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Narrator: worldwide,
27 billion cameras

Are watching us

On our streets, at work,
And in our homes.

They capture things
That seem impossible.

It defies
The laws of physics.

Man: oh, this is
Unbelievable, man.

Narrator: experts carry out
Forensic analysis

Of these unusual events.

Now that's
An explosion.

♪♪

There's got to be something
We're missing in this video.

Something
We're not seeing, right?

What else
Is going on here?

Coming up...

On this city street,
Has this vehicle been equipped

With a secret fire weapon?

Wham!

Flame comes rocketing out
The side of it.

Narrator: weird weeds
Make music blast

Out of a sinister
Soviet structure.

[ indistinct music plays ]

This is wild.
How is this possible?

That is pretty unusual
And weird.

Narrator: and what's
This jungle beast

Doing on
A british back street?

It has to be there for a reason.
That reason may be fatal.

Narrator:
Bizarre phenomena.

Whoa.

Mysteries caught on camera.

What's the truth behind
This strange evidence?

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[ whirring ]

Now a van hurdles
Seemingly out of control --

A narrow escape for pedestrians,
A collision,

But then a weird fireball.

[ exhales sharply ]
Wow.

It's an explosion like no other
That I've seen before.

Narrator:
After the initial bang,

A sustained river of flame
Comes from the van.

Wham! Flame comes
Rocketing out the side of it.

Wise: is it possible
That this truck

Actually had some kind of
A real flame thrower?

♪♪

narrator:
Cars, vans, and trucks...

when they crash
In hollywood action movies,

they explode like this.

♪♪

In reality, they do this.

[ tires screech ]

Even in massive collisions,

Cars and vans
Almost never explode.

[ siren wails ]

♪♪

People are killed
From the impact,

Bystanders may be hurt,

But vehicles rarely combust.

And if they did, there would be
No sustained ejection of fire.

But on this street,
Drivers and pedestrians

Are about to experience

A crash worthy of
A tom cruise blockbuster.

First, for some reason,

A yellow van
Packed full of people

Drives insanely across
A traffic circle.

The driver seems to struggle
To control the vehicle,

Which almost kills
Bystanders.

[ tires screech ]

That was nuts.

Next, an oncoming car crashes
Into the side of the van.

Ouch.

Then the first explosion
Followed by a column of fire

Shooting from
The side of the van.

I mean, it's huge!

this car goes barreling out
Of control for a few seconds.

and the minute
Another car hits it,

it just explodes.

There's fire shooting out
Of the sides.

You don't really know
What's going on.

The bystanders on the street
Itself are ducking for cover.

♪♪

physicist adam hadhazy
Asks if the type of fuel

used inside the van's engine
Could be to blame.

a key clue to figuring out
What's going on here

is assessing
What type of vehicles

Were involved
In the accident.

So if the van
Is a diesel vehicle,

That gives us some clues
About the type of explosion

That we're seeing.

Narrator: diesel fuel has to be
Much more highly compressed

Than gasoline
In order to power a car engine.

Hadhazy: gasoline is flammable,
But diesel is combustible.

So what that means is that
You have to compress diesel

In order to ignite it.

If the van's air intake
Had ruptured,

Could that have made the diesel
Spontaneously combustible?

Narrator: diesel cars
Explode more violently

Than gasoline cars

Because they work
At a higher pressure.

But that doesn't explain

The sustained
Flame thrower effect

Seen in the footage.

♪♪

In the video,
You see this jet of flame,

This tongue of flame,
That reaches out of the vehicle.

and it's unusual
Because it's not just

a random release
Of explosive energy.

it seems to be
Very directed.

something else has to be
Going on to produce that.

this vehicle literally
Turns into a flame thrower.

wise: you could be,
You know, flambéed.

is it possible
That this truck

actually had some kind of
A real flame thrower?

Have been designed specifically
To be fitted to vehicles

When this foot switch
Is pressed,

Two things happen.

