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[Harry Pritchett] Worldwide,thirty six billion camerasare watching us,
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on our streets, at work,and in our homes.
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They capture thingsthat seem impossible.
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[sound wave]
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Science says
"This shouldn't happen."
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[man] Do you see that?
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[Pritchett] Experts carry outforensic analysisof these unusual events.
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Wow! What a blast.
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[woman squealing]
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This doesn't make sense.
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There has to be some sort
of explanation.
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What else is going on here?
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[camera whirling]
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[Pritchett] Coming up,A four foot long predator,pulled from a woman's throat.
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That is one of the most
horrifying and disturbing
things that I have ever seen.
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[woman laughs nervously]
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Could this have been trying
to eat her
from the inside out?
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[David Wallace] Wow!
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This car just blew apart.
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[Pritchett] An unexplainedexplosion,
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-and an unbelievable excuse.- [siren wailing]
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The government's saying
one thing,
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but this footage clearly
shows that something else
is going on.
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[Pritchett] And,is the Loch Ness monstervacationing in Albania?
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There's no way I'd go swimming
in that water.
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[Pritchett]
Bizarre phenomenon.
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Oh, my gosh. [exclaims]
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-[Pritchett] Mysteriescaught on camera.
-[woman shrieking]
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What's the truth behind them.
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Strange evidence.
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Levashi village,in the Republic of Dagestan,southern Russia.
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August, 2020.
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[siren blaring]
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An ambulance rushesa female patientto the hospital.
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[Jayde Lovell] We can seelike a nurseor a doctor in scrubs.
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Looks like she is pulling
a foreign object out
of the patient's mouth.
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The patient is clearly
anaesthetized.
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[Pritchett] Slowly but surelythe medic draws outan endoscopic probe.
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[Shaena Montanari] They seemto be pulling something out.
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And it's very pale in color
and really long.
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[Greg Szulgit retching]
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[Szulgit] Think I'mgonna vomit.
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It looks like a huge animal
that they just
pulled out of her.
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Is that moving?
It's definitely moving.
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[Pritchett] The medicsare terrified.
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[woman laughs nervously]
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And quickly throw the creatureinto a sterile bucket.
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Oh! It's long.
It's, God, it's so huge!
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God, that is disgusting.
How is there room
for that inside of her?
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[Pritchett] It could almostbe a scenefrom the film, Alien.
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That is one of the most
horrifying and disturbing
things that I have ever seen.
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[woman laughs nervously]
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[Pritchett]
The startled medicslaugh nervously.
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It's like nothingthey've seen before.
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This is the stuff
of nightmares.
I mean, phobia quality.
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As a doctor, I'm interested
to know what is that thing,
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and how did it get inside her?
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[woman laughs nervously]
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[Pritchett] This writhingmonster is no ordinaryparasite.
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[Siobhan Deshauer] When Ifirst started seeing thempulling out this creature,
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I thought,maybe it's a tape worm.
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Typically, they are about
the size of a pencil.
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But this looks likeit's over an inch thick.
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{\an8}So I'd be very surprised
to find out
that this was truly a worm.
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[Pritchett] Entomologist,Kevin Kasky,spots a telltale feature.
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{\an8}When they pull the creature
all the way out,
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{\an8}one end looks bigger
than the other.
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{\an8}It definitely has a head.
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{\an8}You can see the tail,
the long body
and the thick head.
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{\an8}To me, this definitely
looks like a snake.
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[Lovell] You can see asthey are pulling it out,
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you can see, one, two, three,
more than four feet of snake
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being pulled out
of this woman.
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I thought Snakes on a Plane
was a worst case scenario.
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But this,
this beats it by a mile.
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[Pritchett] If the serpent hadcrawled downthe woman's windpipe,
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she would've suffocated.
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It seems this snakewent down the smallerbut more flexible, esophagus.
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[woman laughs nervously]
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A ten inch pipe that leadsfrom the mouth to the stomach.
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Journalist, Shaena Montanari,
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finds that incredibly,it isn't the first time
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a snake has been reportedliving insidesomeone's digestive system.
