Craziest Creatures Ever Seen Caught on Camera | The Proof Is Out There

Craziest Creatures Ever Seen *Caught on Camera* | The Proof Is Out There

Our next story takes
us to Big Sky country, in Western Montana– a state with a reputation
for unexplained phenomenon. And this bizarre image
is proof that if you’re ever there at night, it’s
best to bring a camera. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
Deer Lodge, Montana– October 2018. Don Bromley is working a ranch
equipped with more than 100 motion control trail cams
to spot predators and catch potential trespassers. One morning, Don checks
the cameras and realizes, they’d caught a trespasser
unlike any he’d ever seen. DON BROMLEY: It
was one of those– just an eerie feeling
I had looking at it. It had the two legs, but
it didn’t look right. You could see the head was
too big and a little off. Really made you guess
and question what it was. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
Now, take a closer look, especially that bulbous head. Does that look human to you? Don doubts it. The camera was miles away from
any sort of road or trail, so he went back to conduct
a photo experiment. DON BROMLEY: I found the exact
spot where that being was and where I was and
put them side by side. And I’m glad I did it because
that one really hits it home. It really shows what a
person should look like, and then there’s no
explanation for the other one. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER): So
what are we looking at here? A Bigfoot? CLIFF BARACKMAN: Montana has
a rich history of cryptids, in general, Sasquatches
being number one on the list because it is excellent habitat. They are there. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
Montana was also a hotspot for UFO activity. CHASE KLLOETZE: There’s cattle
mutilations, horse mutilations. There’s just a lot
of activity that is unexplained to this day. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
In fact, in 1950, Montana was where it’s
believed a man named Nick Marianas made UFO history. CHASE KLLOETZE: He
sees two shiny objects moving through the sky. He gets the 16 millimeter
camera and films this. As far as we know, this is the
first UFO captured on film. So did Don’s camera captures
something equally momentous– a Bigfoot, an extraterrestrial,
or something entirely new? We sent Don’s photo
to our experts, starting with our
trusty forensic image analyst Michael Primeau. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
The first question is whether or not Don
altered this picture. MICHAEL PRIMEAU: We
performed, essentially, an X-ray of the
image that provides any kind of distinction
between something that’s been copied and
pasted onto a picture. But I didn’t detect any alerts
from my image authentication software to notify
me that there were any kind of inconsistencies
with the image. This is a camera original. TONY HARRIS
(VOICEOVER): OK, we know it’s not a fake photograph. So then, could it be
the famous Bigfoot? We take the photo to
anthropologist Kathy Strain. KATHY STRAIN: Obviously,
it’s not an animal. So this is something
that’s walking upright. It’s clearly bipedal–
it’s not on all fours– and there’s not a whole lot
of cryptids that are bipedal. Bigfoot walks on two legs. TONY HARRIS
(VOICEOVER): But that may be where the
similarities to Bigfoot end. KATHY STRAIN: Doesn’t seem to
be heavyset, wide-shouldered. It’s clearly not hair covered. It doesn’t appear to be
that much difference in size than Don himself, so it
doesn’t make any sense for that to be a Bigfoot. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
So if it’s not a Bigfoot, could it be something
else inhuman? KATHY STRAIN: Your
initial thought is, wow, is that an alien? Is that what we’re looking at? But if you look at
it more closely, you can see that, to me, anyway,
that he’s wearing a hoodie, and that’s why his head
looks so funny shaped. And he’s not wearing
a backpack, but it’s clearly a trespasser, to me,
going through the property. I use game cameras a lot
because we put them out at archaeological sites to catch
looters, and based on that, it has all the elements of
just an overexposed photo. And it’s a malfunction,
I think, of the camera. Like, this is an
overexposed mountain lion. You can tell it’s a
cat, but you’re not going to get much
else out of that because it’s so over-flashed
that you can’t get any details. In this other photo, because
it looks like a human, I’m going to conclude
that it’s a human. So we can say
that the photo is authentic, despite the
suspicious blurring around the distorted head. See that right there? But Kathy Strain’s cat
picture convinces me. For now, at least, our
verdict is blurred human. One note, though– Don says
none of his other cameras recorded any trespassers,
so that bit of the mystery is still lingering. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
In October 2017, a man is about to step into
his sister’s bathroom in Alor Satar, Malaysia, when
he notices something crawling out of the toilet. The 28-year-old
immediately rushes out to tell his sister, who
whips out her camera and captures this video. WITNESS: [non-english speech] TONY HARRIS
(VOICEOVER): The footage shows a strange,
slithering creature emerging from the
bathroom with its head poking out of the door. It surveys its surroundings
before finally crawling out onto the tiled floor. Let’s take another look. The creature appears to be about
6 feet long with a small head, thick body, and a short tail. Field researcher Ken
