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[ camera whirs ]
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narrator:
Worldwide, 27 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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It defies the laws of physics.
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Man:
This is unbelievable, man.
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Narrator:
Experts carry out analysis
of these unusual events.
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Now, that's an explosion.
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[ screaming ]
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there's got to be something
we're missing in this video...
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Something we're not
seeing, right?
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What else is going on here?
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Narrator: Coming up,
nashville rocks
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as bizarre blasts
come from below.
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Oh, my god!
What on earth was that?
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Narrator: A restaurant
where the meat is on the move.
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How did food just crawl
its way off the plate?
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Narrator: And a mutant
the size of a school bus...
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Oh, man! Oh, man!
Oh, man!
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What is this monstrous creature?
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Narrator: Bizarre phenomenon.
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Whoa.
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Narrator:
Mysteries caught on camera.
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What's the truth behind
this strange evidence?
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captions paid for by
discovery communications
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now nashville
becomes flashville.
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Oh, my god!
What on earth was that?
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Narrator: City streets
descend into panic
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as explosions blast up
from below.
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If we see it happening
on this street,
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it can happen on anyone's
street, and that's terrifying.
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[ camera whirs ]
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narrator:
Nashville, tennessee,
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the country-music capital
of the world.
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Beyond the honky-tonk bars
and the grand ole opry
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is a city of over
600,000 people.
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August 2014,
the suburb of sulfur springs --
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a foul stench fills the air.
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Then, a bizarre
and terrifying explosion.
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Fireballs leap
from below the ground
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blasting a 300-pound
manhole cover skyward.
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I don't know what it is.
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Is it a natural disaster
that's happening?
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Whoa!
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Well, this is terrifying
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'cause this out in front
of someone's house.
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Narrator: Fireballs
shoot up from the ground.
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This isn't normal.
Streets don't just blow up.
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Something's going on here,
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and we need to know
what's happening.
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[ camera whirs ]
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narrator: The cause of
the explosion is a mystery.
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There are no natural-gas pipes
nearby,
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so it can't be a gas leak,
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and no normal amount of sewage
methane could do this.
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Science journalist
athena brensburger believes
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there could be some secret,
highly combustible substance
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hidden under this quiet suburb.
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Now, there could be some type
of explosive events
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happening underneath the surface
that we don't see just yet,
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and as a result, that could be
what produced the flames
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and the smoke that we see.
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Narrator: Military historian
marty morgan
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considers that the explosion
and flashes of flame from below
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are linked to ancient tunnels
said to lie beneath nashville.
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Morgan:
Nashville is well-known
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for having a tunnel complex
beneath it.
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There are rumors about
what these tunnels are
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and what they were,
and the rumors range --
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everything from big tunnels
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built during the era
of the underground railroad,
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when slaves were being smuggled
out of the southern states
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to freedom in northern states.
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And then there's another one
still that's underneath
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what was effectively
nashville's red-light district,
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called printer's alley.
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And that invites speculation
about nefarious purposes.
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Narrator:
Historian tony mcmahon wonders
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if the explosion
was caused by mobsters
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who used the old,
underground tunnels
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to conceal their activity.
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Over 80 years ago, nashville
and everywhere else in the u.S.
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Was under prohibition.
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Alcohol was illegal,
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and of course, gangsters stashed
illegal hooch, as it was known,
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in tunnels away from
the prying eyes of the police.
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Narrator:
Between 1920 and 1933,
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prohibition created a $3 billion
black market for drink
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and fueled the rise
of brutal mobsters
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like al capone
and lucky luciano.
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Nashville had its own gangsters,
who distilled illegal booze
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and are said to have
used the tunnels
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to store and transport it.
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Many were gunned down
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before they were able
to move their product.
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Maybe what we're seeing here is
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that alcohol that's been there
for decades
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has been giving off
alcoholic vapors,
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and the whole thing
has ignited.
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Narrator: In the english town
of boston in 2011
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and illegal vodka distillery
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exploded after one
of the moonshiners
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discarded a lit cigarette.
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The blast killed five men
at the scene.
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A forgotten bootlegger's stash
under nashville
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could explode with the same kind
of force and produce fireballs.
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We know alcohol
is really flammable.
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One spark -- boom, off it goes.
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Narrator: But when engineer
mike sansom
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looks at underground plans
of this suburban street,
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he finds no tunnels --
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only evidence of a large network
of waste pipes.
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This is a sewer system, and it's
flooded out all the time,
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so that moonshine wouldn't have
stayed there for many years.
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Somebody would've found it,
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or it would've gone
with the floods.
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[ camera whirs ]
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narrator:
Tony mcmahon finds news reports
from the day of the blast
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that may be a clue
to the origin of the fireballs.
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It turns out that emergency
services
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were called to an incident
down the street
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from where those
explosions happened.
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So, that might indicate
the cause of those explosions.
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Tv news reports showed
an oil tanker that had crashed,
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and it had leaked
an enormous amount of fuel
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into the sewer system.
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Narrator: Pyrotechnics expert
matt kutcher
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has worked with explosions
in hollywood movies
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for over 20 years.
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You think your sewer's blowing
up around you,
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you certainly wouldn't
want to be around that.
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Narrator:
Kutcher sets up an experiment
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to test the theory that spilt
fuel from an oil tanker
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flooded the sewer,
setting off block-wide blasts.
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Nice.
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Kutcher's scaled-down copy
of the nashville sewer
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is filled with water
and replicas of other things
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you'd find in a waste pipe.
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Kutcher: When I got
into the movie business,
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I never imagined I'd be working
this closely to poo.
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Narrator:
With the pipe full of sewage,
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kutcher and his team carefully
prepare the explosive
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and detonators.
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Kutcher:
So, that's contact cement.
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Basically, it's glue.
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It's a thicker,
more viscous gasoline.
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So, this is the proverbial
cherry on the top, right?
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The actual manhole that,
hopefully, will blow off.
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What we wouldn't normally see
under the ground, we will today.
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It's all above ground now.
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Okey-dokey.
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Narrator:
To simulate the explosion,
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kutcher will ignite the fuel
with a small spark of the type
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that could come
from a faulty underground wire
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or discarded cigarette butt.
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All right, gentlemen,
watch your eyes.
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All clear.
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In three, two, one.
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[ camera whirs ]
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coming up,
can matt kutcher reproduce
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the nashville fireballs?
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Kutcher: That was
one big sewer blast-off.
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[ camera whirs ]
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woman: Aah!
