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

Was this claw print made by this creature?

- [Chloe] I swear to god I'm not (beep) With you.

- [Tony] What force caused this blue flash?

- [Erica] What was that?

- [Chase] It's an error in our time-space fabric.

- [Tony] And who made these tracks on the lunar surface?

- It has got to be some intelligent species

that created it. (Explosion booming)

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- [Tony] Around the globe are videos,

- [woman] What the heck is this?

- [Tony] Photos, and sounds that defy explanation.

(Low humming)

- [Man] Is it some kind of unidentified object?

- [Man 2] A plane that was literally frozen in the air.

- [Tony] What are they?

- [Man] Some sort of bizarre mutation.

- Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof.

- I'm Tony Harris.

And as a journalist for more than 30 years,

I've followed the facts where they take me.

Now I'm bringing that spirit of investigation

to the world's strangest sounds and images.

(Creature shrieking)

We'll analyze each one with top experts-

- it's a credible case; It's a credible video.

- [Tony] And pass a verdict on what it is.

- This video was clearly faked.

- "The proof" starts now.

We begin with a bigfoot with bad Bo.

That's how the legendary Florida creature

known as the skunk ape has been described.

People say it lurks in the sunshine state,

even leaving prints.

Does it add up to proof or is it a bit too perfect?

Panama City beach in Florida's panhandle

is a popular vacation spot with a lively nightlife.

But in July 2020, Chloe Brennan and her boyfriend

found something that might make them

never leave the house again.

- [Tony] Let's push in on that.

It's a claw or paw print

left on the rear windshield of Chloe's car.

You can see the markings of those long claws

and detailed creases in the skin.

Weirder still, Chloe says it smelled.

- It was just like stinky, greasy,

and it looked like a monkey hand.

- [Tony] On social media,

friends wonder whether it could be evidence

of a legendary creature called the skunk ape.

Field researcher Ken gerhard

has investigated dozens of sightings.

- There seem to be more accounts

of it chasing people, terrorizing people.

People describe the face as being

somewhere between a human and an ape.

Very broad shoulders, no neck, very long arms.

- And it might be more than a legend.

The skunk ape has allegedly been captured on video.

Almost 600 miles south in the Florida everglades,

this famous footage emerged in 2000.

It appears to show the southern bigfoot

ambling through a swamp.

Watch as it suddenly breaks into a long-limbed run,

almost aware that it's being watched,

finally escaping into a grove of palm trees.

One big difference between the skunk ape and bigfoot:

The skunk ape is said to stink

of rotten eggs and moldy socks.

But we wanna know, do these videos pass the smell test?

For answers, we turn to wildlife biologist Lucy eckersley.

- When I first saw this,

I have to say I wasn't sure what it was.

- [Tony] Could it be a neighborhood dog or cat?

- This is a pretty large print from a pretty large animal

and it's going up a windshield.

That's pretty unusual behavior.

From what I can see here, this is an animal

that has both digits and a flat area of its foot

the same way that we have.

Many animals, like dogs and cats, are digitigrade,

so that means they're walking

just on the tips of their digits.

- [Tony] That eliminates those domestic animals,

since this print has longer, flatter finger marks.

So, could it be from a human-like creature

with sharp claws?

- I can see a few clear digits

and then some folds of skin in the center.

The claws were actually a big part for me.

When you look at them, they are printed,

the entire length of the claw,

but claws actually curve like this.

So, if it was a real animal,

you would expect to only see the tip of the claw

a little far away from the end of the digit.

I think that this is somebody's back of their hand

and then they've drawn on or included in some way the claws.

- [Tony] Anthropologist Kathy strain

also examines the print.

- I did not find a single animal

that would match that print.

- We've had a lotta people come and say

that they think this is a prank that we have done.

It is not something that we have done.

- [Tony] As for that incredible skunk ape video?

- Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof.

- [Tony] Strain does a gait analysis,

comparing how this creature runs compared to a known ape.

- [Kathy] Up until the time the animal starts to run,

it was potentially believable.

But once it runs, it just falls apart.

