24 Hours Surviving Skull Island (*MATURE AUDIENCE ONLY)

This is Skull Island. Hello. And I'm stranded here for the next 24 hours to share this unbelievable story. Welcome to one of the most remote but haunted places in Australia. This place has the craziest history of cannibals, head hunting and unlikely survival that I have ever heard. Now I'm going to share that crazy story with you as we're going but as always I'm doing my best to survive from the ocean while we're out here. So let's get straight into the action. The water looks crystal clear this morning. This might be our best bet to catch something. There's a big long stretch of white sandy beach and clear water here and if I could pick up something for food now that would just make the next 24 hours a hell of a lot easier before it gets too hot. So I'm gonna go for a hand spear approach in the shallows and see if there's anything there that we can get. One thing I have noticed straight away here behind me, this is a turtle track. This time of the year the turtles are coming up here and nesting. One source of food back in the day would have of course been the turtle eggs but we won't be taking any of them today. It's pretty cool to see the tracks all up and down this beach. Another thing that that means with all the turtles around quite often that means there's tiger sharks just cruising around in the shallows waiting for any tired turtles to go back down and an easy meal. So we'll be keeping an eye out for them as well. All right, I'm gonna strap a head mount on. Let's see if we can go catch something. There's another turtle track here. Hang on a second. That ain't no turtle. This one's not a turtle. Yeah, this one is definitely a crocodile. Now this... This is really throwing a spanner in the works. We've come so far out offshore that I didn't think crocodiles would be an issue here at all. I was concerned about the tiger sharks, but not the crocodiles, but this is without a doubt a crocodile slide. 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So, this morning, before the wind picks up too much, I reckon I've got a little window of opportunity to hunt the shallows here with a hand spear. What I'm going after is something like a school of mullet or pretty much any fish that comes too close here I'm gonna have a shot at. Quick disclaimer, guys, I'm no survival expert and these are definitely not survival instructional videos. I'm just a guy that loves an adventure and these crazy survival stories from the past have really sparked my interest lately. Just tracking a school here. Hopefully I can set this camera up. They're just staying too far offshore. There's the big ones out there. Bummer. I was close to taking a shot. Oh, a shark's chasing them. I'm not the only one looking for a feed of mullet this morning and they know it. There's a shark chasing them, so they're really on edge. They're just staying a bit too far offshore here. Hopefully they come a bit closer. I'll get a shot. I'm gonna try pick off that big one up the front. Look at him there. Might come and stand here and wait for him to come to me. All right, don't move. Wait for him to come, wait for him to come. No, they're too far. They're too far. Bugger them. That school's on to me. I'm gonna have to keep looking for a less wary one. Which way are these guys going? There's a school of fish here. I've just spotted the mother load of mullet and they're coming this way. All right, don't stuff this one up, Jack. All the surface of the water there is like bubbling. That's how you know there's a school of fish there. This is our best shot yet. Close, but not close enough. They're all just a bit too far away at the moment. They're all the way out there. Just gonna be patient. Hopefully they give me a shot. So there's two different schools of fish here. One I called a longtom. They're really skinny. They're close up and hope they give me a shot. Yep, got one. How's that for a shot? Those mullet never came close enough, but that longtom, there's a bit of food on that anyway for us. You beauty. Check out the teeth on him as well. Some of the most savage teeth in the fish kingdom. Look at that. This is a little bay here and it seems to be full of life. There's a turtle that's coming past here and it looks like a big school of mullet. This could be a good chance to get some more food. Bugger! Big school of mullet there, but there was also a turtle in the shallows. I didn't want to spook him, so I had to wait for him to pass. While they're still here, these mullet, I might get another chance. They're all spread out. I've got to wait for them to form a bit of a school again. