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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]