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All right. '93.
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Um...
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How old were you again?
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Twenty-three. I was
23 years old. Yeah.
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And I was visiting a good buddy
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working on a cannabis
farm up in Northern California.
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The drive up 101 to Mendocino,
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I remember it was really foggy,
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and it was raining hard.
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And it would continue
to rain almost non-stop
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for my entire time in Mendocino.
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Like, just constant
hard driving cold rain.
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As soon as you cross the
line into Mendocino County
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out of wine country,
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the trees are just huge.
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They're so tall that the
canopy, it cuts out the daylight.
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I got to the town of Branscomb.
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And my friend came and met
me in a jacked-up 4-by-4 truck.
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It was the first time I had
been on the back roads.
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Every property there is gated.
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Most of the properties had posted
"no trespassing" for a reason.
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You know, locked gate after locked
gate, the roads get smaller and gnarlier
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until we finally get
to the cannabis farm.
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And my friend had set up shop
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and was laying his head
in sort of an outbuilding.
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It had no heat, no electricity,
no water, nothing like that.
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The next day, I put in
a little work on the farm.
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And interacting with
other workers on the farm,
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they were all
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telling stories about how there
was this Sasquatch running around,
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that was threatening people in
backwoods cannabis patches.
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They're, like, growling at
people from the tree line
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and bluff charging.
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Running at somebody, then
skittering off into the distance,
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or hurling rocks, like big
rocks just come chunking down
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from ridge lines.
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And I was like, are these
people fucking with me?
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Like, is the, like, fuck
with the outsider new guy,
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trying to scare me?
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Accounts varied. Sometimes
it was the same Sasquatch.
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Sometimes it was a tribe of
Sasquatch that were like all riled up
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because they were starting to
put cannabis farms too far out
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in Bigfoot territory.
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And that's when things
got even a little weirder.
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The second night I'm there,
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the guy that owns the
place, he was rolling joints.
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He got a phone call.
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The conversation
was a little tense.
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I mean, I remember him
saying like, "You guys on a run?
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Have you got everything sorted?"
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And then he was
like, "Okay. Okay."
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And like, "All right,
but keep him mellow.
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You gotta keep him mellow."
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About 15, 20 minutes later,
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I see headlights
of a truck outside.
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These two guys come
in, they're soaked,
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they're muddy,
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and one of them was...
talking a mile a minute.
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His eyes were like the
eyes of a panicked horse,
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you know, they're
rolling around.
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I was sketched out enough
by this guy's presence
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that I was just kinda trying to
become one with the couch.
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The owner of the farm is
trying to calm him down.
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He's like, just be
cool, be cool, be cool.
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And his voice got
up, and he said,
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"No, it wasn't
a fucking rip-off.
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"All the weed's still there.
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"It's ripped up, it's all over the
place, but all the weed's still there.
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This wasn't a rip."
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The guy that owned
the farm... said,
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"You sure they're dead?"
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He's like, "Are you
fucking not listening to me?"
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"Yes, I'm sure they're dead."
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"They're mangled."
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And then the other guy that was with
him was like, "Yeah, man, they're mangled."
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And the guy was like
repeating over and over.
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He was like, "We have to warn
everybody. We have to warn everybody."
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He believed he had
just seen three bodies
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dead, mangled, torn to pieces.
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He started to say something loud
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and was shushed.
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And then he said,
"I'm telling you, man,
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a Bigfoot killed those guys."
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It was just before dusk,
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we heard this screaming cry.
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And I've heard every animal
that lives in the locality,
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and it wasn't any of those.
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Everything was just
dead quiet afterwards.
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It made the hair crawl
on the back of your neck.
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The odor of this animal
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after I rolled the window down
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was so offensive that I
couldn't remain there any longer.
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Now, this thing truly scared me.
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This is the sign that
the creature struck,
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leaving these indentations,
or scratch marks.
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Many sightings have
revealed this creature to be
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between seven to nine feet tall
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and 600 to 900 pounds.
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He had the most
knowing look on his face.
