1 00:00:02,042 --> 00:00:04,333 - Tonight on "The Proof Is Out There." 2 00:00:04,333 --> 00:00:06,875 Did this video capture something off-world in the Amazon? 3 00:00:06,875 --> 00:00:08,333 - You start to see a face. 4 00:00:08,333 --> 00:00:11,750 It looks like its eyes and mouth are opening, are changing. 5 00:00:11,750 --> 00:00:13,167 - [Tony] And is there a connection 6 00:00:13,167 --> 00:00:15,458 to a famous missing explorer? 7 00:00:15,458 --> 00:00:17,833 - It's rumored that he actually believed this 8 00:00:17,833 --> 00:00:22,125 to be an outpost for some sort of extraterrestrial beings. 9 00:00:22,125 --> 00:00:23,292 - [Tony] Some people thought 10 00:00:23,292 --> 00:00:25,875 that this slab of meat was undead. 11 00:00:25,875 --> 00:00:29,583 - It was speculated that the cow that this meat came from 12 00:00:29,583 --> 00:00:33,375 was a victim of one of these folkloric demons. 13 00:00:33,375 --> 00:00:35,750 - [Tony] Are these strange patterns discovered 14 00:00:35,750 --> 00:00:37,667 on a lake bed a message? 15 00:00:37,667 --> 00:00:39,458 - A lot of people online believe 16 00:00:39,458 --> 00:00:42,750 you have these artificial patterns being dug 17 00:00:42,750 --> 00:00:44,292 for the purpose of communication 18 00:00:44,292 --> 00:00:46,542 with some otherworldly entity. 19 00:00:46,542 --> 00:00:49,792 - [Tony] And does the murderous tale told on this rock 20 00:00:49,792 --> 00:00:53,417 solve one of the greatest mysteries in American history? 21 00:00:53,417 --> 00:00:56,667 - This stone, many believed, could provide a clue 22 00:00:56,667 --> 00:00:58,875 for what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. 23 00:00:58,875 --> 00:01:01,792 [suspenseful music] 24 00:01:03,625 --> 00:01:05,792 - [Tony] Around the globe are videos, 25 00:01:05,792 --> 00:01:07,333 [witness screaming] 26 00:01:07,333 --> 00:01:08,667 photos, 27 00:01:08,667 --> 00:01:10,208 [entity screeching] 28 00:01:10,208 --> 00:01:11,542 and sounds that defy explanation. 29 00:01:11,542 --> 00:01:16,583 [air squeaking] [suspenseful music continues] 30 00:01:17,833 --> 00:01:19,375 - [Observer] We don't know where they come from, 31 00:01:19,375 --> 00:01:21,042 who made them or how they operate. 32 00:01:21,042 --> 00:01:22,333 - [Tony] What are they? 33 00:01:22,333 --> 00:01:24,375 - [Expert] Some sort of bizarre mutation. 34 00:01:24,375 --> 00:01:26,042 - [Authority] What's exciting is nobody really knows. 35 00:01:26,042 --> 00:01:29,125 - Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof. 36 00:01:29,125 --> 00:01:31,042 [fire whooshing] [victim thumping] 37 00:01:31,042 --> 00:01:32,375 - I'm Tony Harris, 38 00:01:32,375 --> 00:01:34,542 and as a journalist for more than 30 years, 39 00:01:34,542 --> 00:01:37,292 I've followed the facts where they take me. 40 00:01:37,292 --> 00:01:39,625 Now I'm bringing that spirit of investigation 41 00:01:39,625 --> 00:01:42,208 to the world's strangest sounds and images. 42 00:01:42,208 --> 00:01:43,625 - [Witness] It's coming towards us. 43 00:01:43,625 --> 00:01:45,625 - [Tony] We'll analyze each one with top experts. 44 00:01:45,625 --> 00:01:48,000 [vehicle thumping] - It's a credible case, 45 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:49,583 it's a credible video. 46 00:01:49,583 --> 00:01:52,375 - [Tony] And pass a verdict on what it is. 47 00:01:52,375 --> 00:01:54,625 - This video was clearly faked. 48 00:01:54,625 --> 00:01:56,625 - The proof starts now. 49 00:01:57,333 --> 00:02:00,458 [suspenseful music] 50 00:02:04,708 --> 00:02:08,167 Good evening and welcome to "The Proof Is Out There." 51 00:02:08,167 --> 00:02:10,167 We know the Amazon rainforest 52 00:02:10,167 --> 00:02:13,333 is home to some of the planet's most exotic creatures, 53 00:02:13,333 --> 00:02:15,875 but could it also be sheltering life forms 54 00:02:15,875 --> 00:02:17,375 not of this earth? 55 00:02:18,833 --> 00:02:23,750 April 23rd, 2024, a group of conservationists flies a drone 56 00:02:25,042 --> 00:02:28,042 over an undisclosed location in the Amazon. 57 00:02:28,042 --> 00:02:30,875 Later when the team reviews the footage, 58 00:02:30,875 --> 00:02:35,667 something odd appears, a spooky, alien-like creature 59 00:02:35,667 --> 00:02:39,875 seems to be hiding among the green canopy of the forest. 60 00:02:39,875 --> 00:02:41,208 Did you catch it? 61 00:02:41,208 --> 00:02:43,708 The footage is blurry, but when we enhance it, 62 00:02:43,708 --> 00:02:46,708 we see what appears to be a gray-colored being 63 00:02:46,708 --> 00:02:48,542 nestled between the trees. 64 00:02:48,542 --> 00:02:52,500 It looks to have a large bulbous head, a long thin body, 65 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:55,417 and with these oversized almond-shaped eyes, 66 00:02:55,417 --> 00:02:57,708 it immediately invites comparison 67 00:02:57,708 --> 00:03:02,208 to the classic gray aliens described by alleged abductees. 68 00:03:02,208 --> 00:03:04,333 The footage adds to a long pattern 69 00:03:04,333 --> 00:03:06,667 of strange Amazonian sightings. 70 00:03:06,667 --> 00:03:10,833 Brazilian researcher Rony Vernet recently documented UFOs 71 00:03:10,833 --> 00:03:14,417 near the villages of Amazonian indigenous tribes, 72 00:03:14,417 --> 00:03:17,417 videos our experts still can't explain. 73 00:03:32,708 --> 00:03:36,708 - It makes sense that a hyper- intelligent alien species 74 00:03:36,708 --> 00:03:38,583 might use the Amazon to their advantage. 75 00:03:38,583 --> 00:03:41,208 If you were an alien species 76 00:03:41,208 --> 00:03:43,375 that didn't wanna panic the local human beings 77 00:03:43,375 --> 00:03:44,792 living on the planet, 78 00:03:44,792 --> 00:03:48,542 I think that is a reasonable spot to hide out. 79 00:03:48,542 --> 00:03:51,125 - [Tony] Another theory is that this creature 80 00:03:51,125 --> 00:03:52,667 is returning to a place 81 00:03:52,667 --> 00:03:56,833 where aliens had prior contact with humans. 82 00:03:56,833 --> 00:03:58,583 - In the early 1920s, 83 00:03:58,583 --> 00:04:01,458 there was a British explorer named Percy Fawcett 84 00:04:01,458 --> 00:04:05,375 and he actually uncovered an ancient Portuguese manuscript 85 00:04:05,375 --> 00:04:08,708 that described an absolutely wondrous Amazonian city. 86 00:04:08,708 --> 00:04:12,458 The city supposedly had crazy advanced architecture 87 00:04:12,458 --> 00:04:14,417 and also very advanced knowledge 88 00:04:14,417 --> 00:04:17,250 of astronomy and mathematics. 89 00:04:17,250 --> 00:04:19,042 - [Tony] In his cryptic journals, 90 00:04:19,042 --> 00:04:21,875 Fawcett hinted that the City of Z 91 00:04:21,875 --> 00:04:25,167 was built by a long-lost advanced civilization 92 00:04:25,167 --> 00:04:28,083 of spiritually-evolved entities. 93 00:04:28,083 --> 00:04:31,750 Some believe he was referring to beings not of this earth. 94 00:04:32,875 --> 00:04:35,000 - It's rumored that he actually believed this 95 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,583 to be an outpost for some sort of extraterrestrial beings 96 00:04:39,583 --> 00:04:43,042 that had visited Earth millions of years ago. 97 00:04:43,042 --> 00:04:44,958 - Some people have speculated 98 00:04:44,958 --> 00:04:48,333 that perhaps that's why there are so many UFO sightings 99 00:04:48,333 --> 00:04:51,875 and such alien interests in the Amazon. 100 00:04:51,875 --> 00:04:54,667 [air whooshing] 101 00:04:55,958 --> 00:04:58,833 - After years of searching for the Lost City of Z, 102 00:04:58,833 --> 00:05:02,667 Percy Fawcett and his son vanished deep in the Amazon. 103 00:05:02,667 --> 00:05:04,208 While many believe they were killed 104 00:05:04,208 --> 00:05:07,167 by hostile tribes or succumbed to disease, 105 00:05:07,167 --> 00:05:08,750 others speculate Fawcett 106 00:05:08,750 --> 00:05:12,583 may have made first contact with beings not of this world. 107 00:05:12,583 --> 00:05:14,750 Could this creature be connected? 108 00:05:14,750 --> 00:05:16,625 Let's see what our experts think. 109 00:05:16,625 --> 00:05:21,292 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 110 00:05:21,292 --> 00:05:24,708 Are we just not seeing the forest for the trees? 