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[cameras whirring]

[Harry] Worldwide,

36 billion cameras
are watching us.

On our streets, at work,

and in our homes.

They capture things
that seem impossible.

[woman] Science says
this shouldn't happen.

[man] Do you see that?

[Harry] Experts carry out
forensic analysis

of these unusual events.

[Matt] Wow, what a blast.

[explosion]

[woman screaming]

This doesn't make sense.

[woman] There has to be
some sort of explanation.

What else is going on here?

-[camera whirring]
-[explosion]

[Harry] Coming up.

Did a Doomsday prepper

meet his own
personal apocalypse?

[David] Just blown
the doors open on the house.

The whole place is shaking.

I mean, this is incredible.

[siren wails]

[Harry] Floridians fight
the Frankensquito.

[Patrick]
It's possible that this man

has been used as a guinea pig.

[Harry] And a creepy
gingerbread man

who wants to eat you.

[Marcus] This is the weirdest
thing I've ever seen.

Those two things
don't just look like legs,

they're actually kicking.

[cameras whirring]

[Harry] Bizarre phenomena.

Oh, my God. [gasps]

[explosion]

[Harry]
Mysteries caught on camera.

What's the truth
behind this strange evidence?

[whirring]

[Harry] Port Neches,

85 miles east of Houston,
Texas.

[beeping]

[Harry] November 27th, 2019.

[beeping]

[Harry] 12:56 AM.

[Jeff] We're seeing
closed-circuit TV shot

of a house with a pool.

Nothing is going on

and then suddenly, ba-boom,

the whole place
just lights up.

[explosion]

[David] What is happening
at this place?

I don't know.

[Harry] A burst of unnatural
light fills the sky

above this ordinary suburb

turning night to day.

[Martin]
And then it dims a bit

but the light doesn't go away.

Everything stays illuminated.

[Harry] Then a weird force
rocks the house.

[David]
And now, look at here.

There's a pressure wave.

It blown the doors open
on the house.

The whole place is shaking.

It's crazy to me.

[Harry] Finally,
a dog shaken by the explosion

emerges from inside
the property.

[Tracy]
It's like a second sun

has been shot into the sky.

[David]
What we need to find out is

what type of explosion
would this be.

[whirring]

[Harry] Military historian,
Martin Morgan,

believes the powerful
backyard blast

could've come
from a terrible accident

in a secret
underground layer.

A contemporary aspect
of the American experience

is that there are more
and more people

that are preparing
for a Doomsday

or apocalypse type event.

[oxygen mask hisses]

[Harry] Today, a new breed

of Doomsday prepper
is emerging.

Fearful not of a Russian
or a Chinese attack,

but of an assault
from within.

[suspenseful music playing]

[explosions]

[Craig] You know,
there's a lot of rioting

and chaos in America today,

so much so some people
actually fear

another civil war coming.

Move back. Move back.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry] Bunker building
in the United States

has increased by 400%

in the wake of events
in the year 2020.

And in Texas,
a state that prides itself

on its independence,

more people than ever

are preparing
for the end of days.

[indistinct chatter]

[Martin]
And in the Houston area,

there are no exceptions.

There are people that are
preparing for Doomsday

to the extent that
they're building bunkers.

[Harry] Basic self-built
survival bunkers

cost around $35,000.

They are dug as much
as 10-feet below the ground

and can contain
defensive weaponry,

basic medical supplies,
and six months' worth

of freeze-dried food.

Preppers believe
they'll stay safe

while civilization
collapses outside.

But badly built bunkers can
be underground death traps.

A stockbroker named
Dan Beckwitt hires a builder

to construct
an underground bunker.

It's illegal under his house.

Guess what happens?
A fire breaks out,

the builder burns to death.

[Harry]
Red River County, Texas,

October 2019,

another Doomsday
for a group of preppers.

[Martin] A doomsday bunker
experienced a gas leak...

[Jeff] And it filled
with propane, a spark,

boom.
The whole thing blew up.

There's concrete
flying everywhere.

Three people were killed.

[explosion]

[Martin]
Could this explosion be

from a private nuclear
fallout bunker?

