1 00:00:01,301 --> 00:00:03,168 NARRATOR: They're watching you. 2 00:00:03,203 --> 00:00:06,071 More than 5,000 satellites circle the Earth. 3 00:00:07,507 --> 00:00:11,510 Every day, they uncover new mysterious phenomena 4 00:00:11,544 --> 00:00:13,245 that defy explanation. 5 00:00:15,415 --> 00:00:20,119 The Big Evil -- death and terror in the Australian desert. 6 00:00:20,153 --> 00:00:21,553 CAVANOUGH: Wow, this is insane. 7 00:00:21,588 --> 00:00:23,956 It's wiped all of the life off the face of the Earth. 8 00:00:24,991 --> 00:00:26,525 NARRATOR: Discovered from the skies -- 9 00:00:26,593 --> 00:00:29,261 Braveheart's secret hideout. 10 00:00:29,329 --> 00:00:31,063 KOUROUNIS: This would make it one of the most 11 00:00:31,097 --> 00:00:35,134 important archaeological sites in all the British Isles. 12 00:00:35,201 --> 00:00:37,936 NARRATOR: And inside the Montauk Project. 13 00:00:38,004 --> 00:00:39,405 MAN: What is that? 14 00:00:39,472 --> 00:00:42,541 They found this bizarre creature unlike any other 15 00:00:42,609 --> 00:00:44,643 animal that they have ever seen before. 16 00:00:44,677 --> 00:00:49,014 NARRATOR: Baffling phenomena. Mysteries from space. 17 00:00:49,082 --> 00:00:50,983 What on Earth are they? 18 00:00:51,051 --> 00:00:54,086 [theme music playing] 19 00:01:11,004 --> 00:01:13,572 Australia's Great Victoria Desert -- 20 00:01:17,410 --> 00:01:19,678 A featureless expanse of sand hills 21 00:01:19,712 --> 00:01:22,181 and scrub the size of California. 22 00:01:25,085 --> 00:01:28,620 Ed Cavanough is heading deep into this vast wilderness, 23 00:01:28,655 --> 00:01:32,257 drawn by something weird revealed from space. 24 00:01:33,593 --> 00:01:35,260 I've lived in Australia my whole life 25 00:01:35,295 --> 00:01:37,996 and never seen anything quite like this before. 26 00:01:41,301 --> 00:01:45,671 NARRATOR: An image taken over the region on April 8, 2021, 27 00:01:46,873 --> 00:01:50,042 has captured this pattern in the red sands below. 28 00:01:52,178 --> 00:01:55,814 SZULGIT: Out in the middle of nowhere is this giant carving 29 00:01:55,882 --> 00:01:59,318 on the earth -- looks like kind of wedges of a pizza. 30 00:02:01,221 --> 00:02:02,387 MUNOZ: It's very strange. 31 00:02:02,422 --> 00:02:05,457 The middle of it has been cleared 32 00:02:05,492 --> 00:02:08,193 in a way that it forms almost like a bulls-eye. 33 00:02:11,831 --> 00:02:14,967 NARRATOR: The mystery symbol covers an area equivalent to 34 00:02:15,001 --> 00:02:16,902 600 football fields 35 00:02:16,970 --> 00:02:21,573 and has spokes up to 1,400 feet in length. 36 00:02:24,010 --> 00:02:27,312 The shape itself has been created with precision, 37 00:02:27,380 --> 00:02:30,616 which can only mean that some sort of government or military 38 00:02:30,650 --> 00:02:32,484 operation has taken place here. 39 00:02:36,089 --> 00:02:38,824 NARRATOR: What's more, the remains of 40 00:02:38,892 --> 00:02:41,160 an identical shape sit nearby. 41 00:02:42,996 --> 00:02:45,164 Great effort appears to have been made 42 00:02:45,231 --> 00:02:47,032 to erase evidence of it. 43 00:02:49,135 --> 00:02:50,235 As a journalist, 44 00:02:50,303 --> 00:02:52,738 when I see something clandestine in my own backyard, 45 00:02:52,772 --> 00:02:55,040 I feel compelled to go and investigate it. 46 00:02:59,746 --> 00:03:02,915 NARRATOR: Officially, there are no towns near the site, 47 00:03:05,418 --> 00:03:08,687 but evidence on the ground suggests otherwise. 48 00:03:11,624 --> 00:03:13,192 CAVANOUGH: Wow, this is insane. 49 00:03:13,226 --> 00:03:15,360 I mean, it's a completely deserted ghost town. 50 00:03:17,630 --> 00:03:19,064 This can't just be a coincidence. 51 00:03:19,132 --> 00:03:24,336 ♪ 52 00:03:24,370 --> 00:03:25,871 NARRATOR: Just 15 miles from 53 00:03:25,939 --> 00:03:28,574 the mystery symbols sits this ghost town. 54 00:03:28,608 --> 00:03:33,745 ♪ 55 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:37,849 Dozens of its buildings have been razed to the ground. 56 00:03:37,917 --> 00:03:41,053 This clearly would have been a very sizable community here. 57 00:03:41,087 --> 00:03:43,222 Looks like it's been abandoned for decades. 58 00:03:44,991 --> 00:03:47,593 NARRATOR: Whatever forced this town to flee, 59 00:03:47,660 --> 00:03:50,262 it appears to have happened almost overnight. 60 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:55,100 Oh, this is amazing. 61 00:03:55,168 --> 00:03:58,070 All the chairs and equipment are left exactly 62 00:03:58,137 --> 00:04:00,973 in place as they would have been decades ago. 63 00:04:01,007 --> 00:04:03,609 Everyone's just got up and left. 64 00:04:05,612 --> 00:04:08,380 NARRATOR: In each room, Cavanough finds evidence of 65 00:04:08,414 --> 00:04:09,615 government activity. 66 00:04:11,050 --> 00:04:13,318 This vehicle was completely out of place here. 67 00:04:14,821 --> 00:04:17,189 It's clearly been modified for some purpose. 68 00:04:17,223 --> 00:04:21,126 It's got a completely enclosed cabin to separate this 69 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,095 part of the vehicle from those who are driving it. 70 00:04:25,231 --> 00:04:26,531 NARRATOR: The vehicle appears to be 71 00:04:26,599 --> 00:04:30,002 designed to contain something extremely hazardous. 72 00:04:32,605 --> 00:04:35,807 Satellite images of another ghost town in Australia 73 00:04:35,875 --> 00:04:38,443 could offer a clue. 74 00:04:38,511 --> 00:04:40,979 What we do know is that a town in Australia 75 00:04:41,047 --> 00:04:46,952 did have to evacuate because of a toxic asbestos mine. 76 00:04:47,020 --> 00:04:48,820 Could this have been the same case 77 00:04:48,888 --> 00:04:50,455 in the town we're looking at here? 78 00:04:52,392 --> 00:04:57,596 NARRATOR: Between the 1940s and the 1960s, miners in the town of 79 00:04:57,664 --> 00:05:03,568 Wittenoom excavate around 165,000 tons of blue asbestos 80 00:05:03,636 --> 00:05:05,304 from the desert. 81 00:05:05,371 --> 00:05:07,172 Over the years, 82 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,842 2,000 people die from unwittingly inhaling 83 00:05:10,910 --> 00:05:12,911 the cancerous fibers before 84 00:05:12,979 --> 00:05:15,881 the government shuts down the mine and wipes the town off 85 00:05:15,948 --> 00:05:17,416 the map. 86 00:05:17,450 --> 00:05:20,319 It's actually the largest contaminated 87 00:05:20,386 --> 00:05:23,588 site in the entire Southern Hemisphere. 88 00:05:23,623 --> 00:05:24,756 That's big. 89 00:05:27,660 --> 00:05:30,362 NARRATOR: The nightmare scenario is that the ghost town 90 00:05:30,430 --> 00:05:31,863 and the shapes in the image 91 00:05:31,931 --> 00:05:35,000 may be evidence of another equally deadly disaster 92 00:05:35,068 --> 00:05:36,568 on Australian soil, 93 00:05:39,005 --> 00:05:41,673 one that authorities are trying to cover up. 94 00:05:42,909 --> 00:05:44,142 Something bad has happened here 95 00:05:44,210 --> 00:05:46,411 to make people abandon this town, 96 00:05:46,479 --> 00:05:48,480 and I'm certain it's got something to do with 97 00:05:48,548 --> 00:05:51,083 those wagon wheel shapes I've seen in the desert. 