1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,500 Do not try what you're about to see at home. 2 00:00:02,500 --> 00:00:05,500 We consult with experts, we take every precaution, 3 00:00:05,500 --> 00:00:08,000 and we have years of experience in dangerous situations. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,500 On this horrifying episode of Mythbusters... 5 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:17,000 Here's that one! 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,000 There's thrills... 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,000 Oh, it's burrowing! 8 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Spills... 9 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,500 Who taught me into this? 10 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:25,000 And spine-tingling chills... 11 00:00:25,500 --> 00:00:28,500 for the hair-raising Halloween special. 12 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 First, Adam and Jamie go bump in the night. 13 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,500 Yes, we're staring at you. 14 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:35,500 We're all staring at you. 15 00:00:35,500 --> 00:00:38,000 Finding out if the science of sound... 16 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 There's ain't no boom boxes. 17 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:43,500 Could explain reports of paranormal activity. 18 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:48,500 Then it's a grave concern. 19 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:50,500 Are you ready for the horror? 20 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,500 Testing the movie myth that moving a dead body is dead easy. 21 00:00:56,500 --> 00:01:00,000 Meanwhile, Kari, Tori and Grant take fright. 22 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,500 Breathe, just breathe. 23 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:02,500 Yeah, breathe. 24 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:04,500 And work up a cold sweat. 25 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:05,500 Help me! 26 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:08,500 Finding out if there really is... 27 00:01:08,500 --> 00:01:10,500 a smell of fear. 28 00:01:10,500 --> 00:01:12,500 Oh, they got it over. 29 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:17,500 Who are the Mythbusters? 30 00:01:17,500 --> 00:01:18,500 Science is dangerous! 31 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:19,500 Adam Savage. 32 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:20,500 Hi, Mom. 33 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:22,500 And Jamie Heineman. 34 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:23,500 Bye-bye! 35 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:28,500 Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience... 36 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:31,500 together with Kari Byron. 37 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:33,500 Face the arachnacher. 38 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:34,500 Grant Imahara. 39 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:36,500 Nothing to touch, man! 40 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:37,500 And Tori Belachie. 41 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:40,500 It's a cute little look of death. 42 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:42,500 They don't just tell the Myth... 43 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:43,500 What more do you need to know? 44 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:45,500 They put them to the test. 45 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:55,500 The Mythbusters 46 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:07,500 Children of the night, prepare to be terrified. 47 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:12,500 What is this time for the Mythbusters Halloween of special... 48 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:14,500 Do you have a costume for me? 49 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:16,500 Would you even wear one? 50 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:17,500 No. 51 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:18,500 Then we don't. 52 00:02:19,500 --> 00:02:22,500 So what's on the roster for the Halloween special? 53 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:23,500 I'm glad you asked. 54 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:26,500 First up, we have a myth called the Frequency of Fear. 55 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:29,500 There is apparently a certain frequency of sound... 56 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:32,500 that people can't hear, but they can sense it... 57 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:34,500 and it makes people feel spooked. 58 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:36,500 And it might be an explanation for my people... 59 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:38,500 think certain places are haunted. 60 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:39,500 I like that. 61 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:43,500 And you know, I also want to try dealing with disposing of bodies. 62 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:44,500 Really? 63 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:46,500 Yeah, you know, in the movies, they're always slinging them around... 64 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:50,500 like they're easy, but there's a reason they call it dead weight. 65 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:54,500 That's great, it sounds positively ghoulish! 66 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:02,500 Here we go. 67 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:06,500 Yep, be afraid, be very afraid... 68 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:09,500 because Adam and Jamie have doubled the dread... 69 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:12,500 for a duo of disturbing myths. 70 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:15,500 And first up is an audio anomaly. 71 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:19,500 There's no shortage of folks reporting that they see... 72 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:21,500 dead people. 73 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:25,500 But science suggests that this paranormal activity... 74 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:28,500 could all be down to inaudible sounds. 75 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:31,500 Could the vibration of household appliances... 76 00:03:31,500 --> 00:03:34,500 at the supposed freaky frequency... 77 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:37,500 really make you see a ghost? 78 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:40,500 So what's the plan for Frequency of Fear? 79 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:43,500 Well, the specific frequency turns out to be 19 hertz. 80 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:45,500 It's sub-oral, which means you can't hear it... 81 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:48,500 but to give ourselves the best chance that someone might be able to sense it... 82 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:51,500 I think we need a big, fat speaker stack... 83 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:54,500 that can generate 19 hertz at a fairly high intensity. 84 00:03:54,500 --> 00:03:55,500 Sounds good. 85 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:57,500 So we can be scientific and all. 86 00:03:57,500 --> 00:04:00,500 Why don't we get, say, four separate cottages... 87 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:02,500 that are already a little spooky? 88 00:04:02,500 --> 00:04:05,500 And we'll only play the sound in one of them! 89 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:07,500 Yeah, and if they're already a little spooky... 90 00:04:07,500 --> 00:04:09,500 maybe the tone will send them over the edge. 91 00:04:09,500 --> 00:04:10,500 Oh, that's terrific! 92 00:04:10,500 --> 00:04:12,500 Alright, let's do it. 93 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:20,500 And deep in the backwards... 94 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:25,500 the Mythbusters have found the perfect location to set the tone. 95 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:37,500 Where's Jamie? 96 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:44,500 A little spooky here, isn't it? 97 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:46,500 I think it's plenty spooky. 98 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:50,500 Now, because this is a Halloween episode... 99 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:53,500 we wanted the location we came to to be good and spooky. 100 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:55,500 Ooh, but not so spooky... 101 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:58,500 that it would actually skew the control of our test... 102 00:04:58,500 --> 00:04:59,500 testing spookiness. 103 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:01,500 And about two and a half hours north of the Mythbusters shop... 104 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:03,500 in Northern California in the Redwoods... 105 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:05,500 we found this fantastic club resort... 106 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:09,500 and no one's been here in almost 15 years. 107 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:13,500 It was once beautiful, now it's simply perfect for us. 108 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:15,500 They're perfect for our purposes... 109 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:17,500 because despite small cosmetic differences... 