- [Tony] Note the fluid, balanced strides of this chimp

compared to the clumsy, awkward motion

of the alleged skunk ape.

- That's how I run: Really sloppy, not very good at it.

And I would think an animal

that is natural to the environment

would be able to run, pshew, fast and easy and elegant

and just perfect, and that's not at all what you see here.

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- So, what's the verdict?

The lack of a separated claw

means the paw print is probably the back of a human hand.

As far as the video,

the creature's gait strongly suggests

it's a person in a suit.

We're calling both a hoax.

That doesn't mean the skunk ape isn't real.

Indigenous tribes have legends

dating back hundreds of years.

Coming up, is there a curse on the tombs of the pharaohs

and did these treasure-hunters record it?

(Low whispering)

When "the proof is out there" continues.

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- It's been almost 100 years

since king tut's tomb was discovered.

And ever since, archeologists and treasure-hunters

have been digging in the Egyptian desert.

But as you'll see in this next video,

one group found more than they were bargaining for.

(Wind whistling)

A group of treasure-hunters

is battling heavy winds in the Egyptian desert

in search of lost pyramids.

It's may 2013 and the team is working

with amateur satellite archeologist Angela micol,

who's directed them to these coordinates.

- It was a very large triangular mound.

And I was like, "wait a minute, this could be undiscovered."

- [Tony] Suddenly, the wind picks up

and the team is stopped in its tracks

by the sound of a whisper in the air.

(Low whispering)

Take another listen.

(Low whispering)

- When I heard that voice,

the hair on the back of my neck stood up.

I sounded like some kind of an incantation.

(Low whispering)

- [Tony] Did someone on Angela's team say it?

- They're like, "oh no, we didn't put the voice on there.

"We don't know what it's saying."

They also said they didn't think that it was arabic.

And I'm like, "what could it possibly be?

"Could it be maybe an ancient Egyptian dialect?"

- [Tony] Could the whisper be an ancient curse?

Journalist mj banias says that theory

leads back to Howard Carter,

the man who discovered king tut's tomb in 1922.

- Locals warned Carter that he probably shouldn't

be messing around the tomb of a dead pharaoh.

And sure enough, after Carter made his discovery,

strange things started to happen.

Members of Carter's team began to drop like flies.

- The tale goes that six people,

including Carter's secretary and financial benefactor,

died in the following years because of the pharaoh's curse.

Is that curse what Angela's team recorded?

Our analysis starts with audio expert Ben gottesman.

First question: Is this really a voice

(low whispering) Or just wind?

- So, here is wind, right, which you can see

is this extremely intense low-frequency chunk.

(Wind whistling)

- [Tony] Now, here's the whisper.

(Low whispering)

Next, gottesman compares the sound of the whisper

to a human voice.

Here's a human s sound.

(Soft whispering)

Now listen to the whisper.

(Low whispering)

- Just looking at the spectrogram,

the hissiness of the ss

matched what we humans produce.

- [Tony] Okay, the whisper sounds human.

But did it happen in the Egyptian desert

or was it added later?

We turn to forensic analyst Michael primeau.

- I noted no instances of fading,

a difference in background noises,

anything that would be suspicious of that recording

just kind of pasted into that section

through the spectrogram analysis.

So, there is no direct evidence to support

that this was layered into the recording

or added after the fact.

- [Tony] So, it looks like we have

a real voice saying something, but what?

Next, we send the audio to our egyptologist, Nick brown.

(Low whispering)

Could we have proof of an ancient curse?

- So, the tricky thing with ancient Egyptian

is it's a language that's died out,

so modern scholars don't know actually how to speak it.

- [Tony] But according to brown, based on hieroglyphics,

we do know that sounds such as jah, sin, and Ka

were part of the language.

(Low whispering)

As he listens, brown doesn't hear enough

to think this is ancient Egyptian

or a closely related language.

- I have to say that I can't explain what the noise is.

- [Tony] Still, he can't rule out its authenticity.

- I think there is some possibility

that in the future we might be able to tell,

as some scholars are trying to study and crack the code

of ancient Egyptian and the language and how it was spoken.