98 00:05:52,518 --> 00:05:54,319 [car engine starts] 99 00:05:57,690 --> 00:05:59,491 NARRATOR: The indigenous people here 100 00:05:59,525 --> 00:06:01,793 call this area the Big Evil. 101 00:06:04,364 --> 00:06:06,798 And the journalist soon learns why. 102 00:06:09,068 --> 00:06:10,635 CAVANOUGH: The closer I get to the wagon wheel shapes, 103 00:06:10,703 --> 00:06:13,171 the vegetation is getting thinner and thinner. 104 00:06:13,239 --> 00:06:16,308 It's almost as if some sort of event has taken place here that 105 00:06:16,342 --> 00:06:19,811 has just wiped all of the life off the face of the earth. 106 00:06:26,953 --> 00:06:28,587 NARRATOR: Arriving at the coordinates, 107 00:06:28,621 --> 00:06:31,757 Cavanough discovers a vast flat area. 108 00:06:35,828 --> 00:06:37,863 First thing I've noticed is these 109 00:06:37,930 --> 00:06:42,267 strange hooks that are embedded into this concrete slab. 110 00:06:46,506 --> 00:06:49,474 I'm not sure at all what these will be pinning to the ground, 111 00:06:49,509 --> 00:06:51,476 but it certainly adds to the mystery here. 112 00:06:54,247 --> 00:06:57,716 NARRATOR: Nearby, Cavanough finds more objects 113 00:06:57,784 --> 00:06:59,885 not visible in the satellite image. 114 00:07:02,088 --> 00:07:03,155 Wow, look at this! 115 00:07:04,557 --> 00:07:07,025 These look like some sort of 116 00:07:07,059 --> 00:07:08,593 rocket launching devices. 117 00:07:08,661 --> 00:07:11,029 They're incredibly old and brittle, 118 00:07:11,063 --> 00:07:13,098 all rusted out. 119 00:07:13,166 --> 00:07:17,469 NARRATOR: The rocket launchers are weird enough, 120 00:07:17,537 --> 00:07:19,704 but what really intrigues Cavanough 121 00:07:19,772 --> 00:07:21,606 is what surrounds them. 122 00:07:24,644 --> 00:07:26,978 CAVANOUGH: There's this field of green glass. 123 00:07:27,046 --> 00:07:28,780 It almost looks like a green jade 124 00:07:28,815 --> 00:07:30,482 all across the ground out here. 125 00:07:32,618 --> 00:07:35,754 NARRATOR: Millions of square feet of desert around 126 00:07:35,788 --> 00:07:38,523 the mystery shapes shimmer with the deformed beads 127 00:07:38,558 --> 00:07:39,758 of glass. 128 00:07:43,329 --> 00:07:45,697 Cavanough believes this is trinitite, 129 00:07:45,765 --> 00:07:49,868 a substance formed when sand is subjected to temperatures in 130 00:07:49,936 --> 00:07:52,471 excess of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. 131 00:07:54,474 --> 00:07:55,974 This suggests to me that this has to 132 00:07:56,042 --> 00:07:59,144 have been made from a nuclear weapons test. 133 00:08:02,748 --> 00:08:04,716 I'm actually -- I'm completely speechless 134 00:08:04,750 --> 00:08:05,951 discovering this here. 135 00:08:08,054 --> 00:08:10,489 NARRATOR: What's concerning is that there are only 136 00:08:10,523 --> 00:08:14,559 nine countries with known nuclear weapons capabilities, 137 00:08:14,627 --> 00:08:17,395 and Australia isn't one of them. 138 00:08:17,463 --> 00:08:20,198 CAVANOUGH: The idea is just unfathomable, 139 00:08:20,266 --> 00:08:22,133 but there's just no other explanation, 140 00:08:22,201 --> 00:08:23,902 and it's just completely shocking. 141 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:31,977 NARRATOR: Coming up, lies and deadly government deception. 142 00:08:32,044 --> 00:08:33,879 What happened here was secret. 143 00:08:33,946 --> 00:08:35,747 No one knew anything about it. 144 00:08:35,781 --> 00:08:38,984 NARRATOR: And the $9 trillion treasure hunt. 145 00:08:39,051 --> 00:08:40,652 HYMEL: It's only by looking down from 146 00:08:40,686 --> 00:08:44,089 space that we really appreciate its enormity. 147 00:08:52,398 --> 00:08:55,233 NARRATOR: Hooked by a giant symbol revealed from space, 148 00:08:56,602 --> 00:09:00,205 Ed Cavanough is in Australia's Great Victoria Desert. 149 00:09:00,273 --> 00:09:03,008 I'm arriving at the coordinates now. 150 00:09:03,075 --> 00:09:05,944 This area is not at all what I was expecting. 151 00:09:10,149 --> 00:09:13,218 NARRATOR: Evidence on the ground has revealed these sands were 152 00:09:13,252 --> 00:09:16,688 once ground zero for a series of nuclear explosions. 153 00:09:18,357 --> 00:09:22,027 But to the journalist, that doesn't make sense. 154 00:09:22,061 --> 00:09:23,595 CAVANOUGH: Australia isn't a nuclear country, so 155 00:09:23,629 --> 00:09:25,597 I just can't believe that this would be happening here. 156 00:09:29,535 --> 00:09:32,070 Hi, it's -- It's Edward Cavanough. 157 00:09:32,138 --> 00:09:34,639 NARRATOR: Cavanough turns to his newspaper contacts 158 00:09:34,707 --> 00:09:36,107 to track down someone 159 00:09:36,175 --> 00:09:38,043 who might be able to shed some light. 160 00:09:38,110 --> 00:09:39,377 All right. Thanks. 161 00:09:42,048 --> 00:09:44,382 NARRATOR: Jeremy LeBois is a member of 162 00:09:44,417 --> 00:09:46,084 the Maralinga Tjarutja, 163 00:09:46,152 --> 00:09:48,520 a council of local Aboriginal peoples. 164 00:09:48,554 --> 00:09:51,623 Hey, Jeremy. How are you? 165 00:09:51,691 --> 00:09:53,124 - How you goin'? - Good to see you. 166 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:56,328 NARRATOR: He confirms that 60 years ago 167 00:09:56,362 --> 00:09:59,297 atomic testing did take place in this desert, 168 00:09:59,365 --> 00:10:03,001 but not ones conducted by the Australian government. 169 00:10:03,069 --> 00:10:06,538 Where we are today is where the British 170 00:10:06,606 --> 00:10:09,374 tested seven atomic bombs that were 171 00:10:09,442 --> 00:10:12,477 bigger than what they dropped on Japan. 172 00:10:14,614 --> 00:10:17,649 NARRATOR: In 1952, the British become 173 00:10:17,683 --> 00:10:19,651 the world's third nuclear power 174 00:10:19,685 --> 00:10:22,387 and are desperate to play catch up with the U.S. 175 00:10:22,421 --> 00:10:23,822 and Soviet Union. 176 00:10:23,889 --> 00:10:25,590 [speaking indistinctly] 177 00:10:25,658 --> 00:10:26,591 NARRATOR: To do that, 178 00:10:26,659 --> 00:10:29,094 the small, densely populated nation needs to 179 00:10:29,128 --> 00:10:32,897 persuade another country to host their nuclear tests. 180 00:10:32,932 --> 00:10:35,066 The British government looked for testing sites 181 00:10:35,134 --> 00:10:37,969 in the U.S. and Canada but were turned down. 182 00:10:38,037 --> 00:10:40,071 And then Britain knocks on the door 183 00:10:40,139 --> 00:10:42,807 of Australia, part of the old empire, 184 00:10:42,875 --> 00:10:44,776 and the Aussies go, "You know what? 185 00:10:44,810 --> 00:10:46,044 "Yeah, we'll have your nukes. 186 00:10:46,145 --> 00:10:48,146 Let's blow up some nukes in our deserts." 187 00:10:50,983 --> 00:10:54,119 NARRATOR: In exchange for sharing nuclear secrets, 188 00:10:54,153 --> 00:10:57,389 the Australian government grants the British vast swaths 189 00:10:57,423 --> 00:10:58,890 of land for their tests. 190 00:10:58,958 --> 00:11:03,995 But it's land that belongs to LeBois and his people 191 00:11:04,030 --> 00:11:05,397 Jeremy, how much notice were 192 00:11:05,464 --> 00:11:06,831 the traditional owners of this land 193 00:11:06,899 --> 00:11:08,633 given about the nuclear tests? 