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[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: worldwide,

27 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: This is unbelievable, man.

Narrator: Experts carry out analysis

Of these unusual events.

Now, That's an explosion.

[ people screaming ]

There's got to be something We're missing in this video.

Something we're not seeing, Right?

What else is going on here?

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: coming up...

Why does this man's Dinner detonate?

Ooh, that must have hurt.

Kasky: The last thing you expect

Is that food to explode In your face.

Narrator: The sewer brain returns.

Farrow: Whoa! What is that?

Some sort of oozing mass of...

I don't even know what it is.

Narrator: and the decapitated Head of a giant wolf beast.

These guys allowed themselves to Be transformed into werewolves.

Narrator: bizarre phenomena.

Whoa.

Narrator: Mysteries caught on camera.

What's the truth behind this Strange evidence?

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Now, in a restaurant in china...

This is absolutely terrifying.

Narrator: ...Surveillance cameras capture

A detonating dinner.

I hope she's okay, But that's pretty good spray

That came out of there.

Narrator: boiling food inflicts Frightening burns

To the face of a waitress.

Ooh, that must have hurt.

Narrator: could rotting meat Be giving off gases?

Gas can build up that bang, It just pops.

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: kunming city, capital Of yunnan province in china.

Local delicacies of the region Include steamed pot chicken

And crossing the bridge noodles.

May 2019.

Diners get a special They'll never forget.

Ooh, that's terrible.

Narrator: whatever's in there Has expired.

Orzel: She's cooking at the table.

She's fishing around In hot soup.

Whoa.

Narrator: It's a blast of broth.

The last thing you expect

Is that food To explode in your face.

Narrator: this is serious.

The waitress needs Hospital treatment for burns.

Boy, did she get an eyeful. This looked really painful.

Narrator: physicist simon foster Reviews the footage and wonders

If this could be food that's Well past its expiration date.

something has exploded in there.

something has given off

a large amount Of gas very rapidly.

Could it be the ingredients Has actually caused this?

Narrator: for restaurants Across the world,

Storing food at The correct temperature

Is always a challenge.

In the united states alone,

Food poisoning sends 128,000 people

To the hospital each year.

3,000 of them die.

When food decays, It gives off gas.

Microbes basically start eating Stuff and give off methane.

Now, if something starts to rot,

You get a tremendous buildup Of gas very rapidly,

And that could be What's happening here.

Could there be some sort of Food source in there,

Some piece of meat, That's actually sealed up?

And as it gets hot And as it decomposes,

Enough gas can build up That bang,

It just pops.

Narrator: It might seem strange,

But the same phenomenon Can happen with the human body.

In the funeral-home business,

It's known as Exploding-casket syndrome.

There are actually stories Of bodies exploding

Because there's so much gas Inside them

That, basically, It has nowhere to go.

And just like a balloon, People can pop.

Narrator: taiwan, 2004.

A dead sperm whale Is being transported to a lab.

As the truck carrying it Drives through the city,

The 50-ton whale explodes,

Spraying huge volumes Of blood and guts

Over cars and people On the street.

Biologist greg szulgit Considers

If something in this dish Could be giving off gases.

If there was rotting food In here,

the gas would be coming out,

but the bubbles would just be Going to the surface.

the only way to get This kind of pressure bomb

Would be to have a lid on it, And there's no lid,

So the bubbles are coming up.

If it was rotting food, Sure, it would taste disgusting,

But it wouldn't have This big explosive effect.

Narrator: Physicist chad orzel

Looks into What supplies the heat

To cook food In this kind of restaurant.

Orzel: what powers these Cook-at-the-table things

is generally something Like a canister

of, probably, propane That's feeding a burner,

Sort of like a gas grill.

Narrator: liquefied propane gas Boils at -45° fahrenheit.

At room temperature,

It only stays liquid as the Cylinders are under pressure.

If one ruptures,

Then just a single spark can Cause a catastrophic explosion.

