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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!

[screaming]

This doesn't make sense.

[screaming]

There has to be
some sort of explanation.

What else is going on here?

NARRATOR: Coming up,
an American street

mysteriously explodes.

This is incredible.

It looks like something
out of "War of the Worlds."

NARRATOR: A woman dreams of
being abducted by aliens.

Her husband sets up
a nighttime camera

and captures this.

She's gone.
She's not there anymore.

SZULGIT: It almost
looks like she just

melts into the bed
or evaporates.

NARRATOR: And has this office
building been booby trapped?

I can't imagine the amount of
damage that can

do to someone's face.

NARRATOR: Matt Kutcher
and a volunteer investigate.

There you go.

With enough wind, we could get
these doors to slam shut.

Violent.

NARRATOR:
Bizarre phenomena...

Oh, my gosh.
[gasps]

...mysteries caught on camera.

[screams]

NARRATOR: What's the truth
behind this strange evidence?

Droitwich
in the United Kingdom.

December 9th, 2010.

A surveillance camera
is trained on

a sleeping couple in
an ordinary suburban home.

Then, at 3:34 AM...

Oh! Oh, my goodness.

She's gone.
She's not there anymore.

It almost looks like
she just melts

into the bed or evaporates.

NARRATOR: The woman vanishes
without a trace

while her husband
sleeps next to her.

If there's a physical cause
for night terrors,

this would be it.

This gives a whole new meaning
to waking

up on the wrong side of
the bed.

NARRATOR:
Then, 12 minutes later...

Oh! Wh -- she's back.

LOVELL:
Wow, that is incredible.

So it looks like
she just re-materialized.

The husband's rolling over to
give her

a hug as if nothing
ever happened.

What strange force could make

somebody disappear
and then reappear?

NARRATOR: Engineer Nick
Householder thinks it's strange

that this film
even exists.

Why is there a camera in
this bedroom?

Were they expecting something
weird to happen?

NARRATOR: Karen Bellinger
discovers a bizarre

explanation for
the camera's presence.

The woman says that while her
husband sleeps peacefully

beside her,
she is abducted by aliens

and subjected to medical tests
on a UFO.

Later, she reports
being returned to her bed,

next to
her still-sleeping husband.

It turns out the reason why
this camera was where it was

is because the husband
had set it up

to try and provide his wife
with some reassurance that

nothing was going on in
the middle of the night.

But, in fact, the footage shows
us the exact opposite.

There is something very
strange going on here.

NARRATOR: The U.S. government
has confirmed

the existence of unidentified
aerial phenomenon,

objects spotted in the skies
by trained military personnel

that cannot be explained by
any technology on Earth.

Thousands of people
around the world,

like this woman, claim

to have been abducted,
sometimes by some kind

of teleportation.

They often say
they have been subjected

to terrifying surgical
experiments performed by

humanoid beings.

There is a strange pattern of

alleged alien encounters
happening in this area.

Police records reveal that
within a 30-mile radius of

this incident,
there had already been

three reported cases
involving aliens

or alien abductions,
and the following year,

there were
eight more cases.

NARRATOR: A survey in 1991
found 119 Americans out of

a sample of 6,000 claimed to
have suffered an alien

abduction experience.

If true, a huge swath of

Earth's population is being
secretly experimented on.

But mainstream science says
these abductions exist only in

the heads of the people
who claim to experience them.

As many as 60 percent of all

alien abduction reports are
linked to sleep.

Scientists now believe that
the victims are suffering

from a condition
called awareness

during sleep paralysis.

NARRATOR: During sleep,
the brain temporarily paralyzes

the body by releasing gamma
aminobutyric acid and glycine.

These chemicals turn off cells
in the brain that

control muscle activity
so that our bodies can rest.

But in awareness during sleep
paralysis, something misfires

in this process,
and your body

goes into this state of
paralysis just as you're waking

up or just as you're
falling asleep.

It's really terrifying,
because, as you can imagine,

you find yourself
in a semi-conscious state

but unable to move.

