1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 In this episode, the mythbusters are busting out. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,720 Count on getting very, very cold. 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,320 Can they escape from Alcatraz? 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,200 Quack, damn you. 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:18,200 Science or quackery? 6 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,360 I want you to do this, got it? 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,040 Does a duck's quack echo? 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:29,960 And out of their skulls, have we all been injected with mind control chips? 9 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,160 I feel perfectly normal now. 10 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:35,160 Who are the mythbusters? 11 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:38,760 Is my missing an eyebrow? 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:39,920 Adam Savage. 13 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,920 I always enjoyed seeing Adam in pain. 14 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:43,920 Oh! 15 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:44,920 And Jamie Heineman. 16 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,640 Jamie wants a big bull. 17 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,640 Between them, more than 30 years special effects experience. 18 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:53,080 You're kind of sexy. 19 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,840 They don't just tell the myths. 20 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:02,840 They put them to the test. 21 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:17,880 It's Alcatraz's greatest mystery. 22 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:19,760 What happened to these men? 23 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:27,040 Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers, Clarence and John, bank robbers and escape artists. 24 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:34,200 One night in June 1962, they busted out of the rock and dropped off the face of the earth. 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,120 Whatever their fate, the three convicts have apparently accomplished a feat that many have 26 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:44,040 tried with no success. 27 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:49,720 The authorities presume the three drowned, but the myth says they got away clean on a 28 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,640 homemade raft. 29 00:01:51,640 --> 00:02:00,640 40 years later, Jamie and Adam aim to prove it might have happened. 30 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:08,280 Well, you know, Adam, we're based in San Francisco doing a show about myths. 31 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:13,280 So obviously we have to tackle the myth about the escape from Alcatraz. 32 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:18,880 Did three prisoners in 1962 build a raft out of raincoats and got off the island? 33 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:19,880 Yeah. 34 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,440 Did they actually do it? 35 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:22,880 Was it successful? 36 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,600 Where did they go? 37 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:30,520 According to folklorist Heather Joseph with them, this story has endured because people 38 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,720 often cheer for the underdog. 39 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:38,560 The idea is, you know, David against Goliath, the little man really winning out over the 40 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:44,120 concrete authority, the faceless, nameless concrete authority. 41 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:50,880 America's worst were caged in Alcatraz's nine by five cells, cold as stone, perched high 42 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,760 above the currents that chain the island. 43 00:02:53,760 --> 00:03:00,680 Officially, no one ever escaped and lived to tell, though in its 29 years, 34 prisoners 44 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,720 tried and as many as 11 died in the attempt. 45 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:10,160 Adam and Jamie will follow the most famous escape attempt of all. 46 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,680 It began here in these cells. 47 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:17,680 They painstakingly fashioned dummies of plaster with hair of paintbrush bristles to stand in 48 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:23,280 for them during cell check while they covered an escape hole with a cardboard grill. 49 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:30,320 All of this was with an easy visual range of the guards in the gun galleries. 50 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:31,920 Alcatraz had begun to crumble. 51 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:38,120 Morris and the Anglans were all able to chip through ventilation grills using spoons. 52 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:43,400 I believe that this one is a myth buster special, so you feel like squirming through the hole? 53 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:44,400 Sure, why not? 54 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:45,400 You think you'll fit? 55 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:46,400 I think I'll fit. 56 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:50,000 I'm not so sure about you. 57 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Let the breakout begin. 58 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,000 I don't know. 59 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:09,360 Seems beer and fast food wasn't on the menu at Alcatraz. 60 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:28,720 Incredibly, the escapees found themselves in an empty service shaft. 61 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,720 You know Jamie, note to myself, if I'm ever designing a prison, I don't think I would 62 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:39,280 ever design it with a huge secret, unmonitored walkway behind every cell. 63 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:51,200 I think I tweaked my back. 64 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:56,640 From there, they climbed the pipe's three floors to the cell block roof. 65 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:57,840 This is where it all happened. 66 00:04:57,840 --> 00:04:59,640 This is actually where our story begins, Jamie. 67 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,720 This is where they got to with all their equipment and actually built the rafts over a period 68 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,640 of months. 69 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,360 Prisoner Alan West was in on the plot. 70 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:15,400 He told the FBI the trio had managed to steal more than 50 raincoats and, undetected up on 71 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:19,000 that rooftop, turned them into a pontoon raft. 72 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,880 You whisper and everybody can hear it. 73 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,240 You can't drop a single bolt or nail. 74 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:31,080 You can't kick a piece of wood without everybody on the cell blocks hearing you do it. 75 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:35,640 Imagine that, every night for months in pitch black. 76 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:41,280 The night they were finally ready, the three broke out through this vent onto the rooftop, 77 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:45,200 then climbed 50 feet down to the ground. 78 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,360 You know, they went down about here, the original pipe's been removed, but we do know that they 79 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,600 went across underneath the water tower and down to the shore on the side of the powerhouse 80 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:54,600 over there. 81 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,680 There's a lot of distance to cover in the middle of the night with all that equipment. 82 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,680 I'll tell you that. 83 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:00,680 Yup. 84 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:05,400 The swirling tidal currents around Alcatraz were more feared than any wall. 85 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:11,240 But at the water's edge, Morris and the Anglin brothers pumped up their raft, jumped in and 86 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:12,240 disappeared. 87 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:16,360 The escape triggered the greatest manhunt in San Francisco's history as agents of the 88 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:23,280 FBI, Coast Guard's highway patrol, sheriff's deputies and local police joined in the search. 89 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:27,080 Jolene Babiak lived on the island when the escape happened. 90 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:33,280 Her father was associate warden at the time and she's written three books about Alcatraz. 