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NARRATOR: Throughout the United States,

there are legends of strange unidentified creatures

stretching back hundreds of years.

This program is a legend brought to life.

It's told through dramatization, eyewitness accounts, and expert

interviews.

[roar]

Some images are violent in nature.

[roar]

Viewer discretion is advised.

[music playing]

There's a monster that'll come out the marsh

and grab you up in a heartbeat.

WOMAN: Something is killing animals around here.

Just because you don't believe don't mean you're safe.

Did you hear that?

Oh, dear god.

WOMAN: Some people go into the swamp.

They don't come out.

[growl]

[slam]

NARRATOR: A dangerous predator is terrorizing

this remote, Southern Louisiana town.

[moo]

Some locals are beginning to blame a legendary swamp beast

they call the rougarou.

There have been a series of grisly animal attacks.

JULES: What the hell?

NARRATOR: The local animal nuisance company, Cajun Beast,

thought they had their culprit--

[roar]

Kill it!

NARRATOR: --a rogue black bear, but even after the team

captured the bear, the attacks didn't stop.

Look at this.

It's all bent.

What do you suppose did that?

TAMMANY: Hey, get over here.

Yeah?

LUC: The trail camera is smashed.

It's torn clean off the tree.

At least the camera's there.

There's no claw marks on that tree.

TAMMANY: The card is still here.

LUC: See if you can pull up some pictures and see what did this.

We set a trail camera up in tree to keep watch on the area

where Larry's cow was attacked.

Now we come back this morning, and we

find the thing ripped off the tree and smashed on the ground.

I mean, you got to run over it with a truck to do that.

LUC: Right there.

Right there.

Hold on.

JULES: Oh.

What is that?

JULES: What is that?

Tree done fell down?

TAMMANY: Are those eyes?

What's that? What's that?

What's that? JULES: Look at that.

- Back it up. - Right here.

Watch.

TAMMANY: You see how tall the shadow in the trees?

LUC: Oh.

It knocked it down on the ground.

LUC: OK, so we're on the ground, yeah.

Oh, my god.

JULES: No frickin' way, man.

Are those teeth?

Could be a wolf.

No way.

[roar]

JULES: That ain't no bear.

What time was it taken?

The time stamp says it's after we caught that bear.

We tranqued that bear at 1:13, and when my trail cam got

knocked down, the timestamp was 3:39, so there's no way.

This ain't our bear.

I was a little shocked, to be honest with you,

but I got to play it cool, and I don't

want them to get any ideas and start jumping to conclusions.

Screw this [bleep],, man, not with that [bleep] on that

camera.

No, uh-uh.

It's a lot of things out in the woods,

but I ain't never seen anything tall enough

to knock an 8-foot trail cam off a tree,

and to bust it up like that and bust up my trap too?

It wasn't no wolf or no panther.

There's a lot more things out in the woods

that we need to be worried about.

Here in South Louisiana, the swamps

are very remote, very hostile.

You have things that come out in the night that's never

seen in the day.

It leads to a lot of legends and myths.

The Honey Island Swamp Monster or the Alligator Man

or the most violent monster that lives in the deep, dark swamps,

the rougarou.

The name rougarou came the legend of the loup garou, which

originated from France, where it was a werewolf legend.

[growl]

And it was brought over to Louisiana

and became the rougarou.

The rougarou is extremely strong.

It can snap your neck in an instant if it wanted to.

I heard a noise from over there.

I went to investigate.

When I shined the flashlight on it,

it was like, my god, I've never seen something like that

before, at least as tall as me, if not taller,

and it was full of brown hair, walked like a man

with two legs.

I tried to get a little closer to get a better look at it,

and it took off in the weeds.

It could have been the rougarou.

Let's get out of here before that rain starts pouring down

on us.

[thunder]

TAMMANY: The security box holding that trail cam was

8 feet high in that tree.

It's made to withstand vandalism, weather,

animals swiping at it.

You name it.

You could run it over with the 2-ton truck,

and it shouldn't break.

I'm taking the footage out to my friend at the ecological lab.