194 00:11:08,701 --> 00:11:12,570 Absolutely nothing. Not one of them ever, ever sat 195 00:11:12,638 --> 00:11:14,572 down with the traditional owners and asked them 196 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,741 for permission, not one of them. 197 00:11:16,809 --> 00:11:22,847 ♪ 198 00:11:22,882 --> 00:11:24,883 NARRATOR: The deserts here are of deep 199 00:11:24,950 --> 00:11:28,353 spiritual significance to the Aboriginal people. 200 00:11:28,387 --> 00:11:32,123 Yet the British immediately begin to remove them from 201 00:11:32,158 --> 00:11:36,828 the place they had held sacred for 2,000 generations. 202 00:11:36,896 --> 00:11:38,697 LeBOIS: The connection to this land, 203 00:11:38,731 --> 00:11:42,200 you know, it goes back thousands of years, and, uh, 204 00:11:42,268 --> 00:11:44,836 they forced the people, my people, away from 205 00:11:44,904 --> 00:11:47,005 this country. 206 00:11:47,073 --> 00:11:50,709 NARRATOR: The British build a town to the south of 207 00:11:50,776 --> 00:11:53,645 the site and prepare the area for both air- 208 00:11:53,713 --> 00:11:55,380 and ground-based tests. 209 00:11:56,449 --> 00:12:00,418 On September 27, 1956, 210 00:12:00,453 --> 00:12:02,387 they detonate the first of 211 00:12:02,421 --> 00:12:04,756 seven devices in the desert. - Three, two, one. 212 00:12:04,824 --> 00:12:09,794 Such is its power that those watching report being able to 213 00:12:09,862 --> 00:12:12,163 see their own bones through their hands. 214 00:12:12,231 --> 00:12:14,899 MUNOZ: British soldiers were ordered to observe 215 00:12:14,967 --> 00:12:17,669 the mushroom clouds during the tests, and all they 216 00:12:17,737 --> 00:12:21,139 would go out there wearing is pretty much shirts and shorts. 217 00:12:21,207 --> 00:12:24,342 NARRATOR: But the troops weren't the only ones 218 00:12:24,443 --> 00:12:25,610 close to the blast. 219 00:12:25,678 --> 00:12:29,547 Many Aboriginal people remain in the desert. 220 00:12:29,582 --> 00:12:32,083 [explosion blasting] 221 00:12:32,118 --> 00:12:35,353 They later described how a black mist 222 00:12:35,387 --> 00:12:38,056 of radioactive dust rains down on them. 223 00:12:39,391 --> 00:12:40,959 But it gets worse. 224 00:12:40,993 --> 00:12:43,828 Some even seek shelter in the craters formed by 225 00:12:43,896 --> 00:12:45,697 the explosions. 226 00:12:45,765 --> 00:12:48,199 They were still living nomadic lifestyle. 227 00:12:48,267 --> 00:12:49,968 They didn't understand the actual soil 228 00:12:50,035 --> 00:12:51,503 was contaminated. 229 00:12:54,974 --> 00:12:56,508 SZULGIT: The people who stayed behind 230 00:12:56,575 --> 00:12:59,177 began to suffer immediate effects of nuclear fallout, 231 00:12:59,245 --> 00:13:02,347 having their skin peel and several of them dying 232 00:13:02,414 --> 00:13:03,815 within only a few days. 233 00:13:03,883 --> 00:13:07,685 [coughing] 234 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,055 NARRATOR: It's estimated that around a third of the British 235 00:13:11,123 --> 00:13:14,659 and Australian servicemen exposed to the blasts later die 236 00:13:14,727 --> 00:13:15,860 of cancer. 237 00:13:15,928 --> 00:13:19,531 The figure among the Aboriginal population was 238 00:13:19,598 --> 00:13:23,234 never recorded, but it's likely much higher. 239 00:13:23,302 --> 00:13:24,869 LeBOIS: A lot of the indigenous people are 240 00:13:24,937 --> 00:13:28,840 dying of heart failure, cancer. 241 00:13:28,908 --> 00:13:31,442 What happened here was all a secret. 242 00:13:31,477 --> 00:13:32,944 No one knew anything about it. 243 00:13:37,416 --> 00:13:40,051 NARRATOR: Recent investigations have revealed that many 244 00:13:40,119 --> 00:13:41,653 casualties of these tests 245 00:13:41,687 --> 00:13:44,255 gained no peace even after death. 246 00:13:45,391 --> 00:13:50,028 A program code-named Project Sunshine sees authorities 247 00:13:50,062 --> 00:13:51,596 exhume dead children 248 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:54,199 and study them for radiation poisoning without 249 00:13:54,233 --> 00:13:55,633 their parents' consent. 250 00:13:55,701 --> 00:13:58,803 They don't tell the families, the people that conduct 251 00:13:58,871 --> 00:14:00,371 the autopsies are bribed 252 00:14:00,439 --> 00:14:03,942 to keep their mouths shut, and all evidence is basically swept 253 00:14:04,009 --> 00:14:05,643 under the carpet. 254 00:14:07,146 --> 00:14:09,714 NARRATOR: In 1963, the British depart. 255 00:14:12,051 --> 00:14:15,086 What they leave behind is a toxic landscape that 256 00:14:15,154 --> 00:14:17,622 has a catastrophic effect on those survivors 257 00:14:17,690 --> 00:14:18,990 still living here. 258 00:14:21,427 --> 00:14:24,495 SZULGIT: The cleanup consisted of just sweeping all of 259 00:14:24,563 --> 00:14:26,998 this debris into shallow holes in the ground, 260 00:14:27,066 --> 00:14:30,134 which really didn't get rid of the problem. 261 00:14:30,202 --> 00:14:33,037 We're still finding stuff that's been blown up 262 00:14:33,105 --> 00:14:36,474 in the blast miles and miles away from the test site. 263 00:14:38,811 --> 00:14:41,946 NARRATOR: Today, the scars created by 264 00:14:42,014 --> 00:14:44,849 the nuclear tests run deep, 265 00:14:44,917 --> 00:14:48,753 both on the land and on the few people left here. 266 00:14:50,289 --> 00:14:52,891 It's appalling what I've seen out here, 267 00:14:52,958 --> 00:14:56,794 an entire community dispossessed of their land. 268 00:14:56,862 --> 00:15:00,665 Even though these events happened some 70 years ago, 269 00:15:00,733 --> 00:15:03,301 the community is still reeling with the aftermath. 270 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:15,847 NARRATOR: Coming up, a legend rises from the earth. 271 00:15:15,881 --> 00:15:20,184 He has this wonderful sword called Freedom's Blade. 272 00:15:20,219 --> 00:15:22,120 NARRATOR: And the monster of Montauk. 273 00:15:22,154 --> 00:15:23,187 MOSHER: You can see why people might 274 00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:26,457 associate it with some secret government project. 275 00:15:33,699 --> 00:15:35,900 NARRATOR: May 2020. 276 00:15:35,968 --> 00:15:38,703 Archaeologists deploy drones to scan 277 00:15:38,771 --> 00:15:41,105 an isolated area of Dumfriesshire, 278 00:15:41,140 --> 00:15:43,541 southwest Scotland. 279 00:15:43,609 --> 00:15:48,279 By combining data captured from dozens of aerial images, 280 00:15:48,347 --> 00:15:52,283 they create a three-dimensional model of an unusual 281 00:15:52,351 --> 00:15:54,786 feature hidden between two ravines. 282 00:15:54,820 --> 00:15:58,256 It definitely looks like it's not 283 00:15:58,290 --> 00:16:01,759 a natural part of the landscape. 284 00:16:01,827 --> 00:16:04,996 WALTERS: We've got this kind of V-shape of high ground 285 00:16:05,030 --> 00:16:08,399 and maybe the vestige of a wall going all the way around. 