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His eyes.
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I remember the eyes I think
more than anything else.
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The way it went up the mountain,
the way everybody describes Bigfoot,
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that's the only thing
I can think it was,
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because a bear just
don't do things like that.
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I looked at that mountain,
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I knew I didn't
want to be around it.
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I knew something was there
or something was watching me.
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I don't think
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that I had ever told
anybody that story.
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I mean, I got plenty of stories,
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that like, sitting around, like,
shooting the shit with people.
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Like, I'll, I'll lay out there
things that I experienced.
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I don't think... That's
never been in my repertoire
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of, like, stories that
you share about,
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well, here's a crazy fucking
thing that happened to me.
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It just seems unbelievable.
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I wasn't even sure at first if I was
completely misremembering this.
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So, square one, I looked
at missing persons reports.
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Nothing matched.
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There was no, like, three males
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that went missing
that were last seen
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anywhere in either
of those counties,
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like, in the right time frame.
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As an investigative journalist,
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I believe that the truth is never
told in the nine-to-five hours.
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I realized pretty early on in
my career that I had a knack
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for immersing myself
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in different worlds.
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Embedding with Chicano street
gangs on both sides of a turf war,
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running dope with drug mules,
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staying up for 72 hours
with crystal meth heads,
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going undercover as a neo-Nazi
skinhead, that kind of shit.
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Those are kind of stories I went
after and how I went after them.
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Stalking monsters was
a recurring theme for me.
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If I decided you were a
monster, I was coming for you,
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and nothing was
gonna turn me aside.
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You were done.
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I've borne witness to a
lot of crazy fucking stories.
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But the one about a Sasquatch
wasting three dudes in dope country
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is bar none the
craziest, all right.
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And for a quarter-century and then
some, I had just been carrying it with me,
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keeping it close.
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It's not in my nature to just set it
down and walk away and forget about it.
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Because, sure, maybe
it's just a ghost story,
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maybe there's nothing to it.
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Or maybe somebody
got away with murder.
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And maybe I can find
out who and how and why.
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Yeah. Nobody... Nobody
ever talked about it.
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We never talked about it.
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It's like what, 26 years ago?
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I reached out to my buddy
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who, had the same experience
that I did in the cabin that night.
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I was trying to figure out
whether my memories were
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accurate, at all.
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- Did you hear them say Bigfoot?
- Yeah.
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'Cause it was loud.
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And that's when I
heard about the bodies.
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Right? You know, like the
way they were all torn up.
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I'm like, okay, he
remembers too, you know.
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At the time, I was
scared shitless.
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Man, I was scared shitless
the whole time I was up there.
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I wanted to see
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if he knew how to get a hold
of the guy that owned the farm.
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But he's not telling me shit
about how to get a hold of the guy,
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except he gave me a couple
names that I already had
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of people that might
have his number.
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I'll bet you went into town when
you left the next day or whatever
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and started asking questions.
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Fuck, no, I didn't
want any part of that.
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So why do you want to do it now?
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He's like, why
are you doing this?
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You know. It set me back
on my heels for a minute.
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Just like, "Whoa,
why am I doing this?"
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Because it sounds
ridiculous on the face of it.
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A Bigfoot... murdered
three guys... on a dope farm.
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But... once you peel
back the first layer of that
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and you get the first
glimpse of the truth
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behind that crazy fucking story,
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it's hard not to just
keep peeling back layers
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to try and really get at it.
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The region's called
the Emerald Triangle
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because there's three counties
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Trinity, Humboldt,
and Mendocino County.
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All three counties
are famous worldwide
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for producing very high-grade
bright green cannabis plants.
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It's only once you're in
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the deep redwoods in Mendocino
County or Humboldt County
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that this story of
Sasquatch, this legend
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that has been passed down,
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starting with the indigenous people
of the region for hundreds of years,
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starts to feel like less
of a frivolous legend.
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Those woods are a spooky place,
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and it does feel, in those
woods, like you're being watched.
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Okay? You find yourself
twitching a little bit.