111 00:05:24,708 --> 00:05:27,208 Some foliage can look like animals, 112 00:05:27,208 --> 00:05:29,208 like this supposed dog man creature 113 00:05:29,208 --> 00:05:31,417 that turned out to be a bush. 114 00:05:31,417 --> 00:05:32,708 - As I rewatched it, 115 00:05:32,708 --> 00:05:35,542 I did see something move and I do think 116 00:05:35,542 --> 00:05:39,000 that it is actually something living in the forest. 117 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,500 - [Tony] This is what we're seeing. Here, you can 118 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:43,125 detect the creature's head turning to the left, 119 00:05:43,125 --> 00:05:47,000 but could this really be an incognito extraterrestrial? 120 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,542 Before we run too far with that notion, 121 00:05:49,542 --> 00:05:53,375 we need to rule out some other potential explanations. 122 00:05:53,375 --> 00:05:55,667 - Although I do see resemblance physically to an alien, 123 00:05:55,667 --> 00:05:58,708 I think there are much plausible 124 00:05:58,708 --> 00:06:01,417 and logical answers as to what this is. 125 00:06:02,542 --> 00:06:05,750 - There is a tremendous diversity of primates, 126 00:06:05,750 --> 00:06:09,708 from capuchins to howler monkeys, 127 00:06:09,708 --> 00:06:10,875 [monkey howling] 128 00:06:10,875 --> 00:06:14,250 but they have very distinctive facial features 129 00:06:14,250 --> 00:06:17,250 that would differentiate the monkeys 130 00:06:17,250 --> 00:06:18,583 from what I'm seeing here. 131 00:06:20,042 --> 00:06:24,875 This could be a young bird perched high up in the canopy 132 00:06:25,458 --> 00:06:27,208 in perhaps a nest. 133 00:06:27,208 --> 00:06:29,542 - The Amazon has many bird species. 134 00:06:29,542 --> 00:06:31,333 One of them is the harpy eagle, 135 00:06:31,333 --> 00:06:34,542 which is a really large bird of prey. 136 00:06:35,875 --> 00:06:38,875 It looks like its eyes and mouth are opening or changing, 137 00:06:38,875 --> 00:06:41,000 but I think shadow effects from light, 138 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,375 because remember, we're in the canopy here, 139 00:06:43,375 --> 00:06:45,333 there's sun going through leaves. 140 00:06:45,333 --> 00:06:46,417 So I think that's what we're seeing 141 00:06:46,417 --> 00:06:48,917 that's creating that appearance 142 00:06:48,917 --> 00:06:53,375 rather than an actual alien with a mouth and eyes. 143 00:06:54,333 --> 00:06:57,042 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 144 00:06:58,042 --> 00:06:59,208 - Our verdict? 145 00:06:59,208 --> 00:07:02,042 This is no alien, but a harpy eagle, 146 00:07:02,042 --> 00:07:05,500 one of the largest and most powerful eagles in the world. 147 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:07,625 While it may not be extraterrestrial, 148 00:07:07,625 --> 00:07:10,833 the harpy eagle is a legend unto itself. 149 00:07:10,833 --> 00:07:13,083 Named after the harpies of Greek mythology, 150 00:07:13,083 --> 00:07:16,708 these birds can build nests about five feet wide 151 00:07:16,708 --> 00:07:20,500 and have talons as long as a grizzly bear's claws. 152 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:22,292 [air whooshing] 153 00:07:22,292 --> 00:07:24,583 Now let's head home to North America 154 00:07:24,583 --> 00:07:25,875 and one of the most important 155 00:07:25,875 --> 00:07:29,083 and secretive sites in the United States. 156 00:07:29,083 --> 00:07:30,542 The White Sands Missile Range 157 00:07:30,542 --> 00:07:32,625 provides the United States armed forces 158 00:07:32,625 --> 00:07:34,208 with the world's top research, 159 00:07:34,208 --> 00:07:36,792 testing and training facilities, 160 00:07:36,792 --> 00:07:39,958 and some believe this next video proves that research, 161 00:07:39,958 --> 00:07:43,542 testing and training, has involved UFOs. 162 00:07:43,542 --> 00:07:44,792 [suspenseful music] 163 00:07:44,792 --> 00:07:47,042 In the mid-1990s in New Mexico, 164 00:07:47,042 --> 00:07:49,458 a camera man is positioned in the desert 165 00:07:49,458 --> 00:07:51,875 outside the White Sands Missile Range 166 00:07:51,875 --> 00:07:55,917 when he aims his camera up at the sky and catches this. 167 00:07:57,458 --> 00:08:01,000 A bright white object plummets diagonally toward the ground, 168 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,833 but when it strikes the earth, it doesn't explode. 169 00:08:03,833 --> 00:08:08,125 Instead, it bounces, shooting back up into the air. 170 00:08:08,125 --> 00:08:11,000 It almost looks like it's taking off into the sky 171 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,375 until finally, it descends once more, 172 00:08:14,375 --> 00:08:17,375 this time exploding in a shower of debris. 173 00:08:17,375 --> 00:08:20,792 Take another look at that bounce and crash. 174 00:08:20,792 --> 00:08:24,875 This strange footage emerged at a 1997 UFO conference 175 00:08:24,875 --> 00:08:27,875 and has been raising questions ever since. 176 00:08:27,875 --> 00:08:29,250 - Some people have now speculated 177 00:08:29,250 --> 00:08:33,208 that what we're seeing here is a UFO that has crashed 178 00:08:33,208 --> 00:08:34,958 on the White Sands Missile Range, 179 00:08:34,958 --> 00:08:38,708 one of the most mysterious, highly sensitive and secretive 180 00:08:38,708 --> 00:08:42,167 US military installations in the United States 181 00:08:42,167 --> 00:08:44,708 and quite possibly the world. 182 00:08:44,708 --> 00:08:47,250 - [Tony] For this reason, people have speculated 183 00:08:47,250 --> 00:08:49,000 that whoever took this video 184 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,042 worked for a secret government program. 185 00:08:52,042 --> 00:08:55,292 - My colleague, who was a senior intelligence official, 186 00:08:55,292 --> 00:08:58,667 testified to the American people and to Congress under oath. 187 00:08:58,667 --> 00:09:00,375 - I was informed in the 188 00:09:00,375 --> 00:09:02,333 course of my official duties 189 00:09:02,333 --> 00:09:05,833 of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval 190 00:09:05,833 --> 00:09:07,750 and reverse engineering program. 191 00:09:08,125 --> 00:09:09,917 - [Tony] David Grusch says it all started 192 00:09:09,917 --> 00:09:12,542 when the US government came into possession of a craft 193 00:09:12,542 --> 00:09:15,083 that crashed in 1930s Italy. 194 00:09:15,083 --> 00:09:17,458 - There's a memorandum by Mussolini himself 195 00:09:17,458 --> 00:09:19,125 threatening people with their life 196 00:09:19,125 --> 00:09:21,583 if they were to talk publicly about this crash. 197 00:09:21,583 --> 00:09:24,875 It wasn't until after World War II 198 00:09:24,875 --> 00:09:27,458 that the United States allegedly gained control 199 00:09:27,458 --> 00:09:29,292 of this crash material. 200 00:09:29,292 --> 00:09:31,875 - [Tony] Since then, Grusch says the US government 201 00:09:31,875 --> 00:09:33,583 has allegedly been attempting 202 00:09:33,583 --> 00:09:36,083 to reverse engineer that material. 203 00:09:36,083 --> 00:09:39,833 - He actually testified that there is a secret arms race 204 00:09:39,833 --> 00:09:42,833 that we have with other nations to try to crack the code, 205 00:09:42,833 --> 00:09:46,667 if you will, on this technology before anybody else does. 206 00:09:46,667 --> 00:09:50,333 - [Tony] So is this bouncing UFO a failed test flight? 207 00:09:50,333 --> 00:09:54,583 Keep in mind, UFOs have been reported to bounce or skip. 208 00:09:54,583 --> 00:09:56,042 Pilot Kenneth Arnold, 209 00:09:56,042 --> 00:09:59,125 one of the earliest eyewitnesses of the UFO phenomenon, 210 00:09:59,125 --> 00:10:02,750 said the UFO's he saw moved like a saucer would 211 00:10:02,750 --> 00:10:04,875 if you skipped it across the water. 212 00:10:04,875 --> 00:10:06,375 But there's another theory, 213 00:10:06,375 --> 00:10:10,042 that it's not a reverse- engineered craft we've built, 214 00:10:10,042 --> 00:10:13,750 but an actual alien craft crash landing. 215 00:10:13,750 --> 00:10:17,208 Turns out there have been other sightings in this area. 216 00:10:17,208 --> 00:10:18,542 - Believe it or not, 217 00:10:18,542 --> 00:10:21,625 there is documentation from the US government 218 00:10:21,625 --> 00:10:24,083 where UFOs were seen so common 219 00:10:24,083 --> 00:10:27,208 in and around the White Sands Missile Range area 220 00:10:27,208 --> 00:10:30,417 that there was a huge investigation conducted. 