286 00:16:09,902 --> 00:16:11,769 NARRATOR: The aerial data has uncovered 287 00:16:11,837 --> 00:16:14,806 the remains of a fort swallowed by time. 288 00:16:19,912 --> 00:16:22,280 When historians cross-reference the ruined structure 289 00:16:22,348 --> 00:16:24,082 with historic maps of the area, 290 00:16:24,116 --> 00:16:26,617 what they discover stuns them. 291 00:16:28,020 --> 00:16:32,190 In the First Ordnance Map of Scotland done in 1857, 292 00:16:32,224 --> 00:16:36,427 we see this exact image, the exact topography. 293 00:16:36,495 --> 00:16:39,831 What's so fascinating is that it's got a label on it. 294 00:16:39,898 --> 00:16:41,966 It says Wallace's House. 295 00:16:44,003 --> 00:16:46,104 NARRATOR: The document fuels speculation 296 00:16:46,171 --> 00:16:48,306 that the drones have uncovered the long 297 00:16:48,374 --> 00:16:51,442 lost hideout of one of the most extraordinary figures 298 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:53,711 in European history. 299 00:16:53,746 --> 00:16:55,913 KOUROUNIS: If this is true, 300 00:16:55,981 --> 00:17:00,518 this is the William Wallace, made famous as Braveheart, 301 00:17:00,552 --> 00:17:02,253 of course. 302 00:17:02,321 --> 00:17:05,556 NARRATOR: Despite a campaign of bloody insurrection against 303 00:17:05,591 --> 00:17:06,724 the English overlords, 304 00:17:06,792 --> 00:17:09,093 which reverberates to this day, 305 00:17:09,128 --> 00:17:12,397 Wallace's life and exploits are shrouded in mystery. 306 00:17:13,632 --> 00:17:17,769 We don't know where he was born or where he received 307 00:17:17,836 --> 00:17:19,537 his military training, 308 00:17:19,571 --> 00:17:23,374 but he emerges as the freedom fighter 309 00:17:23,409 --> 00:17:28,079 for the Scots during the occupation of Scotland 310 00:17:28,147 --> 00:17:31,282 by Edward I in the late 13th century. 311 00:17:33,085 --> 00:17:36,721 NARRATOR: In 1296 AD, King Edward deposes 312 00:17:36,789 --> 00:17:38,890 and imprisons the Scottish monarch 313 00:17:38,991 --> 00:17:40,858 and claims the country as his own. 314 00:17:42,194 --> 00:17:43,428 Spurred by this, 315 00:17:43,495 --> 00:17:46,464 a year later, Wallace launches his first act of 316 00:17:46,532 --> 00:17:49,767 revenge by slaying an English sheriff and his men. 317 00:17:51,470 --> 00:17:53,738 Word of his attack soon spreads across 318 00:17:53,806 --> 00:17:56,607 the beleaguered nation. 319 00:17:56,642 --> 00:17:59,410 Wallace is seen as this great folk hero. 320 00:17:59,478 --> 00:18:03,247 He's what everyone wants him to be -- a figure 321 00:18:03,315 --> 00:18:05,616 of resistance against the English 322 00:18:05,651 --> 00:18:07,118 coming from the south. 323 00:18:09,521 --> 00:18:11,956 NARRATOR: Over the following months, Wallace gathers a band 324 00:18:11,990 --> 00:18:13,157 of rebels who launch 325 00:18:13,192 --> 00:18:16,561 increasingly audacious raids against their oppressors, 326 00:18:16,628 --> 00:18:20,164 infuriating the English king. 327 00:18:20,232 --> 00:18:22,633 He has this wonderful sword he carries 328 00:18:22,701 --> 00:18:25,870 around with him that severs English heads. 329 00:18:25,938 --> 00:18:27,605 It's called Freedom's Blade. 330 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,209 For the English, William Wallace was 331 00:18:31,276 --> 00:18:33,277 public enemy number one. 332 00:18:33,312 --> 00:18:34,579 He had to be caught. 333 00:18:35,814 --> 00:18:38,182 NARRATOR: In September 1297, 334 00:18:38,250 --> 00:18:40,818 King Edward dispatches 9,000 troops 335 00:18:40,853 --> 00:18:43,821 north to quell the insurrection. 336 00:18:43,889 --> 00:18:46,624 Despite being vastly outnumbered, 337 00:18:46,692 --> 00:18:49,694 Wallace meets them head on, defeating the invaders 338 00:18:49,761 --> 00:18:53,731 and massacring 5,000 at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. 339 00:18:55,868 --> 00:18:58,336 CADDICK-ADAMS: This is an overwhelming victory, 340 00:18:58,403 --> 00:19:00,204 and it's all down to Wallace, 341 00:19:00,272 --> 00:19:03,741 his tactical genius, and his leadership. 342 00:19:05,477 --> 00:19:07,044 NARRATOR: The remains of the structure 343 00:19:07,112 --> 00:19:08,379 discovered from the skies 344 00:19:08,447 --> 00:19:11,682 offers new insight into Wallace's historic victories 345 00:19:11,717 --> 00:19:12,817 against the English. 346 00:19:14,453 --> 00:19:16,154 CADDICK-ADAMS: From what we know of where he operated, 347 00:19:16,188 --> 00:19:19,457 he has to have had a sort of base from which to operate, 348 00:19:19,491 --> 00:19:21,392 And the English never discovered it. 349 00:19:22,427 --> 00:19:25,196 NARRATOR: Archaeologists have yet to excavate the site, 350 00:19:25,264 --> 00:19:26,964 and much remains to be learned, 351 00:19:26,999 --> 00:19:29,734 but they believe it likely contained barracks 352 00:19:29,801 --> 00:19:32,170 and wall defenses. 353 00:19:32,237 --> 00:19:36,040 Its remote location also seems perfectly suited to Wallace's 354 00:19:36,108 --> 00:19:38,910 use of ambush tactics before melting back 355 00:19:38,977 --> 00:19:40,711 into Scotland's vast forests. 356 00:19:42,047 --> 00:19:43,714 Like any successful guerilla fighter, 357 00:19:43,749 --> 00:19:45,283 you've got to know the land well. 358 00:19:46,618 --> 00:19:50,755 CADDICK-ADAMS: This seems to be somewhere where he can hide, 359 00:19:50,822 --> 00:19:54,392 attack, and then retreat back. 360 00:19:54,426 --> 00:19:56,827 [shouting and battle noises] 361 00:19:56,895 --> 00:20:01,098 NARRATOR: Despite being revered by many Scots, 362 00:20:01,166 --> 00:20:03,501 Wallace had his share of adversaries. 363 00:20:05,304 --> 00:20:08,573 The secluded structure suggests he may have also used 364 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:12,310 this location as a refuge with his few trusted accomplices. 365 00:20:13,512 --> 00:20:16,581 HORTON: This was an enormous advantage to Wallace, 366 00:20:16,615 --> 00:20:18,282 because they were high in the woods 367 00:20:18,350 --> 00:20:20,184 and very difficult to locate. 368 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:22,820 They were secure from attack. 369 00:20:22,854 --> 00:20:26,057 NARRATOR: Yet by 1305, 370 00:20:26,124 --> 00:20:29,493 Wallace's enemies are closing in, and he is given up to 371 00:20:29,561 --> 00:20:31,429 the English. 372 00:20:31,496 --> 00:20:33,231 Taken to London, 373 00:20:33,298 --> 00:20:36,434 he is sentenced to an unimaginably horrific form 374 00:20:36,501 --> 00:20:37,902 of execution. 375 00:20:39,271 --> 00:20:41,639 HORTON: He was given the death of a traitor, 376 00:20:41,673 --> 00:20:45,710 which involved hanging, drawing, and quartering. 377 00:20:45,744 --> 00:20:49,046 CADDICK-ADAMS: He's hung till nearly dead but still conscious. 378 00:20:49,114 --> 00:20:54,619 His internal organs are drawn out of his body. 379 00:20:54,653 --> 00:20:57,188 Then his body is divided into 380 00:20:57,222 --> 00:20:59,590 several pieces and scattered around the kingdom. 381 00:20:59,658 --> 00:21:03,995 His head is severed and stuck at the entrance to 382 00:21:04,029 --> 00:21:06,230 London Bridge. 