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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.

Some images are violent in nature.

Viewer discretion is advised.

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.

WOMAN: Did you heart that?

[inaudible]

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

NARRATOR: A dangerous predator is terrorizing

this remote southern Louisiana town.

Whatever did that is big.

NARRATOR: Some locals are beginning

to blame a legendary swamp beast they call the Rougarou.

Mystery surrounds the recent finding of the body

of local man Amos Jagneaux.

YANCY GUERIN: He was trying to survive by eating animals, raw.

NARRATOR: And now the Sheriff's Department

is being inundated with strange calls.

What the hell is this?

NARRATOR: Animal mutilations--

These animals were [inaudible]..

NARRATOR: --missing people, and the discovery of a massive bone

pile containing animal and human remains.

What the hell?

NARRATOR: As law enforcement investigates this unnerving

finding--

Hey, everything all right?

NARRATOR: --the local animal control team, Cagin Beasts,

scours the swamplands for two boys who have gone missing.

Over there, over there.

Go.

Jacob!

Jonah!

Look, you've got to stop.

You hear me?

I just hope we find them before dark.

We figure those boys were heading out to where

Amos' body was found dead.

There it is.

That was right over here.

You know, that's bad enough, but it gets worse.

They're going to be going right to the center of where

a lot of troubling things have been going down.

The hiker that gone missing was found over in this area, here.

We got Gaudet's Farm, the cemetery,

and the sugar mill all circle around this stretch of swamp.

We're heading right here, in the dead center.

Once we charted this all down, it looks pretty clear,

whatever's terrorizing this place,

odds are, it calls this area home.

So we've got to find these boys first,

before whatever it is we're hunting out here gets to 'em.

You get into the swamp, you don't know what you're

going to run across.

There's plenty of things that you can run into in that swamp.

[growling]

But the Rougarou is your worst enemy.

I know it from growing up as the Lupgarou, the French werewolf.

My grandpa come across the Pearl River Bridge,

a big hairy monster run out in front of him.

About eight feet, 400 to 500 pounds.

Stopped and looked at him and then took off running again.

He said it scared him pretty good.

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

So this camera is really good.

It can pick up heat signatures 700 yards off the ground.

It's pretty good about penetrating

through this vegetation too.

So as long as the foliage isn't too thick,

we should be able to find them.

It's just blobs.

I mean, how are we going to tell what's what?

Well, you see anything that's orange and red,

that's going to be a mammal.

So-- so something that size out of the water,

it's almost certain to be human.

Alligators or snakes, anything cold-blooded,

that will register as blue and purple.

I did discover that polar bears, they don't show up

on thermal scan either.

Their insulation is so good that all you see

is their cute little noses and ears.

Let's just focus on finding these boys

or whatever animal has been causing all that trouble.

The phone's been ringing nonstop at the station

in the last 48 hours.

It seems like every call we're getting

is harder to believe than the previous one.

Now, I've heard from five separate people, five,

that they seen Amos Jagneaux lurking around town.

This is the guy we found face down,

dead in the swamp a couple of days ago.

Whew.

Yeah.

First we heard was that someone stormed

into the coroner's and-- and took the body.

But now folks are swearing that Amos just got up

during his autopsy and just walked out the morgue.

Everyone is just spinning tales and jumping at shadows.

It's just making our jobs harder to tell what's really going on.

And that ain't exactly unusual for down here.

[dog barking]

Just when you think you can let your guard down,

boom, somebody disappears, bad things start happening.

The Sheriff, he knows.

There's nothing that he can do.

He can control the natural, people stealing from stores

or breaking in houses, but he can't control the supernatural.

I mean, this is something way bigger

than anything anybody with a badge and a bullet can stop.

You don't know who could have been taken by the Rougarou

or an evil spirit.

By day, they may look normal.

At night, you don't know what they could do to you.

It makes you thankful every day to wake up

and see the sunrise, actually.

[police radio chatter]

PATRICE LAMBERT: I got a call about a disturbance in town.

Apparently, someone is selling something that's supposed

to keep the Rougarou away.