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Look off the point here. Big school of mullet. They've just spooked a bit deeper and there's a deep dark hole here. I don't want to just go running and jumping in there. All right now, story time. So imagine this for just a sec. The year is 1843 and you are a 14 year old cabin boy on board a large wooden ship sailing up the east coast of Australia. When it seems like the worst possible outcome occurred. You run aground on an isolated reef. The whole boat is completely shipwrecked. You and the 30-odd crew on board stay on board the shipwrecked boat for a couple of weeks and salvage together a couple of wooden type life rafts and set off onto the great blue hoping to be rescued. Little do you know at this time, your whole ordeal, your nightmare is really just about to get started. So after a couple of days of drift at sea, your prayers appear to be answered. A large canoe pulls up alongside of what appears to be the native people. They appear friendly. You can't speak their language and they can't speak yours, but this is your only real chance of survival. So you jump on board this large canoe with them and the rest of your crew and abandoned your little raft. After a short paddle in the canoe, you arrive at an island fairly similar to this. White sandy beach, clear turquoise water surrounding it and there's a couple of makeshift temporary huts on the beach, which you assume is like a temporary fishing camp. Surely this is the first step of you being saved. They must have water here. They must have food here. How lucky. But upon arriving on the beach, the mood quickly changes. You and your crew find a little spot up under the shady trees similar to this and you have a lie down. You can't help but fall asleep. Shortly after you're woken by a noise and then you witness an organized and coordinated attack on your entire crew. The native people, which seemingly rescued you, now have big clubs in their hand and they are smashing people on the head to kill them and then instantly decapitating them, chopping their heads off and discarding their bodies. They're going around one by one by one. No one has a chance to even fight back. When you realize you're next, you get up and make a bit of a struggle and bite the person trying to kill you on his arm. He lets go of you for a second and you manage to escape. Peering through the bushes, you now notice that your entire crew is dead, their bodies discarded on the tideline with all their heads placed up a little bit higher up the beach. But for some reason they've chosen to spare your life as well as the life of a little two-year-old baby that was also on board for this entire ordeal. His name is William Doyley. Really sorry for the graphic details here guys. They then take turns by going up and slicing meat off the cheeks and eating the eyeballs out of these heads. They're not interested in the bodies, they're discarded to the sharks. Purely just eating the meat off the head. Combined with some rituals of dancing and chanting around the fire, it's not until the next morning you realize that your life has been spared. They're not going to kill you and they've chosen to keep you and young William alive. The only two survivors from the shipwreck of the Charles Eaton. Oh, look at this! That is a perfect Nautilus shell, not even chipped slightly. These are rare as hen's teeth to find in such good condition. What an absolute treasure. Cute little turtle just cruising along. Hey, buddy. So pretty soon after your captors pile you, young William, and the skulls of your previous crew on board, pile them all into a little canoe and then set off, paddling for over a hundred miles to reach this island here. They seemingly bypass hundreds of other scattered islands to arrive here. Upon arrival here, you soon realize they aren't the only skulls they've collected. You've been taken in by a bunch of head hunters and they pile those skulls next to a shrine or a monument of plenty of other skulls on this island. Over the next 24 hours, I want to see if I can find any remains of the shrine that they used to worship with all these skulls around. And why this island? And why this island when there's so many to choose from? Why did they choose this to be the skull island? Now, for those of you that love a happy ending, hang in there because there is a happy ending destined for young William and John. I'll share that with you in just a moment. He's just spooked offshore. I'm just gonna keep an eye on him. Hopefully he comes back. Man, he was, he was so close. He was almost within shot range. I sort of hesitated, but I just didn't, I didn't want to miss him. I think I might get one chance at him. This would just be amazing if he comes back. That is gonna haunt me for a long time. I was just waiting for the perfect shot, but the perfect shot never came and I might have missed my chance with him there. So for this episode, it wasn't so much the survival skills that interested me in this challenge. I mean, they were far more skilled hunters than what I am. You know, they were literally hunter and gatherers. So catching food with a hand spear and building a shelter, it's what they did. Would have come very easy. So this episode, I've got a swag and I've got a fishing rod to help me catch some food. There's two things that really interest me with this story. Number one is why the head hunters chose this island. They traveled over a hundred miles from where they first met the castaways and killed them to arrive here to make this skull island. And number two is why since then have people refused to repopulate this area? I mean, this was once a prime base for a whole village of people, but since then no one wants to live here. I promise there was a happy ending. Thankfully, everyone on these islands wasn't head hunters and about 60 miles away, there's a group of islands called the Murray Islands. They got wind. They heard that there was a couple of white boys that had been spared on this island here while the rest of the crew had been murdered. They chose to paddle for those 60 miles here and they presented them a deal they