This canister of propane That's connected to the burners

Through some sort of hoses,

If those are poorly connected Or improperly maintained,

You could get a leak of gas That could mix with air.

And then the fire That's in the burners

Heating the soup Could provide the spark

That could make a Quite damaging explosion.

Narrator: but examining The footage closer,

Tim pickens doubts the explosion In the restaurant

Is from the gas supply heating The hot pot under the table.

The reason I don't think This was a propane explosion

is because what we see Originated inside of the pot.

there was a big boom Inside of the pot,

Not underneath.

The whole restaurant

Probably would have Went up in flames,

And we didn't see that.

Narrator: in an attempt To find new clues,

Former nypd video analyst Conor mccourt looks at the clip

From the restaurant.

the waitress has come up. She's using some utensils.

is she trying to get Some food out?

It's very unusual

'cause you usually put Your own ingredients in.

You don't really ask A waitress to do anything.

If I zoom in here, it looks like

She's using the utensils To look for something.

When we go frame by frame,

We can see where The origin of the explosion is.

It's within the soup.

If you're inside a pot of soup, It's hard to find a spark

That's gonna make An explosion of fire, right?

This is probably just something Over-pressuring,

Expanding till it can't Take any more and then popping

And spraying soup around.

Narrator: China accounts for 40%

Of the world's Tobacco consumption.

Explosives expert tim pickens Considers if a cigarette lighter

Might have been involved In this blast.

I have a suspicion, Based on the bubble

That we see in that video,

That we probably are looking at Some sort of cigarette lighter,

Something with maybe butane, Was dropped in there.

Narrator: Tim's controlled experiment

Involves simply dropping A standard disposable lighter

Into a boiling cooking pot.

This should not Be attempted at home.

My theory is this will Definitely rupture,

And there will be a bubble, And I'm expecting a fireball.

Butane is normally stored At less than 50 psi

At room temperature

At 400°, this could easily Approach 400-500 psi

Inside this container.

It's a big deal.

So if that happens, you've got A little bomb inside of this.

And that bomb could really Hurt somebody.

Narrator: in his career, tim's Blown up almost everything,

But never a cigarette lighter In a boiling hot pot.

For that true restaurant feel,

He's adding some pieces of fish To the dish.

Okay, cooper, It's time to get our goggles on.

Narrator: With the oil at 400°,

Tim wants to see if the pressure Will build up in the lighter

To a point where it ruptures And he can get

The same explosion scene In the restaurant.

Coming up, can tim liven up This broth?

Pickens: Get ready to run.

Okay. Let's go.

Narrator: and is a toxic, Deadly slime invading our homes?

That's revolting. What the hell is that?

♪♪

Narrator: In a restaurant in china,

A dinner disaster

As boiling food explodes, Inflicting severe burns

On the face Of the unfortunate waitress.

Forensic explosives expert Tim pickens

Tries to recreate the blast.

My theory is this Will definitely rupture,

But I'm expecting a fireball.

Let me go ahead And drop this lighter in.

Narrator: this experiment Was performed

In a controlled environment With proper safety gear.

Do not try this at home.

Whoa!

Whoo!

Man!

Tim's experiment produces An explosion

Just like the one In the footage.

Whoa!

Look there -- the lighter, It's melted, man.

We got a big hole here.

It's like it's been shot With a pistol.

Blown open like A stick of dynamite.

Imagine, if you were At a restaurant,

Look how many people Would have been hurt

And sent to the hospital.

This could have been Serious injury.

Pickens: there's a lot of energy In a lighter.

So, yeah, This could really happen.

Narrator: there are more than 300 million smokers in china,

So this won't be The last exploding entree.

this is just a more Unusual reason than most

why smoking is bad for you.

Narrator: now a slithering mass Of pulsating alien goo...

That's revolting. What the hell is that?

Narrator: ...Creeps across A suburban kitchen floor.

I don't know what this creepy, Black, wiggling creature is.

Narrator: scientists are still Struggling to explain it.

It looks like some kind of Symbiotic organism.