One, a 14,000 volt spark
Would appear here.

And then you have these
Four jets here shooting out gas.

As soon as it exits
Over this fork here,

Will ignite and a ball of flame
Will shoot out

On both sides
Of the vehicle,

Incapacitating the hijackers
Immediately.

Narrator: the reason these
Devices were fitted to vehicles

Was a rise in recent decades

In the number of attacks
On cars and drivers.

there was a huge spike
In the number of carjackings.

Narrator:
On september 26, 2014 in mexico,

43 students on a bus
Are forcibly abducted

And never seen again.

As a result,
There were several companies

That tried
To develop countermeasures.

Narrator: hundreds of vehicles
Were fitted

With defensive flame throwers.

But the defensive flamethrowers
Attached to vehicles

Eject a relatively
Small amount of fuel --

Enough to deter a carjacker
Standing by the vehicle,

Not enough to roast
Dozens of pedestrians.

Civil engineer
Brian wolshon considers

If this nightmare explosion

Could be
An unintended consequence

Of a type of fuel called
Liquid petroleum gas, or lpg.

and it's a fuel source
That comes from the refining

of both natural gas
And oil.

One of
The significant advantages

To liquid petroleum gas

Is it only costs about half
The price of diesel fuel.

In fact, in poland,

There are over two million
Lpg vehicles on the road.

Narrator: lpg is being promoted
As a green fuel

Since it gives off
Less carbon dioxide.

But its critics claim
That if handled incorrectly,

It can be unstable
And explosive.

Kutcher: when you see
The impact, it's so violent,

It's just rocketing
Right out the side of it

As almost if somebody is inside
Holding a flame thrower,

Just shooting it right
Out of the side of the van.

so this is most certainly

something other than
Gasoline or diesel.

Narrator: pyrotechnics expert
Matt kutcher

Has spent over 20 years

Working with explosives
For hollywood movies.

It did quick business of that,
Didn't it?

Hit it!

I just love it
When a plan comes together.

Narrator: kutcher sets up
An experiment

To test the theory

That the explosion was caused
By a ruptured lpg tank.

Let's do this, guys.
Let's get this up here,

Bring out the hose.

So we're gonna fill
This tank up with lpg.

So then we have fuel
And pressure to simulate

The fuel tank that we see
In this van exploding

And acting
Like a flame thrower.

[ crash ]

♪♪

We're gonna take
This knife.

We're gonna push it
Through this propane tank.

That'll be just like
That van, right?

Big puncture from
The impact of the crash,

Right through
The propane tank.

And now that
We've ruptured the tank,

We're gonna add ignition.

So we're gonna put
A pyrotechnic charge outside,

A flash pack.

Hopefully, it'll look exactly
Like the flame thrower...

Effect that we see
In the video.

♪♪

so now, let's run it
Through the paces

and get a big bang, huh?

♪♪

Guys, we're all but hot.
Let's get ready to go.

[ horn blares ]

Narrator: coming up,
Matt kutcher discovers

If the blast from the van
Was a result of lpg gas...

This is gonna be big.

Hit it.

...And in ukraine,

Two men stumble across
Freaky foliage

That has the ability
To communicate.

How does it sound
Like grass is talking?

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: an out-of-control van
Collides with a car

On a city road
Followed by an explosion

And a mysterious jet of flames

Bursting from
The side of the vehicle.

Pyrotechnics expert
Matt kutcher

Has filled a fuel tank
With liquid petroleum gas.

To see if it matches
The explosion in the video.

Kutcher: let's go ahead
And do this thing, right?

We're gonna have to
Get out of the way.

This is gonna be big.

And in 3, 2, 1,
Hit it.

♪♪

♪♪

Now, that was a bang!

Let's go.
Come on.

Go check out
What we got.

You can see that
There's a split second of time

That all the gas escaped.

