Speaker 1: Imagine for a second, just picture this. You're just going
about your normal daily routine, right. You are walking your
dog on a freezing, completely ordinary December afternoon, Right, just
a normal day, Yeah, exactly. You're out in the harsh,
sub zero Siberian snow. The wind is howling, the snow
is just crunching heavily under your boots, and then suddenly
your dog stops dead in its tracks. Never good sign, No,
it's really not. So you look down and right there,
half buried in a pristine snowbank, you stumble upon this hairless,
three foot tall creature. It's missing a limb, its skin
is this ghastly dark gray, and it looks like absolutely
nothing from this earth.
Speaker 2: It's an incredible mental image, it is.
Speaker 1: Or if that scenario feels a bit too remote for you,
picture this one. You're just driving down a busy city
street on your afternoon commute. You're mining your own business,
listening to the radio, and the heavy cargo van's driving
directly in front of you suddenly violently levitat into.
Speaker 3: The air, completely defining gravity.
Speaker 1: Exactly suspended like toys hanging on invisible strings. How do
you process that? How does your brain even begin to
categorize what your eyes are seeing.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a genuinely jarring thought experiment because it attacks
the fundamental way we navigate the world. I mean, the
human brain is, at its core, a highly advanced pattern
recognition machine. Right, we are evolutionarily wired to look at
our environment and instantly categorize things safe, dangerous, normal, abnormal.
So when we, or really anyone listening to this right now,
are confronted with something that completely shatters those established categories, like.
Speaker 1: A biological anomaly or floating cars, right.
Speaker 2: A total defiance of the natural laws of physics, our
brains just scramble. We either desperately try to force the
anomaly into a box we already understand, or we completely
rewrite our understanding of reality right there on the spot.
And that psychological scramble is exactly what makes these kinds
of anomalies so universally captivating.
Speaker 1: Well, welcome to thrilling threads. We take a massive, towering
stack of sources, articles, expert testimonies, forensic reports, wild video footage,
and we pull on the most fascinating threads to see
exactly where they lead.
Speaker 3: And we have a pretty incredible stack today.
Speaker 1: We really do. Today, our mission is to unpack a
completely wild stack of files containing international anomalies. We are
looking at eyewitness accounts and viral footage of bizarre, en
cryptied creatures, absolutely impossible medical survivals, and instances that honestly
look like literal glitches in the fabric of reality itself.
Speaker 2: And I think it's crucial we set the tone right
out of the gate here. We aren't here today to
just blindly swallow every wild late night internet theory that
crosses our desks. Definitely not but equally important, we aren't
here to cynically and dismissively debunk everything without giving it
a fair rigorous hearing. We're going to rely heavily on
the incredible source material we've gathered.
Speaker 1: Which is packed with some heavy hitters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it features top tier forensic video analysts, field biologists,
marine experts, and theoretic physicists. We're using their work to
carefully separate the elaborate, intentional hoaxes from the genuine, profound
mysteries that still defy scientific explanations.
Speaker 1: So, for you listening right now, we invite you to
put on your detective hat, grab a cup of coffee,
and join us in this investigation. We are going to
look at the evidence together as the third person at
this table, Let's jump in. Okay, let's start with an
exploration of what I've been thinking of as cryptids, corpses,
and the terrifying secrets of the permafrost. We really need
to focus on biological anomalies first, because it's fascinating how
human perception can be so easily skewed by a mix
of local folklore, environmental factors, and our own deeply held
desires to believe in the extraordinary. It really is, so
let's unpack that first scenario I mentioned, the Siberian snow creature.
Speaker 2: This is such a textbook example of how environmental context
primes people for extraordinary conclusions. This incident takes place in
Russia's a more region right way out there, way out there,
if you picture it. It's an incredibly isolated, heavily forested area.
Temperatures are brutally below zero, there are two feet of
pristine snow on the ground, and there are far more
trees than people for hundreds of miles just to frozen
wilderness exactly. And the local man is out walking his
dog and they find this dark, gray, three foot tall,
hairless entity it's missing a limb, and its head is
tilted back in this oddly tragic, agonizing way.
Speaker 1: Like he was screaming when it froze.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as if it was speaking or screaming at the
exact moment it died and froze solid.
Speaker 1: And the people who filmed this discovery, the locals, they
are instantly one hundred percent convinced that this is an
extraterrestrial alien corpse. And honestly, looking at the history of Siberia,
you can almost understand why their minds went straight to aliens. Yeah,
we really have to talk about the Tumdusk event to
understand their mindset.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the historical context is everything here. The famous nineteen
oh eight Tenguska event is a cornerstone of global and
especially Russian extraterrestrial lore. For anyone who might need a refresher.
Back in nineteen oh eight, a massive, unprecedented explosion occurred
over the sparsely populated eastern Siberian Taiga.
Speaker 1: And when we say massive, we mean massive.
Speaker 2: The blast was so incredibly powerful that it leveled approximately
eighty million trees over an area of eight hundred and
thirty square miles.
Speaker 1: Which is just I mean that's an area nearly the
size of Rhode Island just completely flattened in an instant, right.
Speaker 2: And officially it is classified as a meteor air burst,
meaning a meteor exploded in the atmosphere before hitting the ground.
Speaker 1: Which perfectly explains why there's no massive impact crater exactly.
Speaker 2: But because of the sheer apocalyptic devastation and the lack
of a traditional crater, and enduring alternative theory took root.
Speaker 1: In the culture that it wasn't a meteor at all.
Speaker 2: That it was a crashed highly advanced alien spacecraft.
Speaker 1: Right, So you have generations of people living in this
region who have grown up with the Tunguska alien spaceship
theory essentially baked into their local history. When they see
a weird hairless corpse in the snow, alien isn't a
massive leap in logic for them, It's a highly accessible
cultural explanation.
Speaker 3: Top of mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we want to look at the actual science.
What are we looking at biologically when we see this footage.
Speaker 2: Well, if we look at the notes from field biologist
Lucy Eckersley, who meticulously examined the footage of this creature,
she immediately points out what it isn't. Okay, She states
definitively that it is not a tragically malformed human being.
Speaker 1: That's a relief, honestly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the cranium structure is completely wrong. It lacks a
human chin, and the overall head shape is fundamentally non human. However,
she noticed something fascinating about the arms.
Speaker 1: About them.
Speaker 2: They are disproportionately long. She noted that the morphology is
highly reminiscent of a primate, specifically something designed to reach
and swing through tree canopies.
Speaker 1: Okay, so she's thinking a monkey.
Speaker 2: Her first thought, based purely on the skeletal structure and
limb proportion, was actually a squirrel monkey.
Speaker 1: Wait a squirrel monkey. Yeah, let me just pause right there,
because my brain is struggling with that. Squirrel monkeys are
native to the dense, humid, tropical rainforests of South America.
How on earth does a fragile tropical monkey end up
buried in two feet of sub zero snow in the
remote Siberian wilderness. Did it escape from some eccentric billionaire's
private exotic zoo. Was it being smuggled and fell off
a transport truck.
Speaker 2: It's a fantastic question, and it's the exact logistical nightmare
that forensic investigator Chase Klowski decided to tackle. But she
didn't look at the species. She looked at the scene
of the death itself.
Speaker 1: Ah, okay, the crime scene.
Speaker 2: What's fascinating here is what is utterly absent from the video.
Klosky points out that if this were a recently deceased
flesh and blood creature, whether it's a misplaced South American
monkey or a genuine visitor from another star system, there
would be distinct biological and environmental trauma.
Speaker 1: Okay, I see where this is going. If something crashed
or even just freezes to death, the environment reacts.
Speaker 2: To it precisely. Klassky points out that there is zero gore, none, none.
There are no biological fluids, no blood melting into the snow,
no puss, no signs of predation by local wolves or foxes,
and no signs of natural decay. And if we entertain
the alien crash survivor theory for a moment, there's no debris,
no scorch marks on the trees, nothing. The snow immediately
surrounding the body is completely pristine, except for the footprints
of the people who quote unquote found it.
Speaker 1: So it didn't melt the snow around it.
Speaker 2: Right, A real biological corpse interacts with its environment. It
leeches heat, which melts the snow immediately around it, and
then it refreezes, it leaches fluids. This object did none.
Speaker 1: Of that, so it's essentially sitting on the snow, not
interacting with it, like it was just dropped there.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: Klassky's forensic conclusion, and it's a completely sound one, is
that the scene is staged, so it's fake. The sheer
lack of gory details, the lack of thermal melting in
the snowbed, combined with the utter geographical absurdity of a
tropical primate form in the Siberian winter, points to one
inescapable conclusion. It's an elaborate hoax.
Speaker 1: That's what is it made of.
Speaker 3: The corpse is.
Speaker 2: A fabricated prop It's likely sculpted from something like chicken skin,
stuffed with dough or clay, designed specifically to look like
the classic gray alien of modern.
Speaker 1: Folklore, which really makes you wonder about the psychology behind this.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 1: Why do people go through the incredible effort, time and
artistic labor to sculpt a highly detailed fake alien corpse,
drag it down into the freezing wilderness stage a discovery
and film It is it just to go viral.
Speaker 2: Internet notoriety certainly plays a massive role, but on a
deeper psychological level, some people genuinely want to be a
part of a larger mythology. Oh interesting, By creating a
hoax that gets picked up by international media, they are
literally writing themselves into the modern folklore of ufology.
Speaker 1: They become part of the story right.
Speaker 2: It drives serious anomaly researchers absolutely crazy, of course, because
it severely muddies the waters.
Speaker 3: Every time a sculpted prop goes viral.
Speaker 2: It damages the credibility of legitimate scientific investigative work into real,
unexplained phenomena.
