00:00You have an hour before you take your last breath, even though just a second ago, you
00:05were perfectly healthy, and nothing posed any danger to your life.
00:09Well, the good news is, your life can still be saved.
00:13Effective anti-venoms are available, but if you choose to neglect the sting, you'll
00:18bite the dust for sure.
00:20This camouflage artist is the world's most lethal fish.
00:23In total, there are around 1,200 venomous fish on our planet, but the stonefish is the
00:29toughest one.
00:30They've got 13 dorsal fins that can inject extremely poisonous venom.
00:35Remember I mentioned camouflage skills?
00:37It's the main twist to this story.
00:39You see, unlike sharks or any other predator fish, the stonefish won't attack you.
00:44It's not a predator, it's prey.
00:47So to stay safe, it needs to somehow protect itself.
00:50Thus, it developed a super skill of turning into a stone, sort of.
00:55So if you ever get stung by this guy, it's not because it's aggressive, it's because
01:00of an unfortunate course of events.
01:03Most people had this unpleasant experience just because they accidentally stepped on
01:06a stonefish while it was pretending to be a stone or coral on the bottom.
01:11As you might've guessed, something that can easily pretend to be a stone doesn't
01:15exactly look cute.
01:17These guys are scaleless, their skin is covered in multiple warts, and they are multicolored.
01:22You can see shades of gray, brown, and patches of orange, red, and yellow.
01:27Sometimes they can even be covered in algae.
01:30They occupy quite a large territory in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, which means they're
01:35everywhere, from Mauritius to Queensland in Australia.
01:39Okay, we're gonna need a disclaimer here.
01:42This fact is very sensitive, but if you want to live your life long and healthy, I suggest
01:48you don't skip it.
01:50This is a fly.
01:51Pretty harmless and definitely way less powerful than you, a human being, are.
01:56Yet chances are that this gentle buddy can destroy your body.
02:00Here's how the story goes.
02:02Some time ago, a lady from the UK decided to go on a cool trip to South America.
02:07Sounds exotic and not banal at all.
02:09Rochelle, who was 27 back then, went to Peru with her boyfriend.
02:14When she got back to her home country, she started having severe headaches.
02:19She couldn't understand what was going on.
02:21Then half of her face felt terrible discomfort and suddenly some weird sound in her head
02:26started haunting her.
02:28One day, she went to bed, only to wake up the next morning to see that her pillow was
02:32soaking wet with some weird liquid.
02:35Not blood, not water, just some substance.
02:38She rushed to the hospital, where doctors said she had an ear infection.
02:43But when doctors looked closer, they saw a hole in her ear canal.
02:47It was around half an inch big, but it was swarming with maggots.
02:51Yeah, ew.
02:53Rochelle was lucky.
02:54The emergency brain scan showed no major damage whatsoever.
02:58The eardrum, blood vessels, facial nerves, they were alright.
03:02The big question was how to make the maggots leave poor Rochelle's ear.
03:06We all get it, it's pretty tight inside the ears.
03:08And even small forceps weren't very helpful.
03:11So to save the lady, the doctors decided to use olive oil.
03:15They expected the maggots to drown, and indeed, two maggots did.
03:19Yet there were eight more.
03:21The most horrifying thing was that the lab analysis showed that a New World Screwworm
03:26– that's the official name of the fly that interfered with Rochelle's health – had
03:30laid eggs in the ear canal that the maggots were chewing.
03:34But how on Earth did this happen?
03:36Well, while she was on vacay in Peru, she once walked through a swarm of flies.
03:41One of them got into her ear.
03:43She shooed it away, but it had more than enough time to lay eggs inside.
03:48Doctors helped Rochelle evict the unwanted guest, and luckily, there won't be any long-term
03:53consequences.
03:55But we all get it that it could've been much worse.
03:58Now I don't need to tell you that caving is extremely dangerous, do I?
04:03Back in June 1990, a man called Gary Lutz took his sons, Buddy and Tim, on a spelunking
04:09adventure to West Virginia's New Trout Cave.