It became a flame thrower,
And we saw the flame effect.

so I think
With our experiment,

we certainly have the answer
To what we see in that video.

♪♪

narrator: lpg creates
A deadly threat on our streets.

wolshon:
So unlike diesel fuel,

lpg is stored
As a compressed liquid.

but if an lpg tank
Is ever ruptured,

that liquid will rapidly
Turn into a gas.

munoz: now, depending on how
The tank is ruptured,

you may have
One, two, three,

or several streams
Of lpg gas shooting out.

now, if any of those streams
Happen to catch aflame,

you've got a flame thrower.

♪♪

Narrator: the number of lpg cars
In north america

Has increased by 35 percent
In the past four years.

Wolshon:
With more and more vehicles

Being converted to lpg
In the united states,

We could be seeing a lot more
Flame throwers on the road.

♪♪

Narrator: now, weird noises from
A large rusting metal tower.

[ groans ]

Two men touch the tower
With a weed.

The plant burns,
And incredibly,

Starts to sing and speak.

[ indistinct music plays ]

[ laughs ]

[ indistinct music plays ]

What the heck
Is going on here?

Woman: every time
He takes the grass

And touches the object,

It seems to sing,
And that is so weird.

Narrator: the men cry out,
Writhing in pain.

The guy holding the grass,
He's there screaming in pain.

Pickens:
They definitely have access

To something that
They shouldn't be playing with.

♪♪

Narrator: ukraine.

This is a country with
A truly dark and weird past.

Once part of
The soviet empire,

It's the site of chernobyl,

The worst nuclear disaster
Of all time.

30 years later,

Children are still being born
With severe birth defects.

♪♪

October 2015,

In a suburb on the outskirts
Of the ukrainian capital, kyiv,

Two men approach
A metal structure.

One of them touches it
With the stem of a weed.

[ static ]

[ indistinct speaking ]

Immediately
As the weed burns,

Strange voices and music
Seem to come from the plant.

[ indistinct speaking ]

This is wild.
How is this possible?

How does it sound
Like grass is talking?

[ indistinct speaking
Continues ]

Holy cow. That's pretty
Unusual and weird.

Narrator: the plant appears
To be talking and singing,

But then it transmits
Searing pain

In the man holding it.

Pickens:
The grass is burning.

People are getting
Really excited.

They're dropping it.
What is going on here?

♪♪

Narrator:
The tower is rusty and old.

It looks like a relic
From the soviet era.

If it was erected
During the cold war,

What was its purpose?

I mean, it looks like it could
Be beaming out a message...

or receiving one.

Man #2: so it makes you wonder,
Is this something

We don't know about,
Some operation going on

And they happened to get
Caught up in it?

Narrator: coming up,

Is the weird grass
Singing a secret message,

Or a warning?

Teitel: if the guy
Holding the grass

Were to touch
The metal himself,

He would be severely burned
Or potentially even killed.

Narrator: and a legendary beast
Hunts for prey

In england's
Second biggest city.

Whoa.
That thing's huge.

♪♪

♪♪

[ speaking in
Native language ]

Narrator: on the outskirts
Of kyiv, ukraine,

Two men have stumbled across
A giant metal tower.

When they touch it
With weeds,

The vegetation
Appears to play sounds.

[ rhythmic music plays ]

It seems beyond doubt

That the plant
Is making this strange noise.

But how?

if it is
A radio transmitter,

it would have to be operating
At an extremely high voltage.

narrator: but even then,
Radio transmitters

don't normally cause

the surrounding countryside
To sing.

tim pickens decides
To conduct an experiment

to see if he can replicate
The effect seen in the video.

what I want to do is see
If we can transmit music

through, like,
A blade of grass

And see
If this really works.

Narrator: tim uses
A 50,000 volt transformer

To replicate the giant metallic
Radio transmitter in the video.

This is a very high-powered
Device for a lab scale.

So, yeah, this thing
Is really dangerous,

And it is not advisable.