She's going to blow it up and see if we can analyze

and figure out what--

close to what it might be.

And we're going to do some DNA testing

on the blood and the fur.

LUC: Maybe it was a hog.

You know how big they get.

600 pounds, pull it's knuckle right out of that thing.

The hog couldn't have got up 8 feet.

No way.

Try again, Sherlock.

JULES: You know, rougarou, the thing.

LUC: Hey, don't, Jules.

Last thing we need is Jules flapping his gums

about some rougarou, Bigfoot swamp monster.

People can jump to conclusions well enough on their own.

I don't need us helping them.

One of the things that got a little more attention

is a place called Bladenboro, North Carolina.

[camera shutter]

In the '50s, a lot of killing went on now--

cows and goats and dogs, just a lot of stuff turning up dead.

It went on for a couple of weeks in this little town.

A lot of people thought they saw things.

Some of them explained it off to be bears.

[growl]

The reality is, nothing was ever found.

Whatever the so-called beast of Bladenboro was,

it went away just as quick as it showed up.

If you were to ask me, that sounds a lot

like what's going on here.

[growl]

TAMMANY: Hey, y'all. How's it going?

How are you?

TAMMANY: Hans and Denise are great.

They do environmental research all over this area.

They know pretty much everything there is to know

about local plants and animals.

So any time we come across something that gets us stumped,

we can usually count on them for some answers.

DENISE: Wow.

Something had a party.

HANS: Look at that.

Now we can get the pictures off this card here.

And we'll run some of these blood and fur samples

from the trip, and I'll take them

to some of the folks downstairs, and they'll get us a match.

All right.

Thanks.

Just scroll through to the end.

What are we looking at?

TAMMANY: Well, it's the woods behind a farm.

I had the trail camera set to take still photos and night

image bursts whenever it detects a motion.

So it's not like a video.

We have gaps in the activity that it captured.

HANS: Whoa.

TAMMANY: What's that image at the end, a blurred one.

Best I can tell that's a snout.

HANS: I can't say whatever that job belongs

to is the same thing standing in the background of those earlier

images.

[music playing]

DENISE: Maybe we're looking at two different figures,

like a man and his dog.

TAMMANY: OK.

It's a tough call.

We'll try and run these through a few filters,

and if we find something, we'll let you know.

Science has kind of a difficult time engaging

with rare phenomenon or whispers of new organisms.

Scientists are trained to evaluate evidence.

So when something is very rare, it

can be difficult to get enough evidence together to convince

the scientific community.

But scientists are always discovering new things that

make us think, well, what might be possible, for instance,

the Titanoboa, these giant fossilized snakes or extinct

whales with teeth that were bigger than a T-Rex's teeth.

And that captures your imagination

because it makes you question some assumptions that we make

about life today.

Has a large predator persisted undiscovered out in the bayou?

It's certainly possible.

[door knock]

LUC: I got a call from my old friend, Joe Broussard,

telling me something's sneaking up on to his property

snatching his livestock.

It's up near his house.

So he's afraid for his family.

And I've known Joe for a long time.

He don't rattle easy.

Oh, something there is good.

Is there a lock on that?

Yeah, it was.

Well, it didn't matter.

It smashed right through that thing.

LUC: Man.

JOE: Busted his collar up.

LUC: Joseph, I'm sorry.

Can we see any predators in the area?

Uh-uh.

I get an animal making off with a rabbit or two,

but taking out Joe's guard dog, it's 100-plus pound Rottweiler.

It don't sit right.

JOE: Last night, in the middle of the night,

I heard this hellacious noise through here.

[growl]

I can't really describe it, but I can sure as hell

play it for you.

[frog sounds]

LESLIE: The worst sound I ever heard, I was 10, 11.

My brother and I used to fight a lot.

One particular night, I hit him very hard,

and he went running to tell mom, and I

went and hid in the woods.

I was out there maybe 15 minutes,

and that's when I heard this horrible sound.

I don't know if it's metal twisting, bending,

but it really can't be because it had an animal sound to it,

the animal maybe being hungry, crying.

