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[ camera whirs ]

narrator:
Worldwide, 27 billion cameras
are watching us --

on our streets,
at work, and in our homes.

They capture things
that seem impossible.

It defies the laws of physics.

Man:
This is unbelievable, man.

Narrator:
Experts carry out analysis of
these unusual events.

Now that's
an explosion.

[ explosion ]
[ screams ]

there's got to be something
we're missing in this video.

Something we're not seeing,
right?

What else is going on here?

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: Coming up...

Food to die for.

Was this blast caused by
truffles?

Oh! What the hell
just happened?

It almost takes
that guy's head off.

Narrator: A prehistoric beast in
a canadian lake...

The first thought is,
"what is that?"

and then the second thought is,
"is that kid in danger?"

there's definitely something in
the water.

Narrator:
And has a man laid an egg?

Oh, that gives me shivers.
It's so disgusting.

That's like an egg pulled out of
a human?

That's weird.

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: Bizarre phenomenon.

Whoa.

Narrator:
Mysteries caught on camera.

What is the truth behind
this strange evidence?

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now on a street
in southern china...

Oh! What the hell
just happened?

...A building explodes.

Whoa, that's
gotta hurt.

...Blasting a scooter rider.

It almost takes
that guy's head off.

Narrator:
Is this the work of a gang
of blood-drinking hoodlums?

They're involved
in some activities

that you could label terrorism.

[ camera whirs ]

sichuan, yunnan province,
southwest china,

home to the yi tribes people,

one of china's 55 different
ethnic groups.

September 2019...

Morgan:
All right. Here we have peaceful
street scene in china.

What could possibly go wrong?

Narrator: All of a sudden...

That door just hits that guy
on the bike

that's gotta hurt.

Narrator: A scooter rider takes
the full brunt of the blast.

Wolson:
It appears that there's a big
heavy metal object

coming across the road.
That's very scary.

Narrator:
Experts are still puzzled
by what happened here.

You don't expect a building
just to explode.

Oluseyi:
Clearly, there is an explosion,
but there is no fire.

There's no flame at all.
That is not typical.

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: This city, 6,000 feet
above sea level, is surrounded

by mountains,
subtropical, hot and humid.

This region is one of the oldest
producers of tea in china.

It's grown over an area
of 1,600 square miles.

That's the equivalent of around
800,000 football fields.

Here in the hills,

tea is grown, picked,
dried, and packaged.

It's big business
across the country,

worth $12 billion annually.

China's yearly consumption
is almost three times

the weight
of the golden gate bridge.

Physicist chad orzel

wonders if the industrial
processes used in tea production

could cause
this kind of explosion.

Maybe this is some sort of
manufacturing plant

or processing plant
where people are processing tea,

and then we have to ask,

"what is the explosive potential
of tea?"

narrator:
Dust from the production
of things like tea,

powdered milk, grains, and flour
can lead to explosions.

The perfect storm of a high
concentration of dust in the air

in a confined space

and an ignition source
can cause catastrophic blasts.

One particle ignites, it
can catch its neighbors on fire

and the fire sort of spreads
like a wave

through the airborne dust,
using up the oxygen

that's surrounding it
to power the flames.

You can get these dust
explosions from anything

that'll burn -- sugar,
flour, grain.

Tea by itself isn't something
we think of as blowing up,

but the manufacture of it

and the packaging of it
generates a lot of dust.

And if you have airborne dust,

that can be a highly volatile
explosive mix.

Narrator: Such food explosions
can be deadly.

In port wentworth, georgia,
14 people died in 2008

when an explosion devastated
the imperial sugar refinery.

The huge blast occurred
when a buildup of sugar dust

was ignited.

Burning dust in the air
can create a lot of heat,

which creates a lot of pressure,
and the resulting shockwave

traveling out from the source of
the blast can level buildings.

So if you're processing large
amounts of tea

in a poorly ventilated space

where this dust is allowed
to build up in the air,

this is a situation that can
quite literally turn explosive.

