Strange Evidence (2017–…): Season 4, Episode 11 - The Man Who Laid an Egg - full transcript

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: Worldwide,
27 billion cameras are watching us...

On our streets, at work,
and in our homes.

They capture things
that seem impossible.

It defies the laws of physics.

Man: This is unbelievable, man.

Narrator: Experts carry out
analysis of these unusual events.

Now that's an explosion.

[ explosion ] [ screams ]

there's got to be something
we're missing in this video.

Something we're not seeing,
right?



What else is going on here?

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: Coming up...

Food to die for.

Was this blast
caused by truffles?

Oh! What the hell just happened?

It almost takes
that guy's head off.

Narrator: A prehistoric
beast in a canadian lake...

The first thought is,
"what is that?"

and then the second thought is,
"is that kid in danger?"

there's definitely
something in the water.

Narrator: And has
a man laid an egg?

Oh,
that gives me shivers. It's so disgusting.

That's like an egg
pulled out of a human?



That's weird.

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: Bizarre phenomenon.

Whoa.

Narrator: Mysteries
caught on camera.

What is the truth behind
this strange evidence?

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now on a street
in southern china...

Oh! What the hell just happened?

...A building explodes.

Whoa, that's gotta hurt.

...Blasting a scooter rider.

It almost takes
that guy's head off.

Narrator: Is this the work of a
gang of blood-drinking hoodlums?

They're involved
in some activities

that you could label terrorism.

[ camera whirs ]

sichuan, yunnan province,
southwest china,

home to the yi tribes people,

one of china's 55
different ethnic groups.

September 2019...

Morgan: All right. Here we have
peaceful street scene in china.

What could possibly go wrong?

Narrator: All of a sudden...

That door just hits
that guy on the bike

that's gotta hurt.

Narrator: A scooter rider
takes the full brunt of the blast.

Wolson: It appears that
there's a big heavy metal object

coming across the
road. That's very scary.

Narrator: Experts are still
puzzled by what happened here.

You don't expect a
building just to explode.

Oluseyi: Clearly, there is an explosion,
but there is no fire.

There's no flame at
all. That is not typical.

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: This city,
6,000 feet above sea level, is surrounded

by mountains, subtropical,
hot and humid.

This region is one of the
oldest producers of tea in china.

It's grown over an area
of 1,600 square miles.

That's the equivalent of
around 800,000 football fields.

Here in the hills,

tea is grown, picked,
dried, and packaged.

It's big business
across the country,

worth $12 billion annually.

China's yearly consumption
is almost three times

the weight of the
golden gate bridge.

Physicist chad orzel

wonders if the industrial
processes used in tea production

could cause this
kind of explosion.

Maybe this is some sort
of manufacturing plant

or processing plant where
people are processing tea,

and then we have to ask,

"what is the explosive
potential of tea?"

narrator: Dust from the
production of things like tea,

powdered milk, grains,
and flour can lead to explosions.

The perfect storm of a high
concentration of dust in the air

in a confined space

and an ignition source can
cause catastrophic blasts.

One particle ignites,
it can catch its neighbors on fire

and the fire sort of
spreads like a wave

through the airborne dust,
using up the oxygen

that's surrounding it
to power the flames.

You can get these dust
explosions from anything

that'll burn... sugar,
flour, grain.

Tea by itself isn't something
we think of as blowing up,

but the manufacture of it

and the packaging of it
generates a lot of dust.

And if you have airborne dust,

that can be a highly
volatile explosive mix.

Narrator: Such food
explosions can be deadly.

In port wentworth, georgia,
14 people died in 2008

when an explosion devastated
the imperial sugar refinery.

The huge blast occurred
when a buildup of sugar dust

was ignited.

Burning dust in the air
can create a lot of heat,

which creates a lot of pressure,
and the resulting shockwave

traveling out from the source
of the blast can level buildings.

So if you're processing
large amounts of tea

in a poorly ventilated space

where this dust is allowed
to build up in the air,

this is a situation that can
quite literally turn explosive.

