Original subtitles

Narrator: WORLDWIDE, 6 BILLION CAMERAS

ARE WATCHING US...

ON OUR STREETS...

AT WORK...

AND IN OUR HOMES.

THEY CAPTURE THINGS THAT SEEM IMPOSSIBLE.

IT DEFIES THE LAWS OF PHYSICS.

Man: THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE, MAN.

Narrator: EXPERTS CARRY OUT FORENSIC ANALYSIS

OF THESE UNUSUAL EVENTS.

♪♪

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT I'M LOOKING AT.

THERE HAS TO BE SOME SORT OF EXPLANATION.

WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON HERE?

Narrator: COMING UP, AFTER 65 MILLION YEARS,

THE DINOSAURS ARE BACK...

THIS DOES LOOK LIKE THE REMAINS OF A T-REX --

A BABY T-REX.

NUMEROUS EXPEDITIONS HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED

TO TRY AND FIND THIS CREATURE.

Narrator: ...AN AWESOME VISION OF GOD

SEEN AND FILMED WALKING ACROSS THE SKY...

LITERALLY, IT'S O-M-G -- OH, MY GOD.

Narrator: ...AND EXPLOSIVES EXPERT MATT KUTCHER

TRIES TO MAKE A SHED FLY.

Kutcher: WE'RE READY TO GO!

♪♪

Narrator: BIZARRE PHENOMENA...

WHOA.

...MYSTERIES CAUGHT ON CAMERA...

NOW, THAT'S AN EXPLOSION.

WHAT'S THE TRUTH BEHIND THIS STRANGE EVIDENCE?

-- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com

CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS

♪♪

[ ROARS ]

Narrator: DINOSAURS -- GIANT MONSTERS

WHO ONCE RULED THE EARTH.

TENS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO, THEY DISAPPEARED,

BUT NOW IT SEEMS THEY'RE BACK.

NOVEMBER 2017.

AUTHORITIES RELEASE THIS FOOTAGE OF A DEAD BODY --

THE BODY, IT APPEARS, OF A SMALL DINOSAUR.

IT'S JUST FREAKY.

IT LOOKS LIKE THE DESICCATED REMAINS OF A T-REX,

EXCEPT THAT IT'S A LOT SMALLER.

Narrator: THIS IS NO JURASSIC FOSSIL.

THIS CREATURE RECENTLY DIED.

AND WHERE THERE IS ONE, THERE ARE BOUND TO BE OTHERS.

MAYBE WE'RE SEEING A LEFTOVER FROM THE AGE OF DINOSAURS.

COULD DINOSAURS BE HIDING OUT IN THE JUNGLES OF INDIA?

♪♪

Narrator: NOVEMBER 2017.

THE INDIAN HIMALAYAS.

IN THIS VAST, FORBIDDING,

230,000-SQUARE-MILE MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS,

ALL KINDS OF CREATURES ROAM UNNOTICED AND UNMOLESTED...

FROM ASIAN BLACK BEARS AND RED PANDAS

TO SNOW LEOPARDS.

BUT WHEN THE AUTHORITIES DECIDED TO REOPEN

AN ABANDONED POWER STATION IN THE MOUNTAIN FOOTHILLS,

THEY DISCOVERED SOMETHING TRULY INCREDIBLE.

Hyde: IN THE VIDEO, YOU'RE SEEING A COUPLE OF INDIAN OFFICIALS,

AND ON THE DESK IS WHAT LOOKS LIKE

THE DESICCATED REMAINS OF A T-REX,

EXCEPT THAT IT'S A LOT SMALLER.

THIS THING SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXTINCT FOR 65 MILLION YEARS,

BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT JUST DIED.

I'M NO STRANGER TO SEEING DINOSAUR REMAINS

OR DINOSAUR FOSSILS,

BUT IT'S STILL GOT ITS SKIN ON IT.

♪♪

Narrator: DINOSAURS LIKE THIS WERE WIPED OUT

65 MILLION YEARS AGO

WHEN A MASSIVE ASTEROID STRUCK

IN WHAT IS TODAY YUCATáN, MEXICO.

BUT SCIENTISTS NOW KNOW THAT THE DINOSAURS

WERE NOT COMPLETELY KILLED OFF.

WHEN WE THINK OF DINOSAURS,

WE THINK OF A BRONTOSAURUS, TYRANNOSAURUS REX,

THESE CREATURES THAT WERE MASSIVE

AND RULED THE EARTH AND ARE NOW EXTINCT.

HOWEVER, THE DINOSAURS DID NOT GO EXTINCT.

IN FACT, THEY HAVE CONTINUED AS A VERY SUCCESSFUL GROUP

IN THE FORM OF BIRDS.

BIRDS ARE FLAT-OUT, STRAIGHT-UP DINOSAURS.

Narrator: BUT THE DISCOVERY OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE

A RECENTLY LIVING DINOSAUR BABY WITH SKIN

SUGGESTS THAT BIRDS AREN'T THE ONLY DINOSAURS

TO HAVE ESCAPED EXTINCTION.

WE ARE TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY

THAT THIS IS SOMEHOW A RELIC OF THE DINOSAUR AGE

THAT MANAGED TO SURVIVE TO MODERN TIMES.

Narrator: A VALLEY NEAR WHERE THIS BODY WAS FOUND

IS KNOWN AS INDIA'S BERMUDA TRIANGLE

BECAUSE SO MANY TOURISTS GO MISSING HERE WITHOUT TRACE.

COULD SOMETHING UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE

BE BEHIND THESE DISAPPEARANCES?

♪♪

SCIENCE WRITER JAYDE LOVELL LOOKS INTO ACCOUNTS

OF OTHER MODERN-DAY DINOSAUR-LIKE CREATURES

ACROSS THE GLOBE.

Lovell: THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTED SIGHTINGS OF DINOSAURS

ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL PRESENT DAY.

RECORDS SHOW THAT EVEN RECENTLY, THERE WAS A REPORTED

DINOSAUR SIGHTING IN THE CONGO RIVER BASIN IN AFRICA.

REPORTS OF A LARGE SAUROPOD, WHICH IS LIKE A BRONTOSAURUS,

HAVE BEEN COMING OUT OF THIS REMOTE REGION

SINCE THE EARLY 20th CENTURY.

BUT UNLIKE THE BRONTOSAURUS, IT DOESN'T EAT JUST PLANTS.

THIS ONE ALSO EATS ANIMALS AND EVEN PEOPLE, THEY SAY.

Narrator: BIOLOGISTS CONSIDER THESE REPORTS SO CREDIBLE

THAT EXPEDITIONS HAVE BEEN LAUNCHED

IN AN EFFORT TO FIND AND CAPTURE THE BEAST.

EVEN THOUGH EXPLORERS SAY THEY'VE SEEN IT,

THEY'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO BRING BACK PROOF.

EVEN SWEEPS OF SATELLITE IMAGING HAVE FOUND NO EVIDENCE

THAT A CREATURE LIKE THIS EXISTS.

Narrator: REPORTED SIGHTINGS OF DINOSAURS

IN THE CONGO RIVER BASIN'S

1.5 MILLION SQUARE MILES OF JUNGLE

REMAIN UNSUBSTANTIATED.