We got to be careful.

Narrator: then tim plugs
The transformer into a computer

Through which
He will play an audio file.

We are not using
The speaker from here.

We're just using
An audio out

And it's going into
This device.

I want to
Take this leaf and see,

Could this become a speaker?

I didn't like their music,

So I chose
"The ride of the valkyries."

So let me go ahead
And turn this device on.

No music playing.

Got about
A 50,000 volt spark

Coming off there.

Let's see what happens
When we touch it,

Just like
They touch the tower.

What would happen here?

Narrator: when tim touches
The transmitter with the leaf,

The effect is extraordinary.

Pickens:
This is playing music.

You can hear it.
There is no speaker here.

This is the speaker.

[ music plays ]

Narrator: as the massive voltage
Hits the leaf,

It transforms the air around it,
Not into a solid or a liquid,

But into a fourth
Fundamental state of matter,

Straight out of
Science fiction.

It is creating plasma.

When the grass burns,
It ionizes the air,

Effectively ripping
The air molecules apart

And creating a plasma.

It also releases
A huge amount of energy.

The cool thing here
Is the amount of energy

Passing through the metal

Affects how much the air
Is being ripped apart.

And every time
That changes,

It changes the sound
To higher and lower pitches.

[ music plays ]

This effectively creates
What's called a plasma speaker.

Narrator:
Despite appearances,

The leaf is not acting
As a speaker.

The noise is coming
From the plasma itself

Around the leaf.

[ music plays sporadically ]

A huge and dangerous
Invisible force is at work.

Whew!
So it got me.

It came through here,
Shot the fire at me.

Not good.
You can smell skin burning.

So this is definitely
A phenomena that's no fun.

Whew.

[ inhales deeply,
Groans ]

Narrator: these men
Have stumbled on

Strange
And incredibly powerful forces,

Which they probably
Don't understand.

If the guy holding the grass
Were to touch the metal himself,

He would be severely burned
Or potentially even killed.

Narrator:
What this old soviet tower

Is transmitting
Remains a mystery.

But one thing is certain,

Local ukrainians would be
Well advised to steer clear.

This phenomenon is
Ridiculously incredible.

It's so super cool,
But also super dangerous.

So you might want to stick
To normal speakers.

[ man laughs ]

♪♪

Narrator: now, in england,
A savage beast

That is supposed to have died
Out from here centuries ago.

What is it?
And how did it get there?

Whoa. That thing's huge.

Narrator:
Great britain is an island,

And there have been
No big cats here

For more than 1,000 years.

To the british, this looks
More like a mythical beast,

The equivalent of bigfoot.

The most notorious
Big cat story in england

Is the beast
Of bodmin moor.

[ helicopter blades whir ]

Narrator:
The bustling, sprawling

Metropolis of birmingham.

After london,
This is england's biggest city.

A city that dates way back

To the industrial revolution
And beyond.

May 14, 2018.
It's late evening.

In this urban area,

Home security cameras
Capture an impossible site.

That is one massive animal
On the loose.

Narrator: coming up,
Why is this alpha predator

On the nighttime streets
Of a british city?

Samuel: the really
Terrifying thing here

Is that these big cats

Can be looking for live prey.

And a drug lord's mansion
Is seconds away from demolition.

But do cameras capture him
Still inside?

Wise: as this thing's
About to go down,

It looks like this person
Dressed in white moving inside.

What is that? Who is that?
And why are they in there?

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator:
In birmingham, england,

Security cameras
Have caught images

Of a large creature
Prowling the streets.

Local residents
Are terrified.

The largest carnivore
In the u.K. Is the badger.

Its diet,
Largely earthworms.

This is not what I want to see
Stalking my parking lot.

Man: it has to be there
For a reason.

And unfortunately,
If someone crosses that path,

That reason may be fatal.

♪♪

Narrator: the last wolf
On the island of britain

Was killed
Over 250 years ago.

