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

Is this proof of a Malaysian toilet monster?

Is this proof ufos are stalking

the international space station?

And is this proof of an incredible near catastrophe?

- [Man] Dude, did you see that?

(Plane engines roaring)

Dude.

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Around the globe are videos-

- [woman] What the heck is this?

- [Tony] Photos and sounds that defy explanation.

(Loud deep hummimg)

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

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

- [Tony] What are they?

- [Man 3] 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 growling)

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.

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- Hello, and welcome to, "the proof is out there."

Imagine lifting a toilet lid to find a mysterious creature

crawling out of the bowl.

Maybe you think that's funny.

Maybe you think it's scary.

But do you think it could really happen?

Well watch this.

In October 2017, a man is about to step into

his sister's bathroom in alor setar, Malaysia

when he notices something crawling out of the toilet.

The 28-year-old immediately rushes out to tell his sister,

who whips out her camera and captures this video.

(Speaking malay)

- [Tony] The footage shows a strange slithering creature

emerging from the bathroom

with its head poking out of the door.

It surveys its surroundings before finally crawling out

onto the tiled floor.

Let's take another look.

The creature appears to be about six feet long

with a small head, thick body, and a short tail.

Field researcher Ken gerhard has studied river monsters,

lake monsters, and now sewer monsters.

- It's large, it's slimy and black.

It's crawling out of a toilet.

That's about as bad as it gets.

People don't generally spend a lot of time,

if any time, in a sewer.

So we really don't have any idea of what types

of creepy crawlies might be down there.

- [Tony] Gerhard says the most persistent urban legend

involves the sewers of the big apple.

- There are accounts and rumors going back to the 1930s

that describe sizable alligators

actually living and breeding in the New York sewer system.

There is one theory that perhaps these were pets

that were somehow discarded and flushed down the toilet

when they were small and then grew

to massive sizes in the sewer.

- [Tony] Of course, not all sewer animals are monsters.

Sometimes animals just get stuck in the sewers,

trapped by size or circumstance.

And everything from giant rats, feral cats, even cows

have been found in sewer systems around the world.

And marine biologist Dr. Shea conger

says in Southeast Asia giant snakes turn up down there too.

- It's a really tropical forested environment.

In fact, it's been known that there have been

snakes that have emerged from toilets or plumbing.

- In fact, in 2019 this 14-foot cobra

was found in a sewer in Thailand.

Sewer creatures have been making headlines for decades,

but it is rare to encounter

anything this big and this disturbing.

So could this be a giant snake?

Or maybe just some form of camera trickery?

Let's go to our video expert.

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- This recording has been compressed pretty heavily.

So in layman's terms, it's too blurry to see anything,

to be able to identify exactly what we're seeing.

However, in terms of authenticity

of the way that the recording is playing

and the way that the camera operator

is capturing this object, I don't see anything to suggest

it's been cgied or photoshopped.

- [Tony] So if the video is real, is this thing a snake?

Dr. Conger says we need to consider

other slimy creatures known to slither

across this part of the world.

- Malaysia is home to amphibians that we call caecilians.

And these are salamander-like animals

that don't have limbs or any external appendages,

so they look a bit like giant worms.

These animals can actually get five to six feet long.

But what you have in essence is an animal

that's only a few inches in diameter.

And so my idea that this could be

some sort of caecilian goes out the window.

- [Tony] Conger has another thought that's even grosser.

- Malaysia is pretty well known for its leeches,

which are blood sucking invertebrates.

But if this were a leech,

it would have to be 30 or 40 times bigger

than a known species of leach,

which I think is really unlikely.

- [Tony] Professor Floyd Hayes, who has been fascinated

with snakes since childhood, is pretty sure

he knows what we're looking at.

And it's not some sort of mythical serpent.

- There are quite a few different

species of snakes in Malaysia.

This one appears to be very thick bodied,

and there's not that many species

that would look like this.

It looks a lot like a elephant trunk snake.

- Hayes says that the baggy skin,

which gives the impression that it's too big for the animal,

is the telltale sign.

So our verdict?

Based on its known habitat and size,

we think the sewer monster is an elephant trunk snake.

And while they usually make their homes

near rivers and lagoons, this one chose a toilet instead.

No accounting for taste.

- Tune your shortwave radio dial to 4625 kilohertz

and you'll hear an eerie repetitive noise.

This mysterious station goes by the call sign uvb-76.

But to its devoted listeners it's known as the buzzer.

An enigmatic radio broadcast that no one claims to run

has been transmitting a monotonous droning sound

like this one virtually nonstop for over five decades.

(Intermittent radio buzzing)

The buzzing is occasionally interrupted

by a voice speaking Russian.

(Speaking in Russian)

Ryan schaum, an amateur radio enthusiast,

runs one of many websites devoted to the phenomenon.

- What originally got me into the buzzer

was the mystery of it, like who's broadcasting this,

why they are, and what possible purpose could it have.

I did kind of get hooked to it.

So I just keep on searching for more information about it,

hoping to find some sort of rational explanation.

