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worldwide 36 billion cameras are watching us.
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On our streets, at work, and in our homes.
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They capture things that seem impossible.
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Science says
this shouldn't happen.
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- do you see that?
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experts carry out forensic analysis of these unusual events.
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Wow, what a blast!
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this doesn't make sense.
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There has to be
some sort of explanation.
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What else is going on here?
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coming up...
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Has this explosion
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blown the lid on a deadly military secret?
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This highway has suddenly
turned into a war zone.
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the kidwho's a real pain in the neck.
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I've only seen people
turn their heads
that far in horror movies.
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Could this be some sort of
real life exorcism?
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and in a house locals say is haunted...
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Terror vision as an unplugged tv switches on by itself.
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Could a television
be broadcasting a signal
from the afterlife?
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bizarre phenomena...
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Oh, my god.
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mysteries caught on camera.
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what's the truth behind this strange evidence?
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Wenling, southern china,
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June 13, 2020.
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4:45 pm.
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Rush hour traffic comes screeching to a halt
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as flames lick up from the highway ahead.
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-Then, an apocalyptic blast.
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one second, the sky is blue
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and then the next,
it's covered in
an orange fireball.
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It almost looks like napalm,
liquid fire just jetting
across the road.
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but this is no war zone.
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It's a suburb of a modern city with over one million people.
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It's some kind of
massive explosion
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ripping through
a populated area.
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if there's such a thing as a run-of-the-mill explosion,
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this ain't it,
this explosion is massive.
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This scene is terrifying.
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historian craig gottlieb discovers the incident occurs
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as the secretive state of china faces a crisis on its highways.
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Traffic in china
is not gentle,
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the roads are very,
very crowded
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and traffic
doesn't always play nice.
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and china's roads are getting more chaotic all the time.
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Over 25 million new drivers hit the streets each year.
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The number of cars
on the road is increased
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seven fold
over the past ten years.
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that explosive pace of expansion
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has led to a lot of people
who are driving
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who have
no business driving.
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over 250 million cars compete for space,
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meaning accidents are frequent, and sometimes fatal.
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One fifth of all road deaths in the world happen in china.
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That's an average of 700 dead every day.
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They're killing each other
in large numbers
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because of
their careless driving,
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while most chinese drivers are careful,
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-mad motorists can cause deadly mayhem.
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eighteen people die in a 30-car pile-up fireball
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in anhui in 2017.
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But even that horrific highway explosion
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is dwarfed by this blast in wenling.
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this has to be more
than a car crash.
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No car accident
produces a fire like that.
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historian ashanti davis
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reviews the footage of this cataclysmic explosion
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and notices a sinister object travelling at enormous speed.
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There's this large,
long object that just
flies through the sky
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was that a missile?
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The explosion is of
a character and a force
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-that looks military.
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its scale,
its intensity
certainly suggests
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that it could potentially be
a thermobaric bomb.
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thermobaric bombs are a terrifying new weapon.
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this bomb works in two stages.
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The first stage
detonates to spread fuel
in the surrounding area,
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and the second stage
ignites that fuel
in a roaring inferno.
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Thermobaric weapons burn at very high temperatures.
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And they achieve this
by sucking in
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the oxygen from
the surrounding atmosphere.
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in 2017, the united states
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is the first to use a thermobaric weapon in combat.
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Its target, an isis stronghold in afghanistan.
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A us air force mc-130
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drops moab, the mother of all bombs.
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This 29-foot-long monster has a one mile blast radius.
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Striking with the force of 11 tons of tnt.
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The reason
a thermobaric weapon
was used in this attack
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was that this was
a cave system that isis
was holding out in.
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Effectively, it sucked
the oxygen out of those caves,
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killing about 90 people.
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it's hard to tell what would be worse,
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being flash fried
or having the air
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literally sucked out
of your lungs.
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two years later,
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china demonstrates its own thermobaric device.
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Is it conceivable
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that the chinese have
accidentally dropped one
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on a heavily populated
civilian area?
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it wouldn't be the first time
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civilians have been caught in the crossfire.
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China has detonated 45 nuclear bombs
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at lop nor in xinjiang since 1964.
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The fallout is thought to have poisoned over a million people,
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causing cancer and birth defects in the local population.
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So the question is,
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is this one of
their military tests
gone badly wrong?
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former nypd video analyst conor mccourt
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slows down the mystery projectile captured in the footage.
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what I'm seeing here is what looks like
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a huge piece of metal
being flung across the sky.
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It clears four-story buildings
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like it's a child's toy
being flung across the room.
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This seems to be
a piece of a tanker
flying through the air,
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leaving a chemical trail
behind it.
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Could this be the source of the explosion?
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a tanker suggests this explosion is caused by some sort of fuel.
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But what fuel explodes with the power of a thermobaric bomb?
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The chinese economy
is growing exponentially,
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and in order
to maintain that
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it needs a steady supply
of energy.
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china's factories are choking cities with thick smog,
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causing a health crisis that claims over one million lives every year.
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But the authorities have now found a safe, clean miracle fuel...
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Liquified natural gas.
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Lng is cryogenically stored
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and transported at 260 degrees below zero.
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In this super cold liquid form,
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the energy is highly concentrated,
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and is also supposedly super stable.
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The chinese say it shouldn't be able to explode.
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Matt kutcher is a hollywood pyrotechnics and ballistics expert
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with over two decades experience.
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Even he is amazed by this highway explosion.
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wow! You can see the actual truck come flying.
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Imagine that. Just being
in traffic and something
like this explodes.
