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about your normal daily routine, right. You are walking your

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dog on a freezing, completely ordinary December afternoon, Right, just

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a normal day, Yeah, exactly. You're out in the harsh,

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sub zero Siberian snow. The wind is howling, the snow

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is just crunching heavily under your boots, and then suddenly

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your dog stops dead in its tracks. Never good sign, No,

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it's really not. So you look down and right there,

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half buried in a pristine snowbank, you stumble upon this hairless,

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three foot tall creature. It's missing a limb, its skin

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is this ghastly dark gray, and it looks like absolutely

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nothing from this earth.

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Speaker 2: It's an incredible mental image, it is.

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Speaker 1: Or if that scenario feels a bit too remote for you,

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picture this one. You're just driving down a busy city

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street on your afternoon commute. You're mining your own business,

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listening to the radio, and the heavy cargo van's driving

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directly in front of you suddenly violently levitat into.

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Speaker 3: The air, completely defining gravity.

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Speaker 1: Exactly suspended like toys hanging on invisible strings. How do

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you process that? How does your brain even begin to

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categorize what your eyes are seeing.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a genuinely jarring thought experiment because it attacks

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the fundamental way we navigate the world. I mean, the

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human brain is, at its core, a highly advanced pattern

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recognition machine. Right, we are evolutionarily wired to look at

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our environment and instantly categorize things safe, dangerous, normal, abnormal.

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So when we, or really anyone listening to this right now,

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are confronted with something that completely shatters those established categories, like.

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Speaker 1: A biological anomaly or floating cars, right.

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Speaker 2: A total defiance of the natural laws of physics, our

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brains just scramble. We either desperately try to force the

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anomaly into a box we already understand, or we completely

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rewrite our understanding of reality right there on the spot.

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And that psychological scramble is exactly what makes these kinds

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of anomalies so universally captivating.

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Speaker 1: Well, welcome to thrilling threads. We take a massive, towering

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stack of sources, articles, expert testimonies, forensic reports, wild video footage,

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and we pull on the most fascinating threads to see

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exactly where they lead.

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Speaker 3: And we have a pretty incredible stack today.

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Speaker 1: We really do. Today, our mission is to unpack a

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completely wild stack of files containing international anomalies. We are

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looking at eyewitness accounts and viral footage of bizarre, en

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cryptied creatures, absolutely impossible medical survivals, and instances that honestly

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look like literal glitches in the fabric of reality itself.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's crucial we set the tone right

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out of the gate here. We aren't here today to

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just blindly swallow every wild late night internet theory that

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crosses our desks. Definitely not but equally important, we aren't

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here to cynically and dismissively debunk everything without giving it

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a fair rigorous hearing. We're going to rely heavily on

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the incredible source material we've gathered.

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Speaker 1: Which is packed with some heavy hitters.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it features top tier forensic video analysts, field biologists,

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marine experts, and theoretic physicists. We're using their work to

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carefully separate the elaborate, intentional hoaxes from the genuine, profound

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mysteries that still defy scientific explanations.

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Speaker 1: So, for you listening right now, we invite you to

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put on your detective hat, grab a cup of coffee,

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and join us in this investigation. We are going to

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look at the evidence together as the third person at

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this table, Let's jump in. Okay, let's start with an

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exploration of what I've been thinking of as cryptids, corpses,

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and the terrifying secrets of the permafrost. We really need

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to focus on biological anomalies first, because it's fascinating how

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human perception can be so easily skewed by a mix

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of local folklore, environmental factors, and our own deeply held

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desires to believe in the extraordinary. It really is, so

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let's unpack that first scenario I mentioned, the Siberian snow creature.

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Speaker 2: This is such a textbook example of how environmental context

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primes people for extraordinary conclusions. This incident takes place in

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Russia's a more region right way out there, way out there,

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if you picture it. It's an incredibly isolated, heavily forested area.

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pristine snow on the ground, and there are far more

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trees than people for hundreds of miles just to frozen

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wilderness exactly. And the local man is out walking his

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dog and they find this dark, gray, three foot tall,

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hairless entity it's missing a limb, and its head is

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tilted back in this oddly tragic, agonizing way.

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Speaker 1: Like he was screaming when it froze.

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exact moment it died and froze solid.

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Speaker 1: And the people who filmed this discovery, the locals, they

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are instantly one hundred percent convinced that this is an

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extraterrestrial alien corpse. And honestly, looking at the history of Siberia,

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we really have to talk about the Tumdusk event to

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, the historical context is everything here. The famous nineteen

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oh eight Tenguska event is a cornerstone of global and

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especially Russian extraterrestrial lore. For anyone who might need a refresher.

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over the sparsely populated eastern Siberian Taiga.

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Speaker 1: And when we say massive, we mean massive.

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Speaker 2: The blast was so incredibly powerful that it leveled approximately

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eighty million trees over an area of eight hundred and

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Speaker 1: Which is just I mean that's an area nearly the

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size of Rhode Island just completely flattened in an instant, right.

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meaning a meteor exploded in the atmosphere before hitting the ground.

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Speaker 1: Which perfectly explains why there's no massive impact crater exactly.

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of a traditional crater, and enduring alternative theory took root.

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Speaker 1: In the culture that it wasn't a meteor at all.

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Speaker 1: Right, So you have generations of people living in this

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region who have grown up with the Tunguska alien spaceship

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theory essentially baked into their local history. When they see

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a weird hairless corpse in the snow, alien isn't a

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massive leap in logic for them, It's a highly accessible

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cultural explanation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but we want to look at the actual science.

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What are we looking at biologically when we see this footage.

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Lucy Eckersley, who meticulously examined the footage of this creature,

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she immediately points out what it isn't. Okay, She states

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definitively that it is not a tragically malformed human being.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the cranium structure is completely wrong. It lacks a

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human chin, and the overall head shape is fundamentally non human. However,

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she noticed something fascinating about the arms.

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highly reminiscent of a primate, specifically something designed to reach

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limb proportion, was actually a squirrel monkey.

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because my brain is struggling with that. Squirrel monkeys are

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native to the dense, humid, tropical rainforests of South America.

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How on earth does a fragile tropical monkey end up

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remote Siberian wilderness. Did it escape from some eccentric billionaire's

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private exotic zoo. Was it being smuggled and fell off

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Speaker 2: It's a fantastic question, and it's the exact logistical nightmare

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that forensic investigator Chase Klowski decided to tackle. But she

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didn't look at the species. She looked at the scene

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of the death itself.

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Klosky points out that if this were a recently deceased

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flesh and blood creature, whether it's a misplaced South American

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monkey or a genuine visitor from another star system, there

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would be distinct biological and environmental trauma.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I see where this is going. If something crashed

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Speaker 2: To it precisely. Klassky points out that there is zero gore, none, none.

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no puss, no signs of predation by local wolves or foxes,

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and no signs of natural decay. And if we entertain

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the alien crash survivor theory for a moment, there's no debris,

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no scorch marks on the trees, nothing. The snow immediately

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surrounding the body is completely pristine, except for the footprints

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of the people who quote unquote found it.

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Speaker 1: So it didn't melt the snow around it.

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Speaker 2: Right, A real biological corpse interacts with its environment. It

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leeches heat, which melts the snow immediately around it, and

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then it refreezes, it leaches fluids. This object did none.

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Speaker 1: Of that, so it's essentially sitting on the snow, not

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interacting with it, like it was just dropped there.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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that the scene is staged, so it's fake. The sheer

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lack of gory details, the lack of thermal melting in

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the snowbed, combined with the utter geographical absurdity of a

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tropical primate form in the Siberian winter, points to one

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inescapable conclusion. It's an elaborate hoax.

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Speaker 1: That's what is it made of.

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Speaker 3: The corpse is.

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Speaker 2: A fabricated prop It's likely sculpted from something like chicken skin,

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stuffed with dough or clay, designed specifically to look like

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Speaker 1: Why do people go through the incredible effort, time and

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artistic labor to sculpt a highly detailed fake alien corpse,

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drag it down into the freezing wilderness stage a discovery

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and film It is it just to go viral.

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Speaker 2: Internet notoriety certainly plays a massive role, but on a

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deeper psychological level, some people genuinely want to be a

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part of a larger mythology. Oh interesting, By creating a

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hoax that gets picked up by international media, they are

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literally writing themselves into the modern folklore of ufology.

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Speaker 1: They become part of the story right.

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Speaker 2: It drives serious anomaly researchers absolutely crazy, of course, because

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it severely muddies the waters.

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Speaker 3: Every time a sculpted prop goes viral.

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Speaker 2: It damages the credibility of legitimate scientific investigative work into real,

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unexplained phenomena.

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Speaker 1: It totally pollutes the data pool. If you have to

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spend half your time debunking art projects, it's hard to

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focus on the real mysteries. But speaking of Russian anomalies

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and potential extraterrestrial corpses, the Siberian snow creature might not

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even be the most famous one. To find a truly

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baffling biological mystery, we have to rewind to August of

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nineteen ninety six. Uh yes, and look at the incredibly

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bizarre case of the Kishtim Alioshenka.

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Speaker 2: This is a case that has fascinated researchers and scientists

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for decades because the physical evidence was so uniquely strange.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild.

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Speaker 2: In the industrial town of Kishtim, located deep in the

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Russian Mural Mountains, a police detective named Vladimir Benlin was

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investigating what he thought was a standard, mundane local robbery.

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Speaker 1: Just routine police work, right.

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Speaker 2: But during his investigation, a local woman presented him with

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a discovery that completely derailed his career and challenged his

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understanding of human biology.

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Speaker 1: The details of this are just wild. This woman had

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found a creature near a local cemetery.

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Speaker 3: Near cemetery, yes, she claimed.

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Speaker 1: That when she found it it was actually alive, and

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she brought it home and cared for it for a

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few weeks before it anually died. She lovingly nooked at Alioshenka.

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Speaker 3: Which is just bizarre to think about.

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Speaker 1: Now. Detective Bendlund looks at this thing and his stomach

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must have just dropped. We're talking about a mummified corpse

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that is only about ten inches long, very small. It

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has dark brownish gray skin and a completely bizarre skull

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featuring distinct raised ridges and massive protruding eye sockets that

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take up most of the facial structure.

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Speaker 2: And again we turned to forensic investigator Chase Klausky to

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look at the anatomy of this thing.

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Speaker 1: Staggering missing features.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the creature has no visible external ear structures, no

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discernible nose cartilage, no genitalia, and perhaps most crucially of all,

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it has absolutely no belly button, no navel whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's unpack this because no belly button is a

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massive biological red flag.

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Speaker 3: It's huge.

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Speaker 1: No billy button means there was never an umbilical cord attached,

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and no umbilical cord implies it wasn't born via a

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mammalian placental pregnancy. So if it doesn't have a belly button,

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how was it just stated? How did it receive nutrients

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before it was born?

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Speaker 2: That's the core mystery.

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Speaker 1: Detective ben Lund initially thought it was a tragically formed

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human fetus. Maybe the victim of a clandestine abortion, but

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the total lack of ennavel threw a massive ranch into

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that theory. It did so the scientific theories surrounding this

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creature fracture into two fascinating, deeply disturbing directions. First, we

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have the radiation mutation theory.

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Speaker 2: Right to understand this theory, you have to understand the

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incredibly dark, secretive history of the Kishtem region.

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Speaker 1: It's a rough history.

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Speaker 2: Science writer Mick West points out that in nineteen fifty

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seven there was a catastrophic disaster at the Mayak Production Association,

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which was a highly secretive Soviet military facility near Kishtim

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that produced plutonium for nuclear weapons. Okay, a massive underground

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tank storing tens of thousands of tons of highly volatile

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liquid nuclear waste suffered a cooling failure and exploded. It

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sent a dense, highly radioactive plume over an area of

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roughly twenty thousand square miles, contaminating numerous nearby villages and

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hundreds of thousands of people.

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Speaker 1: And the wild part, the truly terrifying part, is that

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the Soviet government completely covered this up. This was actually

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Speaker 2: Later, yes, completely hidden from the world.

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Speaker 1: The Soviet government didn't officially admit the nineteen fifty seven

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Kish Team disaster even happened until nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 3: It's unthinkable.

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Speaker 1: For decades people were living, farming, and raising families in

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one of the most radioactive places on Earth without knowing

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it exactly.

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Speaker 2: So you have a local environment and a population that

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was subjected to massive generational doses of.

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Speaker 1: Radiation, which leads to Mickwest theory.

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Speaker 2: Mickwest theorizes that Alishenka is not an alien from another galaxy,

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but rather a tragic, heartbreaking human reality. He suggests it

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as a severely deformed human infant or fetus suffering from

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massive genetic corruption caused by the radioactive fallout embedded in

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the region's soil and water.

