moments. look away and you'll miss it. out of nowhere, too quebec to react. >> no, are you kidding me? >> without warning, speedboat passengers are thrown with tremendous force. >> i really thought the boat was going to flip. i'm going to fly to out of this boat way too fast at speeds. >> in a flash, lightning strikes. and fireworks detonate. but not like they're supposed to. >> it was like a nuclear bomb

went off. >> a politician stares down the barrel of a gun. >> suddenly, he jumped up and he pulled the trigger. >> and a real deer in headlights moment. >> it was a minute of panic. everything tightened up. you wait for the hit. "caught on camera, don't blink." 2k5i of fun on a boat turns to agony in an instant as passengers are violently thrown with incredible force. august 24th, 2012, thousands of people have descend on

missouri's lake of the ozarks, a summertime playground for the mid-west with more shore line than california's pacific coast. one of the lake's mane attraction, the annual poker run. the event is covered from all angles by local television station lake tv and its co-owner. >> the poker run started as a fundraiser for a local charity. bake amy, you show up in a restaurant and sign in and then you go to sex different stops and at those stops, you will get a card and at the end of the day the best hand wins. really, it is a highlight of what the lake is all about, getting out on the water, enjoying all the restaurants and establishments that are on the water. >> lake tv cameraman and co-owner is tasked with shooting video on board the contestant's boechlts on his last run of the day, he positions his camera on a boat carrying a group of six other people. >> it's a beautiful, beautiful, warm summer day.

the event was actually wrapping up. it was the end of the day. everybody was if good spirits. we were out on 15 different boats that day. i mount this camera on the dashboard. and this allows me to sit down safely and ride the boat while we're still filming on the action. i mount this on the dash to make sure it's got a shot of everybody. >> the high end power boat begins its journey at the last stop of the day. >> as the driver picks up sprooed speed the passengers pick up grips. >> the boat was going at half throttle. at one point the captain took it to full throttle. i said, no, if we are going to go this fast, i am going to hang on. it doesn't feel safe at all. >> while the driver may have been obeying the 70-mile-per-hour speed limit set for that event, water control requires boats to slow down if the wake conditions call for it. >> it's not that uncommon to go that fast on the water.

it's just not that common, in really rough water like it was that particular friday. >> the boat is smashing down on the wake's more and more frequently. and the people on board begin to look distressed. >> we would come up to about four or five rollers, what they call them. they're wakes from another boat. i had never been in a boat that slaned down that hard. i remember thinking this is not good. >> the boat impacts with more rough water. suddenly the force is massive. >> i really thought the boat was going to flip, so i hung on as tight as i could. i remember closing my eyes thinking i'm going to fly out of this boat at way too fast a speed. and at that moment, i remember thinking is i'm 30-years-old, 30 years on earth and this is what it comes down to, could today be the day? i literally thought, yeah, i definitely could die. >> the back end of the boat slams down into the water, preventing it from rolling, but it exerts a brutal force on the

passengers. >> basically it spun out. it was very violent. everybody in the boat went to one side t. driver was immediately flung to the ground and the female in the center it was kind of as if her feet were almost tied down but her face and body rode the dash pretty violently. >> i believe the woman on the left throttled oversideways with her legs from the impact. it was quite scary the way the passengers fall to the ground because no one is looking safe. just from the first hit, it looks like he goes to the ground, he's not able to brace himself or hold on to anything. you see how much force was involved. you see everybody fly from one side of the boat back into the other, back again. it almost looks like rag dolls.

>> it's all ever a in seconds. as the boat slows to a stop, stunned passengers try to regain their bearings. >> then i. kind of standing up being in shock wondering what all the water had come from. i was very dadz and confused along with everybody else. then everybody started to kind of come too and point. to each other, hey, you are hurting here. you are bleeding there. we could all see each other's wounds unfold in front of us. it was quite horrifying. >> we need help, call for help. >> a couple of us had yelped to a nearby boat, call for help. >> everyone on board is taken to the hospital and treated for their injuries and there are many. >> there were shattered eye

sockets. there was one individual with a broken hips and pelvis. broken leg, broken foot. i broke my wrist. i broke my leg. i ruptured a dick in my back. i cracked some ribs. >> that is actual lay scar from my head pounding on the boat. >> water patrol sites the driver of the boat for failing to over. a motor boat in a careful and prudent manner and allowing a passenger to ride on the rear deck without adequate rapeling. he is ordered to pay a fine. despite the disturbing images from the accident, those involved insist that safety is always the number one priority. >> when you figure how many people come to the lake, it's a very small percentage that end up like that. it's a very safe place. boating accidents are all over the place, no one has really seen one on film and you don't

really think about it until you see it. >> coming up, a politician is ambushed. >> suddenly he jumps up, almost like frozen. >> and later, fireworks blast off course. when "caught on camera, don't blink" continues.

