Speaker 1: Okay, so picture this. It's late twenty nineteen, somewhere just
north of Houston, Texas, right, and it is the most
mundane scene you can possibly imagine. A guy is just
walking down his own driveway in the evening, the.
Speaker 2: Kind of thing that happens millions of times a.
Speaker 1: Day, exactly. His ring doorbell camera is on, probably expecting,
you know, a package delivery or maybe the neighbor's cat.
Speaker 2: But that is not what a capture, not even close.
Speaker 1: As this man, who will just call the Vanishing Texan,
turns toward his garage, he just stops. He freezes for
maybe half a second, and.
Speaker 2: In that moment, the entire ordinary world just seems to collapse.
In a single frame of video. The man is gone, gone,
just completely instantaneously vanished from the feed. And then the
final absolutely baffling detail, a bright ball of light shoots
straight up from where he was standing and just tears
through the night sky.
Speaker 1: So the question is, did we just witness the first
verified act of of human teleportation.
Speaker 2: Or a glitchen the matrix, or is this something.
Speaker 1: Much more are grounded, something we can actually explain.
Speaker 2: That really sounds like the mission statement for this entire
deep dive, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Welcome to thrilling threads. This is where we take all
the evidence you've shared with us, the viral clips, the
historical accounts, the scientific papers, and we just we dive in.
Speaker 2: Our goal is to synthesize all of those impelling details
and figure out where that line is the line between
what's truly anomalous and what's well, surprisingly normal.
Speaker 1: And you, the learner, have really tasked us with an
ambitious journey. Today. We have seven different phenomena that seem
to just defy all logic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a huge range. We're talking everything from spacetime
glitches and suburban kitchens to these haunting faces that keep
appearing at a concrete floor in Spain.
Speaker 1: And even potential glimpses into actual mirror worlds.
Speaker 2: So our mission today is to unpack all of this.
We're going to weigh the really far out theories wormholes,
dimensional shifts against the more grounded explanations.
Speaker 1: Right, things like physics, chemistry, and let's be honest, often
just plain faulty technology.
Speaker 2: We are hunting for that needle of true impossibility and
a giant haystack of misinterpretation.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's get into this first big theme, we're
looking at anomalies that suggest some kind of temporary distortion
of space time.
Speaker 2: And we're starting right back in Texas, but this time
we're rewinding a bit to twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: We're in a suburban kitchen in Houston. A woman named
Erica Garner is home alone, and the whole scene is
just set for this kind of domestic eriness.
Speaker 2: But the strange part is you pointed out in the notes,
it didn't start in the house. It started outside, almost
like a warning.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Erica was outside with her dogs just before it happened,
and she noticed this group of blackbirds circling her rooftop. Okay,
bird circle, that's not too weird, right, But she was
adamant that this was different. It was a really distinct,
unnatural circular pattern. They weren't just flying around, they were
in this tight, deliberate formation. She said she'd never seen
anything like it, and that in that moment it felt
like an immediate bad omen kind.
Speaker 2: Of psychological framing is so important, you know, whether you
believe it's actual supernatural foreshadowing or just your brain being
on highlert. That feeling that something is wrong just colors
everything that comes after it.
Speaker 1: She totally does. So she goes back inside, she's giving
her dog some water, and that is when the light
just explodes into the room.
Speaker 2: Suddenly, this intense blue light streaks through.
Speaker 1: The kitchen, and her description is incredibly vivid, which is
a huge help for the analysis. She said, it was
almost like plasma.
Speaker 2: Plasma. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything in the room just turned completely white. And
she said her eyes started burning like an explosion had
gone off right next to her.
Speaker 2: Let's just pause on that word plasma, because if she
really saw plasma, we're talking about the fourth.
Speaker 1: State of matter, right, Not just a bright light.
Speaker 2: No, we're talking about an ionized gas where electrons have
been ripped away from atoms because of incredible heat or electricity.
A normal static spark or a blown fuse that doesn't
create a room filling plasma event. That word alone elevates
this way beyond a simple short circuit.
Speaker 1: But this is where the time distortion part really kicks in.
The video shows the flash lasted maybe a second, just
one second, but Eric insists that for her, subjectively, it
felt much much longer. She perceived it as traveling slowly
across the room. Her exact words were like a train
coming across the room, slowly coming in for a stop.
Speaker 2: And how long did she think it lasted?