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{\an8}In 1864, The New York Times,
reported that a woman
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{\an8}had a snake living inside her
for four years.
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This woman sawthe best doctors available.
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And after exhaustingall other options,
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they agreed,
she had a snake inside of her.
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The report even said,
that if she was
in the same room
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as fish or meat being cooked,
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that the snake would rise up
in her throat, so far,
that she would start to choke.
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This doesn't sound real,
does it?
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How could a snake,
live inside of a stomach
with all that acid?
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But believe it or not,
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there is science
to back this up.
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[Pritchett] 2012, East Timor,
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biologist,on a jungle expedition,
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witnesses a small snakewriggling out from a predatorytoad's anus.
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Amazingly, the snake,a blind, burrowing species,is alive.
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The scientist deducedthat it was swallowedby the toad,
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but it escapedby slithering through
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the hungry amphibian'sdigestive tract.
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The toad is probablyless pleased with the outcome.
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It's the first time
anyone's seen
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an animal of this size
survive digestion.
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[Pritchett] Scientists suspectthe snake's closely knitted,overlapping scales
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protected from the toad'sgastric juices.
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And due to its burrowinglifestyle, it can toleratelow oxygen levels.
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It would seem that snakes
can do incredible things.
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[Pritchett] Biologist,Jayde Lovell,
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compares the four foot longsnake from the footage
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to species knownto live in Dagestan.
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[Lovell] So in this regionof Russia,
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is a species of viper,
called the Lotievi Viper.
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That looks very similar
to what we are seeing
in the footage.
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It's pale,roughly the same size.
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[Pritchett] It's one ofthe last species of snakeyou'd want inside you.
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[Szulgit] All vipersare venomous.
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{\an8}The fangs are connected
to poison sacs
in the back of their head.
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{\an8}All ready and loaded
for when the snake
wants to add
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a little bit of poison
to its bite.
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[Pritchett] It gets worse.
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It seems this area of Russia,has a major viper problem.
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Just over 460 milesnorth of Dagestan,
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the 2018 soccer World Cup,is being held in the cityof Volgograd.
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Hoards of deadly viperssuddenly leavetheir forest home,
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and are found headingto the packed soccer stadium.
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Snakes don't usually
approach humans.
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But if there
is an infestation,
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all of the normal rules
kinda go out the window.
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[Pritchett] Russian officialssend outSearch and Rescue teams,
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to repel the venomous reptilesbefore any soccer fansstart to panic.
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Officials claim the causeof the mysterious migrationremains unknown,
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but Lovell has a theory.
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As human frontiers of farming
and civilization push
more and more into nature,
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we seen more
of these instances
of human versus wild.
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Could this viper
have been trying to eat her
from the inside out?
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There are no evident
burrow holes anywhere
in her neck or body.
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So, the only waywe can imagine
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the snake could have gotten
into her stomach
was through her mouth.
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[Pritchett] Coming up,
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A Caucasian snake god,who demandsthe ultimate sacrifice.
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Could she have swallowed
the snake on purpose?
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[Pritchett] An SUVinexplicably explodes.
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A random accident?Or an assassination attempt?
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This has got to be
the mother of all blowouts.
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I've never seen one
take the side of a car
out like this.
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[Pritchett] In Dagestan,Russia.
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Medics film a womanwith a four foot longvenomous viper
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inside her stomach.
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[woman laughs nervously]
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Oh, my God.
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I don't like stuff like that.
I actually really don't.
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[Pritchett] It'salmost impossible
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to accidentally swallowany animal alive,especially a large reptile.
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Your gag reflex should
prevent the snake
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from slithering down
your throat.
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[Pritchett] But somehow,the viper ends upinside this woman.
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Many religions, cultures,and cults all over the world,revere and worship snakes.
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Often incorporating theminto rituals.
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Some evangelical Christians,
take the word that's in
the Bible as gospel,
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when Jesus said,
"Pick up your serpents",
they choose to.
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They also get bit a lot.