So this door could be
blasted off

by an explosion
of burning tea dust.

Narrator:
Matt kutcher has been a master
of hollywood pyrotechnics

and ballistics
for over 20 years.

He's setting out to see
if he can make tea explode

if this green tea experiment
actually goes big,

it could actually resemble
what it was

in that building that we saw.

And if it does, maybe we get
some proof that

that's what it was --
tea.

Narrator: To recreate the angle
of the blast

coming out of the building,

kutcher and his team
are using a mortar.

Kutcher: We need to put the
powder into something that acts

like a rifling, so we'll
consider this the barrel

to our gun, and we're going to
put powders in it

and ignite them.
And those powders are gonna come

rifling out of that mortar.

We still have to light it.
We have to ignite it.

We have to have
a source of spark.

This will be the spark
that ignites it.

Narrator:
To see if it's possible
to ignite simple dust

in a mortar this size,

kutcher will first attempt
to create a dust explosion

using coffee creamer.

Ten pounds of coffee creamer.

Narrator:
This household product is often
used by explosives teams

on hollywood movies
to make explosions more visual.

-Go hot.
-Effects is hot.

All right.
Here we go.

In three, two, one...

Kutcher: That went off with
quite a blast.

Narrator:
The coffee creamer dust blasts
out from the mortar,

igniting it in the air
just as matt had hoped it would.

The concussion we felt
out here was pretty cool.

Narrator:
Matt's blown up pretty much

everything imaginable
in his hollywood career,

from cars to christmas trees,
but today will be a first.

We've never done tea dust.

I don't know whether it's going
to be a dud

or it's going to go bang.

Narrator:
Kutcher loads up the mortar
with dried green tea

of the type grown
in china's yunnan province.

Let's see if we can get tea
to actually blow like tnt,

give it a real bang.

In order to duplicate

what we believe
we saw in that video,

we're gonna get this door
to fly.

[ camera whirs ]

narrator:
Coming up, is tea the key
to this mystery blast?

Kutcher:
Blow the horn all clear.

Three, two, one...

Narrator: And a boy is menaced
by a mysterious monster.

We believe it is a predator,

and it comes up to the surface
to feed.

Narrator:
A street in china is witness
to a mystery blast.

Pyrotechnics expert matt kutcher
wants to test the theory

that tea dust
caused the explosion.

Let's see if we can get tea
to actually blow like tnt.

Blow the horn.
All clear.

[ horn honks ]

and here we are
in three, two, one...

[ explosion ]

not much left of the greenhouse
or the door.

If it wasn't for the cable,

the door might have flown
across the street,

and hit somebody on a scooter.

I think under this controlled
environment of which we created,

we obviously made the tea work,

and we were able
to disintegrate a door.

But is it really
what we saw in the video?

Narrator: The explosive blast
from a very small quantity

of tea was surprisingly big.

Even explosives master
matt kutcher is taken aback.

But his blast is giving off
a large, dense dust cloud.

In the mystery clip,
there is none.

Kutcher:
What we see in the video
has got far more power.

Narrator:
Either way, he's thinking of
keeping less tea in the kitchen.

But after seeing the tea
just explode like that,

it makes me think,
"maybe I'll stick to coffee."

narrator:
Military analyst joe pappalardo
suspects the event

could be the work of one
of the most feared

criminal networks in the world.

You have to consider where this
incident happened.

This is in the yunnan province.
It's an area where the triads,

criminal groups called triads
are extremely active.

When something blows up, your
mind immediately flips to them.

Narrator:
The 14k is one of the largest
triad gangs in the world,

with 20,000 members.

Formed as an anti-communist
criminal organization in 1945,

chinese authorities
have tried to control them,

but the 14k is well-organized
and well-funded,

thanks to its criminal
activities.

In china today, there is a
reality of organized crime.

It's just that simple.
They're involved

in some activities
that you could label terrorism.

Narrator:
The triads have immense power
with many

in the communist regime
on their payroll.

Any triads betraying
their organization are executed.

