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Have you ever felt that weird sensation in your dreams, when something seems off, but you can't figure out what? Well, there are some places in the world that can make you feel the same way! You might visit Lake Bled in Slovenia and marvel at the stunning castle that appears to float on the water, like a scene from a storybook! But then there are places like the Dark Hedges in Northern Ireland that will give you the creeps! These are some of the most extraordinary places on Earth that will either captivate...or frighten you! ? #brightside #brightsideglobal TIMESTAMPS: 0:03 Avenue of baobabs 00:50 Tunnel of love 01:34 Boulder house 03:20 Sea of stars 05:58 Angel Falls 10:22 A place with eternally hot ground 11:00 Ghost town with 5 residents 13:10 Gate to the Underworld This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.
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00:01The avenue of the Baobabs is probably the most incredible and surreal avenue in the world.
00:07To see it, head to Madagascar.
00:10It's not the only giant thing you can find there.
00:13This island is also home to huge comet moths.
00:16Their wingspan is crazy, up to 8 inches.
00:19So you don't even need to look for iffy bottles with Drink Me signs on it to significantly shrink in
00:25size.
00:27Guacuchina looks like an oasis in the middle of a desert.
00:30Oh wait, it actually is a desert.
00:33But unlike many others, it has a bunch of clubs and bars.
00:37A fun thing you can do there is sandboarding and even bodyboarding.
00:41Make sure you've got the glasses on and your mouth's tightly closed.
00:46The Tunnel of Love in Cleveland, Ukraine is completely covered with plants.
00:51Some couples believe that if they go through this 2.5 mile-long tunnel together, their dream might come true.
00:59Be careful what you wish for, though.
01:01There are trains going through this tunnel three times every day.
01:06The dark hedges in Northern Ireland seem a bit creepy because of the legend that surrounds this alley.
01:13The locals say the road is haunted by the ghost called the Grey Lady.
01:17By the way, guess what TV show was filmed here?
01:22In northern Portugal, there's a wonderful house that looks like a prehistoric building, almost like a cave.
01:28But it's an actual cottage.
01:30It's called Casa do Pinedo, which literally means boulder house.
01:35And it's a tiny museum now.
01:37From far away, it looks like a huge stone and a perfect dwelling for some mysterious creature.
01:44Another such abode is in Italy, somewhere in the middle of Rishensi.
01:48It's an artificial lake created as a result of flooding.
01:52This place is famous for its 14th century church standing right in the water.
01:57So the only time you can get there on foot is in winter, when and if the lake freezes over.
02:05One lake you can definitely take a stroll on is Baikal.
02:08No wonder, located in the heart of Siberia, it freezes over every winter.
02:14It's so large that it has 27 islands on it.
02:18It's also the deepest lake in the world, reaching almost 5,400 feet.
02:24Off to hot waters.
02:26Grand Prismatic Spring in Wyoming is the largest spring in the US and the third largest water source of this
02:33kind in the world.
02:34Don't you dare swim there.
02:36Not only is it boiling hot, you'll also have to face a fine for that.
02:40Enjoy it safely on the shore.
02:43Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, France, is the top fairytale destination if you ever wanted to feel like a prince
02:51or princess.
02:52The magnificent castle is surrounded by water, but not all the time.
02:57It all depends on the moon.
02:58The highest tide can be seen 36 to 48 hours after a full moon.
03:03When I was there, I saw only a deserted area with a few puddles.
03:09A night sky with thousands of stars has those romantic vibes, but the literal sea of stars probably has even
03:17more.
03:17Welcome to the Maldives' Batu Island.
03:20The beaches here glow blue at night, thanks to the bioluminescent plankton in the water.
03:26You didn't think these were real stars, did you?
03:29If the stars don't interest you that much, you'd likely like the sky full of balloons.
03:36Cappadocia, a region in Turkey, is originally famous for incredible rock formations, but it also attracts visitors thanks to its
03:44wonderful hot air balloon experience.
03:46For those who always wanted to walk on clouds whenever they peeped out of the window on a plane, good
03:52news, guys!
03:53You can do just that in Bolivia.
03:56It's not a literal cloud, but an extremely large salt tile.
04:00It's called Salar de Uyuni, and it mirrors the sky during the wet season, creating that illusion of infinity and
04:08walking on the sky.