221 00:10:30,417 --> 00:10:31,833 So listen to this. 222 00:10:31,833 --> 00:10:36,917 "December 1948 through May 1950. 223 00:10:37,917 --> 00:10:39,708 Phenomena have continuously occurred 224 00:10:39,708 --> 00:10:42,875 in the New Mexico skies during the past 18 months 225 00:10:42,875 --> 00:10:45,833 and are continuing to occur, 226 00:10:45,833 --> 00:10:48,167 and these phenomena are occurring in the vicinity 227 00:10:48,167 --> 00:10:52,125 of sensitive military and government installations." 228 00:10:53,208 --> 00:10:55,167 [air whooshing] 229 00:10:55,167 --> 00:11:00,208 - Based on what Elizondo said, we found another 1950 memo, 230 00:11:00,208 --> 00:11:02,542 this one from the FBI. 231 00:11:02,542 --> 00:11:04,833 It says three so-called flying saucers 232 00:11:04,833 --> 00:11:07,042 had been recovered in New Mexico 233 00:11:07,042 --> 00:11:10,167 and it indicates that our own high-powered radar 234 00:11:10,167 --> 00:11:13,125 may have been what caused them to crash. 235 00:11:13,125 --> 00:11:15,875 It seems something was going on then, 236 00:11:15,875 --> 00:11:17,875 but what about this video? 237 00:11:17,875 --> 00:11:22,417 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 238 00:11:22,417 --> 00:11:24,583 To keep this investigation grounded, 239 00:11:24,583 --> 00:11:28,208 we first asked if the video could be a hoax. 240 00:11:28,208 --> 00:11:30,208 - It did come from some sort of tape, 241 00:11:30,208 --> 00:11:32,875 but it has been recompressed, it has been processed. 242 00:11:32,875 --> 00:11:35,167 When it gets to the last segment of the video, 243 00:11:35,167 --> 00:11:38,042 there is a stabilization that was applied. 244 00:11:38,042 --> 00:11:41,208 The danger with that is you are creating pixels 245 00:11:41,208 --> 00:11:43,875 throughout that area that may not originally 246 00:11:43,875 --> 00:11:45,417 have been in that evidence. 247 00:11:45,417 --> 00:11:48,958 We would need that original tape or that native file 248 00:11:48,958 --> 00:11:52,708 to be able to definitively confirm or deny authenticity. 249 00:11:52,708 --> 00:11:55,167 So in this case, it's inconclusive. 250 00:11:55,167 --> 00:11:57,208 - [Tony] So there's room for doubt, 251 00:11:57,208 --> 00:12:00,875 but a 2024 report from a Pentagon whistleblower 252 00:12:00,875 --> 00:12:02,292 may support the theory 253 00:12:02,292 --> 00:12:05,625 that this could be a reverse-engineered craft. 254 00:12:05,625 --> 00:12:07,625 It alleges that a government program 255 00:12:07,625 --> 00:12:10,083 called Immaculate Constellation 256 00:12:10,083 --> 00:12:14,458 collects and conceals UFO data in an effort so secret 257 00:12:14,458 --> 00:12:18,167 the whistleblower fears execution for exposing it. 258 00:12:18,167 --> 00:12:21,792 But just because the government might be hiding UFO videos, 259 00:12:21,792 --> 00:12:23,917 it doesn't mean this is one of them. 260 00:12:23,917 --> 00:12:26,625 - It doesn't quite match what we would consider 261 00:12:26,625 --> 00:12:28,167 to be a traditional UFO 262 00:12:28,167 --> 00:12:30,750 because it has what looks like some type 263 00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:32,708 of propellant coming out of the tail, 264 00:12:32,708 --> 00:12:34,292 and that is pushing it forward. 265 00:12:34,292 --> 00:12:36,458 - [Tony] That matters because it's indicative 266 00:12:36,458 --> 00:12:40,000 of a combustion engine, which produces exhaust. 267 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,083 By contrast, UFOs are thought 268 00:12:42,083 --> 00:12:45,083 to have more advanced methods of propulsion. 269 00:12:45,083 --> 00:12:49,708 - I would say 99.9% of the UFOs that we know of 270 00:12:49,708 --> 00:12:52,125 don't leave any type of heat trail 271 00:12:52,125 --> 00:12:54,750 or heat signature behind it or around it. 272 00:12:56,042 --> 00:12:59,625 So it's probably a conventional construct that was built 273 00:12:59,625 --> 00:13:02,708 to test out something at the White Sands Missile Range. 274 00:13:02,708 --> 00:13:04,917 - [Tony] So what might that something be? 275 00:13:04,917 --> 00:13:07,042 [missile whooshing] 276 00:13:07,042 --> 00:13:08,833 - I think the luminous object that we see here 277 00:13:08,833 --> 00:13:10,417 is not an object at all. 278 00:13:10,417 --> 00:13:13,875 That's an artifact of the propulsion system of a missile 279 00:13:13,875 --> 00:13:16,833 that as it's entering a terminal phase, 280 00:13:16,833 --> 00:13:19,417 it skips off the ground and doesn't explode, 281 00:13:19,417 --> 00:13:22,500 and then eventually comes back down and explodes. 282 00:13:24,042 --> 00:13:27,583 - [Tony] A missile test at a missile range makes sense, 283 00:13:27,583 --> 00:13:30,000 but is it consistent with the video? 284 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,042 Look closely, the object appears to pull up 285 00:13:33,042 --> 00:13:35,708 as it careens toward the ground 286 00:13:35,708 --> 00:13:38,125 as if attempting to avoid an impact. 287 00:13:39,833 --> 00:13:41,750 - I would not hope to hear anything 288 00:13:41,750 --> 00:13:44,292 about what was tested at White Sands anytime soon 289 00:13:44,292 --> 00:13:46,792 because if they're testing something unusual 290 00:13:46,792 --> 00:13:49,750 beyond a missile, we're not gonna hear about it. 291 00:13:49,750 --> 00:13:52,458 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 292 00:13:53,875 --> 00:13:55,042 - Our verdict? 293 00:13:55,042 --> 00:13:56,917 Unexplained object. 294 00:13:56,917 --> 00:13:59,792 While we considered McMillan's missile theory, 295 00:13:59,792 --> 00:14:01,875 this video is just lacking too much information 296 00:14:01,875 --> 00:14:04,208 to draw an informed conclusion. 297 00:14:04,208 --> 00:14:07,375 The video's inscrutability stands as a testament 298 00:14:07,375 --> 00:14:11,292 to the military's ability to keep some things secret. 299 00:14:15,708 --> 00:14:17,292 - Who doesn't love a good steak? 300 00:14:17,292 --> 00:14:21,542 In 2022, Americans ate more than 13 million tons of beef, 301 00:14:21,542 --> 00:14:23,000 followed closely by the Chinese, 302 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,625 who consumed close to 12 million. 303 00:14:25,625 --> 00:14:27,250 But the next time you're in China, 304 00:14:27,250 --> 00:14:30,667 you may want your beef cooked well done, 305 00:14:30,667 --> 00:14:32,833 especially after seeing our next story. 306 00:14:33,750 --> 00:14:37,417 December 2017, Fushun City, China, 307 00:14:37,417 --> 00:14:40,750 a shopper returns home from her trip to the local butcher, 308 00:14:40,750 --> 00:14:43,375 but when she throws her prized slab of meat 309 00:14:43,375 --> 00:14:47,875 on the cutting board, something unappetizing happens. 310 00:14:47,875 --> 00:14:50,292 The beef begins to twitch. 311 00:14:50,292 --> 00:14:53,542 First, a piece of the midsection moves slightly, 312 00:14:53,542 --> 00:14:57,333 but before long, the whole filet begins pulsating. 313 00:14:57,333 --> 00:15:01,208 The slab of mysterious meat even appears to be breathing. 314 00:15:01,208 --> 00:15:05,125 Many online speculated that the strange acting meat 315 00:15:05,125 --> 00:15:08,083 could have been artificially grown inside a lab. 316 00:15:08,083 --> 00:15:11,000 - There's a new technology called cellular agriculture 317 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,375 where you basically grow meat. 318 00:15:13,375 --> 00:15:16,625 They take real muscle tissue from an animal 319 00:15:16,625 --> 00:15:19,667 and then they grow more muscle tissue in a petri dish. 320 00:15:19,667 --> 00:15:23,042 - [Tony] While others thought something, admittedly far out, 321 00:15:23,042 --> 00:15:24,625 could be at play. 322 00:15:24,625 --> 00:15:28,042 - Chinese folklore has a demon called a jiangshi. 323 00:15:28,042 --> 00:15:31,250 It's kind of a cross between a vampire and a zombie. 324 00:15:31,250 --> 00:15:33,958 Some people have speculated that the cow 325 00:15:33,958 --> 00:15:35,542 that this meat came from 326 00:15:35,542 --> 00:15:39,958 was a victim of one of these folkloric demons. 