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♪♪

Narrator: worldwide,

6 billion cameras
Are watching us

On our streets,

At work, and in our homes.

They capture things
That seem impossible.

It defies the laws of physics.

Man: oh, this is
Unbelievable, man.

Narrator: experts carry out
Forensic analysis

Of these unusual events.

There's got to be some
Explanation for what's going on.

[ people scream ]

Narrator: coming up,

Is an ancient predator
Back on the hunt?

Beasts of this size
Would have a ferocious appetite.

Narrator: could this be
An express locomotive to hell?

You almost expect to see
The devil himself

At the driver's wheel.

Narrator: and a deadly vortex
Devours everything in its reach.

Proctor: if you were to fall
Into this location

And got sucked down,
You're not coming back up.

Narrator: bizarre phenomena.

Mysteries caught on camera.

What's the truth behind this
Strange evidence?

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Now, three friends out on a lake

Witness something sinister
Rising from the depths.

Oh, my god.
That's a sea monster.

-man: look over there!
-this thing is huge.

-this is a beast!
-look at the size of it!

And it's headed in between
These two boats.

Narrator: could a predator
Right out of "Jurassic world"

Have resurfaced today?

♪♪

February 2013.

Lough foyle, northern ireland.

Over 100,000 people live along
The banks of this giant sea lake

Which connects
To the atlantic ocean.

Locals rely on the loch
For their livelihood,

But many are also fearful

Of what might lie
In its gloomy depths.

[ sea birds calling ]

Conall melarkey
And two of his friends

Set out on the loch
For a day of fishing and fun.

Melarkey:
So it was a really nice day.

We took the boats out from
The... [ speaks indistinctly ]

and sailed out
For about 15, 20 minutes.

Narrator: at first,
Everything is smooth sailing.

Until my friend matthew shouts
Over at the top of his lungs,

"Look over there, guys!
It's a sea monster!"

Man: look over there!

Narrator: something terrifying
Breaks the surface.

-we quickly turn around...
-see it?

...And we see
This mysterious thing

Skimming through the water
At a very high speed.

Narrator:
Panic grips the friends

As the hulking form closes in
On their flimsy boats.

It doesn't look like
Anything I've seen.

Narrator: the reality of
The danger they're in

Becomes all too real.

Man: look at the size of it!

It very easily could've
Flipped us over like a pancake

And dragged us down
To the depth of the sea with it.

Narrator:
Reports of the sighting spreads.

stories of a monster
In lough foyle strikes fear

into the hearts of
Local residents.

-man: it's massive!
-narrator: experts are baffled

By what the boys captured
On their camera.

Hovland: it's big.
It's lumpy. It's dark.

I'm having images of moby dick.

washington: if a creature
Like that decided to attack

or come after the boat,

there could be
Some major consequences.

is it a sea serpent,
A sea monster?

what could it possibly be?

Narrator: many fear
A local legend is true.

The murky waters of lough foyle
Are reputed to hold monsters.

Narrator: locals tell tales
Of another realm

That lies beneath the surface.

Lough foyle is the gateway
To the underworld.

It's a land of the dead,

And it's guarded
By a very fierce god,

Manannán mac lir, the sea god.

Manannán mac lir
Can take many forms.

He could appear in the form
Of a monster.

He's a god.

He can do what he wants.

[ whirring ]

Narrator: others believe
That there must be

A more rational explanation.

Retired army colonel
Daniel davis

Believes it could be

An extremely dangerous
Man-made object.

it actually has characteristics
More of what I would expect,

actually what I've seen,
From submarines

as they submerge.

Narrator:
There are no submarine bases

Anywhere in northern ireland,

But local historian billy kelly
Has a terrifying theory

About where a submarine
Could've come from.

There were real monsters
In this loch very recently,

Monsters which were responsible

For the deaths
Of thousands of people --

The german nazi u-boats.

Davis: the u-boat was one
Of the most terrifying weapons

On the seas.

Narrator: each u-boat carried
22 torpedoes.

It only took one
To rip a ship apart.

There were literally thousands
Of allied ships that were sunk,

Something close to 66,000 men
And women were killed

In the attacks
Throughout the war.

Narrator: at the end
Of world war ii,

Captured u-boats
Were brought through lough foyle

To the londonderry port.

Those in good condition were
Kept as trophies.

The rest are towed out
Of the lough.

Some of the sank in the lough.

