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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.