Gerhard has studied river monsters, lake monsters,
and, now, sewer monsters. It’s large. It’s slimy and black. It’s crawling out of a toilet. That’s about as bad as it gets. People don’t generally spend
a lot of time, if any time, in a sewer, so we
really don’t have any idea of what types of creepy
crawlies might be down there. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
Gerhard says, the most persistent
urban legend involves the sewers of the Big Apple. KEN GERHARD: There are
accounts and rumors going back to the 1930s that describe
sizable alligators actually living and breeding in
the New York sewer system. There is one theory
that, perhaps, these were pets that were somehow
discarded and flushed down the toilet when they
were small and then grew to massive sizes in the sewer. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
Of course, not all sewer animals are monsters. Sometimes, animals just get
stuck in the sewers, trapped by size or circumstance. And everything from giant
rats, feral cats, even cows have been found in sewer
systems around the world. And Marine biologist
Dr. Shea Conger says, in Southeast Asia, giant
snakes turn up down there, too. SHEA CONGER: It’s a really
tropical, forested environment. In fact, it’s been
known that there have been snakes
that have emerged from toilets or plumbing. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
In fact, in 2019, this 14-foot Cobra was found
in a sewer in Thailand. Sewer creatures have been
making headlines for decades, but it is rare to
encounter anything this big and this disturbing. So could this be a giant
snake or maybe just some form of camera trickery? Let’s go to our video expert. MICHAEL PRIMEAU:
This recording has been compressed pretty heavily. So in layman’s terms, it’s
too blurry to see anything, to be able to identify
exactly what we’re seeing. However, in terms
of authenticity of the way that the
recording is playing and the way that the camera
operator is capturing this object, I don’t see
anything to suggest it’s been CGI’d or Photoshopped. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
So if the video is real, is this thing a snake? Dr. Conger says we
need to consider other slimy creatures
known to slither across this part of the world. SHEA CONGER: Malaysia is home
to amphibians that we call caecillians, and these are
salamander-like animals that don’t have limbs or any
external appendages, so they look a bit
like giant worms. These animals can actually
get 5 to 6 feet long, but what you have, in
essence, is an animal that’s only a few inches in diameter. And so my idea that this could
be some sort of caecillian goes out the window. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
Conger has another thought that’s even grosser. SHEA CONGER: Malaysia is pretty
well known for its leeches, which are blood-sucking
invertebrates, but if this were a leech, it
would have to be 30 or 40 times bigger than a known species
of leech, which I think is really unlikely. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
Professor Floyd Hayes, who has been fascinated
with snakes since childhood, is pretty sure he knows
what we’re looking at, and it’s not some sort
of mythical serpent. There are quite a
few different species of snakes in Malaysia. This one appears to
be very thick bodied, and there’s not
that many species that would look like this. It looks a lot like an
elephant trunk snake. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER): Hayes
says that the baggy skin, which gives the impression that
it’s too big for the animal, is the telltale sign. So our verdict? Based on its known
habitat and size, we think the sewer monster
is an elephant trunk snake. And while they usually
make their homes near rivers and lagoons, this
one chose a toilet, instead. No accounting for taste. TONY HARRIS
(VOICEOVER): May 2020. It’s nightfall in
Saskatchewan, Canada. In the pitch black
darkness, there’s something amiss in the yard
across from this driveway. WITNESS: The heck was that? TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER): Let’s
push in and slow this down. Something’s hiding
behind that rock. But every once in a while,
it peeks its head out and then goes back really fast, then
peaks its head out again and goes back really fast. And then, they
turn the flashlight off, wait a few
moments, and turn it on, and, poof, there it is. The shadow, if nothing else,
shows you that this thing really is there. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
Numerous comments on the internet suggest the
figure might be evidence of the small creatures
known as the Mannegishi in Native American lore. Legend has it, they are
hairy, six-fingered goblins without noses who capsize canoes
and steal when disrespected. They are mischievous. They are out to get you. You want to keep your distance. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
And according to folklore, these Canadian creatures
also want to avoid being seen as best they can. Is this night somehow
the exception? What we do know is that the
video isn’t easy to evaluate, as the creature comes
in and out of the light, but I’ll tell you this, though. When I froze on this
frame, I thought I saw what looked like a stick
for manipulating a puppet. Let’s see what the
experts have to say. [music playing] TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
To authenticate the footage, we return
to forensic video analyst Michael Primeau. MICHAEL PRIMEAU: It’s spooky. This is definitely