BUT IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE HIMALAYAS,

THE EXISTENCE OF THIS DINOSAUR-LIKE CREATURE

IS BEYOND DISPUTE.

IT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF A HOUSE CAT,

SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT A CREATURE OF THIS SIZE

COULD HAVE BEEN HIDING OUT WITHOUT BEING DISCOVERED,

BUT THE QUESTION IS -- WHAT IS IT?

♪♪

Narrator: LOVELL HAS DIFFICULTY IDENTIFYING WHAT SPECIES

OF DINOSAUR THIS MIGHT BE.

BUT THAT'S NO SURPRISE.

DINOSAURS IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD

DID NOT RESEMBLE THE TYPES WE KNOW FROM BOOKS AND MOVIES.

THAT'S BECAUSE 120 MILLION YEARS AGO,

THE INDIA AND MADAGASCAR LANDMASS

SPLIT FROM PLANET EARTH'S MAIN CONTINENT, GONDWANA,

AND BECAME EFFECTIVELY SEALED OFF.

BECAUSE INDIA AND MADAGASCAR WERE ISOLATED

FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD DURING THAT ERA,

THE DINOSAURS THAT LIVED THERE

EVOLVED IN DIFFERENT WAYS FROM OTHER DINOSAURS.

Narrator: DIFFERENT KINDS OF DINOSAURS

EVOLVED WITH DIFFERENT SURVIVAL STRATEGIES

AND DIFFERENT-LOOKING BABIES.

THE KING OF THE JUNGLE WASN'T T-REX.

IT WAS THE RAJASAURUS, WHICH WAS FATTER

AND A LITTLE BIT WEIRDER-LOOKING THAN T-REX.

AND IT GOT UP TO 6,000 POUNDS.

AND IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THIS REMOTE AREA OF INDIA

HAS CAUSED A CREATURE TO EVOLVE

THAT'S UNLIKE ANYTHING WE'VE EVER SEEN.

Narrator: WHEN BIOLOGIST DANNI WASHINGTON

CHECKS DINOSAUR FOSSIL RECORDS FOR INDIA AND MADAGASCAR,

SHE FINDS A POSSIBLE MATCH

FOR THE CREATURE FOUND RECENTLY IN THE HIMALAYAS.

THERE WAS ONE SMALL DINOSAUR THAT WAS UNEARTHED IN MADAGASCAR

CALLED A MASIAKASAURUS.

IT'S A SMALL CARNIVORE SIMILAR TO A VELOCIRAPTOR,

WITH SIMILAR SKULL AND BODY.

Narrator: ITS NAME, MASIAKASAURUS, MEANS "VICIOUS LIZARD,"

AND IT'S KNOWN TO HAVE ROAMED MADAGASCAR 80 MILLION YEARS AGO.

BIOLOGISTS KNOW THAT IT WAS A HUNTER-KILLER

BECAUSE OF ITS FORWARD-PROJECTING FRONT TEETH,

BUT IN THE CORPSE RECENTLY DISCOVERED,

THE FANGS ARE MISSING.

THE ONLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE

IS THE MASIAKASAURUS HAD HETERODONT TEETH,

MEANING VAMPIRE FANGS.

Narrator: SOME BIOLOGISTS, LIKE STACY RAMKISSOON,

REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THIS COULD BE A MASIAKASAURUS.

MASIAKASAURUS DISAPPEARED FROM THE FOSSIL RECORD

70 MILLION YEARS AGO, SO IF THEY WERE STILL ALIVE,

WE WOULD HAVE SEEN A SKELETON BY NOW.

SO THIS DEFINITELY CAN'T BE THEM.

♪♪

Narrator: AND YET, THE CREATURE IS UNDENIABLY HERE.

LOVELL CONSIDERS IF THIS CREATURE COULD BE THE PRODUCT

OF A SO-CALLED DE-EXTINCTION GENETIC EXPERIMENT.

DE-EXTINCTION IS THE PROCESS

OF TRYING TO CLONE EXTINCT ANIMALS BACK INTO LIFE.

SO, THEORETICALLY, WE CAN BRING BACK CREATURES

THAT HAVE GONE EXTINCT.

IF WE HAVE THEIR DNA, WE CAN THEN SPLICE THAT

INTO AN ANIMAL THAT'S A NEAR RELATIVE

AND BRING THAT SPECIES, AS IT WERE, BACK TO LIFE.

SO OUR GREATEST HOPE IS THAT AT SOME POINT,

WE WILL BE ABLE TO BRING BACK THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH.

Narrator: SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THEY WILL BRING

THE WOOLLY MAMMOTH BACK TO LIFE BY 2020.

THEY'RE ALSO CURRENTLY WORKING

ON THE DE-EXTINCTION OF A GIANT TORTOISE.

BUT THE DE-EXTINCTION OF DINOSAURS

REMAINS A CONTROVERSIAL AREA, WITH NO REPORTED SUCCESS.

PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO CLONE DINOSAURS FOR DECADES.

Narrator: THE MAIN CHALLENGE IN CLONING A DINOSAUR

IS TO FIND DNA OF SUFFICIENTLY HIGH QUALITY.

AS DEAD DINOSAURS TURN INTO FOSSILS,

ORGANIC MATTER TURNS INTO MINERALS,

DESTROYING MOST DNA AS IT DOES.

BUT SOME DNA CAN SURVIVE.

IN SEPTEMBER 2014,

SCIENTISTS IN MONTANA MADE A DRAMATIC BREAKTHROUGH

WHEN THEY UNEARTHED A T-REX THAT WAS PREGNANT WHEN SHE DIED.

THE REMAINS INCLUDE A WELL-PRESERVED MEDULLARY BONE,

WHICH APPEARS ONLY IN PREGNANT CREATURES THAT LAY EGGS.

SO, IF A MEDULLARY BONE IS FOUND IN A PREGNANT FEMALE DINOSAUR,

THIS IS A GREAT SOURCE OF DNA.

Narrator: THE MEDULLARY BONE CONTAINS A RESERVOIR

FULL OF DNA-RICH CALCIUM,

USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF EGG SHELLS.

MANY SCIENTISTS ARE CONVINCED THAT IT'S NOT IF,

BUT WHEN DINOSAURS ARE BROUGHT BACK FROM EXTINCTION.

THE AREA WHERE THIS CREATURE WAS FOUND

WAS ONCE HEAVILY POPULATED BY GIANT DINOSAURS.

THERE ARE PLENTY OF PLACES TO FIND DINOSAUR FOSSILS IN INDIA.

THE STATE OF GUJARAT IS KNOWN AS INDIA'S JURASSIC PARK.

SO IF INDIAN SCIENTISTS FOUND A PREGNANT DEAD DINOSAUR,

WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO CLONE THE SAME DINOSAUR

WE SEE IN THIS FOOTAGE?

♪♪

Narrator: COMING UP, A WEIRD AND DEADLY UNDERSEA MONSTER

IS SIGHTED, AND IT'S STARTING TO EMERGE FROM THE WATER.

IT'S THE SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY. THE NAME GODZILLA.