[police siren in short bursts]

[police radio chatter]

[door opens]

[inaudible].

Might as well be selling napalm.

Napalm?

I put a bottle of that [bleep] by my stove,

and it practically burned down my kitchen.

You know, it blew up.

Rougarou repellent.

Rougarou repellent.

You spray this on your doorstep, all the evil spirits

repel right away.

[bleep] smells like paint thinner.

FRANKLIN: You ain't supposed to leave it near an open flame.

Oh, I see. It's my fault.

Hold on. Both of y'all, come here.

This is what burned down your kitchen, huh?

MAN WITH COMPLAINT: Yep.

Imagine that.

Gasoline burns.

You can't be selling this to folks unsuspecting.

Give that man back his money.

You know, my family's been around here a long time.

People could learn from what I know.

But you know back at the cemetery,

this guy's grave didn't have a head one on it.

Somebody done snatched that head right off of it.

Anyone can tell you, that dead man, when he was alive,

this was some really bad Hoodoo.

They say he knew how to conjure up a Rougarou.

Hell, one person even said he was Rougarou.

Whatever son of a bitch took that hand got that Rougarou

curse right along with it.

You'll start seeing the truth soon enough, though.

Ever since word got out about that decapitated corpse,

folks around town been insisting that head was stolen

because the dead guy was a Rougarou.

Now, these people say if you have a part of a dead person

believed to be possessed while they were alive,

then you can use that body part for some serious dark magic.

Now, I think that's all a bunch of nonsense,

but the locals don't.

So the more these old wives tales start gaining traction,

the more time and energy my department

has to spend trying to calm them down.

Now that, that's real to me.

Last thing we need is two kids to go missing out here.

Those stories would never stop.

Oh, we'll find them, all right.

Over there.

Over there.

Go.

Somebody's been through there.

Oh, yeah.

Take us straight in.

Jacob!

Jonah!

JULES D'ENTREMONT: Jonah!

Jacob!

LUC BAPTISTE: Come on, boys!

[hawk calls]

They for sure been here.

Fresh tracks.

Heh, sneakers.

Idiot kids, wearing sneakers in a swamp.

[water splashing]

You all right, man?

[laughs] I'm going to kill those damn kids.

[frogs trilling]

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Tree canopy is pretty dense.

I can't even see the ground.

I hope we can make sense of what we're seeing here

on the monitor.

All those small red and orange signatures are probably

just squirrels and nutria, you know, anything like that.

Hang on.

There's something bigger there.

There's definitely something bigger there.

Yeah, it could be human.

You keep us here? Can you hold us here?

Yeah, roger that.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Hey, Luc, you copy?

LUC BAPTISTE (ON RADIO): Copy that.

Hey, we've got something you need to check out.

Northwest from where you were last fly over, about half

a mile.

You got eyes on the boys?

No.

Trees are too dense.

We can't see them.

But we've got two large heat signatures,

so it might be them.

LUC BAPTISTE (ON RADIO): Copy that.

- Hold us right here, all right? - Roger that.

We're heading your way, Tam.

It hasn't moved?

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT (ON RADIO): Nope.

As far as we can tell, they're staying put.

Their readings look pretty warm.

I'd say they're probably alive.

That's good.

Whoa, whoa, hey.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: What the hell?

QUINTON SCHUSTER: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Something's going on.

Luc, we're seeing a--

wait, is that y'all?

Are y'all there already?

Not yet.

Keep them in your sights.

We're moving as fast as we can.

Son of a [bleep].

Hey, Luc, you've got to stop.

You hear me? Hold back.

Do you copy?

Hold back.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT (ON RADIO): Luc, you copy?

Tam, what the hell's going on up there?

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT (ON RADIO): It--

it looks like whatever these [inaudible]

get attacked by something.

Or I don't know.

Just a whole lot of company just showed up.

We've got to get our eyes on this thing.

What's going on, man?

Hey, Luc?

[growling]

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT (ON RADIO): Luc?

Hold up there.

