All language subtitles for Ripleys Believe It Or Not s01e10_English

♪♪

KISH:
It is part of who I am.

JESSICA: If someone told me,
"You can't do it,"

then I'm just gonna do it.

FLORIAN: It got kind of into
a self-challenge.

It went this way.
It came this way.

FLORIAN: The next challenge was
basically to do it live.

CAMPBELL: 100 years ago,
Robert Ripley went on a quest

to the farthest reaches
of the globe

in search of the extraordinary
and unusual.

Today, the adventure continues,

searching for the world's
most bizarre,

astonishing secrets...

♪♪

...on "Ripley's
Believe It or Not!"

♪♪

There are limits
to the physical world,

and most of us happily exist
within that framework,

but a rare few seem to transcend
everything we thought we knew.

I'm Bruce Campbell,
and these are the people

who defy all expectations,

from the limits
of human endurance

to the laws of physics
themselves.

If you're not amazed by the end
of this, check your pulse.

♪♪

Florian Kohler has been running
the table for over a decade.

Today, he will have to
push himself harder than ever

in order to break a record held
by a billiard legend...

♪♪

...himself.

My name is Florian Kohler,
also known as "Venom,"

and my profession is
to basically show off

in pool halls.

I'm a professional
pool-trick-shot artist,

and I'm a two-times World Cup
of Trick Shot champion.

♪♪

I'm mainly known for being
as extreme as possible.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
For 30-year-old Florian Kohler,

the felt of the pool table
is a blank canvas.

The balls are his paint,

the cue stick his brush.

♪♪

FLORIAN: A trick shot is kind of
a special thing to me,

and I really believe
it's in crossing

in between sports and art.

♪♪

I started from
basically nothing.

I had no parents
that played pool.

I remember I was driving,
and I hear this ad on the radio,

somebody selling a pool table
for really cheap.

I told my parents.
Back then, I was just 17.

And they decided
to buy it for my birthday.

I had no idea how to play pool.

You know, kind of looked online,
and I saw trick shots,

and I was like, "Aw, I'm gonna
learn trick shots,

and it'll teach me
how to play pool."

And the mind-set
with trick shots

was to be creative
and invent something new,

and I really got into it
and got --

it got kind of into
a self-challenge.

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
In just a year,

Florian mastered
all the classic trick shots.

What really I needed to do
was to make it more extreme.

Really, it was the same shot
the last 60 years,

and everybody
just copied those guys.

They invented the shots,
and I was like,

"Why does nobody invent
something new?"

And I just really got hooked
into this new thing

and try to create
something special,

you know,
make my own mark out of it.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Florian set to work
creating his own trick shots,

recording them and posting them
online under the name Venom,

and still it wasn't enough.

FLORIAN: The next challenge
was basically to do it live.

It's one thing to do videos.

It's a totally other things
to do live shows,

and I discovered
that you didn't have to

make it one time every hour.

You had to make it,
you know, every three tries.

So it kind of changed
my mind-set again.

♪♪

Boom! First shot goes in,
and the people cheering on you.

It's, like,
"Wow. It's actually --

oh, it's so good."

So then you make the second one,
and people cheer more,

and then you kind of
push your limits,

but from there,
it just kept going,

and the word kind of
spread that,

"Huh. So the guy is not only
just good on the Internet.

He can actually do it live."

Because I think I wasn't
a pool player by nature,

so, you know,
most of those guys are --

they played pool
since they're 8 years old

and learn the real game
and then do trick shots.

I came up from trick shots,
so I have no limits,

and to me, it was just
a blank piece of paper

that I could draw
something new on it,

and I was able to just
really create something special.

♪♪

IANA:
Florian has a repertoire

of hundreds of tricks,
thousands.

I don't know.
I've lost count.

♪♪

I'm mostly known for
what we call massé shots,

which is when you hold
the cue vertical,

and you impact
the cue ball vertical

and try to make it spin a lot.

We're gonna go red ball here

and another red ball
right there.