♪♪

Narrator: THE GHOSTLY FIGURE OF A WOMAN

APPEARS ON A SECURITY MONITOR,

BUT THE GUARDS WHO GO OUT TO CONFRONT HER CAN'T SEE HER.

THEY ARE WALKING RIGHT PAST HER, OR, ACTUALLY, THROUGH HER.

♪♪

Narrator: AND HAS THIS CREATURE BEEN CLONED FROM DINOSAUR DNA?

IF THIS HAS BEEN ALIVE RECENTLY,

IT EITHER SURVIVED FOR 65 MILLION YEARS

OR IT ESCAPED SOME TYPE OF LAB OR COMPOUND.

Narrator: IN THE HIMALAYAS, LOCALS FIND A CREATURE

THAT LOOKS LIKE A BABY T-REX.

EXPERTS WANT TO KNOW IF IT'S

AUTHOR TONY McMAHON CROSS-REFERENCES THE CREATURE

WITH THE DINO FOSSIL RECORDS

AND ASKS IF IT WAS CREATED IN A LAB.

McMahon: SO, COULD WE LOOK AT "JURASSIC PARK"

BECOMING A REALITY?

WE'RE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF DNA SPLICING,

SO COULD IT BE THAT A DINOSAUR HAS BEEN REVERSE ENGINEERED

IN A SECRET LABORATORY SOMEWHERE?

Narrator: AS BIOLOGIST DANNI WASHINGTON POINTS OUT,

THE CHALLENGES FACING SCIENTISTS IN THIS AREA ARE FORMIDABLE.

WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH DINO DNA TO RE-CREATE A DINOSAUR,

AND WE DON'T HAVE THE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY TO SEQUENCE THAT DNA.

Narrator: WASHINGTON EXAMINES THE CREATURE'S SKULL.

UNLIKE A DINOSAUR, IT DOES NOT HAVE MULTIPLE BONES IN ITS JAW.

IT MIGHT INDEED BE TRACEABLE BACK TO THE JURASSIC PERIOD,

BUT IT HAS SINCE FOLLOWED A DIFFERENT EVOLUTIONARY PATH.

THIS INDICATES THAT THIS IS NOT A DINOSAUR. IT'S A MAMMAL.

Narrator: BUT SCIENTISTS HAVE STRUGGLED

TO FIND A MAMMALIAN CREATURE THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS.

SOME HAVE SUGGESTED THESE MIGHT BE THE REMAINS OF A MUSTELID,

BUT THERE IS NO OBVIOUS RESEMBLANCE.

BUT WHATEVER THIS CREATURE IS,

A NEW AGE OF THE DINOSAURS MAY SOON BE UPON US.

Washington: WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH DNA YET TO RE-CREATE A DINOSAUR,

BUT WATCH THIS SPACE BECAUSE WE COULD DEVELOP

SOMETHING REALLY COOL.

♪♪

Narrator: THE SKY OVER ALABAMA AND A SIGHTING AND RECORDING

OF WHAT THE WITNESS FIRMLY BELIEVES IS GOD.

WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?

THERE'S ACTUALLY A PERSON WALKING ACROSS THE CLOUDS.

HOLY MOLY. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE.

IT LOOKS ALMOST MYSTICAL AND VERY UNREAL.

Narrator: A GIGANTIC FIGURE IN HUMAN FORM

MAYBE 100 FEET IN HEIGHT

APPEARS TO BE WALKING ON CLOUDS ACROSS THE SKY.

LITERALLY, IT'S O-M-G -- OH, MY GOD.

I FEEL LIKE I'M WITNESSING SOME KIND OF A MIRACLE.

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

♪♪

Narrator: TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA. JUNE 2018.

WILD WEATHER KNOCKS OUT POWER ACROSS A WIDE AREA OF TOWN.

KRYSTAL WASHINGTON STEPS OUT TO WATCH THE APPROACHING STORM.

SHE POINTS HER CELLPHONE CAMERA AT THE TURBULENT SKY,

AND AT THAT MOMENT, THE CLOUDS PART,

AND SHE SEES SOMETHING SHE CANNOT EXPLAIN

AND WILL NEVER FORGET.

Krystal: TO ME, IT LOOKED LIKE TWO FIGURES WALKING IN THE CLOUDS.

THE FIRST TIME THEY WALK, YOU SPIN OVER IN THE CORNER,

AND THE SHADOW KIND OF FADES AS HE WALKS OFF.

AND THEN RIGHT AFTER, THERE IS ANOTHER SHADOW.

THEY'RE STANDING STRAIGHT UP. WHO WALKS RIGHT BEHIND.

I DO BELIEVE IT TO BE SOME SPIRITUAL SIGN.

I FELT OVERWHELMED. ALL I COULD DO WAS SCREAM.

♪♪

Narrator: THIS IMAGE OF A HUMANOID FIGURE

WALKING THROUGH THE CLOUDS LEAVES EXPERTS STUNNED.

THIS IS TRULY MYSTERIOUS.

I AM AN EXPERT ON CLOUDS,

AND WHEN I LOOK AT THIS, I'M RACKING MY BRAIN.

I'M LOOKING AT THE VIDEO, AND IT LOOKS LIKE A STORM.

THERE'S A CLEAR KIND OF LIGHT-PATCH AREA,

AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN -- BOOP, BOOP, BOOP --

THERE'S A FIGURE WALKING ACROSS THE CLOUD.

♪♪

Narrator: SINCE HUMANS COULD THINK,

THEY HAVE GIVEN THE SKIES AND THE COSMOS DIVINE MEANING.

WE DESCEND INTO HELL, BUT OUR SOULS RISE UP INTO HEAVEN.

AT THE END OF DAYS,

THERE HAS BEEN PROPHESIZED A FINAL RISING UP.

THEOLOGIANS CALL THIS THE RAPTURE.

IF YOU'RE A RELIGIOUS PERSON,

I THINK YOU'RE THINKING, "THIS IS THE END."

THE RAPTURE IS COMING. O-M-G -- RIGHT THERE.

♪♪

Narrator: COMING UP, A REAL-LIFE CREATURE FROM THE DEEP

CAPTURED OFF AMERICA'S WEST COAST.

I'VE SEEN LOTS OF OTHER ANIMALS, SHARKS AND DIFFERENT THINGS

AND WHALES, WASH UP, BUT I'VE NEVER SEEN A --

WHATEVER THIS THING WAS.

♪♪

Narrator: WHEN SHEDS GO BAD...

IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE THERE'S SOME INVISIBLE FORCE

THAT'S LIFTED THIS SHED.

Narrator: AND A VISION OF GOD OR A TERRIBLE PREMONITION?

WE COULD BE LOOKING AT THE ONSET OF A TYRANNY

THAT HUMANITY HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

♪♪

Narrator: IN THE SKIES OVER ALABAMA,

A GIANT FIGURE IS SEEN WALKING ACROSS THE CLOUDS.

SUCH VISIONS HAVE BEEN RECORDED THROUGHOUT HISTORY

BUT NEVER CAPTURED ON CAMERA.

♪♪

INVESTIGATORS LOOK FOR SOME OTHER EXPLANATION

FOR THIS SIGHTING.

