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00:00Discretion is advised.
00:07What are the most peculiar places in the world?
00:11How about an island run by a population of dangerous predators?
00:15By all accounts, it is essentially a moving carpet of serpents.
00:20The snakes on that island have a venom that is estimated to be five times as deadly as the venom for mainland snakes.
00:28Or a town that's a real circus.
00:32People get tired of being stared at for money and they really just want to find a place they can call their own.
00:37Conjoined twins run the fruit stand. Grady Stiles, the lobster boy, makes the place his home.
00:44What about a beach where the waves deliver more than just seashells?
00:49She sees this large, size 12 men's sneaker washed up on the beach.
00:55She looks inside the sneaker.
00:58And finds a foot.
01:01These are the tales of the strangest places on earth.
01:04So bizarre, they're truly unbelievable.
01:07Mexico boasts an abundance of enchanted wonders, from the soaring El Castillo Pyramid to the sacred cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula.
01:28But there's another must-see, known for something a little more unusual.
01:33Outside of Mexico City is one of the strangest places on earth.
01:39Why? Because there are over 4,000 mutilated dolls tied to the fences, to the trees, and spread around everywhere on this island.
01:51But this area's strange origins go back long before the dolls took over.
01:56It's the 16th century, and the Spanish conquistadors are invading the Aztec Empire.
02:07What's called Tenochtitlan, which would later become Mexico City, is the capital of the Aztec Empire.
02:15What we think of being in a high-altitude basin is actually a massive lake with man-made islands, canals, and causeways all through it.
02:25So some of the earliest, darkest tales about these islands really emerge in this period.
02:31And they come from the conquistadors, who, when they fall off these islands, because of their heavy armor, sink, never to be seen again.
02:39And this leads to some mythology about them being haunted or spiritually guarded places.
02:45By the 20th century, these islands are still attractive to people who want to be off the grid.
02:51And that's the case with Don Julian Santana Barrera, who has a falling out with his family and decides to go to one of these islands.
02:58And that's when things start to get a little weird.
03:01The lore is that at some point, he finds the body of a drowned child, a drowned girl.
03:09But he also finds a doll nearby that he believes is hers.
03:13And he hangs the doll up as this way to honor her.
03:19He doesn't stop at this one doll.
03:20He decides to pay homage to the deceased young girl with a shrine of thousands upon thousands of dolls.
03:31Thousands of dolls? Hung from trees?
03:34What prompted this macabre memorial?
03:36There is this sense that this discovery of a deceased child, which would be harrowing for anyone, is especially troubling to him.
03:46And that this maybe has caused him to have some sort of break with reality or some sort of issue.
03:51He also is said to hear spirits, hers and possibly others.
03:58He is so moved and scared of the bad omens that go with this tragedy that we assume he went absolutely crazy.
04:08Even stranger is what happens to Don Julian in April of 2001.
04:12His nephew comes to visit him on the island and he finds Don Julian Barrera face down, drowned in the canal at age 80 in almost the same spot that he alleged that he found the original girl so many years before.
04:29After Julian's death, tourists keep his peculiar tradition alive by adding their own dolls to the collection.
04:38Dolls are created in our image, so it doesn't matter what your belief system is.
04:43To see 4,000 mutilated dolls hanging from trees, an island full of that would drive anybody crazy.
04:52Today, gondola-like boats called Trajinarra take the curious out for a closer look.
04:58But only during daylight hours.
05:01The island is strictly off-limits to visitors after dark.
05:06Up next is another place you probably don't want to visit at night.
05:13Widow Sarah Winchester had a particularly bad run of it.
05:18She's lost her child, her father, her mother, and her husband, William, who was heir to the massive Winchester rifle fortune.
05:30The Winchester 1873 repeating rifle is touted as the rifle that won the West.
05:38And widow Sarah now owns 50% of the company.
05:40Sarah inherits $20 million, which would be half a billion dollars in today's terms.
05:51But all these resources do nothing to heal the grief in her heart.
05:56She starts asking questions of, why is this happening to me?
06:01What is it about me that has caused so much loss in my life?
06:04And she starts to worry that she might even be cursed.
06:08In this moment of vulnerability, she chooses to consult a spiritualist.
