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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.

[ explosion ]

[ screams ]

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...

Food to die for.

Was this blast caused by Truffles?

Oh! What the hell Just happened?

It almost takes That guy's head off.

Narrator: a prehistoric beast in A canadian lake...

The first thought is, "What is that?"

And then the second thought is, "Is that kid in danger?"

There's definitely something in The water.

Narrator: And has a man laid an egg?

Oh, that gives me shivers. It's so disgusting.

That's like an egg pulled out of A human?

That's weird.

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: bizarre phenomenon.

Whoa.

Narrator: Mysteries caught on camera.

What is the truth behind This strange evidence?

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Now on a street In southern china...

Oh! What the hell Just happened?

...A building explodes.

Whoa, that's Gotta hurt.

...Blasting a scooter rider.

It almost takes That guy's head off.

Narrator: Is this the work of a gang Of blood-drinking hoodlums?

They're involved In some activities

That you could label terrorism.

[ camera whirs ]

Sichuan, yunnan province, Southwest china,

Home to the yi tribes people,

One of china's 55 different Ethnic groups.

September 2019...

morgan: All right. Here we have peaceful Street scene in china.

what could possibly go wrong?

narrator: all of a sudden...

that door just hits that guy On the bike

that's gotta hurt.

narrator: a scooter rider takes The full brunt of the blast.

wolson: It appears that there's a big Heavy metal object

coming across the road. That's very scary.

narrator: Experts are still puzzled By what happened here.

you don't expect a building Just to explode.

oluseyi: Clearly, there is an explosion, But there is no fire.

there's no flame at all. That is not typical.

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: this city, 6,000 feet Above sea level, is surrounded

By mountains, Subtropical, hot and humid.

This region is one of the oldest Producers of tea in china.

It's grown over an area Of 1,600 square miles.

That's the equivalent of around 800,000 football fields.

Here in the hills,

Tea is grown, picked, Dried, and packaged.

It's big business Across the country,

Worth $12 billion annually.

China's yearly consumption Is almost three times

The weight Of the golden gate bridge.

Physicist chad orzel

Wonders if the industrial Processes used in tea production

Could cause This kind of explosion.

Maybe this is some sort of Manufacturing plant

Or processing plant Where people are processing tea,

And then we have to ask,

"What is the explosive potential Of tea?"

Narrator: Dust from the production Of things like tea,

Powdered milk, grains, and flour Can lead to explosions.

The perfect storm of a high Concentration of dust in the air

In a confined space

And an ignition source Can cause catastrophic blasts.

One particle ignites, it Can catch its neighbors on fire

And the fire sort of spreads Like a wave

Through the airborne dust, Using up the oxygen

That's surrounding it To power the flames.

You can get these dust Explosions from anything

That'll burn -- sugar, Flour, grain.

Tea by itself isn't something We think of as blowing up,

But the manufacture of it

And the packaging of it Generates a lot of dust.

And if you have airborne dust,

That can be a highly volatile Explosive mix.

Narrator: such food explosions Can be deadly.

In port wentworth, georgia, 14 people died in 2008

When an explosion devastated The imperial sugar refinery.

The huge blast occurred When a buildup of sugar dust

Was ignited.

Burning dust in the air Can create a lot of heat,

Which creates a lot of pressure, And the resulting shockwave

Traveling out from the source of The blast can level buildings.

So if you're processing large Amounts of tea

In a poorly ventilated space

Where this dust is allowed To build up in the air,

This is a situation that can Quite literally turn explosive.

So this door could be Blasted off

By an explosion Of burning tea dust.

Narrator: Matt kutcher has been a master Of hollywood pyrotechnics

And ballistics For over 20 years.

He's setting out to see If he can make tea explode

if this green tea experiment Actually goes big,

it could actually resemble What it was

In that building that we saw.

And if it does, maybe we get Some proof that

That's what it was -- Tea.

Narrator: to recreate the angle Of the blast

Coming out of the building,

Kutcher and his team Are using a mortar.

Kutcher: we need to put the Powder into something that acts

Like a rifling, so we'll Consider this the barrel

To our gun, and we're going to Put powders in it

And ignite them. And those powders are gonna come

Rifling out of that mortar.

We still have to light it. We have to ignite it.

We have to have A source of spark.

This will be the spark That ignites it.

Narrator: To see if it's possible To ignite simple dust

In a mortar this size,

Kutcher will first attempt To create a dust explosion

Using coffee creamer.

