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It hides in the shadows.

A giant, hairy creature that walks on two feet

and watches us with glowing eyes.

Does bigfoot really exist?

Part ape, part man?

As crazy as it seems,

there are many who believe that not only

is such a creature real but they've seen it,

tracked it, even photographed it.

But then, if bigfoot does exist, what is it?

Where does it come from? How many are there?

And perhaps more importantly...

...Should we be afraid of it?

Well, that is what we'll try and find out.

Bigfoot researcher matt moneymaker and a colleague

are investigating reported bigfoot sightings

in a wooded area near the town of kent.

After spending years pursuing bigfoot

in hopes of seeing one himself,

matt is eager to find out whether there really is

a giant creature in these woods.

We were staked out

along a road, the guy I was with was about 60 feet away.

And at about 2:30 a.M.,

something comes walking down the road.

I see something.

He sees it first through night vision.

Matt rushes over to investigate,

and is stopped dead in his tracks by the sound of...

...Inhuman growling.

This thing steps out.

A very big, tall, hair-covered thing...

...Standing out there growling at me.

When you've got something that big

that close to you, you could see it well enough to know

that must be a bigfoot.

So I just kind of backed up

and walked away.

I was pretty happy at that point,

because I'm thinking, "if this one's gonna do that,

"reliably, then this is a place

"that we're gonna get some video footage of them

if we're coming here with the right kind of gear."

But when matt returned

with camera equipment to document the encounter,

the creature had vanished.

Although matt was not able to photograph

the large, hairy beast that he witnessed,

he remains convinced that what he saw was, in fact, bigfoot.

It's one of those things that sounds so over-the-top,

but after I had a face-to-face encounter,

I knew it was exactly the same thing

that all the witnesses around there had described.

The encounter inspired matt

to found the bigfoot field researchers organization,

or bfro.

The roots of it are people who were sharing information.

We were sharing sighting reports, mainly,

from different parts of the country.

And I came up with the idea that,

"why don't we put all these into a website?"

you know, sort it by county and state

so people can look up reports.

And when we did that, it worked really well.

Lots of people started submitting reports.

According to the bfro,

there have been more than 3,500 credible bigfoot sightings

since 1960.

Although science has yet to prove the existence

of the legendary man-beast, that hasn't stopped bigfoot

from becoming a full-fledged phenomenon.

Bigfoot is literally everywhere.

There are bigfoot stories in nevada.

There are bigfoot stories in nebraska,

florida, texas.

Literally every part of the country

has its own stories and legends of bigfoot.

It's likely, wherever you live in this country,

you are within a hundred miles of a place

that purportedly has a bigfoot.

If these sightings are of a real creature,

then what exactly is bigfoot?

And how did this phenomenon begin?

Bigfoot is generally reported to be

a very large, very furry, uh, hominid creature.

Something like a person, uh, but not a person,

seen very often remotely in the forest.

And with various stories about sightings

or about footprints that really are pretty widespread

in many, many communities in the united states and in canada.

Before 1958, people didn't use the word "bigfoot."

but it was in 1958 in northern california,

guys building a road

found footprints around their gear

when they would come back in the morning.

And a guy named jerry crew made plaster footprints

of these tracks and showed them to a reporter in eureka,

and they dubbed it "bigfoot."

that was where the name first originated

and got into american vocabulary.

Photos of jerry crew's cast

of giant footprints made headlines across the country.

Many americans came to believe that a tall,

bipedal, apelike creature roamed the forests

of the pacific northwest.

I grew up in washington state, where it's hard

to underestimate bigfoot's power.

Bigfoot is the mascot of different companies.

Bigfoot is all over billboards.

As a young boy in washington state,

I fully believed in bigfoot's existence.

In 1967, interest in bigfoot surged

when an investigator named roger patterson

captured incredible footage of a creature

that matched the description of bigfoot

near bluff creek in northern california.

Patterson's film became an instant sensation,

but skeptics claimed that it had to be a man

in a monkey suit.

One of the issues when it comes to people believing

in bigfoot existing

is, let's face it, mainstream sciences

shun away from this topic.

However, amateur researchers are trying to pick up the slack,

bridge that gap

between amateur and mainstream science.

Bigfoot researchers claim that the vast majority

of bigfoot sightings are sincere,

and that hoaxes represent only a small fraction of reports.

They also point out that stories of bigfoot-like animals

are not merely a recent fad.