Speaker 1: She was absolutely certain it was about seven seconds.
Speaker 2: Seven seconds versus one. That is a massive subjective time difference.
It has seven hundred percent difference. I mean either her
brain was processing the event in extreme slow motion or
the event itself somehow stretched that moment.
Speaker 1: And the weirdness didn't stop when the light faded. She
said that night things got downright funky. She couldn't sleep.
She started having these incredibly intense, strange dreams.
Speaker 2: What kind of dreams?
Speaker 1: Vivid images of pink and purple galaxies. She felt like
she'd been trans poured through time or consciousness during that
seven second gap she experienced.
Speaker 2: And that feeling, the sense of transport, is what leads
to the extraterrestrial theory exactly.
Speaker 1: Erica herself wondered if the blue flash was some kind
of alien force. She'd done some research and found that
these intense, silent blue light beams are often associated with
alleged alien abductions.
Speaker 2: It immediately makes you think of that famous historical case,
right Travis Walden.
Speaker 1: The Arizona Lagger from nineteen seventy five. Yeah, he disappears
after walking towards this beam of light in the woods.
When he's found, he remembers being transported surrounded by entities.
Speaker 2: And the critical part for this comparison is the time gap.
He was shocked to learn he'd been gone for five
full days. His subjective experience was completely out of sync
with real world time.
Speaker 1: So with Erica's case, we have to start ruling things out.
If you're going to claim a time glitch, you first
have to prove it's not just a bad camera or
a weird power search.
Speaker 2: The first simplest explanation a camera mel function, was pretty
much immediately dismissed. Why is that Because you can hear
her audio reaction in real time. It's perfectly synced with
the flash on the video. She was physically reacting to
something real that was happening in that room.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's not the camera just freaking out on
its own.
Speaker 2: No, But a forensic photography expert Andrew McCarthy, he did
find some very odd technological things that actually support the
glitch idea oh interesting. When he looked at the footage
frame by frame, he found a distinct jump, a point
where the camera just lost several frames of video.
Speaker 1: So there's a gap in the recording.
Speaker 2: A definite gap. And during this jump you can see
Erica's hair has moved, the dogs have shifted their positions
pretty significantly. It strongly suggests a period of time, whether
it was one second or seven, is just missing the
data vanished.
Speaker 1: That missing data is huge, it is.
Speaker 2: But McCarthy pointed out something even stranger about the light itself,
something that seems to defy physics. He noted that the
light was uniformly bright across the whole room. Okay, and crucially,
it casts no shadows.
Speaker 1: Wait what no shadows? How is it that possible?
Speaker 2: I mean, think about it. Any light source, by definition,
has to cast a shadow. But you look at the footage.
You can't see any shadows from the chair, legs or
on the dogs, nothing under the counter.
Speaker 1: So where was the light coming from?
Speaker 2: McCarthy calculated that for the light to be that bright
and cast no shadows, the source would have had to
come from behind the camera, perfectly illuminating the room from
the lenses perspective.
Speaker 1: That makes absolutely no sense for a random flash in
a kitchen. It's almost like the light just enveloped the
entire scene instead of coming from a single point exactly.
Speaker 2: So then the investigators moved on to more normal possibilities.
A forensic investigator named Chase Koletsky, she wanted to test
the idea of a simple blown light bulb.
Speaker 1: How do you even test for that?
Speaker 2: She actually had the garners do it. She had them
take a replacement bulb and tap it until it blew
out so they could compare that flash to the blue
event on the video, and the result not even close.
It was her conclusion. A light bulb blowing is a tiny,
localized explosion of glass and a quick flicker. It doesn't
create that massive plasma like room filling glow that Erica described.
The physics just don't match up.
Speaker 1: Okay, so no blown bulb. What about lightning?
Speaker 2: An atmospheric scientist Deanna Hence checked that she looked at
the local weather radar and yes, there were intense thunderstorms
in Houston that day.
Speaker 1: Ah, so maybe it was lightning, but they.
Speaker 2: Passed through around one in the morning. The video was
taken at eleven thirty am, so lightning was definitively ruled
out too.
Speaker 1: So you've ruled out a camera glitch, a blown bulb
and a lightning strike.
Speaker 2: With all of that off the table, the investigation moved
into theoretical physics. Experts like Kletzky started seriously considering things
like wormholes or temporary gravitational distortions.
