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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:07,207 --> 00:00:12,312 [Harry Pritchett] Worldwide, thirty six billion cameras are watching us, 2 00:00:12,379 --> 00:00:17,550 on our streets, at work, and in our homes. 3 00:00:17,617 --> 00:00:19,919 They capture things that seem impossible. 4 00:00:19,986 --> 00:00:20,987 [sound wave] 5 00:00:21,054 --> 00:00:23,823 Science says "This shouldn't happen." 6 00:00:23,890 --> 00:00:25,692 [man] Do you see that? 7 00:00:25,759 --> 00:00:29,763 [Pritchett] Experts carry out forensic analysis of these unusual events. 8 00:00:29,829 --> 00:00:31,197 Wow! What a blast. 9 00:00:34,601 --> 00:00:35,669 [woman squealing] 10 00:00:35,735 --> 00:00:37,937 This doesn't make sense. 11 00:00:38,004 --> 00:00:39,973 There has to be some sort of explanation. 12 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,242 What else is going on here? 13 00:00:42,308 --> 00:00:43,977 [camera whirling] 14 00:00:44,044 --> 00:00:48,782 [Pritchett] Coming up, A four foot long predator, pulled from a woman's throat. 15 00:00:48,848 --> 00:00:53,687 That is one of the most horrifying and disturbing things that I have ever seen. 16 00:00:53,753 --> 00:00:55,422 [woman laughs nervously] 17 00:00:55,488 --> 00:00:58,591 Could this have been trying to eat her from the inside out? 18 00:00:59,526 --> 00:01:00,727 [David Wallace] Wow! 19 00:01:00,794 --> 00:01:02,696 This car just blew apart. 20 00:01:02,762 --> 00:01:04,698 [Pritchett] An unexplained explosion, 21 00:01:04,764 --> 00:01:07,033 -and an unbelievable excuse. - [siren wailing] 22 00:01:07,100 --> 00:01:08,401 The government's saying one thing, 23 00:01:08,468 --> 00:01:11,705 but this footage clearly shows that something else is going on. 24 00:01:11,771 --> 00:01:15,742 [Pritchett] And, is the Loch Ness monster vacationing in Albania? 25 00:01:16,843 --> 00:01:18,778 There's no way I'd go swimming in that water. 26 00:01:22,415 --> 00:01:23,750 [Pritchett] Bizarre phenomenon. 27 00:01:23,817 --> 00:01:25,185 Oh, my gosh. [exclaims] 28 00:01:25,251 --> 00:01:28,021 -[Pritchett] Mysteries caught on camera. -[woman shrieking] 29 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:30,056 What's the truth behind them. 30 00:01:30,590 --> 00:01:32,158 Strange evidence. 31 00:01:41,568 --> 00:01:45,505 Levashi village, in the Republic of Dagestan, southern Russia. 32 00:01:48,808 --> 00:01:50,744 August, 2020. 33 00:01:50,810 --> 00:01:53,947 [siren blaring] 34 00:01:54,014 --> 00:01:58,251 An ambulance rushes a female patient to the hospital. 35 00:01:58,318 --> 00:02:02,288 [Jayde Lovell] We can see like a nurse or a doctor in scrubs. 36 00:02:02,355 --> 00:02:06,760 Looks like she is pulling a foreign object out of the patient's mouth. 37 00:02:06,826 --> 00:02:09,062 The patient is clearly anaesthetized. 38 00:02:09,129 --> 00:02:13,867 [Pritchett] Slowly but surely the medic draws out an endoscopic probe. 39 00:02:13,933 --> 00:02:16,202 [Shaena Montanari] They seem to be pulling something out. 40 00:02:16,269 --> 00:02:19,239 And it's very pale in color and really long. 41 00:02:20,907 --> 00:02:24,177 [Greg Szulgit retching] 42 00:02:24,244 --> 00:02:25,779 [Szulgit] Think I'm gonna vomit. 43 00:02:25,845 --> 00:02:28,848 It looks like a huge animal that they just pulled out of her. 44 00:02:31,251 --> 00:02:33,853 Is that moving? It's definitely moving. 45 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:35,488 [Pritchett] The medics are terrified. 46 00:02:35,555 --> 00:02:37,290 [woman laughs nervously] 47 00:02:37,357 --> 00:02:40,627 And quickly throw the creature into a sterile bucket. 48 00:02:40,694 --> 00:02:43,663 Oh! It's long. It's, God, it's so huge! 49 00:02:43,730 --> 00:02:48,535 God, that is disgusting. How is there room for that inside of her? 50 00:02:48,601 --> 00:02:51,571 [Pritchett] It could almost be a scene from the film, Alien. 51 00:02:51,638 --> 00:02:56,609 That is one of the most horrifying and disturbing things that I have ever seen. 52 00:02:56,676 --> 00:02:59,279 [woman laughs nervously] 53 00:02:59,346 --> 00:03:01,548 [Pritchett] The startled medics laugh nervously. 54 00:03:01,614 --> 00:03:04,484 It's like nothing they've seen before. 55 00:03:04,551 --> 00:03:09,456 This is the stuff of nightmares. I mean, phobia quality. 56 00:03:09,522 --> 00:03:12,792 As a doctor, I'm interested to know what is that thing, 57 00:03:12,859 --> 00:03:14,794 and how did it get inside her? 58 00:03:14,861 --> 00:03:16,996 [woman laughs nervously] 59 00:03:18,665 --> 00:03:21,935 [Pritchett] This writhing monster is no ordinary parasite. 60 00:03:23,670 --> 00:03:26,639 [Siobhan Deshauer] When I first started seeing them pulling out this creature, 61 00:03:26,706 --> 00:03:28,708 I thought, maybe it's a tape worm. 62 00:03:28,775 --> 00:03:30,910 Typically, they are about the size of a pencil. 63 00:03:30,977 --> 00:03:33,747 But this looks like it's over an inch thick. 64 00:03:33,813 --> 00:03:38,184 {\an8}So I'd be very surprised to find out that this was truly a worm. 65 00:03:40,820 --> 00:03:44,257 [Pritchett] Entomologist, Kevin Kasky, spots a telltale feature. 66 00:03:45,358 --> 00:03:48,795 {\an8}When they pull the creature all the way out, 67 00:03:48,862 --> 00:03:50,663 {\an8}one end looks bigger than the other. 68 00:03:50,730 --> 00:03:52,699 {\an8}It definitely has a head. 69 00:03:52,766 --> 00:03:56,903 {\an8}You can see the tail, the long body and the thick head. 70 00:03:56,970 --> 00:03:59,639 {\an8}To me, this definitely looks like a snake. 71 00:04:03,877 --> 00:04:05,211 [Lovell] You can see as they are pulling it out, 72 00:04:05,278 --> 00:04:10,583 you can see, one, two, three, more than four feet of snake 73 00:04:10,650 --> 00:04:12,118 being pulled out of this woman. 74 00:04:12,185 --> 00:04:15,889 I thought Snakes on a Plane was a worst case scenario. 75 00:04:15,955 --> 00:04:18,525 But this, this beats it by a mile. 76 00:04:18,591 --> 00:04:21,428 [Pritchett] If the serpent had crawled down the woman's windpipe, 77 00:04:21,494 --> 00:04:23,229 she would've suffocated. 78 00:04:23,296 --> 00:04:28,635 It seems this snake went down the smaller but more flexible, esophagus. 79 00:04:28,702 --> 00:04:30,537 [woman laughs nervously] 80 00:04:30,603 --> 00:04:33,840 A ten inch pipe that leads from the mouth to the stomach. 81 00:04:36,976 --> 00:04:38,778 Journalist, Shaena Montanari, 82 00:04:38,845 --> 00:04:41,648 finds that incredibly, it isn't the first time 83 00:04:41,715 --> 00:04:46,686 a snake has been reported living inside someone's digestive system. 84 00:04:46,753 --> 00:04:50,590 {\an8}In 1864, The New York Times, reported that a woman 85 00:04:50,657 --> 00:04:53,727 {\an8}had a snake living inside her for four years. 86 00:04:53,793 --> 00:04:56,463 This woman saw the best doctors available. 87 00:04:56,529 --> 00:04:59,265 And after exhausting all other options, 88 00:04:59,332 --> 00:05:02,002 they agreed, she had a snake inside of her. 89 00:05:02,068 --> 00:05:04,871 The report even said, that if she was in the same room 90 00:05:04,938 --> 00:05:06,840 as fish or meat being cooked, 91 00:05:06,906 --> 00:05:11,211 that the snake would rise up in her throat, so far, that she would start to choke. 