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[music playing]

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.

Some images are
violent in nature.

Viewer discretion is advised.

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There's a monster that
will come out the marsh,

and grab you up in a heartbeat.

LOCAL: Something is killing
animals around here.

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

Did you hear that?

Oh, my dear God.

LOCAL: Some people go into the
swamp, they don't come out.

[music playing]

NARRATOR: A dangerous
predator is terrorizing

this remote southern
Louisiana town.

This is definitely a nest.

NARRATOR: Some
locals are beginning

to blame a legendary swamp
beast, they call, the rougarou

[growl]

The town's animal
control team is

getting flooded with calls
about livestock mutilations

and missing pets.

What the hell is this?

NARRATOR: But most
recently, they

discovered dozens of animals
apparently slaughtered

as offerings to ward off this
mysterious bayou monster.

I gotta defend myself.

NARRATOR: But now, locals
fear that whatever is causing

the carnage has developed
a taste for human blood.

DEPUTY LAMBERT: I don't
recognize him, you, Yvonne?

YVONNE DUCRE: Not
what's left of him.

DEPUTY LAMBERT: Sheriff's
office got a call this morning

from a trapper.

Apparently he was
way out in the swamp,

and he came across the corpse.

Folks were already
scared when it was just

their animals turning up dead.

I just hope the whole town
don't go out of control.

He wasn't in the water?

OK.

We realized that
that body we found

was that of Amos Jagneaux.

He's from a big family out here.

With all the Jagneaux
brothers, cousins, and sisters,

I mean, there must
be 30 or 40 them.

No one even knows and
no one ever bothered

to report Amos missing.

I guess that's because
these Jagneaux boys,

they always going
out on hunting trips.

And they know the land
better than anyone else.

And you that's what worries me.

I just don't know how Amos
could have gone missing or--

or how he died out
here in the swamp.

Once the town gets wind that
one of the toughest guys

around died out here,
people going to get scared.

Looking at Amos's
body, it's a lot easier

to believe an animal
could have done this.

So that's why we called out the
Cagin' Beast crew to come check

out the spot where he was found.

The wounds tell
me that I think

an animal got a hold of him,
ripped his throat like that.

Maybe your team
will see something

that ours aren't trained to.

Of course.

Whatever we can do to help.

So what's your read
on all of this, Trio?

I mean, y'all saw those cuts.

Remind you of anything
in particular?

Yeah, Mr. Lay's cow for sure.

The cuts on the body
look like the same one

that was on Mr Lay's cow.

It looked like he
went after him next.

That wasn't no animal
nor human what did this.

There is something
bigger out there.

It's got to be the rougarou.

A lot of people have a
lot of different beliefs

around here about
what it could be.

They think it's a shape
shifter, some kind of wolf man.

I think that thing could be
some kind of demon spirit

or something.

I ain't gonna mess with
no demons spirits, uh-uh.

I'll hop on an alligator
any time, but a rougarou,

that's just some scary stuff.

In South Louisiana, the
version of Bigfoot is rougarou.

It takes many forms.

It's never the same.

I know it as loup-garou,
the French werewolf.

Half human creatures coming
out of the swamp with roots

and moss growing all over them.

The rougarou sleeps under
the water during the day,

and comes out at night.

If he gets your scent,
it's all over with.

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LUC BAPTISTE: The only
problem with a crime scene

in the swamp is, in a few
hours everything will change.

The water rising,
animals trampling around.

Hard to tell.

The body is all the way
cold and his wounds are dry.

But I mean, he should have been
chewed over more than he was,

sitting out here overnight.

Yeah, plenty of
scavengers out here.

Something should have found him.

JEFF MELDRUM: Many descriptions
of odd and unusual animals

could very likely be the basis
of the discovery of new species

in the future.

Across the globe,
there are these stories

of hairy man-like creatures,
the wild men of the woods.

As a biologist, I'm quite
impressed by a commonality

in the ecological
factors, the woods.

These are wilderness areas.

They're in forests.

They're in the type
of terrain that you

would expect a
primitive population

of man-like creatures to exist.

I'm absolutely convinced
that there are species yet

to be discovered that
have evaded our detection.

This is where we found him.

Where was the body at?

We found him right here.

But it was all cut up.

I don't see no blood.

Can't see much sign of
a struggle through here.

You see any drag marks anywhere,
outside of this little circle

you got?

