Most of us expect to learn a thing or two when we go to the museum. We don’t expect to have the living daylights scared out of us. But that’s what happened to one man during his visit to the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C.
A video of the man’s reaction to a shark exhibit ended up going viral and was viewed more than 2 million times on Storyful’s YouTube channel.
The video shows the man walking up to the museum’s shark tank. Though it looks like real shark exhibit it’s actually just a virtual display.
The shark tank is part of the “Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villians,” which feature the bad guys from the James Bond movies and their nefarious plots. The point of the exhibit is to feel like you’re a Bond villain.
There is a big sign over the exhibit that says “Touch at Your Own Risk.” So, naturally, the man starts tapping at the glass. A shark swims by and the man keeps tapping at the glass hoping the virtual shark will interact with him.
Just as the man has his face close to the glass, a shark swims at him head on and appears to slam into the glass exhibit.
This poor guy is so terrified he leaps backward and slams down on the ground. The best is this guys reaction. He doesn’t seem to be phased by the hard fall he took, but his jaw is completely dropped and he still looks pretty horrified.
According to Huffington Post, that man was Gregory Heinzman and his friend Casey Peck posted the now viral video to YouTube.
“I realized that the video meant to scare people so I brought Gregory to the room. I decide to tape Gregory’s reaction to the video. It was a perfect reaction that caused a viral,” Peck said on Facebook. “No, the sharks weren’t real. It is an animation video. No, nothing triggers the shark to ‘attack’, not even if one touch the screen. It makes people to stay at the screen, confusing them with what is going on.”
The exhibit looks through the eyes of fictional character Karl Stromberg of the James Bond book and film “The Spy Who Loved Me” and focuses on the post-apocalyptic world underneath the sea.
“What would Stromberg’s world be like?” the museum’s website explains. “Find out as you experience the residents in our virtual shark tank … but be careful — you never know when one might attack!”
Apparently, by the look on his face, Heinzman didn’t get that memo.
“I didn’t expect that a shark would’ve popped up,” Heinzman told FOX 8. “Somehow my body automatically fell.”
Watch his priceless reaction in the video below.
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