Strange Evidence (2017–…): Season 5, Episode 5 - Ghost Rider from Hell - full transcript
Security cameras in an underground parking garage capture an empty car starting and moving as if driven by a ghost; experts investigate and discover a sinister threat that might put any vehicle at risk.
[cameras whirring]
[harry] worldwide,
36 billion cameras are watching us.
On our streets, at work, and in our homes.
They capture things that seem impossible.
[woman] science says this shouldn't happen.
[man] do you see that?
[harry] experts carry out forensic analysis
of these unusual events.
[matt] wow, what a blast.
[explosion]
[woman screaming]
this doesn't make sense.
[woman] there has to be
some sort of explanation.
What else is going on here?
-[camera whirring] -[explosion]
[harry] coming up.
Did a doomsday prepper
meet his own personal apocalypse?
[david] just blown the
doors open on the house.
The whole place is shaking.
I mean, this is incredible.
[siren wails]
[harry] floridians fight the frankensquito.
[patrick] it's possible that this man
has been used as a guinea pig.
[harry] and a creepy gingerbread man
who wants to eat you.
[marcus] this is the
weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Those two things don't just look like legs,
they're actually kicking.
[cameras whirring]
[harry] bizarre phenomena.
Oh, my god. [gasps]
[explosion]
[harry] mysteries caught on camera.
What's the truth behind
this strange evidence?
[whirring]
[harry] port neches,
85 miles east of houston, texas.
[beeping]
[harry] November 27th, 2019.
[beeping]
[harry] 12:56 am.
[jeff] we're seeing closed-circuit tv shot
of a house with a pool.
Nothing is going on
and then suddenly, ba-boom,
the whole place just lights up.
[explosion]
[david] what is happening at this place?
I don't know.
[harry] a burst of
unnatural light fills the sky
above this ordinary suburb
turning night to day.
[martin] and then it dims a bit
but the light doesn't go away.
Everything stays illuminated.
[harry] then a weird force rocks the house.
[david] and now, look at here.
There's a pressure wave.
It blown the doors open on the house.
The whole place is shaking.
It's crazy to me.
[harry] finally, a dog
shaken by the explosion
emerges from inside the property.
[tracy] it's like a second sun
has been shot into the sky.
[david] what we need to find out is
what type of explosion would this be.
[whirring]
[harry] military historian, martin morgan,
believes the powerful backyard blast
could've come from a terrible accident
in a secret underground layer.
A contemporary aspect
of the american experience
is that there are more and more people
that are preparing for a doomsday
or apocalypse type event.
[oxygen mask hisses]
[harry] today, a new breed
of doomsday prepper is emerging.
Fearful not of a russian
or a chinese attack,
but of an assault from within.
[suspenseful music playing]
[explosions]
[craig] you know, there's a lot of rioting
and chaos in america today,
so much so some people actually fear
another civil war coming.
Move back. Move back.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] bunker building
in the united states
has increased by 400%
in the wake of events in the year 2020.
And in texas, a state that prides itself
on its independence,
more people than ever
are preparing for the end of days.
[indistinct chatter]
[martin] and in the houston area,
there are no exceptions.
There are people that
are preparing for doomsday
to the extent that
they're building bunkers.
[harry] basic self-built survival bunkers
cost around $35,000.
They are dug as much as
10-feet below the ground
and can contain defensive weaponry,
basic medical supplies,
and six months' worth
of freeze-dried food.
Preppers believe they'll stay safe
while civilization collapses outside.
But badly built bunkers can
be underground death traps.
A stockbroker named
dan beckwitt hires a builder
to construct an underground bunker.
It's illegal under his house.
Guess what happens? A fire breaks out,
the builder burns to death.
[harry] red river county, texas,
October 2019,
another doomsday for a group of preppers.
[martin] a doomsday bunker
experienced a gas leak...
[jeff] and it filled with propane, a spark,
boom. The whole thing blew up.
There's concrete flying everywhere.
Three people were killed.
[explosion]
[martin] could this explosion be
from a private nuclear fallout bunker?
[harry] electrical engineer
david wallace finds evidence
of many self-built doomsday
bunkers in the area,
but doubts one was the source of the blast.
[david] so, whatever we
see that's causing the light
in this video, it must
contain a much larger source
of ignitable material than you would expect
to find in a small bunker.
[harry] but much bigger
bunkers have been built
all across the us.
[craig] you know, the
super-rich are actually
building these massive bunkers,
because they're gonna
try to escape what they feel
is this coming civil war in america.
[harry] houston is one
of the wealthiest places in america.
Two out of every hundred
people here are millionaires.
Journalist jeff wise uncovers plans
for a $300 million texan bunker complex
in the lone star state.
It looks like a regular resort.
[martin] it's got a pool, it's got
a helicopter landing pad, because why not?
[tracy] but each condo is underground
to keep residents secure
if armageddon happens.
[harry] some super
bunkers come fully equipped
with triple filtered air,
months of supplies,
heavily armed guards
to fight off intruders.
And a massive amount
of fuel to run its generators.
A blast in an underground
complex this large
would light up the night
like the blast in the footage.
But former cia operative,
tracy walder finds no reports
of exploding super bunkers
on that day near port neches.
[tracy] something must
have blown but what was it?
[whirring]
[explosion]
[harry] electrical engineer
david wallace suspect
a dangerous local industry
has had a spectacular accident.
[david] so when you take into account
this has occurred around houston area,
we're pretty close to the gulf coast
and what's the main thing that you have
in the gulf coast around houston?
Oil platforms, oil refineries,
anything like this is highly explosive.
[harry] there are over 3,000 active rigs
in the gulf of mexico,
many close to shore,
and an accident of just one
can inflict catastrophic carnage.
When you look at the magnitude of danger,
these are pretty bad.
[helicopter blades whirring]
[harry] April 2010,
a sudden and deadly explosion
rips through the
deepwater horizon drill rig,
killing 11 people and injuring 17 more.
Over eighty-five days,
at least a hundred and eighty million
gallons of oil streamed into the ocean
devastating thirteen hundred
miles of bayous and beaches.
Enough oil spills to power over
a hundred and fifty thousand us homes
for an entire year.
[craig] and the cleaning
bill, $65 billion dollars.
[david] and we're still
paying the consequences
from this just one rig.
So, it's possible what
we're witnessing here,
the actual aftermath of
a massive oil explosion...
[jeff] there are millions of people
living along the shore
of the gulf of mexico.
That kind of accident
could be catastrophic.
[whirring]
[harry] matt kutcher is a
hollywood pyrotechnics expert
with over 20 years of experience.
-Go. -[explosion]
[harry] he helped recreate
the devastating oil rig fire
in the movie deepwater horizon.
[matt laughs]
that's hollywood.
Holy cow.
[harry] analyzing the footage,
he concludes this
can't be an oil rig place.
[matt] there's some other component in here
that makes it so bright and white.
There's no orange color
or hue to this in any way.
Something else is the cause of this.
Seeing this bright light makes me think
it could be more of a chemical explosion,
something with powders
or metals involved in it.
[harry] aluminum powder is used
in the production of chemicals,
and in the iron and steel industry,
it's highly explosive and burns
at over 45,000 degrees fahrenheit.
And when it reacts with oxygen,
it blazes with a searing white intensity.
The coast here at port neches
is littered with over 20 industrial plants.
It's the heartland
of america's petrochemical industry.
Could aluminum powders
in some kind of refinery
that's exploded create this bright light,
strong enough in an explosion,
hard enough that could
actually open doors miles away?
I think what we need to do here is create
some kind of experiment
to see if it's as bright as
what we see in this video.