91 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:34,760 Do you think that they made it? 92 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,960 Well, they could be here today on the tour. 93 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,960 But I doubt it. 94 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:47,120 Alan West told the FBI the plan was to paddle the raft north to Angel Island, then onto 95 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:48,120 the mainland. 96 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,640 Jolene thinks that was optimistic at best. 97 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:55,800 I don't think there was any physical way they could ever get to Angel Island and if that 98 00:06:55,800 --> 00:07:00,120 was their goal, it was not well thought out because when you get in the San Francisco 99 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,040 Bay, it's not about currents, it's about tides. 100 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,960 If the tide is going out the gates, so are you. 101 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,600 It seems too simple an end. 102 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:12,800 Frank Morris was no fool. 103 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,760 He spent his life in and out of reform schools and prisons. 104 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:20,960 But he also happened to have an IQ of 133. 105 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:25,840 He knew how to escape and he must have known about the dangers of the Bay. 106 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:30,280 So you think they were clever enough to have counted on the tides using them to their advantage? 107 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:34,520 Well, you know, they were clever about the whole thing from the get-go, like, you know, 108 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,680 how they got the materials in the first place, where they assembled it, right under the nose 109 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:39,680 of the guards. 110 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:41,840 It was all very well planned out. 111 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,400 So it's only logical to assume that they gave a fair amount of thought to the currents 112 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:46,400 as well. 113 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,880 Maybe Morris figured a way to ride the feared tides to freedom. 114 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,160 It does look like it's more aggressive on this side. 115 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,480 He could watch the ebb and flow and plan his route for months. 116 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,960 The mythbusters don't have that long, but they do know a shortcut. 117 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,880 Joe, grab onto the pylon! 118 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:13,880 Come on! 119 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:14,880 Oof! 120 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:15,880 Aw! 121 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,480 Ha ha ha ha! 122 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:24,360 The Bay model was built in the mid-50s to test the environmental impact of a proposed development 123 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:25,920 in San Francisco Bay. 124 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:33,440 It's a perfect scale model, covering two acres, and replicates a full day's tidal movement 125 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,760 in just under 15 minutes. 126 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:41,120 If we took a small model boat and put this in here at strategic point, would it actually 127 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,800 tell us what would happen to that boat in the currents? 128 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:44,800 I think that it would. 129 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,480 Up until the year 2000, it was primarily a scientific research and engineering facility. 130 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,040 For many, many experiments from A to Z, we're conducted daily. 131 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:59,760 And I think it replicates very accurately the tide's currents and motions of the bay. 132 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:04,800 The guys know the high tide had just turned when the escapees hit the water. 133 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,200 I'll just wait for the signal. 134 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:12,040 In the compressed time of the model, that's due in about two minutes. 135 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:13,600 The water's having an effect on me. 136 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,000 I don't know what it is. 137 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,520 Once again, the Mythbusters professionalism is winning admirers. 138 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:29,520 Oh, we're good. 139 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:30,520 Drop it. 140 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:32,800 Nicely done. 141 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:39,200 Remember, the myth says Morris and the Anglans were heading north to Angel Island. 142 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,920 The current tells a different story. 143 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,080 The raft is heading west, in a hurry. 144 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,080 We're escaping Alcatraz and Mach 1. 145 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:51,360 No wonder they didn't find them. 146 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,120 They're probably in Japan by now. 147 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:57,120 Stand by, Jamie. 148 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:58,120 Okay. 149 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:00,640 Release it, Jamie. 150 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,720 The same thing happens every time on this tide. 151 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,440 There they go. 152 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:07,880 Now the current catches them. 153 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:13,520 The raft is always washed west to the Golden Gate Bridge, and it's doubtful the escapees 154 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,520 could paddle against it for long. 155 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:21,120 Basically, there's no way I think they'd make it to Angel Island though. 156 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:25,200 The guys think Morris was smart enough to work that out. 157 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:30,880 So despite what they told other prisoners, maybe Angel Island was never in the plan at 158 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:31,880 all. 159 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:37,960 I think they actually took advantage of the currents and got on them as a, you know, like 160 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:43,800 a river headed towards the Golden Gate Bridge, and specifically the north side of the Golden 161 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,400 Gate Bridge, where they could easily make it to shore. 162 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:52,160 The mythbusters have hatched a new theory and a new plan. 163 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:53,160 Forget Angel Island. 164 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:58,520 They're going to see if they can build a raft and paddle across the tide to reach land around 165 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:00,020 the Marin Headlands. 166 00:11:00,020 --> 00:11:03,200 Jamie, what do you think our chances of success are? 167 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:04,200 100%. 168 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:05,200 100%? 169 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:06,200 Yeah, absolutely. 170 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:07,200 Oh, right. 171 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:08,200 No doubt about it. 172 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:12,120 We can pretty well count on getting very, very cold. 173 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,240 Jamie sounds like he's getting cold feet. 174 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:24,400 But before he does, the guys have a date with some webbed feet. 175 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,840 Another birdbrained myth to bust. 176 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,040 Could it be true? 177 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,520 Or have Adam and Jamie gone quackers? 178 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,160 Anything to say to the ducks back home? 179 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:43,720 So, Jamie, what are we working on? 180 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,560 Why are there ducks pooping all over your desk? 181 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:49,200 Well, the myth is that a duck's quack does not echo. 182 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,320 That sounds kind of simple. 