People who experience
this frightening condition

often suffer also
from hallucinations.

BELLINGER: These hallucinations
could be something auditory,

so, for example,

you could hear a buzzing
or footsteps,

or it could be
something that's visual --

lights or a strange
figure, outlined.

And pop culture has already

seeded our subconscious
with things like strange gray

little men abducting us
in our sleep.

NARRATOR:
But this video seems to prove

that whatever is happening
to this woman

occurs to her body
as well as her mind.

What we see in this video is
a woman literally disappearing.

So something else must be
going on here.

NARRATOR: Magician Ben Nemzer
studies the footage.

The lady's disappearing act
reminds him

of a well-known magic trick.

NEMZER: Magicians have been
making people

disappear underneath cloths
for years.

You can still see it today in
any modern illusion show.

NARRATOR:
Nemzer looks for signs that

a similar illusion is being
performed in this video.

After studying this video,

I don't think it's possible
that that's what they were

doing, because in
the methods that I know,

there's actually no way
to make the person reappear.

NARRATOR: If this is the work
of a trickster,

it is unlike anything Nemzer
has ever encountered.

If these people are doing
something that

the magic community doesn't
know about yet,

well, this is a pretty
close-guarded secret.

NARRATOR: Coming up, has this
woman been eaten

by her own bed?

The truth is, beds can be
very dangerous places.

NARRATOR: And has a techno
weapon of terror been unleashed

on a town?

Whoa!

HOUSEHOLDER:
This is terrifying.

There's a pulsing blue light
on the horizon.

NARRATOR: A CCTV camera captures
the shocking moment when

a sleeping woman vanishes
from her bed, and then

mysteriously reappears
12 minutes later.

Physicist Chad Orzel
considers

a troubling explanation for
the woman's disappearance.

If this hasn't been done
on purpose,

how could this woman just
disappear out of sight?

Has the bed consumed
the woman?

NARRATOR: Over 1,000 Americans
are killed falling

out of their beds every year.

The truth is, beds can be
very dangerous places.

In the summer of 2020,
a woman

in England was trapped
inside a foldaway bed.

[laughing]

That case ended with a laugh,

but this could have been
very serious.

BELLINGER: In 2008, an elderly
Spanish woman bought

a Murphy bed to save space in
her tiny apartment.

Now, she went missing one day,
and people came through,

they looked for her, and all
seemed to be in order.

Nothing out of place.

It wasn't until a few days
later that they thought to pull

down the foldaway bed,
and there she was.

A terrible way to die.

Is it possible
we're seeing a woman

get trapped inside of
her own bed temporarily?

NARRATOR:
But the husband and wife say

the bed is an entirely
ordinary double mattress.

The woman insists
it's not a trick, and indeed,

she hasn't sought any fame
or fortune out of it.

She just wants to know
what's the explanation?

NARRATOR: Experts can't show
this footage is fake.

They're also unable to explain
what is happening.

The woman insists it's proof

she has been abducted
by extraterrestrials.

But until more
evidence emerges,

the bizarre film
remains a mystery.

This footage shows that some
really strange things can

happen when we're at
our most vulnerable -- asleep.

NARRATOR: Now,
Kenner, Louisiana.

December 27th, 2018.

A man films as a mysterious
glow appears.

[explosion blasts]

Whoa!

HOUSEHOLDER:
This is terrifying.

There's a pulsing blue light
on the horizon.

NARRATOR: Whatever it is,
it gets closer...

It's spreading! It's getting
bigger and bigger.

It's lighting up
the entire sky.

...and unleashes havoc
and destruction

on the street.

MAN: That's crazy!

BELLINGER: They're scary,

and they are explosive --
they're ferociously energetic.

This is incredible.

It looks like something out of
"War of the Worlds."

NARRATOR: The man filming this
explosive display

seems oblivious
to the danger he's in.

WALLACE: You've got
a gas station sitting here,

and you get a big spark

that hits it,
and you ignite the gas --

now you got a flaming inferno,
which could very quickly

turn into a disaster, which
takes out an entire area.