Believe it or not, more than 3,000 years ago,

the ancient babylonians told stories of a creature

that sounds an awful lot like bigfoot.

Except they called it enkidu.

Enkidu is a...

Hairy, wild man creature with super strength,

and he's fearsome, he's ready and willing

to defend this wild territory that he inhabits.

The king, gilgamesh, becomes his soulmate, basically.

Best friends.

So, this king becomes this amazing hero

through his relationship with this wild man

that has shown him

how to negotiate the boundaries between humanity and wildness.

Since that time, descriptions of so-called "wild men,"

half-human, half-ape beasts,

have popped up throughout history, all over the world.

In the caucasus,

there was something called the alma

that was a big monster, a nature creature.

In australia, there's the aboriginal version

which is called a yowie.

There is the yeti in the himalayas.

So there are local variations,

but the story is more or less the same.

Very big, seemingly animallike,

or is it human or is it some hybrid?

There's the point.

In north america,

there are native american legends that go back centuries,

long before the discoveries made by jerry crew

or roger patterson.

We know that sasquatch,

the preeminent bigfoot creature that we have

in the united states, located in the pacific northwest,

that very word, "sasquatch," comes from a salish tribal word

that means "wild man" or "hairy man."

The natives of the northwest say that there are creatures

that walk upright and only at night.

And can speak in their language.

I found, in speaking with indigenous peoples,

that they don't describe them as an animal at all.

They call them the first ones, or the old ones.

"these were the tribe that was here before we got here."

An ancient tribe that predates humanity?

It's a fascinating notion,

one that bigfoot researchers are eager to investigate.

And there are some who will risk going into the deepest

and darkest forests to try and capture the huge creature,

even though it may not want to be found.

Future u.S. President teddy roosevelt

publishes the wilderness hunter,

a book about his youthful adventures

in the dakota territory.

His memoir contains a story that was told to him

by an old mountain man, who, years before,

had encountered an apelike creature deep in the woods.

There were some trappers and they kept having

encounters kind of in the dark

with what they thought were these huge creatures

that were leaving huge manlike footprints.

One of the guys decided to go off and check traps,

and the other one would hide back at camp

and see what was coming in every time

that they would leave camp.

When the guy came back from checking traps,

he found his friend dead,

his body broken over a log,

and it looked like it had just been pummeled.

And they attributed it to

an eight-foot-tall, 600-pound ape.

The disturbing encounter recorded by roosevelt

is one of the earliest accounts of american pioneers

coming face-to-face

with what many native americans called...

Sasquatch.

If the story is true,

it seems like sasquatch wasn't very friendly

towards humans who encroached on its territory.

There are vastly different ideas within the bigfoot subculture

about bigfoot's disposition.

Some believe that bigfoot is an angry, homicidal predator.

And if you come into its domain,

it will try to kill you if it can.

Others believe that bigfoot is merely an animal.

And just like a grizzly bear might become aggressive

under the right circumstances, it could.

Over the past century, more

of the american wilderness has been settled,

with the construction of new housing, industry,

and infrastructure.

But if we have been encroaching on bigfoot's habitat

for so long, then how come no one has ever

recovered the body of one?

It's been estimated perhaps 2,000 of these things exist

throughout the pacific northwest.

Sounds like a lot, but it really isn't.

Considering two of the major ranges,

the cascade range and the coast range,

make up 68,000 square miles, mostly uninhabited.

When you distribute 2,000 of anything

in 68,000 square miles...

You'd be lucky to run across one in your life.

People who believe that bigfoot is

a biological creature will simply

talk about how stealthy it is,

that it's very good at moving

through the woods without making any noise

and therefore can slip away at will.

Is bigfoot simply too elusive to be captured?

Perhaps.

But that hasn't stopped an army

of so-called "bigfoot hunters"

from trying to track it down.

The role of citizen scientists

is potentially a very significant one.

It may well be that major discoveries

will be made not by scientists in this arena,

but by citizen scientists.

Modern bigfoot hunters

use techniques such as wood knocking...

...Playing purported bigfoot screams while in the woods.

These are things that many modern bigfoot investigators

believe will draw any nearby sasquatch to you.

I think the future of bigfoot research,

in a lot of ways, rests with new optics with thermal imagers.

And especially with drones,

thermal imagers attached to drones.

I really do see a future where the next

big, profound piece of footage

is gonna be gotten by a drone.