DEPUTY LAMBERT: Negative.

Any chance Amos
was in the water,

and a gator came and
bit him by the neck,

and put him back on the
bank once he had bled out?

LUC BAPTISTE: No.

Yeah, we best get to walking it.

I'm going to go out this way.

Where's he going?

LUC BAPTISTE: He
knows what he's doing.

DEPUTY LAMBERT: Ain't
worried about gators?

LUC BAPTISTE: Them gators
are worried about Jules.

JULES D'ENTREMONT: Hey, y'all.

I think I got
something over here.

Oh, what you got?

Well, right here's
the drag marks.

See the way the brush
has bent over right here,

and it's got blood
on the branch here?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

JULES D'ENTREMONT: Oh, yeah,
we're on a trail now, boys.

Listen, Jules, you suppose
a critter killed Amos, dragged

him around, and not eat him.

Territorial maybe?

JULES D'ENTREMONT: Yeah.

He could have stumbled
up on a nest, you know?

You know how parents are
about their children.

They're pretty protective.

So whatever did
that could be trying

to protect its young from us?

JULES D'ENTREMONT: Maybe.

You may want to consider that it
may not be a man or an animal.

No, I know you've
got about a dozen

of those bayou boogey man
stories up in your mind

that your grandma
once telling you.

But I'd sooner believe Amos
crawled this quarter mile,

bleeding out.

If anybody was tough
enough it would be him.

Yeah, well, I can't rightly
put rougarou under cause

of death either.

JULES D'ENTREMONT: I
sure the hell would.

Good to see you.

You too.

I turn to Hans and Denise
at the ecological lab

any time we run across
something that gets us stumped.

And they usually answers for us.

About a week ago, Luc got
a call from an old friend

in town, Joe Russard.

He said something's been picking
off his animals at night.

He actually got an audio
recording of what he thinks

killed them.

[moan ]

Hans and Denise were going
over the tape for us,

but unfortunately, they
couldn't find a match.

So they crowd-sourced it online.

They posted the audio
to zoology forum.

And we got a response from a
guy who's into, what he calls,

cryptozoology.

HANS SCHMIDT: This
is Quinton Schuster.

Quinton has brought me a number
of samples with his theories

attached over the years.

Your recording intrigued me.

Cryptozoology is the study of
hidden animals, anything that

doesn't qualify as
a normal animal.

If you can't find it in
the zoo, I go look for it.

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I think that we can
help each other.

I've got a truckload full of
equipment, thermal imaging,

nighttime vision goggles,
field recorders, local contacts

with transportation.

One of the perks of being a
cryptozoologist is the gear.

I've got heat sensors,
infrared, ultrasonic.

I've attracted a lot of
cryptids with this equipment

in the past.

Let's see this gear.

Cryptids are species that
are unrecognized by science,

whether due to a lack
of definitive evidence,

or because of the elusive
nature of the species.

When it comes to contemporary
reports of encounters

across the globe, they
often have different names.

But the descriptions
are remarkably

consistent of the wild men of
the woods, the Chinese Yeren,

the Indian Mande Barung, the
Caucasus wild man of Russia.

across the United States,
in the Pacific Northwest,

we have Sasquatch in California,
Bigfoot in Florida, the skunk

ape.

In the southern bayou country,
the Cajuns have the rougarou.

Tired of walking
through this mud yet?

- I am.
- No.

Look at that.

Look.

Jesus.

Oh, yeah, look at that.

That's a whole lot of blood.

That ain't like any kill
site I've ever seen before.

DEPUTY LAMBERT: I can't tell
where it starts or stops.

LUC BAPTISTE: There was
definitely an ugly struggle

going on here.

JULES D'ENTREMONT: Oh, there's
got to be a track around here

somewhere.

The wounds tell me an animal
got a hold of him, ripped

his throat like that.

NARRATOR: The Cagin'
Beasts team has been called

in by law enforcement
to determine

whether an animal could
have killed local man, Amos

Jagneaux.

I got something.

NARRATOR: While
at the scene, they

discover something unusual near
where Amos's body was found.

LUC BAPTISTE: I found something.

I got something right here.

DEPUTY LAMBERT: What you got?

I'm not sure.

It doesn't look like it
belongs out here though.

No, wait, wait,
don't touch it.

Oh, don't touch it.

I don't know if I'd
pick it up, man.

What is this?

Some kind of voodoo doll?

