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[narrator] Worldwide,
36 billion cameras
are watching us,

on our streets, at work,
and in our homes.

They capture things
that seem impossible.

Science says
this shouldn't happen.

[man] Do you see that?

[narrator] Experts carry out
forensic analysis of these
unusual events.

Wow. What a blast.

[woman screams]

This doesn't make sense.

There has to be some
sort of explanation.

What else is going on here?

[narrator] Coming up...

In the Land of the Dragon,

are these flying creatures
shooting fire from
their mouths?

You're fixing to have
a shower of molten metal
falling on your head.

[narrator] A family buys
a house said to be haunted,

and captures this
on the nanny cam.

That's the most terrifying
thing I've ever seen.

[narrator] And Hitler's
escaped pet alligator.

Is it terrorizing
a German nudist beach?

They could even hear
the sound of bones snapping.

[narrator] Bizarre phenomenon.

Oh, my gosh [gasps]

[narrator] Mysteries
caught on camera.

[girl screams]

[narrator] What's the truth
behind this strange evidence?

Shenyang.

This sprawling metropolis
of over 7 million people

is the largest city
in northeast China.

August 3rd, 2020.

In the Tiexi district,
as commuters hurry home,

a man films a dark object
swooping between
the skyscrapers.

And then, all of
a sudden, boom.

And there's this big flash,
kind of diagonal explosion.

[loud explosion]

There's this sort of finger
of God suddenly appearing,

and it was raining flames
down on the people below.

Oh, my gosh.

[loud explosion]

[narrator] The entire side
of a high-rise with
over 100 apartments

is engulfed in fire.

A blazing fire like that
shouldn't just appear
out of nowhere.

[loud explosion]

[narrator] The ferocious
tongue of flame
appears to come

from this mysterious
flying object.

Is this tower under attack?

[loud explosion]

[narrator] The airborne menace
seems to be gliding
on enormous black wings.

It's an image that
leads local to speculate
the fireball

is the work of a terrifying
legendary creature.

[Tony] In China,
there's a belief
in dragons

that goes back
thousands of years,
six, seven thousand years.

[narrator] Dragons are found
in myths and legends
all over the world.

But in China, strange stories
have emerged in modern times

of encounters with mysterious
reptilian creatures.

In 1934, in one
village, Yingkou,

villagers claimed to have
actually found a dragon
that had fallen from the sky.

[narrator] The enormous horned
skeleton is put on display
and photographed.

But authorities are unable
to identify the supposed
fallen dragon

as any known living species.

And during the chaos
of World War II,

the remains disappeared.

Belief in dragons in China
is so engrained that
you can imagine,

people see this and think,
"My God, we are under attack
from dragons."

[narrator] Observers dismiss
the grey creatures with wings
as large birds.

[loud explosion]

But science journalist
Amy Shira Teitel
finds that in China

even birds aren't
always what they seem.

Strangest of all the Chinese
spy technology might be
the bird drone.

It's so life-like that
the drone is mistaken
for a bird

not just by humans
but by other birds.

It used GPS technology
to get around,

and then send information
back via satellite.

[narrator] Avian androids,
almost impossible to
distinguish from real birds,

are being deployed
by more than 30 military
and government agencies

in at least five provinces
across China.

These robo-birds
have a top speed
of 25 miles per hour,

and monitor citizens'
daily lives from above.

So if you can make
a drone that looks
convincingly like a bird,

you could gather a massive
database on populations
in order to control them.

[narrator] And physicist
Antonio Paris
uncovers evidence

China is going
one step further,

unleashing flying machines
that would put the power
of dragons to shame.

We do know that China
is weaponizing drones.

[narrator] In 2013,
Chinese security forces

planned to assassinate
a drug dealer

with over 40 pounds of TNT
attached to a drone.

In 2020, the government
unveiled its suicide swarm.

Groups of 200 lethal
flying robots, armed
with explosives,

commanded by AI
that work as a team
to destroy China's enemies.

You see these unidentified
flying objects,

you see this massive fire
engulf this building.

Could this be a weaponized
project by the Chinese?

[narrator] Physicist
Athena Brensberger

studies weather reports
for the day of the blast,

and finds something incredible
was happening in the sky.

There was about three
inches of rain per hour,
over a five-hour period.

Maybe these dark objects
that we see flying in the sky

are actually birds leaving
before the storm?

[narrator] Former FBI agent
Rhonda Glover believes
she's found a clue.

[loud explosion]

It appears that it is
following a straight line
through the air.