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one thing
that's clear
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is it's not just the size
of the actual explosion,
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but the supersonic shock wave
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that travels rapidly
through the frame here.
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You have to have a serious amount of explosive energy
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to get that kind of blast.
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transporting lng is supposed to be extremely safe.
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Not only is it super cooled,
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but trucks use reinforced tanks with double walls,
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and the cavity is filled with fireproof insulation.
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But kutcher suspects if both walls were punctured,
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the escaping lng could trigger a catastrophic explosion.
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Let's put it to the test.
Can liquid gas create
an explosion powerful enough
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to throw such heavy objects
through the air?
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matt's team positions a small amount of lng inside a canister,
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and covers it with an oil drum to mimic the double skin of an lng tanker.
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This will be like
the actual fuel truck.
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That truck had, like,
7,000 gallons worth of fuel.
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And, of course, this will have
one or two gallons
and less weight.
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matt places small charges inside the barrel
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to represent the effectof a vehicle hitting the tank,
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which could allow the lng to escape and explode.
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And we'll see
if we can't get
the initial blast,
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then the secondary blast,
that supersonic bang
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will get this thrown
through the air.
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coming up...
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Matt hits the gas.
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All right, guys.
And here we go!
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In three, two, one.
Hit it!
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And in pakistan,
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a real life exorcist child makes heads spin.
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This should not be possible.
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This guy's neck
should be broken.
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He should be dead.
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a massive blast destroys a rush hour freeway.
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The secretive chinese authorities say
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transporting liquid natural gas is safe,
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but pyrotechnics expert matt kutcher wants to see for himself.
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He sets up an experiment to mimic a car colliding with
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a reinforced lng tank like the ones used in china.
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all right, guys.
And here we go!
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Three, two, one.
Hit it!
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Wow, that's a blast.
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I mean, like,
holy smokes!
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let's go check it out.
Come on.
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-Well, matty, that went
pretty good, man.
-Yes, it did.
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not bad.
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Look at that barrel.
It's all distorted, you know.
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Started off round,
and now look at it.
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But hang on, hang on.
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The camera
is already ejected.
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it's all fine.
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the experimentproves that with enough force,
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even a reinforced lng tanker can rupture and explode.
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The actual tanker in the video
went much farther,
no question.
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But think about how much fuel it had in it.
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It was certainly
more powerful,
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but our scaled down version
did prove that's what we saw.
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These road tankers
are incredibly dangerous.
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The potential energy
that's stored inside of them
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could create
such a vast explosion.
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And they're on
our roads every day,
right alongside of us.
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We're driving a car,
and there they are.
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historian craig gottlieb investigates local news reports
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and discovers the blast was caused by an lng truck.
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A catastrophic traffic accident
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caused both walls of the tank to rupture.
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The explosion caused death and devastation.
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It kills 19 people,
it injures 172 people,
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and to make matters worse,
when the trailer goes flying
through the air,
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it lands on a nearby factory.
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Causing what?
A secondary explosion.
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but despite the explosion,
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chinese authorities set a goal
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of having twice as many lng trucks on the road by 2025.
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Carrying over 38 million tons of potentially explosive liquid death.
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And the reality of this
is that china's roads
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are littered with trucks
carrying tons
of hazardous materials.
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a tanker collision with another vehicle
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can turn rush hour into a killing field.
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You could be
on your way to work,
and then suddenly like that,
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the road just explodes
underneath you.
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now, karachi, pakistan,
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November, 2017.
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Crowds gather around a boy with an abnormal ability.
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oh, god!
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He grabs his head
and turns it
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all the way around
like some kind of puppet.
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It really seems unnatural.
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Oh, he does it again.
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Ooh. Oh, yeah.
No, that's far.
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You're not supposed to be
able to twist your head
back that much.
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this isn't a trick or cgi.
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The boy's head swivels grotesquely round his neck
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like his bones are made of rubber.
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This shouldn't be possible.
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His neck should be broken.
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This guy should be dead.
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biologist carin bondar believes this boy's ability
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could be a strange genetic throwback to our animal ancestors.
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They're only a few members
of the animal kingdom
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that have the ability
to twist their necks around
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by over 180 degrees.
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-The owl twists its head nearly all the way around.
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we also have sloths
that had similar ability
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to rotate their head
360 degrees.
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for most animals,humans included, this movement would be suicide.
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Neck bones would break, and twisted arteries
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would choke off blood to the brain.
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But owls and sloths have evolved to allowthis head spinning superpower.
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Could this boy be displaying
an ancestral trade to spin
your head around?
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human share 99% of their genetic code
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with some primates, and one species is a particular head turner.
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The closest relative
that has something similar
would be the tarsier primate.
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The tarsier has extremely stretching neck muscles
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that allow it to turn its head
and look in nearly
the opposite direction.
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there are many cases of humans
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regaining primitive traits of our animal ancestors.
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There's a boy in india
who was born
with a vestigial tail.
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And now he's being worshipped because they think
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he's the reincarnation of a hindu monkey god.
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but not all children born with
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animal like abnormalities are so lucky.
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Five percent of the population is thought to have an extra nipple.
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But in 17th century europe, an extra nipple was seen as a sign of the devil
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and could get you burned at the stake as a witch.
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In pakistan, many believe
that spirits can possess
the body.
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It's no surprise when a kid spins his head 180 degrees,
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that people explain that
with supernatural forces.
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coming up...
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Has this boy had sinister surgery
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to create a superpower?
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Modifying the neck could lead
to spinal cord injuries,
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paralysis,
or even death.
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and a broadcast from beyond the grave.
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What's turning
the television on?
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It doesn't even have a plug.
