(Recently posted on the official Pariah Island site here. Formatting corruption of this repost courtesy MySpace.)

You have probably already seen the aerial shots of Pariah Island such as this one, courtesy the daring pilots of Private Islands Online:

You've probably also seen a few of the beach and shoreline shots of the island from our demo shoot photos (here) including this one showing hostMike Tanley ridding his home-away-from-home of sea birds:

But few people have yet to see the interior of Pariah Island, as it appears for upcoming the 25th season. Recently a team of photojournalists hired by The Network were tasked with photographing the island as it will appear when Team Flatus and Team Typhus diligently duke it. Only one photojournalist came back, and with all the injuries he sustained, we can only officially call him a journalist now... the photo part of his title was literally torn from him. It was messy.

Here's a look at island's dark interior:

BELOW: Portions of the island allow some sea water into the interior, forming mini-island "hammocks" within the island itself. Here the waters are calm, but the rabid razorfish... not so much:

BELOW: Team Typhus member Gator wanders foolishly through the wooded interior, oblivious to the fact that the photographer stalking him is also a zombie hungry for human flesh. And drunk, too!

BELOW: From Typhus' camp site, we can see a glimpse of Mike Tanley's air conditioned plantation house in the distance. You can almost smell the Pop Tarts and hookah pipe.

BELOW: The palm trees surrounding the team campsites may look harmless, but each is covered in a poisonous palm sap called Poisonous Palm Sap.

BELOW: A strange hedge maze? An ancient Druid shrubberyhenge? Or did God just come down and dip his finger in the world, and twirl it around a bit? I dunno, you tell me:

BELOW: Another look at Shrubberyhenge:

BELOW: One of the only shelters on the island has been overrun with Creeping Slothvine. At night, these thick vines hum the melody to Smiths songs.

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BELOW: The remains of an unlucky ship that came aground only to call Pariah Island it's final resting place:

BELOW: The photo does not fully display the depth of this giant crater, now grown over, but still left with the cause of it: an fallen WWII German bomb.

BELOW: A spot either intended for a team campsite, or a challenge arena, surrounded by giant bamboo:

BELOW: Buddha makes an appearance. We must be near the brothel?

BELOW: An old brick-paved pathway leads to a strange glowing light that -- trust me! -- isn't just the sun making a lens flare on the camera. Really!

BELOW: The lush greenery hides a dark secret: beneath this lovely carpet of green is a four-inch thick bed of rusty, old hypodermic needles.

BELOW: The local aboriginal tribes people call this spider-like plant the "Spider Like Plant", which is English for "spider-like plant."

BELOW: Looking up we see something that looks like innocent Spanish moss, hanging from the trees. Alas, it's not Spanish moss, but FRENCH moss. Yeah... it's that bad.

BELOW: Either it's another lens flare, or a UFO is landing on other side of the jungle.

BELOW: This plant, only found on Pariah Island, is called the Vagina Leaf. Can you guess why?

BELOW: Yet another toxic waste barrel.

BELOW: Hard to tell in this photo, but this strange palm is actually over five feet tall.

BELOW: These are called Colossus Palms. Each stands over 150 feet tall. Contestants will have to scale these wearing nothing but the latest Paris Hilton fragrance.

BELOW: Yet another culture shows its beak on Pariah Island -- this time the famed Gryphon of the ancient Greeks.

BELOW: Found at last (because anything Lost sucks) -- the mysterious hatch at the island's center!

BELOW: Typhus team mate Kim Evergreenstein shows us an old wooden bridge. It probably leads to the Meat Grinder of Death. Or the Pile of Warm Puppies.

BELOW: One of the many polluted streams that snake across Pariah Island. The water actually smells like digested meat.

BELOW: One of the many sources of the island's pollution, no doubt. Either that, or a pipe carrying the remains of last year's losers.

BELOW: Another strange hatch.. not the big one, but equally mysterious. It's reported that noise from inside sounds exactly like someone crying, "Help! Let me out!" but that's ridiculous. What could possibly make a sound like that?

Here are some shots that weren't leaked. These were more like "dribbled". Or "spat".

These have had little post processing, no color correction, and are taken from a highly compressed video stream which was sent to me for a rough check, so pardon any pixelation, artifacts or jimminyglicks.

The Many Faces of Mike Tanley:

Joan, a survivor -- er, "winner" -- of the Barbed Wire Swallow.

Todd Michael takes matters into his own hands.

Cara and Charley flirt.

Cara's talking head scene.