I know I would be
running, because

this thing could explode at
any time.

NARRATOR: Investigators
discover that Kenner is home

to Louis Armstrong New Orleans
International Airport.

This wouldn't be
the first time that

a major air crash has occurred
near this airport.

NARRATOR: At 4:09 PM
on July 9th, 1982,

disaster strikes.

Pan Am Flight 759
takes off from New Orleans

on the way to
Las Vegas, Nevada,

and no sooner does it
get into the sky,

than it crashes back down.

The black box recorder reveals
that just one minute

into the flight,

the captain is saying to his
first mate, "You're sinking,

you're sinking, come back."

All 145 people on board
the aircraft die,

in addition
to eight people on

the ground, and six houses
are destroyed.

It's a terrible accident.

NARRATOR: The scene
on the ground is described

as being like a war zone.

I actually had an uncle
who was one of

the firemen at the time
who worked the scene of

the accident --
he said there was

body parts
laying around the area,

you know, just destruction
and death everywhere.

Although this air crash
occurred in the middle

of summer, it was really
terrible weather.

There were swirling winds
and giant storms

that were in the area.

Investigators conclude that
the crash

was caused by a microburst.

What a microburst is,
is a very confined,

very intense downdraft of air,

and that downward force of wind

can actually push jumbo jets
from the sky.

Microbursts are formed in

the turbulent conditions
found inside thunderstorms,

and approaching microburst can
travel at speeds of up to

60 miles per hour
but would be invisible

to an airline pilot.

There would be no warning,
giving the pilots no time

to react.

A microburst is
catastrophic for

any aircraft caught in
its wake.

The type of hot, humid weather
that is experienced in

Louisiana lends itself to

the creation of these massive
thunderstorms, and with these

thunderstorms, we get these
types of microbursts.

NARRATOR: Martin Morgan
investigates current

flight safety rules and doubts
that an air crash could

be the cause of
these strange explosions.

Since the 1980s, there's been
an enormous amount of research

into microbursts,
and that research has made

the skies much safer.

There's no way in this day and
age that an aircraft would

be allowed to take off under
thunderstorm conditions that

would cause a microburst.

So it's not an air crash.

There's got to be something
else going on.

NARRATOR: Coming up,
do these explosions point

to a plot to destabilize
the U.S. power network?

Unfortunately,
the United States

power grid is really vulnerable.

And in a Midwestern cemetery,
a ghoulish grave digger.

GIRL: Super weird!

It's digging at this frenetic
pace, like it's

madly trying to get something
out of the ground.

NARRATOR: A man films as
a street in Kenner, Louisiana,

violently explodes.

Authorities blame the weather,

but the recorded maximum wind
speeds of 51 miles per hour

shouldn't wreak havoc
on the electrical grid.

HOUSEHOLDER:
Is this a result of

the weather or are there
sinister forces at work?

These systems are designed
with breakers in line

so that when
this starts happening,

it's a giant fuse
that bursts and prevents

this sort of
cascading reaction.

But this event
we're seeing is just going

on and on,
and the fuses aren't popping.

If it was just one or two
power lines,

you could write it off as
being an isolated incident.

But this is going
on and on and on.

It almost suggests
the possibility of being

the result of some kind of
an attack.

NARRATOR:
The United States is one of

the most energy hungry
nations on the planet.

It eats up around 17 percent
of the world's total energy,

despite having less than
5 percent of the population.

It's used to light and heat
homes, power businesses,

keep transportation moving,
and hospitals operating.

The United States today
relies almost

entirely on its electrical
power grid.

So if it goes down
even for an hour or two,

the consequences
are immediate.

When we lose the power,
it's almost

like going back
into the Dark Ages.

NARRATOR:
In 2003, tree branches

felled power lines in Ohio.

As a result,
50 million people lose power

for up to two days
across the Northeast.

WOMAN: Ladies and gentlemen,
the passengers in this train

are being evacuated.

Accidental deaths
doubled during that time.