As soon as I could get my wits together,

I ran back in the house, and that's

the only time I've ever been scared

of anything other than my mama.

JOE: The noise woke me up in the middle of the night.

It scared my wife and my boys half to death.

[howl]

[dog whine]

[howl]

[snarl]

NARRATOR: Strange sightings and grizzly attacks

are on the rise in a small Louisiana bayou town.

[buzz]

Members of Cajun Beasts are trying

to put the clues together.

TAMMANY: Oh, my god.

MAN: No frickin' way, man.

-

NARRATOR: But even for these veteran animal nuisance team,

things just aren't adding up.

[howl]

[dog whine]

[howl]

Now you tell me what that sounds like.

That didn't sound like anything

I've ever heard before.

Way out here, the sounds at night can get distorted,

especially the sounds echoing off the waters in the bayou.

It could be a large pack of coyotes

or a couple of red wolves.

I think whatever it is that he's got on that recording, that's

probably what we're looking for.

Maybe Tammany's folks at the lab can give me some answers.

[howl]

Hans and Denise took a look at everything we pulled off

Godet's Farm.

They ran some tests on the traps,

and all the tissue and blood is from a wild hog.

LUC: It's not uncommon for wild hogs to be in that area.

TAMMANY: Yeah.

LUC: They bust in and out of traps all the time.

TAMMANY: They took a look at the footage,

but they couldn't say for sure what it was.

The flash in the lens, they think it's a mammal, possibly

a canine.

A well-traveled animal trail leading to the water like that,

it could be a number of different animals over

the course of a night--

hogs, red wolves, deer.

What's got me stumped is that upright shadow.

Now we've got Joe's strange recording.

[howl]

What the hell is that?

The frustrating thing is is there's

answers to all of what's been happening out here,

but we're stuck with only the questions.

Too many questions, it leaves people worried.

I was hoping maybe your friend, Hans,

can help us out with this one too.

[music playing]

I transferred to this office a few years ago from the larger

parish, and I tell you what, we've

been having some weird things going on lately.

One of the biggest upswings we've

been having is animal problems, both wild and domestic.

And, look, I am not good with animals.

I don't trust them.

[radio chatter]

The Jagneauxs.

Seeing the Jagneaux boys around town

ain't exactly a good omen, seeing loading up with guns,

ammo, god knows what else.

Seems like half the crimes around here

center around that family.

Jagneauxs own a large tract of land by the swamp,

also runs alongside Larry Godet's farm.

That's where we found that cow that was torn apart

the other day.

Larry Godet thought a group of these boys

might have been what cut up his cow.

They were a little more than hostile

when I tried to ask them a few questions about it.

Hey, why are you harassing my family?

LAMBERT: I got to see what this is all about.

Everybody around here knew about the Jagneaux family.

They'll fight their dogs.

[dog bark]

They fight anything they can get a hold of.

Those poor animals, they suffer.

They got away from moonshine, and they've

been cooking something.

I don't know what it is, but it's

been cooking for quite a while.

You can't miss it when they come in town.

I would never go near their land because I don't think I'd ever

be seen again.

LAMBERT: Headed over to Outdoor Express, finally

get a chance to check back in with Fred,

see if he has any leads on what cut into Larry's cow.

And what I came up with was this little lady.

She's more of a collector's item than a hunting knife.

You know anyone with something like this?

Not around here.

I actually never saw one like that,

but can order them on the catalog now.

That what you think I'm looking for?

I doubt it.

Even with a knife like this, a human

would have made deeper cuts than what was found on that cow.

I still think you've got a crazed, sick animal

on your hands.

Those slashes were a frenzy.

You mind if I take this in, get it on record?

Sure.

Those Jagneaux boys, should I be worried

they're in here stocking up?

They are riled up now that Amos

has been missing for a month.

Amos Jagneaux is missing.

I wouldn't worry about Amos.

He's one of the toughest of those boys.

I'm more worried about the Jagneauxs being on edge

in a way that I've never seen before.

You know, a lot of people that live here in the swamps,

in the southern bayous, they're here because they don't want

to be in main society.