Many bigfoot hunters

are very much devoted to the idea

that the creature that they're looking for

is an undiscovered animal.

They believe that if they try hard enough,

they could capture sufficient evidence

to prove the issue once and for all.

Bigfoot hunters have set their sights

on catching the beast itself.

But the most compelling pieces of evidence

that we have right now are the huge footprints

that have been found for decades.

And according to anthropologist dr. Jeff meldrum,

these impressions in the ground

prove that there really is

an enormous primate roaming the forest.

My research expertise centers around

the adaptations of the human body

for bipedalism... the habit of walking on two legs.

So that put me in a very apropos position

to address what is probably

the most prolific and, in my opinion,

by far the most compelling body of evidence

for the existence of sasquatch,

namely the footprints.

Dr. Meldrum's interest in bigfoot footprints started

in 1996 when he and a colleague came across

a remarkable line of footprints

in southeastern washington.

As we walk out there, here's this unmistakable line

of footprints in the mud,

these 15-inch footprints,

and the hair stood up on the back of my neck

as I realized a sasquatch actually

walked by here last night.

The evidence was really unmistakable to my eye

with my background and training.

Dr. Meldrum immediately made

several casts of the intriguing footprints.

The first of many such casts

that he has made throughout his career.

Based off his research,

he has concluded that by analyzing a variety of factors,

such as how the foot imprints irregularities into the ground

or the spacing of the toes in the dirt,

it is possible to determine when footprints have been faked

and when they were really made by a 15-inch foot.

So here we are over 20 years later, and

in addition to the seven footprint

casts that I made on that afternoon,

there are over 300 casts to keep them company here

in the specimen drawers in my laboratory.

It's just been an amazing road

that has yielded, due to this extraordinary sample,

the emergence of a model of a foot

that is not simply an enlarged facsimile

of a human footprint but rather shows

all the distinctions of a foot adapted

to transport a 800-to-1,200-pound

bipedal primate

through the rough, irregular, incline terrain

of the mountainous forests

they are said to inhabit.

If bigfoot is making

giant footprints in the forest,

then is it a creature that can be explained

by conventional science?

Bigfoot researchers believe the answer is yes.

And they claim that bigfoot is an animal...

That has already been found.

Explorer robert von beringe is leading an expedition

up mount sabyinyo

when he comes upon a troop of gorillas.

Which is extraordinary, because according

to mainstream scientists at the time, gorillas aren't

supposed to live in the mountains.

For years, when reports came out

about mountain gorillas, people said,

"they're lying, they're hoaxers,"

until we finally had specimens.

And now the mountain gorilla are part

of the public and historical record.

The discovery of the gorilla

is actually a very good example

of the manner in which

the existence of an unknown primate species

was eventually recognized by western science.

And science requires a type specimen

in order to justify

the recognition of a novel species.

For bigfoot researchers, the discovery

of the mountain gorilla is an example

of how the assumptions of mainstream scientists

are not always correct.

And they argue that if the mountain gorilla survived

in the african mountains, unrecognized by science

until 1902, that it's possible that bigfoot

is alive in the vast forests of north america.

It just hasn't been verified yet.

But is bigfoot really an unknown creature?

Or is it simply another name for a creature

we've known about for decades?

There's various theories as to what this type of primate is.

But it most likely is related to this line of apes

out of southeast asia, the most famous of which was called

gigantopithecus, the largest apes that ever lived.

Gigantopithecus was a species that existed

during the late pleistocene, perhaps until as recently as

200,000 to 300,000 years ago,

according to the fossil record.

It was a giant primate of literally king kong proportions

that could have stood ten feet tall and weighed in excess

of a thousand, 1,200 pounds.

The theory that what we call "bigfoot" is actually

gigantopithecus has profound implications.

If true, it would mean that the existence of bigfoot

has already been scientifically verified.

There's just one problem.

According to paleontologists, gigantopithecus became extinct

a long time ago.

Gigantopithecus has often been characterized

as a creature that fed exclusively on bamboo

and, hence, went extinct when those bamboo forests

also expired.

But much more insightful analyses

of the fossilized teeth of gigantopithecus

suggests that it had a diet that was quite diverse.

Which is quite interesting, to have an animal that size

that still had a very diverse, omnivorous diet.

But even if gigantopithecus

has somehow survived into the present, questions remain.

Such as, how did such a large creature migrate

from the bamboo forests of southeast asia

all the way to north america?