183 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:56,160 Well, I guess we'll figure out a way of making it complicated, won't we? 184 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,240 This really is an internet story. 185 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,360 Not even a story, just a little factoid. 186 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:08,120 And it generally comes out on these internet lists of facts that are very odd. 187 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,880 In the past, they would have circulated as Xerox lore or fax lore. 188 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:20,440 The boys will take the lore into their own hands down on the farm. 189 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,000 Adam, don't let their looks deceive you. 190 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,840 These are actually quite deadly. 191 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:31,920 If anyone can answer this myth, it should be Jim Reichard, part of America's oldest 192 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,960 duck farming family. 193 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:38,720 The Reichards have been listening to ducks quack for more than a century, but there's 194 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:40,400 one thing they haven't heard. 195 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,120 Jim, have you heard of the myth that a duck's quack will not echo? 196 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,040 I've never heard that. 197 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,520 I've grown up on the ranch, you know. 198 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,160 I've never had anybody ask me. 199 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,840 It's pretty hard to ruffle Jim's feathers. 200 00:12:54,840 --> 00:13:00,600 He's agreed to help the mythbusters with some test subjects. 201 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:05,640 I asked for volunteers this morning and I came up with a couple, you know. 202 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,560 Meet Bob on the left and Roy. 203 00:13:08,560 --> 00:13:10,760 I'm going from this side. 204 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:11,920 Alright, you go down that side. 205 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:16,240 I'll walk him down this way. 206 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:22,520 That wasn't so bad, was it? 207 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:26,440 That wasn't so bad. 208 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:30,880 So they've got their ducks in a row. 209 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:35,680 Now they need a man who can catch an echo. 210 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:40,280 That would be him now. 211 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:45,280 Roger Schwenke is an acoustician, which means he knows a thing or two about noise. 212 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:50,640 Roger, have you heard the myth about whether a duck's quack echoes? 213 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,040 I have heard that myth. 214 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:58,720 Mostly I see it in these lists of factoids and jokes that you get in emails. 215 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,720 Rogers agreed to help catch a duck's echo. 216 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,280 The science is simple enough. 217 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,480 Sounds are just vibrations in the air. 218 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:12,120 An echo happens when those vibrations hit something and bounce back. 219 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:17,240 So one of the challenges I have for you is we're going to use a tyclip mic as the trigger 220 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:22,640 mic to start the recording, and we need to attach that to the duck. 221 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:29,560 Duck tape. 222 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,600 That microphone acts as a trigger. 223 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:40,200 It'll hear Bob quack and switch on the main mic a few yards away. 224 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:45,200 That will record the initial quack, then listen for echoes bouncing back. 225 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,320 The whole shooting match plotted by a computer. 226 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,320 You know what happens to ducks that don't cooperate, huh? 227 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:52,320 Yeah. 228 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,520 Got it. 229 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:57,760 That was a test. 230 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:02,880 You can see the initial shot from the starter's pistol is the peak on the left, and the smaller 231 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,360 bumps after it are the echoes coming back. 232 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,640 The system works now for the ducks. 233 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:15,040 I'll tell you guys to be quiet because any sound will start the computer recording, and 234 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,760 then you need to silently induce the duck to quack. 235 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,640 You need quack? 236 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,760 Silently induce a duck to quack. 237 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,480 Look me in the eye and quack. 238 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:27,480 Quack. 239 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:28,960 Come on, boy. 240 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:29,960 Quack. 241 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:30,960 Quack. 242 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:31,960 All right, see if they're ready. 243 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,280 Are you guys ready? 244 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:35,520 Don't mess with me, duck. 245 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,280 When I say quack, you're going to quack, right? 246 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:40,120 I'm the boss here. 247 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,600 Don't give me any beak. 248 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:43,600 Quiet. 249 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,360 Give him a thumbs up. 250 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:57,800 It's like he's trying to collect a loan from the duck. 251 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,720 Duck loan collection agency. 252 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:03,080 I want to talk to you about some outstanding feed. 253 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,360 Who'd have thought ducks get cold feet? 254 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,200 Oh, boy. 255 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,600 There's nothing but wind noise. 256 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:14,200 Clearly, Bob's got stage fright. 257 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:16,000 I want you to do this. 258 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Got it? 259 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Quack. 260 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Quack, damn you. 261 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Done. 262 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,000 I'm going to swap them out with the other one. 263 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 All right, I'll bring them over to you. 264 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 Bob's out. 265 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Roy's in. 266 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 But a funny thing happens in the changeover. 267 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,400 Oh, maybe they're bringing them together. 268 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:39,320 They just needed someone to talk to. 269 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:40,880 It seems obvious now. 270 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,880 The mythbusters are back in the hunt. 271 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,880 Ah, that looks like a quack. 272 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,560 It's astonishing how well that works. 273 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:00,560 There's something else astonishing. 274 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,800 They've got the quack, but they don't have an echo. 275 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:04,800 Not a one. 276 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:10,000 But then there's not much here for the sound to bounce off. 277 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:17,560 In terms of trees and plants and so on, you don't get very much of an echo. 278 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:20,280 Certainly not off of leaves. 279 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:25,360 Roger thinks if there were any echoes, the background noise drowned them out. 280 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:26,360 A sweetheart duck. 281 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:33,040 To prove that, and bust this silly myth once and for all, Bob and Roy will have to go high-five. 282 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,800 Okay, that's really cool. 283 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,280 Meyer Sound makes top-of-the-range concert speakers. 