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There's a dark
history to this place.
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A lot of blood's been spilled
beneath those redwood trees
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and going back at
least as far as the 1860s
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with the California Gold Rush,
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you know, you got hordes of
white frontiersmen and plunderers
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coming in the area just
brutalizing the indigenous people
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and committing
horrible massacres,
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including a number that
targeted the Wiyot tribe.
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They snuck into the camps
in the middle of the night
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and they used firearms
to kill the adult men,
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and then they switched to
knives, hatchets, and axes,
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and they butchered the
women, children, and old people.
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Once the Gold Rush starts to die
down, the timber industry springs up.
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That was the beginning
of the rapacious loggers
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that were taking down the
first old growth redwoods
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in Northern California.
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Stripping the land
of natural resources.
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A hundred years later, 1970,
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95 percent of all the original
redwoods had been cut down.
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A lot of those trees were
over a thousand years old,
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and they're just gone.
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That was about
the time the hippies
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and the Back to the
Landers started to move in.
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And they were drawn there in
part by the lawlessness of the place.
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Because, while there's a
lot of danger in lawlessness,
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there's also a lot of freedom.
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A lot of people
left the Bay area
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or migrated across the
country to go to Humboldt
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to, like, live the
simple life, right?
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To, to build a homestead,
to have a community,
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to have their own schools,
to grow their own food.
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We found community
really quickly
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'cause there were so many people
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with similar values,
raising young children.
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We had an outhouse. We
had one kerosene lamp.
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We had no
electricity whatsoever.
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There's a great power
to being on the mountain,
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and it's a beautiful
way to live.
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And it starts to fix you.
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People thought,
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wow, we just stopped the
Vietnam War, you know,
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it's the Age of Aquarius,
a lot of magical thinking
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about how the system
was gonna transform
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and everything was gonna be,
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unicorns and rainbows.
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Most people had not originally
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gone up to the Emerald
Triangle to grow marijuana.
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They went up there because
they wanted to go back to nature
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and have a nice place
for their kids to grow up.
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Only to discover
once they were there
245
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that there weren't a
whole lot of other ways
246
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to earn a living.
247
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So, basically, most people
got into marijuana by default.
248
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Having a cash crop, that
allowed the locals to thrive.
249
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The owner of the farm where
I wound up in the fall of 1993
250
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originally moved up there to
kinda like, you know, get off the grid
251
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and get back to the land.
252
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Then he saw how much money
you can make growing dope,
253
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and he became a major grower.
254
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You could take a bite of
Greenshine, my creation.
255
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Big nice chunky old-time bud.
256
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Northern Mendocino County
probably has the best climate
257
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for growing cannabis... by far.
258
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Nice little joint.
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Everything out there,
260
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the flowers are more intense,
261
00:16:26,945 --> 00:16:29,781
the wild-crafted herbs
are more intense.
262
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It has the tastiest tomatoes.
263
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And by extension, the cannabis
that people have grown out there
264
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is just the best in the world.
265
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And here's... Look at this.
266
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Here... Wait a minute.
Sasquatch has appeared.
267
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Here he is. Woo-woo,
it's Sasquatch.
268
00:16:56,141 --> 00:16:59,645
Woo! Yaa! I'm not
so scary or tough.
269
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Talk about Bigfoot. Let's
talk about Sasquatch.
270
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What's your take on
Sasquatch, Bigfoot?
271
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- Like, what... what is Sasquatch.
- Well, you know,
272
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I personally have never seen one
273
00:17:11,949 --> 00:17:15,410
or seen anything
that said to me,
274
00:17:16,203 --> 00:17:18,473
my god, this is
pretty good evidence,
275
00:17:18,497 --> 00:17:21,684
but I'm kind of from
Missouri on that stuff.
276
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I'll be open to a lot of things,
277
00:17:24,211 --> 00:17:27,607
but for me to say
I know it or got it,
278
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I pretty much got to
experience it firsthand,
279
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and I have not.