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Speaker 1: That makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 2: The bulbous, ridged head, the impossibly skinny limbs, the lack

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of traditional facial features, and perhaps even a severe abdominal

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wall defect that obscured the navel. He argues, these are

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the horrific tangible results of radiation completely breaking.

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Speaker 3: Down the human genetic code.

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Speaker 1: It's a very grounded, deeply sad explanation. It transforms it

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from a sci fi mystery into a historical tragedy.

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Speaker 3: It really does.

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Speaker 1: But then we have the opposing scientific theory from anthropologist

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Kathy Strain. She looks at the exact same physical evidence,

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the exact same photographs, and comes to a completely different

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but equally grounded conclusion. She doesn't think it's a twentieth

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century radiation victim at all.

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Speaker 3: Now she takes a totally different angle.

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Speaker 2: Strain's analysis is brilliant because it relies on historical anthropology

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and the mechanics of human birth.

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Speaker 1: Okay walk us through that.

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Speaker 2: She specifically zeros in on the distinct cone shaped, ridged

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skull of the creature. In human biology, the skull of

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an infant is not.

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Speaker 1: Fully fused all right to soft spots.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, it is made of separate bony plates that are

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highly malleable to allow the head to compress and pass

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safely through the birth canal. Strain argues that this is

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a human infant that died tragically during a highly prolonged,

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difficult birthing process.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's awful.

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Speaker 2: The extreme pressure of the birth canal severely compressed the

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unfused skull plates, resulting in that extreme alien looking cone

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shape of the head, and.

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Speaker 1: The ridges are where the plates overlap exactly.

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Speaker 2: Furthermore, she completely dismisses the local woman's claim that it

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was alive and being fed for weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that part always seemed a bit dubious.

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Speaker 2: Strain believes that al Yushenka is incredibly old, an ancient,

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naturally mummified human infant.

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Speaker 1: Like an archaeological find.

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Speaker 2: Yes, given the dry, cold conditions of certain microclimates in

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the region, it could be a burial that dates back

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a thousand years or more naturally preserved by the Earth.

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Speaker 1: So we have two incredibly solid, scientifically plausible theories, a

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tragic twentieth century radiation mutation or an ancient thousand year

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old natural mummy. The obvious next step to settle this debate,

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the absolute silver bullet, is DNA testing.

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Speaker 3: Right, that would solve it instantly.

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Speaker 1: You just take a tissue sample and run the genome.

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But we can't do that because the body vanished.

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Speaker 3: It's so frustrating.

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Speaker 1: Detective Benlund, in a desperate attempt to get answers and

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I pass the slow moving local bureaucracy, handed the mummified

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corpse over to a group of private self proclaimed UFO investigators,

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and poof it vanished, without a single trace, gone forever.

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All we have laughter are those VHS videos and police photographs.

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Speaker 2: And this raises an incredibly important question about the nature

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of anomalous investigations. How often do we lose the definitive

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truth simply because the chain of custody of the physical

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evidence is broken.

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Speaker 1: It happens so often.

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Speaker 2: The disappearance of Aliashenka's body acts as pure, highly combustible

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fuel for enduring conspiracies. When physical evidence vanishes into the

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hands of secretive groups, it allows the extraterrestrial narrative to

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survive indefinitely.

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Speaker 1: Because you can't prove it isn't analien anymore.

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Speaker 2: Science has denied the opportunity to perform the definitive DNA

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test that could close the case forever. It is a

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frustrating recurring reality in the study of anomalies.

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Speaker 1: It really is. It's like the mystery is artificially preserved

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in amber because the evidence was stolen well set. But

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speaking of things being preserved, let's move on to our

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next biological case. We're heading back to Russia, specifically to

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the year twenty eleven for the case of the permafrost beast.

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Speaker 2: This case is a fascinating intersection of modern climate change

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and ancient, deeply rooted folklore.

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Speaker 1: It really has everything.

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Speaker 2: In a small, remote Russian village, a local farmer reported

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a large, unexplained explosion that violently shook his home. While

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he was out searching the surrounding area for the source

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of the blast, he stumbled upon a completely bizarre set

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of remains near where he was drying some corn.

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Speaker 1: And the video footage of this discovery is incredibly eerie.

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Speaker 3: It's very strange.

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Speaker 1: The creature is relatively small, maybe the size of a

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large dog or a small deer, but it has a

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highly unusual head structure, a strange ribbed torso, and oddly

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elongated limbs. And crucially, it appears to be completely petrified

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or mummified, hardened like stone or ancient leather.

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Speaker 2: Right, local villagers didn't immediately jump to aliens like the

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folks in Siberia did.

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Speaker 1: No, they had a different idea.

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Speaker 2: Their cultural programming took them in a much darker, much

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older direction. Journalist Aaron McCarthy notes that the locals immediately

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feared they had found the handiwork of Bobby aga Ah Bobbyoga.

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Speaker 1: If you aren't familiar with Slavic folklore, Bobbyaga is one

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of the most terrifying figures imaginable.

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Speaker 3: She really is.

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Speaker 1: She is essentially the ultimate primordial witch, a boogeyman figure

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who lives deep in the woods in a magical, terrifying

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shack that literally stands on giant moving chicken legs. She

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is infamous in the myths for stealing and eating children.

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Speaker 2: So when these isolated villagers find a weird, petrified, vaguely

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bird like or chicken like creature immediately following a mysterious,

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unexplained explosion, their cultural lens immediately frames it as dark magic.

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Speaker 1: They think they found a piece of Bobby AGA's lore

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made flesh exactly.

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Speaker 2: But again we have to look past the folklore and

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bring in the bi biologists right time to the science video.

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Forensic analyst Mick West first confirms that, unlike the Siberian

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snow creature we talked about earlier, this doesn't look like

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a sculpted prop made.

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Speaker 1: Of dough and chicken skins, so it's real.

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Speaker 2: It looks like a genuine, once living animal that has

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undergone a natural, intense mummification process. So what animal biologist

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Floyd Hayes examines the footage and notes that while the

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face looks slightly bird like, perhaps like a beak had

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broken off or degraded during mummification, the eye sockets are

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just way too.

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Speaker 1: Large because birds have small eyes.

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Speaker 2: Right. Birds generally have relatively small eyes compared to their

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overall skull volume. So he confidently rules out a bird,

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which happily rules out any relation to Bobby Yaga's giant

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chicken legs.

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Speaker 1: Which I'm sure it was a huge relief to the locals. Definitely.

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So if we connect this to the bigger picture of

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mammalian biology, hazan zoologists roxy furments start to see distinct

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identifiable features beneath the mummified exterior.

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Speaker 3: What do they see?

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Speaker 1: The spot what appears to be teeth in thee, a

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longer neck structure, and limbs that strongly suggest a winged mammal.

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Firma notes that the large nasal cavity, the neck, and

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the specific claw structures at the end of the quote

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unquote wings strongly point toward a large species of fruit bat,

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specifically something like a flying fox.

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Speaker 3: Okay, wait, a flying fuck Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This is exactly like the squirrel, monkey issue. Flying foxes

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do not live in freezing Russia.

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Speaker 3: No, they absolutely do not.

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Speaker 1: They are native to the warm tropical islands of the

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Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and Southeast Asia. They would

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drop dead of hypothemia in minutes in the Russian taiga.

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Speaker 2: Which means we have another massive geographical impossibility on our.

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Speaker 1: Hands, which is where journalist Aaron McCarthy introduces the most

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grounded and yet somehow most mind blowing theory of all

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climate change. H The permafrost, the permanently frozen layer of

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soil that covers massive swaths of Russia, is currently melting

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at an unprecedented terrifying rate due to global temperature increases.

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Speaker 3: As a huge ecological issue.

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Speaker 1: And as this deep ancient ice thows, it is quite

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literally unearthing the prehistoric past. In recent years, scientists have

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been finding perfectly preserved wooly mammoths, ancient rhinos, and prehistoric

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wolves falling out of the mud, complete with fur and liquid.

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Speaker 3: Blood, which is just incredible.

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Speaker 2: McCarthy theorizes that this creature isn't a modern tropical bat

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that somehow got lost.

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Speaker 3: It is a.

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Speaker 2: Completely extinct, undiscovered species of animal that lived in Russia

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thousands or millions of years ago, when the climate was

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vastly different, perhaps much warmer. Wow, it died, was frozen

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in the permafrost and has just recently thought out of

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the melting ice, dropping onto the modern landscape like a

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ghost from the Pleistocene era.

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Speaker 1: That is just incredible, the idea that global warming is

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acting as this massive chaotic planetary archaeological dig.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what it is, literally.

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Speaker 1: Vomiting up ancient creatures we don't even have names for yet.

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Speaker 3: It is a profound realization.

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Speaker 2: What's fascinating here is that the mystery of the creature

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isn't paranormal or extraterrestrial.

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Speaker 3: It's temporal.

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Speaker 1: It's a creature out of time.

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Speaker 2: Delivered to us by the changing temperature of the planet.

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And unfortunately, as the Arctic continues to warm it roughly

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twice the global average, we're going to see a lot

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more of these ancient monsters thawing out and confusing locals.

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Speaker 1: It's terrifying, but also a biological gold mine. Now, let's

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leave the icy permafrost of Russia and travel to the murky,

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rolling waters of China. I want to talk about the

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twenty nineteen Yankse River Monster.

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Speaker 3: This is a wild one.

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Speaker 1: If you've never seen the Yanksy. It is a massive,

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incredibly powerful body of water. It's one of the longest

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rivers in the world. Just in the specific stretch where

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this footage was captured, the river is nearly four thousand

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meters wide.

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Speaker 3: That's huge.

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Speaker 1: The waters are fast, incredibly dangerous, and home to some

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highly unique aquatic life. In September twenty nineteen, a viral

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video shot from a ferry dock seemed to capture something

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utterly unprecedented moving through those rapids.

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Speaker 2: The footage is striking, especially when you consider the scale

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of the river. It shows a long, dark, mysterious object

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slithering in a highly serpentine s curve motion along the

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surface of the.

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Speaker 1: Rapid river currents like a giant snake. Right.

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Speaker 2: Based on the perspective, it's distance from the dock and

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the height of the person observing it, forensic analysts estimate

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it to be at least ten feet long, possibly much larger.

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The Internet instantly exploded, dubbing it the three Gorgeous water Monster,

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and just like.

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Speaker 1: In Russia with Bobbyaga, local mythology immediately flooded. The conversation

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field researcher Ken Gerhardt notes that Chinese mythology is incredibly

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rich with aquatic serpentine beasts.

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Speaker 3: It definitely is.

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Speaker 1: You have lung dragons, which are described as massive scaly

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serpents with four stw limbs that rule the waterways. You

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have the naga, which are dark snakelike entsities said to

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reach up to forty feet in length and live in

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deep aquatic trenches.

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Speaker 2: So the cultural desire for this black slithering object to

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be a mythical dragon or a naga was massive.

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Speaker 1: People wanted to be real, they really did. Even the

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more scientifically minded Internet sleuths offered wild theories. Some suggested

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it might be a massive mutated water snake or eel

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that had grown to impossible sizes due to the severe

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industrial pollution dumping into the yankse over the decades. Right

497
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the godzilla theory exactly, But marine biologists Shake Conger took

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a systematic biological approach to identifying it. First, she looked

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at the eel theory. The largest known eel species, the

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European Conger, doesn't get nearly that large, and more importantly,

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it isn't found anywhere near those freshwater Chinese waters.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so she rules out eels. What about actual local

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river monsters. She considered the giant Chinese.

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Speaker 1: Salamander, which are terrifying.

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Speaker 2: And if you've never seen one of these, they are

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real life monsters in their own right. They are amphibians

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that can grow into six feet long and weigh over

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one hundred pounds.

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Speaker 1: They look completely prehistoric.

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Speaker 2: But Conger points out that the creature in the video

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has deep irregularities on its surface, whereas a giant salamander

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would be relatively.

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Speaker 3: Smooth and viscous.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what about the legendary Chinese sturgeon.

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Speaker 2: The Chinese sturgeon is a fantastic candidate in theory. They

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are literal living fossils, having evolved over one hundred million

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years ago alongside the dinosaurs, and they can reach staggering

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lengths of up to sixteen feet and weigh over one

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thousand pounds. Massive fish, the Conger notes a crucial anatomical

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missing piece in the video. Sturgeons have highly defined, rigid

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shark like tail fins. If a sixteen foot sturgeon was

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swimming at the surface like that, its massive dorsal and

523
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tail fins would be clearly breaking the surface.

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Speaker 3: Of the water slicing through it.

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Speaker 2: This object in the video had no such fin It

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was just a smooth dark too.