a recording that I have a hard time explaining. When you watch the
video, the movement appears to be consistent
with what I would expect to see from
a recording that was created in this environment. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER): Primeau
doesn’t believe the video has been manipulated or altered. So, then, could it
be a nocturnal animal like, a raccoon or a possum? We return to our wildlife
biologist Lucy Eckersley. LUCY ECKERSLEY: This
looks like something bipedal, that walks
on its back legs and can utilize its front limbs. So from what I can
see, I think that this is a humanoid creature
between 3 and 4 foot tall. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER): And she
thinks it’s not just humanoid. It’s a human, a
younger specimen. From everything
I’ve seen here, I think that it’s most likely
children having a bit of fun. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
Anthropologist Kathy Strain disagrees. I have never quite
seen anything like it. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER): Strain,
who’s well read in legends of the Mannegishi, says you can
tell by the nearby dog house that the creature is not large. Must be nocturnal because
its eyes are adapted to seeing things at night. It was standing out in the
open, looking towards them when the flashlight was off. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER): The
size, eyesight, and behavior match the Mannegishi. Strain says this video
may be proof they’re real. KATHY STRAIN: I think
what we’re seeing is a real animal
that is represented in those traditional stories. So neither Lucy
Eckersley nor Kathy Strain thought it was a puppet. And based on its compact size
and ability to stand upright, we’ll say it’s likely
a little humanoid, but whether it’s a
legendary Mannegishi or just a little human,
we’ll let you decide. TONY HARRIS
(VOICEOVER): April 2021. Cristina Ryan is asleep in her
home in Palm Beach, Florida. But while her eyes
are shut, her home security camera is
wide awake, and it captures this wild footage. The video, just
four seconds long, shows an animal running
across the front yard in the dead of night. Let’s slow it down
and take another look. It’s hard to tell
exactly what this is, but there is no doubt
in Cristina’s mind about what her camera recorded. My immediate thought
is it’s a raptor or some type of a dinosaur,
the way that it’s running. And just the entire shape and
everything indicated to me dinosaur. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER): Field
researcher Ken Gerhard agrees. The blurry but
extremely intriguing clip screams
Velociraptor to him, too. It appears to have kind of a
long and powerful, sturdy tail. This is kind of
the classic image of a small, bipedal
theropod-type of dinosaur. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
As crazy as it may seem, Gerhard shares that there
are many modern day accounts of living dinosaurs, just
like Cristina Ryan’s, right here in the US of A. In Southwest Colorado, there
have been many sightings, and they’re referred to as river
dinosaurs or river lizards. These are, basically,
smaller types of theropod-like
dinosaurs, just like we’re seeing in the Florida video. There are also
traditions in Southwest Texas of tall, bipedal lizards
called Mountain Boomers– larger versions of a
known smaller species. These sightings are
fleeting, but they do happen. So is it that crazy to
think that other dinosaur species could be alive
and well in Florida? Let’s ask our experts. MICHAEL PRIMEAU: Because it’s
moving at a high rate of speed and the encoder is not set
to capture that information with a high quality,
it’s essentially blurring and
elongating some of that with motion trail
compression artifacting. The pixel information
that was captured was not captured with accuracy. TONY HARRIS
(VOICEOVER): So Primeau says the footage
hasn’t been altered, but it still may be
distorted in the camera. The tale of this creature
may not be what it seems. So we brought in our resident
zoologist, Foxy Furman, who reminds us
where this happened, and why that may be a clue. ROXY FURMAN: Florida is famous
for its exotic pet trade, and also, they obviously
have gators in the region. The way it moves
could be reptile-like. It moves kind of side to side
in this waddle-like manner, but its body pattern has
no indication of scales or any different coloration
or variation along the back. So to me, that kind of rules
out any kind of reptile. TONY HARRIS
(VOICEOVER): That would eliminate giant prehistoric
reptiles, like raptors, too. So if it isn’t a
dinosaur, then what is it? What I think is most likely
is a dog that’s got loose. You can see the tail
running behind it. TONY HARRIS (VOICEOVER):
The tail looks like a lizard’s due to
the picture distortion Primeau identified. ROXY FURMAN: And it also looks
like there’s something kind of dragging, like a
leash, and that would also explain kind of this
white area that we see around the head,
which would most likely be a reflective collar. And it’s just kind of running
through someone’s garden. So our verdict? This is just a dog on the
loose, not a runaway raptor. But again, thanks to
Florida’s laid back exotic pet regulations,
gigantic lizards have gotten free in the Sunshine State. We’ve brought you stories
of strange creatures suspected of being
alien corpses before. They’ve turned up in Charleston,
South Carolina, Russia’s Alma region,
and elsewhere. So when we saw evidence
