All language subtitles for The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd s03e01 Strange Sightings.eng

[mysterious music]

I bet you'd never expect
to see a malevolent clown

haunting a lonely highway.

- Some of the clowns
are holding weapons,

some of them are carrying bats.

- What the (bleep)?

- People are so freaked out
that they call the police.

[woman screaming]
- Lock the door!

- Or a hairy hominid strutting
by your train window.

- It's uncommon
in Bigfoot videos

to have multiple witnesses.

Typically, it's one person
alone in the wilderness.

This is not that.

- Suddenly, everyone is talking

about this modern
day Bigfoot sighting.

- How about a flaming
flash of light

that sparks an
out-of-this-world 911 call?

- This is Las Vegas.

Cops have responded
to all kinds of calls

and you would think they
would poo poo the situation,

but in fact, these cops
had their own encounter.

- [Officer] My partner
said they saw something

fall outta the sky, too.

- These are the
sightings so strange,

they are truly unbelievable.

[dramatic music]

With any strange sighting,

it's easy to dismiss a
single report as an anomaly,

but when there are
multiple eyewitnesses,

investigators have to
look beyond the obvious

and consider the unbelievable.

- It is spring of 1975,

and ranchers across Colorado

begin discovering dead
cows in their fields.

- These cows aren't just dead.

They're mutilated in
really bizarre ways.

Ears, eyes, udders, genitals
have all been removed

with surgical precision.

- Another weird aspect
of this phenomenon

is that these cows are
typically found lying

on their left side,
and there's no blood.

Now, we need to understand
that cows have five gallons

of blood in them.

To find a dead cow
that's been mutilated

with no blood anywhere,

well, that's weird.

- [Dan] Over the
next six months,

the body count
skyrockets to 200

and local ranchers want answers.

- Game and wildlife officials

are certain that it must
be the work of scavengers.

And yet, there
are no footprints.

There is no damage to the
surrounding vegetation.

- There is no claw marks or
teeth marks or any sort of sign

that something was
chewing on them.

So, with no answers in sight,

these ranchers call their US
congressman, Floyd Haskell,

and basically beg him
to bring in the FBI.

- [Dan] As similar
reports start pouring in

from 11 other states, the FBI
has no choice but to act.

- So, the FBI assigns about
100 agents to this problem

and they start
interviewing eyewitnesses.

A common theory that pops up

is that some sort
of Satanic cult

is running around the
country mutilating cows.

The FBI looks into it but
can't find any evidence.

And a big problem
with this theory is,

even Satanic cult members
will leave footprints.

- The feds perform
stakeouts, autopsies,

they look for witnesses.

They come up with nothing.

- [Dan] Meanwhile, local
investigators come up

with their own unusual theory.

- Independent researchers
plot out these strange deaths

on a map, and they
notice something bizarre.

Most of these deaths
cluster around a single line

of latitude known as
the North 37th Parallel,

which crosses Kansas, Arizona,

New Mexico, and Colorado.

- Looking at that
cow mutilation data,

one New Mexico deputy
sheriff, a guy by the name

of Chuck Zukowski, finds
something interesting.

The cow mutilations correlate
with known UFO sightings

that have occurred
during that time,

across this one
line of latitude.

- Also, there are an
awful lot of important

and sometimes secret government
and military facilities

all along that same line.

Fort Knox, Area 51,

Air Force bases, missile silos.

- The 37th Parallel correlations

start to engender speculation

that maybe the
cattle mutilations

and some of the related
events, like UFO sightings,

are signs of a
secret government op.

Maybe some strange
airborne weapon

is being tested on
the mutilated cows.

- This theory gets
so serious in fact

that the National Guard
orders their helicopter pilots

to fly above 2,000 feet

when they're flying
over cattle ranches

because of a legitimate fear

that ranchers will
start taking pot shots

at the US military helicopters
to protect their cattle.

[rifle booms]
[tense music]

- In the end,

after 50 years of
investigation of this mystery,

we still have no smoking
gun, or alien death ray.

What we have is
thousands of dead cows.

- Far from the 37th Parallel
and nearly 20 years later,

a group of school
children spot something

that will haunt
them for a lifetime.

- It's 1994 in Ruwa, Zimbabwe
at the Ariel School,

and it's a typical school scene.

Kids are running
around at recess.

The teachers are all
inside, enjoying a break.

All of a sudden, all
hell breaks loose.