Narrator: what is it? Where does it come from?

And what does it want?

[ camera whirs ]

Thailand.

People often comment on the Weird, alien landscape here,

But it's not just The landscape that's strange.

May 2017.

This thing is filmed Crawling across a kitchen floor.

It's a really weird, black blob That's moving in one direction.

Narrator: a pulsating ooze Crawling towards

Or away from something...

Last time I saw something Like that in a movie,

The guy turned into venom.

Narrator: ...Leaving behind A trail of slime.

Some sort of oozing mass of -- I don't even know what it is.

Narrator: experts are still At a loss to explain it.

It's something I haven't seen Before, so I'm fascinated by it.

Narrator: when marine biologist Eric hovland

Looks at the footage, He wonders if this creeping blob

Could be some kind of Fearsome parasite.

nature can be weird And freaky and wild.

This is no single organism.

It looks to be a whole cadre

Of worm-like animals All working together.

Worms sometimes Do work together,

And that's when They're parasites

And they're focused On the same host.

Could that be What's happening here?

the line of mucus tells me

that this is a large group Of invertebrates,

Perhaps something like slugs or Maybe even a worm of some sort.

But unlike groups of ants Or bees, slugs and worms

Aren't known to work together In such an organized fashion.

Judging from the size Of this mass,

The sheer number of hundreds, Perhaps thousands of worms.

Is this a whole new parasite That we have yet to discover?

A parasite capable Of taking over and controlling

A larger species, Perhaps controlling us?

♪♪

Narrator: Entomologist kevin kasky

Thinks that if this is an army Of creatures acting as one,

Then they mean business.

when things are going Into a war footing,

they operate as one unit,

almost like they're Connected together.

So when they operate To go into a battle,

Whether it's offensive Or defensive,

They will move in sync, Almost like

They are plugged into each other

So that each critter Knows what they're doing

When the other one Is doing something else.

Narrator: there are some species Of spider that hunt in groups.

This phenomenon is known As a war party.

As they work together, These small individuals

Take down much larger prey.

When a victim falls Into their web,

Multiple spiders pounce And inject it with venom.

Then they share their meal With the community.

There's a lot of creatures That will make themselves

Look bigger somehow, Either by moving in a collective

And making them Look much larger.

Narrator: Large ant colonies

With tens or hundreds Of thousands of members

Engage in all-out war With their rivals

As they compete for resources.

Matabele ants are raiders Who specialize in attacking

And eating termites.

Their success comes from their Overwhelming numbers.

And no one gets left behind.

Fallen comrades are Carried back to the nest.

Sometimes, when they're in An aggressive formation,

Just the sheer numbers Of overwhelming your opponent

Is what makes that Such a frightening aspect.

So when you're going Into battle,

You want them to think That there's no hope,

And they just give up, Roll over, and die.

Narrator: coming up, Has an animal army invaded?

I hope they called The exterminators immediately

After taking this video.

Narrator: and a mystery blast In an ancient city.

[ people screaming ]

There's chaos. What exactly is going on here?

♪♪

Narrator: in a thai kitchen,

Something creeps Across the floor.

Exactly what this is Baffles experts.

But when zoologist roland kays Examines the footage closer,

He concludes this is A composite monster

Made of many creatures.

if you look at the back of this Group, you can see

there's a couple that are Kind of struggling to keep up.

I've been looking into Whether this is a one-off

Or whether there have been More sightings.

And in fact, there's quite A few of these in recent years.

I don't know if this is Good news or bad news.

Narrator: in belgium, another Similar swarm is recorded --

Thousands of caterpillars

Joined together To create a snake-like creature.

In the end, the army Is called in to repel them.

some species of caterpillar Are poisonous, even deadly.

Narrator: in 2018, Thailand was invaded

By swarms Of deadly caterpillars.

Farrow: in thailand, Some types of caterpillar

Have toxic hairs All over their body.

Narrator: death by caterpillar Can be horrific.