So this door
could be blasted off

by an explosion
of burning tea dust.

Narrator: Matt kutcher has been a
master of hollywood pyrotechnics

and ballistics
for over 20 years.

He's setting out to see if
he can make tea explode

if this green tea
experiment actually goes big,

it could actually
resemble what it was

in that building that we saw.

And if it does,
maybe we get some proof that

that's what it was... tea.

Narrator: To recreate
the angle of the blast

coming out of the building,

kutcher and his team
are using a mortar.

Kutcher: We need to put the
powder into something that acts

like a rifling,
so we'll consider this the barrel

to our gun,
and we're going to put powders in it

and ignite them. And those
powders are gonna come

rifling out of that mortar.

We still have to light
it. We have to ignite it.

We have to have
a source of spark.

This will be the
spark that ignites it.

Narrator: To see if it's
possible to ignite simple dust

in a mortar this size,

kutcher will first attempt
to create a dust explosion

using coffee creamer.

Ten pounds of coffee creamer.

Narrator: This household product
is often used by explosives teams

on hollywood movies to
make explosions more visual.

- Go hot. - Effects is hot.

All right. Here we go.

In three, two, one...

Kutcher: That went
off with quite a blast.

Narrator: The coffee creamer
dust blasts out from the mortar,

igniting it in the air just
as matt had hoped it would.

The concussion we felt
out here was pretty cool.

Narrator: Matt's
blown up pretty much

everything imaginable
in his hollywood career,

from cars to christmas trees,
but today will be a first.

We've never done tea dust.

I don't know whether
it's going to be a dud

or it's going to go bang.

Narrator: Kutcher loads up
the mortar with dried green tea

of the type grown in
china's yunnan province.

Let's see if we can get
tea to actually blow like tnt,

give it a real bang.

In order to duplicate

what we believe
we saw in that video,

we're gonna get
this door to fly.

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: Coming up,
is tea the key to this mystery blast?

Kutcher: Blow
the horn all clear.

Three, two, one...

Narrator: And a boy is menaced
by a mysterious monster.

We believe it is a predator,

and it comes up to
the surface to feed.

Narrator: A street in china
is witness to a mystery blast.

Pyrotechnics expert matt
kutcher wants to test the theory

that tea dust
caused the explosion.

Let's see if we can get
tea to actually blow like tnt.

Blow the horn. All clear.

[ horn honks ]

and here we are in three,
two, one...

[ explosion ]

not much left of the
greenhouse or the door.

If it wasn't for the cable,

the door might have
flown across the street,

and hit somebody on a scooter.

I think under this controlled
environment of which we created,

we obviously made the tea work,

and we were able
to disintegrate a door.

But is it really what
we saw in the video?

Narrator: The explosive
blast from a very small quantity

of tea was surprisingly big.

Even explosives master
matt kutcher is taken aback.

But his blast is giving off a large,
dense dust cloud.

In the mystery clip,
there is none.

Kutcher: What we see in the
video has got far more power.

Narrator: Either way, he's thinking
of keeping less tea in the kitchen.

But after seeing the
tea just explode like that,

it makes me think,
"maybe I'll stick to coffee."

narrator: Military analyst joe
pappalardo suspects the event

could be the work of
one of the most feared

criminal networks in the world.

You have to consider
where this incident happened.

This is in the yunnan province.
It's an area where the triads,

criminal groups called
triads are extremely active.

When something blows up,
your mind immediately flips to them.

Narrator: The 14k is one of the
largest triad gangs in the world,

with 20,000 members.

Formed as an anti-communist
criminal organization in 1945,

chinese authorities
have tried to control them,

but the 14k is well-organized
and well-funded,

thanks to its
criminal activities.

In china today,
there is a reality of organized crime.

It's just that simple.
They're involved

in some activities that
you could label terrorism.

Narrator: The triads have
immense power with many

in the communist
regime on their payroll.

Any triads betraying their
organization are executed.