Narrator:
It's estimated that

Of the 116 u-boats taken
To be scuttled,

Almost 60 sank
Before they left the lough.

It's possible
That something ruptured,

And only now, 70 years later,

It's finally coming
To the surface.

Narrator: the rusting hulks of
These crippled u-boats

Will lie forever on the sea bed,

Their torpedoes still
A clear and present danger.

Majority of these things are
Still live munitions

And could pose a threat
To anyone who finds them,

Whether in the water
Or on the land.

Narrator: live nazi munitions
Washed up on the irish coast

Have had deadly consequences
In the past.

Kelly: some years ago,
A group of young children

Were killed by a german mine,

Which exploded when
They found it on the beach.

[ explosion ]

Narrator: a rogue u-boat torpedo
Could cause a tragedy

On a similar scale.

if this was a torpedo,
This would've been

a very, very dangerous situation
For those guys on the boat.

Man: it's massive!

Narrator: but kelly believes
The torpedo theory

Isn't possible.

After all this time,
The mechanics of the torpedo

Would be completely destroyed,
Corroded,

And under no circumstances

Could that propel itself
Through the water.

♪♪

Narrator: folklorist re monteith
Examines the footage.

She believes that legends
Of aquatic monsters

May have a basis
In historical fact.

This may be something
From prehistoric times.

Narrator: remains of
Prehistoric aquatic reptiles

Have been found all along
The northern irish coast.

Not far from here,
There was a discovery

Of a 200 million-year-old
Ichthyosaur skull.

Narrator:
Ichthyosaurs are a group

Of predatory
Dolphin-like reptiles

That averaged
Between 6 and 13 feet in length.

Analysis of the footage reveals

That the small part
Of the creature

Visible at the surface

Is almost half the length
Of the 10-foot boat.

If this is the top of its head,
It must be a much larger species

than either an ichthyosaur
Or even a plesiosaur.

this is a jurassic park
Aquatic monster

That has just surfaced from
The murky depths of the lough.

Narrator: could this be

The legendary prehistoric
Predator mosasaurus?

Fast, speedy,
And a big set of teeth.

Truly the king of the ocean.

[ screeches ]

[ whirring ]

Narrator: coming up,

Is this an express locomotive
To hell?

It puts one in mind
Of "Dante's inferno"

And the fire and brimstone
Of hell.

Narrator: an airliner
Frozen in time.

Wow! Do we have antigravity?
What is the military hiding?

Narrator:
And is an ancient predator

Stalking three friends
On a fishing trip?

If a creature like that
Decided to attack

Or come after the boat...

Crunch. You are supper.

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Narrator:
Friends on a fishing trip

Witness something sinister
Rising from the deep.

It's shape reminds some
Of a mosasaur,

A predatory aquatic reptile.

you think big sharks,
Forget about it.

they weren't even
On the radar yet.

it was all about these giant,
Aquatic, marine reptiles.

They ruled.
-narrator: the mosasaurus is

One of the largest
Aquatic predators

To have ever existed.

Fossil records show it could
Reach 56 feet in length

And could weigh
Over 30,000 pounds --

Over twice as large
As the great white shark.

beasts of this size
Would have a ferocious appetite.

Narrator: it ate plesiosaurs
For breakfast

And made minced meat of sharks.

Could one now have come
To the surface

In search of other prey?

if a creature like that
Decided to attack

or come after the boat...

Crunch. You are supper.

Narrator:
But eric hovland knows

That even if
These prehistoric monsters

Survived to the present day,
They couldn't be living here.

The mosasaur was a beast
Of warm, open oceans

Along those
Coastal environments.

We've got the coastline up in
This part of the north atlantic,

But it is cold,
Too cold for a mosasaur.

♪♪

Narrator:
Studying the video evidence,

Marine biologist
Danni washington considers

Whether the mysterious creature
Could be

Any of the aquatic species known
To inhabit this area.

They've seen killer whale pods
Passing through the lough,

And there's a really high chance
That this could be

A killer whale.

Narrator: orcas,
Also known as killer whales,

Are the top predator
In today's oceans.

Hovland: it's right there
In the name "Killer whale."

They're avid hunters of
Larger whales,

Killers of whales.

They kind of act
Like a pack of wolves,

Cooperating together
To bring down a bigger beast.

Although there have been
No recorded

Fatal attacks in the wild,

Orcas in captivity
Have killed several people.

Research has revealed that being
Held in confined conditions

Can drive these predators
Insane.