110 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:22,500 each of our four cabins has a nearly identical layout. 111 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:25,500 We will, however, only be applying our infrasound treatment... 112 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:27,500 to one of the four cabins... 113 00:05:27,500 --> 00:05:29,500 and we'll be trying to find out if there's any meat to this myth. 114 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:33,500 I.e. does a statistically significant majority of our volunteers... 115 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:36,500 find that cabin to be the haunted one. 116 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:37,500 Perfect! 117 00:05:37,500 --> 00:05:40,500 Indeed, and to generate that hum... 118 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:43,500 There's ain't no boom boxes. 119 00:05:43,500 --> 00:05:48,500 Jamie's tracked down a super-sized stack of speakers. 120 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:52,500 It's equivalent to the sound that you might have coming out of a large rock concert. 121 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:57,500 It's about 40,000 watts, or you know, that home theater system you have. 122 00:05:57,500 --> 00:06:00,500 Well, it's about 400 of those. 123 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:04,500 Yep, cabin number three has a sound system to die for. 124 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:08,500 But for this test, they're pumping the volume down? 125 00:06:08,500 --> 00:06:11,500 These speakers are clearly capable of making the whole building vibrate... 126 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:14,500 and the windows shake, which is what they're doing now. 127 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:18,500 And we can't actually have any sounds that the test subjects can hear... 128 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:20,500 because that would skew the results. 129 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:26,500 We've got an upper limit on the amount of volume that we can pump out of those speakers. 130 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:30,500 So we're going to have to tune this back just to the point where... 131 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:35,500 there's nothing audible, including rattling, and we'll work with that. 132 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:40,500 With the volume dialed down from 11, Jamie goes for a test run. 133 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:45,500 Hmm. This is interesting. 134 00:06:45,500 --> 00:06:47,500 I can't hear anything out of the ordinary. 135 00:06:47,500 --> 00:06:51,500 I do feel like there's something going on in me. 136 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:56,500 It feels like I have butterflies in my stomach, or I'm really tired, but I've had too much coffee. 137 00:06:56,500 --> 00:07:00,500 It's sort of anxiety-producing. 138 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:04,500 I don't know about fear, but it's unnerving. 139 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:10,500 Next up, the Mythbusters are on the semifinals. 140 00:07:12,500 --> 00:07:14,500 Alright, so this is a classic for the Halloween special. 141 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:15,500 What is it? 142 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:16,500 The smell of fear. 143 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:17,500 What about it? 144 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:20,500 Well, the fans want to know, is it just a Hollywood tagline, 145 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:22,500 The smell of fear? 146 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:25,500 Or is there a detectable scent that humans give off when they're scared? 147 00:07:25,500 --> 00:07:27,500 That means we're going to have to get scared for this, doesn't it? 148 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:28,500 You betcha. 149 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:32,500 Ah, I'm so not looking forward to this. 150 00:07:33,500 --> 00:07:37,500 This is a myth straight out of Schluck horror. 151 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:46,500 But does the sticky sweat of fear really have an aroma of anxiety? 152 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:52,500 And would that stink be wiffy enough for a human nose to sniff it out? 153 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:56,500 So if there is a smell of fear, it must be something secreted in sweat. 154 00:07:56,500 --> 00:07:57,500 Exactly. 155 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:01,500 So why don't we set up an experiment where we're collecting normal sweat as we're exercising as a control, 156 00:08:01,500 --> 00:08:04,500 and then we'll collect more sweat while we're being scared. 157 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:06,500 Alright, then we take those samples, bring in some volunteers, 158 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:09,500 and see if they can smell the difference between fear and non-fear sweat. 159 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:11,500 Cool, but you know what that means. 160 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:15,500 That means we're going to have to devise some kind of torture for our fear sweat samples. 161 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:17,500 Well, you remember cold feet? 162 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:19,500 How could I forget? 163 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:24,500 Well, apparently our fans are demented, and they want to torture us with more creepy crawlies. 164 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:26,500 So they've come up with a list of things. 165 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:29,500 We're going to pick three, and then each of us will pick one out of a hat. 166 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:33,500 Sort of like a sick and twisted lottery, where none of us really wins. 167 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:35,500 Great, I can hardly wait. 168 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:40,500 But you know, before we get to that, we should get out the treadmill so that we can get our control samples. 169 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:42,500 Good idea, stall as long as we can. 170 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:43,500 Yeah. 171 00:08:43,500 --> 00:08:47,500 Yep, it's time to get a little steamy and sweaty for science. 172 00:08:47,500 --> 00:08:50,500 Okay, time to collect your sweat sample. 173 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:51,500 Yeah, get in there, guys. 174 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:53,500 You know, you put your sweat capturing pads on yourself. 175 00:08:53,500 --> 00:08:54,500 You might guess. 176 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:55,500 No. 177 00:08:55,500 --> 00:09:00,500 Ultimately, they'll pit this exercise sweat against their scared secretions. 178 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:06,500 Hi, the tiger, baby. 179 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:09,500 It's definitely don't try this at home. 180 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:11,500 This is advanced. 181 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:14,500 And the best part is, I'm not afraid at all. 182 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:16,500 So this is just pure sweat. 183 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:20,500 It's a pure and relaxed experiment. 184 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:23,500 Grant, think about robots and puppies. 185 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:25,500 To sweat out a control baseline. 186 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:26,500 Yeah. 187 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:28,500 You almost have it there. 188 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:29,500 Keep it going. 189 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:30,500 You got it, coach. 190 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:32,500 I won't let you down. 191 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:36,500 And after each myth buster has pounded the treadmill for 20 minutes, 192 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:40,500 they've got a bead on exercise perspiration. 193 00:09:41,500 --> 00:09:44,500 Looks like science confirms it carries hot. 194 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:45,500 Red hot. 195 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:47,500 Nice. 196 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:48,500 Nice work, Kerry. 197 00:09:48,500 --> 00:09:49,500 All right. 198 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:50,500 Off to the freezer. 199 00:09:50,500 --> 00:09:55,500 So we've been told by our experts that it's critical that our samples don't degrade. 200 00:09:55,500 --> 00:09:58,500 And that the best way to do that is to put it in the freezer. 201 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:00,500 So this is getting fresh. 202 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:03,500 With the control exercise sweat chilling out, 203 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:10,500 it's now time to enter the little workshop of horrors for their trial by fear. 204 00:10:11,500 --> 00:10:14,500 Next up, we test the myth of the smell of fear. 205 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:18,500 We're each going to lay in a coffin and subject ourselves to different creepy crawlies. 206 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:25,500 You know what, I am not looking forward to this experiment at all. 207 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:28,500 All right. 