Beyond Bizarre -- Bizarre Cravings of Monsieur Mangetout - Aliens vs Farm Animals - Mutant Human Museum in Thailand - JBOT
Documentary television hosted by Jay Robinson focused on exploring great mysteries around the world, from ghost sightings, alien encounters and everything else in between.
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00:00As the UFO phenomenon has become more popular, increasingly exotic behavior has been attributed to alien visitors.
00:10Some claim these beings have tried to instruct us on a better way of life, while others have reported more terrifying encounters.
00:21One of the strangest is the incidence of mutilated livestock found in fields around the world.
00:31It raises the question, are these grisly occurrences the work of cults or pranksters?
00:41Or are they the result of interplanetary travelers stopping off at Earth and wondering
00:50where's the beef?
00:55In September of 1967, a newspaper reported a horse found dead and stripped of its flesh from the neck up in southern Colorado.
01:06All the organs in her chest had been neatly removed, not a trace of blood and no tracks of any kind around the dead body.
01:16Her owners blamed the bizarre death on the flying discs so many residents had seen in the sky that summer.
01:24Since that time, thousands of animals ranging from cattle and deer to geese, goats and cats have been found with odd bloodless excisions of tissue.
01:37Law enforcement calls them mutilations. They happen not only in the United States, but around the world.
01:47Sweden, England, Central and South America.
01:54Emmy award winning television producer and reporter, Linda Howe, has investigated these strange animal deaths since 1979.
02:04My beat has always been science, medicine and the environment.
02:08Back in 1979, I was director of special projects at a television station in Denver, Colorado.
02:14And that summer, there had been a series of very unusual animal deaths, not only in that state, but around the world.
02:21And I wanted to get to the bottom of these bizarre deaths.
02:25At first, I thought perhaps the United States government might be doing some kind of an environmental contamination study.
02:33But after I had seen some of these animals for the first time myself, I was haunted by the clean ground around them.
02:40No tracks, no signs of struggle and the same pattern of bloodless excisions from body to body.
02:49Pathology studies of the animal excisions have confirmed the tissue in some animals has been cut with a sharp instrument.
02:56And in others, the tissue has been cut with high heat.
03:02The patterns of the cuts and tissues taken have been similar from animal to animal and worldwide.
03:09Often, one eye is removed, along with a circular excision of flesh around the empty eye socket.
03:15The tongue is removed from deep within the throat.
03:18Utters are removed without bleeding and often only hide deep.
03:23Or only the teats are removed in clean, dry holes or cut off at the surface of the utter.
03:30In males, the genitals are excised in a bloodless oval.
03:34The rectum is cored out in most of the animals and sometimes the tail is also removed in a smooth cut through the tailbone.
03:43In a few cases, skull bone has been smoothly excised without evidence of bone saw marks.
03:49Veterinarians have also discovered internal organs surgically removed, such as the trachea and esophagus.
03:59Other missing internal organs have included the heart, lungs, bladder, uterus, vagina, and penis.
04:07Some of the mutilation cuts are serrated with a dark edge, like this one found on a steer in Oregon in 1990.
04:16This notched edge is similar to one found in Montana in 1975.
04:22No pathology test was done, but in 1990, Oregon State Diagnostic Laboratory concluded the notched edge does suggest a heat-induced incision.
04:34It's not possible to tell if this lesion was caused by a laser, but pathology studies also confirm this serrated edge was cut with high heat.
04:46This is a piece of tissue from a male calf found in Crossville, Alabama in 1993.
04:53What would be the occasion when you would have access to a laser instrument or something that was hot?
04:59I wouldn't. I don't have anything like that in my practice dealing with cattle.
05:03We have electrocautery units for small animals for surgical procedures, but you're dealing with mucous membranes and open tissue.
05:11Certainly nothing that I would have in my clinic would cut through the height of a cow.
05:16In addition to the substantial physical evidence of all the animal bodies themselves and the confirmed medical abnormalities,
05:24there are several eyewitnesses who have seen what they describe as non-human entities with animals that either later disappear or are found dead and mutilated.
05:36In 1975, a Missouri horse farmer and his son saw this entity at their gate.
05:43They also saw a silver disc in their horse pasture and over two years found five of their animals dead and mutilated.
05:54In 1983, a Missouri couple watched through binoculars as small gray beings floated a paralyzed cow from a pasture into a cone-shaped craft.
