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Tonight, on "The
Proof Is Out There."

Was a legendary Birdman
caught on camera?

The Birdman was
a supernatural deity

that was much revered.

Is an ancient alien
satellite orbiting earth?

The Black Knight
satellite is a UFO theory

that's been bouncing around
since before the internet.

Is a
behemoth crying out

from the bottom of the sea?

This is a really eerie sound

that reminds you of something
a deep sea monster would make.

And does this
UFO footage from Germany

help explain a mystery
of World War II?

Nothing in the sky
should be moving like this.

Around the
globe are videos...

What
are those things?

It's moving.

Photos and sounds
that defy explanation.

We don't know
where they come from,

who made them, or
how they operate.

What are they?

Some sort of
bizarre mutation.

What's exciting
is nobody really knows.

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.

We'll analyze each
one with top experts.

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

And pass a
verdict on what it is.

This video was clearly faked.

The proof starts now.

Good evening and welcome to
"The Proof Is Out There."

More than 40% of
homes in America

have some kind of
surveillance camera.

And while the majority are
installed for security reasons,

we have been able
to take advantage

of another added benefit,

recordings of strange
creatures in the night.

August 27th, 2017.

It's just after
midnight in a quiet,

residential neighborhood
near Youngstown, Ohio.

Suddenly, a motion
detector camera

is triggered by a
movement in the driveway.

Let's take another
frightening look.

A strange creature races
past a parked car,

then disappears into the night.

It appears to have a white head,

dark body, while
running on two legs.

According to field
researcher Ken Gerhard,

no one, including the homeowner,
knew what they were seeing.

When this footage came out,

I remember it created
a bit of a stir

in the cryptozoology community.

The owner claimed
that this thing

was some type of bipedal,
bird-like creature

with black plumage, a white
beak, and very long white legs.

She estimated it was about
three to five feet tall,

but what's really remarkable

is how fast this
thing is moving,

about 15 feet in
only two seconds.

The owner ultimately claimed

that she saw this
creature multiple times

making clicking noises.

And she even claimed she
found some massive piles

of what looked like
bird droppings.

A birdman
or bird-like creature

roaming the streets of Ohio?

It may not be as
farfetched as you think.

Gerhard says this
type of creature

has been part of Native
American folklore for centuries.

There is something known
as the Cahokia Birdman,

a carving in sandstone
of an anthropomorphic,

half-man,
half-bird-like creature

found in East St. Louis in 1971

and dated to be
about 900 years old.

Another
theory online is that

this was an escaped exotic
animal like an ostrich.

Ohio has seen that before.

In 2011, a Zanesville
man made national news

when he released his
massive collection

of 50 animals into the wild,

including 18 tigers, 17 lions,

8 bears, and 3 cougars.

Why couldn't a renegade
ostrich be running the streets?

There's apparently been no
shortage of strange creatures

spotted in Ohio over the years.

The Loveland Frogman
is supposedly

a four-foot-tall cryptid

that has been spotted numerous
times in Loveland, Ohio

since the 1950s and
even inspired a musical.

Could this alleged birdman

of Youngstown soon be
heading to Broadway?

Let's check in with the experts
to see what we've got here.

If it's not a Birdman,
is it just a man?

Could this just be
an elaborate prank?

Biologist, Stephanie Manka
explains the footage.

I don't think this is
a human in a costume.

It doesn't seem to have
the head shape of a human.

The legs are too tall and
the torso's too short.

And overall, it's small
compared to the car here.

Okay, so Manka believes

we can definitely
rule out the man,

but what about the bird?

It does look like a bird.

The fact that massive,
bird-dropping-like things

were left behind makes sense.

Some speculated
this could be a wild turkey,

with an estimated length
of up to 49 inches

and droppings nearly
three inches long.

There are 160-180,000
of them in Ohio.

I don't think
it's a wild turkey,

because the legs look
too long to be a turkey,

the head looks too
thick and too light,

and the body doesn't
look round enough.

However, Manka
does see similarities

to another type of bird,

albeit not native to
the United States.