Whenever you have government
corruption of that magnitude,

you're going to have
organized crime involved.

The triads are known
for using high explosives.

Not just actual high
explosives like tnt,

but then also,
homemade explosives.

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: As for what the triads
might be stealing in this area,

military expert marty morgan
has got a strange theory.

He believes it may be a very
special kind of mushroom.

There's a trade in this province

in what they call
"black diamonds,"

and black diamonds
are simply truffles.

Narrator: Black diamond truffles
are the most expensive food on earth,

selling for as much
as $150,000 per pound.

So valuable, a french farmer
was jailed for eight years in 2015

for shooting a man dead

he thought was
stealing his black truffles.

[ gunshot ]

this really is food to die for.

When you consider the
amount of money that's involved,

it's unsurprising that you
get organized crime involved.

Narrator: The theories
around the event in this footage

are as strange as
the incident itself.

But to this day,
what happened here is still unexplained.

He gets up, so he's okay,
but that's gotta hurt.

Narrator: There were
no fatalities this time,

but the citizens of sichuan

live with the threat of
another unexpected blast.

Muñoz: The people
who live in this area,

on this street now have to live

in a constant fear of another
explosion taking place.

And next time,
if it does happen,

the people on the street
might not be so lucky.

Narrator: Now an ancient lake,
a monster long thought to exist,

finally caught on camera.

- What is it?
- I think it's a 120-foot

fast-moving serpentine snake.

Narrator: This is
just the latest report

of a monstrous
creature in the lake.

We've had multiple sightings
here of two or three ogopogo

in lake okanagan,
perhaps there's more than one.

Narrator: A creature
which for centuries

has been known to and
feared by local tribes people.

Ogopogo is the english
word for n'ha-a-itk.

It means the sacred
one of the water.

Narrator: The sighting has
amazed and terrified locals.

This experience has had a
huge impact on our family.

My son won't go swimming
past a sandbar anymore,

and I definitely am
not going in the water.

Gottlieb: The first thought is,
"what is that?"

and then the second thought is,
"is that kid in danger?"

narrator: Canada, home to over
20% of the fresh water in the world.

British columbia
is the land of lakes

with over 20,000 of them.

June 1, 2019,
on a hot summers day,

store owner jim larocque
and his family head to the lake.

It was 1:00 in the afternoon,
30 degrees out, celsius.

The water was like glass.

Narrator: Jim's son paddleboards

when something horrific
emerges from the water.

All the sudden,
I just heard this swooshing sound

of something and I thought,

my son was just
on his paddleboard,

and something went
right behind him.

Narrator: A huge and menacing
presence is in the water just feet away.

Eventually,
my son turns and he actually

sees a flipper come
out of the water

and smash down on the water.

And of course,
he starts booking it back

on his paddleboard.

Narrator: His son just
manages to get away,

but jim will never forget

the vision of the
creature estimated

at 120-feet long.

The underside of
it was like white,

and then the outside was dark.

Narrator: Scientists are at a
loss to explain what jim saw.

It's like one, two,
three, like seven fins.

And you could see
something coming right up

out of the water. I mean,
it's so flat.

There's no way this
is the wind or a log.

Gottlieb: The first thought is,
"what is that?"

and then the second thought is,
"is that kid in danger?"

narrator: This huge lake
stretching 80 miles dates back

to the ice age and the
oldest known inhabitants

are the syilx people who
have inhabited the lake shore

for many thousands of years.

Their descendants,
the west bank first nation,

have long talked about the lake
being home to a giant creature.

Caldwell: Ogopogo exists in our stories,
and we have a word for him.

If he wasn't real
and he didn't exist,

we wouldn't have a word for him.

We call it n'ha-a-itk.

It means the sacred
one of the water.

Narrator: They believe
n'ha-a-itk is not a normal animal.

He is a kind of animal-god,

because he's so sacred,
he doesn't show himself

to just anybody.

When you see things from another realm,
it's a blessing.

Local historian bill steciuk.

