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00:00The Disappearance of Danny Philippaitis
00:02On February 7th, 2018, 49-year-old Danny Philippaitis was nearing the end of an annual
00:08ski trip with a group of fellow firefighters at Whiteface Mountain in New York.
00:12Danny was a fire captain from Toronto, Canada, and had made similar trips with his colleagues
00:16before. That afternoon, he was relaxing with some of his friends at a lodge halfway up the
00:20mountain when he realized he had left his phone in the car. At around 2.30pm, he told the group
00:25he was going to ski down to grab his phone and return. By it, hours passed, and Danny never came
00:30back. At around 4.30pm, his friends figured something was wrong and began searching for him.
00:35His car was still outside the resort, with his phone and ID inside. What made the situation even
00:41more concerning was the weather. A snowstorm had reduced visibility across the mountain that
00:45afternoon, so there was a real chance Danny had simply gotten lost or injured somewhere along the
00:49way. His friends eventually alerted the authorities, beginning a missing person search that would
00:53stretch across the next six days. More than 140 people would join the search, including Forest
00:58Rangers, New York State Police, Ski Patrol, and dozens of Danny's fellow firefighters.
01:03They had spent hour after hour searching the mountain, but there was still no sign of Danny.
01:09Then, around midday on February 14th, while the search was still underway, Danny's wife received a
01:14call from an unknown number. It was Danny. He was alive and apparently unharmed, but he couldn't
01:19remember what had happened to him. By it, the detail that would soon make headlines across
01:23the country was where he was calling from. Danny was at Sacramento International Airport in
01:28California, almost 3,000 miles away from the Whiteface Mountain he was last seen on,
01:33and he apparently had no idea how he had gotten there. After speaking to his wife,
01:37Danny contacted 911 and was eventually found wandering around the rental car area of Sacramento
01:42International Airport. He was still wearing the ski clothes he had disappeared in six days earlier,
01:47and even had his helmet and goggles with him, despite the weather in Sacramento being 70 degrees and
01:52sunny. By it, some things had changed. Somewhere during that time, Danny had gotten a haircut along
01:57with a new iPhone. When police asked him what had happened during his six days missing, he wasn't
02:02able to give them much of an answer. He was transported to a Sacramento area hospital shortly
02:06afterwards, where several possibilities were ruled out. Danny wasn't under the influence of alcohol or
02:11drugs, and there was no obvious signs of physical trauma. There was, however, one detail that stood out.
02:17He remembered riding in a large transport truck with an unknown driver, although he couldn't remember
02:22how he'd ended up there. For much of the journey, he was exhausted, dazed, and drifting in and out of
02:27sleep. Over the next several months, some of those missing six days began coming back to him.
02:31His earliest memories were small snippets of skiing near the bottom of Whiteface Mountain.
02:36Eventually, he remembered parts from getting a ride into town. He remembered feeling extremely tired,
02:41suffering from a severe headache, and at one point getting sick beside the road.
02:44There was also a time he asked the driver where they were, and he was told they were in Utah.
02:49It was one of the few things Danny could remember about the journey that eventually brought him
02:52all the way to Sacramento. By it, the driver was never identified. Police would later contact
02:57trucking companies trying to find whoever had transported him across the country, but no one
03:01came forward. Now, there are several possible explanations for what could have happened.
03:06The most obvious one is that Danny may have suffered a head injury that he couldn't remember,
03:10which caused him to act erratically. After returning to Canada, he underwent neurological,
03:14and neuropsychological testing, and the doctors came to a similar conclusion.
03:18Several of his symptoms, including the nausea, severe headaches, and constant exhaustion,
03:23were consisting with a concussion. By it, that didn't mean Danny would eventually remember exactly
03:28what went down. In fact, some of those missing memories may never come back. There was, however,
03:32another condition that had a disturbingly close resemblance to what happened to him,
03:37dissociative fugue. Someone experiencing a fugue can suddenly travel far from home and have
03:41little or no memory of doing it. Yet, while this is happening, they may still be able to interact
03:46with people and carry out everyday tasks. And much of Danny's behavior during those six days
03:51fits that description. By it, some people didn't believe either explanation. They had a much more
03:56cynical view of the entire situation, believing that Danny might simply be lying. According to them,
04:01he deliberately went off-grid for a few days, possibly after meeting a woman at the resort and
04:05having an affair with her, and that the memory loss gave him an easy way to avoid explaining where
04:09he'd been. That theory has followed the case ever since, but there's no evidence that it actually
04:13happened. In the end, no one really knows how a 49-year-old man left his car, phone, and ID
04:19behind
04:19at a ski resort in New York, only to resurface six days later almost 3,000 miles away in a
04:25different
04:25state. And the only person who could explain how it all happened, the supposed truck driver,
04:30was never identified.
