rocky terrain basically.
It's it's carved out. Kind of a cave like inset on the
side of a bluff. There's enough coverage here.
To keep me dry. In case of weather.
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And enough space for me to spread my things out.
Make a fire. And set up a.
Bed note to self. This place is beautiful.
But don't be fooled. It's dangerous.
There are Rocky. Bluffs, thick vegetation, and of
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course rogue waves and ocean currents.
I would doubt there are any animals on this place other than
the birds I see in here, but younever know.
Maybe wild boars? I have enough food for myself
and Jeremy for about 5 to 6 days.
If it's just me out here, I could probably ration out to 15
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or so. Water's the biggest concern
though. I had my 3/5 gallon canisters
filled. That should cover me and Jeremy
plenty, but if things turn S it'll run out fast, so I need to
hopefully find a freshwater source somewhere on this island.
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Where is Jeremy? He would have heard the plane,
right? Maybe he was on the other side
of the island. If I were Jeremy, where would I
go? You know my.
Guess is either near the coastline somewhere.
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You could try to catch fish there.
Or maybe he. Found a fresh water source and
set up shop there. And that leaves me.
With a lot of ground to cover, it's nice here.
Really nice. Probably high 70s with an ocean
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breeze right now. Why is this place hidden?
The fuck am I? I received Matthews record
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keeping, some additional text messages and his voice
recordings. His satellite phone sends it
slowly, but it works and having communication with him while he
searches makes me feel a little easier.
My concern is when Matthew goes into the jungle of the island,
from the sounds of it there is some pretty dense vegetation
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there. His phone may have a tougher
time picking up a clear signal. And as a reminder, those
satellite phones need a clear line of sight to the sky to
access a satellite for communication.
So I have my concerns there. His solar battery pack should
keep him up and running throughout his time there.
I need to keep my eye on this developing storm to the West of
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him. He's got time, about enough
until the rendezvous in three days, but it might cut it close.
I'd rather not disrupt any of the scheduled plans with the
Mexican based on Jeremy's current scenario.
So storms could be bad news for the boys on the island.
Here's Matthew laying out his immediate plan.
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I'm going to circumference this island, but since it's going to
start getting dark in a few hours, I won't have enough time
to do it all today. The plan will be to route
clockwise around the whole thing, cover the beach areas,
and then work myself inland to cover that area.
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Even seeing signs of Jeremy likethe bracelet will give me more
hope that he's here somewhere, hopefully alive.
I'm currently on the southern side of the island.
I'll go as far West as I comfortably.
Can right now. Then come back before nightfall
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to cook food and get some sleep at camp.
I'm going to hike pretty hard now.
We'll update recording later. A solid plan in my opinion.
I'm currently moving up into theBluffs a bit.
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I've been calling out Jeremy's name from time to time.
Nothing but birds chirping back at me.
I've probably hiked a mile and ahalf West of campsite.
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Looked to me like there was a bit of a ridgeline that I could
get on. It would give me a little bit
better view of the place while still being able to see the
beach. Currently fighting through some
trees and brush right now. But I think I can get up there
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from here. The other reason I want to get
up there is because I thought I saw something from the beach off
in the distance up there. Remember when Jeremy talked
about seeing something shiny on the island from his jet?
Something reflective down here. Well, I may have.
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Just witnessed that myself I think, I don't know.
It was like this and it was glare up in the Bluffs to the.
Northwest of me. That bluff is pretty close to
the shoreline, maybe 100 yards in or so.
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I'm going to check it out. Higher vantage point if
anything. One thing I do know is this
island has flies and they suck. Matthew hikes up.
The Bluffs struggling a bit as the island jungle becomes dense
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around him. Oh God, it's getting.
Really dense through here. I've tried to climb up a bit.
From a shoreline, but this has proven to be pretty difficult.
I've gotten about 40, maybe 50 feet along the Bluffs.
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I can still see the. Ocean from this.
Distance. The one thing I definitely don't
want to do is get turned around in here and get lost.
So what I'm going to try to do now is just try to walk along
this ridgeline as best I can andkeep the same distance between
me and the water. The next piece?
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Of audio I have from Matthew is,well, quite intriguing to say
the least. OK, I'll stop to.
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Grab some water and eat a protein.