[Harry] Electrical engineer
David Wallace finds evidence

of many self-built Doomsday
bunkers in the area,

but doubts one
was the source of the blast.

[David] So, whatever we see
that's causing the light

in this video, it must contain
a much larger source

of ignitable material
than you would expect

to find in a small bunker.

[Harry] But much bigger
bunkers have been built

all across the US.

[Craig] You know,
the super-rich are actually

building these
massive bunkers,

because they're gonna try
to escape what they feel

is this coming civil war
in America.

[Harry] Houston is one

of the wealthiest places
in America.

Two out of every hundred
people here are millionaires.

Journalist Jeff Wise
uncovers plans

for a $300 million
Texan bunker complex

in the Lone Star State.

It looks like
a regular resort.

[Martin]
It's got a pool, it's got

a helicopter landing pad,
because why not?

[Tracy] But each condo
is underground

to keep residents secure

if Armageddon happens.

[Harry] Some super bunkers
come fully equipped

with triple filtered air,
months of supplies,

heavily armed guards
to fight off intruders.

And a massive amount of fuel
to run its generators.

A blast in an underground
complex this large

would light up the night

like the blast
in the footage.

But former CIA operative,

Tracy Walder finds no reports

of exploding super bunkers

on that day near Port Neches.

[Tracy] Something must have
blown but what was it?

[whirring]

[explosion]

[Harry] Electrical engineer
David Wallace suspect

a dangerous local industry

has had
a spectacular accident.

[David] So when you take
into account

this has occurred
around Houston area,

we're pretty close
to the Gulf Coast

and what's the main thing
that you have

in the Gulf Coast
around Houston?

Oil platforms,
oil refineries,

anything like this
is highly explosive.

[Harry] There are over
3,000 active rigs

in the Gulf of Mexico,

many close to shore,
and an accident of just one

can inflict
catastrophic carnage.

When you look at
the magnitude of danger,

these are pretty bad.

[helicopter blades whirring]

[Harry] April 2010,

a sudden and deadly explosion

rips through the
Deepwater Horizon drill rig,

killing 11 people
and injuring 17 more.

Over eighty-five days,

at least a hundred
and eighty million

gallons of oil streamed
into the ocean

devastating thirteen hundred
miles of bayous and beaches.

Enough oil spills
to power over

a hundred and fifty thousand
US homes

for an entire year.

[Craig] And the cleaning bill,
$65 billion dollars.

[David] And we're still paying
the consequences

from this just one rig.

So, it's possible
what we're witnessing here,

the actual aftermath
of a massive oil explosion...

[Jeff]
There are millions of people

living along the shore
of the Gulf of Mexico.

That kind of accident
could be catastrophic.

[whirring]

[Harry] Matt Kutcher is a
Hollywood pyrotechnics expert

with over 20 years
of experience.

-Go.
-[explosion]

[Harry] He helped recreate
the devastating oil rig fire

in the movie
Deepwater Horizon.

[Matt laughs]

That's Hollywood.

Holy cow.

[Harry]
Analyzing the footage,

he concludes this can't be
an oil rig place.

[Matt] There's some other
component in here

that makes it so bright
and white.

There's no orange color
or hue to this in any way.

Something else
is the cause of this.

Seeing this bright light
makes me think

it could be more
of a chemical explosion,

something with powders
or metals involved in it.

[Harry]
Aluminum powder is used

in the production
of chemicals,

and in the iron
and steel industry,

it's highly explosive
and burns

at over 45,000 degrees
Fahrenheit.

And when it reacts
with oxygen,

it blazes with a searing
white intensity.

The coast here at Port Neches

is littered with over
20 industrial plants.

It's the heartland

of America's
petrochemical industry.

Could aluminum powders
in some kind of refinery

that's exploded create
this bright light,

strong enough
in an explosion,

hard enough that could

actually open doors
miles away?

I think what we need
to do here is create

some kind of experiment

to see if it's as bright
as what we see in this video.

[Harry] Kutcher plans to use
a high pressure vessel

to launch aluminum dust
high into the air.

Then ignite it.

[Matt] Just get it up there
and see what it does.

Okay. We're ready.
Let's go high.

So it's gonna be
ba-boom, right?

