Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

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And welcome back to Coast to Coast, George and Ori with you.

Jay Wesley Richards with us, the price of panic.

And there is panic still out there, Jay.

I mean, I remember when this first started.

And there was a little tiny story I had back in December that talked about how one person had gotten sick and Wuhan.

China eating a quote unquote tainted bat from a wet market.

Then about a week later we found out there was a viral lab in Wuhan.

I have put together my theory that this thing started there. What do you think about that?

Yeah, we think the same thing if we were to guess.

And so we actually looked at the sequence of the virus.

And of course there are these rumors that maybe it was engineered.

So there are sort of separate questions. There is a question, okay, where exactly did it come from?

Did it come from the wet market?

Or did it come from the really the Wuhan Institute of Viralogy?

And then is it natural or is it artificial?

We think there could be artificial, but there is nothing in the sequence of the RNA of the virus that suggests that.

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