of another mysterious case, this time from Down Under, we felt it was
our duty to investigate. March 2nd, 2022. It’s morning in the suburb
of Marrickville, just outside Sydney, Australia. After days
of intense rainstorms, a jogger is enjoying a break
in the weather to take a run, when something unusual
on the ground suddenly catches his eye. It appears to be
an oval-shaped creature, perhaps two inches long. Take a closer look. Is that an eye? And a tail? Whatever it is, it not only
surprised the jogger, but researcher
Ken Gerhard as well. [Gerhard]
I don’t see any scales. I certainly don’t see any hair. It almost kind of has
a gelatinous look to it. It’s kind of slimy, kind of pale, gray or silver. [narrator] In fact,
as far-fetched as it seems, the gray nature and fetal form
of this creature has some
on social media theorizing this could be remains of
a developing alien life form. Perhaps the last time
an alleged alien baby made news headlines
was in 1996, in the Ural mountains of Russia. Referred to as
the Kyshtym Dwarf, there was a strange
humanoid creature that was found
by a local woman. It was only
about ten inches long. To this day,
many of the villagers in this particular region
still wonder whether it was in fact
some type of alien creature. [narrator] We analyzed
the Kyshtym footage in an earlier episode, and now, with this
strange life form, could there be a link between
these mysterious creatures appearing around the world? In 1961, astronomer
and physicist Frank Drake proposed what’s been called
the Drake Equation as a way to come up with
a mathematical formula to estimate how many other alien
civilizations are out there. Looking at this, I don’t think
there’s any question that it appears to be some
sort of early stage life form, but what? And is it alien? Let’s ask the experts. We begin with marine biologist
Dr. Shea Conger. [Conger] People might think
this looks a bit alien, because it’s kind of gray. It doesn’t look like
it has skin or scales. But I don’t think
that’s what we’re seeing here. It looks like it almost
might be something like a squid or octopus. [narrator] Okay,
so Dr. Conger thinks we’ve got an earthly
organism here. But wait a minute.
Why would a fetal squid or octopus be on the road? It could be a phenomenon
called “animal rain.” These animal rains tend to
happen in coastal environments where there’s
a lot of dynamic weather. [narrator] How would
that be possible? We take that question to
meteorologist Juan Hernandez. The weather conditions
across Australia were very rare
for this time of the year. That led to above
normal rainfall, in addition to tropical
cyclones across the region. [narrator] Hernandez explains
that the severe weather could have led to a cyclone
effect known as a waterspout. [Hernandez] The updraft
speeds of waterspouts oftentimes exceeds
20 miles an hour. Given the radar data
that we have from that day in Sydney, it is possible that this
organism was picked up and deposited somewhere else
due to waterspouts. But another
explanation is birds. Birds come have around, picked up the animal
from the water, and as they’re flying, dropped
the animal somewhere else. But since there’s no obvious
injury to this creature, it more than likely did not come
from a high distance in the sky. [narrator] And,
on closer examination, Conger makes
an important discovery. She believes whatever this is, it didn’t come from the ocean. I can tell that this
long tail-like appendage is actually likely
an embryonic notochord. The notochord is
the predecessor to the spine. We all have this in the womb. In addition, these kind of
ridges that we see here to me look
a lot like gill slits, and that’s another interesting
aspect of mammal evolution. Mammals in the womb,
as embryos, actually have gill slits as a remnant of our history
beginning as aquatic fish. So I think this is actually
a terrestrial organism. It’s just in a very early
stage of development. If I had to guess, I would say this is probably
a marsupial embryo. Maybe something like a possum. Especially because
this is in Australia, which really is
the land of marsupials. Marsupials don’t develop
fully in the womb. At some point, they actually
migrate from the womb to the maternal pouch
of the mother and continue development there. So it’s biologically possible that something
could have gone wrong during the early development
of this animal. So instead of ending up in the marsupial pouch,
for example, it ended up in
an unnatural environment. [narrator] But how
did it get here? Hernandez may discount
the animal rain theory, but he still believes
Mother Nature played a role. The atypical weather conditions
that we saw around Sydney contributed to significant
flash flooding, and it’s possible
that this particular organism lived somewhere
far away from Sydney and was deposited in the Sydney
area due to flash flooding. Our verdict? We’re going
with a possum embryo. It seems to us both Hernandez
and Conger’s takes on what it is
and how it got there add up. And unfortunately,
due to climate change, it also seems
that Australia will see more and more
intense weather events like the one that likely washed
this creature into the streets. 2021, in
an indiscernible location, an anonymous TikTok user
is sweeping up a tiled floor when he comes across
something unusual. A broomstick prods at an amorphous transparent
blob on the ground. It seems to slide
across the floor with little to no resistance, fluid and dappled,
like the surface of a puddle. It’s pretty weird.