If bigfoots are descendants of gigantopithecus,

or a line of apes like it,

they probably came over the land bridge

the same way that native americans did,

back when siberia and alaska were connected

and all sorts of animals were able to cross over

the bering strait.

Bigfoot researchers are steadfast

in their support of the gigantopithecus theory.

But most experts reject the idea due to lack of evidence.

But what if the evidence does exist,

and scientists simply aren't looking for it

in the right places?

Naturalist john mionczynski is spending the summer

working for the u.S. Forest service.

I was employed by the u.S. Forest service

and the wyoming game and fish department

on a cooperative study.

The project was set up so that I would live in the wild.

Late one night,

john feels what he thinks is a large bear

pressing against the outside of his tent.

I was approached by something that cast a shadow.

The moon was just coming up, it was almost a full moon.

I clearly saw a hand with four fingers

and an opposed thumb, like a human hand.

And it was large.

It was twice the size of my hand.

It was getting aggressive with its movements

on the side of the tent.

I hit it with the back of my hand.

Whatever it was had backed off.

It ran back behind some trees.

So I was totally perplexed.

I have to say that, the thought of sasquatch

never occurred to me at that moment.

When john reported the encounter to the forest service,

he learned that there had been a rash of similar reports.

His boss, afraid the sightings

might be the work of a prankster,

asked him to investigate and interview the witnesses.

- I - eventually interviewed

about 25 people.

The most interesting one was a young man

in a little cabin up against the mountains.

He had reported

seeing one of these behaving aggressively

in front of his cabin.

And he shot it.

And he'd thought he'd killed it,

but it got up immediately and ran off.

John visited the cabin and, incredibly,

found that there were hair samples left near the house.

He collected the hairs and brought them

to walter birkby, a well-known forensic anthropologist

and leading expert on hair analysis.

The analysis came back a few days later

and walter birkby said, and this is a quote,

"this is my first stumper. These hairs are primate."

and he was certain about that.

The result was controversial because a hairy primate

is not of an animal native to wyoming.

That kind of suggested the idea of bigfoot.

Solid, physical evidence of a primate in wyoming?

You might think that the scientific community

would be thrilled by such a discovery.

But john quickly realized the perils

of making that assumption.

The head of the research division

actually chewed us out.

Pointing his finger at us and saying,

"if your names are ever associated

"with this word bigfoot again,

I will personally see to it that you're fired."

if hard evidence of bigfoot really exists,

then why are scientists so eager to dismiss it?

Maybe it's safer to think

that it's all just a delusion or a hoax.

Or perhaps bigfoot doesn't fit into their preconceived notions

of the world.

In any case, some evidence is difficult,

if not downright impossible, to ignore,

as you shall see.

Researcher robert collier

is leading a bigfoot expedition

in a remote part of the wilderness.

It was about dusk, getting a little bit darker.

And all of a sudden we hear these horrendous footsteps.

As we looked in front of us, what we saw had two legs.

And it looked like the conical shaped head,

the broad shoulders.

And it's sitting right there. I'm looking at it.

Robert and his companions were astonished

by the two-legged creature moving near them.

But what happened next was even more extraordinary.

Soon as that happened,

it was like somebody had parked their car down there

and turned on headlights.

Lit up the whole area.

And I remember looking at that

and the lights stayed on, one, two,

three, off.

Then it just went silent.

But we were in such shock and pure amazement

from that, from that sighting.

A sudden, brilliant illumination deep in the forest?

Just before the mysterious creature robert saw

seemingly disappeared?

While it may sound like a fantastical story,

this wasn't the last time robert observed

such a strange occurrence.

This last expedition,

I experienced more lights.

We had some activity one night and I remember,

at one point, bigfoot turned its body

and it looked back at me.

And then this blue light...

It was a blue streak through the forest...

And it shot off to the right.

I still can't wrap my head around it.

But still other people experience that

and they're seeing the same things.

People are starting to see these white orbs.

The blue lights, the streaks.

So, there's the common denominator in there.

Robert and others who have seen these inexplicable lights

may not have all the answers.

However, the phenomenon

suggests an intriguing possibility.

You see, most researchers speculate that bigfoot could be

some form of ape and man

or a mix of both.

But what if those theories are missing the target?

If bigfoot is real,

could it be totally different

from any kind of creature that we're familiar with?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining

one of the most notorious bigfoot encounters in history.