280
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The one thing I have heard,
281
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about Sasquatch
282
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is that, um,
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usually before you see them, if
the wind is blowing right, you get
284
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they have a very
sweet, musky smell.
285
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That could be when she's
in that time of her moon cycle
286
00:17:51,697 --> 00:17:54,867
and when she's
really, looking for love.
287
00:18:05,627 --> 00:18:08,189
- Hello?
- Hey, this is, David Holthouse.
288
00:18:08,213 --> 00:18:12,193
So I start contacting
everybody that I can find
289
00:18:12,217 --> 00:18:15,029
that was a part of
the cannabis industry
290
00:18:15,053 --> 00:18:17,639
in the Emerald Triangle
in the early 1990s.
291
00:18:18,348 --> 00:18:20,994
I've heard a pretty crazy story
292
00:18:21,018 --> 00:18:23,746
that, a Sasquatch had killed
293
00:18:23,770 --> 00:18:25,981
three guys on a weed farm.
294
00:18:26,565 --> 00:18:28,751
Does that sound like a
story you heard before?
295
00:18:28,775 --> 00:18:31,546
Not at all.
296
00:18:31,570 --> 00:18:34,090
No. I wish I had.
297
00:18:34,114 --> 00:18:36,408
Anything like that
ringing any kind of bell?
298
00:18:36,909 --> 00:18:37,845
No.
299
00:18:37,869 --> 00:18:41,472
Sasquatch. Murder. Dope
farm. Anything like that?
300
00:18:41,496 --> 00:18:42,682
Yeah, no.
301
00:18:42,706 --> 00:18:45,542
Boy.
302
00:18:48,045 --> 00:18:50,690
That's the funniest
thing I ever heard.
303
00:18:50,714 --> 00:18:54,569
So, no. But, you know, I,
I, I'm very much interested
304
00:18:54,593 --> 00:18:55,695
in the UFO subject.
305
00:18:55,719 --> 00:18:59,115
You may know that the Navy
has come out with statements
306
00:18:59,139 --> 00:19:00,909
that the Navy has... What?
307
00:19:00,933 --> 00:19:02,518
Been hitting dead ends.
308
00:19:03,101 --> 00:19:07,832
So decided to hire
a private investigator.
309
00:19:07,856 --> 00:19:10,001
- Hey, Dave, how are you?
- Good, man.
310
00:19:10,025 --> 00:19:12,712
So I'll just sorta start from the
beginning. I'd just graduated...
311
00:19:12,736 --> 00:19:17,658
The thinking was get an ex-cop
who's now a PI in Mendocino County.
312
00:19:18,367 --> 00:19:20,887
They're gonna be familiar
with the dope world.
313
00:19:20,911 --> 00:19:23,747
They're probably gonna
have sources in that world now.
314
00:19:24,540 --> 00:19:26,792
So somebody that had
a foot in both worlds.
315
00:19:46,228 --> 00:19:47,247
Right.
316
00:19:47,271 --> 00:19:49,439
So he's like, yeah, let
me dig around for you.
317
00:19:52,651 --> 00:19:54,194
Try and find another angle here.
318
00:20:04,371 --> 00:20:06,850
Anybody ever tell you
firsthand about a Sasquatch
319
00:20:06,874 --> 00:20:08,810
that was aggressive
or violent toward them?
320
00:20:08,834 --> 00:20:09,834
Like, firsthand story.
321
00:20:32,691 --> 00:20:36,087
I started thinking if
anybody has, heard this story
322
00:20:36,111 --> 00:20:37,487
it's gonna be "squatchers."
323
00:20:39,364 --> 00:20:42,385
Mendocino County, Humboldt
County, this whole region,
324
00:20:42,409 --> 00:20:44,387
it's most famous for two things
325
00:20:44,411 --> 00:20:46,514
One is Sasquatch habitat,
326
00:20:46,538 --> 00:20:48,290
the other is cannabis farms.