208 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:30,500 I'm not looking forward to what's in here. 209 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:34,500 Well, you can bet it's not rainbows and bunnies. 210 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:37,500 It's worse than I ever expected. 211 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:40,500 Phenom ascorpion. 212 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:41,500 They sting. 213 00:10:41,500 --> 00:10:43,500 They're horrible sick people. 214 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:44,500 Yep. 215 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:49,500 Seven minutes in a coffin full of scorpions should ensure some petrified perspiration. 216 00:10:49,500 --> 00:10:51,500 I'm getting coughing. 217 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:54,500 Oh God, Halloween used to be my favorite holiday. 218 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:58,500 It's the moment of truth as pest wrangler Owen Merck's 219 00:10:58,500 --> 00:10:59,500 Good evening, gentlemen, 220 00:10:59,500 --> 00:11:02,500 brings in the scorpions for Carrie's ordeal. 221 00:11:02,500 --> 00:11:03,500 Oh God. 222 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:05,500 Oh my God. 223 00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:08,500 Oh my God. 224 00:11:09,500 --> 00:11:12,500 From the get go, Carrie is terrified. 225 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:15,500 Add with 30 scorpions scattered on top of her. 226 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:17,500 It just gets worse. 227 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:22,500 So weird. 228 00:11:22,500 --> 00:11:27,500 Three minutes in and her arachnid friends are getting a little too friendly. 229 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:29,500 My finger, my finger. 230 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:32,500 Oh, that was biting her fingernail. 231 00:11:32,500 --> 00:11:33,500 Is that a sting? 232 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:34,500 It's fine, it's fine. 233 00:11:34,500 --> 00:11:35,500 It's fine. 234 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:37,500 Oh, actually, you know what? 235 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:39,500 He thinks her nail is a bug. 236 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:43,500 Carrie tries her best to stay as still as possible, 237 00:11:43,500 --> 00:11:45,500 so as not to disturb the scorpions. 238 00:11:46,500 --> 00:11:47,500 I can't stop shaking my foot. 239 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:48,500 I can't stop shaking my foot. 240 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:49,500 Stop it. 241 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:50,500 I can't stop it. 242 00:11:50,500 --> 00:11:52,500 Wait, are you shaking it or? 243 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:53,500 No. 244 00:11:54,500 --> 00:11:56,500 You know what, Carrie, I've seen you in a lot of horrible situations, 245 00:11:56,500 --> 00:11:59,500 but I think this is the most scared I've ever seen you. 246 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:00,500 Nine, eight. 247 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:03,500 Well, time flies when you're not having fun, 248 00:12:03,500 --> 00:12:06,500 and soon Carrie's seven minutes are up. 249 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:12,500 Okay, I gotta say, being covered in scorpions when they're on your face 250 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:17,500 and the uncontrollable shaking and knowing that they sting if you move, 251 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:19,500 worked, I think. 252 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:21,500 Oh my gosh. 253 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:22,500 I was definitely scared. 254 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:23,500 I'm definitely scared. 255 00:12:23,500 --> 00:12:25,500 I've got a good sample for you right now. 256 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:27,500 There's fear drenching these right now. 257 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:29,500 These are fear drenched pads. 258 00:12:29,500 --> 00:12:30,500 Good job. 259 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:31,500 Yeah, me too. 260 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:33,500 Oh, there's a smell to fear. 261 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:34,500 At least we're okay. 262 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:36,500 Oh my God. 263 00:12:36,500 --> 00:12:38,500 I think that's over. 264 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:42,500 It may be over for Carrie, but for Tori and Grant, 265 00:12:42,500 --> 00:12:45,500 the terror hasn't even begun. 266 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:47,500 Oh, it's burning. 267 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:48,500 Oh! 268 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:50,500 Later, the body count goes up. 269 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:52,500 Are you ready for the horror? 270 00:12:52,500 --> 00:12:55,500 And Adam gets into gear for the haunted hum. 271 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:56,500 Get your costumes ready. 272 00:12:56,500 --> 00:12:58,500 It's that time of year. 273 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:02,500 It's time for the Mythbusters Halloween special. 274 00:13:11,500 --> 00:13:14,500 Hello, or should I say hello? 275 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:16,500 It's the Mythbusters Halloween special. 276 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:20,500 And we are testing the story currently that there is a certain frequency of sound 277 00:13:20,500 --> 00:13:24,500 too low for the human ear to hear that can still make people feel uneasy 278 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:27,500 and lead them to believe that a place is haunted. 279 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:30,500 We've set up four identical houses, 280 00:13:30,500 --> 00:13:34,500 but only one of them will be getting the suboral sound treatment. 281 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:36,500 I am sitting on that treatment. 282 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:39,500 This is a stack of 40,000 watts of speakers 283 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:43,500 that will produce a sound that most people can't hear. 284 00:13:43,500 --> 00:13:46,500 Will it make them feel like this house is haunted? 285 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:51,500 I really don't know. 286 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:53,500 Well, you're about to find out 287 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:56,500 as the first set of our 10 volunteers has arrived 288 00:13:56,500 --> 00:13:59,500 for a very strange meet and greet. 289 00:13:59,500 --> 00:14:00,500 Addie. 290 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:05,500 In order to put our test subjects in a proper frame of mind for this experiment, 291 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:07,500 we want them just a little bit spooked. 292 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:10,500 And in that vein, we're having the local groundskeeper give them the lowdown 293 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:13,500 of what they can expect when they're participating in this experiment. 294 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:16,500 He's going to tell them that of the four cabins they're looking at, 295 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:18,500 one of them had something bad happen in it. 296 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:20,500 But it's all totally made up. 297 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:22,500 Even the groundskeeper is made up. 298 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:25,500 We've got 130 cabins up here. 299 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:26,500 He is. 300 00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:29,500 Although something about him seems strangely familiar. 301 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:31,500 You're going to look at four of them, 302 00:14:31,500 --> 00:14:34,500 and one of those four, something bad happened. 303 00:14:34,500 --> 00:14:38,500 Now, we'd like to know if you're sensitive enough to tell us which one. 304 00:14:38,500 --> 00:14:39,500 Thank you. 305 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:47,500 Now, remember the 19 hertz frequency is too low to be detected by the human ear. 306 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:52,500 But will the wave produced be so unsettling that it convinces our volunteers 307 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,500 that cabin three is haunted? 308 00:14:55,500 --> 00:14:59,500 Shall we unleash the contestants on our fear pray? 309 00:14:59,500 --> 00:15:00,500 One at a time. 310 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:01,500 Okay. 311 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:04,500 Let's bring out the first contestant. 312 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:09,500 And that first contestant is Tiffany, who heads to cabin number one. 313 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:12,500 Yes, we're staring at you. 314 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:14,500 We're all staring at you. 315 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:16,500 How do you like that? 316 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:19,500 Where she sits silently for three minutes, 317 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:23,500 until Adam gives the command to move to cabin two. 318 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:25,500 Three, two. 319 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:33,500 It's like a remote control toy. 320 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:35,500 Switching to feed number two. 321 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:38,500 And then after another three minutes, 322 00:15:38,500 --> 00:15:41,500 she moves on to cabin number three. 