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Speaker 1: So the biologists are stumped. We turned to our video

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forensic expert, Michael Primo, and this is where the illusion

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completely shatters for me.

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Speaker 2: He ruins the fun, doesn't he He does.

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Speaker 1: He analyzes the video completely ignoring the mythology and focuses

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on fluid dynamics. He immediately notices that the ripples of

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the object is making in the water are completely wrong

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for a living creature. How So, there is no definitive

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biological pattern or propulsion A snake or an eel pushes

536
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against the water to move forward. This object isn't swimming.

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It is simply reacting to the powerful water currents pushing

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against it. It's exhibiting unnatural, non biological behaviors.

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Speaker 2: And Primo's deep dive into the local social media from

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that specific area yielded the disappointing yet highly illuminating truth.

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Speaker 1: What did he find?

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Speaker 2: He found an alternate recording of the exact same object

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from a different angle on the river bank. When you

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see it from the new angle, the mystery vanishes. Oh man,

545
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it wasn't a mutated eel. It wasn't an ancient, prehistoric sturgeon.

546
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It was a massive, discarded, dark colored industrial rubber air bag,

547
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the kind used in local shipyards to roll heavy boats into.

548
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Speaker 1: The water, just a piece of trash.

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Speaker 2: One end of this massive deflated rubber tube had snagged

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on some rocks on the river bottom, and the incredibly

551
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powerful rapid current of the Yank Sea was whipping the

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long rubber tail back and forth on the surface. That

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whipping motion perfectly mimicked the slithering, serpentine thrumming motion of.

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Speaker 1: A giant snake discarded rubber airbag. It's almost comical how

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easily our brains are tricked by water currents. But then

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you realize the profound tragedy underlying it. Right, millions of

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00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,039
people were theorizing that pollution in the river had mutated

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a giant monster. The heartbreaking truth is the pollution was

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the monster. The real, genuine, unique aquatic life in the

560
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Yank See, like those incredible giant salamanders and ancient sturgeons

561
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we just talked about, are actively going extinct right now.

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Speaker 3: It's incredibly sad.

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Speaker 1: They are dying out due to immense industrial pollution, dam

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building and severe overfishing. The very trash that is killing

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the real wonders of the river was mistaken for a

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mythical beast. It's a deeply sobering thought to end our

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biological segment on we are looking for magic while we

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pollute the real magic out of existence.

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Speaker 2: It is a stark reminder that reality is often far

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more complex and sometimes vastly more tragic than our mythologies.

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Speaker 1: It's terrifying to think about what humanity is doing to

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the wild, but honestly, what scares me even more isn't

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what's hiding out on the rivers of the permafrost. It's

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what can hide inside our own bodies.

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Speaker 2: That's a great transition, which.

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Speaker 1: Brings up our next segment, Defying physics and medical marvels.

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We are going to pivot from external creatures to incredible

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human survivals and utterly bizarre bodily anomalies.

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Speaker 2: This is where things get really weird.

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Speaker 1: We're going to explore the cutting edge physics and the

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wild biology that explain the seemingly impossible things the human

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body can endure or produce. Let's start with a medical

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file from China, the Hube stomach egg.

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Speaker 2: This case is a medical anomaly that sounds like it

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00:29:48,279 --> 00:29:51,400
was pulled straight out of a Cronenberg science fiction horror film.

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Speaker 1: It really does.

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Speaker 2: In November twenty fifteen, in a hospital in China's Hubei Province,

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a fifty three year old man was undergoing what was

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supposed to be a real, relatively standard, mundane medical procedure.

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He was having gastrointestinal distress.

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Speaker 1: Okay, sounds normal so far.

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Speaker 2: The doctors are utilizing an endoscopic camera, feeding it down

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to look inside the patient's stomach, and the live video

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feed reveals something absolutely astonishing. Resting perfectly inside the man's stomach,

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floating in the gastric fluids is a pristine, smooth, white

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oval object that looks exactly like a large bird or

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reptile egg.

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Speaker 1: A perfect unblemish egg. Naturally, when screenshots of this footage

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leaked online, the UFO community went into absolute overdrive, as

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they always do. There is a deeply entrenched, long standing

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lore within UFO circles regarding alien inductions and implants. The

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narrative often involves extraterrestrial subducting humans in the middle of

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the night and implanting them with foreign objects.

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Speaker 3: Often tiny metallic tracking devices.

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Speaker 1: Right yeah, placed up the nose or under the skin.

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But there's also a much darker, much more visceral subgenre

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of this lore involving organic implants. The idea that aliens

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are using human bodies as living incubators to breed hybrid races.

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Speaker 2: It's a deeply invasive psychological fear, the idea of a foreign,

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non human entity growing inside of your own organs. But

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zoologists roxy Fermin quickly stepped in to dismantle the biological

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possibility of an actual organic egg surviving in human stomach.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about the biology here.

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Speaker 2: When you think about human anatomy, the stomach is an

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incredibly hostile, violent environment. It is essentially a cauldron of

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highly potent hydrochloric acids and harsh chemical digestive enzymes designed

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exclusively to aggressively break down and dissolve biological matter.

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Speaker 1: It's meant to destroy things exactly.

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Speaker 2: It is not a warm, safe incubator. It is a destroyer.

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A real organic egg, even a highly durable, leathery reptile egg,

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would be rapidly dissolved by those stomach acids. It would

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absolutely not thrive, maintain its shape, and grow into a pristine, perfect.

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Speaker 1: Oval Okay, that makes perfect biological sense. Plus, when the

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doctor's vally operated removed the object and dissected it in

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a lab, it didn't have a yoke, a shell, or

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any of the internal layered properties of an actual egg.

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It looked like a solid, homogeneous mass of artificial gelatine.

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Speaker 3: Which is pretty gross to think about.

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Speaker 1: It is, so, if it wasn't an alien egg, and

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it wasn't a biological bird egg he accidentally swallowed whole,

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what on earth was it?

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Speaker 2: Biology Professor Floyd Hayes provided the grounded yet still somewhat

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disturbing medical reality. It wasn't a foreign object at all.

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It was generated by the man's own body.

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Speaker 1: His own body made it.

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Speaker 2: It was a massive, heavily accumulated mass of fatty tissue.

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Sometimes the human body can experience a biological glitch. It

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begins compounding localized fatty tissue into these dense, relatively soft,

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completely benign tumors or masses.

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Speaker 1: But how did he get so smooth an egg like?

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Speaker 2: Over time, as this mass sits in the fluid and

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muscular churning of the stomach or abdominal cavity, the constant

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00:32:56,279 --> 00:32:59,440
friction wears it completely smooth. Shaping it perfectly into an

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egg like oval, much like a river naturally smooths a

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jagged rock.

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Speaker 1: And what's wild to me is that this isn't even

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an isolated incident. You'd think a stomach egg is a

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one and a billion thing, But in twenty thirteen, at

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a hospital in Washington, DC, doctors removed a similar growth

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from a sixty two year old man. Oh wow, that

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mass measured three point three four inches across and weighed

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half a pound. It was literally the size of a

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large baking potato, just floating around free inside as abdominal cavity.

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Speaker 3: That's huge.

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Speaker 1: Researchers think these masses might be linked to a specific

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rare genetic mutation, or sometimes they form as a bizarre

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internal autoimmune response to a traumatic physical injury.

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Speaker 2: What's truly fascinating here is how the human body's own

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natural biological glitches can appear utterly alien to us.

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Speaker 1: You really can.

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Speaker 2: We are so incredibly complex, and our internal systems can fail, misfire,

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or mutate in such spectacular, visually bizarre ways that our

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first instinct is to assume foreign extraterrestrial.

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Speaker 1: Intervention because it just looks so weird.

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Speaker 2: But the truth is the human body is perfectly capable

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of generating its own profound internal mysteries without any help

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00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:06,880
from aliens.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, the human body is a biological wonderland, and sometimes

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it's a haunted house. Now, speaking of the body enduring

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00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:18,320
the impossible, let's talk about lightning. We have two viral

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videos in our files that fundamentally challenge our understanding of

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electrical conductivity, physics, and human mortality. Let's look at the

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lightning survivors.

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Speaker 2: To contextualize this, we have to understand what a lightning

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strike actually is. It is an incredibly violent transfer of

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immense electrical energy, very violent.

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Speaker 3: A single bolt.

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Speaker 2: Of lightning can heat the air around it to fifty

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thousand degrees fahrenheit. That's five times hotter than the surface

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of the Sun, and it can contain hundreds of millions

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of volts of electricity.

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Speaker 1: Which is staggering to even comprehend.

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Speaker 2: Nearly a quarter of a million people are struck by

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lightning globally every year. Whether someone survives depends entirely on

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the strike location and the exact pathway the electrical current

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and takes through the body's internal resistance. When someone survives

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a direct strike, it often seems medically miraculous.

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Speaker 1: Let's break down the two specific videos we have. The

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first one is out of China. It looks like CCTV footage. Yeah.

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It shows a man walking down a relatively narrow street

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during a storm, and out of nowhere, bam, just out

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00:35:19,039 --> 00:35:21,639
of the blue, the screen flashes white and he is

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struck by a massive bolt of lightning. He falls to

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the ground, lays there for a moment, miraculously gets back up,

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stumbles forward a few feet, and then bam, he is

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struck a second time by another massive direct bolt, a

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double strike, a double lightning strike on the same person

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in the span of maybe ten seconds. It's crazy.

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Speaker 3: And the second video.

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Speaker 1: The second video is from Thailand, recorded in August twenty twenty.

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A truck driver accidentally snags his large rig on some

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high voltage overhead electrical wires. He steps out of his cap,

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his foot touches the pavement. He becomes instantly grounded, and

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thousands of vaults surged through it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's terrifying.

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Speaker 1: He literally catches fire those completely rigidly stiff collapses to

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the ground, engulfed in flames, but survives the ordeal with

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only minor surface burns.

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Speaker 2: These kinds of extreme survivals immediately spark conversations about superhuman abilities.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can see why.

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Speaker 2: Professor Diana Pasulka, who studies the intersection of technology, religion,

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and anomalies, points out that massive electrocutions can alter the

713
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human body in strange, almost supernatural ways. How So, survivors

714
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often bear complex fern like scar patterns on their skin

715
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known as Lichtenberg figures. These aren't normal burns. They are

716
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literal physical maps of the electrical discharge branching across their flesh,

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permanently branding.

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Speaker 1: Them like a tattoo made of electricity exactly.

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Speaker 2: Pasulka also notes stories of people who seem to develop

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a strange electro immunity after being struck, like a famous

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heavily documented case in India where a man can supposedly

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withstand lethal levels of direct electrical current from live wires

723
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without suffering any injury.

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Speaker 1: That's wild.

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Speaker 2: She even recounted a deeply tragic, bizarre anecdote about a

726
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lightning survivor who allegedly developed a massive neurological mutation where

727
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she could supposedly predict when commercial plane crashes were going

728
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to happen based on intense migraines.

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Speaker 1: It's like the millions of volts of electricity completely rewire

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their nervous system into something beyond human. But before we

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declare these guys actual superheroes, we need our forensic reality check.

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Let's look at that double strike video from China, because

733
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getting hit twice in ten seconds seems statistically impossible.

734
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Speaker 2: And the science backs up your skepticism. Atmospheric scientist doctor

735
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Dana Hen immediately waves a massive red flag.

736
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Speaker 3: She looks at the environment in the video.

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Speaker 1: What did she see?

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Speaker 2: The man is walking down a narrow street surrounded by

739
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much taller objects multi story buildings, tall utility poles, large trees.

740
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Lightning physics is relatively simple. It seeks the path of

741
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least electrical resistance to the ground, which almost always means

742
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striking the tallest conductive object in the immediate vicinity.

743
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Speaker 1: So it should have hit the buildings exactly.

744
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Speaker 2: For a relatively short human to be struck directly, not

745
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just once, but twice back to back while surrounded by

746
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vastly superior conductive targets is mathematically and physically absurd.

747
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Speaker 1: So if the physics don't add up, we look at.

748
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Speaker 2: The pixels precisely video analyst Mickwest delivers the fatal blow

749
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to the China video. He looks at the lighting and

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the shadows and the footage.

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Speaker 1: The shadows are always the giveaway.

752
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 2: Always, when a massive flash of lightning occurs in real life,

753
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it creates a dominant, brilliantly intense light source that drastically

754
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alters the shadows in the environment. West points out that

755
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during the bright white flashes in the video, the shadows

756
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on the ground cast by the man and the surrounding

757
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buildings do not change angle length or intensity at all.

758
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Speaker 1: The ambient lighting stays the same.

759
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Speaker 2: The ambient lighting of the street remains totally static beneath

760
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the white overlay. He even demonstrates on his own computer

761
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how easily someone could digitally draw a jagged white line

762
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on a frame at a generic brightness exposure effect over

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the screen and fake the whole thing in basic editing software.