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{\an8}In the Caucasus,
where this was filmed,
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{\an8}there's been
a recent resurgence,
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in interest in pre-Christian,
in pre-Muslim religions.
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Slavic cultures have mythologyaround a snake godcalled, Veles.
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Who was lordof the Underworld.
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These ancient religions
were organized around
complex rituals,
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to show faith and devotion.
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Now could she have swallowed
the snake on purpose?
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[Pritchett] There isno evidencethis woman is a Pagan,
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but a dangerous,religious ritual,
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could explainthe stomach serpent.
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Kevin Kasky isn't convinced.
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Eating a snake of this size,
while it's still alive,
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would be nearly impossible
without biting it to pieces.
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It must have gotten insome other way.
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One possible explanation
would be alcohol intoxication.
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Alcohol can suppress some
involuntary actions
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like gag reflex
or even breathing.
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[Pritchett] Russianshave long been famous
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for their high alcoholconsumption.
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They drink around 2.5 gallonsof pure alcohol, on average,every year.
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But there is no indicationfrom any of the reports,
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that this woman had beenintoxicated at the timeof the incident.
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She claims to medics,she was asleep,
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and woke up to findthe creature inside her.
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How the serpentgot inside her stomachremains a mystery.
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We still don't know
how the snake
got inside of her,
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but, man it creeps me out,
because if it could happen
to her,
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could it happen to me?
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[woman laughs nervously]
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[Pritchett] Now,the city of Sanhe,northern China.
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August 30th, 2016.
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A traffic camera filmsat a busy intersection.
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[Wallace] Well, here we havea typical city street.
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Ah, cars at the red light.
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Nothing really
exciting happening.
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[Pritchett] The traffic lightschange.Then,
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[explosion]
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[Wallace] Wow!
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This car just blew apart.
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The whole side of the car
exploded out.
What is this?
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-[explosion]
- [Nick Householder]
What happened?
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It's like the whole back half
of the car is gone.
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[Pritchett] Just secondsafter pulling away,
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the black SUVis torn to bitsby a powerful blast.
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[Jeff Wise] The explosionjust came out of nowhere.
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Yeah, this looks like a scene
out of a war zone.
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[Pritchett] The SUVskids to a halt.
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Split openlike an overripe watermelon.
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- Police swarm the area.
-[sirens approaching]
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Two of the people in the carare injured but alive.
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Amazingly, it don't look like
anybody else was hurt
from this, but my goodness!
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This is massive.
This is nasty.
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Did he run the red light?
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Is this what happens
if you run the red light
in this country?
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Cars don't just blow up.
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There's clearly
some foul play here.
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[Pritchett] TheChinese authorities,
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claim that the car'sfront left wheel,suffered from a blowout.
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Engineer, David Wallaceisn't convinced.
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[Wallace] This has got to bethe mother of all blowouts.
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Now I've seenseveral tires explode,
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{\an8}and they can be violent,
but I've never seen on
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{\an8}take the side of a car
out like this.
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[Pritchett]
Further examinationof the footage,
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makes the Chinese authoritiesclaim even more suspicious.
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{\an8}Looking at the footage,
the one tire I can't see
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{\an8}that's almost intact
is the front left tire.
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And according to reports,that's whatthey blamed this on.
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[Pritchett] Watchingthe footage in slow motion,
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it appearsthe violent explosion
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starts low downon the driver's sideof the vehicle.
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Military historian,Martin Morgan,
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spots something amiss
with one of the other vehiclescaught on camera.
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{\an8}[Martin Morgan] When youpay close attentionto the footage,
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{\an8}you notice something
kinda suspicious,
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{\an8}and that the car directly
behind the car that eventually
explodes,
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when the light turns,
that following car,
doesn't move.
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The fact that that cardoesn't move,
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suggests that maybewhat we are looking at here,is a planned attack.
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Maybe,
an assassination attempt.
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-Go!
-[explosion]
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[Pritchett] Explosives expert,Matt Kutcher,
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has over 20 years' experiencewith bangs and bombs.
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That was beautiful.