Whenever you have government
corruption of that magnitude,

you're going to have
organized crime involved.

The triads are known
for using high explosives.

Not just actual
high explosives like tnt,

but then also,
homemade explosives.

[ camera whirs ]

narrator:
As for what the triads might be
stealing in this area,

military expert marty morgan
has got a strange theory.

He believes it may be
a very special kind of mushroom.

There's a trade in this province

in what they call
"black diamonds,"

and black diamonds
are simply truffles.

Narrator:
Black diamond truffles are the
most expensive food on earth,

selling for as much as $150,000
per pound.

So valuable, a french farmer was
jailed for eight years in 2015

for shooting a man dead

he thought was stealing
his black truffles.

[ gunshot ]

this really is food to die for.

When you consider the amount
of money that's involved,

it's unsurprising that you get
organized crime involved.

Narrator:
The theories around the event
in this footage

are as strange
as the incident itself.

But to this day, what happened
here is still unexplained.

He gets up, so he's okay,
but that's gotta hurt.

Narrator:
There were no fatalities
this time,

but the citizens of sichuan

live with the threat
of another unexpected blast.

Muñoz: The people who live
in this area,

on this street now have to live

in a constant fear of
another explosion taking place.

And next time,
if it does happen,

the people on the street
might not be so lucky.

Narrator: Now an ancient lake,
a monster long thought to exist,

finally caught on camera.

-What is it?
-I think it's a 120-foot

fast-moving serpentine snake.

Narrator:
This is just the latest report

of a monstrous creature
in the lake.

We've had multiple sightings
here of two or three ogopogo

in lake okanagan,
perhaps there's more than one.

Narrator:
A creature which for centuries

has been known to and feared
by local tribes people.

Ogopogo is the english word
for n'ha-a-itk.

It means the sacred one
of the water.

Narrator:
The sighting has amazed
and terrified locals.

This experience has had
a huge impact on our family.

My son won't go swimming
past a sandbar anymore,

and I definitely
am not going in the water.

Gottlieb: The first thought is,
"what is that?"

and then the second thought is,
"is that kid in danger?"

narrator:
Canada, home to over 20%
of the fresh water in the world.

British columbia is
the land of lakes

with over 20,000 of them.

June 1, 2019,
on a hot summers day,

store owner jim larocque
and his family head to the lake.

It was 1:00 in the afternoon,
30 degrees out, celsius.

The water was like glass.

Narrator:
Jim's son paddleboards

when something horrific emerges
from the water.

All the sudden, I just heard
this swooshing sound

of something and I thought,

my son was just on his
paddleboard,

and something
went right behind him.

Narrator:
A huge and menacing presence
is in the water just feet away.

Eventually, my son turns
and he actually

sees a flipper
come out of the water

and smash down on the water.

And of course,
he starts booking it back

on his paddleboard.

Narrator: His son just manages
to get away,

but jim will never forget

the vision
of the creature estimated

at 120-feet long.

The underside of it
was like white,

and then the outside was dark.

Narrator:
Scientists are at a loss
to explain what jim saw.

It's like one, two, three,
like seven fins.

And you could see
something coming right up

out of the water.
I mean, it's so flat.

There's no way
this is the wind or a log.

Gottlieb: The first thought is,
"what is that?"

and then the second thought is,
"is that kid in danger?"

narrator:
This huge lake stretching
80 miles dates back

to the ice age
and the oldest known inhabitants

are the syilx people who have
inhabited the lake shore

for many thousands of years.

Their descendants,
the west bank first nation,

have long talked about the lake
being home to a giant creature.

Caldwell:
Ogopogo exists in our stories,
and we have a word for him.

If he wasn't real
and he didn't exist,

we wouldn't have a word for him.

We call it n'ha-a-itk.

It means the sacred one
of the water.

Narrator:
They believe n'ha-a-itk is not a
normal animal.

He is a kind of animal-god,

because he's so sacred, he
doesn't show himself

to just anybody.

When you see things from
another realm, it's a blessing.