04:35L-8 Blimp
04:36On the morning of August 16th, 1942, a U.S. Navy Blimp took off from Treasure Island in San Francisco
04:43Bay for what should have been a routine patrol. Around five hours later, the same Blimp would
04:48come drifting back over the California coastline. By it, something had changed. There was no crew
04:54aboard. The aircraft was called the L-8 Blimp. During World War II, Blimps were used to patrol the
04:59American coastline because they could stay airborne for longer periods of time while moving slowly
05:04enough for crews to search the ocean below. The L-8 was also armed for the job, carrying two 325
05:10-pound
05:10Mark 17 depth charges, a .30 caliber machine gun, and 300 rounds of ammunition. On board that morning
05:17were Lieutenant Ernest Cody and Charles Adams. Both of them were experienced Navy officers. Charles in
05:23particular had spent years flying airships and had even survived the crash of one. There was originally
05:28supposed to be a third man aboard, but shortly before departure, Ernest became concerned about
05:32the extra weight and ordered him to stay behind. At exactly 6.03 a.m., Ernest and Charles took off
05:37without him. For the next hour, nothing unusual happened, but this was about to change quickly.
05:43At around 7.42 a.m., while flying a few miles east of the Farallon Islands, Ernest radioed in to
05:48report something unusual in the water below, saying,
05:54This would be the last confirmed radio transmission ever received from the two men.
05:58Since the U.S. was fighting in World War II at the time, an oil slick could have indicated the
06:02presence of an enemy submarine beneath the surface. To investigate further, Ernest descended
06:07the L-8 toward the water and dropped two smoke markers to pinpoint the location. Several boats with
06:12fishermen on board nearby watched as the blimp circled the area, and according to their accounts,
06:17both men were still inside the control car. The blimp continued circling the location for another
06:22hour before finally turning back towards San Francisco. Strangely, nothing about the blimp's
06:27movement at the time seemed unusual. By it, Ernest never radioed the Navy again, and after that
06:31morning, neither he nor Charles would ever be seen again. By 8.50 a.m., their silence had become
06:37concerning enough that two aircrafts were sent out to look for them. Roughly two hours into the search,
06:42one of the search planes spotted the L-8 roughly three miles off the coast. By it, something dangerous
06:47was happening to the blimp. It was climbing through the clouds at around 2,000 feet.
06:52That was unusually high for the L-8, and very close to its pressure limit, which meant that if the
06:56blimp
06:56went any higher, helium would start releasing from its valves. A few minutes later, the blimp began
07:01descending again, and eventually made its way back towards the coast. By the time it reached the
07:05coast at around 11.15 a.m., its engines had stopped, the balloon was visibly sagging, and the L-8
07:11was
07:11now drifting just 50 feet above the water. The blimp briefly came down on the beach, where two
07:16fishermen rushed over and grabbed its lines, trying to hold it in place. By it, before the fishermen
07:20could secure it, the wind carried the L-8 away and into a nearby embankment, damaging one of its
07:25engines and knocking loose a 325-pound depth charge. With that much weight suddenly gone, the blimp rose
07:31back into the air and continued drifting inland. And about 15 minutes later, nearby residents watched as
07:37the partially deflated airship passed dangerously low over their homes before finally crashing.
07:41Police and firefighters rushed to the wreckage looking for some kind of explanation. By it,
07:46what they found only made the disappearance stranger. All three parachutes were still aboard,
07:51along with the emergency life raft. Even the radio was working. The only equipment missing were the
07:56two life jackets the crew would have worn while flying over water. This raised the possibility that
08:01the blimp had dipped into the ocean, causing both men to be washed out. By it, what they found next
08:05made that explanation harder to believe. Beneath the control car's floor was a compartment that wasn't
08:10watertight. And when it was examined, the dust inside was completely dry. This suggested the
08:16control car itself had never entered the water. With no clear answer, the Navy searched the coastline
08:20and surrounding ocean for days, but no trace of either pilot was ever found. Investigators were
08:26now left with only a handful of possibilities. One was that the disappearance had been a terrible
08:30accident. While investigating the suspected oil slick, Charles may have leaned through the open
08:35door to drop a smoke marker or get a better look at the water below. In doing so, he could
08:39have
08:39lost his balance, prompting Ernest to leave the controls and try to pull him back inside.