Non-accidental deaths
went up by 25 percent.

That's just a one-day figure.

Imagine if the blackout
had persisted.

The mortality rates
would be insane.

NARRATOR: America's enemies know
that a blackout would be

an incredible weapon against
the world's most

technologically
advanced society.

WOLSHON: To have the ability
to cause these types of

power outages would give
somebody an enormous amount

of power -- they could
really do tremendous

damage and cause
enormous mayhem.

NARRATOR:
American nuclear power plants

have suffered 57 incursions

by unknown drones
between 2015 and 2019 alone.

Could these mysterious
flying machines be

scanning and testing these
sites for weaknesses?

WALLACE: Unfortunately,
the United States' power grid

is really vulnerable.

Today, everything is tied
together through computers,

and it's networked
into the Internet,

and now you have
the possibility of attacking

the system from outside.

WOLSHON:
It's really a terrifying idea

to think that a group could

actually hack in
and disrupt power

not just to one city, but to
an entire region of the country

for hours or even days.

NARRATOR:
A Russian- or Chinese-inspired

coordinated attack
against the U.S. power grid

could leave major cities
blacked out for days,

or even weeks, leading to
mass civil unrest and disorder.

Everyone would be affected by
these blackouts.

NARRATOR: Shops would
soon run out of food

as supply chains collapsed,

and the state itself
would be unable to function.

Your water treatment systems
go down, your sewage systems

go down, your communications
are out --

no radio, no phone, no TV --
everything's gone.

Without power,
we might as well

just kiss
our modern ways of life goodbye.

NARRATOR: Authorities in Kenner
continue to insist

the explosions were caused by

a transformer on the street
blowing up in a bad

electrical storm.

But whether accidental
or deliberate, 10,000 people in

the New Orleans area
were left without power

for several hours.

So an event like this really
shows you how vulnerable

our power grid is

and the necessity of making it
stronger and innovating it

to protect against this type
of situation.

NARRATOR:
Now, Akron, Ohio.

June 2017.

Two girls drive through one of
the town's cemeteries when

a strange movement catches
their attention.

GIRL: Super weird!

What is that thing?

It's hiding out back of
the cemetery building,

but what is it doing?

It looks like someone
or something

is digging up a grave.

NARRATOR:
The girls are terrified

and don't get any closer.

This is clearly

no ordinary cemetery worker.

It's digging at this frenetic
pace, like it's

madly trying to get something
out of the ground.

Whatever this is,
it's completely

out of place
and completely shocking.

Cemeteries are creepy enough
by themselves,

but to have
this crazy-looking creature

digging around
and disturbing the dead --

whatever this thing is,

those girls need to get heck
out of there.

NARRATOR: The digging figure
is humanoid in shape,

but oddly animal-like
in its actions.

Many Ohioans are reminded of
a powerful local legend.

Tales of strange dogs
too big

to be a domestic dog,
walking on

their hind legs and moving at
tremendous speeds

have spread fear
into the Midwest.

NARRATOR: These so-called
dog men are like werewolves,

but are encountered almost
exclusively in this part

of the United States.

These things
were reported back in

the 1930s
by loggers in Michigan.

The more modern sightings
have occurred in Ohio,

starting in the 1970s
and going forward.

[howling]

FOX: One of the first
incidences were two

railroad workers
who were attacked

in Defiance, Ohio.

NARRATOR: Ted Davis,
one of the workers,

describes being struck
on the shoulder

and then turning to see

a hairy canine beast
with fangs and claws

towering over him.

A week later, a
local grocer

claims to encounter
a similar beast.

FOX:
Sightings were reported in

the newspaper, and children
were kept indoors.

The police took it seriously,

and they combed
the neighborhoods at night.

Today, there are hundreds of
sightings across

several states.

Locals have reported being
chased down dark country roads,

and farmers
have even fought off

these things
when it maims or kills

their livestock.

Look, there's
something out there,

and it's scary as hell.

NARRATOR: Coming up,
is this ghoulish grave digger

hungry for flesh
or greedy for gold?