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Narrator: And terror is on the
menu in a downtown restaurant.
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Is it really possible
for a piece of meat
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to come back to life,
like a zombie?
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Narrator: In nashville,
tennessee, a weird smell
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and then explosions that shoot
up from below the ground.
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Pyrotechnics expert
matt kutcher
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wants to test his theory
that a fuel leak
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got into the city sewer system,
causing a catastrophic blast.
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He fills a replica sewer
with fuel and water
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and wants to find out
if a tiny spark
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could make it erupt like
the fireball in the footage.
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All clear.
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In three, two, one.
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Hit it.
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♪
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as the simulated manhole cover
is blown skyward by the blast,
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gasoline fumes ignite just as
they did in the street sewer.
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Kutcher: That was
one big sewer blast-off.
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Did you see the top of it?
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It looked
just like the footage.
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We have sewage.
We have flame.
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Our manhole cover.
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It's still recording...
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In the poo.
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[ tapping ]
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clean up on aisle six.
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Narrator:
Kutcher's experiment proves
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the spill from the tanker caused
the manhole covers to explode.
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With the amount
of explosive potential
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caused by this tanker spill,
it's amazing that nobody died.
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Narrator:
It's a scary thought.
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With a hundred thousand oil
trucks on america's streets,
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our underground waste pipes
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could funnel death
directly into our homes.
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Brensberger:
It's quite terrifying to think
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that something as simple
as an oil spill
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could essentially create
a bomb beneath our feet.
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Who's to say it can't happen
on your street or my street?
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Narrator: Now, a meal where
the meat is on the move.
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That piece of meat looks like
it's coming back from the dead.
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Narrator:
It can't be alive.
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There's no brain,
there's no spinal chord,
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there's organs of any kind.
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Narrator:
Is this a kentucky-fried zombie?
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If my food were walking,
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I'd be walking too --
out of the restaurant.
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[ camera whirs ]
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narrator:
Man has been eating meat
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for more than two and half
million years.
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Its calorie punch
allowed our brains to grow,
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giving us enough intelligence
to start cooking it
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around 800,000 b.C.,
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and finally,
from the 18th century,
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start serving it
in fancy restaurants.
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But in 2019, one customer,
to her horror,
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discovers her meal
is still alive.
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First, it jerks into life.
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Woman: Aah!
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Then, it jumps off the table.
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There's just this hunk of meat.
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It looks like a piece
of chicken,
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and all of a sudden
it starts moving,
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and it crawls off the plate.
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Narrator: Experts are baffled by
this raw piece of mystery meat.
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How does a plate of food just
crawl its way off the plate?
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Is it really possible
for a piece of meat
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to come back to life,
like a zombie?
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Narrator:
Biologist leslie samuel
believes this meat is chicken.
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An animal that's usually
resilient,
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even when clinically dead.
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You know, everyone's heard
the saying,
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"running around like
a headless chicken."
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basically, when a chicken
is slaughtered
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and the head is removed,
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it can actually
still continue running around
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even though the brain
is no longer sending signals.
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Narrator:
Unlike in humans,
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where the frontal lobe
of the brain
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is essential
for daily functions,
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in birds, this part of the brain
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is much smaller
and largely redundant.
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Most of the important stuff
for running around
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happens in the chicken's
brain stem
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which is actually
further down in the neck.
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Narrator:
Normally, after decapitation,
a brainless chicken
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gets only
a few extra minutes of life.
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Headless chickens
don't run around forever.
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Usually, they'll stop running
around after 10, 15 minutes.
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They're not still gonna be
running around
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by the time you see them
on your dinner plate --
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that's for sure.
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Narrator: However,
in one extraordinary case,
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a chicken named mike
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seemed to overcome
the immutable laws of death.
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So, there's this one story
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about mike,
the headless chicken,
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back in 1945 in colorado.
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He got decapitated,
but he continued to live.
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Narrator: Mike's owner,
farmer lloyd olsen,
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is stunned
by his chicken's survival.
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He takes mike on tour
around the country,
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where thousands of curiosity
seekers flock to see him.
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Olsen keeps mike alive by
feeding him a liquid diet
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through an eye-dropper
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and keeps his throat clear
of mucus using a syringe.
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But after touring the u.S.
For 18 months,
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olsen makes a grave mistake.
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Tragically, farmer olsen
misplaced the syringe
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and little mike
choked on his own mucus.
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If olsen had been less clumsy,
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mike could've been undead
to a ripe, old age.
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As long as there is still oxygen
in the blood
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and the cells
haven't broken down,
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it can still continue
to move around
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because the spinal chord
is still telling it to.
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Is that what we're seeing here?
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[ camera whirs ]
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narrator: Coming up,
is this mysterious meat
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the victim of
a gruesome culinary craze?
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This is way too fresh for me
to be eating.
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[ camera whirs ]
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narrator:
And a mutant from the deep.
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Oh, man! Oh, man!
Oh, man!
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Narrator:
In an asian restaurant,
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a suspected piece of chicken
crawls off the plate
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and jumps off the table.
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Biologist greg szulgit
studies the footage and suspects
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this moving meat
may not be chicken after all
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but flesh
from a different type of animal.
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If you look carefully at it,
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you can see that the body
is long and slender at the back,
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and it doesn't
look like chicken.
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If this was
such fresh chicken meat
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that it could still move around,
where's the chicken bones?
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Where's the chicken blood?
I don't see either of these.
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Narrator:
Szulgit suspects this could be
an amphibian that's still alive.
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I think this might be frog meat,
and if it is, it's frog meat
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that's prepared in one of
the most horrific ways possible.
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Narrator:
Sashimi is a popular dish
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in restaurants
all over the world --
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raw meat served fresh.
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But a disturbing new
gastronomic trend is emerging.
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In japanese,
it's known as ikizukuri,
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which means "prepared alive."
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the creature is dismembered
for you at your table
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and served to you alive.
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It would seem that sashimi,
while served up fresh,
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isn't fresh enough for some.
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Narrator: But the practice
of eating live animals
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comes with
a potentially huge risk.
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Cooking meat kills harmful
bacteria.
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Raw meat can contain e.Coli,
salmonella, and listeria.
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This is the perfect example
of why I decided
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to be a vegetarian.
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Narrator: But a live frog is
perhaps the most disturbing meal
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ever created.
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That's live frog served up
before it's even croaked.
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This takes it
to a whole other level.