could not refuse. In exchange of the two boys, they presented them with two bunches of bananas. One bunch per boy. Took them over to Murray Island where they then cared for them, nurtured them and took them in as their own. Young William, who was only two years old to start with, he then learnt the the native language. They both learnt how to hunt. They both learnt the rituals and the traditions of the Murray Island people. An absolutely amazing story of survival against all odds and of generosity from the people from from Murray Island. All right. Now, let's go fishing. Another cool Nautilus. This is what most of them look like that you find, kind of smashed open by the rough seas. That last one we found before was pretty rare. Leave this one be. Good spot to look for fish down here if they're hiding in any of this structure. Oh man, I'm on a roll. It's a good sign that not many people visit this island, the amount of Nautilus shells here. So after three years in total had passed since the Charles Eaton had first run aground, a rescue boat was sent out by the government to look for survivors. They only found two, of course, young William and young John. Poor William was kicking and screaming. Now five years old, he didn't want to leave the only life he ever knew. He felt really at home there. John would then go on to write a book about his ordeal, and that's how a lot of these details came out. The rescue boat called the Isabella. They heard the full story, they heard about the headhunters, and upon arriving at the island here, all the locals must have been tipped off and they'd fled. But they found a sacred area where they must have been worshipping this shrine and there was over 50 skulls. So they not only worship these skulls, but they use these skulls as a currency to trade and the white man's skull was prized over everything else. They would take it as far up as Papua New Guinea and trade one of these skulls for grand things like giant big canoes and bow and arrows and elusive products like this that they couldn't get back here. Well, I didn't have much luck against those mullet this morning. I'm gonna try and make a woomera, which the aboriginal people used expertly. It's a spear thrower that goes on the back of this and allows the spear to be propelled for longer. It goes with greater strength, greater power and more accurate. Let's see how we go. Whoo! Bullseye! I think we're gonna have more luck against these mullet now. That's awesome. Hey, look at the bird life here. Wilson? No bloody way. This is crazy. Now for anyone that's been watching this series, a couple of episodes about 150 miles south. I survived by drinking this type, this exact water. There was heaps of it washed in on the beach. There must have been like a container of this. We're now 150 miles to the north and we're still finding this, look, completely sealed, unopened, fresh water. What an absolute gift. Middle of the day now. It's probably like 33 degrees. I'm gonna need all the hydration I can get. You could just about boil your dinner in that. That's really hot, but beautiful fresh water. That's amazing, eh? Now while we are back in the exact same spot where this crazy story unfolded, there's one thing that has changed. The amount of man-made plastic and rubbish all over these beaches. This is just about one of the only useful things I could imagine from it. Fresh drinking water to save the castaways, but other than that, it's a real shame. It breaks you hard, all the rubbish on the beach here. No, honestly, this is incredible. Another one. And we've been finding this on the castaways episodes we've been doing, all up the coast from the last survival challenge. It's a lifesaver if anyone gets stuck out here. Bit of erosion happening here. What's this? Oh, you beauty. So under this eroded bank, it's a bloody potato. No way. That is huge. Look at this. That's bloody amazing. Little one here. This is unbelievable. So there's been some big storm surge that's eroded this entire bank away, and I found a couple of... I mean, this thing looks like a potato. So I was aware that the Aboriginal people back in the day would eat down in the roots, they would find tubers, like underground yams and stuff like that, that they would eat. It's like a starchy type of vegetable, but I never knew, I never knew they got that size. That is a whopper. I'm gonna try and eat this and see how it is, but what an absolute gift, hey? It's like going to the grocery store through the vegetable section. I'm gonna keep walking, see what else I can find. Actually, something kind of eerie just crossed my mind as we're walking along here. I wonder if there's anything else been exposed that had been buried up for a number of years, like whether there's artifacts or weapons they used, or I mean with a name like Skull Island, whether there's any, any... I was gonna say any remains, but check this out. What an absolute gift, hey? Look at that. Oh man, you learn something new every time you come out. We're having fish and chips for dinner, baby. Look at this. Amazing. I wonder what they taste like. We'll find out a bit later on. Have a go at the size of this thing. What? What the hell is this? It's almost the size of my head. There's so many. There's the next couple hundred meters is like this. I was always told to only take what you need. I think I've got enough now, so I'm just gonna leave. I