One killer whale called tilikum
Has been involved

In three separate fatalities
In the us.

In 2010, trainer dawn brancheau
Was snatched by tilikum

In front of a horrified crowd

And dragged into the tank, where
She was scalped and drowned.

Could the confined environment
Of the lough

Trigger similar
Psychotic behavior?

♪♪

Hovland reexamines the footage
And notices something

That casts doubt
On the killer whale theory.

The most distinctive things
About an orca,

Or a killer whale,
Is that big dorsal fin.

Where are you, dorsal fin?
I'm not seeing it.

Narrator: scientists struggle
To find a definitive explanation

For this footage,
But locals are convinced

The lough contains a creature
Unknown to science.

from what I've seen,

this is a sea creature
Of an unknown origin.

this footage raises questions

of what actually is living
In our loughs,

How little we know about the sea
And what's under sea.

Narrator: now,
A dark valley at night.

[ train chugging ]

A steam-age train
Climbing up a hill...

♪♪

...Shooting out flames.

It's not logical.
Why is this train on fire?

Narrator: experts fear
We are seconds away

From a terrible disaster.

Szulgit:
That thing is a death trap.

It's going to explode
Or catch fire any moment.

Narrator:
Or is this a demon train

On a fast track
Straight to hell?

You almost expect to see
The devil himself

At the driver's wheel.

♪♪

Narrator: december 2016,

Xinjiang province
In the northwest of china,

Where the ancient
Silk road trade route

Winds through the vast
And inhospitable wilderness

Of the gobi desert.

The silence of the desert night
Is broken

By the rumbling of a locomotive.

[ train chugging ]

A traveler drawn to
An unearthly glow

Captures
This incredible footage.

It looks like a train straight
Out of our darkest nightmares.

this is
Some pretty raw technology.

hanson: black smoke
As well as sparks and flames

are coming out of this engine?

it's kind of terrifying.

Narrator: experts fear
For those onboard.

Szulgit: I don't understand why
The engineers haven't stopped it

or radioed or done something
And said, "Something is wrong."

They've got to know.

There's sparks landing
Everywhere.

Narrator: the train continues
On its fiery journey.

it's almost like it's
A hell train of some kind.

Narrator: locals fear that this
Isn't a real train at all,

But a demonic train
Coming to claim their souls.

in the chinese belief,
There's diyu,

where the lost souls are taken.

There are 18 levels
Of purgatory.

Each one has its own unique form
Of torture

Suited to the sins
Committed by the deceased.

Narrator:
These tortures include

Gossipers having their tongues
Ripped out.

Wise:
The room of scissors,

Where those who caused
Other people's marriages

To break up have
Their fingers chopped off.

Narrator: a room where
Abusers of power are crushed

And pulverized in a stone mill,

While hypocrites
And troublemakers

Face a steam chamber.

Where people who would
Be steamed for all eternity.

Fox: seeing this train in china,
Some people believe

That this is a fast track
To those chambers of torture.

[ whirring ]

Narrator: coming up,

A jet plane defies gravity,

Hovering weightlessly
In the sky.

Maybe we're living in
"The matrix."

Narrator: locals fear
A disease-carrying demon

Is stalking a new mexico town.

It definitely looks creepy.

Narrator:
And is this a real engine

About to explode?

Bush: this is the most
Dramatic footage I've ever seen.

These fires can be deadly.

[ train chugging ]

♪♪

[ train chugging ]

Narrator: in china,
A camera captures footage

Of a demonic, fiery train.

Locals fear that this is an omen
Of despair and suffering.

Could this locomotive be about
To trigger a catastrophe?

♪♪

[ whirring ]

Chemist ken hanson
Analyzes the footage.

He is concerned
That these flaming embers

Could be about to ignite
The entire valley.

Temperatures
In a steam train firebox

Can reach over 1,000 degrees c.

And at those temperatures,

you can start melting copper,
Gold, cast iron.

So it is feasible
That exhaust from that train

Could ignite something
In the atmosphere.

Narrator: could there be
Something in the air

That the steam train
Is igniting?

Journalist jeff wise
Believes that a clue

Could be found in the main
Industry in this region.

this area of china also happens
To be home

to large, open-pit coal mines.

Narrator:
The sandaoling coal mines

Have transformed
This area of the gobi desert

Into a modern day hell,

An industrial wasteland.

These mines also operate

Some of the last commercial
Steam trains on earth.