Speaker 1: It totally pollutes the data pool. If you have to
spend half your time debunking art projects, it's hard to
focus on the real mysteries. But speaking of Russian anomalies
and potential extraterrestrial corpses, the Siberian snow creature might not
even be the most famous one. To find a truly
baffling biological mystery, we have to rewind to August of
nineteen ninety six. Uh yes, and look at the incredibly
bizarre case of the Kishtim Alioshenka.
Speaker 2: This is a case that has fascinated researchers and scientists
for decades because the physical evidence was so uniquely strange.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 2: In the industrial town of Kishtim, located deep in the
Russian Mural Mountains, a police detective named Vladimir Benlin was
investigating what he thought was a standard, mundane local robbery.
Speaker 1: Just routine police work, right.
Speaker 2: But during his investigation, a local woman presented him with
a discovery that completely derailed his career and challenged his
understanding of human biology.
Speaker 1: The details of this are just wild. This woman had
found a creature near a local cemetery.
Speaker 3: Near cemetery, yes, she claimed.
Speaker 1: That when she found it it was actually alive, and
she brought it home and cared for it for a
few weeks before it anually died. She lovingly nooked at Alioshenka.
Speaker 3: Which is just bizarre to think about.
Speaker 1: Now. Detective Bendlund looks at this thing and his stomach
must have just dropped. We're talking about a mummified corpse
that is only about ten inches long, very small. It
has dark brownish gray skin and a completely bizarre skull
featuring distinct raised ridges and massive protruding eye sockets that
take up most of the facial structure.
Speaker 2: And again we turned to forensic investigator Chase Klausky to
look at the anatomy of this thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what did she find.
Speaker 2: When she analyzed the surviving visual evidence of Alioshenka? Because
we do have clear photographs and video of the body
from the police investigation, the list of missing anatomical features is.
Speaker 1: Staggering missing features.
Speaker 2: Yes, the creature has no visible external ear structures, no
discernible nose cartilage, no genitalia, and perhaps most crucially of all,
it has absolutely no belly button, no navel whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this because no belly button is a
massive biological red flag.
Speaker 3: It's huge.
Speaker 1: No billy button means there was never an umbilical cord attached,
and no umbilical cord implies it wasn't born via a
mammalian placental pregnancy. So if it doesn't have a belly button,
how was it just stated? How did it receive nutrients
before it was born?
Speaker 2: That's the core mystery.
Speaker 1: Detective ben Lund initially thought it was a tragically formed
human fetus. Maybe the victim of a clandestine abortion, but
the total lack of ennavel threw a massive ranch into
that theory. It did so the scientific theories surrounding this
creature fracture into two fascinating, deeply disturbing directions. First, we
have the radiation mutation theory.
Speaker 2: Right to understand this theory, you have to understand the
incredibly dark, secretive history of the Kishtem region.
Speaker 1: It's a rough history.
Speaker 2: Science writer Mick West points out that in nineteen fifty
seven there was a catastrophic disaster at the Mayak Production Association,
which was a highly secretive Soviet military facility near Kishtim
that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons. Okay, a massive underground
tank storing tens of thousands of tons of highly volatile
liquid nuclear waste suffered a cooling failure and exploded. It
sent a dense, highly radioactive plume over an area of
roughly twenty thousand square miles, contaminating numerous nearby villages and
hundreds of thousands of people.
Speaker 1: And the wild part, the truly terrifying part, is that
the Soviet government completely covered this up. This was actually
the worst nuclear disaster in world history until Chernobyl happened decades.
Speaker 2: Later, yes, completely hidden from the world.
Speaker 1: The Soviet government didn't officially admit the nineteen fifty seven
Kish Team disaster even happened until nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3: It's unthinkable.
Speaker 1: For decades people were living, farming, and raising families in
one of the most radioactive places on Earth without knowing
it exactly.
Speaker 2: So you have a local environment and a population that
was subjected to massive generational doses of.
Speaker 1: Radiation, which leads to Mickwest theory.
Speaker 2: Mickwest theorizes that Alishenka is not an alien from another galaxy,
but rather a tragic, heartbreaking human reality. He suggests it
as a severely deformed human infant or fetus suffering from
massive genetic corruption caused by the radioactive fallout embedded in
the region's soil and water.
Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: The bulbous, ridged head, the impossibly skinny limbs, the lack
of traditional facial features, and perhaps even a severe abdominal
wall defect that obscured the navel. He argues, these are
the horrific tangible results of radiation completely breaking.
Speaker 3: Down the human genetic code.
Speaker 1: It's a very grounded, deeply sad explanation. It transforms it
from a sci fi mystery into a historical tragedy.
Speaker 3: It really does.
Speaker 1: But then we have the opposing scientific theory from anthropologist
Kathy Strain. She looks at the exact same physical evidence,
the exact same photographs, and comes to a completely different
but equally grounded conclusion. She doesn't think it's a twentieth
century radiation victim at all.
Speaker 3: Now she takes a totally different angle.
Speaker 2: Strain's analysis is brilliant because it relies on historical anthropology
and the mechanics of human birth.
Speaker 1: Okay walk us through that.
Speaker 2: She specifically zeros in on the distinct cone shaped, ridged
skull of the creature. In human biology, the skull of
an infant is not.
Speaker 1: Fully fused all right to soft spots.
Speaker 2: Exactly, it is made of separate bony plates that are
highly malleable to allow the head to compress and pass
safely through the birth canal. Strain argues that this is
a human infant that died tragically during a highly prolonged,
difficult birthing process.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's awful.
Speaker 2: The extreme pressure of the birth canal severely compressed the
unfused skull plates, resulting in that extreme alien looking cone
shape of the head, and.
Speaker 1: The ridges are where the plates overlap exactly.
Speaker 2: Furthermore, she completely dismisses the local woman's claim that it
was alive and being fed for weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that part always seemed a bit dubious.
Speaker 2: Strain believes that al Yushenka is incredibly old, an ancient,
naturally mummified human infant.
Speaker 1: Like an archaeological find.
Speaker 2: Yes, given the dry, cold conditions of certain microclimates in
the region, it could be a burial that dates back
a thousand years or more naturally preserved by the Earth.
Speaker 1: So we have two incredibly solid, scientifically plausible theories, a
tragic twentieth century radiation mutation or an ancient thousand year
old natural mummy. The obvious next step to settle this debate,
the absolute silver bullet, is DNA testing.
Speaker 3: Right, that would solve it instantly.
Speaker 1: You just take a tissue sample and run the genome.
But we can't do that because the body vanished.
Speaker 3: It's so frustrating.
Speaker 1: Detective Benlund, in a desperate attempt to get answers and
I pass the slow moving local bureaucracy, handed the mummified
corpse over to a group of private self proclaimed UFO investigators,
and poof it vanished, without a single trace, gone forever.
All we have laughter are those VHS videos and police photographs.
Speaker 2: And this raises an incredibly important question about the nature
of anomalous investigations. How often do we lose the definitive
truth simply because the chain of custody of the physical
evidence is broken.
Speaker 1: It happens so often.
Speaker 2: The disappearance of Aliashenka's body acts as pure, highly combustible
fuel for enduring conspiracies. When physical evidence vanishes into the
hands of secretive groups, it allows the extraterrestrial narrative to
survive indefinitely.
Speaker 1: Because you can't prove it isn't analien anymore.
Speaker 2: Science has denied the opportunity to perform the definitive DNA
test that could close the case forever. It is a
frustrating recurring reality in the study of anomalies.
Speaker 1: It really is. It's like the mystery is artificially preserved
in amber because the evidence was stolen well set. But
speaking of things being preserved, let's move on to our
next biological case. We're heading back to Russia, specifically to
the year twenty eleven for the case of the permafrost beast.
Speaker 2: This case is a fascinating intersection of modern climate change
and ancient, deeply rooted folklore.
Speaker 1: It really has everything.
Speaker 2: In a small, remote Russian village, a local farmer reported
a large, unexplained explosion that violently shook his home. While
he was out searching the surrounding area for the source
of the blast, he stumbled upon a completely bizarre set
of remains near where he was drying some corn.
Speaker 1: And the video footage of this discovery is incredibly eerie.
Speaker 3: It's very strange.
Speaker 1: The creature is relatively small, maybe the size of a
large dog or a small deer, but it has a
highly unusual head structure, a strange ribbed torso, and oddly
elongated limbs. And crucially, it appears to be completely petrified
or mummified, hardened like stone or ancient leather.
Speaker 2: Right, local villagers didn't immediately jump to aliens like the
folks in Siberia did.
Speaker 1: No, they had a different idea.
Speaker 2: Their cultural programming took them in a much darker, much
older direction. Journalist Aaron McCarthy notes that the locals immediately
feared they had found the handiwork of Bobby aga Ah Bobbyoga.
Speaker 1: If you aren't familiar with Slavic folklore, Bobbyaga is one
of the most terrifying figures imaginable.
Speaker 3: She really is.
Speaker 1: She is essentially the ultimate primordial witch, a boogeyman figure
who lives deep in the woods in a magical, terrifying
shack that literally stands on giant moving chicken legs. She
is infamous in the myths for stealing and eating children.
Speaker 2: So when these isolated villagers find a weird, petrified, vaguely
bird like or chicken like creature immediately following a mysterious,
unexplained explosion, their cultural lens immediately frames it as dark magic.
Speaker 1: They think they found a piece of Bobby AGA's lore
made flesh exactly.
Speaker 2: But again we have to look past the folklore and
bring in the bi biologists right time to the science video.
Forensic analyst Mick West first confirms that, unlike the Siberian
snow creature we talked about earlier, this doesn't look like
a sculpted prop made.
Speaker 1: Of dough and chicken skins, so it's real.
