(spooky music)
(haunting music)
- [David] I've heard of a border crossing experience
that turns being an illegal migrant
into a tourist attraction.
I want to find out what making that journey would be like.
And how realistic this tour is.
President Trump campaigned to build a wall,
so I'm surprised there's already one here.
It's more like a fence than a wall.
And it's not even finished.
Surely this tour is going to be pretty easy.
Our commander takes his role very seriously,
and we nervously set off.
The action starts almost as soon as our six hour trek
to the pretend border begins.
(gunshot)
- [Man] Whoa! Shit!
- [David] I don't know where they're coming from,
but those gunshots sounded very authentic.
(panicked Spanish)
How real is this going to get?
Well that's the thing I don't know
if it's just Mexico or the tour.
I'm jittery with nerves,
and I don't know what's going on.
(gunshots)
Who is shooting at us?
We're about to find out.
(gunshots) (woman screams)
(urgent yelling)
Apparently being robbed by criminals
on your way to the border is common.
(Robbers yelling in Spanish)
For a split second I forget this is a tour.
Quite authentic.
(Robbers yelling in Spanish)
I look to our commander for guidance.
Commander, what's going on?
But I should've kept my mouth shut.
(Spanish yelling)
You can take that.
Oh! (thuds)
(Spanish yelling)
I don't really know how to react.
This just seems nuts.
(Spanish speaking)
I only know English. No Spanish.
It's a weird mix of amateur drama and violent reality.
(soaring)
Until now this has been a restricted area,
but the government says it's now okay
for residents to return.
I had to come and see for myself
what a nuclear disaster looks like.
Is it safe to be here?
- [Yow] So ladies and gentlemen I'm your tourist guide.
- [David] Our guide for the day is Yow.
So I have to be careful with my right and left
because to you it's switched.
So I have to say, "On your right" and "On your left".
(laughs)
- [David] It seems like just another walk
in the radioactive park for Yow.
He certainly doesn't seem concerned about any danger.
(meter beeping)
What are the levels that you'd be concerned about, Yow?
So for livin' in the area point two zero.
(beeping)
Worries me.
- [David] Okay.
It's funny, because it's very hard
because you are such a happy person
it's very hard to know, for me,
and for us, how dangerous it is.
- [Yow] I'm not growing extra horns or extra fingers.
(steady beeping)
- [David] One point nine
- [Woman 1] Two point three
Two point eight
(beeping increases)
The levels keep rising.
Everyone is seriously on edge.
(chirping beeps)
No one was expecting readings this high.
Not even our own crew.
So what we just experienced was even the highest.
No.
So that wasn't the hot spot.
No.
You know that.
Well I'm probably gonna stay on the bus.
- [David] Even the bus doesn't feel
like it a shield anymore.
And the levels continue to get higher.
- [Woman 1] Oh my god!
- [Woman 2] One point eight seven
(gasping) - [Woman 1] Oh my god!
(panicked talking)
(meter beeping increasing)
Guys, seven point one nine.
- [Woman 2] Oh my God!
- [David] The readings are now about 50 times over
the zero point two threshold.
I don't want to stay another minute here,
and I'm not alone.
- [Woman 1] I have nine point seven one now.
Scare point.
- [Woman 1] Alright.
- [Woman 2] We're scared. - [Male] We are scared, okay.
- [Woman 1] We have officially been scared.
- [David] Yeah.
- [Woman 1] Let's go back.
- [Woman 2] He's say let's go
- [Woman 1] All in favor?
Okay.
(Passengers agreeing)
Who wants to go?
(Passengers murmuring agreement)
(engine sputters)
(chuckles)
The driver just turned off the engine.
(meter beeping rapidly)
(passengers talking)
Not the place to breakdown.
(soaring) Twenty
and five.
Alright so let me get you guys wristbands.
(crowd chattering)
Alright everybody that is coming
on the Cream City Cannibal Tour this evening
could you please join us outside in the alleyway,
so we may begin this tour.
(crowd talking)
- [David] Natalie was spot on about Bachelorette parties.
The tour is dominated by women in their thirties.
Maybe, like the tour guides
they're all secretly hot for Jeffry Dahmer.
The ultimate bad boy.
I'm just excited to finally satisfy my bloody curiosity
by getting into the graphic details.
[Female Tour Guide] Another method he used is
he actually tried to create a sex slave
that wouldn't have any needs.
Wouldn't speak.
Wouldn't do much.
But he still wanted them alive,
so to do this he decided to drill
an inch and a quarter into their skulls,
and at first he poured boiling water,
and then he tried different cleaning agents.
- [David] I'm into all these disgusting bits,
and I'm not the only one.
He's super interesting. Yes.
'Cause he's very different than the stereotypical.
But I think women also just want to fix everybody too.
I don't think that's
Oh, way to be psychological.
I know.
Well it's true. Yeah, you tell them Lorna.
I mean. Yeah.
- [David] How would you affect him?
What would be your methodology?
(women laughing)
Li'l snuggles. (laughs)
A li'l drill in the brain.
(laughing)
Snuggles, but not too close.
(laughs)
- [David] The tour takes us to Club 219
where Dahmer picked up many of his victims.
And things start to get weird.
If anyone is here with us right now
Can you please cross the rods?
- [Woman] That's a yes.
Now can you please uncross the rods for me?
If you're feeling low on energy
you may use my energy if need be.
If we are speaking to Jeffry Dahmer currently
can you please cross the rods?
Does anybody have any questions for Mr. Dahmer?
That lost me Natalie.
Have they lost you?
Totally. (soaring)
- [David] I've decided to get out of Ashgabat
and its tight security.
To see if things are more relaxed outside the city walls.
And what better excuse than going
to a famed tourist destination?
The Gates of Hell is a spectacular flaming pit.
It's the result of a Soviet oil drilling accident
that was meant to be extinguished
by setting fire to the oil.
But 40 years later it's still burning.
But our plans come to a grinding halt
when we board the tour bus.
- [Male Friend] That would be a bit of a problem. Yeah.
I spoke to my manager and I asked
[David} We're informed the President has closed off
the entire city of Ashgabat from the country.
And journalists are not allowed out.
As a consolation officials offer us a tour
of the inner city.
A chance to see some of the President's prized memorials
and statues.
- [Driver] Yeah you can take video but without
Without you in it.
- [Driver] Yeah exactly.
- [David] It turns out we're not even allowed
to film any locals.
Including our driver.
- [Driver] You can take video of places.
- [Male Friend] All of the buildings here are so impressive.
- [Driver] Many of our new buildings
we make with white marble.
- [Male Friend] White marble. - [Driver] Yes.
- [David] As well as love for white marble
the President has a child-like obsession
with collecting Guinness World Records.
And surprisingly Ashgabat holds the record
for Highest Density of Buildings with White Marble Cladding.
- [Driver] That was the TV building
TV building?
- [Driver] It was also, uh, third Guinness Record.
- [David] This tower won a World Record
for Largest Architectural Image of a Star.
- [Male Friend] It's ridiculous.
What is it?
- [Driver] Like London Eye our Turkman Eye.
- [David] And again a Guinness Record
for the highly contested title
of World's Largest Indoor Ferris Wheel.
Was all this stuff built for the people that live here, or?
Why's all this,
oh my God
Why is all this stuff built even?
(cymbal clang)