[harry] kutcher plans to
use a high pressure vessel
to launch aluminum dust high into the air.
Then ignite it.
[matt] just get it up there
and see what it does.
Okay. We're ready. Let's go high.
So it's gonna be ba-boom, right?
-Copy you, sir. -Okay.
And here we go.
[whirring]
[harry] coming up.
Can matt kutcher identify
the mysterious midnight flash?
[matt] it's like an instant hurricane,
the shockwave is tremendous.
[harry] and this gingerbread
man is no fairytale.
[marcus] is it possible
that this is the horrible
disfigured body of a human being?
[camera whirring]
[camera whirring]
[harry] in texas, a
mysterious midnight explosion
rocks the small city of port neches,
turning night to day.
Hollywood pyrotechnics expert,
matt kutcher, wants to see if metal dust
from an industrial plant
can explain the blast's
unnatural brightness.
[matt] shut off your valve, son.
[harry] he plans to launch
powdered aluminum high into the air
and then ignite it.
In three, two, one.
-Hit it. -[explosion]
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now, that was a bright idea.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] the white intensity
of the blast looked similar
to the dazzling light
reflected in the windows
of the house in the video.
Kutcher believes there must have been
a metallic component involved.
[matt] it seems quite plausible
that this bright white light
could've come from a chemical plant.
And if the, uh, chemical plant was using
aluminum or magnesium,
or something like that
in a very fine powder source, well,
it could've done this
exact type of explosion.
[harry] journalist jeff wise investigates
local police reports in port neches
and finds a match.
[jeff] turns out that there's
a petrochemical plant
that's caught fire and it exploded,
so the doors that we're seeing flung open,
that's the shockwave
of this petrochemical plant exploding.
And then, we have another explosion
to deal with.
The blast fires one of the plant's towers
into the sky like a rocket.
[harry] the plant produces
over 400,000 tons
of the chemical butadiene every year.
[harry] the volatile colorless gas
is processed from gasoline
and used to make rubber.
After the blast,
the toxic cloud billows over the town
and spreads to neighboring areas.
[craig] so 60,000 people
have to be evacuated,
but what makes it worse, it's thanksgiving.
[harry] the chemical fueled fire
rages for six days straight.
[jeff] houses 30-miles away
felt the impact of this blast
and there was just tremendous
destruction in port neches.
The united states is an
industrial powerhouse,
but there's still a danger associated
with having that kind of an
industry on your doorstep.
[explosion]
[camera whirring]
[harry] now, southern china,
on the coast of the south china sea.
[beeping]
[harry] July 9th, 2018.
A man finds a hideous humanoid on a beach.
[gasps] what is it?
I mean, it kind of looks like a
mangled up gingerbread man.
[harry] the creepy thing like an object
brought to life in some dark fairytale
squirms as if trying to
escape the man's clutches.
This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Those two things don't just look like legs,
they're actually kicking.
[harry] as the camera moves in closer,
an eyeball-like form appears to hang
from its disfigured face.
Revolted, the man
throws it back into the sea.
[craig] if it's a creature,
it certainly doesn't look like any creature
that comes from earth.
[camera whirring]
[harry] a terrifying human-shaped being
looks like a gruesome version
of the gingerbread man,
a folktale that is told all over the world
about a cookie that bizarrely comes to life
and runs away from people.
But historian marcus harshaw wonders
if this clip could show a
chinese citizen mutilated
beyond recognition by an accident.
[marcus] is it possible
that this is the horrible
disfigured body of a human being?
[harry] over a hundred
people are killed every day
in china's mines, chemical plants,
and construction sites.
[siren wailing]
[harry] others are horribly
maimed in grotesque ways.
In 2013, 18-year-old wang jin
has his hands mangled
and pulled off at the wrist
after being dragged
into an industrial hammer.
Doctors reattached the severed hands
but can't save all his fingers.
It turns his hands into these,
like, lobster claws.
[harry] in 2015, yuan longhua,
a 38-year-old worker
at a glaze making factory
in chaozhou city,
slips and plunges into
a vat of boiling slurry.
[craig] so, 99% of his body was burned.
The flesh on his right leg began to rot
and so they had to amputate it.
[harry] the object spongy
appearance resembles
that hideous burnt human skin
suffers after a fiery accident.
A test pilot's body was so badly burned
after a plane crash in
laredo, texas in 1948.
The photographs of it convinced many
it was an alien from a downed ufo.
[marcus] the eyes are burned out
and the sockets are out of proportion
to its head.
There's no ears or nose,
and the mouth is just a slit with no lips,
tongue or teeth.
[harry] china's coast is used to test new
and often unreliable experimental aircraft.
In 2019, a chinese fighter jet crashed
in the island province of hainan,
near where the footage
we shot killing both pilots.
[craig] so, is this gingerbread-y thing
that washes up on shore,
is it actually the tragic outcome
-of an accident? -[camera whirring]
[harry] but biologist raven baxter examines
the object and the footage,
and decides this can't
be a disfigured person.
[raven] this thing is flat as a pancake
and if this were a vertebrae,
I would be looking for
evidence of broken bones,
but I don't think I see any.
So, this might be something else.
[camera whirring]
[harry] coming up, a carnivorous predator
disguised as a gingerbread man.
[carin] if this has somehow
chosen a human form intentionally,
could it mean that it's out to get us?
[harry] and is this evidence
of genetically altered bugs
unleashed on a florida city?
[mosquitoes buzzing]
local people are terrified.
They described this like a
jurassic park's experiment
where they're the guinea pigs.
[camera whirring]
[camera whirring]
[harry] a terrifying human-shaped creature
with what seems to be an eyeball
hanging off its face
is pulled from the south china sea.
Marine biologist carin bondar
investigates the surrounding area
and believes this wriggling monster
is a mutated form of sea life.
[carin] the texture of the animal
really reminds me of a sea sponge.
You know, they actually
move more than you think.
[raven] usually people
think that sponges are plants,
but they're actually animals
and in fact, we are related.
[harry] incredible as it may seem,
sponges and human share a similar genome,
the dna sequence that encodes
the building blocks of life.
Humans are thought to have evolved
from a sponge ancestor
750,000,000 years ago.
But that doesn't explain why the sponge
seems to have a manlike shape
or what looks like a
hideous eyeball on its face.
Some of the waters around china
are known to be extremely toxic.
Could this creature somehow be the results
of toxicity in the environment?
[harry] certain chemical
cocktails triggered changes
in the dna of the creatures expose to them,
mutating them in new and dangerous ways.
Over 10,000,000 tons of toxic junk
is dumped in china each year,
including huge amounts of cadmium,
which leaches into
lakes, rivers, and oceans.
[carin] cadmium is especially in cities
because not only does it
cause mutations to occur,
it actually blocks the signals
that we have to go and correct them,
so mutations will build up overtime.
People use this water every day to drink,
and to swim, and to water their crops,
and because of that many people are dying.
[carin] many kinds of toxins
cause genetic mutations.
I don't know what cadmium
would potentially do to a sponge.
Could this technological waste
have created this deadly monster?
[harry] a recent australian ocean survey
found many more sponges than
previously thought are carnivorous.
Carnivorous sponges don't have a mouth
or teeth for chewing,
so they've developed other
ways to digest their meals.
[harry] after the sponge traps prey,
it secretes an acid-like substance
that liquefies flesh
and then the sponge sucks up the mixture.
But why would a sponge take the rough form
of a human being?
In the animal kingdom,
some creatures use mimicry to lure in prey.
If the dna of this sponge is corrupted,
it could have mutated into
the form of a human baby
to lure people to come towards it.
[carin] if this sponge has somehow chosen
a human form intentionally,
could it mean that it's out to get us?