When you're buried, you're meant
to be laid to rest.

To think that your body could be
desecrated like this

is disgusting.

NARRATOR: And in a country
famous for booby traps...

The revolving door just
collapses in on itself.

How in the world does
this happen?

NARRATOR: Two girls traveling
through an Ohio cemetery film

a demonic figure appearing to
dig up a grave.

Mallie Fox thinks this isn't
some predatory wild animal

but a human disguised
in black to commit a grim

and ghoulish crime.

Could this be a grave robber

brazenly digging up for riches?

NARRATOR: There are more than
140,000 cemeteries

scattered across
the United States,

and each year, over a million
Americans are buried in them.

But as we lay
our loved ones to rest,

little do we suspect
that their corpses

could be a target
for twisted thieves.

Humans are often buried
with all sorts of valuables.

So as long as we've had
a human burials,

we've also had
human grave robbers.

NARRATOR: Some people have been
buried with fantastic wealth.

Whitney Houston was buried in
2012, encased in thick

concrete to protect

the $500,000
worth of diamonds

that she was buried with.

NARRATOR: Comedian Benny Hill
was one of Britain's

wealthiest entertainers
when he died in 1992.

That year,
ghouls dug up

his grave in
Southampton, England,

after rumors that he was buried

along with a vast trove
of jewelry.

But a grave robber doesn't
need to find diamonds

to strike it rich.

This isn't just people
who have recently been

buried, either --
so if you think about,

for example,
someone who is buried

in a Civil War uniform,

those buttons that are on
their coat are incredibly

valuable today and would have

withstood the test of time,
and these are easy targets for

someone who might be looking
for valuables.

NARRATOR: One single Civil War
coat button can fetch as much

as $750.

Heartless looters
ransack and vandalize graves

across California,
Virginia, and Kentucky

in the run up to
the Memorial Day weekend

of 2020.

In the worst incident,

robbers dug up and stole
relics from the Petersburg

National Battlefield,
where more

than 1,000 Confederate
and Union soldiers died.

When you're buried,
you're meant to be laid to rest.

To think that your body
could be desecrated

like this is disgusting.

NARRATOR: Jade Lovell
examines the video.

She doubts this is
a professional grave robber.

LOVELL: This doesn't look like
someone who

should know how to dig
a grave.

They're not using tools,
they don't have a shovel,

no spade,
and they're digging

with this strange
backhand motion,

like they're pushing
the soil instead

of digging in the soil.

NARRATOR: Lovell
finds a troubling new trend

in grave robbery
that could explain

this digger's
unconventional methods.

Tragically, since the early
2000s, there has been

a rise in drug addicts
robbing graves,

unearthing people, and also
robbing archaeological sites,

looking for valuables that are
easily tradable for more drugs.

NARRATOR:
An authentic Native American

war ax can fetch over $600.

Drug addicts have been blamed
for the desecration

and looting of important
Native American and other

archaeological sites.

Many archaeologists
report having to flee

from armed confrontations
with violent plunderers.

It's been described as
an epidemic of looting.

a nation's priceless history
is going up in meth smoke.

We could be looking at
a drug addict frantically

digging for valuables in order
to score his next hit.

NARRATOR: Does this video show
the moment a desperate,

drug-crazed digger
was disturbed?

When you look at the hole
that was left behind,

it doesn't look like whoever
was doing this digging managed

to unearth what they were
looking for.

It's still quite
a shallow hole,

and it begs the question if
they were interrupted

this time,
will they be back again?

NARRATOR:
Now, Brussels, Belgium.

Winter, 2008.

A CCTV camera captures
a building lobby

at the end of an ordinary
working day.

People are leaving the office
for the day, and they're taking

their time going
through the revolving door.

WOLSHON: And there is
a group of men.

It looks like
they're entering one at a time.

NARRATOR: Then, as the first
man enters the door...

Bam! Just explodes!

Whoa!

NARRATOR: The door is
savagely snapped shut on

the man,
showering him in glass.