92 00:05:11,277 --> 00:05:13,079 This doesn't sound real, does it? 93 00:05:13,146 --> 00:05:17,417 How could a snake, live inside of a stomach with all that acid? 94 00:05:17,484 --> 00:05:18,752 But believe it or not, 95 00:05:18,818 --> 00:05:20,620 there is science to back this up. 96 00:05:21,755 --> 00:05:24,724 [Pritchett] 2012, East Timor, 97 00:05:24,791 --> 00:05:27,160 biologist, on a jungle expedition, 98 00:05:27,227 --> 00:05:32,565 witnesses a small snake wriggling out from a predatory toad's anus. 99 00:05:32,632 --> 00:05:38,104 Amazingly, the snake, a blind, burrowing species, is alive. 100 00:05:38,171 --> 00:05:41,574 The scientist deduced that it was swallowed by the toad, 101 00:05:41,641 --> 00:05:43,510 but it escaped by slithering through 102 00:05:43,576 --> 00:05:46,046 the hungry amphibian's digestive tract. 103 00:05:47,347 --> 00:05:50,450 The toad is probably less pleased with the outcome. 104 00:05:50,517 --> 00:05:52,218 It's the first time anyone's seen 105 00:05:52,285 --> 00:05:55,855 an animal of this size survive digestion. 106 00:05:55,922 --> 00:06:00,427 [Pritchett] Scientists suspect the snake's closely knitted, overlapping scales 107 00:06:00,493 --> 00:06:03,463 protected from the toad's gastric juices. 108 00:06:03,530 --> 00:06:09,035 And due to its burrowing lifestyle, it can tolerate low oxygen levels. 109 00:06:09,102 --> 00:06:11,905 It would seem that snakes can do incredible things. 110 00:06:14,274 --> 00:06:15,608 [Pritchett] Biologist, Jayde Lovell, 111 00:06:15,675 --> 00:06:18,478 compares the four foot long snake from the footage 112 00:06:18,545 --> 00:06:21,181 to species known to live in Dagestan. 113 00:06:23,316 --> 00:06:25,151 [Lovell] So in this region of Russia, 114 00:06:25,218 --> 00:06:28,588 is a species of viper, called the Lotievi Viper. 115 00:06:28,655 --> 00:06:31,758 That looks very similar to what we are seeing in the footage. 116 00:06:31,825 --> 00:06:35,161 It's pale, roughly the same size. 117 00:06:35,228 --> 00:06:38,732 [Pritchett] It's one of the last species of snake you'd want inside you. 118 00:06:39,766 --> 00:06:41,434 [Szulgit] All vipers are venomous. 119 00:06:41,501 --> 00:06:45,071 {\an8}The fangs are connected to poison sacs in the back of their head. 120 00:06:45,138 --> 00:06:47,841 {\an8}All ready and loaded for when the snake wants to add 121 00:06:47,907 --> 00:06:50,010 a little bit of poison to its bite. 122 00:06:50,677 --> 00:06:52,145 [Pritchett] It gets worse. 123 00:06:52,212 --> 00:06:55,849 It seems this area of Russia, has a major viper problem. 124 00:06:57,951 --> 00:07:01,154 Just over 460 miles north of Dagestan, 125 00:07:01,221 --> 00:07:05,959 the 2018 soccer World Cup, is being held in the city of Volgograd. 126 00:07:08,395 --> 00:07:12,198 Hoards of deadly vipers suddenly leave their forest home, 127 00:07:12,265 --> 00:07:15,835 and are found heading to the packed soccer stadium. 128 00:07:15,902 --> 00:07:17,837 Snakes don't usually approach humans. 129 00:07:17,904 --> 00:07:19,773 But if there is an infestation, 130 00:07:19,839 --> 00:07:22,475 all of the normal rules kinda go out the window. 131 00:07:22,542 --> 00:07:25,345 [Pritchett] Russian officials send out Search and Rescue teams, 132 00:07:25,412 --> 00:07:30,383 to repel the venomous reptiles before any soccer fans start to panic. 133 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:34,754 Officials claim the cause of the mysterious migration remains unknown, 134 00:07:34,821 --> 00:07:37,090 but Lovell has a theory. 135 00:07:37,157 --> 00:07:42,028 As human frontiers of farming and civilization push more and more into nature, 136 00:07:42,095 --> 00:07:45,765 we seen more of these instances of human versus wild. 137 00:07:45,832 --> 00:07:49,769 Could this viper have been trying to eat her from the inside out? 138 00:07:49,836 --> 00:07:53,707 There are no evident burrow holes anywhere in her neck or body. 139 00:07:53,773 --> 00:07:55,675 So, the only way we can imagine 140 00:07:55,742 --> 00:07:59,079 the snake could have gotten into her stomach was through her mouth. 141 00:08:01,548 --> 00:08:02,816 [Pritchett] Coming up, 142 00:08:02,882 --> 00:08:06,853 A Caucasian snake god, who demands the ultimate sacrifice. 143 00:08:07,887 --> 00:08:10,623 Could she have swallowed the snake on purpose? 144 00:08:10,690 --> 00:08:13,827 [Pritchett] An SUV inexplicably explodes. 145 00:08:13,893 --> 00:08:17,464 A random accident? Or an assassination attempt? 146 00:08:17,530 --> 00:08:19,799 This has got to be the mother of all blowouts. 147 00:08:19,866 --> 00:08:22,469 I've never seen one take the side of a car out like this. 148 00:08:29,642 --> 00:08:31,177 [Pritchett] In Dagestan, Russia. 149 00:08:31,244 --> 00:08:34,614 Medics film a woman with a four foot long venomous viper 150 00:08:34,681 --> 00:08:36,282 inside her stomach. 151 00:08:36,883 --> 00:08:38,985 [woman laughs nervously] 152 00:08:39,052 --> 00:08:40,053 Oh, my God. 153 00:08:41,855 --> 00:08:44,791 I don't like stuff like that. I actually really don't. 154 00:08:44,858 --> 00:08:46,359 [Pritchett] It's almost impossible 155 00:08:46,426 --> 00:08:51,564 to accidentally swallow any animal alive, especially a large reptile. 156 00:08:51,631 --> 00:08:53,733 Your gag reflex should prevent the snake 157 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,935 from slithering down your throat. 158 00:08:56,002 --> 00:08:59,372 [Pritchett] But somehow, the viper ends up inside this woman. 159 00:09:01,474 --> 00:09:07,280 Many religions, cultures, and cults all over the world, revere and worship snakes. 160 00:09:07,347 --> 00:09:11,317 Often incorporating them into rituals. 161 00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:16,189 Some evangelical Christians, take the word that's in the Bible as gospel, 162 00:09:16,256 --> 00:09:19,893 when Jesus said, "Pick up your serpents", they choose to. 163 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:21,761 They also get bit a lot. 164 00:09:21,828 --> 00:09:24,664 {\an8}In the Caucasus, where this was filmed, 165 00:09:24,731 --> 00:09:26,466 {\an8}there's been a recent resurgence, 166 00:09:26,533 --> 00:09:30,470 in interest in pre-Christian, in pre-Muslim religions. 167 00:09:30,537 --> 00:09:35,375 Slavic cultures have mythology around a snake god called, Veles. 168 00:09:35,442 --> 00:09:37,944 Who was lord of the Underworld. 169 00:09:38,011 --> 00:09:41,548 These ancient religions were organized around complex rituals, 170 00:09:41,614 --> 00:09:43,917 to show faith and devotion. 171 00:09:43,983 --> 00:09:47,020 Now could she have swallowed the snake on purpose? 172 00:09:47,087 --> 00:09:49,789 [Pritchett] There is no evidence this woman is a Pagan, 173 00:09:49,856 --> 00:09:51,858 but a dangerous, religious ritual, 174 00:09:51,925 --> 00:09:54,160 could explain the stomach serpent. 175 00:09:54,227 --> 00:09:56,363 Kevin Kasky isn't convinced. 176 00:09:56,429 --> 00:09:59,332 Eating a snake of this size, while it's still alive, 177 00:09:59,399 --> 00:10:02,736 would be nearly impossible without biting it to pieces. 178 00:10:02,802 --> 00:10:05,205 It must have gotten in some other way. 179 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:09,542 One possible explanation would be alcohol intoxication. 180 00:10:09,609 --> 00:10:12,412 Alcohol can suppress some involuntary actions 181 00:10:12,479 --> 00:10:15,648 like gag reflex or even breathing. 182 00:10:15,715 --> 00:10:17,550 [Pritchett] Russians have long been famous 183 00:10:17,617 --> 00:10:19,819 for their high alcohol consumption. 184 00:10:19,886 --> 00:10:25,592 They drink around 2.5 gallons of pure alcohol, on average, every year. 185 00:10:25,658 --> 00:10:28,294 But there is no indication from any of the reports, 186 00:10:28,361 --> 00:10:32,065 that this woman had been intoxicated at the time of the incident. 