383 00:21:06,298 --> 00:21:09,300 NARRATOR: King Edward hopes Wallace's death will serve as 384 00:21:09,368 --> 00:21:12,436 a warning to all those who dare defy him. 385 00:21:12,504 --> 00:21:15,339 But his plan backfires. 386 00:21:15,407 --> 00:21:18,943 Wallace becomes a Scottish hero. 387 00:21:19,011 --> 00:21:23,314 A year later, in 1306, Robert the Bruce 388 00:21:23,382 --> 00:21:27,551 raises the rebellion for the independence war that 389 00:21:27,586 --> 00:21:29,186 ultimately is successful. 390 00:21:30,889 --> 00:21:32,890 NARRATOR: Two decades after his death, 391 00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:37,495 Scotland gains the freedom Wallace gave his life for. 392 00:21:37,562 --> 00:21:41,899 150 years after it disappeared from the historical record, 393 00:21:41,967 --> 00:21:44,969 the site that may have played a key role in those momentous 394 00:21:45,037 --> 00:21:48,939 events is rediscovered once more by eyes in the sky. 395 00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:52,977 HORTON: What's so exciting about the discovery of 396 00:21:53,045 --> 00:21:54,745 this stronghold 397 00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:58,049 is that at last we've got a place that 398 00:21:58,116 --> 00:22:02,987 we can associate with his campaigns against the English. 399 00:22:03,021 --> 00:22:05,456 And if so, this would make it one of 400 00:22:05,490 --> 00:22:07,625 the most important archaeological sites 401 00:22:07,693 --> 00:22:09,293 in all the British Isles. 402 00:22:15,901 --> 00:22:19,203 NARRATOR: Coming up, the 1,300-square-mile 403 00:22:19,271 --> 00:22:21,339 wound in the ground. 404 00:22:21,406 --> 00:22:25,142 This is the biggest industrial project on planet Earth. 405 00:22:25,210 --> 00:22:28,346 NARRATOR: And the CIA's psychic spies. 406 00:22:28,413 --> 00:22:31,982 SZULGIT: Thoughts could be projected into a target's head 407 00:22:32,050 --> 00:22:34,352 to control their minds. 408 00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:47,631 NARRATOR: August 13, 2019, a satellite passing over 409 00:22:47,699 --> 00:22:52,269 Canada scans Alberta's vast expanses of boreal forest 410 00:22:54,272 --> 00:22:56,674 and captures this among the trees below. 411 00:22:57,943 --> 00:23:01,679 KOUROUNIS: It looks like a vast industrial wasteland. 412 00:23:02,848 --> 00:23:05,216 Whatever is going on here, it's being done 413 00:23:05,250 --> 00:23:08,486 on a huge scale. 414 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,356 NARRATOR: A 1,300-square-mile wound punctures 415 00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:13,691 the pristine wilderness. 416 00:23:15,394 --> 00:23:17,461 Analysts dial up the magnification. 417 00:23:20,098 --> 00:23:22,733 PEPPER: The first thing my eye is immediately drawn to 418 00:23:22,801 --> 00:23:25,469 are these giant rectangles of yellow. 419 00:23:25,537 --> 00:23:27,805 Looking closer, we can see what looks like 420 00:23:27,873 --> 00:23:32,410 blood spreading over the corners of these blocks. 421 00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:39,850 NARRATOR: For Martin Pepper, these red veins are a clue. 422 00:23:39,918 --> 00:23:42,153 PEPPER: We're looking at sulfur. 423 00:23:43,455 --> 00:23:46,657 Liquid sulfur is often red before it dries. 424 00:23:46,725 --> 00:23:48,993 These blood rivers that we're seeing in 425 00:23:49,027 --> 00:23:51,662 these images are liquid sulfur before it 426 00:23:51,730 --> 00:23:55,366 cools and turns into these yellow piles. 427 00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:58,669 NARRATOR: Scale analysis reveals the mammoth blocks of sulfur 428 00:23:58,737 --> 00:24:01,772 each cover an area greater than 12 football fields 429 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,974 and are six stories high. 430 00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:07,845 PEPPER: Sulfur naturally comes from volcanoes, 431 00:24:07,913 --> 00:24:11,615 but most of the sulfur that we use is actually extracted from 432 00:24:11,650 --> 00:24:12,983 fossil fuel refinement. 433 00:24:13,018 --> 00:24:14,585 So maybe that's what we're seeing here. 434 00:24:17,122 --> 00:24:20,391 NARRATOR: Geological records confirm the city-sized scar 435 00:24:20,425 --> 00:24:22,460 sits on top of the largest reserve 436 00:24:22,527 --> 00:24:24,562 of crude bitumen on Earth, 437 00:24:25,997 --> 00:24:28,332 an underground deposit of primordial 438 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,869 ooze covering 54,000 square miles. 439 00:24:33,004 --> 00:24:35,973 KOUROUNIS: Millennia ago, this part of Alberta 440 00:24:36,041 --> 00:24:38,242 was lush marshlands 441 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:41,612 and all of that organic material decayed, 442 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,815 got buried underground, and eventually transformed 443 00:24:44,883 --> 00:24:47,718 into bitumen-soaked sand. 444 00:24:49,721 --> 00:24:52,656 NARRATOR: Europeans first noticed the potential industrial 445 00:24:52,724 --> 00:24:56,894 use of these tarry sands as long ago as 1717, 446 00:24:56,962 --> 00:25:00,564 when indigenous peoples bring samples to a Hudson Bay Company 447 00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:02,566 trading post. 448 00:25:02,634 --> 00:25:05,503 Raw bitumen from this area was used by 449 00:25:05,570 --> 00:25:09,507 the indigenous Cree and Dene peoples to waterproof 450 00:25:09,574 --> 00:25:12,910 their canoes, but when 18th century fur traders moved in, 451 00:25:12,978 --> 00:25:15,579 and they noticed the amount of bitumen in this area, 452 00:25:15,614 --> 00:25:20,384 they thought perhaps they could turn it into an industry. 453 00:25:20,418 --> 00:25:22,820 NARRATOR: Yet it's not until the 20th century that 454 00:25:22,854 --> 00:25:26,190 large-scale efforts to tap into North America's bitumen 455 00:25:26,224 --> 00:25:28,158 reserves begin. 456 00:25:28,193 --> 00:25:32,062 Between 1900 and 1925, 457 00:25:32,097 --> 00:25:34,765 the number of vehicles in the U.S. alone jumps 458 00:25:34,833 --> 00:25:38,669 from 8,000 to over 20 million. 459 00:25:38,737 --> 00:25:40,271 Across the continent, 460 00:25:40,338 --> 00:25:44,341 thousands of miles of rutted, muddy horse tracks are replaced 461 00:25:44,409 --> 00:25:47,211 with hard, flat, asphalt-covered roads. 462 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,384 They want to industrialize it and use it on a large scale. 463 00:25:53,418 --> 00:25:57,388 These mining companies strip-mined the landscape by 464 00:25:57,422 --> 00:25:59,623 basically using absolutely 465 00:25:59,691 --> 00:26:03,961 massive steam shovels to scoop up tons of 466 00:26:03,995 --> 00:26:06,597 this tar-soaked sand. 467 00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:11,435 NARRATOR: The miners soon exhaust 468 00:26:11,503 --> 00:26:13,737 the region's surface reserves of bitumen. 