327 00:15:39,958 --> 00:15:41,792 - [Tony] Just like Western vampires, 328 00:15:41,792 --> 00:15:46,542 jiangshi are said to feed on the life force of the living. 329 00:15:46,542 --> 00:15:47,667 According to some legends, 330 00:15:47,667 --> 00:15:50,708 they are corpses whose physical bodies were reanimated 331 00:15:50,708 --> 00:15:53,042 and puppeteered by a necromancer, 332 00:15:53,042 --> 00:15:55,458 someone who can raise the dead. 333 00:15:55,458 --> 00:15:59,000 - They can go after your pets, they can go after livestock, 334 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,833 and it just like wreaks havoc upon the environment. 335 00:16:01,833 --> 00:16:04,708 You don't want one of these things in your neighborhood. 336 00:16:04,708 --> 00:16:06,208 [air whooshing] 337 00:16:06,208 --> 00:16:08,542 - Many people who watched this video were reminded 338 00:16:08,542 --> 00:16:11,875 of a mad cow disease outbreak from the '90s, 339 00:16:11,875 --> 00:16:14,875 where holes developed in the brains of infected animals, 340 00:16:14,875 --> 00:16:19,417 causing them to act nervous, uncoordinated, even violent. 341 00:16:19,417 --> 00:16:22,875 But in those cases, it was primarily the animal's brain 342 00:16:22,875 --> 00:16:25,167 and spinal cord that were affected, 343 00:16:25,167 --> 00:16:28,250 while the muscle tissue remained untouched. 344 00:16:28,250 --> 00:16:30,875 So why is this meat twitching? 345 00:16:30,875 --> 00:16:32,792 Let's check in with the experts. 346 00:16:32,792 --> 00:16:35,500 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 347 00:16:37,167 --> 00:16:39,417 First, we checked to see if this meat 348 00:16:39,417 --> 00:16:43,583 could be infested with worms, like many online suggested. 349 00:16:43,583 --> 00:16:47,667 - There is a worm called trichinella, which is a parasite 350 00:16:47,667 --> 00:16:50,875 that you can get from eating undercooked or raw meat. 351 00:16:50,875 --> 00:16:52,167 Now, what people should know 352 00:16:52,167 --> 00:16:53,917 and understand about trichinella 353 00:16:53,917 --> 00:16:56,750 is that they're actually microscopic parasites. 354 00:16:56,750 --> 00:16:58,667 So to think that something that small 355 00:16:58,667 --> 00:17:01,500 would have the strength to move the muscle 356 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:04,917 of a piece of meat that big would be impossible. 357 00:17:04,917 --> 00:17:07,292 - [Tony] And as far as the reanimating legends 358 00:17:07,292 --> 00:17:10,375 of China's jiangshi are concerned, 359 00:17:10,375 --> 00:17:13,042 even if those stories were true, in this case, 360 00:17:13,042 --> 00:17:14,750 that's not what's happening. 361 00:17:14,750 --> 00:17:19,208 - The Chinese folklore showed sentience and communication, 362 00:17:19,208 --> 00:17:21,208 where the brain is still connected to the muscle 363 00:17:21,208 --> 00:17:23,417 and commanding it on what to do. 364 00:17:23,417 --> 00:17:24,792 That's not what we're seeing here. 365 00:17:24,792 --> 00:17:26,125 This is a piece of meat 366 00:17:26,125 --> 00:17:28,375 that's just spontaneously contracting. 367 00:17:28,375 --> 00:17:31,042 - [Tony] So could this be a strange side effect 368 00:17:31,042 --> 00:17:34,083 of meat manufactured in a lab? 369 00:17:34,083 --> 00:17:36,208 - Now, lab grown meat doesn't look like this. 370 00:17:36,208 --> 00:17:38,917 Lab grown meat is mushy, it's slushy, it's minced. 371 00:17:38,917 --> 00:17:40,500 It looks like ground beef. 372 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:43,542 It doesn't look like these beautiful long muscle fibers. 373 00:17:43,542 --> 00:17:46,583 - [Tony] Then what exactly is going on here? 374 00:17:46,583 --> 00:17:47,917 - This is really spooky, 375 00:17:47,917 --> 00:17:51,042 but the fact that it's still twitching actually indicates 376 00:17:51,042 --> 00:17:53,375 that the quality of meat is really good 377 00:17:53,375 --> 00:17:55,417 and that indeed it is really fresh. 378 00:17:55,417 --> 00:17:58,333 The animal must have been recently butchered, 379 00:17:58,333 --> 00:18:01,375 and it's likely that she put salt on it. 380 00:18:01,375 --> 00:18:03,208 - Salt is actually sodium chloride 381 00:18:03,208 --> 00:18:06,250 and these muscle cells have sodium channels on them 382 00:18:06,250 --> 00:18:08,333 and if you douse 'em with salt, 383 00:18:08,333 --> 00:18:10,708 it's gonna open up all those channels 384 00:18:10,708 --> 00:18:12,333 and fire off the contractions. 385 00:18:12,333 --> 00:18:15,417 - But this won't happen for much longer. 386 00:18:15,417 --> 00:18:17,875 This only happens for a short period of time 387 00:18:17,875 --> 00:18:21,000 after the animal is butchered. 388 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,583 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 389 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:26,000 - Our verdict? 390 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,208 Salted muscle spasms. 391 00:18:28,208 --> 00:18:31,750 Our experts agree, while it's very freaky, 392 00:18:31,750 --> 00:18:33,208 this is nothing more than meat 393 00:18:33,208 --> 00:18:35,167 from a recently butchered animal, 394 00:18:35,167 --> 00:18:37,792 so recently its muscle cells are still able 395 00:18:37,792 --> 00:18:40,292 to react to sodium chloride, 396 00:18:40,292 --> 00:18:42,542 but if it's still twitching after a couple of days, 397 00:18:42,542 --> 00:18:45,500 we may have a whole new story on our hands. 398 00:18:49,708 --> 00:18:50,667 - As we've seen, 399 00:18:50,833 --> 00:18:52,708 plenty of strange stories come out of China, 400 00:18:52,708 --> 00:18:56,542 alleged dragon sightings, alien egg implants, 401 00:18:56,542 --> 00:18:59,542 and that mystery meat we investigated earlier. 402 00:18:59,542 --> 00:19:01,792 But if you think we dug deep on those stories, 403 00:19:01,792 --> 00:19:05,875 wait till you see what some calling a sunken civilization. 404 00:19:07,417 --> 00:19:11,167 November 11th, 2022, Yueyang, China. 405 00:19:11,167 --> 00:19:13,542 Extreme heat and low rainfall 406 00:19:13,542 --> 00:19:17,417 have caused a catastrophic drought in Dongting Lake. 407 00:19:17,417 --> 00:19:21,042 But when a local resident flies a drone over the lake bed, 408 00:19:21,042 --> 00:19:23,375 he wasn't expecting to find this. 409 00:19:24,833 --> 00:19:29,375 At the bottom of the dried out lake, a pattern is revealed. 410 00:19:29,375 --> 00:19:32,583 Seen from above, it looks like an enormous maze 411 00:19:32,583 --> 00:19:36,500 has been carved into the lake bed's mudflats. 412 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:39,708 Local residents say that each of these huge, 413 00:19:39,708 --> 00:19:41,667 strangely-shaped segments 414 00:19:41,667 --> 00:19:43,917 is roughly the size of a soccer field. 415 00:19:44,958 --> 00:19:47,708 - The footage went viral 416 00:19:47,708 --> 00:19:50,333 on the Chinese social media app Douyin, 417 00:19:50,333 --> 00:19:52,792 where videos of the patterns exploded 418 00:19:52,792 --> 00:19:55,375 and received millions upon millions of views. 419 00:19:55,375 --> 00:19:59,542 We had a lot of speculation as to what caused these. 420 00:19:59,542 --> 00:20:01,917 - [Tony] Some wondered whether these exposed patterns 421 00:20:01,917 --> 00:20:05,833 are anything like the mysterious Nasca lines of Peru. 422 00:20:05,833 --> 00:20:08,500 - The Nasca lines were built thousands of years ago, 423 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:10,208 and when viewed from the sky, 424 00:20:10,208 --> 00:20:12,375 you had images of various animals 425 00:20:12,375 --> 00:20:13,875 and people and geometric patterns, 426 00:20:13,875 --> 00:20:17,958 and some speculated that these were essentially a sort 427 00:20:17,958 --> 00:20:21,208 of landing pad for alien spaceships. 428 00:20:21,208 --> 00:20:23,542 - [Tony] Another theory is that these remnants 429 00:20:23,542 --> 00:20:26,708 are connected to a lost continent called Mu, 430 00:20:26,708 --> 00:20:30,417 popularized by British writer James Churchward. 431 00:20:30,417 --> 00:20:32,500 - The idea is very similar 432 00:20:32,500 --> 00:20:35,292 to the lost content of Atlantis. 