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Narrator:
Greg szulgit discovers footage
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that could prove
this is frog meat,
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but it's not
an easy film to watch.
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I would feel much better
if the frog's brain
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had been pithed first
so that it wouldn't feel pain.
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Oh, gosh!
Oh, whoa, oh!
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He skinned it.
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Wise: Now he's, like, flailing
and waving his arms
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and trying to escape,
and he's only half a frog.
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Oh, it's looking right at --
oh, it winked!
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That's just brutal.
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Narrator: Szulgit is sure that
the freaky frog footage
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solves the mystery
of the moving meat.
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Looking at the actual footage
of a frog
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being slaughtered at the table,
I'm now convinced
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that that's probably
what's going on here.
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Narrator: Even though
the amphibian's leg
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is no longer connected
to it's brain stem,
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it's so fresh
that muscle cells themselves
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are still living
and contracting.
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This is genuinely a frog
from beyond the grave.
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This is way too fresh
for me to be eating.
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It's so fresh that it's
literally complaining
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to you,
that you killed it.
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[ croaks ]
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[ camera whirs ]
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narrator:
Now, has a deep-ocean camera
caught a prehistoric predator?
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Holy smoke, it's like
a winnebago going by.
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Oh, man! Oh, man!
Oh, man!
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What is this monstrous creature?
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This is a huge animal.
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Narrator: An ancient killer
seems to have returned.
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For a megalodon to still exist,
is that a possibility?
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[ camera whirs ]
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narrator:
Japan, land of monsters.
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Atomic bombs spawned the idea
of godzilla,
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a relic of the jurassic era
brought back
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and made far, far bigger
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by the effects
of massive radiation.
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Suruga bay in the shadow
of mount fuji --
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there are real
giant monsters here.
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In December 2012,
fisherman landed
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the largest japanese
spider crab ever caught.
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Crabzilla is 13 feet long,
the size of a sedan
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and over four times bigger than
its normal-sized relatives.
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But nothing found
off the coast of japan
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is as weird as footage from
the same area captured in 1989.
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A 10-foot-long bait cage
is lowered to the ocean floor.
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Everything seems normal,
when something comes into view
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so gigantic and strange,
no one can believe their eyes.
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What the heck is that thing?
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It's huge!
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Have we unearthed
the godzilla of the sea?
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This thing is enormous.
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Narrator: It's a vast
sea creature of some kind,
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but it's not one that's ever
been seen before by human eyes.
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Mccourt: Those kind of bait
cages are about ten feet long.
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That would make this shark
at least 60 feet long.
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That's the length
of a bowling lane.
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Narrator:
This mega creature of the deep
is ten times longer than a man
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and as huge as a humpback whale.
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But marine biologist
danni washington
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doesn't think that's what
we're looking at here.
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Most marine mammals in the ocean
are very large.
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But when I take a closer look,
I see certain features
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that clearly say
this is not a whale.
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There are gills on the sides
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which means that this is
some type of fish.
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And then as I look closer
at the pectoral fins,
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it reminds me of a shark.
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Narrator: There have been
reports of a super-sized shark
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from fishermen in the pacific.
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Off the coast of california,
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fishermen claimed to have seen
the biggest shark ever,
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and they nicknamed it
the demon shark.
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It's huge, and it's similar
to what we see in the video.
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Narrator:
The demon shark is reported to
be bigger than a school bus
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and to be able to attack
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and eat an entire group
of seals with one bite.
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There are always reports
out there of mega-sharks
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that may be hard to believe,
but in this case, you wonder,
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is this one that might be true?
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[ camera whirs ]
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narrator:
Marine biologist eric hovland
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considers if a prehistoric
monster has returned.
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Hovland: There is one shark
that comes to mind
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that fits these proportions --
the megalodon,
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a prehistoric shark
that could've reached lengths
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up to 60 feet,
with a huge set of teeth
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that dwarfs
any shark species on earth.
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Narrator:
Megalodon was king of the ocean
for over 20 million years.
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It ate other sharks
for breakfast
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puncturing lungs
with one titanic bite.
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Its name comes right
from "mega tooth," "megalodon."
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like, it's all about
those big teeth.
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Narrator: The meg's mouth
was over 20 feet wide,
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the size of a double-garage --
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a jaw containing 276 teeth,
some over 7 inches long.
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When they were first discovered
in the 16th century,
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fossil hunters thought they were
the tongues of dragons.
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It was the apex predator
of earth's warm seas.
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If a megalodon decides
that you're on the menu,
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that megalodon's gonna win, and
with a biting force ten times
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that of the great white shark,
that's what I call "jaws."
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narrator:
The meg only seemed to vanish
around three million years ago,
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as it faced increased
competition for food
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from killer whales
and great white sharks.
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The footage could be proof
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megalodons aren't as extinct
as scientists believed.
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This is real life.
It's not the movies
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so, there's real-life
consequences to unearthing,
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so to speak, a creature
of this size and magnitude.
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Narrator: There is other
compelling evidence
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for an enormous, undiscovered
predator swimming in our oceans.
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In 2019, off the coast
of south australia,
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a fisherman hauled
in the disembodied head
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of a mako shark,
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a brutal apex predator
that can grow up to 14 feet long
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and weigh 1300 pounds.
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Even a great white could not
have wreaked such devastation.
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The thought
that the megalodon shark
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could possibly still exist
in the ocean is terrifying.
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Narrator: Seas and oceans cover
136 million square miles
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of the earth's surface,
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but 90% of them
remain unexplored.
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At a depth where you could bury
mount everest
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live creatures
that are being discovered
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with each new exploration --
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all able to withstand pressures
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1,000 times greater
than on land --
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pressures that would instantly
kill a human.
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The more we explore the depths,
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the more we find
giant creatures.
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Narrator:
For decades, giant squid were
thought to be a myth of the sea.
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It wasn't until 2006
that one was caught on camera
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and definitively
proved to exist.
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So, could it be that there's
a giant shark down there
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that we've never found?
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Narrator:
But biologist danni washington
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believes the footage shows
another mysterious creature
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thought to live
over a mile below the waves.
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Washington:
What I can see is that it has
a short, rounded snout.
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It moves gracefully,
but very slow through the water.
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And that grayish-black color
on its skin --
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that's clearly marking that
this is a pacific sleeper shark.
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Narrator:
These ravenously hungry monsters
terrorize the ocean floor.
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They're bottom dwellers,
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and they generally scavenge
for their food.