GEOSCIENTIST SIAN PROCTOR WONDERS

IF IT'S A RARELY SEEN PHENOMENON

KNOWN AS THE SPECTRE OF THE BROCKEN.

SPECTRE OF THE BROCKEN OCCURS WHEN YOU HAVE A PERSON

THAT'S ON, LIKE, LET'S SAY A MOUNTAINTOP,

AND THE SUN IS AT A LOW ANGLE BEHIND THEM.

WELL, THE SUN'S RAYS IS GOING TO PRODUCE AN OUTLINE

OR A SHADOW FIGURE OF THEM THAT WE SEE IN THE CLOUDS.

Narrator: THE SPECTRE OF THE BROCKEN TAKES ITS NAME

FROM THE BROCKEN PEAK IN CENTRAL GERMANY,

WHERE THIS PHENOMENON WAS FIRST OBSERVED IN 1780.

THE MOST FAMOUS EXAMPLE OF THE SPECTRE EFFECT

IS ON ONE OF THE CAIRNGORMS MOUNTAINS IN SCOTLAND.

WALKERS HAVE BEEN SO SCARED BY THEIR OWN SHADOW ON THE CLOUDS,

THEY HAVE NAMED IT THE BIG GREY MAN OF BEN MacDHUI.

PEOPLE ALSO REPORT SEEING THE SPECTRE WHEN FLYING.

Proctor: YOU CAN SEE THE LITTLE IMAGE OF THE PLANE

CAST ON THE CLOUDS BELOW YOU.

AND A LOT OF TIMES, THE AIRPLANE IS SURROUNDED

BY, LIKE, A HALO OF LIGHT.

WELL, THAT'S A BROCKEN SPECTRE.

Narrator: BUT WHEN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENTIST CHRIS WALCEK

STUDIES THE FOOTAGE, HE DISMISSES THE IDEA

THAT THIS IS A "SPECTRE OF THE BROCKEN" ILLUSION.

Walcek: THIS VIDEO THAT WE'RE SEEING,

IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT THE SUN

IS NOT BEHIND THE VIDEOGRAPHER'S BACK

AND YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT THE SHADOW OF THE PERSON

TAKING THE VIDEO IN THE CLOUDY FIELD.

SO THERE HAS TO BE SOME OTHER EXPLANATION OF THE OPTICS

OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING GOING ON HERE.

♪♪

Narrator: WALCEK BELIEVES HE HAS A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION

FOR THE DIVINE APPARITION.

IN THIS PARTICULAR VIDEO, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING

IS A LOWER-LEVEL CLOUD DECK THAT DON'T APPEAR TO BE MOVING

TOO RAPIDLY, BUT HAS HOLES IN IT,

AND THROUGH ONE OF THOSE OPEN AREAS IN THE LOWER CLOUD DECK,

YOU CAN SEE HIGHER LEVELS OF CLOUDS

THAT ARE MOVING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION.

THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE COINCIDENCE

OF TWO OR EVEN THREE LAYERS OF CLOUDS

PROJECTING AN IMAGE THAT LOOKS LIKE

THERE'S SOMETHING WALKING IN THE SKY.

Narrator: BUT THE WOMAN WHO SHOT THE FOOTAGE, KRYSTAL WASHINGTON,

REMAINS CONVINCED THAT THE FIGURE SHE SAW

AND FILMED STRIDING ACROSS THE SKY

IS MORE THAN A TRICK OF THE LIGHT.

A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT IT WAS SHOWN TO ME AS A SIGN.

♪♪

Narrator: NOW, BIZARRE KILLER CREATURES FROM THE DEEP

COMING OUT OF THE SEA ONTO LAND.

THERE'S SOME OF THEM THAT GET 40, 50 FEET LONG.

Thurlow: EVERY PLACE WE SEEN THOSE CUCUMBER THINGS,

THERE WASN'T NO FISH LEFT IN THE AREA, OR CRAB EVEN.

SO NOBODY'S SEEN THESE THINGS BEFORE.

WHAT ARE THEY? WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?

Narrator: THE MYSTERIOUS GIANT BEAST

NOW SEEMS TO BE REPLICATING ITSELF.

SMALL CLONES OF THE CREATURE

ARE STARTING TO APPEAR ON AMERICA'S BEACHES.

Washington: IT'S ALMOST LIKE A SWARM OR AN INVASION.

SO WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT IF THEY'RE DANGEROUS TO HUMANS.

Hovland: THIS IS CRAZY.

THEY'RE COMING, AND I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA STOP THEM.

♪♪

Narrator: NEWPORT, OREGON.

MOST LOCALS HERE DEPEND ON THE SEA FOR A LIVING.

♪♪

Gibson: I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COASTLINES

IN THE WHOLE UNITED STATES.

YOU CAN SEE WHALES FROM SOME OF THE HEADLANDS THIS TIME OF YEAR.

IT'S A PRETTY NICE PLACE TO LIVE.

♪♪

Narrator: MAY 2017.

LOCALS WALKING BY THE SEA

FIND THOUSANDS OF TRANSLUCENT SINISTER-LOOKING PODS

ON THE BEACH.

THEY SEEM TO RUN FOR MILES ALONG THE SHORELINE.

THEY'RE ROUND, KIND OF LIKE CUCUMBERS.

SOME OF THEM ARE ONLY AS BIG AROUND AS MY LITTLE FINGER,

BUT OTHER ONES ARE, I MEAN, PRETTY BIG

AND A FOOT, FOOT AND A HALF LONG.

AND THEY KIND OF GOT LITTLE BUMPS ON THEM.

AND THEY'RE PINKISH-COLORED.

THEY LOOK LIKE A PICKLE.

AND THEY WERE REALLY KIND OF SQUISHY,

AND IT FELT KIND OF WEIRD.

I SEEN LOTS OF OTHER ANIMALS,

SHARKS AND DIFFERENT THINGS, AND WHALES, WASH UP,

BUT I'VE NEVER SEEN A -- WHATEVER THIS THING WAS.

Narrator: THE IDENTITY OF THESE CONE-SHAPED

TRANSLUCENT OBJECTS CONFOUNDS EXPERTS,

WHO CAN AGREE ON JUST ONE DETAIL -- THEY'RE ALIVE.

IT'S DEFINITELY MORE ANIMAL THAN PLANT.

JUST THE GELATINOUS QUALITY OF IT --

WHAT I WOULDN'T SEE IN A PLANT

BUT I HAVE SEEN IN AQUATIC ORGANISMS.

THIS IS AN ANIMAL.

SO NOBODY'S SEEN THESE THINGS BEFORE, AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN,

THEY'RE HERE IN SORT OF INVASION-FORCE NUMBERS.

WHAT'S GOING ON?

♪♪

Narrator: DIVERS SET OUT TO TRACE THE ORIGIN OF THESE PODS.

WHAT THEY FIND LURKING IN THE SEA

IS LIKE SOMETHING FROM ANOTHER PLANET --

A WRITHING, GLOWING CREATURE

STRETCHING INTO THE INKY BLACKNESS OF THE OCEAN.

♪♪

A GAPING MOUTH, OR OPENING, AT ONE END.

