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- Tonight on "the
proof is out there"

what is the strange creature
found frozen in a tree?

- All kinds of extinct creatures

are popping up that
we don't know about yet.

- [Tony] What's behind

the serpentine
surprise in the sunroom?

- I looked really close and I
said, "you've got two heads."

- [Tony] And a freakish fire.

How do you explain a Blaze
that only burns some things?

Around the globe are videos-

- [woman] What the heck is this?

- [Tony] Photos and
sounds that defy explanation.

- [Man] Is it some kind
of unidentified object?

- [Man] A plane that was
literally frozen in the air.

- [Tony] What are they?

- [Man] Some sort
of bizarre mutation.

- Extraordinary claims
need extraordinary proof.

- I'm Tony Harris.

And as a journalist
for more than 30 years,

I've followed the facts
where they take me.

Now I'm bringing that
spirit of investigation

to the world's strangest
sounds and images.

[Creature growling]

We'll analyze each
one with top experts.

- It's a credible case,
it's a credible video.

- [Tony] And pass a
verdict on what it is.

- This video was clearly faked.

- The proof starts now.

[Dramatic music]

Good evening, and welcome
to, "the proof is out there."

Imagine hearing a deafening
noise outside your house.

And when you go to
investigate the cause

you find something
even more frightening.

One Russia man claims
he experienced exactly that.

But what exactly did he find?

Take a look.

[Mid-tempo music]

It's 2011 in a small
village in Russia.

A local farmer
reports that his home

is shaken by a large
explosion nearby.

While looking for the source,

the farmer stumbles upon this.

Some remains that look nothing

like the usual local wildlife.

Take a good look.

The creature has a strange head

and an even stranger
torso and limbs.

And the state it's in is
even the more puzzling.

It appears petrified.

The way this finding
is displayed in the video

is also quite intriguing.

- What's very interesting to me

is that they're drying
some corn at the same time.

And I wouldn't think you'd want

to put something alien
next to a food resource.

- [Tony] According to the
source who gave us this video,

the cause of the
explosion was never found.

[Slow dramatic music]

But residents of the
town were more frightened

by what this creature could
portend for their village.

Journalist Erin McCarthy

says local legends
could explain why.

- In slavic folklore,
there's baba yaga,

a witch who lives in
the woods in a shack

that has chicken
legs and chicken feet.

She also steals
and eats children.

- [Tony] Baba yaga has
become the equivalent

to the boogeyman
for kids in this region.

Some locals may have believed

this creature was her handiwork,

but McCarthy says
there could be another

slightly less
creepy explanation.

- Permafrost is
melting in Russia

. and with that melting,
all kinds of extinct creatures

are popping up, like
mammoths and rhinos.

So potentially this creature
is something that's extinct

that we just don't
know about yet.

- Now there are some
conditions on earth

that could instantly
mummify a living creature,

like the super alkaline waters
of lake natron in Tanzania.

But there's no evidence
something like that

currently exists in Russia.

So before we
determine if this video

shows an undiscovered dinosaur,

or even a child-eating witch,
our experts will dig deeper.

[Slow music]

First, video forensic
analyst Mick west

examines whether this specimen
could be some kind of hoax.

- I think the only way
you could have done that

is to have modeled it from life.

And that means
that you actually had

the real thing
to start off with.

So I think the simplest
explanation here

is that what we're seeing
is what we're getting.

This is in fact a dead animal

that has been partially
or fully mummified.

- [Tony] If this is indeed
some kind of animal,

what kind of animal?

[Slow music]

- Just in terms of
the morphology,

something about its face
looks quite bird-like to me,

it looks like it could
have part of the beak

that had formed off
or not been preserved

in this mummification process.

But it's got a really
big eye socket.

Birds tend to have
quite small eyes.

So for me, that would
kind of rule out a bird.

- [Tony] That exes out it being
one of baba yaga's chickens.

Biologist Floyd Hayes
is thinking mammal.

- Okay, right here it looks like

there may be some
teeth in the jaws.

To me the skull looks
much more like a mammal.

It does look like
there may be a wing.

It could potentially
be a fruit bat.

There are some large species

of fruit bats
called flying foxes.