[harry] this gingerbread thing
is thrown back into the ocean,
giving scientist no time to study it
and find out what it is or
why it maybe mimicking
the shape of a human.
So, until we can get more information
about this hideous
thing, the jury is still out.
We may never know what it is.
[harry] now, pensacola, florida.
April 24th, 2020.
[birds chirping]
[harry] boat worker kenny wright
checks his backyard wildlife camera.
[kenny] when I wake up,
I drink my coffee and I look through
thumbnails and footage.
I'm watching the clip
and I see what appears
to be an up pulling or...
Of some kind of force,
but it rolls into a ring form or a halo
and it goes up into the woods.
[harry] there is no wind
and this is not pollen.
It's something that seems to be
moving deliberately
upwards in a dancing motion.
[kenny] partially, you can see it,
it kinda gets a little fancy
and wiggles like it's
gonna stay in your back.
I've never seen anything like it in my life
and nobody I've showed it
to from local sheriff deputies
to important people, nobody have...
Nobody can explain this.
I have no interest to it,
man. "I just really don't.
I really don't know what it is."
because we don't know
what they are, we have to ask,
well, could they be dangerous?
[harry] author patrick tomlinson
suspects kenny and his neighbors
could be human guinea pigs
in a government experiment
that has ordinary floridians terrified.
[patrick] looks like it could be a swarm
of flying insects but
they move differently.
They're more organized
than you would expect.
Maybe, there's something new and different
about their behavior.
In 2020, florida officials approved
the release of 750,000,000 mosquitoes
that have been genetically modified.
Could that be what we're seeing here?
[harry] mosquitoes are responsible
for more deaths each year than war,
terrorist attacks, and homicides combined.
[mosquitoes buzzing]
[siobhan] florida's aging population
is particularly susceptible
to the mosquito-borne west nile virus,
which can cause hemorrhagic fever
or even death.
[harry] the government launches
these genetically modified mosquitoes
to help bring down the population.
These lab built-bugs produce
female mosquito larvae
that die before they can breed.
But florida locals and
some environmental scientist
worry what is being
unleashed is a frankensquito.
A monstrous new breed of mutant insect
their creators cannot control.
[siobhan] local people are terrified.
They described this
like a jurassic park like experiment.
Two hundred and forty thousand people
had signed a petition, but it was useless.
The decision had already been made.
[patrick] people worry that
these mutant mosquitoes
have not been tested thoroughly enough
and could lead to a new
super strain of mosquito.
It's possible that this man
is being use as a guinea pig.
[harry] evidence suggests an experiment
like this could go wrong.
In brazil, genetically
engineered mosquitoes
bred for the same purpose.
Successfully transferred
their artificial genes
into the local wild mosquito population,
a scenario their creators claimed
shouldn't happen.
The lab grown mutant dna is now loose
in the amazon jungle.
Rapid dna mutation could create
new and terrifying versions
of the bugs we know today.
An arthropod evolutionary birth
in the carboniferous period,
300 million years ago
produced an age of insect monsters.
[patrick] dragonflies
with the size of seagulls
and centipedes were six-feet long,
with predators like that running around,
not much else is gonna get an opportunity.
[leslie] florida is already
full of deadly creatures,
but this could take it
to a whole another level.
[harry] but biologist
jayde lovell discovers
the government is
releasing the gm mosquitoes
too far from kenny wright's yard.
[jayde] this genetically
enhanced mosquito experiment
is focused on the florida case,
but that's over 500 miles
southeast of pensacola,
so something else must be going on here.
[harry] coming up, is
this florida homeowner
about to suffer the kiss of death?
This kind of insect attacks humans
by biting them around the mouth.
[harry] and why are these sheep
frozen where they stand?
I genuinely was so shocked.
It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
[amy] these animals look like
they're being affected on mass
by something extremely powerful
and very targeted.
[harry] in florida,
a backyard wildlife camera captures
a bizarre nocturnal mass
that appears to swarm.
Biologist roland kays thinks this could be
a deadly foreign invader
from south america,
the kissing bug.
This kind of insect attacks humans
by biting them around the mouth,
hence the name.
[harry] the kissing bug has sensors
on its antennae that lead it to warm,
soft parts of the skin
where blood is most easily sucked.
Numbers are skyrocketing in the us
as they migrate north
and they thrive in woods
like the one seen in
kenny wright's backyard.
But the kissing bug also harbors
a deadly parasite
that lives in its species.
If it sips into a bite,
the victim can develop
a gruesome disease called chagas.
[jayde] the way chagas
works is that it delivers
a parasite into your
body called trypanosoma
and this parasite swims
around your body causing
a range of symptoms including inflammation,
rashes, and even heart failure.
[harry] chagas is
originated in latin america.
Around the equator, it runs rampant,
swarms kill over 10,000 people a year.
Now, it's in the usa and doctors believe
300,000 people are infected.
[kevin] if a single insect in the swarm
is infected with the disease,
it can infect the entire swarm
causing a cloud of deadly insects.
[jayde] so, if what we've
seen here in the footage
is in fact a swarm of kissing bugs,
that is a big concern
and potentially very dangerous for the us.
[harry] florida authorities
wright has approached
have offered him no explanation
for the nighttime visitors and he suspects
they could be covering up the truth.
[kenny] I think there's much more of this.
This is just one capture in one lawn,
in one garden and, um, it's unexplainable.
There are things that
happen in the dead of night
that we might be better
off not knowing about.
[dramatic music playing]
[harry] now, troutbeck inn, cumbria,
northern England.
July 23rd, 2020... 9:30 am...
Carpenter rory davis
vacations in a rustic
cottage with his family.
We've been going ever
since I was a young lad
and it was no different from the rest.
It was just a Thursday morning.
It was raining.
There was not much
to do and I was literally
just chilling in my bed.
[dramatic music playing]
[harry] but rory's mother discovers
there's something strange going on outside.
I could tell by the look on her face
that she was serious.
That something weird was going on.
So, I go out of bed,
I rushed straight to the window
and I couldn't believe my eyes.
Hundreds of sheep stood frozen
in this field.
I genuinely was so shocked.
It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Every single last one of
those sheep were frozen.
Not a single one was moving.
I couldn't... I couldn't comprehend
what was going on.
It was almost like someone
had pulled the switch
and the world just stopped.
[harry] over 100 sheep, an entire herd
seemed to be affected
by some bizarre glitch.
I was shaking.
I thought I've got to catch this on film
because otherwise, no
one is gonna believe me.
It's my word against theirs.
It allowed me to actually zoom in.
And as I pan around, some
of them were stuck frozen
in a point that they were probably eating
or half-bent down, to sit down,
lay down, whatever.
They had completely frozen still.
What the heck?
It's like time has just stopped.
Everything is frozen.
It's... They're so motionless.
Look, nothing is moving in this clip.
[harry] at first, journalist jeff wise
thinks the odd behavior of the sheep
may be a reaction to an imminent threat.
[jeff] sheep are prey animals.
They evolve to minimize predation.
And one of the responses that animals have
is you can freeze, immobilize yourself.
If the predator is far enough away,
it might not notice you.
[harry] but image analyst, ben radford,
believes there are crucial differences
between the behavior in this footage
and normal animal responses.
[ben] sometimes in the wild,
animals that are confronted by a predator
will just freeze.
And that might explain
what's going on here, except for the fact
that they don't seem to be in panic.
Uh, they're looking
in different directions.
So, it's not as if they're all looking
towards one wolf.
[harry] the last known
wolf sighting in England
was here in cumbria,
but that was in the year 1390.
And rory believes the sheep remain frozen
for far longer
than an animal would naturally stay still.
