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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]

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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]