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Tonight on "The Proof Is Out There."

Chaos in the cockpit.

Are UFOs becoming a threat

to commercial air travel?

Even the government didn't know what this thing was.

Underwater explorers encounter

this deep-sea oddity.

What is this bizarre, strange-looking creature?

It's very unnerving.

An alleged alien abduction.

Did the infamous Grays leave these marks

on this woman's body?

Whatever made this is not natural.

And motorists are crashing into invisible cars?

These drivers literally don't know what hit them.

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 is clearly faked.

The proof starts now.

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

Due to ongoing tensions with its neighbor, India,

Pakistan is highly sensitive about

anomalous incidents in its airspace.

So when a team of Pakistani commercial pilots

spotted a mysterious object outside their window,

they took notice and took out a camera.

January 23, 2021.

A Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320

is on a routine flight from Lahore to Karachi when suddenly

the pilots notice a bright ball in the sky

over the city of Rahim Yar Khan.

At first, the object appears to glow and pulsate,

but that's because the camera is trying to focus on it.

Slowing down, the video shows the object appears to be

a solid white orb.

Excitement grows as they struggle with a smartphone

to zoom in and hold the object in frame.

Journalist Amy Teitel says this isn't

the first time pilots have reported

strange orb-like objects

over Pakistan's skies.

In January of 2019, a report was filed that the crew

on a flight from Karachi to

Sikur saw an object floating

about 105 feet above their aircraft.

The object they saw wasn't bright.

It was kind of oval-shaped.

The incident was immediately reported to air traffic control

in Karachi, but the details of the sighting

were never released to the public.

For decades, commercial and military pilots

faced scorn and ridicule for reporting UFO sightings,

which could have resulted in a loss of critical information.

Our team of experts is about to give

this Pakistani airline crew's footage

the attention it deserves.

We begin with military aviation expert Tim McMillan,

who agrees with one of the pilot's immediate assessments.

We don't see rotors,

we don't see a jet engine,

we don't see anything that would propel it.

We don't see control surfaces, that type of thing.

And so it's not a plane or a helicopter.

These experienced commercial pilots had no idea

what they were seeing.

Could that be because it's something

not of this world?

We know that from the Pentagon

and their official UAP investigative office

that the sphere or round shape

are the most commonly reported UFOs that they have.

So this shape of UFO is very consistent.

But McMillan also notes, if it's a UFO,

it's certainly not acting like one.

Typically, when you're thinking of UFO,

you're talking about sightings of objects

that perform in ways that we can't comport

with any known technology.

So is there anything in this video

that I see that would tell me that it requires

an explanation for it being alien?

No.

Instead, McMillan believes the orb-like shape

of this object isn't that unusual to find in the sky.

And he disagrees with one of the pilots on board.

The round sphere shape is not an aerodynamic shape.

So it's something that is having to maintain altitude

by lighter than air gases.

And for me, the only type of airborne object

that would be consistent with it would be a balloon.

Astronomer Marc D'Antonio says

there may even be a clue to the kind of balloon.

He points out the flight path from Lahore to Karachi

isn't far from the border of India,

Pakistan's longtime adversary.

This might be a Pakistani version

of a Chinese spy balloon.

If so, that payload would be hanging

directly beneath the balloon, lost in the glare.

You'd never see it because those payloads are closer

to the balloon.

They're not hanging way down below

like many aerial weather balloons have hanging from them.

But proving it? McMillan admits for now,

the full evidence isn't there.

It certainly has all the appearance

and shape of a balloon, and so what type of balloon

it could be, could be anybody's guess.

Our verdict, McMillan is leaning balloon,

but the pilot himself insists that's not what this was.

For now, to be safe, we're going with unidentified object.

The frantic camera work just doesn't give us

a clear enough image to be definitive.

A rep from the airline claims they don't know

what the object was either,

but they won't be launching their own investigation.

Now, let's talk sea monsters.

From giant squid to giant spider crabs,

Japan is certainly no stranger to uncanny aquatic creatures.

But a recent video is puzzling marine biologists,

allegedly showing something or someone

lurking on the ocean floor.

Have a look.