Believes the creature is a
real animal unknown to science.

When I first moved to
kelowna a number of years ago,

I was pretty skeptical about
something being in the lake.

But I had a sighting
off the bridge in 1978.

Narrator: He took a photograph of
what he believes is the creature's head.

It was taken at 130
meters. Looking at it,

you can actually see an eye,
and you can see the mouth here.

It was ironic all the
time I've spent on boats,

and here I'm sitting on my patio,
and I get a picture.

We believe it is a predator.

We believe that
it feeds on fish.

There's even been sightings
that it could take a duck

from the top of the water.

Narrator: Local scientist raphael
nowack grew up around the lake

and is determined to get to the
bottom of what is in its depths.

I've always had a natural
curiosity for wanting to explore

and learn more
about okanagan lake,

especially because
of its immense size

and the fact that it has
never been fully explored.

And along with that, obviously,
comes the topic of ogopogo.

Narrator: He's
heading to an area

where a number of
sightings have been made.

Nowack: We're here at squally
point where there are several

underwater cave
formations known to exist.

So we're going to take
a look at those and see

this is one the habitat
that ogopogo may live in.

Narrator: Nowack launches a
remotely operated underwater vehicle...

Here we go.

...To explore the lake's
cave-like formations.

Just approaching,
it looks like a cave feature here.

This is a potential habitat,

a large creature or an unknown
creature maybe able to hide in.

A few years ago,
I was doing an underwater investigation,

and I came across some
interesting formations

on the bottom sediment,

which looked like a
pattern of footprints.

The footprints suggest that
there may be an ambush predator

that may walk along the
lake floor and then push off,

creating those indentations
in the lake sediment.

Narrator: Large footprints
on the lake floor seem bizarre,

but similar giant
dinosaur footprints

were found in the mountains of morrison,
colorado,

where there was
once a prehistoric sea.

Scientists are still discovering
on a yearly basis new species

on the planet that have not
been known about before,

and I'm just open to
exploring this mystery.

Narrator: Coming up, are these
lake monsters jurassic throwbacks?

They've been around
since before the dinosaurs.

They look like they
belong with the dinosaurs.

Narrator: And in a chinese hospital,
what has this man just laid?

It looks like a huge white egg.

So where in the world
did that come from?

Narrator: In a lake in
the canadian wilderness,

a young boy manages to
escape from a giant water beast.

Marine biologist eric
hovland analyzes the footage

and is reminded
of a jurassic giant

known as a plesiosaur

and of a creature repeatedly
sighted in scotland...

The lochness monster.

Nessie comes to mind right away,

was that a plesiosaur
that lives in lochness?

Is there something
similar in this lake?

Narrator: Savage
plesiosaurs ruled

the jurassic waters of
earth 65 million years ago.

Some investigators speculate
that nessie is a plesiosaur

whose ancestors entered
the loch from the sea.

However, recent science
and discoveries have shown us

that perhaps it
isn't a plesiosaur.

Scientists have
been studying the dna

that they've collected
from lochness to find out

what animals are living
beneath the surface.

Narrator: That study by
researchers from new zealand

examine traces
of dna in the loch.

They found something
they weren't expecting.

They did find a lot of eel dna.

Narrator: Earliest eels date
back to over 100 million years ago

when some of the largest
predators ever existed.

Prehistoric eels
evolved into at least

800 different species,
some of them enormous.

Washington: Some of those
eels can grow close to 30-feet long.

That could easily be
mistaken for a monster.

Narrator: But the creature
filmed by jim in canada

would dwarf the
largest known eel.

Marine biologist danny
washington considers

if the footage shows
another type of river monster

known to inhabit
canadian waters.

There have been a lot
of eyewitness reports

of eel-like fishes swimming
through canadian lakes,

but what they're seeing
might be a sturgeon.

Lake sturgeon can
grow to be quite large.

These animals can easily
be confused for a monster

swimming through a lake.