Local historian bill steciuk.

Believes the creature is a real
animal unknown to science.

When I first moved to kelowna
a number of years ago,

I was pretty skeptical about
something being in the lake.

But I had a sighting off
the bridge in 1978.

Narrator:
He took a photograph of what he
believes is the creature's head.

It was taken at 130 meters.
Looking at it,

you can actually see an eye,
and you can see the mouth here.

It was ironic all the time
I've spent on boats,

and here I'm sitting on my
patio, and I get a picture.

We believe it is a predator.

We believe that
it feeds on fish.

There's even been sightings
that it could take a duck

from the top of the water.

Narrator:
Local scientist raphael nowack
grew up around the lake

and is determined to get to the
bottom of what is in its depths.

I've always had a natural
curiosity for wanting to explore

and learn more
about okanagan lake,

especially because
of its immense size

and the fact that it has
never been fully explored.

And along with that, obviously,
comes the topic of ogopogo.

Narrator:
He's heading to an area

where a number of sightings
have been made.

Nowack:
We're here at squally point
where there are several

underwater cave formations
known to exist.

So we're going to take a look
at those and see

this is one the habitat
that ogopogo may live in.

Narrator:
Nowack launches a remotely
operated underwater vehicle...

Here we go.

...To explore the lake's
cave-like formations.

Just approaching, it looks
like a cave feature here.

This is a potential habitat,

a large creature or an unknown
creature maybe able to hide in.

A few years ago, I was doing an
underwater investigation,

and I came across some
interesting formations

on the bottom sediment,

which looked like
a pattern of footprints.

The footprints suggest that
there may be an ambush predator

that may walk along the lake
floor and then push off,

creating those indentations
in the lake sediment.

Narrator: Large footprints on
the lake floor seem bizarre,

but similar giant
dinosaur footprints

were found in the mountains
of morrison, colorado,

where there was once
a prehistoric sea.

Scientists are still discovering
on a yearly basis new species

on the planet that have not
been known about before,

and I'm just open
to exploring this mystery.

Narrator:
Coming up, are these lake
monsters jurassic throwbacks?

They've been around
since before the dinosaurs.

They look like they belong
with the dinosaurs.

Narrator:
And in a chinese hospital,
what has this man just laid?

It looks like a huge white egg.

So where in the world
did that come from?

Narrator: In a lake in the
canadian wilderness,

a young boy manages to escape
from a giant water beast.

Marine biologist eric hovland
analyzes the footage

and is reminded
of a jurassic giant

known as a plesiosaur

and of a creature repeatedly
sighted in scotland --

the lochness monster.

Nessie comes to mind right away,

was that a plesiosaur that lives
in lochness?

Is there something similar
in this lake?

Narrator:
Savage plesiosaurs ruled

the jurassic waters
of earth 65 million years ago.

Some investigators speculate
that nessie is a plesiosaur

whose ancestors entered the loch
from the sea.

However, recent science and
discoveries have shown us

that perhaps
it isn't a plesiosaur.

Scientists have been studying
the dna

that they've collected
from lochness to find out

what animals are living
beneath the surface.

Narrator:
That study by researchers
from new zealand

examine traces of dna
in the loch.

They found something
they weren't expecting.

They did find a lot of eel dna.

Narrator:
Earliest eels date back to over
100 million years ago

when some of the largest
predators ever existed.

Prehistoric eels evolved into
at least

800 different species,
some of them enormous.

Washington:
Some of those eels can grow
close to 30-feet long.

That could easily be mistaken
for a monster.

Narrator: But the creature
filmed by jim in canada

would dwarf
the largest known eel.

Marine biologist danny
washington considers

if the footage shows
another type of river monster

known to inhabit
canadian waters.

There have been a lot of
eyewitness reports

of eel-like fishes swimming
through canadian lakes,

but what they're seeing
might be a sturgeon.

Lake sturgeon can grow
to be quite large.

These animals can easily
be confused for a monster

swimming through a lake.