I mean, anybody finding something
like this in their kitchen would be pretty freaked out. [narrator] Field researcher
Ken Gerhard points out there might be truth
behind the famous Blob so ingrained in pop culture. The iconic sci-fi movie
The Blob was actually based
on a real incident that occurred back in 1950. Four Philadelphia police
officers encountered this weird Blob-like creature that was about six feet
in diameter, about a foot thick, and it appeared to be alive. And I’m wondering if this
could be somehow related to this weird thing that we’re
seeing on this kitchen floor. [narrator] Or perhaps
this strange anomaly is another, more
mythical substance. Star jelly is a clear
gelatinous goo that has been found
on grass and plants, and according
to some mythology, it’s deposited on Earth
following meteor showers. Typically this star jelly
substance just disintegrates and leaves behind
no trace or residue. [narrator] Even if this
gooey figure is in no way related to star jelly, Gerhard thinks
we might be looking at something extraterrestrial
in nature. [Gerhard] Some alien
theorists think that if we do find life
elsewhere in the universe, it would not have
evolved on our planet, so it might not even
be carbon-based like we are. It could be
made out of silicone or some other substance. There’s a strong chance
that it’s gonna look more like this as opposed to anything that we
know of from the fossil record. Some scientists believe
the first aliens we encounter will be simpler life forms
or microorganisms. That’s because of a discovery
of some bacteria here on Earth that can survive in acidic lakes or boiling hot springs
like this one in Yellowstone Park. These so-called
extremophile organisms might be found on planets with harsher
environments than Earth, but was one found
on this kitchen floor? Let’s ask the experts. First, video analyst
Mick West examines whether this footage
could have been faked. If we zoom in on bits of this, we can see these
kind of ridges in the object. And when it goes over lines
like it does here, you can see it’s actually
refracting the light and causing
these lines to break up, and we see it interacting
with the environment. Like right here, we see it
go up against these pipes. Uh, there’s a little wave
where it goes over the pipes. I think this is actually a real
object that we’re looking at. [narrator] Next, West points out
that the substance star jelly may be less mythical
than it seems. One of the explanations
for star jelly is that it’s, uh, animals vomiting frog spawn. They eat the jelly
with the frog eggs in it, they partially digest it,
and then they throw it up again. [narrator] Birds,
presumably, eat frogs. The mucus jelly expands
in the bird’s stomach in contact with water, and the bird vomits it up. But in this case, he’s not sure the star jelly theory
holds together. [West] Star jelly typically
falls apart when you pick it up, and this holds
together very well when he’s pushing it
around with the broom, so I don’t think
it’s star jelly. [narrator] Next,
marine biologist Shea Conger considers the alien theory. She agrees
the first aliens we meet might be simpler life forms. But she thinks that would mean
us going to them, not them coming to us. The technology needed
to travel to Earth from millions
of light years away would be incredibly complex. I don’t see any evidence
of anything like a complex brain or central nervous system so the idea that
this is some kind of advanced extraterrestrial
life is pretty unlikely. It would probably be
a little more technologically and anatomically defined. [narrator] We don’t know
where it happened, but Conger thinks there’s a
clue to that and what this is. [Conger] This object looks like
a lot of decaying jellyfish that I’ve seen on the shore. And what we’re seeing here is part of the natural
decomposition process when a marine
invertebrate ends up in a dry environment
like the beach. It’s possible
there could have been some sort of high tide
or a flood and this animal ended up
in these people’s house. But either way, it somehow
made its way from the ocean into a populated area. Our verdict?