Ten pounds of coffee creamer.

Narrator: This household product is often Used by explosives teams

On hollywood movies To make explosions more visual.

-go hot. -effects is hot.

All right. Here we go.

In three, two, one...

Kutcher: that went off with Quite a blast.

Narrator: The coffee creamer dust blasts Out from the mortar,

Igniting it in the air Just as matt had hoped it would.

The concussion we felt Out here was pretty cool.

Narrator: Matt's blown up pretty much

Everything imaginable In his hollywood career,

From cars to christmas trees, But today will be a first.

We've never done tea dust.

I don't know whether it's going To be a dud

Or it's going to go bang.

Narrator: Kutcher loads up the mortar With dried green tea

Of the type grown In china's yunnan province.

Let's see if we can get tea To actually blow like tnt,

Give it a real bang.

In order to duplicate

What we believe We saw in that video,

We're gonna get this door To fly.

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: Coming up, is tea the key To this mystery blast?

Kutcher: Blow the horn all clear.

Three, two, one...

Narrator: and a boy is menaced By a mysterious monster.

We believe it is a predator,

And it comes up to the surface To feed.

narrator: A street in china is witness To a mystery blast.

pyrotechnics expert matt kutcher Wants to test the theory

that tea dust Caused the explosion.

let's see if we can get tea To actually blow like tnt.

blow the horn. All clear.

[ horn honks ]

And here we are In three, two, one...

[ explosion ]

Not much left of the greenhouse Or the door.

If it wasn't for the cable,

The door might have flown Across the street,

And hit somebody on a scooter.

I think under this controlled Environment of which we created,

We obviously made the tea work,

And we were able To disintegrate a door.

But is it really What we saw in the video?

Narrator: the explosive blast From a very small quantity

Of tea was surprisingly big.

Even explosives master Matt kutcher is taken aback.

But his blast is giving off A large, dense dust cloud.

In the mystery clip, There is none.

Kutcher: What we see in the video Has got far more power.

Narrator: Either way, he's thinking of Keeping less tea in the kitchen.

But after seeing the tea Just explode like that,

It makes me think, "Maybe I'll stick to coffee."

Narrator: Military analyst joe pappalardo Suspects the event

Could be the work of one Of the most feared

Criminal networks in the world.

you have to consider where this Incident happened.

this is in the yunnan province. It's an area where the triads,

Criminal groups called triads Are extremely active.

When something blows up, your Mind immediately flips to them.

Narrator: The 14k is one of the largest Triad gangs in the world,

With 20,000 members.

Formed as an anti-communist Criminal organization in 1945,

Chinese authorities Have tried to control them,

But the 14k is well-organized And well-funded,

Thanks to its criminal Activities.

in china today, there is a Reality of organized crime.

it's just that simple. They're involved

In some activities That you could label terrorism.

Narrator: The triads have immense power With many

In the communist regime On their payroll.

Any triads betraying Their organization are executed.

Whenever you have government Corruption of that magnitude,

You're going to have Organized crime involved.

The triads are known For using high explosives.

Not just actual High explosives like tnt,

But then also, Homemade explosives.

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: As for what the triads might be Stealing in this area,

Military expert marty morgan Has got a strange theory.

He believes it may be A very special kind of mushroom.

There's a trade in this province

In what they call "Black diamonds,"

And black diamonds Are simply truffles.

Narrator: Black diamond truffles are the Most expensive food on earth,

Selling for as much as $150,000 Per pound.

So valuable, a french farmer was Jailed for eight years in 2015

For shooting a man dead

He thought was stealing His black truffles.

[ gunshot ]

This really is food to die for.

When you consider the amount Of money that's involved,

It's unsurprising that you get Organized crime involved.

Narrator: The theories around the event In this footage

Are as strange As the incident itself.

But to this day, what happened Here is still unexplained.

he gets up, so he's okay, But that's gotta hurt.

narrator: There were no fatalities This time,

but the citizens of sichuan

live with the threat Of another unexpected blast.

muñoz: the people who live In this area,

on this street now have to live

in a constant fear of Another explosion taking place.

and next time, If it does happen,

The people on the street Might not be so lucky.

Narrator: now an ancient lake, A monster long thought to exist,

Finally caught on camera.

-what is it? -I think it's a 120-foot

Fast-moving serpentine snake.