Narrator:
When swimming, the sturgeons
rigid spine

often breaks the water

in a similar way
to what is seen in the footage.

There have been some massive
sturgeons discovered.

For example, in china,
they found a sturgeon

that was half a ton.
That's 1,000 pounds.

Narrator:
But no known sturgeon has ever
come close

to the 120-foot monster
captured on camera.

That's about the size of five
sturgeons lined up all together.

Narrator:
Whatever this monster is,

some local people are now
refusing to enter the water.

This experience has had
a huge impact on our family.

My son won't go swimming past
the sandbar anymore,

and I definitely
am not going in the water.

People are still continuing
to report sightings.

Just last year, there were
three sightings in three weeks

until we get a carcass
or some dna samples,

we're not going to know
exactly what it is.

Narrator:
Now surgeons cut open a man,
and to their horror...

That looks...
Ugh.

...Find a large,
fully formed egg.

It gives me shivers.
That's so disgusting.

It's like an egg
pulled out of a human?

That's weird.

Narrator: Is it a miracle...

There's so many weird
and mysterious things

that can happen
to the human body.

Narrator:
...Or an even stranger echo
of the past in our dna?

Brenserger: Incredibly, we still
contain huge amounts of dna

of our reptilian ancestors.

So is this actually
a freak throwback?

Narrator: Hubei province,
home to 58 million humans...

...And around
350 million chickens.

A local delicacy here
is thousand-year eggs.

These are preserved in ash
and clay for months

before being served
as traditional breakfast food.

November 2015, a 53-year-old man
is admitted to a local hospital

complaining of abdominal pain.

When surgeons opened him up,

they discovered to their horror
what is reported to be an egg.

Oh, there's an egg
inside of a person.

I mean, I've heard of deviled
eggs, but this is ridiculous.

Narrator: Experts are at a loss
as to what this could be.

Well, it looks like a weird,
huge white egg.

So where in the world
did that come from?

It looks like a human
has produced an egg.

This just doesn't
make any sense.

How does an egg end up
inside of a human being?

Narrator:
Science journalist john farrow
is reminded of a strange case

of an egg-laying boy.

In indonesia,
there was the case of this boy

who claimed
to have laid eggs.

Narrator:
In 2018, 14-year-old akmal
from gowa, indonesia,

claimed he'd laid 20 eggs.

His father, rusli,
supported the claim,

saying that he had
cracked one open.

So when this boy was x-rayed,
the eggs were found

at the base of the abdomen,

which is where you might expect
to find the eggs.

Narrator: Akmal was hospitalized
and doctors watched in horror

as the teenager laid
two eggs in front of them.

You can guess for yourself
what part of the body

these eggs were coming from.

When the eggs were taken away
to be examined,

they matched perfectly
the profile of eggs from a fowl.

So maybe this was an extreme
form of attention seeking.

We can imagine how the boy
in indonesia faked his eggs,

but this man in china, it was
an invasive surgical procedure,

definitely isn't a prank.

Narrator:
Coming up...

Is our long-dormant
reptile dna suddenly waking up?

Is it possible that we somehow
might be evolving where

we might be able
to lay eggs again?

...And sinister screams

come from a canadian killer's
favorite forest.

[ screaming ]

if I heard that in the woods,

I would not be in the woods
for much longer.

Narrator: Surgeons in china
cut open a man.

Inside his stomach,
they find

what looks like
a fully-formed egg.

No one can figure out
how it got there.

In the animal kingdom,

the male seahorse gets pregnant,
carries eggs, and gives birth,

but they do not produce eggs.
Their female partners do.

They deposit the eggs into
a special sac in the male's body

where he fertilizes
and carries them

until eventually giving birth
to up to 2,000 babies.

Science journalist steve potvin
investigates if it's possible

for a human male to carry eggs.

There's so many weird
and mysterious things

that can happen to the human
body.

Narrator:
When human genes mutate,
strange things can occur.

In 1895, there was a newspaper
article about a guy

called edward mordrake,
and it described him

having a second face
on the back of his head.