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They're almost like the garbage
cans of the ocean.
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Sleeper sharks will eat
anything they can.
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They'll go for these rotting
carcasses at the bottom,
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but they've also been found
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with giant jellyfish-like
creatures in them.
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Narrator:
But while the morphology
of the creature in the film
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matches
the pacific sleeper shark,
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there's a problem,
and it's a big one.
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Szulgit:
The sheer size of this thing
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doesn't match up
with what we know.
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No one has come across a
sleeper shark that's this big.
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Narrator: Sleeper sharks grow
to 23 feet as adults.
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This thing is 60 feet.
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If it is a sleeper shark,
it's almost three times bigger
486
00:24:06,312 --> 00:24:08,446
than the biggest one
ever spotted.
487
00:24:08,548 --> 00:24:11,715
Szulgit: That would be like
a human who's 18 feet tall.
488
00:24:11,818 --> 00:24:15,453
It just doesn't seem right.
489
00:24:15,555 --> 00:24:19,089
Narrator: Coming up, did
japanese seawater mutate sharks
490
00:24:19,192 --> 00:24:20,724
into monsters?
491
00:24:20,827 --> 00:24:24,795
It's terrifying that is
this giant mega-toothed monster
492
00:24:24,897 --> 00:24:26,397
just off the coastline.
493
00:24:26,499 --> 00:24:28,666
[ camera whirs ]
494
00:24:28,768 --> 00:24:33,103
narrator:
And in hong kong, the sea parts
like a scene from the bible.
495
00:24:33,206 --> 00:24:36,574
The ocean doesn't crack open,
so this is weird.
496
00:24:41,814 --> 00:24:43,681
[ camera whirs ]
497
00:24:43,783 --> 00:24:46,984
narrator: Underwater cameras
near a popular tourist beach
498
00:24:47,086 --> 00:24:48,486
capture images of a shark
499
00:24:48,588 --> 00:24:52,056
three times bigger
than any previously discovered.
500
00:24:52,158 --> 00:24:54,358
It seems too big
to be a sleeper shark,
501
00:24:54,460 --> 00:24:57,795
but its similarities
are hard to ignore.
502
00:24:57,897 --> 00:25:00,431
Is there any way
a pacific sleeper shark
503
00:25:00,566 --> 00:25:02,433
could triple in size?
504
00:25:02,535 --> 00:25:04,802
Narrator: Science journalist
steve potvin
505
00:25:04,904 --> 00:25:06,670
thinks this could be a mutation
506
00:25:06,772 --> 00:25:09,440
that occurs
at great depths in the ocean.
507
00:25:09,542 --> 00:25:13,878
Nature does find ways of making
super-sized versions of animals.
508
00:25:13,980 --> 00:25:15,846
We call it gigantism.
509
00:25:15,948 --> 00:25:18,382
One theory that might explain
the size of this shark
510
00:25:18,484 --> 00:25:21,318
in the deep ocean
is that it's cold,
511
00:25:21,420 --> 00:25:25,422
and animals tend to get bigger
in colder environments.
512
00:25:25,525 --> 00:25:29,226
So, maybe that explains why,
in the very cold, deep ocean
513
00:25:29,295 --> 00:25:31,695
you could have a giant shark.
514
00:25:31,797 --> 00:25:35,466
If we're witnessing a shark
experiencing gigantism,
515
00:25:35,568 --> 00:25:38,702
that means that we've got
some massive animals
516
00:25:38,804 --> 00:25:40,538
down beneath the ocean's surface
517
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,907
that we have yet
to really understand.
518
00:25:43,009 --> 00:25:46,010
Narrator: If there is
a 60-foot-long mutant shark
519
00:25:46,112 --> 00:25:47,778
off the coast of suruga bay,
520
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:52,049
vacationers need to be wary
before they enter the water.
521
00:25:52,151 --> 00:25:56,120
It's terrifying that there is
this giant mega-toothed monster
522
00:25:56,222 --> 00:25:57,688
just off the coastline.
523
00:25:57,790 --> 00:26:00,157
[ camera whirs ]
524
00:26:00,259 --> 00:26:03,294
narrator: Now,
it's holiday season in new york.
525
00:26:03,396 --> 00:26:06,230
Suddenly, there's something
weird in the sky,
526
00:26:06,332 --> 00:26:08,832
and it isn't santa claus.
527
00:26:08,935 --> 00:26:12,303
The air over queens flashes
an eerie neon blue,
528
00:26:12,405 --> 00:26:15,739
freaking out locals.
529
00:26:15,841 --> 00:26:18,008
I'm a new yorker.
I've seen everything.
530
00:26:18,110 --> 00:26:20,110
But I'd never seen
something like this.
531
00:26:20,212 --> 00:26:23,414
Narrator: Locals ask if the
military is fighting a battle
532
00:26:23,516 --> 00:26:26,150
against an aggressive
secret weapon.
533
00:26:26,252 --> 00:26:29,887
Terrorism -- it's a real
and present danger.
534
00:26:29,989 --> 00:26:32,289
Something has gone
seriously wrong.
535
00:26:32,391 --> 00:26:36,660
[ camera whirs ]
536
00:26:39,765 --> 00:26:41,599
narrator:
New york at christmas --
537
00:26:41,701 --> 00:26:43,901
skating in central park,
538
00:26:44,003 --> 00:26:46,203
santa land at macy's,
539
00:26:46,305 --> 00:26:48,572
the rockefeller
christmas display,
540
00:26:48,674 --> 00:26:54,411
and on December, 27th, 2018,
an apocalyptic flash.
541
00:26:57,750 --> 00:27:02,319
New yorker peg samuels is having
a quiet evening watching tv,
542
00:27:02,421 --> 00:27:04,254
when something
catches her attention.
543
00:27:04,357 --> 00:27:06,390
Samuels:
I looked out the window,
544
00:27:06,492 --> 00:27:10,227
and I saw this light
that I'd never seen before.
545
00:27:10,329 --> 00:27:13,063
Narrator: All over the city,
residents are stunned
546
00:27:13,165 --> 00:27:16,767
as the pulsating blue glow
turns night as bright as day,
547
00:27:16,869 --> 00:27:20,471
but it's like no daylight
new yorkers have ever seen.
548
00:27:20,573 --> 00:27:23,407
I thought, "should I even be
standing by the window?
549
00:27:23,509 --> 00:27:25,075
What is this?"