06:13This medium tells her she is cursed because her fortune is blood money.
06:21The spirits of all the Native Americans and others that were killed by the Winchester rifles are essentially exacting revenge.
06:29She's told by the medium that the only way to lift the curse is to uproot herself, move west, and build an enormous house as an act of tribute for the lives lost by the fortune she has inherited.
06:49Sarah moves out to California, and she buys a pretty modest farmhouse.
06:54It's eight rooms, but it's on a massive tract of land, and Sarah begins building.
07:01She employs large carpentry crews, round-the-clock, building room after room, hallway after hallway.
07:09She adds hundreds of rooms to this house.
07:13But it's not just the size of the project that's stunning.
07:16It's the bizarre layout.
07:19There are very tiny doors that open to huge ballrooms.
07:24And there are massive doors that just open to a brick wall.
07:28There are skylights in the floor.
07:31Sarah is doing this because, according to lore, she's trying to confuse spirits and send them off track.
07:41Crews work independently.
07:43None of them know what the other crews are doing.
07:44This house becomes such a cockamamie arrangement of rooms.
07:50No one can make their way through the house except for her.
07:53It's hard to even call it a maze because a maze has a purpose.
07:58You're supposed to end up somewhere.
08:00This is just strange and bizarre.
08:02Workers start experiencing odd cold spots, random things moving.
08:11Several workers say they see the outline and the shape of Native American warriors happening again and again.
08:22Someone says they see the apparition of an old woman holding a candle.
08:28Sarah's assertion that this is about the spirit world suddenly might hold a little water.
08:34By 1922, Sarah has spent $5 million on this 160-room tribute to her own torment.
08:41The one thing that finally halts the project?
08:44Her own mortality.
08:47Sarah dies in September of 1922 and construction immediately stops.
08:55In fact, there are nails half-banged into walls.
09:00And today, it is one of the most widely visited Cheerios in the California area.
09:10Take it from me.
09:12Outsmarting angry ghosts is difficult work.
09:15Well done, Sarah.
09:18Off the coast of Brazil lies an island so deadly, it's been sealed off by the government.
09:24No residents, no tourists, just thousands of venomous reasons to stay away.
09:31Welcome to Snake Island.
09:35There's approximately five snakes per square meter.
09:39That is a ton of snakes.
09:41By all accounts, it is essentially a moving carpet of surface.
09:46Snake Island is formed at the end of the last ice age, when rising ocean waters isolate what had been a peninsula off the coast of Brazil.
09:59And they make this island.
10:00And in doing so, they isolate a population of snakes.
10:05Specifically, one of the most venomous snakes in the world, the golden lancehead viper.
10:10The golden lancehead population that's left on Snake Island quickly goes through all the available prey.
10:17And then the only thing left to eat are birds, which they don't normally eat.
10:21And that forces them into some pretty tremendous evolutionary pathways.
10:25Now, when a golden lancehead, which is a venomous snake, attacks its normal prey, a mammal, it bites it.
10:32The mammal walks away, doesn't get too far, and the snake can easily find it.
10:35But with birds, the bird can fly away, and the snake doesn't get a meal.
10:40So evolution favors golden lanceheads with more potent venom, so that they can bite a bird and have it die instantly.
10:47The snakes on that island have a venom that is estimated to be five times as deadly as the venom for mainland snakes.
10:56So it's creating this kind of super snake on this island that can thrive.
11:01You would imagine no one in their right mind would ever set foot on this island.
11:05Rumor has it that sailors prefer to stay on burning boats rather than swim ashore here.
11:10But some have tried.
11:12In the early 1900s, a group of entrepreneurial banana farmers go to Snake Island in the hopes of establishing a banana plantation.
11:25They burn down a bunch of vegetation to plant the banana fields, and that's when they see all the snakes.
11:32They realize immediately this is not a place, not only not for a banana plantation, this is not a place for human beings to stay.
11:40So in 1910, they decide to build a lighthouse to warn people to steer clear of this island.
11:46It's probably a pretty difficult job description in that here you are invited to inhabit a very picturesque lighthouse on an island inhabited by one of the most venomous snakes in the world, and a lot of them.
11:59So they do find a lighthouse keeper who's willing to take this job, and he brings his family to Snake Island.