The last big cats left
Over 1,000 years before that.

Tomlinson: this was filmed
In birmingham --

not alabama, england.

and there, they don't have
Any large predators.

mccourt: what I'm trying
To do here

is get
A frame of reference

to see how big
This creature is.

the standard size of a dumpster
In the u.K. Is over 3 feet.

I can extrapolate that this
Creature is about 2 feet tall.

Narrator: other creatures
That can grow to 2 feet tall

Include jaguars,
Pumas, and wolves.

In the u.K.,
They don't have wild animals

Just roaming
Around the streets.

Narrator: there are
Horrifying beasts here,

But they're meant to be
The stuff of legend and fiction.

[ howling ]

The most famous is
"The hound of the baskervilles,"

Where sherlock holmes
Investigates

A series of murders
On a moor

Attributed to a fearsome
Supernatural hellhound.

The book was inspired
By the real story

Of squire richard cabell
Of brook hall,

Who murdered his wife

And is said to have
Sold his soul to the devil.

♪♪

After his death,
He is said to have been seen

Hunting on dartmoor
With a phantom pack of hounds.

[ barking and howling ]

♪♪

but the beast in the footage
Is no hound.

this creature
Doesn't look like a dog.

it holds its head low

And it rolls its shoulders
Back as it walks.

It also has
A long upturned tail.

It looks kind of
Like a cat to me.

Narrator: it reminds
Many british people

Of a creature said
To stalk the moors

Of the english west country.

They call it
"The beast of bodmin moor."

Montieth: for many centuries,
There's been reports of big cats

On the english countryside.

The most notorious big cat story
In england

Is "The beast
Of bodmin moor" --

a big cat that roams
The moor at nighttime.

there've been
Hundreds of sightings.

narrator: most believe
This creature to be a myth.

but in 1993,

a woman claimed she was attacked
By the beast of bodmin.

jane fuller was walking
Her dogs out on bodmin moor

and a huge beast
Sprang out,

Knocked her down,
And knocked her out.

When she
Regained consciousness,

She saw what she said
Looked like a puma

Only about 30 feet away.

Fortunately, her dogs protected
Her from it and scared it away.

♪♪

narrator: civil engineer
Brian wolshon finds a clue

in a change to british law
Made over 40 years ago.

wolshon: well, the 1976
Dangerous wild animals act

Effectively was targeted

at people who were
Actually keeping wild animals,

in some cases,
Very large wild animals,

In their houses.

Narrator:
In the swinging '60s,

It was all the rage
To own a big cat.

Paul raymond, a porn baron
And property magnet,

Famously kept a pet cheetah
In his soho apartment.

It was even possible
To buy lion cubs

From the luxury
Department store harrods.

And the intent of the act
Was to say

That if you do have
One of these animals,

You have to keep them,
Number one,

In an appropriate enclosure.

The second part of this
Was to make sure

That these animals would never
Endanger the public.

Narrator: but many
Wild animal owners

Didn't want to keep their pets
Cooped up in cages,

And they effectively just
Released their animals

Into the wild.

Narrator:
The most famous individual

To have allegedly
Defied this act

Is the animal trainer
Mary chipperfield.

So she actually supplied
Many of the animals

That were used in the 1967 film
"Doctor dolittle."

she also worked
At the plymouth zoo.

now, when the plymouth zoo,
When it ran out of money

and closed down
In the 1970s,

It's rumored
That she actually released

Three pumas into the wild.

So it's possible that
This animal we see on the clip

Could be one of
These missing pumas

Or a descendent
Of one of these cats.

Narrator: it's thought
Chipperfield's pumas

Are not the only beasts
To be roaming england.

so it's rumored that there
Are big cats being raised

and released
In the cornwall area

Just so wealthy hunters
Can go and shoot them.

Kind of like a safari,
But not in africa.

It's on the moor.