08:43And in the process, both men may have fallen into the ocean. But there was also another possibility,
08:49and it went back to the very thing that had caught Ernest's attention. What if the oil slick hadn't
08:53been a false alarm? The L-8 was out there specifically looking for Japanese submarines,
08:58which led some to wonder whether Ernest and Charles had actually found one. If a submarine had surfaced
09:03while the blimp was flying close to the water, its crew might have been able to capture or attack the
09:07two men. Though, here's where the eyewitness accounts become a little stranger. While the
09:12fisherman had reported seeing two men aboard the L-8, a woman riding a horse nearby claimed she'd seen
09:16something different. She said she'd watched the blimp through binoculars, and according to her,
09:21there weren't two, but three people inside the control car. If her account was true, it raised the
09:25possibility that someone else had been aboard the L-8 that morning, and may have played a role in
09:29Ernest and Charles disappearing. By it, no evidence of a third person was ever found, and whoever the
09:34witness believed she saw was never identified, which unfortunately leaves the disappearance of
09:39both the crew members an unexplainable mystery. On August 17th, 1943, one year and one day after
09:45they vanished, Ernest and Charles were officially declared dead. Their bodies were never found,
09:50and to this day, no one knows what happened between the pilot's final radio message and the moment the
09:55L-8 came drifting back without them. Kamar Daban incident. The Kamar Daban mountain range in southern
10:06Siberia is known for its harsh conditions and unpredictable weather. Even in summer, hikers
10:11can encounter freezing temperatures and sudden changes in visibility. By it, in August 1993, a group
10:17of seven hikers would experience something far more disturbing than the conditions they had prepared for.
10:22On August 2nd, 1993, the group set out on a trek through the mountain range. They had traveled from
10:28Kazakhstan and were led by 41-year-old Ludamiya Korovina, an experienced hiking instructor who had
10:33completed several difficult expeditions across the former Soviet Union. The other six hikers were
10:38considerably younger, ranging in age from just 15 to 24. For the first two days, the trip went better
10:44than expected, and the hikers were making good progress. By it, on August 4th, as they began descending
10:50from the peak, they were caught in an unexpected rainstorm. With the weather getting worse,
10:54Ludamiya decided that they should stop for the night rather than continuing downhill.
10:58So, the group set up camp on an exposed stretch of the mountainside. Unfortunately, this would turn
11:03out to be their biggest mistake. With little shelter from the worsening weather, the hikers spent the
11:08night exposed to heavy rain and falling temperatures. By the following morning, their clothes and equipment
11:13were soaked, and the rain had begun turning to snow. With visibility becoming so poor that they could no
11:18longer see the surrounding landmarks, Ludamiya decided they needed to get off the exposed mountainside
11:22and head down toward the nearby river. By it, they had barely made it 10 meters downhill when one of
11:27the boys suddenly began stumbling and falling over. Shortly after, he began frothing at the mouth,
11:32with blood coming from his eyes, ears, and nose. Ludamiya rushed to help him and told the others to keep
11:37moving downhill. By it, before they could get much further, Ludamiya called them back, only to tell them
11:43that the 23-year-old's heart had stopped beating. Almost immediately, whatever happened to him began
11:48taking over the others as well. Ludamiya collapsed and died shortly after. According to one of the
11:53girls named Valentina, another girl began behaving strangely and even bit her as she tried to help
11:58her downhill. Another had started banging her head against the rocks. Within minutes, all six of
12:04Valentina's companions had collapsed, leaving her as the only person still capable of getting herself
12:08off the mountain. She continued downhill until she reached the trees, where she got into a sleeping
12:13bag and eventually lost consciousness. After waking up the next morning, she climbed up the
12:17slope to see if anyone had survived, but found everyone in almost exactly the same places she had
12:22left them, with no signs of life. Realizing she was completely alone, Valentina took food and a map
12:28from the group's belongings and began looking for a way out of the mountains. For the next four days,
12:33she followed power lines downhill until she reached the river, where a group of kayakers eventually
12:37spotted her and took her to the nearest police station. By this point, almost five days had
12:41passed since she watched her companions die. But, despite Valentina reporting what had happened,
12:46it would take another two weeks before authorities began searching for the six missing hikers.