187 00:10:32,132 --> 00:10:34,234 She claims to medics, she was asleep, 188 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:37,237 and woke up to find the creature inside her. 189 00:10:37,303 --> 00:10:41,441 How the serpent got inside her stomach remains a mystery. 190 00:10:41,508 --> 00:10:44,244 We still don't know how the snake got inside of her, 191 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:48,314 but, man it creeps me out, because if it could happen to her, 192 00:10:48,381 --> 00:10:49,816 could it happen to me? 193 00:10:49,883 --> 00:10:51,851 [woman laughs nervously] 194 00:10:55,288 --> 00:10:59,793 [Pritchett] Now, the city of Sanhe, northern China. 195 00:11:03,196 --> 00:11:05,799 August 30th, 2016. 196 00:11:07,634 --> 00:11:10,937 A traffic camera films at a busy intersection. 197 00:11:11,004 --> 00:11:13,573 [Wallace] Well, here we have a typical city street. 198 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,309 Ah, cars at the red light. 199 00:11:16,376 --> 00:11:19,546 Nothing really exciting happening. 200 00:11:19,612 --> 00:11:22,148 [Pritchett] The traffic lights change. Then, 201 00:11:22,549 --> 00:11:23,850 [explosion] 202 00:11:24,284 --> 00:11:25,585 [Wallace] Wow! 203 00:11:25,652 --> 00:11:27,954 This car just blew apart. 204 00:11:28,021 --> 00:11:31,458 The whole side of the car exploded out. What is this? 205 00:11:31,524 --> 00:11:32,826 -[explosion] - [Nick Householder] What happened? 206 00:11:32,892 --> 00:11:35,662 It's like the whole back half of the car is gone. 207 00:11:35,729 --> 00:11:37,697 [Pritchett] Just seconds after pulling away, 208 00:11:37,764 --> 00:11:42,802 the black SUV is torn to bits by a powerful blast. 209 00:11:42,869 --> 00:11:44,704 [Jeff Wise] The explosion just came out of nowhere. 210 00:11:44,771 --> 00:11:47,407 Yeah, this looks like a scene out of a war zone. 211 00:11:47,474 --> 00:11:49,642 [Pritchett] The SUV skids to a halt. 212 00:11:49,709 --> 00:11:52,946 Split open like an overripe watermelon. 213 00:11:53,013 --> 00:11:54,814 - Police swarm the area. -[sirens approaching] 214 00:11:54,881 --> 00:11:57,951 Two of the people in the car are injured but alive. 215 00:11:58,018 --> 00:12:02,889 Amazingly, it don't look like anybody else was hurt from this, but my goodness! 216 00:12:02,956 --> 00:12:05,658 This is massive. This is nasty. 217 00:12:05,725 --> 00:12:06,926 Did he run the red light? 218 00:12:06,993 --> 00:12:09,462 Is this what happens if you run the red light in this country? 219 00:12:09,529 --> 00:12:11,831 Cars don't just blow up. 220 00:12:11,898 --> 00:12:14,300 There's clearly some foul play here. 221 00:12:17,170 --> 00:12:18,638 [Pritchett] The Chinese authorities, 222 00:12:18,705 --> 00:12:22,609 claim that the car's front left wheel, suffered from a blowout. 223 00:12:22,676 --> 00:12:25,445 Engineer, David Wallace isn't convinced. 224 00:12:27,113 --> 00:12:29,382 [Wallace] This has got to be the mother of all blowouts. 225 00:12:29,449 --> 00:12:31,751 Now I've seen several tires explode, 226 00:12:31,818 --> 00:12:34,254 {\an8}and they can be violent, but I've never seen on 227 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,256 {\an8}take the side of a car out like this. 228 00:12:36,322 --> 00:12:38,425 [Pritchett] Further examination of the footage, 229 00:12:38,491 --> 00:12:42,696 makes the Chinese authorities claim even more suspicious. 230 00:12:42,762 --> 00:12:45,065 {\an8}Looking at the footage, the one tire I can't see 231 00:12:45,131 --> 00:12:48,001 {\an8}that's almost intact is the front left tire. 232 00:12:48,068 --> 00:12:50,637 And according to reports, that's what they blamed this on. 233 00:12:51,738 --> 00:12:53,940 [Pritchett] Watching the footage in slow motion, 234 00:12:54,007 --> 00:12:55,975 it appears the violent explosion 235 00:12:56,042 --> 00:12:59,212 starts low down on the driver's side of the vehicle. 236 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,216 Military historian, Martin Morgan, 237 00:13:03,283 --> 00:13:07,487 spots something amiss with one of the other vehicles caught on camera. 238 00:13:07,554 --> 00:13:09,289 {\an8}[Martin Morgan] When you pay close attention to the footage, 239 00:13:09,356 --> 00:13:11,191 {\an8}you notice something kinda suspicious, 240 00:13:11,257 --> 00:13:15,428 {\an8}and that the car directly behind the car that eventually explodes, 241 00:13:15,495 --> 00:13:20,300 when the light turns, that following car, doesn't move. 242 00:13:20,367 --> 00:13:21,868 The fact that that car doesn't move, 243 00:13:21,935 --> 00:13:25,505 suggests that maybe what we are looking at here, is a planned attack. 244 00:13:25,572 --> 00:13:27,207 Maybe, an assassination attempt. 245 00:13:28,942 --> 00:13:30,510 -Go! -[explosion] 246 00:13:30,577 --> 00:13:32,512 [Pritchett] Explosives expert, Matt Kutcher, 247 00:13:32,579 --> 00:13:36,616 has over 20 years' experience with bangs and bombs. 248 00:13:36,683 --> 00:13:39,786 That was beautiful. What a blast! 249 00:13:39,853 --> 00:13:43,390 [Pritchett] He and his team, want to know if this could be a planned hit. 250 00:13:43,456 --> 00:13:47,227 Wow! That's one massive explosion. 251 00:13:47,293 --> 00:13:48,962 [Matt Kutcher] There's something suspicious about this. 252 00:13:49,029 --> 00:13:52,665 {\an8}You know, from my experience cars are just a simple, mechanical device, 253 00:13:52,732 --> 00:13:54,100 {\an8}and they have failure. 254 00:13:54,167 --> 00:13:58,171 However, this particular failure, looks like it's placed by a human. 255 00:13:58,238 --> 00:13:59,539 It's too exact. 256 00:13:59,606 --> 00:14:02,075 You know, unfortunately, bad guys have a tool they go for. 257 00:14:02,142 --> 00:14:04,010 And that tool is the high explosive. 258 00:14:04,077 --> 00:14:05,178 It doesn't take a lot. 259 00:14:05,245 --> 00:14:06,946 It could be combined with other materials 260 00:14:07,013 --> 00:14:09,649 to place just critically in the right spot, 261 00:14:09,716 --> 00:14:11,751 and create this kind of devastating force. 262 00:14:11,818 --> 00:14:15,822 We're gonna go get some, put it in the car and see if we could duplicate this video. 263 00:14:15,889 --> 00:14:17,624 [Pritchett] For many a car bomber, 264 00:14:17,691 --> 00:14:20,994 C4 is the go-to plastic explosive. 265 00:14:21,061 --> 00:14:23,863 Don't be scared. It ain't blowing up yet. 266 00:14:23,930 --> 00:14:26,866 [Pritchett] But, Matt Kutcher is using a less volatile compound 267 00:14:26,933 --> 00:14:29,636 for this experiment for safety purposes. 268 00:14:30,804 --> 00:14:33,106 You know, the good thing about this 269 00:14:33,173 --> 00:14:35,775 explosive that we're using, is that it's super stable. 270 00:14:35,842 --> 00:14:36,976 You can even cook on it. 271 00:14:37,043 --> 00:14:39,713 Set it alight, make yourself some eggs. 272 00:14:39,779 --> 00:14:41,648 And it wouldn't even go off. 273 00:14:41,715 --> 00:14:46,419 [Pritchett] Matt's using a car that's similar to the SUV in the Chinese footage. 274 00:14:46,486 --> 00:14:51,224 This stuff is so strong, you'll only need a little bit to do a lot of job. 275 00:14:51,291 --> 00:14:52,992 We're packing these explosives into the door. 276 00:14:53,059 --> 00:14:56,596 So we can see it rip out just like we saw in that video. 277 00:14:56,663 --> 00:15:01,034 [Pritchett] With everything set the team move a safe distance away. 278 00:15:01,101 --> 00:15:03,303 Three, two, one. Hit it! 279 00:15:05,739 --> 00:15:09,609 [Pritchett] Coming up, Kutcher's experiment goes off with a bang. 280 00:15:09,676 --> 00:15:11,878 -Where do you guys think the windshield went? -The windshield? 