764
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The China double strike is a definitive, one hundred percent

765
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digital hoax.

766
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Speaker 1: Okay, so the China one is just a guy having

767
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fun with video editing. But what about that horrifying Thailand

768
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video The guy who stepped out of the truck, grabbed

769
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the door and caught on fire. That didn't look like

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a digital effect.

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Speaker 3: The Thailand video is entirely real.

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Speaker 2: Really, and ironically, the way the victim behaves, which looks

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fake to some, is actually the primary evidence of its

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medical authenticity.

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Speaker 1: Because of how he falls.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you noted earlier that he went completely rigidly stiff

777
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before falling over like a chopped tree. That looks highly

778
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,840
theatrical to an untrained eye, but neurologically, that is exactly

779
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what happens when a massive lethal electrical current overrides the

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central nervous system.

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Speaker 1: It just locks everything up.

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Speaker 2: The electricity hijacks the brain signals, causing every single muscle

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in the body to tracked violently and simultaneously. He fell

784
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steekly because his entire muscular system was locked in a

785
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catastrophic full body spasm. He couldn't bend his knees or

786
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catch himself if he tried.

787
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Speaker 1: But how did he survive? He was literally engulfed in flames.

788
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I mean, I've shocked myself on a doorknob in the

789
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winter and it stings. This guy took the power grid

790
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to the chest.

791
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Speaker 2: This is where we returned to that concept of electroimmunity,

792
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but with a highly specific biological rather than mystical explanation.

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Speaker 1: Okay, lay it on me.

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Speaker 2: Mick West explains that survival in these extreme electrocution cases

795
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often comes down to the microscopic properties of the victim's skin.

796
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Electricity needs moisture to conduct efficiently into the body. Right,

797
00:40:40,639 --> 00:40:45,960
some individuals, just through sheer genetic lottery, naturally possessed significantly thicker,

798
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drier layers of epidermis, the outermost layer of skin. This thick,

799
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callous dry skin acts as a massive natural electrical resistor.

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Speaker 1: Like wearing rubber gloves.

801
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Speaker 2: It's essentially like the victim is unknowingly wearing a layer

802
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of of invisible, highly insulating rubber gloves over their entire body.

803
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When the massive current hits them, Instead of penetrating deep

804
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,719
into the highly conductive wet tissues of the internal organs,

805
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the electricity arcs over the surface of the dry skin, so.

806
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Speaker 1: It travels on the outside of his body exactly.

807
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Speaker 2: It will ignite their clothes, singe their hair, and flashburn

808
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:21,639
the surface oils of their skin, which is why he

809
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caught on fire. But the vital internal organs, the heart

810
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,119
and the brain are protected from the lethal amperage by

811
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that dry skin.

812
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Speaker 1: Barrier that is just incredible. It's not magic. It's a rare,

813
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:36,079
highly specific biological trait that saves their life. Nature's own

814
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invisible armor.

815
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Speaker 3: It's remarkable.

816
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Speaker 1: Speaking of biological army, let's move to a topic that

817
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is perhaps the most anxiety inducing in our entire filestack.

818
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The Indestructible Kids.

819
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Speaker 2: These are a series of deeply disturbing security camera videos

820
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that emerged between twenty sixteen and twenty eighteen from heavily

821
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,719
populated cities like zoo Hi, nan Jing.

822
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Speaker 3: And Mumbai.

823
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Speaker 1: They're so hard to watch.

824
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Speaker 2: And each of these videos, a small child, usually a toddler,

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wandering away from their parents, is tragically run over by

826
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a large moving vehicle, often an suv or a heavy van.

827
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Speaker 1: The camera angles are very clear.

828
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Speaker 2: We see the heavy tire clearly roll up, over and

829
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across the child's body, but then, incredibly miraculously, the vehicle

830
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stops and the child just scoots out from under the

831
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heavy metal chassis, stands up, dusts themselves off, and walks

832
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away seemingly completely unharmed.

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Speaker 1: It genuinely makes your heart stop just watching it. The

834
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immediate desperate theory that pops into your head when you

835
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see a toddler survive being crushed by a two ton

836
00:42:33,159 --> 00:42:37,000
suv is bone density. Could these kids have some kind

837
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of mutant, unbreakable skeletal structure.

838
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Speaker 3: It's a logical first thought.

839
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Speaker 1: Author Alexis Brooks brings up this incredibly well documented real

840
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life medical case from nineteen ninety four. A man was

841
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involved in a horrific high speed car crash that by

842
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,400
all metrics of medical science should have shattered his skeleton

843
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,559
into dust, but it didn't. No, the emergency room doctors

844
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took X rays and found he had completely negligible injuries,

845
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not a single fracture. Upon further testing, they discovered a

846
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hyper rare genetic mutation that made his bone density roughly

847
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eight times denser than an average human being. Eight times

848
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His bones were essentially like concrete. When doctors told the

849
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man he had this superhero mutation, he just shrugged and

850
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said it explained why he sank like a rock to

851
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the bottom of the pool whenever you tried to swim.

852
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Speaker 2: That's a fascinating medical precedent for extreme human durability. But

853
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before we assume all these toddlers walking away from car

854
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accidents are dense boned genetic mutants, we have to verify

855
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the footage because a video of a child surviving a

856
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car crushing them sounds exactly like a digital hoax designed

857
00:43:39,039 --> 00:43:41,639
specifically for viral shock clicks right.

858
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:46,119
Speaker 1: It feels manipulative. So forensic video analyst Michael Primo takes

859
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the specific video from Zuhan, a High China, and he

860
00:43:49,679 --> 00:43:53,199
does some incredible detective work. He is able to track

861
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down a second, alternate security camera angle of the exact

862
00:43:56,679 --> 00:43:59,039
same incident, shopped from overhead on a balcony.

863
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Speaker 2: Having two angles is huge for analysis, it changes everything.

864
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Speaker 1: He synchronizes the two videos perfectly and he meticulously maps

865
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the exact movement of the vehicle. He charts the suspension

866
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compression as the tire hits the child, and the precise

867
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higher path across the pavement from both angles and his conclusion.

868
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He concludes that faking the exact physical interactions of the

869
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car's weight transfer, the shadow movement, and the suspension bounce

870
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across two separate, synchronized low resolution camera angles would be

871
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a Hollywood level special effects job, nearly impossible for a

872
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:36,000
random internet hoaxer. He concludes the videos are absolutely terrifyingly real.

873
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Speaker 2: So if the videos are real, and we aren't going

874
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to rely on a one in a billion mutant bone

875
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density theory for every single child in these videos.

876
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Speaker 3: How do we explain this?

877
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,079
Speaker 2: How does a fragile human toddler survive the weight.

878
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Speaker 3: Of a car?

879
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:50,639
Speaker 1: It's physics, right.

880
00:44:51,039 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 2: This is where physicist doctor mitchyu Kaku steps in with

881
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,880
a brilliant explanation of kinetic energy, mass, and scale. If

882
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,360
we connect this to the bigger picture of physics, the

883
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,119
fundamental error we make as adults watching these videos is

884
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,880
viewing a small toddler as just a miniature adult.

885
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Speaker 1: We assume the rules apply the.

886
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Speaker 3: Same way exactly.

887
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,159
Speaker 2: We assume the physics apply the same way, but the

888
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:15,599
laws of physics apply vastly differently based on an object's mass, volume,

889
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and height.

890
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Speaker 1: You know me, I need an analogy to wrap my

891
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:22,039
head around physics. Doctor COCKU uses the twig versus log analogy.

892
00:45:21,639 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, the twig versus log.

893
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: Okay, explain the twig versus log because I think it

894
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,880
perfectly illustrates how bizarre physics can be.

895
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Speaker 2: Think about driving a heavy two ton car down a

896
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dirt road. There is a small, thin twig resting on

897
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the road. The car rolls over it at twenty miles

898
00:45:39,079 --> 00:45:42,159
per hour. The tire passes over that twig in a

899
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fraction of.

900
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Speaker 1: A millisecond because it's so small.

901
00:45:44,639 --> 00:45:47,639
Speaker 2: Because the twig has almost zero height off the ground,

902
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,760
the massive rubber tire barely has to elevate or compress

903
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,920
to get over it. The duration of the physical impact

904
00:45:55,079 --> 00:45:59,000
is infinitesimally small. Because the time is so short, the

905
00:45:59,039 --> 00:46:02,559
actual transfer of downward kinetic energy from the massive car

906
00:46:02,679 --> 00:46:06,320
into the tiny twig is minimal. The tire just squishes

907
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over it, and the twig often doesn't even snap. It

908
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just gets pushed briefly into the dirt.

909
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Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense.

910
00:46:11,639 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 2: Now, imagine driving that exact same heavy car over a thick,

911
00:46:15,199 --> 00:46:17,239
six inch wooden log lying in the road.

912
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Speaker 1: That's going to be a bump.

913
00:46:18,639 --> 00:46:21,199
Speaker 2: The log sits much higher off the ground when the

914
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,280
tire hits it. It can't just squish over it in

915
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a millisecond. The tire has to violently climb the log,

916
00:46:26,679 --> 00:46:29,039
lifting a quarter of the car's weight into the air,

917
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creating a massive sudden vertical force. Right, the impact duration

918
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is significantly longer, and the transfer of downward kinetic energy

919
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from the car into the log is catastrophic. The log

920
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,039
will likely splinter and crack, and the car's suspension will

921
00:46:44,079 --> 00:46:46,360
absorb a massive damaging shock.

922
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Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, So applying that to biology and adult is

923
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:53,880
the log precisely, If an adult gets run over, our

924
00:46:54,039 --> 00:46:57,920
larger body mass are thicker torsos, our height off the

925
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ground creates a massive obstruction for the tire. It creates

926
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a massive energy transfer, resulting in crushed bones, shattered ribs,

927
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and lethal internal organ trauma. But the toddler, the toddler

928
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is the twig. Their tiny mass, their extreme skeletal flexibility,

929
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,840
and their minimal height off the ground mean the heavy

930
00:47:16,119 --> 00:47:19,119
air filled rubber tire rolls over them so incredibly fast

931
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that the lethal kinetic energy simply doesn't have time to

932
00:47:21,599 --> 00:47:24,480
fully transfer downward into their skeletal structure. They just get

933
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pushed in the pavement for a millisecond exactly.

934
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Speaker 2: It is a terrifying microscopic dance of physics. The child's

935
00:47:32,079 --> 00:47:35,280
lack of physical development, their small stature is ironically the

936
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,719
exact mathematical variable that saves them from absorbing the full

937
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,639
lethal force of the vehicle. It's so counterintuitive, however, it

938
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:47,280
must be stated with absolute serious clarity. This survival relies

939
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on an immense microscopic degree of sheer luck.

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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, a fraction of.

941
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Speaker 2: An inch difference in the tire's path, the angle of

942
00:47:55,079 --> 00:47:58,239
the child's skull, or the firmness of the pavement, and

943
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:03,800
the physical outcome is instant irreversibly fatal. These viral videos

944
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:08,119
show a miraculous mathematical alignment of physics and extreme fortune.

945
00:48:08,199 --> 00:48:09,559
Speaker 1: They are the exception, not the rule.

946
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 2: The vast overwhelming majority of children involved in these types

947
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,599
of vehicle encounters do not survive. It is a sobering,

948
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:21,480
horrifying reminder of why extreme caution, slow speeds, and hyper

949
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:25,480
awareness are required when operating a vehicle anywhere near pedestrians.

950
00:48:26,039 --> 00:48:28,400
Physics is not a protective shield you can rely on.

951
00:48:28,519 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: Absolutely. The physics explanation is fascinating, but the reality is

952
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:36,480
deeply fragile. Please everyone watch your speed in neighborhoods. Truly,

953
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,800
So what does this all mean? We've looked at the

954
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:42,119
biology of the Earth, the strange beasts stawing from the ice,

955
00:48:42,199 --> 00:48:45,199
and the incredible fragile limits of the human body. Now

956
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,079
let's expand our scope massively. Let's do it. We are

957
00:48:48,119 --> 00:48:51,639
moving into our third and final segment, the skies the

958
00:48:51,679 --> 00:48:54,880
depths and the simulation. This is where we scale up

959
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,079
to grand existential mysteries. We are going to look at

960
00:48:58,119 --> 00:49:04,480
global espionage, identified aerospace phenomenon and the terrifying mathematical possibility

961
00:49:04,679 --> 00:49:08,480
that the very fabric of our reality is a digital illusion.

962
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 3: This is my favorite section.

963
00:49:10,159 --> 00:49:12,519
Speaker 1: Let's start with an auditory mystery that has haunted the

964
00:49:12,559 --> 00:49:16,519
global radio waves for decades, the Russian Buzzer.