Bar. I'd say I've gone maybe a mile.
And a half two. Miles West of base camp and what
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I'm looking at a little ways from me.
Maybe 100 yards away. Up a bit higher on one of the
Bluffs to my West. It's something weird, something
definitely shiny. And reflective.
Just like Jeremy said. It looks solid.
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From this distance I, I don't know, like statues or something,
I can't really tell. There are a lot of trees in my
way. So I'm just going to have to get
closer. I mean, at this point, I'm going
to just have to hike to it to find out what it is.
Maybe Jeremy could be around in that area.
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Jeremy like statues. Or something.
Is Matthew claiming to be seeingsome sort of man made structure
off in the distance? This is all becoming very
strange. He's been calling out Jeremy's
name to no avail. It doesn't seem to be a small
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place, but I keep wondering to myself, where could Jeremy be on
an island like that? Matthew's.
Recordings also. Jump from that last moment to
this next one I'm about to play and it is dumbfounding.
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Holy shit. Wow, what?
What is that? What are those?
What are those? I'm looking at large, immense
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statues. There are four of them, all side
by side, very close together. And this is amazing.
This is amazing. Oh.
My God, what is? This Oh my God, what are those?
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These things are. Human like in nature, standing
tall, four of them. There are two small ones and two
larger ones, almost like a. Family maybe?
All standing very straight. Up vertical.
Their arms are long. But then they blend into the
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body from below the elbow, genderless.
Their faces don't really reveal eyes or nose and mouth.
But you can still get the sense that they exist in some way.
The material is like. Nothing I've ever seen before.
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It's silver. In nature.
Very shiny, but at the same timeI can't see any reflection of
myself or the island within the material.
And to touch it, it's almost cold, but also like a little
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burning sensation on my hands and.
It doesn't make. Any sound when I knock against
it? I've never seen anything.
Like this in my life this is. This is magnificent.
(37:38):
This is this is unbelievable. So the sun is starting to set I.
Can. Actually, Oh my God, Oh my God.
(38:00):
The material is. Yeah, the material is changing
colour. It's turning gold.
This is insane. All of them are changing.
Wow, OK. I need to take.
(38:21):
Some photos. OK, I'm.
Speechless right now, this. Is this is beautiful?
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Oh my God. Wow, I cannot believe this.
Oh my God. This is so beautiful.
Wow, I'm. Speechless right now.
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This is this is beautiful. They're they're probably 12 feet
tall. The larger ones.
Shorter ones, maybe 6-7 feet, probably 7 feet, they're all.
Golden now. The material is so weird.
It's not stone. Or rock.
It's not really metal I I just don't know how to describe it in
words. All right, I just took some
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photos. With my film camera.
Wow. This is golden hour.
And the statues, literally. Turned golden.
Like. A paint wash.
Covering the silver over in gold.
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Remarkable, Just remarkable. This is what Jeremy.
Saw it had. To have been Jeremy, Oh my God,
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remember. What the pilot said.
Was it Quattro? Dido Quattro Dio Quattro.
Quattro Diocese Quattro. Yeah.
Quattro Diocese 4. Gods.
That's it. This is what he was talking
about. Four gods.
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They're all facing West. Standing.
On the edge of. This bluff.
Staring out. To the ocean for.
Gods to the West, what is this place?
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Sun will be setting in. Probably 45 minutes, 3040. 5.
Minutes or so, So I need to get back to camp now.
I'll pick this back up there. Remarkable.
Matthew said it best, what are these statues that he has
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stumbled upon? Obviously someone has been on
this island before, adding even a deeper mystery as to why this
place is hidden. There is just no way in our
modern society that a body of land this large is left off
maps. It is absolutely been wiped from
Google Earth, but why? What's going on there?
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What is this place? And now Matthew finds large
monolithic statues on the western cliffsides.
Matthew heads back to his base. Camp before it gets too dark.
He cuts it close, apparently. All right, just got.
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Back to camp a bit ago. I was playing dangerously close
to darkness there, Almost couldn't find my base camp on
the way back. Fortunately I remembered a
peculiar shaped tree that was near the shoreline marking the
entrance point to the bluff trail that I kind of made for
myself. I don't know what I witnessed
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back there. Where am.