The kids start pouring
into the building,

telling the teachers that they
saw something very strange.

- Some of the kids describe
having seen two lights

in the sky that are orange,

and these lights appear
to be getting closer

and then they're revealed as
having this disc-like shape.

- [Dan] Once these
strange crafts land,

the children get
an incredible look

at who, or what,
is driving them.

They're even able to sketch
the scene for their teachers.

- You can see in the drawings

that all of their descriptions
are incredibly similar.

Many of the children
report seeing the same,

shorter, humanoid creatures
walking around the craft.

- All the children
seem to draw, though,

one sort of consistent image

of these strange
people or figures.

They all have very large
eyes and very large heads.

- The eyes that a lot of the
kids put in these drawings

are very intense,

and that's not really
surprising at all,

because they describe
this experience

where if they make eye
contact with the beings,

those beings begin to

communicate with
them telepathically.

- [Dan] According
to the children,

the visitors share
an ominous warning;

that technology would
be man's downfall

and we need to act quickly
to save the planet.

- There's also a man
that reports seeing

two glowing lights in
the sky in the distance.

And the night before, there
is a trucker who reports

that he sees these two
strange beings in the road.

- This is a pretty big deal.

We're talking about a
large group of people

seeing the same thing
in broad daylight,

but nobody believes them.

- The teachers are
inside the classrooms.

They cannot corroborate
what the children saw.

Many of the parents have doubts.

This is devastating
to these kids

who say they clearly
saw something.

- [Dan] Soon, the sighting
gets the attention

of UFO researchers
around the globe,

eager to interview the
young eyewitnesses.

- [John] Could you tell
me what you saw on Friday?

- Well, it looked like
roundabout, like, like a disc.

- They had big, black eyes.

- There are two researchers
who come, Cynthia Hinds,

who's investigated other
sightings in the area,

and John Mack, a
psychiatrist from Harvard.

- [Dan] Both of
these researchers

interviewed the kids,

and they both walk
away believing

what the kids have to tell them,

but these interviews
aren't without controversy.

For starters, Hinds interviews
the children in small groups,

which might be a problem,

because you might have
cross-contamination

of the information that's
being given in the interviews.

- Of those who've
analyzed the testimony,

there seem to be two camps.

One say This is the
most compelling evidence

for alien visitation
ever, over 60 witnesses.

Others say this is the
most compelling case

of mass hysteria
they've ever seen.

- [Dan] Still,
three decades later,

the witnesses themselves
stand by their stories.

- And they still feel
stigmatized and criticized,

but in the midst of all that,

they're not backing
away from their story,

and that makes it
pretty compelling.

- Anybody who's ever tried
getting two kids to agree

on what movie to watch
knows that getting 60

to make up the same
story seems impossible.

- With each new
hurricane season,

meteorologists around the
globe spend billions of dollars

in high-tech radar
tracking equipment,

just to give up-to-date
information for evacuations.

But on one small island
off South Carolina,

the early warning
system is rather unusual,

and it dates back
some 200 years.

- Imagine it's a
beautiful summer day

on Pawley's Island,
South Carolina.

The sky is blue,
the sun is shining,

we're seaside with
the waves rolling,

but then news of a
hurricane arrives.

As night falls, neighbors
aren't sure whether to evacuate

or hunker down in their homes,

and then this strange
gray man appears.

- Residents repeatedly
describe witnessing

this gray apparitional
figure cloaked

in a large gray overcoat
moving along the coast.

- But the Gray
Man has a purpose.

The locals believe that
when the Gray Man shows up,

it's time to
evacuate the island.

And as the legend goes,

those who heed the
Gray Man's warnings,

they're gonna be okay and their
property is gonna be okay,

and those who ignore the Gray
Man do so at their own peril.

- [Dan] The origin of
this astonishing legend

is a little murky,

but it hasn't stopped residents

from speculating over the years.

- According to one story,
a sailor returns home

to find that his fiance
is cheating on him.

Distraught, he commits
suicide by throwing himself

into the Waccamaw River,

and the ghost of
the jilted sailor

now walks the shoreline in grief

just before a hurricane is
about to strike the island.

- Another theory is
that the Gray Man

is actually a man
named George Pawley.

He was the original owner of
Pawley's Island in the 1700s.

Some people believe that
he still roams the area,

trying to keep everybody safe.

- [Dan] By far, the
most popular tale

is one that dates back to 1822.