Open-pit coal mines,
You can just be enveloped

By these huge clouds
Of coal dust

That just hang over
The environment.

Kutcher: I think what the worst
Case scenario could be is,

Are there dust particles
In the sky

that are catching fire
Because of the train?

Narrator: engineer matt kutcher
Has put together

An experiment
To test this theory.

We're going to take dust,
Flammable dust,

Go ahead and send it up
Into the air

And see if we can't get the dust
To ignite,

See if it looks anything similar
To the video that we've seen.

This ought to be fun.

Narrator:
Matt has never attempted

Anything like this before.

There's no telling how explosive
This reaction could be.

The experiment is so dangerous,
He's called in firefighters

To hose down
The surrounding dry grass

To minimize the risk of
A runaway inferno.

Matt takes
A high explosive charge

And places it under
The sack of dust.

This will blow the dust
High into the air,

Simulating conditions in
The coal mine-blighted valley.

Kutcher: and then, with this
Acting like the train

As our ignition source...
Kaboom.

Narrator: matt lights the fuse
And runs for cover.

♪♪

3, 2, 1.

[ explosion ]

♪♪

Whoo-hoo.

All right, man.

Narrator:
It is all over in a second,

But the slo-mo camera
Captures the crucial evidence.

first, the dust blasts
Into the air,

and then the ignition
Is triggered,

resulting in a fireball
Even bigger than in the footage.

So as you can see,
When something like this

Actually ignites,
There's a chain reaction.

It actually lights all the dust,
All of it in the air,

Not just a portion of it.

Narrator: when compared to
The footage of the train,

The difference is clear to see.

The fire from the train

Is causing thousands
Of red-hot embers to rain down,

Whereas matt's experiment

Produces an explosive cloud
Of flames

That almost instantly
Consumes everything.

Kutcher: it kind of discounts
What we saw.

If the entire valley was
Filled with dust,

The whole valley
Would've exploded.

♪♪

[ whirring ]

Narrator:
Railroad engineer john bush

Is brought in to help with
The investigation.

Bush: I've been running
And working on steam locomotives

For about 40 years.

this is the most dramatic
Footage I've ever seen.

Narrator: bush believes that
The flames could be caused

By the type of fuel
The trains are running on.

Bush: coal-burning railroad

Like this one,
Coming out of the mine,

You just grab whatever is there

And start shoveling it
Into the locomotive.

Narrator: much of this low-grade
Coal is essentially dust,

Which, unlike lumps of coal,

Is light enough to be sucked up
The chimney stack

By the air flowing through
The furnace.

Of course, once it gets out of
The stack, it's still burning.

Narrator: wise thinks
Bush's theory could make sense.

It is a coal mine.
It's a business.

They have unlimited fuel
To run their trains,

But they're not going to use
The good stuff.

You use all the leftovers,
Basically,

That nobody would pay you for.

Narrator: bush fears

That running these trains
On junk fuel

Could have
Catastrophic consequences.

Over the years, there have been
A bunch of locomotive-set fires.

The railroad that I work on,
Back in the 1890s,

In fact,
Burned the entire town down.

These fires can be deadly.

[ whirring ]

Narrator: now,
A jumbo jet frozen in time.

Man: man!

This huge commercial aircraft
Is just hanging in the sky.

It's literally like someone
Pressed pause on this plane.

Narrator: is this some kind of
Experimental technology?

Wow! Do we have antigravity?
What is the military hiding?

Narrator: or is the very fabric
Of our reality tearing apart?

It looks like there's a glitch
In "The matrix."

[ whirring ]

[ beeping ]

♪♪

Narrator:
The netherlands 2010.

Amsterdam schiphol airport

Is the third-busiest airport
In europe.

Every year,
More than 63 million passengers

And hundreds of thousands
Of aircraft

Pass through
This highly congested airspace.

But on one quiet, sunny day,

All the planes are moving...
Except one.

As the camera tracks
The massive airliner,

It appears to be
Floating weightlessly

Above a row of trees.

this clip is
Really messing with my head.

I mean, how is this plane
Just frozen in midair?

Narrator: the plane seems to be
Bending the laws of gravity.

it takes huge forces to keep
A 300-ton aircraft in the sky.

The basic science of flight
Depends on the fact

That airplanes move
At a particular speed

In order to gain altitude.

It's the way it is. It's the way
It's always going to be.

the forces that it would take
For this giant aircraft to hover

Are so immense that
That just isn't possible.