323 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:43,500 Switching to feed number three. 324 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:46,500 Confirmed for me that the sound's on. 325 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:47,500 I found it on. 326 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:48,500 Good work. Thank you. 327 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:52,500 As far as Tiffany is concerned, it's the sound of silence. 328 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:56,500 But does the suboral sound wave induce fear? 329 00:15:57,500 --> 00:15:59,500 Fifteen seconds. 330 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:04,500 Well, it certainly seems like she's noticed something. 331 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:08,500 And after a final three minutes behind door number four, 332 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:11,500 the question is, which cabin will she pick? 333 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:14,500 If you had to pick one of these four cabins, 334 00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:16,500 it's the spookiest which one would you pick? 335 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:17,500 Two. 336 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:18,500 Two. Can you say why? Do you know why? 337 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:20,500 It just felt weird. 338 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:22,500 Felt a little lightheaded when I walked in, 339 00:16:22,500 --> 00:16:25,500 but it just felt really weird. 340 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:27,500 Tiffany wasn't weirded out by the sound, 341 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:29,500 but she's just the start, 342 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:32,500 as each volunteer is klaxon through the cabins. 343 00:16:33,500 --> 00:16:35,500 So, which house? 344 00:16:35,500 --> 00:16:36,500 Two. 345 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:37,500 I'd have to say it'd be one. 346 00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:38,500 Number one. 347 00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:40,500 All right. Excellent. 348 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:45,500 But so far, their intuition isn't picking the freaky frequency in cabin number three. 349 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:48,500 Well, we're halfway through our testing, 350 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:51,500 and so far, house number three, the one with the sound, 351 00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:54,500 is not outstanding in any way. 352 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:57,500 It's not looking good for spooky sounds. 353 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:06,500 Carri, Tori and Grant are sniffing out 354 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:09,500 if there is a not-so-sweet smell of fear. 355 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:13,500 And if it exists, can anybody knows it out? 356 00:17:14,500 --> 00:17:15,500 Well, to find out, 357 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:19,500 Carri's been trapped in a sarcophagus full of scorpions. 358 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:21,500 Oh my, oh my, oh my! 359 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:25,500 Because for this test, it's vital that the team feels the fear. 360 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:28,500 Once we are done torturing each other in the coffin 361 00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:30,500 and collecting the fear sweat, 362 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:33,500 then we are going to take our control sweat and our fear sweat 363 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:35,500 and let volunteers smell both of them 364 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:38,500 and see if they can smell the fear. 365 00:17:42,500 --> 00:17:43,500 And Tori is next. 366 00:17:43,500 --> 00:17:47,500 So what fan-requested nightmare lurks in his fear future? 367 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:50,500 Okay, Owen. 368 00:17:50,500 --> 00:17:52,500 Bring on the snakes. 369 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:56,500 One by one, 20 snakes are slithered out onto Tori. 370 00:17:56,500 --> 00:17:58,500 Oh, my gosh. 371 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:00,500 I'm just going to lay this down right. 372 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:01,500 Oh! 373 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:02,500 Oh! 374 00:18:02,500 --> 00:18:03,500 These are the small ones? 375 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:04,500 These are the little ones. 376 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:05,500 Oh my God. 377 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:09,500 Oh, God, it's so big! 378 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:10,500 It's so big! 379 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:11,500 Now we're done. 380 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:15,500 And as the timer starts, Tori's anxiety is clear. 381 00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:18,500 I'm tired of my monkey fighting snakes. 382 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:20,500 I'm so tired of my monkey fighting snakes. 383 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:23,500 I'm so tired of my monkey fighting snakes. 384 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:27,500 I'm tired of my monkey fighting snakes and this monkey. 385 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:29,500 There's going to my shirt! 386 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:30,500 Oh, man! 387 00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:33,500 But as more snakes seek out his body heat, 388 00:18:33,500 --> 00:18:36,500 Tori starts to really lose his cool. 389 00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:40,500 Don't move your chin. 390 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:41,500 Oh! 391 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:42,500 Oh, oh, oh! 392 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:43,500 He wants to say hi. 393 00:18:43,500 --> 00:18:44,500 Oh, my gosh. 394 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:45,500 He's going to kiss. 395 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:47,500 He's going to give me a little kisses. 396 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:49,500 He wants kisses. 397 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:52,500 Until finally, seven minutes are up. 398 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:57,500 And Tori can't wait to get every last snake back where it belongs. 399 00:18:57,500 --> 00:18:59,500 He's my friend, or I could get... 400 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:00,500 He's down my... 401 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:02,500 Like, yeah, he's in there. 402 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:06,500 Oh, yeah! 403 00:19:08,500 --> 00:19:10,500 So with Tori's sweat on ice, 404 00:19:10,500 --> 00:19:14,500 the lucky last to face his trial by terror is Grant. 405 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:16,500 And the news is... 406 00:19:16,500 --> 00:19:17,500 Rats. 407 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:20,500 Okay, I'm ready to do this. 408 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:22,500 50 rodents are piled up on Grant. 409 00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:26,500 And then Carrie asks the question Grant didn't want to think about. 410 00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:28,500 Can they burrow in through clothing? 411 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:30,500 They can burrow through clothing. 412 00:19:30,500 --> 00:19:31,500 They can burrow through walls. 413 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:32,500 They can burrow through floors. 414 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:35,500 There's very little in this world that will stop a rat. 415 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:38,500 Initially, it seems that Grant is being pestered, 416 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:40,500 but he's not perturbed. 417 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:42,500 Oh, it's burrowing! 418 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:43,500 Oh! 419 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:45,500 Where's it burrowing? 420 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:46,500 Oh! 421 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:47,500 Ah! 422 00:19:47,500 --> 00:19:48,500 Ah! 423 00:19:48,500 --> 00:19:49,500 Ah! 424 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:52,500 I think he likes it. 425 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:55,500 Maybe we should leave him alone. 426 00:19:55,500 --> 00:19:57,500 No, no, no, get it out! 427 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:59,500 Should we leave you alone? 428 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:02,500 But as the time takes on, with the sheer quantity of rats, 429 00:20:02,500 --> 00:20:04,500 the terror takes hold. 430 00:20:04,500 --> 00:20:06,500 You all right? Breathe, just breathe. 431 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:07,500 Yeah, breathe. 432 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:08,500 Breathe. 