Narrator:
While the mordrake story
is now doubted by experts,

the article reported that
mordrake called this second face

his "devil twin."

now, edward ended up killing
himself at the young age of 23.

He had written in his will that
he wanted the face to be burned

so that the whisperings
wouldn't continue after he died.

Narrator: Evidence suggests
mordrake suffered from a rare

genetic birth defect.

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: It is true that humans
have traces of egg-laying dna.

Based on biological evolution,
we have a reptilian past.

Incredibly, we still contain
huge amounts of dna

of our reptilian ancestors.

So is it possible that we
somehow might be evolving

where we might be able
to lay eggs again?

Narrator:
As mammals and reptiles evolved,

we still continue to share up
to 89% of our dna.

There are several traits
which are similar, too --

skin that can repair itself,

teeth, and a yolk sac in the
womb from the time

when our ancestors laid eggs.

Scientists in china have been
reported to be conducting

genetic experiments on humans,

which would never be allowed
in other parts of the world.

Dr. He jiankui controversially
carried out genetic engineering

on human embryos,
modifying their dna.

His actions were condemned
by scientists in china

and around the world.

Narrator:
He was eventually jailed

for forging documents
and unethical conduct.

We have no way of knowing
what the truth

of this story actually is.

Narrator:
Animal expert kevin kasky
looks into whether the egg found

in the stomach of the man
in china is a unique event.

There are instances where
structures made of fat or hair

or other things that are
within the body or that the body

is discharging that come out
with an egg-like substance.

There was an incident in 2015,
where a man in washington, d.C.,

had a 4-inch egg-like
structure removed from his body.

Orzel:
This can be a major problem.

Something that large can lead
to blockages internally,

that can create
severe medical problems

and even lead to death.

Narrator:
The secret of this egg formation
can be found

in the sewers beneath our feet.

So much fat comes from
the restaurants and homes above,

special teams are needed
to clear the blockages.

As humans consume
greater quantities of fat,

it accumulates in the body,
creating fat bergs,

which is what we could be seeing
in the man in china.

Bits of fat can sort of
accumulate and buildup together,

and sort of, you know,
take on the shape of

wherever they happen
to be contained,

which will give you
kind of that ovalish shape.

Narrator:
A biopsy on the egg found
in the man in china

showed it was a buildup
of a mixture of fat

and other bodily tissues.

And when you slice it,
it gives the appearance

of sort of a boiled egg
with a hard yolk at the center.

Narrator:
This is one egg you don't want
to wake up to.

This man's a very,
very lucky man.

This could have been much,
much worse and not operable,

so he's very lucky.

Narrator:
Now a man hears a series of
terrifying screams

coming from the forest.

Oh, my god, that scream.

That is just chilling.

Narrator: Immensely loud,
echoing through the trees.

[ screams ]

the heck was that?

Narrator:
What's worse, it's in an area

where there have been dozens
of murders

and unexplained disappearances.

This area is known for many,
many unsolved murders.

Narrator:
This forest and the highway
that runs through it

has a truly
terrifying reputation.

This part of british columbia is
called the "highway of tears."

[ screams ]

narrator:
Witset -- native american land
dating back thousands of years,

surrounded by forest,
nestled by the rockies.

December 16, 2017,

it's early evening.
The sun sinking fast.

A man hears an immensely
loud cry from the woods.

[ screams ]

it's really loud, and it seems
to want us to know it's there.

Narrator: The booming screams
rip through the air.

[ screams ]

narrator: Followed by another
even louder shriek.

If I heard that in the woods,

I would not be in the woods
for much longer.

The idea that the sound
that we hear in the video

could be the cries
of the latest victim,

I mean,
that's absolutely horrifying.

Paleontologist dustin growick
analyzes the sound

in search of clues
to its origin.

You'll notice that it kind of
starts as a low growl,

but then proceeds to being much
higher pitched,

almost shriek or scream.

It's not easily identifiable,
but it's pretty sinister.

