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[mysterious music]

I bet you'd never expect to see a malevolent clown

haunting a lonely highway.

- Some of the clowns are holding weapons,

some of them are carrying bats.

- What the (bleep)?

- People are so freaked out that they call the police.

[woman screaming] - Lock the door!

- Or a hairy hominid strutting by your train window.

- It's uncommon in Bigfoot videos

to have multiple witnesses.

Typically, it's one person alone in the wilderness.

This is not that.

- Suddenly, everyone is talking

about this modern day Bigfoot sighting.

- How about a flaming flash of light

that sparks an out-of-this-world 911 call?

- This is Las Vegas.

Cops have responded to all kinds of calls

and you would think they would poo poo the situation,

but in fact, these cops had their own encounter.

- [Officer] My partner said they saw something

fall outta the sky, too.

- These are the sightings so strange,

they are truly unbelievable.

[dramatic music]

With any strange sighting,

it's easy to dismiss a single report as an anomaly,

but when there are multiple eyewitnesses,

investigators have to look beyond the obvious

and consider the unbelievable.

- It is spring of 1975,

and ranchers across Colorado

begin discovering dead cows in their fields.

- These cows aren't just dead.

They're mutilated in really bizarre ways.

Ears, eyes, udders, genitals have all been removed

with surgical precision.

- Another weird aspect of this phenomenon

is that these cows are typically found lying

on their left side, and there's no blood.

Now, we need to understand that cows have five gallons

of blood in them.

To find a dead cow that's been mutilated

with no blood anywhere,

well, that's weird.

- [Dan] Over the next six months,

the body count skyrockets to 200

and local ranchers want answers.

- Game and wildlife officials

are certain that it must be the work of scavengers.

And yet, there are no footprints.

There is no damage to the surrounding vegetation.

- There is no claw marks or teeth marks or any sort of sign

that something was chewing on them.

So, with no answers in sight,

these ranchers call their US congressman, Floyd Haskell,

and basically beg him to bring in the FBI.

- [Dan] As similar reports start pouring in

from 11 other states, the FBI has no choice but to act.

- So, the FBI assigns about 100 agents to this problem

and they start interviewing eyewitnesses.

A common theory that pops up

is that some sort of Satanic cult

is running around the country mutilating cows.

The FBI looks into it but can't find any evidence.

And a big problem with this theory is,

even Satanic cult members will leave footprints.

- The feds perform stakeouts, autopsies,

they look for witnesses.

They come up with nothing.

- [Dan] Meanwhile, local investigators come up

with their own unusual theory.

- Independent researchers plot out these strange deaths

on a map, and they notice something bizarre.

Most of these deaths cluster around a single line

of latitude known as the North 37th Parallel,

which crosses Kansas, Arizona,

New Mexico, and Colorado.

- Looking at that cow mutilation data,

one New Mexico deputy sheriff, a guy by the name

of Chuck Zukowski, finds something interesting.

The cow mutilations correlate with known UFO sightings

that have occurred during that time,

across this one line of latitude.

- Also, there are an awful lot of important

and sometimes secret government and military facilities

all along that same line.

Fort Knox, Area 51,

Air Force bases, missile silos.

- The 37th Parallel correlations

start to engender speculation

that maybe the cattle mutilations

and some of the related events, like UFO sightings,

are signs of a secret government op.

Maybe some strange airborne weapon

is being tested on the mutilated cows.

- This theory gets so serious in fact

that the National Guard orders their helicopter pilots

to fly above 2,000 feet

when they're flying over cattle ranches

because of a legitimate fear

that ranchers will start taking pot shots

at the US military helicopters to protect their cattle.

[rifle booms] [tense music]

- In the end,

after 50 years of investigation of this mystery,

we still have no smoking gun, or alien death ray.

What we have is thousands of dead cows.

- Far from the 37th Parallel and nearly 20 years later,

a group of school children spot something

that will haunt them for a lifetime.

- It's 1994 in Ruwa, Zimbabwe at the Ariel School,

and it's a typical school scene.

Kids are running around at recess.

The teachers are all inside, enjoying a break.

All of a sudden, all hell breaks loose.