mean, there's plenty of them. Leave all the rest here just in case there's any other poor bloke washers in here and needs a feed of potatoes. Voyage of the Isabella that came out and rescued John Island and young William, angry for some revenge and retaliation, came and burnt down every, the entire village, burnt down every little hut that was scattered along the shoreline here. They said they chopped down and destroyed every single coconut tree here. So these ones must have been washed in in the last, you know, hundred or so years and are now fruiting some nice, nice ones, which I'm gonna go up and get in a minute. Haven't been picked for a while, these ones. Nice. Keep hydrated, and then we'll keep moving. Big one. All smashed in the exact same spot. Now, this might be a sign that we're getting closer to where their sacred camp would have been. This is a spider conch, quite a favorite food for the islanders. You can see it's quite obviously smashed open there. So they can eat the meat out the back of it. So we might be coming to an area where I can start looking inland to see if there's remains of this sacred but, but haunted site. This is the highest elevation I've found and a couple of coconut trees have since grown back here, so it's probably a good spot to look up here. Nice vantage point. Tomato sauce. I don't think that was on the menu for the cannibals. So there is plenty of those spider conch around and it's nice elevation, so it gives you a nice viewpoint over the lagoon. But I haven't found any natural features that would suggest this would be a good place to set up your sacred site. So we'll keep heading around and see what else we find. I'll have a look out the back here. Oh, hang on a second. We might be onto something here. Just being pretty careful where I step here. There's one thing for sure. This is no natural formation of rocks here. Neither is that, neither is that, neither is that. Now the place where the skull monument was found was described as like a little hut. The hut was burnt down and destroyed, but if there was any remains of stones or rocks, of course they would have survived. I'm going to have a bit more of a look around, see if I can make any sense of it. This also is a mirinda, mirinda tree, which is a fruit that was eaten by them. So everything here, it almost looks like has been planted, like a natural garden type of thing. Yeah, this is super eerie. So there's these bigger rocks down below. That have been stacked and then smaller ones piled on top. So in John's book, he described how the headhunters would trade all sorts of objects, but they highly prized certain stones, certain rocks, exactly like this from an island, Forbes Island, which is maybe 150 miles to the south of us. There's none of these stones, none of these rocks on these islands. These are all just sand islands. This gives me strong reason to believe that all these rocks were placed here by the headhunting tribe back in the day. And this could well have been the place. Now to be honest, I wasn't sure what I was going to find, if anything, if anything remained. But to think this could be the final resting place of so many people, I'm just going to sort of tiptoe my way out of here with all the respect in the world and continue, continue around the island. Man, I've got goosebumps. I've got shivers today. Heck dick. So this looks like the most densely vegetated area on the whole island, which generally is a good sign of fresh water. And the other thing, this looks like a crocodile slide. We know crocodiles love going to sources of fresh water. He's got a better smelling ability than me, so he can smell fresh water a lot further than I can. He might have come up from the ocean and slid his way into there. Let's go very carefully and have a look. There might be like a freshwater spring in here. And that would explain the cultural significance of that spot there. All right, it's really green in here, which is of course a good sign of water. Pretty dense, pretty green. Oh, but all right. This might be as far as we go. There's more of these stone mounds laid in here. A big one over there. While I'm keen to find a water source, I definitely don't want to go trudging on people's final resting place or anything like that. I mean, it's a pretty good sign. Look how green these leaves are. But we are hindered now by about, you know, 180 years of growth. All these vines and stuff like that. That's sort of covering up any obvious walkways. Back in the day, they would have regularly burned and walked through all this, so there would have been regular pathways. But yeah, I might respectfully leave this place and head out back to the coast. This is very snaky grass, this. I'm keen to get out of here. Oh, man. This is not where I want to be. Wow, it's low tide now. Wow, that tide has completely dropped out now. I'm going to make the most of the low tide. Go for a bit of a walk out here over the flats and see if there's any more protein I can get for food. If there's any fish I could spear or any shells I could eat. Let's take a bit of a walk. Clamshells like that were a popular food source for the islanders back in the day, but they're now protected. So we'll leave that one be and look for something else. No way. This would be the freshest one I've ever found. Looks like the animal just literally just left its shell. Amazing. That is so cool. Alrighty, let's