Ostriches and emus
can run fast like this,

but it's not big enough.

And then I looked into rios,
which are smaller ground birds

that can run pretty fast, and
I was thinking it was that.

But wildlife
biologist Floyd Hayes

thinks we're looking at another
kind of creature altogether.

This animal cannot be a bird.

Instead, it is a mammal.

It looks like it's
running on two legs.

Possibly because of the
angle from the camera

and the low resolution,

they're not really
seeing the front limbs

of a four-legged animal.

But what kind
of four-legged animal?

Hayes notes the
coloration eliminates

typical nocturnal predators.

Foxes and coyotes and wolves

tend to be relatively
uniformly colored.

In this particular animal,

it looks like we have
a white-ish head,

a black-ish body,
and white-ish legs.

Instead, Hayes
believes this is an animal

much more likely to be roaming
suburban neighborhoods at night.

To me, this looks like a
medium-sized dog that's running.

We're not able to see
the tail very well,

but I think I'm
seeing glimpses of it

as it's moving
through the video.

But Manka
has her doubts.

I can't make out any of the
front half of the animal.

I can't see four legs
or paws or anything.

So I don't think this is a dog.

Our verdict, we're going
with unidentified mammal.

Hayes's analysis convinces us
this is some sort of mammal

and not a bird running
through the driveway.

But exactly what
kind, we're not sure.

In the meantime, we're
still on the lookout

for evidence of the
Loveland Frogman.

So, Ohioans, keep those
cameras at the ready.

Now for one of our
favorite kind of stories,

the kind you send us.

History's first
satellite, Sputnik,

was launched into orbit almost
70 years ago by the USSR.

But there's a group of
UFO theorists who insist

there's a satellite
up there that's older.

In fact, ancient.

And one hardcore proof fan
thinks he caught it on camera.

It's November 2018.

Nicos Vouris is walking
with his daughter Nika

along the beach in Cape
Town, South Africa.

Around 7:00 PM, Nika spies
something strange in the air,

something that may have been
watching us for centuries.

This is
a UFO of some sort.

Look closely.

A strange, malleable, black
shape hovers high above Nicos

and his family.

It seems to float without
obvious direction,

silently, holding position.

We thought, "Okay, this
can't be like a normal drone."

And it's just hovering there.

It did weird, wonderful
maneuvers like that,

like by going vertically,

then horizontal,
then vertical again.

It was just amazing to see.

But while
many, at first sight,

would think this is a drone
or possibly a spy balloon,

Nicos believes it's something
much more extraordinary.

I'm an untrained observer.

But in terms of what I saw,

it was very much reminiscent
of the Black Knight satellite.

What is the
Black Knight satellite?

Writer Amy Tietel explains.

The Black Knight
satellite is a UFO theory

that's been bouncing around
since before the internet.

Believers
say the satellite

is an alien surveillance
and communication device

that has been in a polar
orbit for thousands of years,

inserting itself into human
history when it sees fit.

Some people have
even gone so far

as to say that this satellite

is what Nikola Tesla
was communicating with

during his radio experiments
in Colorado Springs in 1899.

He heard some kind of frequency

and some people believe

that he was actually speaking
to the Black Knight satellite

and it was communicating
with him through math,

using numbers as the
universal language.

For years,
this remained

a science fiction theory that
was kind of cool, kind of scary,

but still just a theory,

until a strange
object was spotted

about 200 miles above the Earth.

In 1998, during
the STS-88 mission,

astronauts
photographed something

hovering above the
Earth's horizon line.

And this became a big mystery.

Some people have
used this photograph

as definitive proof
that there are aliens

interacting with our planet.

For many, what makes
the Black Knight satellite

so compelling is
the logic behind it.

If an alien race wanted
to study the Earth,

why wouldn't they send a probe?

The same way NASA sent Voyager I

to explore other planets
in our solar system.

So what is this thing?

ET satellite, balloon,
or something else?

Astrophotographer
Andrew McCarthy

is a Black Knight skeptic.