The kids start pouring into the building,

telling the teachers that they saw something very strange.

- Some of the kids describe having seen two lights

in the sky that are orange,

and these lights appear to be getting closer

and then they're revealed as having this disc-like shape.

- [Dan] Once these strange crafts land,

the children get an incredible look

at who, or what, is driving them.

They're even able to sketch the scene for their teachers.

- You can see in the drawings

that all of their descriptions are incredibly similar.

Many of the children report seeing the same,

shorter, humanoid creatures walking around the craft.

- All the children seem to draw, though,

one sort of consistent image

of these strange people or figures.

They all have very large eyes and very large heads.

- The eyes that a lot of the kids put in these drawings

are very intense,

and that's not really surprising at all,

because they describe this experience

where if they make eye contact with the beings,

those beings begin to

communicate with them telepathically.

- [Dan] According to the children,

the visitors share an ominous warning;

that technology would be man's downfall

and we need to act quickly to save the planet.

- There's also a man that reports seeing

two glowing lights in the sky in the distance.

And the night before, there is a trucker who reports

that he sees these two strange beings in the road.

- This is a pretty big deal.

We're talking about a large group of people

seeing the same thing in broad daylight,

but nobody believes them.

- The teachers are inside the classrooms.

They cannot corroborate what the children saw.

Many of the parents have doubts.

This is devastating to these kids

who say they clearly saw something.

- [Dan] Soon, the sighting gets the attention

of UFO researchers around the globe,

eager to interview the young eyewitnesses.

- [John] Could you tell me what you saw on Friday?

- Well, it looked like roundabout, like, like a disc.

- They had big, black eyes.

- There are two researchers who come, Cynthia Hinds,

who's investigated other sightings in the area,

and John Mack, a psychiatrist from Harvard.

- [Dan] Both of these researchers

interviewed the kids,

and they both walk away believing

what the kids have to tell them,

but these interviews aren't without controversy.

For starters, Hinds interviews the children in small groups,

which might be a problem,

because you might have cross-contamination

of the information that's being given in the interviews.

- Of those who've analyzed the testimony,

there seem to be two camps.

One say This is the most compelling evidence

for alien visitation ever, over 60 witnesses.

Others say this is the most compelling case

of mass hysteria they've ever seen.

- [Dan] Still, three decades later,

the witnesses themselves stand by their stories.

- And they still feel stigmatized and criticized,

but in the midst of all that,

they're not backing away from their story,

and that makes it pretty compelling.

- Anybody who's ever tried getting two kids to agree

on what movie to watch knows that getting 60

to make up the same story seems impossible.

- With each new hurricane season,

meteorologists around the globe spend billions of dollars

in high-tech radar tracking equipment,

just to give up-to-date information for evacuations.

But on one small island off South Carolina,

the early warning system is rather unusual,

and it dates back some 200 years.

- Imagine it's a beautiful summer day

on Pawley's Island, South Carolina.

The sky is blue, the sun is shining,

we're seaside with the waves rolling,

but then news of a hurricane arrives.

As night falls, neighbors aren't sure whether to evacuate

or hunker down in their homes,

and then this strange gray man appears.

- Residents repeatedly describe witnessing

this gray apparitional figure cloaked

in a large gray overcoat moving along the coast.

- But the Gray Man has a purpose.

The locals believe that when the Gray Man shows up,

it's time to evacuate the island.

And as the legend goes,

those who heed the Gray Man's warnings,

they're gonna be okay and their property is gonna be okay,

and those who ignore the Gray Man do so at their own peril.

- [Dan] The origin of this astonishing legend

is a little murky,

but it hasn't stopped residents

from speculating over the years.

- According to one story, a sailor returns home

to find that his fiance is cheating on him.

Distraught, he commits suicide by throwing himself

into the Waccamaw River,

and the ghost of the jilted sailor

now walks the shoreline in grief

just before a hurricane is about to strike the island.

- Another theory is that the Gray Man

is actually a man named George Pawley.

He was the original owner of Pawley's Island in the 1700s.

Some people believe that he still roams the area,

trying to keep everybody safe.

- [Dan] By far, the most popular tale

is one that dates back to 1822.