12:06According to local lore, life on Snake Island goes about as well as you think it would.
12:12The legend is one night supposedly someone left a window open, the snake slithered in, and killed the entire family.
12:22Snake Island is basically communicating to mankind, you are not welcome here, you will die here.
12:32The lighthouse on Snake Island still stands today, but it is automated, so no human has to set foot anywhere near it.
12:42If snakes don't scare you off, this next spot just might freeze you in your tracks.
12:47As soon as you see pictures of Lake Natron, you know that something strange is happening here.
12:57It seems eerie, dead, and otherworldly.
13:02It's 13 miles away from a volcano.
13:05The locals call it the Mountain of God, and it spits out carbonatite lava.
13:10And that stuff is pretty extraordinary because it's calcium, sodium, and carbon dioxide, and that's what makes it so corrosive.
13:22This is currently the only place on Earth spewing this particularly nasty kind of lava, and much of it makes its way into Lake Natron.
13:30So water is constantly flowing into the lake, carrying with it minerals, and then the water evaporates off the surface, and it leaves behind a high concentration of sodium carbonates.
13:44This makes the lake extremely alkaline.
13:49It has similar pH to straight ammonia.
13:52Alkaline is the opposite of acidic, but the effects that it'll have on you are equally corrosive.
14:01If you were to drink some of that water, you're going to feel it immediately on your lips as it goes down your tongue and into your esophagus all along the way, nothing but horror and pain.
14:14Even though most of the animals avoid it, sometimes animals do get in the lake, and they basically become petrified.
14:23It's like they looked at Medusa.
14:26Creatures that perish in Lake Natron don't actually turn to stone.
14:29They become calcified, meaning they are encrusted in these mineral salts in such a way that preserves their bodies.
14:40There are these pictures of these birds that are dead.
14:42They look like they're still alive, but alive like a zombie is alive.
14:51Incredibly, not everything that touches this strange lake dies.
14:56Perhaps most marvelous of all, you have two and a half million lesser flamingos who don't just live at this lake, but they actually nest there.
15:08The flamingos are specially adapted to this environment.
15:13They have thick scales on their legs that allow them to withstand this highly corrosive environment.
15:21And then all the salts that they're constantly ingesting, they have special salt glands near their beaks that pull salt out of their bloodstream and expel it.
15:31There's a special kind of algae that thrives in these conditions and occasionally has seasonal blooms that turn it a very red color, which actually provides the pigment that makes those flamingos pink.
15:49It's astounding that this body of water produces such visions of beauty and horror.
15:57Just goes to show you, even the most tranquil places can have a deadly edge.
16:02If you're drawing a map of the weirdest places in America, start with one line.
16:09Because along this stretch of latitude, the bizarre, unexplained and top secret all seem to collide.
16:15It is spring of 1975, and ranchers across Colorado begin discovering dead cows in their fields.
16:28These cows aren't just dead, they're mutilated in really bizarre ways.
16:34Ears, eyes, udders, genitals have all been removed with surgical precision.
16:41These cows are typically found lying on their left side, and there's no blood.
16:47Now, we need to understand that cows have five gallons of blood in them.
16:50To find a dead cow that's been mutilated with no blood anywhere, well, that's weird.
16:56Over the next six months, the body count skyrockets to 200.
17:01Local ranchers want answers.
17:04Game and wildlife officials are certain that it must be the work of scavengers.
17:10And yet, there are no footprints.
17:13There is no damage to the surrounding vegetation.
17:17There's no claw marks or teeth marks or any sort of sign that something was chewing on them.
17:23As similar reports start pouring in from 11 other states, the FBI has no choice but to act.
17:31A common theory that pops up is that some sort of satanic cult is running around the country mutilating cows.
17:37The feds perform stakeouts, autopsies, they look for witnesses, they come up with nothing.
17:47Meanwhile, local investigators come up with their own unusual theory.
17:51Most of these deaths cluster around a single line of latitude known as the North 37th Parallel,
17:59which crosses Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.
18:05One New Mexico deputy sheriff, a guy by the name of Chuck Sikowski, finds something interesting.
18:11The cow mutilations correlate with known UFO sightings that have occurred during that time across this one line of latitude.