. >> in a split second, a politician comes face-to-face with a gunman. >> i was completely shocked and suddenly he jumped up two steps to the podium and had a gun in his hand. >> germany's human rights

commissioner travels the world to help shape his country's foreign policy. and on january 19th, 2013, he is in sophia, bulgaria, attending a meeting for a political party called the movement for rights and freedoms. the party represents the country's ethnic turks and muslim minorities. >> there are supposed to be elections around summer if gull r bulgaria, so it was very important to have this meeting, to be present in national media. it was an event that had big national importance. they are one of the opposition parties and they hope to be a part of the government. >> the headline speaker of the event, the party chairman for nearly a quarter of a century and one of bulgaria's most influential political physicals. he takes the podium for the live televised event, where he is expected to announce his retirement and his replacement. >> he gave to give his speech. i was sitting actually right in

front of the place where he was speaking. i was sitting in the second row. >> he is giving his speech when, unexpectedly, an unknown person dressed in black approaches the stage. >> i saw this young man walking up to him and i thought, okay, this is probably a technician that has some work to do at the podium. maybe one of the microphones doesn't work. >> nothing seems out of the ordinary until the man pulls out a weapon and points it wage in the politician's face. >> the audience was frozen for a moment when he was pulling up the guns, pointing it at him. he pulled the trigger once and nothing, there was no shot. >> it all happens in a flash. television cameras captured him staring into the barrel of the gun. >> then, he reacted. he pushed the gun away and that

probably was when, obviously, he pushed him away, then he fell over and i got frightened, i to the, oh my god, maybe there was a knife and something i didn't hearory didn't see. >> panic grips the audience. >> there was a missouri of fright, of shock. and ten i got up and i felt i was trembling inside, because this was nearly a murder happening just in front of me. >> security people were not where they should have been. normally, they should have been in front of the podium. but they were obviously at the sides somewhere. >> audience members rushed the stage to protect dogan, while others tackled the suspect to the ground. >> you can see in this guy was obviously a strong guy or a well-trained guy because even several guys had difficulties to push him to the ground and then some of these guys started

beating on him one was beating with his fists. another was kicking at him. this was in a very heated political emotional situation in this country. people felt that this was an attack against everyone in this room and the fer on their faces because none of them from that moment knew what would be the next thing, who sent the guy? was it supposed to be the kickoff for something? >> the suspect is subdued. his face is bloody from the beating. >> one of the major party members showed up on stage and said, cool it, you know, don't hurt this man. i don't have any sympathy with him but, you know he has to be arrested. he shouldn't be kicked or abused in that way. the reaction was highly unprofessional.

>> the attacker is taken to the hospital for his injuries. dogan escapes unscathed, despite his fall. >> he was leaving the place just by seeing his face, you can see he was really under shock. >> the suspect is identified by police as 25-year-old, a member of a small gaudalupe called i hate dogan. police discovered the suspect is armed with two knifes and he had actually not used a gun in the attack, but a gas miss to it's typically a fawn leal that weapon designed to fire tear gas cartridges that can cause fatal injuries when fired from close range. >> at the distance you can see a lot that you obviously don't see the details of the gun. so to me it looked like a real gun and everybody took it for a real gun from that moment. >> the bulgarian national security service admits that security at the event had been insufficient and fired two officers and disciplined six

others. an investigation into the beating of the suspect is under way. he is charged with attempted murder and violating public order. he has not yet entered a plea but stated in a court hearing he did not intend to kill dogan but rather to threaten him. still, he says his only regret is that his pistol misfired. >> i believe it's very important moment to make very clear that violence is something that is unacceptable in european politics. these kind of attacks are not something we see anywhere in daily life. i have never seen anything like that. coming up, 'fireworks gone wrong. >> oh my god! oh my god!