Narrator: This is just the latest report

Of a monstrous creature In the lake.

We've had multiple sightings Here of two or three ogopogo

In lake okanagan, Perhaps there's more than one.

Narrator: A creature which for centuries

Has been known to and feared By local tribes people.

Ogopogo is the english word For n'ha-a-itk.

It means the sacred one Of the water.

Narrator: The sighting has amazed And terrified locals.

This experience has had A huge impact on our family.

My son won't go swimming Past a sandbar anymore,

And I definitely Am not going in the water.

Gottlieb: the first thought is, "What is that?"

And then the second thought is, "Is that kid in danger?"

Narrator: Canada, home to over 20% Of the fresh water in the world.

British columbia is The land of lakes

With over 20,000 of them.

June 1, 2019, On a hot summers day,

Store owner jim larocque And his family head to the lake.

It was 1:00 in the afternoon, 30 degrees out, celsius.

The water was like glass.

Narrator: Jim's son paddleboards

When something horrific emerges From the water.

all the sudden, I just heard This swooshing sound

of something and I thought,

my son was just on his Paddleboard,

And something Went right behind him.

Narrator: A huge and menacing presence Is in the water just feet away.

Eventually, my son turns And he actually

Sees a flipper Come out of the water

And smash down on the water.

And of course, He starts booking it back

On his paddleboard.

Narrator: his son just manages To get away,

But jim will never forget

The vision Of the creature estimated

At 120-feet long.

The underside of it Was like white,

And then the outside was dark.

Narrator: Scientists are at a loss To explain what jim saw.

it's like one, two, three, Like seven fins.

And you could see Something coming right up

Out of the water. I mean, it's so flat.

There's no way This is the wind or a log.

Gottlieb: the first thought is, "What is that?"

and then the second thought is, "Is that kid in danger?"

Narrator: This huge lake stretching 80 miles dates back

To the ice age And the oldest known inhabitants

Are the syilx people who have Inhabited the lake shore

For many thousands of years.

Their descendants, The west bank first nation,

Have long talked about the lake Being home to a giant creature.

Caldwell: Ogopogo exists in our stories, And we have a word for him.

if he wasn't real And he didn't exist,

we wouldn't have a word for him.

we call it n'ha-a-itk.

It means the sacred one Of the water.

Narrator: They believe n'ha-a-itk is not a Normal animal.

He is a kind of animal-god,

Because he's so sacred, he Doesn't show himself

To just anybody.

When you see things from Another realm, it's a blessing.

Local historian bill steciuk.

Believes the creature is a real Animal unknown to science.

when I first moved to kelowna A number of years ago,

I was pretty skeptical about Something being in the lake.

But I had a sighting off The bridge in 1978.

Narrator: He took a photograph of what he Believes is the creature's head.

It was taken at 130 meters. Looking at it,

You can actually see an eye, And you can see the mouth here.

It was ironic all the time I've spent on boats,

And here I'm sitting on my Patio, and I get a picture.

We believe it is a predator.

We believe that It feeds on fish.

There's even been sightings That it could take a duck

From the top of the water.

Narrator: Local scientist raphael nowack Grew up around the lake

And is determined to get to the Bottom of what is in its depths.

I've always had a natural Curiosity for wanting to explore

and learn more About okanagan lake,

Especially because Of its immense size

And the fact that it has Never been fully explored.

And along with that, obviously, Comes the topic of ogopogo.

Narrator: He's heading to an area

Where a number of sightings Have been made.

Nowack: We're here at squally point Where there are several

Underwater cave formations Known to exist.

So we're going to take a look At those and see

This is one the habitat That ogopogo may live in.

Narrator: Nowack launches a remotely Operated underwater vehicle...

Here we go.

...To explore the lake's Cave-like formations.

Just approaching, it looks Like a cave feature here.

This is a potential habitat,

A large creature or an unknown Creature maybe able to hide in.

A few years ago, I was doing an Underwater investigation,

And I came across some Interesting formations

On the bottom sediment,

Which looked like A pattern of footprints.

The footprints suggest that There may be an ambush predator

That may walk along the lake Floor and then push off,

Creating those indentations In the lake sediment.

Narrator: large footprints on The lake floor seem bizarre,

But similar giant Dinosaur footprints

Were found in the mountains Of morrison, colorado,

Where there was once A prehistoric sea.

Scientists are still discovering On a yearly basis new species

On the planet that have not Been known about before,

And I'm just open To exploring this mystery.