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in pakistan, a boy is filmed with an owl-like ability.
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Experts consider this sickening neck twist
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could be a manmade marvel.
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The boy seem
to manipulate his head
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in a particular way
to get it to turn around.
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it doesn't look natural to me.
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In fact, it looks unnatural,
almost artificial.
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Is it possible that
the boy's neck
has been modified in some way
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to allow for this
massive range of movement?
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body modification appears to be on the rise,
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especially in the us.
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Americans are going
under the knife
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to completely modify
their body,
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to look like something that's come from another planet.
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Model pixee fox has had 200 separate procedures
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to create her dream body,
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including having six ribs surgically removed
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to achieve a tiny 14-inch waist.
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Sawing away six
of your ribs
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is a major modification
to the body.
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You're removing half of your rib cage,
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the thing that is designed to protect your internal organs.
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surgically altering the human neck, so it can twist fully around
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could be the most mind bending body mod yet.
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The neck is made up
of a lot of tiny vertebrae,
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which protect the spinal cord and central nervous system.
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Any modification
could easily lead to paralysis
or maybe even death.
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but biologist roland kays believes
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the boy might have a dangerous medical condition
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that has given him this grisly skill.
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What we're seeing here
is a genetic condition
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that affects
his whole skeletal system.
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I think he might havejoint hyper mobility syndrome.
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people with hyper mobility can twist and strain their joints
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far beyond the normal range of movement.
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Having this kind of condition
is actually very dangerous
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because there's potential
to tear or rip tissues
in the body
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from moving them simply too far.
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it's understandablethis owl boy wants to show off his rare ability,
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but the final twist in his story could be an untimely death.
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The more he twists and turns,
the more damage
he's doing to himself.
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If he went any further,
he might snap his neck.
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now, kaohsiung city, southern taiwan,
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September 29th, 2019.
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A man enters a derelict building
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after reports of unusual noises.
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he's walking
through, and it's clearly not
been occupied for a while.
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Stuff's piled up,
place is trashed.
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he finds the utilities have been cut off.
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No water, no power.
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His flashlight illuminates the rotten remains
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of a person's life, their furniture, their pictures.
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but then...
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All of a sudden,
the tv in the room
burst into life.
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It's spooky.
It scared the guy filming.
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You literally see him
jumping back.
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he goes and checks
the back of the tv,
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and it doesn't even have a plug.
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How is it getting any power?
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You would be wondering
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whether there was
a supernatural explanation
for this.
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the person then leaves
and apologizes to the ghost.
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if the tv actually is
turning itself on and off,
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we really need
to ask why and how.
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historian karen bellinger discovers
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that the derelict apartment is said to be haunted
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and belonged to a man with a troubled past.
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This building was custom-made
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to accommodate
retired soldiers
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who had fought
in the chinese civil war.
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china's civil war,
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a brutal struggle between communists and nationalists
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that left over seven million people dead.
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In 1949, defeated by the communists,
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1.5 million nationalists flee to taiwan,
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including soldiers who have seen starvation,
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rape and murder on an industrial scale.
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These were
troubled individuals
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who were struggling
with the traumas of warfare
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who lived out
these solitary, sad lives
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until their ultimate demise.
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The idea of ghosts being
around, of them
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possessing people
and objects and places,
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is really very common
in taiwan.
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A building like this,
built to house refugees
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of the chinese civil war would
really be seen
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by today's taiwaneseas potentially full of ghosts.
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It's not a far leap to say,
"well, why not a television?"
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coming up... Is the ghost in this machine
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a secret power source the government is hiding from the people?
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00:23:28,107 --> 00:23:29,440
Are they gonna
destroy my electronics,
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my car, my house,
my brain cells?
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And does coney island have a brand new freak show?
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It looked like a monster
to me.
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it's got legs,but it also looks like a fish.
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00:23:45,158 --> 00:23:46,590
What is this creature?
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387
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in an abandoned taiwanese apartment,
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-a tv appears to turn itself on...
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without the aid of electricity.
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00:24:03,743 --> 00:24:06,877
Science journalist john farrow thinks that the design
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of this 20th century television holds a clue.
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Old school tvs like this
are very different
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from the flat screens
we have around now.
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They're called cathode-ray tube televisions
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and they have tubes
in the back, which shoot
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00:24:20,526 --> 00:24:22,793
electrons up at the screen.
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00:24:22,829 --> 00:24:25,729
And the mechanism in behind is sensitive
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00:24:25,765 --> 00:24:27,832
to electromagnetic radiation.
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a plug in a socket might not be needed to make
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an old tv like this work.
401
00:24:33,940 --> 00:24:36,507
Electrical engineer david wallace wants to know
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if some kind of electrical field could
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turn on the television remotely.
404
00:24:42,748 --> 00:24:45,115
What I'm going to try
and do is actually induce
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00:24:45,151 --> 00:24:47,418
an electric field into this tv
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00:24:47,453 --> 00:24:51,355
using my one million volt
ac generator here,
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00:24:51,390 --> 00:24:53,591
and we will see
if it will induce a current
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00:24:53,626 --> 00:24:55,226
into it to give us an image.
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00:24:56,696 --> 00:24:58,028
wallace is going to create
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an invisible electrical field around the tv.
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The cathode-ray tube might react to the field
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and fire electrons at the screen,
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00:25:08,107 --> 00:25:10,207
creating a ghostly glow.
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00:25:12,311 --> 00:25:13,711
All right.
So, let's crank it up.
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00:25:15,281 --> 00:25:16,347
416
00:25:16,382 --> 00:25:18,616
okay, bring me
to a hundred thousand volts.