[unidentified noise]

[brush rustling]

LUC BAPTISTE (ON RADIO): Sh.

[unidentified noise]

[brush rustling]

[unidentified noise]

(WHISPERING) It's a pack of wolves.

[howling]

[whining]

It looks like they just took down a deer.

I'm going to backtrack.

Be real quiet.

If they spot us--

[barking and whining]

[barking]

[growling]

[howling]

LUC BAPTISTE (ON RADIO): Tam, do you copy?

Yeah.

Luc, you all right?

Yeah.

I almost walked into a damn pack of wolves munching on a stag.

So we're going to see if we can touch down near you

and catch a boat your way, all right?

LUC BAPTISTE (ON RADIO): Yeah.

I hope you guys will be more help down here on the ground.

Even if you see those boys, you're

not going to be able to help them from up there.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT (ON RADIO): Copy that.

There's no airport anywhere near here,

so legally, any private land could be your helipad,

as long as there's enough room.

We called in a favor to the fellow

that we helped get some bats out of his attic.

So we're borrowing a boat from him.

It shouldn't take us long.

We should be there in about an hour and a half or so.

[insects buzzing]

Heads up.

These trees, they're rotted out.

We call them widow makers.

If the boat bumps into it hard enough,

the top will come crashing down.

It will put and end to you real quick.

Swamps might come across as a very calm and still place,

but they can be a very dynamic environment.

One example would be the Corne sinkhole that threatened part

of Louisiana recently.

A sinkhole that formed as a result of excavation

under the earth of a salt mine that eventually collapsed.

This collapsed salt dome caused a sinkhole 25 acres in size

that led to a hole 200 feet deep,

opening so quickly that 300 people had to be evacuated.

That's the kind of extreme change

that I don't think most people can really imagine.

You're talking about the ground falling out from under you

to a depth hundreds of feet.

Whole mature trees vanishing into this hole

that just suddenly occurs.

That's an example of how quickly things can change, even

in an environment that otherwise seems pretty stable.

A whole mess of things out here that will kill you.

Most folks' minds go straight to gators.

To tell you the truth, they ain't at the top of the list.

You got venomous snakes, poisonous spiders.

They sneak up on you.

The further out you go, the worse it gets.

All right.

We're on another log.

LUC BAPTISTE (ON RADIO): I'll get us off of it.

You get out here, you ain't got no shelter.

You got no food.

You got nothing to protect you.

You make the wrong move, the Bayou ain't forgiving.

[engine revs]

Hang on.

Put it in high gear now.

LUC BAPTISTE (ON RADIO): Watch your back.

I'd feel a hell of a lot better if we'd just pick up

a trail on these damn kids.

Hell, I'd feel better if we just find

the trail of the animal that's causing all the carnage

around here.

You know what really concerns me most

is those kids crossing its path first.

They wouldn't stand a chance.

If you're lost in the swamp, the best thing you can do

is sit tight.

You stay with your boat.

They're going to find that boat.

If you keep venturing and getting into a panic mode,

you're in trouble.

They're going to find your boat and not you.

There's people, they go off fishing,

and they just disappear.

Because there are some places in that

swamp that the Devil wouldn't even go to.

You get lost out there, nature will start creeping in on you.

Your mind starts playing with you.

And the darker it gets, the more it makes a grown man cry.

[growls]

What you got?

Right there in the trees.

Maybe we just keep moving along, man.

Fine.

Let's take a look.

Just do it fast.

JULES D'ENTREMONT: Slow down.

Damn.

Jules, I don't see any signs that the boys been up here.

I think we should just keep moving.

JULES D'ENTREMONT: This is bad magic.

I can feel it.

LUC BAPTISTE: Tam, you copy?

We're over by the East Bank, just past

where Amos' body was found.

Jules found a string with a bunch of those figures,

somewhat like the one we found near Amos.

He thinks it has something to do with that.

I'm not so sure.

We'll wait here for you.

There's one.

There's one.

There's a whole lot of these.

[knocking]

YANCY GUERIN: Come in.