Narrator: When swimming,
the sturgeons rigid spine

often breaks the water

in a similar way to what
is seen in the footage.

There have been some
massive sturgeons discovered.

For example, in china,
they found a sturgeon

that was half a ton.
That's 1,000 pounds.

Narrator: But no known
sturgeon has ever come close

to the 120-foot monster
captured on camera.

That's about the size of five
sturgeons lined up all together.

Narrator: Whatever
this monster is,

some local people are now
refusing to enter the water.

This experience has had a
huge impact on our family.

My son won't go swimming
past the sandbar anymore,

and I definitely am
not going in the water.

People are still continuing
to report sightings.

Just last year,
there were three sightings in three weeks

until we get a carcass
or some dna samples,

we're not going to
know exactly what it is.

Narrator: Now surgeons cut open a man,
and to their horror...

That looks... Ugh.

...Find a large,
fully formed egg.

It gives me shivers.
That's so disgusting.

It's like an egg pulled
out of a human?

That's weird.

Narrator: Is it a miracle...

There's so many weird
and mysterious things

that can happen
to the human body.

Narrator: ...Or an even stranger
echo of the past in our dna?

Brenserger: Incredibly,
we still contain huge amounts of dna

of our reptilian ancestors.

So is this actually
a freak throwback?

Narrator: Hubei province,
home to 58 million humans...

...And around 350
million chickens.

A local delicacy here
is thousand-year eggs.

These are preserved in
ash and clay for months

before being served as
traditional breakfast food.

November 2015, a 53-year-old
man is admitted to a local hospital

complaining of abdominal pain.

When surgeons opened him up,

they discovered to their horror
what is reported to be an egg.

Oh,
there's an egg inside of a person.

I mean, I've heard of deviled eggs,
but this is ridiculous.

Narrator: Experts are at a
loss as to what this could be.

Well, it looks like a weird,
huge white egg.

So where in the world
did that come from?

It looks like a human
has produced an egg.

This just doesn't
make any sense.

How does an egg end up
inside of a human being?

Narrator: Science journalist john
farrow is reminded of a strange case

of an egg-laying boy.

In indonesia,
there was the case of this boy

who claimed to have laid eggs.

Narrator: In 2018,
14-year-old akmal from gowa, indonesia,

claimed he'd laid 20 eggs.

His father, rusli,
supported the claim,

saying that he had
cracked one open.

So when this boy was x-rayed,
the eggs were found

at the base of the abdomen,

which is where you might
expect to find the eggs.

Narrator: Akmal was hospitalized
and doctors watched in horror

as the teenager laid
two eggs in front of them.

You can guess for yourself
what part of the body

these eggs were coming from.

When the eggs were
taken away to be examined,

they matched perfectly the
profile of eggs from a fowl.

So maybe this was an extreme
form of attention seeking.

We can imagine how the boy
in indonesia faked his eggs,

but this man in china,
it was an invasive surgical procedure,

definitely isn't a prank.

Narrator: Coming up...

Is our long-dormant reptile
dna suddenly waking up?

Is it possible that we somehow
might be evolving where

we might be able
to lay eggs again?

...And sinister screams

come from a canadian
killer's favorite forest.

[ screaming ]

if I heard that in the woods,

I would not be in the
woods for much longer.

Narrator: Surgeons in
china cut open a man.

Inside his stomach, they find

what looks like a
fully-formed egg.

No one can figure
out how it got there.

In the animal kingdom,

the male seahorse gets pregnant,
carries eggs, and gives birth,

but they do not produce
eggs. Their female partners do.

They deposit the eggs into a
special sac in the male's body

where he fertilizes
and carries them

until eventually giving
birth to up to 2,000 babies.

Science journalist steve
potvin investigates if it's possible

for a human male to carry eggs.

There's so many weird
and mysterious things

that can happen
to the human body.

Narrator: When human genes mutate,
strange things can occur.

In 1895,
there was a newspaper article about a guy

called edward mordrake,
and it described him

having a second face
on the back of his head.