It's not expanding.

So it could be following
an electrical wire
of some sort.

Possibly, a lightning strike
has struck the line.

But a typical lightning strike
hitting a power line

would not cause a vaporization
like we see in the video.

[narrator] But perhaps this is
no ordinary power line.

China has a problem.

Over 780 million people,

more than twice
the entire population
of the United States,

are living in its
crowded cities,

and there isn't enough power.

To stop these cities
from plunging into darkness,

the Chinese authorities are
building 20,000 miles

of ultra-high voltage power
lines from west to east,

to bring electricity
to the rapidly expanding
metropolises.

Each carries over
800,000 volts,

and experts warn,
these lines are dangerous.

Security analysts see
these lines as being
vulnerable to terrorism.

If you were to take out
one of these high-power lines,

not only would it
create a huge explosion,

but it could lead
to widespread blackouts.

[narrator] And the lines are
also potentially vulnerable
to lightning strikes.

This cable runs right past
an apartment block,

putting hundreds of people
at risk if it blows.

[Athena] So is it possible
that this power line

could be one of those
Chinese high voltage
power lines?

[narrator] Electrical engineer
David Wallace examines
the explosion.

[David] We have a massive
burst of fire and flames
going across the street.

This is a massive release
of energy that I'm looking
at right here.

[loud explosion]

[narrator] Wallace
sets up an experiment

to find out if lightning
striking an ultra-high
voltage cable

would result in an
explosion like this.

[loud explosion]

Okay, we're getting ready
to start our experiment here.

[narrator] To replicate
the ultra-high voltage
lines in Shenyang,

Wallace suspends
a wire 15 feet in the air.

So let's raise it up.

[narrator] The thin wire
has a capacity of over
200,000 volts,

and Wallace will overload it

to simulate
a lightning strike.

So what we're gonna try
and see is what happens

when this lightning impulse
strikes this cable.

Now for this run, we're gonna
need about 250,000 volts.

So this is a deadly
voltage here.

I don't know about you
but I don't want to be
anywhere around this.

I'm fixing to go
to the safety zone.

All right, let's get ready.
In three, two, one. Energize.

[narrator] Coming up...
Has China's passion for power

unleashed a
fire-breathing monster?

[loud explosion]

It's just reckless and unsafe.

[narrator] And, from cradle
to beyond the grave,

a nightmare on a nanny cam.

I would never leave
my baby alone again.

[narrator] In the Chinese
city of Shenyang,

a mysterious flame shoots
down the side of a high-rise
apartment building

over 30 stories tall.

Electrical engineer David
Wallace wants to find out

if this is evidence of one
of China's massive
ultra-high voltage power lines

being struck by lightning.

His generator readies
a charge of 250,000 volts

to shoot through
a specially constructed wire.

[David] When this lightning
impulse strikes this cable,

will we get sparks?
Will we get vaporization?

I don't know
but we will find out.

All right, let's get ready.
In three, two, one. Energize.

[explosion]

[narrator] The explosive force
creates, on a small scale,

the shocking impact
of a lightning strike
on a power cable,

a cable capable of carrying
over 800,000 volts
into a crowded city.

Okay!

That's what I was
looking for.

[narrator] When the massive
voltage overloads the maximum
capacity of the wire,

the effect is similar
to the wall of flame
seen in the footage.

[loud explosion]

[David] What used to be
a transmission line is now
nothing but vapor.

It's gone, we completely
nuked it. It's out of here.

So now if you imagine
yourself sitting under
this transmission line,

when these events happens,

you're fixing to have
a shower of molten metal
falling on your head.

[narrator] Wallace's
experiment suggest
that the blast

was one of China's deadly
ultra-high voltage cables

being struck by lightning
in the middle of a built-up
residential area.

[Jeff] This is a case of
extraordinarily bad
electrical engineering.

You wouldn't expect
a high-voltage power line

to run from the ground
up to a top of a building.

[Athena] You should not have
high-voltage power like this

so close to where
so many people live.

It's just reckless and unsafe.

[narrator] Now,
Highland, Michigan,

a small township
45 miles north of Detroit.

March, 2019.

In an ordinary suburban home,

grandmother Kristie Higgins
notices strange
things happening.

We've had things
disappear and reappear.

We've had lights
turn on and off

by the switch that
we've physically seen,

doors open and close
on their own,

and voices,
we can hear voices.

You can hear their footsteps.

You can see their shadows.

[narrator] Then one morning,
her 15 month old
grandchild

wakes up with three
deep scratches on
her cheek.