Speaker 1: You mean, things that could create a path for time
travel or access to a parallel universe.
Speaker 2: That's the idea, And that's exactly where Chase close Key
landed with her conclusion. She stands firmly on the side
of this being a time glitch or an error in
our time space fabric.
Speaker 1: And it's the combination of the evidence that gets you there.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's the missing frames, the light that casts no shadows,
and that severe subjective time dilation Eric experienced. It all
points to something beyond our current understanding.
Speaker 1: Wow, so this one, for now really holds up as
a genuine, unexplained phenomenon, a very compelling thread.
Speaker 2: So the Houston case really shows how modern digital tech
can misrepresent her distort reality.
Speaker 1: Right, but what if time travelers left clues behind in
the past long before we even had cameras. Let's switch
gears and look at some historical artifacts that seem way
out of their own time.
Speaker 2: This is where art history and internet conspiracy theories collide.
And the big one that kicked all this off was
a painting from eighteen sixty by Ferdinand George Waldmiller called
The Expected One.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful painting, very typical for the period, a
young woman walking through a meadow.
Speaker 2: But it's what she's holding in her hands that caused
the frenzy. She's holding it right up.
Speaker 1: To her face and it looks, I mean, it looks
exactly like a modern smartphone.
Speaker 2: It really does. And what sells it is the pose
is the classic distracted pedestrian stance we see every single
day now, head bowed, eyes glued to a little glowing rectangle.
It's almost impossible to look at that painting from eighteen
sixty and not see someone checking their texts.
Speaker 1: And of course, once that went viral, people started connecting
it to other alleged sightings of future tech.
Speaker 2: In old art, right like the nineteen thirty seven mural
Byromberdo Romano seems to show a Native American man staring
intently into a small, dark device that looks a lot
like a smartphone.
Speaker 1: And then there's the one that goes even further back,
which to me is the most intriguing a church fresco
from the sixteen hundreds in Italy by an artist name
of Ventura Salambini.
Speaker 2: It shows God in Christ and between them is this
bizarre sphere with two rods.
Speaker 1: Sticking out of it, and people immediately said it looked
just like Sputnik, the Soviet satellite from the late nineteen fifties.
Speaker 2: The challenge there is just massive conceptually. How does a
painter in the late Renaissance centuries before the Industrial Revolution
even began, managed to visualize a piece of early space technology.
Speaker 1: It forces you to ask was he just a visionary
or did someone from the future somehow influence him.
Speaker 2: Well, before we get to the debunking, it's important to
acknowledge that the basic idea of time travel isn't complete fantasy.
Speaker 1: No, it's based in real theoretical physics. The physicist Hachem
Olusia confirms that the laws of physics do, under very
extreme conditions, allow for it.
Speaker 2: He specifically talks about wormholes, these hypothetical tunnels through space time.
If you could somehow accelerate one end of wormholes to
near the speed of light, you could theoretically exit the
wormhole before you even entered.
Speaker 1: It, you'd be traveling backward in time exactly.
Speaker 2: It shows that space and time are not the absolute
fixed things we perceive them to be.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's theoretically possible, but is it probable? I mean,
would a time traveler from the year, say, thirty to
fifty really bring a clunky twenty seventeen era iPhone back
to eighteen sixties Austria.
Speaker 2: And that's the logical problem that the skeptic Micwest brings up.
If these were travelers from a highly advanced future, their
tech would be far beyond what we have now. Why
would they stop off in our era to grab a
primitive smartphone before jumping back centuries? It doesn't add up.
Speaker 1: It feels like we're just imposing our modern world onto
the past, a sort of historical peridolia.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what's happening. The true identity of these
objects is much more grounded in the history of the time.
For the woman in the expected.
Speaker 1: One the smartphone right.
Speaker 2: Kathy, an art historian, explained that in the nineteenth century,
it was incredibly common for people, especially devout women, to
carry small devotional books like a hymnal or a prayer
book exactly the printing press had made them cheap and
widely available. By the eighteen sixties, carrying one and holding
it close for contemplation was a totally normal thing to do.
Speaker 1: And if you look at museum examples from that period,
the books are the exact size and shape of the
object in the painting.
Speaker 2: So it's a book, not iPhone. And the supposed spot
nick in the Salambani Fresco is just as easily explained
once you understand Renaissance religious art.
Speaker 1: It's not a satellite. Now.