Narrator: Coming up, are these lake Monsters jurassic throwbacks?

They've been around Since before the dinosaurs.

They look like they belong With the dinosaurs.

Narrator: And in a chinese hospital, What has this man just laid?

It looks like a huge white egg.

So where in the world Did that come from?

Narrator: in a lake in the Canadian wilderness,

A young boy manages to escape From a giant water beast.

Marine biologist eric hovland Analyzes the footage

And is reminded Of a jurassic giant

Known as a plesiosaur

And of a creature repeatedly Sighted in scotland --

The lochness monster.

nessie comes to mind right away,

was that a plesiosaur that lives In lochness?

is there something similar In this lake?

Narrator: Savage plesiosaurs ruled

The jurassic waters Of earth 65 million years ago.

Some investigators speculate That nessie is a plesiosaur

Whose ancestors entered the loch From the sea.

However, recent science and Discoveries have shown us

That perhaps It isn't a plesiosaur.

scientists have been studying The dna

that they've collected From lochness to find out

what animals are living Beneath the surface.

narrator: That study by researchers From new zealand

examine traces of dna In the loch.

they found something They weren't expecting.

they did find a lot of eel dna.

Narrator: Earliest eels date back to over 100 million years ago

When some of the largest Predators ever existed.

Prehistoric eels evolved into At least

800 different species, Some of them enormous.

Washington: Some of those eels can grow Close to 30-feet long.

That could easily be mistaken For a monster.

Narrator: but the creature Filmed by jim in canada

Would dwarf The largest known eel.

Marine biologist danny Washington considers

If the footage shows Another type of river monster

Known to inhabit Canadian waters.

There have been a lot of Eyewitness reports

Of eel-like fishes swimming Through canadian lakes,

But what they're seeing Might be a sturgeon.

Lake sturgeon can grow To be quite large.

These animals can easily Be confused for a monster

Swimming through a lake.

Narrator: When swimming, the sturgeons Rigid spine

Often breaks the water

In a similar way To what is seen in the footage.

There have been some massive Sturgeons discovered.

For example, in china, They found a sturgeon

That was half a ton. That's 1,000 pounds.

Narrator: But no known sturgeon has ever Come close

To the 120-foot monster Captured on camera.

That's about the size of five Sturgeons lined up all together.

Narrator: Whatever this monster is,

Some local people are now Refusing to enter the water.

this experience has had A huge impact on our family.

my son won't go swimming past The sandbar anymore,

and I definitely Am not going in the water.

people are still continuing To report sightings.

just last year, there were Three sightings in three weeks

until we get a carcass Or some dna samples,

We're not going to know Exactly what it is.

Narrator: Now surgeons cut open a man, And to their horror...

That looks... Ugh.

...Find a large, Fully formed egg.

It gives me shivers. That's so disgusting.

It's like an egg Pulled out of a human?

That's weird.

Narrator: is it a miracle...

There's so many weird And mysterious things

That can happen To the human body.

Narrator: ...Or an even stranger echo Of the past in our dna?

Brenserger: incredibly, we still Contain huge amounts of dna

Of our reptilian ancestors.

So is this actually A freak throwback?

Narrator: hubei province, Home to 58 million humans...

...And around 350 million chickens.

A local delicacy here Is thousand-year eggs.

These are preserved in ash And clay for months

Before being served As traditional breakfast food.

November 2015, a 53-year-old man Is admitted to a local hospital

Complaining of abdominal pain.

When surgeons opened him up,

They discovered to their horror What is reported to be an egg.

oh, there's an egg Inside of a person.

I mean, I've heard of deviled Eggs, but this is ridiculous.

narrator: experts are at a loss As to what this could be.

well, it looks like a weird, Huge white egg.

so where in the world Did that come from?

it looks like a human Has produced an egg.

This just doesn't Make any sense.

How does an egg end up Inside of a human being?

Narrator: Science journalist john farrow Is reminded of a strange case

Of an egg-laying boy.

In indonesia, There was the case of this boy

Who claimed To have laid eggs.

Narrator: In 2018, 14-year-old akmal From gowa, indonesia,

Claimed he'd laid 20 eggs.

His father, rusli, Supported the claim,

Saying that he had Cracked one open.

So when this boy was x-rayed, The eggs were found

At the base of the abdomen,

Which is where you might expect To find the eggs.