The family reviews footage
from a night time nanny cam.

Did you just see that?
What was that?

Did that thing just
come out of nowhere?

[narrator] A human shaped
figure appears to materialize
out of the gloom.

And stalk across the room
next to the crib.

Seeing the entity
in the video was a shock.

After taking it all in,
it wasn't a surprise.

[Jeff] It's semi-transparent,
you can see right through it.

The baby clearly sees it too,

because, look,
it's getting up,
peering over the crib.

There's something unnerving
in that room.

Can you imagine watching
a nanny cam and seeing
this?

[Tracy] Their daughter
had three deep scratches
on her face.

And they think that
whatever this was
was responsible.

[narrator] Image Analyst,
Ben Radford studies
the footage

and notices an important
detail about this apparently
ghostly figure.

What we're seeing here
is casting a shadow.

[Ben] The shadow is
being cast from that
source of light

on to the ceiling.

That tells us that what
we're seeing is solid.

It's blocking light.

[narrator] Physicist
Chad Orzel thinks
the answer might lie

in the type of camera
that took the footage.

The camera is fitted
with an infrared light
source to better illuminate

the scene.

[narrator] The camera
floods the room with
infrared light.

A special chip inside
the camera processes
this light

into an image.

What's interesting is that
the edge of the table

at the bottom of this footage
is very bright.

[narrator] Orzel thinks
if an object like the table
is overexposed,

something moving through
frame could appear faint.

He positions an infrared
camera on a table.

We also need a version
of the baby in the foreground
of the shot.

So we'll use this little
toy dog.

The plan is, we'll turn
the lights off.

And then I'll walk across
the back of the room,

and we'll see if this
camera can turn me
into a ghostly phantom.

[narrator] Coming up...
Poltergeist or predator?

Is a notorious child killer
on the prowl?

These monsters are everywhere.

[narrator] And a "Nazi"
surprise for Germans
at a nudist beach.

What we could be looking at
here is a distant relative of
Hitler's personal alligator.

[narrator] A Michigan family
who believes they live in
a haunted house

discover three deep scratches
on their daughter's face.

The night time nanny cam
captures a sinister figure
passing by her crib.

And when they saw
this entity or whatever
it was,

they think that
was responsible.

[narrator] Physicist
Chad Orzel believes
the camera setup

may hold a clue.

He positions himself
at the back of the room.

[flips switch]

Dims the light.

And begins
to creep through frame.

So look at that, the baby
in the front of the camera

is overexposed, leaving me
fading into the background.

From what we see here,
it's fairly clear to me

that there was another person
in that room.

And the camera just
made them look ghostly.

[narrator] Biologist
Kiki Sanford wonders
if the bedroom visitor

could be a person
who is fast asleep.

[Kiki] As I am watching
this video,

I have to wonder
if, is this somebody
who's been sleepwalking?

[narrator] Scientists estimate
four percent of all adults
are sleepwalkers

and some can be violent.

In 1987, Ken Parks drives
over 12 miles

and beats his mother-in-law
to death with a tire iron
and stabs her husband.

Covered in blood,
he drives to a police station

and turns himself in.

In the trial,
his lawyers pleaded

that he'd been asleep
at the time of the attack

and the jury agreed.

Scientists used to think
that we were either asleep
or awake.

But now we know
that different parts
of the brain can be active

while others are inactive.

[narrator] The child's parents
insist they were downstairs
all night

and they never sleep walk.

Former CIA agent Tracy Walder

looks through
local news archives

and discovers this house
is in an area associated

with an evil man
with a sadistic interests
in children.

Oakland county is home
to an infamous serial killer

who was never caught.

The papers called him
The Babysitter Killer

because he would bathe
his victims and feed them
before killing them.

[narrator] Four children
are brutally murdered

between 1976 and 1977.

Their killer lays their bodies
out to be discovered

in a game of cat and mouse
with the cops

The police released details
of a suspect

but no one is ever caught.

He was tall, scruffy hair,

about 20 years old,

but that was the closest
they ever came
to identifying him.

[narrator]
If The Babysitter Killer
is alive today,

he'd be in his mid-60's,

and still capable
of chilling acts of horror.

[girl screams]

These monsters are everywhere.

[narrator] No other injuries
or ghostly figures

have been recorded
in this room

since the creepy video
was captured.

Until more evidence
can be produced,

the identity of this sinister
scratcher remains a mystery.