The revolving door just
collapses in on itself.

How in the world does
this happen?

It's unclear from the footage
if he's seriously hurt.

The guy's in shock.

He's staggering over to
the front desk, and he's got to

be a lacerated everyone.

I can't imagine the amount of

damage that could do
to someone's face.

NARRATOR: But what caused these
doors to close around the man?

Maybe this is what we mean by
being at death's door.

WOLSHON: There's glass
that's been thrown everywhere.

Is this some kind of
an attack?

NARRATOR: Coming up,
Matt Kutcher

and his team have
a shattering experience.

I feel a storm coming.

NARRATOR: And a terrifying
thing emerges from the toilet.

That is literally the stuff
of nightmares.

NARRATOR:
A surveillance camera captures

a revolving door exploding
on an office worker.

Man, that poor guy.

It's like the garbage
compactor from Star Wars.

NARRATOR: The office can
be a dangerous place.

More than 5,000 Americans
are killed

by fatal work-related injuries
every year.

But data analyst
Liberty Vittert wonders

if this is really an accident.

Doors shouldn't spontaneously
explode like this.

So, my first thought is
that it

might be some sort of
booby trap.

NARRATOR: In America,

over 15 perfect of all workplace
fatalities are intentional,

some carried out by vengeful
workers or ex-employees.

And here in Belgium,
there's a history of

people creating booby traps
with deliberate malice in mind.

In 2002,
a retired Belgian engineer

filled his entire home
with booby traps.

NARRATOR: Investigation of
the man's three-story home

reveals a total of
19 death traps,

including a harmless-looking
but lethal pile of

dinner plates and an exploding
crate of beer.

It's like a really brutal
version of "Home Alone,"

where the traps are deadly.

The booby traps were intended
to kill his entire family.

However, he was discovered
by police after being

the victim of one of
his own traps.

Poetic justice,
if you ask me.

Revolving doors
don't just collapse on

themselves randomly.

Could this have
been intentional?

NARRATOR: But Greg Szulgit takes
a closer look at the footage

and sees a detail that seems
to rule out a trap.

We see the woman walk
through the door just prior.

So, if it were a booby trap,
it should have sprung on her.

There must be something else
going on here,

NARRATOR: Szulgit discovers that
the revolving door, invented in

Philadelphia in 1888, has
a history of gruesome accidents.

Many deaths have actually been
caused by revolving doors,

where the person gets trapped,

but the mechanism
keeps going forward.

Usually, the types of
injuries that we would see

in a revolving door would be
brain or head injuries.

It's often children who are
the most vulnerable.

In 2004, a six-year-old boy
ran ahead of

his mom and got into one of
these revolving doors.

He managed to get
his head stuck.

NARRATOR: The infrared safety
sensors failed to detect

the boy, and the door
keeps turning.

Tragically,
he was crushed to death.

Considering the checkered past
of revolving doors,

it's not surprising
that something

like this could happen.

NARRATOR: But this bizarre
incident isn't caused by

the doors continuing to revolve
as a person is trapped.

the doors snap in on each
other, enveloping

the man stuck inside.

[explosion blasts]

Matt Kutcher is a Hollywood
explosives and special

effects expert with over
20 years experience.

Action!

NARRATOR: He suspects that some
kind of powerful external force

could have caused the door to
explode around

the unfortunate office worker.

It all looks pretty normal.

Just another day
at the office there --

or trying to leave
the office.

Oh! [laughs]

That looks pretty
wild, man.

You know, something hits
the glass here, and you can

tell it's tempered, because
the way it all shatters

into pieces, right?

Look at that -- the glass just
explodes around the guy.

It actually snaps
this far outer one,

and it slams into
the secondary.

NARRATOR: Kutcher notices
the people in the video are

wearing heavy coats, as if
prepared for severe weather.

You know, do you think it's
windy enough outside there that

a high wind could slam these
doors hard enough

to get them to smash like that?

I think it's possible.