Evening, Yancy.

Hey, [inaudible].

So just in case you were curious,

the stories around town now have Amos rising from the dead

and tearing his way out of here.

Oh, really?

Now, I can take full statement, unless you want

to file it yourself.

I had about six of his family members come by here.

I was locking the place up, and they come barreling on

into the parking lot.

But they made their intent very clear.

They wanted to take Amos' body.

Did they threaten you?

No.

Parish law allows them to bury someone on their property.

They just have certain hurdles we

have to overcome, certain paperwork we have to fill out.

So where does that leave us?

I've got an account where that body's at.

You can't just go bury human remains

and not have it documented.

I need you to go out to the Jagneauxs'.

If they're not willing to fill out the paperwork,

I'll have it filled out for them.

A lot easier said than done.

Appreciate your help, though.

Good luck.

[dog barking]

Jagneauxs, they're like a corpse without a conscience.

Practicing black magic and calling demons from the sky.

Hell, some people think they've got

the bloodline of a Rougarou.

[dog barking]

There's rumors of Amos walking out of the morgue.

There's rumors of the Jagneauxs storming in, stealing the body.

What I'm thinking is it's got to be the family that's Rougarous.

[dog barking]

They wouldn't be in such of an excitement,

you know, to get that body away from everybody

before it turns into its natural state and not human anymore.

On a wing and a prayer, you hope for the best.

You say two Hail Marys and make the sign of the cross

and hope you don't have to deal with the Jagneauxs.

I don't think they plan on burying the body.

To tell you the truth, it wouldn't surprise me

if they dumped that straight in a feeding trough.

[dog barking]

May even be wanting to eat old Amos themselves.

QUINTON SCHUSTER: Good to see you again.

Hey, man.

Hey, Tammany.

Hey.

What do we got?

As far as I'm concerned, nothing.

You're going to tell me this doesn't

look like the same thing we found by Amos' body?

They look like they could be related, at least.

Maybe made by the same person.

I don't know.

I only saw the picture.

Maybe that first one we found by Amos

has had nothing to do with what happened to him.

Maybe it was hanging from a tree,

it got knocked down when he got tore up.

There's too many of these things.

They're here for a reason.

I'm sure they are.

Maybe we can look into it later.

You know, he's probably right.

It's just coincidence.

Probably just happened to be next to him.

Not like this.

Look at them!

People use these to push spells on people.

People here use voodoo as protection

against the Rougarou.

I've heard some folks say that voodoo is also used to raise up

the Rougarou to cast a curse on others.

It all depends on who you're talking to.

We've got a couple of kids lost out here in the swamp.

Am I going to go find them myself?

Hey, guys?

There's something over here you guys should see.

-

JULES D'ENTREMONT: What?

LUC BAPTISTE: You got tracks that look like kids come

through here, or what?

Maybe.

I've seen patterns like this before, but never this big.

Some creatures, they'll do this sort of thing

to mark their territory.

What kind of creature are we talking about, Quinton?

I'm not sure.

But it's big.

It's bigger than anything that's supposed to be out here.

Logically speaking, it made this,

it could call this area home.

You were talking to me about logical?

Us getting sidetracked over a mark on a tree.

There's no kids up here.

There's no signs that they have been up here.

We're losing daylight.

Let's move on.

Come on, Luc.

We've got a big scratch here, and all the scratches around

here, hanging around.

LUC BAPTISTE: Let's go find the kids.

I'm going. I'm done.

I'm not wasting time.

Animals often exhibit territoriality.

They actively defend an area through advertising

their presence by a variety of means.

[barking]

One type of evidence, scratches or claw marks.

They'll rake a tree to indicate their presence.

Through vocalizations, not only communication of--

of their presence, but also an advertisement

that they are in the area.

[growling]

The use of breaking vegetation, breaks the tops of trees,

may be a mechanism for indicating territorial claims.

And some of them are remarkably impressive,

where the-- you know, a sizable tree trunk

has been twisted and bent to the point

that the fibers within that hardwood

have just literally exploded.