- [Tony] Investigator chase kloetzke

says thousands of dedicated enthusiasts like Ryan

are heating up the Internet with talk

that the buzzer's origin is the former Soviet union.

- They trace it back basically to Russia.

Could be anything from a communication device

to speak to submarines or a coded way

to speak to spies, their military.

- [Tony] There is another theory that the buzzer

is part of a nuclear-deterrent system,

a so-called dead hand station.

- The theory behind the dead man switch

is that if Russia is attacked and decimated,

the buzzer stops and then nuclear weapons

are automatically deployed in retaliation to the west.

(Bomb exploding)

- The nuclear dead hand system

is part of a longstanding policy

called mutual assured destruction, or mad.

If all sides know nuclear war is unwinnable,

no one will start one.

But is the buzzer really a part of that,

or does it have another disturbing purpose?

Let's ask the experts.

We turn to our military expert, Tim mcmillan.

He studied the history of the buzzer

and he's skeptical it has anything to do with nukes.

- In 2010, the signal ceased.

Very fortunately we didn't see the launch of any missiles.

We didn't see apocalypse.

And so that would suggest that it's probably

not linked to some type of nuclear detonation device.

- [Tony] So what about the submarine signaling theory?

- When I first heard about this buzzer,

I thought it must be a way to communicate

with submarines deep in the oceans.

But that requires very low frequency transmission.

- [Tony] Elf, or extremely low frequency waves,

can penetrate seawater hundreds of meters deep.

At these frequencies the signal doesn't degrade much

due to atmospheric conditions

or the depth of the ocean.

But kaku says the buzzer works

at a much higher frequency.

So he thinks it's being used to communicate

with people on land, but at a great distance.

- You may say to yourself, well,

why don't the Russians simply use the Internet?

Well, the problem with that is security.

And so you want to use over the horizon radio

for certain kinds of sensitive communication.

- Shortwave radio is phenomenally good

at sending messages past the line of sight

because these messages

actually bounce off the ionosphere

and then come back down to earth.

So you can shoot messages across entire continents.

These regular intervals of noise-

(radio buzzing)

They're basically saturating this shortwave radio channel

so other people can hop on the station and compete with you.

- [Tony] But why do that?

Dr. Gottesman says that by claiming the frequency,

Russia can use it at any time as a so-called numbers station

to send secret messages,

often hidden in a group of numbers

as they are read out loud.

(Speaking in Russian)

And mcmillan agrees.

- It's fairly unsophisticated, but a brilliant way

to communicate with your deep cover spies,

who may be all the way across the world.

- [Tony] Other countries, including the us,

have allegedly used

so-called numbers stations for espionage.

And if it's an old school form of spycraft,

mcmillan says it's still useful.

- The idea of continuing to use it today, why not?

It makes your adversaries have to listen in

and makes them try to crack a code

that maybe you're not even using anymore.

But it could be something else

that we haven't even considered.

It's an unknown.

Who knows, if nothing else, it's a mystery.

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- So our verdict is mixed.

We're pretty sure it's a Russian numbers station,

but we don't know exactly what sort of messages

it's sending, if it's currently in use, or if it's a ruse,

or if it's just a placeholder for the frequency.

So for now, we're just going to have to keep listening

with anticipation for the next big clue.

- The international space station, or iss,

is a modern marvel of engineering

and global cooperation.

As astronauts from a host of nations

advance mankind's research in space,

some eagle-eyed earthbound viewers

believe they've spotted aliens studying us.

(Slow dramatic music) March of 2017,

the international space station,

250 miles above the earth's surface.

Two astronauts are on a routine spacewalk

to perform maintenance.

NASA flight engineer, Peggy whitson films their mission,

and in the process captures something out of this world.

A strange object seems to be following.

Look closer.

It appears to be spinning slowly as if to get a better view.

It's visible in the background

for almost the entire seven-hour spacewalk.

Social media blows up.

Many speculate that this is proof

of a ufo monitoring the iss.

Author and editor Brad Olsen

thinks there's an entire et surveillance network.

Some believe the centerpiece is a mysterious satellite

called the black knight

that avoids detection through a cloaking device.

- The black knight satellite flies a very peculiar rotation

around the earth from pole to pole.

So as the earth spins in that direction,

eventually every continent will come underneath

where this black knight satellite flies.

- [Tony] In 1899, famed inventor Nikola Tesla

received a radio transmission that some believe

was from the black knight.

And photos of a strange object,

like this one taken from the iss,

add to the speculation that an alien satellite

is orbiting earth.

But if there are aliens spying on us,

no one knows exactly what they'd hoped to learn.

- What they're using it for, to monitor the earth,

is truly one of the greatest mysteries of our planet.

- Now, other footage from the iss has reinforced the idea

that strange things are happening up in orbit.

Check this picture out.

It's from 2015, when a British astronaut

saw three lights moving in formation near the iss.

Now the image is tough to see, but let's zoom in

and I will point out what we're talking about.