469 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,676 As the years pass, they move underground where, trapped 470 00:26:18,743 --> 00:26:23,314 in the tarry sands, are 140 billion barrels of oil, 471 00:26:25,784 --> 00:26:27,685 more than has been used across 472 00:26:27,719 --> 00:26:30,688 the world since the start of the Industrial Revolution, 473 00:26:32,090 --> 00:26:35,492 and the destruction of Canada's forests moves up a gear. 474 00:26:38,029 --> 00:26:41,932 PEPPER: The mining of tar sands is labor- and energy-intensive, 475 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,002 because you have to get it extremely hot 476 00:26:45,070 --> 00:26:48,339 so it'll flow, and then that's what you can actually 477 00:26:48,406 --> 00:26:52,109 separate into your oil and your asphalt. 478 00:26:54,379 --> 00:26:58,816 NARRATOR: However, the Canadian government 479 00:26:58,850 --> 00:27:00,551 denies plans to excavate 480 00:27:00,585 --> 00:27:03,887 the oil-rich sands by detonating 100 nuclear 481 00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:06,624 warheads underground. 482 00:27:06,691 --> 00:27:09,493 In the 1960s, mining companies devise 483 00:27:09,561 --> 00:27:11,695 new ways to reach their bounty. 484 00:27:13,431 --> 00:27:17,368 When this mining gets too deep to just shovel off the surface, 485 00:27:17,435 --> 00:27:20,771 they actually have to inject steam to melt it enough that 486 00:27:20,839 --> 00:27:22,706 they can actually pump it out. 487 00:27:24,342 --> 00:27:27,444 NARRATOR: In 1973, Arab nations impose 488 00:27:27,512 --> 00:27:29,813 a global embargo on the export of oil. 489 00:27:31,616 --> 00:27:32,683 With North America 490 00:27:32,717 --> 00:27:35,319 now reliant on homegrown sources, 491 00:27:35,353 --> 00:27:38,555 production at the Athabasca Mine explodes. 492 00:27:41,593 --> 00:27:45,529 KOUROUNIS: Unfortunately, the processing injects 493 00:27:45,597 --> 00:27:48,399 these chemicals into the nearby lakes 494 00:27:48,433 --> 00:27:52,002 and streams well beyond where the extraction is 495 00:27:52,037 --> 00:27:53,337 actually occurring. 496 00:27:55,573 --> 00:27:58,108 NARRATOR: Over the following years, as more mining companies 497 00:27:58,176 --> 00:27:59,610 flock to Canada, 498 00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:02,413 the already massive industrial landscape grows 499 00:28:02,447 --> 00:28:04,515 to an area the size of New York. 500 00:28:05,750 --> 00:28:09,119 The tar sands are being mined on just an epic, 501 00:28:09,154 --> 00:28:10,421 unthinkable scale. 502 00:28:11,423 --> 00:28:13,957 This is the biggest ongoing industrial project on 503 00:28:13,992 --> 00:28:15,693 planet Earth. 504 00:28:16,928 --> 00:28:20,264 NARRATOR: Such is the scale of the Athabasca oil sands that 505 00:28:20,331 --> 00:28:23,634 the mines create more sulfur than they sell to the industry. 506 00:28:25,937 --> 00:28:29,973 As the site grows, the monster piles of sulfur, 507 00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:33,811 a by-product of the refinement, rise from the ground. 508 00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:38,315 It's kind of rare in industry that supply 509 00:28:38,349 --> 00:28:41,719 vastly outstrips demand. 510 00:28:41,753 --> 00:28:43,654 KOUROUNIS: There are stockpiles of sulfur, 511 00:28:43,688 --> 00:28:47,458 millions of tons of it, just sitting around. 512 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,496 NARRATOR: Tens of millions of years after it was formed, 513 00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:56,166 the oil of the Athabasca sands is now being pulled from 514 00:28:56,234 --> 00:29:00,738 the ground at the rate of up to 2.6 million barrels per day. 515 00:29:01,973 --> 00:29:03,841 We can see how the Earth's surface has 516 00:29:03,908 --> 00:29:08,512 changed, and this image really brings that home. 517 00:29:08,546 --> 00:29:10,280 PEPPER: And it's only by looking down from 518 00:29:10,348 --> 00:29:13,984 space that we really appreciate its enormity. 519 00:29:21,493 --> 00:29:22,993 NARRATOR: Coming up, 520 00:29:23,061 --> 00:29:26,029 mind control and mutants on Long Island. 521 00:29:26,064 --> 00:29:28,665 SZULGIT: Could it be that the U.S. military is 522 00:29:28,733 --> 00:29:31,235 using this site for something they have not revealed? 523 00:29:31,302 --> 00:29:33,971 NARRATOR: And 55 tons of Nazi terror. 524 00:29:34,038 --> 00:29:36,206 MUNOZ: The tank was taking out 11 525 00:29:36,274 --> 00:29:38,776 Allied tanks for every one of theirs. 526 00:29:45,583 --> 00:29:48,152 NARRATOR: March 14, 2020. 527 00:29:49,788 --> 00:29:53,157 Orbiting 380 miles above New York State, 528 00:29:54,993 --> 00:29:57,761 a satellite scans a neighborhood on Long Island 529 00:29:59,697 --> 00:30:03,066 and captures something that doesn't belong in suburbia. 530 00:30:04,302 --> 00:30:05,836 MORAN: This is kind of crazy. 531 00:30:05,904 --> 00:30:08,505 Right on the tip of Long Island, in the middle of 532 00:30:08,573 --> 00:30:12,876 a clearing, you see this huge, weird structure. 533 00:30:14,112 --> 00:30:18,749 It's this immense kind of industrial box. 534 00:30:19,984 --> 00:30:23,754 On top of this building is this strange curved structure. 535 00:30:23,788 --> 00:30:26,456 It almost looks like a drive-in movie screen. 536 00:30:28,359 --> 00:30:30,594 NARRATOR: The mystery rooftop feature is over 537 00:30:30,662 --> 00:30:34,097 120 feet in diameter. 538 00:30:34,165 --> 00:30:38,035 Whatever this is, it must be there for some important, 539 00:30:38,102 --> 00:30:39,503 unknown purpose. 540 00:30:45,043 --> 00:30:47,778 NARRATOR: Newspaper reports reveal that the isolated 541 00:30:47,812 --> 00:30:51,381 facility has attracted suspicion for many years. 542 00:30:52,784 --> 00:30:55,652 What we're looking at has a pretty sinister reputation. 543 00:30:56,888 --> 00:30:59,723 People who live in the area have all these rumors 544 00:30:59,824 --> 00:31:02,426 and tales of it being some kind of secret 545 00:31:02,493 --> 00:31:04,995 government laboratory. 546 00:31:05,997 --> 00:31:08,899 NARRATOR: According to reports, the site was the location 547 00:31:08,967 --> 00:31:11,068 for a series of highly clandestine 548 00:31:11,135 --> 00:31:12,603 Cold War experiments. 549 00:31:12,670 --> 00:31:16,640 The authorities, however, claim it 550 00:31:16,674 --> 00:31:20,043 is a decommissioned early warning system. 551 00:31:20,111 --> 00:31:22,846 Military records say this facility was designed for 552 00:31:22,914 --> 00:31:24,414 no other purpose than to defend 553 00:31:24,449 --> 00:31:26,350 against threats posed by the Soviet Union. 554 00:31:28,152 --> 00:31:31,355 NARRATOR: The files say the site is one of several set up 555 00:31:31,389 --> 00:31:35,125 along the East Coast during the 1950s and '60s 556 00:31:35,159 --> 00:31:38,896 to scan the Atlantic Ocean for incoming aerial threats. 557 00:31:43,234 --> 00:31:46,470 Yet what puzzles some analysts is that while the rest of 558 00:31:46,537 --> 00:31:49,339 the radar networks were destroyed many years ago, 559 00:31:49,407 --> 00:31:52,476 this one remained untouched. 