I Where is Jeremy? What?
Is this place tomorrow? I'll circumference.
The island looking for Jeremy I'll primarily stay on the
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shoreline unless I feel good about a clearing on any of the
higher Bluffs to help my visibility, but from what I.
Can see this place. Is pretty dense with.
Trees. I have 2 1/2 more days and with
hiking on foot. That time's going to go.
Fast. I won't.
Have much of. It where the hell?
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Where you start? Where you start?
What? What is it?
La Isla. Oh my God.
Oh my God. I can't believe it.
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I can't believe what I'm lookingat.
I can't believe it. It's the island.
I cannot believe I'm looking at an actual body of land.
I found it. Spen amigo.
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Previously on the island in the Pacific.
I don't know if I'm crazy. I don't know if this is the.
Right thing to do. I'm about to get on a plane fly
over the Pacific Ocean to an imaginary.
Top secret island? Yeah, probably.
Crazy. OK, is this the same guy that
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flew him to the island? Apparently it is, and he's
confirming the story that he dropped Jeremy off on this
island out there. OK.
So he's he's going to take me. Out there today.
He's taking you there today. He is, and if this thing is
real, I'm going there. I keep thinking about what the
Mexican said about the island yesterday.
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When the contact. Asked him why he didn't go back
to look for. Jeremy After Jeremy never showed
up at the rendezvous spot, he said it was too dangerous.
And that the. Devil lived there.
What the hell does that mean? And you've coordinated with the
pilot. For a rendezvous.
Right. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The plan will be 3 days.
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Based on the Mexican's description of the size of the
island, I think that should giveme enough time to circumference
check a lot of the areas. I want you to have hope as I do.
But we both have to be realisticabout what I may find.
Please Matthew, go get him and bring him back to.
Me, if there's an island out there, I think he'll take you
there. I, I don't think he's the kind
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of guy that's just going to dumpyou at sea, you know?
How can I be certain of that? I guess you can.
Listen. Cath if I don't.
Come back, just know that. Just tell our story, OK?
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My name is Kathleen Goldstein. I'm an investigative journalist,
and this is The Island in the Pacific Episode 6, The Arrival.
The unthinkable has occurred. Matthew Henches, an American
independent journalist searchingfor the missing Jeremy Wilson,
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has found a body of land detailed by Jeremy himself.
A place that is on no maps. An island somewhere out in the
Pacific Ocean. An apparition, a mirage, a
miracle, a cover up. What this means is unfathomable.
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How could the whole world miss this island?
Never map it. No satellite imagery, no
writings or documentation. It doesn't make any sense.
And this is where things start to truly get weird.
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Matthew's route to get to this moment has been guided by his
intuition, personability, thorough investigating, and most
of all, his courage. There has been a lot happening
in this case to find Jeremy, whohad gone missing back in July of
2024. I think this is a good time to
take a breath and recap a few things and any investigation.
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New information and theories cansometimes take us in all sorts
of different directions. Sometimes it can be good to
reground yourself in the currentfacts of the situation, take a
look at what we have discovered and what we know to be true, and
allow ourselves to rebuild the foundation of the investigation.
There's a lot of detail here. Here's where we are.
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Jeremy Wilson, a naval aviator on leave, kissed his fiance
Sadie Maddox goodbye on July 11th, 2024, traveling from San
Diego into Tijuana, Mexico to goand search for a mysterious body
of land somewhere out in the Pacific Ocean that apparently
was not located on any maps anywhere, digital or print.
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An island that Jeremy claimed heflew over during a military
exercise off of a naval aircraftcarrier just months before.
An island that is radar didn't pick up.
This flight included a visual sighting from Jeremy of some
sort of shiny reflective objectson it.
Jeremy recorded the coordinates of the small island for
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reference. On July 12th, the day after
arriving in Mexico, Jeremy sent text messages to Sadie telling
her that he had met a contact inTijuana who would take Jeremy to
an undisclosed location somewhere down the Baja
Peninsula to meet a Mexican who may have information for Jeremy
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regarding this so-called island.On the morning of July 13th, the
following day, Jeremy left his last voicemail to Sadie stating
that he had found someone who would take him to the island,
someone who claimed they knew where it was, confirming the
coordinates Jeremy had documented.