550
00:27:25,177 --> 00:27:27,244
there's eight million people
in new york
551
00:27:27,346 --> 00:27:30,948
and we're world news
on the daily about anything,
552
00:27:31,050 --> 00:27:35,152
so it definitely makes us
a target for terrorists.
553
00:27:35,254 --> 00:27:39,089
I thought, "am I an idiot
for just taking footage of it?
554
00:27:39,191 --> 00:27:41,325
Should I be in the stairwell
right now?
555
00:27:41,427 --> 00:27:42,726
I mean, is this it?
556
00:27:42,828 --> 00:27:45,829
Like death? Is this it?"
557
00:27:45,931 --> 00:27:48,032
narrator:
The city erupts in panic.
558
00:27:48,134 --> 00:27:50,467
You look outside.
It's glowing blue.
559
00:27:50,569 --> 00:27:52,036
You don't know what's going on.
560
00:27:52,138 --> 00:27:53,237
There's nothing on the news yet.
561
00:27:53,339 --> 00:27:56,073
All you have is
social media going wild.
562
00:27:56,175 --> 00:27:59,510
Given the track record
of terrorism in new york city,
563
00:27:59,612 --> 00:28:02,446
this had to be
extremely alarming.
564
00:28:02,548 --> 00:28:05,082
I would be terrified.
565
00:28:05,184 --> 00:28:08,452
Teitel: This is unlike anything
anyone had ever seen before.
566
00:28:08,554 --> 00:28:09,820
Whatever this thing is,
567
00:28:09,922 --> 00:28:12,556
it definitely looks like
it's coming from above the city.
568
00:28:12,658 --> 00:28:16,493
But where from above?
569
00:28:16,595 --> 00:28:18,629
Narrator:
Physicist steven granade
570
00:28:18,731 --> 00:28:20,831
examines the flash's
color signature
571
00:28:20,933 --> 00:28:23,701
and believes it could be
ultraviolet light,
572
00:28:23,803 --> 00:28:26,804
a signal that new york is
under attack from terrorists
573
00:28:26,906 --> 00:28:28,872
with a deadly weapon.
574
00:28:28,974 --> 00:28:30,974
One of the things that u.V.
Light is used for
575
00:28:31,077 --> 00:28:33,677
is dealing
with biological contaminants,
576
00:28:33,779 --> 00:28:36,680
you basically pump enough
ultraviolet light into it
577
00:28:36,782 --> 00:28:39,583
that it breaks it down,
and it neutralizes it.
578
00:28:39,685 --> 00:28:43,153
This does raise my suspicion
that we're maybe seeing
579
00:28:43,255 --> 00:28:47,057
a biological attack
against manhattan.
580
00:28:47,159 --> 00:28:49,293
Narrator: But when rocket
scientist nick householder
581
00:28:49,395 --> 00:28:50,861
looks at the flashes,
582
00:28:50,963 --> 00:28:53,430
he calculates a u.V. Light
of this magnitude
583
00:28:53,532 --> 00:28:56,567
would cause more devastation
than it would cure.
584
00:28:56,669 --> 00:28:59,169
Householder: If this was
a u.V. Light this bright,
585
00:28:59,271 --> 00:29:01,538
it would be like
staring into a sun
586
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,440
four inches from your face.
587
00:29:03,542 --> 00:29:07,511
We're talking blindness, cancer,
skin burns.
588
00:29:07,613 --> 00:29:09,913
I don't think that
this is a giant u.V. Light.
589
00:29:10,015 --> 00:29:12,082
[ camera whirs ]
590
00:29:12,184 --> 00:29:14,585
narrator: Ex-cia operative
lindsay moran
591
00:29:14,687 --> 00:29:15,953
studies the footage
592
00:29:16,055 --> 00:29:17,821
and considers
if the flashing blue light
593
00:29:17,923 --> 00:29:23,260
could be from one of the navy's
latest weapons, a laser gun.
594
00:29:23,362 --> 00:29:26,930
The u.S. Navy has developed
a directed-energy weapon
595
00:29:27,032 --> 00:29:30,901
which can be used to
eliminate threats from uavs
596
00:29:30,970 --> 00:29:33,237
and also small boats.
597
00:29:33,339 --> 00:29:34,638
These types of weapons
598
00:29:34,740 --> 00:29:38,509
are intended
to be mounted on warships.
599
00:29:38,611 --> 00:29:41,411
The benefit is that
there's no ammo.
600
00:29:41,514 --> 00:29:45,282
This thing can shoot anything
in its sight without reloading.
601
00:29:49,889 --> 00:29:55,592
Was this an accidental firing
of an experimental weapon?
602
00:29:55,694 --> 00:29:59,296
It is certainly something with
which we need to be concerned.
603
00:29:59,398 --> 00:30:02,666
[ camera whirs ]
604
00:30:02,768 --> 00:30:05,769
narrator: Coming up,
can david wallace recreate
605
00:30:05,871 --> 00:30:09,406
the terrifying blue light
seen in the skies of new york?
606
00:30:09,508 --> 00:30:12,009
Wallace: We're gonna get up
to around 100,000 volts,
607
00:30:12,111 --> 00:30:13,677
so if something goes wrong here,
608
00:30:13,779 --> 00:30:17,247
you'll find me
laying on the ground.
609
00:30:17,349 --> 00:30:20,918
Narrator: And a sight last seen
in the old testament.
610
00:30:21,020 --> 00:30:23,620
This means that the story
of exodus could be true.
611
00:30:30,429 --> 00:30:33,297
Narrator: It's holiday horror
in new york,
612
00:30:33,399 --> 00:30:35,165
as a weird, blue flash looms
613
00:30:35,267 --> 00:30:37,734
over manhattan's
christmas skyline.
614
00:30:37,837 --> 00:30:42,372
Civil engineer brian wolshon
looks at a map of new york city
615
00:30:42,474 --> 00:30:45,342
and believes he knows
the source of the blue light.
616
00:30:45,444 --> 00:30:48,512
There's over a hundred
and thirty thousand miles
617
00:30:48,614 --> 00:30:52,182
of electrical lines
running throughout the area.
618
00:30:52,284 --> 00:30:56,587
That's enough to reach more
than halfway to the moon.
619
00:30:56,689 --> 00:30:58,822
And in the new york area alone,
620
00:30:58,924 --> 00:31:03,160
there's 24 high-voltage
substations.