2010, Sagami Bay, just southwest of Tokyo.

JAMSTEC,

the Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology,

is using deep-diving ROV cameras

to record exotic marine life on the ocean floor

when they suddenly capture this.

It looks like a large sea creature

lurking on the bay floor at a depth of 3,353 feet

with small eyes and a peculiar Mona Lisa smile.

Look closer.

Whatever it is seems partially buried.

Some speculate only its head is peeking out,

which means its full body could be far bigger.

But with no other visual reference for scale,

its exact size remains unknown.

Field researcher Ken Gerhard suggests

that we could be looking at actual evidence

of the mythical Japanese creature known as the Ningen.

In Japanese mythology, the Ningen is a titanic,

aquatic sea monster ranging from 65 to 100 feet in length.

And it's characterized by having very smooth, blubbery skin,

humanoid features, including a large human head

with giant eyes and a big slit for a mouth.

Also having tendril-like limbs or arms and hands.

These alleged photos supposedly show

Ningen swimming in the Atlantic and Antarctic oceans.

However, with no clear source behind these pics,

their authenticity is questionable.

Japanese sailors have also told stories about monsters

haunting their waters for centuries.

One nightmarish legend, the Umibozu who could supposedly

tear large boats right in half.

Many believed it played a hand

in the 1955 Toya Maru ferry disaster,

where more than 1,000 people drowned at sea.

But could this be one of the many unexplained

Japanese sea creatures of lore?

The Japanese scientific expedition

that shot this footage

was actually able to classify eight brand new species

of marine animals.

What they were unable to classify is the animal

that we're seeing in this film.

Just southeast of Japan is an area known

as the Devil's Sea,

basically the Pacific's version of the Bermuda Triangle

where all manner of ships have gone missing.

It's been speculated that unidentified sea creatures

could play a role.

There are few things more exciting than identifying

a new species.

So what is this?

We turn to our experts.

Many people who have seen this video think this could be

a beluga whale, but marine biologist

Shea Steingass says that's unlikely.

Beluga whales are an Arctic species.

They have evolved over time to live in

the very cold ocean environment.

This is such a warm environment

compared to what they're adapted to.

It would be incredibly unexpected to see a beluga whale

in this environment.

So could it be an oceanic Japanese creature of myth

like the Ningen?

Steingass is doubtful.

The Ningen is said to have human-like legs

and that doesn't make a lot of evolutionary sense.

Marine mammals tend to have fins.

If you were to have legs, you would have to have

very powerful blood flow.

This would cause the bends.

When humans dive deep,

nitrogen leaves the lungs and is absorbed

into the bloodstream.

The nitrogen returns to our lungs

when we rise, but if done too quickly,

it can get stuck in our circulatory system,

causing decompression sickness, AKA the bends.

Fins have circulatory systems far less complicated

than those found in human appendages,

requiring far less blood flow.

And many marine mammals can even collapse their lungs,

evolutionary steps to prevent them from getting the bends.

A humanoid-type body would not do well

in these types of depths underwater.

So we're starting to wonder,

is this footage even real?

Forensic video analyst, Michael Primeau,

takes a deep dive into our footage

to examine its credibility.

There's a lot of visual aspects that aid in verifying

that there's something under the water

that the camera is capturing.

The onscreen telemetry information

has the same kind of artifacting or chroma aberrations

that you would expect to see from a video that was created

by underwater technology.

And while this footage appears legit,

Primeau is doubtful that the thing we are looking at

is actually moving.

It appears to be that the motion of the camera

may be tricking the mind into thinking that it's moving.

But through frame-by-frame analysis,

I was not able to detect any evidence of the object moving.

So how could an organic specimen be so motionless?

Well, Steingass suggests this thing

may not be organic at all.

It's really easy to think that this might be

some kind of animal at first glance,

because that's exactly what our brain is telling us.

But I think we're just looking at something solid

on the ocean floor.

Some kind of geological formation,

like a seamount or a rock spire,

something made out of sand or rock,

with a couple of small ocean creatures sitting on top of it.

It's a mix of geological and animal phenomenon

that together look like it could be an organism.