They've been stood there for probably
at least a good one
hour and thirty minutes,
which is a long time.
So, if something was in there spooked them,
shortly it would have gone by now.
That just doesn't make sense.
[harry] coming up, evidence
of a mind control experiment
at a nearby top secret lab.
Could governments use
this kind of technology
to turn people on and off
just by clicking a switch?
[harry] and a creepy car which screeches
like a banshee
and seems to be driven by a ghost.
You can clearly see there's no one
in the driver seat.
There's no one operating this.
Is this car haunted?
[harry] in northern England, rory davis
captures a bizarre scene
of impossibly motionless sheep.
[rory] these sheep were frozen solid.
I'm trying to make some noise,
I started to wave my hands around,
but they just did not move
at all.
[birds chirping]
[harry] science journalist steve potvin
searches the surrounding area.
He discovers these stationary sheep
are close to one of britain's most claimed
[indistinct] experimental military sites,
raf speed atom.
[steve] there is a
secret military base here
that originally was built to look at
ballistic missiles.
But once the cold war ended,
they kind of switched over
to looking at secret electronic
warfare development.
[harry] the site used by both american
and uk military scientists
is one of the most remote in England.
It's surrounded by rugged terrain
and treacherous pit bombs,
the perfect place to develop strange
and dangerous weapons.
British prime minister margaret thatcher
is rumored to have ordered
government researchers
to start work on a bizarre
anti-personnel weapon
in the 1980s, just as she faces
one of the greatest tests.
[horse neighing]
[indistinct chatter]
[steve] in the early 80s in the uk,
there was something
known as the brixton riots.
[harry] the violence spreads across the uk,
turning city after city
into violent battlegrounds.
Britain's unarmed police are powerless
in the face of the angry mob.
It reported thatcher orders
a technological solution
to put these uprisings down.
[steve] it's been
discovered that you can use
electromagnetic pulses
to actually control the brains
of mammal and humans.
You can put them into a kind of trance.
I've heard stories, but
never seen evidence.
This may be it.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] scientists operating
under a secret project
codename, sleeping beauty,
claim they can use
directed microwave energy
to implant subconscious messages
into the target, inducing behavioral change
and involuntary paralysis.
These animals look
like they're being affected
on mass by something extremely powerful
and very targeted.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] potvin wonders
if these frozen sheep
could be part of an experiment
to use this technology again
in today's turbulent times.
[steve] if what we're seeing here is proof
that a weapon like this exists,
then what does that mean for us?
Could governments use
this kind of technology
to turn people on and off
just by flicking a switch?
-[suspenseful music
playing] -[birds chirping]
[harry] the uk government
refuses to confirm
or deny what tests are being carried out
near troutbeck.
But it's unlikely they conduct
a top secret test so close
to a public road.
[rory] I have no idea
how or why this happened,
and this is one of the most strangest
experiences I have ever had.
Unless more evidence comes to light,
we just won't be able to say
what caused these sheep to freeze
like they did on that hill.
[harry] now, quito, the capital of ecuador.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] October 2015...
A cctv camera watches over
an underground parking lot.
[brian] we see a man approaching
the vehicle on the left side of the frame,
opens the door, grabs a box...
[rhonda] and he closes the door
and it appears is that he locks it,
and then he's off.
[harry] then the car
takes on a life of its own.
[brake screeching]
[harry] untouched by human hands,
the motor appears to start,
straining hard against
the screeching handbrake
and the car creeps slowly forward.
This car is moving by itself
and screaming like a banshee.
[brake screeching]
you can clearly see there's no one
in the driver's seat.
I mean, really there's
no one operating this...
[brake screeching]
[harry] there is no slope here or oil
on the floor that might
make the car roll forward.
[thuds]
[harry] thirty minutes
later, the owner returns
to find his car
over twenty feet from where it was parked.
[rhonda] the driver is back
and he is just totally perplexed
that his car just moved
from where he left it.
He goes and gets one of the attendants
to kinda help with trying to figure out
what happened with his car.
[in foreign language]
the fact that the car seemed to wait
until it was alone to move
seemed super creepy.
[break screeching]
[brian] it almost seems like this vehicle
has a mind of its own.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] coming up, has this man
bought a killer car?
[nick] by changing the
key make-up of a car,
you're taking your life
into your own hands.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] in ecuador, a parked car's engine
mysteriously switches on by itself.
And then the car accelerates forward
despite a handbrake holding it in place.
[in foreign language]
[thunder rambling]
[harry] stories of haunted houses
are recorded all over the world.
But it's claimed the dead
can also possess cars.
Archduke franz ferdinand was shot
in a graf & stift limousine 1914.
The car is still said to be haunted.
The ghosts of bonnie and clyde
are rumored to haunt their bullet riddled
ford v8, now in display
at a casino in nevada.
If we're looking at haunted cars,
of course, we're all familiar
with the fictional version,
which is stephen king's christine.
There's a real car which was a 1964 dodge.
It was called the golden eagle.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] it's branded the most haunted car
in america.
Getting behind the wheel is said
to take you on a journey to hell.
Its first owners are the old orchard beach
police department in maine.
Three officers drove this car
and each of them unusually went on
to commit murder suicides.
They killed their families
and then they killed themselves.
[harry] horrified members of a local church
try to commandeer the vehicle
and perform an exorcism.
It's a fatal mistake.
Unfortunately on the way,
they were hit by an 18-wheeler
and many of them were decapitated.
So, when you believe in ghosts,
it's not that surprising
that you would feel
that cars behave in supernatural ways.
[brake screeching]
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] but engineer brian wolshon
suspects cybercrime could be behind
the car's ghost movement.
When I see footage like this,
where a vehicle is appearing
to start itself and to
make an attempt to drive,
I wonder if that could
be a case of hacking.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] most modern vehicles
are built with an onboard computer.
Some of these perform so many functions
from controlling engine emissions
to navigation, that the
car can almost be said
to be a computer on wheels.
And with so many cars
now connected to the internet,
this makes them vulnerable to attack.
[brian] once a hacker takes control,
they can do anything they want.
They can make the car drive,
they can take over steering,
they can take over braking.
They can actually lock the passengers
inside of the vehicle.
This is a huge risk.
Someone could be sitting in their basement
or their bedroom and use the internet
to control millions of vehicles
all over the world.
[sirens wailing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[harry] former fbi special
agent rhonda glover
runs the footage through
enhancement software
and identifies the car's brand,
but she finds it slightly
different in shape
to how it leaves the factory.
Looking at the space between the tire
and the rim, it just seems to be
a little bit lower, which gives
that indication that there are bits
of modifications where the suspension
may have been tampered with or, you know,
it's been jacked up.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] nick householder agrees
someone could have made
customizations to the car.
I think it's what people call a hot hatch.
It's a type of car that a car enthusiast
would wanna take and just do a ton of stuff
to modify as much as they can.
-[engine revving] -[tire screeching]
[harry] car modification is a business
worth over 100 billion dollars worldwide,
transforming run of the mill motors
into personalized supercars.
But amateurs risk death
when they drive hotrods.
This car meet in stevenage, England
ended in tragedy
when two out of control vehicles
collide in dangerously high speed.
No one was killed, but nineteen teenagers
are horrifically maimed and injured.
[nick] if the car has been modified badly,
a mistake in the ignition
could cause exactly
what we're seeing.
[liberty] you can hear a whirling sound
and that's probably the starter motor
and the squeal of the tires
as it moves against the parking brake.
[harry] householder believes the man
in the video is lucky to be alive.
Modifying a car, it's
just inherently risky.
The engineers design
the car in a specific way,
such that they can understand
and predict the reliability
and the safety of that vehicle.