-Copy you, sir.
-Okay.

And here we go.

[whirring]

[Harry] Coming up.

Can Matt Kutcher identify

the mysterious
midnight flash?

[Matt] It's like
an instant hurricane,

the shockwave is tremendous.

[Harry] And this gingerbread
man is no fairytale.

[Marcus] Is it possible
that this is the horrible

disfigured body
of a human being?

[camera whirring]

[camera whirring]

[Harry] In Texas, a mysterious
midnight explosion

rocks the small city
of Port Neches,

turning night to day.

Hollywood
pyrotechnics expert,

Matt Kutcher,

wants to see if metal dust

from an industrial plant

can explain the blast's
unnatural brightness.

[Matt] Shut off
your valve, son.

[Harry] He plans to launch

powdered aluminum
high into the air

and then ignite it.

In three, two, one.

-Hit it.
-[explosion]

Now, that was a bright idea.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry] The white intensity
of the blast looked similar

to the dazzling light
reflected in the windows

of the house in the video.

Kutcher believes there
must have been

a metallic component
involved.

[Matt]
It seems quite plausible

that this bright white light

could've come from
a chemical plant.

And if the, uh,
chemical plant was using

aluminum or magnesium,
or something like that

in a very fine
powder source, well,

it could've done this exact
type of explosion.

[Harry] Journalist Jeff Wise
investigates

local police reports
in Port Neches

and finds a match.

[Jeff] turns out that
there's a petrochemical plant

that's caught fire
and it exploded,

so the doors that
we're seeing flung open,

that's the shockwave

of this petrochemical plant
exploding.

And then,
we have another explosion

to deal with.

The blast fires
one of the plant's towers

into the sky like a rocket.

[Harry] The plant produces
over 400,000 tons

of the chemical butadiene
every year.

[Harry]
The volatile colorless gas

is processed from gasoline

and used to make rubber.

After the blast,

the toxic cloud billows
over the town

and spreads
to neighboring areas.

[Craig] So 60,000 people
have to be evacuated,

but what makes it worse,
it's Thanksgiving.

[Harry]
The chemical fueled fire

rages for six days straight.

[Jeff] Houses 30-miles away
felt the impact of this blast

and there was just tremendous
destruction in Port Neches.

The United States
is an industrial powerhouse,

but there's still a danger
associated

with having that kind of
an industry on your doorstep.

[explosion]

[camera whirring]

[Harry] Now, Southern China,

on the coast
of the South China Sea.

[beeping]

[Harry] July 9th, 2018.

A man finds a hideous
humanoid on a beach.

[gasps] What is it?

I mean, it kind of looks like
a mangled up gingerbread man.

[Harry] The creepy thing
like an object

brought to life
in some dark fairytale

squirms as if trying
to escape the man's clutches.

This is the weirdest thing
I've ever seen.

Those two things don't
just look like legs,

they're actually kicking.

[Harry] As the camera
moves in closer,

an eyeball-like form
appears to hang

from its disfigured face.

Revolted, the man throws
it back into the sea.

[Craig] If it's a creature,

it certainly doesn't look
like any creature

that comes from Earth.

[camera whirring]

[Harry] A terrifying
human-shaped being

looks like a gruesome version

of the gingerbread man,

a folktale that is told
all over the world

about a cookie that bizarrely
comes to life

and runs away from people.

But historian
Marcus Harshaw wonders

if this clip could show
a Chinese citizen mutilated

beyond recognition
by an accident.

[Marcus] Is it possible that
this is the horrible

disfigured body
of a human being?

[Harry] Over a hundred people
are killed every day

in China's mines,
chemical plants,

and construction sites.

[siren wailing]

[Harry] Others are horribly
maimed in grotesque ways.

In 2013, 18-year-old Wang Jin

has his hands mangled

and pulled off at the wrist

after being dragged
into an industrial hammer.

Doctors reattached
the severed hands

but can't save
all his fingers.

It turns his hands into these,

like, lobster claws.

[Harry] In 2015, Yuan Longhua,

a 38-year-old worker
at a glaze making factory

in Chaozhou City,

slips and plunges
into a vat of boiling slurry.

[Craig] So, 99%
of his body was burned.