Speaker 2: It looks like a genuine, once living animal that has
undergone a natural, intense mummification process. So what animal biologist
Floyd Hayes examines the footage and notes that while the
face looks slightly bird like, perhaps like a beak had
broken off or degraded during mummification, the eye sockets are
just way too.
Speaker 1: Large because birds have small eyes.
Speaker 2: Right. Birds generally have relatively small eyes compared to their
overall skull volume. So he confidently rules out a bird,
which happily rules out any relation to Bobby Yaga's giant
chicken legs.
Speaker 1: Which I'm sure it was a huge relief to the locals. Definitely.
So if we connect this to the bigger picture of
mammalian biology, hazan zoologists roxy furments start to see distinct
identifiable features beneath the mummified exterior.
Speaker 3: What do they see?
Speaker 1: The spot what appears to be teeth in thee, a
longer neck structure, and limbs that strongly suggest a winged mammal.
Firma notes that the large nasal cavity, the neck, and
the specific claw structures at the end of the quote
unquote wings strongly point toward a large species of fruit bat,
specifically something like a flying fox.
Speaker 3: Okay, wait, a flying fuck Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is exactly like the squirrel, monkey issue. Flying foxes
do not live in freezing Russia.
Speaker 3: No, they absolutely do not.
Speaker 1: They are native to the warm tropical islands of the
Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and Southeast Asia. They would
drop dead of hypothemia in minutes in the Russian taiga.
Speaker 2: Which means we have another massive geographical impossibility on our.
Speaker 1: Hands, which is where journalist Aaron McCarthy introduces the most
grounded and yet somehow most mind blowing theory of all
climate change. H The permafrost, the permanently frozen layer of
soil that covers massive swaths of Russia, is currently melting
at an unprecedented terrifying rate due to global temperature increases.
Speaker 3: As a huge ecological issue.
Speaker 1: And as this deep ancient ice thows, it is quite
literally unearthing the prehistoric past. In recent years, scientists have
been finding perfectly preserved wooly mammoths, ancient rhinos, and prehistoric
wolves falling out of the mud, complete with fur and liquid.
Speaker 3: Blood, which is just incredible.
Speaker 2: McCarthy theorizes that this creature isn't a modern tropical bat
that somehow got lost.
Speaker 3: It is a.
Speaker 2: Completely extinct, undiscovered species of animal that lived in Russia
thousands or millions of years ago, when the climate was
vastly different, perhaps much warmer. Wow, it died, was frozen
in the permafrost and has just recently thought out of
the melting ice, dropping onto the modern landscape like a
ghost from the Pleistocene era.
Speaker 1: That is just incredible, the idea that global warming is
acting as this massive chaotic planetary archaeological dig.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what it is, literally.
Speaker 1: Vomiting up ancient creatures we don't even have names for yet.
Speaker 3: It is a profound realization.
Speaker 2: What's fascinating here is that the mystery of the creature
isn't paranormal or extraterrestrial.
Speaker 3: It's temporal.
Speaker 1: It's a creature out of time.
Speaker 2: Delivered to us by the changing temperature of the planet.
And unfortunately, as the Arctic continues to warm it roughly
twice the global average, we're going to see a lot
more of these ancient monsters thawing out and confusing locals.
Speaker 1: It's terrifying, but also a biological gold mine. Now, let's
leave the icy permafrost of Russia and travel to the murky,
rolling waters of China. I want to talk about the
twenty nineteen Yankse River Monster.
Speaker 3: This is a wild one.
Speaker 1: If you've never seen the Yanksy. It is a massive,
incredibly powerful body of water. It's one of the longest
rivers in the world. Just in the specific stretch where
this footage was captured, the river is nearly four thousand
meters wide.
Speaker 3: That's huge.
Speaker 1: The waters are fast, incredibly dangerous, and home to some
highly unique aquatic life. In September twenty nineteen, a viral
video shot from a ferry dock seemed to capture something
utterly unprecedented moving through those rapids.
Speaker 2: The footage is striking, especially when you consider the scale
of the river. It shows a long, dark, mysterious object
slithering in a highly serpentine s curve motion along the
surface of the.
Speaker 1: Rapid river currents like a giant snake. Right.
Speaker 2: Based on the perspective, it's distance from the dock and
the height of the person observing it, forensic analysts estimate
it to be at least ten feet long, possibly much larger.
The Internet instantly exploded, dubbing it the three Gorgeous water Monster,
and just like.
Speaker 1: In Russia with Bobbyaga, local mythology immediately flooded. The conversation
field researcher Ken Gerhardt notes that Chinese mythology is incredibly
rich with aquatic serpentine beasts.
Speaker 3: It definitely is.
Speaker 1: You have lung dragons, which are described as massive scaly
serpents with four stw limbs that rule the waterways. You
have the naga, which are dark snakelike entsities said to
reach up to forty feet in length and live in
deep aquatic trenches.
Speaker 2: So the cultural desire for this black slithering object to
be a mythical dragon or a naga was massive.
Speaker 1: People wanted to be real, they really did. Even the
more scientifically minded Internet sleuths offered wild theories. Some suggested
it might be a massive mutated water snake or eel
that had grown to impossible sizes due to the severe
industrial pollution dumping into the yankse over the decades. Right
the godzilla theory exactly, But marine biologists Shake Conger took
a systematic biological approach to identifying it. First, she looked
at the eel theory. The largest known eel species, the
European Conger, doesn't get nearly that large, and more importantly,
it isn't found anywhere near those freshwater Chinese waters.
Speaker 2: Okay, so she rules out eels. What about actual local
river monsters. She considered the giant Chinese.
Speaker 1: Salamander, which are terrifying.
Speaker 2: And if you've never seen one of these, they are
real life monsters in their own right. They are amphibians
that can grow into six feet long and weigh over
one hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: They look completely prehistoric.
Speaker 2: But Conger points out that the creature in the video
has deep irregularities on its surface, whereas a giant salamander
would be relatively.
Speaker 3: Smooth and viscous.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about the legendary Chinese sturgeon.
Speaker 2: The Chinese sturgeon is a fantastic candidate in theory. They
are literal living fossils, having evolved over one hundred million
years ago alongside the dinosaurs, and they can reach staggering
lengths of up to sixteen feet and weigh over one
thousand pounds. Massive fish, the Conger notes a crucial anatomical
missing piece in the video. Sturgeons have highly defined, rigid
shark like tail fins. If a sixteen foot sturgeon was
swimming at the surface like that, its massive dorsal and
tail fins would be clearly breaking the surface.
Speaker 3: Of the water slicing through it.
Speaker 2: This object in the video had no such fin It
was just a smooth dark too.
Speaker 1: So the biologists are stumped. We turned to our video
forensic expert, Michael Primo, and this is where the illusion
completely shatters for me.
Speaker 2: He ruins the fun, doesn't he He does.
Speaker 1: He analyzes the video completely ignoring the mythology and focuses
on fluid dynamics. He immediately notices that the ripples of
the object is making in the water are completely wrong
for a living creature. How So, there is no definitive
biological pattern or propulsion A snake or an eel pushes
against the water to move forward. This object isn't swimming.
It is simply reacting to the powerful water currents pushing
against it. It's exhibiting unnatural, non biological behaviors.
Speaker 2: And Primo's deep dive into the local social media from
that specific area yielded the disappointing yet highly illuminating truth.
Speaker 1: What did he find?
Speaker 2: He found an alternate recording of the exact same object
from a different angle on the river bank. When you
see it from the new angle, the mystery vanishes. Oh man,
it wasn't a mutated eel. It wasn't an ancient, prehistoric sturgeon.
It was a massive, discarded, dark colored industrial rubber air bag,
the kind used in local shipyards to roll heavy boats into.
Speaker 1: The water, just a piece of trash.
Speaker 2: One end of this massive deflated rubber tube had snagged
on some rocks on the river bottom, and the incredibly
powerful rapid current of the Yank Sea was whipping the
long rubber tail back and forth on the surface. That
whipping motion perfectly mimicked the slithering, serpentine thrumming motion of.
Speaker 1: A giant snake discarded rubber airbag. It's almost comical how
easily our brains are tricked by water currents. But then
you realize the profound tragedy underlying it. Right, millions of
people were theorizing that pollution in the river had mutated
a giant monster. The heartbreaking truth is the pollution was
the monster. The real, genuine, unique aquatic life in the
Yank See, like those incredible giant salamanders and ancient sturgeons
we just talked about, are actively going extinct right now.
Speaker 3: It's incredibly sad.
Speaker 1: They are dying out due to immense industrial pollution, dam
building and severe overfishing. The very trash that is killing
the real wonders of the river was mistaken for a
mythical beast. It's a deeply sobering thought to end our
biological segment on we are looking for magic while we
pollute the real magic out of existence.
Speaker 2: It is a stark reminder that reality is often far
more complex and sometimes vastly more tragic than our mythologies.
Speaker 1: It's terrifying to think about what humanity is doing to
the wild, but honestly, what scares me even more isn't
what's hiding out on the rivers of the permafrost. It's
what can hide inside our own bodies.
Speaker 2: That's a great transition, which.
Speaker 1: Brings up our next segment, Defying physics and medical marvels.
We are going to pivot from external creatures to incredible
human survivals and utterly bizarre bodily anomalies.
Speaker 2: This is where things get really weird.
Speaker 1: We're going to explore the cutting edge physics and the
wild biology that explain the seemingly impossible things the human
body can endure or produce. Let's start with a medical
file from China, the Hube stomach egg.
Speaker 2: This case is a medical anomaly that sounds like it
was pulled straight out of a Cronenberg science fiction horror film.
Speaker 1: It really does.
Speaker 2: In November twenty fifteen, in a hospital in China's Hubei Province,
a fifty three year old man was undergoing what was
supposed to be a real, relatively standard, mundane medical procedure.