A CREATURE WITH NO HEAD, NO EYES, NO DISCERNABLE ORGANS.

NOT ONE OF THEM, BUT MANY.

SOME OF THEM, THEY GET 40, 50 FEET LONG.

Narrator: THEY LOOK BENIGN AND HARMLESS, EVEN BEAUTIFUL,

BUT THESE WEIRD THINGS ARE DANGEROUS,

DESTROYING OTHER LIFE EVERYWHERE THEY APPEAR.

Thurlow: EVERY PLACE WE SEEN THOSE CUCUMBER THINGS,

THERE WASN'T NO FISH LEFT IN THE AREA, OR CRAB EVEN.

AS SOON AS YOU GOT INTO THE AREA WHERE THEY WAS,

IT WAS PRETTY MUCH A DEAD ZONE.

♪♪

Narrator: THIS CREATURE FROM THE DEEP

IS SOMETHING MARINE BIOLOGIST DANNI WASHINGTON

HAS NEVER COME ACROSS IN ALL THE YEARS

SHE'S SPENT STUDYING OCEAN CREATURES.

MAYBE WHAT WE'RE SEEING ON THE WEST COAST IS A NEW SPECIES

THAT'S MUTATED FROM ANOTHER OCEAN DWELLER.

WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING THIS WEIRD

THAT EVEN A LOT OF OCEAN BIOLOGISTS CAN'T IDENTIFY,

YOU HAVE TO ASK, IS THIS A NEW SPECIES?

Narrator: BUT NEW SPECIES DON'T JUST APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE.

WHERE HAS IT COME FROM?

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST CHRIS O'BRIEN

LOOKS TO SEE IF THIS DEADLY MONSTER

IS THE RESULT OF SOME NUCLEAR ACCIDENT

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD.

O'Brien: ONE THEORY THAT YOU CANNOT ESCAPE IS THE FACT

THAT FUKUSHIMA, THE ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER

THAT'S STILL GOING ON AFTER SEVEN YEARS IN JAPAN,

MAY BE IMPACTING THE AQUATIC SEA LIFE IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

Narrator: ON MARCH 11, 2011, A TSUNAMI STRIKES

THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR PLANT IN NORTHEASTERN JAPAN,

CAUSING THREE REACTORS TO MELT DOWN.

THIS EVENT RELEASES INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN

OVER 1,000 TIMES THE RADIATION THAT ESCAPED

DURING THE NUCLEAR DISASTER AT CHERNOBYL.

O'Brien: IT IS THE WORST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER

IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANKIND.

150 TONS OF HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE WATER

IS ESCAPING THE SITE

AND FLOWING INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN EVERY DAY.

Narrator: THE DISASTER RELEASES HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA RADIATION

THAT CAN CAUSE SEVERE GENETIC MUTATIONS AND CANCER.

IN MAY 2015, LOCALS PHOTOGRAPHED

MUTATED DAISIES GROWING AS FAR AS 100 MILES

FROM THE FUKUSHIMA PLANT.

ACCORDING TO REPORTS,

SEA LIFE HAS ALSO BEEN GENETICALLY ALTERED

BY THE NUCLEAR RADIATION.

WE'RE SEEING INCREDIBLE GENETIC DEFECTS IN SEA LIFE NOW.

TWO-HEADED ORCAS ARE BEING REPORTED.

WHALES AND SALMON WITH HUGE TUMORS.

STARFISH WITH THEIR ARMS FALLING OFF.

Narrator: COULD THESE SNAKE-LIKE SEA CREATURES

SENDING THEIR SPAWN ONTO BEACHES BE MUTANT MONSTERS?

♪♪

COMING UP, SHE'S THERE BUT SHE ISN'T.

CAMERAS CAPTURE A SPECTRAL ENCOUNTER

AS SECURITY GUARDS' FLASHLIGHTS

PASS RIGHT THROUGH THE GHOSTLY FIGURE OF A WOMAN.

Fox: THEY SAY THAT SHE KILLED HER CHILDREN

AND NOW SHE HAUNTS AND LOOKS FOR OTHER CHILDREN TO KILL.

Narrator: HOLY FLYING SHEDS.

A BUILDING MOVES FOR NO APPARENT REASON,

ALMOST KILLING TWO MEN.

IF I HAD BEEN ONE OF THOSE GUYS,

I WOULD BE THANKING MY LUCKY STARS.

Narrator: AND SCIENTISTS ASSESS THE THREAT

POSED BY THE ALIEN SEA CREATURE.

WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT IF THEY'RE DANGEROUS TO HUMANS.

SHOULD YOU TOUCH IT? SHOULD IT TOUCH YOU?

Narrator: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST CHRIS O'BRIEN

SUSPECTS THE ALIEN SEA CREATURE

KILLING SEA LIFE OFF THE COAST OF OREGON

IS A TERRIFYING MUTANT

CAUSED BY THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER.

O'Brien: I THINK THIS IS THE BEGINNING

OF A VERY, VERY STARTLING AND TROUBLING PERIOD

FOR SEA LIFE ON THE PLANET,

AND WE'RE GONNA BE SEEING MORE AND MORE OF THIS.

Narrator: BUT WHEN MARINE BIOLOGIST DANNI WASHINGTON

CHECKS OFFICIAL RECORDS,

SHE'S NOT CONVINCED THAT THIS BIZARRE CREATURE

IS A REAL-LIFE MUTANT SEA WORM.

♪♪

Washington: IF THESE CREATES ARE CONTAMINATED

WITH NUCLEAR FALLOUT, THEN WE WOULD SEE

ELEVATED RADIATION LEVELS ALONG THE COAST.

BUT THE MONITORING STATIONS

SHOW THAT THE RADIATION LEVELS ARE WELL WITHIN SAFE LIMITS,

WHICH LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT WE MIGHT BE LOOKING

AT SOMETHING ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT.

Narrator: WASHINGTON REVIEWS THE TESTIMONY OF FISHERMEN

WHO HAVE SEEN THESE MONSTERS CLOSE UP.

SHE NOTICES THAT THE CREATURE IS REPORTED TO GLOW.

IT WAS REPORTED THAT THESE ORGANISMS GLOW BLUE

WHEN THEY'RE DISTURBED.

IN THE VIDEO, BECAUSE IT WAS DAYTIME

AND STRAIGHT SUNLIGHT WAS SHINING,

IT WAS HARD TO TELL.

SO THEIR UNUSUAL SHAPE,

THEIR HOLLOW BODY, THEIR BLUE GLOW,

AND LACK OF ORGANS ALL INDICATE THIS IS A PYROSOME.

♪♪

Narrator: "PYROSOME" IS AN ANCIENT GREEK WORD

MEANING "FIRE BODY."

THIS CREATURE LIGHTS UP LIKE A TORCH,

BUT WEIRDER THAN THAT,

WASHINGTON BELIEVES THIS SEA MONSTER IS NOT ONE CREATURE,

BUT MANY --

TINY CREATURES WHO COMBINE TO FORM ONE ENORMOUS BEAST.

Washington: THEY CAN GROW TO BE EXTREMELY LARGE,

UP TO 60 FEET LONG,

WHICH IS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS A JUVENILE BLUE WHALE.