04:13He packed food, water, and spare headlamps.
04:15But here's where he messed up.
04:17He left the pack behind when they reached The Maze, a tight spot with jagged rocks.
04:22He figured they'd grab the supplies before their headlamps ran out of charge.
04:26Oops, bad move.
04:28The boys' headlamps went dark soon after, and their attempts to backtrack got them lost.
04:34Then Lutz's headlamp ran out of charge too, plunging them into total darkness.
04:39For 5 horrific days, they had no food, no water, and no light.
04:44They started coughing up cave dust and hallucinating from dehydration.
04:49Luckily, someone noticed that their car had been parked for days and called the authorities.
04:54The rescue team pointed out that the family had broken the cardinal rules of caving.
04:58Always carry 3 sources of light each, and always tell someone where you're going and
05:03when you'll be back.
05:06Sadly, some tourists never go back from vacation.
05:09They become statistics.
05:12And some people sometimes have a narrow escape from the Grim Reaper without even knowing
05:16it.
05:17Just an example here.
05:18A tourist in Australia filmed themselves handling a super dangerous creature and uploaded the
05:24footage to Reddit.
05:25In the video, the tourist is holding a blue-ringed octopus, with Mandarin writing on the screen
05:31saying, such a beautiful octopus.
05:34After filming, they shake the octopus off their hand and luckily put it back into the
05:38water before it could sting them.
05:40The thing is, the blue-ringed octopus is one of the world's most dangerous marine animals.
05:46It packs enough venom to make 26 adults kick their buckets.
05:50The tourist had no clue how dangerous it was.
05:54People on Reddit were freaking out.
05:56One person commented, do they even know how lucky they are to be alive after doing something
06:01that monumentally stupid?
06:03A woman from New Hampshire got some nasty burns after veering off the trail in Yellowstone
06:08National Park and falling into scalding water near the Old Faithful geyser.
06:13The 60-year-old, along with her husband and their dog, had left the safety of the boardwalk
06:19and was walking off the designated trail near Mallard Lake Trailhead when she broke through
06:24the thin crust over the water.
06:26She ended up with second- and third-degree burns on her lower leg.
06:29Luckily, her husband and the dog were fine, but the lady was rushed to a hospital for
06:34treatment.
06:35Park officials are reminding everyone to stick to the boardwalks and trails in hydrothermal
06:40areas and be super cautious.
06:42The ground there is fragile and thin, with scalding hot water just below the surface.
06:48Pets are allowed in some developed areas of Yellowstone, but they're not permitted on
06:52boardwalks, hiking trails, in the backcountry, or in thermal areas.
06:57Hot springs in Yellowstone have injured and made people meet their early demise more than
07:01any other natural feature.
07:03At least 22 people have passed away from hot spring-related injuries since 1890.
07:08Hey, what's cookin'?
07:10Oh, it's you!
07:13Jumping off a bridge into a river filled with crocodiles.
07:16What could possibly go wrong?
07:18Turns out, a lot.
07:20One New Year's Eve, Australian tourist Aaron Langworthy decided to try bungee jumping off
07:25a bridge that connects Zimbabwe and Zambia, right near Victoria Falls.
07:31It's a 360-foot drop of pure adrenaline.
07:34But for Langworthy, things went sideways when her bungee cord snapped, sending her plunging
07:39into the Zambezi River, which is known to be home to plenty of crocodiles.
07:45Aaron herself says it was a miracle she survived.
07:48When she fell, she blacked out on impact and felt like she'd been slapped all over, but
07:53the cold water shocked her back to consciousness.
07:56It's easy to judge tourists for taking risks like this, but bungee jumping has been a thing
08:02at this spot for over a decade, drawing more than 50,000 tourists each year and bringing
08:07in much-needed revenue for both Zimbabwe and Zambia.
08:11The authorities claim bungee jumping is safe.
08:13The probability of an accident like Aaron had is 1 in 500,000 jumps.
08:19So I think Aaron should go buy a lottery ticket!
08:23That's it for today!
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