Narrator: akmal was hospitalized And doctors watched in horror

As the teenager laid Two eggs in front of them.

You can guess for yourself What part of the body

These eggs were coming from.

When the eggs were taken away To be examined,

They matched perfectly The profile of eggs from a fowl.

So maybe this was an extreme Form of attention seeking.

We can imagine how the boy In indonesia faked his eggs,

But this man in china, it was An invasive surgical procedure,

Definitely isn't a prank.

Narrator: Coming up...

Is our long-dormant Reptile dna suddenly waking up?

Is it possible that we somehow Might be evolving where

We might be able To lay eggs again?

...And sinister screams

Come from a canadian killer's Favorite forest.

[ screaming ]

If I heard that in the woods,

I would not be in the woods For much longer.

Narrator: surgeons in china Cut open a man.

Inside his stomach, They find

What looks like A fully-formed egg.

No one can figure out How it got there.

In the animal kingdom,

The male seahorse gets pregnant, Carries eggs, and gives birth,

But they do not produce eggs. Their female partners do.

They deposit the eggs into A special sac in the male's body

Where he fertilizes And carries them

Until eventually giving birth To up to 2,000 babies.

Science journalist steve potvin Investigates if it's possible

For a human male to carry eggs.

there's so many weird And mysterious things

that can happen to the human Body.

Narrator: When human genes mutate, Strange things can occur.

In 1895, there was a newspaper Article about a guy

Called edward mordrake, And it described him

Having a second face On the back of his head.

Narrator: While the mordrake story Is now doubted by experts,

The article reported that Mordrake called this second face

His "Devil twin."

Now, edward ended up killing Himself at the young age of 23.

He had written in his will that He wanted the face to be burned

So that the whisperings Wouldn't continue after he died.

Narrator: evidence suggests Mordrake suffered from a rare

Genetic birth defect.

[ camera whirs ]

Narrator: it is true that humans Have traces of egg-laying dna.

based on biological evolution, We have a reptilian past.

Incredibly, we still contain Huge amounts of dna

Of our reptilian ancestors.

So is it possible that we Somehow might be evolving

Where we might be able To lay eggs again?

Narrator: As mammals and reptiles evolved,

We still continue to share up To 89% of our dna.

There are several traits Which are similar, too --

Skin that can repair itself,

Teeth, and a yolk sac in the Womb from the time

When our ancestors laid eggs.

Scientists in china have been Reported to be conducting

Genetic experiments on humans,

Which would never be allowed In other parts of the world.

Dr. He jiankui controversially Carried out genetic engineering

On human embryos, Modifying their dna.

His actions were condemned By scientists in china

and around the world.

Narrator: He was eventually jailed

For forging documents And unethical conduct.

We have no way of knowing What the truth

Of this story actually is.

Narrator: Animal expert kevin kasky Looks into whether the egg found

In the stomach of the man In china is a unique event.

there are instances where Structures made of fat or hair

or other things that are Within the body or that the body

is discharging that come out With an egg-like substance.

there was an incident in 2015, Where a man in washington, d.C.,

had a 4-inch egg-like Structure removed from his body.

orzel: This can be a major problem.

something that large can lead To blockages internally,

that can create Severe medical problems

And even lead to death.

Narrator: The secret of this egg formation Can be found

In the sewers beneath our feet.

So much fat comes from The restaurants and homes above,

Special teams are needed To clear the blockages.

As humans consume Greater quantities of fat,

It accumulates in the body, Creating fat bergs,

Which is what we could be seeing In the man in china.

Bits of fat can sort of Accumulate and buildup together,

And sort of, you know, Take on the shape of

Wherever they happen To be contained,

Which will give you Kind of that ovalish shape.

Narrator: A biopsy on the egg found In the man in china

Showed it was a buildup Of a mixture of fat

And other bodily tissues.

And when you slice it, It gives the appearance

Of sort of a boiled egg With a hard yolk at the center.

Narrator: This is one egg you don't want To wake up to.

This man's a very, Very lucky man.

This could have been much, Much worse and not operable,

So he's very lucky.

Narrator: Now a man hears a series of Terrifying screams

Coming from the forest.

Oh, my god, that scream.

That is just chilling.

Narrator: immensely loud, Echoing through the trees.

[ screams ]

The heck was that?

Narrator: What's worse, it's in an area

Where there have been dozens Of murders

And unexplained disappearances.

This area is known for many, Many unsolved murders.