One touch of the Tasar silkworm caterpillar's

Hair-like bristles releases Dangerous toxins

Into the bloodstream that can Cause total kidney failure.

[ sirens wailing ]

This thing moving across the Kitchen floor could be lethal.

But there's something not right About this many-headed monster.

One of the mysteries here Is the slime that's left behind.

Caterpillars don't generally Leave slime.

We know that slugs and snails,

They'll leave a trail Behind them.

But caterpillars, When they move, are dry.

So what is that trail?

Kays: this footage Was uploaded in may,

Which is the rainy season In thailand,

When they start to get heavy Rainstorms and even monsoons.

Narrator: Has the rain flushed

Some unknown creature Up from the ground?

In 2017, nasa recorded frequent

And persistent downpours In thailand.

The extreme rainfall Totals over 27 inches.

Whatever this is, it's unlikely To be the only one of its kind,

And experts are advising humans To stay clear.

I hope they called The exterminators immediately

After taking this video.

Narrator: Now a mystery explosion...

Oh, wow.

Narrator: ...That threatens to Spark a chain reaction

That is one high-energy Explosion.

Narrator: But what caused it?

There's people Kind of freaking out.

Narrator: So much depends on the answer.

It's chaos. What exactly is going on here?

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: istanbul, turkey, Where east meets west,

A powder keg of global conflict And tensions.

September 2019.

A warm summer's day Is shattered...

By a huge explosion.

This is just like terror Raining from the sky.

Narrator: clouds of smoke And debris fly through the sky.

There's black smoke everywhere,

This huge thing Shooting up in the air.

Narrator: heavy metal Rains down, smashing cars

And narrowly missing people On the street.

We see people running all Over the place,

Running for their lives.

You have to ask, was it Man-made and intentional,

Or was it man-made And accidental?

Narrator: science journalist Joe pappalardo

Studies the footage, Searching for clues.

the video is the best First piece of evidence

when it comes to determining What this explosion was

And whether it was An intentional act or not.

And you see a barrel Flying through the air,

And you have to ask, "Is that significant?"

Turkey is at the crossroads Of the world.

It borders A couple of continents,

A lot of different nations, And as such,

There's been a lot of turmoil And conflict in the region.

Narrator: pappalardo believes The barrel could point to this

Being an attack.

In that part of the world, You immediately think,

"Is it a barrel bomb?"

Narrator: A barrel bomb attack here

Could have repercussions That are felt around the world.

These are crude devices --

Simple metal drums

Packed with tnt, Shrapnel, and deadly chemicals.

Syria, which borders To the south,

Has seen them used In their civil war.

Narrator: you essentially Kick it out of a helicopter

And drop it onto a target.

Now, it's very simple,

but it's also Incredibly devastating.

it's essentially A chemical weapon.

if it's a chlorine bomb,

You have people on the ground Suffering from burns,

Inhalation.

It's really a gruesome Way to die.

Narrator: barrel bombs are Indiscriminate and destructive.

But according to the Syrian network for human rights,

Nearly 70,000 of them Have been dropped in the country

During their bloody civil war,

Killing more than 11,000 civilians.

Looking at the clip, Military expert carlo muñoz

Believes this Is not a barrel bomb.

Muñoz: the biggest indication In the video that this explosion

Was probably not a barrel bomb Is the barrel itself.

Now, in the video, When we see it land

On the street, It's in one piece.

Now, if there was 2,000 pounds of tnt

Packed into this barrel, There'd be nothing left

Once it hit the ground.

Narrator: coming up, Is this a new kind of bomb...

[ people screaming ]

...And a new kind of target?

Brensberger: if this is A new tactic for terrorists,

Then we all have to be worried.

Narrator: and is a legendary Sea beast multiplying?

Oh, this thing is massive.

It looks like something Out of the "Alien" movie.

♪♪

Narrator: a mysterious explosion Rocks the city of istanbul.