433 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:09,500 There you go. 434 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:12,500 And finally, after seven minutes of rat attack, 435 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:14,500 the rodents are rounded up. 436 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:15,500 Oh! 437 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:18,500 And Grant's torture is terminated. 438 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:20,500 Uh, it was... 439 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:23,500 It was scary because it felt like they were biting my hands, 440 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:26,500 like gnawing on my hands. 441 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:31,500 And then they were trying to burrow it to different places. 442 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:33,500 It was not good. 443 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:34,500 Good. 444 00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:37,500 Somebody hose Grant off, please. 445 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:39,500 There you go. 446 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:40,500 Ah! 447 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:41,500 Ah! 448 00:20:41,500 --> 00:20:44,500 Now, there's no doubt in my mind that all of us were scared. 449 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:46,500 The real question is, 450 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:48,500 the sweat that we induced in this experiment, 451 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:51,500 will our volunteers be able to tell the difference 452 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:55,500 between this sweat and the sweat we created in the control test? 453 00:21:16,500 --> 00:21:19,500 In the spooktastic Halloween special. 454 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:20,500 What scares Adam? 455 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:22,500 I do. 456 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:25,500 And there's still more tricks and treats to come. 457 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:27,500 That's the one. 458 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:28,500 I'll take this one, please. 459 00:21:28,500 --> 00:21:29,500 Wrap it up. 460 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:33,500 Meanwhile, back at the cabins in the woods, 461 00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:37,500 it feels like something bad happened. 462 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:44,500 It didn't, but the Mythbusters are testing if a freaky frequency 463 00:21:44,500 --> 00:21:47,500 can persuade their volunteers it did. 464 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:49,500 Which one felt the spookiest? 465 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:50,500 Two. 466 00:21:50,500 --> 00:21:54,500 So far, none of the volunteers have picked cabin three 467 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:56,500 at its haunted 19-hertz hum. 468 00:21:56,500 --> 00:22:01,500 But it seems as though candidate six is slightly spooked. 469 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:07,500 He just said I get the weirdest feeling. 470 00:22:07,500 --> 00:22:09,500 It's kind of freaky. 471 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:11,500 Which house do you think was haunted? 472 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:14,500 If I had to pick one, it'd probably be cabin three, I think. 473 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:16,500 What was it about it that caught your attention? 474 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:17,500 I don't know. 475 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:20,500 Just the way that the flooring looked and everything inside there, 476 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:24,500 maybe walking around inside there feeling it felt a little different, though, yeah. 477 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:26,500 One volunteer sensed the sound. 478 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:30,500 But will that trend continue into the final four? 479 00:22:30,500 --> 00:22:31,500 So your final choice is? 480 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:32,500 Three. 481 00:22:32,500 --> 00:22:33,500 Number three. 482 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:34,500 Cool. 483 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:36,500 So that's two strikes for cabin three. 484 00:22:36,500 --> 00:22:38,500 But as the test continues... 485 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:41,500 I guess maybe it would have to be one. 486 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:45,500 Number one is still number one on the spooky chart. 487 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:46,500 I would say number one. 488 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:47,500 Fantastic. 489 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:53,500 And that, it seems, is the final nail in the coffin for this frequency of fear. 490 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:55,500 Ten tests, ten test subjects. 491 00:22:55,500 --> 00:22:58,500 And I think we can definitively state that cabin three, 492 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:02,500 the sound we put through it, did not make it the spookiest cabin. 493 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:05,500 If anything, cabin one was the spookiest cabin. 494 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:07,500 Cabin four, the least spooky. 495 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:09,500 Now, this could be because of one of two reasons. 496 00:23:09,500 --> 00:23:13,500 Either because we had everyone enter the cabin's in numerical order, 497 00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:17,500 the newness of the experiment and the weirdness of sitting alone in a room for two minutes 498 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:21,500 made them most frightened at the beginning and the least frightened at the end. 499 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:24,500 The other reason is that cabin one could actually be haunted. 500 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:25,500 But I don't think so. 501 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:30,500 How do you want to call this one? 502 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:33,500 Well, number three didn't get a higher score than any of the others. 503 00:23:33,500 --> 00:23:36,500 So, I guess the tone didn't spook anybody. 504 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:39,500 19 Hertz was definitely not the sound of fear. 505 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:41,500 What is that over there? 506 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:42,500 Whoa! 507 00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:43,500 This one! 508 00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:59,500 Characters in horror movies have a nose for trouble. 509 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:02,500 But does that trouble have a nose? 510 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:06,500 Is there really a detectable scent of fear? 511 00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:09,500 After their close encounters of the creepy kind, 512 00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:13,500 the mythbusters have some seriously scared sweat samples. 513 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:17,500 So, for a smell of fear experiment, it'll be double blind, 514 00:24:17,500 --> 00:24:20,500 meaning neither the volunteers nor Tori, who's administering the test, 515 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:23,500 will know what sample is what. 516 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:27,500 Now, each volunteer will be given two jars, A and a B. 517 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:29,500 There are four possibilities. 518 00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:33,500 Either A has the fear, B has the fear. 519 00:24:33,500 --> 00:24:37,500 They both have the fear, or neither has fear in it. 520 00:24:37,500 --> 00:24:39,500 What'll happen is they'll mark down the results 521 00:24:39,500 --> 00:24:42,500 and at the end, we'll tally everything and see how they did. 522 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:46,500 One by one, the secretion sniffers are brought in. 523 00:24:46,500 --> 00:24:48,500 Take a nice deep breath. 524 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:52,500 And like an olfactory factory line, the test runs smoothly. 525 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:56,500 And the volunteers nose out that aroma of anxiety. 526 00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:57,500 Alright, so we're halfway done. 527 00:24:57,500 --> 00:25:00,500 And the good news is we've got three right. 528 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:03,500 The bad news is that's out of 36. 529 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:05,500 So it's not looking good for the myth so far. 530 00:25:05,500 --> 00:25:06,500 It's not looking good. 531 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:10,500 And after another six volunteers and 36 tests... 532 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:13,500 I think my nostril hairs are starting to burn. 533 00:25:13,500 --> 00:25:16,500 It seems that when it comes to smelling fear, 534 00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:19,500 it's not as easy as the myth would have you believe. 535 00:25:19,500 --> 00:25:23,500 Now, remember we had 12 volunteers, we put them through six tests each. 536 00:25:23,500 --> 00:25:26,500 Now, let's just say, hypothetically speaking, 537 00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:31,500 if they were randomly guessing, just write it down any number that they thought. 538 00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:34,500 They'd have a one in four chance of getting the right answer. 