By changing the key make-up of a car,
you're taking your life
with your own hands.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] worldwide,
36 billion cameras are watching us.
On our streets, at work, and in our homes.
They capture things that seem impossible.
[woman] science says this shouldn't happen.
[man] do you see that?
[harry] experts carry out forensic analysis
of these unusual events.
[matt] wow, what a blast.
[explosion]
[woman screaming]
this doesn't make sense.
[woman] there has to be
some sort of explanation.
What else is going on here?
-[camera whirring] -[explosion]
[harry] coming up.
Did a doomsday prepper
meet his own personal apocalypse?
[david] just blown the
doors open on the house.
The whole place is shaking.
I mean, this is incredible.
[siren wails]
[harry] floridians fight the frankensquito.
[patrick] it's possible that this man
has been used as a guinea pig.
[harry] and a creepy gingerbread man
who wants to eat you.
[marcus] this is the
weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Those two things don't just look like legs,
they're actually kicking.
[cameras whirring]
[harry] bizarre phenomena.
Oh, my god. [gasps]
[explosion]
[harry] mysteries caught on camera.
What's the truth behind
this strange evidence?
[whirring]
[harry] port neches,
85 miles east of houston, texas.
[beeping]
[harry] November 27th, 2019.
[beeping]
[harry] 12:56 am.
[jeff] we're seeing closed-circuit tv shot
of a house with a pool.
Nothing is going on
and then suddenly, ba-boom,
the whole place just lights up.
[explosion]
[david] what is happening at this place?
I don't know.
[harry] a burst of
unnatural light fills the sky
above this ordinary suburb
turning night to day.
[martin] and then it dims a bit
but the light doesn't go away.
Everything stays illuminated.
[harry] then a weird force rocks the house.
[david] and now, look at here.
There's a pressure wave.
It blown the doors open on the house.
The whole place is shaking.
It's crazy to me.
[harry] finally, a dog
shaken by the explosion
emerges from inside the property.
[tracy] it's like a second sun
has been shot into the sky.
[david] what we need to find out is
what type of explosion would this be.
[whirring]
[harry] military historian, martin morgan,
believes the powerful backyard blast
could've come from a terrible accident
in a secret underground layer.
A contemporary aspect
of the american experience
is that there are more and more people
that are preparing for a doomsday
or apocalypse type event.
[oxygen mask hisses]
[harry] today, a new breed
of doomsday prepper is emerging.
Fearful not of a russian
or a chinese attack,
but of an assault from within.
[suspenseful music playing]
[explosions]
[craig] you know, there's a lot of rioting
and chaos in america today,
so much so some people actually fear
another civil war coming.
Move back. Move back.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] bunker building
in the united states
has increased by 400%
in the wake of events in the year 2020.
And in texas, a state that prides itself
on its independence,
more people than ever
are preparing for the end of days.
[indistinct chatter]
[martin] and in the houston area,
there are no exceptions.
There are people that
are preparing for doomsday
to the extent that
they're building bunkers.
[harry] basic self-built survival bunkers
cost around $35,000.
They are dug as much as
10-feet below the ground
and can contain defensive weaponry,
basic medical supplies,
and six months' worth
of freeze-dried food.
Preppers believe they'll stay safe
while civilization collapses outside.
But badly built bunkers can
be underground death traps.
A stockbroker named
dan beckwitt hires a builder
to construct an underground bunker.
It's illegal under his house.
Guess what happens? A fire breaks out,
the builder burns to death.
[harry] red river county, texas,
October 2019,
another doomsday for a group of preppers.
[martin] a doomsday bunker
experienced a gas leak...
[jeff] and it filled with propane, a spark,
boom. The whole thing blew up.
There's concrete flying everywhere.
Three people were killed.
[explosion]
[martin] could this explosion be
from a private nuclear fallout bunker?
[harry] electrical engineer
david wallace finds evidence
of many self-built doomsday
bunkers in the area,
but doubts one was the source of the blast.
[david] so, whatever we
see that's causing the light
in this video, it must
contain a much larger source
of ignitable material than you would expect
to find in a small bunker.
[harry] but much bigger
bunkers have been built
all across the us.
[craig] you know, the
super-rich are actually
building these massive bunkers,
because they're gonna
try to escape what they feel
is this coming civil war in america.
[harry] houston is one
of the wealthiest places in america.
Two out of every hundred
people here are millionaires.
Journalist jeff wise uncovers plans
for a $300 million texan bunker complex
in the lone star state.
It looks like a regular resort.
[martin] it's got a pool, it's got
a helicopter landing pad, because why not?
[tracy] but each condo is underground
to keep residents secure
if armageddon happens.
[harry] some super
bunkers come fully equipped
with triple filtered air,
months of supplies,
heavily armed guards
to fight off intruders.
And a massive amount
of fuel to run its generators.
A blast in an underground
complex this large
would light up the night
like the blast in the footage.
But former cia operative,
tracy walder finds no reports
of exploding super bunkers
on that day near port neches.
[tracy] something must
have blown but what was it?
[whirring]
[explosion]
[harry] electrical engineer
david wallace suspect
a dangerous local industry
has had a spectacular accident.
[david] so when you take into account
this has occurred around houston area,
we're pretty close to the gulf coast
and what's the main thing that you have
in the gulf coast around houston?
Oil platforms, oil refineries,
anything like this is highly explosive.
[harry] there are over 3,000 active rigs
in the gulf of mexico,
many close to shore,
and an accident of just one
can inflict catastrophic carnage.
When you look at the magnitude of danger,
these are pretty bad.
[helicopter blades whirring]
[harry] April 2010,
a sudden and deadly explosion
rips through the
deepwater horizon drill rig,
killing 11 people and injuring 17 more.
Over eighty-five days,
at least a hundred and eighty million
gallons of oil streamed into the ocean
devastating thirteen hundred
miles of bayous and beaches.
Enough oil spills to power over
a hundred and fifty thousand us homes
for an entire year.
[craig] and the cleaning
bill, $65 billion dollars.
[david] and we're still
paying the consequences
from this just one rig.
So, it's possible what
we're witnessing here,
the actual aftermath of
a massive oil explosion...
[jeff] there are millions of people
living along the shore
of the gulf of mexico.
That kind of accident
could be catastrophic.
[whirring]
[harry] matt kutcher is a
hollywood pyrotechnics expert
with over 20 years of experience.
-Go. -[explosion]
[harry] he helped recreate
the devastating oil rig fire
in the movie deepwater horizon.
[matt laughs]
that's hollywood.
Holy cow.
[harry] analyzing the footage,
he concludes this
can't be an oil rig place.
[matt] there's some other component in here
that makes it so bright and white.
There's no orange color
or hue to this in any way.
Something else is the cause of this.
Seeing this bright light makes me think
it could be more of a chemical explosion,
something with powders
or metals involved in it.
[harry] aluminum powder is used
in the production of chemicals,
and in the iron and steel industry,
it's highly explosive and burns
at over 45,000 degrees fahrenheit.
And when it reacts with oxygen,
it blazes with a searing white intensity.
The coast here at port neches
is littered with over 20 industrial plants.
It's the heartland
of america's petrochemical industry.
Could aluminum powders
in some kind of refinery
that's exploded create this bright light,
strong enough in an explosion,
hard enough that could
actually open doors miles away?
I think what we need to do here is create
some kind of experiment
to see if it's as bright as
what we see in this video.
[harry] kutcher plans to
use a high pressure vessel
to launch aluminum dust high into the air.
Then ignite it.
[matt] just get it up there
and see what it does.
Okay. We're ready. Let's go high.