281 00:15:12,445 --> 00:15:14,014 It's right there. 282 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,917 [Pritchett] And, in a lake, once owned by a mad dictator. 283 00:15:17,984 --> 00:15:20,553 Something unexplained is caught on camera. 284 00:15:20,620 --> 00:15:23,990 It looks like a creature. I have never seen anything like this. 285 00:15:30,663 --> 00:15:31,765 [explosion] 286 00:15:31,831 --> 00:15:33,433 [Pritchett] Pyrotechnics expert, Matt Kutcher, 287 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:35,902 doubts the Chinese authorities claim, 288 00:15:35,969 --> 00:15:38,204 that this car explosion in Sanhe, 289 00:15:38,271 --> 00:15:41,841 was an accident caused by a blown tire. 290 00:15:41,908 --> 00:15:44,911 It's like a high explosive charge went off. 291 00:15:44,978 --> 00:15:47,414 [Pritchett] Kutcher wants to recreate the incident, 292 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:51,484 with his own explosive, to show this was a deliberate blast. 293 00:15:51,551 --> 00:15:55,055 -In three, two, one. Hit it! -[explosion] 294 00:15:58,925 --> 00:16:02,562 [Pritchett] The high explosive rapidly decomposes after igniting 295 00:16:02,629 --> 00:16:05,031 causing a massive release of heat. 296 00:16:07,434 --> 00:16:12,439 Simultaneously, large quantities of high-pressure gases expand, 297 00:16:12,505 --> 00:16:16,976 creating a shock wave that trashes everything in its wake. 298 00:16:17,043 --> 00:16:20,513 [laughs heartily] That ain't going to grow back. 299 00:16:20,580 --> 00:16:23,650 [Pritchett] The explosion looks just like the one in the footage. 300 00:16:23,717 --> 00:16:28,655 Initially, an orange fireball, quickly followed by a massive gray cloud 301 00:16:28,722 --> 00:16:31,858 of expanding gas and smoke. 302 00:16:31,925 --> 00:16:35,795 Well, clearly a little high explosives can change the shape of a car. 303 00:16:35,862 --> 00:16:38,998 That is the smell of utter devastation. 304 00:16:39,065 --> 00:16:39,966 I mean, look at the metal. 305 00:16:40,033 --> 00:16:42,135 It pealed it apart like it's nothing. 306 00:16:42,202 --> 00:16:44,771 -Where do you guys think the windshield went? -The windshield? 307 00:16:44,838 --> 00:16:48,608 Well, some... Right there. [laughs] 308 00:16:48,675 --> 00:16:50,210 [all laughing] 309 00:16:50,276 --> 00:16:53,680 You know what that won't be needing? Windshield wipers. 310 00:16:53,747 --> 00:16:57,784 [Pritchett] For Kutcher, the experiment proves his hunch. 311 00:16:57,851 --> 00:17:01,321 You know, I'm completely convinced that that was high explosives used, 312 00:17:01,388 --> 00:17:02,722 in targeting that vehicle. 313 00:17:05,025 --> 00:17:07,560 [Pritchett] The location of the Chinese car blast, 314 00:17:07,627 --> 00:17:12,899 Sanhe, is a key destination for China's top politicians. 315 00:17:12,966 --> 00:17:16,136 Uyghurs, a repressed minority group in China, 316 00:17:16,202 --> 00:17:19,839 have targeted Chinese officials with car bombs. 317 00:17:19,906 --> 00:17:23,910 A van, packed with explosives was driven into the Chinese Embassy, 318 00:17:23,977 --> 00:17:26,946 in Kurdistan in 2016. 319 00:17:27,013 --> 00:17:29,315 But Chinese state officials themselves, 320 00:17:29,382 --> 00:17:33,286 have also used car bombs to settle personal scores. 321 00:17:33,353 --> 00:17:37,490 Duan Yihe, a senior politician in Shandong, 322 00:17:37,557 --> 00:17:41,361 wanted to get rid of his mistress, Liu Haiping. 323 00:17:41,428 --> 00:17:45,331 In 2007, he put a bomb in her car, so big, 324 00:17:45,398 --> 00:17:49,703 it threw her torso 76 feet across the road. 325 00:17:49,769 --> 00:17:55,308 Duan Yihe, was found guilty of killing his lover, and was executed. 326 00:17:55,375 --> 00:17:56,643 The government is saying one thing, 327 00:17:56,710 --> 00:17:59,279 but this footage clearly shows something else is going on. 328 00:18:00,447 --> 00:18:02,582 [Pritchett] A clue to the target, maybe a nearby, 329 00:18:02,649 --> 00:18:05,018 notoriously secretive prison. 330 00:18:05,085 --> 00:18:09,122 One of only two prisons in China run directly by the Central government. 331 00:18:11,224 --> 00:18:13,593 This place is supposed to be impenetrable. 332 00:18:13,660 --> 00:18:16,296 [Pritchett] There are over 650 inmates. 333 00:18:16,363 --> 00:18:21,835 including disgraced high-level communist officials and political opponents. 334 00:18:21,901 --> 00:18:27,607 {\an8}China is in the process of cracking down on democracy, 335 00:18:27,674 --> 00:18:31,978 {\an8}on ethnic unrest, on religious unrest. 336 00:18:32,045 --> 00:18:35,815 Uh, there's a lot of different factions within Chinese society, 337 00:18:35,882 --> 00:18:39,686 that the government is very interested in violently suppressing. 338 00:18:41,755 --> 00:18:44,357 One human rights lawyer says, 339 00:18:44,424 --> 00:18:48,595 that they tried to assassinate him in the guise of a car accident. 340 00:18:50,430 --> 00:18:51,965 [Pritchett] There is no direct evidence, 341 00:18:52,032 --> 00:18:55,402 linking the Chinese state to this bizarre blast. 342 00:18:55,468 --> 00:19:00,573 Though their official line, that this was a blown tire, seems unlikely. 343 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,009 Chinese dissidents have been disappearing for years. 344 00:19:03,076 --> 00:19:05,111 But, usually, it's a quiet affair. 345 00:19:05,178 --> 00:19:09,082 If this is an assassination attempt, it's the most brazen I've ever seen. 346 00:19:11,217 --> 00:19:14,854 [Pritchett] Now, Lake Prespa, eastern Albania. 347 00:19:18,191 --> 00:19:20,960 December, 2017. 348 00:19:21,027 --> 00:19:25,632 A group of tourists are enjoying sunset by the picturesque lakeshore. 349 00:19:25,699 --> 00:19:30,337 The low sun, immediately gives this footage an eerie quality. 350 00:19:30,403 --> 00:19:32,605 [Pritchett] Then, a woman can been seen pointing 351 00:19:32,672 --> 00:19:33,940 to something in the lake. 352 00:19:34,007 --> 00:19:37,577 They're running towards the shoreline. What's out there? 353 00:19:37,644 --> 00:19:39,779 [Pritchett] The man tries to steady his camera. 354 00:19:39,846 --> 00:19:41,581 [man] Woah! 355 00:19:41,648 --> 00:19:45,452 You can hear the anxiety in the voices of the people there on the shore. 356 00:19:45,518 --> 00:19:47,654 They're obviously distressed. 357 00:19:47,721 --> 00:19:50,623 [Pritchett] Finally, the camera focuses. 358 00:19:50,690 --> 00:19:54,761 [Karen Bellinger] I can see the outline of a head popping out. 359 00:19:54,828 --> 00:19:58,932 It's big! No wonder that lady looks a little agitated. 360 00:19:58,998 --> 00:20:03,036 This thing looks curious and not in a good way. 361 00:20:03,103 --> 00:20:05,872 [Pritchett] Slowly, as if it knows that it's been spotted, 362 00:20:05,939 --> 00:20:10,010 this strange shaped object slips back into the murky lake. 363 00:20:10,076 --> 00:20:12,846 I mean, it, you know, it looks like a creature, 364 00:20:12,912 --> 00:20:16,149 some kind of dinosaur-like creature surveying it's surroundings 365 00:20:16,216 --> 00:20:17,684 before diving under the water. 366 00:20:17,751 --> 00:20:19,953 I've never seen anything like this. 367 00:20:20,020 --> 00:20:23,423 What really lies below the surface of that lake? 368 00:20:24,891 --> 00:20:27,160 [water splashing] 369 00:20:27,227 --> 00:20:31,931 [Pritchett] Coming up, reports of horrors, lurking in Lake Prespa. 370 00:20:31,998 --> 00:20:37,437 The fish were so monstrous that the divers actually refused to carry on the search 371 00:20:37,504 --> 00:20:39,539 for fear that they would be attacked. 