THEY'RE JET-PROPELLED.

THEY PULL WATER IN THROUGH THE SURFACE

AND THEN SQUIRT IT OUT THE APERTURE

AND MOVE THEMSELVES THROUGH THE WATER.

Narrator: PYROSOMES ARE NORMALLY ONLY FOUND

IN WARM, TROPICAL WATERS,

BUT AN UNUSUAL WARM PATCH OF WATER IN THE PACIFIC,

COUPLED WITH A STRONG EL NIÑO EVENT,

ALLOWED THESE INVADERS

TO MOVE FAR UP NORTH AND ONTO THE AMERICAN COAST,

THREATENING TO CREATE HORRIFIC DEAD ZONES IN THE OCEAN.

PYROSOMES EAT THE FISH FRY. THE PLANKTON, THE LARVAL FISH.

THEN THAT COULD REALLY DEVASTATE THE FISHING COMMUNITY.

♪♪

Narrator: NOW, IT'S A DEAD-CALM SUNNY DAY,

AND TWO UNSUSPECTING WORKMEN STROLL PAST A BUILDING.

SECONDS LATER...

SHEDS DON'T FLY.

FLIES THROUGH THE AIR AND CRASHES.

THIS IS COMPLETELY CRAZY. IT'S TOTALLY UNEXPECTED.

IT'S FORTUNATE THE SHED DIDN'T TAKE ANYBODY WITH IT.

Narrator: THERE ARE NO STORMS OR HURRICANES IN THE AREA,

SO WHAT LEVITATED THIS SHED

AND DUMPED IT IN FRONT OF A SECURITY CAMERA?

IT TAKES A LOT OF ENERGY TO LIFT

A SEVERAL-HUNDRED-POUND SHED OFF THE GROUND.

WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE THAT COULD ACTUALLY DO THAT?

THIS REMINDS ME A LITTLE BIT OF DOROTHY IN "THE WIZARD OF OZ"

STANDING THERE AND WATCHING EVERYTHING HOPELESSLY DISAPPEAR

INTO THE SKY AROUND HER.

♪♪

Narrator: APRIL 27, 2013.

A CALM SUNNY MORNING ON AN INDUSTRIAL SITE IN CHINA.

WE SEE A COUPLE OF GUYS WANDER THROUGH THE FRAME.

♪♪

AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, A SHED IS LIFTED UP,

FLIES THROUGH THE AIR, AND SMASHES INTO THE CAMERA.

THOSE GUYS ARE SO LUCKY.

IT WOULD HAVE KILLED SOMEBODY, WITHOUT A DOUBT.

Durda: IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE THERE'S SOME INVISIBLE FORCE

THAT'S LIFTING THIS SHED.

SO, THE TWO MAIN QUESTIONS ARE, NUMBER ONE,

WHAT COULD BE LIFTING THE SHED OFF THE GROUND?

AND, NUMBER TWO, WHY ISN'T IT DOING IT TO ANYTHING ELSE?

♪♪

Narrator: SCIENCE JOURNALIST DAVE FARINA

STUDIES THE FOOTAGE FOR CLUES

AS TO WHAT MIGHT HAVE SLUNG THIS SHED ACROSS A YARD...

AND SPOTS A CRUCIAL DETAIL.

LOOKING AROUND THE FRAME, WE DO SEE OBJECTS THAT LOOK LIKE

THEY MIGHT BE, SAY, TANKS OF COMPRESSED GAS.

AND THAT COULD HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT.

Narrator: A RAPID LOSS OF PRESSURE

CAN TURN A CYLINDER INTO A LETHAL WEAPON.

IF YOU HAVE A SYSTEM OF HIGHLY PRESSURIZED GAS,

THE HIGH PRESSURE IS THE RESULT OF PARTICLES OF GAS

BEING PRESSED VERY, VERY CLOSE TOGETHER.

AND IF THAT GAS IS RELEASED,

SUCH THAT THE PARTICLES CAN SPREAD OUT VERY QUICKLY,

THERE WILL BE A TREMENDOUS FORCE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.

Narrator: FARINA BELIEVES A SUDDEN EXPLOSIVE RELEASE

OF A NON-FLAMMABLE GAS LIKE CARBON DIOXIDE OR NITROGEN

THREW THE SHED ACROSS THIS PARKING LOT.

Farina: A CANNISTER OF HIGHLY PRESSURIZED GAS

EITHER VENTED GAS VERY QUICKLY TOWARDS THE ROOF OF THE SHED

OR ITSELF BECAME A PROJECTILE, STRIKING THE ROOF OF THE SHED,

CAUSING IT TO LIFT OFF.

♪♪

Narrator: THE FOOTAGE COMES TO THE ATTENTION

OF ENGINEER AND EXPLOSIVES EXPERT MATT KUTCHER.

HE HAS 20 YEARS' EXPERIENCE

OF PYROTECHNICS ON MAJOR HOLLYWOOD MOVIES.

HE DISPUTES THE "RUPTURING GAS BOTTLE" THEORY.

CLEARLY, IN THE VIDEO, WE DON'T SEE ANY REMNANTS OF A CANNISTER.

THERE'S JUST NO CANNISTER FLYING THROUGH THE VIDEO,

NOTHING SPINNING AROUND.

I THINK WHAT THIS TELLS US

IS, CLEARLY, IT WASN'T A GAS CANNISTER.

♪♪

Narrator: IMAGE ANALYST CONOR McCOURT

STUDIES THE FOOTAGE

AND SEIZES UPON A DETAIL THAT MAY SOLVE THE MYSTERY

OF WHAT LAUNCHED A SHED ACROSS A YARD.

McCourt: ONE THING THAT WE NOTICE

JUST BEFORE THE SHED LIFTS INTO THE AIR

IS THAT THERE'S A SMOKY MIST THAT GOES ACROSS THE YARD.

WHAT IS IT?

Narrator: COMING UP, A CCTV CONTROL ROOM

PICKS UP A WOMAN STANDING IN A FACTORY YARD,

BUT THE GUARDS SENT OUT TO INVESTIGATE CAN'T SEE HER.

IT'S LIKE A VERY PECULIAR VERSION OF A GHOST

PLAYING HIDE-AND-SEEK.

Narrator: AND MATT KUTCHER FINDS OUT WHAT HAPPENS

WHEN YOU MIX GAS AND A SHED.

WE'VE DEVISED A SMALL LITTLE ELECTRIC-MATCH SYSTEM

SO THAT WE KNOW EXACTLY WHEN IT'LL GO OFF.

WHEN WE ACTIVATE IT, IT'LL LIGHT THE PROPANE, AND OFF WE GO.

♪♪

Narrator: A SHED IN CHINA MYSTERIOUSLY LIFTS INTO THE AIR

BEFORE SMASHING DOWN.

EXPLOSIVES EXPERT MATT KUTCHER BELIEVES THAT A SLOW GAS LEAK

CAUSED THE SHED TO BECOME AIRBORNE.

TO TEST HIS THEORY, HE SETS UP AN EXPERIMENT.