He says the most famous
piece of evidence,

that 1998 NASA photo,
was more a visual trick

than proof of alien spacecraft.

It's outside of the
window of the space shuttle

that was not in direct sunlight

so appears dark against the
bright contrast of the Earth

and the surrounding space.

Seems to be just a normal
piece of space debris.

Astronaut Jerry Ross,

who took part in
the STS-88 mission,

confirms the object
from the 1998 photo

is a wayward thermal
blanket that broke loose

while his team tried to
attach an American module

to a Russian module on the ISS.

But just because the 1998
picture can be debunked,

we still have to ask,

could Nicos's footage be of
a genuine alien satellite?

We take that question to
video analyst Mick West.

I don't think
this is a satellite.

We simply wouldn't be
able to see a satellite

at that distance.

But the closest
satellites from Earth

are about 200 miles up.

The International Space Station

is the largest satellite
that's up there,

and you can only really
see that as a dot of light

and you can't see it at
all during the daytime.

Could the object Nicos
captured be a spy balloon?

It could be a spy balloon.

Typically, a spy balloon

would have something
dangling underneath it,

but it could be a type of spy
balloon where the the payload

is actually attached
to the balloon itself.

In February 2023,

US military jets shot down a
suspected Chinese spy balloon.

The 200-foot tall balloon
had multiple antennas

and a solar array that
government officials say

was capable of capturing
imagery and signals

from military sites

and sending them back
to China in real time.

Did Nicos see one
over South Africa?

McCarthy has his doubts.

This object doesn't fit
the profile of a spy balloon

because it's way too obvious.

Those balloons are
much higher altitude

and usually white to
blend in with the sky

and to reflect the sun's energy
back out and not overheat.

So if it's
not spying on us,

could it be another
type of balloon?

A solar balloon is a
type of hot air balloon

which uses the heat of the
sun to warm up a balloon.

And they do that by making the
balloon out of black plastic.

Because
black absorbs heat,

the air trapped in the balloon
expands, creating lift.

But I think we
can rule that out

because the shape of this object

would be consistent if it was,

as as the air heats,

the material around
it becomes taut

and can no longer
change its shape.

So while
it might not be

a functioning, inflated
solar balloon,

couldn't Nicos's Black
Knight satellite

simply be a deflated balloon

or even airborne trash
caught in the air currents?

Pilots are always seeing
things like balloons

or wind blown debris,
things like plastic bags.

This is one of the big problems
the UAP Task Force had,

which was dealing
with airborne clutter.

Our verdict, a
trash bag or balloon

caught in air currents.

Sorry, Nicos.

This might not be
the sexiest answer,

but because of its
size, movement,

and through process
of elimination,

that's what we have to conclude.

Germany has its
own history of UFOs

going back at least as
far as World War II.

This next puzzling footage

is a much more recent
sighting out of Deutschland.

And whatever it is,

we know it's not one
of the 99 luftballons.

September 29th, 2014.

It's a beautiful day
in Berau, Germany,

a rural southern village
near the Swiss border.

A photographer
sets up his camera

to film the perfect sunset.

But when he watches
the footage back,

he has captured
something else entirely.

A bright, streaking orb
jetting across the sky.

Suddenly, the object
seems to zigzag violently

before continuing downward.

Let's see that again.

Journalist Eric Grundhauser is
intrigued by that hard turn.

The way that it moves,

it doesn't look
like the behavior

that any earthly vessel
could possibly undertake.

Much of the
online speculation

centers on the
location of a sighting,

a place considered by
some to be the birthplace

of the modern UFO phenomenon.

It was 1944, behind
German lines,

the elite 415 Night
Fighter Squadron reported

strange phenomena in
the skies over Germany.

The incident involved a
Bristol Beaufighter crew

led by pilot Edward
Schlueter and his crew mates

who were flying over the
Rhine Valley near Strasbourg.

The crew described
8 to 10 orange orbs

flying at high speeds
off of their left wing.

The lights
appeared from nowhere

moving at erratic angles,
dancing around the planes.