621
00:31:05,698 --> 00:31:08,031
Narrator: The terrifying light
that lit up new york
622
00:31:08,133 --> 00:31:11,635
came from the direction
of a power plant
623
00:31:11,737 --> 00:31:14,438
and the next day,
city officials reported
624
00:31:14,540 --> 00:31:18,742
that a substation generator had
suffered a catastrophic failure.
625
00:31:18,844 --> 00:31:23,914
♪
626
00:31:24,016 --> 00:31:25,916
electrical engineer
david wallace
627
00:31:26,018 --> 00:31:27,451
sets up an experiment
628
00:31:27,553 --> 00:31:30,854
at mississippi state
university's high voltage lab
629
00:31:30,956 --> 00:31:33,557
to find out
if an exploding transformer
630
00:31:33,659 --> 00:31:36,560
could create the lights
seen over manhattan.
631
00:31:39,231 --> 00:31:41,865
So, when we talk about an arc
flash, what you're looking at
632
00:31:41,967 --> 00:31:44,601
is basically
an electrical explosion.
633
00:31:44,737 --> 00:31:46,970
We're gonna be generating
approximately 100,000
634
00:31:47,072 --> 00:31:49,273
to 120,000 volts
to create the arc.
635
00:31:49,375 --> 00:31:51,141
Now, when you put this
into perspective,
636
00:31:51,243 --> 00:31:54,611
it only takes 25 volts
to really kill a human being,
637
00:31:54,713 --> 00:31:57,281
so this is gonna be
a rather interesting time here.
638
00:31:57,383 --> 00:32:01,285
Hopefully everything goes right,
and I'll walk away.
639
00:32:01,387 --> 00:32:06,089
Narrator:
In new york, every minute,
272 million watts of electricity
640
00:32:06,191 --> 00:32:09,626
is flowing through skyscrapers
and suburban homes.
641
00:32:09,728 --> 00:32:12,996
If that power were to be
unleashed in just one hour,
642
00:32:13,098 --> 00:32:14,464
it's enough
electrical currant
643
00:32:14,566 --> 00:32:17,167
to electrocute
over a million people.
644
00:32:20,272 --> 00:32:22,406
To mimic the conditions
in new york,
645
00:32:22,508 --> 00:32:27,711
wallace uses an insulator used
in high-voltage power lines.
646
00:32:27,813 --> 00:32:29,646
Wallace: We're really gonna have
to amp up the voltage on this
647
00:32:29,782 --> 00:32:31,915
to try to get that color blue
that we're looking for.
648
00:32:32,017 --> 00:32:35,619
Narrator: A smoke machine will
recreate the smog-filled skies.
649
00:32:35,721 --> 00:32:39,089
Wallace:
Let's see if we get that nice
glow that we see in the video.
650
00:32:39,191 --> 00:32:41,692
We're gonna get up
to around 100,000 volts,
651
00:32:41,794 --> 00:32:43,360
so if something goes wrong here,
652
00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:45,562
you'll find me
laying on the ground.
653
00:32:45,664 --> 00:32:47,431
All right, jason, shoot it.
654
00:32:47,533 --> 00:32:49,399
All right,
we're at a hundred k.V.
655
00:32:51,036 --> 00:32:52,803
[ electricity crackles ]
656
00:32:55,541 --> 00:32:58,008
[ electricity blares ]
657
00:32:58,110 --> 00:33:00,577
all right, so,
we saw as the arc formed,
658
00:33:00,679 --> 00:33:03,914
we had a nice reflection coming
around in the smoke there --
659
00:33:04,016 --> 00:33:06,750
sort of illuminating
the area around it.
660
00:33:06,852 --> 00:33:08,685
Narrator:
The light effect is close,
661
00:33:08,787 --> 00:33:12,022
even if it doesn't exactly match
the vast blue sky
662
00:33:12,124 --> 00:33:13,590
seen in the footage.
663
00:33:13,692 --> 00:33:15,525
For that, we'd need to explode
a sub-station,
664
00:33:15,627 --> 00:33:18,628
and unfortunately
I don't have one around here.
665
00:33:18,731 --> 00:33:21,431
[ electricity blares ]
666
00:33:21,533 --> 00:33:23,667
narrator:
City officials reported
667
00:33:23,769 --> 00:33:26,703
that a sub-station generator
had blown that day,
668
00:33:26,805 --> 00:33:28,972
but locals aren't convinced.
669
00:33:29,074 --> 00:33:31,608
Most new yorkers that I spoke to
about this
670
00:33:31,710 --> 00:33:33,543
thought this was the end.
671
00:33:33,645 --> 00:33:37,214
[ cameras whir ]
672
00:33:38,617 --> 00:33:42,452
narrator: Now, a sight not seen
since the time of the bible.
673
00:33:42,554 --> 00:33:45,622
The ocean doesn't crack open,
so this is weird.
674
00:33:45,724 --> 00:33:49,693
This defies everything we know
about the laws of physics.
675
00:33:51,797 --> 00:33:56,600
Narrator:
The sea seems to be parting,
as a terrified sailor looks on.
676
00:33:56,702 --> 00:33:59,336
Are we capturing the beginning
of a miraculous event?
677
00:33:59,438 --> 00:34:02,005
It looks like the parting
of the red sea.
678
00:34:02,107 --> 00:34:05,142
[ camera whirs ]
679
00:34:07,179 --> 00:34:10,213
narrator:
Victoria harbor, hong kong.
680
00:34:10,315 --> 00:34:12,649
Over 350,000 vessels
681
00:34:12,751 --> 00:34:16,086
enter this normally safe haven
on the south china sea
682
00:34:16,188 --> 00:34:18,622
every year
for business and pleasure.
683
00:34:18,724 --> 00:34:21,625
But for one sailor,
the fun turns to horror
684
00:34:21,727 --> 00:34:25,095
as a bizarre chasm
opens in the sea before him.
685
00:34:28,067 --> 00:34:32,135
Oh, my goodness!
That is not natural.
686
00:34:32,237 --> 00:34:34,504
The water is splitting.
687
00:34:34,606 --> 00:34:37,941
What could cause that?
688
00:34:38,043 --> 00:34:40,343
Narrator:
The ocean appears to be parting.
689
00:34:42,448 --> 00:34:43,947
As the chasm widens,
690
00:34:44,049 --> 00:34:47,751
a wall of water
seems to cascade down inside it.
691
00:34:50,122 --> 00:34:52,456
Mother nature can do
some incredible stuff,
692
00:34:52,558 --> 00:34:56,593
but this is too weird,
and I don't like it.