- A sailor returning home is
so eager to see his fiancee

that he drives his
speeding carriage

into a marsh where he drowns.

- His fiancee is so
overcome with grief

that she wanders
the shore aimlessly.

One day, a shadowy gray
figure approaches her

and she recognizes him
as her dead fiance.

She tries to engage
him in conversation,

but all he does is warn her
about a storm that's coming

and tell her to evacuate.

- After this strange
encounter with the Gray Man,

she goes and tells her family,
and they heed the warning.

They pack up and they
move to a property

that's much more inland.

The storm hits and the
entire area is destroyed,

except for their home.

As legend goes, it's because
she listens to the Gray Man.

- [Dan] No matter which
version you believe,

the Gray Man is a welcome sight.

- Very few of us
want to see a ghost,

but if the Gray
Man appears to you,

he has elected to save you,

so it could be considered
a lucky apparition.

- Running into mysterious
figures in the dark

isn't always a good thing.

Sometimes, it can cause
a nationwide panic.

August 2016, alarmed citizens
of Green Bay, Wisconsin

post pictures on social
media of a menacing figure

standing below a
highway overpass.

- The figure is this
very eerie clown

just walking with a
cluster of black balloons.

- People are so freaked out
that they call the police,

demanding that they do
something about it, arrest them.

The police are dismissive.

It's not illegal to stand
around, being a creepy clown.

- Weeks later, terrified
children in North Carolina

began reporting
their own sightings

of a creepy,
threatening-looking clown.

- They say that this clown

is trying to lure
them into the woods

with the promise of the things

that we've warned
children about.

"I will give you candy.
We will have so much fun.

Please come into
the woods with me."

- The story becomes a
sensation all over the country.

People start flooding
at news stations

and social media with
pictures and reports.

- What the (bleep)?

[screams]
Lock the door, (bleep)!

- Creepy clowns are showing
up on Ring cameras,

dash cams, iPhone cameras.

#CreepyClown is
trending at the top.

- [Dan] It's dubbed
the Great Clown Panic.

Stories of clowns
attacking people

and trying to abduct
children pop up everywhere,

from Florida to Pennsylvania,
Washington, and California.

- And soon, the images start
to get a little scarier.

Some of the clowns
are carrying bats,

some of them are
holding weapons.

This really gets people
riled up and terrified.

- By October, the panic
has jumped across the pond

to England and
European countries.

The Russian embassy in
London even issues a warning

to Russian citizens to beware
of these creepy clowns.

- [Dan] It gets bad enough
that vigilante groups

form clown patrols
across the US and Europe.

- [Mitch] When malevolent
clown reports start popping up

on the campus of Penn State,

students organize
into a flash mob

with the intent of hunting
down these threatening clowns.

The mob turns up nothing.

- This is also 2016.

It's an election year
and a contentious one.

So, this clown panic
starts to get occluded

by political news,
and eventually,

it just kind of is supplanted
completely and goes away.

- 911 operators never
know what kind of call

they're going to get, so they
try to prepare for anything.

But in 2023, one
dispatcher in Las Vegas

gets a call no one sees coming.

- In April 2023 in Las Vegas,
911 gets an emergency call

from this kid named
Angel Kenmore,

and he is freaked out of
his mind, utterly terrified.

- When Angel and his
family look outside,

they say they see
strange creatures

crawling over family
equipment in the backyard.

- [Mitch] When police arrive,

Angel's entire family is
assembled out on the front lawn.

- [Officer] Hey,
what's up? Who called?

- The family is freaked out.

They believe they've
seen something wild.

- [Officer] What'd you see?

- It was like a big creature.

- [Officer] A big creature?

- Yeah, like,
around 10-feet tall.

- This is Las Vegas.

Cops have responded
to all kinds of calls

throughout their careers,

and you would think these
cops are gonna kinda roll up

and they will poo
poo the situation,

take down the report,
and go on about it.

But in fact, these cops

are actually pretty ready to
talk to the Kenmore family,

because they have had
their own encounter.

- [Officer] Because I'm
not gonna BS you guys.

One of my partners
said they saw something

fall out of the sky too, so
that's why I'm kinda curious.

- [Officer] Oh.

- [Dan] Caught on tape,

their body cam records
a large fireball

screening down from the sky,

just as Angel describes
on his 911 call.

- A lot of people in
the Las Vegas area

saw this fireball
and reported it.

