even today
there are unexplored jungle areas in remote parts of the world
we can't be sure what is waiting to be found in these areas
and based on previous discoveries, it's hard to know what to expect
Towards the end of the second world war
a lot of high-ranking Nazis lost faith in their leader
So they made plans to evade justice in the event of a German surrender
one group of Nazis travelled to Argentina and built a secret bunker
Just last year the now-abandoned bunker was discovered in the jungle
all kinds of old nazi coins and propaganda were found inside
They think the SS built a worldwide network of Secret bunkers just like this one
in 1858, french explorer Henri Mouhot made an amazing discovery in the Cambodian jungle
It was for lost medieval city of Angkor
as the world's biggest pre-industrial City,
it gives us an idea of how thick the jungle was to hide Angkor for so long
the city is so big it took an entire century to excavate
just two years ago,
another lost city was discovered 25 miles north of Angkor
its 350 years older than Angkor, and even has a better name
Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese soldier in World War two
stationed in a jungle hideout, he was never informed of the end of the war
so for another 29 years he lived in the jungle still thinking the war was ongoing
many search parties entered Asian jungles to try and find lost soldiers
but he would avoid these groups, thinking they were the enemy
he eventually found a letter posted to a tree
The letter said the war had ended and that all soldiers should return home.
but he thought it was enemy propaganda and ignored it
in 1974 he was discovered by a japanese Explorer
the Explorer located Onoda's superior officer, who ordered him to return home
in 1991 the world's biggest cave was discovered in the middle of a Vietnamese jungle
cave surveys revealed its maximum height to be 627 feet high
its volume is 38.5 million cubic meters, which far exceeds any other we know of
but it's always possible an even bigger cage will be discovered
in 1926 a lost Mayan city was found in a guatemalan jungle
now known to be the semi legendary city of El Mirador, the city peaked around 200 BC with a
population over a hundred thousand
but the city was slowly declining
And was abandoned around the 9th century
it features a 236 foot high pyramid
which attracts as many looters as tourists
looting artefacts is a 10 million dollar a month market so they tend to target El Mirador
Ho Van Thanh was devastated after his wife and child were killed by a land mine during the Vietnam war
so he became a hermit, living in a jungle treehouse
he made his own clothes out of tree bark and hunted food with a bow and arrow
He was recently discovered by nearby villages after forty years of isolation
at the age of 81, he's literally spent half his life in the jungle
there is a mysterious species of ape that lives in the Congo
until recently it wasn't believed in by anyone other than conspiracy theorists
but DNA evidence has confirmed their existence
The Bondo ape live so deep in the jungle that none have been captured alive
it's basically just a giant chimpanzee
and scientists really are desperate to capture one
it's unknown how many exist
But their discovery gave hope to people who believe in BigFoot
in 2007 a woman emerged from a Cambodian jungle
She was spotted by local villagers after stealing some food
and they took her to a Buddhist temple
They also reported seeing a man with her carrying a sword, but he ran away once spotted
Some believe him to be an ancient jungle spirit
now known as the Cambodian Jungle girl
was reported by the media as a feral child raised in the wild
a local man claims she is his daughter who went missing 19 years before
She isn't yet able to speak any language so we can't be sure who she really is
In the second world war, Air Force pilots would often fly incredibly dangerous supply routes
Just months ago, the remains of two of these airmen were found in an Indian jungle
some ask why it took 76 years to find their corpses
And that's because searching for dead soldiers like them only began recently
the surrounding areas are dangerous
which obviously hinders the search for more corpses
but they expect to find dozens more
earlier this year, real-life treasure hunters discovered what is known as:
The ancient city of the monkey god
Deep within a central American jungle
was discovered the city once hunted by the Spanish and always thought off as just a myth
it's more well known as the City of Gold
Local legend tells of a monkey god who once lived there
the monkey god would impregnate native women against their will
and they would give birth to human monkey hybrids
now that is obvious nonsense. But the reality within the city could be worth billions