So it's gonna be ba-boom, right?
-Copy you, sir. -Okay.
And here we go.
[whirring]
[harry] coming up.
Can matt kutcher identify
the mysterious midnight flash?
[matt] it's like an instant hurricane,
the shockwave is tremendous.
[harry] and this gingerbread
man is no fairytale.
[marcus] is it possible
that this is the horrible
disfigured body of a human being?
[camera whirring]
[camera whirring]
[harry] in texas, a
mysterious midnight explosion
rocks the small city of port neches,
turning night to day.
Hollywood pyrotechnics expert,
matt kutcher, wants to see if metal dust
from an industrial plant
can explain the blast's
unnatural brightness.
[matt] shut off your valve, son.
[harry] he plans to launch
powdered aluminum high into the air
and then ignite it.
In three, two, one.
-Hit it. -[explosion]
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now, that was a bright idea.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] the white intensity
of the blast looked similar
to the dazzling light
reflected in the windows
of the house in the video.
Kutcher believes there must have been
a metallic component involved.
[matt] it seems quite plausible
that this bright white light
could've come from a chemical plant.
And if the, uh, chemical plant was using
aluminum or magnesium,
or something like that
in a very fine powder source, well,
it could've done this
exact type of explosion.
[harry] journalist jeff wise investigates
local police reports in port neches
and finds a match.
[jeff] turns out that there's
a petrochemical plant
that's caught fire and it exploded,
so the doors that we're seeing flung open,
that's the shockwave
of this petrochemical plant exploding.
And then, we have another explosion
to deal with.
The blast fires one of the plant's towers
into the sky like a rocket.
[harry] the plant produces
over 400,000 tons
of the chemical butadiene every year.
[harry] the volatile colorless gas
is processed from gasoline
and used to make rubber.
After the blast,
the toxic cloud billows over the town
and spreads to neighboring areas.
[craig] so 60,000 people
have to be evacuated,
but what makes it worse, it's thanksgiving.
[harry] the chemical fueled fire
rages for six days straight.
[jeff] houses 30-miles away
felt the impact of this blast
and there was just tremendous
destruction in port neches.
The united states is an
industrial powerhouse,
but there's still a danger associated
with having that kind of an
industry on your doorstep.
[explosion]
[camera whirring]
[harry] now, southern china,
on the coast of the south china sea.
[beeping]
[harry] July 9th, 2018.
A man finds a hideous humanoid on a beach.
[gasps] what is it?
I mean, it kind of looks like a
mangled up gingerbread man.
[harry] the creepy thing like an object
brought to life in some dark fairytale
squirms as if trying to
escape the man's clutches.
This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Those two things don't just look like legs,
they're actually kicking.
[harry] as the camera moves in closer,
an eyeball-like form appears to hang
from its disfigured face.
Revolted, the man
throws it back into the sea.
[craig] if it's a creature,
it certainly doesn't look like any creature
that comes from earth.
[camera whirring]
[harry] a terrifying human-shaped being
looks like a gruesome version
of the gingerbread man,
a folktale that is told all over the world
about a cookie that bizarrely comes to life
and runs away from people.
But historian marcus harshaw wonders
if this clip could show a
chinese citizen mutilated
beyond recognition by an accident.
[marcus] is it possible
that this is the horrible
disfigured body of a human being?
[harry] over a hundred
people are killed every day
in china's mines, chemical plants,
and construction sites.
[siren wailing]
[harry] others are horribly
maimed in grotesque ways.
In 2013, 18-year-old wang jin
has his hands mangled
and pulled off at the wrist
after being dragged
into an industrial hammer.
Doctors reattached the severed hands
but can't save all his fingers.
It turns his hands into these,
like, lobster claws.
[harry] in 2015, yuan longhua,
a 38-year-old worker
at a glaze making factory
in chaozhou city,
slips and plunges into
a vat of boiling slurry.
[craig] so, 99% of his body was burned.
The flesh on his right leg began to rot
and so they had to amputate it.
[harry] the object spongy
appearance resembles
that hideous burnt human skin
suffers after a fiery accident.
A test pilot's body was so badly burned
after a plane crash in
laredo, texas in 1948.
The photographs of it convinced many
it was an alien from a downed ufo.
[marcus] the eyes are burned out
and the sockets are out of proportion
to its head.
There's no ears or nose,
and the mouth is just a slit with no lips,
tongue or teeth.
[harry] china's coast is used to test new
and often unreliable experimental aircraft.
In 2019, a chinese fighter jet crashed
in the island province of hainan,
near where the footage
we shot killing both pilots.
[craig] so, is this gingerbread-y thing
that washes up on shore,
is it actually the tragic outcome
-of an accident? -[camera whirring]
[harry] but biologist raven baxter examines
the object and the footage,
and decides this can't
be a disfigured person.
[raven] this thing is flat as a pancake
and if this were a vertebrae,
I would be looking for
evidence of broken bones,
but I don't think I see any.
So, this might be something else.
[camera whirring]
[harry] coming up, a carnivorous predator
disguised as a gingerbread man.
[carin] if this has somehow
chosen a human form intentionally,
could it mean that it's out to get us?
[harry] and is this evidence
of genetically altered bugs
unleashed on a florida city?
[mosquitoes buzzing]
local people are terrified.
They described this like a
jurassic park's experiment
where they're the guinea pigs.
[camera whirring]
[camera whirring]
[harry] a terrifying human-shaped creature
with what seems to be an eyeball
hanging off its face
is pulled from the south china sea.
Marine biologist carin bondar
investigates the surrounding area
and believes this wriggling monster
is a mutated form of sea life.
[carin] the texture of the animal
really reminds me of a sea sponge.
You know, they actually
move more than you think.
[raven] usually people
think that sponges are plants,
but they're actually animals
and in fact, we are related.
[harry] incredible as it may seem,
sponges and human share a similar genome,
the dna sequence that encodes
the building blocks of life.
Humans are thought to have evolved
from a sponge ancestor
750,000,000 years ago.
But that doesn't explain why the sponge
seems to have a manlike shape
or what looks like a
hideous eyeball on its face.
Some of the waters around china
are known to be extremely toxic.
Could this creature somehow be the results
of toxicity in the environment?
[harry] certain chemical
cocktails triggered changes
in the dna of the creatures expose to them,
mutating them in new and dangerous ways.
Over 10,000,000 tons of toxic junk
is dumped in china each year,
including huge amounts of cadmium,
which leaches into
lakes, rivers, and oceans.
[carin] cadmium is especially in cities
because not only does it
cause mutations to occur,
it actually blocks the signals
that we have to go and correct them,
so mutations will build up overtime.
People use this water every day to drink,
and to swim, and to water their crops,
and because of that many people are dying.
[carin] many kinds of toxins
cause genetic mutations.
I don't know what cadmium
would potentially do to a sponge.
Could this technological waste
have created this deadly monster?
[harry] a recent australian ocean survey
found many more sponges than
previously thought are carnivorous.
Carnivorous sponges don't have a mouth
or teeth for chewing,
so they've developed other
ways to digest their meals.
[harry] after the sponge traps prey,
it secretes an acid-like substance
that liquefies flesh
and then the sponge sucks up the mixture.
But why would a sponge take the rough form
of a human being?
In the animal kingdom,
some creatures use mimicry to lure in prey.
If the dna of this sponge is corrupted,
it could have mutated into
the form of a human baby
to lure people to come towards it.
[carin] if this sponge has somehow chosen
a human form intentionally,
could it mean that it's out to get us?
[harry] this gingerbread thing
is thrown back into the ocean,
giving scientist no time to study it
and find out what it is or
why it maybe mimicking
the shape of a human.