It's a long-rail massé,
so basically I'm gonna

hit the cue ball
up all the way into the red,

make the red in the corner,
cue ball come back,

hit the other red.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Florian pushes
massé shots to the extreme,

curving the ball around
the table in unexpected ways.

He also holds five
Guinness World Records titles

for other billiard skills.

FLORIAN: The first one,
but it's kind of a funny one --

so I own the longest cue
in the world, about 17 feet.

So I show up
for the world-record shoots,

and they told me, "You have
to make all eight balls."

I'm like,
"Wow. That's not so easy."

♪♪

Then I have the fastest
15-balls jump shot...

♪♪

...fastest 15 balls one-handed.

♪♪

Then I have the longest spin,

trying to spin the cue ball
as long as possible...

♪♪

...and the most balls jumped
over an obstacle in a minute.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Today, he doesn't just
want to break his own record.

He wants to shatter it.

I've been working a lot on
trying to beat my world record

for the longest spin.

It's 23 seconds as of right now.

My main goal is to beat
30 seconds.

I truly believe it's reachable,
and I think over 30 seconds

is gonna make it
nearly impossible

for people to beat it.

CAMPBELL:
For this challenge,

precision is
as important as power.

Florian must strike
the cue ball off-center

to send it spinning
and hard enough

for the spin to sustain itself.

But too hard, and the ball
will travel across the table

and hit the bank, where friction
will slow its rotation.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Come on, ball.
Stay spinning.

Come on.

Come on.
Keep spinning, spinning, ball.

♪♪

Still going, still going,
still going.

And stop.

MAN: 32.27!

Yeah! Told you I was gonna
beat 30 seconds.

Not bad.

♪♪

The first love I have
for the game --

it really is creating new shots,
and I really never thought

I was gonna be able
to make it as a living.

♪♪

Florian used trick shots
to defy logic,

but sometimes
the greatest trick of all

is staying alive.

Picture this -- you're trapped
at the bottom of the ocean

in total darkness

with just a tiny pocket of air
to breathe for three days.

That's a neat trick.

♪♪

Around 4:00 a.m.
on May 26th, 2013,

off the coast of Nigeria
in Western Africa...

♪♪

...a tugboat hits a rogue wave

in the churning waters
of the Atlantic Ocean.

The ship's cook, Harrison Okene,

is the only member
of the 12-man crew

who happens to be awake.

Then the boat starts sinking.

♪♪

♪♪

Trapped in the belly
of the boat,

98 feet below the surface,

Harrison has only seconds
to react as the vessel floods.

Luckily, there's an air pocket.

♪♪

ALVAREZ: So it's creating
an extension of my personality,

making myself
a sort of character.

♪♪

There is a new way to see
through any kind of darkness,

through any kind of challenge.

♪♪

♪♪

In May 2013,
off the western coast of Africa,

a rogue wave bears down
on a helpless tugboat,

and one crew member,
Harrison Okene,

is about to test the limits
of human survival.

♪♪

He's now stuck 98 feet
underwater in the pitch black

with no food
and barely any oxygen.

There's no more sound coming
from any of his 11 crewmates

and no way to know
if any of them are still alive.

♪♪

♪♪

Growing up in a small
Nigerian town,

all Harrison wanted
was to follow

in his mother's footsteps.

After learning from his mom

and working in several
different restaurants,

Harrison got a job as a cook
aboard a ship in 2011.

Harrison eventually got over
his queasiness.

Now, two years later,
stuck inside a shipwreck,

he wishes he'd stayed
on land for good.

♪♪

After three days of torture
with no food or drinkable water,

time is running out.

As Harrison waits to die,
a team of South African divers

is dispatched from their base
150 miles away

to recover the crew's remains.

But getting into the tugboat
won't be easy.

Nico and his team smash
through doors, room by room...

♪♪

...finding one dead body
after another.

Horribly, there are
no survivors.

♪♪

[ Heavy breathing through mask ]

MAN: Okay, sir, have you come
into the next deck

onto the main deck?

-Look at this.
-What's that?

-Okay. Oof.
-All right. You found one, yeah?

-There's someone alive.
-He's alive? He's alive?

