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And now for a dish that is best served when it is jerky. Is she dead? It seems that she is alive. How is this even possible? Some believe this is proof of life after death. The doors of death may open. Is this the darkest experiment science has ever conducted? It looks like Frankenstein opened a butcher shop. Liaoning Province, Northeast China This once remote region has been transformed by industry and technology into a vast metropolis with a total population of over 43 million.
December 10, 2017, late evening. The stoves are turned on to cook dinner all over town, but one resident discovers that her piece of beef is moving. This is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. I would run. I would just run. This twitching flesh puzzles scientists. Obviously dead, and yet it still moves. This is like some kind of horror movie. What makes him do this? Folklorist Deborah Hyde analyzes the footage To her, this quivering flesh reminds her of a legend spread throughout the
world about the uprising of the undead. The idea that flesh can have some special supernatural life after it is supposed to be dead is prevalent in most folklore. They return, even if they should still be in their graves. We comfort ourselves with the thought that there is a clear line between life and death, but records show that this is not always true. Exhumed coffins from the 18th and 19th centuries have been found with scratches inside, and cases of premature announcements of death are still recorded.
The line between life and death can be very blurred. All over the world, people are declared dead, and then a few minutes, hours, or even days later, they seem to wake up and experience this terrifying miracle of rebirth. A 78-year-old man arrives at a funeral home. Then his body bag moves. Inside, he is alive and well. In January 2018, a Spanish prisoner is declared dead and taken to the morgue. A few hours later, the funeral directors hear snoring coming from one of the morgue refrigerators. Then the dead man wakes up as if nothing had happened. In the past, people called it magic, but biologist Greg Salgit studied the science behind the phenomenon.
Often a person may appear dead, for example because their heart has stopped, so their body is dead. Uh, but as long as their brain is still working, they can get it to work again and get their heart going again, they come back alive. But experts are baffled by how a piece of beef can seemingly show signs of life. What makes this so strange and creepy is that we're not used to seeing a piece of meat that doesn't have lungs, a heart, blood, uh, any way to keep itself attached to it and keep moving. Science journalist Jeff Wise analyzes jerky steak. He believes that someone could use technology to make this flesh move.
Something else is causing this pulsation. It's like someone is trying to bring this steak back to life. Reanimating dead flesh sounds like something out of Frankenstein. Frankenstein is obviously fiction, but it was based on and inspired by very good science that was current at the time. People would take, you know, little batteries and shocking things like frog legs removed from a frog's head, and they would twitch. This was the creation of the first kind of Frankenstein monster. It was real. And experiments continue to revive parts of dead bodies. In the 1950s, Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov gruesomely tests whether head transplantation is possible
by transplanting the head and four legs of a puppy into another dog, connecting the blood supply of the two dogs to keep the puppy alive. Incredibly, some heads live on their new body for 29 days. And today Sergio Canavero is called the modern-day Dr. Frankenstein. His experiments successfully attach the heads of rats using an electric current to briefly revive the brain. Could such sinister science make this meat move? This is what it looks like. It looks like a piece of dead meat that seems to be brought to life by electricity.
The video was sent to former New York Police Department video analyst Connor McCourt. He is looking for evidence that electricity stimulates this unearthly activity. In this image, we are looking for something that could move this piece of meat. But a careful analysis of the video makes him doubt this theory. There are no signs of electrical wires, and the meat is lying on wood, which does not conduct electricity. So the meat has to move on its own. Neurobiologist Jade Lovell examines the video. While listening to the voices in the video for clues, she uncovers important new evidence.
Lovell suspects that if this meat was just purchased, it is still extremely fresh. This makes her think that the seemingly impossible could be true. Like zombies, this meat is undead. It is possible that the meat itself is dead, but twitches after death. In Chinese cuisine, a piece of meat trembles as if it were alive. Experts suspect that the flesh can live on its own, which is a true case of undead. When you kill an animal, it is dead.
The brain no longer functions, but the cells in the animal's muscles are still alive for a few minutes. This is an effect that is observed throughout the natural world. This rattlesnake moves after being beheaded and skinned. And she will gut her dead. And in Japan, a recently deceased person entertains visitors. Freshly caught squid dipped in soy sauce causes muscle spasms. It's the sodium chloride and soy sauce they put on her that activate the nerve fibers in the muscles that contract to make her move.
Postmortem reports show that people can also move after death. The remaining energy in the cells triggers the muscle nerves, causing the corpse to twitch. This is called cadaveric twitching or postmortem spasms. Experts suspect that if this steak is as freshly butchered as a new corpse, its postmortem tingling sensations are the last sparks of life leaving the body. It could just be freshly slaughtered meat. This meat suggests that there is life after death, at least for a few strange minutes.
I've heard of rare steak and I've heard of blue steak, but still-life steak is too much. It may look a little alarming, but you know it's fresh.