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00:25:20,486 --> 00:25:22,453
all-righty, give me 200,000.
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00:25:23,489 --> 00:25:25,322
420
00:25:25,358 --> 00:25:27,057
okay,
take me to three hundred.
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00:25:27,093 --> 00:25:28,692
Three hundred!
422
00:25:28,728 --> 00:25:30,661
-
-all right. Up to four.
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424
00:25:32,331 --> 00:25:34,031
at 400,000 volts
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00:25:34,066 --> 00:25:36,333
an eerie image begins to form.
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00:25:37,336 --> 00:25:39,069
Okay, run it to five hundred.
427
00:25:45,878 --> 00:25:47,878
So, this is incredible.
It actually worked.
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00:25:47,914 --> 00:25:49,413
I'm generating this massive,
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00:25:49,448 --> 00:25:52,583
500,000 volt
electromagnetic field here,
430
00:25:52,618 --> 00:25:55,586
and it is inducing
enough energy into this tv
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00:25:55,621 --> 00:25:56,987
to light up the screen,
432
00:25:57,023 --> 00:25:58,856
causing this little blue glow
that we're seeing.
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00:26:00,293 --> 00:26:01,692
but outside the lab,
434
00:26:01,727 --> 00:26:04,295
what could be producing such a field?
435
00:26:04,330 --> 00:26:06,897
When we turn on the tv
and we see static,
436
00:26:06,933 --> 00:26:08,432
we call that white noise,
437
00:26:08,467 --> 00:26:10,534
that's essentially background radiation
438
00:26:10,570 --> 00:26:13,637
that we're receiving from the area. For example,
439
00:26:13,673 --> 00:26:15,839
microwave radiation coming
from cell towers.
440
00:26:17,410 --> 00:26:20,444
across taiwan, a controversial development
441
00:26:20,479 --> 00:26:24,548
in cellular communication is currently being rolled out.
442
00:26:24,584 --> 00:26:27,084
Taiwan are starting
to build 5g towers.
443
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:28,652
Is that what we're seeing?
444
00:26:28,688 --> 00:26:30,821
5g signals being transmitted
445
00:26:30,856 --> 00:26:34,191
and turning on the crt tvs.
446
00:26:34,226 --> 00:26:38,095
5g is supposed to revolutionize our lives,
447
00:26:38,130 --> 00:26:40,464
promising limitless connectivity,
448
00:26:40,499 --> 00:26:43,767
unleashing ai and smart machines.
449
00:26:43,803 --> 00:26:45,936
The vast majority of scientists claim
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00:26:45,972 --> 00:26:48,973
5g is safe for humans.
451
00:26:49,008 --> 00:26:54,612
But in 2017, 180 scientists from 36 countries write
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00:26:54,647 --> 00:26:56,146
to the european union
453
00:26:56,182 --> 00:27:00,017
demanding that the 5g rollout be stopped.
454
00:27:00,052 --> 00:27:01,986
There are a lot
of fears regarding 5g
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00:27:02,021 --> 00:27:04,254
because it's
high energy waves,
456
00:27:04,290 --> 00:27:07,458
um, and some believe
that those could have
harmful effects.
457
00:27:08,527 --> 00:27:11,161
in 2019, a cell phone tower
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00:27:11,197 --> 00:27:14,064
near a school in california is shut down
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00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:17,534
when four children and three teachers develop tumors.
460
00:27:17,570 --> 00:27:20,738
In belgium, over a thousand health workers sign a letter
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00:27:20,773 --> 00:27:26,010
raising concerns that 5g will corrupt dna and cause cancer.
462
00:27:26,045 --> 00:27:29,279
To date, no direct link has ever been established
463
00:27:29,315 --> 00:27:32,016
between 5g and human illness.
464
00:27:32,051 --> 00:27:34,251
But we're supposed
to just sit back and let
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5g get completely rolled out,
exposing us to...
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Something that we still
technically don't know
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00:27:41,794 --> 00:27:44,995
what it will do to us
in the long run.
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00:27:45,031 --> 00:27:49,833
is this tv terror evidence of the power of 5g,
469
00:27:49,869 --> 00:27:53,237
an invisible energy force secretly surging
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00:27:53,272 --> 00:27:55,506
through unplugged appliances
471
00:27:55,541 --> 00:27:58,709
and any humans who are in the way?
472
00:27:58,744 --> 00:28:02,212
If there's enough energy
beaming through that room
473
00:28:02,248 --> 00:28:03,947
to turn on a tv,
474
00:28:03,983 --> 00:28:06,216
imagine what it could do
to the human body.
475
00:28:06,252 --> 00:28:09,486
There must be some source
of energy for this tv.
476
00:28:09,522 --> 00:28:11,955
And a lot of local people in taiwan might
477
00:28:11,991 --> 00:28:13,457
think that it's a ghost.
478
00:28:13,492 --> 00:28:16,493
But maybe the government knows
something they don't.
479
00:28:19,265 --> 00:28:23,500
now, coney island, 14 miles from manhattan.
480
00:28:27,373 --> 00:28:30,240
April 28, 2018.
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00:28:30,276 --> 00:28:33,444
Nataliia vorobok is fishing with a friend
482
00:28:33,479 --> 00:28:35,979
when she hooks something horrifying.
483
00:28:37,383 --> 00:28:38,415
what is it?
484
00:28:38,451 --> 00:28:40,517
I've never seen
something like that.
485
00:28:40,553 --> 00:28:42,319
It's so weird.
486
00:28:42,354 --> 00:28:43,787
I was afraid to touch it.