-He's alive.
-Okay. Keep him there.

MAN: Keep him there.

Okay.

All right.

All right.
Get him out of the water.

We don't want hypothermia.

-Okay. Stand up.
-Get him back up there.

All right.
Now you mustn't panic, yeah?

What's your name?
-Harrison. Harrison.

-Harrison?
-Yes, sir.

MAN:
All right. Let's go.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Against all odds,

Harrison makes it
to the medical station,

but because he's been
underwater for so long,

he needs to spend
the next three days

in a decompression chamber.

Harrison's experience has
left him terrified of water

and tormented by insomnia,

but he's been trying
to overcome his trauma.

Believe it or not,
for the last six months,

he's been training to get
a commercial diver's license.

Today, he's leaving the
controlled confines of a pool

and heading out into a lake
for the first time.

♪♪

It's funny how the world works.

One man's darkness
is another man's light.

In Southern California,
there's a guy who found a way

to envision the world
without his eyes.

♪♪

KISH:
There is a new way to see.

We can create ways to see

through any kind of darkness,
through any kind of challenge,

through any kind
of apprehension or fear.

♪♪

DEVECCHIO: Daniel is
an amazing individual.

If you didn't get a chance

to observe the fact
that he was blind,

you would never know
that he was.

[ Clicking ]

♪♪

CAMPBELL: The world went dark
for Daniel Kish at age 1,

but all on his own,
he developed a new way to see...

...a sonar system that humans
aren't supposed to have,

believe it...or not.

♪♪

JESSICA: It's hard enough
for someone with hands to fly.

No one has ever been
certified to fly an airplane

with their feet,
so it was almost like

having to create a new way
to fly an airplane.

♪♪

♪♪

California native Daniel Kish
lost his eyesight as a baby,

but that hasn't stopped him from
doing anything...

and everything.

♪♪

♪ Ooh-whoo-ooh-ooh-ooh

I'm Daniel Kish.

I am the president of
World Access for the Blind.

My blindness does not define me.

It just is part of who I am.

53-year-old Daniel Kish
had retinal cancer

when he was a baby.

My first eye was removed
at the age of 7 months

and my second at 13 months.

CAMPBELL:
But Daniel's mother didn't
want him to feel different.

KISH: When I was very, very
little, I misbehaved,

and my mom sent me to my room,

and my grandmother's
response was,

"How can you discipline
that child?

You don't even know
if he's going to live."

My mom's response was, "Yes,
but if he is going to live,

I'm not going to have
a spoiled brat on my hands."

My parents didn't have
negative assumptions

or biases about blindness.

CAMPBELL:
Neither did Daniel.

Before he could even walk,

without any input
from experts or adults,

Daniel began developing
a skill called echolocation.

Human echolocation is a way
of seeing with sound.

So, if you're using light,

your brain uses patterns
of reflected light

to build images
of what's around you,

and if you're using
echolocation,

you're throwing out sound.

It bounces off of things
around you, comes back,

and your brain can build images
from those patterns.

[ Bats screeching ]

CAMPBELL:
Echolocation is common in bats,

toothed whales, dolphins,

and some species
of birds and shrews.

[ Shrew squeaking ]

Who knew a blind little boy
could learn this skill, too?

♪♪

Animals emit clicks, whistles,
or even ultrasound waves

to sense their surroundings.

Daniel adapted
his own technique --

pulling his tongue down
from the roof of his mouth

to make a click.

[ Clicking ]

By all reports, I began clicking
and finding my own way around

somewhere between
15 and 18 months.

It was just something that
seemed natural for me to do.

[ Clicking ]

CAMPBELL: Daniel is the founder
and president

of a California advocacy group

called
World Access for the Blind.

So far, he's shared his gift
with 500 blind children.

[ Clicking ]

In front of us here,
we have a tree

more up close
in the foreground,

but really, farther away,
we have the echo off the house.

KISH: Of course,
there are houses

surrounding the one
that we're hearing.

The houses are large.

[ Clicking ]

And the important part --

it's not
the click in the mouth.