The folks who first settled here were really anti-authority.

They came here for the simple reason

to get away from the rule and the governments

and the taxes and all that.

We handle things our own way here.

When things come down to it, we take care of it ourselves.

[gunshot]

TAMMANY: I came back to the Ecolab

to talk to Hans and Denise about that recording

that Luc brought in.

I'm just hoping that they can tell us what animal or animals

we're hearing on that tape.

We have a catalog of calls of animals all across the region.

Mhm.

HANS: This is the audio that was given to Luc.

[howl]

It's almost a combination of different sounds.

That first sound, it was kind of canine.

It's like a howl.

[grunt]

It's difficult to say exactly what we hear in the recording.

There's a whooping sound that, when taken alone,

resembles something that you'd hear coming from an ape.

But an ape is not something you should hear in this area.

And right here, [howl] there's an avian quality to it too.

TAMMANY: All three animals in one?

Three in one.

[howl]

I had a couple of my interns pull about hundreds

of our best guesses, and this was

the best we could come up with.

[snarl]

Now this is a black vulture.

[snarl]

TAMMANY: There's only that one moment that kind of

sounds similar.

Your sample.

[howl]

A black vulture can make a variety of strange sounds,

but given what Tam brought in, this is not a match.

There are a number of web communities

where researchers post their projects online,

and anyone who wants to can try to solve parts of it.

TAMMANY: I mean, if you think it's going to help.

Well, here's hoping.

I've never heard anything like this before.

I'd prefer to know what exactly is out there.

[howl]

One of the tools that scientists have developed

to try to identify animals are to use spectrograms

or sonograms, which are a way to capture the information

in a vocalization.

From sound recordings, scientists

can analyze the frequencies and patterns in the sound

and categorize species according to the noises that they make.

If you've got a reliable catalog of the songs of the species

in a particular area, and someone brought you a recording

of a song that didn't match any of those,

it would be reason to think maybe there's

something out there that I just haven't found yet.

[music playing]

[growl]

[roar]

One of the most famous audio recordings

is the Sierra Sounds, and they are

a set of recordings of presumed Sasquatch vocalizations--

[growl]

- -made by witnesses occupying a hunting camp in that region

and their ongoing interaction with presumably a number

of individual Sasquatch.

[growl]

[bark]

The Sierra sound recordings have been subjected

to several analyses, actually.

It was determined that the vocal capacity was beyond that

of the human range.

It also suggested that the vocal tract was from a creature that

was somewhere between 8 and 9 feet in height.

So that leaves the possibility open

that these are the vocalizations of some unknown creature.

[snarl]

We got a call from this family out about as far

as we serve who are getting overrun with armadillos.

They carry rabies, so we've been setting traps.

As a matter of fact--

what in the hell?

Good god.

What the hell is this?

These kills are fresh.

Whoever did this is still close by.

These things weren't found dead.

They killed them first.

Then they strung them up.

I don't know why a hunter did that.

Damn thing just keeps going.

Oh, man, somebody's pet cat.

I'm going to radio the sheriff.

I've messed with wild animals.

I don't want to mess with no crazy person.

Yeah, I'm off Louisiana 42, just past the turnout.

OFFICER (ON RADIO): All right, we'll

send a deputy on your way.

You know whose land it is, by the way?

No idea.

I don't know if it belongs to anybody.

OFFICER (ON RADIO): All right.

Just be careful.

Copy that.

I've always loved being outdoors, digging up details

in the dirt, looking for little things other folks

tend to miss.

I went to college a couple of years, part time,

but my daddy always said, head knowledge

can't make up for what you lack in experience.

[radio chatter]

[slam]

MAN: Oh, [bleep].

NARRATOR: Officials in Southern Louisiana

are investigating a rash of animal mutilations.

The sheriff's department is trying to determine

if a person is responsible.

LAMBERT: What the hell they need with all those guns.

NARRATOR: But some townsfolk believe the culprit is

something more dangerous.

That's a big one, all right.

NARRATOR: They think it's the work of a local bayou monster

called the rougarou, a vicious beast that resembles

a werewolf.