What a blast!
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[Pritchett] He and his team,want to know if thiscould be a planned hit.
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Wow!
That's one
massive explosion.
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[Matt Kutcher]
There's something
suspicious about this.
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{\an8}You know, from my experience
cars are just a simple,
mechanical device,
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{\an8}and they have failure.
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However, this particular
failure, looks like
it's placed by a human.
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It's too exact.
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You know, unfortunately,bad guys have a toolthey go for.
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And that toolis the high explosive.
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It doesn't take a lot.
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It could be combined
with other materials
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to place just critically
in the right spot,
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and create this kind ofdevastating force.
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We're gonna go get some,
put it in the car and see if
we could duplicate this video.
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[Pritchett] For manya car bomber,
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C4 is the go-toplastic explosive.
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Don't be scared.
It ain't blowing up yet.
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[Pritchett] But, Matt Kutcheris using a lessvolatile compound
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for this experimentfor safety purposes.
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You know,
the good thing about this
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explosive that we're using,
is that it's super stable.
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You can even cook on it.
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Set it alight,
make yourself some eggs.
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And it wouldn't even go off.
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[Pritchett] Matt's using a carthat's similar to the SUVin the Chinese footage.
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This stuff is so strong,
you'll only need a little bit
to do a lot of job.
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We're packing these explosives
into the door.
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So we can see it rip out
just like we saw
in that video.
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[Pritchett] With everythingset the team movea safe distance away.
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Three, two, one. Hit it!
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[Pritchett] Coming up,Kutcher's experimentgoes off with a bang.
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-Where do you guys think
the windshield went?
-The windshield?
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It's right there.
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[Pritchett] And, in a lake,once ownedby a mad dictator.
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Something unexplainedis caught on camera.
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It looks like a creature.
I have never seen anything
like this.
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[explosion]
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[Pritchett]
Pyrotechnics expert,Matt Kutcher,
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doubts the Chinese authoritiesclaim,
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that this car explosionin Sanhe,
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was an accidentcaused by a blown tire.
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It's like a high explosive
charge went off.
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[Pritchett] Kutcherwants to recreatethe incident,
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with his own explosive,to show this wasa deliberate blast.
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-In three, two, one. Hit it!
-[explosion]
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[Pritchett] The high explosiverapidly decomposesafter igniting
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causing a massiverelease of heat.
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Simultaneously,large quantitiesof high-pressure gases expand,
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creating a shock wavethat trashes everythingin its wake.
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[laughs heartily] That ain't
going to grow back.
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[Pritchett] The explosionlooks just like the onein the footage.
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Initially, an orange fireball,quickly followed bya massive gray cloud
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of expanding gas and smoke.
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Well, clearly a little
high explosives can change
the shape of a car.
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That is the smell
of utter devastation.
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I mean, look at the metal.
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It pealed it apart
like it's nothing.
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-Where do you guys think
the windshield went?
-The windshield?
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Well, some...
Right there.
[laughs]
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[all laughing]
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You know what that
won't be needing?
Windshield wipers.
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[Pritchett] For Kutcher,the experimentproves his hunch.
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You know, I'm completely
convinced that that was
high explosives used,
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in targeting that vehicle.
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[Pritchett] The locationof the Chinese car blast,
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Sanhe, is a key destinationfor China's top politicians.
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Uyghurs, a repressedminority group in China,
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have targetedChinese officialswith car bombs.
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A van, packed with explosiveswas driven intothe Chinese Embassy,
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in Kurdistan in 2016.
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But Chinese state officialsthemselves,
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have also used car bombsto settle personal scores.
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Duan Yihe,a senior politicianin Shandong,
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wanted to get ridof his mistress,Liu Haiping.
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In 2007,he put a bomb in her car,so big,
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it threw her torso 76 feetacross the road.
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Duan Yihe, was foundguilty of killing his lover,and was executed.
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The government is saying
one thing,
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but this footage clearly shows
something else
is going on.
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[Pritchett] A clueto the target,maybe a nearby,
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notoriously secretive prison.
