00:00In July 1990, four friends tchèque decided to go to the adventure
00:05to find the Vert Intestine Mongol,
00:07the creature who maybe inspired the monster that you have seen in the film Dune.
00:12We say that he lived somewhere in the end of the desert of Gobi.
00:15They took the plane for the Mongolian,
00:17went into a ship all-terrain and engaged with the local guides to help them.
00:21All this to meet this creature hypothetically
00:24which weighs close to 2 meters long,
00:25which crashed an acid capable of making anything,
00:28and which could even project electric charges on his enemies.
00:32The legend says that these lovey bestials pass the most of their days
00:36under the sand, but they want to go out during the most humid months of June and July.
00:43The moment was so perfectly chosen,
00:45but our friends still found a way to attract the creature out of its hatchet.
00:50Unfortunately for them, no one knew what this Vert Géant was eating.
00:54They built so a special machine
00:56which emitted the noise of the Martellement rhythm.
00:59They hoped that this would make out the gros verre of his trou.
01:02They passed two months to fouiller the vast desert,
01:05traversing dunes and plaines rocheuses,
01:07to search for the moindre sign of the effrayed creature.
01:10Hellas, that did not work.
01:12Ivan Makkerl, who was the chief of the expedition of 1990,
01:17was by the following several expeditions in the desert of Gobi.
01:20In the first time, he tried to attack the Vert Géant with explosions.
01:24And the second time, he used a small plane to explore the dunes.
01:29After the years, the American, British and Néo-Zélandais organized
01:33large expeditions in the region to try to find the creature.
01:37Many other people vinrent from the whole world by their own means,
01:41but no one found anything.
01:44In the West, we heard for the first time talk about the Mongolian intestine
01:48thanks to an American palaeontologist, Roy Chapman Andrews.
01:52This brave man is likely to serve as a model of the character of Indiana Jones.
01:57In 1926, he talks about this creature in his book.
02:02Andrews heard him-même talk about the mysterious creature
02:05during a meeting with the people of Mongols who had never seen them in their own eyes.
02:10One of them told him that she looked like a saucy of about a half meters long,
02:15without head nor feet.
02:17According to him, the Vert was so venomous that the simple fact of the touch could immediately kill you.
02:22And he lived in the most isolated areas of the desert of Gobi.
02:25Andrews didn't believe that this creature was real,
02:28but he described his testimonies in another book.
02:31In May 2005, 4 chasseurs de monstres britanniques professionnels
02:35decided to try their chance.
02:37They fired the drawings of the Vert and engaged people in the area to distribute
02:41the prospectus in all the desert of Gobi.
02:43These prospectus prometed a reward to everyone,
02:47susceptible to provide information on the creature,
02:50or to bring them a specimen.
02:52According to them, the brilliant machine machine that the other explorators had used
02:56had more chance to make the beast that to the shoot.
02:59Someone told them, the Vert is a humidity.
03:03They elaborated so a plan to block the waters of the water,
03:06to create the humid zones that attract the Vert.
03:09But it didn't work, because it was too difficult to build
03:12the desert in the desert.
03:14They ended up using small pieces, but they found no proof of the existence of Vert.
03:19But many people told them about the stories of strange creatures
03:23that they had seen over the last 70 years.
03:26Over the years, the anecdotes about this monster
03:29were spread in the whole world.
03:31According to some of them, it was only 30 centimeters of long.
03:36According to others, it was also big as an human being.
03:39It was green-gris, or covered with acails, and brun, or even charny and rouge-vif.
03:45Some said that it looked like a serpent, or maybe a pen,
03:48or even that it had ails and could fly.
03:51D'autres think that it could be an creature of nature, malevolent,
03:55dépourvus of body.
03:57If these stories are so different the unes from the other,
04:00and if all these researches have never given anything,
04:03it may be because the creature does not exist simply not.
04:06It would be a cryptid.
04:08These creatures such as the Bigfoot, the Yeti, the monster of Loch Ness,
04:13whose existence has not yet been proven.
04:15In 1983, a scientist who visited the region
04:20told him that a old man managed to catch the mystery vert.
04:24He also told him that there was a nid nearby.
04:27The scientist has courageously approached the hole in the sable,
04:31and put his hand in the inside.
04:33A giant creature was trained, and we never saw it again.