[growl]

[slam]

MAN: Oh, [bleep].

TAMMANY: [bleep].

You all right?

[bleep]

Something hit us.

Out of the corner my eyes, like, this dark blur just

ran straight at us.

Did y'all see anything?

Oh, my god.

What the hell?

I can't find nothing.

What the hell hits a truck going 30 miles an hour

and just walks away?

Jules, you copy?

JULES (ON RADIO): Yeah, I do.

I'm gonna need a tow off of Highway 22,

right past the old bridge.

JULES (ON RADIO): What's wrong with the truck?

You'll see when you get here.

[radio chatter]

So I've got neighboring sheriff's offices

sending me over files of their missing person cases.

About two weeks ago, we found a video

of a hiker getting attacked.

We haven't found any sign of them since.

Then we have this local man, Amos Jagneaux.

He's now missing.

Right now, I-- I can't make the assumption

that their disappearances are even connected.

The fact is, unfortunately, a lot of people

go missing in this part of Louisiana.

When you get lost in the swamp, pretty much you--

you belong to the swamp.

There's so many dangers out there, you just never know

what's out there waiting for you.

You'll definitely hear of cases of people dying

in these swamps.

If they don't know the swamp, they're not coming back.

[click]

[animal sounds]

You still look a little shook up.

What happened?

Something came at me from god knows where,

somewhere over there.

I saw it out of the corner of my eye, but--

Nothing.

It's like a big, huge wrecking ball just completely tore it

up.

The whole back end is completely ruined.

Let me finish winching it up.

Probably just a big buck deer.

They get scared and confused, and they run straight out right

into oncoming cars all the time.

I saw a TV show one time about Bigfoot taking two or three

steps right across the road.

[howl]

There's some very, very strange creatures hiding around

here in this swamp.

There's a Bigfoot in the swamp about 15 miles

from here, big hairy, upright walking creature.

I believe there is a creature out there.

If I would see that creature, I'd run like hell

and say, God, please help me, and let me get away.

JEFF MELDRUM: Cryptids are potentially species of animals

that are unknown or for which there is not definitive proof

of their existence.

If we rank the potential cryptids on the basis

of the evidence that--

that currently exists for them, Sasquatch

would outstrip most of these other cryptids by far.

There are all types of evidence, physical evidence in the form

of hair and scat, sample after sample,

that defies attribution to known species, definitely primates.

There are also eyewitness accounts from America

to the Himalayas.

The most credible ones come from those areas

where the habitat will support a large, omnivorous mammal, who

could remain undetected.

We also have lots of photographs and videos.

The best evidence is, for me, the footprint evidence.

Something is leaving these tracks,

and I think that those people who are trained

should be able to distinguish from a hoax and the real McCoy

by many, many examples of the footprints that are accumulated

now in my laboratory.

I'm convinced by the evidence that Sasquatch exists.

[owl hoot]

LUC: Don't know why on God's green Earth

somebody would want to do something like this.

Good god.

Damn thing just keeps going.

Ma'am?

SHERRY: Hey, who are you?

LUC: I was going to ask you the same thing.

I saw some animals strung up by the road.

You know anything about that?

This ain't your business.

LUC: Animal control, and you get some pets, it looks like,

strung up on this line.

That is my business.

All of them would be dead if it wasn't for me.

Ma'am, they are dead.

SHERRY: They all come out of the woods,

and I got to defend myself.

Ma'am I understand what you're saying.

You do me a real good favor.

Could you just put down their hatchet?

SHERRY: [inaudible].

Please, ma'am, if somebody is messing with you,

we're going to help you out, all right?

You ought to thank me.

LUC: Ma'am, I'll think you to put--

over here.

DUCRE: Put down the ax.

Put the weapon down.

SHELLEY: [inaudible]

DUCRE: Put the weapon down.

SHELLEY: [inaudible],, don't you know?

DUCRE: We responded to a call from Luc.

He had discovered a bunch of dead animals strung up all

through the woods out on 42.