12:51The search finally began on August 24th and their bodies were found two days later.
12:55Despite the disturbing symptoms Valentina had described, the autopsy results pointed to a
13:00surprisingly simple explanation. Apparently, five of the hikers had died from hypothermia,
13:05while Ludumia korovina suffered a heart attack. But, while those findings explained how the hikers
13:11died, they didn't quite explain what Valentina had witnessed that morning. More specifically,
13:16why had so many of them suddenly fallen ill within minutes of each other?
13:19One theory suggests the group may have been exposed to a chemical nerve agent.
13:23The Soviet Union had spent decades developing these weapons, including a family of highly toxic nerve
13:28agents known as Novichok. And during the early 1990s, there were rumors that these weapons
13:33were tested in southern Siberia. Given how suddenly the first boy collapsed, along with the
13:38bleeding and frothing at the mouth, some believed that poisoning could explain what Valentina had
13:43witnessed. The problem was that no evidence was ever found that the hikers had been exposed to a
13:47nerve agent. By it, the mountains themselves were known for something that might also explain their
13:52strange behavior. Kamar Dabain is known for its very violent winds, and some believe they could have
13:58produced infrasound, a type of low-frequency sound that humans can't normally hear, but which has been
14:03linked to feelings of fear and the sensation that something strange or supernatural is happening.
14:08If something like that was moving across the ridge that morning, it could at least offer one
14:12explanation for why several experienced hikers suddenly seem to lose control almost at the same
14:17time. Unfortunately, that is where the case ends. More than 30 years later, Valentina is now 51 years
14:24old, and is believed to still be living in Russia. To this day, she's the only person who can tell
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16:05Satan's Storm
16:06On June 15, 1960, the small town of Copper Hole, Texas was having a fairly ordinary summer day
16:13with temperatures sitting around 70 degrees. Forecasters had predicted thunderstorms later that
16:18night, but that wasn't unusual for the area. As night fell, most residents went to bed as usual.
16:23By it, shortly after midnight, they were woken by a sudden blast of wind. The gusts were reaching
16:28speeds of up to 75 miles per hour, tearing through trees and damaging rooftops. Strangely though,
16:35instead of bringing cooler air and rain, the wind brought an intense wave of heat. Within minutes,
16:40temperatures had shot past 100 degrees and they were still rising. To make matters worse,
16:45the electricity had gone out, leaving people without air conditioning as their homes became
16:49unbearably hot. Parents began soaking towels and bedsheets in water and wrapping them around
16:54their children to keep them cool. Some families rushed into storm cellars, while others stayed
16:58inside, hoping the heat would pass. The air became so stifling that people later described struggling
17:04to breathe, and with no idea what was causing the sudden heat, some even wondered if they were under
17:08a nuclear attack. For nearly four hours, the intense heat remained over the area. During that time,
17:14one thermometer in Copperall reportedly reached a disturbing 140 degrees Fahrenheit, or 60 degrees
17:20Celsius. If that reading was accurate, the temperature in Copperall that night was hotter
17:25than the highest air temperature ever officially recorded on Earth. By it, the reading came from a
17:30local thermometer, not an official weather station, so exactly how hot Copperall became was never
17:36established. By sunrise though, people didn't need a thermometer to tell them that something devastating
17:41had happened. The winds had torn parts off of roofs of local buildings and knocked down trees.
17:46The heat had reportedly been so intense that water inside car radiators had begun to boil.
17:51By it, the worst damage was out in the fields. Farmers woke up to find crops that had been perfectly
17:56healthy the evening before, now completely scorched. Corn had reportedly cooked on its stalks,
18:02and one farmer claimed that around 140 acres of his cotton had been burned to a crisp.