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oh my god! oh my god! >> if you think all fireworks shows look alike, take a look at this. it's not quite the show these spectators thought they would see. july 4th, 2012, one of the largest annual fireworks displays in the country the big bay boom is set to go off across multiple barges in the san diego bay. the event takes nearly a full year of planning by executive producer sandy perdin. he raises the $400,000 to fund the massive display of more than 7,000 fireworks t. night of the event, he hosts a viewing party for his sponsors. >> i was on my deck of my house

entertaining sponsors. about 15 minutes before the show starts, we start getting ready to watch the show. i do a last-minute check with the coast guard and life patrol commander on the border. we sit back and wait for the show. >> down on the ground, freelance videographer dan roy finds a perfect spot to watch with friends only a few hundred feet away from where the fireworks will be launched. >> i was checking to make sure we were all ready to go. then once the things started going off, i went around and recorded. >> but it's not the planned start of the show. an unexpected massive blast of fireworks erupts from the barges, five minutes before the scheduled start time. >> this was like a nuclear bomb went off. >> you could feel the heat coming from the explosions.

it was very overwhelming. it got louder, brighter, more white. it was like, pretty much day time from where we were standin standing. >> what should be an 18-minute show explodes all at once. >> youtube videos captured by spectators captured the incredible scene from around the bay. >> just blinding white. it was a doveening roar of the sound. >> we could see all the barges from there, the whole thing explodes. they were all synchronized. they all went off at the same time, so that part worked. >> less than 30 second later, it's all over. >> obviously, i was shocked. and the eyes were very wide. jaws were dropped and then everybody sort of turned around

and looked at me and i tried to hide, but i had no place to go. >> no way. >> that wasn't supposed to happen, was it? >> no way. >> most of the nearly half million people watching don't realize what has just happened. >> this is insane. >> it's the best fireworks show ever. >> afterwards, everybody stood there not knowing what to do. i think it was like a slight testing of ash and bits of cardboard falling down on our heads, we realized, this is not exactly what was supposed to happen. >> you know, how long it takes to prepare for this every year. >> the cause of the mishap? a technical glitch with the computer that triggers the fireworks causeing them to launch prematurely all at the same time. >> the fireworks company, they stepped forward and said they were going to make up for it. they said the company has been

around for 120 years. it's never happened before. >> despite the tremendous force o. explosion. which is protocol. while the show may have earned its nickname the big bay bust, many who are there to see it believe the spect spectacle is a once in a lifetime fight. >> the spirit as you are up whating it, every fireworks show should be like this, yeah. >> there were people that were disappointed, of course the kids were there. they wanted a 20-minute show. they wanted all the frou-frou fireworks set off. so for those people, we were sorry about the disappointment. but this year we'll make up for i it. >> sometimes when fireworks shows go awry, the result can be

terrifyin terrifying. >> october 13th, 2012, in this city in eastern china, locals attend a fireworks spectacular organized by the government. the couple takes their assigned seats along west lake where more than half a million people gathered to watch the fireworks launch. >> the fireworks were great that day, especially the shape itself. we were so concentrated on the show. >> halfway through if show, she noticed something unexpected. >> two or three pieces of fireworks came towards my left side. but we thought it was special effects. >> but the stray fireworks are only the beginning. chen is reported to show with her camera when in a flash the

crowd is in danger. instead of blasting into the air, fireworks are shooting into the crowd like bullets. the panicked spectators run for cov cover. >> when i was filming, suddenly a piece of fireworks came straight to me. and the fireworks just landed beside my feet. then i heard people scream. >> people all ran, some fell down, some got hurt by the fireworks. my clothes were burned and people bled. when the situation got worse, we had to escape. >> it was so smokey, it made us

choke. p i covered my mouth like this and kept my body low, together with my husband. >> the couple manages to escape with chen suffering only a minor burn to her hand. >> others have much more serious injuries and rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. more than 150 people are injured by if fireworks. the cause of the malfunction is unclear, but the government compensates the victims for the injuries they suffer. coming up, nature strikes in the blink of an eye. >> no, are you kidding me? >> and with brutal force. >> we collided dead-on. >> when "caught on camera, don't blink" continues. try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing.