So, something happened

and nobody quite knows
what that something is.

- With all this speculation,

NASA does eventually
step into the fray

and they claim that
what the family

and the police officers
actually saw that night

was a small meteorite.

And they say that it
would've crashed in the ocean

hundreds of miles away.

What's odd though is
that a lot of the reports

from Las Vegas at the time
and the family in particular,

they claim that they
heard the object

hit the ground and
make an impact.

- So, if the object
fell into the ocean

hundreds of miles away,
how do you hear an impact?

- [Officer] I'm
kinda curious now.

I wanna know if there's aliens.

- The Vegas PD takes the
story seriously enough

to install a surveillance camera

on the roof of the family home.

However, it doesn't capture
footage of any intruders,

human or non-human.

- The Vegas event
is just the latest

in a long line of UFO
reports in the southwest.

The best known, of course
is the Roswell incident

that allegedly occurred
in early July, 1947.

But another strange sighting
just prior to Roswell

will coin a phrase now
famous around the world.

- It's June 1947,

and a commercial pilot named
Kenneth Arnold takes off

from the airport at
Chehalis, Washington

and he's flying to
Pendleton, Oregon

to participate in an air show.

- It's a beautiful day.

Skies are blue,
turbulence is clear,

and Arnold decides to
take a small detour.

He's recently heard that
a military transport

carrying 32 Marines has crashed.

He's hoping to find
the downed aircraft

to claim the $5,000 reward.

- Around 3:00 PM, as
Arnold is circling 20 miles

to the west of Mount Rainier,

a brief flash of light
catches his attention.

- [Dan] That single flash
quickly becomes nine objects

across the sky, flying
in a V formation.

It's something Arnold
has never seen before.

- The objects seem to flip,
bank, and weave side to side,

which Arnold describes as being

like the tail of a Chinese kite.

- [Dan] But what really
makes Arnold's heart pound

is their incredible speed.

- Arnold clocks these objects

as traveling at about
1,700 miles an hour.

I mean, no human
pilot has ever flown

at speeds anywhere near that.

This is just before Chuck
Jaeger breaks the sound barrier

and becomes the
fastest man alive

flying at 700 miles an hour.

- [Dan] Arnold immediately
reports his sighting

and it ignites a
media firestorm,

one that generates
an iconic phrase

that will be associated
with UFOs forever.

- Arnold tells a journalist
that the way the objects moved,

it looked like they were
saucers skipping on water.

Well, what happens next

is one of the greatest
misquotes in UFO history

and the term flying
saucer is born.

- Other corroborating
witnesses stepped forward,

including a prospector
on Mount Adams

who reports seeing the same
objects in the same formation

at the same time
as Ken's sighting.

- The Air Force
eventually gets involved

and begins to investigate
Arnold's claim.

- Kenneth Arnold
sticks to his guns.

He is an extremely
experienced pilot.

He's got 9,000 flying
hours under his belt.

He's adamant this was no mirage.

These were real, solid craft.

- They interview him as
well as the prospector,

and they do decide that,
yeah, these guys are credible,

but they're not willing
to go so far as to say

that what they
saw were aircraft.

The Air Force turns
around and says

what they actually
saw was a mirage.

- Even in the face
of government denial,

Ken sticks to his story
until his death in 1984.

- It's not clear what
Kenneth Arnold saw that day,

but what we do know is
that Arnold helped create

the stickiest catchphrase in
UFO history, "flying saucer,"

and we can't take that away.

- As somebody who's had his
own encounters with UAPs,

I'll just say, if you
see one, you'll know.

- Florida's I-4 Highway
has an infamous history.

It's been called the
deadliest highway in America,

and many locals blame the
road's scary reputation

on a long history of
peculiar sightings.

- There is a quarter
mile sliver of highway

that connects Tampa to Daytona
above the St. John's River,

and residents refer to
it as the Dead Zone.

- People have reported some
sort of odd energy vortex

that's able to disconnect
electronic devices,

radios, phones,
computers, tablets.

Everything just
starts shutting down.

But that's not the
strangest thing

that happens on this highway.

- [Dan] There's also the full-on
vivid ghostly apparitions

people see while
driving at night.

- People describe strange
orbs floating beside vehicles,

ghostly horses running
across the road,

and a strange woman
leaping into the road.

- [Dan] According to locals,

there may be a historical reason

that has to do with the
site the road was built on.