- [Tony] Furman sees
some merit in the bat theory.

- They also do have
that similar large nose

that we can see in this fossil.

In terms of their skeleton,

they do have a
long neck as well.

And going right to the
end of what looks like

it could have been
wings they have

what looks like it was a
claw or a hand of some sort.

- [Tony] So it kind of
looks like a large fruit bat.

But here's the problem.

- They don't live
up in Russia though.

They're more characteristic
of the tropical islands

in the western pacific
ocean and Indian ocean

and in southeastern Asia.

- [Tony] Floyd
says until this family

comes forward with the specimen,

we can't be certain what it is.

- The process of mummification

can take a long period of time.

It's possible that this is
an extinct species of animal

that formerly lived in Russia

that is no longer there today.

- So I know we're
going out on a limb here,

but for now we're going to say

this is an unidentified
extinct animal.

Of course they would take
proper scientific examination

to know for sure, but
with the arctic warming

two times faster than
the global average,

we may see more
strange creatures

thawing out from
the permafrost soon.

And we'll do our
best to identify them.

- In Greek mythology, the hydra

was a giant sea monster
with multiple heads.

But where did this
gruesome idea come from?

Did the Greeks get their idea

for a multi-headed
monster from nature itself?

Maybe they saw
something that looked a lot

like what you're about
to see in this next video.

[Slow dramatic music]

September 2020.

Jeannie Wilson of
taylorsville, north Carolina

is cleaning up after game
night with family and friends.

She heads into her sunroom

where she comes across
a modern day monster.

[Dramatic music]

She records this video
of a foot-long snake,

slithering around the bottom

of a five-gallon
container, with two heads.

Based on the video,
the snake's heads

appear to be working
independently of each other.

Jeannie was nearly
shocked out of her skin.

- I spotted him in the
corner of the sunroom.

I thought somebody had
stepped on his head and mashed it.

And I looked really
close and I said,

"you've got two heads."

And it's like, wow.

For a two-headed
snake to make it that long

out in the wild is amazing.

- Field researcher
cliff barackman

believes that animals like
this two-headed serpent

may have been the
original inspiration

for many of the world's most
fearsome mythical monsters.

- Probably the only
thing scarier than a snake

might be a two-headed snake.

If we look back
into ancient times,

you can find stories of
multi-headed animals,

like the multi-headed
dog Cerberus

that guarded the gates of hell.

Or the hydra, the-mini
headed snake monster.

And I think that behind
these sorts of stories

is always a grain of truth.

- [Tony] Field
researcher Ken gerhard

lays out a more sinister idea.

Warning, these images
could be disturbing.

[Slow dramatic music]

- I'm thinking of a
Russian scientist

who was able to
successfully attach

the head of a dog
to another dog.

- That would be
Dr. Vladimir demikhov,

a pioneering Russian surgeon

who transplanted one dog's head

onto the neck of
another dog back in 1968.

The conjoined animals
survived for 38 days.

- [Ken] So we can't
rule out the possibility

that this two-headed snake

could be the result of a
similar type of experimentation.

- Sadly about 3/4
of all conjoined twins

die before, during,
or soon after birth.

So how did the snake get
this way, and how did it survive?

Is this fantastic beast
unnaturally lucky?

Or is it a bit too fantastic?

First we brought the
video to roxy furman

who assessed the authenticity.

- I've seen conjoined
twins before

of various different
other species.

But my initial instinct was,
is this head real or not?

And up until kind
of halfway through

this second head is not
kind of using its tongue

to smell the environment.

But then there was a point

where the second head,
its tongue comes out.

And at this point you can
see it's kind of wanting to move

in a different direction,

which then made
me think this is real.

- [Tony] Furman says
these two-headed creatures

are examples of a natural,

but mysterious mutation
called polycephaly.

- [Roxy] There's a lot that
we still don't understand

about conjoined twins.

If there are two heads,

both which have their
own consciousness,

then who kind of overrides
the control of the body,

or whether they communicate

with one another as
two individuals would.

- [Tony] Furman refutes the idea

that this multi-headed snake

could be the product of
human experimentation,

similar to that of Soviet
scientists in the 1950s.