Kutcher: IT COULD BE AN INDUSTRIAL TYPE OF YARD,

SOMEPLACE PROPANE OR NATURAL GAS COULD BE ESCAPING.

SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO FIND OUT --

COULD IT BE A BUILDUP OF SOME KIND OF NATURAL GAS OR PROPANE

THAT SLOWLY IGNITED OR WENT IN SUCH A WAY

THAT THE SHED JUST LEVITATED?

SO, THE EXPERIMENT WE DESIGNED HERE TODAY

IS A RELEASE OF PROPANE FILLING UP THE CHAMBER OF THE SHED

AND THEN IGNITING IT, AND SEEING IF WE CAN GET IT TO LIFT

SIMILAR TO WHAT WE SEE IN THE VIDEO.

TO MOST PEOPLE, PROPANE IS GONNA SEEM LIKE IT BURNS REALLY FAST,

LIKE IT EXPLODES QUICKLY.

IT DOESN'T. HERE, THE GAS IS NOT UNDER PRESSURE.

WE'RE JUST FILLING THE VESSEL,

TRYING TO GET IT TO LIFT MORE LIKE A ROCKET --

NOT CONTAINING IT AND EXPLODING IT.

SO WE WENT WITH THE PROPANE

BECAUSE IT HAS THE GREATEST CHANCE OF LIFTING THE SHED.

Narrator: KUTCHER AND HIS TEAM PUMP PROPANE INTO BAGS

TO MIMIC THE EFFECT OF THE SHED SLOWLY FILLING WITH THE GAS.

Kutcher: WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE IT COMPLETELY COMPRESSED,

BUT WE'RE GONNA REQUIRE SOME KIND OF TRIGGER

SO THAT WE KNOW EXACTLY WHEN IT'LL GO OFF.

SO WE'VE DEVISED A SMALL LITTLE ELECTRIC-MATCH SYSTEM.

WHEN WE ACTIVATE IT, IT'LL LIGHT THE PROPANE, AND OFF WE GO.

♪♪

WE'RE READY TO GO!

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[ HISSING ]

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♪♪

THE STRUCTURE IS NOT TOUGH ENOUGH TO STAY TOGETHER

AND LAUNCH LIKE A ROCKET.

I THINK IT'S A NEGATIVE THAT THIS WAS A PROPANE EXPLOSION.

IT HAD TO BE SOMETHING ELSE THAT CAUSED IT TO LIFT INTO THE AIR.

♪♪

Narrator: SCIENCE WRITER KIKI SANFORD

WONDERS IF THE SHED HAD BEEN DELIBERATELY LIFTED

BEFORE BEING DROPPED FROM ABOVE.

MAYBE THE SHED IS BEING LIFTED FROM ABOVE, LIKE WITH A CRANE,

BUT SOMETHING HAS GONE HORRIBLY WRONG.

WE CAN'T SEE THE TOP OF THE SHED IN THE VIDEO FRAME,

SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT IT COULD BE ATTACHED TO SOMETHING,

LIKE A CRANE OR A CABLE.

CHINA'S RECENT INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION

HAS LED TO MORE INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS.

Narrator: CHINA RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACES

ON EARTH TO WORK,

WITH ALMOST 40,000 PEOPLE KILLED IN WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS IN 2017.

COMPARED TO THE WEST,

CRANE COLLAPSES ARE MORE COMMON IN CHINA.

Sanford: CRANES CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS.

THEY'RE BIG MACHINERY.

AND YOU HAVE A POOR BALANCE ANYWHERE IN THE SITUATION,

AN ACCIDENT CAN HAPPEN.

IN 2017, A CRANE COLLAPSED, CRUSHING A VAN,

KILLING SEVEN AND INJURING TWO OTHERS.

Narrator: CONOR McCOURT WORKED AS A VIDEO IMAGE ANALYST

FOR THE NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT

AND HAS OVER 20 YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELD.

IF THE CRANE THEORY IS TRUE,

HE EXPECTS TO SEE ITS SHADOW CROSSING THE YARD.

WHEN I ZOOM IN ON THE YARD AREA HERE,

I'M NOT SEEING ANY INDICATION OF A SHADOW OF A BOOM FROM A CRANE.

SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WE WOULD PROBABLY BE ABLE

TO SEE IT IN THIS VIDEO.

♪♪

Narrator: COMING UP, HAVE SECURITY CAMERAS

CAPTURED AN AZTEC GHOST?

WHEN YOU KNOW THE STORY BEHIND THE WEEPING WOMAN,

IT'S TERRIFYING THINKING

THAT YOU COULD ACTUALLY BE RIGHT NEXT TO HER.

Narrator: AND WHAT HAS CAUSED THIS SHED TO FLY?

IS IT A DUST DEVIL?

Narrator: EXPERTS ARE TRYING TO WORK OUT THE MYSTERY

BEHIND THE FLYING SHED IN CHINA.

PLANETARY SCIENTIST DAN DURDA LOOKS AGAIN AT THE STRANGE MIST

THAT ROLLS OVER THE GROUND BEFORE THE SHED GOES AIRBORNE.

Durda: THERE LOOKS TO BE SOME SORT OF A WEIRD SHIMMER.

IS IT LOOSE MATERIAL ON THE GROUND

THAT'S BEING STIRRED UP BY A DUST DEVIL?

Narrator: DUST DEVILS OCCUR IN BARREN DESERT ENVIRONMENTS.

THESE WHIRLWINDS REACH WIDTHS OF SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET

AND SPEEDS OF UP TO 75 MILES PER HOUR,

THE EQUIVALENT OF A TORNADO.

Durda: THEY'RE SOLAR-POWERED, BASICALLY.

IT'S THE LOCALIZED HEATING OF THE GROUND THAT CAUSES UPDRAFTS.

UPDRAFTS WILL DRAW IN AIR.

THAT AIR, AS IT DRAWS IN,

WILL CYCLE AND BEGIN A ROTATIONAL MOTION,

ALMOST LIKE A LITTLE MINI TORNADO.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO AVIATION REPORTS,

DUST DEVILS HAVE BEEN CITED

IN OVER 100 U.S. AIRCRAFT INCIDENTS,

FIVE OF WHICH WERE FATAL.

A VERY POWERFUL DUST DEVIL WOULD HAVE ENOUGH AERODYNAMIC FORCE

TO LIFT THAT SHED OFF INTO THE AIR.

IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE SHED VERSION

OF DOROTHY'S HOUSE IN KANSAS, I SUPPOSE.

Farina: SO, WHILE DUST DEVILS ARE PRETTY COMMON,

IT SEEMS THAT THIS FOOTAGE HAS CAPTURED

AN ESPECIALLY POWERFUL ONE,

WHICH JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU THAT NATURE CAN ALWAYS SURPRISE YOU.

♪♪

Narrator: NOW, A SECURITY CAMERA

SPOTS A WOMAN STANDING IN A FACTORY YARD.

GUARDS GO TO CONFRONT HER.

[ SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ]

ON THE CAMERA, THE GUARDS AND THE WOMAN ARE CLEARLY VISIBLE,

BUT THE GUARDS ON THE GROUND CANNOT SEE THE WOMAN

WHO STANDS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM.