433 00:20:35,292 --> 00:20:37,417 Churchward did some traveling to India 434 00:20:37,417 --> 00:20:40,500 where he began visiting various temples and monasteries 435 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:43,958 and he befriends this high priest in this temple, 436 00:20:43,958 --> 00:20:48,708 who shows him these strange tablets that allegedly show 437 00:20:48,708 --> 00:20:51,625 and describe this long-lost continent. 438 00:20:51,625 --> 00:20:54,500 Churchward became convinced Mu existed somewhere 439 00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:56,000 in the Pacific Ocean. 440 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,542 [air whooshing] 441 00:20:57,542 --> 00:20:58,875 - This wouldn't be the first time 442 00:20:58,875 --> 00:21:02,375 that an ancient Chinese ruin was found underwater. 443 00:21:02,375 --> 00:21:06,167 In 2001, scuba divers stumbled upon an entire city 444 00:21:06,167 --> 00:21:07,458 from the seventh century 445 00:21:07,458 --> 00:21:10,458 submerged within the depths of a lake. 446 00:21:10,458 --> 00:21:12,750 The ancient underwater city of Shicheng 447 00:21:12,750 --> 00:21:15,708 was declared a protected historical relic. 448 00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:18,292 Have we found another monument here? 449 00:21:18,292 --> 00:21:20,583 Let's ask the experts. 450 00:21:20,583 --> 00:21:24,750 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 451 00:21:24,750 --> 00:21:29,417 First, is this an ancient astronaut landing site similar 452 00:21:29,417 --> 00:21:33,042 to what some believed is the purpose of the Nasca lines? 453 00:21:33,042 --> 00:21:34,333 - This shows me no evidence 454 00:21:34,333 --> 00:21:36,625 that this was any kind of a runway whatsoever, 455 00:21:36,625 --> 00:21:38,583 and there's no evidence of any machinery 456 00:21:38,583 --> 00:21:40,208 or anything left behind. 457 00:21:40,208 --> 00:21:43,125 For example, I mean, the Mars rovers leave tracks behind. 458 00:21:43,125 --> 00:21:45,333 They're actually shedding pieces of wire 459 00:21:45,333 --> 00:21:47,208 or pieces of insulation, 460 00:21:47,208 --> 00:21:49,875 but you see nothing like that in this region. 461 00:21:49,875 --> 00:21:51,333 - [Tony] Could there be some connection 462 00:21:51,333 --> 00:21:53,708 to the lost civilization of Mu? 463 00:21:53,708 --> 00:21:56,625 The evidence doesn't seem to suggest so. 464 00:21:56,625 --> 00:22:00,125 - The problem with that is that Mu, like Atlantis, 465 00:22:00,125 --> 00:22:02,708 was supposed to be a fantastic, 466 00:22:02,708 --> 00:22:04,958 very advanced civilization, 467 00:22:06,250 --> 00:22:07,458 and what we see here on the ground, 468 00:22:07,458 --> 00:22:09,958 if it's a settlement at all, 469 00:22:09,958 --> 00:22:14,833 is a very humble and modest one, mostly loose gravel, 470 00:22:14,833 --> 00:22:17,708 and that is no way to set a foundation, 471 00:22:17,708 --> 00:22:21,375 not the kind of thing we would expect out of Mu. 472 00:22:21,375 --> 00:22:23,708 - [Tony] Is it possible that what we're seeing 473 00:22:23,708 --> 00:22:27,417 was caused by some natural underwater force, 474 00:22:27,417 --> 00:22:29,375 like this artistic puffer fish 475 00:22:29,375 --> 00:22:32,250 that we featured in a previous episode, 476 00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:34,583 which sculpted sand on the sea floor 477 00:22:34,583 --> 00:22:37,167 into beguiling patterns? 478 00:22:37,167 --> 00:22:39,375 - I cannot think of a process 479 00:22:39,375 --> 00:22:42,208 that would've created these elbow joints 480 00:22:42,208 --> 00:22:43,583 and the little spots 481 00:22:43,583 --> 00:22:47,958 and in a perfect rectangle or square like this. 482 00:22:47,958 --> 00:22:52,250 This is almost certainly the hands of man. 483 00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:53,625 - [Tony] If that's true, 484 00:22:53,625 --> 00:22:56,333 who's responsible for building these structures, 485 00:22:56,333 --> 00:22:57,875 and why'd they do it? 486 00:22:57,875 --> 00:23:01,042 - The official conclusion of the Chinese government 487 00:23:01,042 --> 00:23:05,458 is that these represent illegal fishing operations 488 00:23:05,458 --> 00:23:09,083 involving short fences that trap the fish 489 00:23:09,083 --> 00:23:11,500 during seasonal inundation. 490 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:14,333 - [Tony] A fish trap works by using water currents 491 00:23:14,333 --> 00:23:18,458 to guide fish into a confined area where they become stuck. 492 00:23:18,458 --> 00:23:21,708 Then the fish can easily be harvested at low tide. 493 00:23:21,708 --> 00:23:23,750 But could there be something, well, 494 00:23:23,750 --> 00:23:26,625 fishy about this explanation? 495 00:23:26,625 --> 00:23:28,500 - I don't think the Chinese government 496 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:30,542 has a great track record 497 00:23:30,542 --> 00:23:35,417 of properly publicly identifying unexplained things. 498 00:23:35,417 --> 00:23:37,417 The government's conclusion 499 00:23:37,417 --> 00:23:40,042 that something this geometrically complex 500 00:23:40,042 --> 00:23:45,000 is simply to capture fish seems lacking in my opinion. 501 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,542 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 502 00:23:47,542 --> 00:23:50,042 - Our verdict? 503 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,333 Unexplained construction. 504 00:23:52,333 --> 00:23:54,458 While we agree with Anderson and Barnhart 505 00:23:54,458 --> 00:23:58,083 that this isn't Mu or an alien landing site, 506 00:23:58,083 --> 00:24:01,167 there's no concrete evidence telling us exactly what it is, 507 00:24:01,167 --> 00:24:02,625 who made it, or why. 508 00:24:06,750 --> 00:24:11,542 - In 1587, about 120 English colonists founded a settlement 509 00:24:11,542 --> 00:24:13,458 on Roanoke Island off the coast 510 00:24:13,458 --> 00:24:15,667 of what is now North Carolina. 511 00:24:15,667 --> 00:24:18,708 Three years later when a ship came to check on them, 512 00:24:18,708 --> 00:24:20,667 they had all disappeared. 513 00:24:20,667 --> 00:24:23,375 Can a stone found in the 1930s 514 00:24:23,375 --> 00:24:25,833 finally solve this enduring mystery? 515 00:24:26,792 --> 00:24:31,000 September 1937, Edenton, North Carolina. 516 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,167 Tourist Louis Hammond is taking a walk in the woods 517 00:24:34,167 --> 00:24:39,083 along the Chowan River when he suddenly comes across this. 518 00:24:40,208 --> 00:24:41,875 It's a stone with faded etchings. 519 00:24:41,875 --> 00:24:45,083 On one side there's an inscription written by a woman 520 00:24:45,083 --> 00:24:47,542 with the initials EWD, 521 00:24:47,542 --> 00:24:51,042 saying her husband and child had passed away. 522 00:24:51,042 --> 00:24:53,875 On the back, she writes that all but seven 523 00:24:53,875 --> 00:24:57,292 of the Roanoke colonists were killed by Native Americans. 524 00:24:57,292 --> 00:25:01,625 Hammond brought the stone to experts at Emory University. 525 00:25:01,625 --> 00:25:04,667 - Right off the bat, Emory made a faculty 526 00:25:04,667 --> 00:25:07,542 investigative team to examine this. 527 00:25:07,542 --> 00:25:08,875 And so, you had 528 00:25:08,875 --> 00:25:11,375 English professors and history professors 529 00:25:11,375 --> 00:25:14,208 and scientists on the team. 530 00:25:14,208 --> 00:25:17,458 They spent five days with this guy quizzing him, 531 00:25:17,458 --> 00:25:20,208 and at the end, the historian at Emory, 532 00:25:20,208 --> 00:25:25,208 he believed this is a real message from Eleanor Dare. 533 00:25:25,208 --> 00:25:26,792 - The stone was signed EWD, 534 00:25:26,792 --> 00:25:28,792 which was assumed to be Eleanor Dare, 535 00:25:28,792 --> 00:25:30,500 John White's daughter. 536 00:25:30,500 --> 00:25:34,042 John White was the leader of the Roanoke colony. 537 00:25:34,042 --> 00:25:36,583 - [Tony] Until Dare's stone came along, 538 00:25:36,583 --> 00:25:39,208 the only clue to what happened to colonists 539 00:25:39,208 --> 00:25:42,167 was an eerie message found later at the settlement. 540 00:25:42,167 --> 00:25:46,208 It said "Croatoan," which was the name of a local tribe. 541 00:25:46,208 --> 00:25:49,042 - One theory is that the colonists actually moved inland 542 00:25:49,042 --> 00:25:52,750 and were absorbed into local Native American tribes. 