487
00:28:43,823 --> 00:28:45,522
And I was telling him
not to touch it
488
00:28:45,558 --> 00:28:47,157
because it could be poisonous.
489
00:28:47,193 --> 00:28:48,992
Or it could be like--
it could bite you.
490
00:28:49,028 --> 00:28:50,994
Or it could have teeth.
491
00:28:51,030 --> 00:28:54,431
It's like "I'm in some kind of horror movie."
492
00:28:54,467 --> 00:28:57,367
this beast has the slimy skin of a fish
493
00:28:57,403 --> 00:28:59,336
but no visible fins.
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00:28:59,371 --> 00:29:03,640
It has a gaping mouth,skewed to one side of its face
495
00:29:03,676 --> 00:29:06,310
and weird tentacle-like legs.
496
00:29:06,345 --> 00:29:10,180
Biologists are shocked by its hideous appearance.
497
00:29:10,216 --> 00:29:11,281
Ew!
498
00:29:11,317 --> 00:29:14,151
Has some weird
science experiment backfired?
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00:29:14,186 --> 00:29:16,820
Wow, what is it
that we're looking at?
500
00:29:16,856 --> 00:29:18,956
I'm almost half-expecting this thing
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00:29:18,991 --> 00:29:20,290
to stand up and walk away.
502
00:29:24,263 --> 00:29:26,697
anthropologist dustin growick studies
503
00:29:26,732 --> 00:29:28,632
the creature's bizarre body
504
00:29:28,667 --> 00:29:32,536
and is reminded of coney island's sinister history.
505
00:29:32,571 --> 00:29:34,204
This mysterious creature
was caught
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00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:35,806
off the coast of coney island,
507
00:29:35,841 --> 00:29:37,875
a place that, historically,
has housed
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00:29:37,910 --> 00:29:41,979
many different freak shows,
both human and animal.
509
00:29:42,014 --> 00:29:44,982
local historian adam rinn is familiar
510
00:29:45,017 --> 00:29:48,085
with coney island's dark and dismal past.
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00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,720
ladies and gentlemen, step right up.
512
00:29:49,755 --> 00:29:51,722
Come one, come all,
come big, come small,
513
00:29:51,757 --> 00:29:54,124
right here
to coney island, usa,
514
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,193
and the coney island
circus sideshow,
515
00:29:56,228 --> 00:29:57,828
where you will see
incredible acts,
516
00:29:57,863 --> 00:30:01,198
and unusual feats
right before your very eyes.
517
00:30:01,233 --> 00:30:03,167
That's right. Right now...
518
00:30:04,136 --> 00:30:06,103
It's showtime.
519
00:30:06,138 --> 00:30:09,373
in the early 1900s, dreamland amusement park is
520
00:30:09,408 --> 00:30:11,875
the boardwalk's star attraction,
521
00:30:11,911 --> 00:30:14,378
featuring a degrading and shocking series
522
00:30:14,413 --> 00:30:16,513
of bizarre spectacles.
523
00:30:16,549 --> 00:30:20,250
It housed the largest
permanent collection
524
00:30:20,286 --> 00:30:22,219
of sideshow performers,
525
00:30:22,254 --> 00:30:25,322
of "freaks"
in the entire world.
526
00:30:26,525 --> 00:30:30,894
These were people who were
born unlike you or I.
527
00:30:30,930 --> 00:30:33,864
They could have had a parasitic twin attached to them.
528
00:30:33,899 --> 00:30:36,166
They could have had excessive hair,
529
00:30:36,202 --> 00:30:39,603
extra limbs, no limbs.
530
00:30:39,638 --> 00:30:42,439
they were displayed to a gawking public.
531
00:30:44,009 --> 00:30:47,311
Freak animals were
also put on display.
532
00:30:47,346 --> 00:30:49,880
Cats with extra paws,
533
00:30:49,915 --> 00:30:51,515
a two-headed goat.
534
00:30:51,550 --> 00:30:54,685
Then, of course,
there were mutated fish,
535
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,653
animals from deep
within the sea.
536
00:30:58,324 --> 00:31:01,658
in 1911, dreamland goes up in flames.
537
00:31:02,862 --> 00:31:04,962
While the human exhibits flee,
538
00:31:04,997 --> 00:31:07,965
only some of the weird creatures are rescued.
539
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,567
Many are never found.
540
00:31:10,603 --> 00:31:12,736
Who knows what went
into the water
541
00:31:12,771 --> 00:31:16,073
and what mutant creatures may
still be around.
542
00:31:18,077 --> 00:31:20,510
coming up... Could this creepy catch
543
00:31:20,546 --> 00:31:22,346
be a killer from the deep?
544
00:31:22,381 --> 00:31:25,182
What we see on the tail is
actually a deadly weapon.
545
00:31:28,821 --> 00:31:32,556
and scientists fear a visitor from venus.
546
00:31:32,591 --> 00:31:35,158
Could this blue glow be
an alien life form
547
00:31:35,194 --> 00:31:36,660
trying to colonize the planet?
548
00:31:44,670 --> 00:31:47,804
in new york,a mysterious monster is pulled
549
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,641
from the murky waters off coney island.
550
00:31:50,676 --> 00:31:54,711
It seems to have legs as well as fins.
551
00:31:54,747 --> 00:31:58,849
Zoologist roland kays believes this freaky fish might be
552
00:31:58,884 --> 00:32:01,485
a strange product of its environment.
553
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:02,853
From a pollution point
of view,
554
00:32:02,888 --> 00:32:06,290
the waters around coney island
are in bad shape.
555
00:32:06,325 --> 00:32:10,127
new york produces a staggering quantity of garbage.