Neurophysiologist kiki sanford Looks into the footage

And wonders If the location gives a clue.

the place where this video Was shot

is a heavy industrial area With a lot of chemical plants

on the outskirts of istanbul.

this particular Industrial location

has a lot of factories That produce plastics,

which involve the use Of many volatile chemicals.

maybe this is the information We need to give us an answer.

the white vapor trail looks like It's coming out of the barrel.

Maybe that's what Launched it up

Into the air in the first place.

If this explosion is involving Dangerous chemicals,

Then the people who are Standing around in this video

Could be in serious trouble.

[ people screaming ]

♪♪

Narrator: soft targets are Easy to attack

With potential to cause Significant damage

And loss of life.

after the attacks Of september 11, 2001,

the united states made a big, Concerted effort

To try and mitigate All the risks of attack

On industrial targets -- Chemical plants, power plants,

Anywhere where these kinds Of attacks could take place.

Narrator: the aftermath Of a terrorist attack

On a chemical plant Would be horrific.

Vapor from leaks and fires Can blind people

And attack the lungs, Causing difficulty breathing.

Without urgent Medical assistance,

Victims can suffer Serious injury and death.

There's really two things That make this frightening

For someone In the united states.

One, we have a lot Of infrastructure.

We have an open society.

We can't guard everything All the time,

And a crude explosive Could do a lot of damage.

Narrator: disturbingly, A terrorist group

Has claimed responsibility For the explosion.

The fear is this incident

Could trigger similar attacks Around the world.

If this is a new tactic For terrorists to target

And blow up chemical factories, Then we all have to be worried.

An industrial area Like new york city

Has dozens of Chemical factories,

So a terrorist attack on one Of those would be devastating.

Narrator: Now an unworldly blob...

What is inside that Huge, alien thing?

Narrator: ...Floats menacingly In the arctic sea.

Oh, this thing is massive.

Narrator: a giant egg, it seems, Of a giant sea monster.

That looks like something From another world.

No matter what it is, I wonder, Are there more of them around?

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: Orstafjorden, norway.

The crystal-clear arctic waters Are prime diving territory.

2019.

Divers explore A world war 2 shipwreck

When they see Something extraordinary.

It looks like an enormous egg.

Narrator: a gigantic, floating Blob, bigger than a man.

It looks like something Out of the "Alien" movie.

Narrator: What colossal undersea creature

Could have produced This monster?

I mean, I'd say Burn it with fire,

But that's not Gonna work, is it?

Narrator: science journalist Steve potvin

Looks at the footage.

This thing is so huge,

It must surely have something To do with a whale.

We've seen pregnant Humpback whales,

And we've seen baby Humpback whales,

But we've never actually seen That process in between.

we rarely see whale placentas, But when we have seen them,

they've been about The same size as this.

Narrator: the strange structure Is egg-like,

But whales don't lay eggs.

One sea monster that does Is the shark.

40 or 50 different kinds Of sharks actually lay eggs.

Narrator: in these waters,

There lives A true shark monster,

One of the biggest in existence.

the greenland shark is enormous.

it's about 20 feet long And weighs about 2,500 pounds.

It's a really slow swimmer and Normally lives in cold waters.

The greenland shark lives A very long time,

Somewhere between 300 And 500 years of age.

It makes it the world's Longest-living vertebrate.

Narrator: the oldest specimen Caught so far

Was around 400 years old.

But biologists believe

That these sharks can live For more than half a millennium.

and that's just the oldest one That we've found.

there could be older ones Yet out there.

These things are just bizarre In so many ways.

Narrator: this creature is still A mystery to science.

Autopsies on dead Greenland sharks

Show they eat seals,

But also horse and reindeer.

But there's a problem With this shark egg theory.

As mysterious as Greenland sharks are,

One thing we do know about them Is that they're ovoviviparous,

Meaning they give birth To live young.

So they don't lay eggs.

This can't be A greenland shark egg.

Narrator: For biologist greg szulgit,

What's confusing is that Although the object is gigantic,

It looks like A single-cell organism.