- A sailor returning home is so eager to see his fiancee

that he drives his speeding carriage

into a marsh where he drowns.

- His fiancee is so overcome with grief

that she wanders the shore aimlessly.

One day, a shadowy gray figure approaches her

and she recognizes him as her dead fiance.

She tries to engage him in conversation,

but all he does is warn her about a storm that's coming

and tell her to evacuate.

- After this strange encounter with the Gray Man,

she goes and tells her family, and they heed the warning.

They pack up and they move to a property

that's much more inland.

The storm hits and the entire area is destroyed,

except for their home.

As legend goes, it's because she listens to the Gray Man.

- [Dan] No matter which version you believe,

the Gray Man is a welcome sight.

- Very few of us want to see a ghost,

but if the Gray Man appears to you,

he has elected to save you,

so it could be considered a lucky apparition.

- Running into mysterious figures in the dark

isn't always a good thing.

Sometimes, it can cause a nationwide panic.

August 2016, alarmed citizens of Green Bay, Wisconsin

post pictures on social media of a menacing figure

standing below a highway overpass.

- The figure is this very eerie clown

just walking with a cluster of black balloons.

- People are so freaked out that they call the police,

demanding that they do something about it, arrest them.

The police are dismissive.

It's not illegal to stand around, being a creepy clown.

- Weeks later, terrified children in North Carolina

began reporting their own sightings

of a creepy, threatening-looking clown.

- They say that this clown

is trying to lure them into the woods

with the promise of the things

that we've warned children about.

"I will give you candy. We will have so much fun.

Please come into the woods with me."

- The story becomes a sensation all over the country.

People start flooding at news stations

and social media with pictures and reports.

- What the (bleep)?

[screams] Lock the door, (bleep)!

- Creepy clowns are showing up on Ring cameras,

dash cams, iPhone cameras.

#CreepyClown is trending at the top.

- [Dan] It's dubbed the Great Clown Panic.

Stories of clowns attacking people

and trying to abduct children pop up everywhere,

from Florida to Pennsylvania, Washington, and California.

- And soon, the images start to get a little scarier.

Some of the clowns are carrying bats,

some of them are holding weapons.

This really gets people riled up and terrified.

- By October, the panic has jumped across the pond

to England and European countries.

The Russian embassy in London even issues a warning

to Russian citizens to beware of these creepy clowns.

- [Dan] It gets bad enough that vigilante groups

form clown patrols across the US and Europe.

- [Mitch] When malevolent clown reports start popping up

on the campus of Penn State,

students organize into a flash mob

with the intent of hunting down these threatening clowns.

The mob turns up nothing.

- This is also 2016.

It's an election year and a contentious one.

So, this clown panic starts to get occluded

by political news, and eventually,

it just kind of is supplanted completely and goes away.

- 911 operators never know what kind of call

they're going to get, so they try to prepare for anything.

But in 2023, one dispatcher in Las Vegas

gets a call no one sees coming.

- In April 2023 in Las Vegas, 911 gets an emergency call

from this kid named Angel Kenmore,

and he is freaked out of his mind, utterly terrified.

- When Angel and his family look outside,

they say they see strange creatures

crawling over family equipment in the backyard.

- [Mitch] When police arrive,

Angel's entire family is assembled out on the front lawn.

- [Officer] Hey, what's up? Who called?

- The family is freaked out.

They believe they've seen something wild.

- [Officer] What'd you see?

- It was like a big creature.

- [Officer] A big creature?

- Yeah, like, around 10-feet tall.

- This is Las Vegas.

Cops have responded to all kinds of calls

throughout their careers,

and you would think these cops are gonna kinda roll up

and they will poo poo the situation,

take down the report, and go on about it.

But in fact, these cops

are actually pretty ready to talk to the Kenmore family,

because they have had their own encounter.

- [Officer] Because I'm not gonna BS you guys.

One of my partners said they saw something

fall out of the sky too, so that's why I'm kinda curious.

- [Officer] Oh.

- [Dan] Caught on tape,

their body cam records a large fireball

screening down from the sky,

just as Angel describes on his 911 call.

- A lot of people in the Las Vegas area

saw this fireball and reported it.