543 00:25:52,750 --> 00:25:55,958 Others believed that they moved inland 544 00:25:55,958 --> 00:25:59,125 and were actually killed by Native American tribes. 545 00:25:59,125 --> 00:26:02,083 - [Tony] Believe it or not, another theory comes to us 546 00:26:02,083 --> 00:26:05,375 from a clue scrolled invisible ink. 547 00:26:05,375 --> 00:26:08,417 - In 2012, researchers were working with the British Museum 548 00:26:08,417 --> 00:26:09,708 and they discovered this map 549 00:26:09,708 --> 00:26:12,042 that was apparently created by John White. 550 00:26:12,042 --> 00:26:15,250 The map had an invisible symbol on it that was created 551 00:26:15,250 --> 00:26:16,625 with some kind of liquid, 552 00:26:16,625 --> 00:26:19,708 and it's believed that this symbol indicated 553 00:26:19,708 --> 00:26:23,083 where the Roanoke colony planned to make its capital. 554 00:26:23,083 --> 00:26:26,208 - [Tony] Experts say that this symbol is of a fort. 555 00:26:27,292 --> 00:26:28,708 - It was about 50 miles inland 556 00:26:28,708 --> 00:26:30,708 from where the colonists originally settled. 557 00:26:30,708 --> 00:26:32,875 So possibly they believe 558 00:26:32,875 --> 00:26:35,708 that's where the members of the Roanoke colony were headed 559 00:26:35,708 --> 00:26:38,958 when they left the island where they had been living. 560 00:26:38,958 --> 00:26:41,417 - [Tony] Could John White's map tell us what happened 561 00:26:41,417 --> 00:26:42,833 to the colonists? 562 00:26:42,833 --> 00:26:44,917 For now, the stone remains the one piece 563 00:26:44,917 --> 00:26:47,542 of archaeological evidence that spells out 564 00:26:47,542 --> 00:26:51,000 what might have happened to these lost souls. 565 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,583 [air whooshing] 566 00:26:53,583 --> 00:26:55,625 After the discovery of the Dare Stone, 567 00:26:55,625 --> 00:26:58,458 a $500 reward was offered for anyone 568 00:26:58,458 --> 00:27:00,333 who found anything similar. 569 00:27:00,333 --> 00:27:01,750 A number of people came forward 570 00:27:01,750 --> 00:27:04,708 with their own stones, like this one, 571 00:27:04,708 --> 00:27:08,375 but their discoveries were all deemed forgeries. 572 00:27:08,375 --> 00:27:11,000 So is the original Dare Stone real 573 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,292 and can it help us figure out just what happened 574 00:27:13,292 --> 00:27:17,042 to these lost colonists once and for all? 575 00:27:17,042 --> 00:27:19,958 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 576 00:27:21,417 --> 00:27:23,708 Is it possible that the Dare Stone, 577 00:27:23,708 --> 00:27:26,083 like the forgeries that cropped up in its wake, 578 00:27:26,083 --> 00:27:28,042 is also just a hoax? 579 00:27:28,042 --> 00:27:31,958 - People that have looked at the letters themselves 580 00:27:31,958 --> 00:27:35,667 are doubtful that they came from the time period 581 00:27:35,667 --> 00:27:37,417 of the colony, 582 00:27:37,417 --> 00:27:38,875 because it's not the kind of script 583 00:27:38,875 --> 00:27:41,792 that the average person would write in 584 00:27:41,792 --> 00:27:44,500 during the late 1500s. 585 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:45,875 - People have suggested 586 00:27:45,875 --> 00:27:48,458 that maybe a chemical was used on the stone 587 00:27:48,458 --> 00:27:50,625 to make it look like it's weathered. 588 00:27:50,625 --> 00:27:53,500 Well, that's not readily available in the 1930s. 589 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:56,917 Plus, you can't really fake having edges 590 00:27:56,917 --> 00:27:59,625 of etching worn down. 591 00:27:59,625 --> 00:28:02,667 When you carve into a rock, you wanna leave behind something 592 00:28:02,667 --> 00:28:04,167 that you can easily read. 593 00:28:04,167 --> 00:28:07,708 But over time, those really sharp edges 594 00:28:07,708 --> 00:28:11,042 are going to show examples of weathering. 595 00:28:11,042 --> 00:28:14,625 It's gonna start not being so sharp on the edges. 596 00:28:14,625 --> 00:28:17,292 - [Tony] So the stone may or may not be real, 597 00:28:17,292 --> 00:28:19,042 but what about its message? 598 00:28:19,042 --> 00:28:23,208 Was the colony wiped out in an attack or assimilated? 599 00:28:23,208 --> 00:28:25,000 - I would think if I was a great chief 600 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,583 that had decimated this colony of Europeans, 601 00:28:29,583 --> 00:28:32,708 that those artifacts would be highly prized, 602 00:28:32,708 --> 00:28:34,208 and I'd be showing them off, 603 00:28:34,208 --> 00:28:38,708 except those artifacts don't ever show up again. 604 00:28:38,708 --> 00:28:39,875 - [Tony] Or do they? 605 00:28:39,875 --> 00:28:42,208 In June 2025, 606 00:28:42,208 --> 00:28:45,833 archaeologists announced they discovered iron flakes 607 00:28:45,833 --> 00:28:50,125 in 16th and 17th century soil layers on Hatteras Island, 608 00:28:50,125 --> 00:28:52,875 near where the settlers disappeared. 609 00:28:52,875 --> 00:28:56,042 They say these flakes are evidence of blacksmithing, 610 00:28:56,042 --> 00:28:58,875 which wasn't known to Native Americans of that era 611 00:28:58,875 --> 00:29:00,208 and believe it proves 612 00:29:00,208 --> 00:29:03,333 that the missing colonists were assimilated. 613 00:29:03,333 --> 00:29:06,875 But the discovery of a fort drawn in invisible link 614 00:29:06,875 --> 00:29:11,375 on John White's map suggests yet another possible fate. 615 00:29:11,375 --> 00:29:15,125 - The map was recently reexamined in the British Museum 616 00:29:15,125 --> 00:29:20,042 and they found a fort-like structure about 50 miles inland. 617 00:29:20,042 --> 00:29:23,792 Recent excavations have also found artifacts 618 00:29:23,792 --> 00:29:27,708 at this location that are distinctly European. 619 00:29:27,708 --> 00:29:29,875 And so, they haven't yet found anything 620 00:29:29,875 --> 00:29:32,708 that they can directly tie back to Roanoke, 621 00:29:32,708 --> 00:29:34,917 but it's an interesting possibility 622 00:29:34,917 --> 00:29:37,583 that really they just moved and you couldn't find them. 623 00:29:37,583 --> 00:29:40,167 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 624 00:29:40,167 --> 00:29:42,750 - Our verdict? 625 00:29:42,750 --> 00:29:44,292 Unexplained. 626 00:29:44,292 --> 00:29:46,583 Like our experts, we're not only stumped 627 00:29:46,583 --> 00:29:48,792 as to what happened to the colonists, 628 00:29:48,792 --> 00:29:51,083 but the question of the Dare Stone's authenticity 629 00:29:51,083 --> 00:29:53,542 still appears to be uncertain, 630 00:29:53,542 --> 00:29:54,958 and there are no supporting artifacts 631 00:29:54,958 --> 00:29:57,542 to confirm its murderous narrative. 632 00:29:57,542 --> 00:30:00,542 In short, we're between a stone 633 00:30:00,542 --> 00:30:02,042 and a hard place on this one. 634 00:30:06,083 --> 00:30:08,083 - Antarctica is a place of extremes, 635 00:30:08,083 --> 00:30:10,875 an ice sheet covers 98% of the continent, 636 00:30:10,875 --> 00:30:13,000 and it remains, arguably, 637 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,542 one of the most unexplored places on the planet. 638 00:30:16,542 --> 00:30:19,583 So when we saw the weird iceberg in this next video, 639 00:30:19,583 --> 00:30:21,917 we had to ask, what does it mean? 640 00:30:22,958 --> 00:30:25,875 October 16th, 2018, 641 00:30:25,875 --> 00:30:29,375 the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. 642 00:30:29,375 --> 00:30:31,042 Operation Icebridge, 643 00:30:31,042 --> 00:30:34,583 NASA's longest-running aerial survey of polar ice, 644 00:30:34,583 --> 00:30:39,167 is flying over this 47,000- square-mile ice sheet. 645 00:30:39,167 --> 00:30:41,875 As the plane surveys the frozen coastline, 646 00:30:41,875 --> 00:30:44,708 something strange appears on the horizon, 647 00:30:44,708 --> 00:30:47,708 and the team captures this. 648 00:30:47,708 --> 00:30:51,292 A massive perfectly- cut rectangular iceberg 649 00:30:51,292 --> 00:30:54,042 stands out in the surrounding sea ice. 650 00:30:54,042 --> 00:30:55,458 Let's take a closer look. 651 00:30:55,458 --> 00:30:59,750 It's 90-degree angles appear so precise 652 00:30:59,750 --> 00:31:03,000 and the walls of the iceberg so smooth, 653 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,958 it looks like nature operating with such precision 654 00:31:05,958 --> 00:31:08,750 that this rectangle must have a meaning. 