Narrator:
A wet'suwet'en tribal legend
speaks of a wolf/bear,

a giant beast
that roams the forests --

the wa-hila.

It seems strange,

but there is a creature
scientists called amphicinated

that once inhabited
north america.

This terrifying giant thought
to have gone extinct

2 1/2 million years ago
is known to have grown

to the same size
as an adult male polar bear.

Whatever the source
of this noise,

the locals are truly terrified
of going into these woods.

When science author linda
zimmerman investigates the area

the clip was shot,

she finds it has
a sinister past.

There is a possible darker side
to this

because this area is known
for many, many unsolved murders.

Narrator:
Going straight through
the middle of this forest

is highway 16.

Since 1969, 43 women
have disappeared on this

isolated stretch of road,

only 13 bodies
have ever been found.

Zimmerman: Hitchhiking is
strongly discouraged

on this stretch of road.

They even have billboards
warning "killer on the loose."

that is not something
you see every day.

Narrator: Coming up...

Is the scream in the woods
a killer on the loose?

Women keep disappearing.

They've been disappearing
since this investigation.

Narrator:
And is a deadly space rock
heading for earth?

Whatever that is,
it's moving very, very fast.

What is the flash
at the end there?

Narrator:
In british columbia, canada,

a terrifying scream rips through
a forest linked to dozens

of missing
and murdered women.

A road that runs through the
area where the scream was heard

is known
as the highway of tears

and is one of
the most dangerous roads

in the world to walk alone.

But the threat
is not from forest beasts.

For some horrifying reason,

this place has become a magnet
for serial killers.

November 2010, officers stopped
20-year-old cody legebokoff

inside his truck.

They find him sitting
in a pool of blood.

He claims he's been poaching.

But when police find
a 15-year-old girl's I.D.,

they follow his tracks
off highway 16,

finding her body.

He eventually
confesses to killing her

and three other women,
but the killings don't stop.

Women keep disappearing.

They've been disappearing
since this investigation.

Narrator:
Tragically, three more women

have been found
murdered along this road.

Another six have disappeared,

many from the local
native american communities.

This could be a very important
piece of evidence

in the criminal investigation.

Narrator:
So many victims, but so few
of their bodies discovered.

The presence of large predators
in the forest

means that bodies
do not last long here.

The ghostly screams captured
this day are still a mystery.

At the time this video was
taken, there were no reports

of missing persons
or anything worse.

I'm hopeful
there's another explanation.

[ screams ]

narrator:
The cries are chilling
and horrific,

an awful reminder
of the very real terror

that makes locals afraid
to enter this forest.

Given the mystery that surrounds
these woods,

if I was a local,
I would not be going near there.

Narrator: Now in the night skies
above the american midwest.

Whatever that is,
it's moving very, very fast.

Narrator:
A mysterious bright light
seen across eight states.

Man: Oh, whoa.

Whatever that was,
it just kicked into overdrive.

There's something unnatural
about the way this thing moves.

Narrator:
Experts worry this could be
an unstoppable invader.

It's flying far too fast
to be a passenger plane.

Then it gets brighter,
and it moves faster still.

♪♪

narrator: Rural missouri,
November 11, 2019, 8:52 p.M.

Home security cameras
capture a strange light

that appears out of nowhere...

It's so bright,
it lights up the entire sky.

Narrator:
...Then streaks across
the night sky...

It's moving so fast, it is
impossible to tell what it is.

Narrator:
...Before finally it bursts into
light.

What is the flash
at the end there?

Narrator:
Former nypd video analyst
connor mccourt

studies the footage

and immediately rules
out camera trickery.

When I look at this video,
there's nothing that indicates

that it's not authentic.

All of a sudden, a bright object
crosses the screen.

Is it manmade
or is it from space?

Narrator: This thing was filmed
across eight different

states from minnesota
to missouri.

It streaked across missouri
from troy to wellsville.

There are over
5,000 passenger planes

flying over america
at any given moment,

but this object
is not one of them.