- So, we've determined that this whisper

is definitely some sort of human-made sound

and it wasn't faked.

But whether or not it's an ancient curse

is yet to be determined, so our verdict:

The whisper is an unexplained phenomenon.

As for the team, they've continued to search the site

and have found evidence of limestone and pottery shards.

Could it be pyramids?

We'll let you know if they find anything.

Coming up, mankind has been to the moon.

But are these photos proof that someone else has too?

- [Ken] That is not a natural structure.

Some intelligent species created it.

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- NASA recently announced a major discovery:

They found water on the sunlit side of the moon.

But some people believe

they made other major discoveries there decades ago,

discoveries they chose to keep secret.

Take a look.

From 1969 to 1972, NASA's six Apollo moon landings

defined a golden age in space exploration.

The awesome imagery of those missions made history.

But some people believe that this image

reveals a secret history.

- In my opinion, that is not a natural structure.

It has got to be

some intelligent species that created it.

- [Tony] In the 1960s, Ken johnston was a NASA test pilot.

But later, as director of the data

and photo control department

at the Johnson space flight center,

he says on one of the moon missions

the astronauts came back with intriguing photographs.

- [Ken] I was in kinda shock.

And some of the craters would actually show domes

and actual bases.

- [Tony] Bases on the moon?

Ken's talking about these rounded dome-shaped objects

in the middle of one of the craters.

But what's even more shocking,

Ken says when he asked his boss about the photos,

he was told to stop asking.

- And we argued a little bit.

He finally said, "i don't care what you do,

"just get rid of those pictures that were taken."

- [Tony] Is it a cover-up?

One thing is certain: Ken's not the only person

to believe there's been alien activity on the moon.

Take a look at these photos.

Some believe this looks like vehicle tracks.

How did these things get there?

Journalist Alexis Brooks says

some believe they could be the work

of an ancient interstellar civilization

called the anunnaki.

- Their technology is said to be integral

in the structures that we're familiar with today,

like the pyramids.

So, the question becomes,

did this ancient race

lay footing, if you will, on the moon?

- The anunnaki first appeared in the ancient traditions

of the sumerians and the babylonians

over 3,000 years ago.

Do these images suggest they

or another civilization landed on the moon?

We asked astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy to check it out.

(Pensive music)

McCarthy starts by examining the photo of the alleged bases.

- Really does look like something artificial

at first glance.

- [Tony] McCarthy focuses not only on the structure,

but on the crater around it.

- When an impact happens, ejecta's flung everywhere.

Some of it is flung straight up and comes straight back down

and it creates these irregular piles

in the middle of the crater that you see here.

Frankly, if it wasn't there, that would be weird.

- [Tony] Next, Mars mission planner Jonathan hill

takes a look at those strange tracks.

Hill points out that boulders often leave similar tracks

when they roll across the surface,

but these tracks are perfectly parallel.

- [Jonathan] My first thought was the lunar rovers

driven by the Apollo astronauts.

- [Tony] Hill checks images from Apollo landing sites

and comes up empty.

- However, the United States was not the only country

that sent wheeled vehicles to the moon.

- [Tony] In fact, in 1970, the Soviet lunokhod 1

was the first remote-controlled rover

to land on an extraterrestrial body,

and the width of its known tracks

seem to match the mystery photo.

- They look very, very similar

to those two parallel line tracks we saw before,

but we still can't quite prove definitively

that that's what caused

these particular set of double tracks.

- Well, we don't have proof that the anunnaki

ever made it to the moon.

But we do know those moon bases aren't alien-made,

while the mysterious tracks look like human handiwork.

So, our verdict: The bases are natural formations

and the tracks likely from a lunar rover.

And here's hoping we get back to the moon soon

to make some more.

Coming up, a suburban housewife is startled

by an unexplained blue flash.

- [Woman] Oh!

What was that?

- What caused it and what did it do to her?

When "the proof is out there" continues.

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- We now head to the great state of Texas

for the story of an unexplained phenomenon

which occurred in, of all places, a suburban kitchen.