284 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:45,960 Roger's their staff scientist. 285 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,640 Hi, guys. 286 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,440 They plan two experiments at the lab. 287 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,720 First to capture a crystal-clear quack with no echo. 288 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:59,120 Then they'll record Bob and Roy in a room that does echo. 289 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:02,520 The computer should show if there's a difference. 290 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:06,280 To get the clear quack, they'll use an anechoic chamber. 291 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:12,440 It absorbs echoes by trapping sound vibrations in baffles on the walls and ceiling. 292 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,440 Let's take them into the chamber. 293 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,240 There we go. 294 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,160 Bob and Roy are game. 295 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,000 I noticed there's a hole in the screen. 296 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Maybe I can goose the duck. 297 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,000 Nothing. 298 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,520 Bob and Roy have wised up. 299 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,320 Jamie, I have an idea. 300 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:46,320 We get underneath the platform and we stay there for like a full minute or two, and then 301 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:50,520 we both pop up on both sides of them. 302 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,440 A duck ambush. 303 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:59,520 It's risky, because if this doesn't work, Jamie and Adam will look really stupid. 304 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:00,520 Anything? 305 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:01,520 Nothing. 306 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:02,520 Nothing at all. 307 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:03,520 Not a peep. 308 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:21,040 It's all starting to look like a high-tech waste of time. 309 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:25,160 When for no apparent reason, Bob and Roy get chatty. 310 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:26,960 Got something. 311 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,240 It's a pristine quack. 312 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:33,080 And it turns out there is something different about it after all. 313 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,880 Well, I never, he said. 314 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:46,080 It's a series of exponentially decaying impulses, which looks almost exactly like room reverberation. 315 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:50,080 This is the exact moment Jamie is blinded by science. 316 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,280 Have you been paying attention? 317 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:56,960 What they've found is that when you plot it on the computer, the quack looks exactly 318 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,760 like an echo. 319 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,480 And that could explain the origins of the myth. 320 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,680 Its echo might actually sound just like its quack. 321 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:06,600 It might blend together for you. 322 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:12,680 So you might be hearing an echo, but think you're still hearing the quack. 323 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,360 Time to crank up the second experiment in the echo-y room. 324 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:19,960 Hopefully the computer can tell the difference. 325 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,960 You ready to quack for science? 326 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,440 Okay, quiet please. 327 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:28,440 Go. 328 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:33,360 Got it. 329 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:34,840 You did really, really good. 330 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:35,840 Good job. 331 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,880 You did excellently. 332 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,000 Finally Bob and Roy have produced on cue. 333 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,880 This cavern of a warehouse is perfect for echoes. 334 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,840 If there are any, the moment of truth has arrived. 335 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,080 Okay, so you want to see our quacks? 336 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,920 So here's the duck quack that we recorded, and I think this initial part here is the 337 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:55,920 quack. 338 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,280 Yo, does that mean it echoes? 339 00:20:58,280 --> 00:20:59,280 You know what? 340 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:00,280 It's just hard to tell. 341 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:01,280 Really? 342 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,520 The reverberation looks just like the quack. 343 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:08,600 You'd think the combined brains of man and machine would be more than a match for Bob 344 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:09,600 and Roy. 345 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,440 But somehow, once again, they've frustrated science. 346 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:19,400 And for one final time, they'll have to sing for their supper. 347 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:23,040 Roger knows the echo is there somewhere. 348 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:29,240 And sure enough, amid the techno-babble, at last he finds what he's looking for. 349 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:35,240 This series of decaying impulses is the reverberation. 350 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:36,240 Definitely the echo. 351 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,760 Definitely the echo. 352 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:38,760 Mid-busted. 353 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:39,760 Don't be so hasty. 354 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:40,760 Mid-busted, let's go home. 355 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:41,760 See you. 356 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:49,240 They've conclusively shown that although a quack's echo might be quiet and tricky to 357 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,960 hear, it does exist. 358 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:58,840 So how does it feel to be riding the absolute crest of urban myth busting? 359 00:21:58,840 --> 00:21:59,960 Busterific. 360 00:21:59,960 --> 00:22:09,640 And for their contribution to modern science, Bob and Roy have earned a rent-free, bayside 361 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,160 home for life. 362 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,160 Well, what do you think? 363 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:15,160 Looks good? 364 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,160 All right. 365 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,160 Where were all those quacks when we needed them? 366 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,400 Jamie and Adam are immersed in the Alcatraz escape. 367 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,840 Did Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers drown? 368 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,840 Or could they have gotten away on a raincoat raft? 369 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:42,920 To find out, the mythbusters will make a raft and attempt the crossing themselves. 370 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,600 Some living history will help their cause. 371 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:46,600 That's the raincoat. 372 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,160 So this fabric now is very fragile. 373 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:54,720 If I tried to unroll it, it would deteriorate, it would fall apart. 374 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:59,080 This brittle old raincoat was actually part of the escapee's raft. 375 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,560 For some reason, they left it behind on the cell block roof. 376 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:08,880 It's kept in archives at the Maritime Museum and may yet give up a few secrets. 377 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:14,360 And you can definitely see the glue on the edge of the seam here, contact cement. 378 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:18,520 The tiniest hints will help them make their own raft more authentic. 