When we arrived at the scene, we found a local woman,

Shelley Warner, openly admitting to the killings.

She was disoriented, aggressive.

So we arrested her, and we charged her with animal cruelty

and civil disobedience.

Oh, good lord, somebody's dog.

Flies are just taking everything over.

How could an old lady like that do something so evil?

I mean, she's just completely lost it.

[music playing]

[click]

[click]

[click]

[radio chatter]

OK, Shelley, we're going to have to hold you here

until the owners of every pet and farm animal you slaughtered

can be contacted, until they decide to either press charges,

or we can release you.

We'll remove the animal carcasses from your property

and arrange proper disposal.

SHELLEY: You did what?

The animals that you slaughtered--

No, you should not have done that.

These animals were meant as sacrifice offerings

to lure the rougarou away from the town, away

from these people.

Don't you know I tried to protect the people?

It's the rougarou.

He's responsible for all the bad things that go on.

Don't you realize that?

You mean people?

People do that stuff.

SHELLEY: No, the evil spirits.

How do you arrest that evil spirits?

Sacrifices.

OFFICER: Sacrifices?

SHELLEY: We have lots of folks like this.

I'm not naming reasons, but it's hard living.

We see all types.

RONALD MARKMAN: Fear is a very powerful motivator.

There have been events in our historical pattern

that demonstrate the impact of fear on our society.

The Salem Witch Trials is an example of that, where people

acted in an erratic, impulsive, unrealistic, unconventional

manner to achieve ends that they thought

would be self-protective.

[music playing]

[radio chatter]

TAMMANY: Evidence keeps piling up,

but I still can't figure out who or what broke our traps

and trail cam out at Godet's farm.

We can't identify the animal on that tape

that Joe Broussard gave to Luc, can't figure out what's

been killing his animals.

And now police got a call from some residents hearing

some strange noises coming from an abandoned sugar mill

out by the bayou.

The sheriff seems to think that it's an animal in origin.

So I'm going to head over there and see what I can find.

The mill is just up ahead.

Animals love abandoned buildings like that.

It's like a haven for them.

There's the old trio.

Tam?

Where's your light?

Dammit.

Nobody's been in this sugar mill, probably been 20 years.

TAMMANY: In an abandoned building like this,

I would expect to find animals around every corner.

It's really strange.

I can't tell--

[clang]

Watch your step.

Oh.

LAMBERT: Sorry.

I forgot to tell you about that stench.

You smelled decomposing bodies before?

TAMMANY: That explains the smell.

Whatever did this had a hearty appetite.

Let's see what we got.

It's got bones in here.

It liked its dinner whole.

Can you shine your light right here?

I have to get the lab to check it out, find out more, though.

LAMBERT: We ain't even got to the part that really freaked me

out.

It's up ahead.

How big do you think this thing is, Tam?

Bigger than you.

LAMBERT: I thought we might be dealing with a gator.

That's why I called.

- Oh, wow. - Hold up.

Don't-- don't--

TAMMANY: Look at that.

Be careful, Tam.

TAMMANY: This is definitely a nest.

LAMBERT: I've seen squatter set ups.

This has to be some kind of animal.

What the hell is that?

Is that a raccoon?

TAMMANY: I got to measure this.

Hold this for me.

It's bigger than my tape.

I ain't never measured a nest this big.

There's no way this could be a gator nest this far

from the water.

LAMBERT: Hey, Tam, can I borrow one of your gloves?

Grab it.

LAMBERT: Tam.

TAMMANY: Yeah?

LAMBERT: You got to take a look at this.

It looks like a bear claw except the color's wrong.

Its too light.

A black bear would be-- would be darker, like a light brown.

I knew this wasn't no squatter.

She doesn't even have an idea.

So then what we're doing--

TAMMANY: It's a trio.

It's a trail.

LAMBERT: You all right?

What you mean, hold on?

Tam?

TAMMANY: It's fresh.

Come on.

It's a trail.

LAMBERT: Tammany, hold up.

TAMMANY: The trail keeps going.

Where are you going, Tam?

That's the opening. It's probably where it came in.