18:19Also, there are an awful lot of important and sometimes secret government and military facilities all along that same line.
18:29Fort Knox, Area 51, Air Force bases, missile silos.
18:35The 37th Parallel Correlations start to engender speculation that maybe the cattle mutilations and some of the related events like UFO sightings are signs of a secret government op.
18:54Maybe some strange airborne weapon is being tested on the mutilated cows.
18:59This theory gets so serious, in fact, that the National Guard orders their helicopter pilots to fly above 2,000 feet when they're flying over cattle ranches.
19:08But because of a legitimate fear that ranchers will start taking pot shots at U.S. military helicopters to protect their cattle.
19:15In the end, after 50 years of investigation of this mystery, we still have no smoking gun or alien death ray.
19:29What we have is thousands of dead cows.
19:35Meanwhile, 7,354 miles away is another strange location where dead livestock is the least of its residents' worries.
19:44It's a pretty average day for this young Cameroonian on his bicycle, riding from his village to the neighboring village of Nyos.
19:58While he's riding down the road with his wagon behind him, and he encounters a dead antelope right in the middle of the road.
20:03Great, he thinks. That's free meat to feed my family.
20:06He straps it to his wagon, continues on his way, only to encounter another dead antelope.
20:12And then dead rats and dead cows and all kinds of livestock are dead all around him.
20:17And this isn't looking right at all.
20:20And as he approaches the village, he realizes that it is freakishly silent.
20:25So he goes into one of the neighbors' houses and finds that all those people are dead.
20:28He goes to another house, same thing.
20:31He begins seeing dead bodies around cooking fires, dead bodies sitting at tables, dead bodies in their homes.
20:39He rides his bike to Lake Nyos, where that village is named for, and finds hundreds of dead bodies lying along the lakeshore.
20:48Strangers still, there are no flies buzzing around. They're completely gone.
20:54The buildings are all intact. Everything looks fine, other than this weird, silent death scene.
21:02What you find here is 1,700 dead people, thousands of dead livestock.
21:09There's nothing left living, and even the tiny insects that feast on the dead are not even present.
21:17Everything has been killed off. What can you imagine is going on here?
21:21Has there been some sort of new weapon tested that does not leave a trace, but yet kills every living thing?
21:27It's the stuff of science fiction.
21:30Scientists from across Africa, the U.S. and France, are sent to investigate.
21:37What could cause such mass casualties?
21:39Lake Nyos is sitting on top of a magma pool, where carbon dioxide is venting continuously into the waters in the depths of the lake and reaching super high concentrations.
21:56So what happens at Lake Nyos is that there's a landslide, and the landslide displaces some of the water at the surface, allowing the carbon dioxide that's trapped below to escape.
22:07That's what causes a limnic eruption to occur. Limnic meaning a lake eruption.
22:13And then all of that trapped gas surges to the surface and suffocates any living thing that's caught in the cloud.
22:24Even scarier, experts worry a tragedy like this can happen again.
22:30There's another lake, Lake Kivu, that has 2 million people living around it.
22:38If a similar disaster occurs there, estimates state that it could result in the deaths of 4 million people.
22:49Lake Kivu is, without question, and in no exaggerated terms, it's a ticking time bomb.
22:56With all of the dangerous and unpredictable places out there, it kind of makes you wonder, how on earth do people sleep at night?
23:07Portland, Oregon, New Orleans, Louisiana, Austin, Texas, all proudly claim the title of weirdest city in America.
23:14But there's a town in Florida that might have them all beat.
23:18A place where unusual individuals are the norm.
23:21In the early and mid-20th century, traveling circuses and sideshows are still a popular form of entertainment in America.
23:33A caravan can roll into town and transform a sleepy neighborhood into something fantastic and out of this world.
23:42There are rides, exotic animal acts, and of course, the freak show.
23:47These sideshows highlight dwarves, giants, bearded ladies, conjoined twins.
23:54For many of these folks, this is the best opportunity they have to make a living.
23:59But life is grueling in the sideshow.
24:02People get tired of being stared at for money, and they really just want to find a place they can call their own.
24:06Welcome to Gibsontown, a.k.a. Gibtown, population strange.