So, something happened

and nobody quite knows what that something is.

- With all this speculation,

NASA does eventually step into the fray

and they claim that what the family

and the police officers actually saw that night

was a small meteorite.

And they say that it would've crashed in the ocean

hundreds of miles away.

What's odd though is that a lot of the reports

from Las Vegas at the time and the family in particular,

they claim that they heard the object

hit the ground and make an impact.

- So, if the object fell into the ocean

hundreds of miles away, how do you hear an impact?

- [Officer] I'm kinda curious now.

I wanna know if there's aliens.

- The Vegas PD takes the story seriously enough

to install a surveillance camera

on the roof of the family home.

However, it doesn't capture footage of any intruders,

human or non-human.

- The Vegas event is just the latest

in a long line of UFO reports in the southwest.

The best known, of course is the Roswell incident

that allegedly occurred in early July, 1947.

But another strange sighting just prior to Roswell

will coin a phrase now famous around the world.

- It's June 1947,

and a commercial pilot named Kenneth Arnold takes off

from the airport at Chehalis, Washington

and he's flying to Pendleton, Oregon

to participate in an air show.

- It's a beautiful day.

Skies are blue, turbulence is clear,

and Arnold decides to take a small detour.

He's recently heard that a military transport

carrying 32 Marines has crashed.

He's hoping to find the downed aircraft

to claim the $5,000 reward.

- Around 3:00 PM, as Arnold is circling 20 miles

to the west of Mount Rainier,

a brief flash of light catches his attention.

- [Dan] That single flash quickly becomes nine objects

across the sky, flying in a V formation.

It's something Arnold has never seen before.

- The objects seem to flip, bank, and weave side to side,

which Arnold describes as being

like the tail of a Chinese kite.

- [Dan] But what really makes Arnold's heart pound

is their incredible speed.

- Arnold clocks these objects

as traveling at about 1,700 miles an hour.

I mean, no human pilot has ever flown

at speeds anywhere near that.

This is just before Chuck Jaeger breaks the sound barrier

and becomes the fastest man alive

flying at 700 miles an hour.

- [Dan] Arnold immediately reports his sighting

and it ignites a media firestorm,

one that generates an iconic phrase

that will be associated with UFOs forever.

- Arnold tells a journalist that the way the objects moved,

it looked like they were saucers skipping on water.

Well, what happens next

is one of the greatest misquotes in UFO history

and the term flying saucer is born.

- Other corroborating witnesses stepped forward,

including a prospector on Mount Adams

who reports seeing the same objects in the same formation

at the same time as Ken's sighting.

- The Air Force eventually gets involved

and begins to investigate Arnold's claim.

- Kenneth Arnold sticks to his guns.

He is an extremely experienced pilot.

He's got 9,000 flying hours under his belt.

He's adamant this was no mirage.

These were real, solid craft.

- They interview him as well as the prospector,

and they do decide that, yeah, these guys are credible,

but they're not willing to go so far as to say

that what they saw were aircraft.

The Air Force turns around and says

what they actually saw was a mirage.

- Even in the face of government denial,

Ken sticks to his story until his death in 1984.

- It's not clear what Kenneth Arnold saw that day,

but what we do know is that Arnold helped create

the stickiest catchphrase in UFO history, "flying saucer,"

and we can't take that away.

- As somebody who's had his own encounters with UAPs,

I'll just say, if you see one, you'll know.

- Florida's I-4 Highway has an infamous history.

It's been called the deadliest highway in America,

and many locals blame the road's scary reputation

on a long history of peculiar sightings.

- There is a quarter mile sliver of highway

that connects Tampa to Daytona above the St. John's River,

and residents refer to it as the Dead Zone.

- People have reported some sort of odd energy vortex

that's able to disconnect electronic devices,

radios, phones, computers, tablets.

Everything just starts shutting down.

But that's not the strangest thing

that happens on this highway.

- [Dan] There's also the full-on vivid ghostly apparitions

people see while driving at night.

- People describe strange orbs floating beside vehicles,

ghostly horses running across the road,

and a strange woman leaping into the road.

- [Dan] According to locals,

there may be a historical reason

that has to do with the site the road was built on.

