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Tonight on "The Proof Is Out There:

Unexplained Edition."

Did something supernatural light the night sky?

El Diablo!

When people see lights and thunder

and unexplained phenomena, they say

this is clearly apocalyptic.

A strange substance falls from the sky,

but what is it?

The specimen was like fresh gelatin.

The Bible talks a lot about rain and storms.

Sometimes it's a prophecy

bringing something deeply negative.

And is this mysterious monument a warning

of the apocalypse?

Whoever built this built it in a motivation

that the world and humanity were gonna have to start again.

Around the world,

unexplained phenomena are being recorded.

Tonight's focus, biblical wrath.

According to the Revelation of John

in the Bible, the apocalypse or the end times are going

to be heralded by these trumpets.

Our experts will analyze the evidence.

Birds are not known for smashing

into the ground.

So what exactly is happening to make them act this way?

And then we'll pass a verdict.

We see multiple religions associate

this idea with the end of the world, the apocalypse.

"The Proof" starts now.

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

You've probably heard the old adage: red sky

at night, sailors delight,

red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.

But did you know that red rain has long been seen

as a bad omen?

And if this next story is any indication,

Texas may wanna watch out.

June 3rd, 2019, Lamy, New Mexico.

An amateur scientist documenting a nasty storm

over West Texas captures this stunning photo

on a DSLR camera.

The image shows a sky exploding with red.

Meanwhile, over 100 miles away at Langmuir Labs,

Dr. Matthew McHarg captures

this stunning video using state

of the art high speed cameras.

You'll see balls of light and they start

by descending and then some of them start going up

and then they go crazy

and they start moving all around the screen...

MJ Benias says that some wonder

if these strange red lights seen showering

the night sky could be related

to a historical legend known as red rain or blood rain.

We see multiple cultures

and multiple religions associate this idea of red rain

or blood rain with the end of the world, the apocalypse.

According to records across the centuries,

red rain has preceded deaths of kings,

large scale invasions and even disease.

In Germany, a shower of blood was believed to be

a portent for the arrival of the Black Death in 1346,

which ultimately claimed the lives of millions.

[MJ} There's a lot of accounts from that era

of bloody rain or rain that was red falling from the sky.

It wasn't until the 17th century

that scientists first attempted to explain red rain.

Animal causes were the earliest theory.

Later, scientists suggested volcanic ash and dust dispersal.

What sort of theories might our experts have

about what was recorded in the skies of West Texas?

First, Juan Hernandez considers the ominous legend

of red rain.

It's quite possible that the red hue

of the rain is because of the soils in the ground.

If the soil has a red hue to it and if it's lofted

in the air due to a dust storm,

the rain is gonna then take that red hue and fall...

So while we can't prove

or disprove its prophetic value,

red rain is a real phenomenon.

Is that what we're seeing here?

I can confidently say that this is not red

or blood rain because we're not looking at any rain.

We're looking at something

that is going on above the clouds.

Next, Matthew Szydagis considers

whether we could be witnessing an astronomical event like

a meteor shower.

Even when you have a meteor shower

where you have multiple shooting stars in the sky

at once, it is not gonna be this many at a time.

We see way too many streaks here,

nor are meteors known to all be one color,

namely red in this fashion.

But Hernandez can think

of one atmospheric phenomenon that is known to glow red.

And while it's not red rain, it is weather related.

We had a large line

of storms moving across West Texas.

All storms contain lightning.

Lightning is the discharge of energy from the clouds

to the ground.

What we're looking at here is the discharge

of energy from the clouds towards the sky.

This is called red sprites.

When lightning strikes the ground,

it can cause an imbalanced charge in the clouds.

To restore balance, the clouds release energy in the form

of red sprites.

The reason red sprites appear red

is because of the nitrogen in the upper portions

of the atmosphere.

You get those molecules really excited, start vibrating,

and they release that red tint,

which we see in a flash of an eye.

Our verdict, we're going with Hernandez

on this one.

These are red sprites.

Given their elusive nature, sprite is an appropriate name.

But it is also an acronym

for stratospheric perturbations resulting

from intense thunderstorm electrification.

So keep your eyes peeled if you want to witness

this magnificent marvel because if you blink,

you'll miss it.