The puzzled squadron
could not shoot them down.

They also never
appeared on radar.

The pilots dubbed the
bright light bogies,

allegedly captured in this
photo, "foo fighters."

Since the foo fighters
caused no damage,

the American crewmen doubted

that they were actually
German secret weapons.

German pilots claim to have
seen foo fighters as well,

and they were just as baffled.

But there are
other modern instances

of similar bright orbs
descending on planes too.

On a previous episode,

we analyzed this 2020 sighting
from the Mexican skies

where veteran military

and commercial pilot,
Captain Eric Delgado,

recorded this footage.

Oh man,
that is phenomenal.

And you saw it dropped
out of the sky

and just stop?

The UFO
paced Delgado's plane

before shooting off
at a sharp angle,

generating G-forces no
human could withstand.

It's the kind of
inexplicable maneuver

we've come to associate
with UFOs, from foo fighters

to those encountered more
recently by Navy pilots,

to this very video.

Both the foo fighters legend

and the modern footage
shot by Captain Delgado

remain mysteries.

How will this German orb footage

hold up to our
experts' scrutiny?

Time for our team to
dig in and find out.

Is it possible all these
highly maneuverable UFOs

are a single type of craft
and this is one of them?

First, physicist
Matthew Szydagis

dissects the motion
of the object.

It does seem to be
going extremely fast

and also at one point,
executes a remarkable turn.

That
single hairpin turn

might match foo fighter reports,

but Szydagis is
quick to point out

the object doesn't repeat
the impressive move

the way alleged
foo fighters did.

The object appears to
move in a straight line.

It doesn't do anything
particularly spectacular.

Foo fighters were known
to track aircraft

and I don't see this ball or
circle tracking any aircraft.

So, I don't think that
this is a foo fighter.

So if it's not a foo
fighter, could it be a meteor?

Szydagis says timing
is everything.

This is a time-lapse video,

which means that we're
looking at the sun

setting over a long
period of time.

If that's the case,

this is way too slow,
actually, to be a meteor.

Most meteors
are visible for seconds,

burning up in a flash.

So the revelation that
this is a time-lapse video

rules that out altogether.

The skip in time
from the time-lapse

could also explain
the erratic movement.

So, it's not a meteor
or an alien spacecraft.

Could it be a non-alien
spacecraft like a satellite?

This could not be a satellite

because it's still
way too bright

to see even the
brightest satellites.

Satellites do come
out at sunset,

but only after
the sun goes down.

Instead,
astronomer Marc D'Antonio

thinks the object is
something inside the camera.

Here's the thing with cameras,

whenever you point
them into the sun,

you're gonna get things you
don't expect or don't want

because the sun is
immensely brighter

than anything else
in the field of view.

So if this is something
up in the sky,

as soon as it starts to go
down toward the horizon,

it should slow down.

To your eye, it's not.

It stays the exact same speed.

That tells me that it's probably
a camera artifact of some kind.

Our verdict, lens flare,

or another kind of
camera artifact.

We wish we could say this video

brought us closer to an answer
on the foo fighter legend,

but not this time.

Those mysteries continue.

Now, we go from the
air to the ocean.

On this show, we
love nothing more

than a good, deep sea mystery,

especially when there's a
very large creature involved.

And this next video
is so mind-bending,

it would have Jules
Verne himself saying,

"Come on, Monsieur."

2017, the Mediterranean Sea.

A team working a debris
sweep along ocean pipelines

comes across what at first

looks like just another deep
sea carcass to be cleared away.

But closer inspection reveals
this is truly something unusual.

What appears to be a
90-foot-long, dusty spine

sits undisturbed on the
bottom of the ocean.

A remote controlled
crane reaches out

to investigate the skeleton,

turning over one of the
vertebrae, which disintegrates.

British podcaster and
investigator Debbie Hatswell

was one of the first people
to see this intriguing film

after a member of the
pipeline maintenance team

reached out to her.

He said, "I've seen a lot of
carcasses on the sea floor.