04:10In Colombia, make sure to visit the Las Lajus Sanctuary.
04:14To get to the church itself, you'll need to cross a bridge that seems to be hung right in the
04:20air, and there's some fast-flowing water underneath you.
04:24Well, we're back in France.
04:27It's Colmar-Ausanne's region, and just look at these houses.
04:31Colorful facades made of timber, canals all adorned with flowers and cobblestone streets.
04:38Germany is full of cities with these cozy gingerbread houses, and Rothenberg-Abdutabur is not an exception.
04:46It's an almost fully preserved medieval town with dozens of multicolored facades and authentic taverns.
04:52It looks especially magical in winter, with snow-dusted roofs and awesome holiday markets.
04:59In Iceland, many houses have grass roofs.
05:03Such dwellings are called turf houses, and grass on top of them has multiple functions.
05:08It not only decorates, but also protects houses from heavy rains.
05:13The grass grows in the foundation made of lava rock and needs regular trimming.
05:18In Costa Rica, on the islands of Isla de Caño, there's an assortment of about 300 circular objects of different
05:26sizes.
05:27Locals call them las bolas, which is simply the balls in English.
05:32These stones have an almost perfectly round shape.
05:36Some of them are huge, weighing up to 16 tons each.
05:39They're also made of different materials, gabbro, limestone, and sandstone.
05:44They're considered to have been put in lines in front of the chief's houses.
05:49Nobody knows for sure where those balls came from, but some myths claim they originated from Atlantis.
05:56A place called Angel Fall speaks for itself.
06:00It does look idyllic.
06:01It's the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall, many times taller than Niagara Falls.
06:07The waterfall's in cascades, and much of it evaporates on its way down,
06:12which creates an illusion of those beautiful clouds.
06:17If you're into dazzling shine, try visiting the Grand Crystal Cave in Mexico.
06:22You can only do so under professional supervision, but it's definitely worth it.
06:27Chances are, you've never seen a crystal twice your body size.
06:32In Morocco, there's a town called Shefshawin in which the prevalent color is sky blue.
06:39Not azure, not cornflower blue, and not turquoise.
06:43Most dwellings there are painted the most beautiful shade of blue you've ever seen.
06:48The place is not easily accessible.
06:50It's located in the Riff Mountains.
06:53One more sky blue place is Santorini, which is probably a bit more easily accessible.
06:59The dwellings are painted white, but almost all the roofs are of a vibrant blue shade.
07:04The white paint is to keep the heat away and make sure you've got the most Instagrammable location.
07:11In Slovenia, don't forget to visit one of the world's most spectacular spots, Lake Bled.
07:18The color is truly aquamarine.
07:20Nope, it's not photoshopped.
07:22Right in the middle of the lake, there's a cliff which is actually a small island.
07:27There's a castle and a couple of other dwellings, too.
07:30To sweeten the trip even more, try a piece of Bled cream cake baked with a secret recipe.
07:37When you first see a photo of Moraine Lake in Canada, you'll probably believe it's either photoshopped or painted by
07:44a professional artist.
07:46But this place is real, combining a myriad of blue shades that feel so idyllic, you don't want to ever
07:52leave here.
07:55Bagan, the mysterious land located in Myanmar, has all the ingredients to be a truly out-of-the-fairytale spot.
08:02You can enjoy all the exotic vegetation, misty mountain landscape, and numerous temples riding a bike, or you can see
08:11it from a hot air balloon.
08:13The Philippines have a bunch of things to see, but there's definitely something special about local beaches.
08:19If you ever go there, the hidden beach in the El Nido itinerary is the perfect place to enjoy some
08:25solitude.
08:26The beach is securely protected from boats and unwanted weather conditions by limestone coves.
08:33In the Italian region of Liguria, there's dozens of precious beaches you'll never forget.
08:40Bay of Poets in Porto Venere is one of them.
08:43The beach is located right on the cliff, and there's also underwater caves you can swim into.
08:48It's called Bay of Poets because the legend says Byron got inspired there, swimming across the bay in search of
08:56his muse, which he eventually found.
08:59The area Cinque Terre is in Liguria, too, and is really close.