Narrator: but if it's true
That big cats

Have been released
Deliberately,

The hunted appear to have
Turned into the hunters.

In the u.S.,
It's common for wild bears

To roam into residential areas
In search of food.

And even in india,

With a very, very high
Population density,

Leopards have been known,

Actually, to enter into cities
Looking for food.

[ people screaming ]

Leslie samuel fears
That it may not be

Just people's garbage
That this giant cat is after.

Samuel: the really
Terrifying thing here

Is that these big cats
Can be looking for live prey.

It could be looking to prey
On our own beloved pets.

Narrator: over 70,000 pets
Are reported missing

In the u.K. Every year.

In september 2017,

A londoner saw
What they believed to be

A large predator eating
The carcass of a domestic cat.

Could this creature
In birmingham be on the hunt

For a pet cat to munch on?

♪♪

Narrator: wherever this big cat
Has come from,

It looks dangerous.

Big cats have to eat,

And your pets
Are probably very tasty.

And once they eat the pets,
Will they be coming for you?

[ growling and snarling ]

♪♪

Narrator: now, in the city
Of medellín in colombia,

The luxury home
Of pablo escobar,

The most successful drug lord
In human history,

Stripped bare
And about to be blown up.

Escobar's life
Was full of controversy,

Full of violence,
Full of death.

Narrator:
A camera is set up

To film
The explosive demolition,

But captures something else
Seconds before.

What is that? Who is that?
And why are they in there?

Narrator: experts fear
That the king of cocaine

May have a final score
To settle.

♪♪

Columbia, the criminal base
Of pablo escobar,

The wealthiest drug lord
In history.

[ indistinct speaking ]

Worth the equivalent
Of 70 billion dollars,

More than 20 times as rich

As businessman
And president donald trump.

♪♪

At its height,
Escobar's drug cartel

Is exporting to the u.S.
15 tons of cocaine a day.

It has been estimated
That their criminal activities

Led to the death
Of 5,000 people.

Man: this is
The most violent of cities.

There's a killing here
Every three hours.

Gottlieb: this man was
Single handedly responsible

For about 80 percent
Of the cocaine

That was exported
To countries around the world.

Pablo escobar
Is the number one

Most notorious
Violent drug kingpin

The world has ever known.

Narrator: medellín in colombia,
February 22, 2019,

It's late morning.

The local government decreed
That pablo escobar's

Luxury six-story
Private apartment complex

Should be destroyed
As a symbolic act.

The giant deluxe home called
"Monaco" was built for his wife,

But it was from here
That escobar and his lieutenants

Planned many
Of their most daring acts.

There was nothing or no one
He couldn't buy,

And that meant politicians
And beautiful homes,

Including this one...

Where this footage
Was filmed.

Narrator: it was a maze
Of unimaginable luxury.

Two swimming pools,
A tennis court,

And countless
Hidden passageways,

Exits,
And secret chambers.

♪♪

seconds before
Escobar's mansion is blown up,

something or someone
Seems to be still inside.

as this thing's
About to go down,

it looks like
This kind of figure, a person,

dressed in white
Moving inside.

Narrator: moments later,
There is a huge explosion

And the building collapses,

Taking with it
The figure seen in the image.

♪♪

to see this kind of ghostly
Apparition moving through

what appears to be
An abandoned building

is kind of shocking
In and of itself.

and then when you find out

who used to occupy
That building,

it turns
Even more sinister.

Narrator: is this the ghost
Of escobar, as some claim?

Or is it escobar himself
Still hiding out

Years after
His reported death?

♪♪

Coming up...

Have cameras captured
The final moments of a monster?

There are
Very conflicting accounts

About how pablo escobar
Was killed.

Narrator:
And in the skies above china,

An astonishing megacity
Appears in the clouds.

That is not what I expect
When I look up in the sky.

♪♪

♪♪

narrator: in the city
Of medellín in columbia,

a camera captures
A strange white figure

in pablo escobar's mansion
Seconds before it's destroyed.