- There's no indication
of recent surgery.

There's no stitches
or suture marks.

- [Tony] So it's a real
natural-born snake.

But what explains its
mutation and its survival?

- It seems to be
doing pretty well.

This is unique because
we don't often see animals

with two heads that
seem to be healthy,

because they don't
tend to survive in the wild.

- [Tony] And while conger
is positive this snake

isn't some bizarre experiment,

she says the genetic
mutation we see here

may still have been
caused by humans,

just not intentionally.

- Amphibians and
reptiles like snakes

are actually just really
prone to mutation.

And a lot of this has to do
with environmental pollution.

It's been shown that
there's a number of pollutants

that can actually cause
malformations in wildlife.

And we're seeing
this increasingly today.

- [Tony] So, our verdict.

This snake was an
example of polycephaly,

quite possibly
caused by pollution.

What became of it is
this story's happy ending.

Jeannie gave the snake to a
friend, and here's his update.

He says he named the
serpent double trouble

and says he's alive and well.

- When double trouble was found,

he was already a few months old.

So he had a good start.

He's approaching a year old
and he's never refused a meal.

He's just been thriving.

And that's the sign
that he's going to make it

and possibly live to adulthood.

I always wanted a
two-headed snake,

so it was kind of like
a dream come true.

And I've loved working
with him ever since.

- Fire is a powerful,
mystical force

that can seemingly
take on a life of its own.

It's been known
to behave in ways

that seem to defy explanation,

but we've never seen anything
quite like this next video.

It's may 2020 in
calahorra, Spain.

A local man named
Juan Carlos Gil Lopez

is walking through a nearby park

on a bright spring day.

Suddenly he sees something
so utterly mind bending

he immediately has to film it

to make sure he's
not hallucinating.

A line of fire is moving
steadily across the ground.

As it burns it leaves behind
green undamaged grass.

Look closely.

The fire reaches benches
and eventually trees.

But none of that seems to burn.

Juan was understandably stunned.

[Speaking Spanish]

Humans are naturally
fascinated by fire.

It's an evolutionary
survival mechanism

developed to make us aware

of these dangers
from out of the womb.

So there's a reason
we're mesmerized

by images like this Texas
tree burning from inside

and this downright
devilish fire tornado

seen in the UK in 2018.

Is what Juan captured
a similar freak of nature,

or was it planned?

The us government regularly
starts fires on purpose.

These so-called controlled burns

are meant to
protect communities,

restore habitats, and
even control pests.

Maybe that's
what's going on here.

In the us, 6.4 million acres

were subject to controlled
burns in 2017 alone.

Is the Spanish government
doing something similar here?

Maybe it's just
another video hoax.

In case of emergency, break
glass and call in the experts.

[Slow dramatic music]

First, video forensics
expert Michael primeau

runs a test to make sure

this isn't actually
digital manipulation.

- When we were
assessing the digital integrity

of the file itself,
there was a signature

that came up using our
forensic tool called medex

that has the ability to
make changes to a file.

- [Tony] While that
sounds like a red flag,

primeau digs deeper.

- Although this tool can
make changes to a file,

we didn't detect any
evidence that this fire

was created
unnaturally in the video,

and no evidence to
support that this was cgi.

- [Tony] We turned to
atmospheric scientist

Dr. Deanna hence

to find out if conditions
in this region of Spain

would sustain a fire like this.

- Well, I looked at
the climate conditions

around the time that
this video was filmed.

In this particular region
it was actually quite wet.

There was plenty of
moisture in the environment,

rainfall that could
account for why

everything was
so green and lush.

And because the fire
is moving very quickly,

that doesn't really
leave a lot of time

for the objects around it to
dry out and then catch on fire.

- [Tony] That explains
why the grass, and trees,

and benches don't
ignite, but how would such

a strangely-shaped fire
form in the first place?

Our all-star
physicist michio kaku

shed some light on the matter.

- We don't have that much

direct experience
with large fires.

And if you did, you
would realize flames

go in the direction where
you have lots of oxygen,

lots of tinder, and
loss of surface area.

- [Tony] Kaku explains
that the white discoloration

in the grass in the
front of the flames

is actually the fluffy seeds

of the poplar trees
around the park.