06:08Near Portland, Oregon, Timothy Flint reported seeing a cow rise in a beam of light into a large glowing disc and then lowered back down to the pasture, dead and mutilated.
06:23In 1973, Judy Daugherty and her family experienced missing time near Houston, Texas.
06:33Under hypnosis, Judy and her daughter Cindy both recalled seeing a brown and white calf rise in a pale yellow beam of light.
06:43Judy remembered and drew a snake-eyed, gray-skinned creature that she watched excise tissue from the animal's eyes and tongue aboard what she thought was a round craft.
06:57Cindy also drew a snake-eyed being.
07:02In 1997, retired U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso went on record with his own assertion in his best-selling book, The Day After Roswell.
07:13Extraterrestrial biological entities, or EBEs as he calls them, have been cutting up animals worldwide since at least the 1950s.
07:24Colonel Corso said that when he worked in the Eisenhower administration, the CIA and military intelligence were actively studying the surgical methods at animal mutilation sites.
07:37Who or what is behind the harvest of animal life on Earth, and why?
07:45Colonel Corso even offered an explanation.
07:48It was the EBEs, extraterrestrial biological entities, who were experimenting with organ harvesting,
07:57possibly for transplanting into other species or for processing in some kind of nutrient package,
08:05or even, perhaps, to create a hybrid biological entity, a barnyard mystery that is beyond bizarre.
08:18Nature is capable of producing works of great beauty, mountain ranges, a pasture full of flowers, even the human body itself.
08:32But occasionally, nature makes a mistake.
08:38When such errors occur in the human gene, the results can be quite disturbing.
08:48In our culture, we're reluctant to examine this darker side of nature.
08:53We tend to prefer images of physical health, natural beauty.
08:59In some countries, such twists on the human form are the subject of both scientific study and popular fascination.
09:12Bangkok, Thailand
09:21On the banks of the Chao Phraya River in East Asia lies the city of Bangkok, Thailand.
09:31A bustling center of industry and commerce,
09:34Bangkok holds close to the beliefs and customs of the old world, as visitors to this street market quickly discover.
09:43Merchants here depend upon these lingering traditions for the appeal of their unique cuisine and crafts.
09:52Goods that might seem off-putting to the average American are quite commonplace to the citizens of Bangkok.
10:02Various cuisine, which we might call the exterminator, to eliminate from our kitchens, are the main course here,
10:12a radically different concept of what does the body good.
10:18As language, terrain, and customs change, so do the sensibilities of society.
10:26A Western visitor might find this environment peculiar and disturbing,
10:32and yet such sights are but a hint of far more profound cultural differences.
10:42Especially different is their relationship with the human body.
10:47Their religious mythology makes extensive use of creative variations on the human form.
10:56In public ceremonies, they put their bodies through trials unthinkable in the West.
11:05Frequently, they subject themselves to physical treatment that many of us would find shocking and even abusive.
11:14There are reasons for these lurid rituals and practices,
11:17though none of them may be quite convincing enough to justify such traditions to us.
11:26But it's clear that the body and all its possibilities is a great source of fascination to the people of Thailand.
11:37This leads us to a remote section of Bangkok,
11:41where there is a medical museum that dramatically illustrates this contrasting attitude toward flesh and bone.
11:51Wander down these corridors, and you will come upon some of the world's strangest and most ghastly exhibits.
12:00Assembled in two rooms are collections of glass jars and cases,
12:05each containing strange mutations and graphic examples of physiological accidents and disease.
12:14Cross sections of human bodies are a usual sight in such medical museums,
12:20and students come to get a rare glimpse inside man's intricate anatomy.
12:27Skeletal remains stand sentinel as among the more traditional medical displays.
12:34But nearby, human limbs and organs are propped up on shelves like so many spare parts.
12:43A grotesque array of maimed figures, which highlights the Kongdon Museum,
12:50also known as the Thai Museum of Horrors.
12:56Dr. Sangvichen is a medical doctor at the Seriraj Hospital in Bangkok,
13:01and is director of this unusual museum.
13:07The purpose of the museum is educational. It is for the public.
13:15A lot of artists come, and elementary and high school students on field trips.
13:21Originally, it was made for medical students to aid them in learning.
13:26The museum serves as a visual library of anatomical parts,
13:31and with more knowledge of our unusual displays, there is more understanding and appreciation.