- Back in the 1870s,

a man named Henry
Sanford owns this land

and he sells it to a
group of German immigrants

who are trying to
set up a colony.

There is a particularly bad
outbreak of yellow fever

that nearly wipes the
entire colony out.

They bury the dead and move on.

And then that land just
changes hands a number of times

until it becomes part
of the city of Sanford.

- [Dan] From that point on,

anytime the grounds
are disturbed,

misfortune seems to follow.

- In the early 20th century,

a farmer removes some
of the grave markers.

And shortly after,
his house burns down.

- Decades later,
there is a child

who is digging near
this burial site

[car horn honks]

and that kid gets hit by a car.

These stories are all
part of the local lore,

and so this area gets the
nickname the Land of the Dead.

- By the 1960s, the state
of Florida acquires the land

for the building
of this highway.

The state promises to
relocate the buried bodies,

but instead, just removes
most of the headstones,

and construction begins.

- [Dan] From the day
it opens in 1965,

Florida's I-4 starts racking
up a disturbing death toll.

- On opening day, in fact,

a tractor trailer jack-knives
just above the graves,

resulting in fatalities.

Between 2011 and 2015,

165 people are killed on
this little stretch of road,

earning it yet another nickname,

America's Deadliest Highway.

- It really is
incredibly dangerous,

but people aren't sure.

Is this some sort
of engineering issue

or is there something
supernatural at play?

- So, the bottom line is,

a lot of locals advise building
this into your travel plans

and suggest that you
try the scenic route.

- The strange
sightings along I-4

could inspire a
Hollywood horror movie,

but they haven't yet.

Unlike the bizarre events at
one California seaside town

that send a famous
Hollywood director

running for his typewriter.

- It's the early
1960s in Capitola,

a small beach town just south
of Santa Cruz, California.

Hippies, surfers,
families having fun.

It's a nice, quiet seaside life.

- [Dan] But this
picturesque beach town

is about to become
a living nightmare.

[birds squawks]

- The residents of
Capitola wake up

on the morning of
April 18th, 1961,

to a flock of birds
terrorizing the town.

- Residents are coming out
of their houses, looking up,

and noticing the sky has
darkened from all of these birds

that are just dive-bombing
missiles with beaks.

- They're attacking
people and pets

and they're dive-bombing houses.

They're wreaking havoc.

- To be clear, this
isn't some new migration

of psychotic birds that
have just flown into town.

These are the seaside birds

that beach-goers have
been feeding crackers to

for years now.

The only difference is,
they're now out for blood.

- Even worse, these
birds are also vomiting

all over Capitola, and
what are they vomiting?

They're vomiting up anchovies.

It's fish vomit.

It's not a good sight.

It's definitely
not a good smell.

- [Dan] What is
causing these birds

to lose their minds and
attack their human neighbors?

The answer might be
in that fishy vomit.

- The seagulls are
feeding on the anchovies,

and the anchovies are
feeding on the algae.

There's been an overgrowth
of algae in that area,

so the main theory
biologists believe is

that the algae might contain
some kind of neurotoxin

and that neurotoxin might be
affecting the seagulls' brains.

- [Dan] Was it a toxin
or something more?

The uncertainty leaves
one chilling possibility.

- Even today, we don't
actually know what happened

to these birds, which means
it could possibly happen again

and it could be something more
menacing than just a seagull.

Reports of the carnage, it
it reads like a horror movie,

and in fact, Hitchcock
himself visits the town

to get some inspiration
while writing "The Birds".

- What a terrifying story of art

imitating even more
terrifying life.

- Since the ancient
Greeks and Romans,

soldiers have returned
from war with tales

of strange creatures
encountered in battle.

But one group of American
Marines would insist

that whatever attacked
them in the Vietnam jungle

was no myth,

and they have the
scars to prove it.

- It's early 1966,

and the captain of a company
of Marines receives intel

of some strange movements
happening in the jungle.

He radios his troops to
observe but not fire.

He doesn't want to give
away his troops' position.

He thinks it could
potentially be the Viet Cong

gearing up for a
surprise attack.

- The captain then receives
this puzzling report

where the men say,

"Nevermind, we've
got a number of apes

that are in front
of our position."

This strikes them as
an unusual development,

because there are no
large apes in Vietnam,

they're not native there.

And for there to then
be a group of them

directly in front of
this marine position

is especially curious.