Your focus is on
the echo coming back

at the speed of sound.

KISH: A spread...

is kind of spread out
beyond that wall.

And you'll know exactly...

CAMPBELL:
Today, Daniel and Brian

are teaching 9-year-old Nathan

to use echolocation
so he can safely ride his bike.

So you'll be knowing exactly
where you are as you move.

NIPP:
Nathan was born blind.

He was born with something
called Peters anomaly.

And basically it means that
everything with you is fine

except your corneas
don't develop in your eyes.

I just accepted Nathan's
just gonna be blind.

So are you ready to
get on your bike?

-Yeah.
-All right.

Whenever you're ready,
sir.

♪♪

KISH: We introduce various
activities and exercises

that activate the auditory
system to become more aware.

-Use that active tongue click...
-To know where to go.

...to know
where people are.

[ Clicking ]

How do you recognize
the garage, Nathan?

It comes in
after a big opening.

I can hear a lot of hollow
in the open area.

[ Clicking ]Beautiful clicks.

[ Clicking ]

Yeah.

BUSHWAY: He's able to go
in a straight line.

He's able to measure
his distance

off the two sides
of the alley.

He's able to turn around,
so he's very aware of his space.

[ Laughs ]

[ Clicking ]

When Nathan first rode a bike,
I was extremely proud of him.

I was just amazed at how
he could possibly

do something like that.

Daniel's work is fantastic.

BUSHWAY:
He was able to take this skill

and pass this along
to other people.

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

[ Laughter ]

Man's greatest and deepest fear
is fear of the dark,

fear of the unknown.

Blind people
who've learned to see

through their own blindness
have neutralized that fear.

BUSHWAY: What we've learned
to do is see in the dark.

[ Clicking ]

♪♪

Against all odds, Daniel Kish
is defying blindness

in his own way.

When it comes to
physical limitations,

there's a woman in New York
who is also breaking the rules.

♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,
ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ♪

♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

♪♪

I think the goth subculture

really does connect
with my mind-set.

♪♪

ALVAREZ:
I feel like I can be myself,

like there's a sense of freedom,

and I felt like I fit in.

I had to learn how to adapt,

and I had to learn
how to make the changes

to be able to move forward.

My name is Shirley Alvarez.

I am The Tragic Doll.

♪♪

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
When Shirley Alvarez was 9,

something terrifying
started happening to her body.

I remember I was in school,

and I started feeling these,
like, awful pains in my knees.

I remember even having a hard
time sitting on the floor --

you know, an 8-year-old
trying to sit on the floor,

and I'm trying
to do the pretzel,

and I remember feeling so stiff.

Like, "Why can't I move?"

♪♪

My grandmother took me
to her general doctor.

When I got there,
there was a long staircase,

and instead of walking them up,
I actually ended up crawling,

and I think that
really shocked her

because I've always been
such an active kid.

There was definitely
something abnormal.

♪♪

Thank you.

CAMPBELL: Doctors diagnosed
Shirley with scleroderma,

an autoimmune disease
that's hardening her skin

and internal organs.

ALVAREZ:
My parents had a hard time
accepting it in the beginning,

just seeing all the changes,
because it was very scary.

♪♪

I was diagnosed
when I was a little girl,

and being able to walk and dance
and be as independent,

and then, out of nowhere,
I just get struck with a disease

that completely just changed
my entire life.

CAMPBELL: But instead of
holing up in her apartment,

Shirley is determined
to get living...

♪♪

...even if it means turning her
disease into a public persona.

[ Cheering ]

♪♪

♪♪

Plagued with the autoimmune
disease scleroderma,

Shirley Alvarez
is trapped in a body

that's turning to stone.

♪♪

Shirley's future is uncertain.

She doesn't just contend
with tight skin.

All the soft tissue
in her body is hardening,

including her internal organs.

Most people with this disease

don't live much beyond
middle age.

♪♪

It's so beautiful.

But Shirley refuses to let that
prognosis paralyze her life.

Instead, she's turned herself
into a goth icon

known as The Tragic Doll.