- Back in the 1870s,

a man named Henry Sanford owns this land

and he sells it to a group of German immigrants

who are trying to set up a colony.

There is a particularly bad outbreak of yellow fever

that nearly wipes the entire colony out.

They bury the dead and move on.

And then that land just changes hands a number of times

until it becomes part of the city of Sanford.

- [Dan] From that point on,

anytime the grounds are disturbed,

misfortune seems to follow.

- In the early 20th century,

a farmer removes some of the grave markers.

And shortly after, his house burns down.

- Decades later, there is a child

who is digging near this burial site

[car horn honks]

and that kid gets hit by a car.

These stories are all part of the local lore,

and so this area gets the nickname the Land of the Dead.

- By the 1960s, the state of Florida acquires the land

for the building of this highway.

The state promises to relocate the buried bodies,

but instead, just removes most of the headstones,

and construction begins.

- [Dan] From the day it opens in 1965,

Florida's I-4 starts racking up a disturbing death toll.

- On opening day, in fact,

a tractor trailer jack-knives just above the graves,

resulting in fatalities.

Between 2011 and 2015,

165 people are killed on this little stretch of road,

earning it yet another nickname,

America's Deadliest Highway.

- It really is incredibly dangerous,

but people aren't sure.

Is this some sort of engineering issue

or is there something supernatural at play?

- So, the bottom line is,

a lot of locals advise building this into your travel plans

and suggest that you try the scenic route.

- The strange sightings along I-4

could inspire a Hollywood horror movie,

but they haven't yet.

Unlike the bizarre events at one California seaside town

that send a famous Hollywood director

running for his typewriter.

- It's the early 1960s in Capitola,

a small beach town just south of Santa Cruz, California.

Hippies, surfers, families having fun.

It's a nice, quiet seaside life.

- [Dan] But this picturesque beach town

is about to become a living nightmare.

[birds squawks]

- The residents of Capitola wake up

on the morning of April 18th, 1961,

to a flock of birds terrorizing the town.

- Residents are coming out of their houses, looking up,

and noticing the sky has darkened from all of these birds

that are just dive-bombing missiles with beaks.

- They're attacking people and pets

and they're dive-bombing houses.

They're wreaking havoc.

- To be clear, this isn't some new migration

of psychotic birds that have just flown into town.

These are the seaside birds

that beach-goers have been feeding crackers to

for years now.

The only difference is, they're now out for blood.

- Even worse, these birds are also vomiting

all over Capitola, and what are they vomiting?

They're vomiting up anchovies.

It's fish vomit.

It's not a good sight.

It's definitely not a good smell.

- [Dan] What is causing these birds

to lose their minds and attack their human neighbors?

The answer might be in that fishy vomit.

- The seagulls are feeding on the anchovies,

and the anchovies are feeding on the algae.

There's been an overgrowth of algae in that area,

so the main theory biologists believe is

that the algae might contain some kind of neurotoxin

and that neurotoxin might be affecting the seagulls' brains.

- [Dan] Was it a toxin or something more?

The uncertainty leaves one chilling possibility.

- Even today, we don't actually know what happened

to these birds, which means it could possibly happen again

and it could be something more menacing than just a seagull.

Reports of the carnage, it it reads like a horror movie,

and in fact, Hitchcock himself visits the town

to get some inspiration while writing "The Birds".

- What a terrifying story of art

imitating even more terrifying life.

- Since the ancient Greeks and Romans,

soldiers have returned from war with tales

of strange creatures encountered in battle.

But one group of American Marines would insist

that whatever attacked them in the Vietnam jungle

was no myth,

and they have the scars to prove it.

- It's early 1966,

and the captain of a company of Marines receives intel

of some strange movements happening in the jungle.

He radios his troops to observe but not fire.

He doesn't want to give away his troops' position.

He thinks it could potentially be the Viet Cong

gearing up for a surprise attack.

- The captain then receives this puzzling report

where the men say,

"Nevermind, we've got a number of apes

that are in front of our position."

This strikes them as an unusual development,

because there are no large apes in Vietnam,

they're not native there.

And for there to then be a group of them

directly in front of this marine position

is especially curious.

