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Tonight on "the mproof is out there,".

A bigfoot sighting, with footprints,

out of north Carolina.

- I think they're beautiful evidence

that what he experienced that day was real.

A woman escapes from a submerged car

without opening any windows or doors.

- At this point, I'm still mystified by the whole thing.

And a man dodges rush hour traffic

with super human reflexes.

- My mouth was like, hanging open.

What is this guy doing?

Around the globe are videos,

What the heck is this?

Photos and sounds that defy explanation.

Is it some kind of unidentified object?

A plane that was literally frozen in the air.

What are they?

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.

We'll analyze each one with top experts.

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

And a pass a verdict on what it is.

- This video was clearly faked.

- The proof starts now.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to "the proof is out there."

Each year there are hundreds of bigfoot sightings

across the country.

Some people devote their lives

to the pursuit of the creature.

While there's no conclusive proof bigfoot exists,

when some new evidence pops up

you can bet we're gonna check it out.

Hickory, north Carolina, August 2019.

Doug teague is walking his dog crazy Daisy

in the woods near his home

when he has an encounter worth recording.

It's moving.

It's moving, it's moving, it's moving.

Daisy, come here, Daisy, come here.

The object was very black

with a pretty silver sheen to it.

Doug, a bigfoot enthusiast,

says the creature resembled an eight foot gorilla.

Good question.

The video is inconclusive.

Let's get a closer look.

It's not easy to see, but we can trace the outline

of something sitting there through the trees.

But Doug said the creature was doing much more

before he started recording.

- I heard a couple knocks,

just put it off as a woodpecker.

Didn't think much about it.

And then a rock was threw that rolled down the hill.

And to the right there was loud grunts,

numerous loud grunts.

Tales of large ape-like creatures

lurking in the forest of western north Carolina

are as common as the region's yellow poplars.

- Sighting reports there go back into the 1800s and before.

- In 1979 a bigfoot type creature known as knobby

was reported multiple times

only 40 miles away from this particular location.

And Doug says he has something else,

video and casts of footprints

he made at the time of the encounter.

- Casts are kind of my thing.

So I was excited to get in deep with this.

Cliff barackman, who runs

the north American bigfoot center,

compares Doug's print casts

with another he considers credible.

- Look at this cast, look at this cast.

We have the toes across the front,

what looks like an instep or an arch,

and then a one, two, three, four, five.

You have a divergent little toe right here,

which I really like, that comes down.

I would, I think it's safe to say

that's a very strong resemblance between the two.

- So Doug's video is kind of vague,

but the footprints look like powerful evidence, right?

Well not so fast.

There's a storied history of hoaxers

who've made bigfoot prints

just to toy with the believers.

So let's take the video to our experts,

starting with anthropologist Kathy strain.

- So this is one of the casts that he has

and it is extremely believable.

The toes are all fairly even at the top.

Strain says Doug's cast

fit the profile of a giant hominid

that might live in the woods.

- Those are clearly footprints.

They clearly look to be 15 or so inches long.

I can see the toes clearly.

I can see the heel clearly.

I think they're beautiful evidence

that what he experienced that day was real.

But when we take the prints

to wildlife biologist Lucy eckersley,

she's less interested in their size

than the distance between them.

- They're actually up to six feet apart.

And when you think about that

in comparison to the size of the animal that creates them,

the animal would have to be around 15 foot tall

to have a gate that long.

Eckersley says you can't tell

the size of the creature in the video.

So maybe it is that big.

But she pointed out something curious.

Listen.

There's something we're not hearing.

- If this was a bigfoot

I would actually expect the dog who was with Doug

to be really, really anxious.

Dogs have an extraordinary sense of smell.

So if this was something brand new,

maybe something like a sasquatch

that had a totally different smell to a human,

the dog would probably not be keeping quiet.

So if it's not a bigfoot, what is it?

Could it be a bear?

Maybe.

But remember Doug said it threw rocks.

Bears don't do that.

- They can grasp things between the paws,

but they can't necessarily throw them.

Eckersley proposes another theory.

- From what I can see the animal is hunched over

and appears to have fur covering its entire body.

So it could be something like a silver back gorilla

that sits in that posture.

But hold up.

Gorillas are not known to hang out in north Carolina,

which raises another possibility.

- It could be a human who is wearing some kind of suit

to make it appear like they are covered in fur.

All things considered,

I really don't know what this animal is.

- I agree.

The footprints and casts are fascinating

but not conclusive.

And the video is a bit of a wash.

We just can't see the figure clearly enough.

Our best guess, man in a suit.

But we can't completely say

it's not the bigfoot Doug said it was.

He's convinced.

Coming up, how did this woman escape her submerged SUV

without opening any windows or doors?

- There is not a clear explanation, naturally speaking,

of how that person was saved from the vehicle.

- Do you believe in miracles?

Maybe it's time to start,

when "the proof is out there" continues.

- Flash floods can happen within minutes.

They lead to about 100 deaths in the us each year.

And anyone who gets caught in one

should only hope that the situation resolves itself

as miraculously as what you're about to see.