693
00:34:56,695 --> 00:34:59,529
Narrator:
Author patrick tomlinson
studies the footage
694
00:34:59,631 --> 00:35:02,332
and sees echoes
of the most famous miracle
695
00:35:02,434 --> 00:35:04,034
in the old testament.
696
00:35:04,136 --> 00:35:05,202
Many people would look at this
697
00:35:05,304 --> 00:35:06,870
and be reminded
of the biblical story
698
00:35:06,972 --> 00:35:09,106
of the parting
of the red sea in exodus.
699
00:35:09,208 --> 00:35:15,011
It would take some incredible
force to part water in this way.
700
00:35:15,114 --> 00:35:17,380
Narrator: In the old testament's
book of exodus,
701
00:35:17,483 --> 00:35:19,916
egyptian pharaoh's
chariots pursued
702
00:35:20,018 --> 00:35:21,651
moses and the israelites,
703
00:35:21,753 --> 00:35:25,055
who find themselves
trapped in front of the red sea.
704
00:35:25,157 --> 00:35:29,593
Moses parts the waters, allowing
the jews to pass to safety.
705
00:35:29,695 --> 00:35:35,665
As the egyptians follow, god
closes the water and they drown.
706
00:35:35,767 --> 00:35:38,301
No archaeological evidence
has ever been found
707
00:35:38,403 --> 00:35:41,138
to confirm
this miraculous event,
708
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:42,739
but new research suggests
709
00:35:42,841 --> 00:35:45,308
that it may not be entirely
the stuff of myth
710
00:35:45,410 --> 00:35:49,412
and could explain what we see
in hong kong harbor.
711
00:35:49,515 --> 00:35:51,381
Most people assume that
the parting happened
712
00:35:51,483 --> 00:35:52,682
at the red sea in egypt.
713
00:35:52,784 --> 00:35:54,217
However, recently it turns out
714
00:35:54,319 --> 00:35:57,621
that it may have been a
mistranslation of the reed sea.
715
00:35:57,723 --> 00:36:01,525
Narrator:
The sea of reeds is believed
to have been a marshy lagoon.
716
00:36:01,627 --> 00:36:04,494
The bible says
god used a mighty east wind
717
00:36:04,596 --> 00:36:06,029
to part the water,
718
00:36:06,131 --> 00:36:09,399
and scientists have seen
a 60-mile-per-hour wind,
719
00:36:09,501 --> 00:36:11,201
called a wind set-down
720
00:36:11,303 --> 00:36:14,137
doing just that
to shallow lakes and lagoons.
721
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,207
A wind set-down drains
an entire area
722
00:36:17,309 --> 00:36:20,143
as if
it was hit by a very low tide.
723
00:36:20,245 --> 00:36:23,446
Narrator: When the wind stops,
the water floods back in,
724
00:36:23,549 --> 00:36:26,316
drowning anything in its path.
725
00:36:26,418 --> 00:36:29,186
But when kiki sanford
analyzes the footage,
726
00:36:29,288 --> 00:36:31,955
she doubts it shows
the water in victoria harbor
727
00:36:32,057 --> 00:36:35,492
beginning to parted
by a wind set-down event.
728
00:36:35,594 --> 00:36:38,528
A wind set-down
will move a body of water
729
00:36:38,630 --> 00:36:40,697
as if there's a low tide,
730
00:36:40,799 --> 00:36:44,201
but it doesn't create walls
in the water,
731
00:36:44,303 --> 00:36:46,570
especially
not in a large body of water
732
00:36:46,672 --> 00:36:48,071
like we're seeing in this video.
733
00:36:48,173 --> 00:36:50,640
So there has to be
another explanation.
734
00:36:52,878 --> 00:36:58,081
Narrator:
Coming up, do parting waters
reveal chinese aggression?
735
00:36:58,183 --> 00:37:00,183
Chinese president xi jinping
has said that
736
00:37:00,285 --> 00:37:04,988
any attempt to divide china
would result in bodies smashed
737
00:37:05,123 --> 00:37:08,124
and bones ground into powder.
738
00:37:14,933 --> 00:37:17,200
Narrator: A hong kong sailor
is astonished,
739
00:37:17,302 --> 00:37:20,203
as the sea appears to part
like a biblical miracle
740
00:37:20,305 --> 00:37:22,472
before his very eyes.
741
00:37:22,574 --> 00:37:24,841
Military expert carlo muñoz
742
00:37:24,943 --> 00:37:27,143
thinks the apparent parting
of the water
743
00:37:27,246 --> 00:37:30,080
could be linked
to chinese military aggression.
744
00:37:30,182 --> 00:37:32,749
Looking at the video and kind of
trying to get an idea
745
00:37:32,851 --> 00:37:34,985
of exactly what is going on,
746
00:37:35,087 --> 00:37:38,555
whatever it is, you're gonna
need a lot of resources
747
00:37:38,657 --> 00:37:41,558
and a lot of manpower
to get it done.
748
00:37:41,660 --> 00:37:43,159
There's only a few organizations
749
00:37:43,262 --> 00:37:45,629
that can really pull something
like this off --
750
00:37:45,731 --> 00:37:47,797
one of them being the military.
751
00:37:47,899 --> 00:37:49,899
Now, take that into account
752
00:37:50,002 --> 00:37:51,735
from where this video
was actually filmed,
753
00:37:51,837 --> 00:37:53,303
which is near hong kong,
754
00:37:53,405 --> 00:37:55,472
which is an incredible
flash-point now
755
00:37:55,574 --> 00:37:57,941
for the chinese government.
756
00:37:58,043 --> 00:38:01,878
Narrator: Hong kong became
a british colony in 1842
757
00:38:01,980 --> 00:38:04,981
after china lost a war
against the europeans
758
00:38:05,083 --> 00:38:08,785
over the control
of the drug opium.
759
00:38:08,887 --> 00:38:12,355
The colony went back
to the chinese in 1997,
760
00:38:12,457 --> 00:38:13,857
but the modern population
761
00:38:13,959 --> 00:38:17,927
doesn't like
china's draconian rule.
762
00:38:18,030 --> 00:38:21,097
March 2019 --
the people of hong kong
763
00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:24,901
start fighting back
against communist china.
764
00:38:24,970 --> 00:38:28,538
Violent street clashes escalate,
and protesters are killed
765
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,408
by an increasingly
ruthless police force,
766
00:38:31,510 --> 00:38:35,145
clearly under the direct orders
of the chinese government.