- So, the Marines
inform their captain

that these apes are
getting quite close.

Being a good officer,

the captain comes up with
a sort of obvious solution.

Just throw some
rocks at the apes.

Scare 'em off and
they'll go away.

Very clearly stating
though, don't open fire.

- These Marines follow orders.

They throw rocks,

and the next noises that
come out over the radio

are all sorts of
chaos and commotion.

[intense music]

There is gunfire,
there is screaming,

there is yelling, there's
all of this ruckus,

and then the radio
just goes silent.

- Frantic, the captain sends
out a recon squad of marines

to find out what
the hell happened,

and what they find
is pure carnage.

- You've got marines on the
ground that are banged up.

Some of them have
cracked skulls,

some of them are unconscious.

And they ask them,
"What happened?"

- Everyone reports
basically the same thing,

that is they were attacked
by a group of six-foot tall

orange-haired apes that had
really good throwing arms,

and some of the men had

to engage them in
hand-to-hand combat.

- [Dan] After the skirmish,

no bodies of Vietnamese
jungle apes are recovered,

but this won't be
the only sighting.

- In 1968, there's an
incident also near Da Nang

where marines from Mike
Company of the Third Battalion

5th Marines encounter a
group of stone-throwing apes

occupying high ground
above their positions.

They open fire,

but the bodies of none of these
apes can be found afterward.

There's just the personal
accounts of the Marines

who eye-witnessed the incident.

- [Dan] The reports
become common enough

that the stone-hurling primates

earn themselves a
nickname, Rock Apes.

- It's not just the Americans

that are having
these experiences.

We have reports that
the Vietnamese also

were having similar encounters
with these massive apes.

They referred to them as
batutut, or jungle people,

but the description is the same.

Very tall, reddish,
brownish fur, aggressive.

And there's some speculation

that these were
maybe orangutans,

but the problem is that
orangutans haven't lived

in Vietnam for 1,000 years.

- So, you've got all
of these soldiers

talking about these
mysterious sightings

of these rock-throwing apes,

and yet none of them are able
to kill any of these apes.

No body is ever recovered.

So, what is left in
terms of an explanation?

- What we end up with is
sort of the Vietnam version

of the Yeti.

What makes it all the
more puzzling is the fact

that there are so many people
that have similar encounters

during a compressed
period of time.

So, it's definitely a part
of at least the folklore

of the Vietnam experience.

Who knows? It might
even be real.

- Like the jungle,

the ocean has also been home
to some unusual encounters.

May 2024, Strait of Gibraltar,

the 50-foot sailing
yacht Alberon Cognac

is calmly making way.

Out of nowhere, a pod
of aggressive orcas

bears down on the boat's rudder,

grabbing it in
their massive jaws

and tearing at it, deliberately.

- Hey, hey!

Get off the boat!

- The terrified crew is
powerless to fend them off

and then suddenly,
the rudder breaks off,

leaving the ship
absolutely adrift.

And believe it or not,
it actually gets worse.

- Ripping off the rudder has
opened a hole in the boat

and the boat is now
rapidly taking on water.

The captain issues
a mayday signal,

"The boat is sinking!"

- [Dan] Unbelievably, this
is far from the first attack

by a gang of angry orcas.

- These attacks have happened

to more than 500 captains
in the last four years,

and the attacks have
continued to grow,

from the Mediterranean all
the way into the North Sea.

- When the orcas
start attacking,

both captains and marine
biologists are puzzled.

They've never seen a
behavior like this before.

- [Dan] As scientists
scramble for answers,

one orca might hold
the key, White Gladys.

She can be spotted by the
propeller scars across her back.

- White Gladys was
the first whale

known to attack a sailboat.

She was pregnant
about that same time.

So, could it be that she was
trying to protect her child?

- What's truly remarkable

is that she's now passed this
knowledge onto other pods.

And it's now becoming
whale culture

spreading throughout
other pods of whales

in a way that scientists
really can't comprehend.

[witnesses shouting]

- [Dan] The Atlantic
Orca Working Group

has reported an almost 300% rise

in attacks from 2020 to 2023.

More shocking, however,
is the public's reaction.

- As the stories
have become viral,

people start rooting
for the whales.

Now, there are orca memes
applauding the orcas, saying,

"Eat the rich."

Literally.

- I won't say I'm
rooting for the orcas,

but I can admit to
feeling a bit conflicted.