The flesh on his right leg
began to rot

and so they had
to amputate it.

[Harry] The object spongy
appearance resembles

that hideous burnt human skin

suffers after
a fiery accident.

A test pilot's body
was so badly burned

after a plane crash
in Laredo, Texas in 1948.

The photographs of it
convinced many

it was an alien
from a downed UFO.

[Marcus]
The eyes are burned out

and the sockets
are out of proportion

to its head.

There's no ears or nose,

and the mouth is just
a slit with no lips,

tongue or teeth.

[Harry] China's coast
is used to test new

and often unreliable
experimental aircraft.

In 2019, a Chinese
fighter jet crashed

in the island province
of Hainan,

near where the footage
we shot killing both pilots.

[Craig] So, is this
gingerbread-y thing

that washes up on shore,

is it actually
the tragic outcome

-of an accident?
-[camera whirring]

[Harry] But biologist
Raven Baxter examines

the object and the footage,

and decides this can't be
a disfigured person.

[Raven] This thing is flat
as a pancake

and if this were a vertebrae,

I would be looking
for evidence of broken bones,

but I don't think I see any.

So, this might be
something else.

[camera whirring]

[Harry] Coming up,
a carnivorous predator

disguised
as a gingerbread man.

[Carin] If this has somehow

chosen a human form
intentionally,

could it mean
that it's out to get us?

[Harry] And is this evidence
of genetically altered bugs

unleashed on a Florida City?

[mosquitoes buzzing]

Local people are terrified.

They described this like
a Jurassic Park's experiment

where they're the guinea pigs.

[camera whirring]

[camera whirring]

[Harry] A terrifying
human-shaped creature

with what seems to be
an eyeball

hanging off its face

is pulled from
the South China Sea.

Marine biologist Carin Bondar

investigates
the surrounding area

and believes this
wriggling monster

is a mutated form
of sea life.

[Carin] The texture
of the animal

really reminds me
of a sea sponge.

You know, they actually
move more than you think.

[Raven] Usually people think
that sponges are plants,

but they're actually animals

and in fact, we are related.

[Harry] Incredible
as it may seem,

sponges and human share
a similar genome,

the DNA sequence that encodes

the building blocks of life.

Humans are thought
to have evolved

from a sponge ancestor

750,000,000 years ago.

But that doesn't explain
why the sponge

seems to have a manlike shape

or what looks like a hideous
eyeball on its face.

Some of the waters
around China

are known to be
extremely toxic.

Could this creature somehow
be the results

of toxicity
in the environment?

[Harry] Certain chemical
cocktails triggered changes

in the DNA of the creatures
expose to them,

mutating them in new
and dangerous ways.

Over 10,000,000 tons
of toxic junk

is dumped in China each year,

including huge amounts
of cadmium,

which leaches into lakes,
rivers, and oceans.

[Carin] Cadmium
is especially in cities

because not only does
it cause mutations to occur,

it actually blocks the signals

that we have to go
and correct them,

so mutations
will build up overtime.

People use this water
every day to drink,

and to swim,
and to water their crops,

and because of that
many people are dying.

[Carin] Many kinds of toxins
cause genetic mutations.

I don't know what cadmium

would potentially do
to a sponge.

Could this technological waste

have created
this deadly monster?

[Harry] A recent
Australian ocean survey

found many more sponges than

previously thought
are carnivorous.

Carnivorous sponges
don't have a mouth

or teeth for chewing,

so they've developed other
ways to digest their meals.

[Harry]
After the sponge traps prey,

it secretes an acid-like
substance

that liquefies flesh

and then the sponge
sucks up the mixture.

But why would a sponge
take the rough form

of a human being?

In the animal kingdom,

some creatures use mimicry
to lure in prey.

If the DNA of this sponge
is corrupted,

it could have mutated
into the form of a human baby

to lure people
to come towards it.

[Carin] If this sponge
has somehow chosen

a human form intentionally,

could it mean
that it's out to get us?

[Harry]
This gingerbread thing

is thrown back
into the ocean,

giving scientist
no time to study it

and find out what it is
or why it maybe mimicking

the shape of a human.