You ever seen anything
before like this, Jules?

Uh-uh.

I mean, this has to
be related to it, huh?

Like maybe some
kind of voodoo or--

JULES D'ENTREMONT: Voodoo
is never this violent.

I'll take you to someone
who knows voodoo.

LUC BAPTISTE: It's not
unusual to find old hunting

gear or a spent shell
casing out here.

But this-- this ain't typical.

It could be something that
Amos got separated from,

or it could be something
somebody dropped along the way.

The only problem
with that is not too

many people in their right
mind would come out this far.

JAMI BURNS: The religious
cultures and ways

here are as unique to the
people as a fingerprint.

Lots of old beliefs here
use totems or talismans,

little figurine dolls meant
to connect with greater power.

There's some spells
that are cast

for good luck, some bad luck.

Some of them would
have hair on them,

or blood, or a
fingernail or two.

Those were specifically made up
to do something to that person.

Some people use voodoo for
protection against evil.

Down here, people use
voodoo to protect themselves

against all dark things,
including the rougarou.

This old boy's
seen better days.

Yeah, he's dead.

Looks like maggots
already getting at it.

It's starting to rot.

You've got yourself a goat.

It's going to be a process
getting it out of there.

These two boys and I
will take care of it.

God, it stinks.

Oh, he's an old soul.

Probably wandered under
there looking for some shade,

and that was that.

You going to
catch that rougarou?

There you go.

You can't catch
what ain't out there.

JACOB AUGOSTIN: Go
out there at night,

and tell us there's no rougarou.

LUC BAPTISTE: I'll
tell you what, boys.

You can go out there
and look all you want.

You ain't going to
find no rougarou.

You can take that to the bank.

OK, well then tell
me about Amos Jagneaux.

He's dead.

Yeah, incredibly dead.

Something big had
to have done that.

LUC BAPTISTE
(VOICEOVER): Normally

with something like this, we'd
be out in a half hour, tops.

But with what's happened to Amos
Jagneaux, folks' nerves are--

they're in overdrive, you know?

And there's a lot of people
asking a lot of questions

about things I'd rather
not spend my time on.

But part of our job is
making people feel safe.

And part of making
people feel safe

is listening to what
they have to say.

Get under there and
spread that tarp out.

Curious things have been
happening around here.

The town gets all jittery.

First thing they want to do is
run to somebody and tell them.

Oh, this happened,
that happened.

When people get scared,
rumors start to fly,

and they blame things.

It's like spreading
the warning, you know?

Make sure your friends,
family are ready for this.

We have a 38-year-old
Caucasian male by the name Amos

Jagneaux.

A big slash type wound
here on his neck.

There was a severe
laceration to the neck.

It was done with a
significant force.

OK, make some notes for me.

Measuring 4 inches,
right under the chin.

And starts down and goes front
to back, at a downward angle.

It stops at the
sternomastoid muscle.

It would have appeared to have
occurred if someone had fallen

from 12 to 15 feet, or possibly
been thrown from a boat

to hit some jagged edge.

But when we studied
the wound, we

didn't define any debris
that was consistent with any

of that.

I don't know how this happened.

I'm going to measure from the
end of his index finger, up.

He doesn't have any
fingernails on this side.

What does it look
like on the other--

ASSISTANT: Same thing.

They're all missing?

ASSISTANT: Yeah.

YANCY GUERN: This is
not post-mortem changes.

This has some signs of healing.

So it-- it looked like they
may have been missing prior

to his death.

I would say at least three days.

I have some unconfirmed reports
that, um, he'd be missing

in the swamp for 30 days.

But he appeared to only
have been dead for 48 hours.

He was surviving,
basically, with his hands.

His fingers were so damaged
from digging and climbing.

He was rooting like an
armadillo to try and survive.

Let's take a look
at the stomach.

ASSISTANT: Do you need
the big forceps first,

or are you just--

No, with the small one.

OK, it looks like I'm
finding some raw meat.

Look at this.

You have some type
of little ribs.

They look like--
almost like a rat.

It's like he swallowed it whole.

How could it go
down his esophagus?

There was a lot of bone matter
and tissue in his stomach.

It would suggest that
he was trying to survive

by eating animals, raw.

Look at this severely
deformed right foot.

The large toe seems
to extend out inward.

This is the most severe case.

You know, a lot of people have
deformities that they cover up.