18:07Whatever had passed through Copperall that night was terrifying enough that people eventually
18:10gave it a name of its own, the Satan Storm. And for years, people struggled to explain how the
18:16temperature could rise so dramatically in just a few minutes. Today though, meteorologists believe
18:21they have a solid explanation of what happened. Copperall was most likely hit by something called
18:25a heat burst. These are extremely rare weather events that usually happen when a thunderstorm is
18:31beginning to die out. As rain falls from the storm, it can pass through a layer of very dry air
18:36and evaporate before reaching the ground. This cools the surrounding air, causing it to sink
18:40rapidly. By it, once the rain is completely evaporated, the sinking air begins to heat up
18:45as it gets compressed on its way down. And by the time it reaches the ground, it can produce a
18:49sudden
18:49blast of extremely hot, dry wind. Which would explain the strange winds and the sudden rise in
18:55temperature that residents experienced that night. By it, while a heat burst offers a convincing
18:59explanation for what happened, there's still some debate over just how extreme the event really was.
19:04The famous 140 degree reading was never officially verified. And some of the more extraordinary
19:10accounts, like corn cooking on its stalks, are difficult to confirm. This has raised questions
19:15about whether the incident was quite as severe as people later described, or whether some of its
19:20details became exaggerated as the story was passed down. So, while heat bursts are a real weather
19:25phenomenon, what remains uncertain is just how much of Satan's storm happened exactly as people
19:30remembered it, and how much became part of a legend. The Val Johnson Incident
19:39On August 27th, 1979, Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson was on routine patrol outside Stephen, Minnesota.
19:46It was around 1.40 in the morning, and Val was driving alone through a desolate stretch of farmland,
19:51roughly 10 miles outside town. That is when he noticed a strange light in the darkness.
19:56It was sitting just a few feet above the ground, away from the road. And despite how far away it
20:02was,
20:02the light was far too bright to be a car's headlights. At first, he thought it might be a
20:06small plane attempting an emergency landing. So, he turned onto Highway 220 and began driving toward
20:12it to investigate further. What he didn't know was that less than an hour later, he would be calling
20:16for help himself. Just as he got closer to the light, it suddenly rushed toward him, covering almost a
20:22mile and a half almost instantaneously. His car was flooded with a brilliant white glare so intense
20:28that it hurt even after he shut his eyes. Then, he heard the sound of glass breaking and lost
20:32consciousness. Val remained unconscious for the next 39 minutes. When he finally woke up, he was slumped
20:38over the steering wheel. The red engine light was glowing on the dashboard, but the engine itself had
20:43stopped. Confused by the odd incident, he reached for his radio and called for help. When help arrived,
20:48there were physical signs that something had happened. Val's patrol car was sitting sideways
20:52across the highway with its front end hanging over the edge of the ditch. Its windshield was cracked
20:57while one of its headlights and both radio antennas were damaged. Val himself was injured. He was taken
21:03to a nearby hospital where doctors found a bump on his head, but what stood out were his eyes.
21:08They had burned similar to those caused by staring at a welder's flash. The question now was what exactly
21:14had happened to Val on that road. At first, the other officers thought Val might have been in an
21:18accident. Maybe another car had hit his patrol vehicle. But Val immediately dismissed that
21:23explanation, saying it wasn't a vehicle and that he didn't know what it was. To investigate further,
21:28officers returned to the highway the next morning, looking for anything that could explain what had
21:32happened. By it, all they found was debris from Val's own patrol car. There was no sign of another
21:37vehicle or anything else that could explain the damage. Naturally, they followed the next best
21:41explanation. Val himself initially thought the light might have come from a small airplane.
21:46But when the officers contacted the Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration,
21:50neither had any record of an aircraft in the area that night. Without any further leads,
21:55the officers were now left with a damaged patrol car, an injured deputy, and no further explanation
21:59for what it caused either. The case soon attracted national attention. Val's account appeared in
22:04newspapers across the country, and he was called in for several interviews as people tried to make
22:08sense of the bizarre situation. Something did strike my vehicle. Something didn't want me there,
22:17apparently, or it was, you know, I can't put a judgment on it. I really don't know how to classify
22:24it.
22:24I can't classify it as an attack. The absence of any solid evidence led to a couple theories about
22:30what might have taken place. The simplest was that Val had made the whole thing up. According to this
22:35theory, he had damaged the patrol car himself, and then invented the story to explain what had
22:39happened. But that still left some questions unanswered. Val had suffered burns to his eyes
22:44from a seemingly intense source of light, and there was no evidence that he had caused that or staged
22:49the incident. Another theory was that Val had simply fallen asleep at the wheel and crashed,
22:53and then fabricated the encounter afterward to avoid responsibility for the accident.