Oh, my God!

[ Cheering ]

I think The Tragic Doll
embodies two different worlds.

I mean, there's
the tragedy part.

You look at pictures
when I was a kid,

and you don't recognize me.

Everything changed.

Then there's a doll part where
it's the sweet me, unaffected.

Thank you.
I love it.

I try to embrace that.

So it's creating
an extension of my personality,

making myself
a sort of character,

one that I can play with.

I can use
The Tragic Doll concept

and explore and express myself
in that way.

It embodies
two different worlds --

dark and light.

It's accepting everything fully.

That's me really
coming out of my skin

and expressing myself honestly,

showing you every aspect
of who I am.

♪♪

Certain afflictions
like Shirley's

can make a person feel like

they're trapped
in their own body,

but some people refuse
to let their shortcomings

hold them back
or hold them down.

♪♪

Tucson native Jessica Cox
is always on the move.

She's a successful author,
speaker...

You can aspire to doing
anything that you want to do.

CAMPBELL: ...Taekwondo
black belt, and musician.

My name is Jessica Cox.

CAMPBELL: She does all this
and more without arms.

Now Jessica is facing
her greatest fear --

taking to the sky...

Okay.
We're good.

CAMPBELL:
...using only her feet,

believe it...or not.

[ Radio chatter ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ Playing "Amazing Grace" ]

♪♪

Okay.
That's it.

[ Laughing ]
I shall walk away.

I was born in the '80s

in small-town
Sierra Vista, Arizona.

When my parents first discovered
that I didn't have arms,

that was a total shock.

The entire operating room

during my mom's C-section
went silent

because no one expected this
at all,

and for a time there, it was
very devastating for my family.

CAMPBELL:
From a young age, Jessica
was fitted with prosthetics,

but it never felt right.

Well, as I started to develop
and grow older

and started to become aware
of my difference,

it was very difficult for me
to come to terms with it.

I was very angry and frustrated
about my difference.

Some of the kids came up
and then called me, like,

Captain Hook or Robot Girl.

It was very dehumanizing,
in a sense.

I didn't give her any slack,
you know, in a sense

that she's gonna have to face
a cruel world out there,

and the easier
I was on her then,

that could make it harder
for her later anyway.

CAMPBELL: Jessica knew that
she had to make a change.

♪♪

JESSICA:
There was a time in my life

when I started
the first day of school

without my fake arms,
and I made this commitment

that I would never
wear them again.

[ Speaking foreign language ]

MAN: So we have our weapons,
gonna be in our right hand.

JESSICA: I decided that I was
just gonna do everything,

and if someone told me,
"You can't do it,"

then I'm just gonna do it,

and it was just
the best decision I ever made.

[ Speaking foreign language ]

CAMPBELL:
Free from trying to fit in,

Jessica forged her own way.

WILLIAM:
She ended up getting three
black belts in Taekwondo.

She tried every sport there was.

She was involved
with tap dancing.

My wife had her
in every club in town.

♪♪

♪♪

CAMPBELL:
Despite all her success,

Jessica has one weakness
she can't overcome.

And you have to pull it
back straightly even.

Okay.

My greatest fear -- flying.

There you go.

And it is not fear of heights.

I love being in high places.

We have a slight crosswind
from the north,

be a left crosswind, 5 knots,
10 knots down the runway.

♪♪

I will climb and hike
and do things like that,

so it's not heights.

Oil level's good.
-Yep.

It's losing contact
with the ground.

Just make sure
there's no crack, no breaks,

everything's in order.

Ever since
I was a little girl,

I would fall and not be able
to stop myself from falling

because most people
would catch themselves

with their hands and arms.

Okay.
We'll get ready to go.

And so, for me, if I fell,

I would get probably hurt
more so than the average person.

CAMPBELL: Now Jessica is ready
to conquer her fear

once and for all by learning
to pilot her own plane.

♪♪

Learning to fly can be
daunting for anyone.

♪♪

For Jessica, it poses
some unique challenges.

It's hard enough
for someone with hands to fly.