Most people think of Single cells

As teeny, tiny little things, Which is usually true,

But actually, Cells can get to be quite large.

There are organisms, there are Algae, where a single cell

Can be 6 to 12 inches long.

Narrator: single-celled Organisms are

Some of the oldest forms of life

And found almost Everywhere in nature.

Steve potvin considers whether This otherworldly entity

Is, in fact, Not from this world.

There's this theory Called panspermia,

Which basically says That all life on earth

Evolved from this Single-celled organism

That originally came From outer space.

Narrator: in theory, material From an icy asteroid

Could be hiding microorganisms

As they impact the earth,

These creatures Are released and grow.

There was evidence of this Deep freezing of life

Found in siberia in 2018.

Microscopic worms Called nematodes

Are dug up from the permafrost,

Having been frozen For 42,000 years.

After defrosting,

The worms start Moving and feeding.

This natural cryopreservation Opens up the possibility of life

Surviving the vast Distances of space

In a state of Perpetual hibernation.

If this is a monster egg,

Then there is a monster legend To match it.

in ancient scandinavian legend,

the kraken is a large And dangerous creature

that comes from the depths.

narrator: The norse were expert sailors,

using the sea Like interstate highways.

but the kraken was one creature All vikings feared.

they believed that with Its enormous tentacles,

it was capable of taking Whole vessels with their crews

Down to the bottom of the sea To an early grave.

You can see how in other times, People would have looked

At something like this And thought that it was possibly

The egg of some mysterious beast Like the kraken.

Narrator: coming up, A skin-crawling discovery.

I don't think it's one Big creature that's inside.

I think it's tens of thousands Of little creatures.

Narrator: and could this Monstrous head

Be a super-sized weapon of war?

It is the stuff of nightmares.

♪♪

Narrator: Divers off the coast of norway

Find what appears to be A man-sized egg

Floating in the arctic waters.

Engineer lisa lazareck-asunta

Believes cameras have captured Something incredibly rare.

I don't think it's one big Creature that's inside.

I think it's tens of thousands Of little creatures.

one possibility, and the one That I'm betting on,

is that this is not A single egg,

but it might be thousands, Tens of thousands,

maybe hundreds of thousands Of eggs packed together

into a into a Jelly-like egg mass.

I think that this is actually An egg sac from a squid.

Narrator: sightings of Squid egg sacs are so rare

That we don't know What species this is from.

We now know that this is Actually a massive egg sac

Of 50,000 to 200,000 Tiny little squid.

Narrator: in 2006, the legendary Giant squid was caught on camera

For the first time.

They are deep-water monsters,

The most alien-like creatures On the planet.

Something dark and sinister Yet fascinating about them.

cephalopods are older Than dinosaurs.

they've been around for hundreds Of millions of years,

and they do this by being Exceptionally good hunters.

I think most creepy of all, They're also cannibals.

they eat each other.

Narrator: scientists now believe This is the giant egg sac

Of a deep-sea cannibal monster.

I sort of preferred it when I Thought it was just one creature

Because having it be tens Of thousands of creatures

Is a little bit creepy.

Narrator: now a severed head In a shallow grave...

This is clearly No ordinary wolf.

Narrator: ...Discovered in The land of the gulags.

The russians have a long history Of animal experimentation.

Narrator: A monster back from the dead.

These guys allowed themselves to Be transformed into werewolves.

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: siberia.

The banks of The tirekhtyakh river.

A frozen wilderness.

The average winter temperature Is more than 30° below.

2018.

Locals are horrified when They discover the severed head

Of a monstrous creature Buried in the ice.

It's got fur, it's got teeth, It's got eyes,

And its brain is still intact.

It kind of has, like, A snarling expression,

Like it was fighting at a time When it was killed.

Narrator: experts are baffled

By this ferocious-looking Frozen beast.

It's like a giant wolf,

But it's bigger Than any wolf I've seen.

The idea of an animal Of this size and this ferocity

Just walking around The earth today is terrifying.