NARRATOR: Modern buildings
are designed to withstand

ferocious weather,
but could a safety design

feature have gone
horribly wrong?

It seems like they built in
a safety feature

there that allows the doors to,
like, spring shut quickly,

so they could get out,
like in the case of a fire.

But in this case, I think
the wind and the pressure --

safety became an accident.

NARRATOR: Kutcher wants
to test his theory.

KUTCHER: We're gonna have
to generate some wind

to create that kind of force,
something like

130 pounds or so,
in order to get

our tempered glass
to break like this.

You know what?

We ain't gonna know
till we let it blow.

NARRATOR: Kutcher's team builds
a replica of

the revolving doors
seen in the video,

while Matt
brings in the storm --

an industrial wind machine
capable of generating

70 mile-per-hour gusts.

The tempered glass doors
are designed to

fail when 130 pounds
of pressure is applied.

The setup is ready.

All that's needed is
a volunteer.

There you go.

Okay, Mr. Harris, let's
get you into position.

Matthew, let's get
the wind ready.

All right,
son, turn on the wind.

NARRATOR: Kutcher waits
for the wind machine

to rev up to speed.

All right, and let her rip

in 3, 2, 1 -- go!

NARRATOR:
The 70-mile-per-hour wind

hits the doors,
which act like a ship's sail,

catching the blast of air
and putting pressure on

the safety mechanism
until it fails,

triggering a violent
explosion of glass.

Wow, man, that's pretty cool.

-Glass everywhere.
-Yeah, at least it didn't

shatter your expectations.

You've been waiting to say that
all day, haven't you?

NARRATOR: The collapse of
Kutcher's door closely

matches the CCTV footage
from the lobby.

Well, there's one thing we've
proved here -- with enough wind,

we can get these doors to slam
shut, and violently.

That mechanism
on the door was

totally overpowered by
the wind, wasn't it?

We definitely proved
that here with the fan.

Absolutely.

NARRATOR: Kutcher's experiment
demonstrates how

a well-intentioned
safety feature can

quickly turn a revolving door
into snapping jaws of death.

You know, I think
from here on out,

I'm gonna avoid
all these revolving doors.

NARRATOR: Now,
Alor Setar, Malaysia.

October 6th, 2017.

A man finds a pulsating
black beast inside his house.

Ugh! just looking
at that gives me creeps.

Ah, that's disgusting.

What is that?

NARRATOR: Its dark color almost
seems to absorb the light.

That is the most terrifying
thing I have ever seen.

That is literally the stuff
of nightmares.

NARRATOR: This slithering
creature looks like

nothing encountered
by humans before.

MONTANARI: Why is it coming
towards them?

You'd expect a wild animal to
be scared of humans.

NARRATOR: It appears to probe
the floor as it goes,

as if in search
of a meal.

If this thing came out of
my bathroom,

I would be gone.

NARRATOR: As if this strange,
writhing object

wasn't scary enough,

the family discovers
this thing in a room

with a locked door.

If this room was locked,

how on earth did a creature of

this size manage to
get inside?

NARRATOR:
The doors were bolted.

The windows were closed, but the
seat of the toilet was up.

It's easy to think that this
is just a one-way passage,

but in reality,
it's not.

NARRATOR: Coming up,
slithering beasts

that slide out of the sewers.

VITTERT: If man-eating animals
can invade our houses

through the toilet,

then every man, woman,
and child is in danger.

NARRATOR:
A frightened family film as

a terrifying thing emerges
from their toilet.

Liberty Vittert discovers
that our toilets make

a convenient porcelain portal
for opportunistic

home invaders.

VITTERT: If a creature
can fit in the drain pipes,

they can get in your house --
in 2008,

a woman in London was bitten
by a rat while sitting on

the toilet.

She falls to the floor in
agony, saying it felt like

she was jabbed by a needle.

And there was a rat,
about 9 inches long,

and I've got a plunger

and a bottle of bleach,
trying to push it down,

because there was a couple of
others there, as well.

She called the exterminator
for help, but was told there

was a three-week wait list.