Hold up, Tam.

Stand back.

[music playing]

The trail's pretty clear.

Head straight that way.

Straight ahead?

Yeah, straight to that cane field.

LAMBERT: You could tell where it went in?

TAMMANY: Yeah, look, right over there, right to the left.

All right.

You see it?

It headed down there.

LAMBERT: This is the sheriff's department.

Anybody out here, you identify yourselves now.

TAMMANY: The sugarcane is too high.

I can't see anything.

LAMBERT: Anybody out of here?

TAMMANY: Look.

You hear that?

[scream]

Did you hear that?

LAMBERT: Hold up, Tam.

Is anybody out here?

TAMMANY: There's something in here.

[roar]

LAMBERT: Tam, run!

TAMMANY: Go, go, go! [inaudible]

LAMBERT: Go!

Go, go, run, run, go, go!

[roar]

LAMBERT: Get down!

Anybody out here, you identify yourselves now.

TAMMANY: Wait.

You hear that?

There's something in here.

LAMBERT: Tam, run!

TAMMANY: Go, go, go!

[inaudible], go! LAMBERT: Go!

Get back!

Run, run, run, go, go!

LAMBERT: Get back.

TAMMANY: Run.

LAMBERT: Go for that wall.

You OK?

OK.

That sure as hell wasn't no gator.

What the hell was that?

TAMMANY: The situation is different than anything

I've been in.

I'm going to coming back tommorw,

and when it's daylight, I'm bringing Luc and Jules with me.

We're going to check out this cane field.

[music playing]

People talk about a lot of really strange things

that happen down here.

You got things like swamp creatures, rougarous--

It's definitely nicer walking through the cane

during the daytime.

I-- I got pretty rattled last night.

LUC: You just lead us to the spot you got spooked, see if we

see any signs of anything.

JULES: How much further?

Holy [bleep].

JULES: What?

That's a hell of a mess here.

Is this not what it was like last night.

No.

We're going to have to check this whole perimeter.

It's got to be something else on one of these edges.

JULES: See any fur?

LUC: There's broken cane and deep divots everywhere.

See anything over there, Jules?

JULES: No, not particularly here.

I just remember hearing this crazy screaming and tailing it

out.

There ain't no tracks.

Oh, the path I'm finding is the one going back to the mill.

TAMMANY: This doesn't make sense.

There's no clear pathway to where it entered and exited.

It's just like the cane just flattened.

What the hell could have done this?

A hog could do this.

Hogs are known for destroying a cane field.

They come in, they root, trying to find stuff to eat,

but all the roots and everything was still there.

A hog is not going to just come in and do all this work

for the hell of it.

I ain't found nothing near the bayou, no tracks, no trails.

It's just like Mr. Larry's place with that cow.

Why don't we hang up a trail camera or two

in case something comes back and see

if we can't catch a glimpse?

JULES: I'll tell you, me and Luc have been working together

for a long time.

Luc ain't the type to just show his cards.

If he gets rattled about something,

you damn sure know that you need to be worried over it too.

[radio chatter]

[siren]

LAMBERT: Hey, Chief, a body in the swamp, cause of death

is yet to be determined.

LAMBERT: Nah.

LAMBERT: Sheriff's office got a call this morning

from a trapper.

Apparently he was way out in the swamp,

and he came across a corpse.

No identity has been established just yet,

but that's what we're here to find out.

Woo, hmm.

LAMBERT: Yeah.

LAMBERT: I don't recognize him. Do you, [inaudible]?

OFFICER: Not what's left of him.

LAMBERT: He wasn't in the water?

LAMBERT: The body was in pretty rough shape, had some cuts.

You know, if you remember Larry Godet's cow looked

a lot like that.

We got footage a weeks back of this missing hiker.

[roar]

Then we have this local man, Amos Jagneaux.

He's now missing.

And now we get this body.

Folks were already scared when it was just

their animals turning up dead.

OK.

I wish I had answers that could make people feel better,

but if you ask me, I'm afraid whatever took down

that cow moved on to bigger and badder prey.

[radio chatter]

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