Narrator: While the mordrake
story is now doubted by experts,

the article reported that
mordrake called this second face

his "devil twin."

now, edward ended up killing
himself at the young age of 23.

He had written in his will that
he wanted the face to be burned

so that the whisperings
wouldn't continue after he died.

Narrator: Evidence suggests
mordrake suffered from a rare

genetic birth defect.

[ camera whirs ]

narrator: It is true that humans
have traces of egg-laying dna.

Based on biological evolution,
we have a reptilian past.

Incredibly,
we still contain huge amounts of dna

of our reptilian ancestors.

So is it possible that we
somehow might be evolving

where we might be
able to lay eggs again?

Narrator: As mammals
and reptiles evolved,

we still continue to share
up to 89% of our dna.

There are several traits which are similar,
too...

Skin that can repair itself,

teeth,
and a yolk sac in the womb from the time

when our ancestors laid eggs.

Scientists in china have
been reported to be conducting

genetic experiments on humans,

which would never be allowed
in other parts of the world.

Dr. He jiankui controversially
carried out genetic engineering

on human embryos,
modifying their dna.

His actions were condemned
by scientists in china

and around the world.

Narrator: He was
eventually jailed

for forging documents
and unethical conduct.

We have no way of
knowing what the truth

of this story actually is.

Narrator: Animal expert kevin
kasky looks into whether the egg found

in the stomach of the man
in china is a unique event.

There are instances where
structures made of fat or hair

or other things that are
within the body or that the body

is discharging that come out
with an egg-like substance.

There was an incident in 2015,
where a man in washington, d.C.,

had a 4-inch egg-like
structure removed from his body.

Orzel: This can
be a major problem.

Something that large can
lead to blockages internally,

that can create severe
medical problems

and even lead to death.

Narrator: The secret of this
egg formation can be found

in the sewers beneath our feet.

So much fat comes from the
restaurants and homes above,

special teams are needed
to clear the blockages.

As humans consume
greater quantities of fat,

it accumulates in the body,
creating fat bergs,

which is what we could be
seeing in the man in china.

Bits of fat can sort of
accumulate and buildup together,

and sort of, you know,
take on the shape of

wherever they
happen to be contained,

which will give you kind
of that ovalish shape.

Narrator: A biopsy on the
egg found in the man in china

showed it was a
buildup of a mixture of fat

and other bodily tissues.

And when you slice it,
it gives the appearance

of sort of a boiled egg with
a hard yolk at the center.

Narrator: This is one egg
you don't want to wake up to.

This man's a very,
very lucky man.

This could have been much,
much worse and not operable,

so he's very lucky.

Narrator: Now a man hears
a series of terrifying screams

coming from the forest.

Oh, my god, that scream.

That is just chilling.

Narrator: Immensely loud,
echoing through the trees.

[ screams ]

the heck was that?

Narrator: What's worse,
it's in an area

where there have
been dozens of murders

and unexplained disappearances.

This area is known for many,
many unsolved murders.

Narrator: This forest and the
highway that runs through it

has a truly
terrifying reputation.

This part of british columbia
is called the "highway of tears."

[ screams ]

narrator: Witset... native american
land dating back thousands of years,

surrounded by forest,
nestled by the rockies.

December 16, 2017,

it's early evening.
The sun sinking fast.

A man hears an immensely
loud cry from the woods.

[ screams ]

it's really loud,
and it seems to want us to know it's there.

Narrator: The booming
screams rip through the air.

[ screams ]

narrator: Followed by
another even louder shriek.

If I heard that in the woods,

I would not be in the
woods for much longer.

The idea that the sound
that we hear in the video

could be the cries
of the latest victim,

I mean,
that's absolutely horrifying.

Paleontologist dustin
growick analyzes the sound

in search of
clues to its origin.

You'll notice that it kind
of starts as a low growl,

but then proceeds to
being much higher pitched,

almost shriek or scream.

It's not easily identifiable,
but it's pretty sinister.