And I've seen whale carcasses
and all fish and all that,

and it just doesn't fit.

It doesn't fit with
what they are."

He's saying this is an anomaly.

And he's felt that it was
a very, very old animal

of some kind.

So I reached out to a
number of marine biologists,

and nobody really got back to
me with it as to what it was.

Field
researcher Ken Gerhard

explores the idea that
perhaps these are the remains

of a long extinct ocean
predator, the dreaded megalodon.

In 2022, the Atlantic Shark
Institute out of Rhode Island

was deploying sonar

when they encountered what
they believed to be a shark

of unbelievable proportions.

Perhaps 50 to 60 feet in length.

Now, if so, this would
be the best account

of a modern megalodon.

The megalodon,

a nautical nightmare
that experts believe

could weigh as much as 50 tons,

has been thought extinct
for nearly 3 million years.

Have these Rhode
Island researchers

uncovered a modern day version
of this historical monster?

And if so, could we be looking

at the remnants of
one in this video?

This would certainly
fit within the paradigm

of what we know about megalodon.

Gerhard also
sees a connection

between this discovery

and the classic
mythology of the region.

In Greek mythology,
different sea monsters

like Cetus, Charybdis,
the Lernaean Hydra,

were said to live throughout
the Mediterranean Sea.

And while there
are many suspects,

there's one sea dragon
sighting in particular

that Gerhard thinks
could be connected.

In October 1907, fishermen
on the island of Corsica

claimed that they
were terrorized

by a horrible,
200-foot sea dragon

that actually ripped
apart their nets.

And the fishermen were so
scared to go back out and fish

that they actually
called on the government

to bring in a torpedo boat
in order to kill the monster.

And that just happens
to be the location

where we've got this footage
of a 90-foot spinal column.

Sea dragons can be found

in all sorts of
ancient texts and tales

dating back thousands of years.

From Norse mythology's
Midgard serpent

to the ancient Babylonian's
saltwater dragon Tiamat,

who many say was rebranded

as the Leviathan in
the Old Testament,

is there a connection here?

Let's see if our experts can
help slay this oceanic mystery.

Marine biologist Dr. Shea
Steingass strongly doubts

these are the remains of a
sea dragon of ancient myth.

It's been hypothesized that
this might be a sea dragon.

That's probably not the case

'cause we really don't have
any scientific evidence

of these creatures existing.

Steingass
also points to the fact

that we can see what
appears to be a pelvis,

something not found in
the numerous depictions

of these serpent-like creatures.

What we're
actually seeing here

is a very old skeleton of
some kind of modern animal.

But the only
documented modern marine animal

that could possibly grow to
this length would be a whale.

Could that be what this is?

I would say the
chances that this

is a really large whale
skeleton are really slim

because we would likely see
other types of large bones

like a skull, if we were
to see a spinal column.

These remains
aren't like anything

I've really seen before.

With Dr.
Steingass at a loss,

we checked with wildlife
biologist Stephanie Manka

to see if this could
be a modern megalodon

like the one thought to be
discovered near Rhode Island.

If it were a megalodon,

I wouldn't expect to see
the bone as intact as this.

Megalodons, like other sharks,
instead of bone skeletons,

they have cartilage skeletons
which don't fossilize well.

Bone contains minerals,
whereas cartilage doesn't.

Bones are much harder.

And if you think about your ear,

this part where it
bends, is the cartilage,

and that's what shark's
skeletons are made of.

When
cartilage breaks down,

it turns into a
jelly-like substance

that dissolves into the water,

which is why the only proof
we have for megalodons

are their teeth.

And as for that alleged
megalodon spotted

by the Atlantic Shark
Institute of Rhode Island,

further research
indicates this sonar image

is more likely a large
school of Atlantic mackerel.

So with all of our
theories ruled out,

what is Manka's best guess?

I believe that
this is a whale.

What is probably going on
here is the whale skeleton

has been on the ocean
floor for so long

that organisms have
eaten away at the bone

and there are fin whales
in the Mediterranean,

which are the second
largest whale species.