Just an example of our brain tricking us.

Our verdict?

We are saying this thing is an unknown inanimate object

with a couple of small sea critters tagging along,

masquerading as facial features.

We can't identify it exactly,

but both Steingass and Primeau agree

whatever this thing is, it ain't moving.

As for those other alleged Ningen sightings we mentioned,

we're on the case, so stay tuned.

Here on "The Proof Is Out There,"

we've heard plenty of amazing stories of alien encounters

and even abductions that we've had to pass on

because there was no corroborating evidence.

So when one woman told us she had proof on her body,

it's fair to say our interest was piqued.

September 16th, 2017,

Sev Tok and her boyfriend have just moved

to Arapaho, North Carolina.

The two are still unpacking when suddenly Sev feels

what she describes as a bug bite on her rear.

And when she looks...

We were both stunned,

wondering how did this red X show up

on the left cheek of your tush?

Nine dots were arranged on her skin

in a perfect X formation.

The mark doesn't itch, and upon running her fingers

over it, Sev feels neither a raise nor indentation.

I couldn't feel it.

I decided, let's just ignore this.

We're gonna pretend like this never even happened.

Nine days after discovering those first marks,

Sev says she was startled awake

by a rush of disturbing memory fragments.

Believing them to be from the night before,

she recalled an unearthly encounter.

I was lying on this bed that resembled a hospital bed.

And I turned my head around, and standing right behind me,

right here, just inches from me, was a Gray.

By Gray, Sev is referring

to the infamous Gray Aliens,

intergalactic antagonists in many alien abduction accounts.

We locked eyes, and ding, I'm back in my bedroom.

Fearing that these visions weren't just a dream,

Sev checks the mirror and discovers a second X mark

has appeared on her backside,

directly across from the original.

The marks lasted around three weeks

before fading from her skin.

I was so afraid and so confused.

There was no logical explanation for this.

Sev's story may sound incredible,

but Mindy Tautfest of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON,

says it's more common than you might think.

Following an abduction encounter,

people can walk away with all kinds of strange markings,

including bruising, scratches, all the way up to implants.

For instance, in October 1973,

two fishermen were allegedly abducted by a hovering craft,

subjected to physical examination,

and returned with small punctures in their skin.

It's because of these punctures, not unlike Sev's marks

in size and shape, that their abduction story

has been called one of the most credible in history.

Back in 2003, one Harvard study found

that memories of alien abduction

can leave real psychological scars

akin to post-traumatic stress.

As for the validity of Sev Tok's marks,

we'll leave it to our experts to decide.

Wildlife biologist, Stephanie Manka,

considers Sev's first instinct.

Could this be a bug bite?

All of the circles are the same size.

It's in a straight line,

and the measurements between the circles look the same.

So maybe this is the work of a bug

with linear feeding habits, like bedbugs.

They tend to bite in straight lines,

simply because they hide along the straight edges

of blankets and sheets.

But that wouldn't explain an X.

It's highly unlikely that bugs could bite

in a coordinated pattern like this.

Manka considers that these marks could be

in some way self-inflicted.

Some have noticed a similarity between these photos

and the marks often left by a practice called Kambo Therapy.

Kambo is a spiritual and medicinal practice

that originated in the Amazon by indigenous tribes.

In a Kambo cleanse, shamans burn shallow wounds

into the skin, like you see here,

then apply the secretions of the toxic giant monkey frog,

which enter the bloodstream.

The goal is to cure a multitude of illnesses,

but Manka's not sure that's what this is.

I don't think this is Kambo because the areas

that appear to be healing are not scarring in the way

that we would typically expect them to.

When Kambo heals, it leaves a mark

that is lighter than the skin color around it.

We're not getting that lighter color we would expect.

Next, we have Dr. Ed Hope,

who notes that the way these marks are healing

also adds some complications

to the abduction theory timeline.

This image here is taken immediately after

Sev's vision of being abducted,

but we can see it's actually gone through a healing process

because some of the discoloration is

actually fading away.

So I don't think it's related to Sev's vision

of being abducted because it was likely there beforehand.