Christy stays in the house

but the sinister
shadowy figure

was enough to convince her son
and daughter-in-law
they were no longer safe.

[Christy] After this incident
it really frightened them

so they ended up moving out.

This is a good reminder
that you should lock
your doors at night.

[cameras zooming]

[narrator] Now, Bremen,
a historic town
in northern Germany.

July, 2019.

The river Weser,
a popular waterway
for wild swimming,

with Germany's
600,000 nudists.

The tranquil scene
is suddenly disturbed

when an alarming vision
emerges from the water.

All of a sudden, you see
what looks exactly like
a very big reptile

with its nose, its long mouth,
its teeth, beady eyes,
swimming through he river.

[narrator] It's a sight
to strike terror
into swimmers,

as a beast with monster jaws
appears to stalk
the river for its next victim.

It seems to be
some type of crocodilian,

in order of reptile
including alligators,
crocodiles and caiman.

They represent a clear danger
to all of the living creatures

including human kind.

[man speaking
over walkie-talkie]

[narrator] The authorities
raced to stop the bathers

from being eaten alive.

Then, other reports come in
of more man-eating monsters

spotted in nearby
German waterways.

A woman claims
to see a crocodilian

on the banks
of the river Unstrut.

Mouth wide open
as though poised to attack.

Local fishermen
back up her claim.

The first step of enforcement,
"Swimming is banned
in this river."

[narrator] But these
cold-blooded killers

rely on the sun for warmth.

Northern Europe is not
their traditional
hunting ground.

This would be a bit like
seeing polar bear
in New Orleans.

This is something
that does not belong there.

[narrator] Marine biologist
Eric Hovland

believes it could be
an alligator.

and he's reminded of events
said to have happened

during the country's
Nazi past.

This is not the first
crocodilian seen in Germany.

A 9-foot long, 400lbs
American alligator

was imported from Mississippi
to the Berlin zoo

which became a favorite
of, of all people,
Adolf Hitler.

[narrator] Hitler,
a famous animal lover,

is said to have paid
many visits to the zoo
to see the creature

who was named Saturn
by the keepers.

A true case
of monster meets monster.

It was love at first sight.

[narrator] But in 1943

the zoo was bombed
by the allies.

The aquarium building
was completely destroyed

but somehow Saturn escapes
into the sewers and waterways
around Berlin.

Hitler's pet gator survives

in the war ravaged city
for three years
before being recaptured.

But there are rumors,

Saturn might not have been
the only alligator
to escape.

What we could be looking
at here is a distant relative

of Hitler's personal
alligator.

[narrator] But this can't be
an alligator.

This creature has
a long snout,

and a row of teeth
that overlaps
its upper jaw.

Just like a crocodile.

A beast that grows up
to 5-feet longer
than an alligator.

Is this the future
of Germany's river and lakes?

Are crocodilians making
themselves at home in Germany?

[narrator] Coming up...

Is Germany
about to declare war...

-[crocodile growls]
-...on crocodiles?

There are very few things
that can fight off an attack
by one of these animals.

[narrator] And watch
this mysterious object
tracking the ISS.

[Jeff] The International
Space Station
is really vulnerable,

and it's one
catastrophic accident away
from complete destruction.

[narrator] In Bremen, Germany,

a man films
what looks like a crocodile

swimming close
to a famous nudist camp.

Snap-happy crocs have
the biggest bite force
of any living animal,

over three times stronger
than a lion.

[Martin] They are
an apex predator.

There are very few things
that can fight off an attack
by one of these animals.

[crocodile snarls]

[narrator] In 2019,
in Indonesia,

a woman is ripped
from an enclosure wall

by a saltwater croc

measuring over 14-feet long.

She has her arm
and most of her abdomen
eaten in a deadly attack.

Her body is found
in the croc's mouth
the next morning.

They could even hear
the sound of bones snapping.

[narrator] But how could
a crocodile be swimming
in a German river?

Morgan analyzes
the dates of the sightings,

and discovers they coincide
with a controversial
modern event.

In Germany, every year
there's a large
reptile fair,

in the city of Hamm.

[reptiles hissing]

[Roland] The fair took place
just about a month before
this mysterious sighting.

Has this crocodilian escaped
an exotic pet collection?

[narrator] No animals
are reported to have escaped
from the Hamm fair.

But absconding reptiles
have gone on to kill
before elsewhere.

In New Brunswick, Canada,

two sleeping brothers,
aged four and six,

are crushed to death
in their bed by a python

that escaped from a pet shop
below their apartment.