Narrator: A wet'suwet'en tribal
legend speaks of a wolf/bear,

a giant beast that
roams the forests...

The wa-hila.

It seems strange,

but there is a creature
scientists called amphicinated

that once inhabited
north america.

This terrifying giant
thought to have gone extinct

2 1/2 million years ago
is known to have grown

to the same size as an
adult male polar bear.

Whatever the
source of this noise,

the locals are truly terrified
of going into these woods.

When science author linda
zimmerman investigates the area

the clip was shot,

she finds it has
a sinister past.

There is a possible
darker side to this

because this area is known for many,
many unsolved murders.

Narrator: Going straight
through the middle of this forest

is highway 16.

Since 1969,
43 women have disappeared on this

isolated stretch of road,

only 13 bodies have
ever been found.

Zimmerman: Hitchhiking
is strongly discouraged

on this stretch of road.

They even have billboards
warning "killer on the loose."

that is not something
you see every day.

Narrator: Coming up...

Is the scream in the
woods a killer on the loose?

Women keep disappearing.

They've been disappearing
since this investigation.

Narrator: And is a deadly
space rock heading for earth?

Whatever that is,
it's moving very, very fast.

What is the flash
at the end there?

Narrator: In british columbia,
canada,

a terrifying scream rips
through a forest linked to dozens

of missing and murdered women.

A road that runs through the
area where the scream was heard

is known as the highway of tears

and is one of the
most dangerous roads

in the world to walk alone.

But the threat is not
from forest beasts.

For some horrifying reason,

this place has become
a magnet for serial killers.

November 2010, officers stopped
20-year-old cody legebokoff

inside his truck.

They find him sitting
in a pool of blood.

He claims he's been poaching.

But when police find
a 15-year-old girl's I.D.,

they follow his
tracks off highway 16,

finding her body.

He eventually
confesses to killing her

and three other women,
but the killings don't stop.

Women keep disappearing.

They've been disappearing
since this investigation.

Narrator: Tragically,
three more women

have been found
murdered along this road.

Another six have disappeared,

many from the local native
american communities.

This could be a very
important piece of evidence

in the criminal investigation.

Narrator: So many victims,
but so few of their bodies discovered.

The presence of large
predators in the forest

means that bodies
do not last long here.

The ghostly screams captured
this day are still a mystery.

At the time this video was taken,
there were no reports

of missing persons
or anything worse.

I'm hopeful there's
another explanation.

[ screams ]

narrator: The cries
are chilling and horrific,

an awful reminder
of the very real terror

that makes locals
afraid to enter this forest.

Given the mystery that
surrounds these woods,

if I was a local,
I would not be going near there.

Narrator: Now in the night skies
above the american midwest.

Whatever that is,
it's moving very, very fast.

Narrator: A mysterious bright
light seen across eight states.

Man: Oh, whoa.

Whatever that was,
it just kicked into overdrive.

There's something unnatural
about the way this thing moves.

Narrator: Experts worry this
could be an unstoppable invader.

It's flying far too fast to
be a passenger plane.

Then it gets brighter,
and it moves faster still.

♪♪

Narrator: Rural missouri,
November 11, 2019, 8:52 p.M.

Home security cameras
capture a strange light

that appears out of nowhere...

It's so bright,
it lights up the entire sky.

Narrator: ...Then streaks
across the night sky...

It's moving so fast,
it is impossible to tell what it is.

Narrator: ...Before
finally it bursts into light.

What is the flash
at the end there?

Narrator: Former nypd
video analyst connor mccourt

studies the footage

and immediately rules
out camera trickery.

When I look at this video,
there's nothing that indicates

that it's not authentic.

All of a sudden,
a bright object crosses the screen.

Is it manmade or
is it from space?

Narrator: This thing was
filmed across eight different

states from
minnesota to missouri.

It streaked across missouri
from troy to wellsville.

There are over 5,000
passenger planes

flying over america
at any given moment,

but this object is
not one of them.