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One of only two prisonsin China run directlyby the Central government.
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This place is supposed
to be impenetrable.
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[Pritchett] There are over650 inmates.
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including disgraced high-levelcommunist officialsand political opponents.
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{\an8}China is in the process
of cracking down on
democracy,
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{\an8}on ethnic unrest,
on religious unrest.
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Uh, there's a lot of different
factions within
Chinese society,
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that the government
is very interested
in violently suppressing.
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One human rights lawyer says,
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that they tried to assassinate
him in the guise
of a car accident.
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[Pritchett] There is nodirect evidence,
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linking the Chinese stateto this bizarre blast.
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Though their official line,that this was a blown tire,seems unlikely.
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Chinese dissidents have been
disappearing for years.
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But, usually,
it's a quiet affair.
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If this is an assassination
attempt, it's the most brazen
I've ever seen.
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[Pritchett] Now,Lake Prespa,eastern Albania.
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December, 2017.
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A group of touristsare enjoying sunsetby the picturesque lakeshore.
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The low sun, immediately
gives this footage
an eerie quality.
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[Pritchett] Then,a woman can been seen pointing
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to something in the lake.
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They're running towards
the shoreline.
What's out there?
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[Pritchett] The man triesto steady his camera.
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[man] Woah!
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You can hear the anxiety
in the voices of the people
there on the shore.
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They're obviously distressed.
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[Pritchett] Finally,the camera focuses.
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[Karen Bellinger] I can seethe outline of a headpopping out.
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It's big! No wonder that lady
looks a little agitated.
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This thing looks curious
and not in a good way.
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[Pritchett] Slowly,as if it knowsthat it's been spotted,
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this strange shaped objectslips back intothe murky lake.
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I mean, it, you know,
it looks like a creature,
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some kind of dinosaur-like
creature surveying
it's surroundings
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before diving under the water.
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I've never seen anythinglike this.
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What really lies below
the surface of that lake?
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[water splashing]
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[Pritchett] Coming up,reports of horrors,lurking in Lake Prespa.
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The fish were so monstrous
that the divers actually
refused to carry on the search
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for fear
that they would be attacked.
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[Pritchett] And,a weird openingon a Florida beach
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where pirates are saidto have buried treasure.
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What would happen
if somebody stepped into
that bubbling mess,
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would they fall through
to some kind of
underground cavity or chamber?
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[Pritchett] In Albania,a startled group of peoplefilm a mysterious object
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rearing out of Lake Prespa.
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{\an8}It looks like a creature
with a long neck surveying
its surroundings.
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{\an8}But it's not a creature
I'm at all familiar with.
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[Pritchett]
Reports of something strangein this 100 square mile lake
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stretch backto the ancient past.
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[Bellinger]
There's an old legend
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that there's a dragonwho lives in its depths
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{\an8}and would come up
to the surface to devour
small boats.
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[Pritchett]
And in modern times,the dark rumors
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that swirl around this lakehaven't gone away.
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{\an8}Fishermen on this lake
have reported seeing
large shadows
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{\an8}beneath the surface
and even hikers
on the mountains
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around the lake have reported
looking down and seeing
really large shadows
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moving beneath the water.
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[Pritchett] Then in 2012,a group of Greek fishermenfrom the village of Naviker
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say they saw a large creaturewith a long neck swimmingin the lake.
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It looks really cold anyway
but now there's no way
I'd go swimming in that water.
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[Pritchett]
Zoologist Greg Szulgit findsLake Prespa
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has a nearby neighbor,Lake Ohrid which coversover a 130 square miles.
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The two bodies of waterwere once one giant lake
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and are still connectedto each other by naturalunderground tunnels.
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The deepest pointin these twin lakesis over 900 feet
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almost the heightof the Eiffel Tower.
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[Szulgit] Prespa and Ohridare two of Europe'soldest lakes.
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{\an8}Usually lakes fill up
with sediment over time
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{\an8}and usually only last around
a 100,000 years.
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Scientists believethat these lakes however,are over a million years old.