You've heard about it raining cats and dogs,

but what about blobs?

Our next story is probably

the weirdest weather report you've ever seen.

August 7th, 1994.

A storm unlike any other descends upon the small city

of Oakville, Washington.

But hold up, this is no conventional rainstorm.

Instead of pouring down raindrops,

something else falls from the sky.

Oakville resident, Sonny Barcliff,

takes these photos

of what can only be described as blobbering.

It's not water.

The blobs appear to be comprised

of a translucent gelatinous substance.

And in some photos, wait for it,

they're accompanied by dead frogs.

Can it get any stranger? Yes, it can.

Just after the blob rain, Sonny's mother falls ill,

prompting Sonny to send a sample of the blobs

to Dr. Dave Little.

And the lab findings only add to the mystery.

The specimen was like fresh gelatin.

It was handed over to our laboratory and viewed

under a microscope.

But my laboratory was not equipped to ascertain

the exact chemical nature.

This rain of blobs blankets

a 20 square mile area and falls a total of six times

over three weeks.

It falls on trees, grass, cars, and of course, people.

Within days, people were reporting vomiting and nausea,

disorientation, trouble thinking.

It was almost like they had the flu,

but symptoms persisted for two to three months.

And animals like cats and dogs that came into contact

with the goo ended up getting sick and dying.

But further lab tests

of the blobs do reveal a clue.

They found that the blobs contained cells

with nuclei, saying that they were biological material

and found two very harmful types of bacteria.

One is a food spoiler and the other is found

in the human gut.

So what could have caused such

an inexplicable form of precipitation?

The Bible talks a lot about rains and storms.

Sometimes it's a prophecy

bringing something deeply negative.

One Bible verse in particular, Ezekiel 38:22,

talks about a plague of blood by torrents of rain and hail.

Another theory goes that this may have been

the doing of a more earthly power.

Some thought that weather over the ocean

had somehow stirred up enough living beings like jellyfish

that were shot out of the water and sucked up

into clouds where

they were able to rain back down on residents.

But no one's been able to figure out exactly

what happened in Oakville.

Prior to the blob storm, Oakville residents noticed

that there were military aircraft

in their skies almost daily.

Many began to wonder if the U.S. government had anything

to do with what happened.

The Air Force denied knowledge of the incident,

so the townspeople had to explore other explanations.

Our experts are here to help.

Oakville is not that far from the ocean.

Maybe a waterspout could have picked up some material

from the ocean and deposited it as precipitation.

Waterspouts are tornado-like vortices

that occur over bodies of water.

In theory, they can bring sea life like jellyfish ashore,

but the evidence doesn't harmonize with that theory.

I don't believe anyone found any pieces

of jellyfish, and that wouldn't explain

why the particular cells and bacteria were found

in the blobs.

Okay, now for a grosser theory,

and it may explain the human gut bacteria that was found

in the blobs.

Could it be from an airplane restroom?

Don't think it hasn't happened.

As recently as 2021,

a man standing in his garden in Windsor, England,

was accidentally splattered in human waste

as an airplane approached Heathrow Airport.

But in Oakville, the evidence doesn't line up

with that theory.

The FAA has strenuously denied

that we had human waste

that had been dropped from airplanes.

Furthermore, airlines will have the bluish tint

to the fluid used in the waste system.

Blue dye is routinely added

to airplane toilets as a disinfectant,

but no blue was seen in the Oakville blobs.

We saw white in the photos,

so not only would it have been unethical, illegal,

it's the wrong color...

So could this be a weather phenomenon?

Not exactly, according to Juan Hernandez,

but he thinks it's related.

Before there was any research done

on this substance, this was actually called star jelly.

When any animal eats the spawn of a toad or a frog,

there's always some sort of jelly that is attached

to those eggs.

The next part of the puzzle is moisture.

When enough rainfall combines with the jelly attached

to the eggs, it expands.

There was about a quarter of an inch of rain

in this specific location.

A quarter of an inch of rain should be enough to allow

for the jelly to expand.

So the theory is

that animals ate frog eggs, vomited them up,

and then the rain expanded them.