- When you go on vacation,

you can only hope
you'll spot something

really worth photographing,

maybe some beautiful
architecture,

or stunning scenery.

What you don't expect to see

is a baffling creature
one man captures on film.

- It is October of 2023,

and passengers on the
narrow-gauge train

from Durango to
Silverton are gazing out

at the beautiful, unspoiled
mountain wilderness

outside the window.

This is an old-time,
steam-powered railroad

that is intended to
recreate the experience

of traveling in 1822.

[train horn blaring]

- One passenger, who only
identifies himself as Brandon,

is sitting on the train,
looking out the window,

hoping to spot some deer
or some other wildlife,

or just take in the
beauty of nature.

But then he sees
something pretty strange,

so he whips out his smartphone.

- [Dan] What he
captures is no deer.

It appears to be a large,
hairy, bipedal creature

crossing through rough mountain
terrain in long strides.

- [Brandon] An elusive creature.

- Brandon shares his
footage with another couple

that's on the train with him.

They are seeing the
exact same thing

and they post it
to social media,

and then it takes on
a life of its own.

Suddenly, everyone is talking

about this modern
day Bigfoot sighting.

- [Dan] Within 48 hours, it's
got tens of millions of views.

- A debate begins to form,

and some people are saying
that this is a hoax,

while others are saying

this is an authentic
video of a bigfoot.

- Now, most Bigfoot
footage, where it exists,

is shot by self-proclaimed
enthusiasts,

which makes the public
naturally skeptical.

In this case, based
on what we know,

Brandon wasn't looking for
Bigfoot or anything unexpected,

he just captured it.

- Another thing that makes
this video interesting

is that there's a lot
of people on the train

seeing the exact same thing.

- [Brandon] It
just squatted down.

- It's uncommon
in Bigfoot videos

to have multiple witnesses.

Typically, it's one person
alone in the wilderness.

This is not that.

There's a lot of people

and they're all seeing
this strange thing

walking on this mountain range.

- [Dan] It also might not
be as random as it seems.

Turns out this isn't
the first alleged

Bigfoot sighting in the area.

- In August of 2000,

a woman in the nearby
San Juan mountains

reports an encounter with
two Bigfoot-like figures,

and she describes them as having

the lighter,
chestnut-colored hair

that you see in Brandon's video.

- [Dan] Some skeptics
claim the sighting

is a marketing ploy
by a local business

and the company owners
won't confirm or deny it.

As for the cameraman,

he wants people to reach
their own conclusions.

You don't have to be in the
remote American wilderness

to spot something
strange on vacation.

If you happen to be a
castle-hopping tourist

on the West English coast,

you might just stumble on
a truly unbelievable site.

- As Americans, we tend
to think of Britain

as incredibly charming.

Lovely countrysides,
rolling farm hills,

castles, the monarchy.

It's all about class.

- [Dan] The historic
town of Egremont

has some of those
stately trappings,

but what it's
actually famous for

is a sight for sore eyes.

- For about eight centuries,

Egremont has hosted
the town Crab Fair.

It's sort of a reverse
beauty contest.

The winner is those who
can contort their face

into the weirdest,
most perverse visage

and hold it for as
long as possible.

- And there's a name for
this type of contest,

it's called gurning.

And it's actually a
professional competition.

[crowd cheering]

- One by one, contestants
take to the stage

and they put their heads
through a horse collar,

and they march the
stage up and down,

trying to win the crowd over
with the strangest contortions.

- These gurners are
judged on three criteria:

how much they can
change their face,

how long they can
hold that pose,

and just how ugly that face is.

Most beauty contests
really value

a lovely set of white teeth,

but having no teeth is actually
an advantage in gurning,

because when you have only gums,

you can collapse your
completely into its mouth,

which ends up being
the showstopper.

- This is a big deal,

considering that you've
got Hall of Famers

that just reside in
the annals of history,

the 10-time male
winner, Tommy Mattinson.

You've got the
24-time female winner,

the late great Anne Woods,
may she rest in peace,

master of the perfect pout.

- Sure enough, it's
a strange sight

for the rest of the world,

but who are we to argue with
centuries of British tradition?

- Looks like the British custom
of keeping a stiff upper lip

goes out the window here.

From creepy clowns
to murderous gulls,

ghostly highways
to alien invasions,

these are the
sightings so strange,

they are truly unbelievable.

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