327
00:21:53,188 --> 00:21:56,626
When I got to Northern
California back in 1993,
328
00:21:56,650 --> 00:21:58,253
I mean, I knew that
329
00:21:58,277 --> 00:22:01,214
the lore of the place was
that the Patterson-Gimlin film
330
00:22:01,238 --> 00:22:04,408
had been captured, you
know, not far from where I was.
331
00:22:21,884 --> 00:22:23,653
Right here, in this
big comfortable chair?
332
00:22:23,677 --> 00:22:25,971
- Yes, please.
- Okay. Thank you.
333
00:22:33,979 --> 00:22:37,191
Hey, that is perfect.
Thank you so much.
334
00:22:39,401 --> 00:22:41,588
People have said
there's no such thing,
335
00:22:41,612 --> 00:22:44,924
no such creature can exist.
336
00:22:44,948 --> 00:22:49,036
So we decided to see if
we could find more evidence.
337
00:22:52,789 --> 00:22:55,185
We rode every day
338
00:22:55,209 --> 00:22:57,228
miles and miles and miles,
339
00:22:57,252 --> 00:22:59,397
about 35, 40 miles a day,
340
00:22:59,421 --> 00:23:03,634
making big circles around
and through the mountains.
341
00:23:04,801 --> 00:23:06,571
The 20th day,
342
00:23:06,595 --> 00:23:08,722
it was about two
o'clock in the afternoon.
343
00:23:09,515 --> 00:23:12,035
The sun was still up, nice.
344
00:23:12,059 --> 00:23:14,412
We was riding up the creek bed,
345
00:23:14,436 --> 00:23:15,562
and, um
346
00:23:17,105 --> 00:23:18,273
all at once
347
00:23:18,982 --> 00:23:21,777
one was standing
across the creek
348
00:23:22,319 --> 00:23:24,238
looking straight at us.
349
00:23:30,202 --> 00:23:32,579
Roger got his camera out.
350
00:23:40,921 --> 00:23:43,423
You see her make that famous
351
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:46,236
turn like that
352
00:23:46,260 --> 00:23:49,179
to look at me when
I got off the horse.
353
00:23:55,561 --> 00:23:57,813
When I saw her, I thought,
354
00:23:58,564 --> 00:24:02,359
"My god, these
things really do exist."
355
00:24:04,194 --> 00:24:07,281
You ever heard of a Sasquatch
attacking or killing people?
356
00:24:07,781 --> 00:24:09,342
No. Not at all.
357
00:24:09,366 --> 00:24:12,995
I've heard of stories of where
they've protected people,
358
00:24:13,829 --> 00:24:16,891
but never any stories
359
00:24:16,915 --> 00:24:20,752
of, of, of people
being killed by them.
360
00:24:21,170 --> 00:24:23,463
In my opinion, if we,
361
00:24:24,756 --> 00:24:27,050
if we do go into the woods,
362
00:24:27,801 --> 00:24:29,904
go with an open mind.
363
00:24:29,928 --> 00:24:33,223
Appreciate the forest,
appreciate everything there,
364
00:24:34,308 --> 00:24:36,393
and maybe you might see one.
365
00:24:40,814 --> 00:24:42,458
Georges, you're over there.
366
00:24:42,482 --> 00:24:44,169
No, this way.
367
00:24:44,193 --> 00:24:45,235
I'm sorry.
368
00:24:48,488 --> 00:24:50,216
That's what he said, the chair.
369
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:51,800
What? I thought it
was the other way.
370
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,222
Where do we differ
on what Sasquatch is?
371
00:24:56,246 --> 00:24:58,892
Well, you believe that
Sasquatch can teleport and.
372
00:24:58,916 --> 00:25:00,101
- No.
- Yes, you do.
373
00:25:00,125 --> 00:25:01,394
- No, I do not.
- Yes, you do. You do.
374
00:25:01,418 --> 00:25:02,188
Do not go there.
375
00:25:02,212 --> 00:25:03,980
And you believe
that he... he can cloak
376
00:25:04,004 --> 00:25:05,356
and all that other
fucking bullshit.
377
00:25:05,380 --> 00:25:06,900
- No, I do not, goddammit.