- So, the Marines inform their captain

that these apes are getting quite close.

Being a good officer,

the captain comes up with a sort of obvious solution.

Just throw some rocks at the apes.

Scare 'em off and they'll go away.

Very clearly stating though, don't open fire.

- These Marines follow orders.

They throw rocks,

and the next noises that come out over the radio

are all sorts of chaos and commotion.

[intense music]

There is gunfire, there is screaming,

there is yelling, there's all of this ruckus,

and then the radio just goes silent.

- Frantic, the captain sends out a recon squad of marines

to find out what the hell happened,

and what they find is pure carnage.

- You've got marines on the ground that are banged up.

Some of them have cracked skulls,

some of them are unconscious.

And they ask them, "What happened?"

- Everyone reports basically the same thing,

that is they were attacked by a group of six-foot tall

orange-haired apes that had really good throwing arms,

and some of the men had

to engage them in hand-to-hand combat.

- [Dan] After the skirmish,

no bodies of Vietnamese jungle apes are recovered,

but this won't be the only sighting.

- In 1968, there's an incident also near Da Nang

where marines from Mike Company of the Third Battalion

5th Marines encounter a group of stone-throwing apes

occupying high ground above their positions.

They open fire,

but the bodies of none of these apes can be found afterward.

There's just the personal accounts of the Marines

who eye-witnessed the incident.

- [Dan] The reports become common enough

that the stone-hurling primates

earn themselves a nickname, Rock Apes.

- It's not just the Americans

that are having these experiences.

We have reports that the Vietnamese also

were having similar encounters with these massive apes.

They referred to them as batutut, or jungle people,

but the description is the same.

Very tall, reddish, brownish fur, aggressive.

And there's some speculation

that these were maybe orangutans,

but the problem is that orangutans haven't lived

in Vietnam for 1,000 years.

- So, you've got all of these soldiers

talking about these mysterious sightings

of these rock-throwing apes,

and yet none of them are able to kill any of these apes.

No body is ever recovered.

So, what is left in terms of an explanation?

- What we end up with is sort of the Vietnam version

of the Yeti.

What makes it all the more puzzling is the fact

that there are so many people that have similar encounters

during a compressed period of time.

So, it's definitely a part of at least the folklore

of the Vietnam experience.

Who knows? It might even be real.

- Like the jungle,

the ocean has also been home to some unusual encounters.

May 2024, Strait of Gibraltar,

the 50-foot sailing yacht Alberon Cognac

is calmly making way.

Out of nowhere, a pod of aggressive orcas

bears down on the boat's rudder,

grabbing it in their massive jaws

and tearing at it, deliberately.

- Hey, hey!

Get off the boat!

- The terrified crew is powerless to fend them off

and then suddenly, the rudder breaks off,

leaving the ship absolutely adrift.

And believe it or not, it actually gets worse.

- Ripping off the rudder has opened a hole in the boat

and the boat is now rapidly taking on water.

The captain issues a mayday signal,

"The boat is sinking!"

- [Dan] Unbelievably, this is far from the first attack

by a gang of angry orcas.

- These attacks have happened

to more than 500 captains in the last four years,

and the attacks have continued to grow,

from the Mediterranean all the way into the North Sea.

- When the orcas start attacking,

both captains and marine biologists are puzzled.

They've never seen a behavior like this before.

- [Dan] As scientists scramble for answers,

one orca might hold the key, White Gladys.

She can be spotted by the propeller scars across her back.

- White Gladys was the first whale

known to attack a sailboat.

She was pregnant about that same time.

So, could it be that she was trying to protect her child?

- What's truly remarkable

is that she's now passed this knowledge onto other pods.

And it's now becoming whale culture

spreading throughout other pods of whales

in a way that scientists really can't comprehend.

[witnesses shouting]

- [Dan] The Atlantic Orca Working Group

has reported an almost 300% rise

in attacks from 2020 to 2023.

More shocking, however, is the public's reaction.

- As the stories have become viral,

people start rooting for the whales.

Now, there are orca memes applauding the orcas, saying,

"Eat the rich."

Literally.

- I won't say I'm rooting for the orcas,

but I can admit to feeling a bit conflicted.