Though that would explain the frogs, Szydagis isn't sold.

We have numerous witnesses,

including credible witnesses like police officers

from Oakville, saying that this rained down

from the sky, hitting their windshields.

And Szydagis also notes

that frogs don't explain the human connection found

in the samples.

I would also like to know how animals managed

to swallow human gut bacteria.

And if that was the case,

how do you get so many animals sick

at the same time, multiple times in the same area?

Our verdict?

Unidentified living substance.

We explore theories like jellyfish, star jelly,

and airplane waste, but that doesn't explain

what eyewitnesses saw coming directly out of the sky.

Many religions share a belief

in doomsday prophecies that describe the end of the world.

Until now, the most terrifying images

of these end times have appeared only in our imaginations.

But could a recent incident in the Holy Land be seen

as an omen, heralding the Day of Judgment?

It's September 2021 near the shores of the Dead Sea

in Ghor al-Haditha, Jordan.

When scientists get wind

of a positively biblical event taking place,

they head to the site to check it out.

There they film a scene straight out of a horror film.

The water in a small pool by the side of the Dead Sea

has turned blood red overnight.

The Dead Sea and other nearby pools are still deep blue,

but this one spot is unmistakably crimson.

Eric Grundhauser says the location

of this event naturally brings up biblical connotations.

The site sits on what is believed by some

to be the location of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah,

famously destroyed by God for their sin and iniquity.

This could be a signal of a modern plague

that we are being punished for our modern sinfulness.

Michael O'Neill says it harkens back

to the Book of Exodus when God unleashed plagues

to punish Egypt for enslaving the Israelites.

It's one of the first of 10 plagues God commands

Aaron to stick his staff in the water.

And when he does so, it turns to blood.

All the fish die.

The Egyptians are unable to drink from that water or any

of the nearby springs.

Several books of the Bible prophesy

that the moon will turn into blood at the end of days.

As a result, some believe it's a bad omen

to have four consecutive total lunar eclipses

where the moon briefly turns a reddish hue,

what is known as a blood moon.

So is this red pool also a sign?

It's no secret that the Dead Sea is one

of the world's saltiest bodies of water,

and the area around it is famed for its geological oddities.

So is this an act of God, a unique natural phenomenon,

or perhaps some combination of the two?

O'Neill first investigates

if it could be divine retribution.

In 1981, in those Marian Apparitions

in Kibeho, Rwanda that were approved by the Vatican

as being authentic.

Several children saw visions of the Virgin Mary

and they saw rivers of blood that were a foreshadowing

of the Rwanda genocide.

In this case,

they tested the water and it's not blood.

But a similar recent incident at the Alexander River

in nearby Israel was the blood of animals dumped

from a local slaughterhouse.

So could illegal waste disposal, just not blood,

also be to blame at the Dead Sea?

Typically, that would be in a moving body

of water that can flush away pollutants

or in a larger body of water like the sea.

This is a really isolated pool of water.

Then if it's not human dumping.

Dr. Ed Barnhart considers

that the reddish hue could be plant-based.

There's a lot of salt content here.

That is an environment

in which a particular kind of

red algae can really thrive.

So when the water becomes more salty,

the sort of things that eat the algae die off

and only the algae can proliferate.

And that turns the water red.

But Conger is somewhat skeptical that algae

is the answer in this case,

since this is the only red pool in the area.

If this is actually an algal bloom,

we would probably expect to see this happening

in other bodies of water around it.

But we're just not.

So I don't think that's what's happening here.

So if it's not animal or plant,

could it be mineral?

Geologist Dr. Bob Anderson says

a natural occurring element is likely the cause.

From the scientists who have done soil

and water samples in that area,

they're seeing higher concentrations of manganese.

Most likely in the form of manganese oxide.

Manganese oxide would act very similar

to iron oxides, causing this water to turn red.

Manganese is usually

a brown-black substance, but in some rare cases,

manganese oxide can take

on the same rusty orange-red color as iron oxide.

That seems to solve this mystery.

Our verdict?

Manganese oxide.

Scientists say the mineral could have entered

the stagnant pool through fissures that allow fresh water

to bubble up from the seabed.

But does that natural explanation mean

it's not the hand of God?

