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- Tonight on, "the mproof is out there.".

Is this proof that we're living in a simulation?

- The computer's frozen.

This is a glitch in the matrix.

Proof that an ancient civilization

once lived on Mars.

- These are all kinds of formations

that appears to be a city.

- Proof

Of mutant bats?

Around the globe are videos,

What the heck is this?

Photos, and sounds that defy explanation.

Is it some kind of unidentified object?

A plane that was literally frozen in the air.

What are they?

Some sort of bizarre mutation.

- Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof.

- I'm Tony Harris,

and as a journalist for more than 30 years

I've followed the facts where they take me.

Now, I'm bringing that spirit of investigation

to the world's strangest sounds and images.

We'll analyze each one with top experts.

- It's a credible case.

It's a credible video.

And pass our verdict on what it is.

- This video was clearly faked.

- The proof starts now.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to "the proof is out there".

Have you ever seen something

that your mind rejects as impossible?

Well, you may not be seeing things.

Some believe everything around us,

the sky, our homes, our friends, aren't real.

And could these videos be the proof?

November, 2015.

Just a typical day of rush hour traffic

in the Chinese city of xingtai.

Then, this.

Take a closer look.

Two vans jump in the air

and appear to suddenly defy gravity.

- The Van topples over as it hits the ground

and nobody knows what happened.

It's totally freaky.

Doesn't make any sense

But it's not just the laws of gravity

that seem to be bending.

In July, 2020,

a photo surfaced on the Internet

that shows the impossible.

- Now, this one really is weird.

One of the girls, her facial expression in the mirror

is different from her actual facial expression.

Something like this can't be real, right?

What is going on here?

Has reality suddenly gone off the rails?

- Physicist Dr. Michio kaku explains

that some believe it's proof

our world is actually an elaborate computer simulation.

- The fundamental premise of the simulation theory

is that there's a mysterious

super advanced civilization

that runs computer programs to simulate reality itself.

They can create a world that's totally fake.

How would an alien civilization be able to generate

our reality with such detail?

Maybe we only need to look to

our own technological advances.

- In the '70s we were playing pong on black and white TV.

Now, we have virtual reality.

If we are capable of this kind of technological advancement,

then an alien race that's millions of years ahead of us

could create simulations that we can't even touch yet.

So, when a car mysteriously jumps in midair,

or a mirror shows a wrong reflection,

simple, it's a glitch in the aliens' computer code.

- Not everything you see is always working

in the way it should.

The computer's frozen,

and some people perceive this phenomenon as proof

that this is a glitch in the matrix.

- Now, if you believe we're not alone

and you believe technology advances exponentially,

it follows that an alien civilization

may well have evolved to the point

that they're running lots of big simulations

and we're living in one of them.

But are these images proof or not?

We first sent the bizarre video of the car

to science writer and forensic video analyst Mick west.

- My first thought was perhaps there was

some kind of water main break

and the water was rushing up underneath this car

and pushing it up into the air

West zooms in on the video.

There's clearly no water seen underneath the cars.

But he does find a clue in how the Van jumps in the air.

- It kind of jerks and then it's suspended.

The only plausible thing that could hold up

something like that is a rope, or a cable, or a chain.

Okay, if we're looking for a cable or chain,

I don't see anything.

But west says take a closer look

at the right-hand side of the screen.

See that large vehicle between the two cars?

- There's a street sweeper going by

at about the same time that they get raised up into the air.

West did some more digging.

Turns out this street sweeper is the key to the mystery.

- What actually happened was

there was a cable laying on the street

and this cable got tangled up in the street sweeper

and it pulled the cars up into the air.

And because the video is very low quality,

you can't see this.

So chalk one up for everyday reality,

but what about the photo of the girl in the mirror?

We ask our other forensic video analyst, Michael primeau,

to take a look.

- So, I began my investigation by examining

what's referred to as the metadata information.

This particular image I noted several consistencies

with what I would expect to see as an original.

I noticed no inconsistencies in the digital information.

Primeau confirms the file is a camera original,

but could the face in the reflection

have been digitally manipulated after the photo was taken?

- I'm looking for any kind of inconsistencies

in directionality of light,

any kind of inconsistencies

in the actual compression blocks,

which is a X-ray version of the picture

which looks for areas of the image

that have been copied over, duplicated, cloned, et cetera.

Here's where it gets freaky.

- We would expect to see some sort of pasting

of these two faces,

but I do not detect any evidence of tampering of any kind.

This is likely what actually

was being documented in real life.

- So, it turns out those cars and vans

can be explained pretty simply.

Our verdict there: A tangled cable.

But the examination of that photo is rock solid.

There was no digital trickery.

And who knows?

It could be evidence that this reality is not really real.

Our verdict on the photo: Unexplained phenomenon.

Coming up, are these satellite images

proof of prior life on Mars?

If so, how did they go extinct?

- There were two explosions on Mars,

probably with this colony that was living here.

When "the proof is out there" continues.