Then again, Sev's vision and second set of marks

may have been from her first alleged encounter

nine days earlier.

After all, there is a history of self-proclaimed

alien abductees losing and later recovering

memories of their abductions.

Still, we can't be sure when Sev got these marks,

and Dr. Hope says there's no clear answer

on how she got them either.

There is either some kind of light, penetrating trauma

that's damaged the skin

or something that's pressed against

that has irritated the skin.

And I'm not sure which of those two is more likely,

and I'm also not sure what kind of object

would actually create this pattern.

I don't know what's going on here.

Our verdict, unknown skin trauma.

We just can't pinpoint what instrument could have created

these distinct geometric marks.

Despite Dr. Hope's skepticism, Sev is convinced the Grays

gave her these marks, and many in the UFO community agree.

If this story has encouraged you to share your evidence

of ET contact, let us know.

Each year, there are an average of

six million car crashes

in the United States alone.

Often it's because the drivers in those collisions

never saw the other car coming,

and maybe there's a good reason why.

Watch this.

It's July 2018.

A video goes viral that seems to be a compilation

of mysterious accidents.

We see a white sedan crossing the center line to turn left

when it seems to be hit by an invisible oncoming car.

Then in another crash, caught on a highway traffic cam,

a car rolls on its side after colliding

with something unseen.

Finally, a silver SUV appears to smash into thin air

while traveling through an intersection.

Some viewers claim this is an example of something called

a time slip, that the cars are actually colliding

with cars that were on the same road in the past

or that will be in the future.

The theory goes that past, present, and future exist

continually rather than sequentially,

so it's possible to slip back and forth

between different timelines.

Author Alexis Brooks says there's some precedent

for this idea, including a famous incident

from 1901 when two British tourists

were visiting Versailles.

What they described in a book called "An Adventure"

was being in this small chateau area and all of a sudden

the scene changed.

What they say that they saw were individuals

in 18th century period clothes walking around in the garden.

One of the women that they witnessed was none other than,

they say, Marie Antoinette.

So did these two tourists momentarily

slip back through time over a century into the past?

And could time slips explain another strange

but well-documented accident investigation

from December 2002?

It was near Burpham in Surrey, England.

Several drivers call police saying they've seen a car

lose control and careen off the highway.

But when police arrive, there's no sign of a wreck.

For Americans, that's a license plate.

Officer Ian Kyle says what they find

is a crashed maroon Vauxhall Astra.

And lying underneath is not a body, but rather a skeleton,

that of a missing 21-year-old man.

That's right, the fatal accident

apparently happened five months earlier.

But eyewitnesses say they saw it take place

right before their eyes that very night.

So did the people of Surrey and the ones

in these crash clips temporarily slip back through time?

The closest thing to time slips that most people

can probably relate to is the sensation of deja vu.

So maybe time slips aren't such an out there theory

for what led to these mysterious crashes.

Let's see what our experts think.

Physicist Dr. Matthew Szydagis considers if these crashes

could be the result of time slips to a past

that's already happened.

We know that from Einstein's theory of relativity,

you could get a one-way ticket to the future

by going close to the speed of light.

What we do not know how to do is time travel to the past.

This requires what's called negative energy.

Negative energy is having less energy

than empty space, which nobody is currently able to do.

We don't know how to harness a sufficient amount

of energy in order to allow for time travel to the past.

So the question is,

are these crazy crashes even real?

Forensic video analyst Michael Primeau investigates.

The shadow changes here as you examine

the shadow area from the back of that vehicle.

And this is most likely due to some sort of masking

that was done to try to conceal the rest of the story

that we're not able to see.

And Primeau says he's been able to track down

a key piece of evidence that does tell

the rest of the story.

What we found is there was a side-by-side comparison

done demonstrating the original footage of the crash

versus the edited version.

It almost looks like some sort of tint was added

to make the scene itself look different.

So these are very effectively edited clips

using actual traffic cam footage.

As for that mysterious English crash

and its skeletal driver, Officer Ian Kyle

is still waiting for answers.

Our verdict?

The crash clips are a hoax,

the product of creative digital editing.