13:40Recently, the number of tourists from Europe, America, and Japan has been increasing.
13:46Not exactly your dream getaway, you say?
13:51Perhaps you don't see the beauty and precision in these dissections of human cadavers.
13:57Perhaps you find it to be a revolting parade of death, which robs the deceased of their dignity.
14:05But this is where cultural bias may distract you.
14:09These displays are valuable learning tools, which students find fascinating and even rewarding.
14:17Examining this female specimen, for instance,
14:21gives students an intimate view of the immaculate workings of internal systems.
14:29Information gained in Western medicine through books and lectures is experienced here,
14:36first-hand, through these unique displays.
14:40That is, of course, if you can stomach this extraordinary show-and-tell.
14:47There are two displays of world-class specimens.
14:51There are displays of the peripheral nervous system and artery system.
14:56Dr. Pei-Thai Siri Karun, who had extraordinary hands, as well as a great knowledge of anatomy, completed them.
15:04Doctors and professors who come in to view these displays are awed by them.
15:11What you are seeing is not a model.
15:14This actual dissection of a human nervous system is one of the few exhibits of its kind in the world.
15:22It stands alongside similar dissections of the human musculature and skeletal systems.
15:30You may find yourself wondering how these people became a spectacle for thousands of curious eyes.
15:39The majority of the specimens are donated.
15:42Most people are generous and sign their waiver forms and donate them.
15:47Many of us might find it difficult to understand why anyone would wish to view such misshapen forms.
15:55In many Eastern societies, death is not a forbidden subject.
16:01It is embraced as a part of life's ongoing cycle.
16:07Some families are even reputed to have their loved ones on display in their homes.
16:14It is an altogether different relationship with mortality and medicine than most of us have known.
16:22Perhaps it takes a special intestinal fortitude to bluntly face the workings of the human machine.
16:31If the museum continues to attract viewers from all over the globe, and if it continues to thrive,
16:38perhaps Dr. Sang Vichen himself will instruct future generations when he passes on
16:47and finds a special place beside the other post-mortem professors in a medical museum that is beyond bizarre.
16:59In today's computerized world, we often find ourselves to be victims of technology,
17:06servants of the very machines created to serve us.
17:12Every computer owner knows the frustration of inscrutable, uncooperative machines.
17:22Difficult as it may be to believe, in the city of San Francisco,
17:27an unusual artist has taken this dilemma to new heights,
17:32expressing himself through music as a slave to the machines.
17:39Is it art? Is it science? Or is it just sad?
17:54J-Bot, as this eclectic performer is called, was once a respected musician who toured the country in jazz and ska bands.
18:05But unable to adjust to his bandmates' personalities, he went on to literally assemble his own band,
18:13Captured by Robots, a mechanized musical group that, according to J-Bot, took on a life of its own.
18:28Unfortunately, something happened one night. Their programming got screwed up somehow, and they captured me.
18:33They put a chip in my head, and then they started forcing me to do their bidding for their little robotic resistance or whatever.
18:40And now they forced me to tour around the country humiliating myself in front of my human peers,
18:45and they just treat me like crap. I can't help it. I would like to quit this outfit, but I don't know, maybe one day.
18:52This Orwellian ensemble features a host of distinct and rather tyrannical personalities.
19:00Hello, everybody in TV. And how are you?
19:05I start off with GuitarBot666. I always start with him. He's very maniacal. He likes to treat me horribly all the time.
19:13Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! I'm not gonna shut up!
19:17Any sort of ridiculing he can do or any sort of inhumane treatment he can do to me, he does.
19:24Payne is his game. Anytime you want Payne, he's your bot.
19:29But he is a rocker, you know, and he's just like a guitar player.
19:33He's a little moody sometimes, you know. He won't play what you want a lot of times, you know. He has to have solos.
19:39Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah! Thank you! Thank you!
19:44And let's not forget, along with GuitarBot is DrumBot0110,
19:52the mastermind, according to JBot, who made him a genuine prisoner of his art.
19:59She's the strong, silent type. She likes to kick fat beats out.
20:05Her main thing for her is she really likes to stay sort of on the side, doing what she has to do,
20:10but she would rather not even be in this band at all. And then the ape which hath no name.
20:15I love you, JBot. I know. You are so special. So special.