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How is this possible,
why aren't they filled up
with silt?
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It's because
of their enormous depth.
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[Pritchett] This depthhas kept the lakes
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in existence far longerthan normal,
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preserving a life givingenvironment in agesof mass extinction.
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This depth prevented the lakes
from freezing during
the ice ages
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creating their own little
micro-climates.
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These lakes are deep and old.
Anything could hide in them.
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Could this creature bean ancient species
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that somehow managed
to survive in this
lake's depths?
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[Pritchett] Officials suggestthe creature caught on camera
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could be a giantcatfish species,
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that due to the lake'simmense size and depthshas so far evaded capture.
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So in Europe,
there are catfish that can
grow up to 15 feet long,
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like, that is a huge catfish.
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They're so big that there are
instances of the catfish
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turning the tables
on fishermen.
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Actually eating the fishermen,
dragging them into the water.
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[Pritchett] And localeye-witness accounts suggestPrespa's catfish
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are even bigger,potentially well over800 pounds.
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Retired Geography professor,
Sinna Yanovsky
said that when rescue divers
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tried to recover survivors
from a sunken ship.
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They reported seeing
giant catfish.
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The fish were so monstrousthat the divers actuallyrefused to carry on the search
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for fear
that they would be attacked.
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[Pritchett]
Historian Craig Gottlieb
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thinks this objectisn't a living creature
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but a madman's highlydangerous machine.
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{\an8}What you've got poking
above the surface,
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{\an8}it looks very rigid,
not fluid and organic.
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It looks very mechanical.
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So could this be a relicfrom one of Albania'smost notorious leaders,
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former Prime Minister,
Enver Hoxha.
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[Pritchett]
Hoxha comes to power in 1944
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and is deranged evenby the standards of othercommunist dictators.
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[Liberty Vittert] Hoxhafollows in the footstepsof Joseph Stalin
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implementing radicalnew reforms to lift Albaniaout of poverty.
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But he's truly a sociopath
and in reality a mad dictator.
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In order to realize his goals,
Enver creates the most tightly
controlled society in Europe.
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[Craig Gottlieb] This guy wasan ardent communist,I mean red with a capital R.
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His regime is responsiblefor so many state killings.
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Purges, executions,
his enemies, his friends,
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he even has
his brother-in-law killed.
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He kills so many intellectualsthat by the 1980s,
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the only people they can find
to work for government
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are people with
a high school education.
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[Pritchett] This baby facedbrute executes over5000 Albanians.
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He bans citizensfrom wearing beards
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and has a paranoid obsessionthat neighboring countries,Greece and Yugoslavia
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plan to invade.
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{\an8}Hoxha pulled up
the draw bridge
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{\an8}and he began constructing
concrete bunkers
all over the country.
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And I mean, all over.Over a 170,000 of them.
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Citizens are trained
to take up positions
in these bunkers
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to fend off invaders.
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[Pritchett]
But Albania's borderwith its neighbors
460
00:26:17,844 --> 00:26:21,081
runs through Lake Prespaand Hoxha is determined
461
00:26:21,147 --> 00:26:23,350
to defendhis 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 ofsubmarines 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 likeit could be the periscopeof 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 discoversAlbania 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 tradeand his mad bunkerizationprogram
471
00:26:55,448 --> 00:26:58,184
left the country's coffersempty.
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 maintainthe complicated technology
474
00:27:05,158 --> 00:27:07,927
that would be neededfor 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 diesin 1985.
477
00:27:14,968 --> 00:27:19,873
In his legacy, leaves Albaniaone of the poorest countriesin Europe.
478
00:27:19,939 --> 00:27:23,410
But today, the nation'sheavily stretcheddefense forces
479
00:27:23,476 --> 00:27:27,313
still seem very interestedin 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 authoritiesremain tight lipped
485
00:27:43,897 --> 00:27:46,199
about their activitiesat Prespa.
486
00:27:46,266 --> 00:27:49,769
[Lovell] So unfortunately,this will be a mysterythat 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 enjoyingthe 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 enjoymentis 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 bubblinghole mysteriously opensin 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 beachofficials put hazard tapearound the churning crater.