556
00:32:10,162 --> 00:32:13,163
Its restaurants alone churn out enough waste
557
00:32:13,198 --> 00:32:17,034
to fill one hundred subway cars every day.
558
00:32:17,069 --> 00:32:20,771
Back in 1947, city planners came up with a solution.
559
00:32:22,274 --> 00:32:26,810
Fresh kills on staten island,the largest landfill on earth.
560
00:32:27,780 --> 00:32:29,279
this place receives
561
00:32:29,315 --> 00:32:31,715
everything that new york city doesn't want.
562
00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:34,952
All of the disgusting
offshoots of new york
563
00:32:34,987 --> 00:32:36,954
end up here in fresh kills.
564
00:32:38,490 --> 00:32:41,325
the site closes in late 2001,
565
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,795
but it's lethal legacy still lives on today.
566
00:32:44,830 --> 00:32:47,464
Fresh kills has been
leeching toxic waste
567
00:32:47,499 --> 00:32:51,001
into the waters
of coney island for decades.
568
00:32:51,036 --> 00:32:53,503
and it gets worse, coney island is
569
00:32:53,539 --> 00:32:56,006
also surrounded by heavy industry
570
00:32:56,041 --> 00:32:57,941
that has helped infect the water
571
00:32:57,977 --> 00:33:00,110
with a foul-smelling sludge.
572
00:33:01,046 --> 00:33:04,014
The fetid,
murky ooze nicknamed,
573
00:33:04,049 --> 00:33:06,350
tastily, "black mayonnaise."
574
00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:09,419
it's not a mayo you'd want to put
575
00:33:09,455 --> 00:33:11,321
on your sandwich.
576
00:33:11,357 --> 00:33:12,956
it's a thick, black goo
577
00:33:12,992 --> 00:33:15,926
made up of a combination of industrial waste
578
00:33:15,961 --> 00:33:17,227
and sewage
579
00:33:17,262 --> 00:33:19,930
with dozens of chemicals
known to cause cancer.
580
00:33:19,965 --> 00:33:22,833
anything living in it is likely to be riddled
581
00:33:22,868 --> 00:33:24,701
with disfiguring tumors.
582
00:33:24,737 --> 00:33:28,205
Are we maybe seeing
a creature that has evolved
583
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,375
to live amongst
this toxic black mayonnaise?
584
00:33:32,911 --> 00:33:35,312
worse still, mutant fish could be
585
00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:37,914
taking over the food chain.
586
00:33:37,950 --> 00:33:40,717
there's a species of fish, the tomcod,
587
00:33:40,753 --> 00:33:42,119
that used to get liver tumors
588
00:33:42,154 --> 00:33:44,287
from all of the toxicity
in the water,
589
00:33:44,323 --> 00:33:45,989
but they don't anymore.
590
00:33:46,025 --> 00:33:48,859
So the concerning thing from a biological perspective
591
00:33:48,894 --> 00:33:51,895
is that the animals
are evolving to live
592
00:33:51,930 --> 00:33:53,797
within this toxic waste.
593
00:33:53,832 --> 00:33:56,933
The young tomcod are
eaten by sea bass.
594
00:33:56,969 --> 00:34:00,070
The sea bass ingests the same pollutants the tomcod did,
595
00:34:00,105 --> 00:34:02,572
and people like
to eat sea bass.
596
00:34:02,608 --> 00:34:04,274
Well, you can do
the math there.
597
00:34:04,309 --> 00:34:07,444
Those pollutants will make their way right up the food chain.
598
00:34:07,479 --> 00:34:10,514
We are literally eating
the toxic waste that's being
599
00:34:10,549 --> 00:34:12,849
pumped into
new york city's waterways.
600
00:34:16,422 --> 00:34:19,189
but marine biologist erik hovland studies
601
00:34:19,224 --> 00:34:21,591
the creature's two mutant limbs
602
00:34:21,627 --> 00:34:25,862
and sees something that might explain its origins.
603
00:34:25,898 --> 00:34:28,031
what appears as a pair of legs on the back
604
00:34:28,067 --> 00:34:30,667
is a set of fins
called claspers,
605
00:34:30,702 --> 00:34:32,969
and they're unique
to the males.
606
00:34:33,005 --> 00:34:36,606
Their reproductive organs, essentially a pair of penises
607
00:34:36,642 --> 00:34:40,143
that help fertilize the eggs
of the female counterpart.
608
00:34:43,215 --> 00:34:45,248
hovland believes this creature belongs
609
00:34:45,284 --> 00:34:48,518
to a distinct group of sea monsters called rays.
610
00:34:49,688 --> 00:34:52,255
They can grow over 25 feet across
611
00:34:52,291 --> 00:34:54,658
and weigh 5,000 pounds,
612
00:34:54,693 --> 00:34:57,461
and all have one recognizable feature.
613
00:34:58,730 --> 00:35:01,731
A long, slender tail
with a venomous barb,
614
00:35:01,767 --> 00:35:04,334
they can deliver a toxic sting.
615
00:35:05,637 --> 00:35:07,471
these venomous barbs can be
616
00:35:07,506 --> 00:35:09,840
deadly to their unfortunate victims,
617
00:35:09,875 --> 00:35:12,676
causing cell death and internal bleeding.
618
00:35:14,146 --> 00:35:17,214
Nataliia vorobok was right to be scared,
619
00:35:17,249 --> 00:35:18,949
and not just of the possibility
620
00:35:18,984 --> 00:35:21,618
of a mutated ray with a fatal sting.
621
00:35:21,620 --> 00:35:22,853
after what I saw,
622
00:35:22,888 --> 00:35:25,856
I would never go
and swim in here again.