March 2017.

Erica garner is home alone in her house

just outside Houston.

Her husband has left for a business trip.

- I was outside, I was playing with my two dogs,

and I noticed something very strange on my rooftop.

There was black birds going in a circle.

I had never seen that before.

- [Tony] This feels like some sort of omen

as Erica goes back inside.

She's giving water to her dogs, when suddenly-

- [Erica] Oh!

- [Tony] Let's freeze on that

'cause if you blink, you'll miss it:

A strange blue light streaking through the room,

leaving Erica stunned and momentarily at a loss for words.

- It was almost like plasma.

Everything in the room turned completely white,

almost like an explosion, and my eyes started burning.

- [Tony] Even stranger, the flash only lasts a second,

though Erica says it felt much longer.

- [Erica] What was tht?

- It almost traveled like it was a train

coming across the room, slowly coming in for a stop,

and this happened for all of about seven seconds.

- [Tony] And that night, things get downright funky.

- I had trouble sleeping.

I was having some strange dreams,

and it definitely impacted me.

- [Tony] Erica's dreams of pink and purple galaxies

make her feel like she's been transported through time.

And she wonders if the blue flash

coulda been an extraterrestrial force.

- Into my research trying to figure out

what possibly a blue beam of light could come from,

people have said they've experienced alien abductions

and they might see a blue beam of light.

- [Tony] One similar case happened in 1975.

An Arizona logger named Travis walton disappeared

after walking toward an unidentified beam of light

in the forest.

He recalled being transported to a strange place

surrounded by alien beings.

And when he made it home,

he was shocked to learn he'd been gone for five days.

- There are definitely things in this world

that we do not understand.

- So, what is Erica's blue flash?

Well, we know it's not her security camera malfunctioning

because we can hear her reacting

in real time.

- [Erica] Oh!

- So, the first thing we did

was a proper analysis of the footage.

(Pensive music)

Photography expert Andrew McCarthy

starts by examining the footage frame by frame.

- So, right after this, the camera lost several frames.

You see a distinct jump.

Her hair moves, the dogs move; It's just a significant jump.

She said it was seven seconds.

I'm not sure if it was seven seconds,

but it was a long time,

long enough that they significantly shifted positions.

- [Tony] But McCarthy says there's something else

that's even stranger.

- What didn't make sense to me

is nothing here is casting a shadow.

It seems like the lights would be coming

behind the camera to cause this,

but you would see some kinda shadow cast

on the legs of these chairs, on the dogs.

You don't see any of that.

It's just bright, and it's uniformly bright.

- [Tony] Forensic investigator chase kloetzke

is curious if the flash could be something as simple

as a burnt-out light bulb,

so she asks the garners to run a test.

- Erica and her husband put this light bulb in

and they tapped it.

And if you tap it long enough, it burned out.

Once you compare when the light bulb blows out

and that reaction and you put it next to the blue flash,

they're not even close.

- [Tony] Okay, so if it wasn't a blown bulb,

was it possibly a strike of lightning from outside?

(Thunder rumbling)

Atmospheric scientist Deanna hence

reviews the local weather radar from that day.

- What you're seeing is that a round

of fairly intense thunderstorms

went through the Houston area,

but it was about one o'clock in the morning,

whereas this video was taken at 11:30 in the morning.

That really leaves me to think

that lightning is not responsible for that flash.

- [Tony] Some experts believe wormholes in the universe

create paths to move backwards in time

and through parallel universes.

Perhaps the blue flash was one such path.

- I stand more on the side of this being a time glitch.

It's an error in our time-space fabric.

- So, what is it?

The strange jump in the footage

does point to some kind of time glitch.

But whether it's caused by an alien force,

some wormhole, or something else is unclear.

So, for now, i'm prepared to call this

a genuine unexplained phenomenon.

And that's our show for tonight.

And we wanna know your thoughts and your suggestions

for what we should investigate next,

so drop us a line and let us know.

Thanks for watching, everyone.

I'm Tony Harris,

reminding you to keep those cameras rolling.

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