So, until we can get more information
about this hideous
thing, the jury is still out.
We may never know what it is.
[harry] now, pensacola, florida.
April 24th, 2020.
[birds chirping]
[harry] boat worker kenny wright
checks his backyard wildlife camera.
[kenny] when I wake up,
I drink my coffee and I look through
thumbnails and footage.
I'm watching the clip
and I see what appears
to be an up pulling or...
Of some kind of force,
but it rolls into a ring form or a halo
and it goes up into the woods.
[harry] there is no wind
and this is not pollen.
It's something that seems to be
moving deliberately
upwards in a dancing motion.
[kenny] partially, you can see it,
it kinda gets a little fancy
and wiggles like it's
gonna stay in your back.
I've never seen anything like it in my life
and nobody I've showed it
to from local sheriff deputies
to important people, nobody have...
Nobody can explain this.
I have no interest to it,
man. "I just really don't.
I really don't know what it is."
because we don't know
what they are, we have to ask,
well, could they be dangerous?
[harry] author patrick tomlinson
suspects kenny and his neighbors
could be human guinea pigs
in a government experiment
that has ordinary floridians terrified.
[patrick] looks like it could be a swarm
of flying insects but
they move differently.
They're more organized
than you would expect.
Maybe, there's something new and different
about their behavior.
In 2020, florida officials approved
the release of 750,000,000 mosquitoes
that have been genetically modified.
Could that be what we're seeing here?
[harry] mosquitoes are responsible
for more deaths each year than war,
terrorist attacks, and homicides combined.
[mosquitoes buzzing]
[siobhan] florida's aging population
is particularly susceptible
to the mosquito-borne west nile virus,
which can cause hemorrhagic fever
or even death.
[harry] the government launches
these genetically modified mosquitoes
to help bring down the population.
These lab built-bugs produce
female mosquito larvae
that die before they can breed.
But florida locals and
some environmental scientist
worry what is being
unleashed is a frankensquito.
A monstrous new breed of mutant insect
their creators cannot control.
[siobhan] local people are terrified.
They described this
like a jurassic park like experiment.
Two hundred and forty thousand people
had signed a petition, but it was useless.
The decision had already been made.
[patrick] people worry that
these mutant mosquitoes
have not been tested thoroughly enough
and could lead to a new
super strain of mosquito.
It's possible that this man
is being use as a guinea pig.
[harry] evidence suggests an experiment
like this could go wrong.
In brazil, genetically
engineered mosquitoes
bred for the same purpose.
Successfully transferred
their artificial genes
into the local wild mosquito population,
a scenario their creators claimed
shouldn't happen.
The lab grown mutant dna is now loose
in the amazon jungle.
Rapid dna mutation could create
new and terrifying versions
of the bugs we know today.
An arthropod evolutionary birth
in the carboniferous period,
300 million years ago
produced an age of insect monsters.
[patrick] dragonflies
with the size of seagulls
and centipedes were six-feet long,
with predators like that running around,
not much else is gonna get an opportunity.
[leslie] florida is already
full of deadly creatures,
but this could take it
to a whole another level.
[harry] but biologist
jayde lovell discovers
the government is
releasing the gm mosquitoes
too far from kenny wright's yard.
[jayde] this genetically
enhanced mosquito experiment
is focused on the florida case,
but that's over 500 miles
southeast of pensacola,
so something else must be going on here.
[harry] coming up, is
this florida homeowner
about to suffer the kiss of death?
This kind of insect attacks humans
by biting them around the mouth.
[harry] and why are these sheep
frozen where they stand?
I genuinely was so shocked.
It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
[amy] these animals look like
they're being affected on mass
by something extremely powerful
and very targeted.
[harry] in florida,
a backyard wildlife camera captures
a bizarre nocturnal mass
that appears to swarm.
Biologist roland kays thinks this could be
a deadly foreign invader
from south america,
the kissing bug.
This kind of insect attacks humans
by biting them around the mouth,
hence the name.
[harry] the kissing bug has sensors
on its antennae that lead it to warm,
soft parts of the skin
where blood is most easily sucked.
Numbers are skyrocketing in the us
as they migrate north
and they thrive in woods
like the one seen in
kenny wright's backyard.
But the kissing bug also harbors
a deadly parasite
that lives in its species.
If it sips into a bite,
the victim can develop
a gruesome disease called chagas.
[jayde] the way chagas
works is that it delivers
a parasite into your
body called trypanosoma
and this parasite swims
around your body causing
a range of symptoms including inflammation,
rashes, and even heart failure.
[harry] chagas is
originated in latin america.
Around the equator, it runs rampant,
swarms kill over 10,000 people a year.
Now, it's in the usa and doctors believe
300,000 people are infected.
[kevin] if a single insect in the swarm
is infected with the disease,
it can infect the entire swarm
causing a cloud of deadly insects.
[jayde] so, if what we've
seen here in the footage
is in fact a swarm of kissing bugs,
that is a big concern
and potentially very dangerous for the us.
[harry] florida authorities
wright has approached
have offered him no explanation
for the nighttime visitors and he suspects
they could be covering up the truth.
[kenny] I think there's much more of this.
This is just one capture in one lawn,
in one garden and, um, it's unexplainable.
There are things that
happen in the dead of night
that we might be better
off not knowing about.
[dramatic music playing]
[harry] now, troutbeck inn, cumbria,
northern England.
July 23rd, 2020... 9:30 am...
Carpenter rory davis
vacations in a rustic
cottage with his family.
We've been going ever
since I was a young lad
and it was no different from the rest.
It was just a Thursday morning.
It was raining.
There was not much
to do and I was literally
just chilling in my bed.
[dramatic music playing]
[harry] but rory's mother discovers
there's something strange going on outside.
I could tell by the look on her face
that she was serious.
That something weird was going on.
So, I go out of bed,
I rushed straight to the window
and I couldn't believe my eyes.
Hundreds of sheep stood frozen
in this field.
I genuinely was so shocked.
It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
Every single last one of
those sheep were frozen.
Not a single one was moving.
I couldn't... I couldn't comprehend
what was going on.
It was almost like someone
had pulled the switch
and the world just stopped.
[harry] over 100 sheep, an entire herd
seemed to be affected
by some bizarre glitch.
I was shaking.
I thought I've got to catch this on film
because otherwise, no
one is gonna believe me.
It's my word against theirs.
It allowed me to actually zoom in.
And as I pan around, some
of them were stuck frozen
in a point that they were probably eating
or half-bent down, to sit down,
lay down, whatever.
They had completely frozen still.
What the heck?
It's like time has just stopped.
Everything is frozen.
It's... They're so motionless.
Look, nothing is moving in this clip.
[harry] at first, journalist jeff wise
thinks the odd behavior of the sheep
may be a reaction to an imminent threat.
[jeff] sheep are prey animals.
They evolve to minimize predation.
And one of the responses that animals have
is you can freeze, immobilize yourself.
If the predator is far enough away,
it might not notice you.
[harry] but image analyst, ben radford,
believes there are crucial differences
between the behavior in this footage
and normal animal responses.
[ben] sometimes in the wild,
animals that are confronted by a predator
will just freeze.
And that might explain
what's going on here, except for the fact
that they don't seem to be in panic.
Uh, they're looking
in different directions.
So, it's not as if they're all looking
towards one wolf.
[harry] the last known
wolf sighting in England
was here in cumbria,
but that was in the year 1390.
And rory believes the sheep remain frozen
for far longer
than an animal would naturally stay still.
They've been stood there for probably
at least a good one
hour and thirty minutes,
which is a long time.
So, if something was in there spooked them,
shortly it would have gone by now.