go. Oh, yeah, this is a razor clam. I can eat this guy. He's coming home for dinner. A very unsuccessful walk so far. I haven't really found anything. Just that one razor clam. I'll keep looking a little bit further. There's a bit of a deeper pool up here. Oh. Look how well camouflaged this little guy is. That is really, really cool. He's awesome. There's a few different types of sea cucumbers here. None of which I'm really that keen to eat at the moment. There's a few cockle type things. Ah, holy s***. Oh. Wow, that hurt. Oh, man, I'm gonna have to have a look at that. It's like a nail. I'll try to limp that one off. At least it wasn't a stonefish. That had me worried there for a second. Overall, a pretty unsuccessful mission on the reef flats. One small razor clam and a bloody sore foot. All right, let's check the damage. Oh, yeah, it got me. Oh, man, it's a bit tender. Pierce straight through the boot. It's a bit tender there. Actually, it looks like there's something broken off inside it there. See that black thing? Oh, yeah, something inside it. Bugger. That's why it's so sore. Oh, s***. I need to get a fishing hook or something in there to clean it out. Get out of there, you little bugger. Oh, holy s***. What is that? Something must have been attached to the end of that bit of coral. Yeah, gotta get that out. All right, time to continue on. I guess the fact that our little backpack's a lot heavier than when we left, it means it's been a successful hunting and gathering mission so far. Feels like there's like 20 kilos of potatoes in there. Oh, look at this. Look at this. Man, there's some cool old bottles washed in on the tide lines here. This one says PNG. This remains the property Trade Winds PNG. Come down from Papua New Guinea. Oh, there's a bit of a honey hole here for beachcombing. What have we got? What have we got? Anything cool? Looks like a bomb, but a gas bottle? Nothing useful. Looks like a fridge freezer might have come off a boat that's sunk. So much stuff gets washed in here. Holy, it's crazy hot at the moment now, right in the middle of the day. There's a school of fish here. Missed them. Stingray feeding here. Blue spot stingray just feeding in the shallows. I could have got him, I reckon, but just not quite big enough to justify killing him, I don't think. Oh, man, these march flies driving me bloody mad. These two have been following me for kilometers. Three of them now. Get lost. I've just spotted that tusky again. I'm finally going to get my chance. Oh, man, I'm nervous. I'm like shaking. I'm so nervous. I really, really want this fish. No! Man, I've been waiting all day for that. I didn't know if I was going to get another chance. Just missed him. Holy ****. A giant manta ray just jumped so far out of the water. That was incredible. It was huge. Right on the reef edge there. I want to see if it does it again. That was crazy. No way, I might get another chance at redemption. There's one just here. I don't know if it's the same one or not, but I'm going to try sneak up on him, but don't miss this time, Jack. Bugger, he's spooked. That might have been my last chance. So by chopping down all the coconut trees, it definitely would have ruined a real kind of life source of hydration here for the headhunters, because when it's this hot, you just really, really rely on coconuts so much. I'm going through them today. Nice. The thing that I haven't worked out yet is why hasn't anyone moved back? There's plenty of coconut trees here now. There's other options for hydration. It's not quite clear to me yet, but that is a little bit of a mystery. I mean, seems like a great island. All right, it's about that time of the day to set up camp, get a fire going and then start cooking dinner. All right, let's get a fire going. There we go. It probably wouldn't have been my first selection of fish or second or third or probably even not in the top 50, but we're going to have longtong and this behemoth of a potato yam thing. Fish and chips. I hope this thing's not poisonous, but man, what a gift, hey? Most of the bush tucker you forage and look for around here, you don't get much yield out of it. It's quite small, but this, like what a treat. Slices very similar to a potato. I'm hoping it tastes as good as a potato. So I'm going to chop them up into chip-sized bits, cover them in oil, bit of salt, pepper, cook them straight on the fire. And I guess that's going to be like a bush tucker version of fish and chips. I've got no idea how these are going to turn out, but interested to try them. Starting to get a nice frying sound already here. Let's see how this guy goes. They're starting to really look and smell like chips. This is awesome. I just hope they taste like them as well. I've got that razor clam on there now cooking. I've never eaten these guys, but looks like a nice little bit of meat in there. Beautiful beach kitchen tonight. All right, let's cook in there. Straight on the coals. And we'll see how this guy went. Oh, nice. Delicate little sucker. A little oyster of meat there. Very similar to that of a mud mussel. Very sweet, a bit crunchy. That fish is almost done. So there we have it guys. Fish and chips served with a view. It's pretty good, isn't it? Alrighty, let's see how he went with these chips. Man, did you hear that crunch? Sort of want them to taste like a potato chip, but they're almost really good, but there's