Speaker 2: George and other historian identified it as a creation globe.
Speaker 1: A creation globe, what's that?
Speaker 2: It was a common artistic symbol from that time used
to show God as the supreme architect of the universe.
It's a sphere representing creation, and this so called antennae
their scepters. They symbolize the divine authority of God in Christ.
The artist was just using the visual language of his
day to depict the creation of the world.
Speaker 1: It's a peopled example of how context is everything. So
the verdict is a clear case of misidentification. We see
smartphones everywhere, so we see them in the past, right.
Speaker 2: And while we can't rule out that time travel might
one day be possible. Physicists agree on that these particular
paintings are definitely not the smoking gun.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we've seen that sometimes it's not time that's
the issue. It's just you know, our own faulty lenses
or misinterpretations.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're going to step away from time dilation
and optic and get into something much more fundamental, the
laws of chemistry and physics.
Speaker 1: And we're starting with a decades long mystery that is
literally cemented into a kitchen floor in Spain.
Speaker 2: We're heading to the small village of bell Mess in Andalusia, Spain,
for one of the most persistent and fankally unsettling domestic
mysteries ever recorded, the bell Mez Faces.
Speaker 1: The story begins in August nineteen seventy one. A woman
named Maria Gomez Kamara notices a weird discoloration on her
concrete kitchen floor.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't just a stain. Over a few days,
it visibly changed. It morphed until it formed the distinct
image of a human face, a very solemn looking face.
Speaker 1: Her first reaction must have been just to clean it.
Speaker 2: Of course, she tried to scrub it away, but it
wouldn't budge, So her husband, Santiago, he decides to take
a more direct approach.
Speaker 1: He gets out a sledgehammer.
Speaker 2: Pretty much, he tore up that entire section of the
concrete floor and then very carefully re cemented it. You'd
think that would be the end of it, but it
wasn't at all. Exactly one week later, the face reappeared
on the brand new concrete, and then others started to
form around it.
Speaker 1: That's the part that's so incredible, the persistence. They kept
trying to get rid of them, and the faces just
kept coming back for decades.
Speaker 2: This obviously brought a huge amount of attention and official investigations,
and right away the initial analysis found no evidence of
paint or pigments or any kind of physical tampering.
Speaker 1: So it ruled out a simple hoax from the beginning.
Speaker 2: It did, But then the story took an even more
spiritual turn. While researchers were examining the site, they found
something deeply unsettling underneath the house. What was it human remains,
long expired human remains. They confirmed the house had been
built right on top of a late eighteen hundreds Catholic
cemetery that had been forgotten.
Speaker 1: They just built over it after removing the headstones.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and that discovery just fueled the spiritual theory. People
believed the faces were the spirits of the dead buried
beneath the floor trying.
Speaker 1: To manifest, and the family has always insisted it wasn't
a hoax.
Speaker 2: To this day. So we have to tackle the big
rule outs here, first perry dolia and second some kind
of very clever fraud.
Speaker 1: Let's start with pery dolia. That's just seeing faces in
random patterns, right, like in clouds or toast right.
Speaker 2: And while maybe the first image could have been a coincidence,
the fact that these specific faces kept reappearing in roughly
the same spots after the floor was completely replaced, that
seems to go beyond simple random staining.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what about the miracle angle? Could this be
a religious phenomenon, a Catholic miracle?
Speaker 2: Researcher Michael O'Neill he compared Belmez to some confirmed miracles,
like an image of the Virgin Mary in Austria. They
kept returning to a pane of glass even after it
was cleaned.
Speaker 1: With acid, and that was declared a miracle.
Speaker 2: It was, but O'Neil says, Bellmez doesn't quite meet that
standard because the face returning was never actually witnessed in
real time. It always reappeared between observations.
Speaker 1: Leaving a little window for a skeptical explanation.
Speaker 2: Exactly which brings us to the most rigorous chemical analysis.
In twenty fourteen, a Spanish chemical engineering firm went in
with infrared scanners and electron.
Speaker 1: Microscopes and what did they find?
Speaker 2: Something astonishing. They found zero traces of any inorganic materials
like paint. Where the images were. The color difference was
happening inside the concrete itself.
Speaker 1: So if it's not paint being added, what could it be.
Speaker 2: This is where the analyst Mick West comes in with
a really clever theory. He suggested the faces weren't made
by adding color, but by removing it.