24:16Gibtown is on the Gulf Coast of Florida, and it becomes this place where a lot of these circus performers can put down roots.
24:25And it's somewhere that being atypical is not perceived as unusual.
24:30It's perfectly normal.
24:31One of the first residents of Gibtown is Al Tumany, known as the world's tallest man.
24:39He stands at 7 feet 11 inches.
24:42He becomes the local fire chief, starts a fishing club, and even settles down with Evelyn, the half-woman.
24:52Word spreads on the sideshow circuit, and by 1967, more than 100 circus performers called Gibtown home.
25:00This is a place where these circus performers could thrive.
25:06Like Louise Capps-Hills, an armless girl is able to drive a tractor, milk cows, and raise her kids on her farm.
25:14Conjoined twins run the fruit stand.
25:17Grady Stiles, the lobster boy, makes the place his home.
25:22But this utopia won't last forever.
25:25Popularity of traveling sideshows erodes, and fewer and fewer new performers move into Gibtown.
25:33By the 1980s, it pretty much becomes a circus retirement community.
25:37Most of the old guard has passed away by now.
25:40There are some museums and a few old-timers left, so if you hurry, you can still catch a faded glimpse of the old glory of Gibtown.
25:48The curtain falls on one community of wonder, and opens on a tale that goes even deeper.
25:58It's the 1820s.
26:00We're in Washington, D.C., and President John Quincy Adams is being asked to fund an expedition to send search parties deep beneath the Earth's surface,
26:09hoping to discover subterranean worlds and conduct trade with a race of people who maybe live there.
26:16According to some, Quincy Adams is a believer in what's called the hollow Earth theory.
26:25The idea that the Earth may be hollow and hide hidden worlds is actually a theory that goes back all the way to the ancient Greeks.
26:32But in the 1700s and in the 1800s is when it really picks up steam in Europe and the Americas.
26:37There's one man in particular, a guy by the name of John Cleaves Sims, who in 1818 writes a piece known as Circular No. 1.
26:46Sims postulates that there's two pathways to the hollow center of the Earth, one on the North Pole and one on the South Pole.
26:56And that if we dig deep enough, we can find those pathways and get to this new world.
27:04Sims is ready to make this happen.
27:06And so he calls out for 100 brave souls to help him dig into the Earth and to try to find these hidden worlds that lie just beneath our feet.
27:15As an enticement, he tells these would-be volunteers, they're going to find worlds full of men, full of riches, and full of this great phrase, thrifty vegetables.
27:28I guess this is what a world looks like before the discovery of gold, that the chance for riches comes in the form of thrifty vegetables.
27:37Now, most people would obviously think that an idea like this is crazy, but it's not that far-fetched to the President of the United States.
27:45There's some debate about whether Adams was all-in on the hollow Earth theory, or if he just wanted to do some exploration of the North and South Poles.
27:58Sadly for Sims and Quincy Adams, and the mole people, Adams is voted out in favor of Andrew Jackson, who was far too busy with above-ground natives to bother with any subterranean natives.
28:12With government funding gone, Sims would die a few years later, never realizing his dream of meeting the mole people and eating their thrifty vegetables.
28:21While we have yet to dig 4,000 miles to the center of the Earth to uncover a new world, there are plenty of unusual places right here on the surface.
28:34What does it take to start your own country? A good idea, some ambition, and a decaying maritime structure.
28:41Welcome to the self-proclaimed kingdom that proves anything is possible.
28:45Six and a half miles off the coast of England is a tiny platform, about 60 feet off of the ocean's surface.
28:53It looks like, from a distance, maybe that it's an oil rig.
28:56This small little speck, about the size of maybe two tennis courts, is the principality of Sealand.
29:04Does the United Kingdom, the United States, or the United Nations recognize this small little micronation?
29:10No, but its royal family and small number of citizens have fought fiercely for Sealand's independence.
29:17Before asserting its itty-bitty independence, Sealand served as an anti-aircraft post during World War II.
29:23There were three others like it, called Monsalforts.
29:26Their job was to shoot out of the sky German Luftwaffe bombers.
29:32And they were pretty successful. They shot down 22 enemy aircraft and 30 V-1 rockets.