For one thing, it doesn't have
any of the other lights

that passenger aircraft
normally do.

Whatever that is,
it's moving very, very fast.

And then it gets brighter
and it moves faster still.

Narrator:
Military historian marty morgan

studies the apparent
acceleration of the object.

What kind of aircraft is capable
of that level of performance?

Narrator:
Coming up, is a giant asteroid

on a crash course
with the earth?

It's moving so fast, it is
impossible to tell what it is.

It only takes a meteor
about the size of a car

to create shockwaves
strong enough

to break windows.

Any larger than that,
and all hell breaks loose.

Narrator: In rural missouri,

a mysterious light
streaks across the night sky

seen in eight states.

Could this strange light

be linked
to secret military operations?

My first thought is that we're
looking at a fighter aircraft

because there's really
nothing else that exists

that can experience
acceleration like that.

A jet fighter can be cruising
along

at a regular rate of speed,
go into afterburn, and zip off

at a significantly higher rate
of speed,

like this anomaly
in the footage does.

Narrator: The strange anomaly

was captured
near whiteman air force base,

home to one of the most
incredible planes

in the world --
the b2 stealth bomber.

This flying wing is virtually
invisible to anti-aircraft

defenses, capable of dropping
thermonuclear weapons

anywhere in
a 12,000-mile radius.

The b2 would not be visible on
camera, but fighter jets would.

Morgan: The f15-e is the fastest
aircraft in american inventory.

Called the strike eagle

because of
the aircraft's ability

to carry a very large
payload package.

The f15 is capable
of accelerating to speeds over

1,600 miles per hour.

Narrator: Fast enough
to be the object spotted,

but why would a fighter jet

be streaking
across the missouri night sky?

High-performance combat aircraft

tend to stay away
from populated areas,

and they tend to not go into
afterburn over populated areas.

The only reason that I could
come up with for it to be out

in the middle of the night
running up into afterburn

and zipping off at high rates
speed over a populated area --

the only reason I could
come up with to explain that

would be that aircraft
is intercepting something.

Narrator:
Science writer amy shira teitel
thinks this could be an object

that has terrified humans
for millennia.

When I look at the footage,
the speed,

the brightness, the intensity,

it all looks like a meteor
streaking across the sky.

So could this be
what we're looking at?

Narrator:
The earth interacts with space
more often than you might think.

Every single day,

25 million meteors
enter the earth's atmosphere,

most of which burn up,

but some can
wreak havoc upon impact.

The atmosphere acts
like a brake,

slowing them down really fast.

What that does is generate
a lot of heat.

These rocks from space

can go from 3,000
to 10,000 degrees fahrenheit.

Narrator: An asteroid larger
than 100-feet wide

could wipe out a city.
Any asteroid larger

than 6.2 miles
is called extinction class.

These are powerful enough
to destroy all life on earth.

It only takes a meteor
about the size of a car

to create shockwaves
strong enough to break windows.

Narrator:
If there was a planet-killing
asteroid

on a collision
course with earth,

there's nothing
we could do to stop it.

A 2007 nasa report indicated
that a nuclear bomb

would blow
an asteroid into pieces,

but those chunks
would still hit us.

The automated asteroid-watching
system century

tracks around 20,000 near-earth
objects,

43 are marked as potentially
hazardous.

A house-sized meteor can explode
in the earth's atmosphere

with more force
than the atomic bomb

that the u.S. Dropped
on hiroshima in 1945.

Narrator:
Nasa and the european space
agency are scrambling

to develop a system
that will alter the course

of potentially earth-destroying
asteroids.

In the meantime, we are helpless
from bombardments from space.

Meteors travel at about
132,000 miles per hour,

so that is a fast, bright streak
of light across the sky.

What really convinces me
this is actually a meteor

is the flash at the end.

That's what happens
when a meteor burns to the sky

and then blows up
in the atmosphere.

Narrator:
Nasa confirmed it was a meteor
seen over missouri.

Luckily, this one didn't cause
a catastrophic explosion,

but the next one could.