Narrator: This forest and the highway That runs through it

Has a truly Terrifying reputation.

This part of british columbia is Called the "Highway of tears."

[ screams ]

Narrator: Witset -- native american land Dating back thousands of years,

Surrounded by forest, Nestled by the rockies.

December 16, 2017,

It's early evening. The sun sinking fast.

A man hears an immensely Loud cry from the woods.

[ screams ]

it's really loud, and it seems To want us to know it's there.

narrator: the booming screams Rip through the air.

[ screams ]

narrator: followed by another Even louder shriek.

if I heard that in the woods,

I would not be in the woods For much longer.

the idea that the sound That we hear in the video

could be the cries Of the latest victim,

I mean, That's absolutely horrifying.

Paleontologist dustin growick Analyzes the sound

In search of clues To its origin.

You'll notice that it kind of Starts as a low growl,

But then proceeds to being much Higher pitched,

Almost shriek or scream.

It's not easily identifiable, But it's pretty sinister.

Narrator: A wet'suwet'en tribal legend Speaks of a wolf/bear,

A giant beast That roams the forests --

The wa-hila.

It seems strange,

But there is a creature Scientists called amphicinated

That once inhabited North america.

This terrifying giant thought To have gone extinct

2 1/2 million years ago Is known to have grown

To the same size As an adult male polar bear.

Whatever the source Of this noise,

The locals are truly terrified Of going into these woods.

When science author linda Zimmerman investigates the area

The clip was shot,

She finds it has A sinister past.

there is a possible darker side To this

because this area is known For many, many unsolved murders.

Narrator: Going straight through The middle of this forest

Is highway 16.

Since 1969, 43 women Have disappeared on this

Isolated stretch of road,

Only 13 bodies Have ever been found.

Zimmerman: hitchhiking is Strongly discouraged

On this stretch of road.

They even have billboards Warning "Killer on the loose."

That is not something You see every day.

Narrator: coming up...

Is the scream in the woods A killer on the loose?

Women keep disappearing.

They've been disappearing Since this investigation.

Narrator: And is a deadly space rock Heading for earth?

Whatever that is, It's moving very, very fast.

What is the flash At the end there?

Narrator: In british columbia, canada,

A terrifying scream rips through A forest linked to dozens

Of missing And murdered women.

A road that runs through the Area where the scream was heard

Is known As the highway of tears

And is one of The most dangerous roads

In the world to walk alone.

But the threat Is not from forest beasts.

For some horrifying reason,

This place has become a magnet For serial killers.

November 2010, officers stopped 20-year-old cody legebokoff

Inside his truck.

They find him sitting In a pool of blood.

He claims he's been poaching.

But when police find A 15-year-old girl's I.D.,

They follow his tracks Off highway 16,

Finding her body.

He eventually Confesses to killing her

And three other women, But the killings don't stop.

women keep disappearing.

they've been disappearing Since this investigation.

narrator: Tragically, three more women

have been found Murdered along this road.

another six have disappeared,

many from the local Native american communities.

this could be a very important Piece of evidence

in the criminal investigation.

Narrator: So many victims, but so few Of their bodies discovered.

The presence of large predators In the forest

Means that bodies Do not last long here.

The ghostly screams captured This day are still a mystery.

At the time this video was Taken, there were no reports

Of missing persons Or anything worse.

I'm hopeful There's another explanation.

[ screams ]

Narrator: The cries are chilling And horrific,

An awful reminder Of the very real terror

That makes locals afraid To enter this forest.

Given the mystery that surrounds These woods,

If I was a local, I would not be going near there.

Narrator: now in the night skies Above the american midwest.

Whatever that is, It's moving very, very fast.

Narrator: A mysterious bright light Seen across eight states.

Man: oh, whoa.

Whatever that was, It just kicked into overdrive.

There's something unnatural About the way this thing moves.

Narrator: Experts worry this could be An unstoppable invader.

It's flying far too fast To be a passenger plane.

Then it gets brighter, And it moves faster still.

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Narrator: rural missouri, November 11, 2019, 8:52 p.M.

Home security cameras Capture a strange light

That appears out of nowhere...

It's so bright, It lights up the entire sky.

Narrator: ...Then streaks across The night sky...

It's moving so fast, it is Impossible to tell what it is.

Narrator: ...Before finally it bursts into Light.

What is the flash At the end there?