He was having gastrointestinal distress.
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds normal so far.
Speaker 2: The doctors are utilizing an endoscopic camera, feeding it down
to look inside the patient's stomach, and the live video
feed reveals something absolutely astonishing. Resting perfectly inside the man's stomach,
floating in the gastric fluids is a pristine, smooth, white
oval object that looks exactly like a large bird or
reptile egg.
Speaker 1: A perfect unblemish egg. Naturally, when screenshots of this footage
leaked online, the UFO community went into absolute overdrive, as
they always do. There is a deeply entrenched, long standing
lore within UFO circles regarding alien inductions and implants. The
narrative often involves extraterrestrial subducting humans in the middle of
the night and implanting them with foreign objects.
Speaker 3: Often tiny metallic tracking devices.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, placed up the nose or under the skin.
But there's also a much darker, much more visceral subgenre
of this lore involving organic implants. The idea that aliens
are using human bodies as living incubators to breed hybrid races.
Speaker 2: It's a deeply invasive psychological fear, the idea of a foreign,
non human entity growing inside of your own organs. But
zoologists roxy Fermin quickly stepped in to dismantle the biological
possibility of an actual organic egg surviving in human stomach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about the biology here.
Speaker 2: When you think about human anatomy, the stomach is an
incredibly hostile, violent environment. It is essentially a cauldron of
highly potent hydrochloric acids and harsh chemical digestive enzymes designed
exclusively to aggressively break down and dissolve biological matter.
Speaker 1: It's meant to destroy things exactly.
Speaker 2: It is not a warm, safe incubator. It is a destroyer.
A real organic egg, even a highly durable, leathery reptile egg,
would be rapidly dissolved by those stomach acids. It would
absolutely not thrive, maintain its shape, and grow into a pristine, perfect.
Speaker 1: Oval Okay, that makes perfect biological sense. Plus, when the
doctor's vally operated removed the object and dissected it in
a lab, it didn't have a yoke, a shell, or
any of the internal layered properties of an actual egg.
It looked like a solid, homogeneous mass of artificial gelatine.
Speaker 3: Which is pretty gross to think about.
Speaker 1: It is, so, if it wasn't an alien egg, and
it wasn't a biological bird egg he accidentally swallowed whole,
what on earth was it?
Speaker 2: Biology Professor Floyd Hayes provided the grounded yet still somewhat
disturbing medical reality. It wasn't a foreign object at all.
It was generated by the man's own body.
Speaker 1: His own body made it.
Speaker 2: It was a massive, heavily accumulated mass of fatty tissue.
Sometimes the human body can experience a biological glitch. It
begins compounding localized fatty tissue into these dense, relatively soft,
completely benign tumors or masses.
Speaker 1: But how did he get so smooth an egg like?
Speaker 2: Over time, as this mass sits in the fluid and
muscular churning of the stomach or abdominal cavity, the constant
friction wears it completely smooth. Shaping it perfectly into an
egg like oval, much like a river naturally smooths a
jagged rock.
Speaker 1: And what's wild to me is that this isn't even
an isolated incident. You'd think a stomach egg is a
one and a billion thing, But in twenty thirteen, at
a hospital in Washington, DC, doctors removed a similar growth
from a sixty two year old man. Oh wow, that
mass measured three point three four inches across and weighed
half a pound. It was literally the size of a
large baking potato, just floating around free inside as abdominal cavity.
Speaker 3: That's huge.
Speaker 1: Researchers think these masses might be linked to a specific
rare genetic mutation, or sometimes they form as a bizarre
internal autoimmune response to a traumatic physical injury.
Speaker 2: What's truly fascinating here is how the human body's own
natural biological glitches can appear utterly alien to us.
Speaker 1: You really can.
Speaker 2: We are so incredibly complex, and our internal systems can fail, misfire,
or mutate in such spectacular, visually bizarre ways that our
first instinct is to assume foreign extraterrestrial.
Speaker 1: Intervention because it just looks so weird.
Speaker 2: But the truth is the human body is perfectly capable
of generating its own profound internal mysteries without any help
from aliens.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, the human body is a biological wonderland, and sometimes
it's a haunted house. Now, speaking of the body enduring
the impossible, let's talk about lightning. We have two viral
videos in our files that fundamentally challenge our understanding of
electrical conductivity, physics, and human mortality. Let's look at the
lightning survivors.
Speaker 2: To contextualize this, we have to understand what a lightning
strike actually is. It is an incredibly violent transfer of
immense electrical energy, very violent.
Speaker 3: A single bolt.
Speaker 2: Of lightning can heat the air around it to fifty
thousand degrees fahrenheit. That's five times hotter than the surface
of the Sun, and it can contain hundreds of millions
of volts of electricity.
Speaker 1: Which is staggering to even comprehend.
Speaker 2: Nearly a quarter of a million people are struck by
lightning globally every year. Whether someone survives depends entirely on
the strike location and the exact pathway the electrical current
and takes through the body's internal resistance. When someone survives
a direct strike, it often seems medically miraculous.
Speaker 1: Let's break down the two specific videos we have. The
first one is out of China. It looks like CCTV footage. Yeah.
It shows a man walking down a relatively narrow street
during a storm, and out of nowhere, bam, just out
of the blue, the screen flashes white and he is
struck by a massive bolt of lightning. He falls to
the ground, lays there for a moment, miraculously gets back up,
stumbles forward a few feet, and then bam, he is
struck a second time by another massive direct bolt, a
double strike, a double lightning strike on the same person
in the span of maybe ten seconds. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: And the second video.
Speaker 1: The second video is from Thailand, recorded in August twenty twenty.
A truck driver accidentally snags his large rig on some
high voltage overhead electrical wires. He steps out of his cap,
his foot touches the pavement. He becomes instantly grounded, and
thousands of vaults surged through it.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's terrifying.
Speaker 1: He literally catches fire those completely rigidly stiff collapses to
the ground, engulfed in flames, but survives the ordeal with
only minor surface burns.
Speaker 2: These kinds of extreme survivals immediately spark conversations about superhuman abilities.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can see why.
Speaker 2: Professor Diana Pasulka, who studies the intersection of technology, religion,
and anomalies, points out that massive electrocutions can alter the
human body in strange, almost supernatural ways. How So, survivors
often bear complex fern like scar patterns on their skin
known as Lichtenberg figures. These aren't normal burns. They are
literal physical maps of the electrical discharge branching across their flesh,
permanently branding.
Speaker 1: Them like a tattoo made of electricity exactly.
Speaker 2: Pasulka also notes stories of people who seem to develop
a strange electro immunity after being struck, like a famous
heavily documented case in India where a man can supposedly
withstand lethal levels of direct electrical current from live wires
without suffering any injury.
Speaker 1: That's wild.
Speaker 2: She even recounted a deeply tragic, bizarre anecdote about a
lightning survivor who allegedly developed a massive neurological mutation where
she could supposedly predict when commercial plane crashes were going
to happen based on intense migraines.
Speaker 1: It's like the millions of volts of electricity completely rewire
their nervous system into something beyond human. But before we
declare these guys actual superheroes, we need our forensic reality check.
Let's look at that double strike video from China, because
getting hit twice in ten seconds seems statistically impossible.
Speaker 2: And the science backs up your skepticism. Atmospheric scientist doctor
Dana Hen immediately waves a massive red flag.
Speaker 3: She looks at the environment in the video.
Speaker 1: What did she see?
Speaker 2: The man is walking down a narrow street surrounded by
much taller objects multi story buildings, tall utility poles, large trees.
Lightning physics is relatively simple. It seeks the path of
least electrical resistance to the ground, which almost always means
striking the tallest conductive object in the immediate vicinity.
Speaker 1: So it should have hit the buildings exactly.
Speaker 2: For a relatively short human to be struck directly, not
just once, but twice back to back while surrounded by
vastly superior conductive targets is mathematically and physically absurd.
Speaker 1: So if the physics don't add up, we look at.
Speaker 2: The pixels precisely video analyst Mickwest delivers the fatal blow
to the China video. He looks at the lighting and
the shadows and the footage.
Speaker 1: The shadows are always the giveaway.
Speaker 2: Always, when a massive flash of lightning occurs in real life,
it creates a dominant, brilliantly intense light source that drastically
alters the shadows in the environment. West points out that
during the bright white flashes in the video, the shadows
on the ground cast by the man and the surrounding
buildings do not change angle length or intensity at all.
Speaker 1: The ambient lighting stays the same.
Speaker 2: The ambient lighting of the street remains totally static beneath
the white overlay. He even demonstrates on his own computer
how easily someone could digitally draw a jagged white line
on a frame at a generic brightness exposure effect over
the screen and fake the whole thing in basic editing software.
The China double strike is a definitive, one hundred percent
digital hoax.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the China one is just a guy having
fun with video editing. But what about that horrifying Thailand
video The guy who stepped out of the truck, grabbed
the door and caught on fire. That didn't look like
a digital effect.
Speaker 3: The Thailand video is entirely real.
Speaker 2: Really, and ironically, the way the victim behaves, which looks
fake to some, is actually the primary evidence of its
medical authenticity.
Speaker 1: Because of how he falls.
Speaker 2: Yes, you noted earlier that he went completely rigidly stiff
before falling over like a chopped tree. That looks highly
theatrical to an untrained eye, but neurologically, that is exactly
what happens when a massive lethal electrical current overrides the
central nervous system.
Speaker 1: It just locks everything up.
Speaker 2: The electricity hijacks the brain signals, causing every single muscle
in the body to tracked violently and simultaneously. He fell
steekly because his entire muscular system was locked in a
catastrophic full body spasm. He couldn't bend his knees or
catch himself if he tried.
Speaker 1: But how did he survive? He was literally engulfed in flames.