Speaker 1: How would that work?
Speaker 2: If you look closely, the faces are paler in the
middle with the darker concrete around them. West proposed that
someone could use a chemical agent, something like bleach to
alter or remove the carbon molecules in the concrete.
Speaker 1: And bleach would just evaporate right precisely.
Speaker 2: It would leave no residue for forensic tests to find.
Making it look like the concrete just spontaneously changed color
on its own. It's a very in theory for a hoax.
Speaker 1: There's a butt, isn't there There is?
Speaker 2: Despite how logical the bleach hypothesis sounds, the most recent,
most advanced testing did not detect bleach or any other
known chemical residue. They've tested for pretty much everything.
Speaker 1: So after decades of analysis, replacing the floor multiple times,
ruling out everything from ghosts to bleach, where does that
leave us?
Speaker 2: It leaves us with a genuine, officially unexplained phenomenon. We
have no concrete proof of fraud and no proven chemical
explanation for why these faces keep coming back. It's a
true mystery.
Speaker 1: From a persistent mystery in Spain. Let's jump across the
globe to northern Tanzania where at Lake Natron in twenty.
Speaker 2: Ten, and this is one of the most visually shocking
natural phenomena ever caught on camera. Yeah, it's an incredible
example of just how powerful natural chemistry can be.
Speaker 1: A British photographer went there and was just stunned by
what he saw. The pictures he took went viral almost instantly.
Speaker 2: They showed animals of flamingo songbirds that appeared to be
completely petrified, frozen in place, perfectly intact, looking like these
horrifying wicker statues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they look exactly like victims of Medusa from Greek
mythology turned to stone in the middle of a movement.
The imagery is so chilling it immediately sparked local mythological theories.
Speaker 2: There's a local legend of a creature called Popobawa. It's
a bat like demon that's said to paralyze people in their.
Speaker 1: Sleep, and they thought this creature was responsible for the animals.
Speaker 2: Many locals did, Yes, they thought Papa Bawa was killing
and freezing the animals at the lake.
Speaker 1: But the science writer Amy Title she helped rule that
out pretty quickly.
Speaker 2: She did. According to the actual myth, Paba Bawa only
attacks humans to spread fear. An attack just on animals
is inconsistent with the legend.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if it's not a demon, what about a
biological predator?
Speaker 2: A wildlife biologist, doctor Stephanie Shuttler, looked at that. She
noted that while some animals like snakes or spiders can
paralyze their prey with venom, they then eat them right
the bodies of these animals were are completely intact and preserved.
That rules out common predators.
Speaker 1: There is also a theory about toxic algae. Right the
lake sometimes looks red.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Biologists named doctor Floyd Hayes noted that red tides,
which are caused by algae, can produce powerful neurotoxins that
kill animals. But organisms killed that way just actually they
disintegrate quickly. They don't get preserved, so that's not it either,
which brings us to a NASA geologist, doctor Bob Anderson,
who provides the real chemical solution, And honestly it's just
as dramatic as any myth.
Speaker 1: It all comes down to the nearby volcano, Old duignolen Gai.
Speaker 2: The volcano is the absolute key. Its unique magma spews
out toxic gases and nutrients that feed the algae. But
the real secret ingredient is the high concentration of something
called natron.
Speaker 1: Natron what's that.
Speaker 2: It's basically sodium bicarbonate, a very alkaline salt mixture. It
formed over thousands of years as volcanic ash cover the
lake basin and the water evaporated, concentrating it intensely.
Speaker 1: So this isn't normal lake water we're talking.
Speaker 2: About, not even remotely. The lake is extremely alkaline, with
a pH between nine and ten point five. To give
you some context, human blood is around seven point four.
This water is highly caustic. It's deadly to most life
that isn't specifically adapted to it.
Speaker 1: And that chemical environment is what turns the birds into statues.
Speaker 2: The extreme alkalinity is the perfect preservative. Doctor Anderson explains
that when animals fall into the lake and get covered
by the alkaline mud, they undergo a process very similar
to mummification.
Speaker 1: The high sodium content prevents decomposition.
Speaker 2: It prevents decomposition and effectively mineralizes their adder tissues. In fact,
natron is the exact same substance the ancient Egyptians used
in their mummification process.
Speaker 1: Wow, so it's not petrification, it's mummification.
Speaker 2: Natural chemical mummification. It's fascinating, deadly process.