Having vicious animals
like this in an area
with so many people

could have really dangerous
consequences.

[narrator] Germany's
600,000 nudists

should be worried
about losing
more than their clothes.

We might face a situation

where there are
German sun-worshippers

who are being dragged
down the riverbank

down into the water
into a death roll.

[narrator] Now.

The International
Space Station.

Over 240 miles above Earth.

February 21, 2020.

Three astronauts,
two Americans and one Russian,

film something weird with
the station's onboard cameras.

[Jon] There's a
very strange object

floating just beside the
International Space Station.

Is it supposed to be there?

[narrator] The object seems
to be keeping pace

with the orbiting
space station.

[Amy] Clearly, the guy
operating the camera

is curious about
what this object is.

[narrator] It's
metallic and pointed

like some kind of craft.

[Martin] The International
Space Station

is not robust, it can't stand
up to much punishment.

Anything that
could get close to it

could potentially damage
and destroy it.

And so, for this object
to be nearby

is an extremely
alarming thing.

[narrator] Science journalist
Jon Farrow

notices the object
moving away from the ISS

appears to have
power and control.

So it goes towards the Earth.

But then it starts going away
from the Earth again.

That's almost
even more worrying

because how does it do that?

It must have some sort
of propulsion system.

[narrator] Coming up...

Is the ISS being tailed
by a clandestine space craft?

[Amy] Is this something

that the US government
want to keep a secret?

[narrator] And two-headed
mutant monsters

are terrorizing Argentina.

I'm not sure I would
get too close to that.

[narrator] Three astronaut
orbiting Earth

aboard the International
Space Station

observe a pointed object which
seems to be tracking them.

Military historian
Martin Morgan

discovers this is not
the first time

mysterious objects
have been spotted

from American spacecraft.

[Martin] Astronauts
and space travelers have seen

unexpected things
in Earth orbit before.

This is not new.

[narrator] US astronaut,
Jim McDivitt,

orbiting the Earth during
the Gemini 4 mission,

reports a white, cylindrical
object with an aerial

appearing outside his window.

McDivitt attempts to record

whatever is tracking
his capsule

but when he tries
to photograph what he's seen,

his two cameras fail
to capture an image.

Buzz Aldrin, during
the Apollo 11 Moon landing,

claims to see
unexplained lights

tracking the
lunar landing module

as it descends
to the Moon's surface.

The people who are on
the spacecraft are scientists.

I tend to find them
to be very, very believable

as eye-witnesses.

[narrator] But
the authorities deny

any of these reports relate
to unexplained craft.

And they also deny this object
is any kind of spaceship.

But America has not
always been transparent

about what it's launching
into space.

[Amy] Is this something

that the US government
want to keep a secret?

[narrator] In 2019,

a pilotless shuttle
called the X-37B

landed in Florida after
a two-year mission in space

the American public
was never told about.

What it was doing orbiting
the Earth in that time

remains a complete mystery.

NASA has worked with the
Department of Defense before.

The payload bay
of the space shuttle

was the size it is so NASA
could launch DoD satellites.

It's conceivable that NASA's
working with the government

on something that we
can't know about.

[narrator] But science
journalist Jon Farrow
examines ISS records

and discovers the footage

could have captured NASA
taking out the trash.

[Jon] The logs show

that a communication
module was ejected

from the ISS
at, almost exactly, this time.

[narrator] The 680-pound
module is no longer needed

and thrown
from the space station

using a 55-foot long
robotic arm.

But that's just the tip
of the space-garbage iceberg.

Astronauts on the ISS

create over half a ton
of waste each year

and with a capacity
crew of six,

that trash has
to go somewhere.

So there's been
a real proliferation

of objects in space,
and debris.

[narrator] Over 34,000 pieces
of discarded space junk

rip around the planet
at over 17,000 miles an hour.

Ten times faster
than a speeding bullet.

It's like a minefield
for the fragile space station

where all that stands
between the astronauts

and the unforgiving
vacuum of space

is just a tenth of an inch of
aluminum with a Kevlar lining.

If the space station was hit
by a piece of debris,

substantial enough
to rupture the skin,

the astronauts would be
thrown into space

meeting rather painful
and certain death.

[narrator] The ISS
has executed

29 debris-avoidance maneuvers

between 1999 and 2020.

And near misses are
becoming more common.

It may only be
a matter of time

before the $150 billion
space station is lost forever.

[Jeff] The International Space
Station is really vulnerable.

And it's always, you know,
one catastrophic accident away

from complete destruction.