- For nearly 50 years NASA has been sending satellites

to Mars to photograph the surface of the red planet.

But what if those photographs found proof

of a lost civilization there?

A civilization some believe may have also colonized earth.

For decades we've been sending probes to Mars,

and ever since strange images have been captured

on the surface of the red planet.

Could this be a floating spoon?

Or this a statue?

What about this?

The face of a god?

But then, in the spring of 2020, things got really strange

when an amateur astronomer claimed the cameras

on the Mars reconnaissance orbiter photographed this.

Take a closer look.

It appears to be a group of buildings

and pyramids on Mars,

one even in the shape of an eagle's head.

George haas is the director

of the esoteric cydonia institute.

He believes this could be evidence

of an ancient civilization on Mars.

- Well, the first structure to get my attention

is this four-sided pyramid

that has a conjoined mound at the top.

These are large geoglyphic formations

that showed intelligent design.

All kinds of formations that appears to be a city.

George also believes these martian pyramids are

eerily similar to the ancient Mayan pyramids in Mexico.

- It looks a lot like the pyramid of the moon

in teotihuacan.

You have a four-sided pyramid with this platform,

or porch, that's jutted off the one end of the pyramid,

and they're almost identical.

Forensic investigator chase kloetzke says

there's a case to be made for past life on Mars.

- There is physical evidence, scientific evidence

that there was once water on Mars.

So, if the water was there,

it easily could have supported civilization.

So, where did the martians go?

One popular theory,

they were destroyed

by nuclear war.

The possible evidence,

atmospheric traces of an element called xenon 129.

- Xenon 129 is a signature

of the artificial nuclear explosions.

- A one megaton bomb can completely level

a radius of nearly four miles.

But before we mourn the annihilation

of martian civilization,

let's determine if there was a civilization at all.

We took these photos to the best in the field,

Mars mission planner Jonathan hill.

Hill begins by examining the large eagle's head structure.

Could that be by design?

- We see cliff faces along the edge,

&nice gentle slopes that are consistent with ice deposits

that we see on similar mesas throughout the planet.

Hill says those lines indicate a natural formation

and geological analysis of the area confirms it.

- So, using ground penetrating radar from orbit

we can see down into different layers of these mesas

to see what they're made out of.

And the entire mesa is rock and water ice,

and so that obviously rules out

any artificial metals or other materials.

But what about the nearby pyramid?

George haas claims it's a mirror image

of the pyramid of the moon in Mexico.

Were the two built by the same hands?

- When you look at it,

the difference between an actual pyramid

is that all the angles are perfect.

They were artificially engineered.

When you look at a mesa like this,

the edges aren't straight.

They're all curves.

The top is not centered.

The geometry is just not there.

And that evidence of nuclear war on Mars,

the xenon 129?

- Xenon is a naturally occurring gas.

We find traces of it in our atmosphere here on earth.

So, it's not surprising

that we find it traces of it on Mars.

After years of studying the red planet

and claims of amazing structures there,

hill believes there's a psychological explanation

for what people think they are seeing on Mars.

The phenomenon known as pareidolia.

- It's basically where the human brain goes a little too far

and it implants patterns where patterns don't exist.

And so, I think people have to really prove to themselves

that they're not being affected by this known effect.

- So it's simply a trick of the eye,

and turns out that sometimes we'll see things we want to see

and not what's actually there.

So, our verdict: Pareidolia,

but don't let that stop you from looking up at the stars

for that alien life.

We may still find the proof one day.

Up next.

- I want to locate it to stop it.

A strange global hum,

and an even stranger explanation.

- A breakaway civilization digging under the earth.

- This next story is about an ongoing worldwide mystery.

People and entire communities say they are being tormented

by a strange, incessant humming sound.

But is this notorious home coming from outside the house

or inside the head?

They're hearing it in Rochester, New York.

- I want to locate it to stop it.

They're hearing it in Bristol, england.

And in Connecticut,

Steve kohlhase is even hearing it in his bedroom.

- It's a groaning sound and it's a lot worse at night.

It's impossible to live with it.

Listen closely.

Around the world, people are reporting

a low, incessant, highly disturbing hum.

Steve says he's been hearing it since 2009.

And as you can see on this website

dedicated to hum reports,

he's one of thousands.

- It's a developing map that people self populate

and it's quite a large community.

- The hum is a worldwide phenomenon

of this strange, mysterious sound.

Journalist mj banias

says the mystery is complicated

because the hum is not always the same.

- The hum changes.

It's not one unified sound across the planet

or in different areas.

That's led to a wide range of theories.

Banias, who specializes in the unexplained,

says many involve a vast system of secret tunnels.

- One pretty wild Internet conspiracy theory

is that there exists a breakaway civilization,

a group of humans who are much more advanced than we are,

digging under the earth so that they can build cities

under the earth's surface.

Others believe the us government

is building a network of tunnels using shuttered walmarts

as entry points and supply stations.