29:37After the war ends, battered British servicemen leave the post to return to their families back home.
29:45All except one.
29:47He's a retired major named Patrick Roy Bates.
29:50And he and his family take up permanent residence on one of these platforms.
29:56Roy isn't just making this a vacation home getaway.
30:00His grand vision? To make this tiny fort an independent and free nation.
30:05The reason he's able to do this is that at this point, a nation's sovereignty ends at about three nautical miles out from the coast.
30:12So these forts that have been built six and a half miles out puts it beyond the reach of the United Kingdom.
30:18That puts Roy in a position to say, this is out in international waters.
30:22That might tell us how this retired major claimed this former fortress for his own, but it doesn't tell us why.
30:29The answer is pretty unexpected.
30:32One of Bates' motivations is that he is a World War II veteran.
30:35He has fought against fascism.
30:38And now, 20 years later, in the mid-1960s, he is disgusted with the way the British government is repressing freedom of expression, freedom of speech, and even different kinds of music.
30:47He's dealing with a country that, because of the Cold War, censors popular culture.
30:53And from his platform just outside of the international limit, he will broadcast a pirate radio station.
31:01Patrick sees the possibilities beyond just setting up a pirate radio station.
31:06If he's successful in creating his own micronation, that means creating his own constitution, issuing his own currency.
31:14The possibilities really are endless.
31:17The British government is not happy with Bates.
31:20And they jam his radio station.
31:22Bates resists this, and in 1967, decides that he is going to formally announce the sovereign independence of this nation.
31:29And he names it the Principality of Sealand.
31:34And he gives himself the title of prince, and his wife the title of princess.
31:39This is truly a slap in the face to the British government.
31:42To show Roy and his family that they mean business, the government has the British Royal Navy go out and destroy the other three Monsell Forts.
31:52The Bates family is unfazed by this show of force, so the British Navy tries a more direct approach.
31:59The British government decides to send a message by sailing around the Sealand platform, harassing the family.
32:06Roy's 16-year-old son, Michael Bates, fires a .22-caliber pistol shot down at the boat.
32:14As a warning, that does not sit well with the British Royal Navy.
32:19You'd think a civilian firing upon the British Navy in broad daylight would be an open and shut case.
32:25But the proceedings take an unbelievable turn.
32:28Michael discharged this gun outside of U.K. jurisdiction, meaning that they can't pursue it.
32:36The showdown with the crown government tracks the attention of a German businessman named Alexander Achenbach.
32:42He sees potential for an offshore enclave where money can be parked with no questions asked, with no taxes being levied.
32:52Achenbach decides to reach out to Roy to talk to him about possibly becoming a citizen of Sealand, maybe even buying the whole place.
33:00And he invites them to meet him in Austria to discuss it.
33:03But this is all a trick, because while the prince and princess of Sealand are on their way to Austria,
33:09Achenbach is flying a helicopter full of German and Dutch mercenaries to go invade Sealand while they're gone.
33:17So Achenbach takes the Bates' son, Michael, hostage and declares himself to be the prime minister of Sealand.
33:25This may be the smallest coup in recorded history.
33:29The coup may be small, but they're messing with the wrong monarch.
33:34Let's remember that Achenbach is a businessman and a scientist, and Roy is a retired major.
33:40Bates organizes his own force, which flies in and air assaults onto Sealand using helicopters.
33:47Most of Achenbach's men flee.
33:48However, Roy manages to take Achenbach as a prisoner.
33:53Bates allows his prisoner the proverbial one phone call while in custody to contact the German embassy in London.
34:00This is where things take another strange turn.
34:02The German officials contact their British counterparts, and the British officials say,
34:07We don't have any jurisdiction there, so you're on your own.
34:10Now the German government has to negotiate with this tiny little micronation over the release of a German citizen.
34:17Incredibly, this coup d'etat only further demonstrates the viability and reality of Roy's principality.
34:24Today, Sealand, like any other country, has its own currency featuring the royal family, its own stamps, even its own constitution.
34:33They can also stamp your passport when you visit.
34:36Though be warned, there's not a single decent hotel.
34:40In Canada, off the Sunshine Coast in the Strait of Georgia, one quiet beach has earned a strange reputation, and it's not for the views.