500
00:28:40,020 --> 00:28:43,056
Onlookers standdangerously 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'sviolent 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 calledto the beach are at a lossto 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 centurypirate's booby traptreasure 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 dangerousditch 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 knowwhat 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 holehas 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 believesthat this bubbling pit
531
00:30:27,794 --> 00:30:31,431
could be a long lost18 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 piracyof course created somelarger 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 Caesaris said to be an escape slave
540
00:31:09,936 --> 00:31:14,007
who becomes oneof Florida's notoriousbuccaneers.
541
00:31:14,074 --> 00:31:17,811
Originally a tribal chiefand the size of two men,
542
00:31:17,877 --> 00:31:21,081
patrolling the watersfrom 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 inan elaborate undergroundchamber called the Money Pit.
548
00:31:43,870 --> 00:31:47,774
The English Pirate captainwho was hanged in 1701
549
00:31:47,841 --> 00:31:51,778
is rumored to have hiddenover two million dollarsworth of treasure
550
00:31:51,845 --> 00:31:54,481
in a shaft at least90 feet deep.
551
00:31:55,615 --> 00:31:58,418
He protects the pitwith layers of oak logs
552
00:31:58,485 --> 00:32:01,755
and booby trappedflood water channels.
553
00:32:01,821 --> 00:32:06,126
This bubbling hole in Floridacould be one of Caesar'shidden cache's
554
00:32:06,192 --> 00:32:10,263
lying in a similar artfullyconstructed 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 treasureis making itself known
558
00:32:19,005 --> 00:32:21,708
through this bubbling upfrom 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 publictries to investigatethis sandsucker
561
00:32:28,948 --> 00:32:32,352
she soon finds herselfin 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 discoversthis dangerous beach hole
566
00:32:46,966 --> 00:32:50,704
could be a more recentaccident than a deliberate18th 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 femalesea turtles lay their eggs,
572
00:33:05,118 --> 00:33:07,253
they use the Earth'smagnetic field
573
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,524
to navigate back to the samenesting grounds they wereborn on.
574
00:33:11,591 --> 00:33:14,728
Juno Beach is one massiveturtle creche.
575
00:33:16,296 --> 00:33:20,133
The sandsucker is born outof the effort to rescueand 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 haverun 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 pipesfrom the turtle center
581
00:33:33,313 --> 00:33:37,484
are designed to releasewaste water into dry sand.
582
00:33:37,550 --> 00:33:43,156
But over the years,a shrinking tideline hasbrought 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 closerto the drain pipes,
585
00:33:47,961 --> 00:33:51,064
has saturated the sandwith 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 authoritiesneed to act quickly
590
00:34:02,742 --> 00:34:07,047
to secure this sand sinkholeas it's a threatto 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 tellhow 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 cityin 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 somethingstrange 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 thefootage sped up, it's paceis 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 movesinto 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 outthrough the water.
608
00:35:21,788 --> 00:35:23,156
Oh, no.
609
00:35:23,223 --> 00:35:26,059
[Lovell] These tentaclesalmost look likethey 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 stretchan impossible distance
614
00:35:38,204 --> 00:35:40,974
away from the mud monsterseeking something.
615
00:35:41,041 --> 00:35:43,443
[Bellinger] I've never seenanything 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 knowwhat 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 thismud monster causemayhem 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 SarawakMalaysia a strange creatureis 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 Szulgitbelieves a deadly sea creature
627
00:36:36,930 --> 00:36:39,366
could have migratedto the city.
628
00:36:39,432 --> 00:36:43,737
[Szulgit] You can see fromthe footage that this animalhas 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 speciesof anemone called the Hellfireand 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'susually use their venom
635
00:37:00,820 --> 00:37:03,523
to stunand kill prey like fish.