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Jeremy's plan was to land there by seaplane, explore the island
for three days, and then return to mainland after a rendezvous
point pickup by that same pilot.Jeremy's phone tracking had
pinged his location near a smallairstrip and a place called
Rancho Los Pinos. His phone never picked up a
signal after the morning of July13th, leaving his fiance Sadie
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Maddox to reach out for help. At this point, assuming Jeremy
was either dead, missing, or stuck somewhere out on that
island, if it even existed in the 1st place.
A little over a month later, on August 15th, my journalism
colleague Matthew Hinches, A childhood friend of Jeremy
Wilson, received a call from another friend of his that
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Jeremy had gone missing 33 days ago at the time.
Matthew then decides to begin his search for his old friend
Jeremy. Matthew flies to San Diego,
speaks with Detective Bellinger,a retired detective who had just
recently handed over the Jeremy Wilson case.
Matthew also vets Sadie Maddox, Jeremy's fiance.
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Sadie gives Matthew details of Jeremy's disappearance that seem
to be extremely far fetched. How Jeremy flew over an unknown
island while on a military exercise for the Navy and how he
had plans to go find it once he was back on the mainland.
We have video evidence of Jeremyentering Mexico through the
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Tijuana, US border on July 11th,2024.
Outside of a few photos, some text messages and a couple
voicemails to Sadie, that is allof the information we have on
Jeremy's whereabouts other than a place 4 hours South of Tijuana
in the area of Rancho Los Pinos that Sadie claims Jeremy's phone
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location was last pinged. Matthew has gone into Mexico
meeting with the Contact, the same American ex military man
who Jeremy had met upon his arrival into Mexico.
A man who is keeping his identity hidden due to his
current line of work with let's just say perhaps some nefarious
figures. Matthew has worked his way down
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the Baja Peninsula with the Contact to meet a Mexican man
known as Hombre Pajaro or Birdman, an ex cartel member who
claims he knows where this so-called mystery island is out
in the Pacific Ocean and tell usof how he flew Jeremy to said
island back on July 13th, 2024 where he dropped him off.
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The Mexican explained that when he returned to pick up Jeremy by
seaplane 3 days later at the rendezvous point, Jeremy never
showed and that he waited as long as he could before he had
to pilot back to the mainland ofMexico.
Matthew has convinced the Mexican to fly him out to the
mystery island so that he can search for Jeremy.
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The Mexican had initially been reluctant to take Matthew,
citing in his words that the devil lives there.
On August 20th, 2024, against feelings of danger and possibly
life altering consequences, Matthew Hinges gets onto a
Grumman HU16 Albatross seaplane with a Mexican pilot flying over
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the Pacific Ocean and witnesses the impossible out of the small
window of the plane. Matthew Season Island not
located on any maps whatsoever. He has found a place that no one
knows exists. Jeremy Wilson has now been
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missing for 38 days. This is incredible.
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Absolutely incredible. I'm currently standing on the
beach of a mystery island, the place Jeremy was looking for,
and it's possible Jeremy's here.I just hope.
I hope he's alive. Unbelievable.
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Wow. Holy shit.
Holy shit this is unbelievable. Matthew records his thoughts
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after being dropped off at the island.
He has made it, I'm sure. Somewhat shocked and also
relieved. Relieved to be alive and a step
closer to potentially finding Jeremy somewhere on that island.
Matthew Audio records most of what he witnesses here, as well
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as his thoughts regarding the island.
All right, Birdman took off, so I'm alone now.
I need to get everything up to aplace I feel will be a good
location to set up a campsite and use his base camp, so I'll
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do that now. Get settled.
Then we start looking for Jeremy.
Matthew now faces perhaps the biggest test of his journey to
find Jeremy Wilson, survival on an island in the middle of
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nowhere. But as we discussed earlier in
the past episode, Matthew has a fantastic skill set to make out
just fine in a place like this. An avid outdoorsman, an
excellent hiker with some know how of living off the land for a
short amount of time. He has supplies, including fresh
water that will last him for about a week.
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That includes enough to take care of what we can only assume
is a depleted Jeremy if he is still alive somewhere on that
island. But if for some reason the
Mexican pilot herd man does not come back to get Matthew and I
may be put into a situation of forming an additional rescue
mission. Let's hope that's not the case.