Narrator:
Has this video captured

A breach
In the space-time continuum...

It's like someone stopped time
For that plane.

...Or evidence that our reality
Isn't what it seems?

when you first see that airplane
Just hovering like that,

you say to yourself,
"Now wait a minute.

wait a minute. It's not supposed
To be like that!"

Things fall down, but there it
Is, right in front of your eyes.

Maybe we're living in
"The matrix."

Narrator: theoretical physicist
Michio kaku

Has been looking into
The possibility

That our reality is really
A computer program

Controlled by a higher power.

Computer power is so advanced
That we can simulate

Imaginary worlds
And virtual reality.

And then you say to yourself,

"Maybe the universe itself
Is an illusion."

Maybe you are real,
But everything else is fake.

Narrator: all around the world,
People have reported

Encountering glitches
In "The matrix."

A boy drops a jar that vanishes
Before hitting the floor.

A room disappears from a house,

But the residents
Remember it being there.

And a woman receives
A phone call from herself.

Could this strange
Levitating plane

Be evidence of another glitch
In the program?

And in "The matrix,"
You can defy the laws of motion

'cause it's just
A computer program.

Reality can be reprogrammed.

Narrator: is our reality
Nothing but a simulation

That can be altered by
A line of code?

If so, who is running it
And why?

It's an idea taken so seriously

It's reported that
Tech billionaire elon musk

Is said to be funding
Scientific research

To find a way to break us out
Of this program

And see what lies beyond.

But scientists, so far,
Have been unable

To either prove or disprove
The "Matrix" theory.

♪♪

[ whirring ]

Coming up,
Has a home surveillance camera

Captured a disease-spreading
Navajo ghost?

If what they saw in the video
Is really a chindi,

Then they're actually
In big trouble.

Narrator: a destructive vortex
Appears in latvia.

Proctor: if you were to fall
Into this location

And got sucked down,
You're not coming back up.

Narrator: and could this
Gravity-defying 747

Be a prelude to invasion?

If the technology existed
Where you could have a plane

Of this size
Hover in one location,

It would be a game changer
For militaries across the world.

♪♪

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Narrator: a jumbo jet
Is captured frozen in the air

On the outskirts of amsterdam
In the netherlands,

Defying
The laws of aerodynamics.

[ whirring ]

Military tech analyst
Carlo muñoz

Believes this footage
Could be evidence

Of a radical experiment.

The plan we're seeing
In the video

Is a boeing 747 aircraft.

Most people know it
As a passenger aircraft,

But it also has
A military version.

you can't help but wonder
Whether or not

this is some sort of
New military technology

boeing may be testing.

Narrator:
Planes with the ability to hover

Have changed the face of
Modern warfare.

in the 1960s,

the harrier jump jet
Was introduced,

Which has
A vertical takeoff capability.

Narrator:
The harrier was the very first

In a series of deadly
Vertical takeoff war planes.

One of the amazing things about
The harrier and its capabilities

Is being able to turn on a dime

And turn the tables
On the situation that you're in.

Narrator: but the military has
Been developing new aircraft

For different roles.

If the technology existed
Where you could have a plane

Of this size
Hover in one location,

It would be a game changer
For militaries across the world.

Narrator: a hostile power

Could perfect this technology
Before us,

And the first we'd know about

These gravity-defying
Giant war planes

Is when they were used
Against us.

A sight like this could be
A prelude to invasion.

Aerospace expert marna kagele
Analyzes the video

And sees a problem
With the theory.

This is a 747 aircraft,

Which is going to weigh
Over 300 tons.

It would need at least twice
As many engines as we can see

Are on the aircraft to hover,
So we can be very certain that

That is not
What's happening here.

[ whirring ]

Narrator: the footage is sent to
Science journalist jayde lovell.

this plane reminds me of
When you see birds

kind of hovering in the wind,
But I guess the question is,

Could the wind
Ever be strong enough

To keep an entire airliner
Hovering in the sky?

In world war ii,
Massive military gliders

Were used
In the invasion of normandy.

Narrator:
Almost 50 feet in length,

The waco cg-4a was able
To carry 13 troops,

Or a quarter-ton truck,
By gliding on the wind.

Gliders are kept airborne
By moving,

Which allows their wings
To generate lift,

But this plane
Isn't moving at all.

narrator: kagele's
Further analysis of the video

shows that the plane's
Landing gear has been deployed.

this provides a vital clue
As to what could be going on.