34:51It's 2007.
34:55A little girl is out on the beach of Jedediah Island in British Columbia, and she sees this large, size 12 men's sneaker washed up on the beach.
35:06So she runs over, she sort of looks inside the sneaker.
35:16And finds a foot.
35:20Was this a murder victim?
35:22Did someone fall off their boat and get chopped up by the propeller?
35:25Who knows?
35:26But it's pretty disconcerting.
35:28The only comfort locals take is that this horrific discovery seems to be an isolated incident.
35:35That is, until it's not.
35:38Less than a week later, on nearby Gabriola Island, another sneaker washes up with another foot inside.
35:48But the sneakers don't match, and both feet are right feet.
35:53So this is a second person, a second victim.
35:58You now have a pattern.
36:012008, a size 11 Nike washes up on Valdez Island, also with a severed foot.
36:07In November 2008, a woman's New Balance shoe washes up on Kirkland Island, also with a severed foot inside.
36:16November 2011, men's size 11 hiking boot, foot inside.
36:21Over the next 14 years, more than 20 severed feet, complete with late-model athletic footwear, wash up on nearby beaches.
36:31This is causing terror along the coast.
36:33And to make matters worse, now pranksters are putting chicken bones inside sneakers and sending them afloat.
36:43Investigators are flummoxed.
36:45Could all of these victims be connected?
36:47None of them show any evidence of having been hacked off or sawed off or chopped off through human action.
36:56All of them are severed through the ankle joint by decomposition.
37:01Eager to calm the public, forensic investigators start performing experiments in deep water decomposition with an unusual test dummy.
37:09Investigators take some pig cadavers and sink them to the bottom of the Salish Sea, the area where all these feet are washing up.
37:18And what they know during these experiments is that the scavengers, crabs, lobsters, things that are down there, immediately start to disarticulate the body.
37:26Disarticulating is a fancy way of saying pulling the body apart at the joints.
37:32You know, just like humans do to crabs and lobsters when we eat them.
37:36Apparently, the feet are often the first to go.
37:40But why are they only showing up in this one particular area?
37:44Turns out the Salish Sea has these sort of rotational currents.
37:49As they're circling around, western and eastern winds blow them back and forth.
37:54And so rather than stuff flowing out to sea, it sort of circles in a particular region to push them up onto these beaches.
38:03The cause of all these severed feet is actually natural and it's not the signature move of some crazed serial killer.
38:09Authorities in British Columbia are so happy with this explanation that they actually tell the public not to worry if more dismembered feet wash up.
38:20Because, and I quote, this is no cause for alarm.
38:24If that beach scene isn't unsettling enough, just wait until you see what turns up in the basement of one very surprised homeowner.
38:31In 1963, in the Turkish town of Derenkuyu, a man is doing a home improvement project.
38:41Now, most of us who do this kind of DIY stuff, you expect to find old stuff in the walls, you know, old photos and maybe some jewelry.
38:48Well, this guy takes his sledgehammer and he hits the wall and he hits it again and again and he breaks through.
38:52What he finds is a passageway, which, when he crawls into it, leads to another tunnel and another tunnel beyond that.
39:08It's the 2,000-year-old lost city of Derenkuyu, one of the largest subterranean towns in the world.
39:15What he uncovers is absolutely unbelievable.
39:20A tunneled city that can house up to 20,000 people, animals, livestock, grain stores.
39:27The first eight stories have ventilation shafts that ensure that fresh air circulates through the entire subterranean city.
39:35But why build such an elaborate city underground?
39:39The main purpose of this underground city is for the people of Derenkuyu to come in and hide from outside forces, from dangerous people who may have infiltrated the area.
39:52One of the most amazing sights is there are these huge millstones, which are in place still to this day.
40:00They have a round hole in the middle and you can roll this millstone into place, which would then block the tunnel and stop the enemy from going any further.
40:09This defense system works so well, the city remains in use until 1923, before it's sealed up and nearly lost to history.
40:18Good thing for DIY projects.
40:21We've visited places that drive people to the brink of insanity, others that lead us to question what else is out there, and one that has a whole bunch of venomous snakes.
40:31These are not only the strangest places on Earth, they are also the very best of the unbelievable.
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