623
00:35:25,891 --> 00:35:27,157
these creatures feed
624
00:35:27,192 --> 00:35:29,526
on other bottom-dwelling organisms,
625
00:35:29,561 --> 00:35:32,028
sucking up coney island's pollution.
626
00:35:32,064 --> 00:35:33,797
So it could be
only a matter of time
627
00:35:33,866 --> 00:35:36,967
before this strange fish gets
even stranger.
628
00:35:37,002 --> 00:35:38,602
Given enough industrial waste,
629
00:35:38,637 --> 00:35:41,004
I hate to think what
this creature could become.
630
00:35:47,279 --> 00:35:50,547
now, madrid, the capital city of Spain.
631
00:35:54,453 --> 00:35:57,354
March 20th, 2020.
632
00:35:57,389 --> 00:35:59,222
A young woman looks up and sees
633
00:35:59,258 --> 00:36:03,760
an unexplained blue, pulsing light inside a cloud.
634
00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:07,297
This blue glowing blob just
kind of magically appears.
635
00:36:08,734 --> 00:36:10,767
it's kind of eerie when you look at it
636
00:36:10,769 --> 00:36:13,837
because there's nothing else
going on in the sky
637
00:36:13,872 --> 00:36:16,273
except for this blue patch.
638
00:36:16,308 --> 00:36:17,474
What is it?
639
00:36:17,509 --> 00:36:19,776
What is going on?
640
00:36:19,811 --> 00:36:22,746
this isn't a storm or an aircraft,
641
00:36:22,781 --> 00:36:24,614
and it isn't city lights.
642
00:36:25,184 --> 00:36:27,617
This is March, 2020.
643
00:36:27,653 --> 00:36:30,453
There is a national curfew in effect,
644
00:36:30,489 --> 00:36:33,690
no clubs, no bars and no events.
645
00:36:33,725 --> 00:36:37,294
This normally vibrant city is locked down.
646
00:36:37,329 --> 00:36:40,597
So what company is going
to be spending thousands
of dollars for flood lights
647
00:36:40,632 --> 00:36:42,132
to light up the sky
at this time of night
648
00:36:42,167 --> 00:36:44,801
when nobody would be looking at it?
649
00:36:44,836 --> 00:36:47,671
and it's not just madrid that's affected.
650
00:36:47,706 --> 00:36:49,239
This sinister blue light is
651
00:36:49,274 --> 00:36:51,808
being seen all over the planet.
652
00:36:51,843 --> 00:36:54,911
I'm seeing reports that
this sort of sighting is
happening everywhere.
653
00:36:54,947 --> 00:36:58,315
Europe, the uk and even all
the way back to pennsylvania.
654
00:36:58,350 --> 00:37:00,917
It's rather shocking that
there's all these events
655
00:37:00,953 --> 00:37:02,552
happening all over the world.
656
00:37:02,588 --> 00:37:04,654
Whatever this is,
it's everywhere.
657
00:37:06,692 --> 00:37:08,825
coming up... Could these lights be
658
00:37:08,860 --> 00:37:12,462
first contact with beings from another world?
659
00:37:12,497 --> 00:37:15,432
We've been looking
for extraterrestrial life
for years,
660
00:37:15,467 --> 00:37:17,334
and some people think
this could be it.
661
00:37:24,943 --> 00:37:27,510
an otherworldly blue light appears
662
00:37:27,546 --> 00:37:29,246
in the clouds over Spain.
663
00:37:30,349 --> 00:37:32,949
Astrophysicist athena brensberger believes
664
00:37:32,985 --> 00:37:37,053
it could be a visitor from our nearest planetary neighbor.
665
00:37:37,089 --> 00:37:40,890
There was a recent discovery
in venus' upper atmosphere
666
00:37:40,926 --> 00:37:44,027
by american and british scientists.
667
00:37:44,062 --> 00:37:47,197
They discovered phosphine,
which is a indicator of life.
668
00:37:48,767 --> 00:37:51,234
on venus, the idea of life was
669
00:37:51,270 --> 00:37:53,903
once thought to be impossible.
670
00:37:53,938 --> 00:37:57,474
Temperatures on the ground are around 900 degrees,
671
00:37:57,509 --> 00:37:59,209
enough to melt lead,
672
00:37:59,244 --> 00:38:03,380
along with crushing atmospheric pressure.
673
00:38:03,415 --> 00:38:07,851
On earth, phosphine gas is produced by resilient microbes
674
00:38:07,886 --> 00:38:11,121
that survive in extreme, toxic environments.
675
00:38:11,156 --> 00:38:13,323
Well, on venus, it turns out,
if you get up high enough
676
00:38:13,358 --> 00:38:16,293
in the atmosphere,
the conditions are
very similar to earth.
677
00:38:16,328 --> 00:38:18,595
Similar temperatures,
similar pressures.
678
00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:21,898
it's in the clouds of venus that some astronomers say
679
00:38:21,933 --> 00:38:24,634
they possibly found
signs of life.
680
00:38:26,672 --> 00:38:29,839
although venus' upper atmosphere may be temperate,
681
00:38:29,875 --> 00:38:32,175
it's not somewhere you'd want to be.
682
00:38:34,112 --> 00:38:37,080
Its clouds are made of deadly carbon dioxide
683
00:38:37,115 --> 00:38:38,782
and sulfuric acid.
684
00:38:40,218 --> 00:38:42,552
Anything living up there would
probably be
685
00:38:42,587 --> 00:38:45,255
pretty hardcore and tough.