Speaker 1: But there's still one piece of the puzzle missing, the
part that made the photos so haunting. Why were the
creatures frozen mid motion?
Speaker 2: That's the true uncanny part, isn't it. If they just
died and fell in the lake, they'd be found in
a more relaxed dead posture. The action poses were the
real mystery.
Speaker 1: And this is where we get the twist in the verdict.
Speaker 2: It is when the photographer Nick Brandt was asked about
those unnatural poses, he admitted that, oh, that's not how
he found them.
Speaker 1: He posed them.
Speaker 2: He did. He found the animals already dead and preserved
on shore, and then he posed them. He placed them
on branches or perches to get that haunting, artistic look
for his photos. He wanted to give them a final,
dignified but visually arresting life.
Speaker 1: So the incredible preservation is all science, natural chemical mummification,
but the terrifying artistic presentation that's all human creativity exactly.
Speaker 2: The mystery is solved by combining geology, chemistry, and a
little bit of artistic license.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're moving now into the realm of dimension hopping.
We're going to look at videos that seemed to suggest
shifts between realities or even breakthroughs in quantum physics, and.
Speaker 2: For this we are going to need the sharpest possible
lens of forensic analysis.
Speaker 1: Our first stop is Weston super Mare in England. Back
in September twenty nineteen. A woman wakes up, looks at
her bedroom wall and just starts filming because something absolutely
bizarre is happening.
Speaker 2: Projected onto her wall is the outside world. You can
see a row of white residential buildings.
Speaker 1: And even a red car driving past in what looks
like real.
Speaker 2: Time, but it's all perfectly upside down.
Speaker 1: She's genuinely shocked. In the video, you can hear her
asking what is this sorcery that is happening as she
waves her hand and casts a shadow on it.
Speaker 2: The video went viral, and of course people jump to
the most exciting conclusion. She was looking through a temporary
portal into an alternate dimension, and.
Speaker 1: That connects directly to the principles of string theory, which
isn't just science fiction, not at all.
Speaker 2: String theory proposes that the fundamental bits of our universe
aren't particles but tiny, vibrating one dimensional strength, and.
Speaker 1: The math behind it suggests there could be more dimensions
than the or we perceive exactly.
Speaker 2: The math often requires up to ten or eleven dimensions,
so in theory, there could be these near identical mirror
worlds existing right alongside ours.
Speaker 1: So has this woman just stumbled upon a casual portal
in her bedroom?
Speaker 2: The theoretical physicist mitchyo Kaku gives a pretty decisive rule
out on that. He confirms that, yes, theoretically a wormhole
could connect two dimensions, but the energy needed to create
and sustain a stable portal like that would be so immense,
so mind bogglingly huge, that the entire bedroom and everything
in it would be instantly sucked inside and destroyed. This
was clearly not a wormhole.
Speaker 1: Okay, so no interdimensional travel. The forensic analyst Mick West
then looked at the tech explanations.
Speaker 2: First, he ruled out CGI. The woman waving her hand
and casting a real shadow on the image proves it's
a real projection of light on.
Speaker 1: The wall, and it couldn't be a normal projector either.
Speaker 2: No, because that wouldn't explain why the image is upside down. Plus,
based on where her shadow falls, the projector would have
to be exactly where the window is, which is impossible.
The light was coming from the window.
Speaker 1: Which is the clue. The solution required just looking closer
at the room.
Speaker 2: A great lesson in paying attention to the details in
the video. Her curtains are almost totally closed, but they
leave one tiny gap, a small thin rectangle an aperture.
Speaker 1: And that little hole was acting as a pinhole camera,
the classic camera obscura effect.
Speaker 2: Can you break down the physics of that mmmm, because
it's such a simple and elegant Aha moment.
Speaker 1: It's pure optics. Light rays bounce off an object like
the neighbor's house and travel in straight lines. When those
rays have to pass through a tiny hole, the rays
from the top of the house pass through and hit
the bottom of the wall inside, and.
Speaker 2: The rays from the bottom of the house hit the
top of the wall exactly.
Speaker 1: The light rays cross as they go through the pinhole,
and that causes the image to be projected perfectly upside
down on the opposite surface. It's a beautiful fundamental principle
of physics.
Speaker 2: And to prove it, Mast actually recreated it himself. He
put a plastic sheet with a small hole over his
window dark in the.