04:37I say, he found a boa of the sable of Mongolian.
04:40It is a serpent trapu, fouisseur, non-venimeux,
04:44with little eyes and with acails gris-brun.
04:47He showed it to the inhabitants of the region
04:48to know if it was a monster of legend.
04:51And it would seem to be all answered by the affirmation.
04:55Most of the Mongolians who know the existence of the vert
04:57believe in this reality.
05:00If the people of the country say that this monster is a vert,
05:03it is by a sort of raccourci.
05:05In many cultures mongoles, this word has been used for centuries
05:09to design all animal dangerous, particularly the serpent,
05:13even those who are not venimous.
05:16After all, it is not necessarily a vert in the sense of a proper sense.
05:20The vert are mous, but a creature living in the desert of Gobi
05:23would have a somewhat resistant,
05:26close to that of a serpent or a sort of lézard sans pattes.
05:30Aucune of these creatures cannot project electricity
05:32nor crash of acid, as we say, the vert intestinal.
05:36But some serpents, like the cobra,
05:38can crash a very dangerous venin for the man.
05:41If it was real, our creatures would have a vertebral
05:45and the explorators would probably discover
05:47some of the same traces of the same species.
05:50Or, there are actually fossils in the desert of Gobi.
05:54Scientists found out more than 80 groups of dinosaurs
05:58over the last 100 years.
06:00It was there, for example, that the first nids,
06:03d'œufs, of dinosaurs have been discovered.
06:06And this has completely changed what scientists
06:08croyaient savoir on these big animals of the past.
06:12It was the first proof that they ponded in the oeufs.
06:15Over the two years following,
06:17the same team of researchers exhumed
06:19more than hundreds of fossils of dinosaurs
06:21who were transported to the American Museum of History Nature
06:24where you can still see them today.
06:27Some of them nageaient in the mer of the Crétacé
06:30that we found there about 71 million years ago.
06:33They resembled to our modern oiseaux.
06:35The mystery of the intestine is still not resolved.
06:38But there is another enigma that scientists have managed to elucide.
06:42In the XIII century, a famous traveler named Marco Polo
06:46traversed the desert of Gobi.
06:48He could hear the noises of mysterious sounds
06:51produced by instruments of music such as the tambours.
06:54In his book, according to him, it was a voice of spirit tormenting.
06:59The modern scientists call it the sable chantant.
07:04Contrairement aux craquements que l'on peut entendre
07:06lorsqu'on marche sur une plage de sable,
07:09ces bruits du désert sont beaucoup plus puissants,
07:11comme ceux d'un instrument de musique jouant des notes profondes et obsédantes.
07:15Au fil des ans, les gens ont avancé toutes sortes d'idées
07:18sur l'origine de ces sons,
07:19comme la présence d'eau souterraine ou de vent qui ferait ne vibrer le sable.
07:24Cependant, ce phénomène n'est propre qu'à certaines dunes,
07:27et les scientifiques ont longtemps cherché à comprendre pourquoi.
07:30Parfois, le vent peut provoquer une petite avalanche,
07:33et l'on peut alors entendre cette étrange musique.
07:36Mais ce phénomène est rare.
07:38Pour l'étudier, les scientifiques ont donc dû aider les dunes à chanter,
07:43grimpant jusqu'au sommet, puis se laissant glisser sur le dos
07:46en utilisant leurs mains et leurs pieds pour pousser le sable vers le bas.
07:50Au fur et à mesure que le sable dégringolait,
07:52le son commençait à se faire entendre, puis devenait de plus en plus puissant.
07:56Les scientifiques sentaient en même des vibrations dans leurs mains.
08:00Ils ont donc découvert que pour qu'une dune chante,
08:04il faut qu'un certain nombre de choses se produisent.
08:07Les grains de sable doivent avoir la bonne forme.
08:10La dune doit être grande et le sable doit être très sec.
08:13Pas de chanson après la pluie.
08:15À l'intérieur de la dune, il doit y avoir une couche dure de sable compactée
08:19qui agit comme un haut-parleur géant.
08:21Cette couche fait rebondir les ondes sonores, rendant le bruit de plus en plus intense
08:26et créant une mélodie envoûtante qui vient remplir tout l'air du désert.
08:30Et voilà le mystère des dunes musicales résolues.
08:33Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
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