560 00:31:52,510 --> 00:31:55,479 This one was left because, ostensibly, 561 00:31:55,513 --> 00:31:58,348 it's a good landmark for boaters and fishermen. 562 00:32:00,285 --> 00:32:02,786 At least that's what the authorities claim. 563 00:32:05,790 --> 00:32:08,558 NARRATOR: A terrifying discovery near the site fuels 564 00:32:08,626 --> 00:32:11,261 fears that the government isn't telling the truth. 565 00:32:13,398 --> 00:32:15,365 MORGAN: Somebody was out walking, and they found 566 00:32:15,433 --> 00:32:17,367 this bizarre, hairless creature with 567 00:32:17,402 --> 00:32:21,071 a beak that looks unlike any other animal that they have 568 00:32:21,105 --> 00:32:22,472 ever seen before. 569 00:32:23,608 --> 00:32:26,843 MOSHER: It is a very ghastly, strange-looking corpse, 570 00:32:26,911 --> 00:32:29,212 and you can see why people might associate it with some 571 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,148 secret government project. 572 00:32:34,185 --> 00:32:37,187 NARRATOR: In 2019, urban explorers 573 00:32:37,255 --> 00:32:39,189 gain access to the facility. 574 00:32:39,257 --> 00:32:41,625 MAN: Whoa. 575 00:32:41,693 --> 00:32:43,660 Look at that. 576 00:32:43,728 --> 00:32:44,895 All this stuff. 577 00:32:46,331 --> 00:32:48,298 What is that? 578 00:32:48,366 --> 00:32:51,902 NARRATOR: Their footage suggests that the structure in the image 579 00:32:51,970 --> 00:32:55,672 is just one part of a much larger hidden facility. 580 00:32:55,707 --> 00:32:56,873 MAN: That's the elevator. 581 00:33:01,713 --> 00:33:05,349 It has long been rumored that beneath this giant box of 582 00:33:05,416 --> 00:33:08,118 a building, there's an extensive series 583 00:33:08,152 --> 00:33:10,120 of tunnels and underground labs. 584 00:33:10,154 --> 00:33:15,993 It's alleged to be the home of the Montauk Project. 585 00:33:17,095 --> 00:33:20,163 NARRATOR: The Montauk Project is said to be a series of 586 00:33:20,231 --> 00:33:23,934 CIA-backed programs, which involve highly classified 587 00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:26,336 experiments on animals and children. 588 00:33:26,404 --> 00:33:30,807 The stories are actually the inspiration 589 00:33:30,875 --> 00:33:33,543 for the TV series "Stranger Things." 590 00:33:35,780 --> 00:33:38,982 It was thought to have included the development of 591 00:33:39,050 --> 00:33:41,618 an electromagnetic ray that 592 00:33:41,652 --> 00:33:44,688 could control thought, and if you can control thought, 593 00:33:44,756 --> 00:33:46,123 you can control behavior. 594 00:33:49,627 --> 00:33:51,962 NARRATOR: Authorities dismiss these claims. 595 00:33:53,031 --> 00:33:55,699 Yet recently declassified files reveal that 596 00:33:55,767 --> 00:33:58,668 beginning in the 1970s, the U.S. government 597 00:33:58,736 --> 00:34:03,006 invests $20 million in a series of paranormal experiments, 598 00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:07,277 code-named Project Star Gate. 599 00:34:07,311 --> 00:34:11,848 Over a period of two decades, the military tries to weaponize 600 00:34:11,916 --> 00:34:14,885 psychic abilities by training subjects to predict 601 00:34:14,919 --> 00:34:16,987 global and domestic threats. 602 00:34:18,589 --> 00:34:21,958 SZULGIT: Neuroscience was just being explored, and it was 603 00:34:21,993 --> 00:34:23,427 thought that maybe thoughts 604 00:34:23,494 --> 00:34:28,465 and ideas could be projected into a target's head to control 605 00:34:28,533 --> 00:34:30,133 their minds. 606 00:34:30,201 --> 00:34:33,136 ANNOUNCER: Modern technology placed today's scientists within 607 00:34:33,204 --> 00:34:34,704 striking distance of achieving 608 00:34:34,772 --> 00:34:36,740 total control of the human brain. 609 00:34:38,609 --> 00:34:41,411 MORGAN: During the Cold War, the U.S. government 610 00:34:41,446 --> 00:34:44,181 spent so much money and investigated so many 611 00:34:44,248 --> 00:34:49,386 ridiculous things that ideas like the Montauk Project just 612 00:34:49,420 --> 00:34:52,389 really don't seem that far-fetched. 613 00:34:52,423 --> 00:34:56,359 NARRATOR: The documents reveal that the government's programs 614 00:34:56,394 --> 00:35:00,397 also included experiments with hallucinogens and UFOs. 615 00:35:00,465 --> 00:35:05,168 Some people say the Montauk Project actually went further. 616 00:35:05,203 --> 00:35:07,037 MORGAN: It's believed that the U.S. government 617 00:35:07,105 --> 00:35:08,438 at Montauk may have developed 618 00:35:08,473 --> 00:35:11,975 a technology that allows for teleportation. 619 00:35:12,043 --> 00:35:15,745 NARRATOR: Teleportation has long been dismissed as existing 620 00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:18,748 only in the realms of science fiction. 621 00:35:18,783 --> 00:35:23,286 Yet in 2020, NASA reveals that it has successfully teleported 622 00:35:23,354 --> 00:35:26,189 quantum information over a distance of more than 623 00:35:26,224 --> 00:35:27,891 25 miles. 624 00:35:27,959 --> 00:35:30,694 If this is a technology that could be developed, 625 00:35:30,761 --> 00:35:33,663 imagine the advantage that it would give a nation. 626 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,801 NARRATOR: Despite intense interest in the site 627 00:35:37,835 --> 00:35:39,302 revealed from space 628 00:35:39,370 --> 00:35:44,207 and the weird creature found nearby, evidence to support 629 00:35:44,275 --> 00:35:46,109 rumors of clandestine experiments 630 00:35:46,144 --> 00:35:47,811 there remains elusive. 631 00:35:49,247 --> 00:35:52,582 Yet a recent sighting suggests the final chapter 632 00:35:52,617 --> 00:35:55,685 in its story has yet to be written. 633 00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:56,987 Residents woke up and said they 634 00:35:57,054 --> 00:35:59,856 saw this thing move, this radar dish. 635 00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:01,491 They were so freaked out that they 636 00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:03,460 called the police to come investigate it. 637 00:36:03,528 --> 00:36:06,396 [indistinct radio chatter] 638 00:36:06,464 --> 00:36:10,800 SZULGIT: Could it be that the U.S. military 639 00:36:10,868 --> 00:36:11,968 is using this site again 640 00:36:12,036 --> 00:36:14,070 for something they have not revealed? 641 00:36:22,580 --> 00:36:25,882 NARRATOR: Coming up, the forest of horrors. 642 00:36:25,950 --> 00:36:28,485 This is the site of a terrible war crime. 643 00:36:36,928 --> 00:36:39,796 NARRATOR: May 9, 2018. 644 00:36:39,864 --> 00:36:42,766 The GeoEye-1 satellite passing over a densely 645 00:36:42,833 --> 00:36:46,136 wooded area of southern Norway captures this image. 646 00:36:48,940 --> 00:36:51,308 It kind of looked like the spine of something. 647 00:36:51,375 --> 00:36:55,212 We've got eight of these shapes, and they're all 648 00:36:55,279 --> 00:36:58,348 perfectly aligned in a remote area, 649 00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:00,116 which doesn't really make any sense. 