The collecting world of official movie and TV props is huge. People spend a lot of time and money trying to obtain actual props used in famous films, like the gun from Terminator 2 or the lamppost in Pride & Prejudice. Oh, wait, that was Keira Knightley. Whatever.

In any event, we at Red Band Film Company try to make prop collecting a bit easier for you die hard Pariah Island fans. We are now putting up our first contest EVER: yes, you can win an actual prop used in the filming of Episode 0: "Demo Demerrier", the demonstrator episode we shot recently.

The prop is this 55-gallon barrel of "toxic waste"! And you can actually claim this baby as your own, to perhaps grace your front yard or to put beneath the Christmas tree this year, next to the other boxes of medical waste you bought for the kids!

How can you win this amazing prop, and own it for yourself, to the envy of your all your neighbors, especially that snotty rich couple a few doors down who never wave when you bring out your trash?

Simple. It seems that on the way back from the shoot the other day, this very same toxic waste barrel fell off the prop truck somewhere on a major highway in Central Florida. The rules for winning this prop are easy: IF YOU CAN FIND THE BARREL, YOU GET TO KEEP IT!

We've already notified the Florida Highway Patrol that there's a rogue fake toxic waste barrel somewhere on the side of the road, so hopefully all the legal barriers to ownership of this amazing prop are cleared.

So, Pariah Island fans, get out there! There are thousands of miles of highways, roadside ditches and alligator nests to search! This barrel of toxic waste isn't going to find itself, after all. (At least not until the waste attains self-awareness, in a few years.)

If you do find it, be sure to tell us, and send a pic of you standing next to it! We will be sure to thank you, and then tell FHP it was your barrel all along, and we never knew anything about it.

Good luck, gang!

(Seriously, we really did lose this prop on the road.)

Some of you have written asking me for a complete list of challenges faced by the contestants during Pariah Island's 24-season history so far. OK, no one really wrote me asking that, but since the stuff they did write to ask me is so profane and disgusting it can't be printed, let's pretend they asked for a list of challenges.

Here you go, an admittedly incomplete list of what Pariah Island contestants have faced so far:

Barbed Wire Swallow

High Pitched Noise Challenge

Ring of Electricity

Kayak Race

Train Derailment Challenge

Let's Cripple Your Hands with Hammers Challenge

First Person Shoot Her Challenge

Convoy of Death Challenge

Try Sleeping With Venomous Snakes Challenge

Razor Wire Chimney Sweep Challenge

How Long Can You Get Raped Challenge

Flying Fists of Really Sharp Aluminum Challenge

Rubber Band Battle Royale

Hula Hoop of Doom Contest

Noose Tying and Hanging From Challenge

Fluffy Bunny Stuffed with Napalm Challenge

Eat These Bugs, Oh Wait, They're Not Bugs, They're Hand Grenades Challenge

Circumcise Your Opponent Challenge

Collapsing Bridge Challenge

Weightless Taser Fight

Unload the Cargo Bay in 20 Minutes Challenge

Let's See Who Survives A Nuclear Bomb Challenge

Drink This Unspecified Bodily Fluid Challenge

Stand on a Pole for the Rest of the Season Challenge

Maritime Maze of Water

Re-Enact Scenes from the Movie Deliverance Challenge

Perform Surgery on Yourself Challenge

Boil Your Best Friend Alive Competition

Giant Mech Battle (unconfirmed)

Boxing Ring of Radioactive Fire

Gruesome House of Grue Challenge

Torture Room Challenge

Bucket of Sandworms Challenge

Tanleysaurus Rex Challenge

Flamethrowing Snowmobile Race of Doom

How Many Icicles Can You Take Rectally Contest

Rabid Polar Bear Chase

Midair Collision Challenge

Roll Down This Hill of Ground Glass Challenge

Climb This Splintery Pole Challenge

Human Hamster Wheels Over Landmines Race

See How Long You Can Sleep Challenge

Sit Really Still Competition

Corporate Boardroom Productivity Meeting Challenge

Fire Inhaling Contest

Eat Your Own Fingers Competition

Walk Pigeon Toed for Three Days Straight Challenge

Fart a Full Steak Challenge

Sell Your Children on eBay Challenge

Here, Hold This Hot Pipe Challenge

Tell a Mean-Spirited Momma Joke Challenge

Network Executive PCP Rampage

Testicle Toss

Hot Lava Throw

Eat Twenty Landmines Challenge

Getting Mike Tanley's Foot in My Ass Challenge

Drunken Missile Launch Technician Challenge

Find the Hay in that Stack of Hepatitis-Infected Needles Challenge

Rusty Nail to the Face Challenge

Dodge Dick Cheney's Birdshot Challenge