Gold prospector fred beck and some miners are working

on a claim not far from mount st. Helens,

when they hear a bizarre noise.

Fred and one of his friends

heard strange whistling sounds

and all of a sudden saw a hairy creature

peek its head out from behind a tree.

The men instantly pulled out their guns

and started shooting at the creature...

...Which howled and screamed as it ran away.

And this attack on the creature seemed to provoke it,

because that evening

fred and his friends in their cabin were assaulted

by what seemed to be a group of sasquatch, or bigfeet.

They heard pounding on the roof.

Fred described the creatures as tall and hairy,

having apelike faces and being entirely hair-covered,

and between six to eight feet tall,

running around on two legs.

The men soon realized that the cabin

would not necessarily protect them from their attackers,

because the creatures bombarded the cabin

with huge rocks from the cliffs above

and then tried to get inside.

In one especially terrifying part of the story,

a creature reached its hand through the cabin

and tried to grab an ax, but fred grabbed

the head of the ax and turned it

so the creature couldn't pull it through.

The next morning, as it neared daylight,

the attacks finally stopped.

And fred and his friends decided to make their escape.

And this story made its way into the papers.

And ever since then, this area has been known as ape canyon.

For some, the so-called ape canyon incident

proves that bigfoot possesses intelligence

that exceeds that of any known animal and rivals our own.

But to others, the incident suggests something

much more incredible.

If you actually look back

to fred beck's own works, he did not think these creatures

were actually undiscovered animals.

He thought they were spiritual entities

from another plane of existence.

He claimed they would find a footprint track

that would suddenly end in the middle of a sandbar,

suggesting that a creature had just simply disappeared

as it was walking.

So, from his perspective, this was not an undiscovered ape.

It was a mystical creature from another dimension.

A mystical creature from another dimension?

But how is such a thing possible?

And doesn't that theory contradict

mainstream bigfoot research?

The idea that bigfoot might be able to disappear

into another dimension, that is very threatening

to that view that it's simply an undiscovered animal.

And, in fact, people oftentimes make fun of bigfoot hunters

and say, "you're just like ghost hunters,

you're just like people who see fairies and demons."

and when you add paranormal elements to a bigfoot story,

you open them up for that very criticism

that bothers them so much.

Most of the contemporary traditions

assign bigfoot or sasquatch

to the natural world.

In other words, it's not a supernatural character.

Most of the native traditions

would be more of the spiritual world

or more of the supernatural world.

That this figure is more than simply

a large hominid living out there.

They've ascribed, uh, some powers to them,

spiritual powers.

They can change into different things at times,

which aids in their ability to seem to vanish on location.

Uh, shapeshifters, if you will.

And so they have

a whole different respect for them, spiritually.

Does bigfoot really have mystical powers?

And could this fantastical notion

help to explain things about bigfoot

that have, up till now, stumped researchers?

There are those who believe that the answer is yes...

And that one big reason

why bigfoot has otherworldly abilities

is because he really is from another world.

Bigfoot researcher joe fex visits a rural appalachian farm

owned by a woman who claims

that she has encountered bigfoot

not once, not twice, but many times

over a period of years.

Janice carter coy claimed

bigfoot would come down the mountain,

visit this barn that was about two miles away,

and that they would come visit her grandfather's farm.

Eager to find out

whether janice's incredible story could be true,

joe decided to do a nighttime stakeout on her farm.

That night, joe and janice were sitting around a firepit

when joe noticed something... Strange.

As we're talking,

I see between these barn structures

two very bright, very vivid lime green lights.

And they're floating across this open area

between these structures.

I thought,

"wow, tennessee has got some pretty extremely large

lightning bugs out here."

But the green lights

started to come closer to him

and joe realized that what he thought were fireflies...

Were actually glowing eyes.

I could see

the structure of a very large,

long-haired, shaggy...

What looked like a very muscular ape.

And I looked over at janice

and she's just looking at me with this grin.

And she says,

"he wants to know if you're going to go back to colorado

and tell people you saw fireflies."

how janice would even know that

that thought even entered my head,

brief as that thought was,

I really have no idea.

Shatner joe was astonished to see

that janice seemed to be able

to mentally communicate with the creature...

Which was somehow reading his mind, too.

Janice said, "he wants you to come back to the ditch line.

He wants to see you. He wants you to see him."

and I thought, "oh, this is insane."

but she gives me this big flashlight.

So I started walking over there

and back out behind the house,

and I pointed the light forward.