539 00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:40,500 Average over six tests, it gives you 1.5 or somewhere between one and two right answers. 540 00:25:40,500 --> 00:25:44,500 Our volunteers got somewhere between one and two right answers. 541 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:49,500 So basically, they didn't do any better than if they were randomly guessing. 542 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:51,500 What does this mean? 543 00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:55,500 Well, if there is a smell to fear, the average person can't smell it. 544 00:25:55,500 --> 00:26:00,500 Clearly, the average nose is altogether too average to smell the fear. 545 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:03,500 But what about an expert nose? 546 00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:10,500 Enter Pamela Dalton, odor scientist and a real authority. 547 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:12,500 Pamela, so you are an expert nose. 548 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:14,500 Can you tell us a little bit about your background? 549 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:20,500 Well, I'm a scientist who studies how people smell odors and how that makes them behave or feel. 550 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:25,500 And so in the context of that, I've smelled a lot of different odors over my career. 551 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:29,500 All right, well, it's time for us to put you to the test. You ready? 552 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:30,500 I am. 553 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:35,500 Just like the volunteers, Pamela takes a sample sniff and writes down her answers. 554 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:37,500 Have they told you where we've collected our samples from? 555 00:26:37,500 --> 00:26:43,500 But unlike the volunteers, Pamela seems to know exactly what she's smelling. 556 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:45,500 That's a true professional at work. 557 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:49,500 In fact, after six tests, the results are startling. 558 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:51,500 That's five out of six. 559 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:55,500 Dude, that's 83%. There's no guessing involved here. She knows. 560 00:26:55,500 --> 00:27:01,500 Yep, because the chances of Pamela guessing right five out of six times are three in a thousand. 561 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:05,500 Which means this myth just want to reprieve. 562 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:07,500 Clearly, Pamela aced that test. 563 00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:10,500 But now we want to put her nose to the ultimate challenge. 564 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:14,500 We want to see if she can pick out one fear sample amongst 20. 565 00:27:14,500 --> 00:27:17,500 Now, unfortunately, that fear sample has to come from someone. 566 00:27:17,500 --> 00:27:20,500 And that someone turns out to be me. 567 00:27:20,500 --> 00:27:23,500 Looks like Cary and Grant are going to get a chance to scare the crap out of me. 568 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:30,500 Busting myths can be very dangerous work and we are trained professionals. 569 00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:35,500 So please do not try anything you see on this show at home or anywhere for that matter. 570 00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:40,500 Next, Adam and Jamie have a myth of grave concern. 571 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:43,500 So how do you want to test dead body disposal? 572 00:27:43,500 --> 00:27:47,500 Well, you know in the movies they're always making it so easy to drag these bodies around. 573 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:50,500 They're like pulling them upstairs, putting them in closets. 574 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:53,500 Right, they roll them up in a carpet and shove them in the trunk of a car. 575 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:59,500 Exactly. So why don't we set up some sort of an obstacle course where we do that with these bodies? 576 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:02,500 Dead body disposal Olympics. I love it. You know what we should finish with? 577 00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:07,500 Digging a shallow grave. They always make that look like it happens in just a few minutes in the movies. 578 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:08,500 And I'll bet it's harder. 579 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:13,500 But the thing is that you know this isn't just about the weight. It's also about the shape of these bodies. 580 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:17,500 So we really need to have a pretty good human analog. 581 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:18,500 You're totally right. 582 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:23,500 The Hollywood body of evidence is clear. 583 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:27,500 Moving, hiding and disposing, it's all dead easy. 584 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:31,500 But could you actually carry it off in reality? 585 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:34,500 Well, to find that out... 586 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:36,500 Are you ready for the horror? 587 00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:44,500 They've got this. A super realistic simulated cadaver. Or... 588 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:45,500 Sindaver. 589 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:51,500 Our Sindaver is a fantastic human analog, but I'm going to wrap it in some cling wrap just to keep all this bits together. 590 00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:57,500 With the 150 pound Sindaver all wrapped up, the dress code is John Doe. 591 00:28:57,500 --> 00:28:58,500 Excellent. 592 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:00,500 There we go. 593 00:29:01,500 --> 00:29:02,500 Ugh. 594 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:11,500 Then it's off to an abandoned warehouse where their classic crime scene obstacle course awaits. 595 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:18,500 Let me walk you through the stations of our dead body disposal test. 596 00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:23,500 It all begins here at the Last Supper where our body lies dead at a table having been poisoned. 597 00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:27,500 We will then drag and transfer our body from the table. 598 00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:29,500 I said we will transfer the body. 599 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:33,500 From the table over to the skeletons in a closet station. 600 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:36,500 In this, we shove the body in a closet. Go on. 601 00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:38,500 Until we can close the door. 602 00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:40,500 Once we can close the door, we're done with that. 603 00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:44,500 We open it back up, drag the body back out and it's time for defenestration. 604 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:47,500 Now defenestration means to throw something through a window. 605 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:49,500 Go on. That's exactly what we're going to do here. 606 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:51,500 We're going to throw the body through the window. 607 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:52,500 Nice work. 608 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:55,500 Once it's through the window, it's time for the stairway to heaven. 609 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:59,500 In the stairway to heaven, we drag the body up the stairs. 610 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:00,500 You've seen that in the movies. 611 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:04,500 Across the platform, then we drag the body back down the stairs. 612 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:09,500 Once we've gotten the body through the stairway to heaven station, it's time for snug as a bug in a rug. 613 00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:10,500 Go on. 614 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:11,500 It's snug as a bug in a rug. 615 00:30:11,500 --> 00:30:13,500 We roll the body in a carpet. 616 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:16,500 That is definitely something I've seen in like countless films. 617 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:21,500 Once the body is fully rolled in the carpet, we drag it over to the trunk of a car where we will drive it 618 00:30:21,500 --> 00:30:23,500 so we can bury it in a shallow grave. 619 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:27,500 That's the third one. 620 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:33,500 I'd assume that carrying around 150 pound dummy is going to be difficult because it's going to be really awkward. 621 00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:40,500 With that in mind, I've set this 150 pound wad of chain up with handles on it and we'll use this as a control 622 00:30:40,500 --> 00:30:45,500 and carry it through our obstacle courses at baseline and see how long it takes. 623 00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:51,500 So before the stiff challenge, they'll get a control with an identical mass. 624 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:54,500 Oh, that's heavy. 