Let's split up for now, take a break from this [bleep]..

You coming, or what?

Yeah.

I ain't got time for this, Jules.

You're making a mistake.

You've seen all this with your own eyes.

We're smack in the middle of everything

we haven't been able to answer for.

Jules, you're chasing after voodoo idols, all right?

You got one scratch mark on a tree.

No sign that anybody's been through here in ages.

Well, what do you got?

I got two kids lost out here.

That's what I got.

Look there's physical evidence out there.

We all saw it.

Something made that mark.

It could still be in this area.

Jules and I, we're going to stay here.

You guys go look for the kids, but we

want to search this area.

Right, right.

You guys enjoy your monster hunt, all right?

You find something, keep your radio on.

You call us.

Be safe.

JULES D'ENTREMONT: Luc just needs to open up his eyes,

because that monster that has been terrorizing this town

is out here.

The Rougarou is out here.

Let's go.

[howling]

We've got a couple of kids lost out here in the swamp.

NARRATOR: Luc and Tammany continue the search

for two missing boys.

Go look for the kids, but we want to search this area.

You guys enjoy your monster hunt, all right?

NARRATOR: While Quinton and Jules follow clues

they believe will lead them to the predator that's terrorizing

the town.

Y'all are both too stubborn for your own good, you know.

If I had a nickel for every time your cousin

and I had it out worse than that,

I'd have retired a long time ago.

Lookit.

LUC BAPTISTE: I see it.

Jacob!

Jonah!

You boys here?

Just holler out!

See if you can grab a hold of that.

Jacob!

Jonah!

Well, the good news is boat's not capsized.

You see any tracks?

You hear that?

What?

[hissing]

LUC BAPTISTE: Listen.

Oh, be careful.

[nutria whines]

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Ooh.

LUC BAPTISTE: It's about the nicest thing

you're going to find out here.

Come on, let's gear up.

[police radio chatter]

Heading out to a residential alarm call.

We get about a dozen of these a week.

99% of the time, it's a false alarm.

You know, you get folks tripping the alarm themselves.

That one time out of 100 could be somebody with a gun.

I had a deputy of mine in my old parish,

he was responding to one of these calls.

Interrupted a burglary in progress.

Ended up taking a bullet to the chest.

[knocking]

Hi there.

We received a call about an alarm.

You check to see if you have any windows open or maybe

a short, some kind of power outage?

Well, I flipped the breakers earlier and reset the system,

but I--

I don't know.

Have you noticed anything strange around your house?

No.

I-- I haven't really been around the house.

Oh yeah?

Any luck?

Yeah, I got an eight point this morning.

Nice!

[alarm siren]

[inaudible]

You really need to get this thing fixed.

We can't keep coming out here every time there's a--

[buzzing]

Stay there.

[alarm siren]

Sheriff's department.

Identify yourselves now.

HOMEOWNER: What the hell?

[bleep]

I tracked that buck for three hours this morning.

[alarm siren]

This is the Sheriff's office!

[alarm siren]

Anybody out here?

[alarm siren]

You know-- damn punks.

You actually think kids did this?

Well, who else is going to do some this damn stupid?

Look at all these damn tools you got in here.

All they would have had to do is take one knock at that,

and they would have done it.

Who in the hell would rip it off?

You ever seen something like this before?

PATRICE LAMBERT: You'd be amazed what I've seen lately.

HOMEOWNER: What are you going to do now?

I mean--

PATRICE LAMBERT: I'll call the Sheriff.

You think I'm safe staying here?

Well, apparently, all they wanted was your buck.

I think whatever took that, if they'd have wanted you,

we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.

[alarm siren]

LOCAL: The Rougarou, people don't take too kindly down

here.

You don't want to go in the swamps alone at night.

You don't have to believe in the Rougarou for the Rougarou

to get you.

Years ago, me and my brother, you know,

we used to walk the woods.

And we saw something red coming through the grass,

peeling the grass on both sides.

We were hunting rabbits, and we shot.

[gunshots]

They never did stop.

You talk about run, we ran.

