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"No go - area", a super secret test area of the US Air Force, a hiding place of aliens: all this, spiced with thousands of rumors and legends, is the AREA 51. A paradise, a "dreamland" for UFO hunters and ET believers. In fact, the Pentagon founded the so-called "Nellis Bombing and Gunnery Range" in 1954 along Groom Salt Lake, in the heart of Nevada, probably the most secret military object in the world. Such legendary spy planes as the "Blackbird" or the stealth bombers invisible to radar come from the test laboratories of the strictly guarded desert area. Until 1994, the military denied the existence of the test site. When the first photos appeared, one had to admit to maintaining some aircraft hangars in this area. To this day, the spectacular story of the physicist Bob Lazaar has not been refuted that he worked on an alien flying object in the sanctum of the facility. Food for all UFO hunters. Rumours refer to a legend according to which President Eisenhower himself once negotiated with extraterrestrials about the use of their technology. In return, "little grey creatures" should be allowed to use the desert area in Nevada as a kind of landing and take-off facility for their ships. Pure nonsense is claimed by many, while others believe that just about anything is possible.

Eight hundred kilometres off the south-east coast of the African continent, a patch of earth "floats" in the Indian Ocean, which is still one of the most mysterious regions of our planet today. Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world, has been trapped by ghosts for almost 1500 years, paralyzed as if under a "voodoo magic". The spirits hide themselves behind "Fady", a word with multi-layered meaning. It denotes a taboo, a ban. Any contact with Fady brings bad luck, often even death, the locals say. In former times the French occupiers and their cannons were "Fady". Today "Fady" ghosts through the jungle in the interior of the island and along the turquoise coast of the island. "Tonga soa": welcome to Madagascar . The porcupine fish is "Fady", the poisonous water snake off the coast, chameleons and of course lemurs, the heraldic animals of the island. Lemurs, monkey-like creatures, live worldwide only on Madagascar. The locals in the rainforest speak only quietly of the "pitch-black forest monster", the "Aye Aye". It brings death and steals the coconuts at night. The Madegassen immediately kill these cat-sized lemurs as soon as they appear. However, the nocturnal mammal rarely shows up. This increases the fear. "GO EAST ..." gets to the bottom of this myth, with local fishermen on the coast and in the middle of the jungle of the unspoilt interior of the island. "Nevertheless, we have not seen "Fady". Only locals saw that "myth". And they say, we only had luck. Next time "it" knows us and then we should be careful.

No living creature spreads so much fear and terror, no animal has such a bad reputation. Cold blooded robber, killer and man-eater, in short: the shark. Marine biologists are now in the process of fathoming the mystery of this great unknown of the seas. They replaced horror myths that were ready for filming with astonishing insights into a perfect successful model of evolution that went into series production around 400 million years ago. Gary Adkinson, a renowned shark researcher, lives and works on the small archipelago of the "Abaco Islands" northwest of the Bahamas. The sea around the "Little Abaco Islands" is considered to be heavily "shark contaminated", a true paradise for researchers like Adkinson. Swarms of bull, hammer and Atlantic reef sharks live in front of the sandbanks of the Abaco Atolls. "It is dangerous to dive there, the sharks too unpredictable," warn even the professionals among the many diving instructors of the neighboring Bahama Islands. Only a few years ago, the then outsider Adkinson started an experiment that brought him international prestige in the conspiracy of the Haiforscher community. On the small Abaco island Walker's Cay he founded a shark research centre and a diving base, which is open for every diver with basic knowledge. Adkinson's recipe is surprisingly simple and yet not without a thrill. He claims that every diver can move safely even in a pack of eating sharks once he has learned to correctly assess the reactions of the animals. This is exactly what Adkinson and his staff are trying to teach shark enthusiasts in a 2-week course. "Until now", says Adkinson, "it still worked. Once you have the fear of the animals under control, you are ready to dive into a crowd of hunting sharks.