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The trick will be to find some sort of shelter area.
Wow, it's beautiful here. I do see some rocky formations.
It's just just a bit inland here, not too far at all.
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Some cliffs and Bluffs. Looks like this place has some
interesting terrain. The plan will be to get my gear
away from the water. Probably just going to have to
do this in a couple trips and upinto a cave or carve out area if
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I can find one. Someplace I can make a fire and
set up camp for the night. OK, one thing that I definitely
have discovered is that I'm out of hiking shape.
I'm carrying this gear. Wow, fuck.
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I want to find Jeremy as soon aspossible, but in any rescue
scenario, your own safety is priority one.
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OK. Shit, this is blocked.
All right, let's work up to thiscliffs over there.
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Matthew is right, he needs to set up a safe camp for himself
first before he goes treading around this island, which by the
sounds of it, has some pretty serious terrain on it, including
rocky ledges and jungle throughout.
Shortly after Matthew's recording of these initial
moments of his arrival onto the island, I get a phone call.
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It's Matthew calling from his satellite phone.
He recorded it as usual. Maddie.
Maddie, can you hear me? Hey, hey, Cat, I got you.
Yes. Hey, Oh my God, I can't believe
you're there. I'm here.
This is unbelievable. I am on a frickin island.
This is such a surreal. Moment.
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My God. Just a note for this podcast,
Matthew's satellite phone does tend to crackle and get some
static at times. I've done my best to fix that
audio for clarity. But you may.
Hear it occasionally. How does it look?
It's beautiful. I mean, it's like I'm standing
with my feet in the sand and this place is it.
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It's here. It's and it's rugged.
It's just like untouched my. Gosh, I'm glad your phone was
able to connect to me. I know, thank God.
Yeah, as long as I have like a clear line of sight, no
obstructions, my satellite phoneshould be good and and as long
as the. Battery holds.
I think we can get these phone calls out.
Oh, it's awesome. Yeah, it's awesome.
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I I mean, is it, is it too soon to tell?
But like, are there like any signs of Jeremy so far?
Well, actually on my way from the beach to to find a campsite
up the island a little bit, I found what looks like a
bracelet. It was just sticking out of the.
Sand I have no. Idea if it's.
Jeremy's or not? Yeah, that's interesting.
Yeah, I mean, someone was here, right?
I mean, how are you feeling? Do you think he could be alive
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there? I, I mean, it's possible, but
this place looks like a tough place to survive.
I mean, if I'm being honest, I mean, if he could have found
some, some water source then maybe.
So I'm just going to go and set up camp first.
You know, probably. Up in these Bluffs that I'm
looking at right now, just somewhere up the beach a little.
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Bit I. I think I can see a couple carve
outs and the rocks up ahead up there.
It might be a good place to. Spot up some shelter.
Then I'll just go out on foot for a bit, you know, before
nightfall and see what I can find.
Yeah, it sounds great. And just so you know, I checked
the updated weather maps area. I I checked the updated weather
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maps just in case. OK.
You should be OK for the next few days although.
There looks to. Be a weather pattern forming to
your West. I mean, I'm not a meteorologist
and not sure how long it takes for those things to travel
across the ocean. OK, but you'll probably want to
make sure you get back to your rendezvous point in three days
Max. OK, copy that.
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Yeah. Does it?
Does it look bad? What are we talking in here?
I mean, it doesn't look good. I I can't really tell, but it's
just it's forming OK. It's pretty big.
All right, keep your eye on it for me.
Yeah, I will. I will.
What do you, what do you think is going on with that place?
I mean, why would it not be on any maps?
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I've looked again. I.
I don't know. I'm standing here.
It doesn't make any sense, Kath.Like I'm literally standing on a
body of land right now. And it's not incredibly small
either. Like from the air, I'd say it
looked to be about 5-6 miles in circumference.
Yeah, I mean, that's a complete guess, but this place is big
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enough to see with the naked eye, like up in the sky.
I mean, well, big enough that size doesn't make it look like.
Water on Google. Earth, you know.
Yeah. If something is up, I just.
Don't know what yet. Hey, can you look into any
history of a place like this? And I'm talking like.