I mean, I've shocked myself on a doorknob in the
winter and it stings. This guy took the power grid
to the chest.
Speaker 2: This is where we returned to that concept of electroimmunity,
but with a highly specific biological rather than mystical explanation.
Speaker 1: Okay, lay it on me.
Speaker 2: Mick West explains that survival in these extreme electrocution cases
often comes down to the microscopic properties of the victim's skin.
Electricity needs moisture to conduct efficiently into the body. Right,
some individuals, just through sheer genetic lottery, naturally possessed significantly thicker,
drier layers of epidermis, the outermost layer of skin. This thick,
callous dry skin acts as a massive natural electrical resistor.
Speaker 1: Like wearing rubber gloves.
Speaker 2: It's essentially like the victim is unknowingly wearing a layer
of of invisible, highly insulating rubber gloves over their entire body.
When the massive current hits them, Instead of penetrating deep
into the highly conductive wet tissues of the internal organs,
the electricity arcs over the surface of the dry skin, so.
Speaker 1: It travels on the outside of his body exactly.
Speaker 2: It will ignite their clothes, singe their hair, and flashburn
the surface oils of their skin, which is why he
caught on fire. But the vital internal organs, the heart
and the brain are protected from the lethal amperage by
that dry skin.
Speaker 1: Barrier that is just incredible. It's not magic. It's a rare,
highly specific biological trait that saves their life. Nature's own
invisible armor.
Speaker 3: It's remarkable.
Speaker 1: Speaking of biological army, let's move to a topic that
is perhaps the most anxiety inducing in our entire filestack.
The Indestructible Kids.
Speaker 2: These are a series of deeply disturbing security camera videos
that emerged between twenty sixteen and twenty eighteen from heavily
populated cities like zoo Hi, nan Jing.
Speaker 3: And Mumbai.
Speaker 1: They're so hard to watch.
Speaker 2: And each of these videos, a small child, usually a toddler,
wandering away from their parents, is tragically run over by
a large moving vehicle, often an suv or a heavy van.
Speaker 1: The camera angles are very clear.
Speaker 2: We see the heavy tire clearly roll up, over and
across the child's body, but then, incredibly miraculously, the vehicle
stops and the child just scoots out from under the
heavy metal chassis, stands up, dusts themselves off, and walks
away seemingly completely unharmed.
Speaker 1: It genuinely makes your heart stop just watching it. The
immediate desperate theory that pops into your head when you
see a toddler survive being crushed by a two ton
suv is bone density. Could these kids have some kind
of mutant, unbreakable skeletal structure.
Speaker 3: It's a logical first thought.
Speaker 1: Author Alexis Brooks brings up this incredibly well documented real
life medical case from nineteen ninety four. A man was
involved in a horrific high speed car crash that by
all metrics of medical science should have shattered his skeleton
into dust, but it didn't. No, the emergency room doctors
took X rays and found he had completely negligible injuries,
not a single fracture. Upon further testing, they discovered a
hyper rare genetic mutation that made his bone density roughly
eight times denser than an average human being. Eight times
His bones were essentially like concrete. When doctors told the
man he had this superhero mutation, he just shrugged and
said it explained why he sank like a rock to
the bottom of the pool whenever you tried to swim.
Speaker 2: That's a fascinating medical precedent for extreme human durability. But
before we assume all these toddlers walking away from car
accidents are dense boned genetic mutants, we have to verify
the footage because a video of a child surviving a
car crushing them sounds exactly like a digital hoax designed
specifically for viral shock clicks right.
Speaker 1: It feels manipulative. So forensic video analyst Michael Primo takes
the specific video from Zuhan, a High China, and he
does some incredible detective work. He is able to track
down a second, alternate security camera angle of the exact
same incident, shopped from overhead on a balcony.
Speaker 2: Having two angles is huge for analysis, it changes everything.
Speaker 1: He synchronizes the two videos perfectly and he meticulously maps
the exact movement of the vehicle. He charts the suspension
compression as the tire hits the child, and the precise
higher path across the pavement from both angles and his conclusion.
He concludes that faking the exact physical interactions of the
car's weight transfer, the shadow movement, and the suspension bounce
across two separate, synchronized low resolution camera angles would be
a Hollywood level special effects job, nearly impossible for a
random internet hoaxer. He concludes the videos are absolutely terrifyingly real.
Speaker 2: So if the videos are real, and we aren't going
to rely on a one in a billion mutant bone
density theory for every single child in these videos.
Speaker 3: How do we explain this?
Speaker 2: How does a fragile human toddler survive the weight.
Speaker 3: Of a car?
Speaker 1: It's physics, right.
Speaker 2: This is where physicist doctor mitchyu Kaku steps in with
a brilliant explanation of kinetic energy, mass, and scale. If
we connect this to the bigger picture of physics, the
fundamental error we make as adults watching these videos is
viewing a small toddler as just a miniature adult.
Speaker 1: We assume the rules apply the.
Speaker 3: Same way exactly.
Speaker 2: We assume the physics apply the same way, but the
laws of physics apply vastly differently based on an object's mass, volume,
and height.
Speaker 1: You know me, I need an analogy to wrap my
head around physics. Doctor COCKU uses the twig versus log analogy.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, the twig versus log.
Speaker 1: Okay, explain the twig versus log because I think it
perfectly illustrates how bizarre physics can be.
Speaker 2: Think about driving a heavy two ton car down a
dirt road. There is a small, thin twig resting on
the road. The car rolls over it at twenty miles
per hour. The tire passes over that twig in a
fraction of.
Speaker 1: A millisecond because it's so small.
Speaker 2: Because the twig has almost zero height off the ground,
the massive rubber tire barely has to elevate or compress
to get over it. The duration of the physical impact
is infinitesimally small. Because the time is so short, the
actual transfer of downward kinetic energy from the massive car
into the tiny twig is minimal. The tire just squishes
over it, and the twig often doesn't even snap. It
just gets pushed briefly into the dirt.
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Now, imagine driving that exact same heavy car over a thick,
six inch wooden log lying in the road.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a bump.
Speaker 2: The log sits much higher off the ground when the
tire hits it. It can't just squish over it in
a millisecond. The tire has to violently climb the log,
lifting a quarter of the car's weight into the air,
creating a massive sudden vertical force. Right, the impact duration
is significantly longer, and the transfer of downward kinetic energy
from the car into the log is catastrophic. The log
will likely splinter and crack, and the car's suspension will
absorb a massive damaging shock.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, So applying that to biology and adult is
the log precisely, If an adult gets run over, our
larger body mass are thicker torsos, our height off the
ground creates a massive obstruction for the tire. It creates
a massive energy transfer, resulting in crushed bones, shattered ribs,
and lethal internal organ trauma. But the toddler, the toddler
is the twig. Their tiny mass, their extreme skeletal flexibility,
and their minimal height off the ground mean the heavy
air filled rubber tire rolls over them so incredibly fast
that the lethal kinetic energy simply doesn't have time to
fully transfer downward into their skeletal structure. They just get
pushed in the pavement for a millisecond exactly.
Speaker 2: It is a terrifying microscopic dance of physics. The child's
lack of physical development, their small stature is ironically the
exact mathematical variable that saves them from absorbing the full
lethal force of the vehicle. It's so counterintuitive, however, it
must be stated with absolute serious clarity. This survival relies
on an immense microscopic degree of sheer luck.
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, a fraction of.
Speaker 2: An inch difference in the tire's path, the angle of
the child's skull, or the firmness of the pavement, and
the physical outcome is instant irreversibly fatal. These viral videos
show a miraculous mathematical alignment of physics and extreme fortune.
Speaker 1: They are the exception, not the rule.
Speaker 2: The vast overwhelming majority of children involved in these types
of vehicle encounters do not survive. It is a sobering,
horrifying reminder of why extreme caution, slow speeds, and hyper
awareness are required when operating a vehicle anywhere near pedestrians.
Physics is not a protective shield you can rely on.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. The physics explanation is fascinating, but the reality is
deeply fragile. Please everyone watch your speed in neighborhoods. Truly,
So what does this all mean? We've looked at the
biology of the Earth, the strange beasts stawing from the ice,
and the incredible fragile limits of the human body. Now
let's expand our scope massively. Let's do it. We are
moving into our third and final segment, the skies the
depths and the simulation. This is where we scale up
to grand existential mysteries. We are going to look at
global espionage, identified aerospace phenomenon and the terrifying mathematical possibility
that the very fabric of our reality is a digital illusion.
Speaker 3: This is my favorite section.
Speaker 1: Let's start with an auditory mystery that has haunted the
global radio waves for decades, the Russian Buzzer.
Speaker 2: Also known by its infamous radio call sign UVB seventy six.
This is a phenomenon that has absolutely captivated amateur radio enthusiasts,
intelligence analysts, and conspiracy theorists for over.
Speaker 1: Fifty years, been going on forever.
Speaker 2: If you tune a short wave radio to the exact
frequency of four hundred, six hundred and twenty five kilohertz,
you will hear a relentless, monotonous, grating, buzzing sound. It
sounds like a foghorn blasting through.
Speaker 3: A thick wall of static.
Speaker 2: It broadcasts twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
emanating from deep within the Russian Federation, just.
Speaker 1: A constant drone.
Speaker 2: And the truly eerie part, the part that keeps people
listening for hours, is that very occasionally the buzzing abruptly
stalks dead silence.
Speaker 1: That's the creepy part.
Speaker 2: Then a live human voice will read out a seemingly
random string of names, numbers, or Russian words like Zenya,
Earth one or eight before the voice clicks off and
that grading buzzer resumes.