[narrator] Now.

Bigand, a small town

in the province of Santa Fe,
Central Argentina.

February 12, 2017.

A woman finds something
writhing on the ground

outside her home.

[Re] What is that?

Is that a snake? A worm?

[narrator] To her horror,

she sees the creature
has two heads.

It's got multiple heads,
multiple eyes, stripes.

It's the weirdest thing
I've ever seen.

[narrator] The gray
tubular creature

appears to attack when
it senses something nearby.

This looks very,
very disturbing.

I'm not sure I would
get too close to that.

What is this freaky creature?

And where did it come from?

[narrator] Coming up...

In South America,

two heads are not
better than one.

Twisted mutations that seemed
spawned from hell.

[narrator] A woman
in Bigand, Argentina,

encounters a two-headed
monster outside her home.

Biologist Carin Bondar

studies the creature
in the footage

and thinks it may have
a disturbing condition.

Although rare, it's possible

for animals to be born
with more than one head.

A condition
called polycephaly.

[narrator] In 2019,

a team in New Jersey discover
a double-headed pit viper

they nickname Double Dave.

He's capable
of delivering lethal bites

from both his
functioning heads.

The same year,

a lethal and fast-moving
two-headed venomous cobra

is discovered
in a remote forest.

A single bite from either
of its two mouths

is enough to kill a man
in 30 minutes.

It must be an incredibly
weird sensation

telling your body
to do one thing,

but then feeling it being
controlled by something else.

[narrator] But these
two-headed snakes

have heads
that are side-by-side.

It's almost unheard of
for nature to produce a snake

or any animal with a head
at either end of its body.

And these heads aren't twins.

They look different
and distinct.

The discovery of
this double-headed horror

comes at a time
when doctors in Argentina

are reporting a spate
of weird mutations in humans.

Children are being born

with missing limbs
and organ defects.

[Liberty] What we
are seeing here

is causing terrible harm
to children.

[narrator] A doctor reports
over three percent of children

born at his hospital
have birth defects.

A more usual figure
is around one percent.

Experts cannot explain
the cause of the horror

haunting some area
of Argentina.

[Liberty] Reports show

that birth defects
and cancer are at four fold.

[narrator] Some blame
chemicals used in agriculture.

Some, arsenic in the water.

Or even household chemicals
getting into the soil.

But no clear evidence
has yet been found

to explain the mystery
mutations blighting Argentina.

Looking at the footage,

could this crazy,
snake-like creature

be one of these mutants?

[narrator] But entomologist
Kevin Kasky

examines the writhing creature

and rules out
a genetically corrupt freak.

When a genetic
mutation happens,

most of the time,
it doesn't function right.

This appears to be
moving normally,

it's responding
to being prodded with a stick.

[narrator] A snake born
with two heads

could never be this short.

There is no room in its body

for two sets
of internal organs.

So therefore, we can conclude
that it's not a mutation.

[narrator] Ashanti Davis
thinks its freakish appearance

could be an elaborate
and deadly deception.

It looks like
it has two heads.

One side is bigger
than the other,

if you get
a little bit closer,

I think what we're seeing here
is a fake head.

What we're seeing
here may actually be

a case of aggressive mimicry.

This false head allows it to
lure unsuspecting animals in

and make them its victim.

[narrator] Aggressive
predators in nature

don't always need to attack.

Many lure their unsuspecting
victims to their deaths.

Ant-mimicking spiders

wave their front legs
near their head

like the antenna of an ant.

When unwary ants get
too close, the spider attacks.

The spider-tailed viper
is a highly venomous snake

found on cliffsides,

its camouflaged body
hidden against the rocks.

Using its spider-shaped tail
as bait,

it draws in birds
looking for an easy meal

before turning
its winged victim into dinner.

Bondar studies
the creepy creature close up

and spots an important detail.

If we watch the video again
and take a look

at the entire size
of the creature,

we can see that the head

is, actually, about a quarter
of the entire body length.

This so-called snake
has tiny, little feet.

I think we might be looking at
some kind of caterpillar.

An earlier life stage
of a moth.

[narrator] Its distinctive
markings reveal

this creature
is the caterpillar

of the death's-head hawkmoth.

It has evolved

the face of a snake
on the back of its body

to terrify other creatures
including humans.

It's an animal
whose appearance

strikes fear
into the superstitious.

Many believe
it's an omen of death.

And anyone who sees it
has not long to live.

They say two heads
are better than one,

but in this case, I really
don't think that's true.