We come in here in the
morgue, and it's not uncommon.

But the shape of a victim's
foot looked almost like a hand.

It looked like it almost
had a thumb to it.

He had no activity
of animal bites,

or anything like that that
had been gnawing at his body.

I determined that he
had a certain amount

of methamphetamines
in his system.

If a person does
have methamphetamines

in their bloodstream, animals
will not eat the tissue.

How did he end up like he did?

We have not been able to
conclusively determine that.

They said, when they found
Amos's body in the swamp,

he had been laying
there for days.

But there was no decay, no
bacteria, no maggots on him,

nothing.

You know why?

Because the devil
don't decompose.

He ain't got no blood
like me and you.

He got dead rougarou blood.

So the police, they say
that Amos is dead and gone.

But us locals, we
know the truth.

He'll be back.

[thunder]

[music playing]

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: Nothing.

LUC BAPTISTE (VOICEOVER): I got
a call from the groundskeeper,

saying there's howls
coming out of the cemetery.

I figure it's probably a pack
of coyotes or wolves, maybe

wild dogs that
need to be run off.

This is what it's come to,
dog catchers for the undead.

Look for tracks.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT:
I don't see anything.

Nothing, just a goose chase.

Think we missed it?

I'm definitely
seeing canine traces.

Probably just a neighborhood
pack out for a run.

Did you see that?

Look, there.

There, go.

[barking]

Do you see them?

There, right
there, right there.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: Where?
Where?

LUC BAPTISTE: No, this way.
This way, come on.

Here, take this side right here.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: How many?

LUC BAPTISTE: This
way, this way.

[barking]

This way.

He's going deeper in the woods.

Where did they go?

[growling]

LUC BAPTISTE: You
gotta stay back.

Stay back.

There they go.

There they go.

Come on.

[barking]

Come, we can get them.

Look, Tam, Tam,
Tam, let them go.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: What?

Why?

Good Lord.

What you got?

Take a look at this.

Watch your step.

Watch your step.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT:
What the hell?

LUC BAPTISTE: It's like
a sacrificial graveyard.

[music playing]

NARRATOR: As calls from
panicked locals continue rolling

in to Cagin' Beasts
animal control--

- Did you see that?
- No, this way, this way.

It looks like a bunch of dogs.

NARRATOR: --the team makes
a shocking discovery--

Let them go.

What?

Take a look at this.

NARRATOR: --a massive
bone pile, unearthed

by a recent rainstorm.

Do you think any are human?

I hope not.

I see this big mess of all these
different kinds of animals,

possibly human bones in there.

It's going to be hard to tell
unless we can find some skull

or something.

I see at least a half dozen
different kind of animals here.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: So I guess
the storm just loosened them

up, and the dogs did the rest.

If that's the case, they've been
working on this for a while.

LUC BAPTISTE: Those bones
didn't come from the cemetery

because those are safe
in the stone crypts.

We're outside the boundary
of the cemetery here.

So maybe the rain unearthed the
bones from an old Indian burial

mound, or I don't
know what it would be.

I ain't seen a single skull
yet, not even a piece of one.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: Well,
what do you take that to mean?

LUC BAPTISTE: It means they
didn't die from natural causes.

[howling]

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT:
What's that?

[howling]

Nothing.

It could be a couple of
red wolves echoing off

the waters in the bayou.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: We
should just call the sheriff.

LUC BAPTISTE: Yeah.

Let him deal with it.

It just keeps getting
deeper and deeper, you know?

Stumbling upon a boneyard with
a dozen or more different kind

if animals and no skulls there.

Let's go.

Come on.

I'd really like to figure
out what the hell is going on

out here before it just
gets any more out of hand.

[music playing]

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: Since folks
are thinking that Amos Jagneaux

was killed by some animal, we've
been getting calls non-stop.

So since I've got that, uh,
Quinton fella hanging around,

I figured I might as well send
him on one of my crazier calls.

I want to try to give
Quinton the time of day.

But he's a bit eccentric.

Someone's saying the
devil's been climbing up

the side of their barn.

It seemed right up
Quinton's alley.

JAMI BURNS: Part of
the rougarou legend

is a belief that it's an
evil spirit that can possess

both people and animals.

A rougarou can take
control of someone,

and make them do violent things.

The legend is that the rougarou,
he feeds on these souls.

And once your soul was
taken by the rougarou,

it's going to be on
you for 101 days.