We're still not really sure what's going on with the strange

accident reports in Surrey,

but hopefully with the passage of time,

we'll get that figured out, too.

You've heard of the highway to hell

and the stairway to heaven,

but what about the road to Atlantis?

Well, we're about to go down.

All the way.

It's July, 2020, just off the coast of North Bimini Island

in the Bahamas.

A local tourism company has set up a drone

to capture one of their snorkel outings on video.

But the bird's eye view reveals that these snorkelers

are about to encounter more than local marine life.

The drone camera reveals a cluster of rocks

on the ocean floor that stretches out

in a distinct linear formation.

The snorkelers are seen swimming along the path

known as Bimini Road.

Every time I've swam across the road,

it has been a completely different experience,

almost like a electrical frequency

amplifies from the stones.

Many people have incredible visions.

It's a truly magical place.

Robbyne and others believe the strange formation

may be the remains of the lost city of Atlantis.

This legendary island kingdom was first mentioned

in the writings of the Greek philosopher Plato,

who claims it sank into the sea around 9600 BC.

But Atlantis in the Caribbean?

Yep.

Journalist Eric Grundhauser notes that this theory

has existed ever since, if not even before,

Bimini Road's discovery.

The discovery of Bimini Road in 1968

actually coincided with a prediction

by popular pop psychic Edgar Cayce,

who said that evidence of Atlantis

would actually be discovered in 1968.

And closer inspection only seems to confirm

suspicions of man-made construction.

Subsea archaeologists actually noticed that this

appeared to be disparate stones

that were placed in this formation.

So is this proof

that the legend of Atlantis is real?

The myth of Atlantis often portrays it as a city

that was in possession of advanced,

possibly extraterrestrial technology that eventually

was sunk to the bottom of the ocean.

Before you write off the Atlantis theory

as too far-fetched, remember that archeologists

have actually discovered sunken sites,

like the ancient Egyptian city of Thonis-Heracleion.

But can our experts dive deep enough to find an ancient city

at Bimini Road?

First, we asked geologist Dr. Bob Anderson

how it could be possible for a whole city to simply sink.

There are several areas where you can find ancient cities,

for example, the ancient Roman city of Baiae,

which was located on the flanks

of a supervolcano called Campi Flegrei.

It's now located in the Gulf of Pozzuoli.

It sank due to bradyseism.

That is volcanic activity that causes the ground

to rise and fall.

Geologists believe that at Baiae,

underground magma built up steam and pressure,

which fractured the rock below the Earth's surface

and caused the land above to move

and the sea below to flow in.

And though archaeologist Dr. Ed Barnhart

says this is consistent with legends of Atlantis,

he's not sure it's what happened at Bimini Road.

There are no volcanoes in the Bahamas,

so the Bimini Road could not have been submerged

through the same processes.

Still, other cities have disappeared

as a result of sea level rise.

So could this be the sunken, or rather submerged,

city of Atlantis?

The lost city of Atlantis began

with the stories of Plato.

So the Aegean is one option, and then the Mediterranean

is another option.

But with the name Atlantis,

most folks put it in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,

but definitely not in the Caribbean.

Since Plato didn't know about the New World,

the location is looking unlikely.

In fact, Barnhart says it's probably not a road of any kind.

Roads connect one place to another.

We have absolutely no artifacts anywhere along it

or near it.

If it was man-made, we'd expect some sort of man activity

buried underneath it or nearby it.

But if Bimini Road wasn't made by man,

how did it come to be?

I believe that the Bimini Road is an ancient shoreline

of where the water was about somewhere between

12,000 to 14,000 years ago.

And what happened is that as the water has risen,

the shoreline has become submerged,

and all the shells and everything that wash up

on the shoreline become cemented together to form limestone.

Then why does Bimini Road look so artificial?

People say that because it's so straight and long

that it couldn't have been created by natural processes,

but because of limestone's chemical composition

and structure, it breaks off in very block-like formations.

Those look very much like giant man-made blocks.

Our verdict?

It seems Bimini Road is a natural geological formation.

In fact, it's only 18 feet underwater,

which makes the submerged hardened coastline theory

look all the more likely.