So, until we can get
more information

about this hideous thing,
the jury is still out.

We may never know what it is.

[Harry]
Now, Pensacola, Florida.

April 24th, 2020.

[birds chirping]

[Harry]
Boat worker Kenny Wright

checks his backyard
wildlife camera.

[Kenny] When I wake up,

I drink my coffee
and I look through

thumbnails and footage.

I'm watching the clip
and I see what appears

to be an up pulling or...

Of some kind of force,

but it rolls into a ring form
or a halo

and it goes up
into the woods.

[Harry] There is no wind
and this is not pollen.

It's something
that seems to be

moving deliberately upwards
in a dancing motion.

[Kenny] Partially,
you can see it,

it kinda gets a little fancy

and wiggles like
it's gonna stay in your back.

I've never seen anything
like it in my life

and nobody I've showed it to
from local sheriff deputies

to important people,
nobody have...

Nobody can explain this.

I have no interest to it, man.
"I just really don't.

I really don't know
what it is."

Because we don't know
what they are, we have to ask,

well, could they be dangerous?

[Harry]
Author Patrick Tomlinson

suspects Kenny
and his neighbors

could be human guinea pigs
in a government experiment

that has ordinary
Floridians terrified.

[Patrick] Looks like
it could be a swarm

of flying insects
but they move differently.

They're more organized
than you would expect.

Maybe, there's something
new and different

about their behavior.

In 2020,
Florida officials approved

the release
of 750,000,000 mosquitoes

that have been
genetically modified.

Could that be
what we're seeing here?

[Harry]
Mosquitoes are responsible

for more deaths
each year than war,

terrorist attacks,
and homicides combined.

[mosquitoes buzzing]

[Siobhan]
Florida's aging population

is particularly susceptible

to the mosquito-borne
West Nile virus,

which can cause
hemorrhagic fever

or even death.

[Harry]
The government launches

these genetically
modified mosquitoes

to help bring down
the population.

These lab built-bugs produce
female mosquito larvae

that die
before they can breed.

But Florida locals and some
environmental scientist

worry what is being unleashed
is a Frankensquito.

A monstrous new breed
of mutant insect

their creators
cannot control.

[Siobhan]
Local people are terrified.

They described this

like a Jurassic Park like
experiment.

Two hundred
and forty thousand people

had signed a petition,
but it was useless.

The decision
had already been made.

[Patrick] People worry
that these mutant mosquitoes

have not been tested
thoroughly enough

and could lead to a new
super strain of mosquito.

It's possible that this man
is being use as a guinea pig.

[Harry] Evidence suggests
an experiment

like this could go wrong.

In Brazil, genetically
engineered mosquitoes

bred for the same purpose.

Successfully transferred
their artificial genes

into the local wild
mosquito population,

a scenario
their creators claimed

shouldn't happen.

The lab grown mutant DNA
is now loose

in the Amazon jungle.

Rapid DNA mutation
could create

new and terrifying versions
of the bugs we know today.

An arthropod
evolutionary birth

in the Carboniferous period,

300 million years ago

produced an age
of insect monsters.

[Patrick] Dragonflies
with the size of seagulls

and centipedes
were six-feet long,

with predators like that
running around,

not much else
is gonna get an opportunity.

[Leslie] Florida is already
full of deadly creatures,

but this could take it
to a whole another level.

[Harry] But biologist
Jayde Lovell discovers

the government is releasing
the GM mosquitoes

too far
from Kenny Wright's yard.

[Jayde] This genetically
enhanced mosquito experiment

is focused
on the Florida case,

but that's over 500 miles
southeast of Pensacola,

so something else
must be going on here.

[Harry] Coming up,
is this Florida homeowner

about to suffer
the kiss of death?

This kind of insect
attacks humans

by biting them
around the mouth.

[Harry]
And why are these sheep

frozen where they stand?

I genuinely was so shocked.

It was the weirdest thing
I've ever seen.

[Amy] These animals look like

they're being affected
on mass

by something
extremely powerful

and very targeted.

[Harry] In Florida,

a backyard wildlife
camera captures

a bizarre nocturnal mass
that appears to swarm.

Biologist Roland Kays thinks
this could be

a deadly foreign invader
from South America,

the kissing bug.