Narrator: the head is Unquestionably wolf-like.

What doesn't make sense Is the size.

in the video, you can see There's a hand

that's moving this beast's head.

Using the hand, you can see how Large this head actually is.

From the tip of its snout To the back of its head,

It's about 16 inches.

Narrator: a normal adult wolf's Head is around 10 inches long.

The rest of the animal Must have been between

6 and 7 feet long.

That is enormous.

Narrator: Forensic examination shows

That this giant wolf's head Was decapitated,

And that could have been The act of humans.

archeologists in russia Have recently discovered

the 4,000-year-old remains Of charred bodies

of wolves and dogs.

montieth: and it showed evidence

that the animals Had been roasted.

that's a pretty good sign that Whoever did that also ate them.

Narrator: Modern humans don't eat wolves,

But thousands of years ago, They did here,

And it wasn't just for food.

Gottlieb: the theory goes that By eating these animals,

These boys would become men.

It was like a rite of passage, And they would, in essence,

Become these wolves Metaphorically.

[ wolf howling ]

Narrator: stories of a wolfman Monster go back centuries.

[ growling ]

Records show in 1521, A murderous werewolf pack

Was hunted down and captured In the town of poligny, france.

These men effectively claimed to Have made a deal with the devil.

They allowed themselves to be Transformed into werewolves.

They were found guilty And executed shortly thereafter.

Narrator: former cia operative Lindsay moran

Looks into Russian scientific records

For evidence Of genetic tampering.

the russians have a long history Of animal experimentation.

This is clearly No ordinary wolf,

And it's very rare that animals Become super-sized on their own.

They usually have a little help From science.

In the early 90s,

The russians actually embarked On this experiment

To try to cross-breed Wolves and dogs,

And these were specifically Intended for military use.

[ dog barking ]

They called these super-sized, Mutant wolf dogs the volkosoby.

Narrator: The russian military wanted

A stronger, more resilient dog,

Able to survive In harsh conditions

Guarding their border.

Moran: russia is huge.

It shares borders With more countries

Than any other country In the world.

There's 16 in total.

It's no secret that russia Has a lot of enemies,

And policing these borders Is no easy task.

And so the canine component Of that is really critical.

Narrator: but when Biological engineer raj prabhu

Studies the footage,

He thinks he knows where, Or rather when,

It has come from.

this wolf was designed For one purpose.

looking at its jaw

and its teeth, it was designed For crushing bone.

And considering the size Of its head,

There's only one wolf That can match this.

The weird thing is the wolf That matches the size

Has died off Thousands of years ago.

Narrator: The pleistocene steppe wolf

Roamed the planet During the last ice age.

Wooly mammoth would have been On the menu,

But this giant wolf

Is supposed to have died out 30,000 years ago.

Could it really be alive today?

Narrator: biologist carin bondar Believes the location

Where the head was discovered Is a vital clue.

most of siberia is completely Covered in snow and ice

for the entire winter.

This picture was taken When it was the springtime.

Narrator: in the spring, When the permafrost softens,

Paleontologists head to siberia

In search of relics From the last ice age.

Could it be that this Wolf specimen that looks like

It was killed just yesterday

Could have been perfectly Preserved in the permafrost?

Narrator: the giant wolf head Looks fresh,

But forensic tests reveal It's actually 32,000 years old.

It's got fur, it's got teeth, It's got eyes,

And its brain is still intact.

The timeline makes sense For this

To be some kind of Prehistoric wolf.

Narrator: coming up,

Are secret weapons being tested In the desert?

For me, it screams cover-up.

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Narrator: now, over the desert, A large light hangs in the sky.

It's not really moving. It's just hanging there.

It has this weird form.

It's a weird thing to see.

Narrator: it's close to a Mystery military facility.

Nobody knows What goes on in there.

It's strictly off-limits To the general public.

Narrator: is the light The fallout from

A secret weapons program?

Lukes: It's eerie. It is creepy.

It almost looks like a vortex Opening up in the sky.