As for why Robbyne and other divers feel

what she called electrical frequencies and visions

while diving there, that remains unexplained.

We have our fair share of strange animal stories

on this show, but this may be the first time

where an animal is making us question reality as we know it.

It's February 18th, 2023.

It's a cloudy day in Surrey, British Columbia.

A young couple is driving up a hill when they see something

that absolutely challenges our expectations of physics.

So weird.

There's something floating over the road,

seemingly suspended in midair, unmoving.

As if that isn't weird enough,

when the couple drives closer, the object comes into focus.

That's freaking weird, man.

The object is, in fact, a dead bird,

contorted unnaturally, frozen in space.

When the footage hit the internet,

the first thing people thought

was this is some twisted prank,

a bird hung from a fishing line.

Only there's one thing, you'd have to hang it

from this power line.

Who would risk their skin for a bad joke?

We've also seen odd videos

of other so-called floating birds online.

So two theories emerged.

First, that this was a so-called glitch in the matrix,

the idea that we live in a fabricated reality,

and every now and then something unnatural occurs to prove

that life as we know it is a virtual program.

The second is, believe it or not,

even more far out, that birds aren't real.

Ken Gerhard thinks birds definitely are real,

but he explains the theory.

The "birds are not real" movement,

and this is something that's

been growing on the internet.

It's a theory that the US government eradicated

all of the living birds in the world between the years 1959

and 1971 and replaced them with mechanical birds.

According to the theory, the government and the military

is using these birds to survey people.

If there's any truth to it, maybe what we're looking at here

is one of these mechanical birds malfunctioning

and levitating somehow above the ground.

What if we just dropped all of a sudden?

Wouldn't that be freaky?

A robot that levitates when it's broken is a mystery

in and of itself, folks.

And while birds aren't real might sound silly,

it's a subject that gets a lot of play on TikTok

and other social media platforms.

Is this all a bit bird-brained?

We asked our experts.

First, forensic video analyst Mick West is able to rule out

that there's any CGI magic happening here.

We see the object off in the distance and the motion blur

on the object is very consistent with the things around it.

When we get a bit closer, we see all this dirt moving around

on the windshield.

It's very hard to kind of composite that in.

So I think this is, in fact, a real video.

But wildlife biologist Stephanie Manka says some videos

of so-called floating birds just demonstrate

a cool aspect of avian flight.

Birds can definitely appear very still.

If there's a really strong wind, they can just glide

and just stay into one place.

This doesn't seem to be the condition here.

This bird looks too contorted.

It's not in the right position to be doing that.

So what does Manka think about

the "birds aren't real" theory?

Many have pointed out that you rarely ever see a baby bird

in the wild.

So could this be

a mechanical surveillance bird glitching out?

It's not really that people genuinely believe

that birds aren't real.

It's more of a satirical take poking fun

at the 2016 election.

And it took off as this like internet sensation.

There's definitely baby birds out there.

By the way, the main reason you don't see

a lot of baby birds is because many types,

including crows, sparrows, and pigeons

are kept hidden in their nests until they are strong enough

to feed themselves and tactfully handle predators.

To solve the mystery of this floating bird,

we called Bryce Robinson,

a scientist at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology.

It looks to me like it is a young gull.

The shape of the tail, the length of the wings is likely

that it got tangled in fishing line.

This happens sometimes when the gull tries to eat something

attached to a hook and so gets the hook

caught in their mouth.

And then it's trailing this long string of fishing line.

And that got caught on a wire or a tree

and a gull probably tried to swing back around

and in the struggle got tied up.

This unfortunately is something that happens because people

are out there fishing and if their fishing line gets caught,

they just cut it and let it go.

And it ends up sitting there in the environment

and animals suffer from it.

Our verdict, this is a juvenile gull

that got tangled up in some fishing wire,

which then got caught on a tree or a pole

above the street with lethal consequences.

Well, it's no prank.

It's a scenario that's all too common in coastal areas,

a direct result of human irresponsibility.

Remember, take only photos, leave only footprints.

And finally tonight, it's human nature to think about

the end of the world,

you know, the apocalypse.