625 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:56,500 Oh, gosh. 626 00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,500 Adam makes it through the defenestration easily. 627 00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:00,500 All right. 628 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:04,500 But it proves to be a window of vulnerability for the Heineman. 629 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:18,500 And while Jamie's struggling, Adam has lurched over the stairs. 630 00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:22,500 I'm the ghost of Christmas fast. 631 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:28,500 As you'd expect, maneuvering a solid 150 pound weight takes its toll on them both. 632 00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:32,500 And their mafia stamina starts to fade. 633 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:37,500 I don't even know how to lift this. Actually, here we go. 634 00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:41,500 Dragging, dragging into the car. 635 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:43,500 But eventually... 636 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:48,500 Time! 637 00:31:48,500 --> 00:31:53,500 Adam made it through in just over three minutes and Jamie follows shortly after. 638 00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:56,500 Done. 639 00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:59,500 Four minutes, 33 seconds. 640 00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:04,500 That's harder than it looks. I lost it on the window. 641 00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:10,500 I think I spent a full extra minute there. Otherwise, Adam and I would have been about the same at three minutes. 642 00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:13,500 I think that's a fair figure to apply towards this. 643 00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:18,500 Those are the control figures. But how will they compare when they bring out their dead? 644 00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:22,500 Sample A. 645 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:28,500 Although the average Joe can't smell it, it seems our odor authority can detect the smell of fear. 646 00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:29,500 That's 83%. 647 00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:33,500 But now to put that expert schnauz to the ultimate test. 648 00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:36,500 God, these stairs do not stop. 649 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:40,500 So in order to complete our experiment, we need new, fierce, wet samples. 650 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:43,500 Samples are no longer violent. And that's why we're here. 651 00:32:43,500 --> 00:32:46,500 At the Moaning Cavern! 652 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:51,500 In Calaveras County, California. So we need to take this to the next level. 653 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:54,500 More scary than snakes, or scorpions, or even rats. 654 00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:59,500 This cavern is 17 stories deep. Basically the height of the Statue of Liberty. 655 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:06,500 Tore is going to rappel down through a tight dark space at the top, all the way down to the bottom of this cavern. 656 00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:09,500 Is it too late to change my mind? 657 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:10,500 Indeed. 658 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:13,500 Tore's acrophobia is Mythbusters legend. 659 00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:15,500 Oh, man. 660 00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,500 There's been blood, and a few tears. 661 00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:25,500 Which makes him the perfect candidate for this ultimate cold sweat challenge. 662 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,500 I don't know if I'll be able to do this. 663 00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:30,500 Everybody will see at the bottom. 664 00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:32,500 Maybe. 665 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:39,500 It's one small step for Tore, and one massive fear inducing descent for this Mythbuster. 666 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:40,500 You can do it. 667 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:41,500 Shut up. 668 00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:43,500 It's already freaking out. 669 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:50,500 It's like all tangled. 670 00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:01,500 I know some people enjoy this, but I'm not one of those people. 671 00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:06,500 It's all work and no play for Tore. 672 00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:09,500 I've never seen Tore panic like this before. 673 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:12,500 He's cool in every situation. He's freaking out. 674 00:34:13,500 --> 00:34:15,500 Everybody has to have weakness. 675 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:19,500 Who taught me into this? 676 00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:27,500 And eventually, after 170 feet of pure terror... 677 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:31,500 Bring it over, and you're on solid ground. 678 00:34:32,500 --> 00:34:34,500 He gets back to Terra Ferma. 679 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:37,500 That scared the crap out of me. 680 00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:42,500 There was a point where my ropes were tangled up there, and my arm was getting caught in the ropes, 681 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:44,500 and I started slipping. 682 00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:48,500 I've never been more terrified on the show than this moment right now. 683 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:49,500 So you take the snakes any day? 684 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:50,500 I'll take the snakes any day. 685 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:53,500 With Tore's sample bagged and tagged... 686 00:34:53,500 --> 00:34:55,500 He scared the crap out of me. 687 00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:56,500 Into the freezer. 688 00:34:56,500 --> 00:34:57,500 Back to the shop. 689 00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:03,500 The jars are lined up, and it's time to put Pamela's nose to the ultimate test. 690 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:05,500 Where's the fear? Where's the fear? Where's the fear? 691 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:07,500 I don't know either. 692 00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:11,500 Okay, we have 20 samples, but only one is our fear sample. 693 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:12,500 Good luck. Thank you. 694 00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:20,500 With the sheer volume of sweat samples, Pamela takes her time. 695 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:24,500 Double sniffing some, and short listing a few. 696 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,500 She's made a few selects so far. 697 00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:31,500 Finally, we found someone with a grosser job than us. 698 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:36,500 And after 10 minutes on the scent, has Pamela sniffed out Tore's fear. 699 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:41,500 Alright, so it looks like you've narrowed it down to three. Do you think you can smell fear? 700 00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:46,500 Well, of the three that I picked out first, I think this one smells the most like fear to me. 701 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:47,500 Number 17. 702 00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:48,500 Number 17. 703 00:35:48,500 --> 00:35:51,500 Okay, the fear sample was five. 704 00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:56,500 But I have to say, based on the last test where you got five out of six right, 705 00:35:56,500 --> 00:36:00,500 I think we can still call this one plausible. Difficult, but plausible. 706 00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:06,500 It's definitely possible. It just takes years of training, and you have to get your nose right up in that sample. 707 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:08,500 Right up in there, unfortunately. 708 00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:09,500 The smell of fear. 709 00:36:09,500 --> 00:36:10,500 The smell of fear. 710 00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:27,500 We are here at the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California. 711 00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:33,500 This 160 room mansion was home to Sarah Winchester, 712 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:38,500 the widow of the man who made his fortune off the Winchester rifle. 713 00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:39,500 What was that? 714 00:36:39,500 --> 00:36:45,500 She built this house to ward off the spirits of all the people that were killed by the rifle. 715 00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:48,500 This is creepy. 716 00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:55,500 And it is said this house is still haunted by those spirits even a hundred years after her death. 717 00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:12,500 According to this movie myth, moving a dead body is dead easy. 718 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:16,500 However, it's far from simple to move a dead weight. 