965
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 2: Also known by its infamous radio call sign UVB seventy six.

966
00:49:21,119 --> 00:49:25,400
This is a phenomenon that has absolutely captivated amateur radio enthusiasts,

967
00:49:25,519 --> 00:49:29,119
intelligence analysts, and conspiracy theorists for over.

968
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: Fifty years, been going on forever.

969
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,039
Speaker 2: If you tune a short wave radio to the exact

970
00:49:33,079 --> 00:49:36,119
frequency of four hundred, six hundred and twenty five kilohertz,

971
00:49:36,519 --> 00:49:40,320
you will hear a relentless, monotonous, grating, buzzing sound. It

972
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,159
sounds like a foghorn blasting through.

973
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,119
Speaker 3: A thick wall of static.

974
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,079
Speaker 2: It broadcasts twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,

975
00:49:46,159 --> 00:49:48,639
emanating from deep within the Russian Federation, just.

976
00:49:48,599 --> 00:49:49,679
Speaker 1: A constant drone.

977
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,159
Speaker 2: And the truly eerie part, the part that keeps people

978
00:49:52,199 --> 00:49:55,800
listening for hours, is that very occasionally the buzzing abruptly

979
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,480
stalks dead silence.

980
00:49:57,559 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: That's the creepy part.

981
00:49:58,679 --> 00:50:01,679
Speaker 2: Then a live human voice will read out a seemingly

982
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,960
random string of names, numbers, or Russian words like Zenya,

983
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:10,480
Earth one or eight before the voice clicks off and

984
00:50:10,519 --> 00:50:11,960
that grading buzzer resumes.

985
00:50:12,199 --> 00:50:14,679
Speaker 1: It is so incredibly creepy to listen to. It feels

986
00:50:14,679 --> 00:50:17,840
like you are eavesdropping on something you shouldn't be. Yeah,

987
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:20,960
the mystery of who is running this massive transmitter and

988
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,480
why they've been doing it since the nineteen seventies has

989
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:27,280
spawned massive theories. Naturally, the most terrifying theory by far

990
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:28,400
is the dead hand theory.

991
00:50:28,559 --> 00:50:31,280
Speaker 2: Right to understand the terror of the buzzer, you have

992
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,760
to look at the Cold War. The dead hand system

993
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:37,840
is a theoretical fully automated nuclear deterrent protocol linked to

994
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:42,000
the overarching Cold War policy of mutually assured destruction or

995
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:42,639
may D.

996
00:50:43,079 --> 00:50:45,159
Speaker 1: May D is such a fitting acronym.

997
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 3: It really is.

998
00:50:46,039 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 2: The grim logic of MAYD is that if both superpowers

999
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:52,440
possess enough nuclear weapons to completely annihilate the other, neither

1000
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,800
side will ever launch a first strike because doing so

1001
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:55,840
guarantees their.

1002
00:50:55,679 --> 00:50:56,639
Speaker 3: Own total destruction.

1003
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:57,679
Speaker 1: It's a standoff.

1004
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 2: But what happens if a country launches a supper decapitation

1005
00:51:01,039 --> 00:51:03,880
strike and wipes out the enemy's leadership before they can

1006
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:04,800
order retaliation.

1007
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,159
Speaker 1: That's where dead hand comes in exactly.

1008
00:51:07,679 --> 00:51:10,199
Speaker 2: The dead hand theory suggests that the buzzer is a

1009
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:14,320
literal planet wide dead man's switch. As long as that

1010
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:18,559
annoying buzzer is broadcasting, the automated nuclear silos know the

1011
00:51:18,639 --> 00:51:21,119
Russian high command in Moscow is alive and well.

1012
00:51:21,679 --> 00:51:22,880
Speaker 1: But if Moscow gets hit.

1013
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,159
Speaker 2: If Moscow is decimated by a surprise nuclear attack, and

1014
00:51:26,199 --> 00:51:30,280
the buzzer goes permanently silent, a fully automated computer system

1015
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:35,599
will assume the worst and instantly indiscriminately launch Russia's entire

1016
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,000
nuclear arsenal and retaliation, destroying the world.

1017
00:51:39,159 --> 00:51:42,639
Speaker 1: It's literally a doomsday machine, that's the theory. But military

1018
00:51:42,639 --> 00:51:46,559
intelligence expert Tim McMillan pours some much needed cold water

1019
00:51:46,599 --> 00:51:50,440
on that apocalyptic anxiety. He points out a glaring historical

1020
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:53,400
flaw in the dead hand theory. In the year twenty ten,

1021
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:57,199
the buzzer signal completely ceased. It just stopped broadcasting. It

1022
00:51:57,239 --> 00:51:59,719
was silent for a prolonged period, and nothing happened, right

1023
00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:02,239
and very fortunately for all of us living on Earth,

1024
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:06,320
no automatic nuclear apocalypse was triggered. Then missiles stayed safely

1025
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,400
in their silos. So whatever it is, it's highly unlikely

1026
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:11,519
it's a functioning, automated dead man's switch.

1027
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,599
Speaker 2: So if it's not holding back armageddon, what is it

1028
00:52:14,639 --> 00:52:20,280
actually doing. Doctor Michio Kaku addresses another popular theory that

1029
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:25,079
it's a specialized communication system for Russian nuclear submarines hiding deep.

1030
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,119
Speaker 1: In the oceans, which sounds plausible.

1031
00:52:27,199 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 2: He rolls this out completely based on the fundamental physics

1032
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:35,119
of the radio frequency itself. Submarine communication requires extremely low

1033
00:52:35,159 --> 00:52:40,679
frequency or ELF waves. ELF waves have massive wavelengths that

1034
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:44,360
can physically penetrate hundreds of meters of dense, conductive salty

1035
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:48,440
sea water without degrading. Okay, But the buzzer operates on shortwave,

1036
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,239
which is a much higher frequency. Shortwave bounces right off

1037
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:54,320
the surface of the ocean. It cannot penetrate water effectively

1038
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:54,800
at all.

1039
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:57,079
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you can't reach submarines under the water,

1040
00:52:57,119 --> 00:52:59,440
it has to be communicating with people on land. But

1041
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:03,159
here's where modern brain struggles. Why use a scratchy, old

1042
00:53:03,159 --> 00:53:06,480
school static filled shortwave radio signal in the twenty first century.

1043
00:53:06,679 --> 00:53:09,719
Why not just use the Internet or highly encrypted satellite

1044
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:13,440
burst transmissions. We have quantum computing and AI. Why use

1045
00:53:13,519 --> 00:53:15,039
tech from the nineteen seventies?

1046
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 2: Because the Internet, no matter how encrypted, leaves a digital footprint.

1047
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:23,840
Servers log data, ISPs, track IP addresses, satellites can be

1048
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:26,840
visually trapped in orbit, and their signals can be intercepted

1049
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:31,840
and jammed. Kaku explains the beautiful, rudimentary physics of shortwave

1050
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,400
radio that makes it superior for specific covert tasks.

1051
00:53:35,559 --> 00:53:36,239
Speaker 1: How does it work?

1052
00:53:36,599 --> 00:53:40,519
Speaker 2: Shortwave is phenomenally good at what's called over the horizon communication.

1053
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:44,039
These specific radio waves don't just travel in a straight

1054
00:53:44,079 --> 00:53:47,119
line of sight. They travel up into the sky, hit

1055
00:53:47,159 --> 00:53:50,119
the Earth's ionosphere, a dense layer of charged particles in

1056
00:53:50,159 --> 00:53:53,400
the upper atmosphere, and literally bounce back down to Earth.

1057
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:54,639
Speaker 1: Like skipping a stone on a pond.

1058
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:58,519
Speaker 2: Exactly, you can skip a shortwave signal across entire continents

1059
00:53:58,559 --> 00:54:02,360
and massive oceans, reaching a receiver absolutely anywhere on the

1060
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,239
globe without needing a vulnerable network of cell towers, fiber

1061
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:07,880
optic cables, or satellites.

1062
00:54:08,079 --> 00:54:12,039
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's a totally untrackable global communication tool. Anyone

1063
00:54:12,079 --> 00:54:14,920
with a cheap radio can hear it. But why the constant,

1064
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,119
annoying buzzing. Why not just transmit silence until you need

1065
00:54:18,159 --> 00:54:18,559
to speak?

1066
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 2: Doctor Goddessman and Tim McMillan explained that the constant buzzing

1067
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:26,760
is basically a radio frequency squatter's tactic. There is limited

1068
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:28,679
bandwidth on the shortwave spectrum.

1069
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:30,360
Speaker 1: Oh, they're claiming the channel.

1070
00:54:30,199 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 2: By constantly blasting that obnoxious noise twenty four to seven.

1071
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:38,800
The Russian military is saturating the frequency, physically preventing anyone else,

1072
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,000
like a commercial station or another military from hopping onto

1073
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:45,039
that specific radio channel and using it. They are holding

1074
00:54:45,079 --> 00:54:46,519
the line open indefinitely.

1075
00:54:46,639 --> 00:54:47,599
Speaker 1: That makes total sense.

1076
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,679
Speaker 2: And the verdict here, supported by almost all intelligence analysts,

1077
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,840
is that it is a classic numbers station.

1078
00:54:54,039 --> 00:54:56,159
Speaker 3: It is a vital tool for deep cover.

1079
00:54:56,119 --> 00:54:57,800
Speaker 1: Espionage ah spies.

1080
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 2: Exactly when that buzzer stops and a voice reads out

1081
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:05,039
a string of numbers, a deep cover Russian intelligence agent

1082
00:55:05,119 --> 00:55:07,760
sitting in an apartment in London, a cafe in Washington, DC,

1083
00:55:08,079 --> 00:55:11,320
or a hotel in Tokyo is listening with a small,

1084
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:15,239
completely untraceable commercial shortwave radio.

1085
00:55:15,079 --> 00:55:17,320
Speaker 1: Just the regular radio you can buy anywhere, They write.

1086
00:55:17,159 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 2: The numbers down, and then they use a physical one

1087
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,840
time pad, a booklet of random mathematical keys that only

1088
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,400
they and the sender possess, to manually decrypt those numbers

1089
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:30,440
into a specific mission order. It is incredibly unsophisticated, entirely

1090
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,079
analog technology. But that is exactly why it is so brilliant.

1091
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,639
Speaker 1: See, that is what fascinates me. In an age of

1092
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:41,239
quantum decryption, AI surveillance algorithms and massive digital spy networks

1093
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:44,920
like the NSA, using a nineteen seventies radio buzz to

1094
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,840
command your global spy network makes your modern adversaries pull

1095
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:49,440
their hair out.

1096
00:55:49,519 --> 00:55:50,320
Speaker 3: They can't stop it.

1097
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:53,679
Speaker 1: The CIA or MI six can intercept the broadcast easily.

1098
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:57,440
Everyone can, but without the physical decryption pad hidden in

1099
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:02,280
the spy's pocket, the numbers are mathematical gibberish. It's an elegant, unbreakable,

1100
00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:05,760
old school form of spycraft hiding in plain sight. Its

1101
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,199
analog defeating digital.

1102
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,760
Speaker 2: It truly is a masterpiece of functional simplicity. Now let's

1103
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,800
move from the radio waves of Russia to the deep

1104
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,599
waters of Russia. We are looking at Case eight, Lake

1105
00:56:15,639 --> 00:56:18,440
by Call and the mysterious Moonfleet Lake by Call. Lake

1106
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:22,800
by Call, located in southern Siberia, is the deepest, oldest

1107
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:26,079
freshwater lake in the world. It holds nearly a quarter

1108
00:56:26,159 --> 00:56:28,880
of all the fresh surface water on the entire planet.

1109
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,440
It is so ecologically isolated that two thirds of the

1110
00:56:32,519 --> 00:56:35,679
thousands of plant and animal species living there exists nowhere

1111
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:38,440
else on Earth. It is an evolutionary.

1112
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 1: Island, and according to locals, it's also a massive, undeniable

1113
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:47,800
hotbed for UFO and USO unidentified submerged object activity. Yes,

1114
00:56:48,039 --> 00:56:51,679
the prevailing theory goes that if highly advanced extraterrestrials wanted

1115
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:53,960
to set up a hidden, unbothered base on Earth to

1116
00:56:54,039 --> 00:56:57,440
observe us, the crushing, unexplored depths of Lake by Call

1117
00:56:57,480 --> 00:56:59,400
would be the absolute perfect.

1118
00:56:59,039 --> 00:57:02,199
Speaker 2: Real estate, alien and environment as you can find on Earth.