You know, people around
here, they see stuff

out in the swamps that, uh,
they can't explain what it is.

It's like devils or demons that
can like get inside of people

and change them.

I know my son
had to dig a grave.

And when his shovel
went through,

this mist came up out of it.

And it got ice cold.

And he was paralyzed.

They pulled him out of there.

And he said he could
hardly catch this breath.

It was like something
passed through him.

Things are changing,
starting with the animals.

I happened to be sitting
in my front room.

And I hear this big bam.

The window smashed.

It was 100 bats come
screeching in that window.

I was down on the ground.

It-- it was like
never-ending bats.

Come out this
morning, here they were.

I mean, I've been
hearing things.

Folks saying the devil come
to town, tearing up a cow.

I never believed it
until I saw this.

Hoof prints, right up the
wall of my shed, six of them.

I just put this
building up last week.

I didn't even have
time to get it blessed.

QUINTON SCHUSTER: As
a cryptozoologist,

I'm a skeptic myself.

That's why I do this.

But part of the job
is convincing people.

And I convince myself first,
then I convince others.

Let me ask you something.

Any, uh, tracks leading away?

No, sir.

The devil just floated right
up, and walked right up

the side of the wall.

When you built this, was
it, uh, board by board,

or was it one large panel?

That's a four by eight panel.

And your neighbors,
they keep livestock?

Well, the fella down the
bayou's got some sheep.

We definitely
have hoof prints.

But they're not the devil.

They're your neighbor's sheep.

I-- I put this up myself.

But there was no footprints on
there when I put this up there.

I'm sure.

This just happened
this morning.

Well, what I think we have
here is a sort of a sheep

fingerprint situation.

Your panel is on the ground.

Your neighbor's sheep walked
right over, leaves some oil.

And a couple of days wind
and dirt sticks right to it.

It's a fingerprint.

JEFF MELDRUM: There are
many instances in history

of strange footprints.

One of those, the Devonshire
shire devil tracks.

They looked like
hoof prints that

appeared to have gone along the
tops of walls and across roofs,

and through brick walls even.

Now, whether this was
a clever hoax or what,

I think given the
historical nature of this,

we'll never know.

When it comes to
footprint evidence,

it does require a great deal of
discrimination and care, which

comes through lots of experience
in working with and identifying

tracks.

I've learned from my experience
with the Sasquatch phenomenon,

that many observers
are not reliable.

And unless there is very
well-executed photographs,

and preferably
casts of the prints,

one simply can't rely on
the anecdotal testimony

of a witness.

Out at the spot where Amos was
killed, we found this figure.

It looks to be some
kind of voodoo.

Now Jules swears, for
spells, hexes, hoodoo,

whatever you want
to call it, you've

got to get a voodoo
practitioner.

So we're going to see a
friend of his who knows

a lot about this kind of stuff.

Hopefully she can tell
us who this was made for.

This, uh, practitioner--

Yeah.

- -how you found out about her?

I've been coming out
here since I was a baby.

My memaw used to
take me out here.

DEPUTY LAMBERT: The way
Amos's body was torn up,

it's hard to tell if it was
a man or animal that got him.

Either way, we ain't got
a lot of leads, you know.

If-- if we find out
just who made this doll,

then maybe we can ask that
person a couple of questions.

Knowing a little
more about this doll

may give us a
little more insight

into what the hell could rip
up a tough bastard like Amos.

I stay away from voodoo.

It's evil.

Voodoo does not have
to be used to harm.

We practice voodoo to protect
ourselves from the rougarou.

You go to the voodoo priest or
priestess, and have them make

you up a little bag of gris-gris
that you can keep on you so

that nothing evil can harm you.

JULES D'ENTREMONT: You
know, when we come back

it's going to be dark.

You got your gun, don't you?

DEPUTY LAMBERT: Hey,
Jules, I reckon that's her.

Right up here.

DEPUTY LAMBERT: What
the hell is that?

NARRATOR: In this
remote bayou town,

eyewitness accounts of
mysterious creatures

have been mounting.

It's humanoid.

I mean, it walks upright.

NARRATOR: And
someone or something

has been mutilating livestock.

Now Deputy Lambert and Jules are
investigating an unusual object

they found near the body of
local man, Amos Jagneaux.

[splashing]

DEPUTY LAMBERT: What
the hell is that?