09:04So if you always wanted to see those Italian cliffs and see wallpaper in real life, head there.
09:11The legend has it that seamen would paint their houses bright colors to find the way home easier.
09:17The Isle of Skye, Scotland, could be a perfect decoration for some historical TV show about proud knights and their
09:25maidens.
09:26There are also probably some fairies in the fairy pools and fairy glen.
09:31The must-see here is the Old Man of Storr, a hill that combines rocky and steep sides.
09:37There are no legends or anything, but it's one of the most inspiring and photographed areas on our planet.
09:44At first sight, if you take a look at it from the land, it'll seem just a stone bridge.
09:49But its main secret is to look at it from the water.
09:53The bridge reflection forms a perfect circle that looks like some sort of a portal to a hidden underwater world.
10:00It's located in Saxony and is just a short drive from Berlin or Dresden.
10:05Picture a ghost town, abandoned buildings covered in graffiti, rusting remains of cars, cracks in the roads.
10:12And now add to that a thick blanket of black smoke coming from under the ground.
10:17And the ground itself is hot to the touch.
10:20You're entering Centralia, Pennsylvania.
10:23Centralia used to be a lively place during the 1800s and up to the 1960s.
10:28Its rich coal mines attracted a lot of people to work and live there.
10:32But in 1962, one of those mines accidentally caught fire, which started to spread underground.
10:40Coal is a slowly burning fuel, so the citizens continued to live peacefully for almost another two decades,
10:46until the fire began to undermine the town.
10:49One of the worst accidents was when a giant sinkhole appeared out of nowhere in the backyard of a house
10:55in Centralia.
10:57Luckily, no one was hurt, but after that, people started leaving the place.
11:00In the following 30 years, almost everyone moved out, though not all.
11:05As of 2020, five people still live there.
11:09But other than that, Centralia is by all means a ghost town.
11:13And crumbling abandoned buildings and cracked roads are just a minor part of it.
11:18The most disturbing thing about this place is the smoke billowing from under the ground through cracks.
11:24The fires down below are still raging, heating up the surface and slowly destroying the remains of the town.
11:30In fact, this was what inspired the famous fictional town of Silent Hill.
11:36The blaze is estimated to last for another 250 years, and by that time, there will be nothing but scorched
11:42wasteland in the area.
11:44If you're afraid of bugs, then this place will probably be your worst nightmare.
11:49The Gomantong Caves in Malaysia could be one of the most picturesque places in the world if not for their
11:55dwellers.
11:56First off, there are bats.
11:59Over 2 million of these animals live in the vast expanses of the caves.
12:04They're easily scared, but I guess you don't want that.
12:07Millions of winged horrors flying at you in a panic aren't to be taken lightly.
12:12Secondly, there are cockroaches, and while the number of bats is more or less determined,
12:17the roaches swarming the floors and walls of the caves are unaccountable.
12:22There are so many of them that you won't be able to make a single step without a dozen of
12:26these creepers crawling up your legs.
12:28And finally, if you manage not to scream from the cockroaches and wake up hordes of bats,
12:34you might be rewarded with other wonderful dwellers of the caves.
12:37Those include snakes, scorpions, and giant, venomous centipedes.
12:42Charming!
12:43Still, the caves are open to the public, and there are lots of people who visit this place.
12:48Right in the middle of nowhere in the empty wastelands of the Karakum Desert in Central Asia,
12:53there's a great hole in the ground that burns forever.
12:57It's called the Darvaza Gas Crater, and it's an actual pit, broad and deep,
13:02that has been ablaze for over half a century now.
13:05The locals call it the Gate to the Underworld, and the view is indeed frightening.
13:11There is no way to extinguish the flames,
13:13and scientists believe the crater will keep burning for centuries on end.
13:17The pit apparently appeared in 1971,
13:20when a group of engineers scouted the area and thought they stumbled upon an oil deposit.
13:25It turned out to be a natural gas pocket, though.
13:28And when the drilling rig started working on the site, the ground collapsed.
13:32The engineers were afraid that the poisonous gas might put nearby towns in danger,
13:37so they thought it best to set it on fire and let it burn out in a few weeks.
13:41But, as we can see, the blaze is still going strong.
13:46The crater has since become a popular tourist attraction.