1119
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,639
Speaker 1: And this brings us to a terrifying story from nineteen

1120
00:57:04,679 --> 00:57:09,599
eighty two, journalist Mjbiniis recounts a declassified military report where

1121
00:57:09,679 --> 00:57:12,559
elite Russian Navy divers were operating deep under the surface

1122
00:57:12,559 --> 00:57:14,800
of the lake conducting routine training.

1123
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:15,199
Speaker 3: And what did they find.

1124
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: Suddenly in the murky depths, they encountered a group of

1125
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:24,239
enormous humanoid creatures. These entities were wearing silvery metallic looking suits,

1126
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,280
and they were swimming at incredible speeds without any visible

1127
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,000
scuba gear or breeding apparatus.

1128
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,599
Speaker 3: A swimming free at that depth.

1129
00:57:30,639 --> 00:57:33,679
Speaker 1: The divers naturally panicked. They attempted to capture one of

1130
00:57:33,719 --> 00:57:36,960
the entities with a net, and in the ensuing chaotic struggle,

1131
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:40,000
the divers were forced to abandon the mission and ascend

1132
00:57:40,079 --> 00:57:43,360
to the surface. Far too rapidly, three of the elite

1133
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:48,119
divers died agonizing deaths from catastrophic decompression sickness, also known

1134
00:57:48,159 --> 00:57:48,800
as the Bends.

1135
00:57:49,199 --> 00:57:52,239
Speaker 2: It's a harrowing piece of deep water lore, and it

1136
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,920
perfectly sets the stage for a piece of video evidence

1137
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:58,440
captured in twenty fifteen by a group of veteran local fishermen.

1138
00:57:59,039 --> 00:58:01,519
They were out on the dark, choppy waters of Lake

1139
00:58:01,559 --> 00:58:06,199
by Call at night. Their camera captured something inexplicable, A massive,

1140
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:10,519
intensely bright blue green light glowing steadily just below the

1141
00:58:10,559 --> 00:58:12,159
surface of the freezing lake.

1142
00:58:12,239 --> 00:58:13,599
Speaker 1: Just a glowing spot in the water.

1143
00:58:13,719 --> 00:58:17,079
Speaker 2: It wasn't moving, it was just radiating this powerful, unnatural,

1144
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:19,039
localized glow from the deep.

1145
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:21,159
Speaker 1: So we run it through the forensic gauntlet to see

1146
00:58:21,159 --> 00:58:25,719
if we can explain it. Video analyst Michael Primo examines

1147
00:58:25,719 --> 00:58:29,440
the footage. He looks for digital artifacts, pixel manipulation, and

1148
00:58:29,519 --> 00:58:33,840
CGI overlays. He confirms definitively that it is not CGI

1149
00:58:34,039 --> 00:58:37,239
or a post production digital insertion. It is an actual

1150
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:41,719
physical light source present in the environment interacting with the camera.

1151
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 3: Lens, so it's physically there.

1152
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,639
Speaker 1: Physicist Michio Kaku then looks at the optical physics of

1153
00:58:46,679 --> 00:58:50,119
the scene. He rules out a surface reflection like a

1154
00:58:50,159 --> 00:58:53,519
police helicopter spotlight shining down or the reflection of the moon.

1155
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:56,920
He explains that an external light source shining down into

1156
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,760
choppy water would fragment and fan out across the ripples

1157
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:02,280
of the ray. It would scatter, but in this video,

1158
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:05,440
the light is highly concentrated and diffuses outward. This light

1159
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,480
is clearly emanating from underneath the water, glowing upward towards

1160
00:59:08,519 --> 00:59:09,400
the surface.

1161
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:13,199
Speaker 2: Which leaves marine biologist Shay Congers to look for biological

1162
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:17,920
or man made explanations. She immediately rules out bioluminescent animals,

1163
00:59:18,519 --> 00:59:21,119
while the deep ocean is full of glowing creatures like

1164
00:59:21,159 --> 00:59:25,320
anglerfish or certain squids. Lake bi Call is a freshwater lake,

1165
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:30,639
despite its massive biodiversity. There are absolutely no known bioluminescent

1166
00:59:30,639 --> 00:59:33,000
animals native to that specific.

1167
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 1: Ecosystem, so that's not an animal.

1168
00:59:34,559 --> 00:59:39,559
Speaker 2: Furthermore, biological light is usually flashy, weak, and pulsating, used

1169
00:59:39,559 --> 00:59:43,239
specifically to attract mates or startle predators in short bursts.

1170
00:59:43,719 --> 00:59:46,880
The light in the video was a solid, massive, continuous

1171
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,599
light source, like an underwater stadium lamp.

1172
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: Okay, So if it's not an animal, what about a

1173
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:57,000
secret military submarine or a scientific research vessel studying.

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Speaker 2: The deep Contra points out the massive logical flaw in

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00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:02,760
that theory. If you are the military conducting covert, highly

1176
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:06,559
classified operations, or if you are scientists conducting sensitive biological

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01:00:06,559 --> 01:00:10,079
research on nocturnal deepwater animals, you absolutely do not blast

1178
01:00:10,119 --> 01:00:12,760
a massive, stadium sized blue green floodlight.

1179
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Speaker 3: Into the water.

1180
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: It would ruin everything.

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01:00:14,079 --> 01:00:17,679
Speaker 2: It destroys night vision, gives away your position instantly, and

1182
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scares away every living creature for miles. Her conclusion and

1183
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,760
the ultimate verdict of the panel, is that this is

1184
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:29,039
a piece of highly advanced underwater technology that we simply

1185
01:00:29,239 --> 01:00:33,440
cannot identify or explain. It is a genuine unknown operating

1186
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:34,119
in our waters.

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Speaker 1: And to add, a truly dark coda to it. Two

1188
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years after this footage was taken, a massive, unprecedented and

1189
01:00:40,719 --> 01:00:45,320
entirely unexplained die off of the unique becal freshwater seals

1190
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:49,000
occurred in that exact region of the lake, completely baffling

1191
01:00:49,039 --> 01:00:50,000
marine researchers.

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01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 2: It definitely makes you wonder what kind of machinery or

1193
01:00:53,079 --> 01:00:55,199
radiation is operating down there in the dark, and what

1194
01:00:55,239 --> 01:00:56,880
it's doing to the local ecosystem.

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01:00:57,039 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: It really does. But let's take our eyes out of

1196
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,519
the deep water and looks straight up into the nice sky.

1197
01:01:02,159 --> 01:01:06,079
In May twenty nineteen, an amateur astrophotographer in Moscow named

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01:01:06,119 --> 01:01:09,280
Andrew McCarthy was setting up his heavy telescope gear to

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shoot a high resolution video of the full Moon. As

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01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,000
he's dialing in the focus trying to get the crater's

1201
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,079
sharp something terrifying happens on his monitor.

1202
01:01:16,199 --> 01:01:21,119
Speaker 2: Three stark, black, perfectly circular objects rapidly transit across the

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01:01:21,119 --> 01:01:24,440
glowing face of the Moon, and then seconds later, a

1204
01:01:24,519 --> 01:01:27,960
massive loose cluster of dozens more of these dark spheres

1205
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:31,480
fly rapidly across the frame. It genuinely looks like a

1206
01:01:31,519 --> 01:01:35,119
massive invasion fleet moving silently in the vast space between

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01:01:35,159 --> 01:01:37,239
Earth and the Moon, and McCarthy.

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01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: Is a science guy, so he does the math. He

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01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:42,320
calculates the optical geometry. He deduces that if these objects

1210
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:45,679
were actually in lunar orbits, say sixty miles above the

1211
01:01:45,679 --> 01:01:48,800
Moon's surface, they would have to be absolutely colossal. How

1212
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:51,360
big We're talking two to three miles wide each. If

1213
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:54,519
they are alien UFOs, they are gargantuan. We're talking mother

1214
01:01:54,599 --> 01:01:57,519
ships forty times the size of the International Space Station

1215
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:01,880
flying in a massive, coordinated art. It begs the question,

1216
01:02:02,119 --> 01:02:05,119
who is building superstructures that big in our Solar system?

1217
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:07,679
Speaker 2: Before we welcome our new alien overlords, we need to

1218
01:02:07,719 --> 01:02:10,639
check the perspective and the specific optics of the camera setup.

1219
01:02:10,960 --> 01:02:15,159
Astronomer Mark D'Antonio analyzes the raw camera data. He confirms

1220
01:02:15,199 --> 01:02:17,760
this is not photographic trickery or a smudge on the lens.

1221
01:02:18,039 --> 01:02:20,559
The objects are physically passing through the airspace in front

1222
01:02:20,559 --> 01:02:21,079
of the lens.

1223
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: Okay, so they are real objects.

1224
01:02:23,519 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 2: But NASA's Bob Anderson suggests a much closer, more mundane explanation,

1225
01:02:28,679 --> 01:02:31,880
man made satellites orbiting the Earth, not the Moon. He

1226
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:35,280
points out that low Earth orbit is becoming incredibly crowded

1227
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:39,679
with satellite clusters. Specifically, he points to Elon Musk's SpaceX

1228
01:02:39,719 --> 01:02:43,039
starlink network, which is known for flying in large, uniform,

1229
01:02:43,159 --> 01:02:45,280
highly visible trains across the night sky.

1230
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 1: But Anderson and D'Antonio look closer at the actual movement

1231
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:52,199
of the objects in the video, and the starling satellite

1232
01:02:52,239 --> 01:02:56,320
theory falls apart completely. Why is that Orbital mechanics dictates

1233
01:02:56,320 --> 01:02:59,320
that satellites in orbit travel at a constant, uniform, highly

1234
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:03,559
predictable lay, But the objects in this video are behaving erratically.

1235
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:06,960
They are speeding up, slowing down, drifting closer to one another,

1236
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:11,519
and moving in a haphazard, chaotic swarm. Satellites simply do

1237
01:03:11,599 --> 01:03:14,320
not do that unless they are actively firing thrusters to

1238
01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:18,079
avoid a catastrophic collision, which certainly doesn't happen continuously in

1239
01:03:18,119 --> 01:03:18,880
a massive cluster.

1240
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:22,679
Speaker 2: And that erratic, haphazard movement is the key that finally

1241
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:26,880
unlocks the mystery. They aren't massive alien dreadnoughts in lunar orbit,

1242
01:03:27,159 --> 01:03:30,199
and they aren't communication satellites and Earth orbit. There are

1243
01:03:30,239 --> 01:03:33,360
something much smaller and much much closer to the camera lens.

1244
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,880
They are a flock of migrating birds flying through the

1245
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:38,440
night sky over Moscow.

1246
01:03:38,639 --> 01:03:41,559
Speaker 1: Wait birds. I'm looking at the footage and they look

1247
01:03:41,639 --> 01:03:46,079
like perfect, solid black spheres. They don't look like birds

1248
01:03:46,119 --> 01:03:47,679
at all. Where are the wings?

1249
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 2: That is a brilliant optical illusion created entirely by the

1250
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,239
limitations of the camera sensor and the physics of lenses.

1251
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:57,079
The photographer is using an extreme telephoto lens focused on

1252
01:03:57,119 --> 01:03:59,760
an object roughly two hundred and thirty eight thousand miles

1253
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:03,119
away the moon. Because the focus is set to infinity,

1254
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:05,679
the depth of field, the area of the image that

1255
01:04:05,719 --> 01:04:08,719
a sharp is incredibly narrow. When a flock of birds

1256
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:11,400
flies relatively close to the camera lens, perhaps only a

1257
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,599
few hundred feet up in the atmosphere, they are massively.

1258
01:04:14,199 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 3: Out of focus.

1259
01:04:15,559 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 2: I see the rapid flapping of their wings blurs completely

1260
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:22,159
into the central mass of their body. It creates a solid,

1261
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:26,480
circular silhouette, a dark, featureless blog moving against the incredibly

1262
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,920
bright lunar background. The video was shot in May, which

1263
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:33,280
perfectly coincides with the peak of the spring Avian migration

1264
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:37,559
season in Russia. It's a brilliant, highly educational example of

1265
01:04:37,599 --> 01:04:41,280
how forced perspective and extreme camera optics can trick the

1266
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:44,559
human eye into seeing an apocalyptic alien armada when it's

1267
01:04:44,599 --> 01:04:46,840
really just a flock of geese heading north for the summer.

1268
01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:50,360
Speaker 1: I love when the answer is just optics playing tricks

1269
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:53,000
on our brains. It's comforting. But let's move to case nine,

1270
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:55,039
where the video is far more explosive and a lot

1271
01:04:55,079 --> 01:04:59,000
harder to explain away as geese. August twenty twenty, Shinyang

1272
01:04:59,079 --> 01:05:02,639
City in northeast. It's rush hour. There's a heavy dark rainstorm,

1273
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:06,000
and a motorist is filling a large unfinished residential power

1274
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:09,800
block through their windshield. Suddenly, a massive, dark, flying object

1275
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:12,480
glides into the frame, moving directly toward the building. It

1276
01:05:12,519 --> 01:05:14,679
passes behind the tower, and an installa of the entire

1277
01:05:14,679 --> 01:05:18,639
building is engulfed in a colossal, blinding, apocalyptic fireball.