372 00:20:39,606 --> 00:20:42,575 [Pritchett] And, a weird opening on a Florida beach 373 00:20:42,642 --> 00:20:46,012 where pirates are said to have buried treasure. 374 00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:49,849 What would happen if somebody stepped into that bubbling mess, 375 00:20:49,916 --> 00:20:53,787 would they fall through to some kind of underground cavity or chamber? 376 00:21:01,428 --> 00:21:05,865 [Pritchett] In Albania, a startled group of people film a mysterious object 377 00:21:05,932 --> 00:21:08,101 rearing out of Lake Prespa. 378 00:21:08,168 --> 00:21:12,839 {\an8}It looks like a creature with a long neck surveying its surroundings. 379 00:21:12,906 --> 00:21:15,942 {\an8}But it's not a creature I'm at all familiar with. 380 00:21:18,745 --> 00:21:22,582 [Pritchett] Reports of something strange in this 100 square mile lake 381 00:21:22,649 --> 00:21:25,452 stretch back to the ancient past. 382 00:21:25,518 --> 00:21:27,454 [Bellinger] There's an old legend 383 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,923 that there's a dragon who lives in its depths 384 00:21:29,989 --> 00:21:33,693 {\an8}and would come up to the surface to devour small boats. 385 00:21:36,062 --> 00:21:38,631 [Pritchett] And in modern times, the dark rumors 386 00:21:38,698 --> 00:21:41,735 that swirl around this lake haven't gone away. 387 00:21:41,801 --> 00:21:45,238 {\an8}Fishermen on this lake have reported seeing large shadows 388 00:21:45,305 --> 00:21:48,208 {\an8}beneath the surface and even hikers on the mountains 389 00:21:48,274 --> 00:21:53,313 around the lake have reported looking down and seeing really large shadows 390 00:21:53,380 --> 00:21:55,048 moving beneath the water. 391 00:21:57,650 --> 00:22:02,822 [Pritchett] Then in 2012, a group of Greek fishermen from the village of Naviker 392 00:22:02,889 --> 00:22:08,461 say they saw a large creature with a long neck swimming in the lake. 393 00:22:08,528 --> 00:22:14,434 It looks really cold anyway but now there's no way I'd go swimming in that water. 394 00:22:14,501 --> 00:22:17,570 [Pritchett] Zoologist Greg Szulgit finds Lake Prespa 395 00:22:17,637 --> 00:22:24,144 has a nearby neighbor, Lake Ohrid which covers over a 130 square miles. 396 00:22:24,210 --> 00:22:27,480 The two bodies of water were once one giant lake 397 00:22:27,547 --> 00:22:32,152 and are still connected to each other by natural underground tunnels. 398 00:22:32,218 --> 00:22:36,122 The deepest point in these twin lakes is over 900 feet 399 00:22:36,189 --> 00:22:38,792 almost the height of the Eiffel Tower. 400 00:22:38,858 --> 00:22:43,363 [Szulgit] Prespa and Ohrid are two of Europe's oldest lakes. 401 00:22:43,430 --> 00:22:45,865 {\an8}Usually lakes fill up with sediment over time 402 00:22:45,932 --> 00:22:48,501 {\an8}and usually only last around a 100,000 years. 403 00:22:48,568 --> 00:22:52,872 Scientists believe that these lakes however, are over a million years old. 404 00:22:52,939 --> 00:22:55,442 How is this possible, why aren't they filled up with silt? 405 00:22:55,508 --> 00:22:57,544 It's because of their enormous depth. 406 00:22:58,845 --> 00:23:00,613 [Pritchett] This depth has kept the lakes 407 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,183 in existence far longer than normal, 408 00:23:03,249 --> 00:23:08,221 preserving a life giving environment in ages of mass extinction. 409 00:23:08,288 --> 00:23:12,092 This depth prevented the lakes from freezing during the ice ages 410 00:23:12,158 --> 00:23:14,160 creating their own little micro-climates. 411 00:23:14,227 --> 00:23:18,398 These lakes are deep and old. Anything could hide in them. 412 00:23:18,465 --> 00:23:21,067 Could this creature be an ancient species 413 00:23:21,134 --> 00:23:25,271 that somehow managed to survive in this lake's depths? 414 00:23:25,338 --> 00:23:27,774 [Pritchett] Officials suggest the creature caught on camera 415 00:23:27,841 --> 00:23:30,310 could be a giant catfish species, 416 00:23:30,377 --> 00:23:35,515 that due to the lake's immense size and depths has so far evaded capture. 417 00:23:35,582 --> 00:23:39,986 So in Europe, there are catfish that can grow up to 15 feet long, 418 00:23:40,053 --> 00:23:42,355 like, that is a huge catfish. 419 00:23:42,422 --> 00:23:45,658 They're so big that there are instances of the catfish 420 00:23:45,725 --> 00:23:47,227 turning the tables on fishermen. 421 00:23:49,496 --> 00:23:52,699 Actually eating the fishermen, dragging them into the water. 422 00:23:54,868 --> 00:23:58,138 [Pritchett] And local eye-witness accounts suggest Prespa's catfish 423 00:23:58,204 --> 00:24:02,208 are even bigger, potentially well over 800 pounds. 424 00:24:05,011 --> 00:24:10,083 Retired Geography professor, Sinna Yanovsky said that when rescue divers 425 00:24:10,150 --> 00:24:13,420 tried to recover survivors from a sunken ship. 426 00:24:13,486 --> 00:24:16,256 They reported seeing giant catfish. 427 00:24:16,322 --> 00:24:21,695 The fish were so monstrous that the divers actually refused to carry on the search 428 00:24:21,761 --> 00:24:23,663 for fear that they would be attacked. 429 00:24:31,071 --> 00:24:32,639 [Pritchett] Historian Craig Gottlieb 430 00:24:32,706 --> 00:24:35,241 thinks this object isn't a living creature 431 00:24:35,308 --> 00:24:38,545 but a madman's highly dangerous machine. 432 00:24:39,446 --> 00:24:41,348 {\an8}What you've got poking above the surface, 433 00:24:41,414 --> 00:24:44,284 {\an8}it looks very rigid, not fluid and organic. 434 00:24:44,351 --> 00:24:45,852 It looks very mechanical. 435 00:24:45,919 --> 00:24:51,925 So could this be a relic from one of Albania's most notorious leaders, 436 00:24:51,991 --> 00:24:54,694 former Prime Minister, Enver Hoxha. 437 00:24:58,298 --> 00:25:01,101 [Pritchett] Hoxha comes to power in 1944 438 00:25:01,167 --> 00:25:06,606 and is deranged even by the standards of other communist dictators. 439 00:25:06,673 --> 00:25:09,709 [Liberty Vittert] Hoxha follows in the footsteps of Joseph Stalin 440 00:25:09,776 --> 00:25:14,414 implementing radical new reforms to lift Albania out of poverty. 441 00:25:14,481 --> 00:25:18,284 But he's truly a sociopath and in reality a mad dictator. 442 00:25:18,351 --> 00:25:24,057 In order to realize his goals, Enver creates the most tightly controlled society in Europe. 443 00:25:24,124 --> 00:25:27,360 [Craig Gottlieb] This guy was an ardent communist, I mean red with a capital R. 444 00:25:27,427 --> 00:25:30,897 His regime is responsible for so many state killings. 445 00:25:30,964 --> 00:25:35,669 Purges, executions, his enemies, his friends, 446 00:25:35,735 --> 00:25:38,104 he even has his brother-in-law killed. 447 00:25:38,171 --> 00:25:40,640 He kills so many intellectuals that by the 1980s, 448 00:25:40,707 --> 00:25:42,709 the only people they can find to work for government 449 00:25:42,776 --> 00:25:44,644 are people with a high school education. 450 00:25:44,711 --> 00:25:48,915 [Pritchett] This baby faced brute executes over 5000 Albanians. 451 00:25:48,982 --> 00:25:51,317 He bans citizens from wearing beards 452 00:25:51,384 --> 00:25:55,755 and has a paranoid obsession that neighboring countries, Greece and Yugoslavia 453 00:25:55,822 --> 00:25:57,290 plan to invade. 454 00:25:57,357 --> 00:25:59,159 {\an8}Hoxha pulled up the draw bridge 455 00:25:59,225 --> 00:26:03,897 {\an8}and he began constructing concrete bunkers all over the country. 