It looks like this aircraft
Is coming in to land,

So we'd expect, at that point,

That it would be going about
170 miles per hour.

Narrator:
Landing approach is the moment

When planes are most vulnerable
To powerful winds.

Lovell: fierce crosswinds could
Toss a 300-ton airliner around

Like it's a toy.
It could even make it crash.

Narrator: in 1985,
Delta flight 191

Crashed on approach
To dallas/fort worth airport

After being hit
By a violent wind shear,

Killing 137 passengers and crew.

We know that a crosswind could
Knock a plane out of the sky,

But could a headwind
Stop a plan in its tracks?

We'd be talking about winds

That would need to be
Over 170 miles per hour,

And hurricane-force winds start
At around 100 miles per hour,

So now we're talking about
A hurricane happening outside,

And we clearly see that
That's not the case.

♪♪

[ whirs ]

Narrator: conor mccourt
Focuses on the movement

Of the other vehicle
In the footage --

The car from which
The camera is filming.

It appears that this footage
Is an optical illusion,

A trick of the mind.

It's only when we look at
The scene in question

From the top down

that we really can understand
The distances.

Narrator: the car is 160 feet
From the tree line,

But the plane
Is not directly overhead.

It's actually 1.5 miles
Into the distance.

Mccourt:
This creates a phenomenon

Where it seems like the plane is
Staying stationary in the sky.

Narrator: the idea that
Our eyes and brains

Can be so easily fooled
Into misreading reality

Even spooks the experts.

If things this strange
Can happen,

Then it's hard to trust
My own eyes.

♪♪

[ whirring ]

Narrator: now,
A home security camera

Captures
A nightmarish apparition.

It definitely looks creepy.

It's, like, going to send
A chill up your spine.

Narrator: a family reacts
With terror when confronted

By this mysterious
Nighttime lurker.

Right away, your mind goes to,
"This is some sort of haunting

Or some sort of
Supernatural occurrence."

Narrator: locals fear
The home has been visited

By a dark spirit.

What I saw was an apparition
Moving across the street,

Something otherworldly.

Narrator: experts worry
That it's a ghost

That isn't just dead,
It's diseased.

It's an evil spirit
And it's called the chindi.

August 22, 2017,

Clovis, new mexico.

One of the oldest inhabited
Places in the united states.

Evidence of human activity here

Stretches back
Over 12,000 years.

It's a normal evening
In this small american town

When a family spots a visitor
In their yard.

You see a figure moving slowly
Behind the cars.

Narrator: this mysterious figure
Leaves experts dumbfounded.

there's no denying this footage
Is really spooky.

what is interesting about that
Figure is that it's transparent.

Wise:
It's sort of see-through,

And it doesn't seem
To be on the ground.

It seems to be hovering
Above the ground,

all of which
Are pretty unnatural.

It's a ghost.

Narrator: image analyst
William dranginis

Studies the footage.

Dranginis: this camera has
Actually captured

a translucent floating object

going down the street,
And that's not normal.

It appears that this object
Could be paranormal.

Could it be some type of
Ghostly apparition,

Some type of energy form
That we have not recognized yet?

[ whirring ]

Narrator: paranormal
Investigator mallie fox

Believes an old tragedy in
This location could point toward

A malevolent
Native american entity.

this house is in new mexico
Where the navajo live,

and they have a huge belief
In the spirit world.

There is a history with
This property.

Before their house was built,

A gentleman lived
On that corner lot,

And he passed away in his home.

Narrator: the navajo believe

That the spirit
Of someone who has died

Can return to haunt
The place of their death

In the form of an evil ghost
Called the chindi.

Fox: it's a spirit that leaves
The body on its last breath.

The chindi is made up
Of all the evil,

The bad stuff of the person
When they were still alive.

Narrator:
The chindi is a shape-shifter

That can alter its appearance.

Fox: they can kind of look
Like a coyote

And that they appear
Out of dust devils.

Narrator: these vengeful spirits
Can actually harm the living.

If you come in contact with
A chindi, you become very ill,

And it's known
As ghost sickness.

Narrator: it's said the chindi
Will prey on a living host

By draining their life essence,
Causing sickness

And eventually death.

Today, there are over
300,000 navajo in the us,

And belief in the chindi
Is widespread.

Many have reported seeing
Friends and family members

Struck down with ghost sickness.