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president obama spoke at the rose garden this evening. bergdahl was captured by the taliban and held in afghanistan the past five years. they say their son now has trouble speaking english. bergdahl is in a u.s. military hospital fighting guantonomo bay if exchange. now, back to "caught on camera. ." . dark skies loom over drivers in russia in this 2012 viral video. a camera is rolling inside the vehicle when in the blink of an eye, a bolt of lightning strikes an suv. witnessing a lightning strike is rare enough. the odds are even slimmer of capturing it on camera. but head to florida, the

lightning capital of the united states and that chance encounter becomes much more likely. october 5th, 2012, avid storm fans and naples florida residents rita and nick grill are preparing to watch an afternoon soaker. >> i looked out the windows. it was so dark. he said, let's go check it out. so we came out onto the lanai. it was, it was windy. i thought, this is a neat storm, i got to grab michael remarks let's see if i can film this. real rooting tooting rachael here him very awesome. >> the skies were angry that day. we were watching this storm build and build and build. rita was filming it, paning her camera back an forth, just really taking the whole thing in. >> it's just beautiful. the lightning, whohoo-hoo-hoo. oh. i love it!

>> we can see the storm was building, it was stronger than what we frequently see around here t. rainfall was really good. >> winds are whipping and sheets of rain are pelting the enclosure. rita tries to record all the action. >> i was paning across the back yard. as i was doing that, i could see in the background, the trees were really bending over from the wind and i thought, okay, i'm going to pan back over there so i can maybe catch this tree, you know, really bending. >> watch this tree, it will start getting real windy in just a second. >> rita doesn't know how spot-on her camera work is about to be. oh, shoot. >> an explosion of thunder and lightning sends rita scrambling for cover. >> it's like boom! i jumped in the house. my camera goes flailing around and my mouth shouted out. it was so instantaneous that may

body just felt like the base of a woofer or something like that. it's not like anything else that i really felt. >> it's like you see on film, it's one thing, tray to multiply that ten-fold, can you get an idea what it felt leak. it was something we western expecting. >> almost simultaneously obama of flames bursts up from where the lightning strikes down. >> in my recollection of things, they were two events. one was a lightning strike. the second was the fireball. they were probably separated by a time measure that i can't even comprehend. >> it lifted the whole screen up. >> my next thought was, where's the dog? >> there are some things in this world that would cause other dogs to skit or go underneath the sofa. marge was on.. she looked at it. she's an apaiding little pooch. >> rita and nick don't realize

how close the lightning strike was to where they were standing. they head in their back yard in search of the site of impact. >> we couldn't find anything that had burned or charred. >> we went into the office, i looked over that film. i found the exact angle she was standing at. it pointed to this beautiful tabby tree. >> my husband said, oh my gosh, it was way close tan we imagined him. look how obvious this is. it's right out here. >> the bark was completely stripped off the front side of the beautiful lick tabby. it was scattered in a halo all around the tree, pretty amazing. >> it looks like about a four to six-foot section of that tree that just sliced down and basically it killed the tree and it took a long time to die off. i thought it was going to make it. unfortunately it didn't. >> the tree is not the only thing damaged as rita and nick discover when they come across the source of the fire bomm.

>> this tree has some ornamental lighting up into the tree t. lightning had skittered down the side of the tree and struck that fixture. it blew the fixture four or five feet away from where it was originally even stalled. it went sailing through the air and landed over in the grass. i had to search around to find it and it just completely crisped all wiring. >> not wanting to keep this once in alifetime site to themselves, rita decides to share her video online. >> i just thought it would be a really great way for all of my friends to see just what a coincidence it was that it just happened to blow up, you know, right behind that spot. i thought, oh my gosh, i have to put this on youtube, what are the chances of catching a lightning strike, you know? >> rita's audience expands quickly beyond just her friends. the video goes viral, garnering more than 3 million hits. despite all the attention she and her husband won't try to

repeat their up close and personal encounter with a lightening strike. >> i have never seen a lightning strike this close to me. this experience has changed the way i view these things. i'm not quite as brave as i used to be. >> i love it. >> rita actually is probably going to continue recording all these things and maybe stand a little further inside the house when she does. >> get on out. >> when nature strikes, it strikes fast. in this 2013 youtube video, a west point cadet is seen releasing a mouse that has taken up residence in his room. >> hey, buddy. >> i have no idea. >> the cadet has got on the used to having the pesky critter around. he affectionately calls it whis kers. >> come on, whis whiskers. go on, get on out.

good luck. >> huh does it feel? >> i feel at ease it's not going to wake me up in my bed anymore, crawl on my leg. it's kind of sad. >> it's a touching scene. instead of killing the ro dent, he gives him his freedom t. sweet moment doesn't last long no, are you kidding me? without warning, a large bird of prey swoops into view and its sights are set on whiskers. >> no! are you kidding me? he didn't last five minutes. that was rarely worth it. >> the hawk and mouse take their rightful places in the food chain. after the cadet, well, no good

deed goes unmunnished. >> oh my gosh, let's get out of here. >> coming up, wild encounters. >> a minute of panic, braceing for impact. >> when you least expect them. when "caught on camera, don't blink" continues. .