Speaker 1: It is so incredibly creepy to listen to. It feels
like you are eavesdropping on something you shouldn't be. Yeah,
the mystery of who is running this massive transmitter and
why they've been doing it since the nineteen seventies has
spawned massive theories. Naturally, the most terrifying theory by far
is the dead hand theory.
Speaker 2: Right to understand the terror of the buzzer, you have
to look at the Cold War. The dead hand system
is a theoretical fully automated nuclear deterrent protocol linked to
the overarching Cold War policy of mutually assured destruction or
may D.
Speaker 1: May D is such a fitting acronym.
Speaker 3: It really is.
Speaker 2: The grim logic of MAYD is that if both superpowers
possess enough nuclear weapons to completely annihilate the other, neither
side will ever launch a first strike because doing so
guarantees their.
Speaker 3: Own total destruction.
Speaker 1: It's a standoff.
Speaker 2: But what happens if a country launches a supper decapitation
strike and wipes out the enemy's leadership before they can
order retaliation.
Speaker 1: That's where dead hand comes in exactly.
Speaker 2: The dead hand theory suggests that the buzzer is a
literal planet wide dead man's switch. As long as that
annoying buzzer is broadcasting, the automated nuclear silos know the
Russian high command in Moscow is alive and well.
Speaker 1: But if Moscow gets hit.
Speaker 2: If Moscow is decimated by a surprise nuclear attack, and
the buzzer goes permanently silent, a fully automated computer system
will assume the worst and instantly indiscriminately launch Russia's entire
nuclear arsenal and retaliation, destroying the world.
Speaker 1: It's literally a doomsday machine, that's the theory. But military
intelligence expert Tim McMillan pours some much needed cold water
on that apocalyptic anxiety. He points out a glaring historical
flaw in the dead hand theory. In the year twenty ten,
the buzzer signal completely ceased. It just stopped broadcasting. It
was silent for a prolonged period, and nothing happened, right
and very fortunately for all of us living on Earth,
no automatic nuclear apocalypse was triggered. Then missiles stayed safely
in their silos. So whatever it is, it's highly unlikely
it's a functioning, automated dead man's switch.
Speaker 2: So if it's not holding back armageddon, what is it
actually doing. Doctor Michio Kaku addresses another popular theory that
it's a specialized communication system for Russian nuclear submarines hiding deep.
Speaker 1: In the oceans, which sounds plausible.
Speaker 2: He rolls this out completely based on the fundamental physics
of the radio frequency itself. Submarine communication requires extremely low
frequency or ELF waves. ELF waves have massive wavelengths that
can physically penetrate hundreds of meters of dense, conductive salty
sea water without degrading. Okay, But the buzzer operates on shortwave,
which is a much higher frequency. Shortwave bounces right off
the surface of the ocean. It cannot penetrate water effectively
at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you can't reach submarines under the water,
it has to be communicating with people on land. But
here's where modern brain struggles. Why use a scratchy, old
school static filled shortwave radio signal in the twenty first century.
Why not just use the Internet or highly encrypted satellite
burst transmissions. We have quantum computing and AI. Why use
tech from the nineteen seventies?
Speaker 2: Because the Internet, no matter how encrypted, leaves a digital footprint.
Servers log data, ISPs, track IP addresses, satellites can be
visually trapped in orbit, and their signals can be intercepted
and jammed. Kaku explains the beautiful, rudimentary physics of shortwave
radio that makes it superior for specific covert tasks.
Speaker 1: How does it work?
Speaker 2: Shortwave is phenomenally good at what's called over the horizon communication.
These specific radio waves don't just travel in a straight
line of sight. They travel up into the sky, hit
the Earth's ionosphere, a dense layer of charged particles in
the upper atmosphere, and literally bounce back down to Earth.
Speaker 1: Like skipping a stone on a pond.
Speaker 2: Exactly, you can skip a shortwave signal across entire continents
and massive oceans, reaching a receiver absolutely anywhere on the
globe without needing a vulnerable network of cell towers, fiber
optic cables, or satellites.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's a totally untrackable global communication tool. Anyone
with a cheap radio can hear it. But why the constant,
annoying buzzing. Why not just transmit silence until you need
to speak?
Speaker 2: Doctor Goddessman and Tim McMillan explained that the constant buzzing
is basically a radio frequency squatter's tactic. There is limited
bandwidth on the shortwave spectrum.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're claiming the channel.
Speaker 2: By constantly blasting that obnoxious noise twenty four to seven.
The Russian military is saturating the frequency, physically preventing anyone else,
like a commercial station or another military from hopping onto
that specific radio channel and using it. They are holding
the line open indefinitely.
Speaker 1: That makes total sense.
Speaker 2: And the verdict here, supported by almost all intelligence analysts,
is that it is a classic numbers station.
Speaker 3: It is a vital tool for deep cover.
Speaker 1: Espionage ah spies.
Speaker 2: Exactly when that buzzer stops and a voice reads out
a string of numbers, a deep cover Russian intelligence agent
sitting in an apartment in London, a cafe in Washington, DC,
or a hotel in Tokyo is listening with a small,
completely untraceable commercial shortwave radio.
Speaker 1: Just the regular radio you can buy anywhere, They write.
Speaker 2: The numbers down, and then they use a physical one
time pad, a booklet of random mathematical keys that only
they and the sender possess, to manually decrypt those numbers
into a specific mission order. It is incredibly unsophisticated, entirely
analog technology. But that is exactly why it is so brilliant.
Speaker 1: See, that is what fascinates me. In an age of
quantum decryption, AI surveillance algorithms and massive digital spy networks
like the NSA, using a nineteen seventies radio buzz to
command your global spy network makes your modern adversaries pull
their hair out.
Speaker 3: They can't stop it.
Speaker 1: The CIA or MI six can intercept the broadcast easily.
Everyone can, but without the physical decryption pad hidden in
the spy's pocket, the numbers are mathematical gibberish. It's an elegant, unbreakable,
old school form of spycraft hiding in plain sight. Its
analog defeating digital.
Speaker 2: It truly is a masterpiece of functional simplicity. Now let's
move from the radio waves of Russia to the deep
waters of Russia. We are looking at Case eight, Lake
by Call and the mysterious Moonfleet Lake by Call. Lake
by Call, located in southern Siberia, is the deepest, oldest
freshwater lake in the world. It holds nearly a quarter
of all the fresh surface water on the entire planet.
It is so ecologically isolated that two thirds of the
thousands of plant and animal species living there exists nowhere
else on Earth. It is an evolutionary.
Speaker 1: Island, and according to locals, it's also a massive, undeniable
hotbed for UFO and USO unidentified submerged object activity. Yes,
the prevailing theory goes that if highly advanced extraterrestrials wanted
to set up a hidden, unbothered base on Earth to
observe us, the crushing, unexplored depths of Lake by Call
would be the absolute perfect.
Speaker 2: Real estate, alien and environment as you can find on Earth.
Speaker 1: And this brings us to a terrifying story from nineteen
eighty two, journalist Mjbiniis recounts a declassified military report where
elite Russian Navy divers were operating deep under the surface
of the lake conducting routine training.
Speaker 3: And what did they find.
Speaker 1: Suddenly in the murky depths, they encountered a group of
enormous humanoid creatures. These entities were wearing silvery metallic looking suits,
and they were swimming at incredible speeds without any visible
scuba gear or breeding apparatus.
Speaker 3: A swimming free at that depth.
Speaker 1: The divers naturally panicked. They attempted to capture one of
the entities with a net, and in the ensuing chaotic struggle,
the divers were forced to abandon the mission and ascend
to the surface. Far too rapidly, three of the elite
divers died agonizing deaths from catastrophic decompression sickness, also known
as the Bends.
Speaker 2: It's a harrowing piece of deep water lore, and it
perfectly sets the stage for a piece of video evidence
captured in twenty fifteen by a group of veteran local fishermen.
They were out on the dark, choppy waters of Lake
by Call at night. Their camera captured something inexplicable, A massive,
intensely bright blue green light glowing steadily just below the
surface of the freezing lake.
Speaker 1: Just a glowing spot in the water.
Speaker 2: It wasn't moving, it was just radiating this powerful, unnatural,
localized glow from the deep.
Speaker 1: So we run it through the forensic gauntlet to see
if we can explain it. Video analyst Michael Primo examines
the footage. He looks for digital artifacts, pixel manipulation, and
CGI overlays. He confirms definitively that it is not CGI
or a post production digital insertion. It is an actual
physical light source present in the environment interacting with the camera.
Speaker 3: Lens, so it's physically there.
Speaker 1: Physicist Michio Kaku then looks at the optical physics of
the scene. He rules out a surface reflection like a
police helicopter spotlight shining down or the reflection of the moon.
He explains that an external light source shining down into
choppy water would fragment and fan out across the ripples
of the ray. It would scatter, but in this video,
the light is highly concentrated and diffuses outward. This light
is clearly emanating from underneath the water, glowing upward towards
the surface.
Speaker 2: Which leaves marine biologist Shay Congers to look for biological
or man made explanations. She immediately rules out bioluminescent animals,
while the deep ocean is full of glowing creatures like
anglerfish or certain squids. Lake bi Call is a freshwater lake,
despite its massive biodiversity. There are absolutely no known bioluminescent
animals native to that specific.
Speaker 1: Ecosystem, so that's not an animal.
Speaker 2: Furthermore, biological light is usually flashy, weak, and pulsating, used
specifically to attract mates or startle predators in short bursts.
The light in the video was a solid, massive, continuous
light source, like an underwater stadium lamp.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if it's not an animal, what about a
secret military submarine or a scientific research vessel studying.
Speaker 2: The deep Contra points out the massive logical flaw in
that theory. If you are the military conducting covert, highly
classified operations, or if you are scientists conducting sensitive biological
research on nocturnal deepwater animals, you absolutely do not blast
a massive, stadium sized blue green floodlight.