♪♪

Pablo escobar is
The al capone of our generation.

He wrote
The book on ruthless.

Narrator: after committing
A multitude of heinous crimes,

In 1991,
The colombian authorities

Put pressure on escobar
To surrender himself.

He agrees to be
In his own luxury prison,

Which is guarded
By escobar's own men.

pablo escobar
Was someone who felt

like he was entitled
To own everyone and everything.

Narrator: the so-called prison
Was nicknamed "Hotel escobar."

Among the luxuries,
Its sole prisoner enjoyed

A rotating bed, a jacuzzi,
A soccer field,

And even a nightclub.

But none of this
Was enough,

And he soon went
Back on the run.

In december 1993, he is reported
To have been shot dead.

♪♪

Columbia is
A christian country,

But religious belief here

Carries echoes
Of an older pagan past.

And for poor colombian's,

Escobar's immeasurable
Wealth and power

Bordered
On the supernatural.

so it's been thought
That this may be

the restless soul
Of pablo escobar

that, for some reason,
Is roaming around the building.

♪♪

Narrator:
But maybe this is not a spirit,

But a very real person --

One of escobar's own men
Or a looter

Desperate to retrieve
Some hidden hoards of cash.

Escobar literally made

Billions and billions
Of dollars, gobs of money.

It's not like pablo
Could just walk into a bank

With a billion dollars
And deposit it.

there's a reason he bought
So many properties

he had to have a place
To stash his loot --

under the floorboards,
In the walls, in the gardens.

he had to
Put this money somewhere,

and he did. Billions.

and some of it
Has not been found.

♪♪

Narrator: this, escobar's
Main penthouse block,

Was literally
Stuffed with money,

Much of it
Possibly undiscovered.

Is it possible
This is a looter

Inside one of
Pablo escobar's properties

Looking for gold,
Money, weapons? Yeah.

If that's the case,
This is someone who's having

A very, very bad day.

♪♪

Narrator: or could escobar
Have faked his own death?

There is no doubt
That he had

The resources, means,
And ingenuity to do it.

There's a lot of contention
Surrounding

How pablo escobar
Actually died.

Narrator: suspiciously,
It's still not clear

Who exactly killed escobar.

Moran: the police officially
Took credit for his death,

But a vigilante group

Comprised of
Many of escobar's enemies

Also said
That it was one of their forces

Who took the final shot.

Narrator: different accounts
Come from escobar's own family.

Mcmahon: pablo escobar was,
Needless to say,

A very proud man.

And his son says
That he would never wanted

to have been taken alive.

that he was determined,
If it was the end,

if he was cornered,
He would take his own life.

There are
Very conflicting accounts

About how pablo escobar
Was killed.

♪♪

Whether a looter,
A henchman, or the man himself,

If this thing was human,
Then it's surely dead now.

This is one of those cases
You just don't know

What the camera
Caught on tape.

Narrator: it's a fittingly weird
And dramatic end

To the story
Of pablo escobar.

Escobar's life
Was full of controversy,

Full of violence,
Full of death.

So it seems quite fitting
That when his own mansion

Is blown up,
There's controversy.

♪♪

Narrator:
Now, in the skies above china,

A ghostly city appears.

Wow.

That is not what I expect
When I look up in the sky.

Narrator:
It's not an ancient city,

But a modern metropolis
Suspended in the clouds.

The people on the ground
Had to be terrified.

This looks like a genuine city
In the sky above them.

♪♪

narrator:
Guangdong, china.

this urban industrial sprawl

was once a land of peasants,
Farms, and temples.

♪♪

People here are still followers
Of buddhism, taoism,

And other ancient forms
Of worship.

October 2015,

Thousands of residents
In the city of foshan

Report a vision
In the skies above.

It's captured on video.