Pueblo, Colorado.

Physician Dr. Rocky khosla and his family

are on their way to dinner

when they hit a bad rainstorm.

As they seek shelter

they notice another car is being submerged

by the water rapidly rising on the low lying road.

Watch what happens next.

- And I look, this car took off and started floating away,

way faster than I expected.

By chance a news crew was passing by.

They rolled cameras.

Dr. Khosla and others jump into action

and try to free 35 year old charlene herrera

from the 10 foot deep torrent.

- I just saw a piece of wood floating.

And so I grabbed it and I just started swimming out.

The car is nearly submerged.

The situation looks hopeless.

- And I was really hammering away with this piece of wood

and making absolutely no progress.

Then it happens.

Watch.

Another rescuer reaches into the water

and somehow he's able to grab charlene's arm.

- Next thing I know this person

is popping out of there like a champagne cork.

Charlene is pulled to safety.

It's a feel good rescue story,

but here's the amazing thing,

when the car is later recovered,

all of the doors and windows are closed and intact.

- At this point, I'm still mystified by the whole thing.

She'd obviously been through a near death experience,

but she was alive.

You know, it was just incredible.

- We tried to contact the woman in the car,

but we were never able to reach her.

So much remains unanswered.

How were the rescuers able to get ahold of her?

How does she escape

when the windows and the doors were shut?

Could this be a case of divine intervention

or something else?

Let's check in with our experts.

We always ask, is the video real?

Alexis Brooks, a former local TV reporter,

says the footage aired on local news

and has never been questioned.

- The crew that filmed this is a professional film crew.

They're in the business of news, not fantasy.

So next question,

could a window had been rolled down

then rolled back up?

Physicist Dr. Hakim oluseyi says it's unlikely.

- Most cars today,

the windows aren't manual, they're powered windows.

And we know that water and electricity don't mix.

It's gonna short out the electrical system eventually.

So a person doesn't have very much time

to lower those windows before it's impossible to lower them.

Something else to consider,

could a door have been opened, then later shut?

Dr. Oluseyi concludes

that would have required a huge feat of strength.

- Physics works against allowing them to escape.

The car feels a force pushing it on it on all sides.

So a person inside the car,

when they try to open that door,

they're working against that incredible force.

And there is no person strong enough

to open such a car door.

Oluseyi says,

if you wait for the pressure to equalize,

the car will be so full of water

that there's no air left to breathe.

So we have to consider, was this a miracle?

We asked Michael O'Neill,

a trained engineer who researches claims of miracles

in the catholic church.

- All we know is

there is not a clear explanation, naturally speaking,

of how that person was saved from the vehicle.

Was one of the rescuers an angel

or some other divine presence that opened that door

and got the person out in inexplicable way?

- So you look at all of the elements that are in play,

the camera crew stopping just in time

to capture that footage,

as well as a physician being onsite.

And you have to ask yourself,

is there something else at work here?

It was meant, it seems,

for other people to witness that miracles occur

and maybe happen every day.

- There's a gap of time between the driver being rescued

and the car being pulled out.

So there's a small chance an open window

or door could have closed somehow during that time.

But I'm going with our physicist,

that's highly unlikely because of the water pressure.

So until we get more info our verdict is

possible miracle.

Coming up, it's huge, it's hairy, and it smells.

- You're looking at the scale of an animal

that's bigger than anything that's ever lived on the planet.

- The mystery of the globster

when "the proof is out there" continues.

The video you're about to see

might look like a monster movie,

but we're going to tell you upfront here

this is no visual effect.

It's very real, very gross,

and very hard to identify.

It's may, 2017, in Indonesia's maluku province.

Locals are heading out to work when they make

a gigantic, gruesome discovery floating in the water.

Cell phone video shows them examining the rotting corpse

of a 50-foot dead sea creature

that has somehow washed ashore.

Here's a look from another angle.

The formless blob is not only immense,

it looks like it's coated in

some sort of white, shaggy hair.

What kind of animal has hair like that?

- It seems like it's something that shouldn't exist.

And in fact, if this animal were terrestrial,

it wouldn't be able to exist

because of its sheer body mass.

Folklore is chock full of legendary sea creatures

as big as this carcass.

The ancient Hebrew leviathan,

the jormungandr of norse mythology

and the kraken, a kind of giant octopus

so big it was described as a floating island

in viking eyewitness accounts.

- Oh man, I bet that stinks there.

But field researcher cliff barackman

says these carcasses have their own names.

- Globsters.

Globsters are cool in every way.

It's part blob, it's part glob, it's part lobster.

I mean, how awesome is that?

- Globsters have been turning up

on shores around the globe for years.

This one, known as the cherbourg carcass,

was discovered in France in 1934.

But what to make of this one?

Globsters have also washed up on beaches in Florida,

New Zealand, Bermuda, Canada, and South Africa

but they'd never been spotted in the water alive.

So what exactly are we looking at here?

Let's turn to our analysts.

Wildlife biologist Lucy eckersley

first focuses on that amorphous mass of tissue.

- I think these could be mistaken

for lots of different sea animals.