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There just has to be something out there, or at least why a
body of land wouldn't show up onsatellite imagery or or even on
Jeremy's radar on a in his jet, remember?
Yeah, it's so. Weird.
I'll yeah, I'll totally look into that.
I'll just keep digging around onmy end.
Where do you think Jeremy would go on a?
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Place like that. Your guess is as good as mine
for now. Like, I don't know, I'd I'd have
to assume he took. Shelter somewhere, possibly up
in those. Bluffs.
So I should, I should probably get going to to find out, you
know? Yeah, totally.
That sounds like a good plan. Hey, Maddie.
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Yeah. I'm so thankful you made it.
Me too. Oh my God.
Any updated info or recordings you know once you're set up?
I will listen. I'll check back in tomorrow and.
I should probably call Sadie real quick.
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OK. Yeah, right.
Matthew does just that. After our call wraps, he reaches
out to Sadie to extend her the news.
Hello. Sadie, it's Matthew.
Matthew. Where are you?
I found it. I found the island.
I'm here. I knew.
What? I fucking knew I.
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Knew. He was telling the.
Truth. I just got here.
I I started looking for Jeremy soon.
OK, Yeah. Yeah, but thank you so much.
Oh my God. Sadie, did Jeremy wear a
bracelet? Yeah, sometimes.
Like, yeah, actually he he likedto wear one that had skulls on
it. OK then I think I found this
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bracelet on the beach. What?
What does that mean? No, it doesn't mean anything
other than we know he was here. That's a good sign.
Why wouldn't he have it on him? OK.
No, don't, don't overthink this,Sadie.
It may have come off when he gotonto the island and he was
carrying his gear OK. OK.
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It's a good. It's it's good.
It's good. Yeah, it's good, right?
Listen, I want, I wanted to let you know I got here and I'm
gonna find Jeremy, OK? OK.
Thanks so much. Call me back when you find him,
OK? I will.
I will. And I'll update you as soon as I
possibly can. I'm using the satellite phone
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and so as long as I have a clearsignal and a charge I should be
able to reach you. Just stay by your phone.
I will. And this may not happen quickly.
OK, this place looks way. Bigger than I expected.
I'm, I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna have to cover a decent
amount of land. You'll find him.
I I know it. Just call me back when you do.
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I I want to talk to him so. Badly I.
Understand, I know and. Remember.
Sadie, please prepare yourself for both kinds of news, OK?
I hate saying that to you, but Jeremy has been.
Gone a long time. He's alive, I know it.
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I truly hope so. All right, I have to go now.
OK? I'm going to go get them, OK?
Thank you. Matthew ends the call with
Sadie, a very hopeful Sadie. But Matthew is right, Jeremy has
been gone a very long time, and generally that's not a good
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trend towards survival in an unknown wilderness with possibly
no drinking water. It's an extremely profound
thing, finding a body of land inthe middle of an ocean,
unmapped, undiscussed, unknown, under the cloak of, well, what?
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We just don't know. This is one of those situations
where even if I went to authorities, told them that
Matthew had landed on an unmapped island in the Pacific
and that they needed to send a rescue team to retrieve he and
Jeremy, they will laugh in my face, discredit me as a
journalist, ignore one of, if not possibly the greatest
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mysteries of our modern day. It's almost like telling someone
you were abducted by aliens. A stigma is placed on you in a
certain way, a stigma you cannotescape.
As a public professional now, I don't necessarily care about all
of that. Ultimately, I know what the
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truth is and I will do my damnedest to help Matthew find
Jeremy and bring them home safely.
Matthew sends me his next recording through his satellite
phone setup. He has found a place that will
work for a campsite. It's Tuesday.
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August 20th, 2024 I found a location for camp and it's about
200 yards from the shoreline up some rocky terrain basically.
It's it's carved out. Kind of a cave like inset on the
side of a bluff. There's enough coverage here.
To keep me dry. In case of weather.
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And enough space for me to spread my things out.
Make a fire. And set up a.
Bed note to self. This place is beautiful.
But don't be fooled. It's dangerous.
There are Rocky. Bluffs, thick vegetation, and of
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course rogue waves and ocean currents.
I would doubt there are any animals on this place other than
the birds I see in here, but younever know.