But it's one thing to imagine it

and another thing altogether to see signs of it

right outside your front door.

It's winter 2023

and in Northern Ohio, various people from different towns

are experiencing strange natural phenomena

all around the same two week time period

and within the same 150 mile radius.

One man wakes up to find that the previous night's rainfall

has left a strange plastic like film over his pickup truck.

Whatever that [bleep] is,

it's taking the clear coat right off my truck.

Another man records the rain in his driveway

bubbling up like a cauldron.

And one woman records a strange discoloration

she finds in a bed of shallow water.

I think everybody needs

to see this.

Perhaps most disturbing is this footage a woman

filmed of numerous dead fish floating in her local creek.

There's hundreds of them up here,

hundreds.

Journalist Eric Grundhauser says the internet went wild.

What could be causing these disturbances?

What could cause this type of strange weather phenomenon?

Some are afraid that they'll be forced indoors

by extreme acid rains.

Acid rain is any type of precipitation

that contains high levels of nitric and sulfuric acids,

mostly caused by industrial pollution

such as the burning of fossil fuels.

A strong acid rain can burn a human's skin on contact

and even melt through certain metals

as suggested in this video.

However, Grundhauser points to popular speculation online

that suggests the cause of these events

might be the Almighty himself.

Some of the weather phenomenon have led many to associate

what is happening with the biblical apocalypse.

The Book of Revelation says that the end of days

will begin with the appearance of the four horsemen

of the apocalypse, powerful beings who serve

as harbingers of doom.

Later interpretations would literally name

one of these horsemen Pestilence,

thought to spread both disease and rot throughout the land.

In this video, you can actually see what appears to be

a dead white fish, and that has led some people

to associate it with pestilence.

Before we get too worried about the big one,

it's worth mentioning that humanity has survived

several near apocalypses before, \.

f \From super volcanoes that blocked out the sun

with ash to the Ice Age to the bubonic plague,

the resiliency of our species has proven itself

time and time again.

As for these videos, let's see if our experts

think we are seeing evidence of the end of days.

Writer Mick West doesn't put too much faith in the idea

that what we are seeing is a sign

of a forthcoming apocalypse,

nor are we seeing some strange form of acid rain.

Reason clear coat peels is basically the effects

of the sun.

The ultraviolet rays of the sun get between the clear coat

and the paint and can cause a separation,

and you're gonna get this flaking effect.

It's not actually that uncommon.

But what about that bubbling concrete?

This is just air escaping from the concrete.

Typically, concrete's composition

is not unlike a sponge, with thousands of tiny air holes

that help the material last through freezing

and thawing cycles.

And when fresh rain falls,

you're gonna get that air escaping from the concrete.

Acid rain is a very weak form of acid.

If acid rain was forming on concrete,

I think it would take a lot longer

for bubbles to form than here.

While West may have debunked those videos,

he does believe the other instances

caught on camera are signs of something truly alarming.

This video here, it shows a woman stepping on some rocks,

and it's releasing this.

Petrochemicals rise up to the surface of the water

and spread out.

It's an indicator that there's some type of petrochemical

in the silt at the bottom of the water here.

Meteorologist Juan Hernandez agrees

there's something very wrong going on here.

There was obviously a ecological catastrophe.

What's really going on here is all related

to that train derailment in Ohio on February 3rd, 2023.

That's when a 9,300-foot freight train

derailed due to an overheated wheel bearing,

causing the spill of over 100,000 gallons

of hazardous chemicals.

Taking a look at the wind direction,

in the aftermath of the event, we see chemicals spread

in all directions and release into the atmosphere.

Once the rain fell,

those chemicals then made it to creeks and rivers.

The dumping of chemicals led to a huge ecological disaster

that had a wide range of impacts,

and we're likely not going to know those impacts

for a couple of years.

Our verdict?

Well, it's mixed.

While many of these videos are showing the unfortunate

environmental aftermath of the Ohio train derailment,

a couple of folks seem to be trying to hop on the bandwagon

with their own unrelated videos.

That's what we do on this show,

separate the fact from fiction.

Thanks for watching tonight, and as always,

remember to keep those cameras rolling.