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it happened so quickly, no one even knows what hit them. >> what is it, a dog? no, it's a deer. >> in a nearby town, another confused deer strikes. this time crashing full speed through the window of a restaurant. in a heartbeat, confounded examiners go from sitting down to a relaxing meal to jumping up at their tables. and at this pennsylvania beer store, a typical night turns wild in no time flat when unusual customers come slipping and sliding through the aisles. a deer inside a building is undoubtedly out of place. but even when a deer is in its right place, it can sometimes be at precisely the wrong moment. july 28th, 2012, motorcycle enthusiasts brayden childers is gearing up to compete in west virginia's rally moto.

riders come from across the country to the participate in a series of timed races. >> the rally moto in general is a high speed type of racing. the rally will close off the piece of road at each end of the road 10 to 1520 miles, sometimes longer. where you got nothing else on the road but raters. you spread the racers out. you compete to see if you can cover those sections the fastest. >> five, 34rks, 23, 1. >> equipped with a helmet cam, childers takes off with the two-leg competition final leg. she racing to the top of the mountain for the finish against the clock. >> when i'm racing, there is nothing else to think about besides standing on the bike, keeping it under control, going as fast as you can. the rest of the rules goes away. it's intense. >> with less than a mile to go to the finish line, childer's

smooth line is interrupted. >> i see a deer on the right side of the road. not looking like it will jump out or anything. i keep on throttleing. what i didn't see was the one right behind that one. >> as childers gets closer, the second deer comes into focus, but it's already too late. >> there's a minute of panic, then you are just bracing for impact. everything tightens up, you wait for the hit. you don't expect that. you don't know what it will feel like. we collided dead-on. >> childers and the more than 100-pound deer spash into each other. a nearby photographer captures the scene. >> it's like getting tackled by a huge person running at you at 50 miles an hour the smallest thing at that speed. you can actually see it try to jump over the front wheel and

clear me. he ended up knocking the handlebars back and hit me square in the chest. the bike goes one way the another, the bike another, you hear the bike zbriend i grinding across the pavement. you hear your gear clacking around. everything is happening superfast. >> childers pulls himself up to assess the damage. >> by the time i was up, standing and grabbing the bike, i turned to look over my shoulder the deer is already gone, took off into the woods. it team e seemed like it was okay. i was feeling around, making sure, no real pain, nothing is broken for sure. then i'm thinking about there is a rider coming behind me. he will be coming around that corner just as fast. i want to be out of his way so i don't get hurt, he doesn't get hurt. i can hop on the bike, which is still running and brakes and levers all works. the bike is good enough to get me that last quarter mile

finish. >> spectators at the finish line, including childer's wife laura, hear the alarming soumpbds of the crash. >> we heard a thud and a bike skid across the road and there was an audible gasp from everyone that was standing there on the hill and i didn't look. i kind of waited and we heard the bike. we weren't sure if it was brayden or not. we saw him shoot his arm up, kick up his leg and he yelped and like, oh, there's brayden, having a good time as usual. >> dazed, childers crosses the finished line. >> i was stunned still. i was still really amped. the adrenaline is going full-on. so i get there, i'm sitting there, staring off in the distance and the official was kind of looking at me like i'm crazy, wondering why i'm not giving him my time card. >> i hit a deer. i hit a deer. >> did you?

>> yeah. >> you okay? >> dead on. there will be some awesome video. came up right over the front. yeah. it was like that's a deer hair right there. >> no, it's good, he's out of the way. thank you. >> despite losing time in the race, childers still manages to finish first in his class and second overall for the day. but his biggest win is walking away from something that could have changed his life in the blink of an eye. >> it could have been broken bones or worse. >> having safety gear is one thing. it doesn't mean you will not get seriously injured when you go that fast. so it's a rick you take when you get racing. but this was his lucky day. >> riding a motorcycle may seem more risky than a day at the mall, but sometimes appearances can be deceiving.

