In a section of the Kali River, a tributary of the Ganges on the border of Nepal and India, a spate of unexplained drownings has baffled both villagers and scientists. Over the course of nine years, in three separate incidents, swimmers in the river have been gripped in the jaws of an unidentified beast and pulled beneath the water's surface - never to be seen again.
"It all happened in a flash," says Bhuvan Punetha, who witnessed the first attack in 1998. The two other attacks occurred in 1999 and 2007. No bodily remains or clothing from the victims have ever been found.
British biologist Jeremy Wade (pictured, left) has heard the myth of the monster, and journeys to India to learn more from the locals. "This area is a virtual information black hole," he says. "Very little goes in and even less comes out." Wade strikes it lucky when an eyewitness to the 2007 attack comes forward. Surendra Bohra describes the creature he saw as "an elongated pig".
Gradually Wade begins to realise that the mythical creature that dwells in the depths actually exists. "These people have seen something," he says. "There is something in the water..."
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