379 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:24,160 It definitely looks like a military-style raincoat that I've seen. 380 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,160 Two paddles were also recovered. 381 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,080 Look at that, that's the real thing. 382 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,640 It actually kind of sent chills out of my spine to see these things. 383 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:39,080 There was somebody in a dark kind of alcove somewhere out there on Alcatraz that was secretly 384 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:48,400 pulling these materials together and building this stuff and we actually handled it. 385 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,600 They've reached back 40 years to touch the myth. 386 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,240 But can they get their hands on the right materials today? 387 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,640 Well, that's the American one. 388 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:03,880 As long as we scuff it up with a little sandpaper, contact cement ought to hold all this stuff. 389 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,880 That feels much better. 390 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:10,880 Seems they could rename this place Alcatraz Escapes Are Us. 391 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:12,880 Forty regular. 392 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,880 There are hats too. 393 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,880 Yeah. 394 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,880 It's too big. 395 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,880 What is that? 396 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,880 Peace to your mother. 397 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,880 I'd say we did pretty good in there. 398 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:27,880 Everything we need. 399 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,120 There's a bunch of stuff we don't. 400 00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:37,120 Back at the shop, it's down to work. 401 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,120 First, the easy part. 402 00:24:39,120 --> 00:24:42,120 Making the paddles based on FBI drawings. 403 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:52,120 One prison escape paddle. 404 00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:56,120 Jamie, you want to come over here and bend over? 405 00:24:56,360 --> 00:24:59,360 We could have a little prison hazing ritual. 406 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:01,360 Whack! 407 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:04,360 There's a bigger pain in the backside ahead. 408 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:08,360 Now our wannabe jailbirds have to make the raft. 409 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:11,360 I'm feeling confident about how this boat's going to do. 410 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:16,360 Of course, the very next cut in the show will be us flailing in the bay in the dark, freezing and screaming. 411 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:20,360 They might not even get that far. 412 00:25:20,360 --> 00:25:25,360 Two seconds into construction and they've discovered their raincoats are PVC, 413 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,600 not rubber. 414 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,600 No. 415 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,600 The stuff isn't remotely airtight. 416 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,600 The plan is coming apart at the seams. 417 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:40,600 It's a totally different material. 418 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,600 At this point, it looks like I'm not getting off the island. 419 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,600 I'm going to have to finish this life sentence. 420 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,600 Turns out the right stuff is almost never used anymore. 421 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,600 But Jamie tracks them down. 422 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,840 It's delivered direct to the big house. 423 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:03,840 This, I swear, this is exactly what they used on the Alcatraz one. 424 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:10,840 The raft was never found, but according to FBI intelligence, it was made of three pontoons. 425 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,840 It was 14 feet long and six wide. 426 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,840 It's going to be a rainwear massacre. 427 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,080 The plan is to first cut them into equal panels. 428 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,080 Morris and the Anglans used more than 50 coats. 429 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,080 We are on our way to Alcatraz. 430 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:47,080 According to the FBI, the escapees had access to contact cement in the prison workshop. 431 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:53,320 Jamie and Adam will use the same stuff to glue the panels together into long sheets. 432 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,320 What I was thinking of doing was basically something like this. 433 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,320 Folding it over. 434 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,320 Yeah, see, so you do glue, glue, glue, glue, glue. 435 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,320 Sounds easy, but the glue is becoming a sticking point. 436 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,320 You do a full on, like, two and a half inch lap. 437 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,320 Why don't we compromise and make it like two inches? 438 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,320 Why do you want to do a smaller one? 439 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,320 Because it just is, it's like, it's not really going to help us any. 440 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,320 Yes, it is. 441 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,560 It's insurance. I have to insist on this one. 442 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,560 It's absolute insurance. 443 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,560 Make it two inches. That's like double what you would, what you mean. 444 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,560 Alright. 445 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,560 And so we'll just each take a table. 446 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:39,560 To make sure the raft is airtight, each seam needs to be glued, dried and compressed together. 447 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,560 The real escapees did this in the dark and silently. 448 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,320 Wait, was that a guard? 449 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,320 No. 450 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,320 No. 451 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,320 Yeah, check it out, man. One, two, three, four, five. 452 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,320 We're at five, we're just over six feet here. 453 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,320 That's big enough for the first pontoon. 454 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,320 They just have to roll it up like a rug and seal the ends. 455 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,320 I'm a little worried. It looks a little too good. 456 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,320 And it's almost like we swear it was raincoats. 457 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,320 Alright. 458 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:26,320 The fact that I even made something that was remotely inflatable for a period of time, 459 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:31,320 got it up the roof through the blower, down to the shore and into the water is astounding. 460 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:38,320 If they get this done, it'll be quite an achievement for the Mythbusters too. 461 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:46,320 My calibrated eyeball detects no leaks whatsoever. 462 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,320 Dude, that's a boat. 463 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,320 I'm really impressed with these prison guys. 464 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,320 Come on, get in. Hurry up, hurry up, they're coming. 465 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,320 The last step is to build in the floor. 466 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:10,320 Just a thin skin of raincoat between them and the sharks. 467 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:16,320 But before they do it, there's a distraction no prisoner ever contended with. 468 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:22,320 They're needed for a Discovery Channel photo shoot. 469 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:28,320 They've got to stop playing at bank robbers and start pretending to be stars. 470 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:30,320 Ow! 471 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,320 I don't do makeup. 472 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:38,320 They get near me with some powder and some scissors for my mustache. 