This kind of insect
attacks humans

by biting them
around the mouth,

hence the name.

[Harry]
The kissing bug has sensors

on its antennae
that lead it to warm,

soft parts of the skin

where blood
is most easily sucked.

Numbers are skyrocketing
in the US

as they migrate north
and they thrive in woods

like the one seen
in Kenny Wright's backyard.

But the kissing bug
also harbors

a deadly parasite
that lives in its species.

If it sips into a bite,
the victim can develop

a gruesome disease
called Chagas.

[Jayde] The way Chagas works
is that it delivers

a parasite into your body
called Trypanosoma

and this parasite swims
around your body causing

a range of symptoms
including inflammation,

rashes,
and even heart failure.

[Harry] Chagas is originated
in Latin America.

Around the equator,
it runs rampant,

swarms kill
over 10,000 people a year.

Now, it's in the USA
and doctors believe

300,000 people are infected.

[Kevin] If a single insect
in the swarm

is infected with the disease,

it can infect
the entire swarm

causing a cloud
of deadly insects.

[Jayde] So, if what we've
seen here in the footage

is in fact
a swarm of kissing bugs,

that is a big concern

and potentially very dangerous
for the US.

[Harry] Florida authorities
Wright has approached

have offered him
no explanation

for the nighttime visitors
and he suspects

they could be covering up
the truth.

[Kenny] I think
there's much more of this.

This is just one capture
in one lawn,

in one garden and, um,
it's unexplainable.

There are things that happen
in the dead of night

that we might be better off
not knowing about.

[dramatic music playing]

[Harry]
Now, Troutbeck Inn, Cumbria,

Northern England.

July 23rd, 2020...

9:30 am...

carpenter Rory Davis

vacations in a rustic cottage
with his family.

We've been going ever since
I was a young lad

and it was no different
from the rest.

It was just
a Thursday morning.

It was raining.

There was not much to do
and I was literally

just chilling in my bed.

[dramatic music playing]

[Harry]
But Rory's mother discovers

there's something strange
going on outside.

I could tell
by the look on her face

that she was serious.

That something weird
was going on.

So, I go out of bed,

I rushed straight
to the window

and I couldn't believe
my eyes.

Hundreds of sheep
stood frozen

in this field.

I genuinely was so shocked.

It was the weirdest thing
I've ever seen.

Every single last one
of those sheep were frozen.

Not a single one was moving.

I couldn't...
I couldn't comprehend

what was going on.

It was almost like someone
had pulled the switch

and the world just stopped.

[Harry] Over 100 sheep,
an entire herd

seemed to be affected
by some bizarre glitch.

I was shaking.

I thought I've got
to catch this on film

because otherwise,
no one is gonna believe me.

It's my word against theirs.

It allowed me
to actually zoom in.

And as I pan around,
some of them were stuck frozen

in a point that they were
probably eating

or half-bent down,
to sit down,

lay down, whatever.

They had completely
frozen still.

What the heck?

It's like time
has just stopped.

Everything is frozen.

It's...
They're so motionless.

Look, nothing is moving
in this clip.

[Harry] At first,
journalist Jeff Wise

thinks the odd behavior
of the sheep

may be a reaction
to an imminent threat.

[Jeff]
Sheep are prey animals.

They evolve
to minimize predation.

And one of the responses
that animals have

is you can freeze,
immobilize yourself.

If the predator
is far enough away,

it might not notice you.

[Harry] But image analyst,
Ben Radford,

believes there are
crucial differences

between the behavior
in this footage

and normal animal responses.

[Ben] Sometimes in the wild,

animals that are confronted
by a predator

will just freeze.

And that might explain

what's going on here,
except for the fact

that they don't seem
to be in panic.

Uh, they're looking
in different directions.

So, it's not as if
they're all looking

towards one wolf.

[Harry] The last known
wolf sighting in England

was here in Cumbria,

but that was in the year
1390.

And Rory believes
the sheep remain frozen

for far longer

than an animal
would naturally stay still.

They've been stood there
for probably

at least a good one hour
and thirty minutes,

which is a long time.

So, if something
was in there spooked them,

shortly it would
have gone by now.