- The us government digging underground tunnels

would most likely have to do with stockpiling weapons

or supplies, nuclear bombs.

- Here's another weird thing about the hum.

Only certain people hear it.

We've enhanced the best recording we have

so you could hear it come through your screen.

But we've got questions about its source and its victims.

We turn for answers about strange sounds

to our audio expert, Dr. Ben gottesman.

- The hum is an amazing Sonic mystery.

Gottesman is interested in a theory

proposed by hum sufferer Steve kohlhase.

A mechanical engineer,

he traces the hum to natural gas pipelines.

This is the map that I prepared to find a correlation

to pipeline location and hum reports.

And, within 95% accuracy, this does such a thing.

- But other people in this field will say

there've been occurrences far from gas plants.

So we had gottesman do a spectrogram

of our best hum sound, the one out of Rochester,

to see if he could place it.

It seems like the hum

is distinctly different from traffic.

You know, it's this continuous hum.

The continuous nature of the sound

also rules out weather events,

which clearly begin and end.

As for the tunnel theory.

- Most of these seismic vibrations

within the earth are much lower frequency

than what humans can detect.

If you're digging a tunnel underground,

I'd be hard pressed that humans can hear it at all.

Gottesman compares the Rochester hum

to several possible matches with no luck,

until he finds this.

An air vent.

Compare that to the enhanced hum.

- It's curious to me that it's really a similar frequency

to this ventilation fan.

That might explain this hum,

but Ben says it doesn't explain all hums

or why only some people hear them.

The answer, he says,

is that some people might have

a kind of superhuman hearing

that makes the modern world extra noisy.

- Hyperacusis is basically an extreme sensitivity

to certain frequencies, certain noises.

There could be people within a population

that for sounds people could care less about,

for them it causes extreme annoyance or pain.

- So, it seems that the source of the hum can be anything

from a gas pipeline to an air vent,

but what makes it so disturbing to some hum suffers?

Our verdict: That rare condition called hyperacusis,

a kind of super hearing.

Coming up,

Reports of mutant bats in China and South America.

- It's actually kind of disturbing,

because it's very frightened.

- Is this some lab experiment gone awry?

- We've all heard of Batman,

but what would it actually look like

to cross a human and a bat?

Some people think strange experiments overseas

are already creating bizarre hybrids

we've never seen before, except in our nightmares.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, April, 2020,

local media reports strange sightings of bats

that can swim and run on land.

One provocative online headline reads,

"mysterious humanoid bats

"reported in Argentina and in China."

And here is their proof.

These humanoid looking bat-like creatures

appear to be swimming in a local lake.

Take a closer look.

What in the world can they be?

6,000 miles away, another freakish video

of more mystery bats, this time from China.

Watch as this one flops on the ground,

making unsettling vocalization.

- It's flopping around, it's screeching,

it's acting erratically.

It's actually kind of disturbing.

So, it's fairly obvious why someone

would immediately look at this and think

this is some kind of really strange,

weird looking mutant bat.

- Ambitious scientists have tried to create

custom hybrid species before,

perhaps most famously the Soviet zoologist ilya Ivanov

tried to cross an ape and a human

back in the 1920s without success.

Are these swimming bats the result

of some recent genetic project?

Even normal bats have a complex relationship with humans.

Research suggests some viruses,

like measles and mumps, originated in bats.

But are the animals in these videos

really some kind of mutant?

We turned to our analysts.

- I can see how this would look particularly mysterious.

Marine biologist Dr. Shea conger

says the theories about these creatures run the gamut.

- There's some conjecture online

that this animal might be the mix

between a bat and something like a frog.

But she doesn't believe

that kind of crossbreeding is possible.

- To be able to mix two species that are so different

would be highly unlikely and wouldn't result in something

that would actually be alive.

So, if this is not a mutant, what is it?

Wildlife biologists Lucy eckersley

first focuses on the video out of China.

- I don't think that this is even a bat.

I think it's another type of mammal,

something that's called a colugo.

Colugos are a type of gliding mammal

that are sometimes also called gliding lemurs.

They can reach up to 200 feet using this amazing area

that's called the patagium,

that fold of skin that reaches

from their forelimbs down to that hindlimbs.

That might explain the Chinese video,

but what about these strange things

in the water in Buenos Aires?

- I don't think that these are colugos.

I think what we're actually seeing is a marine animal

called a sea hare that we can see around the world

and can grow up to 15 inches long.

Both of these animals,

I understand why people might think

that these are mutant varieties of bats

lihe sl

screeching on the ground,

but what I can tell by looking at their anatomy,

that what we have is a colugo and see hares.

- Again, it's important to know that many species

can share common characteristics and affinities,

but people, frogs, and bats have different DNA

and can't be crossbred, at least not yet.

Our verdict: Colugos and sea hares.

And that's our show for tonight.

We appreciate you letting us into your homes

and we want to know what's going on with you.

Please connect with us and

tell us what you think.

I'm Tony Harris,

reminding you to keep those cameras rolling.