650 00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:05,088 NARRATOR: Analysis of the image shows each arch of this 651 00:37:05,122 --> 00:37:09,993 bridge to nowhere is 70 feet wide and evenly spaced. 652 00:37:10,027 --> 00:37:15,165 It seems like this is some kind of military test range, 653 00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:18,535 and looking at the condition of it, it looks fairly old, 654 00:37:18,603 --> 00:37:22,772 so I would assume this is something that had to be 655 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:26,776 tied to the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. 656 00:37:27,912 --> 00:37:30,547 NARRATOR: Wartime records confirm 657 00:37:30,581 --> 00:37:32,916 the structure was once used by 658 00:37:32,950 --> 00:37:36,419 perhaps the most feared machines in the Nazi arsenal. 659 00:37:36,454 --> 00:37:40,423 What we're looking at is actually a tank shooting range. 660 00:37:40,458 --> 00:37:43,193 They had to shoot through the arches to be able 661 00:37:43,227 --> 00:37:48,565 to hit the embankment about 1000 feet at the other end. 662 00:37:48,633 --> 00:37:51,034 NARRATOR: Much like the rest of mainland Europe, 663 00:37:51,102 --> 00:37:54,037 the Nazis defeat of Norway had been spearheaded 664 00:37:54,105 --> 00:37:57,307 by the tactic of blitzkrieg, or Lightning War. 665 00:37:59,644 --> 00:38:03,013 800 aircraft and 120,000 troops 666 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,548 quickly overwhelm local resistance. 667 00:38:05,583 --> 00:38:09,352 They really just couldn't withstand the speed 668 00:38:09,387 --> 00:38:11,121 and the strength of the German attack. 669 00:38:11,155 --> 00:38:15,492 Central to the idea of blitzkrieg is the German tank, 670 00:38:15,559 --> 00:38:18,528 and German tanks are recognized 671 00:38:18,596 --> 00:38:21,798 as being some of the best of the Second World War. 672 00:38:21,866 --> 00:38:24,334 NARRATOR: The success of German tanks 673 00:38:24,402 --> 00:38:26,036 on the battlefields of Europe has 674 00:38:26,103 --> 00:38:29,639 its genesis in the 1930s. 675 00:38:29,707 --> 00:38:33,843 As Germany secretly re-arms, Hitler instructs veteran 676 00:38:33,878 --> 00:38:36,813 World War I tank commander, Ernst Volckheim, 677 00:38:36,881 --> 00:38:42,218 to revolutionize the design and use of these war machines. 678 00:38:42,253 --> 00:38:45,789 He bucked the international trend of trying to make lighter 679 00:38:45,856 --> 00:38:48,591 and faster tanks and went the other way. 680 00:38:48,659 --> 00:38:51,394 Volckheim suggests that the tank with the heaviest gun is, 681 00:38:51,462 --> 00:38:53,096 in the end, going to win the battle. 682 00:38:54,699 --> 00:38:56,299 NARRATOR: During World War II, 683 00:38:56,367 --> 00:39:00,170 the Germans' deployment of big heavy Panzer tanks forces 684 00:39:00,237 --> 00:39:03,973 the Americans to upgrade the Sherman's 37-millimeter main 685 00:39:04,041 --> 00:39:06,743 weapon and armor. 686 00:39:06,777 --> 00:39:11,147 But in 1942, the Nazis dramatically upped the ante. 687 00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:16,019 MORGAN: They then work toward designing an 88-millimeter, 688 00:39:16,053 --> 00:39:18,955 long-barreled, high velocity gun, and they design 689 00:39:18,989 --> 00:39:21,858 a turret that can accommodate it and then a chassis, and that 690 00:39:21,926 --> 00:39:24,060 eventually becomes what we call the Tiger. 691 00:39:24,128 --> 00:39:27,530 The Tiger tank is one of the most iconic tanks 692 00:39:27,565 --> 00:39:30,266 ever built -- It was a real beast. 693 00:39:34,605 --> 00:39:37,440 NARRATOR: Armed with its monster 88-millimeter cannon 694 00:39:37,508 --> 00:39:38,808 tested at the range 695 00:39:38,876 --> 00:39:41,845 in the satellite image, the Tiger can penetrate 696 00:39:41,912 --> 00:39:43,246 four inches of armor 697 00:39:43,314 --> 00:39:45,448 at a range of 3,000 feet. 698 00:39:45,483 --> 00:39:47,851 MORGAN: When the Tiger was on the battlefield, 699 00:39:47,885 --> 00:39:50,286 my God, it terrified everybody that confronted it. 700 00:39:50,354 --> 00:39:52,522 It could easily zap holes through just about 701 00:39:52,556 --> 00:39:53,957 anything else. 702 00:39:53,991 --> 00:39:55,525 MUNOZ: At the height of the war, 703 00:39:55,593 --> 00:39:59,429 the Tiger tank was taking out 11 Allied tanks for every one 704 00:39:59,497 --> 00:40:00,930 of theirs. 705 00:40:03,734 --> 00:40:06,603 NARRATOR: For all the shock and awe of the Nazi's tanks, 706 00:40:07,805 --> 00:40:11,541 in the end, they are overwhelmed by numbers. 707 00:40:13,177 --> 00:40:14,277 During the conflict, 708 00:40:14,345 --> 00:40:16,112 German war factories can only 709 00:40:16,180 --> 00:40:19,215 produce around 50,000 war machines. 710 00:40:19,283 --> 00:40:22,452 The Allies, some 210,000. 711 00:40:24,855 --> 00:40:27,390 As defeat looms for Hitler, 712 00:40:27,425 --> 00:40:29,726 the story of the structure seen from space 713 00:40:29,794 --> 00:40:32,395 takes a dark twist. 714 00:40:32,463 --> 00:40:35,031 MORGAN: This is not just a tank firing range. 715 00:40:35,099 --> 00:40:37,567 This is the site of a terrible war crime. 716 00:40:39,503 --> 00:40:43,072 It's here, during the war, that Germans will 717 00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:46,276 enforce Hitler's sinister Commando Order. 718 00:40:48,946 --> 00:40:51,314 On October 18, 1942, 719 00:40:51,348 --> 00:40:54,350 the fuhrer issues in order that all captured Allied 720 00:40:54,385 --> 00:40:58,288 commandos should be executed on sight and without trial. 721 00:41:01,859 --> 00:41:06,729 MORAN: The devastating upshot of this was that almost 200 722 00:41:06,797 --> 00:41:10,166 Allied military personnel were actually executed 723 00:41:10,234 --> 00:41:11,501 at this very site. 724 00:41:11,569 --> 00:41:14,504 [indistinct orders called] 725 00:41:14,572 --> 00:41:15,872 [gunshot blasts] 726 00:41:15,940 --> 00:41:18,141 They marched them into the forest, and while the tank 727 00:41:18,209 --> 00:41:20,944 testing is going on, under the cover of all that noise, 728 00:41:21,011 --> 00:41:24,814 they gunned them down and tip their bodies into mass graves. 729 00:41:24,882 --> 00:41:27,917 WALTERS: What's really chilling is that when autopsies 730 00:41:27,952 --> 00:41:29,853 were later carried out, they found that they were 731 00:41:29,887 --> 00:41:32,589 still alive and breathing when they were buried. 732 00:41:35,326 --> 00:41:36,960 NARRATOR: When the war ends, 733 00:41:36,994 --> 00:41:40,964 many of those responsible for these atrocities evade justice. 734 00:41:43,501 --> 00:41:45,568 Yet the site of their despicable crimes 735 00:41:45,636 --> 00:41:49,372 remains a monument to the fallen, visible from space. 736 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:54,010 To me, these arches symbolize the tombstones of the people 737 00:41:54,078 --> 00:41:56,746 that were murdered there during the Second World War.