473 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,320 They're going down. 474 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,320 Well, maybe just a little touch up for the tough guy. 475 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,320 You want to look your best. 476 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,320 Would it okay if I turn this into a tidbit? 477 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,320 No. 478 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,320 No, it's not. 479 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:55,320 Just a little bit. 480 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,320 Put these guys in there. 481 00:29:57,320 --> 00:29:59,320 Yeah, he's tough, alright. 482 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,320 It's a good thing they're not in Alcatraz now. 483 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,320 Oh, baby! 484 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,320 Here comes the other lady of the evening. 485 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,320 Man, you look so beautiful. 486 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:17,320 They say these guys can make anyone look good. 487 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,320 Sometimes they just have to try a little harder. 488 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,320 Oh, that's a little bit too much. 489 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,320 Mug shots over, back on the cell block. 490 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,320 The guys are making up for lost time. 491 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,320 Lower your hand a little bit. 492 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:46,320 You drew the line so you have a good idea about where the whole deal sits, yeah? 493 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,320 Just do it one section at a time. 494 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:54,320 It's going to wrinkle. 495 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:55,320 Yeah. 496 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,320 They're nearly done. 497 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,320 Just a last check for leaks. 498 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,320 There's one. See that? 499 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,320 That's a leak. 500 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,320 And a rousing sea shanty to get in the mood. 501 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,320 Oh my God. 502 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:18,320 According to the FBI, the gang modified an accordion to pump up their raft. 503 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:23,320 As always with these instruments, silence was golden. 504 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,320 I am your father. 505 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:32,320 Using a ping pong ball, Jamie engineers an ingenious one-way valve 506 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,320 so the thing will blow air in but not suck it out again. 507 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,320 Works beautifully. 508 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:42,320 That's pretty good. 509 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:43,320 It's working. 510 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:44,320 Yeah. 511 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:50,320 It took 30 raincoats, but the mythbusters have their raft. 512 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,320 They're ready to use it to escape the rock. 513 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:59,320 Based on the information that we have, I think the raft is very similar to what they had on Alcatraz. 514 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:09,320 I give us a 60% chance of making it, 20% chance of immediate catastrophic failure, 515 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,320 and 20% slow descent into the depths of hell. 516 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,320 Hell will have to wait. 517 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,320 It'll be a few days before the tide is right to make their attempt. 518 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,320 In the meantime, the mythbusters have another mission. 519 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,320 Adam and Jamie are about to go deep under cover, 520 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:36,320 armed with only their wits, and a large television production team. 521 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,320 You're really sensitive. You've got a sensitive kind of belly button there, don't you? 522 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:47,320 They plan to tear the lid right off a scandal that could rock the Western world. 523 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:54,320 And see if we can determine when exactly the government installs their mind-controlled chips. 524 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:59,320 These guys laugh at danger if there's a myth to bust. 525 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:04,320 And they know this one must be true after all they found it on the Internet. 526 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:21,320 This one comes fresh off the net. The writer of this myth claims that he had had a chip embedded in him while visiting his local hospital. 527 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,320 And he was so afraid of this that this was some kind of mind-controlled chip, and he wanted to check for it. 528 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:30,320 So he went to the local Home Depot, and he got a stud finder, and he ran the stud finder over his arm. 529 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,320 And sure enough, right there, he detected both electrical activity and metal. 530 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:38,320 This legend also links up with the idea of alien implants. 531 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:48,320 The idea that aliens are implanting us with some kind of chip to control our minds or to monitor what we're doing and what we're saying. 532 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:55,320 Stud finders, aliens, and mind-controlled chips. Chuck Hager can help with the first part. 533 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,320 He's a stud finder stud. 534 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:02,320 It sounds like something that might be right out of a science fiction novel. 535 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,320 Chuck designs and makes stud finders. 536 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,320 Chuck, can you give me a demonstration about how the stud finder actually works? 537 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:13,320 You bet. Let's see what happens. I'm going to place the unit against the wall. Let's turn it on. 538 00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:18,320 Now I'm going to slide it, and as I approach the stud, there's the first edge. 539 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:24,320 Stud finders are used by builders and home handymen about to punch holes in walls. 540 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:31,320 The finder uses an electrical field to detect wooden studs, metal beams, and wiring hidden behind the surface. 541 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,320 There must be some metal back there. 542 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:38,320 But can it find a mind-controlled chip buried in someone's arm? 543 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:47,320 If the wire were metal embedded under the flesh, in metal sensing mode, again, if the metal were large enough, and not too deep, we could certainly sense that. 544 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:59,320 Adam and Jamie will be counting on that back at the American Red Cross. They're still answering questions. 545 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:06,320 The name Kennedy was not mentioned, or were any other political officials. 546 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:10,320 No questions about my political affiliations. Not that I could determine. 547 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:21,320 In fact, the only questions were health-related. The guy's cunning plan is to give blood, and everyone is screened before making a donation. 548 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,320 Oh, that's nice. Wow. 549 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:33,320 They can't drop their guard. According to the myth, the IV needle they are about to receive could well contain a mind-controlled chip. 550 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,320 You can proceed, but we're watching you. 551 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:36,320 Okay. 552 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:45,320 Before going undercover at the Red Cross, the mythbusters needed to be Jedi masters of the stud finder. 553 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:56,320 Jamie's making a builder's nightmare. A wall with more studs than a Saturday night, wiring in between, and a sprinkling of microchips. 554 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:02,320 So I'm supposed to use these things to try and find the wood, the metal, the conduit, and the microchips, hopefully? 