Or is the natural world, as many believe,

just another of his tools to communicate?

That is a matter of opinion.

We've investigated plenty of stories

of strange flying objects.

But these aren't saucers, orbs, or tic-tacs.

They're just regular birds.

Or are they?

It's February 2022 in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Early in the morning,

a mounted CCTV camera is rolling

on a quiet residential street where a large flock

of yellow-headed blackbirds is seen flying overhead

at the top of the screen.

Then suddenly, things take a strange and deadly turn.

The security camera catches the shocking moment

the huge black mass of birds appears to fall like rain

from the sky to the pavement below.

As the footage continues to roll,

we see that many of the birds recover and fly off safely.

But the street and sidewalk are now littered

with nearly 100 avian corpses.

Amy Teitel says this footage is quite surprising.

Birds are not known for smashing into the ground.

So what exactly is happening to make them act this way?

Though this strange incident seems once

in a lifetime, it's not the only time small animals

have rained from the sky.

In this video from Virginia Beach, Virginia,

a fish is captured falling and hitting a car.

That turned out to be the result

of a weather phenomenon known as a water spout.

But the incident in Mexico remains mysterious.

And all this is nothing new.

In the Book of Exodus,

God sends down a rain of frogs on the Egyptians

because of their refusal to free the enslaved Israelites.

But while some wonder

if these strange incidents could be divine punishment,

others suggest they have a more technological source.

The alleged culprit?

5G is a relatively new technology

that we're using increasingly for cell phone reception.

One theory is that somehow 5G interfered

with the bird's natural navigation.

Birds create a protein called cryptochromes

that makes them very sensitive to blue light

and actually helps them see the Earth's magnetic field.

That's how birds know how to fly south and migrate

for the winter.

So could it be that this increase

of electromagnetic frequency is somehow interfering

with the bird's ability to see where they're going?

Recent research in the field

of magnetoreception indicates that molecular fragments

in the bird's eyes enable them

to see Earth's magnetic field lines and use

that information to chart a course

between their breeding and wintering grounds.

So what went wrong here?

Let's go to the experts for a bird's eye view.

The idea that 5G signals cause bodily harm

has been debunked, but Dr. Floyd Hayes considers

whether some form

of electromagnetic interference could be to blame.

There was a study published on the effects

of electromagnetic radiation on the magnetic compass

of European robins, and it affected the direction

in which they oriented.

But these birds aren't really migrating a long distance.

They're just probably trying to find food.

And they also have backup compasses,

migrating by the stars at night and the sun by day.

Furthermore, we wouldn't expect all of these birds

to fall suddenly like we're seeing in this video.

So, if they're not being affected

by electromagnetic noise, could these birds

have been poisoned by a lethal toxic cloud of pollution?

Wood burning stoves

and agrochemicals can cause high levels of air pollution

in the region.

Juan Hernandez checks the weather conditions to see

if this could be the cause.

If it's mountainous,

we're able to have a thermal inversion

where we have trapped gases

or trapped smoke near the ground.

But if we look at the video,

we don't really see much in the way of smoke chemicals.

Likely, there was something else that occurred.

Hayes agrees pollution is not very likely.

If they were exposed to some sort of a toxin,

we would see individuals gradually becoming sick

at different times depending on the amount of the dose

that they were exposed to.

So did these small critters rain down

during an anomalous weather event like a microburst?

We're able to see that it

had rained earlier, but by the time

that the birds crashed into the ground,

it appeared that it had stopped raining,

ruling out the potential for a microburst or a downburst.

So since Hernandez says

the birds weren't blown into the ground

by a sudden downburst of wind and rain,

Hayes believes the real culprit is a deadly presence

we don't see on camera.

I think there is a predatorial bird,

such as a peregrine falcon,

that rapidly dived onto that flock

and the birds panicked and some of them crashed

into the ground.

When a large flock of birds form,

they call it a murmuration,

and it's generally to either provide protection

for each other or to find food.

This is what he's talking about.

Watch how this murmuration

of western sandpipers moves suddenly in unison to avoid

this swooping peregrine falcon.

This is actually normal behavior

when a predatorial bird attacks flocks of birds.