WILLIAM:
I think I might have been
a little overconcerned --

not overconcerned,
but concerned, yeah,

about her safety.

JESSICA: So it took
a certain type of instructor

to be willing to teach me.

CAMPBELL: An instructor
who could teach her to fly

with her feet.

♪♪

♪♪

Jessica Cox was born
without arms,

but that hasn't stopped her
from spreading her wings.

♪♪

JESSICA: No one has ever been
certified to fly an airplane

with their feet,
so it was almost like

having to create a new way
to fly an airplane.

[ Radio chatter ]

♪♪

♪♪

Getting my pilot's certificate

was the most physically
demanding thing for me,

but not only physically,

but it was emotionally
demanding because of my fear.

♪♪

♪♪

JESSICA: I'm particular about
when I like to fly.

I like smooth flying, but today
was clearly a windy day,

and so the turbulence made me
a little unsettled up there.

But, you know, you have to be
prepared for anything.

It was a good flight.

We have a saying --
every flight you walk away from

after landing
is a good flight.

[ Laughs ]

♪♪

Jessica pushed her limits
with her feet,

but there's one woman
who sets her own standard,

hands down.

Ayanna Williams
considers herself an artist,

but her work is so unusual..

...it draws stares
wherever she goes.

What do you do
in the bathroom?

Same thing you do.

You just take a --
and go like this.

My name is Ayanna Williams.

I have the world's record
for the longest nails

on a pair of hands
for a female.

CAMPBELL: Retired manicurist
Ayanna Williams

has been growing out her nails
for 26 years.

Her babies require
more attention

than a lot
of real children,

and not only do they
dominate her lifestyle,

they could be reshaping
her body itself,

believe it...

...or not.

♪♪

Ayanna's nails range from
27 to 36 inches long, each,

for a sum total
in excess of 20 feet,

the height
of an adult giraffe.

They are her crowning glory.

Growing my nails --
it's a passion.

My nails are still growing,
as a matter of fact,

they seem to be growing faster
now that they're longer.

I think they're sexy,
I think they're sensual,

and they make you different.

♪♪

When I paint my nails,

usually it takes me
maybe about a week.

If I painted my nails
with nail polish,

I would need
at least two bottles,

and that's gonna
only do one coat,

[ Laughs ]
so probably need about four,

but I use acrylic paint now,
it's much faster.

CAMPBELL:
Ayanna has captured the record
for longest nails on a female,

but the overall record remains
out of reach.

♪♪

I know of a man
who grew his nails for 66 years.

I have to give him his props
for being brave enough

to even grow his nails
to those lengths.

In 1952, Shridharth Chiral
from India

won the record for longest nails
on one hand --

five nails reaching 30 feet.

In 2018 he made
a special trip to the U.S.

to cut the nails off
in a Ripley's ceremony.

Nearly seven decades
of growth gone

in a matter
of minutes.

It had to feel liberating,
still...

...the damage is done.

If you grow your nails too long,
they make your hand deformed

because of the weight
pulling down on the nails.

CAMPBELL: Just one
of the challenges Ayanna faces.

There are so many limitations
to having these nails.

They get in the way.

I have to have someone
to help me all the time.

Sometimes I can't pull
my pants up.

I've had 'em so long,
I wonder if my nails

are a burden
to my family.

♪♪

CAMPBELL: Has the time
finally come

for Ayanna
to get out the clippers?

♪♪

After almost 30 years
of growing her nails,

Houston's own Ayanna Williams
is toying with a big change.

I'm getting to that point.

Cut 'em off.
[ Laughs ]

If someone offered me
maybe $25,000 right now,

I'll take it.

CAMPBELL: Until then,
she's holding onto her title

with both hands.

♪♪

They're the longest
in the world,

and I like
the attention I get.

Hey, I like it.

I'm with a world record
holder right now.

Long live
the long-nailed goddess,

the queen of nails,
royal hotness,

I am that and more, me,
the queen.

Don't get it twisted.

When all
is said and done,

it's the folks
who refuse to relent

that sear themselves
into our memories,

making us believers.