That just doesn't make sense.

[Harry] Coming up, evidence

of a mind control experiment

at a nearby top secret lab.

Could governments use
this kind of technology

to turn people on and off

just by clicking a switch?

[Harry] And a creepy
car which screeches

like a banshee

and seems to be
driven by a ghost.

You can clearly see
there's no one

in the driver seat.

There's no one operating this.

Is this car haunted?

[Harry] In Northern England,
Rory Davis

captures a bizarre scene

of impossibly
motionless sheep.

[Rory] These sheep
were frozen solid.

I'm trying to make
some noise,

I started to wave
my hands around,

but they just did not move

at all.

[birds chirping]

[Harry] Science journalist
Steve Potvin

searches
the surrounding area.

He discovers
these stationary sheep

are close to one
of Britain's most claimed

[indistinct] experimental
military sites,

RAF Speed Atom.

[Steve] There is a secret
military base here

that originally
was built to look at

ballistic missiles.

But once the Cold War ended,

they kind of switched over

to looking at secret
electronic

warfare development.

[Harry] The site used
by both American

and UK military scientists

is one of the most remote
in England.

It's surrounded
by rugged terrain

and treacherous pit bombs,

the perfect place
to develop strange

and dangerous weapons.

British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher

is rumored to have ordered
government researchers

to start work on a bizarre
anti-personnel weapon

in the 1980s,
just as she faces

one of the greatest tests.

[horse neighing]

[indistinct chatter]

[Steve] In the early 80s
in the UK,

there was something known
as the Brixton Riots.

[Harry] The violence
spreads across the UK,

turning city after city

into violent battlegrounds.

Britain's unarmed police
are powerless

in the face of the angry mob.

It reported Thatcher orders

a technological solution

to put these uprisings down.

[Steve] It's been discovered
that you can use

electromagnetic pulses

to actually control the brains

of mammal and humans.

You can put them
into a kind of trance.

I've heard stories,
but never seen evidence.

This may be it.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry] Scientists operating
under a secret project

codename, Sleeping Beauty,

claim they can use
directed microwave energy

to implant
subconscious messages

into the target,

inducing behavioral change

and involuntary paralysis.

These animals look
like they're being affected

on mass by something
extremely powerful

and very targeted.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry] Potvin wonders
if these frozen sheep

could be part
of an experiment

to use this technology again

in today's turbulent times.

[Steve] If what we're seeing
here is proof

that a weapon
like this exists,

then what does that mean
for us?

Could governments use
this kind of technology

to turn people on and off

just by flicking a switch?

-[suspenseful music playing]
-[birds chirping]

[Harry] The UK government
refuses to confirm

or deny what tests
are being carried out

near Troutbeck.

But it's unlikely
they conduct

a top secret test so close

to a public road.

[Rory] I have no idea

how or why this happened,

and this is one
of the most strangest

experiences I have ever had.

Unless more evidence
comes to light,

we just won't be able to say

what caused these sheep
to freeze

like they did on that hill.

[Harry] Now, Quito,

the capital of Ecuador.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry] October 2015...

a CCTV camera watches over

an underground parking lot.

[Brian] We see a man
approaching

the vehicle on the left side
of the frame,

opens the door,
grabs a box...

[Rhonda]
And he closes the door

and it appears
is that he locks it,

and then he's off.

[Harry] Then the car
takes on a life of its own.

[brake screeching]

[Harry] Untouched
by human hands,

the motor appears to start,

straining hard against
the screeching handbrake

and the car creeps
slowly forward.

This car is moving by itself

and screaming like a banshee.

[brake screeching]

You can clearly see
there's no one

in the driver's seat.

I mean, really there's no one
operating this...

[brake screeching]

[Harry] There is no
slope here or oil

on the floor that might make
the car roll forward.

[thuds]

[Harry] Thirty minutes later,
the owner returns

to find his car

over twenty feet
from where it was parked.

[Rhonda] The driver is back

and he is just totally
perplexed

that his car just moved

from where he left it.

He goes and gets
one of the attendants

to kinda help with trying
to figure out

what happened with his car.

[in foreign language]

The fact that the car
seemed to wait

until it was alone to move

seemed super creepy.