And here, in this open area,

stood this guy that had to be

about eight or nine feet tall.

I've never heard or seen anything like it

in my entire life.

You'd think that after standing toe to toe with bigfoot,

joe would remember everything about such an encounter.

But as it turns out, joe's memory is a little fuzzy.

I don't know what happened at the tail end of that.

I just remember standing

back at the camp, talking with janice.

I don't remember walking away.

I don't remember... How did that end?

Which is, to me... even now, all these years later...

Is really bizarre.

To many observers,

joe's description of bigfoot sounds less like a primate

and more like something... Paranormal.

Joe fex's story actually

sounds a lot like a ufo abduction account to me.

When you claim that there's some period of time

that you simply cannot account for...

In alien abduction lore, this is called "missing time,"

and it's believed that the aliens will erase your memory

for a certain period of the encounter.

There are other stories within the bigfoot realm

where people claim to have had encounters with ufos

or even had an abduction.

Could bigfoot actually be an extraterrestrial?

Some bigfoot researchers would argue the answer is yes,

and that the strongest evidence lies not in what happened

during joe's bigfoot encounter

but what happened after.

Two weeks later, at maybe 10:30, 11:00 in the morning.

I go into the shower

and I come back out of the shower,

uh, dry off real quick,

relax for a minute.

I have a cup of coffee.

I unconsciously reached back here

and I could feel something.

I realized there was a relatively deep hole

that I could fit my pinky into.

It didn't feel like a wound.

It felt perfectly fine.

It didn't hurt at all. There was no sensation.

An inexplicable hole in your head

isn't something that's easy to understand.

But after considering every possibility,

joe recognized that what happened to him was bizarre

but not exactly unheard of.

All of these things are extremely familiar

in the field of ufos

and the subfield of ufo abductions.

They have similarities in their patterns of behavior,

similarities in the environment and the circumstances,

similarities in the side effects.

I don't know if these things are related,

but there is a correlation.

Joe fex may not have any definitive answers

about bigfoot or about his experience.

But what he does have

are some intriguing possibilities to consider,

thanks to the information that he has exchanged

with other bigfoot researchers.

And there are some who believe that this kind of cooperation

will finally prove that bigfoot is real.

The oregon coast mountain range.

Here, not far from the shore of the pacific ocean,

lies a densely wooded area that, once a year,

is the site of an invitation-only conference

attended by international experts in their field.

It's called...

Beachfoot.

It was in 2003

that I had this thought,

"you know, what would happen if you could get

"all of these well-known researchers

locked in the same room at the same time?"

the amount of brain trust there would be amazing.

The beachfoot gatherings,

where scientists get to discuss openly

their research and findings

concerning bigfoot...

I think it's a very important step

which will open up the subject

to other scientists who are interested

in studying this kind of phenomenon.

One of my most enjoyable activities

at such an event is, sometimes

I teach a workshop on "tracking 101."

those are opportunities where non-academics,

non-phds, can strive to emulate the scientific method

in their own search

for the evidence they presume to find.

Gatherings like beachfoot

prove that the legend of bigfoot is alive and well.

But how is that possible

when no conclusive evidence of bigfoot has ever been found?

What drives our interest in this enduring mystery?

The reason I believe

that the sasquatch subject has such staying power

is that there's so many witnesses out there.

There's many parts of the country where, if you go

and ask people if they've ever seen one,

so often you'll hear,

"no, I haven't, but I know somebody who has."

so, there's many people out there

who at least know someone they trust

who has told them that they've seen these things.

And that has had the effect of changing

people's opinion about the subject

of what would otherwise be just total skepticism everywhere.

Bigfoot matters because

it would be tangible proof of a solved mystery.

Finding a real bigfoot,

a real creature,

would be like discovering

another piece of the world.

And it's... It's us reaching for another piece

of that unknown

that's always just beyond our reach.

So, now, what do you think? Huh?

Is bigfoot real,

or is it all just part of an elaborate hoax?

I guess that depends on what kind of a person you are.

If you're the open-minded type

who believes that the world is filled with wonder,

then you probably believe it's real.

If you are the hard-nosed, cynical type,

then you're convinced it's all nonsense.

But then there is a third type.

The type who has actually seen bigfoot

in the fur-covered flesh.

For you, bigfoot is real,

and your experience has convinced you

that there is much about this mysterious creature

that, for now, remains unexplained.