[laughs] We went back the next day,

all the grass was all smashed.

But there was no footprint.

Well, that tells you something, there.

Some say it was a Rougarou.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Night came quick.

We've got to find those boys soon.

Hey, hey, Luc, you see that light?

Over there.

Jacob!

Jonah!

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Hold up!

LUC BAPTISTE: It's going away from us.

Go.

Wait up, guys!

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Where'd it go?

You see it?

LUC BAPTISTE: It's over there.

Come on.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Jonah!

LUC BAPTISTE: Boys, call out.

Do you hear me?

Hup, hup.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Son of a [bleep]..

Boys?

There.

There it is.

Come on, Luc. LUC BAPTISTE: Go, go.

Guys!

Come on, boys!

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: [grunts] Where'd it go?

It was right here.

If these boys are messing with us,

I swear, I'm going to tear them a new one.

There it is, right there.

This way.

Come on.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: You got eyes on it?

LUC BAPTISTE: Sh, sh, sh.

Quiet, quiet.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Luc, that light is leading us in circles.

LUC BAPTISTE: I stopped watching that light about five minutes

ago.

Most folks believe them people, they're lights.

You know, lights, they just appear

in a swamp from nowheres.

It's just swamp gas.

It's escaping, and it ignites.

But then you got your folks that really believe in the legend.

Now, some folks say the lights, that's the pirate's lanterns.

And if you follow that, they're trying to show you

where the buried treasure is.

But then you got other folks that say those lights are

like the angry spirits.

They'll lead you down a path to disaster.

You don't got no business following

them lights out there.

It seems like a good way to end your life right there, man.

Talk about going to the light.

Yeah, you go into that light, you don't never come back, OK?

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: What the hell are we doing?

LUC BAPTISTE: We're being followed.

I got suspicious a little ways back,

so I looked around to see if it kept up.

Now cut your lights, all right?

[thunder]

[thunder]

[howling]

Anybody out there?

[thunder]

It would be in your best interest

to step forth and say something, now!

Where is it?

There it is. there is is.

[gunshots]

Hey, get it! Come on!

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Stay on it.

Stay on it.

Do you see it? LUC BAPTISTE: It's right there.

It's right there. It's coming this way.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Don't lose it.

LUC BAPTISTE: In here.

In here.

Ho, ho, ho,

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Holy [bleep]..

TRAPPER: Don't move! Don't move.

LUC BAPTISTE: Stay back. Hold your fire.

Hold your fire.

What the hell?

TRAPPER: Watch your step.

LUC BAPTISTE: Who are you guys?

What are you guys doing out here?

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Holy [bleep]..

All right.

I put the gun away.

You guys gave us a real scare, there.

You guys happen to see what we were running

after come through here?

No.

We heard something though.

Whatever it was, it was real fast.

It went past our traps.

Could have led you right into that.

- You're lucky. - Yeah?

You sure it's not in one of your traps?

No.

It'd be screaming now if it was.

Can-- can we take a peek at your trap?

Sure can.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Wow.

LUC BAPTISTE: I appreciate you stopping when you did.

I owe you.

Tracking something this far?

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: No, no.

We're looking for a couple of kids from town.

They got lost wandering around out here.

You see them?

TRAPPER: Nope.

[thunder]

Come by water?

LUC BAPTISTE: Yeah.

There's only a few good paths from the river this far in.

I can show you the way back.

Yeah, that'd be great.

Come on.

Watch yourselves.

Step over here.

[thunder]

[frogs singing]

LUC BAPTISTE: We found a boat floating not too far from here.

I'm wondering what that means.

When they got out, they didn't tie it right,

your boys' boat might have slipped back onto the water,

put it on downstream.

They could be anywhere then, nowhere near where

we found the boat.

We can search our areas.

You keep searching up the shoreline.

Appreciate that.

Watch yourselves.

[radio static]

LUC BAPTISTE: Jules, you copy?

Jules, it's Luc.

You copy?

Hey, Jules, we got a change of plans here.

TRAPPER: What's the range on those?