1278
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,679
Speaker 2: The video is genuinely shocking. When it hit the internet,

1279
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:28,199
two massive, vastly different theories exploded across social media. The

1280
01:05:28,239 --> 01:05:31,280
first was the biological theory. People claimed it was a

1281
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:32,519
fire breathing dragon.

1282
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 1: A dragon.

1283
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 2: While that sounds entirely absurd to a modern ear, cryptozoologists

1284
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:41,079
argue that modern day sightings of massive flying reptiles aren't

1285
01:05:41,119 --> 01:05:45,039
completely unheard of. In certain subcultures, there are people who

1286
01:05:45,159 --> 01:05:49,400
genuinely believe that relic populations of pterosaurs, flying dinosaurs with

1287
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:53,320
thirty foot wing spans that supposedly extinct sixty five million

1288
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:57,079
years ago still exist in remote areas like the rope Yes.

1289
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,440
In places like Papua New Guinea, locals describe a terrifying

1290
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,519
creature called the ropin or the demon flyer, which is

1291
01:06:03,519 --> 01:06:06,800
said to be a massive, glowing, flying reptile that occasionally

1292
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:07,719
preys on humans.

1293
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:11,199
Speaker 1: A relic terosaur flying through a modern Chinese city during

1294
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:14,239
rush hour. It's a wild thought. But even if we

1295
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:16,679
grant the existence of a surviving dinosaur for the sake

1296
01:06:16,719 --> 01:06:19,840
of argument, terosaurs do not breathe fire and cause massive

1297
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:22,719
city level explosions. They eat fish. So the Internet quickly

1298
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,880
pivoted to an even wilder, more modern sci fi theory,

1299
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,760
secret Chinese space lasers. At the time this video surfaced,

1300
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:34,039
Chinese military research teams had just publicly announced breakthroughs in

1301
01:06:34,079 --> 01:06:37,679
building the world's most powerful directed energy weapons. Was this

1302
01:06:37,719 --> 01:06:41,400
an orbital weapon test? Did they fire a hyper powerful

1303
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:45,360
laser from a military satellite, hit an experimental drone flying

1304
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:48,239
over the city and caused the massive explosion.

1305
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:51,039
Speaker 2: It's a highly cinematic theory that sounds like a James

1306
01:06:51,039 --> 01:06:55,480
Bond plot, but military expert Tim McMillan uses the fundamental

1307
01:06:55,559 --> 01:06:59,360
laws of atmospheric physics to completely dismantle it. He points

1308
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,719
out a globe firing issue in the video. It clearly

1309
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:06,559
shows a heavy rainstorm with thick fog and atmospheric.

1310
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:07,599
Speaker 1: Haze, and lasers don't like rain.

1311
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:11,079
Speaker 2: Any directed energy weapon, like a high powered military laser,

1312
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:14,400
relies on a perfectly focused, concentrated beam of light to

1313
01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:17,719
deliver its destructive thermal energy. When you attempt to fire

1314
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:20,559
a laser through rain and heavy fog, you encounter a

1315
01:07:20,599 --> 01:07:23,320
phenomenon known as severe atmospheric refraction.

1316
01:07:23,519 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 1: It scatters the light.

1317
01:07:24,639 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 2: The millions of suspended water droplets act like microscopic prisms.

1318
01:07:28,599 --> 01:07:32,280
They scatter the light heavily, dissipating the weapons focused energy

1319
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:35,360
long before it ever reaches the ground target. You simply

1320
01:07:35,599 --> 01:07:40,840
cannot trigger a massive concentrated explosive fireball with a laser

1321
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:44,679
through a dense thunderstorm. It fundamentally violates the laws of

1322
01:07:44,719 --> 01:07:45,559
optical physics.

1323
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 1: Okay, so if we rule out ancient dragons and secret

1324
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,840
space lasers, we need to bring in the forensic closer

1325
01:07:52,039 --> 01:07:54,960
Michael Primo to look at the actual pixels of the video.

1326
01:07:55,199 --> 01:07:59,639
What exactly is that massive flying object? Wildlife biologist Stephanie

1327
01:07:59,639 --> 01:08:01,880
Shutler examines the movement of the object in the video

1328
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:05,599
and notes a crucial detail. The object isn't actively flapping

1329
01:08:05,639 --> 01:08:09,239
or flying with biological intent. It's gliding rigidly. It doesn't

1330
01:08:09,239 --> 01:08:12,239
have a central biological body mass or defined wings.

1331
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 3: So what is it?

1332
01:08:13,119 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 1: She concludes? It is almost certainly a massive piece of

1333
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:19,600
dark industrial tarp or heavy plastic construction sheeting that has

1334
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:22,199
been violently ripped off the unfinished building by the severe

1335
01:08:22,199 --> 01:08:25,199
storm winds and is just floating passively past the camera.

1336
01:08:25,399 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 2: And then Primo looks at the explosion itself. He analyzes

1337
01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:32,479
the exact timing plank frame by excruciating frame, and he

1338
01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:34,840
finds the absolute smoking gun of.

1339
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:35,640
Speaker 3: A digital hoax.

1340
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 1: He always finds it.

1341
01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:40,279
Speaker 2: At exactly frame eighty seven hundred and forty of the video,

1342
01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:44,279
a split second before the massive fireball erupts, there is

1343
01:08:44,319 --> 01:08:49,000
a distinct, highly unnatural white flash that covers the entire

1344
01:08:49,079 --> 01:08:52,640
screen for a single frame. In forensic video analysis, this

1345
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:55,960
is a classic amateur editing tell. The creator used that

1346
01:08:56,079 --> 01:08:59,119
full screen white flash to hide a splice. They made

1347
01:08:59,119 --> 01:09:02,119
a cut in the footage seamlessly transition between the floating

1348
01:09:02,119 --> 01:09:05,159
tarp and the explosion, deceiving the viewer into thinking they

1349
01:09:05,199 --> 01:09:07,880
were a single continuous causal event.

1350
01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:10,239
Speaker 1: And the explosion itself. Did they fake that too? It

1351
01:09:10,279 --> 01:09:13,680
turns out the explosion was entirely real but completely mundane.

1352
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,960
Chinese state media released a fire Department report confirming that

1353
01:09:17,079 --> 01:09:20,920
during that exact storm, a massive, random bolt of natural

1354
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,680
lightning struck a high voltage power line right next to

1355
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:28,359
that unfinished building, causing a massive electrical transformer to catastrophically explode.

1356
01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:30,520
Speaker 2: So they just stitched two real videos together.

1357
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:33,800
Speaker 1: Someone filmed the tart floating by, then filmed the lightning

1358
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:37,199
explosion later and splice them together in editing software with

1359
01:09:37,239 --> 01:09:39,920
a white flash to make a viral video. It is

1360
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:44,800
a certified pianu, the Chinese word for a complete intentional hoax.

1361
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:48,840
Speaker 2: Which brings us inevitably to our final most profound subject.

1362
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:49,159
Speaker 1: Today.

1363
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:54,319
Speaker 2: We have spent this entire session analyzing biology, optics, physics, weather,

1364
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:55,439
and human hoaxes.

1365
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:56,840
Speaker 3: We've explained away.

1366
01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,520
Speaker 2: The monsters and the aliens, But what happens when the

1367
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:02,840
underline rules of physics themselves seem to be breaking down.

1368
01:10:03,399 --> 01:10:06,560
What if we are looking at literal glitches in the matrix.

1369
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:09,199
Speaker 1: This is where we talk about simulation theory. This is

1370
01:10:09,239 --> 01:10:11,000
the existential deep end of the pool.

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01:10:11,239 --> 01:10:15,199
Speaker 2: Theoretical physicist doctor Michio Kaku lays out the fundamental premise

1372
01:10:15,239 --> 01:10:18,319
of simulation theory beautifully. He asks us to look at

1373
01:10:18,359 --> 01:10:22,039
the exponential curve of our own human technology. Fifty years ago,

1374
01:10:22,079 --> 01:10:25,960
the absolute pinnacle of digital simulation was the arcade game pun.

1375
01:10:26,119 --> 01:10:29,399
Speaker 1: Literally two white rectangles bouncing a square pixel back and

1376
01:10:29,399 --> 01:10:30,680
forth across a black screen.

1377
01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:35,319
Speaker 2: Today, just half a century later, we have incredibly immersive,

1378
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:41,880
photorealistic virtual reality, global interconnected server networks, and AI driven

1379
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:46,600
physics engines that can simulate entire cities. If humanity has

1380
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:50,600
achieved that staggering level of digital creation in just fifty years,

1381
01:10:51,199 --> 01:10:54,680
imagine what an advanced alien civilization or even our own

1382
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:58,520
descendants could build in a million years of technological evolution.

1383
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:03,039
Speaker 1: Right. The mathematical probability proposed by philosopher Nick Bostrom suggests

1384
01:11:03,079 --> 01:11:06,239
that if a civilization can create a perfect universe sized

1385
01:11:06,239 --> 01:11:09,319
computer simulation, they likely will create billions of them to

1386
01:11:09,399 --> 01:11:13,880
run evolutionary scenarios or historical simulations. Therefore, statistically speaking, there

1387
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:17,600
is only one base reality, but there are billions of simulated.

1388
01:11:17,079 --> 01:11:20,079
Speaker 2: Realities, So mathematically it is billions of times more likely

1389
01:11:20,119 --> 01:11:22,640
that we are currently existing as digital code inside one

1390
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:25,760
of those simulations right now, rather than existing as biological

1391
01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:28,000
matter in the one true base reality.

1392
01:11:28,239 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 1: It's a deeply chilling, vertigo inducing thought experiment. And if

1393
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:33,680
we assume for a moment that we are in a

1394
01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:39,359
simulation a massive, incredibly complex computer program, then logically that

1395
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:42,279
program is susceptible to the same fundamental issues as any

1396
01:11:42,279 --> 01:11:45,760
software we build today. It can lag, it can experience

1397
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,239
rendering errors when it runs out of processing power. It

1398
01:11:48,239 --> 01:11:51,359
can glitch when a computer's code freezes or a physical

1399
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:54,760
variable is corrupted. The physics of our world would momentarily

1400
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:56,319
stop working correctly.

1401
01:11:56,399 --> 01:12:01,199
Speaker 2: Which brings us perfectly to the levitating vans. November twenty fifteen,

1402
01:12:01,319 --> 01:12:05,479
in Jingtai, China, traffic security cameras captured a truly terrifying,

1403
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:09,960
physics defying scene. It's a busy multi lane intersection. Heavy

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cargo vans are driving along following the rules of the road,

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01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:15,439
and suddenly two of the bands literally jump into the air.

1406
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:18,720
They just pop up their heavy rear wheels lift completely

1407
01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:22,520
off the ground, entirely define gravity. They hang suspended in

1408
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:26,039
mid air for a second, totally frozen, and then violently

1409
01:12:26,079 --> 01:12:29,239
crashed back down, toppling over onto their sides. The people

1410
01:12:29,319 --> 01:12:32,119
walking in the crosswalk are running around in utter confusion.

1411
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:35,239
It looks exactly like a physics engine in a modern

1412
01:12:35,319 --> 01:12:38,600
video game completely bugging out and deleting the gravity parameter

1413
01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:40,039
for those specific vehicles.

1414
01:12:40,079 --> 01:12:43,560
Speaker 1: It really does. It looks like the gravity code momentarily crashed.

1415
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:47,520
Science writer Mick West approached this with a highly forensic eye,

1416
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:52,640
determined to find physical reality. His first thought was municipal infrastructure.

1417
01:12:53,079 --> 01:12:56,119
He theorized a massive water main brake underneath the road,

1418
01:12:56,399 --> 01:12:59,119
pushing the cars up with an explosion of hydrostatic pressure

1419
01:12:59,279 --> 01:13:03,079
define water. Upon closer inspection of the pixels, the street

1420
01:13:03,119 --> 01:13:06,439
is completely dry and there is no geyser of water. However,

1421
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:10,319
West analyzes the specific kinetic movement of the vans. They

1422
01:13:10,319 --> 01:13:13,359
don't just float gently. They jerk upwards violently, and then

1423
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:17,279
hang rigidly suspended from their rear axles. In the physical world.

1424
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:19,560
The only thing that can exert that specific type of

1425
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:23,800
upward highly localized the spending force is a high tension cable.