655 00:31:08,750 --> 00:31:10,083 - Some believe that this is an example 656 00:31:10,083 --> 00:31:12,417 of something known as sacred geometry, 657 00:31:12,417 --> 00:31:15,625 which is the idea that geometric shapes in nature 658 00:31:15,625 --> 00:31:17,167 are sending some kind of message 659 00:31:17,167 --> 00:31:19,333 or have some kind of symbolic meaning. 660 00:31:19,333 --> 00:31:22,250 - [Tony] Perhaps one of the most famous examples 661 00:31:22,250 --> 00:31:26,500 of sacred geometry is what's known as the golden rectangle. 662 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:29,125 Its sides are in a mathematical proportion 663 00:31:29,125 --> 00:31:31,042 called the golden ratio. 664 00:31:31,042 --> 00:31:34,917 This ratio, roughly one to 1.618, 665 00:31:34,917 --> 00:31:37,875 is said to create a sense of visual balance. 666 00:31:37,875 --> 00:31:40,167 - Is someone trying to tell us something 667 00:31:40,167 --> 00:31:42,333 through these shapes? 668 00:31:42,333 --> 00:31:45,000 Some even believe that they are the building blocks 669 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,917 of the universe. 670 00:31:46,917 --> 00:31:49,542 - [Tony] And it's not just an earthly phenomenon. 671 00:31:49,542 --> 00:31:51,792 Beguiling rectangular shapes 672 00:31:51,792 --> 00:31:54,833 have even been found in the cosmos. 673 00:31:54,833 --> 00:31:57,833 - There's the Red Rectangle nebula HD 44179, 674 00:31:57,833 --> 00:32:00,292 which is a star 2,300 light years away 675 00:32:00,292 --> 00:32:03,042 in the constellation Monoceros. 676 00:32:03,042 --> 00:32:04,875 This star is dying, 677 00:32:04,875 --> 00:32:08,417 and it is shedding material out into space, 678 00:32:08,417 --> 00:32:11,958 and that material creates a rectangular shape 679 00:32:11,958 --> 00:32:13,542 around the star. 680 00:32:13,542 --> 00:32:15,542 - [Tony] Or, if it's not nature, 681 00:32:15,542 --> 00:32:19,125 some are asking if the iceberg in Antarctica 682 00:32:19,125 --> 00:32:22,042 might be part of an unknown structure. 683 00:32:22,042 --> 00:32:25,250 - In 2018, a journalist named Linda Howe 684 00:32:25,250 --> 00:32:28,083 interviewed someone who was a first lieutenant commander 685 00:32:28,083 --> 00:32:29,875 with Naval Special Operations, 686 00:32:29,875 --> 00:32:32,125 and he claimed that in August 2003, 687 00:32:32,125 --> 00:32:33,875 he and his team were sent out 688 00:32:33,875 --> 00:32:36,208 to the southeast coast of Antarctica 689 00:32:36,208 --> 00:32:39,542 to investigate a structure sticking up 18 feet out 690 00:32:39,542 --> 00:32:40,708 of the ice. 691 00:32:40,708 --> 00:32:42,208 When they went inside, 692 00:32:42,208 --> 00:32:44,292 they supposedly saw an illuminated space with walls 693 00:32:44,292 --> 00:32:46,917 that had a bunch of intricate symbols on them, 694 00:32:46,917 --> 00:32:48,250 but they didn't look like 695 00:32:48,250 --> 00:32:50,625 any hieroglyphics we would be familiar with. 696 00:32:50,625 --> 00:32:53,625 [air whooshing] 697 00:32:53,625 --> 00:32:57,208 - In the 1982 John Carpenter classic, "The Thing," 698 00:32:57,208 --> 00:32:59,208 a team of scientists in Antarctica 699 00:32:59,208 --> 00:33:01,375 discover an alien spacecraft 700 00:33:01,375 --> 00:33:04,500 and encounter a fearsome extraterrestrial being 701 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:07,375 that wreaks havoc on their research station. 702 00:33:07,375 --> 00:33:10,542 Whether or not what we're seeing on the Larsen C Ice Shelf 703 00:33:10,542 --> 00:33:12,500 is something to be feared, 704 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:14,917 it certainly merits more investigation. 705 00:33:14,917 --> 00:33:18,875 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 706 00:33:18,875 --> 00:33:21,875 Is this remarkable rectangle just random 707 00:33:21,875 --> 00:33:24,375 or proof of sacred geometry? 708 00:33:24,375 --> 00:33:26,625 - I tend to think that throughout the universe, 709 00:33:26,625 --> 00:33:29,625 you are gonna find different kinds of geometries, 710 00:33:29,625 --> 00:33:31,250 but they're not sacred. 711 00:33:32,083 --> 00:33:33,417 - [Tony] So what does science say 712 00:33:33,417 --> 00:33:36,333 about our Red Rectangular nebula? 713 00:33:36,333 --> 00:33:38,375 Well, for one thing, despite its name, 714 00:33:38,375 --> 00:33:41,250 it's not a rectangle, it's an X. 715 00:33:43,083 --> 00:33:44,625 - My personal point of view 716 00:33:44,625 --> 00:33:48,625 is that we're looking at a double star system, 717 00:33:48,625 --> 00:33:51,375 two neutron stars rotating around each other. 718 00:33:51,375 --> 00:33:54,375 Each star has a north pole and a south pole, 719 00:33:54,375 --> 00:33:57,125 and when they circulate around each other, 720 00:33:57,125 --> 00:33:59,708 it creates the illusion of an X. 721 00:33:59,708 --> 00:34:03,125 - [Tony] The star at the center could actually be two stars 722 00:34:03,125 --> 00:34:04,500 that orbit each other. 723 00:34:05,542 --> 00:34:07,583 Left to themselves, the forces of nature 724 00:34:07,583 --> 00:34:10,167 can randomly create some remarkable shapes 725 00:34:10,167 --> 00:34:13,250 the human mind interprets as intentional, 726 00:34:13,250 --> 00:34:15,167 especially with ice. 727 00:34:15,167 --> 00:34:16,583 Look at this iceberg 728 00:34:16,583 --> 00:34:19,417 that bears a striking resemblance to Batman, 729 00:34:20,333 --> 00:34:22,792 or this ice grim reaper created 730 00:34:22,792 --> 00:34:24,542 by a winter storm in Ontario. 731 00:34:25,667 --> 00:34:27,708 And as for our rectangle? 732 00:34:27,708 --> 00:34:30,000 - In this case, we're looking at a tabular iceberg. 733 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,458 It takes hundreds of years for this iceberg to become flat 734 00:34:34,458 --> 00:34:37,917 through wind and storms that have moved through the area. 735 00:34:37,917 --> 00:34:41,167 For that reason, when a rift happens, 736 00:34:41,167 --> 00:34:44,792 the rift will often create those rectangular cuts 737 00:34:44,792 --> 00:34:45,792 that we see. 738 00:34:46,958 --> 00:34:50,667 The rift probably happened two, three, maybe four years ago. 739 00:34:50,667 --> 00:34:53,667 The reason we have such sharp 90-degree angles 740 00:34:53,667 --> 00:34:55,708 is because it hasn't been weathered enough. 741 00:34:55,708 --> 00:34:59,375 - [Tony] In other words, this tabular iceberg is too young. 742 00:34:59,375 --> 00:35:02,500 Over time, wind and weather will reshape it 743 00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:05,375 into something less than perfect. 744 00:35:05,375 --> 00:35:06,875 - [Juan] The wind, the waves, 745 00:35:06,875 --> 00:35:10,458 the sea spray has not taken a toll on those sharp edges. 746 00:35:11,417 --> 00:35:14,333 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 747 00:35:15,625 --> 00:35:16,750 - Our verdict? 748 00:35:16,750 --> 00:35:19,333 Natural, young iceberg. 749 00:35:19,333 --> 00:35:21,042 As for the geometry, 750 00:35:21,042 --> 00:35:24,083 it's certainly impressive, but sacred? 751 00:35:24,083 --> 00:35:25,208 That's up to you. 752 00:35:29,375 --> 00:35:30,542 - Deep in the Himalayan mountains, 753 00:35:30,542 --> 00:35:33,375 more than 16,000 feet above sea level 754 00:35:33,375 --> 00:35:35,417 is a secluded body of water 755 00:35:35,417 --> 00:35:38,042 that some call Skeleton Lake. 756 00:35:38,042 --> 00:35:40,083 Why Skeleton Lake? 757 00:35:40,083 --> 00:35:41,375 Well, that's the mystery. 758 00:35:42,417 --> 00:35:46,708 1942, Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India. 759 00:35:46,708 --> 00:35:50,375 A forest ranger is patrolling along Roopkund Lake 760 00:35:50,375 --> 00:35:52,167 in the Himalayan Mountains 761 00:35:52,167 --> 00:35:54,542 when he discovers something disturbing. 762 00:35:54,542 --> 00:35:57,125 Photos from his moment of discovery aren't available, 763 00:35:57,125 --> 00:35:58,667 but here's something better. 