This is a jellyfish. A dead one who’s in
the process of decomposing. How it made its way
to this person’s kitchen is anyone’s guess. It’s March 21st, 2022. Maroochydore Beach, 60 miles
outside of Brisbane Australia, Alex Tan is strolling
along the coast when he stumbles across
something unusual. He takes out his camera
and records this. I honestly don’t know
what it is. [narrator]
An odd-looking creature, which appears to be deceased,
lying in the sand. Let’s take a closer look. It sure doesn’t look
like it came from the sea. More like something
out of an H.G. Wells novel with its dog-like body
and rodent-like head. So I’m trying
to figure out what it was, and it had the color of,
you know, like a chicken nugget. It was just weird.
It really just threw me off. I was just so fascinated
at what I had found. [narrator] Author and journalist
Erin McCarthy says when the video went viral, thousands of social media users suggested this
could be a Bunyip. Sure, it could,
but what’s a bunyip? A bunyip, which is
actually a creature from indigenous
Australian folklore that, it’s said,
loves to eat people, specifically women and children. It’s a creature that lives
in waterholes, lakes, and rivers around Australia. It’s been said
to look like a seal or sometimes a swimming dog. The word “bunyip” actually
first appeared in print in the 1840s when some discovered fossils that were theorized
to be a bunyip. There was actually what was
said to be a bunyip skull displayed in the Australian
Museum in Sydney for a couple of days
in the 1840s. [narrator] McCarthy also wonders if this creature’s odd
appearance could be explained by some sort of mutation
caused by nuclear testing. Some have actually speculated
that this creature is a mutated wallaby. Between the early 1950s
and the early 1960s, the British government
performed nuclear tests at three sites
across Australia: Emu Island, Maralinga,
and the Montebello Islands. There were 12 major tests
performed at these sites, and some of the weapons
that were detonated were actually as big as the bombs used
during Hiroshima. Those particles have caused
a lot of problems for the wildlife
that live in those areas. [narrator] One other thought. There’s also
a biosecurity sciences lab located in nearby Brisbane. Could this thing
have been the subject of some secret
medical experiment and somehow gotten loose? This show is no stranger
to odd beach carcasses. One of our first segments
focused on this strange creature found in South Carolina. Some said it had escaped from
a nearby off-limits island where thousands of monkeys
are bred for research. Could something similar
have happened here? Or perhaps this is
the legendary bunyip, or some new
undiscovered species from Australia’s vast Outback. Let’s let our experts see
what’s up Down Under. We begin with forensic video
analyst Michael Primeau to see if this video
could have been altered. We were able to confirm
that these four recordings came from an Apple iPhone. There were no programs that
interacted with these files and changed the evidence
in any way digitally. [narrator] If the video
hasn’t been altered, what could we be seeing? We turn to marine biologist
Dr. Shea Conger to test the popular online
theory that this is a bunyip. It looks like a mammal to me, but there’s not
a lot of definable features. The bunyip is said to be
kind of an aquatic animal, and what I see here looks to be a really typical
quadrupedal animal. So I think because of this fact, it’s very unlikely to say
that this is a bunyip. [narrator] But if it’s not
a bunyip, what could it be? Wildlife biologist
Stephanie Schuttler takes a look to see
if this could be the result of radioactive
experiments in the area. Radiation can damage DNA cells, and any time there is damage to
DNA during replication process, this creates mutations. Usually from radiation, the DNA
makes mistakes in replication and keeps replicating cells,
and they’re tumor cells. [narrator]
Damage caused by radiation, like in the Chernobyl disaster, usually leads to side effects like cancer
or radiation sickness, which can cause hair loss. Schuttler has
another theory that explains why this creature is hairless. You can tell the tide
is going down, so it’s very likely
that this creature has been in the water for a long time,
in the ocean. And when they’re exposed
to the ocean water and the sun’s rays, it can cause the fur
to come off as part of
the decomposition process. [narrator] So what about
the wallaby theory, a creature known to be
widespread Down Under? Wallabies are very
similar to kangaroos, but I don’t see evidence
that it’s a wallaby. If it were a wallaby, you would have
more powerful hind legs. They would be longer
in comparison to the forearms. And in this case, they seem
to be pretty equal. It looks more like an animal
that walks on all fours, rather than hops
like a wallaby would. [narrator]
If it’s not a wallaby, what are we looking at here? Australia has lots
of possum species. I think it’s
the brushtail possum. The limbs are
similar in length. Opossums have naked tails. They don’t really have
any fur on their tails. Our verdict?