NARRATOR:
But this is no rat.

It really pays to look twice
before you sit on the john.

NARRATOR: Biologist Carin Bondar
suspects this might be

a dangerous creature that has

made itself at home in sewers
all across tropical parts

of the world.

Snakes can actually navigate
the entire sewer system.

They can fit easily into pipes
and crevices and small places,

and what's more,
they really like it there.

NARRATOR:
Some snakes can hold their
breath for up to 40 minutes,

meaning a sewer's

water-filled pipes
are no obstacle.

And this wouldn't be
the first case

of a snake
in the sewage system.

There was a case as recently
as 2020 in Thailand where

a woman sat down on the toilet
and was bitten by a python.

They talk about having
a snake in the grass --

how about a snake
in the toilet?

LOVELL: What's particularly
creepy about the idea of a snake

in the toilet bowl
is that they're catching us

at our most vulnerable,
with our pants down.

NARRATOR: But this creature's
flaccid appearance is unusual

for a snake.

MONTANARI: This doesn't look
like your run-of-the-mill snake.

Its body is wide,
and its skin looks

like it's a little bit baggy
for its body.

NARRATOR: Although most species
of snake have sleek,

streamlined bodies,

there are some
that are wrinkly.

You only actually see this
characteristic

on a small number
of snake species,

and there's only one
indigenous to this region that

has this characteristic.

That is
the elephant trunk snake.

NARRATOR: The elephant
trunk snake is an eight-foot

aquatic species that spends
most of its life underwater.

This is a snake that
would feel

right at home
in your toilet bowl.

Their baggy skin gives them
a lot of flexibility to

swim through the water,
and they're covered

in pyramid-shaped scales.

NARRATOR: This unusual skin
doesn't just make

the elephant trunk snake
a good swimmer.

It also makes them
formidable hunters.

KASKY:
These snakes are not venomous,

but they don't have to be.

Their pointy scales means
that when they start to

constrict their prey,
there is no escape.

NARRATOR: These scales act like
a natural bear trap that holds

the prey in place while
the snake coils its powerful

muscles around them.

Even pythons don't have that
kind of extra leverage.

NARRATOR: Although most people
have a fear of venomous snakes,

their constrictor cousins
can be just as lethal.

Large snakes, when they
captured their prey,

they don't have teeth designed
to crush their prey,

so they have to swallow
their prey whole.

NARRATOR: Unlike a mammal's jaw
that is built for brute force,

a snake's jaw is rigged
with tendons,

ligaments, and muscles that
allow it to stretch and flex in

order to consume large prey.

They've even been known to
swallow other

large apex predators.

Scientists x-rayed a python
after it had eaten an entire

alligator and found that it

took one week for it to
turn the entire animal,

plus its scales, to mush.

NARRATOR: Breaking down
an entire alligator in just

a matter of days

places an enormous
strain on the snake.

The snake's heart, kidneys,
and small intestines grew

to double the size
to help with digestion.

NARRATOR: A large python
can swallow an adult

human being
in less than an hour.

In 2017,
25-year-old

Akbar Salubiro
from Indonesia suffers

this grim fate after

his friends discover his body

inside the stomach of
a 23-foot-long

reticulated python.

Although a python
this size could squeeze

the life out of someone
in minutes,

they have been known
to swallow

their prey
while it's still alive.

I mean,
what a horrific way to go.

You wake up incapacitated,
inside the body of a snake.

That's not a good way to go.

NARRATOR: Elephant trunk snakes
are normally shy

and elusive,
but this one seems to be making

a beeline for the family.

A snake on its own is
terrifying enough.

But if this one is extra
bloodthirsty,

those people need
to get out of there.

NARRATOR: The man
risks his safety to cajole

and steer the snake
out of his home.

He and his family
escape unharmed,

but fear that this giant from
the toilet could return.

If these creatures can break
into our homes through

our toilets,
who's to say

they can't slither into
our bedrooms while we sleep?

I don't know if I'll be able
to go to the bathroom

alone ever again.