Maybe wild boars? I have enough food for myself
and Jeremy for about 5 to 6 days.
If it's just me out here, I could probably ration out to 15
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or so. Water's the biggest concern
though. I had my 3/5 gallon canisters
filled. That should cover me and Jeremy
plenty, but if things turn S it'll run out fast, so I need to
hopefully find a freshwater source somewhere on this island.
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Where is Jeremy? He would have heard the plane,
right? Maybe he was on the other side
of the island. If I were Jeremy, where would I
go? You know my.
Guess is either near the coastline somewhere.
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You could try to catch fish there.
Or maybe he. Found a fresh water source and
set up shop there. And that leaves me.
With a lot of ground to cover, it's nice here.
Really nice. Probably high 70s with an ocean
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breeze right now. Why is this place hidden?
The fuck am I? I received Matthews record
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keeping, some additional text messages and his voice
recordings. His satellite phone sends it
slowly, but it works and having communication with him while he
searches makes me feel a little easier.
My concern is when Matthew goes into the jungle of the island,
from the sounds of it there is some pretty dense vegetation
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there. His phone may have a tougher
time picking up a clear signal. And as a reminder, those
satellite phones need a clear line of sight to the sky to
access a satellite for communication.
So I have my concerns there. His solar battery pack should
keep him up and running throughout his time there.
I need to keep my eye on this developing storm to the West of
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him. He's got time, about enough
until the rendezvous in three days, but it might cut it close.
I'd rather not disrupt any of the scheduled plans with the
Mexican based on Jeremy's current scenario.
So storms could be bad news for the boys on the island.
Here's Matthew laying out his immediate plan.
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I'm going to circumference this island, but since it's going to
start getting dark in a few hours, I won't have enough time
to do it all today. The plan will be to route
clockwise around the whole thing, cover the beach areas,
and then work myself inland to cover that area.
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Even seeing signs of Jeremy likethe bracelet will give me more
hope that he's here somewhere, hopefully alive.
I'm currently on the southern side of the island.
I'll go as far West as I comfortably.
Can right now. Then come back before nightfall
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to cook food and get some sleep at camp.
I'm going to hike pretty hard now.
We'll update recording later. A solid plan in my opinion.
I'm currently moving up into theBluffs a bit.
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I've been calling out Jeremy's name from time to time.
Nothing but birds chirping back at me.
I've probably hiked a mile and ahalf West of campsite.
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Looked to me like there was a bit of a ridgeline that I could
get on. It would give me a little bit
better view of the place while still being able to see the
beach. Currently fighting through some
trees and brush right now. But I think I can get up there
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from here. The other reason I want to get
up there is because I thought I saw something from the beach off
in the distance up there. Remember when Jeremy talked
about seeing something shiny on the island from his jet?
Something reflective down here. Well, I may have.
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Just witnessed that myself I think, I don't know.
It was like this and it was glare up in the Bluffs to the.
Northwest of me. That bluff is pretty close to
the shoreline, maybe 100 yards in or so.
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I'm going to check it out. Higher vantage point if
anything. One thing I do know is this
island has flies and they suck. Matthew hikes up.
The Bluffs struggling a bit as the island jungle becomes dense
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around him. Oh God, it's getting.
Really dense through here. I've tried to climb up a bit.
From a shoreline, but this has proven to be pretty difficult.
I've gotten about 40, maybe 50 feet along the Bluffs.
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I can still see the. Ocean from this.
Distance. The one thing I definitely don't
want to do is get turned around in here and get lost.
So what I'm going to try to do now is just try to walk along
this ridgeline as best I can andkeep the same distance between
me and the water. The next piece?
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Of audio I have from Matthew is,well, quite intriguing to say
the least. OK, I'll stop to.
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Grab some water and eat a protein.
Bar. I'd say I've gone maybe a mile.
And a half two. Miles West of base camp and what
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I'm looking at a little ways from me.
Maybe 100 yards away. Up a bit higher on one of the
Bluffs to my West. It's something weird, something
definitely shiny. And reflective.
Just like Jeremy said. It looks solid.
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From this distance I, I don't know, like statues or something,
I can't really tell. There are a lot of trees in my
way. So I'm just going to have to get
closer. I mean, at this point, I'm going
to just have to hike to it to find out what it is.