That just doesn't make sense.
[harry] coming up, evidence
of a mind control experiment
at a nearby top secret lab.
Could governments use
this kind of technology
to turn people on and off
just by clicking a switch?
[harry] and a creepy car which screeches
like a banshee
and seems to be driven by a ghost.
You can clearly see there's no one
in the driver seat.
There's no one operating this.
Is this car haunted?
[harry] in northern England, rory davis
captures a bizarre scene
of impossibly motionless sheep.
[rory] these sheep were frozen solid.
I'm trying to make some noise,
I started to wave my hands around,
but they just did not move
at all.
[birds chirping]
[harry] science journalist steve potvin
searches the surrounding area.
He discovers these stationary sheep
are close to one of britain's most claimed
[indistinct] experimental military sites,
raf speed atom.
[steve] there is a
secret military base here
that originally was built to look at
ballistic missiles.
But once the cold war ended,
they kind of switched over
to looking at secret electronic
warfare development.
[harry] the site used by both american
and uk military scientists
is one of the most remote in England.
It's surrounded by rugged terrain
and treacherous pit bombs,
the perfect place to develop strange
and dangerous weapons.
British prime minister margaret thatcher
is rumored to have ordered
government researchers
to start work on a bizarre
anti-personnel weapon
in the 1980s, just as she faces
one of the greatest tests.
[horse neighing]
[indistinct chatter]
[steve] in the early 80s in the uk,
there was something
known as the brixton riots.
[harry] the violence spreads across the uk,
turning city after city
into violent battlegrounds.
Britain's unarmed police are powerless
in the face of the angry mob.
It reported thatcher orders
a technological solution
to put these uprisings down.
[steve] it's been
discovered that you can use
electromagnetic pulses
to actually control the brains
of mammal and humans.
You can put them into a kind of trance.
I've heard stories, but
never seen evidence.
This may be it.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] scientists operating
under a secret project
codename, sleeping beauty,
claim they can use
directed microwave energy
to implant subconscious messages
into the target, inducing behavioral change
and involuntary paralysis.
These animals look
like they're being affected
on mass by something extremely powerful
and very targeted.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] potvin wonders
if these frozen sheep
could be part of an experiment
to use this technology again
in today's turbulent times.
[steve] if what we're seeing here is proof
that a weapon like this exists,
then what does that mean for us?
Could governments use
this kind of technology
to turn people on and off
just by flicking a switch?
-[suspenseful music
playing] -[birds chirping]
[harry] the uk government
refuses to confirm
or deny what tests are being carried out
near troutbeck.
But it's unlikely they conduct
a top secret test so close
to a public road.
[rory] I have no idea
how or why this happened,
and this is one of the most strangest
experiences I have ever had.
Unless more evidence comes to light,
we just won't be able to say
what caused these sheep to freeze
like they did on that hill.
[harry] now, quito, the capital of ecuador.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] October 2015...
A cctv camera watches over
an underground parking lot.
[brian] we see a man approaching
the vehicle on the left side of the frame,
opens the door, grabs a box...
[rhonda] and he closes the door
and it appears is that he locks it,
and then he's off.
[harry] then the car
takes on a life of its own.
[brake screeching]
[harry] untouched by human hands,
the motor appears to start,
straining hard against
the screeching handbrake
and the car creeps slowly forward.
This car is moving by itself
and screaming like a banshee.
[brake screeching]
you can clearly see there's no one
in the driver's seat.
I mean, really there's
no one operating this...
[brake screeching]
[harry] there is no slope here or oil
on the floor that might
make the car roll forward.
[thuds]
[harry] thirty minutes
later, the owner returns
to find his car
over twenty feet from where it was parked.
[rhonda] the driver is back
and he is just totally perplexed
that his car just moved
from where he left it.
He goes and gets one of the attendants
to kinda help with trying to figure out
what happened with his car.
[in foreign language]
the fact that the car seemed to wait
until it was alone to move
seemed super creepy.
[break screeching]
[brian] it almost seems like this vehicle
has a mind of its own.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] coming up, has this man
bought a killer car?
[nick] by changing the
key make-up of a car,
you're taking your life
into your own hands.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] in ecuador, a parked car's engine
mysteriously switches on by itself.
And then the car accelerates forward
despite a handbrake holding it in place.
[in foreign language]
[thunder rambling]
[harry] stories of haunted houses
are recorded all over the world.
But it's claimed the dead
can also possess cars.
Archduke franz ferdinand was shot
in a graf & stift limousine 1914.
The car is still said to be haunted.
The ghosts of bonnie and clyde
are rumored to haunt their bullet riddled
ford v8, now in display
at a casino in nevada.
If we're looking at haunted cars,
of course, we're all familiar
with the fictional version,
which is stephen king's christine.
There's a real car which was a 1964 dodge.
It was called the golden eagle.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] it's branded the most haunted car
in america.
Getting behind the wheel is said
to take you on a journey to hell.
Its first owners are the old orchard beach
police department in maine.
Three officers drove this car
and each of them unusually went on
to commit murder suicides.
They killed their families
and then they killed themselves.
[harry] horrified members of a local church
try to commandeer the vehicle
and perform an exorcism.
It's a fatal mistake.
Unfortunately on the way,
they were hit by an 18-wheeler
and many of them were decapitated.
So, when you believe in ghosts,
it's not that surprising
that you would feel
that cars behave in supernatural ways.
[brake screeching]
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] but engineer brian wolshon
suspects cybercrime could be behind
the car's ghost movement.
When I see footage like this,
where a vehicle is appearing
to start itself and to
make an attempt to drive,
I wonder if that could
be a case of hacking.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] most modern vehicles
are built with an onboard computer.
Some of these perform so many functions
from controlling engine emissions
to navigation, that the
car can almost be said
to be a computer on wheels.
And with so many cars
now connected to the internet,
this makes them vulnerable to attack.
[brian] once a hacker takes control,
they can do anything they want.
They can make the car drive,
they can take over steering,
they can take over braking.
They can actually lock the passengers
inside of the vehicle.
This is a huge risk.
Someone could be sitting in their basement
or their bedroom and use the internet
to control millions of vehicles
all over the world.
[sirens wailing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[harry] former fbi special
agent rhonda glover
runs the footage through
enhancement software
and identifies the car's brand,
but she finds it slightly
different in shape
to how it leaves the factory.
Looking at the space between the tire
and the rim, it just seems to be
a little bit lower, which gives
that indication that there are bits
of modifications where the suspension
may have been tampered with or, you know,
it's been jacked up.
[suspenseful music playing]
[harry] nick householder agrees
someone could have made
customizations to the car.
I think it's what people call a hot hatch.
It's a type of car that a car enthusiast
would wanna take and just do a ton of stuff
to modify as much as they can.
-[engine revving] -[tire screeching]
[harry] car modification is a business
worth over 100 billion dollars worldwide,
transforming run of the mill motors
into personalized supercars.
But amateurs risk death
when they drive hotrods.
This car meet in stevenage, England
ended in tragedy
when two out of control vehicles
collide in dangerously high speed.
No one was killed, but nineteen teenagers
are horrifically maimed and injured.
[nick] if the car has been modified badly,
a mistake in the ignition
could cause exactly
what we're seeing.
[liberty] you can hear a whirling sound
and that's probably the starter motor
and the squeal of the tires
as it moves against the parking brake.
[harry] householder believes the man
in the video is lucky to be alive.
Modifying a car, it's
just inherently risky.
The engineers design
the car in a specific way,
such that they can understand
and predict the reliability
and the safety of that vehicle.
By changing the key make-up of a car,
you're taking your life
with your own hands.
[suspenseful music playing]