Speaker 1: Room, and it worked. He projected his backyard onto his
garage wall upside down.
Speaker 2: So that seemingly bizarre portal into an inverted dimension was
just the neighbor's houses flipped by basic physics that we've
known about for centuries. A powerful reminder that the universe
follows laws even when it looks like magic.
Speaker 1: Let's circle back now to the idea of teleportation, moving
away from theory and back to apparent video evidence, starting
again with our vanishing Texan, the.
Speaker 2: Man who freezes and disappears from his driveway while a
ball of light shoots up.
Speaker 1: And to give us some context, let's bring in another
classic vanishing clip, the Vanishing Bandit from Georgia in nineteen
ninety seven.
Speaker 2: Ah. Yes, the police datshcam footage a high speed chase.
The car thief takes a sharp left turn and.
Speaker 1: Appears to drive straight through a ten foot chain link
fence that is left completely standing and intact. The officer
was totally baffled. He had no idea how it was possible.
Speaker 2: It looks for all the world like the car just
phased right through it.
Speaker 1: So let's be clear, teleportation is a real thing, right
just at the quantum level, it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Doctor Masters confirmed that scientists have successfully teleported photons
and even single atoms using something called quantum entanglement. This
is hard tested science.
Speaker 1: Remind us what quantum entanglement is.
Speaker 2: It's what Einstein called spooky action. At a distance, two
subatomic particles become linked, sharing the same existence. No matter
how far apart they are. If you measure one, you
instantly know the state of the other.
Speaker 1: And that's how the teleportation works.
Speaker 2: You're not moving the particle itself, you're moving its quantum
state the information about it. In twenty seventeen, a Chinese
experiment teleported the quantum state of a photon eight hundred
and seventy miles to a satellite. The concept is proven.
Speaker 1: But teleporting a whole person that's a whole different ballgame.
Speaker 2: The energy cost is just staggering. It would take the
energy an entire city uses in a year to teleport
just one human.
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, let's go back to the
vanishing Texan. Michael Primo, the video analyst. He noted that
ring doorbell footage uses a very high level of visual compression, and.
Speaker 2: That compression is key. It's how the camera saves data,
especially when it's sending it over Wi Fi to the cloud.
Speaker 1: So what did his analysis show.
Speaker 2: He used some advanced techniques macro block and motion vector
analysis to see how the camera was processing the image.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: In simple terms, think of the image as a grid
of little blocks. The camera's encoder just documents the changes
in those blocks from frame to frame, instead recording the
whole picture every time.
Speaker 1: So if the data stream hiccups, exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: Primo's analysis found a critical flaw. For a period of
thirty frames, the encoder just stopped documenting new pixel information.
The camera lost its connection.
Speaker 1: So the man didn't vanish, The camera just stops seeing
him for a second.
Speaker 2: Right. The camera's computer basically filled in the gap with
no new data, and the result is what looks like
an impossible day disappearance. There was a technological error, probably
just a momentary Wi Fi drop.
Speaker 1: Okay, that explains man. What about the vanishing car? The
idea that a chain link fence can swing open and
shut that fast seems almost as hard to believe.
Speaker 2: It's a fair point. But Lieutenant Daniel's the officer. He
investigated that fence very closely afterwards, and he found the solution,
and it all came down to shoddy construction.
Speaker 1: House.
Speaker 2: On most fences, the chain link mesh is on the
outside of the posts, so it's a rigid barrier. But
on this particular fence, it was installed on the back
side of the posts. Oh, it was only held on
by these weak, little aluminum ties, so when the car
hit it at high speed, the ties just popped off
and the whole section of fence swung open like a
flimsy garage door.
Speaker 1: And gravity just pulled it right back down into place.
Speaker 2: Instantly before the police car could even get there. The
fence had swung shut and looked perfectly intact. The officer's
shock was totally genuine because the evidence of the opening
had vanished.
Speaker 1: So our verdict on both of these is just dane failure,
a camera glitch, and a badly built fence.
Speaker 2: The dream of Beam Me Up, Scottie is still firmly
in the realm of theoretical physics, not suburban driveways.
Speaker 1: All right. Our final thread takes us into a forest
outside Portland, organ in twenty seventeen, a hiker records a
video of himself walking straight through a freestanding mirror.
Speaker 2: As if it were an open door. It's an incredibly
disorienting video. After he passes through the plane of the mirror,
he turns around and the world behind him seems to
be flipped.