Speaker 3: Into the water.
Speaker 1: It would ruin everything.
Speaker 2: It destroys night vision, gives away your position instantly, and
scares away every living creature for miles. Her conclusion and
the ultimate verdict of the panel, is that this is
a piece of highly advanced underwater technology that we simply
cannot identify or explain. It is a genuine unknown operating
in our waters.
Speaker 1: And to add, a truly dark coda to it. Two
years after this footage was taken, a massive, unprecedented and
entirely unexplained die off of the unique becal freshwater seals
occurred in that exact region of the lake, completely baffling
marine researchers.
Speaker 2: It definitely makes you wonder what kind of machinery or
radiation is operating down there in the dark, and what
it's doing to the local ecosystem.
Speaker 1: It really does. But let's take our eyes out of
the deep water and looks straight up into the nice sky.
In May twenty nineteen, an amateur astrophotographer in Moscow named
Andrew McCarthy was setting up his heavy telescope gear to
shoot a high resolution video of the full Moon. As
he's dialing in the focus trying to get the crater's
sharp something terrifying happens on his monitor.
Speaker 2: Three stark, black, perfectly circular objects rapidly transit across the
glowing face of the Moon, and then seconds later, a
massive loose cluster of dozens more of these dark spheres
fly rapidly across the frame. It genuinely looks like a
massive invasion fleet moving silently in the vast space between
Earth and the Moon, and McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Is a science guy, so he does the math. He
calculates the optical geometry. He deduces that if these objects
were actually in lunar orbits, say sixty miles above the
Moon's surface, they would have to be absolutely colossal. How
big We're talking two to three miles wide each. If
they are alien UFOs, they are gargantuan. We're talking mother
ships forty times the size of the International Space Station
flying in a massive, coordinated art. It begs the question,
who is building superstructures that big in our Solar system?
Speaker 2: Before we welcome our new alien overlords, we need to
check the perspective and the specific optics of the camera setup.
Astronomer Mark D'Antonio analyzes the raw camera data. He confirms
this is not photographic trickery or a smudge on the lens.
The objects are physically passing through the airspace in front
of the lens.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they are real objects.
Speaker 2: But NASA's Bob Anderson suggests a much closer, more mundane explanation,
man made satellites orbiting the Earth, not the Moon. He
points out that low Earth orbit is becoming incredibly crowded
with satellite clusters. Specifically, he points to Elon Musk's SpaceX
starlink network, which is known for flying in large, uniform,
highly visible trains across the night sky.
Speaker 1: But Anderson and D'Antonio look closer at the actual movement
of the objects in the video, and the starling satellite
theory falls apart completely. Why is that Orbital mechanics dictates
that satellites in orbit travel at a constant, uniform, highly
predictable lay, But the objects in this video are behaving erratically.
They are speeding up, slowing down, drifting closer to one another,
and moving in a haphazard, chaotic swarm. Satellites simply do
not do that unless they are actively firing thrusters to
avoid a catastrophic collision, which certainly doesn't happen continuously in
a massive cluster.
Speaker 2: And that erratic, haphazard movement is the key that finally
unlocks the mystery. They aren't massive alien dreadnoughts in lunar orbit,
and they aren't communication satellites and Earth orbit. There are
something much smaller and much much closer to the camera lens.
They are a flock of migrating birds flying through the
night sky over Moscow.
Speaker 1: Wait birds. I'm looking at the footage and they look
like perfect, solid black spheres. They don't look like birds
at all. Where are the wings?
Speaker 2: That is a brilliant optical illusion created entirely by the
limitations of the camera sensor and the physics of lenses.
The photographer is using an extreme telephoto lens focused on
an object roughly two hundred and thirty eight thousand miles
away the moon. Because the focus is set to infinity,
the depth of field, the area of the image that
a sharp is incredibly narrow. When a flock of birds
flies relatively close to the camera lens, perhaps only a
few hundred feet up in the atmosphere, they are massively.
Speaker 3: Out of focus.
Speaker 2: I see the rapid flapping of their wings blurs completely
into the central mass of their body. It creates a solid,
circular silhouette, a dark, featureless blog moving against the incredibly
bright lunar background. The video was shot in May, which
perfectly coincides with the peak of the spring Avian migration
season in Russia. It's a brilliant, highly educational example of
how forced perspective and extreme camera optics can trick the
human eye into seeing an apocalyptic alien armada when it's
really just a flock of geese heading north for the summer.
Speaker 1: I love when the answer is just optics playing tricks
on our brains. It's comforting. But let's move to case nine,
where the video is far more explosive and a lot
harder to explain away as geese. August twenty twenty, Shinyang
City in northeast. It's rush hour. There's a heavy dark rainstorm,
and a motorist is filling a large unfinished residential power
block through their windshield. Suddenly, a massive, dark, flying object
glides into the frame, moving directly toward the building. It
passes behind the tower, and an installa of the entire
building is engulfed in a colossal, blinding, apocalyptic fireball.
Speaker 2: The video is genuinely shocking. When it hit the internet,
two massive, vastly different theories exploded across social media. The
first was the biological theory. People claimed it was a
fire breathing dragon.
Speaker 1: A dragon.
Speaker 2: While that sounds entirely absurd to a modern ear, cryptozoologists
argue that modern day sightings of massive flying reptiles aren't
completely unheard of. In certain subcultures, there are people who
genuinely believe that relic populations of pterosaurs, flying dinosaurs with
thirty foot wing spans that supposedly extinct sixty five million
years ago still exist in remote areas like the rope Yes.
In places like Papua New Guinea, locals describe a terrifying
creature called the ropin or the demon flyer, which is
said to be a massive, glowing, flying reptile that occasionally
preys on humans.
Speaker 1: A relic terosaur flying through a modern Chinese city during
rush hour. It's a wild thought. But even if we
grant the existence of a surviving dinosaur for the sake
of argument, terosaurs do not breathe fire and cause massive
city level explosions. They eat fish. So the Internet quickly
pivoted to an even wilder, more modern sci fi theory,
secret Chinese space lasers. At the time this video surfaced,
Chinese military research teams had just publicly announced breakthroughs in
building the world's most powerful directed energy weapons. Was this
an orbital weapon test? Did they fire a hyper powerful
laser from a military satellite, hit an experimental drone flying
over the city and caused the massive explosion.
Speaker 2: It's a highly cinematic theory that sounds like a James
Bond plot, but military expert Tim McMillan uses the fundamental
laws of atmospheric physics to completely dismantle it. He points
out a globe firing issue in the video. It clearly
shows a heavy rainstorm with thick fog and atmospheric.
Speaker 1: Haze, and lasers don't like rain.
Speaker 2: Any directed energy weapon, like a high powered military laser,
relies on a perfectly focused, concentrated beam of light to
deliver its destructive thermal energy. When you attempt to fire
a laser through rain and heavy fog, you encounter a
phenomenon known as severe atmospheric refraction.
Speaker 1: It scatters the light.
Speaker 2: The millions of suspended water droplets act like microscopic prisms.
They scatter the light heavily, dissipating the weapons focused energy
long before it ever reaches the ground target. You simply
cannot trigger a massive concentrated explosive fireball with a laser
through a dense thunderstorm. It fundamentally violates the laws of
optical physics.
Speaker 1: Okay, so if we rule out ancient dragons and secret
space lasers, we need to bring in the forensic closer
Michael Primo to look at the actual pixels of the video.
What exactly is that massive flying object? Wildlife biologist Stephanie
Shutler examines the movement of the object in the video
and notes a crucial detail. The object isn't actively flapping
or flying with biological intent. It's gliding rigidly. It doesn't
have a central biological body mass or defined wings.
Speaker 3: So what is it?
Speaker 1: She concludes? It is almost certainly a massive piece of
dark industrial tarp or heavy plastic construction sheeting that has
been violently ripped off the unfinished building by the severe
storm winds and is just floating passively past the camera.
Speaker 2: And then Primo looks at the explosion itself. He analyzes
the exact timing plank frame by excruciating frame, and he
finds the absolute smoking gun of.
Speaker 3: A digital hoax.
Speaker 1: He always finds it.
Speaker 2: At exactly frame eighty seven hundred and forty of the video,
a split second before the massive fireball erupts, there is
a distinct, highly unnatural white flash that covers the entire
screen for a single frame. In forensic video analysis, this
is a classic amateur editing tell. The creator used that
full screen white flash to hide a splice. They made
a cut in the footage seamlessly transition between the floating
tarp and the explosion, deceiving the viewer into thinking they
were a single continuous causal event.
Speaker 1: And the explosion itself. Did they fake that too? It
turns out the explosion was entirely real but completely mundane.
Chinese state media released a fire Department report confirming that
during that exact storm, a massive, random bolt of natural
lightning struck a high voltage power line right next to
that unfinished building, causing a massive electrical transformer to catastrophically explode.
Speaker 2: So they just stitched two real videos together.
Speaker 1: Someone filmed the tart floating by, then filmed the lightning
explosion later and splice them together in editing software with
a white flash to make a viral video. It is
a certified pianu, the Chinese word for a complete intentional hoax.
Speaker 2: Which brings us inevitably to our final most profound subject.
Speaker 1: Today.
Speaker 2: We have spent this entire session analyzing biology, optics, physics, weather,
and human hoaxes.
Speaker 3: We've explained away.
Speaker 2: The monsters and the aliens, But what happens when the
underline rules of physics themselves seem to be breaking down.
What if we are looking at literal glitches in the matrix.
Speaker 1: This is where we talk about simulation theory. This is
the existential deep end of the pool.
Speaker 2: Theoretical physicist doctor Michio Kaku lays out the fundamental premise
of simulation theory beautifully. He asks us to look at
the exponential curve of our own human technology. Fifty years ago,
the absolute pinnacle of digital simulation was the arcade game pun.