636
00:37:03,590 --> 00:37:06,359
And they do this withthousands of littlestinging 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 Fireis only found in this regionof the Indo-Pacific
640
00:37:19,506 --> 00:37:25,111
and is so venomous,murderers here have been knownto catch it dry it, powder it,
641
00:37:25,178 --> 00:37:27,714
and use it to killtheir enemies.
642
00:37:27,781 --> 00:37:29,416
[Lovell] There was a diverin the Philippines
643
00:37:29,482 --> 00:37:31,951
that touched one of thesepoisonous 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 creatureseems less colorfulthan a hellfire anemone.
646
00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:44,764
But this could bea new mutationcamouflaged in its environment
647
00:37:44,831 --> 00:37:49,969
to bring neurotoxinsfrom the ocean to the heartof the city.
648
00:37:50,036 --> 00:37:54,140
{\an8}[Bellinger] If this dangerousanimal was traveling closerto 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 problemwith 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 thinksthis could be a rareand dangerous type of mollusk.
655
00:38:16,162 --> 00:38:19,099
[Kasky] Look at how slowthis 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 clearthe critter in the footageis 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 ableto live out of the waterin 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] Thesegiant molluskscan 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 calledApple snails because they canget 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 baseballsize beasts
670
00:39:12,886 --> 00:39:15,789
are originallyfrom the junglesof the Amazon.
671
00:39:15,855 --> 00:39:19,225
They have been capturedand soldfor 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 escapedand 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 causedmore than $28 millionworth of damage
678
00:39:42,882 --> 00:39:46,019
devouring rice cropsthroughout the region.
679
00:39:46,086 --> 00:39:50,757
And now they are turningtheir tentaclestowards 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 fasterthan you might expect.
683
00:40:02,335 --> 00:40:07,674
Floods spread by yearly
hurricanes are moving them
steadily northward.
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{\an8}These snails can float,
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{\an8}so to them flood water
is like getting on
a bullet train.
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These things multiply
like crazy so dominating
a new area is easy for them.
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They lay hundreds of eggs,
these little bright pink eggs.
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It looks like thousandsof children had spit outtheir bubblegum all at once.
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[Pritchett] But Americanshave more to worry aboutthan these critter's appetites
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The scary thing about these
Apple snails is they're not
only a danger to crops,
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00:40:34,868 --> 00:40:37,137
they're also
a direct danger to humans.
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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.
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00:40:44,878 --> 00:40:48,648
The Apple snail's parasite
is particularly horrible.
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00:40:48,715 --> 00:40:51,818
[Lovell]
They carry a deadly parasitecalled lungworm
696
00:40:51,885 --> 00:40:54,954
and you can get this lungworm
just from eating a piece
of lettuce
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00:40:55,021 --> 00:40:57,824
that's been in proximity
to one of these Apple snails.
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00:40:57,891 --> 00:41:01,795
The parasite can infect
your brain and even if
it doesn't kill you,
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00:41:01,861 --> 00:41:06,466
it can give you lifelong
side effects like seizures.
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00:41:06,533 --> 00:41:11,638
[Pritchett] In 2010,in Australia, 19 year oldrugby player, Sam Ballard
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00:41:11,705 --> 00:41:16,710
swallows a slug as a dareduring a drinking sessionwith friends.
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00:41:16,776 --> 00:41:22,749
Eating slugs is a bad ideabut eating one that's carryinglungworm is even worse.
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00:41:22,816 --> 00:41:25,051
[Householder] By the timedoctors realizedwhat had happened,
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00:41:25,118 --> 00:41:29,322
the parasite had invadedSam's brain and given himmeningitis.
705
00:41:29,389 --> 00:41:32,959
{\an8}He fell into a coma lasting
420 days.
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00:41:33,026 --> 00:41:36,596
{\an8}He woke up, he was completely
paralyzed from the neck down.
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00:41:36,663 --> 00:41:38,965
{\an8}[Pritchett]
Eight years later, he died.
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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.
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00:41:48,375 --> 00:41:50,410
{\an8}[Pritchett] The mud creepercaptured in this footage
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00:41:50,477 --> 00:41:53,113
{\an8}is part of an ongoingglobal invasion
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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.
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