764 00:36:00,792 --> 00:36:02,292 This is recent footage 765 00:36:02,292 --> 00:36:05,833 of skeletal remains scattered throughout the site. 766 00:36:05,833 --> 00:36:10,792 There are anywhere from 300 to 800 human skeletons here, 767 00:36:11,750 --> 00:36:13,458 and no one's quite sure why. 768 00:36:13,458 --> 00:36:17,250 Was it some ancient massacre, a bizarre disaster? 769 00:36:18,208 --> 00:36:20,583 - When I saw the skeletal remains, 770 00:36:20,583 --> 00:36:22,917 it was a mystery to be solved. 771 00:36:22,917 --> 00:36:25,417 We wanted to know more about them, 772 00:36:25,417 --> 00:36:27,625 like why these skeletons 773 00:36:27,625 --> 00:36:29,208 are lying out there 774 00:36:29,208 --> 00:36:31,417 in such a huge number. 775 00:36:31,417 --> 00:36:35,750 We do not exactly know how many individuals are there. 776 00:36:35,750 --> 00:36:38,708 - [Tony] The area around the lake has been excavated 777 00:36:38,708 --> 00:36:41,083 and studied by researchers for years, 778 00:36:41,083 --> 00:36:43,542 but no one has unlocked its secrets. 779 00:36:44,708 --> 00:36:46,500 - One theory is that the skeletons at the lake 780 00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:48,500 actually belong to dead soldiers, 781 00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:50,167 and we've seen something similar 782 00:36:50,167 --> 00:36:52,375 in a different area of India. 783 00:36:52,375 --> 00:36:55,458 In 2014, literally hundreds of skeletons 784 00:36:55,458 --> 00:36:57,917 were discovered at the bottom of a well in Punjab. 785 00:36:57,917 --> 00:37:00,417 Experts found that those skeletons actually belonged 786 00:37:00,417 --> 00:37:03,458 to Indian soldiers who had been executed by British forces 787 00:37:03,458 --> 00:37:05,792 following a mutiny in 1857. 788 00:37:07,125 --> 00:37:10,500 - [Tony] Mass graves have been discovered around the world 789 00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:12,583 as murderous regimes have tried 790 00:37:12,583 --> 00:37:14,708 to cover up their war crimes. 791 00:37:14,708 --> 00:37:17,042 - An act of war isn't the only theory. 792 00:37:17,042 --> 00:37:20,250 Some actually believe that the skeletons belong to people 793 00:37:20,250 --> 00:37:22,500 who are victims of a natural disaster, 794 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:24,667 specifically a hailstorm. 795 00:37:24,667 --> 00:37:26,833 The deadliest hailstorm on record 796 00:37:26,833 --> 00:37:28,000 occurred in northern India 797 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:29,875 in April 1888. 798 00:37:29,875 --> 00:37:32,375 Some 246 people died, 799 00:37:32,375 --> 00:37:35,583 and the hailstones were said to be as big as oranges. 800 00:37:35,583 --> 00:37:37,167 Could something similar have happened 801 00:37:37,167 --> 00:37:39,708 to the people who ended up at Skeleton Lake? 802 00:37:39,708 --> 00:37:42,083 [air whooshing] 803 00:37:42,083 --> 00:37:46,083 - There's a growing concern about theft at Roopkund Lake. 804 00:37:46,083 --> 00:37:47,208 Tourists have been swiping 805 00:37:47,208 --> 00:37:49,458 skeletal souvenirs from the site. 806 00:37:49,458 --> 00:37:51,750 Experts say that if the bones aren't protected, 807 00:37:51,750 --> 00:37:55,625 they may gradually vanish in the years to come. 808 00:37:55,625 --> 00:37:58,375 But how did these bones get there in the first place? 809 00:37:58,375 --> 00:37:59,833 Let's ask our experts. 810 00:37:59,833 --> 00:38:03,542 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 811 00:38:03,542 --> 00:38:07,042 A 2019 forensic examination of the remains 812 00:38:07,042 --> 00:38:09,042 revealed even more mysteries. 813 00:38:09,042 --> 00:38:13,417 - They did a study that included radiocarbon dating and DNA, 814 00:38:13,417 --> 00:38:16,375 and what they found was there were males, 815 00:38:16,375 --> 00:38:20,500 females, and some died just a few hundred years ago, 816 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:22,542 and some died more than a thousand. 817 00:38:22,542 --> 00:38:25,167 Also, the vast majority come from South Asia. 818 00:38:25,167 --> 00:38:28,208 However, there is some DNA 819 00:38:28,208 --> 00:38:30,542 from people that originated in Crete, 820 00:38:30,542 --> 00:38:32,708 which is thousands of miles away. 821 00:38:32,708 --> 00:38:35,458 - [Tony] But what force could have taken so many lives 822 00:38:35,458 --> 00:38:39,375 from such wide ranging locations and time periods? 823 00:38:39,375 --> 00:38:42,792 - Most myths are born out of a fragment of truth. 824 00:38:42,792 --> 00:38:45,083 In this case, it may be that this area 825 00:38:45,083 --> 00:38:49,417 has a lot of hailstorms, and in 2004, 826 00:38:49,417 --> 00:38:51,833 an expedition went to this location 827 00:38:51,833 --> 00:38:54,667 and they found deep fissures on their heads 828 00:38:54,667 --> 00:38:57,375 and their skulls and on their upper bodies 829 00:38:57,375 --> 00:39:00,625 likely caused from a tremendous hailstorm, 830 00:39:00,625 --> 00:39:02,542 and that's probably what killed them. 831 00:39:03,667 --> 00:39:06,583 - India is notorious for having very large hail, 832 00:39:06,583 --> 00:39:09,542 hail that spans from two to four inches in diameter. 833 00:39:09,542 --> 00:39:12,125 Imagine baseballs falling from the sky. 834 00:39:12,125 --> 00:39:15,583 That can create a lot of damage to someone's property 835 00:39:15,583 --> 00:39:18,500 or even lead to the loss of life. 836 00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:20,792 - You can see the terrain is, is that it's very rugged. 837 00:39:20,792 --> 00:39:23,542 You got ice on all four sides here, 838 00:39:23,542 --> 00:39:25,208 which means when it gets a little bit warmer, 839 00:39:25,208 --> 00:39:26,792 some of that ice melts 840 00:39:26,792 --> 00:39:30,750 and then you'll get a lot of avalanches or landslide debris. 841 00:39:30,750 --> 00:39:33,500 All those people down below or up at near the top, 842 00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:34,708 they'd all be just carried 843 00:39:34,708 --> 00:39:37,208 or buried instantly down that area 844 00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:38,917 at the bottom of the lake. 845 00:39:38,917 --> 00:39:42,708 - [Tony] So the evidence points to this lake being a place 846 00:39:42,708 --> 00:39:45,708 that's killed people across different eras 847 00:39:45,708 --> 00:39:48,250 and from wildly different places, 848 00:39:48,250 --> 00:39:52,042 almost as though it carries a curse. 849 00:39:52,042 --> 00:39:53,292 - When you have people 850 00:39:53,292 --> 00:39:56,875 from different places and different centuries, 851 00:39:56,875 --> 00:39:58,042 there's a possibility 852 00:39:58,042 --> 00:39:59,958 that there were different causes of death. 853 00:39:59,958 --> 00:40:03,250 So there's more research that needs to be done. 854 00:40:03,250 --> 00:40:06,042 - [Tony] As to why these bones have been arranged in piles, 855 00:40:06,042 --> 00:40:09,042 that's one part of this mystery we can solve. 856 00:40:09,042 --> 00:40:11,708 - It's clear to me that people in the past 857 00:40:11,708 --> 00:40:14,042 have taken those bones together 858 00:40:14,042 --> 00:40:17,500 and just stacked them out of maybe reverence for 'em. 859 00:40:20,417 --> 00:40:23,042 [air whooshing] [suspenseful music] 860 00:40:25,333 --> 00:40:26,500 - Our verdict? 861 00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:27,708 Deadly hail. 862 00:40:28,583 --> 00:40:30,583 And by the way, some have wondered 863 00:40:30,583 --> 00:40:33,458 if the discovery of Greek DNA here 864 00:40:33,458 --> 00:40:34,667 comes from descendants 865 00:40:34,667 --> 00:40:37,417 of Alexander the Great's invasion of India, 866 00:40:37,417 --> 00:40:39,500 but the evidence doesn't support that. 867 00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:42,625 So for now, the research continues. 868 00:40:42,625 --> 00:40:43,625 But what do you think? 869 00:40:43,625 --> 00:40:45,708 Send us an email and let us know. 870 00:40:45,708 --> 00:40:46,667 That's our show for tonight. 871 00:40:46,667 --> 00:40:48,917 Thank you so much for watching 872 00:40:48,917 --> 00:40:52,625 and as always, keep those cameras rolling. 873 00:40:52,625 --> 00:40:55,792 [suspenseful music]