We're not seeing the predator up above,

but it's probably just out of view.

We're going with Hayes here.

Our verdict is the birds were flying in a murmuration.

So when an unknown predator we can't identify came upon

the flock, they made a sudden drastic dive

that was too drastic for some.

That's the downside of flocking together.

Undoubtedly, one of the most frightening experiences

imaginable is being caught in the middle of an earthquake.

But what if the terror doesn't end once it's over?

Well, we've got a video of a strange phenomenon seen

in the aftermath of some tremors in Mexico

that has some people wondering

if Mother Nature just wasn't finished

or if something more sinister was responsible.

September 7th, 2021.

A severe 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Acapulco.

The tremors are so strong they reach Mexico City,

which is 200 miles away from the epicenter.

And unbeknownst to evacuees who have gathered

in the streets of the capital,

something in the sky is about to steal

the earthquake's thunder.

Wow.

Take a closer look.

See those blue flashes?

Davo Penaloza, who resides

in the Condesa neighborhood, witnessed the eerie spectacle.

These lights start to appear.

The only thing that you can hear at the moment

are the people shouting because it's so scary.

Davo and his neighbors aren't the only ones

in a state of shock.

The hashtag, apocalipsis, Spanish for apocalypse,

begins to trend online.

And in the streets, people feel an evil presence.

Michael O'Neill says the connection

between earthquakes and fears of the apocalypse is ancient.

When people see lights and thunder

and unexplained phenomena, they say

this is clearly apocalyptic,

perhaps hearkening back to the Book of Revelation.

In the Book of Revelation,

it's the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

who represent evil and disaster said to occur

before the second coming of Jesus.

But strangely, others point not to the work

of the Devil, but Jesus' holy mother Mary

as a presence connected to catastrophes.

In Zeitoun, in Egypt, from 1968 to '71,

the Virgin Mary was said to be visibly walking

on the rooftop of St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church.

She was surrounded by lights and glowing figures

and orbs and doves.

These were seen by Christians, Jews, atheists, and Muslims.

And there were earthquakes happening

in that region right before these events,

so perhaps there's a connection there.

When it comes to divine intervention,

believers in Mexico City have long looked

to the Virgin of Guadalupe for aid in times of trouble.

She's credited with ending calamitous events like

the flood of 1629 and the epidemic of 1736.

In the meantime, let's see if our experts can determine

if this footage captures something divine, demonic,

or just natural.

So are these lights the work of the devil or signaling

the appearance of the Virgin Mary?

Matthew Szydagis won't go that far,

but he does say the video might capture

a rarely photographed phenomenon known as earthquake lights.

One potential explanation

for earthquake lights is that they come from friction

of the rubbing of tectonic plates

within the Earth's crust that may lead

to a pyroelectric effect.

The theory

is that chemical elements travel up

through the cracks made during an earthquake.

When they reach the atmosphere,

these ions can ionize pockets of air,

forming plasma that emits light.

But earthquake lights could be,

in my understanding, a multitude of different colors.

And the only colors I see in this video are ones

that correspond with ordinary, boring lightning.

Lightning makes sense.

So we asked Juan Hernandez to look

into the weather conditions on September 7th,

the day the lights were filmed.

We actually have a tropical depression 15,

which had developed off to the southwest of Mexico City.

All of this moisture led

to a fairly stormy day across the city.

We have plenty of lightning that was reported

before the earthquake actually developed.

But we see what appears to be just one explosion

that illuminates the clouds.

If it were lightning,

it would likely be occurring everywhere,

not just along the streets.

Instead, Hernandez suggests we may be seeing

a mechanical failure mistaken for a natural event.

Mexico City has plenty of transformers

that could fail.

A failing transformer is oftentimes caused by shaking

in the ground or something that gets loose.

A lot of times these transformers are

full of coolant.

It takes one failure for that transformer

to quickly explode, causing the transformer to light up

into that blue hue that we see in this video.

But while there were reports

of transformer explosions,

Bob Anderson says

we should still consider a natural explanation

for what we're seeing.

When you have a massive earthquake like

a seven, the rocks can crack and you get all kinds

of natural gas escaping.

You see these balls of light.

And what they are is gas escaping from the ground.