13:49But, despite that, it still poses some danger,
13:52so efforts are being made to finally extinguish the gates of the underworld.
13:57Imagine seeing an insanely venomous snake right next to your foot.
14:01Terrifying enough, huh?
14:02And now, multiply that experience by a couple thousand times,
14:06when no matter where you try to run, there are similar snakes all around.
14:11That's Snake Island for you, and the name couldn't describe it better.
14:14The island is located not far from the coast of Brazil,
14:17and is home to thousands of golden lancehead vipers.
14:21About 11,000 years ago, the sea levels rose and separated the island from the mainland,
14:26and lots of lancehead vipers became trapped on it.
14:29Their mainland siblings are venomous as well, but not as much.
14:33The golden variety had to evolve to survive, and oh, they did.
14:37Since there's not so many land animals for the vipers to hunt,
14:40they adapted to hunting birds instead.
14:43And for their venom to be effective, it had to be instant.
14:46So, golden lanceheads developed a venom that is five times more potent than the regular variety.
14:52This helped the snakes thrive,
14:54and now there are one to five vipers per square meter of the island.
14:58It is considered so dangerous that Brazil banned all visitors,
15:02like someone would really want to go there.
15:05Lost in the woods at night, you suddenly stumble upon a human figure.
15:09Relieved, you touch their shoulder to ask for directions,
15:12but it's hard as stone and covered in moss.
15:15And then you look into the face of the person, and your mouth opens in horror.
15:19It's anything but human.
15:22My advice would be not to wander around southeast Finland at night
15:26if you don't want a shocking experience,
15:28because it's here that a renowned Finnish sculptor
15:30made his eerie sculpture garden in his own backyard.
15:33The garden's main exhibition consists of 200 human figures in various yoga poses.
15:39But as you walk around, you may come across more sinister-looking works,
15:44such as cloaked figures with its arms stretched forward and deep black gaps for eyes.
15:49Adding to the creepiness are real human teeth in the mouths of some statues.
15:54The garden itself appeared because the sculptor was a recluse
15:58and didn't want to leave his home.
15:59And when asked to lend some of his sculptures to museums,
16:02he would say he needed to ask them if they wanted to.
16:05It seems they never did, though.
16:08Creepy statues are eerie enough, but how about creepy dolls?
16:13If you ever find yourself in Japan and want to give yourself some chills down the spine,
16:17make sure to visit Nagoro.
16:19It's a tiny village in the south of the country.
16:21Driving by its houses and yards, you will see villagers sitting on their porches
16:25or tending to their gardens.
16:27Nothing special.
16:28Until you realize they're not moving and never will
16:32because they're life-sized dolls.
16:35One of the local residents turned her hometown in 2002
16:38and made a hobby of creating stuffed scarecrows in gardens and fields.
16:43But then it turned from a practical thing into a sort of memorial job.
16:48Whenever any of her neighbors left the village or passed away,
16:51she would make a life-size doll in their image.
16:54She made them as she remembered them best,
16:56so all her dolls are doing something normal people would.
17:00They're sitting, standing, lying on the ground,
17:02and there are even full classrooms of dolls in the local school.
17:06But probably the eeriest thing about this installation
17:09is that the human population of Nagoro is less than 30 people,
17:13and the scarecrows outnumber the living dwellers more than 10 to 1.
17:17There are over 350 dolls in the village now.
17:21As their maker remembers,
17:22there were around 300 people living in Nagoro when she was a child,
17:25and now, for 20 years, she has been commemorating all of them.
17:30About 3,000 visitors come to Nagoro every year,
17:33and many of them return in the following years as well.
17:36The village is pretty hard to reach,
17:39because it's located on one of the less-traveled islands of Japan,
17:42and the nearest train station is an hour away.
17:45But that doesn't stop the tourists who want to see the wonderfully creepy scarecrows with...
17:50It looks like a prehistoric creature that came from the time of dinosaurs.
17:54This scary beast is called the basking shark.
17:57It can grow up to 39 feet.
17:59People have only reported three of them in the past 160 years.
18:03The last sighting was in 2015, and before that, about 80 years ago.
18:09These sharks sometimes rise to the surface to filter out small animals,
18:13such as shrimps and other small crustaceans,
18:16when they want to have a nice, tasty seafood dinner.