They usually don't
get up to 30 meters,

so there is a little
size discrepancy,

but everything else seems
to elude that it is a whale.

Our verdict,
unknown sea beast.

Stephanie Manka
thinks it could be

an abnormally large whale,

but our marine biologist,
Dr. Steingass, says no way.

Until there is
further investigation

of the skeleton itself
beyond this video evidence,

these bones will
remain a mystery.

Imagine you're
in the open ocean.

Visibility is good and there's
nothing to see for miles.

Then, out of nowhere, you
hear a massive, guttural cry

like some giant sea monster

waking from a
centuries-long slumber.

Scary, right?

Well, take a listen
to our next story.

It's March 1st, 1999,

and the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,

or NOAA, is continuing
its deep sea research

along the frozen
waters of Antarctica.

As they record
audio of the water

using an autonomous
hydrophone array,

an unexpected sound emerges.

We hear a strange,
otherworldly moaning sound

emanating from the
bowels of the deep.

If some sea beast is making
this noise, it has to be huge.

The sound is loud
enough to be heard

over a range of 3,000 miles,

but where it's coming from
exactly, no one knows.

Journalist Erin
McCarthy says experts

were confounded by
this underwater roar.

It's believed
to have originated

between the Bransfield Straits
and Cape Adare in Antarctica.

The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration

nicknamed this seriously
loud noise the "Julia" sound.

The Antarctic is home
to plenty of wildlife,

so one theory is that
maybe a known creature

created this loud sound.

In fact, the
Antarctic waters are home

to the largest and loudest
documented animal in the world,

the Atlantic blue whale.

Weighing more than
half a million pounds,

the blue whale calls can be
heard for hundreds of miles

and can reach decibels
louder than a jet engine.

But according to Erin McCarthy,

theories began to emerge
that the sound was made

by something more monstrous.

Some have wondered
if the Julia noise

is actually the sea monster,
possibly the Kraken.

The Kraken,

one of the most legendary
monsters of the deep,

was a giant, multi-tentacled,
squid-like creature

that dominated the
nightmares of sea folk

since the 12th century.

And while many
consider the Kraken

to be nothing more than a myth,

recent discoveries of
ichthyosaur dinosaur bones,

some found right
here in Antarctica,

suggest something killed
these 30-foot marine beasts

by crushing their chests
and twisting their necks

by using large tentacles.

Could this be a Kraken?

Cape Adare is the site

of the first documented
landing on Antarctica.

Norwegian explorers
arrived there in 1895

and later built two huts there,

the first known human structures
erected on the continent.

More than a hundred years later,

what could be causing
the mysterious sounds

emanating from the depths of
the continent's remote waters?

Marine biologist Shea Steingass
vetoes the Kraken theory.

The Kraken, which is
an incredibly large,

squid-like sea monster,

wouldn't even have the
right organs or anatomy

to make these sounds.

Squids are just cephalopods.

Cephalopods don't even really
have vocal cords and lungs,

because they're actually just
ocean dwelling invertebrates.

While
all marine mammals

can communicate with sound,

as can certain fish and even
loud clicking crustaceans,

cephalopods remain
stealthily silent.

So there's nothing on a
Kraken or squid or octopus

that can even make
this kind of a sound.

In any case,

we checked with forensic
sound expert Rob Maher,

who first tests the Julia
sound against the blue whale.

Comparing the frequency
range of the the blue whale

to the Julia sound,

the blue whale is
at a lower frequency

than the Julia sound.

The characteristics of a
biological sound underwater

don't match what we would
see in the Julia sound.

Maher also rules
out mechanical sounds

like deep sea drills,

since those tend to be
regular and rhythmic.

This thing sure isn't.

So what does that leave us?

Maher thinks there's only
one remaining possibility

that makes sense.

It's likely from
geological sources.

We also have ice and glaciers
that are entering the ocean.

And the motion of the ice
rubbing against other ice,

or against the ground,
or the ocean surface,

will create sound.

Icebergs make sounds?

Turns out, we only discovered
that in the past 25 years.