And when it comes up,

it's sort of either static electrically

or some other mechanism kind of ignites.

And it forms what we call gas balls

or gas lightning kind of things.

They'll float for a while and then they dissipate.

And if this happens,

the flickering that results will look very similar

to heat lightning, which is cloud to ground lightning

that occurs from a distance.

Lightning is basically from a storm

where the charge comes down and the lightning comes

from the ground to the surface.

If you think about it,

the gas itself is rising from the ground.

So it would give the effect that it could have been

a lightning and sometimes both of those can be confused

with one another.

Our verdict? Unexplained phenomenon.

When our experts disagree like this,

we can't come to a definitive conclusion,

though I like Anderson's gas theory.

And for those who believe the natural world

is ultimately governed by divine or devilish forces,

we're in no position to say otherwise.

Some of our best videos aren't really that visual.

They're recordings of strange sounds that defy explanation.

And this one will leave your head ringing.

January 2017.

Dillon Dickerson is taking out the trash from his home

in Lewisburg, North Carolina,

when a loud noise startles him.

He grabs a smartphone and records this.

The video shows Dillon's backyard.

Nothing special, except

for that consistent blaring sound piercing

the suburban quiet.

It sounds like the source must be nearby,

but there's nothing in sight.

We reached out to Dillon,

who says the sound was very real and very scary.

It sent chills down my spine.

I felt very in shock.

I didn't really know what to think.

Dillon says he later searched for the source

of the sound, but never found it.

And after he posted the video online...

People came up with so many theories like

it's apocalyptic signs or machinery or factories

in the background.

The apocalyptic theory Dillon mentions comes

from the Bible, according to professor

of religious studies, Diana Pasulka.

According to the Revelation of John

in the Bible, the Book of Revelations,

the apocalypse or the end times are going to be heralded

by these trumpets, the trumpets of Revelation.

Alexis Brooks suggests another theory.

What if the sound is part of a secret program?

The US government

has previously used high frequency pulses to study

the Earth's upper atmosphere,

but many believe these sounds can be used

to cause floods and hurricanes.

Others say they can down planes and cause chronic fatigue.

Some people feel that advanced technology

is being used

to puncture and literally shift the ionosphere.

Some feel that the weather is being controlled

and perhaps used for nefarious purposes.

So here's an interesting fact.

The Air Force actually did try to manipulate

the weather during the Vietnam War

through a secret cloud seeding program

called Operation Popeye.

So what's the source of this strange sound?

A government experiment?

The supernatural?

Or something else entirely?

We sent the video to our audio expert, Dr. Ben Gottesman,

who created a spectrogram to visualize the sound.

As you can see,

there's like seven major episodes where they flare up.

First question, could

this have been some kind of weather

or atmospheric phenomenon?

There's a whole spectrum of different types

of thunder from loud bangs to low rumbles.

But listen to thunder...

Compared to Dillon's noise.

It doesn't sound like a match.

Thunder really doesn't produce

these sorts of harmonics.

It's much more of a lower cacophonous rumble.

Gottesman believes the most likely source

is something mechanical.

When the brakes of semi trucks go bad,

they can sometimes produce this long,

drawn out screeching sound similar to what we hear

on this recording.

Gottesman compared Dillon's sounds

with some squeaky brakes.

So that's the truck brake.

Most of the energy, the strongest is

at like 260 hertz.

And here,

it's also the strongest is around 260, right here.

It's good evidence that it's some mechanical sound

because there are certain shared characteristics.

The harmonics, the tonal structure.

While Gottesman sees similarities,

there's something that still doesn't add up.

These were really ominous

and strange sounding.

So I wouldn't expect one truck to produce what was recorded.

The sound from Dillon's yard seems to be

from multiple vehicles layered together.

So is it proof or not?

Dillon swears the video hasn't been doctored

and he's captured similar sounds since.

And according to our expert,

it's not the weather and it's likely not end times.

The truck brakes theory is interesting,

but we can't explain the layering or why the sound went

on so long.

This case remains a mystery.

Our verdict?

Unidentified sound.

You may remember a previous story we brought you

about mysterious monoliths popping up all

over the world back in 2020.