[break screeching]

[Brian] It almost seems
like this vehicle

has a mind of its own.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry] Coming up,
has this man

bought a killer car?

[Nick] By changing
the key make-up of a car,

you're taking your life
into your own hands.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry] In Ecuador,
a parked car's engine

mysteriously switches
on by itself.

And then the car
accelerates forward

despite a handbrake
holding it in place.

[in foreign language]

[thunder rambling]

[Harry] Stories
of haunted houses

are recorded
all over the world.

But it's claimed the dead

can also possess cars.

Archduke Franz
Ferdinand was shot

in a Graf & Stift
limousine 1914.

The car is still said
to be haunted.

The ghosts
of Bonnie and Clyde

are rumored to haunt
their bullet riddled

Ford V8,

now in display

at a casino in Nevada.

If we're looking
at haunted cars,

of course, we're all familiar
with the fictional version,

which is Stephen King's
Christine.

There's a real car

which was a 1964 Dodge.

It was called
The Golden Eagle.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry] It's branded
the most haunted car

in America.

Getting behind
the wheel is said

to take you
on a journey to hell.

Its first owners are
the Old Orchard Beach

Police Department in Maine.

Three officers drove this car

and each of them
unusually went on

to commit murder suicides.

They killed their families

and then they killed
themselves.

[Harry] Horrified members
of a local church

try to commandeer the vehicle

and perform an exorcism.

It's a fatal mistake.

Unfortunately on the way,

they were hit by an 18-wheeler

and many of them
were decapitated.

So, when you believe
in ghosts,

it's not that surprising
that you would feel

that cars behave
in supernatural ways.

[brake screeching]

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry] But Engineer
Brian Wolshon

suspects cybercrime
could be behind

the car's ghost movement.

When I see footage like this,

where a vehicle is appearing

to start itself and to make
an attempt to drive,

I wonder if that could
be a case of hacking.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry] Most modern vehicles

are built
with an onboard computer.

Some of these perform
so many functions

from controlling
engine emissions

to navigation, that the car
can almost be said

to be a computer on wheels.

And with so many cars

now connected
to the internet,

this makes them vulnerable

to attack.

[Brian] Once a hacker
takes control,

they can do
anything they want.

They can make the car drive,

they can take over steering,

they can take over braking.

They can actually lock
the passengers

inside of the vehicle.

This is a huge risk.

Someone could be sitting
in their basement

or their bedroom
and use the internet

to control millions
of vehicles

all over the world.

[sirens wailing]

[indistinct radio chatter]

[Harry] Former FBI
Special Agent Rhonda Glover

runs the footage
through enhancement software

and identifies
the car's brand,

but she finds it slightly
different in shape

to how it leaves the factory.

Looking at the space
between the tire

and the rim,
it just seems to be

a little bit lower,
which gives

that indication
that there are bits

of modifications
where the suspension

may have been tampered
with or, you know,

it's been jacked up.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Harry]
Nick Householder agrees

someone could have made
customizations to the car.

I think it's what people
call a hot hatch.

It's a type of car
that a car enthusiast

would wanna take and just do
a ton of stuff

to modify as much as they can.

-[engine revving]
-[tire screeching]

[Harry] Car modification
is a business

worth over 100 billion
dollars worldwide,

transforming
run of the mill motors

into personalized supercars.

But amateurs risk death
when they drive hotrods.

This car meet
in Stevenage, England

ended in tragedy

when two out of control
vehicles

collide in dangerously
high speed.

No one was killed,
but nineteen teenagers

are horrifically maimed
and injured.

[Nick] If the car
has been modified badly,

a mistake in the ignition
could cause exactly

what we're seeing.

[Liberty] You can hear
a whirling sound

and that's probably
the starter motor

and the squeal of the tires

as it moves
against the parking brake.

[Harry] Householder
believes the man

in the video is lucky
to be alive.

Modifying a car,
it's just inherently risky.

The engineers design the car
in a specific way,

such that they can understand

and predict the reliability

and the safety
of that vehicle.

By changing
the key make-up of a car,

you're taking your life
with your own hands.

[suspenseful music playing]