a bit of a sour taste that you don't get with your normal chips from the fish and chip shop. It's got a bit of a sour aftertaste that almost almost tastes a little bit like you're not meant to eat them. They almost taste a little bit poisonous. So I might go a little bit easy on them, but there's nothing wrong with that at all. That meat on that long time is actually quite nice. They are riddled with a lot of bones. At the moment behind you guys, we've got one hell of a mother nature show going on. The sun's setting, there's birds coming back in. Amazing. So I'm going to smash this food down and watch it all unfold. So I've been setting a trail cam before bed most nights to see if we can catch any of the animal activity like the turtles coming up to nest or the goannas sniffing around for the turtle's eggs. So we'll put it here and then that way we can get any turtles coming up or goannas coming down. Testing, one, two. Someone's outside. I've just heard someone outside. Hello. Hello. Oh man, I've got, I've got crazy goosebumps at the moment. I heard someone outside. My fire is now going again that I put out hours ago. And I heard footprints straight unmistakably out the front of my swag that woke me up. And that fire's kicked back off again. I put that fire out hours ago because it was so smoky. Oh, there's no way I'm getting back to sleep now. The hairs on my neck are like standing up with chills. I'm just going to sit out here and see if I hear it again. Oh man. That. Sorry for the language. What a crazy, crazy night. I've been trying to think what that noise could have been like a rational explanation. Maybe it was a big turtle that was swimming in the shallows and came up for a breath. They do a big loud that type of a thing when they, when they come up for a breath. Oh, actually I've got the, I set the trail camera up last night. I'm going to go have a look, see to see if there's any footage on that. So these trail cameras, they're set up so they will only start filming if two things happen, if there's movement in front of them or if there is a heat source moving in front of them. You've got me hopping around outside with a torch. It's got me coming outside of the swag here. But oh man, this is the, this is the crazy thing. So this starts filming when I reckon I heard the noise and then, you know, like 10 seconds later, you see me then start turning the torch on and filming inside the swag and then I come outside. There's no obvious movement but there must have been, I mean, a heat source or something has triggered this. There's a dead bird. Like this is where I've got my, my bag and stuff I put down last night, fishing rod. And how did I not notice this dead bird right where all my gear was? Some strange, a bit of a strange feeling about this place, hey? That's weird, really weird. Let's see if we can catch some brekkie or lunch today. Just gonna try a little popper. Hopefully this rod finally pulls its weight. It's been, hasn't been too useful so far. Things are looking up this morning. First cast just to wake up and the rod has finally pulled its weight. That is a beautiful coral trout straight off the beach. Amazing, hey? Well, a hell of a lot better than that long time we had yesterday. So we got lunch sorted. Well, I've just put the drone up in the air and I've seen something that we overlooked or we just completely missed yesterday. There's something out the back here. We've got to go check this out. And I'm going to take this there. I feel like this will be the fitting thing to do. Must have been just hidden from where I was looking on the beach, but wow, can't miss it from this angle. I hadn't even seen this yesterday, but we're on a bit of a raised hill here. There's some unmarked graves. These ones, obviously with no cross on them, but just stones very similar to the stones we found yesterday. This one here with the cross on it. But I feel this is the right thing to do anyway. Rest easy, mate. Whereas these ones over here, they've got the pearl shells over the top of them. It sort of just adds a whole other layer to the infamous Skull Island, doesn't it? When I was coming here, I really wanted to find out two questions. Number one is why was this place chosen to be Skull Island out of all the islands? And I think I've got a pretty good understanding of that now. I mean, this is a prime island. There's a lot of food source. You can catch coral trout straight out the front. Also where it's located, it gives a great central base for trading. As we know, these headhunters used to trade skulls for things like canoes up in Papua New Guinea. They used to trade all the way down south with the Australian Aboriginals, trade to the east and the west, and this was a prime location for doing so. The second question is why, since then, have people refused to repopulate this island? And I think we might have found out the answer to that last night. So the islanders around here are very spiritual, somewhat superstitious, and with strange things happening like that, I think maybe the poor castaways that died all those years ago, they might be getting the last laugh and keeping this paradise island to themselves now. Either way, I think my time has come to let everyone rest in peace here and move on. Hope you enjoyed this episode, guys. If you are coming past here, hot tip, don't camp overnight on Skull Island. See you on the next one.