Speaker 1: Literally two white rectangles bouncing a square pixel back and
forth across a black screen.
Speaker 2: Today, just half a century later, we have incredibly immersive,
photorealistic virtual reality, global interconnected server networks, and AI driven
physics engines that can simulate entire cities. If humanity has
achieved that staggering level of digital creation in just fifty years,
imagine what an advanced alien civilization or even our own
descendants could build in a million years of technological evolution.
Speaker 1: Right. The mathematical probability proposed by philosopher Nick Bostrom suggests
that if a civilization can create a perfect universe sized
computer simulation, they likely will create billions of them to
run evolutionary scenarios or historical simulations. Therefore, statistically speaking, there
is only one base reality, but there are billions of simulated.
Speaker 2: Realities, So mathematically it is billions of times more likely
that we are currently existing as digital code inside one
of those simulations right now, rather than existing as biological
matter in the one true base reality.
Speaker 1: It's a deeply chilling, vertigo inducing thought experiment. And if
we assume for a moment that we are in a
simulation a massive, incredibly complex computer program, then logically that
program is susceptible to the same fundamental issues as any
software we build today. It can lag, it can experience
rendering errors when it runs out of processing power. It
can glitch when a computer's code freezes or a physical
variable is corrupted. The physics of our world would momentarily
stop working correctly.
Speaker 2: Which brings us perfectly to the levitating vans. November twenty fifteen,
in Jingtai, China, traffic security cameras captured a truly terrifying,
physics defying scene. It's a busy multi lane intersection. Heavy
cargo vans are driving along following the rules of the road,
and suddenly two of the bands literally jump into the air.
They just pop up their heavy rear wheels lift completely
off the ground, entirely define gravity. They hang suspended in
mid air for a second, totally frozen, and then violently
crashed back down, toppling over onto their sides. The people
walking in the crosswalk are running around in utter confusion.
It looks exactly like a physics engine in a modern
video game completely bugging out and deleting the gravity parameter
for those specific vehicles.
Speaker 1: It really does. It looks like the gravity code momentarily crashed.
Science writer Mick West approached this with a highly forensic eye,
determined to find physical reality. His first thought was municipal infrastructure.
He theorized a massive water main brake underneath the road,
pushing the cars up with an explosion of hydrostatic pressure
define water. Upon closer inspection of the pixels, the street
is completely dry and there is no geyser of water. However,
West analyzes the specific kinetic movement of the vans. They
don't just float gently. They jerk upwards violently, and then
hang rigidly suspended from their rear axles. In the physical world.
The only thing that can exert that specific type of
upward highly localized the spending force is a high tension cable.
Speaker 2: But I've watched that video a dozen times. There is
absolutely no cable visible in the low resolution video.
Speaker 3: There floating in thin.
Speaker 1: Air, not initially visible. Correct, But Wes looks closely at
the right hand side of the frame. Right at the
exact moment the vans levitate, there's a large, slow moving
municipal street sweeper driving past the intersection. West dug into
the local police reports from Zintai and uncovered the remarkably
mundane yet incredibly chaotic truth what happened. A thick steel
telecommunications cable had fallen from a utility pole and was
lying totally slack across the road, blending into the asphalt.
The rotating, powerful steel brushes of the street sweeper snags
the loose cable. As the sweeper drove forward, it rapidly
wound the cable up, pulling it incredibly taut across the
intersection like a massive, invisible trip wire. Right at the
exact moment the vans drove over it. Oh wow. The invisible,
highly tensioned cable violently snagged their rear axles, hoisted their
back ends into the air, and flipped them over a
terrifying glitch in reality elegantly solved by recognizing poor civil
engineering and terrible municipal maintenance.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the levitating cars weren't a glitch. The matrix
holds firm, gravity is still working. But then we arrive
at the absolute final piece of evidence in our stack today,
the mirror selfie of July twenty twenty. This is the
image that truly genuinely haunts me.
Speaker 1: Tell me about it.
Speaker 2: It is a profoundly unsettling photograph because it occurs in
such a mundane setting. It's a simple, everyday setup that millions.
Speaker 3: Of people do daily.
Speaker 2: A young woman is standing in her bedroom in front
of a mirror, taking a selfie with her smartphone. The
camera captures her face hold the phone, and it obviously
captures her reflection in the mirror behind her, but they
do not match.
Speaker 1: The woman standing in the room is looking down at
her phone screen, her face completely relaxed, maybe a little bored,
but her reflection in the mirror, her reflection's eyes are
looking straight ahead, staring directly out of the mirror at
the viewer, and she has a totally different, almost sinister, smiling,
facial expression. It is physically optically impossible. It entirely violates
the fundamental laws of light reflection. My immediate reaction, and
the reaction of literally everyone who sees it online, is
that it has to be a clever photoshop job. So
one took two separate photos, one looking down, one smiling
at the mirror, cut the face from one, and meticulously
pasted it onto the reflection of the other to creep
people out.
Speaker 2: That is the only logical assumption a rational person can make.
So we hand this photograph over to our forensic video
and photo analyst, to Michael Primo. He doesn't look at
the amid with his eyes. He doesn't care about how
creepy it is. He looks strictly at the digital anatomy
of the file itself. He begins by examining the metadator.
Metadata is the deeply embedded digital footprint that records the
camera settings, the exact timestamp down to the millisecond, the
GPS location, and the entire save history of the file.
The metadata of this photo shows absolute consistency. It registers
perfectly as an original first generation camera file straight off
an iPhone.
Speaker 1: But you and I both know you can spoof for
white metadata if you're a clever enough hacker, it's not foolproof.
Speaker 3: You absolutely can.
Speaker 2: So Primo goes much deeper into the actual pixel architecture
of the image. He performs what's called a compression block analysis.
To explain this, simply, think of a digital photo saved
as a JPEG like a massive wall perfectly built out
of tiny lego bricks. The computer compresses the image data
into microscopic eight by eight pixel blocks. When you digitally
alter a photo, say by cloning a face or pasting
a new expression over a mirror reflection, you have to
smash new lego bricks into that perfectly built wall. Even
if you color match the new ricks perfectly so the
human eye can't see the edit, a forensic algorithm will
clearly see the jagged, misaligned seams where the old compression
blocks meet the new ones.
Speaker 3: Primo runs an advanced.
Speaker 2: Algorithm that acts like a digital X ray looking for
those disrupted blocks, looking for the digital scars of a
cut and paste job, and what.
Speaker 1: Does the X ray show where the seems He.
Speaker 2: Finds absolutely nothing. He analyzes the directionality of the light
hid in every single pixel to ensure the lighting matches
it is perfectly consistent. He analyzes the compression grid. It
is completely flawlessly uniform. There are no digital scars. There
is zero mathematical evidence of cloning, duplicating, pasting, or tampering
of any kind at any level of the digital file.
Michael Primo, a highly skeptical professional forensic analyst whose entire
career is built on finding fake photos, is forced by
the data to conclude that the photograph is authentic. It
is a genuine, unedited, first generation documentation of exactly what
the camera sens are captured in that room at that exact.
Speaker 1: Time, which means the reflection was actually different from reality.
The laws of optical physics momentarily failed to render the
reflection of light correctly in that room. This isn't a
hidden street sweeper cable flipping a car. This isn't a
trick of an outer focused camera lens making a bird
look as a UFO. It is a scientifically documented forensic
glitch in the visual rendering of our reality. It genuinely
shakes my foundational understanding of the world. What does that
even mean for us?
Speaker 2: It is the ultimate unresolved anomaly, and it forces us
and the listener to deeply confront the limitations of our
own scientific certainty.
Speaker 1: And that brings us to the end of our towering
stack of files. Today, we have traveled from the freezing,
hoax filled snows of Siberia, analyzed the tragic irradiated genetics
of a mummaphiede infant, and watched ancient unknown monsters thaw
from the melting permafrost. We've seen how microscopic details of
physics can miraculously save a tiny child from a crushing car,
and how old school analog shortwave radio still commands global
spies in the modern digital age. We've learned the human psychology,
environmental factors, and basic physics can explain so many of
the seemingly impossible magical things in our world.
Speaker 2: But crucially not all of them. And that is the
deeply provocative thought I want to leave on the table today.
We just establish that forensically and mathematically, the twenty twenty
mirror selfie is a genuine, unmanipulated anomaly. Let's engage fully
with simulation theory for a moment. If we actually are
existing inside a massive, highly advanced digital simulation and that
photo is a genuine, rendering lych in the fundamental code
of our universe? What does that mean for our day
to day lives. Does knowing that the physical code of
reality can freeze or misfire make our human experiences, our loves,
our profound feared, our histories any less real? Or does
it just make the architecture of our existence infinitely more
complex and aspiring? Because if the physical code required to
render a simple mirror reflection can lag, it forces you
to look around your room right now and ask, what
else in your daily life is rendering incorrectly that you
simply aren't noticing.
Speaker 1: It's a staggering, beautiful, and utterly terrifying thought, and we
want to know exactly where you stand on this. You've
sat with us, you've heard the evidence, You've heard the
forensic breakdowns and the physics. Do you look at that verified,
mathematically sound mirror photo and think it is definitive, undeniable
proof that we are living inside a digital matrix? Or
even better, have you ever experienced a glitch in your
own reality, a distinct moment where physics, time or space
just didn't work the way it was supposed to and
you still cannot rationally explain it to this day. We
want to hear from you, drop into the comments and
let us know your craziest, most unexplainable story.
Speaker 3: We will be reading them closely.
Speaker 2: We are always looking for new anomalies to investigate.
Speaker 1: Thanks for pulling these threads with us today. Until next time,
keep your eyes open and keep questioning what you see