And because they look kind of squishy

you might think that they look like a giant octopus

or a giant squid.

A giant squid?

But look.

We can see some exposed bone.

This video clearly shows this creature has a spine

so it can't be an invertebrate.

Next question.

What to make of that hair?

- What looks like hair across this creature

is actually fibers of collagen.

- Marine biologist Dr. Shea conger

says that collagen, a protein that provides structure

to skin, bones, and tendons,

is the biggest clue.

- When components of the body begin to break down

the collagen begins to emerge.

And because collagen doesn't break down

as quickly as other tissues,

these globsters can start to take on a hairy appearance

that you wouldn't expect

or be able to explain if you weren't familiar.

So what was this

before the sea decomposed it into a globster?

- This is actually pretty typical

of what I would expect to see

in regards to the carcass of a large whale.

You can see some striations on the bottom of this object.

And that is what we would expect to see

in the mouth cavity of a large whale, such as a blue whale.

And conger should know,

as you can see, she's been up close and personal

with globsters herself

- to witness firsthand one of these animals

at close distance

to the human mind is almost unsurmountable.

You're looking at the scale of an animal

that's bigger than anything that's ever lived on the planet.

And so to unpracticed eyes

they seem absolutely impossible.

- Ultimately, this story is about the power of the sea.

In this case, its power to transform

the bodies of dead animals into something unrecognizable.

And once that hair was explained to us

it became clear.

Our verdict,

the globster is not the kraken or a sea monster,

it's a dead whale.

Up next, "the proof is out there" traffic report.

Could you handle this guy's commute?

- Imagine you had the ability to bend and twist your body

with almost inhuman speed and agility.

Well our next video shows a man

who has some folks speculating

we may have found some kind of superhero.

It's march 2016,

and the streets of Bogota, Columbia

are swarming with traffic.

So it's no surprise that a group of bystanders on a bridge

started screaming when they saw this.

Journalist krissy eliot had the same reaction.

- Oh my god.

I was like, what is this guy doing?

He dodges between vehicles.

He lies underneath them.

And then he just prances off.

Look again.

The daredevil pedestrian seems to possess cat-like reflexes.

Might there be a strain of superhumans

with this kind of quickness?

- It takes about 1/4 of a second

for a human reflex to react, 250 milliseconds.

But there are people

whose reaction time is even faster than that.

People like speed shooter Bob munden,

who holds 18 world records.

He's been clocked hitting a target

and replacing the gun in his holster

within 175 milliseconds.

And this guy, if this is real,

this reaction time must be on the next level.

Perhaps something else is going on here.

Dodging traffic doesn't just take skill,

it takes will.

- There are about 400 known cases

of something called urbach-wiethe disease.

And what it does is it withers away at your amygdala,

which is the part of your brain

that is responsible for fear.

So could this guy who's cartwheeling through traffic

have this disease?

- So we have two things to explain here,

the traffic dodger's lightening quick reflexes

and his foolhardy fearlessness.

Our investigation begins not with the person,

but with the footage itself.

As we turn to forensic video analyst Mick west.

- What was strange to me it was

not simply how daring this was,

but the fact that all the cars ignored him.

They weren't actually slowing down

or trying to stop or avoid him.

West's first impression tells him

this traffic dodger may not be what he seems.

But what clues are in the video?

- What I often look at in analyzing videos

is the lighting and the shadows.

We can see the whole setup.

There's this pole here.

And then there's this power pole.

And this is what's casting the shadows in the road.

So we know that that's an actual shadow

and that's the shadow of the power pole.

So that should be obscured by the cars

when they go by, by the buses.

But watch closely as the bus approaches.

Two shadows appear to exist in the same place.

- Now shadows don't add together like that.

If something is a shadow

and then something else shadows it

it eliminates the first shadow.

Because light doesn't go through things twice.

Which means that this isn't a real shadow,

this is something that's being added,

it's been overlaid on top.

That's not all west finds.

Take a look as this guy lays down in the street.

- This car, it really doesn't look like

it's big enough to go over him.

And I actually looked at the model of the car.

It's a Renault twingo, a small car.

And the ground clearance is just under seven inches.

So it's about that much

which is impossible

for someone to fit their head

in something that's 150 millimeters.

So it turns out seeing isn't believing.

Well, then how'd he do it?

West says the camera was locked

down at one position on the bridge.

- If there'd be no traffic.

So he would just wait until there was a gap in the traffic.

He would run out, do his stuff,

and then get to the other side.

Then by combining the solo acrobatics

with another shot of oncoming traffic

and some staged screaming,

you have one seemingly incredible superhuman.

- All these add up to it being a forgery.

- We contacted the creator of this video

and he told us there's no problem

with his brain's amygdala.

He fears danger just like the rest of us,

but he did confirm one thing.

This video is two different versions

combined with digital effects

and an extraordinary imagination.

It looks like we haven't found a superhuman just yet.

That's our show for tonight.

Thanks so much for watching

and please reach out to us

and let us know your thoughts.

I'm Tony Harris,

reminding you to keep

those cameras rolling.