For one thing,
it doesn't have any of the other lights

that passenger
aircraft normally do.

Whatever that is,
it's moving very, very fast.

And then it gets brighter
and it moves faster still.

Narrator: Military
historian marty morgan

studies the apparent
acceleration of the object.

What kind of aircraft is capable
of that level of performance?

Narrator: Coming up,
is a giant asteroid

on a crash course
with the earth?

It's moving so fast,
it is impossible to tell what it is.

It only takes a meteor
about the size of a car

to create shockwaves
strong enough

to break windows.

Any larger than that,
and all hell breaks loose.

Narrator: In rural missouri,

a mysterious light streaks
across the night sky

seen in eight states.

Could this strange light

be linked to secret
military operations?

My first thought is that we're
looking at a fighter aircraft

because there's really
nothing else that exists

that can experience
acceleration like that.

A jet fighter can
be cruising along

at a regular rate of speed,
go into afterburn, and zip off

at a significantly
higher rate of speed,

like this anomaly
in the footage does.

Narrator: The strange anomaly

was captured near
whiteman air force base,

home to one of the
most incredible planes

in the world... The
b2 stealth bomber.

This flying wing is virtually
invisible to anti-aircraft

defenses,
capable of dropping thermonuclear weapons

anywhere in a
12,000-mile radius.

The b2 would not be visible on camera,
but fighter jets would.

Morgan: The f15-e is the fastest
aircraft in american inventory.

Called the strike eagle

because of the
aircraft's ability

to carry a very large
payload package.

The f15 is capable of
accelerating to speeds over

1,600 miles per hour.

Narrator: Fast enough
to be the object spotted,

but why would a fighter jet

be streaking across
the missouri night sky?

High-performance combat aircraft

tend to stay away
from populated areas,

and they tend to not go into
afterburn over populated areas.

The only reason that I could
come up with for it to be out

in the middle of the night
running up into afterburn

and zipping off at high rates
speed over a populated area...

The only reason I could
come up with to explain that

would be that aircraft is
intercepting something.

Narrator: Science writer amy shira
teitel thinks this could be an object

that has terrified
humans for millennia.

When I look at the footage,
the speed,

the brightness, the intensity,

it all looks like a meteor
streaking across the sky.

So could this be
what we're looking at?

Narrator: The earth interacts with
space more often than you might think.

Every single day,

25 million meteors enter
the earth's atmosphere,

most of which burn up,

but some can wreak
havoc upon impact.

The atmosphere
acts like a brake,

slowing them down really fast.

What that does is
generate a lot of heat.

These rocks from space

can go from 3,000 to
10,000 degrees fahrenheit.

Narrator: An asteroid
larger than 100-feet wide

could wipe out a city.
Any asteroid larger

than 6.2 miles is
called extinction class.

These are powerful enough
to destroy all life on earth.

It only takes a meteor
about the size of a car

to create shockwaves strong
enough to break windows.

Narrator: If there was
a planet-killing asteroid

on a collision
course with earth,

there's nothing we
could do to stop it.

A 2007 nasa report
indicated that a nuclear bomb

would blow an
asteroid into pieces,

but those chunks
would still hit us.

The automated
asteroid-watching system century

tracks around 20,000
near-earth objects,

43 are marked as
potentially hazardous.

A house-sized meteor can
explode in the earth's atmosphere

with more force
than the atomic bomb

that the u.S. Dropped
on hiroshima in 1945.

Narrator: Nasa and the european
space agency are scrambling

to develop a system
that will alter the course

of potentially
earth-destroying asteroids.

In the meantime, we are helpless
from bombardments from space.

Meteors travel at about
132,000 miles per hour,

so that is a fast,
bright streak of light across the sky.

What really convinces
me this is actually a meteor

is the flash at the end.

That's what happens when
a meteor burns to the sky

and then blows up
in the atmosphere.

Narrator: Nasa confirmed it
was a meteor seen over missouri.

Luckily, this one didn't cause
a catastrophic explosion,

but the next one could.