That's what is
actually catching fire

and why the narrow
flame is moving so fast.

- Notice here that the
poplars are burning

because that's where you
have maximum surface area.

The first things to burn
will be those places

where we have
maximum surface area.

- [Tony] In fact,
the same principle

that causes these poplar
seeds to burn so quickly

also applies in your own home.

- That's why a
newspaper burns very fast

while a log in a fireplace
will take a lot of time

for it to heat up
because the newspaper

for a given weight has a
maximum amount of surface area.

- So, our verdict.

Well, this mesmerizing
fire appears to act

mysteriously and
contrary to nature.

Its bizarre behavior is
actually an idiosyncrasy

of environment and physics.

Officials at this
park believe the fire

was started unintentionally

from a cigarette
or other stray spark.

- Since voyager 1
launched in 1977,

humans have been probing space

looking for signs
of intelligent life.

There's been no confirmation
yet that an alien species

is doing the same,
looking for us.

But what if they've been
sending probes our way

this whole time and we've just
been misreading the messages?

It's a clear evening
in gainesville, Florida,

and motorist Chad zettrower
is driving along newberry road

when his dash cam
captures something

that makes him pump the brakes.

It's not on the
road, it's in the sky.

A blue orb shoots overhead.

- [Chad] What the
[Beep] was that?

- [Tony] Let's slow that down.

Whatever fell from the sky
appears to flash or explode,

but no pieces or impact
crater are discovered.

When the video goes viral
it has many thinking ufo.

One scientific explanation
is that what Chad filmed

was simply a meteor.

But there's a whole new
theory gaining traction

that some rocks
from space are ufos.

- I can't really say
it's not of alien origin

because I really never get
a good enough look at it.

- [Tony] In October of 2017,
observers spotted an object

racing around the sun that
didn't have a tail like a comet

and was on such
a strange trajectory

they realized it had to be
from another solar system.

They named it ;oumuamua,
or scout in Hawaiian.

A Harvard astronomer
recently suggested

that it could be some
form of alien technology.

And physicist Dr. Hakeem
oluseya wonders,

could there be others like it?

- ;oumuamua brings up the idea

of alien probes coming
into our solar system.

If we look at rocky
surfaces in our solar system,

they're covered in craters.

And up till now we've
assumed that those craters

were due to solar system bodies.

But now, perhaps, maybe
some of the craters you see

when you look up at the moon

were created from an object
outside our solar system.

We don't know.

- ;oumuamua was
odd not only because

of its interstellar
origin, but because

of its unusually long
slender shape and size.

Was what Chad
captured on dash cam

something equally anomalous?

For that, we turn to Mars
mission planner Jonathon hill.

[Slow music]

Hill begins by considering
whether the light

could be caused by a
spacecraft or satellite.

But he says this thing is
moving far too quickly for that.

- When satellites
pass by in the night sky,

they usually take
very arcing paths,

and they usually
move very slowly.

So that's not consistent
with a satellite by any means.

- [Tony] Could
it be the re-entry

of space junk into
our atmosphere?

Hill says the best clue
is the color of the object.

Each metal or compound

produces a unique
color when it burns.

- When anything
on earth explodes,

you almost always
get a yellow flame.

But this object
has a very distinct,

bright, light blue color to it,

which tells us that
whatever is burning

is a very different compound

than what we usually
see in our everyday lives.

- [Tony] Instead, says hill,
that blue is a strong indicator

that the object is likely
made of magnesium,

and definitely not manmade.

So could it be an
alien probe after all?

- I think we had to keep our
minds open to the possibility

that one day we may
encounter artifacts

from an extraterrestrial
civilization.

That cannot be ruled out.

- So where do we
land with this one?

Hill's analysis points to a
meteor made of magnesium.

[Slow dramatic music]

But no one ever
found an impact crater

or any part of Chad's meteor.

So sure, it could have
been an alien probe.

That part of the story
remains unresolved.

And that's our show for tonight.

Thank you so much for watching.

And it's always,
say it with me, team.

- [All] Keep those
cameras rolling.

- Oh, I'm so proud.

That's beautiful.

Let's do it again.

[All laughing]