1426
01:13:24,039 --> 01:13:26,039
Speaker 2: But I've watched that video a dozen times. There is

1427
01:13:26,159 --> 01:13:29,159
absolutely no cable visible in the low resolution video.

1428
01:13:29,239 --> 01:13:30,279
Speaker 3: There floating in thin.

1429
01:13:30,199 --> 01:13:34,039
Speaker 1: Air, not initially visible. Correct, But Wes looks closely at

1430
01:13:34,079 --> 01:13:35,960
the right hand side of the frame. Right at the

1431
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:39,439
exact moment the vans levitate, there's a large, slow moving

1432
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:44,039
municipal street sweeper driving past the intersection. West dug into

1433
01:13:44,039 --> 01:13:47,560
the local police reports from Zintai and uncovered the remarkably

1434
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:53,079
mundane yet incredibly chaotic truth what happened. A thick steel

1435
01:13:53,119 --> 01:13:56,359
telecommunications cable had fallen from a utility pole and was

1436
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:59,760
lying totally slack across the road, blending into the asphalt.

1437
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:04,000
The rotating, powerful steel brushes of the street sweeper snags

1438
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,960
the loose cable. As the sweeper drove forward, it rapidly

1439
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:09,920
wound the cable up, pulling it incredibly taut across the

1440
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:13,359
intersection like a massive, invisible trip wire. Right at the

1441
01:14:13,399 --> 01:14:16,479
exact moment the vans drove over it. Oh wow. The invisible,

1442
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:19,760
highly tensioned cable violently snagged their rear axles, hoisted their

1443
01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:21,880
back ends into the air, and flipped them over a

1444
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:25,920
terrifying glitch in reality elegantly solved by recognizing poor civil

1445
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:28,359
engineering and terrible municipal maintenance.

1446
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 2: Okay, so the levitating cars weren't a glitch. The matrix

1447
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:35,159
holds firm, gravity is still working. But then we arrive

1448
01:14:35,239 --> 01:14:38,039
at the absolute final piece of evidence in our stack today,

1449
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:41,800
the mirror selfie of July twenty twenty. This is the

1450
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:44,039
image that truly genuinely haunts me.

1451
01:14:44,199 --> 01:14:45,119
Speaker 1: Tell me about it.

1452
01:14:45,119 --> 01:14:48,199
Speaker 2: It is a profoundly unsettling photograph because it occurs in

1453
01:14:48,279 --> 01:14:53,039
such a mundane setting. It's a simple, everyday setup that millions.

1454
01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:53,640
Speaker 3: Of people do daily.

1455
01:14:54,039 --> 01:14:56,119
Speaker 2: A young woman is standing in her bedroom in front

1456
01:14:56,119 --> 01:14:58,640
of a mirror, taking a selfie with her smartphone. The

1457
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:01,119
camera captures her face hold the phone, and it obviously

1458
01:15:01,119 --> 01:15:03,760
captures her reflection in the mirror behind her, but they

1459
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:04,560
do not match.

1460
01:15:04,800 --> 01:15:06,600
Speaker 1: The woman standing in the room is looking down at

1461
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:10,239
her phone screen, her face completely relaxed, maybe a little bored,

1462
01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:13,960
but her reflection in the mirror, her reflection's eyes are

1463
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:16,680
looking straight ahead, staring directly out of the mirror at

1464
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:21,079
the viewer, and she has a totally different, almost sinister, smiling,

1465
01:15:21,119 --> 01:15:27,359
facial expression. It is physically optically impossible. It entirely violates

1466
01:15:27,399 --> 01:15:31,399
the fundamental laws of light reflection. My immediate reaction, and

1467
01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:33,640
the reaction of literally everyone who sees it online, is

1468
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:36,279
that it has to be a clever photoshop job. So

1469
01:15:36,399 --> 01:15:38,960
one took two separate photos, one looking down, one smiling

1470
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:41,840
at the mirror, cut the face from one, and meticulously

1471
01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:43,960
pasted it onto the reflection of the other to creep

1472
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:44,520
people out.

1473
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:47,760
Speaker 2: That is the only logical assumption a rational person can make.

1474
01:15:48,279 --> 01:15:51,119
So we hand this photograph over to our forensic video

1475
01:15:51,119 --> 01:15:54,039
and photo analyst, to Michael Primo. He doesn't look at

1476
01:15:54,039 --> 01:15:56,039
the amid with his eyes. He doesn't care about how

1477
01:15:56,079 --> 01:15:59,159
creepy it is. He looks strictly at the digital anatomy

1478
01:15:59,199 --> 01:16:02,159
of the file itself. He begins by examining the metadator.

1479
01:16:02,319 --> 01:16:05,479
Metadata is the deeply embedded digital footprint that records the

1480
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:08,880
camera settings, the exact timestamp down to the millisecond, the

1481
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:12,439
GPS location, and the entire save history of the file.

1482
01:16:13,079 --> 01:16:17,039
The metadata of this photo shows absolute consistency. It registers

1483
01:16:17,079 --> 01:16:20,319
perfectly as an original first generation camera file straight off

1484
01:16:20,359 --> 01:16:20,960
an iPhone.

1485
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:22,760
Speaker 1: But you and I both know you can spoof for

1486
01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:25,960
white metadata if you're a clever enough hacker, it's not foolproof.

1487
01:16:26,159 --> 01:16:27,399
Speaker 3: You absolutely can.

1488
01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:31,199
Speaker 2: So Primo goes much deeper into the actual pixel architecture

1489
01:16:31,239 --> 01:16:34,760
of the image. He performs what's called a compression block analysis.

1490
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:38,920
To explain this, simply, think of a digital photo saved

1491
01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:42,319
as a JPEG like a massive wall perfectly built out

1492
01:16:42,319 --> 01:16:45,880
of tiny lego bricks. The computer compresses the image data

1493
01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:49,800
into microscopic eight by eight pixel blocks. When you digitally

1494
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:52,760
alter a photo, say by cloning a face or pasting

1495
01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:55,439
a new expression over a mirror reflection, you have to

1496
01:16:55,439 --> 01:16:58,920
smash new lego bricks into that perfectly built wall. Even

1497
01:16:58,920 --> 01:17:00,840
if you color match the new ricks perfectly so the

1498
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:03,680
human eye can't see the edit, a forensic algorithm will

1499
01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:07,199
clearly see the jagged, misaligned seams where the old compression

1500
01:17:07,239 --> 01:17:08,319
blocks meet the new ones.

1501
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:10,600
Speaker 3: Primo runs an advanced.

1502
01:17:10,239 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 2: Algorithm that acts like a digital X ray looking for

1503
01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:15,319
those disrupted blocks, looking for the digital scars of a

1504
01:17:15,359 --> 01:17:17,199
cut and paste job, and what.

1505
01:17:17,119 --> 01:17:19,199
Speaker 1: Does the X ray show where the seems He.

1506
01:17:19,239 --> 01:17:23,079
Speaker 2: Finds absolutely nothing. He analyzes the directionality of the light

1507
01:17:23,159 --> 01:17:25,800
hid in every single pixel to ensure the lighting matches

1508
01:17:26,279 --> 01:17:29,960
it is perfectly consistent. He analyzes the compression grid. It

1509
01:17:30,039 --> 01:17:33,880
is completely flawlessly uniform. There are no digital scars. There

1510
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:38,680
is zero mathematical evidence of cloning, duplicating, pasting, or tampering

1511
01:17:38,760 --> 01:17:41,600
of any kind at any level of the digital file.

1512
01:17:42,239 --> 01:17:47,039
Michael Primo, a highly skeptical professional forensic analyst whose entire

1513
01:17:47,119 --> 01:17:50,279
career is built on finding fake photos, is forced by

1514
01:17:50,279 --> 01:17:53,279
the data to conclude that the photograph is authentic. It

1515
01:17:53,359 --> 01:17:57,279
is a genuine, unedited, first generation documentation of exactly what

1516
01:17:57,359 --> 01:18:00,079
the camera sens are captured in that room at that exact.

1517
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:02,880
Speaker 1: Time, which means the reflection was actually different from reality.

1518
01:18:03,239 --> 01:18:06,039
The laws of optical physics momentarily failed to render the

1519
01:18:06,079 --> 01:18:08,880
reflection of light correctly in that room. This isn't a

1520
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,159
hidden street sweeper cable flipping a car. This isn't a

1521
01:18:12,159 --> 01:18:14,520
trick of an outer focused camera lens making a bird

1522
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:18,159
look as a UFO. It is a scientifically documented forensic

1523
01:18:18,239 --> 01:18:21,720
glitch in the visual rendering of our reality. It genuinely

1524
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:24,119
shakes my foundational understanding of the world. What does that

1525
01:18:24,159 --> 01:18:24,840
even mean for us?

1526
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:28,279
Speaker 2: It is the ultimate unresolved anomaly, and it forces us

1527
01:18:28,319 --> 01:18:31,079
and the listener to deeply confront the limitations of our

1528
01:18:31,119 --> 01:18:32,840
own scientific certainty.

1529
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:34,800
Speaker 1: And that brings us to the end of our towering

1530
01:18:34,840 --> 01:18:38,199
stack of files. Today, we have traveled from the freezing,

1531
01:18:38,319 --> 01:18:42,720
hoax filled snows of Siberia, analyzed the tragic irradiated genetics

1532
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:46,199
of a mummaphiede infant, and watched ancient unknown monsters thaw

1533
01:18:46,279 --> 01:18:50,199
from the melting permafrost. We've seen how microscopic details of

1534
01:18:50,239 --> 01:18:53,479
physics can miraculously save a tiny child from a crushing car,

1535
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:57,359
and how old school analog shortwave radio still commands global

1536
01:18:57,359 --> 01:19:00,840
spies in the modern digital age. We've learned the human psychology,

1537
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:03,840
environmental factors, and basic physics can explain so many of

1538
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:06,760
the seemingly impossible magical things in our world.

1539
01:19:06,520 --> 01:19:08,640
Speaker 2: But crucially not all of them. And that is the

1540
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:11,119
deeply provocative thought I want to leave on the table today.

1541
01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:15,399
We just establish that forensically and mathematically, the twenty twenty

1542
01:19:15,399 --> 01:19:20,560
mirror selfie is a genuine, unmanipulated anomaly. Let's engage fully

1543
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:23,399
with simulation theory for a moment. If we actually are

1544
01:19:23,479 --> 01:19:27,319
existing inside a massive, highly advanced digital simulation and that

1545
01:19:27,359 --> 01:19:30,319
photo is a genuine, rendering lych in the fundamental code

1546
01:19:30,319 --> 01:19:32,680
of our universe? What does that mean for our day

1547
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,520
to day lives. Does knowing that the physical code of

1548
01:19:35,560 --> 01:19:39,199
reality can freeze or misfire make our human experiences, our loves,

1549
01:19:39,239 --> 01:19:42,399
our profound feared, our histories any less real? Or does

1550
01:19:42,439 --> 01:19:45,000
it just make the architecture of our existence infinitely more

1551
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:48,399
complex and aspiring? Because if the physical code required to

1552
01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:51,560
render a simple mirror reflection can lag, it forces you

1553
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:53,640
to look around your room right now and ask, what

1554
01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:56,000
else in your daily life is rendering incorrectly that you

1555
01:19:56,039 --> 01:19:57,039
simply aren't noticing.

1556
01:19:57,279 --> 01:20:01,279
Speaker 1: It's a staggering, beautiful, and utterly terrifying thought, and we

1557
01:20:01,359 --> 01:20:03,279
want to know exactly where you stand on this. You've

1558
01:20:03,319 --> 01:20:05,359
sat with us, you've heard the evidence, You've heard the

1559
01:20:05,359 --> 01:20:09,680
forensic breakdowns and the physics. Do you look at that verified,

1560
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:15,760
mathematically sound mirror photo and think it is definitive, undeniable

1561
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:19,560
proof that we are living inside a digital matrix? Or

1562
01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:22,600
even better, have you ever experienced a glitch in your

1563
01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:26,600
own reality, a distinct moment where physics, time or space

1564
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:28,680
just didn't work the way it was supposed to and

1565
01:20:28,760 --> 01:20:32,079
you still cannot rationally explain it to this day. We

1566
01:20:32,079 --> 01:20:33,640
want to hear from you, drop into the comments and

1567
01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:36,119
let us know your craziest, most unexplainable story.

1568
01:20:36,199 --> 01:20:37,399
Speaker 3: We will be reading them closely.

1569
01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:40,079
Speaker 2: We are always looking for new anomalies to investigate.

1570
01:20:40,560 --> 01:20:43,119
Speaker 1: Thanks for pulling these threads with us today. Until next time,

1571
01:20:43,199 --> 01:20:45,479
keep your eyes open and keep questioning what you see