- When you go on vacation,

you can only hope you'll spot something

really worth photographing,

maybe some beautiful architecture,

or stunning scenery.

What you don't expect to see

is a baffling creature one man captures on film.

- It is October of 2023,

and passengers on the narrow-gauge train

from Durango to Silverton are gazing out

at the beautiful, unspoiled mountain wilderness

outside the window.

This is an old-time, steam-powered railroad

that is intended to recreate the experience

of traveling in 1822.

[train horn blaring]

- One passenger, who only identifies himself as Brandon,

is sitting on the train, looking out the window,

hoping to spot some deer or some other wildlife,

or just take in the beauty of nature.

But then he sees something pretty strange,

so he whips out his smartphone.

- [Dan] What he captures is no deer.

It appears to be a large, hairy, bipedal creature

crossing through rough mountain terrain in long strides.

- [Brandon] An elusive creature.

- Brandon shares his footage with another couple

that's on the train with him.

They are seeing the exact same thing

and they post it to social media,

and then it takes on a life of its own.

Suddenly, everyone is talking

about this modern day Bigfoot sighting.

- [Dan] Within 48 hours, it's got tens of millions of views.

- A debate begins to form,

and some people are saying that this is a hoax,

while others are saying

this is an authentic video of a bigfoot.

- Now, most Bigfoot footage, where it exists,

is shot by self-proclaimed enthusiasts,

which makes the public naturally skeptical.

In this case, based on what we know,

Brandon wasn't looking for Bigfoot or anything unexpected,

he just captured it.

- Another thing that makes this video interesting

is that there's a lot of people on the train

seeing the exact same thing.

- [Brandon] It just squatted down.

- It's uncommon in Bigfoot videos

to have multiple witnesses.

Typically, it's one person alone in the wilderness.

This is not that.

There's a lot of people

and they're all seeing this strange thing

walking on this mountain range.

- [Dan] It also might not be as random as it seems.

Turns out this isn't the first alleged

Bigfoot sighting in the area.

- In August of 2000,

a woman in the nearby San Juan mountains

reports an encounter with two Bigfoot-like figures,

and she describes them as having

the lighter, chestnut-colored hair

that you see in Brandon's video.

- [Dan] Some skeptics claim the sighting

is a marketing ploy by a local business

and the company owners won't confirm or deny it.

As for the cameraman,

he wants people to reach their own conclusions.

You don't have to be in the remote American wilderness

to spot something strange on vacation.

If you happen to be a castle-hopping tourist

on the West English coast,

you might just stumble on a truly unbelievable site.

- As Americans, we tend to think of Britain

as incredibly charming.

Lovely countrysides, rolling farm hills,

castles, the monarchy.

It's all about class.

- [Dan] The historic town of Egremont

has some of those stately trappings,

but what it's actually famous for

is a sight for sore eyes.

- For about eight centuries,

Egremont has hosted the town Crab Fair.

It's sort of a reverse beauty contest.

The winner is those who can contort their face

into the weirdest, most perverse visage

and hold it for as long as possible.

- And there's a name for this type of contest,

it's called gurning.

And it's actually a professional competition.

[crowd cheering]

- One by one, contestants take to the stage

and they put their heads through a horse collar,

and they march the stage up and down,

trying to win the crowd over with the strangest contortions.

- These gurners are judged on three criteria:

how much they can change their face,

how long they can hold that pose,

and just how ugly that face is.

Most beauty contests really value

a lovely set of white teeth,

but having no teeth is actually an advantage in gurning,

because when you have only gums,

you can collapse your completely into its mouth,

which ends up being the showstopper.

- This is a big deal,

considering that you've got Hall of Famers

that just reside in the annals of history,

the 10-time male winner, Tommy Mattinson.

You've got the 24-time female winner,

the late great Anne Woods, may she rest in peace,

master of the perfect pout.

- Sure enough, it's a strange sight

for the rest of the world,

but who are we to argue with centuries of British tradition?

- Looks like the British custom of keeping a stiff upper lip

goes out the window here.

From creepy clowns to murderous gulls,

ghostly highways to alien invasions,

these are the sightings so strange,

they are truly unbelievable.

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