. >> december 18th, 2012, a security camera is going outside a shanghai suddenly, 33 tons of water burst out of an aquarium, flooding the area, sweeping bystanders off their feet. shards of the six-inch-thick acrylic glass shoot out onto the street along with the former inhabitants of the tank. sharks. the decorative aquarium, popular with visitors, is part of an exterior wall of the chinese shopping center. a security camera inside the mall captures a cosmetics counter near the aquarium moments before it shatters. when the tank ruptures, the cosmetics counter comes crashing down.

the heavy display collapses on top of a saleswoman below. a crowd rushes to pull the trapped woman from the rubble. 15 people are injured in the accident, and most are treated for minor cuts and bruises. but one male customer suffers a broken leg. three lemon sharks and many small fish and turtles are killed. the cause of the sudden rupture, according to a government official, a dip in the outside temperature made the tank's acrylic glass walls brittle. causing them to give way in an abrupt and powerful explosion. coming up -- seeing isn't always believing. >> translator: your brain takes what you see on the surface of the water and makes you imagine the depth of field. >> when "caught on camera: don't blink" continues.

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when you watch this, what do you see? a fish about to swim away? you can see every detail, each fin and scale. look again. it's an astonishing trick of the eye. a masterful approach to painting developed by this japanese artist. for more than a decade, goldfish have been his unlikely muses. he can observe them for hours at a time. >> translator: that's how they really get engraved in my mind. on the surface, goldfish are only red and white, but if you look very closely, you can see the rainbow colors inside. >> a clear resin acts as his canvas. >> translator: first i pour a thin layer of resin into a container.

then i would paint the pelvic fins and also the fin on the underside, and then i would pour another layer of transparent resin and then wait for two days. >> the technique requires incredible patience. it can take two months to complete even a small design. >> translator: after it hardens, i would paint the body. when that hardens, i paint another layer. this time of scales. i would pour transparent resin, wait for two days, and i would repeat that process until i'm satisfied. until it becomes three-dimensional. i would keep adding layers. >> the result blurs the line between what is real and what is perception. his fish look so true to life they are frequently mistaken for the real thing. >> translator: i have been described as a trick artist, but i don't consider trick art to be my main work. i do definitely utilize

illusion. your brain takes what you see on the surface of the water and makes you think that the object you're seeing has been compressed. my goldfish don't have any thickness. people automatically imagine the depth and feel. a depth of field. >> perfecting this intricate illusion takes years of painstaking trial and error. >> translator: there would be pieces where i had spent months to make and just as i put in the last layer, it would get destroyed. for each layer of resin, my heart is contracting little by little, making sure that no air is getting in. sweating while doing that. >> don't blink. these 100 goldfish swimming through rippled water are actually part of his 2011 exhibit called "goldfish salvation" in london's icn gallery. the curator and director of the

exhibit that boasts the largest resin creation. the inside of a wooden pail more than four feet in diameter. >> translator: it has such power. i really love it. people have never seen anything like this before. it's a skill only possessed by him. a skill created by him. the fact that they appear to be alive inside the wooden pail speaks to his skills, technique and his thoughts. >> translator: i realized if i didn't include an air ventilation that they would die. so i decided to also include some air in the piece, and through trial and error, painted bubbles. >> also caught on camera, he wows his gallery audience by creating a massive painting on traditional paper using a very unconventional brush.

>> translator: when i'm painting a large goldfish, i can see a large goldfish swimming and it's as if i've caught it with my broom, like it's right here. it's fishing within the surface of the paper. and when i've caught a glimpse of it and caught it, that's when i put my brush to work. >> his passion for goldfish and their beauty withstands the test of time. despite the eye-bending realism of his creations, he modestly believes he has not yet achieved perfection. >> translator: i realize the goldfish is something incredibly important to us japanese. it carries many messages. how would i call it? identity. i want to keep doing this in this style until a beautiful goldfish is born.

there are some things we mere mortals can't explain. >> ufos, i swear to god -- >> from mysterious lights in the sky -- >> it looked triangular in shape, and at each corner it had what looked like a red l.e.d. light. >> to a creepy night at the museum. >> the statue was actually moving. >> i thought someone was playing a trick on me. >> mythical beasts. >> what is that? oh, man. >> and monsters at sea. >> what in the heck is that? >> those things are big! >> you've got to be kidding. what is this? >> i'm convinced there's something in that lake. >> if it's real and true, i think a portio t