Maybe Jeremy could be around in that area.
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Jeremy like statues. Or something.
Is Matthew claiming to be seeingsome sort of man made structure
off in the distance? This is all becoming very
strange. He's been calling out Jeremy's
name to no avail. It doesn't seem to be a small
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place, but I keep wondering to myself, where could Jeremy be on
an island like that? Matthew's.
Recordings also. Jump from that last moment to
this next one I'm about to play and it is dumbfounding.
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Holy shit. Wow, what?
What is that? What are those?
What are those? I'm looking at large, immense
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statues. There are four of them, all side
by side, very close together. And this is amazing.
This is amazing. Oh.
My God, what is? This Oh my God, what are those?
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These things are. Human like in nature, standing
tall, four of them. There are two small ones and two
larger ones, almost like a. Family maybe?
All standing very straight. Up vertical.
Their arms are long. But then they blend into the
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body from below the elbow, genderless.
Their faces don't really reveal eyes or nose and mouth.
But you can still get the sense that they exist in some way.
The material is like. Nothing I've ever seen before.
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It's silver. In nature.
Very shiny, but at the same timeI can't see any reflection of
myself or the island within the material.
And to touch it, it's almost cold, but also like a little
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burning sensation on my hands and.
It doesn't make. Any sound when I knock against
it? I've never seen anything.
Like this in my life this is. This is magnificent.
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This is this is unbelievable. So the sun is starting to set I.
Can. Actually, Oh my God, Oh my God.
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The material is. Yeah, the material is changing
colour. It's turning gold.
This is insane. All of them are changing.
Wow, OK. I need to take.
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Some photos. OK, I'm.
Speechless right now, this. Is this is beautiful?
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Oh my God. Wow, I cannot believe this.
Oh my God. This is so beautiful.
Wow, I'm. Speechless right now.
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This is this is beautiful. They're they're probably 12 feet
tall. The larger ones.
Shorter ones, maybe 6-7 feet, probably 7 feet, they're all.
Golden now. The material is so weird.
It's not stone. Or rock.
It's not really metal I I just don't know how to describe it in
words. All right, I just took some
(39:40):
photos. With my film camera.
Wow. This is golden hour.
And the statues, literally. Turned golden.
Like. A paint wash.
Covering the silver over in gold.
(40:00):
Remarkable, Just remarkable. This is what Jeremy.
Saw it had. To have been Jeremy, Oh my God,
(40:21):
remember. What the pilot said.
Was it Quattro? Dido Quattro Dio Quattro.
Quattro Diocese Quattro. Yeah.
Quattro Diocese 4. Gods.
That's it. This is what he was talking
about. Four gods.
(40:44):
They're all facing West. Standing.
On the edge of. This bluff.
Staring out. To the ocean for.
Gods to the West, what is this place?
(41:09):
Sun will be setting in. Probably 45 minutes, 3040. 5.
Minutes or so, So I need to get back to camp now.
I'll pick this back up there. Remarkable.
Matthew said it best, what are these statues that he has
(41:29):
stumbled upon? Obviously someone has been on
this island before, adding even a deeper mystery as to why this
place is hidden. There is just no way in our
modern society that a body of land this large is left off
maps. It is absolutely been wiped from
Google Earth, but why? What's going on there?
(41:53):
What is this place? And now Matthew finds large
monolithic statues on the western cliffsides.
Matthew heads back to his base. Camp before it gets too dark.
He cuts it close, apparently. All right, just got.
(42:21):
Back to camp a bit ago. I was playing dangerously close
to darkness there, Almost couldn't find my base camp on
the way back. Fortunately I remembered a
peculiar shaped tree that was near the shoreline marking the
entrance point to the bluff trail that I kind of made for
myself. I don't know what I witnessed
(42:43):
back there. Where am.
I Where is Jeremy? What?
Is this place tomorrow? I'll circumference.
The island looking for Jeremy I'll primarily stay on the
(43:04):
shoreline unless I feel good about a clearing on any of the
higher Bluffs to help my visibility, but from what I.
Can see this place. Is pretty dense with.
Trees. I have 2 1/2 more days and with
hiking on foot. That time's going to go.
Fast. I won't.
Have much of. It where the hell?
(43:30):
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