22:57By it, there was another explanation that didn't require Val to be lying. Maybe he had suffered a head
23:02injury during an ordinary accident, which left him confused about what had happened. In that case,
23:06the bright light he remembered rushing toward him might have been the headlights of another vehicle
23:10moments before the crash. But, as reasonable as these theories were, some believed Val might
23:14have encountered something much stranger. Something known as ball lightning. For context,
23:20ball lightning is a real, extremely rare natural phenomenon usually seen during thunderstorms,
23:25where a glowing ball of lightning can float through the air for several seconds before
23:29disappearing. That part could explain what Val saw hovering near the road. But that still left
23:35the damage to his patrol car and how it ended up off the road in the first place unexplained.
23:39In the end, no single explanation was ever confirmed. Val's car was never repaired. More than four
23:45decades later, it still sits on display at the Marshall County Historical Society with the damage from
23:50that night left intact.
23:55The Great Sheep Panic
23:57By the late 1800s, sheep farming was very common across Oxfordshire and southern England, with flock spread
24:03across farms spanning miles of countryside. By it, on one night in 1888, sheep across the stretch of
24:10countryside roughly 25 miles long suddenly began behaving in almost exactly the same way. It started at
24:16around 8pm on November 3rd, when thousands of sheep suddenly became frightened, jumping over their
24:21hurdles and running off into the darkness. By the next morning, shepherds were finding them miles from their
24:26farms. Some were huddled beneath hedges, while others were scattered along roads or crowded into corners of
24:31fields. Many were still panting heavily as though something had terrified them. At first, individual farmers had their own
24:38explanations for what had happened. Some suspected that a dog or fox had frightened their flock. But as farmers began
24:44speaking to people on neighboring farms, they began to realize that a dog or fox couldn't explain what had
24:48happened. It seemed unlikely that so many predators had frightened tens of thousands of sheep across roughly
24:54200 square miles at roughly the same time, which raised an obvious question. What could have caused such widespread
25:01panic? Sheep are naturally skittish animals. If one becomes frightened and starts running, the others can panic and
25:07follow. By it, that only explains how fear could have spread within a flock. Something still had to trigger that
25:12reaction in the
25:13first place. One possibility was a small earthquake. Animals can sometimes detect faint vibrations from an
25:19earthquake before humans feel any shaking. And out in the countryside, even a slight tremor might have been
25:24enough to frighten sheep across several farms without the farmers themselves noticing anything. But there was
25:29another possibility, involving something farmers had actually noticed that night. According to reports from the
25:34time, it was an extremely dark evening with occasional flashes of lightning. Some believed these sudden flashes
25:40might have frightened the sheep. And if the lightning was visible across a large enough area, it could
25:44explain why flocks of different farms had panicked roughly around the same time. By it, sheep are no
25:49strangers to thunderstorms. They regularly experience lightning without panicking and breaking out of
25:55their enclosures in such large numbers. So, while each theory could explain part of what happened, none could
26:00fully account for the sheer scale of the panic. More than a century later, no one really knows what happened
26:05that night. Whatever frightened those sheep remains unknown to this day.
26:12The Hall & Well Incident
26:14On July 13, 1980, around 500 children gathered at the Hall & Well Showground in Nottinghamshire for a
26:21marching band competition. They belonged to 11 different bands, with some of the children as young as 5.
26:26By it, later that morning, some of them suddenly began feeling sick and dizzy. Their eyes and throats
26:32became sore, while others grew so weak they could barely stay on their feet. Soon, the children
26:36began collapsing in groups of 5 or 6. And while police officers and first aid volunteers tried to
26:42help, the situation continued to get out of control. It reached a point where one witness described the
26:46unsettling scene as people dropping like dead flies. As panic settled in, parents ran around the field
26:52looking for their children, while ambulances began arriving through the gates. By the time it was over,
26:56around 400 people had been taken to the hospital, with 9 of them staying there overnight.
27:00So, what happened? Initially, the organizers suspected it to be a classic case of food poisoning.
27:06They made announcements warning people to stop eating or drinking anything they had bought at the
27:10showground. By it, as the investigation progressed, a much more bizarre explanation started forming,
27:15one that many families of the victims refused to accept. Investigators believed that the children
27:20had collectively experienced a case of mass hysteria, which is a social phenomenon where fear or
27:25distress spreads through a group, causing people to develop real physical symptoms.