♪♪

foster: so, it looks like
A modern metropolis --

these huge tower blocks floating
In the sky above the clouds.

and it looks like
It's just hovering there,

just off in the distance.

narrator: within hours,
The video goes viral.

and as even reported
On official state t.V.

What on earth is it?

I-I don't know
How this is possible.

Narrator: whatever it is,
It doesn't look natural.

It's a ghost city
Over a neighborhood.

Foster:
If you've ever watched

Star wars and
"The empire strikes back,"

There's cloud city
Floating in the cloud.

The question is, could this be
An actual floating city?

♪♪

narrator: coming up, experts ask
If this strange city in the sky

is a threat to the west.

is this some kind of signal
That the chinese authorities

are manufacturing
Virtual cities,

or even virtual armies?

♪♪

♪♪

narrator:
In guangdong province, china,

cameras have caught
What appears to be

a floating city
Looming in the clouds.

♪♪

science author linda zimmerman
Studies the footage

and recalls medieval accounts
Of a city seen in the sky.

zimmerman: floating cities
Are not the idea

of a modern world.

it actually goes back
To the 9th century

when there was this myth

of a land
That was floating above us.

Narrator: the medieval french
Called it "Magonia."

It was believed to be
A hellish city in the sky

Occupied by pirates.

It's a tantalizing concept

To think
That there's some sort of,

Perhaps, other civilization
That's above us

And we only get a glimpse of it
On very, very rare occasions.

Narrator: in china, too,
There was a belief

In such a kingdom
In the sky.

It was said to have been
The home of the jade emperor.

the jade emperor is reckoned
To be the king of heaven

in charge
Of all of the other deities.

he's also got
A very important role

as the avenger of evil.

some people believe
He's the crowned prince

of the celestial kingdom
In the sky.

♪♪

narrator: but what could explain
This very modern celestial city?

former cia operative
Lindsay moran

considers
A worrying possibility.

deepfake is a technique
Essentially involving

image synthesis.

And it takes images or videos
And superimposes them

Onto other source images
Or videos,

Creating what is essentially
One really realistic looking,

But entirely fake
Image or video.

Narrator:
Deepfake is a powerful weapon

In the hands
Of a totalitarian regime.

Western leaders
Can be made to say

And do things they haven't.

An american president
Could be made

To insult
Whole populations,

To make threats of war,
Or even order a nuclear attack.

♪♪

but this cannot be
Video manipulation,

for it was seen widely
By locals with their own eyes.

news reports stated
That thousands of people

had actually witnessed
This phenomenon.

♪♪

Narrator: when theoretical
Physicist michio kaku

Views the footage,

He wonders if the floating city
Could be some kind of

Natural reflection of nearby
Tower blocks on the ground.

fata morgana refers to
A very specific kind of mirage.

Mirages seem to defy
The ordinary laws of logic.

Narrator: fata morganas
Usually form

When cold air at the surface

Is covered by a warm layer
Higher in the atmosphere.

Rays of light pass through

The different air masses
And bend,

Causing objects
In the distance to appear

As if they're floating.

Granade: our brains assume

That light travels
In a straight line.

it does most every other time
That we look at things.

so our brains say,
"Oh, that curved light,

It's not that it's curved,
It's that it's coming

In a straight line
From somewhere up in the air."

It's sort of like
A funhouse mirror.

Man: so I've got a feeling
That getting a mirage of a city

That is nearby to this location
Appearing in the sky.

Narrator: but there's a problem
With this theory.

You need a setup where

The air is cold near the ground
And hot slightly above that.

These things tend to happen
Over oceans and over deserts

And often happen
Near the horizon,

not up
In the middle of the sky.

♪♪

narrator:
To some chinese people,

this remains a vision
Of the celestial city

of the jade emperor,
The king of gods.

but to scientists,
It remains a mystery.

foster: obviously, my dream
Would be that it is

actually a floating city

and someone
Has conquered gravity.

but honestly,
Looking at it again and again,

I just can't figure out
What it is.