719 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:21,500 So will it be a stiffer competition with the eerily realistic body? 720 00:37:21,500 --> 00:37:24,500 I have to say, I was spent by moving around 150 pounds, 721 00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:27,500 and I thought that was going to be the easy part of the test. 722 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:31,500 Now, I am totally not so sure. 723 00:37:31,500 --> 00:37:34,500 But there's only one way to find out. Here we go. 724 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:37,500 Alright, Jamie, I'm ready. 725 00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:40,500 Three, two, one, go. 726 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:42,500 Here we go. Come on, buddy. 727 00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:44,500 Into the closet with you. 728 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:50,500 From the start, Adam has little difficulty maneuvering John Doe. 729 00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:52,500 Okay, here we go. 730 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:54,500 To the window. 731 00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:58,500 Because although it weighs the same 150 pounds of the control, 732 00:37:58,500 --> 00:38:01,500 Here we go. To the stairs. 733 00:38:01,500 --> 00:38:03,500 the distribution of that weight. 734 00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:06,500 He's going much faster. 735 00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:11,500 means Adam is getting the body through the course dead fast. 736 00:38:11,500 --> 00:38:14,500 Time! 737 00:38:14,500 --> 00:38:17,500 Well, shut my mouth. 738 00:38:17,500 --> 00:38:22,500 I swear that was far easier than moving around a solid 150 pound weight. 739 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,500 Far easier. 740 00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:27,500 In fact, Adam got his stiff through the obstacles 741 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,500 in less than half the time of his control. 742 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:33,500 We've never had a physical analog as good as the Sndaver. 743 00:38:33,500 --> 00:38:37,500 And the thing about it being so good is it feels just like moving around a real body. 744 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:39,500 Not that I've ever done that. 745 00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:41,500 It was just creepy. 746 00:38:42,500 --> 00:38:44,500 I'm glad to be done with this test. 747 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:45,500 Are you glad to be done? 748 00:38:45,500 --> 00:38:46,500 Yes. 749 00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:47,500 I'm done. 750 00:38:47,500 --> 00:38:49,500 Alright, let's go. 751 00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:53,500 So now it's the Heinemann's turn at body disposal. 752 00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:57,500 In three, two, one. 753 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:01,500 Boink. 754 00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:04,500 Before you know it, John Doe is out of the closet. 755 00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:06,500 Now onto the window. 756 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:09,500 And through the window. 757 00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:11,500 Nice form. 758 00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:14,500 Because his human form... 759 00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:17,500 Oh, he's doing an interesting carpet technique. 760 00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:19,500 ...makes hauling him into the trunk. 761 00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:22,500 The feet are sticking out of the carpet. 762 00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:23,500 That looks great. 763 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:25,500 Far easier than the control. 764 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:29,500 Done. 765 00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:30,500 Time! 766 00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:35,500 That had to be a lot quicker. 767 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:40,500 At one minute and 55 seconds, Jamie also halved his baseline. 768 00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:44,500 A result that's turned the Heinemann's expectation on its head. 769 00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:45,500 Here's the thing. 770 00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:49,500 I can pick up a 150 pound barbell off the ground, no problem. 771 00:39:49,500 --> 00:39:51,500 It's got a good handle on it. 772 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:53,500 I'm strong enough to do that. 773 00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:58,500 On the other hand, if I want to put that 150 pound barbell on my shoulder, 774 00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:02,500 it's a lot more difficult because it's sort of an all or nothing attempt, 775 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:07,500 as opposed to the body, which I can pull up an arm or a leg or a torso at a time 776 00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:10,500 and work them through a window or into a trunk. 777 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:15,500 So for this type of task, it's actually a lot easier to maneuver a body, 778 00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:17,500 and that really surprises us. 779 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:21,500 So the movie's depiction of moving bodies around? 780 00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:23,500 Surprisingly plausible. 781 00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:25,500 For once they got it right. 782 00:40:25,500 --> 00:40:27,500 Indeed they did. Let's go bury the evidence. 783 00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:28,500 All right. 784 00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:35,500 It may be plausible, but being able to move a body doesn't mean you can actually get away with murder. 785 00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:40,500 This place looks great. 786 00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:42,500 Nice place to be buried at. 787 00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:45,500 I think it's a fine place to be buried. 788 00:40:51,500 --> 00:40:52,500 All right. 789 00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:58,500 And now the final macabre myth of this Mythbusters Halloween special. 790 00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:00,500 This looks about right. 791 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:07,500 According to the movies, you can dig a shallow grave in 20 minutes flat, 792 00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:10,500 but just how shallow is shallow? 793 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:14,500 Now for us, that puts it down at about two feet deep. 794 00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:16,500 So that's how deep we're going to dig our graves. 795 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:19,500 That two foot target seems simple enough. 796 00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:23,500 Until you run up against the reality of solid earth. 797 00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:26,500 I'm having to take little chunks at a time. 798 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:29,500 This is going to take me hours. 799 00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:35,500 Yep, even a shirtless Heinemann isn't able to match the mythical 20 minutes. 800 00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:40,500 The annoying thing about doing this is that I know for a fact, 801 00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:45,500 it would take me one scoop of a backcoat to do the same job. 802 00:41:45,500 --> 00:41:48,500 Take all of 30 seconds. 803 00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:51,500 That's a little over two feet. 804 00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:54,500 I think that ought to be deep enough to keep the animals from getting at them. 805 00:41:54,500 --> 00:41:56,500 Time to chuck them in. 806 00:41:56,500 --> 00:42:01,500 And after over two hours of digging the dirt, the myth is clearly busted. 807 00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:06,500 I wish we had picked a place with nice, soft, lummy dirt. 808 00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:10,500 So all that remains is to close out the show. 809 00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:13,500 Well, we hope you've enjoyed the Mythbusters Halloween special. 810 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:15,500 Jamie, give them your Halloween wishes. 811 00:42:15,500 --> 00:42:18,500 May your corpses be light and your dirt be soft. 812 00:42:18,500 --> 00:42:20,500 Indeed. Happy Halloween. 813 00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:52,500 And now, let's turn them into assassins by brainwashing them. 814 00:42:54,500 --> 00:42:58,500 For the first time, Curiosity brings leading scientists together 815 00:42:58,500 --> 00:43:04,500 to probe the limits of free will and challenge the wildest claims of conspiracy theorists. 816 00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:09,500 Now, they attempt to answer a question that's haunted psychologists for over a century. 817 00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:12,500 Can the human mind be programmed? 818 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:14,500 Can we be brainwashed? 819 00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:16,500 To kill. 820 00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:29,500 Curiosity is presented by Nissan. Innovation that excites.