If what they saw in the video
Is really a chindi,

Then they're actually
In big trouble.

[ whirring ]

Narrator: coming up,

A mysterious maelstrom
Opens up in latvia.

Proctor: it's just like
A nightmare.

God help anyone that is
Sucked into that vortex.

Narrator: and investigators
Fear something dangerous

Is roaming a quiet neighborhood
In new mexico.

They can kill people easily,
Easily.

♪♪

Narrator:
A home security camera

Captures a sinister entity
Prowling around a neighborhood

Within clovis, new mexico.

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[ whirring ]

Biologist kelly price
Analyzes the clip

And believes some kind of beast
Could be stalking the home.

the footage shows something
That's probably

an animal of some sort.

If you know how animals move,
It look like it's bipedal.

It's moving very slowly
With apparent arm-swinging gait

Across the scene.

Narrator:
But what type of animal

Can walk along on its hind legs?

Mark yannotti
Is assistant director

Of the local zoo.

He spent 30 years studying
Animals native to the u.S.

Only one species encountered
In this area

Could fit the profile
Of what is seen in the footage.

it'd be the only thing that
Actually would be bipedal

or move on two feet
Like a human being,

And it would be the right size.

Narrator:
A predator that is showing

An increasingly greater interest
In human flesh.

Black bears are the only bears

That are indigenous
To new mexico.

The state animal is
A black bear.

Narrator: a black bear can weigh
Over 700 pounds...

[ grunting ]

See? That's her

"I'm being threatened" noise.

...Can charge at almost
30 miles per hour,

Faster than any human...

Crazy. [ laughs ]

...And are armed with
2-inch claws

That can tear through
Skin and muscle.

Yannotti: miss attitude.
Bears can be very aggressive.

Black bears can kill people
Easily, easily.

Narrator: since the year 2000,

There have been 48 fatal
Bear attacks in north america,

Whereas sharks have only killed
15 people in the us

During the same period.

The black bear's natural habitat
Is rapidly shrinking,

Driving these large animals
Into our towns and cities

In search of food,

Where confrontations with humans
Are becoming evermore frequent.

In 2014, 22-year-old hiker
Darsh patel

Encountered a black bear
In new jersey.

Incredibly, he took
Multiple photos of his killer

Moments before
It mauled him to death.

[ growls ]

Could the clovis footage
Have captured a black bear

Foraging perilously close
To the family in the house?

What's in the footage is walking
On two feet, very confidently.

When these guys get up
On their hind legs,

They're very stiff walking,
And they don't move,

Like, fluidly, like the image
On the screen does.

I would say that rules out
A black bear.

[ whirring ]

Narrator:
Physicist john di bartolo

Notices something in the footage

That reminds him of a phenomenon
Caused by light beams at night.

Di bartolo:
Every one in a while,

when you're driving
Down the road

and you see two beady eyes
Staring back at you

Of a cat or some animal,
Then that is light

That's being reflected
Right back where it came from.

That's why we see just
The eyes so brightly.

Narrator:
Di bartolo's best guess

Is that a similar phenomenon
Might explain

The apparition
In the security footage.

It's possible
The mysterious glow

Is because this person
Was wearing reflective material.

Narrator:
Just like glowing animal eyes,

Reflective materials
Worn by humans

Are designed
To bounce light back

In the direction of its source.

We notice this disembodied torso
Only because it's so bright

Due to the reflective gear.

In contrast, the head,

The hands, and the legs
Of this person's body are so dim

That they're essentially ignored
By the security camera,

So we simply don't see 'em.

♪♪

[ whirring ]

Narrator: now, who or what

Pulled hold the plug
And opened a hole in the earth?

God help anyone that is sucked
Into that vortex.

This is not just dangerous.
It's downright deadly.

Narrator: experts struggle to
Answer what lies below.

Wise: where is
All this water going?

It seems like
It's just vanishing

Into the center of the earth.

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Narrator: latvia,
Located in eastern europe

On the border of russia,

Is a land
With a brutal history.

First, crusaders arrived

To put the pagan population
To the sword.

More recently, it has seen
Bloody invasions

By communists and nazis.

Later decades have seen
A respite from terror...

Until april 2013.

A traveler films
As an aquatic mouth opens,

Swallowing huge chunks
Of ice whole.

It's basically the water
Equivalent of a black hole.

All these things are going in,
And nothing is coming out.

That whirlpool could suck you
Into a watery grave.