27:29So, once a few children began feeling sick, seeing others collapse around them could have caused the
27:33same symptoms to spread through the crowd. But, some of the kids hadn't become ill until after
27:38they had gotten home. Moreover, two of the patients were infants, only a few weeks old.
27:43This naturally opened the door for other theories. One possibility was a pesticide that had been
27:48sprayed on a nearby field. Investigators discovered that it contained tridomorph, which is a chemical
27:53compound that can cause irritation to the eyes and skin, symptoms that closely matched what people
27:57had experienced that morning. However, a scientist who later looked into the case found that the
28:01pesticide had been sprayed several hundred yards away, days before the incident, making it highly
28:05unlikely to explain why the children had suddenly fallen ill and collapsed. Another possibility came
28:10from much closer to where the children had been standing. Temporary toilets had been set up around
28:1420 yards away, and according to the original report, excessive amounts of bleaching powder had been used to
28:20clean them, which left behind a strong smell of chlorine and ammonia. If the smell was potent
28:24enough, the fumes could have traveled beyond the toilets and toward where the children were standing,
28:28eventually making them sick. However, just like the other theories, this was never conclusively proven.
28:34In the end, mass hysteria remained the official explanation. By it, to this day, that explanation
28:39still fails to account for how something driven by social fear and distress could have affected two
28:44infants who were too young to even understand what was happening around them.
28:522006 Mumbai-Swede seawater incident
28:55India is home to an enormous network of rivers and waterways, many of which have shaped the lives
29:00of communities for centuries. Along its western coast, these waters eventually meet the Arabian Sea,
29:05passing through some of the country's most densely populated cities. By it, on August 18, 2006,
29:10at around 10pm, a strange report began spreading around one such waterway in Mumbai. People near
29:16Mahim Creek claimed the seawater had suddenly lost its usual saltiness and turned sweet. What made the
29:21whole situation even more bizarre was that this was a heavily populated stretch of water that received
29:26thousands of tons of sewage and industrial waste every day. Garbage and plastic floated across the
29:31surface, leaving it heavily polluted and unsafe to drink. Yet, as the word spread, people began
29:36arriving across Mumbai and places much further away to taste the water. In total, around 5,000 people
29:41gathered at the creek overnight. Some tasted the water and claimed it really was sweet. Others went
29:47even further, bathing in the creek and filling bottles and plastic bags to take home. With so many
29:51people drinking heavily polluted water, health officials warned of a possible outbreak of waterborne
29:56diseases. Police eventually began stopping people from reaching the creek, and by the following day,
30:01reports suggested the water had turned salty again. By then, something similar was already being
30:06reported hundreds of kilometers away. Within hours of the news from Mumbai, residents in nearby Gujarat
30:11were reporting the same unusual change in the seawater, and around 400 people had gathered there as
30:16well. Initially, the whole thing was believed to be a case of mass hysteria. By then, when authorities
30:21collected water samples from Mahim Creek and the nearby shoreline, the results revealed something
30:26unusual. The water really did contain far less salt than normal seawater. Typically, seawater contains
30:32around 35 parts of salt per thousand, but in samples collected on August 19th, that figure was as low as
30:381 to 3, which is a decrease of roughly 90 to 95%. That raised a natural question. What did cause
30:46such a
30:46drastic change in the water's salt levels? There were a few theories surrounding the incident. The first one
30:51involved the monsoon. The area had been experiencing heavy rainfall in the days before the incident.
30:56Officials suggested that the rainfall had caused nearby Vihar Lake to overflow, sending fresh water
31:01into a nearby river, which eventually emptied into the Mahim Bay. Because fresh water is less dense
31:06than seawater, it could have spread across the surface with the saltier water remaining underneath.
31:11Over time, the two would have mixed, gradually bringing the saltiness back. This explained why the
31:15people drinking the water felt it was sweet. By it, there was another possibility. One that placed the
31:20source of the freshwater beneath the ground. Geologists suggested the heavy rainfall had
31:25collected inside underground rocks near the coast. As more water built up, it could have escaped through
31:29the cracks in the rocks and flowed into the sea, temporarily reducing its saltiness. Still,
31:34neither explanation was conclusively established, leaving the exact cause of the sudden change unknown.