Devil's Trail

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This show has taken us to many exotic locales in our lives, but none as exotic, as scenic, oh yeah, there it is, New Jersey. Zombie guy is just perfect for this. He's as excited as we are to go to the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Who's ready to meet some Pineys? - Hello again.

- Oh yeah. Again? - It's our next episode.

- Nobody remembers you. - Hey. - I don't want to be on camera. Oh, come on. This is our-our lovely

and talented friend, Lucy. Who uh, who is kind enough to uh, drive us to drop off points, and then wait to pick us back up. And uh, uh, she basically eats the food we don't get to eat-- For the 21 days. Is this your first time in

the New Jersey Pine Barrens? - It is, actually. Yeah, yeah, first time. It's, it's a lifelong

goal of mine actually. It was on my bucket list

for places I wanted to go. So-- I used to date a

girl in Edison, New Jersey. But we don't want to talk about that. So uh-- All right. And action. - Hello, and welcome to

a very special episode of Road to Nowhere. I'm your host, Dallas Collins. - And I'm Hank Souza. - And we are here in the heart of the Pine Barrens

wilderness in New Jersey. A vast stretch of untamed wilderness where for the next 21 days, we will be attempting to survive off nothing but the wilderness. - You know, a lot of people, when they think about New Jersey, they think of smog, highways, and that one movie by Zach Braff, but there's actually a bustling wilderness that can be very dangerous

in the Garden State, uh, far more scary than any Kevin

Smith movie you've ever seen. - This is also a very, very

special episode because for the first time on this show, we will be entering an

area of the wilderness that is supposedly haunted. And we'll be discussing

some of those urban legends coming up shortly. - And uh, hopefully this

will be airing in October so it can be our Halloween episode, our first ever Halloween episode. Uh, and if it isn't, then

man, those executives at the Home and Garden Channel, you're really slippin', folks. Get a grip on your audience. As part of our 21 day survival challenge, we've been allowed three personal items to help with survival. Now, I want to mention that

these three personal items are very important because

any advantage you could have in the wilderness could

be the difference between life or death.

- Yes it would. - But, other than these

three personal items, and flashlights, which we were allotted because without light, we're just dead in the woods.

- Yeah. - Um, other than these items, we have nothing more than

what a backpacker would have if they had intended to

be out for an afternoon and ended up stuck for a week. So uh, Dallas, why don't you

show them what you've got? - Yeah, so today, I have brought

my knife/flint firestarter, I have my military grade compass, and I have brought my lucky slingshot. Nice. - Well, I have brought... My utility knife. Very, very important

to always have a knife. - Absolutely.

- Both of us need a knife. Knives ar every important,

they're all-purpose tools, and they allow you to very much survive. So I have my knife, and I have a canteen, for gathering water, obviously. Uh, water is extremely important, much more important than food. A lot of people think that they need to obtain food immediately. You can live two weeks,

three weeks without food. But water, you've got days. So I have this canteen here--

- Absolutely. - So we can get the basics, because we want to have fresh water first. - Mmhmm. - Then we'll want to attempt

to obtain shelter and food. - That's right.

- And then of course, the most important element, my sunglasses. - Sunglasses. Survival gear. Nice. - I have sensitive eyes. Do you want a blind partner in the woods? - Uh, not necessarily. I think that'll put a damper on my trip. - Well, and if it makes, if it makes you feel

better at home, folks, uh, these sunglasses are about as useful as his slingshot. My slingshot is very, very useful. I have hit many, many

things with my slingshot. - Your knuckles don't count. But now, we need to go

further into the woods and eventually find the right

campsite for our first night in these spooky, haunted, witch's woods. - That's right. - And we're gonna talk a

little bit more about the uh, the stories behind the

New Jersey Pine Barrens in just a minute. But first, I got to scratch my ass. They're not gonna use that part, I'm sure. I just--

- No. - I just thought that

that would be, you know? - I'm not gonna scratch your ass. - One of the biggest legends-- Oh, dude, dude, dude. Take off your sunglasses. Take off the sunglasses, dude. - One of the most famous

legends surrounding the New Jersey Pine Barrens is

of course the Jersey Devil. A story of Mother Leeds in the early 1700s who had 12 children and said

if she had a 13th child, "May it be born a devil." And apparently, it sure was. And since then, the Pine

Barrens in particular have been haunted by this

creature with hooves, wings, and terrifying red, beady eyes. Now, that being said, it's

very important that I point out that in the state of New Jersey, there is a high population of cranes. And cranes, if you look at a picture, they kind of look a lot

like what people describe as the Jersey Devil. So most people, most

skeptics, myself included, have dismissed the Jersey

Devil pretty much entirely as people seeing cranes at night because if you look at the woods, you're gonna notice, they

seem, they seem pretty affable, pretty nice, even on a gloomy October day. But I'll tell you right now, and you will find out

shortly in the program, when the sun goes down,

these woods became... these,

we can put a cut in there. These woods become very, very scary. I think that worked. I like that one.

- Yeah, I think it was, I think it was fine.

- Yeah, they can cut that slip up out. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine. Now, why are we discussing

urban legends on a nature show? Now it's important to remember that fear is your number one enemy out here. People tell stories about the woods because they're afraid of the unknown, and that is what gets you

into trouble out here. Now, you can't go into the

woods worrying about witches and goblins and demons. What you really have to

worry about is clean water, and-and fresh food. You can't let fear sink in. The moment you do, you start to panic. And panic is the number one

reason why people get lost and they die in the woods. So we're here to teach

you how to survive using, you know, just what's in front of you. How to survive, you know, a bear attack. How to get clean water,

how to get fresh food. This is why we're here, to

teach you how to survive. - So how much cash

money do you want to bet that you can hit anything

other than a tree with your slingshot? - I'm not placin' bets right now. - Well I mean, obviously,

when we get back, you're gonna pay. Uh... See, he'd be fine with

placing a bet, folks, if he thought he could win. - $500. - $500. I will bet you $500 I can hit

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