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Narrator: travelers in latvia
Stumble across a raging vortex

That is devouring
Everything in its wake.

[ whirring ]

The footage is sent

To extreme weather expert
George kourounis.

He believes this could be

An incredibly dangerous
Natural phenomenon.

We're looking at some type
Of a whirlpool here,

and a whirlpool is basically
A rotating vortex of water.

Narrator: these are some
Of the most destructive forces

In nature.

There's giant chunks of ice that
Are literally just disappearing,

Being inhaled by this whirlpool.

Narrator: by analyzing

The size of the phenomenon
In the footage,

Experts categorize it
As a maelstrom.

maelstrom means
Giant swirling vortex of water.

The force gets stronger
The close you are to the vortex.

The power would become
More and more overwhelming

Until you reach
That point of no return,

And you get sucked down,
Basically, to a watery grave.

Narrator: could latvia
Now be home

To a new fearsome maelstrom?

Searching for information
On these giant whirlpools,

Journalist jeff wise
Uncovers details

Of the world's largest
Active maelstrom.

the biggest whirlpool
In the world is called

the maelstrom of saltstraumen,
And it's in norway.

Narrator: kourounis believes
The same forces at work

In the saltstraumen maelstrom

Could be what's powering
Latvia's giant vortex.

The norwegian whirlpool
Is caused

By conflicting forces of
The tide coming in and leaving,

So those opposing forces meet,

And where they meet,
The water rotates.

Narrator: the huge energies of
The tide power the whirlpool,

Making it
Larger and supercharged.

But when wise checks where
This maelstrom is captured,

He discovers a crucial detail

That makes a tidal-powered
Vortex seemingly impossible.

This is filmed over 100 miles
From the latvian coast.

Wise: this isn't
Taking place in the ocean.

No, this is taking place
In a river.

Rivers aren't a product of tides

In the way that
The currents in the ocean are.

♪♪

Geoscientist sian proctor
Examines the footage.

She believes there could be
A geological process

Powering
This monstrous whirlpool.

It's kind of like someone
Pulled a plug

At the bottom
Of this lake or river,

And it's all being drained
Into it.

So the question is,

What's happening underground
At that location?

What I think is happening
Is that maybe it's a sinkhole.

Think of a cave underground
That suddenly collapses in.

Narrator: analyzing
The strength of this vortex,

It makes proctor fear a void
Could be growing beneath latvia.

If I was walking along
The shore, I'd be thinking,

"Is there any danger
Of it getting bigger?"

If you were to fall into
This location

And got sucked down,
You're not coming back up.

Narrator: a check
Of local geological records

Reveals no evidence

Of naturally occurring
Underground voids

Anywhere in this region.

[ whirring ]

The footage is sent to
Military analyst carlo muñoz.

He immediately notices
The latvian location

And knows it has
Military significance.

much of latvia's history is
Really not of their own.

They were initially occupied
By the soviet union.

In world war ii,
The nazis occupied the country,

And at the end of world war ii,
The soviets came back in.

Narrator:
Any covert nazi or soviet
Military bases underground

Wouldn't show up
On any civilian map.

Recently, some of these
Secret underground bases

Have been rediscovered in latvia
After being lost for decades.

One of the largest
Was code-named rest home.

Narrator: this vast
Soviet bunker was designed

To shelter the communist elite
In the event of a nuclear war.

This complex is so big

That it could hold hundreds
Of soviet troops

In any one of its 90 rooms.

Narrator: a maze
Of secure rooms and passages,

The rest home is
Over 20,000 square feet,

About the size of
Two olympic swimming pools.

But many more
Cold war installations

Remain undiscovered,

Some falling prey
To so-called black diggers --

Illegal russian treasure hunters

Seeking lucrative
Military memorabilia.

Experts ask if this water
Could be escaping

Into one
Of these forgotten bases

Recently cracked open
For its soviet secrets.

Any one of these massive
Underground soviet bunkers

Would be a perfect place
For all this water to go.

Wise:
If this is what's happening,

The water is creating,
At least temporarily,

a kind of soviet atlantis.

narrator:
And whether it's the work

of the gods, nature or man,

it's a lethal threat
To anyone who gets too close.

it's too dangerous
For investigators to access

the void beneath the whirlpool,

so the answer to what lies below
Will continue to be a mystery.

if you don't know
What's happening there,

then possibly it could collapse,
And you'd be sucked down in it.

that's something that I wouldn't
Want happening to me.