LUC BAPTISTE: Eight miles, give or take.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Jules?

LUC BAPTISTE: There's no way they got out of range.

Not in this terrain.

We split up from them less than two miles, back down the water.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: They were following these totems, like,

hanging in the trees, along the shoreline.

You guys know anything about those?

TRAPPER: Yeah.

They're to avoid danger.

You don't need to worry about those boys

till we find your friends.

They're in a real bad place.

This part of the swamp, we have legends of what lives here.

Demons, evil spirits, whatever you believe,

truth is it's a place you don't want to go unless you're

prepared not to come back.

The best hunting grounds are deep in.

So are the dark places.

We mark them so we know where not to go.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: If you don't mind me asking,

do those figures hung up have teeth inside them?

TRAPPER: No.

But they've been there for a while and as a warning.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Jules thought

that they might have something to do with the Rougarou.

TRAPPER: Yeah.

The Rougarou is one of the spirits

- that we're told live here. - Spirit?

I thought it was supposed to be like a werewolf or something.

No, that's the Cajun myth, a curse that passes from one

person to another.

Our Rougarou is a spirit, part of nature.

My uncle, he once described it as a thing

that drives an animal to kill.

You see a snake coiled and resting,

and suddenly it strikes out, it just

gets vicious out of nowhere, that's

the Rougarou taking control.

Christians talk about angels and demons, invisible beings

influencing the things around them.

The Rougarou, it's a demon.

A demon that possesses and kills.

A predator spirit.

One of the legends of the Rougarou

is that it is a shape shifter.

That it's able to take on the form of another creature,

like a wolf, or actually take possession of another being

and influence that person's thoughts and actions

and spirit.

And as such, you know, we've really

crossed into the paranormal.

So it becomes much more subjective,

based on personal experience, personal interpretation.

That makes it very difficult to evaluate

in an objective fashion.

TRAPPER: Hey, we've got something over there.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: What'd you get?

LUC BAPTISTE: You see these?

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Yeah.

There's two sets.

TRAPPER: Recent.

[radio static]

LUC BAPTISTE: Jules, you copy?

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Where do you think they're leading?

LUC BAPTISTE: Jules?

[radio static]

TRAPPER: Son of a [bleep].

Come on. Let's go.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Wait. TRAPPER: Come on.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Wait, why are we going back?

LUC BAPTISTE: What's going on? TRAPPER: Trail gives out.

It's like they just disappeared or something.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: But we've got to find them.

TRAPPER: I'm telling you, there ain't no more trail.

LUC BAPTISTE: Come on. Lead the way.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Luc, we can't just--

LUC BAPTISTE: We'll just keep searching, all right?

They've got to be around here somewhere.

Jules!

Jules!

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Jules!

TRAPPER: Got a body!

LUC BAPTISTE: Go.

Go.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Oh my god.

Oh my god.

LUC BAPTISTE: Oh.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Oh my god.

What-- what about Jules?

Jules!

Jules!

LUC BAPTISTE: Tammany, Tammany--

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Jules!

LUC BAPTISTE: Tam, calm down.

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Jules!

LUC BAPTISTE: We're going to find him.

Stay calm. TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Jules!

LUC BAPTISTE: I need you to stay with me, OK?

Where is he?

LUC BAPTISTE: Listen to me.

Jules!

LUC BAPTISTE: Tammany, Tammany!

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

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Jules! LUC BAPTISTE: Come on, man!

Answer us!

Over here!

TAMMANY D'ENTREMENT: Jules!

This is Luc.

Who's this?

Sheriff's office!

[siren]

Put these folks in the corner, they're likely to lash out.

Hey!

What are you doing here?

What you want?

Hey, hey, not any closer.

Get [bleep] out of here.

[growling]

Something killed Quinton Schuster.

He's cut up really bad.

We had him to die!

WOMAN: Take his gun!

You're saying that you're going after a damn monster.

[growling]

Jacob!

Jonah!

Anybody here?

Jacob!

Jonah!

Open up!

[dog barking]