767
00:38:35,247 --> 00:38:37,113
Chinese president xi jinping
has said
768
00:38:37,249 --> 00:38:39,382
that any attempt
to divide china
769
00:38:39,484 --> 00:38:45,522
would result in bodies smashed
and bones ground into powder.
770
00:38:45,624 --> 00:38:48,825
Narrator:
The chinese are determined
to hold onto hong kong,
771
00:38:48,927 --> 00:38:53,763
which has an economy worth
over $362 billion a year.
772
00:38:53,865 --> 00:38:55,932
To protect their interests,
it's believed
773
00:38:56,034 --> 00:38:59,803
they built 3,000 miles
of secret underground passages
774
00:38:59,905 --> 00:39:02,072
to store a military arsenal
775
00:39:02,174 --> 00:39:05,842
five times longer than
the u.S. Pacific coast highway.
776
00:39:05,944 --> 00:39:08,478
It could be that these tunnels
have been extended
777
00:39:08,580 --> 00:39:10,213
under hong kong harbor
778
00:39:10,315 --> 00:39:12,615
and that an accidental firing
of a missile
779
00:39:12,718 --> 00:39:14,784
could cause a tunnel
to collapse,
780
00:39:14,886 --> 00:39:16,619
leading water rushing down.
781
00:39:18,857 --> 00:39:20,256
[ camera whirs ]
782
00:39:20,359 --> 00:39:21,925
but geologist devin dennie
783
00:39:22,027 --> 00:39:24,627
suspects the weird phenomenon
in the video
784
00:39:24,730 --> 00:39:28,465
could be a terrifying
natural geological fault line
785
00:39:28,567 --> 00:39:30,066
opening beneath the bay.
786
00:39:30,168 --> 00:39:32,335
One possible explanation
for what we're seeing
787
00:39:32,437 --> 00:39:35,171
is the earth below the ocean
on the sea floor
788
00:39:35,273 --> 00:39:36,873
could be moving in some way.
789
00:39:36,975 --> 00:39:39,409
If the earth below
is ripping apart,
790
00:39:39,511 --> 00:39:41,478
causing this parting to happen,
791
00:39:41,580 --> 00:39:44,080
then something crazy's going on.
792
00:39:44,182 --> 00:39:45,849
Narrator: Around the globe,
793
00:39:45,951 --> 00:39:48,284
the plates of the earth's
surface are moving,
794
00:39:48,387 --> 00:39:51,521
tearing huge cracks wide open.
795
00:39:51,656 --> 00:39:54,524
An excellent example
of plates being ripped apart
796
00:39:54,626 --> 00:39:55,825
is in iceland.
797
00:39:55,927 --> 00:39:57,227
You can actually go there
798
00:39:57,329 --> 00:40:00,330
and see the north american plate
on one side
799
00:40:00,432 --> 00:40:02,198
and the eurasian
plate on the other side
800
00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:05,301
and walk the crack between them.
801
00:40:05,404 --> 00:40:07,404
Narrator:
Called the mid-atlantic ridge,
802
00:40:07,506 --> 00:40:11,207
the giant scar extends
for 10,000 miles.
803
00:40:11,309 --> 00:40:13,943
Along its entire length,
the earth's crust
804
00:40:14,045 --> 00:40:16,479
is quite literally being
ripped apart,
805
00:40:16,581 --> 00:40:18,948
unleashing
from the planet's interior
806
00:40:19,050 --> 00:40:20,750
a seething, molten mass.
807
00:40:20,852 --> 00:40:23,586
Proctor: When that magma's
coming up to the surface,
808
00:40:23,722 --> 00:40:26,990
the temperature can be up
to 2,000 degrees fahrenheit.
809
00:40:27,092 --> 00:40:28,558
That is deadly.
810
00:40:28,660 --> 00:40:30,894
Narrator: Hong kong lies
on the ring of fire,
811
00:40:30,996 --> 00:40:34,798
a chain of fearsome volcanoes
that circle the pacific.
812
00:40:34,900 --> 00:40:38,468
If a rift is happening
in hong kong bay,
813
00:40:38,570 --> 00:40:41,037
it could have
devastating consequences
814
00:40:41,139 --> 00:40:44,674
for the seven million
inhabitants there.
815
00:40:44,776 --> 00:40:48,244
Narrator:
An underwater earthquake
caused the indian ocean tsunami
816
00:40:48,346 --> 00:40:51,748
that killed over 220,000 people
817
00:40:51,850 --> 00:40:54,517
and it was a deep sea
mega-thrust earthquake
818
00:40:54,619 --> 00:40:59,189
that led to the tsunami waves
that devastated japan in 2011.
819
00:40:59,291 --> 00:41:01,458
[ indistinct exclamations
in japanese ]
820
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,427
20,000 people died.
821
00:41:04,529 --> 00:41:08,097
And the force of the quake
shifted japan's honchu island
822
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,600
eight feet east.
823
00:41:10,702 --> 00:41:13,169
If this footage shows
a geological fault
824
00:41:13,271 --> 00:41:15,905
opening up in the sea
near hong kong harbor
825
00:41:16,007 --> 00:41:18,475
it could be a warning
of worse to come.
826
00:41:20,545 --> 00:41:23,379
A wall of water
would smash skyscrapers
827
00:41:23,482 --> 00:41:25,448
and swamp the packed streets.
828
00:41:25,550 --> 00:41:29,819
Like a modern-day atlantis,
it would be utterly destroyed.
829
00:41:33,225 --> 00:41:36,025
If this really is a rift
and the earth is thinning here,
830
00:41:36,127 --> 00:41:39,896
we should expect not only
earthquakes, but possibly gases
831
00:41:39,998 --> 00:41:43,399
or even volcanoes
forming in this area.
832
00:41:43,502 --> 00:41:45,401
[ camera whirs ]
833
00:41:47,639 --> 00:41:49,339
narrator:
But whatever is causing
834
00:41:49,441 --> 00:41:51,808
the bizarre parting of the waves
in the footage,
835
00:41:51,910 --> 00:41:54,544
it vanishes as quickly
as it appears,
836
00:41:54,646 --> 00:41:56,980
and nothing like it
has been reported
837
00:41:57,082 --> 00:42:00,817
in victoria harbor since.
838
00:42:00,919 --> 00:42:01,985
So, whatever this was,
839
00:42:02,087 --> 00:42:04,420
it's gonna have to remain
a mystery for now.
70836
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