456 00:26:03,963 --> 00:26:09,002 And I mean, all over. Over a 170,000 of them. 457 00:26:09,069 --> 00:26:12,138 Citizens are trained to take up positions in these bunkers 458 00:26:12,205 --> 00:26:13,773 to fend off invaders. 459 00:26:15,809 --> 00:26:17,777 [Pritchett] But Albania's border with its neighbors 460 00:26:17,844 --> 00:26:21,081 runs through Lake Prespa and Hoxha is determined 461 00:26:21,147 --> 00:26:23,350 to defend his water boundaries too. 462 00:26:25,485 --> 00:26:27,187 [Gottlieb] The Soviet's, they're his best friend, 463 00:26:27,253 --> 00:26:30,056 they ship a bunch of submarines over to Albania. 464 00:26:30,123 --> 00:26:33,293 So could this video have actually captured some sort of submarine 465 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:35,095 still operating in the lake? 466 00:26:35,161 --> 00:26:38,698 [Householder] This look like it could be the periscope of a submarine. 467 00:26:38,765 --> 00:26:42,969 And Lake Prespa is deep enough to accommodate such a craft. 468 00:26:43,036 --> 00:26:47,907 [Pritchett] But Data Analyst, Liberty Vittert discovers Albania was left in poverty 469 00:26:47,974 --> 00:26:50,777 after Hoxha's rule ended. 470 00:26:50,844 --> 00:26:55,382 Isolation, zero trade and his mad bunkerization program 471 00:26:55,448 --> 00:26:58,184 left the country's coffers empty. 472 00:26:58,251 --> 00:27:01,888 It wouldn't be possible for a country that lacks resources 473 00:27:01,955 --> 00:27:05,091 to maintain the complicated technology 474 00:27:05,158 --> 00:27:07,927 that would be needed for such a submarine. 475 00:27:07,994 --> 00:27:12,432 The submarines left by the Soviets would probably be in a scrapyard. 476 00:27:12,499 --> 00:27:14,901 [Pritchett] Hoxha dies in 1985. 477 00:27:14,968 --> 00:27:19,873 In his legacy, leaves Albania one of the poorest countries in Europe. 478 00:27:19,939 --> 00:27:23,410 But today, the nation's heavily stretched defense forces 479 00:27:23,476 --> 00:27:27,313 still seem very interested in this body of water. 480 00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:31,351 {\an8}Locals often wonder why there's such a heavy military presence 481 00:27:31,418 --> 00:27:34,254 {\an8}in Lake Prespa's lakeside towns. 482 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,157 You gotta ask, are these guys trying to protect residents 483 00:27:37,223 --> 00:27:39,426 from some danger that's coming out of the lake. 484 00:27:41,194 --> 00:27:43,830 [Pritchett] The Albanian authorities remain tight lipped 485 00:27:43,897 --> 00:27:46,199 about their activities at Prespa. 486 00:27:46,266 --> 00:27:49,769 [Lovell] So unfortunately, this will be a mystery that may never be solved. 487 00:27:49,836 --> 00:27:53,907 But one thing is certain, I will not be swimming in Lake Prespa anytime soon. 488 00:27:59,212 --> 00:28:03,183 [Pritchett] Now, Juno beach, Southern Florida. 489 00:28:06,086 --> 00:28:09,222 August 1st, 2019. 490 00:28:09,289 --> 00:28:12,492 Crowds are enjoying the late summer weather. 491 00:28:12,559 --> 00:28:14,494 You see this beach and you see a bunch of tourists 492 00:28:14,561 --> 00:28:15,795 on vacation at the beach. 493 00:28:15,862 --> 00:28:18,264 [Pritchett] But, their enjoyment is short lived. 494 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,503 Wow, well this looks kind of terrifying. 495 00:28:23,570 --> 00:28:27,907 [Pritchett] A bizarre bubbling hole mysteriously opens in the sand. 496 00:28:27,974 --> 00:28:30,010 This could potentially be dangerous. 497 00:28:30,076 --> 00:28:34,514 It's like a big whirled pool, stuff getting sucked in, and bubbling out. 498 00:28:34,581 --> 00:28:36,249 It's really weird. 499 00:28:36,316 --> 00:28:39,953 [Pritchett] Worried beach officials put hazard tape around the churning crater. 500 00:28:40,020 --> 00:28:43,056 Onlookers stand dangerously close. 501 00:28:43,123 --> 00:28:48,161 It looks like, kind of cross between a creepy cauldron and a mini geyser 502 00:28:48,228 --> 00:28:51,064 to have thing bubbling on a public beach. 503 00:28:51,131 --> 00:28:52,732 I mean, it's really eerie. 504 00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:56,269 That actually terrifies me because it makes me think about a pot of boiling water. 505 00:28:56,336 --> 00:28:59,172 And is it boiling, is it super-hot? 506 00:28:59,239 --> 00:29:01,574 [Pritchett] Then, a child throws some seaweed 507 00:29:01,641 --> 00:29:03,943 towards the hole's violent center. 508 00:29:04,010 --> 00:29:08,615 In just a matter of seconds, it sucked from sight. 509 00:29:08,682 --> 00:29:13,687 Yeah, oh well, okay. Yeah, yeah, you can lose a cat there pretty easily. 510 00:29:13,753 --> 00:29:16,656 If i was walking along the beach with, with my little daughter, 511 00:29:16,723 --> 00:29:19,225 I'd be really scared to see something like this. 512 00:29:19,292 --> 00:29:22,095 Is it emitting gas, would she get stuck in it? 513 00:29:22,162 --> 00:29:24,597 This is a potential death trap in the making. 514 00:29:24,664 --> 00:29:29,202 [Pritchett] Officials called to the beach are at a loss to explain how this sandsucker 515 00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:30,570 came into existence. 516 00:29:30,637 --> 00:29:32,706 It's not something we've seen on a beach before, that's for sure. 517 00:29:32,772 --> 00:29:34,174 What exactly is this? 518 00:29:37,877 --> 00:29:39,179 [Pritchett] Coming up, 519 00:29:39,245 --> 00:29:43,049 is this an 18th century pirate's booby trap treasure pit? 520 00:29:43,116 --> 00:29:46,386 An intrepid woman decided to explore and stepped inside 521 00:29:46,453 --> 00:29:49,589 and was sucked in up to her hip. 522 00:29:49,656 --> 00:29:53,993 [Pritchett] And in Malaysia, what is this dangerous ditch dweller? 523 00:29:54,060 --> 00:29:57,964 Oh, no. It seems to have tentacles now. 524 00:29:58,031 --> 00:30:00,100 [Kevin Kasky] I wanna know what this thing is. 525 00:30:00,166 --> 00:30:04,137 And I wanna know what it's doing creeping around in this ditch. 526 00:30:11,177 --> 00:30:13,246 [Pritchett] On Juno Beach, South Florida, 527 00:30:13,313 --> 00:30:17,884 a mysterious churning hole has opened in the sand. 528 00:30:17,951 --> 00:30:23,056 {\an8}This is so strange, this swirling bubbling water appears to come from nowhere. 529 00:30:23,123 --> 00:30:24,457 What's down there? 530 00:30:24,524 --> 00:30:27,727 [Pritchett] Athena Brensberger believes that this bubbling pit 531 00:30:27,794 --> 00:30:31,431 could be a long lost 18 century treasure trove. 532 00:30:31,498 --> 00:30:34,334 {\an8}There were Spanish ships going up and down the coast of Florida 533 00:30:34,401 --> 00:30:38,505 {\an8}but this was perfect hunting ground for pirates to attack those ships. 534 00:30:42,208 --> 00:30:49,215 {\an8}These Spanish galleons laden with gold and silver treasure were easy targets for pirates. 535 00:30:49,449 --> 00:30:53,987 This whole era of piracy of course created some larger than life characters 536 00:30:54,054 --> 00:30:57,457 who were factual, Blackbeard, Calico Jack, 537 00:30:57,524 --> 00:31:01,461 Captain Kid and there were male and female pirates. 538 00:31:01,528 --> 00:31:03,697 [Pritchett] And West African pirates. 539 00:31:03,763 --> 00:31:09,869 In early 18th century, a pirate named Black Caesar is said to be an escape slave 540 00:31:09,936 --> 00:31:14,007 who becomes one of Florida's notorious buccaneers. 541 00:31:14,074 --> 00:31:17,811 Originally a tribal chief and the size of two men, 542 00:31:17,877 --> 00:31:21,081 patrolling the waters from Palm Beach down to Miami, 543 00:31:21,147 --> 00:31:26,219 he buried so much treasure, it ends up with the name, the Gold Coast. 