For me, it screams cover-up.

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: Queensland, australia --

More than 700,000 square miles Of wilderness,

Almost three times As big as texas,

But with a population much Smaller than new york city.

Indigenous people arrived here Over 50,000 years ago,

Establishing the oldest Continuous culture on earth.

In this empty land,

The night sky is untainted By light pollution,

Except on july 22, 2019.

There's a glowing ball That looks like it

Almost has a tail on it.

Wise: one of the things That's so uncanny about it

is that it's impossible To get a sense of scale.

it could be 100 feet up And be a couple of feet across,

or it could be like a way out In space and it's vast.

narrator: science writer Amy shira teitel considers

if this could be a space launch.

shira teitel: the light In the sky looks like

it could be a rocket Doing a prolonged burn

in the upper atmosphere.

As it's rising from one orbital Stage to the next,

The rockets will fire.

That will then be visible From the ground.

Narrator: but there's a problem With this theory.

Rockets move, but this light Appears to be stationary.

Astrophysicist Athena brensberger

Examines the footage.

definitely looks like It's some type of

unidentified flying object.

The tail looks like It's going downward,

Like, towards the earth.

It looks like something that's Not coming from the earth.

It looks alien.

Narrator: the aboriginal worrora People of northern australia

Believe that the world Is created

By sky beams called wandjina, Who came from the milky way.

Wise: you can imagine people In australia

Looking up into the night sky And seeing this and thinking,

"Is this some kind of Extraterrestrial object?

Is it a ufo?"

australia has a huge Treasure trove of ufo sightings.

Narrator: aboriginal tribesmen Have a name

For unexplained lights In the sky over australia.

They call them min min lights.

But it's not just tribesmen That see them.

One sighting in particular has Become famous across the world.

There's one really Interesting case

Where a young pilot disappeared Without a trace.

His name was Frederick valentich,

He was actually flying In an area

Known as the Australian bermuda triangle.

Narrator: october 21, 1978, 20-year-old valentich

Is piloting A single-engine cessna

Over the bass strait between Australia and tasmania...

[ airplane engine rumbling ]

...A stretch of water over which Numerous aircraft and ships

Have disappeared.

He radios in to report An unknown aircraft

Following him at 4,500 feet.

He was reporting that there was Bright landing lights,

And he was moving At fast speeds.

Air traffic control looked At the data in the region

And went back to him and said, "There's nothing on the radar

That says there's Another plane around you."

Valentich said that There was an object

That was maneuvering Alongside of his plane,

And he felt quite threatened By this.

His call was interrupted By loud,

Metallic scratching sounds.

It almost sounds like a tin can

That is really Just being crumpled up,

And then we completely Lose any contact with him.

The sounds Are absolutely terrifying.

[ thunder crashing ]

Shira teitel: valentich Disappeared without a trace.

No one knows What happened to him.

This case is one of The most notorious

Australian ufo sightings.

Narrator: science journalist Joe pappalardo

Thinks the light could be linked To a weapons-testing facility.

you've got the woomera Rocket range right there.

Has to be a prime candidate To consider

When you see something like this In the sky,

Narrator: The woomera rocket range,

The largest weapons-testing site On the planet.

49,000 square miles has been Sealed off from the public.

This secret facility is bigger Than north carolina.

Nobody knows what goes on In there.

It's strictly off-limits To the general public.

Narrator: The little that is known

Is cause for concern.

in the 50s and 60s,

the uk conducted Nuclear-weapons tests

Right at this very range.

[ explosion ]

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Narrator: indigenous australians Are angry that nuclear fallout

Has poisoned great tracts Of their ancestral land.

but there's more going on here Than atom-bomb tests.

scores of files About the program

have gone missing from The british national archives.

it makes you wonder, What are they trying to hide?

and are we seeing their newest Secret-tech test in action?

for me, it screams cover-up.

narrator: Whatever this light is

remains the subject Of speculation.

people try to rationalize The sighting.

that's human nature. That's what we do.