In fact, these sounds are some
of the loudest in the ocean.

The equivalent of
200 super tankers

on par with undersea
volcanoes and earthquakes,

and can be picked up
thousands of kilometers away.

If we compare this
sound shown here

of an actual iceberg event...

The characteristics of this tone

are similar to what we
see in the Julia sound.

Our verdict, icebergs.

Such a massive sound like Julia

requires a massive
force behind it.

And in Antarctica,
nothing comes bigger.

As for our Kraken,

he will just have to
stay dormant for now.

On this show,

we've told you about rocks
that grow, rocks that sail,

and even rocks that look like
encrypted alien messages.

But have you ever heard
of rocks that sing?

Well, you're about to.

It's July 2020,
outside Butte, Montana.

Photographer Nickolas Warner
has traveled to Dry Mountain

to witness one of the
strangest natural wonders

in Big Sky Country.

His drone footage
shows a massive pile

of rust-colored boulders

that seem oddly out
of place in contrast

with the drab gray of
the rocks lying nearby.

And when struck lightly
with a hammer...

Each boulder produces
a bell like tone.

Some rocks, depending
on where you hit them,

they come up with
a different sound.

I'm still kind of baffled

by how it was able
to make such a loud,

distinct ringing sound.

For whatever reason, this
specific pile of rocks

has some sort of
strange quality to it.

What's
especially strange

is that when rocks have
been removed from this site,

they no longer ring.

Nickolas says the whole area

has a kind of creepy
feeling to it.

It was that feeling where
someone is watching you.

It felt very uncanny.

I would say that
there's definitely

some sort of mystical
qualities to the area.

The bell
rocks of Montana

aren't the only ancient stones

to produce this unique
brand of rock music.

Many civilizations
believe these areas,

where rocks ring like
they are hollow,

were special places
of great mystical

and spiritual significance.

Ringing rocks and
gongs of various types

and with differing sounds
are found around the world

at sites in the US, Mexico,

Europe, Africa,
India, and Australia.

But where did these massive,

seemingly out of place
stones come from?

Author Jason Martell
says some think

sound helped build
the Egyptian pyramids

and maybe move
these rocks as well

Around the world,

there's theories that
using vibrational sound

can actually levitate
large stones.

I think that perhaps
they were moved here

using some type of
a sound frequency.

Experiments have
proven it's possible

to levitate objects by using
high frequency sound waves

to create a standing wave

that acts as a force
to counteract gravity.

But can it work for
something as big as boulders?

There may be several
sites around the world

known for their ringing rocks,

but there has been
less investigation

into the special
property of these stones

than you would expect,

especially considering
that humans have used them

as musical and
ritualistic instruments

since before written history.

So what's going on here?

Our experts leave
no stone unturned.

We take the footage

to our forensic audio
analyst Dr. Rob Maher

and deduce if the rocks
were put here intentionally.

First, he compares
them to church bells.

The ringing rock have
this characteristic here,

which is loud and then it dies
out as the ring goes away.

And for the church bells here...

We can see the same
characteristic of the sound.

We can see the start of
that, and then the decay.

So the two sounds
are distinctive.

Our ear can tell the difference,

but they share many of the
same kind of characteristics.

So maybe these rocks
were placed here on purpose

to designate a spot
as sacred as a church?

But while the bell rocks
share similar properties

with a church bell, Maher says

they don't show signs of being
intentionally arranged.

The orchestral
chimes will ring

for a much longer
period of time.

They're designed
very specifically

to give that sustained
sort of quality

so that they will have a
longer duration of vibration

and give us a different
sound quality

than the random collection
of minerals in that rock.

So if nobody put
these ringing rocks here,

where'd they come from
and why do they ring?

NASA geologist Dr. Bob
Anderson weighs in.

It looks like a pile
of rocks that somebody

might have dropped
off, it's not.

What it is, it's an old, what
we call a plug or a batholith

from a volcano that
has been exposed

and is breaking apart
into all these pieces

because of weathering.