It's right here, here,

and again, right here.

Strange, right?

But before we sound the alarm,

let's analyze these images with our experts.

(Slow dramatic music)

Marc d'Antonio studies the space walk footage

to see if the object could be some kind of satellite.

- It actually falls into shadow of the space station

a few points in the video.

That is something that tells me that

it's actually fairly small

and fairly close to the space station.

- [Tony] So maybe it's one of the 130 million pieces

of space junk circling the earth.

The iss sometimes has to maneuver out of the way

to avoid being hit by that stuff.

- If it was space junk, you would kind of expect it

to be moving across the surface of the earth

in a different direction.

But because they're moving at the same speed through space,

it kind of looks like it's something that's paralleling

the motion of the international space station.

- [Tony] Mick west dismisses the black knight

spy satellite theory for the same reason.

It would follow a completely different orbit from the iss.

And after doing some investigating,

d'Antonio thinks this ufo is from the iss itself.

- [Marc] This particular object was a shield

that was supposed to be installed,

and they dropped it by accident.

- The shield is made of two-inch thick fabric

that's meant to protect the iss

from strikes from space junk.

As for those three streaks of light,

d'Antonio researches that particular iss mission

and notes there was an interesting problem.

- There was a leak of a liquid from the Russian sector

of the international space station.

In the final analysis it turns out that this

is almost definitely just urine that leaked out

of the Russian sector of the international space station.

- Our verdict?

The ufos were really a fly-away shield

and some Russian urine.

Yeah, I said it.

But the space junk problem, that's real.

In fact, NASA is worried about something

called the Kessler syndrome

where so many objects will be in orbit

that a collision could cause a whole cascade of smash-ups,

producing so much clutter

it would make future launches impossible.

Finally tonight, remember the famous words

of honest Abe Lincoln.

There's a lot of fake stuff on the Internet.

Okay, I made that up.

But the story behind this next video is true, honest.

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It's September of 2018 and residents of Southeast Asia

are bracing for a mega storm, a super typhoon.

Winds up to 180 miles per hour blast through the region

as social media is flooded with images of the damage.

One video said to be from the shenzhen province of China

is particularly alarming.

Watch as this commercial airliner attempts to land

as it fights extremely heavy crosswinds.

It seems to almost tip over.

Then it does a complete flip.

(Plane engines roaring)

- [Man] Dude, did you see that?

- [Tony] But just as it seems like it may crash,

the pilot appears to regain control.

The footage quickly goes viral

as it triggers many people's worst fears of flying.

But watch again.

A number of things seem off about this footage,

not least of which are the supposed typhoon conditions.

- Certainly the winds are strong,

but it doesn't look like there's any rain

or even a ton of cloud cover.

- [Tony] Planes land in tough crosswinds all the time.

What you're seeing here are all verified incidents.

- The most dangerous part of flying a plane

is takeoff and landing.

That's when you're going to encounter things

like crosswinds or wind shears

that can really affect how you come in or how you take off.

But I've never seen a passenger plane

do a full barrel roll like this.

- Oh wow.

I don't know about you,

but I could watch this video over and over again.

It's that wild.

But many people online thought it was real.

So we decided to track down the original source

of this footage to get the real story.

(Slow dramatic music)

The creator of this clip is meni tsirbas,

a filmmaker in Los Angeles.

- So this video was 100% cgi.

A cg plane, fence, sky, everything.

- [Tony] But here's the thing,

meni never claimed the video was real.

That was someone else.

- Somebody stole my footage.

When the video went viral,

it wasn't through my YouTube channel.

It was through somebody else's Facebook post.

And I only learned about it after it got millions of views.

- [Tony] So clearly many people were duped.

But still, could an airliner flip like this in real life?

- Commercial planes, they're not designed to do barrel rolls

and things that you might see from military jets.

As the plane goes through these rolls,

it appears to successfully recover off camera.

That really wouldn't be consistent with what

we would see in a commercial plane.

You're going to lose any propulsion

that you have at this point,

because you have a catastrophic shift in this plane

that is designed not to do this.

- [Tony] Just to be certain, we asked physicist

hakeem oluseyi if any kind of weather system

could cause a plane to flip like in this video.

- A plane maintains its lift via the headwind, right?

It's the relative speed of the plane going into the wind.

And if there is a crosswind,

then that will be perpendicular to the headwind.

So it would act independently.

So it could shift the plane side to side

independently of the forward, back motion.

But now there's also a twist.

There's also a rotational motion,

which is also independent.

So that's why the ideal wind to create something like this

is a fast headwind with a tornado

going around it in this way.

- That kind of wind would leave a trail of destruction.

But look, in the video the fence and tower

are intact and undisturbed.

(Slow dramatic music)

So our verdict?

There's no question, this is a hoax.

Meni told us he still has no idea

who passed off his cgi project as real, or why.

But you can be sure that when we see stuff like this,

we'll be sure to call it out.

And that's our show for tonight.

We appreciate you watching.

And as always, please keep those cameras rolling.

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