544 00:31:26,286 --> 00:31:30,457 It's actually believed that Florida has the most sunken and buried treasure 545 00:31:30,523 --> 00:31:32,325 than any other state. 546 00:31:32,392 --> 00:31:36,463 [Pritchett] On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Captain Kid's buried treasure 547 00:31:36,529 --> 00:31:41,101 is said to be stashed in an elaborate underground chamber called the Money Pit. 548 00:31:43,870 --> 00:31:47,774 The English Pirate captain who was hanged in 1701 549 00:31:47,841 --> 00:31:51,778 is rumored to have hidden over two million dollars worth of treasure 550 00:31:51,845 --> 00:31:54,481 in a shaft at least 90 feet deep. 551 00:31:55,615 --> 00:31:58,418 He protects the pit with layers of oak logs 552 00:31:58,485 --> 00:32:01,755 and booby trapped flood water channels. 553 00:32:01,821 --> 00:32:06,126 This bubbling hole in Florida could be one of Caesar's hidden cache's 554 00:32:06,192 --> 00:32:10,263 lying in a similar artfully constructed shaft. 555 00:32:10,330 --> 00:32:13,500 It'd be fascinating to think that there's some treasure 556 00:32:13,566 --> 00:32:16,069 that was buried there on that beach in Florida 557 00:32:16,136 --> 00:32:18,938 and now that treasure is making itself known 558 00:32:19,005 --> 00:32:21,708 through this bubbling up from deep underground. 559 00:32:22,876 --> 00:32:24,978 [Pritchett] But treasure hunters, beware. 560 00:32:25,045 --> 00:32:28,882 When a member of the public tries to investigate this sandsucker 561 00:32:28,948 --> 00:32:32,352 she soon finds herself in trouble. 562 00:32:32,419 --> 00:32:35,588 {\an8}An intrepid woman decided to explore and stepped inside 563 00:32:35,655 --> 00:32:37,857 {\an8}and was sucked in up to her hip. 564 00:32:37,924 --> 00:32:41,795 Because she was sucked in to her hips, it's possible that this was quick sand. 565 00:32:41,861 --> 00:32:46,900 [Pritchett] But engineer, Lisa Lazareck-Asunta discovers this dangerous beach hole 566 00:32:46,966 --> 00:32:50,704 could be a more recent accident than a deliberate 18th century 567 00:32:50,770 --> 00:32:53,673 booby trap treasure trove. 568 00:32:53,740 --> 00:32:57,410 {\an8}So close by to this swirling, bubbling, sandy mess 569 00:32:57,477 --> 00:32:59,946 {\an8}there's a marine conservation unit 570 00:33:00,013 --> 00:33:02,415 that looks after sea turtles. 571 00:33:02,482 --> 00:33:05,051 [Pritchett] Before female sea turtles lay their eggs, 572 00:33:05,118 --> 00:33:07,253 they use the Earth's magnetic field 573 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,524 to navigate back to the same nesting grounds they were born on. 574 00:33:11,591 --> 00:33:14,728 Juno Beach is one massive turtle creche. 575 00:33:16,296 --> 00:33:20,133 The sandsucker is born out of the effort to rescue and rehabilitate 576 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,102 these returning turtles. 577 00:33:22,168 --> 00:33:24,604 Because all of these sea turtles have a lot of tanks, 578 00:33:24,671 --> 00:33:27,340 these tanks have run off tubes, 579 00:33:27,407 --> 00:33:30,477 these drainage tubes that are buried underneath the sand. 580 00:33:31,511 --> 00:33:33,246 [Pritchett] The pipes from the turtle center 581 00:33:33,313 --> 00:33:37,484 are designed to release waste water into dry sand. 582 00:33:37,550 --> 00:33:43,156 But over the years, a shrinking tideline has brought this new menace. 583 00:33:43,223 --> 00:33:44,691 [Lisa Lazareck-Asunta] And so what's happened is 584 00:33:44,758 --> 00:33:47,894 the tide has come closer to the drain pipes, 585 00:33:47,961 --> 00:33:51,064 has saturated the sand with water. 586 00:33:51,131 --> 00:33:53,633 So instead of just being dry sand, 587 00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:57,203 these pipes now feed into really watery sand 588 00:33:57,270 --> 00:33:59,205 which is why you're getting the bubbling effect. 589 00:34:00,540 --> 00:34:02,676 [Pritchett] The beach authorities need to act quickly 590 00:34:02,742 --> 00:34:07,047 to secure this sand sinkhole as it's a threat to beach goers. 591 00:34:08,948 --> 00:34:13,186 If a woman's leg can get trapped in it, what can happen to a small child? 592 00:34:14,087 --> 00:34:15,889 [Morgan] I can't tell how deep it is. 593 00:34:15,955 --> 00:34:18,458 One thing is certain, I would not want my kids playing around it. 594 00:34:23,897 --> 00:34:27,634 [Pritchett] Now, Kuching city in Sarawak, Malaysia. 595 00:34:27,701 --> 00:34:30,837 March 7th, 2013. 596 00:34:30,904 --> 00:34:34,074 Twenty eight year old, Josh Tam is out for a walk 597 00:34:34,140 --> 00:34:38,244 when he spots something strange in a roadside ditch. 598 00:34:38,311 --> 00:34:43,550 All right. Looks like I'm looking down into a sewer or a rain gutter. 599 00:34:43,616 --> 00:34:48,221 All I see is a rock. Oh, wait. It's moving. That's weird. 600 00:34:48,288 --> 00:34:50,623 That's so weird. Has a rock come to life? 601 00:34:52,592 --> 00:34:56,429 [Pritchett] Even with the footage sped up, it's pace is hardly noticeable. 602 00:34:56,496 --> 00:35:00,834 It's moving and while it's moving, it's leaving a trail behind it. 603 00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:04,537 This thing is alive. But what living thing looks like that? 604 00:35:06,506 --> 00:35:09,843 [Pritchett] Next, the mud monster moves into the murky ditch water 605 00:35:09,909 --> 00:35:11,111 when suddenly. 606 00:35:14,581 --> 00:35:19,586 Oh, no. It seems to have tentacles now. 607 00:35:19,652 --> 00:35:21,721 It's reaching out through the water. 608 00:35:21,788 --> 00:35:23,156 Oh, no. 609 00:35:23,223 --> 00:35:26,059 [Lovell] These tentacles almost look like they are waving around. 610 00:35:26,126 --> 00:35:30,597 You can see there's one, two, maybe, three of them. 611 00:35:30,663 --> 00:35:33,500 That is the weirdest looking thing I've ever seen. 612 00:35:33,566 --> 00:35:35,435 [Pritchett] The tentacles or arms 613 00:35:35,502 --> 00:35:38,138 seem to be able to stretch an impossible distance 614 00:35:38,204 --> 00:35:40,974 away from the mud monster seeking something. 615 00:35:41,041 --> 00:35:43,443 [Bellinger] I've never seen anything like this before. 616 00:35:43,510 --> 00:35:46,413 It looks like a whole new species, 617 00:35:46,479 --> 00:35:50,350 not anything I've ever seen on this planet, that's for sure. 618 00:35:53,486 --> 00:35:55,622 [Kasky] I wanna know what this thing is. 619 00:35:55,689 --> 00:35:59,526 And I know what it's doing creeping around in this ditch. 620 00:36:03,396 --> 00:36:04,597 [Pritchett] Coming up, 621 00:36:04,664 --> 00:36:08,001 c ould this mud monster cause mayhem in Malaysia? 622 00:36:08,068 --> 00:36:12,305 If this dangerous animal was traveling closer to civilization, 623 00:36:12,372 --> 00:36:16,009 we could see an epidemic of pain and kidney failure. 624 00:36:23,249 --> 00:36:27,787 [Pritchett] In Sarawak Malaysia a strange creature is caught on camera. 625 00:36:27,854 --> 00:36:31,658 It looks like long, thin tentacles popping out of the water. 626 00:36:33,693 --> 00:36:36,863 [Pritchett] Biologist Greg Szulgit believes a deadly sea creature 627 00:36:36,930 --> 00:36:39,366 could have migrated to the city. 628 00:36:39,432 --> 00:36:43,737 [Szulgit] You can see from the footage that this animal has a round, brown body 629 00:36:43,803 --> 00:36:45,872 that's quite flattish. 630 00:36:45,939 --> 00:36:49,275 {\an8}When we think of the extensions coming out of it, like tentacles, 631 00:36:49,342 --> 00:36:51,244 {\an8}it reminds me of an anemone. 