555 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,320 This is like a big, grown-up version of battleship. That's cool. 556 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:22,320 You're messing with me. I'm trying to work you to health, but I'm not happy about it. 557 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:35,320 Adam's map is pretty close, but he still hasn't found a microchip, and there's a nasty black hole top-left. 558 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:37,320 Come on, I'm around. 559 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,320 Can I come check it out? 560 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:44,320 Interesting. It's funny that, like, ah, yeah. 561 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:49,320 Ah! That's it. That's what I couldn't see. 562 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,320 And you didn't pick up any of the chips as far as I can tell at all? 563 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:56,320 No. No. None of these showed up as a hotspot. 564 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:05,320 There's too little metal in a chip to show up through a wall, but Adam's hoping they can be detected through flesh. 565 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,320 This gel replicates human tissue. 566 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:16,320 P-U. That's rank. 567 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:23,320 I'd really like to see someone come across this and try and piece together for themselves why it exists. 568 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,320 It does seem to be picking up this chip over here. 569 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:34,320 They're definitely picking up, you know, hints of the chips. Some of them pick them up better than others, and the bone. 570 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:42,320 But stud finders are designed for use on solid walls. Wobbly flesh gives plenty of false readings. 571 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:47,320 No, we're just trying to find the vein. It's almost there. Are you okay? Want some juice? 572 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:53,320 What the guys really need is some practice looking for chips under living flesh. 573 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:59,320 Microchipping seems far-fetched, but responsible pet owners have been doing it for years. 574 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:07,320 And the idea behind the microchip is to make a kind of permanent identification of that animal that can't get lost or worn away like a tag could. 575 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:12,320 Less than one in seven pets lost in America are returned to their owners. 576 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:20,320 These tiny chips act like barcode. They're read with a radio frequency scanner. The ID number is registered to the owner. 577 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:26,320 Is it possible to actually exert like a radio frequency on this chip to control the mind of the animal? 578 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:30,320 Like you could push the stop ripping the curtains button and the don't pee in the corner button. 579 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:39,320 Free of mind control, Bethany the dog is being chipped today. She's kindly agreed to also let the mythbusters scan her. 580 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,320 The chip is inserted with a hypodermic needle. 581 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:49,320 And then it goes in. Once the microchip is placed we want to make sure that it still works. 582 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:54,320 And so we'll use the scanner to scan right over that area and we get the unique identification number again. 583 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,320 That's great. 584 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:05,320 Now it's only meant to be found with a radio frequency scanner, but can the chip be located by a stud finder's electrical field? 585 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:09,320 I'm getting a little blip actually right over the site. 586 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:10,320 There you go. 587 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:14,320 I think I found it. 588 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,320 Yeah, right about there. Yeah. 589 00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:27,320 Everyone's happy and armed with their new chip finding skills, Jamie and Adam are ready to spring their surprise back at the Red Cross. 590 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:34,320 We want to make sure that we're starting out with no mind control devices embedded in our arms already. 591 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:39,320 So we're going to use a stud finder. Here you go Jamie. 592 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:46,320 If there are mind control chips being dispensed here, it looks like the game is up. 593 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,320 All clear. It's time to make their donation. 594 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,320 A little sting. Here we go. 595 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,320 It's not so bad. 596 00:39:54,320 --> 00:40:03,320 Common Sense says the Red Cross is far more interested in collecting blood than brains, particularly in the case of these two minds. 597 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:08,320 But Jamie and Adam have put their heads on the block in the name of myth busting. 598 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,320 Could they pay the ultimate price? 599 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:17,320 I don't notice anything at all. I feel perfectly normal now. 600 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:23,320 Everything feels great. Life is good. The world is in perfect order. 601 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:28,320 That's Adam's mind in normal, out of control mode. 602 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:35,320 And any attempt by the government to bring it some order seems to have failed. 603 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:39,320 Those stud finders aren't finding anything. 604 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:45,320 It would seem that their technology is far more advanced than I previously suspected and that I'm riddled with microchips. 605 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,320 Or maybe there aren't. 606 00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,320 That's right. That is a third option. It didn't even encourage me. 607 00:40:53,320 --> 00:41:00,320 The Red Cross' Becky O'Connor has heard her share of ridiculous stories about blood donation. 608 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,320 So you categorically deny it? 609 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:08,320 I do categorically deny that there is anything left behind when you make a blood donation. 610 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:12,320 The Red Cross always needs new blood donors to help save lives. 611 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,320 Less than 5% of eligible Americans donate. 612 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:21,320 I think that if we were actually somehow controlling people, we probably wouldn't have a shortage 613 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:25,320 because the first thing we might do is encourage them to come in more often. 614 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,320 I really think that's one of the sillier myths that we could have run across. 615 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:34,320 I think we should look for a couple more interesting myths to dispel. 616 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,320 So hopefully more people will do this. 617 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:43,320 The Myth Busters have come through with Minds Intact, a giving glow and myth busted. 618 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,320 The night of June 11th, 1962. 619 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:56,320 Three desperate men break out of Alcatraz and trust their lives to the black water. 620 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,320 They are never seen again. 621 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:03,320 Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin and his brother John. 622 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:11,320 You look funny. 623 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:12,320 You don't? 624 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:13,320 No. 625 00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:19,320 In fact, Jamie and Adam are wearing what the escapees would have been on the night they broke out. 626 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:25,320 Dressed like this, could the three have paddled their raft made of raincoats to safety? 627 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:29,320 Tonight, the Myth Busters will find out. 628 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:34,320 The FBI files say the escapees were aiming for Angel Island, 629 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:40,320 but the Myth Busters will test their own theory that they were smart enough to use the outgoing tide 630 00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,320 to carry them to the Marin Headlands. 631 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,320 Of course, there were three in the real escape attempt, 632 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:53,320 so young Will Abbott has been drafted from the workshop to be their partner in crime. 