18:18But when there isn't enough grub at the surface,
18:21they go down to the depths of almost 3,300 feet,
18:25where they tend to stay for months,
18:27which is something researchers discovered using satellite tags.
18:30Tag, you're it!
18:32Now, basking sharks like to spend their time in more temperate waters,
18:36but they can migrate long distances.
18:38They live across the globe,
18:40but in warm tropical or subtropical areas,
18:43they won't go near the surface because they're not fans of high temperatures.
18:47The lion's mane jellyfish is not that rare,
18:50but it's fascinating how large it is.
18:53It's the biggest among jellyfish species and the longest animal.
18:57Its total length can reach 120 feet.
19:00That's approximately 23 feet more than the longest blue whale scientists know about.
19:05The jellyfish has around 70 to 150 tentacles,
19:08and they all contain huge amounts of neurotoxins
19:11that can seriously harm you if you come in contact with the animal.
19:15But people don't usually come across this type of jellyfish
19:18because it rarely lives near the coast,
19:21preferring the open ocean.
19:23Generally, you can find the lion's mane jellyfish
19:25no deeper than 65 feet below the surface,
19:28where it dines on small fishes,
19:30zooplankton, and some other types of jellyfish.
19:33It uses its tentacles to catch its value meal.
19:36Hey, you want fries with that?
19:38The giant phantom jelly comes out of the darkness and depths
19:41of the ocean's midnight zone.
19:43Its sun-hat-shaped bell reaches over 3 feet across.
19:47This bell trails four ribbon-like mouth arms that can be up to 33 feet long.
19:53This quite rare creature uses its mouth arms
19:56to catch unfortunate animals swimming around
19:59and not knowing what's coming for them.
20:01Giant phantom jelly propels itself through the water
20:05with periodic pulses coming from its orange head.
20:08It glows faintly and mysteriously in the pitch-black depths.
20:13It lives across the globe in all the oceans except for the Arctic.
20:16I'm guessing it's too cold.
20:19Because of its odd shape,
20:20people often call the oarfish the dragonfish or sea serpent.
20:25It's about 26 feet long,
20:27which makes it the longest bony fish we know about
20:30and lives at depths of 3,300 feet.
20:33Oarfish spend most of their time
20:35in the deep, dark parts of the open ocean
20:37in tropical and subtropical areas.
20:40They almost never come to the surface.
20:42Unless, you know, invited.
20:44It's a ribbon-shaped and shiny silver creature
20:47with a long red dorsal fin
20:49and red oar-like pelvic fins.
20:51Its body has no scales and is very thin.
20:54The fish can grow to a length of about 30 feet
20:57and weigh 660 pounds.
21:00Oarfish have really big eyes
21:02that help them see better in their dark, scary surroundings.
21:05The frilled shark is definitely
21:07one of the gnarliest-looking marine animals out there.
21:11If you saw it somewhere,
21:12you'd probably think you went back to the age of dinosaurs.
21:16Yup, the frilled shark is a prehistoric creature
21:19because its roots go back 80 million years.
21:22This living fossil can grow to be 7 feet long.
21:25It got its name from its frilly gills.
21:28Even though frilled sharks have the shark part in their name,
21:31they swim similar to an eel
21:33in a distinctly serpentine way.
21:36Its mouth is terrifying.
21:38Similar to the maw of the great white shark,
21:41it has 300 trident-shaped teeth lined in 25 rows.
21:45Hey, come a little closer, huh?
21:48Researchers discovered this creature in the 19th century.
21:51But people rarely see it.
21:53And no wonder.
21:54It usually lives at depths of between 390 and 4200 feet.
21:59Most of the time, the frilled shark feeds on squid,
22:02swallowing them whole.
22:04Its long jaws allow the frilled shark to gape extra wide
22:08and swallow animals half as long as its entire body.
22:12Goblin sharks are very rare.
22:14Researchers have spotted fewer than 50 of them
22:17in more than 120 years.
22:19But maybe that's for the best,
22:21since we're talking about a pretty scary fella
22:24with a narrow snout and sharp teeth.
22:26It's also capable of thrusting its entire jaw outward
22:30when it wants to catch something.
22:32Hmm, sounds familiar.