A batholith
is a large mass

of intrusive igneous rock,

which forms from
magma that's cooled

after rising into
the Earth's crust.

Perhaps the most
famous batholith

is Half Dome in
Yosemite National Park.

Anderson says the secret
behind the ringing

is most likely a combination

of the mineral
composition of the rocks

and the way joining
patterns have developed

as the rocks have eroded.

That's why they only ring here.

The resonance depends on
how they are connected.

Most of these
rocks are basalts,

And basalts are igneous rocks

that come up from
the underground.

What happens over the years,
the rocks are breaking apart.

Each of those rocks, as long
as they're in connection,

has that resonant standing
wave that'll ring as a unit.

But when you start seeing
all these little pieces,

now you're making
up the orchestra.

And so all the little pieces

have a different pitch
and different tone

as they break apart
and weather away.

Our verdict, this is a
natural geological phenomenon.

But we still can't
explain why people feel

a mystical presence
around the ringing rocks.

If you make the trip out there,
maybe you'll feel it too.

Just make sure you leave
the rocks as you find them.

In an earlier episode,

we brought you a
story of a ghoulish,

unidentified creature
that left us baffled.

But thanks to our loyal viewers,
new information has emerged

that may help us solve this
rather grotesque puzzle.

While it remains uncertain
where this footage was taken,

the story supposedly
first unfolded

in a small village in Russia.

We're told a local
farmer alleges

that his home has been 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 more puzzling.

It appears petrified.

According to the source
who gave us this video,

the cause of the
explosion was never found

but residents of the
town were more frightened

by what this creature could
portend for their village.

In our first go around,

journalist Erin
McCarthy suggests

that the answer may tie
back to climate change.

Permafrost is
melting in Russia

and with that melting,

all kinds of extinct
creatures are popping up

like mammoths and rhinos.

Melting permafrost
has revealed a plethora

of long forgotten life forms,

from a 3,500-year-old
mummified bear

to potentially deadly
ancient viruses.

In fact, many think a deer
carcass thawed in Siberia

caused an anthrax outbreak
throughout a remote village.

Could this creature
be the latest reveal

from the permafrost?

We turn to our resident
biologist, Dr. Floyd Hayes.

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

that formerly lived in Russia
that is no longer there today.

Our experts were stumped
when they first saw this clip.

But after running this piece,

we got word from our most
important armchair experts:

You.

And that changed everything.

After our first story aired,

Joyce Driscoll, one of
our eagle-eyed viewers,

reached out to share
some much needed intel.

The first time I
saw that episode,

I said, "I know what that is."

I remembered this shop called
The Witch's Shop in Bolivia.

One of these things was
hanging from the ceiling.

It was a llama fetus.

Wait a
second, a llama fetus?

And from Bolivia, not Russia?

They look exactly like that

because they're
actually hung by cords

at the back of the neck,

just like the one
in your show is,

and they're hanging
all over that shop.

The things in there
were used for good luck

or, you know, good
harvest, bring rain,

traditional, native-type stuff
for the the local people.

I don't know how a llama
fetus could do all that,

but that's what
they said.

We checked
back with Floyd Hayes

about this surprising
revelation.

And after this second glance,
he concurred with our viewer.

As it turns out, the
creature was a llama fetus.

Llamas, they're preserved
and kept by Bolivians.

But Hayes feels
no shame in being corrected

by one of our audience members.

I was pleased to learn

that the true
identity of the animal

was provided by a
viewer of the show.

As for
our viewer Joyce,

the respect is more than mutual.

I did not mean to
one-up your experts.

They do a fantastic
job on your show

and that's one of the
reasons I watch it,

because I like that
expert opinion.

Our new verdict, llama fetus.

Our intrepid viewers
may have solved this one

and raised serious doubts

about where this
footage came from.

Russia? I don't know.

Bolivia seems much more likely.

This much we do know,

we couldn't have explained
this story without your help.

And that's our show for tonight.

If you have any tips for us,
we'd love to hear from you.

So drop us a line and keep
those cameras rolling.