JULES D'ENTREMONT: You got
the rope right up there?

Tie it onto it.

[clang]

DEPUTY LAMBERT: You couldn't
find a house on dry land, huh?

SALLIE ANN: Come in.

Hey, Miss Sallie Ann.

SALLIE ANN: Hey, now.

I brought a friend here.

This is Deputy Lambert.

He's got a couple of
questions he wants to ask you.

Good evening.

To cut to the chase, we
found this near the scene

of an investigation.

Is this some kind
of voodoo doll?

We don't even use voodoo
dolls in the Vodou religion.

And we don't do anything
to harm anybody.

And you know, I hate to say it,
but this really looks like it's

a darker ritual object.

What do you mean darker?

There's something in here.

DEPUTY LAMBERT: Is that a tooth?

That's what those
three horns were.

Dark practices, they
require human parts.

The only use for that
is to harm somebody.

Do you-- do you know people
around here that do black

magic?

Anybody into that is
going to do it in secret.

Something like that, you might
as well go out and tell folks

that you made a
deal with the devil.

There's many, many
different things

that go on that are tied
to these ritual satanic

ceremonies.

A lot of it's done in the middle
of the night in bad places.

It still goes on to this day.

Some of these people, yes,
they're reaching the spirits.

They can talk to them.

They're there.

[dial tone]

911, what are you reporting?

[sirens]

Everybody's scared to death.

Everybody's talking about
Amos Jagneaux's body.

First I heard somebody
stole the body.

Now people tell me he just got
up and walked off on his own.

Some people say he might
have been a rougarou.

A rougarou takes on
all kinds of shapes.

It looks like an animal.

It looks like you.

It looks like me.

It looks like anybody.

They say all them
jaguars are rougarous.

That's why they live
back in the woods.

That's why they
act so damn crazy.

I'll tell you one thing.

I don't want to be anywhere
near one of those damn things.

JEFF MELDRUM: Well, one of
the legends of the rougarou

is that it is a shapeshifter.

It's able to either take on
the form of another creature,

like a wolf, or actually take
possession of another being.

As such, we sort of step into
the realm of the paranormal,

outside of what we think of
as normal biological function.

[police radio]

Hey, Yvonne.

You sure missed the party.

I heard over the radio
that Yvonne had apprehended

one the Jagneaux boys.

Apparently they broke
in somebody's house

and had a good old time,
shooting guns, fighting,

screaming.

I guess this is the
Jagneauxs' idea of a wake.

Most of them ran off.

DEPUTY LAMBERT: I figured
it would be a good time

to get some one on one with
one of these Jagneaux boys.

I want to show you something.

Now, if you know
anything about it,

it might help you, considering
your circumstances.

Have you ever seen anything
like this talisman before?

Does it mean anything to you?

We found this at the spot
where your brother was killed.

Amos ever carry around
anything like this?

Silence ain't going to help us
catch your brother's killer.

Man, it's going to take
his days to sort this out.

Your detectives over there
able to figure anything out?

Not yet.
But we're still digging.

Thing is, a lot of these
skeletons aren't intact,

so it's a lot to work out.

And now the sheriff's
worried some of these bones

might be human.

LUC BAPTISTE: And that's
what I was afraid of.

You think maybe it could
be an old burial mound?

We got a few of those around
here that aren't marked yet.

LOCAL: They got an Indian burial
ground down in Grand Caya.

I pass by it in the
vehicle, but never went

walking in the grass, and
in the trees, and all that.

I don't like to
mess with the dead.

Leave the dead alone.

Indians believe in
the hallowed ground

where the dead are buried.

I don't believe in
desecrating hallowed ground.

JAMI BURNS: The Indian
souls are still there.

And you don't want
to disturb them.

If you do, you can anger them.

And their spirits will come to
haunt you, and make all sorts

of evil things come to pass.

A guy dug up some arrowheads,
killed in a car wreck

the next day.

[music playing]

DEPUTY LAMBERT: We got a member
of the local tribal community

coming out here.

Maybe he could sort
some things out.

But I'd appreciate it if
you guys stick around, help

us identify some of
these animal remains.

Yeah, sure, we'll be
around the area today.

Hey, Katie.

Hey, everything all right?

They've gone into the swamp,
trying to catch the rougarou.

There you go.

You can't catch
what ain't out there.

I've been calling
them all morning.

They're not answering the phone.