20:20The problem is that when I made him, I thought he would just love me and hate the other two bots,
20:25but basically he loves everybody and even the bots that have captured me.
20:29And I love you, GuitarBot.
20:32And he plays tambourine with his head.
20:37The robots don't care what kind of music I play, by the way. They don't care at all.
20:42They'll play whatever I want, really, which is my only real source of freedom in a way.
20:46I can play exactly what I want, whenever I want, but the content of the song has to be my humiliation.
20:53And that's the part which sort of stinks about it.
20:56This song here is about... I was a bed-wetter when I was a child.
21:01Well, that's what this song is about.
21:03Everybody thinks it's so great and so, oh, ha-ha, funny, funny, but this ain't funny.
21:08I mean, I'm dealing with, like, with constant abuse.
21:12Oh, please, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
21:16Okay, I'm sorry.
21:18When's someone going to treat me good?
21:20When's someone going to give me the respect that maybe I deserve, you know?
21:23Never. That's the answer. Never.
21:25How the pain's turning!
21:27No, please!
21:28J-Bot recalls the fateful day his brave new band turned against him and welcomed him to the machine.
21:37I woke up one morning, and the whole half of my head was shaved.
21:41It looked like I was going for some punk rock hairdo or something.
21:44And I looked at it, and I was amazed.
21:46I was like, you know, what the heck is this in my head, you know?
21:49But then they sort of woke me up with this jolt of pain.
21:56When they get mad at me, they activate this chip.
21:59With this chip, what they do is they manage to control me.
22:02That's why I'm here today.
22:04That's why they make me show my guts to everybody and humiliate myself in front of a crowd.
22:09I'll use a brink!
22:13I couldn't let you understand!
22:16That brink!
22:18I couldn't let you all know!
22:21So what are the inspirational origins of J-Bot's robo-rock?
22:27No one in my family played music, really, except for my sister.
22:29And she would play Ice Castles on the piano over and over and over and over.
22:33So maybe that drove me, you know, over the brink a little bit.
22:36But the main thing, I think, was that my grandfather was an electronics technician.
22:42He sold neon supplies, and so I would always go there and watch the, you know,
22:47just the supply house of Transformers and all this different stuff and always enjoyed it.
22:51But I started playing trombone when I was younger and eventually moved up to playing bass
22:56and kept going with that.
22:58And for a long time, I just would buy instruments to take them apart and see how they worked
23:02and rip them apart.
23:04And so maybe this is sort of like my judgment day from those, you know,
23:09the retribution from those instruments that I took apart, you know,
23:12that now I've got instruments taking me apart.
23:15As with any mechanism, there is some assembly required.
23:21J-Bot must go through the meticulous process of breaking down, moving,
23:27and rebuilding the very robots that have tyrannized his artistic life.
23:32Appearing at underground venues such as San Francisco's Mission Records,
23:37this robot roadie has a following of eccentric fans who enjoy the construction process
23:44as much as the music itself.
23:48They, too, are caught up in the gears of J-Bot's creations.
23:55Wow!
24:04Perhaps out of bitterness over his own android imprisonment,
24:09J-Bot sees a bleak future for our technological society,
24:15one in which all of us may become prisoners of the bots.
24:21A hundred years from now, computers are going to be running everything,
24:24and we're going to, you know, the human race is going to become stupid, extra stupid,
24:28because they're going to depend on machines for everything.
24:30And if they're as smart as we are, and if they, I mean,
24:33if they manage to get the greed and inhumanity that we as humans have,
24:37then we don't have a chance.
24:39Baby, I've known you for such a long time,
24:47and I can't get it out of my head.
24:49I could be, you know, looking at a life of freedom,
24:52or, you know, humanity could look at, you know, life enslaved by robots,
24:56so it's a toss of the dice.
24:59All I can hope is that possibly these guys, both of them,
25:02they're just going to shut down, and everything is going to screw up,
25:05and I'm going to quit.
25:08A fate that may await us all that is truly beyond bizarre.
25:15You know I want to know when you do, ma'am.
25:24Among our happiest school memories
25:27are of those occasions when the class went on a field trip.
25:31The exciting sights and sounds of these excursions
25:35were a delightful break from the routine of the schoolyard.
25:40And the memories of those experiences are fondly recalled years later.
25:47Ah, but there is a school in Tennessee
25:51where stepping out of the classroom
25:54means putting one foot in the grave.