But a lesser known monolithic structure also appeared out

of nowhere nearly 40 years ago.

And some believe it's spelled doom for mankind.

It's December 2021 in Elberton, Georgia.

Musician Jason Stallworth is on a road trip

when he comes across a peculiar site and decides to film.

I'll show you something really cool

that maybe many of you have never seen

before and you probably don't even know about.

But these are the Georgia Guidestones.

This is like for post-apocalypse living.

The strange structure is composed

of four granite slabs connected

by a T-shaped stone pillar in the middle.

From above it seems to form an X with a capstone.

The monument is over 19 feet tall and is believed

to weigh over 120 tons.

It's like Stonehenge of Georgia here.

On each tablet is writing

in different languages,

which Erin McCarthy says just adds to the mystery.

There are 10 guidelines written

in eight languages, including Chinese, Swahili, Hebrew,

English and Russian for how to continue society

after some kind of apocalyptic event.

It also has slot as well as holes in the monument

that allow it to act as an astronomical calendar.

Since the guide stones were put up toward the end

of the Cold War,

some wonder if they were meant as messages for the future

of humanity following nuclear annihilation.

But McCarthy says the cryptic writing is far

from the strangest thing about this structure.

No one seems to know who commissioned it or why.

The story goes that one day in 1979,

a man named Robert C. Christian, not his real name,

walked into the Elberton Granite Finishing Company

with the idea for a monument.

And he said that he was serving as a representative

for a quote, small group of loyal Americans

who had been planning this monument for 20 years.

RC Christian was a pseudonym, so to this day,

no one knows who actually commissioned the structure.

This mystery has further fueled speculation

about its true purpose.

The guidelines on the stones included,

"Maintain humanity under 500 million in balance with nature."

Some have actually criticized these guidelines and said

that they are in favor of genocide and eugenics.

And then, of course,

there was an idea that RC Christian was actually

a representative of a satanic group.

The monument has been called

the Ten Commandments of the Antichrist due

to the evident biblical connotations in its design

without any reference to God.

There's even a theory it was built as an altar

for human sacrifice.

So some people, including

a Georgia gubernatorial candidate,

have even called it an abomination

that had to come down.

It is a war between good and evil.

Well, recently they got their wish.

In early July, 2022

someone planted a bomb overnight that exploded next

to the structure.

Take a look at the security cam.

It couldn't be more clear.

Here, we see the person moving in from the left,

ducks in behind the monument, places something down,

and then gets the hell out of there.

Fast forward a couple of seconds later, boom.

The structure remains standing in this footage,

but it was so severely damaged that the whole thing

had to be demolished.

Kathy Strain examines if this could be a satanic altar.

I went and looked for satanic temples constructed

in the United States, and I found one.

It's literally Satan sitting on a throne.

And so there's nothing here that I see

that would remind me

of what I would traditionally associate

with something satanic.

Dr. Ed Barnhart agrees.

Satanism generally deals with the pentagram,

the goat is also another symbol,

but none of those symbols are anywhere

on the Georgia Guidestones.

So could this monument have been built

by those calling for eugenics and racial purity?

To Strain that doesn't add up.

There are multiple different languages

from multiple different continents.

Why would you do that if you were intending

to create basically a white society?

All these guides would all be in English.

So given the Guidestones'

post-apocalyptic message,

could this be a relic of the Cold War era?

The time period in which these were built

was the 1980s, and that's when the United States

and Russia are in this terrible Cold War...

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

Fearing nuclear annihilation from each other.

And whoever built this built it in a motivation

that the world and humanity were gonna have to start again.

Our verdict?

It's still unknown

who created this strange structure and why.

It's possible the people behind it thought humanity would

need the guidelines to rebuild after a nuclear apocalypse.

But now we know it's unlikely

to have survived Armageddon

since a regular homemade bomb

has already reduced it to rubble.

From red waters near the Dead Sea

to unexplained phenomena in the sky,

some see coincidence while others see prophecy.

The search for answers continue and who knows

what the next sign may reveal.

Thank you for watching this special edition

of "The Proof is Out There."

Please send us any videos, images,

or sound that you think

we should investigate.

And remember to keep

those cameras rolling.