22:33As it's lurking through the dark depths of the ocean,
22:37a goblin shark sees a small squid that looks quite yummy.
22:40The dangerous animal inches toward the squid.
22:43When the poor creature notices the predator,
22:46it tries to dart away.
22:47But it's too late.
22:49The shark has already thrust its jaw
22:51the whole three inches out of its mouth.
22:53This jaw is connected to the flaps of skin
22:56the shark can unfold.
22:57This helps a lot because the goblin shark
23:00is a sluggish animal,
23:01so it's pretty hard for it to chase its food.
23:04After finishing its lunch,
23:06the goblin shark puts its jaw back in its mouth
23:08and swims away as if nothing's happened.
23:12Goblin sharks mostly live at the bottom of the ocean.
23:15Like many other shark species,
23:17they prefer swimming alone.
23:19Here's a silver-colored creature with very rough skin.
23:23That's the ocean sunfish,
23:24with a total length of almost 11 feet.
23:28Its other name is mola.
23:30The ocean sunfish is the heaviest of all bony fish out there.
23:34People sometimes call it a swimming head
23:36because of its bizarre appearance.
23:38These creatures have such a weird shape
23:40because they're born with a back fin
23:42that never actually grows.
23:43It just folds into itself as the animal matures
23:47and creates a rounded rudder.
23:49The sunfish is a bit clumsy.
23:52It moves with the help of its mighty fins
23:54that allow the animal to swim on its side.
23:57This marine inhabitant is a solitary creature.
24:00It mostly feeds on zooplankton and jellyfish.
24:03The spotted wobegong is one of the world's rarest sharks.
24:07It grows to be more than 10 feet long.
24:09It may not look as terrifying as some of its shark relatives,
24:13but it's pretty good at catching unsuspecting animals
24:16swimming past, mostly during the night.
24:19The animal has a spherical,
24:21which is why it can breathe while staying still
24:23at the bottom of the ocean.
24:24It's motionless most of the time,
24:26which is why you can barely notice it.
24:28Its flat body and large pelvic and pectoral fins
24:31blend in with the underwater terrain.
24:34That's why they're so good at hiding.
24:35This ability helps when these sharks
24:38want to protect themselves, too.
24:40Wobegong means carpet shark.
24:42They usually live close to the ocean floor
24:44in coral reefs, on sandy bottoms, and under piers.
24:48People have even spotted the shark in the water
24:50that is barely deep enough to cover its flattened body.
24:54Now, blobfish lack teeth and bones,
24:56so they can't actively hunt.
24:58Since they don't have much muscle mass,
25:00they can barely move around.
25:02Hey, I had a roommate like that once.
25:04They get their energy from animals
25:06they scoop up from the seafloor.
25:07They also know how to conserve this energy.
25:10That's how it usually goes with deep-sea creatures.
25:13They don't have as much food
25:14as those animals that swim closer to the surface.
25:17Instead, they have special body mechanisms
25:20that allow them to save energy
25:22for the times when they don't have much to eat.
25:25Pressure at the depths where the blobfish lives
25:27is 120 times as high as that at the surface.
25:30That's why the bizarre creature
25:32looks like a weird gelatinous mass
25:35only when you bring it up to the surface.
25:37The pressure here is not strong enough
25:39to keep its body together.
25:41Hey, breaking up is hard to do.
25:43The white-margined stargazer
25:45could compete with the blobfish
25:47for the title of the ugliest animal in the sea,
25:49don't you think?
25:50Now, this animal has eyes on the top of its head,
25:53together with an upward-facing mouth,
25:55which the creature uses to hide itself in the sand.
25:58That's where it spends most of its time,
26:00with only its eyes protruding from the sand.
26:03It chills this way until some small animal passes by.
26:07It can lunge at its target incredibly quickly,
26:10literally within milliseconds.
26:12This creates a vacuum in the water
26:14that pulls in a crab, fish,
26:15or some other small, unfortunate animal.
26:18Another tactic involves venom.
26:20This fish has a venomous spine in its shoulder blade
26:23that helps with catching other animals
26:25and defending itself against enemies.
26:27Even though it's not related to the electric eel,
26:30the white-margined stargazer
26:32can generate an electric shock
26:34as powerful as 50 volts.
26:37Ow!
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