Ma'am, they're not going
to get involved until it's

been at least 24 hours.

How about we go
take a look for them?

Really?

Yeah, we'll go take a look.
You got nothing to worry about.

Listen, they're probably
going to show up at home.

Police are going to
have to stay here.

So why don't you get on home.

And if they turn up,
you let Trio there know.

And he'll, uh, he'll
get word to us.

Thank you, Luc.

Hey, hey, they're
going to be all right.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT:
Everything's fine.

- Everything's going to be fine.
- Thank you.

So what, we're handling
missing persons now too?

You heard her, Tam.

Yeah, but those kids
probably have only

been gone a couple of hours.

They're probably on
the way home right now.

Well, she's scared
out of her mind.

No one wants to
help her, all right.

I'm sorry that I
volunteered you to do this.

Night comes quick.

We better get started.

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

you belong to the swamp.

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

LOCAL: You get lost out there.

Your mind starts
playing with you.

And the darker it gets,
it just will turn you

into a scared child.

If you don't have anything
to find your way, that's it.

We'll hopefully find your body
and bring it to your family

someday.

But that's it.

LUC BAPTISTE: I should have
told those boys we're not there.

I should have told them.

Told them what?

Told them there's
nothing out there.

Told them it's just this
town spinning stories the way

they do.

Well, you know, there actually
is something out there now.

So--

Well, whatever it is, whatever
animal it is, it's still there.

And if Amos Jagneaux
couldn't handle it,

neither can these boys.

Come sundown, it doesn't matter
if they find whatever the hell

it is we're looking for or not.

Those boys are in
some real danger.

Jules, are you getting close?

PATRICK KRUG: Humans
can potentially

be attacked by almost any
large animal in a swamp,

particularly because
the water is so murky.

It favors ambush predators,
things that hunt by stealth,

and that will just lunge up and
get ya when you don't see it

coming, alligators,
venomous snakes,

things like the water moccasin,
and large land predators,

potentially bears.

Wolves would also
potentially be something

that you would run into
in southern swamps.

OK, good.

Hey.

Hey.

Thanks for coming out.

Y'all don't have to go with me.

No, we're going.

Well, I'm in.

The more of us out there,
the more ground we can cover.

Surveillance, tracking.

Tell them.
She knows.

She's seen it.

He's actually
got a lot of tech

I think we might be
able to use on this.

All right then,
well, let's get going.

I'll meet you at the dock in
an hour, and we'll take off.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT:
OK, yeah, that's good.

Let's go.
TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: All right.

I've gotta make
a call real quick.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: When
you live in a bayou town,

you see weird
stuff all the time.

But what's been happening
here these past few weeks,

it's-- it's a level of craziness
none of us have seen before,

animals being mutilated,
folks seeing swamp monsters

everywhere, tales of Amos
Jagneaux's body walking out

of the morgue, and now
this pile of bones.

Half the town, including
Jules, is thinking it's

the legend of the rougarou.

But Luc doesn't believe it.

And I can't either.

There's got to be concrete
evidence and reasons

behind everything.

We just got to figure
out what it is.

Swamps are an endless maze.

A lot of folks, they
get turned around

and they never make it out.

That's real enough.

LUC BAPTISTE: Even if those
boys did know their way around,

a swamp's a harsh place.

A lot of ways to end up
in the water face down.

It doesn't matter what you think
or fear might be out there.

Things that really are
out there are bad enough.

Somebody been through there.

Jacob!

Jonah!

If they showed up in
here, there's tracks.

Luc, you copy?

We're moving as
fast as we can.

Every hour that you're
lost in the swamp,

the odds drop that
you'll make it back.

Jacob!

Jonah!

Boys, call out.

You hear me?

NARRATOR: Next on
"Cryptid, the Swamp Beast."

Hey, hey, look, you see that?

It's over there, come on.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: Jules!
LUC BAPTISTE: Tam, calm down.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: Jules!

That's it.

That's the one that got me.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT:
You still think

we're looking for a person?
[sirens]

Hey, get off my
property with that gun.

On the ground.

[screaming]

LUC BAPTISTE: Jacob!

Jonah!

Guys!

I found something.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMONT: Oh, God.

DEPUTY LAMBERT: You
identify yourselves now.

Is anybody out here?

When people go missing, we
say the rougarou got them.

JULES D'ENTREMONT: Oh, dear God.

[growling]