Fox: WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS VIDEO,

I ACTUALLY HAD THE HEEBIE-JEEBIES.

Orzel: IT'S LIKE A VERY PECULIAR VERSION

OF A GHOST PLAYING HIDE-AND-SEEK.

IT'S VISIBLE ON THE CAMERA BUT NOT TO THE GUARDS

WHO ARE WALKING AROUND IN THE CLIP.

Narrator: SOME LOCALS BELIEVE THIS IS INDEED A GHOST --

A GHOST THEY CALL THE WEEPING WOMAN.

AFTER SHE LOST HER LOVER,

THEY SAY THAT SHE KILLED HER CHILDREN

AND NOW SHE HAUNTS AND LOOKS FOR OTHER CHILDREN TO KILL.

♪♪

Narrator: IN MEXICO, SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS

KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON A FACTORY YARD.

ONE CAMERA PICKS UP A FEMALE FIGURE.

THE FACTORY SENDS OUT TWO SECURITY WORKERS

TO ASK HER WHAT SHE'S DOING.

Fox: IT ACTUALLY GAVE ME THE CHILLS,

BECAUSE WE'RE WATCHING THIS WOMAN --

YOU CAN SEE HER LEGS AND HER DRESS, AND SHE'S KIND OF HOODED.

Narrator: THE SECURITY TEAM WATCHING THE LIVE FEED

CAN SEE THIS FIGURE,

BUT THE GUARDS OUT IN THE YARD CLEARLY CAN'T.

Orzel: THESE GUYS ARE WALKING AROUND, LOOKING FOR A PERSON.

THEY DON'T SEE ANYTHING.

YOU CAN SEE THEM BACKING UP AND SHINING FLASHLIGHTS AROUND

AND LOOKING TO SEE ANYTHING,

AND THEY DON'T FIND ANYTHING THERE,

EVEN THOUGH THIS SHADOWY FIGURE

IS VERY CLEARLY VISIBLE IN THE VIDEO.

Narrator: COLLEAGUES WATCH IN AMAZEMENT

AS THE TWO WORKERS SHINE A BEAM OF LIGHT

THROUGH THE MYSTERIOUS FIGURE.

AND THEN THINGS TAKE AN EVEN STRANGER TURN.

THEY ARE WALKING RIGHT PAST HER, OR, ACTUALLY, THROUGH HER.

Narrator: COULD THIS CCTV CAMERA BE PICKING UP SOMETHING

THAT'S NOT VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE?

Orzel: HOW CAN THE CAMERA BE SEEING THIS PERSON THERE

WITHOUT THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE ON SCENE,

RIGHT ON TOP OF HER, BEING ABLE TO SEE HER, AS WELL?

WHAT COULD THE VIDEO POSSIBLY BE LOOKING AT?

♪♪

Narrator: FOLKLORIST MAILLE FOX

UNDERSTANDS WHY LOCALS FIND THIS FOOTAGE SO TERRIFYING.

IT GAVE ME THE CREEPS, THE WAY THAT THEY WERE

WALKING THROUGH HER, AND THE WOMAN JUST STOOD THERE.

IT KIND OF MAKES YOU THINK THAT MAYBE IT WAS A GHOST.

LA LLORONA, OR THE WEEPING WOMAN,

IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS GHOSTS IN MEXICO,

AND IT'S REPORTED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

SOME SAY SHE'S THE SPURNED AZTEC MISTRESS

OF CONQUISTADOR CORTéS WHO HE LEFT FOR A SPANISH WOMAN.

♪♪

Fox: AFTER SHE LOST HER LOVER,

THEY SAY THAT SHE KILLED HER CHILDREN,

AND NOW SHE HAUNTS AND LOOKS FOR OTHER CHILDREN TO KILL.

WHEN YOU SEE THE WOMAN JUST STANDING THERE

AND YOU KNOW THE STORY BEHIND THE WEEPING WOMAN,

IT'S TERRIFYING THINKING

THAT YOU COULD ACTUALLY BE RIGHT NEXT TO HER.

Narrator: LA LLORONA HAS EVEN BEEN SPOTTED IN THE U.S.A.

RECENT SIGHTINGS HAVE BEEN REPORTED OF A WAILING WOMAN

BY A CANAL SITE IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA,

AND ON A ROAD NEAR FRESNO, CALIFORNIA.

BUT IS THIS THE FIRST TIME SHE'S APPEARED ON FILM?

♪♪

PHYSICIST CHAD ORZEL RETURNS TO THE FOOTAGE

TO TRY AND FIND SOME OTHER EXPLANATION

FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING.

WHEN THE GUARDS WALK IN FRONT OF THE FIGURE,

THEY BLOCK IT FROM THE CAMERA'S VISION.

Orzel: SO WHATEVER'S GOING ON HERE,

IT SEEMS LIKE THE FIGURE IS ACTUALLY IN THE SCENE

AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING CLOSER TO THE CAMERA.

IT'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING DOWN WHERE THEY ARE.

BUT THEN YOU WOULD THINK THAT THEY WOULD SEE IT,

WHICH IS VERY ODD.

Narrator: ORZEL EXAMINES THE FOOTAGE MORE CLOSELY.

♪♪

WHEN THE FIRST SECURITY GUARD FLASHES HIS LIGHT,

IT ILLUMINATES HIS COLLEAGUE'S FACE BUT NOT THE BLACK FIGURE.

Orzel: THAT SUGGESTS THAT THERE'S SOMETHING THERE

ON THE GROUND BEHIND THEM THAT THE CAMERA IS PICKING UP.

WHAT WOULD BE ON THE GROUND THERE

THAT IS VISIBLE TO THE CAMERA

AND NOT TO THE GUARDS WALKING AROUND?

MY BEST GUESS ON THIS --

IT COULD BE SOME SORT OF TROMPE L'OEIL

PAINTED ON THE GROUND.

Narrator: THE FRENCH TERM "TROMPE L'OEIL"

TRANSLATES AS "DECEIVE THE EYE"

AND DESCRIBES OPTICAL ILLUSIONS

PAINTED TO IMITATE REAL OBJECTS OR REAL LANDSCAPE

WHEN SEEN FROM A CERTAIN ANGLE.

ORZEL WONDERS IF THE FIGURE IN THE FOOTAGE

HAS SOMEHOW BEEN CLEVERLY PLACED ON THE FLOOR

BEHIND THE SECURITY GUARDS.

Orzel: PEOPLE HAVE PAINTED SOMETHING ON THE GROUND

THAT HAPPENS TO ADDRESS THE CAMERA

BUT NOT FROM WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE

WHO ARE MOVING AROUND IN THE SCENE.

Narrator: BUT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE

THAT TROMPE L'OEIL ARTISTS

HAVE SOMEHOW SNEAKED INTO THIS FACTORY YARD

TO CREATE THIS EFFECT.

THERE IS NO OBVIOUS SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION

FOR THIS STRANGE ENCOUNTER CAUGHT ON CAMERA.

Fox: MAYBE THERE ARE MORE GHOSTS SURROUNDING US,

AND WE JUST DON'T SEE THEM WITH THE NAKED EYE.