This is a brushtail possum in the stages of decomposition. It’s missing its hair
because it’s been in the ocean. June 29th, 2017. On Yale Lake
in southwest Washington, two men take their kayaks out
for a relaxing afternoon when the calm waters
are suddenly disturbed. [man] Weird [bleep]. [narrator] The video seems
to show bubbles rising to the surface of the water
in the center of the lake as the kayakers
paddle towards them. [man] Just bubbles coming from
the bottom of the lake. No current. [man 2] I’m afraid to put
my hand in the water. [narrator] One kayaker dips his
camera below the water line, and we see debris and thousands
of bubbles swirling. [man] Something weird,
though, dude. [narrator]
The bubbling is so intense, the other kayaker panics
and paddles off. [man] Go, go, go! [narrator] Then an ominous burst
of murky brown water erupts, as hundreds of leaves are
belched up to the surface. [man] What the [bleep]? What the [bleep] just happened? [man 2] Something just happened
that we caught on camera. Dude, it stinks. [narrator] Field researcher
and author Ken Gerhard tries to help us understand
what we’re seeing in the video. My first thoughts are “Is there something alive
beneath the water that’s creating these bubbles and this disturbance
in the water?” Yale Lake is connected
to the Columbia River, which has been said to be home
to this massive creature called Colossal Claude. Sightings date back
to the early 1930s. The general physical description
is a huge animal, about 40 feet long, with a serpentine, although
a very thick powerful body and what was described
as a very evil snake-y head. Many of the lakes
around the world where these monsters
have been reported all boast healthy populations
of salmon and trout. So perhaps these lake monsters
might also live in the ocean and follow
the salmon populations into fresh water to feed. There are dozens,
maybe thousands of undiscovered creatures
inhabiting the world’s lakes. Recently, researchers uncovered
around 40 new species in Lake Mweru,
located between Zambia and the Democratic
Republic of Congo. But was whatever these kayakers
saw a creature from the deep? Let’s see what’s swimming
in our experts’ thought bubbles. Marine biologist
Dr. Shea Conger begins her analysis by addressing
the lake monster theory. [Conger] The number of salmon
in the Columbia River has dramatically decreased and this is an important
resource not only for humans, but for wildlife. So if there was some sort
of abnormally large animal in Yale Lake, it wouldn’t have
a lot of food to live off of. And so it’s pretty
unlikely that there are undiscovered large
animals in Yale Lake. There are actually a couple
of freshwater seal populations in the world, but if this were something
like a seal or a whale, we would definitely
see the animal itself. And seals really
only hold their breath for maybe
20 minutes at a time. [narrator]
What about those bubbles? Geologist Bob Anderson
helps us figure out what could be happening here. Natural gas and oil are formed
between sedimentary layers and you get a lot
of Carboniferous materials that are from a time
before the dinosaurs. And these areas
get buried deep down and that pressure and heat
causes those organic materials to break down
into hydrocarbons. And all it takes
is a crack in the rock and they just release
and they pop real fast. [narrator] The Carboniferous
period occurred 300 million years ago. So these organic materials
have been building pressure for quite some time,
just waiting to blow. When you look at the video and you add in
the combination of those bubbles and the smell at the end. [man] Dude, it stinks! [Anderson] It’s a dead clue
that it’s some type of natural gas
that’s coming up. [narrator] This happens
all over the world. Massive underwater craters
have been discovered off the coast of Norway, up to 147 feet deep
and 2,624 feet wide. Researchers have deemed
them the cause of expulsions of gas rising to the surface
in the area. Our verdict? Natural gas. The smell was the clencher. The kayaker complained
about the horrible aroma, which is a common
attribute of methane gas when it mixes
with hydrogen sulfide, causing a rotten egg odor. While the men didn’t come across
Colossal Claude, they did still stumble upon a remarkable piece
of natural history.

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