- Yes, you do.
378
00:25:06,924 --> 00:25:08,568
- We've talked about it before.
- The only thing...
379
00:25:08,592 --> 00:25:09,528
Yeah, and you get it wrong.
380
00:25:09,552 --> 00:25:10,904
- The only thing I believe...
- No. I think...
381
00:25:10,928 --> 00:25:12,530
He's... he's just a being.
382
00:25:12,554 --> 00:25:15,182
He's a blood and guts
human being kind of creature.
383
00:25:20,312 --> 00:25:23,833
So many people have experiences.
I've had personal experiences.
384
00:25:23,857 --> 00:25:28,087
I have walked into woods
and had noises following me,
385
00:25:28,111 --> 00:25:29,988
and I know that it
wasn't a kitty cat.
386
00:25:36,954 --> 00:25:40,266
My first encounters were
387
00:25:40,290 --> 00:25:41,667
when I was ten,
388
00:25:42,334 --> 00:25:45,170
what I saw out the window
at two o'clock in the morning.
389
00:25:47,339 --> 00:25:49,007
You know? Those eyes.
390
00:25:51,885 --> 00:25:54,513
And I remember screaming.
391
00:25:57,099 --> 00:25:59,077
I was camping and around,
392
00:25:59,101 --> 00:26:01,621
I would say two o'clock
in the morning or so,
393
00:26:01,645 --> 00:26:03,248
I hear noises,
394
00:26:03,272 --> 00:26:07,067
and then I see my tent
being squished down.
395
00:26:08,652 --> 00:26:11,756
And then I start screaming
and screaming and screaming,
396
00:26:11,780 --> 00:26:14,366
and then I just... hit the tent.
397
00:26:15,075 --> 00:26:18,662
Then this thing just, like, jumped up
and you could hear it moving backwards
398
00:26:19,496 --> 00:26:20,873
and just running off.
399
00:26:22,708 --> 00:26:23,935
And I'm just, like, terrified.
400
00:26:23,959 --> 00:26:26,336
I mean, I am just terrified
the rest of the night.
401
00:26:30,883 --> 00:26:32,384
I used to go fishing a lot.
402
00:26:33,343 --> 00:26:34,803
This one particular night,
403
00:26:35,929 --> 00:26:38,015
I turned and I
looked up the river
404
00:26:38,765 --> 00:26:40,559
and all I could see
405
00:26:41,226 --> 00:26:43,020
was this, um
406
00:26:44,521 --> 00:26:47,024
just, like a, a form.
407
00:26:47,566 --> 00:26:49,085
It was...
408
00:26:49,109 --> 00:26:50,109
Sorry.
409
00:26:51,612 --> 00:26:54,132
Um, it stank,
410
00:26:54,156 --> 00:26:56,241
and it looked like it was, um,
411
00:26:57,451 --> 00:27:00,412
covered with, like, dreadlocks.
412
00:27:01,538 --> 00:27:03,892
And it was just going
through the water,
413
00:27:03,916 --> 00:27:07,169
and I couldn't figure out
what that could have been.
414
00:27:07,794 --> 00:27:10,339
Then all of a sudden, um,
415
00:27:11,173 --> 00:27:12,758
this,
416
00:27:15,886 --> 00:27:18,239
See? My hair's standing
up on my arms now.
417
00:27:18,263 --> 00:27:19,848
It's this scream
418
00:27:20,682 --> 00:27:24,061
um... like a, a banshee.
419
00:27:27,231 --> 00:27:29,942
I turned and I ran.
I, I never went back.
420
00:27:32,986 --> 00:27:35,656
And I know that
if I'd stuck around,
421
00:27:39,868 --> 00:27:41,537
I might not be here.
422
00:27:44,831 --> 00:27:46,208
All I know is it
423
00:27:48,627 --> 00:27:50,563
it scared the crap out of me.
424
00:27:50,587 --> 00:27:53,274
It's the only time
in my life that, um,
425
00:27:53,298 --> 00:27:54,591
I've been that scared.