686
00:38:45,290 --> 00:38:46,756
For all we know, it could be
687
00:38:46,792 --> 00:38:49,225
a life form that glows bright blue.
688
00:38:50,696 --> 00:38:52,862
it's a terrifying idea,
689
00:38:52,898 --> 00:38:56,499
but it's possible that life from venus could get to earth
690
00:38:57,536 --> 00:39:00,303
by hitching a ride on a passing asteroid.
691
00:39:03,342 --> 00:39:05,875
Who knows
what alien life forms might
692
00:39:05,911 --> 00:39:07,510
do to our planet?
693
00:39:09,147 --> 00:39:11,181
the results could be devastating
694
00:39:11,216 --> 00:39:15,852
if the aggressive new visitor takes hold of our skies,
695
00:39:15,887 --> 00:39:18,788
choking off oxygen, and perhaps producing
696
00:39:18,824 --> 00:39:21,057
carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid
697
00:39:21,093 --> 00:39:22,692
to take its place.
698
00:39:22,728 --> 00:39:25,028
Could this blue glow be
an alien life form
699
00:39:25,063 --> 00:39:27,697
trying to colonize the planet?
700
00:39:27,733 --> 00:39:30,667
These strange new animals
could conquer
the world's atmosphere.
701
00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:34,404
they could adapt to earth and completely kill off the human race,
702
00:39:34,439 --> 00:39:36,806
and then this would be
their new planet.
703
00:39:38,143 --> 00:39:40,210
but biologist carin bondar sees
704
00:39:40,245 --> 00:39:42,412
something in the glow that reminds her
705
00:39:42,447 --> 00:39:44,981
of exotic earthly creatures.
706
00:39:45,016 --> 00:39:48,385
Life on earth is
astounding and diverse,
707
00:39:48,420 --> 00:39:49,819
and there's even creatures
708
00:39:49,855 --> 00:39:52,322
that can literally glow
in the dark.
709
00:39:54,493 --> 00:39:56,693
This blue glow
is quite familiar, it looks
710
00:39:56,728 --> 00:40:00,096
like the color I've seen
from bioluminescent algae.
711
00:40:00,132 --> 00:40:03,366
algal blooms can stretch for miles out at sea
712
00:40:03,402 --> 00:40:06,269
and fluoresce after being churned up by waves,
713
00:40:06,304 --> 00:40:08,705
creating brilliant light shows.
714
00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:12,909
They may be beautiful, but they can also be deadly.
715
00:40:12,944 --> 00:40:14,644
when algal blooms get really bad,
716
00:40:14,679 --> 00:40:17,180
they release nasty chemicals into the water.
717
00:40:17,249 --> 00:40:20,083
And what's even worse is the algae,
718
00:40:20,118 --> 00:40:22,919
by growing so much, end up sucking all the oxygen
719
00:40:22,954 --> 00:40:24,120
out of the water,
720
00:40:24,156 --> 00:40:26,456
leaving any other
marine animals to suffocate.
721
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,227
Could bioluminescent algae
have been
722
00:40:31,263 --> 00:40:33,029
carried up into the clouds?
723
00:40:33,064 --> 00:40:34,697
Is that what we're seeing here?
724
00:40:37,169 --> 00:40:39,436
if the glowing entity in our skies
725
00:40:39,471 --> 00:40:41,538
is an atmospheric algae,
726
00:40:41,573 --> 00:40:45,141
it would pose a mortal danger to all life on earth.
727
00:40:46,578 --> 00:40:48,077
Algae is certainly
small enough
728
00:40:48,113 --> 00:40:50,180
to get whipped up by a storm,
729
00:40:50,215 --> 00:40:51,614
and because they're so light
730
00:40:51,650 --> 00:40:55,185
they might be able to stay suspended in the cloud.
731
00:40:55,220 --> 00:40:58,955
if strong winds can sweep algae up into the sky,
732
00:40:58,990 --> 00:41:00,824
atmospheric air currents could
733
00:41:00,859 --> 00:41:02,826
help it spread across the world.
734
00:41:04,429 --> 00:41:07,430
Around 450 million years ago,
735
00:41:07,466 --> 00:41:10,033
an algae apocalypse may have wiped out
736
00:41:10,068 --> 00:41:13,436
over 80% of life on earth.
737
00:41:13,472 --> 00:41:17,474
The composition of earth's atmosphere suddenly changes.
738
00:41:17,509 --> 00:41:21,678
Temperatures plummet, plunging the planet into an ice age.
739
00:41:23,148 --> 00:41:26,616
An event known as the late ordovician extinction.
740
00:41:27,986 --> 00:41:30,587
Who's to say that
this couldn't happen again?
741
00:41:32,057 --> 00:41:36,092
temperatures could drop to -58 degrees,
742
00:41:36,127 --> 00:41:39,095
turning our earth into a frozen wasteland
743
00:41:39,130 --> 00:41:40,864
devoid of life.
744
00:41:40,899 --> 00:41:44,067
To think that
it couldn't happen again
is just naive.
745
00:41:46,438 --> 00:41:48,738
expeditions are planned to investigate
746
00:41:48,773 --> 00:41:51,174
the mysterious, otherworldly lights
747
00:41:51,209 --> 00:41:53,042
illuminating the clouds.
748
00:41:53,078 --> 00:41:56,946
But the blue glows vanishes quickly as they appear.
749
00:41:56,982 --> 00:41:59,449
Despite scientific advances
of the 21st century,
750
00:41:59,484 --> 00:42:01,651
we still don't understand
everything we see,
751
00:42:01,686 --> 00:42:03,553
and this blue light
in the sky is one of them.
73970
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