633 00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:59,320 It's going to be a whole other world, not to mention the shock of the cold, cold water. 634 00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:04,320 Just remember, kid, if it doesn't kill you, it just makes a great story later on. 635 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:05,320 Oh, hell yeah. 636 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,320 We'll find out Frank Morris' weight. 637 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:12,320 He'll wear a buoyant wetsuit so he can immediately help the guys if things go wrong. 638 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:18,320 Just so that we can communicate for emergency situations, this means I need help. 639 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:20,320 This is not hello. 640 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,320 This means I'm okay, everything's all right. 641 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:24,320 All right? 642 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:28,320 The guys will also wear strobe locator lights. 643 00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:32,320 Well, we'll get you a battery on that just as soon as we can. 644 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,320 That'd be a good idea. 645 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:39,320 On the northwest edge of Alcatraz, the tide is rushing out at more than three knots. 646 00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,320 The water just over 60 degrees. 647 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,320 The wind about five knots. 648 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:48,320 Those conditions are very similar to what faced Morris and the Anglans. 649 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,320 And remember, they are presumed to have drowned. 650 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:57,320 Dead or alive, I imagine that the three escapees would get a kick out of the fact that 651 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:03,320 we are getting into a boat and retracing their steps for an entertainment show. 652 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:07,320 I can only imagine what the convicts were saying when this was occurring. 653 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,320 I guess nobody will ever know. 654 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:14,320 But I'm pretty sure they weren't talking about how nice the view was. 655 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:18,320 They're in position just off the spot where the escapees took their chances. 656 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:24,320 Like them, the mythbusters have no idea if their raincoat raft will float. 657 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:29,320 You and me, four and a half of the will in the middle, that puts the lightest weight at the highest ringness. 658 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:35,320 It's cold, it's dark, and it's time to go. 659 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:39,320 Paramedics and a trained lifeguard are standing by. 660 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:54,320 The rafts passed its first test. It's holding Jamie's weight. 661 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,320 We're taking that water. 662 00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,320 I'll take that, I got it. 663 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,320 I know one paddle. 664 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,320 Okay, we're off. 665 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,320 Here we are. 666 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,320 We're escaping! 667 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:21,320 Somewhere around here, no doubt Morris and the Anglans celebrated too. 668 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,320 They'd escaped Alcatraz, but what lay ahead? 669 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:29,320 If that raft sank, they were swimming. 670 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:34,320 If they were swimming, they would be in trouble relatively quickly. 671 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:38,320 It was nine or ten hours before they were found to be missing. 672 00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,320 If you're still in the water that long, you're not going to make it. 673 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,320 I have no idea where we are. 674 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,320 Adam, Jamie and Will are paddling across the tide. 675 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:53,320 If they've miscalculated, the current will sweep them under the Golden Gate Bridge and out to sea. 676 00:45:56,320 --> 00:46:01,320 I can't see Alcatraz because there's some damn big float in the view. 677 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,320 Our legs are falling asleep. 678 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:08,320 The raft is getting weaker. Every ten minutes they have to add more air. 679 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,320 And the tidal rip is getting rougher. 680 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:26,320 Did the same waves sink the escapees? 681 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:29,320 No signs of them were ever found on land. 682 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,320 But the water gave up clues. 683 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,320 The most important thing was a packet of photographs. 684 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:42,320 Also, there were nine slips of paper with names and addresses of people they were going to contact. 685 00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:48,320 Now, unless you're in a life-or-death situation, you're not going to let go of that bag. 686 00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:53,320 Hey Adam, we can see Alcatraz straight behind us right now. 687 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:54,320 Wow! 688 00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,320 We've come quite a ways haven't we? 689 00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:57,320 We have. 690 00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:02,320 After about forty minutes, they're closing in on the bridge and the shore. 691 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:08,320 If the real escapees made it this far, their spirits would be starting to lift by now too. 692 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,320 This is so cool! 693 00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:17,320 It seemed impossible, but the mythbusters are almost there. 694 00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:22,320 Paddling a raincoat raft more than three miles across a rushing tide, 695 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:26,320 making landfall just east of the Golden Gate Bridge. 696 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:30,320 We made it! 697 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:35,320 If the escapees came ashore here, they've stepped lightly ever since. 698 00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:39,320 There were no stolen cars, no phone calls home. 699 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:43,320 Frank Morris and the Anglin Brothers disappeared without trace. 700 00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:47,320 In doing so, they created a great myth. 701 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,320 There were sightings in New Orleans and Washington, D.C. 702 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:56,320 I personally had a guy tell me that the Anglin Brothers were down in Florida playing golf 703 00:47:56,320 --> 00:48:01,320 and they were not the type of guys that would be allowed on a golf course. 704 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:07,320 As for the mythbusters, their running days are over. 705 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:11,320 Beautiful, man! 706 00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:12,320 Good job, guys. 707 00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,320 Yeah, good job. Good job, James. 708 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:20,320 Given a reasonable amount of intelligence, I think it's entirely possible that they made it. 709 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:25,320 Again, I think the most damning evidence that they didn't is the fact that no one's heard from them since. 710 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:30,320 Unless they find any specific evidence that these guys lived happily ever after 711 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:36,320 or something after they got ashore, we won't know whether it was true or not. 712 00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,320 But we know that it could have been done, which is cool. 713 00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,320 Here's something to ponder, though. 714 00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,320 The tide carried an ore to Angel Island. 715 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:49,320 That tide came directly from the Marin Headlands. 716 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,320 How did the ore get there, if not with the escapees? 717 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,320 The mystery remains. 718 00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:57,320 I'm king of the world!