426
00:28:11,567 --> 00:28:13,777
One of the first
questions I'm often asked,
427
00:28:14,403 --> 00:28:17,757
by people,
including journalists,
428
00:28:17,781 --> 00:28:20,158
is, "So you believe in Bigfoot?"
429
00:28:22,327 --> 00:28:25,289
And I say, "No. I
don't believe in Bigfoot"
430
00:28:26,540 --> 00:28:29,519
and let that stew for just a
moment until they're uncomfortable
431
00:28:29,543 --> 00:28:32,438
and then explain when
I'm asked that question,
432
00:28:32,462 --> 00:28:35,424
usually from a
skeptical point of view,
433
00:28:35,924 --> 00:28:39,571
it usually connotes
a position of faith.
434
00:28:39,595 --> 00:28:43,182
Have I accepted something
in the absence of evidence?
435
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,854
And no, I'm convinced
that Sasquatch exists.
436
00:28:50,022 --> 00:28:52,065
It's the evidence
that convinces me.
437
00:28:53,567 --> 00:28:57,446
The most compelling evidence
for the existence of Sasquatch,
438
00:28:57,821 --> 00:29:01,783
from my point of expertise,
is the footprint evidence.
439
00:29:02,659 --> 00:29:05,054
I've spent a lot of
time assembling
440
00:29:05,078 --> 00:29:09,082
a very large sample of footprints
from all over North America.
441
00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:12,145
When we consider the odds
442
00:29:12,169 --> 00:29:16,006
that all these tracks are
simply spurious hoaxes,
443
00:29:17,007 --> 00:29:18,693
it becomes incredible.
444
00:29:18,717 --> 00:29:22,614
How is it that these
hoaxers have incorporated
445
00:29:22,638 --> 00:29:25,700
things that have only come
to light and been understood
446
00:29:25,724 --> 00:29:28,912
in the realm of science
and anthropology
447
00:29:28,936 --> 00:29:31,730
in the past, you
know, few decades?
448
00:29:34,149 --> 00:29:36,127
If I were to estimate
449
00:29:36,151 --> 00:29:39,988
the number of
Sasquatch here in Idaho,
450
00:29:40,906 --> 00:29:44,010
I would come up with a
figure that, even if I was liberal,
451
00:29:44,034 --> 00:29:46,078
about maybe 300.
452
00:29:46,411 --> 00:29:50,141
We're talking about a
100-fold more black bear
453
00:29:50,165 --> 00:29:51,518
than Sasquatch.
454
00:29:51,542 --> 00:29:53,478
How many carcasses of black bear
455
00:29:53,502 --> 00:29:55,420
do you stumble on when
you're out on a hike?
456
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,676
Black bear are
notoriously rare and elusive.
457
00:30:01,677 --> 00:30:03,929
They're called the
shadow of the forest.
458
00:30:32,332 --> 00:30:36,295
As with any large and
potentially dangerous animal,
459
00:30:36,628 --> 00:30:41,216
you need to show the proper,
sensibility and precautions.
460
00:30:44,761 --> 00:30:47,973
I never go out in the
field without pepper spray
461
00:30:48,348 --> 00:30:51,268
or a sidearm for
personal security.
462
00:30:51,935 --> 00:30:57,292
I mean, after all, we're talking
about a 800-to a 1,200-pound primate.
463
00:30:57,316 --> 00:31:00,545
They could lift
50-gallon barrels of oil
464
00:31:00,569 --> 00:31:02,905
and throw it like it's a toy.
465
00:31:03,322 --> 00:31:05,133
So they're so strong, they
466
00:31:05,157 --> 00:31:07,719
I mean, they could
tear a body apart?
467
00:31:07,743 --> 00:31:08,827
Easily.
468
00:31:19,713 --> 00:31:21,173
Hey, man, how are you?
469
00:31:53,121 --> 00:31:56,542
If your friend was
willing to, to talk to us
470
00:31:57,042 --> 00:32:00,355
or pass information through
you, either one, like, we'd be,
471
00:32:00,379 --> 00:32:01,755
we're all ears, man.