Narrator: Former nypd video analyst Connor mccourt

Studies the footage

And immediately rules Out camera trickery.

when I look at this video, There's nothing that indicates

that it's not authentic.

All of a sudden, a bright object Crosses the screen.

Is it manmade Or is it from space?

Narrator: this thing was filmed Across eight different

States from minnesota To missouri.

It streaked across missouri From troy to wellsville.

There are over 5,000 passenger planes

Flying over america At any given moment,

But this object Is not one of them.

for one thing, it doesn't have Any of the other lights

that passenger aircraft Normally do.

Whatever that is, It's moving very, very fast.

And then it gets brighter And it moves faster still.

Narrator: Military historian marty morgan

Studies the apparent Acceleration of the object.

What kind of aircraft is capable Of that level of performance?

Narrator: Coming up, is a giant asteroid

On a crash course With the earth?

It's moving so fast, it is Impossible to tell what it is.

It only takes a meteor About the size of a car

To create shockwaves Strong enough

To break windows.

Any larger than that, And all hell breaks loose.

narrator: in rural missouri,

a mysterious light Streaks across the night sky

seen in eight states.

could this strange light

be linked To secret military operations?

my first thought is that we're Looking at a fighter aircraft

Because there's really Nothing else that exists

That can experience Acceleration like that.

A jet fighter can be cruising Along

At a regular rate of speed, Go into afterburn, and zip off

At a significantly higher rate Of speed,

Like this anomaly In the footage does.

Narrator: the strange anomaly

Was captured Near whiteman air force base,

Home to one of the most Incredible planes

In the world -- The b2 stealth bomber.

This flying wing is virtually Invisible to anti-aircraft

Defenses, capable of dropping Thermonuclear weapons

Anywhere in A 12,000-mile radius.

The b2 would not be visible on Camera, but fighter jets would.

Morgan: the f15-e is the fastest Aircraft in american inventory.

Called the strike eagle

Because of The aircraft's ability

To carry a very large Payload package.

The f15 is capable Of accelerating to speeds over

1,600 miles per hour.

Narrator: fast enough To be the object spotted,

But why would a fighter jet

Be streaking Across the missouri night sky?

High-performance combat aircraft

Tend to stay away From populated areas,

And they tend to not go into Afterburn over populated areas.

The only reason that I could Come up with for it to be out

In the middle of the night Running up into afterburn

And zipping off at high rates Speed over a populated area --

The only reason I could Come up with to explain that

Would be that aircraft Is intercepting something.

Narrator: Science writer amy shira teitel Thinks this could be an object

That has terrified humans For millennia.

when I look at the footage, The speed,

the brightness, the intensity,

it all looks like a meteor Streaking across the sky.

So could this be What we're looking at?

Narrator: The earth interacts with space More often than you might think.

Every single day,

25 million meteors Enter the earth's atmosphere,

Most of which burn up,

But some can Wreak havoc upon impact.

The atmosphere acts Like a brake,

Slowing them down really fast.

What that does is generate A lot of heat.

These rocks from space

Can go from 3,000 To 10,000 degrees fahrenheit.

Narrator: an asteroid larger Than 100-feet wide

Could wipe out a city. Any asteroid larger

Than 6.2 miles Is called extinction class.

These are powerful enough To destroy all life on earth.

It only takes a meteor About the size of a car

To create shockwaves Strong enough to break windows.

Narrator: If there was a planet-killing Asteroid

On a collision Course with earth,

There's nothing We could do to stop it.

A 2007 nasa report indicated That a nuclear bomb

Would blow An asteroid into pieces,

But those chunks Would still hit us.

The automated asteroid-watching System century

Tracks around 20,000 near-earth Objects,

43 are marked as potentially Hazardous.

A house-sized meteor can explode In the earth's atmosphere

With more force Than the atomic bomb

That the u.S. Dropped On hiroshima in 1945.

Narrator: Nasa and the european space Agency are scrambling

To develop a system That will alter the course

Of potentially earth-destroying Asteroids.

In the meantime, we are helpless From bombardments from space.

meteors travel at about 132,000 miles per hour,

so that is a fast, bright streak Of light across the sky.

what really convinces me This is actually a meteor

is the flash at the end.

that's what happens When a meteor burns to the sky

and then blows up In the atmosphere.

narrator: Nasa confirmed it was a meteor Seen over missouri.

luckily, this one didn't cause A catastrophic explosion,

but the next one could.