Speaker 1: He even points out an example, there's azy on a
tree that was on the right side before he went through,
and it's on the left side after.
Speaker 2: And this feeds directly into the real scientific idea of
mirror worlds. And this part is fascinating because it's not
just science fiction. Scientists are actually running experiments on this based.
Speaker 1: On weird measurements of neutrons.
Speaker 2: Right exactly, when you take neutrons out of an atom's nucleus,
they decay, But physicists have noticed a strange discrepancy, suggesting
some neutrons are just disappearing, violating the law of conservation
of mass.
Speaker 1: So where are they going?
Speaker 2: A leading theory is that they're disappearing into a parallel
universe made of mirror matter, that they're turning into mirror
versions of themselves that we just can't see or interact with.
Speaker 1: So if that theory is real, did this hiker just
find the front door?
Speaker 2: The astrophysicist Akima Lussa puts the brakes on that idea.
He says that while a mirror universe is theoretically possible,
physicists means something that doesn't interact with our reality at all.
Speaker 1: It's not something you can just walk into.
Speaker 2: No, stepping through a portal like that would require staggering
amounts of energy, far beyond what a mirror in the
woods could manage.
Speaker 1: So we're back to a more prosaic explanation, and the
forensic analyst, Mickwest, he figured this one out.
Speaker 2: He determined it was just an impressively made, very sophisticated
hoax that relies on clever camera trickery.
Speaker 1: And the key is the geometry, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It's all about the angle. The hiker approaches the mirror
at a very precise forty five degree angle. This is
critical because it allows him to walk past the mirror
without ever seeing his own reflection.
Speaker 1: Which would instantly shatter the illusion. The mirror is just
reflecting the forest around him exactly.
Speaker 2: But the dimensional flip, the part where the ivy moves,
that's done with editing. How it's two quick camera cuts.
The hiker walks up to the mirror, stops, rotates, and
walks back out the way he came. Then the video
is cut and the scene is manipulated to make it
look like he passed through and the world flipped. It's
just very very clever editing.
Speaker 1: The genius is in the choreography, not the quantum physics.
Speaker 2: So our verdict is a sophisticated hoax. While a mirror
universe might exist, You're not going to find a portal
to it on a hiking trail in Oregon. It proves
human ingenuity for deception is still way ahead of our
ability for quantum engineering.
Speaker 1: What an incredible journey that was through all of reality's
little glitches and anomalies.
Speaker 2: It really was. We started with omens and time distortions
in a kitchen, went through chemical mummification from volcanic.
Speaker 1: Ash, and explored everything from Renaissance art history to the
mind boggling energy it would take to actually teleport someone.
Speaker 2: And I think the common thread we saw in case
after case is this very human tendency to reach for
the most extraordinary explanation first.
Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, we want it to be teleportation or mirror
worlds or ghosts.
Speaker 2: Before we fully exhausted the logical scientific ones, whether that's
a faulty fence or just simple pinhole optics.
Speaker 1: And yet, what I love about this is that finding
the scientific truth understanding camera obscura or the alkalinity of
a lake, or how a video encoder fails is often
just as thrilling as the mystery itself.
Speaker 2: It is we're constantly learning how much is governed by
these complex but ultimately knowable laws of physics and chemistry.
Speaker 1: The evidence you sent us really helps draw that sharp
line between what's just unexplained for now and what might
be truly unexplainable for sure.
Speaker 2: In cases like the vanishing techtan or the upside down neighbor,
the anomaly was rooted in our technology or environment. We
can solve those.
Speaker 1: But other cases, like that blue flash in Houston with
its missing time and a shadowless light, or the Bell.
Speaker 2: Mez faces which defy chemical tests and just keep.
Speaker 1: Coming back, those still stand firm, at least for now,
as genuinely anomalous. They're the ones that demand a new
kind of scientific explanation.
Speaker 2: We've seen claims explained by everything from a badly built
fence to alkali mud, proving that physics can often look
a lot like magic, And that leaves us with a
final provocative question for you, the learner, to think about.
Speaker 1: Which of these phenomena, the blue flash, the Bell mez faces,
or the theoretical potential of teleportation do you find the
most difficult to fully accept as solved even after hearing
all the analysis, And what enduring questions does that particular
mystery raise for you about the fundamental nature of our reality.
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