632 00:36:51,311 --> 00:36:54,881 [Lovell] There's a species of anemone called the Hellfire and it's called that 633 00:36:54,948 --> 00:36:58,885 {\an8}because of the horrible sting that it leaves on the human body. 634 00:36:58,952 --> 00:37:00,754 [Szulgit] Anemone's usually use their venom 635 00:37:00,820 --> 00:37:03,523 to stun and kill prey like fish. 636 00:37:03,590 --> 00:37:06,359 And they do this with thousands of little stinging cells 637 00:37:06,426 --> 00:37:11,798 called nematocysts, zapping the fish, filling it with toxins and paralyzing it 638 00:37:11,865 --> 00:37:15,368 so that it can be engulfed and devoured. 639 00:37:15,435 --> 00:37:19,439 [Pritchett] The Hell's Fire is only found in this region of the Indo-Pacific 640 00:37:19,506 --> 00:37:25,111 and is so venomous, murderers here have been known to catch it dry it, powder it, 641 00:37:25,178 --> 00:37:27,714 and use it to kill their enemies. 642 00:37:27,781 --> 00:37:29,416 [Lovell] There was a diver in the Philippines 643 00:37:29,482 --> 00:37:31,951 that touched one of these poisonous anemone's 644 00:37:32,018 --> 00:37:36,489 and he was injured so badly that his kidneys started to fail. 645 00:37:36,556 --> 00:37:40,193 [Pritchett] This creature seems less colorful than a hellfire anemone. 646 00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:44,764 But this could be a new mutation camouflaged in its environment 647 00:37:44,831 --> 00:37:49,969 to bring neurotoxins from the ocean to the heart of the city. 648 00:37:50,036 --> 00:37:54,140 {\an8}[Bellinger] If this dangerous animal was traveling closer to civilization, 649 00:37:54,207 --> 00:37:58,478 {\an8}we could see an epidemic of pain and kidney failure. 650 00:37:58,545 --> 00:38:00,914 [Pritchett] But there's a problem with this scenario. 651 00:38:00,980 --> 00:38:04,684 {\an8}These anemone's can only be found in deep salt water 652 00:38:04,751 --> 00:38:08,188 {\an8}This ditch is far from deep and it's freshwater. 653 00:38:09,189 --> 00:38:11,057 This must be something else. 654 00:38:11,124 --> 00:38:16,096 [Pritchett] Kasky thinks this could be a rare and dangerous type of mollusk. 655 00:38:16,162 --> 00:38:19,099 [Kasky] Look at how slow this creature is moving. 656 00:38:19,165 --> 00:38:24,637 Even when the tape is sped up, one of the slowest species out there is the snail family. 657 00:38:24,704 --> 00:38:27,340 And you don't have to be an entomologist to know that. 658 00:38:30,477 --> 00:38:33,747 [Pritchett] It's clear the critter in the footage is no ordinary snail. 659 00:38:35,248 --> 00:38:38,184 So there's a couple of distinguishing features about this creature. 660 00:38:38,251 --> 00:38:41,821 Number on is its size. It's much bigger than a common garden snail. 661 00:38:41,888 --> 00:38:43,423 It's a unique size. 662 00:38:43,490 --> 00:38:46,593 Secondly, we can see it's able to live out of the water in the mud 663 00:38:46,659 --> 00:38:49,029 but also submerged under the water. 664 00:38:49,095 --> 00:38:53,133 So I would identify this creature as an Apple snail. 665 00:38:55,201 --> 00:38:58,471 [Montanari] These giant mollusks can survive almost anywhere 666 00:38:58,538 --> 00:39:01,307 because they have both lungs and gills. 667 00:39:01,374 --> 00:39:05,812 [Kasky] They're called Apple snails because they can get as big as an apple. 668 00:39:05,879 --> 00:39:09,749 But really, they just look like big brown monsters. 669 00:39:09,816 --> 00:39:12,819 [Pritchett] These invasive baseball size beasts 670 00:39:12,886 --> 00:39:15,789 are originally from the jungles of the Amazon. 671 00:39:15,855 --> 00:39:19,225 They have been captured and sold for the aquarium trade, 672 00:39:19,292 --> 00:39:23,229 and here in Southeast Asia, for human consumption. 673 00:39:23,296 --> 00:39:26,966 But like gremlins they escaped and multiplied. 674 00:39:27,033 --> 00:39:31,604 The Apple snail was first discovered in Malaysia in 1991. 675 00:39:31,671 --> 00:39:35,675 And within 10 years, it had become a major pest. 676 00:39:35,742 --> 00:39:38,144 [Pritchett] By 2010, the Malaysian authorities 677 00:39:38,211 --> 00:39:42,816 find the snail has caused more than $28 million worth of damage 678 00:39:42,882 --> 00:39:46,019 devouring rice crops throughout the region. 679 00:39:46,086 --> 00:39:50,757 And now they are turning their tentacles towards America. 680 00:39:50,824 --> 00:39:55,061 These snails have started to infest the United States as well, 681 00:39:55,128 --> 00:39:59,232 especially in the south, in Louisiana and Texas. 682 00:39:59,299 --> 00:40:02,268 And they're moving faster than you might expect. 683 00:40:02,335 --> 00:40:07,674 Floods spread by yearly hurricanes are moving them steadily northward. 684 00:40:07,741 --> 00:40:09,676 {\an8}These snails can float, 685 00:40:09,743 --> 00:40:13,446 {\an8}so to them flood water is like getting on a bullet train. 686 00:40:13,513 --> 00:40:18,284 These things multiply like crazy so dominating a new area is easy for them. 687 00:40:18,351 --> 00:40:21,788 They lay hundreds of eggs, these little bright pink eggs. 688 00:40:21,855 --> 00:40:26,493 It looks like thousands of children had spit out their bubblegum all at once. 689 00:40:26,559 --> 00:40:30,597 [Pritchett] But Americans have more to worry about than these critter's appetites 690 00:40:30,663 --> 00:40:34,801 The scary thing about these Apple snails is they're not only a danger to crops, 691 00:40:34,868 --> 00:40:37,137 they're also a direct danger to humans. 692 00:40:37,203 --> 00:40:39,639 Snails carry so many parasites. 693 00:40:39,706 --> 00:40:44,811 But they are responsible for nearly 200,000 deaths per year. 694 00:40:44,878 --> 00:40:48,648 The Apple snail's parasite is particularly horrible. 695 00:40:48,715 --> 00:40:51,818 [Lovell] They carry a deadly parasite called lungworm 696 00:40:51,885 --> 00:40:54,954 and you can get this lungworm just from eating a piece of lettuce 697 00:40:55,021 --> 00:40:57,824 that's been in proximity to one of these Apple snails. 698 00:40:57,891 --> 00:41:01,795 The parasite can infect your brain and even if it doesn't kill you, 699 00:41:01,861 --> 00:41:06,466 it can give you lifelong side effects like seizures. 700 00:41:06,533 --> 00:41:11,638 [Pritchett] In 2010, in Australia, 19 year old rugby player, Sam Ballard 701 00:41:11,705 --> 00:41:16,710 swallows a slug as a dare during a drinking session with friends. 702 00:41:16,776 --> 00:41:22,749 Eating slugs is a bad idea but eating one that's carrying lungworm is even worse. 703 00:41:22,816 --> 00:41:25,051 [Householder] By the time doctors realized what had happened, 704 00:41:25,118 --> 00:41:29,322 the parasite had invaded Sam's brain and given him meningitis. 705 00:41:29,389 --> 00:41:32,959 {\an8}He fell into a coma lasting 420 days. 706 00:41:33,026 --> 00:41:36,596 {\an8}He woke up, he was completely paralyzed from the neck down. 707 00:41:36,663 --> 00:41:38,965 {\an8}[Pritchett] Eight years later, he died. 708 00:41:41,868 --> 00:41:43,903 {\an8}It's more common in tropical regions 709 00:41:43,970 --> 00:41:48,308 {\an8}but there's been over 20 cases in the United States in the last 10 years. 710 00:41:48,375 --> 00:41:50,410 {\an8}[Pritchett] The mud creeper captured in this footage 711 00:41:50,477 --> 00:41:53,113 {\an8}is part of an ongoing global invasion 712 00:41:53,179 --> 00:41:55,181 {\an8}that looks impossible to stop. 713 00:41:55,248 --> 00:41:58,585 {\an8}If snails are capable of killing, I guess I'm never gardening again. 70681

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