472
00:32:17,646 --> 00:32:20,166
I didn't, like, get
anywhere today,
473
00:32:20,190 --> 00:32:21,984
but one thing that I did
474
00:32:23,151 --> 00:32:25,004
notice today that
I've noticed before
475
00:32:25,028 --> 00:32:27,382
just in, like, knocking
around up here
476
00:32:27,406 --> 00:32:28,907
talking to people that are
477
00:32:29,491 --> 00:32:33,763
anybody associated with, like,
the cannabis, sort of, cultivation
478
00:32:33,787 --> 00:32:36,349
scene up here then or now
479
00:32:36,373 --> 00:32:38,458
is that there's a current of
480
00:32:39,501 --> 00:32:43,648
belief in supernatural
forces that runs deeper
481
00:32:43,672 --> 00:32:46,466
up here than I
think in most places.
482
00:33:02,774 --> 00:33:05,420
I keep coming back
to what I know, okay.
483
00:33:05,444 --> 00:33:07,613
What I know is what I heard
484
00:33:08,363 --> 00:33:10,782
in October 1993 in that cabin.
485
00:33:12,993 --> 00:33:14,494
I heard a guy that was like
486
00:33:15,162 --> 00:33:17,539
fucking terrified
and traumatized.
487
00:33:19,416 --> 00:33:22,979
I am convinced that
he was convinced
488
00:33:23,003 --> 00:33:25,964
that he had seen three bodies
489
00:33:27,090 --> 00:33:28,090
on a pot farm.
490
00:33:30,010 --> 00:33:31,010
They were mutilated,
491
00:33:32,095 --> 00:33:34,223
mangled, torn to pieces,
492
00:33:35,265 --> 00:33:38,018
and he believed that a
Sasquatch had done it.
493
00:33:41,813 --> 00:33:44,709
I would go on in my
career to be in situations
494
00:33:44,733 --> 00:33:47,879
where things got violent or
things had just been violent,
495
00:33:47,903 --> 00:33:50,965
and always the temperature
in the room sort of shifts.
496
00:33:50,989 --> 00:33:54,052
And these guys came into the
place, and the temperature changed.
497
00:33:54,076 --> 00:33:55,702
You could actually feel it.
498
00:33:57,454 --> 00:34:01,017
So it was obvious that
they were coming directly
499
00:34:01,041 --> 00:34:04,378
from having seen this
scene of the murder.
500
00:34:05,003 --> 00:34:07,398
And I know that there
were all these stories
501
00:34:07,422 --> 00:34:10,384
about aggressive Sasquatches
at the time, because I heard them.
502
00:34:11,301 --> 00:34:13,345
You know? That's what I know.
503
00:34:17,432 --> 00:34:19,184
But I haven't found anybody else
504
00:34:20,143 --> 00:34:22,080
who's heard the story about
three dudes getting killed
505
00:34:22,104 --> 00:34:24,022
on a dope farm in 1993.
506
00:34:25,357 --> 00:34:27,001
I mean, fuck.
507
00:34:27,025 --> 00:34:29,462
This is all grabbing at smoke
right now still, you know.
508
00:34:29,486 --> 00:34:31,256
It's still all just
grabbing at smoke.
509
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,365
It's just like...
poof, you know.
510
00:34:45,502 --> 00:34:49,423
This friend of mine in LA put me
on to a dope dealer in Oakland.
511
00:34:50,007 --> 00:34:51,925
Dope dealer in Oakland said.
512
00:34:52,634 --> 00:34:54,195
I wasn't up there at that time,
513
00:34:54,219 --> 00:34:57,014
but I know a guy
who was for sure.
514
00:35:03,604 --> 00:35:04,646
Hey, is this Razor?
515
00:35:06,231 --> 00:35:07,709
Hey, Razor, my
name's David Holthouse.
516
00:35:07,733 --> 00:35:10,920
I think a, mutual acquaintance
of ours said I'd be giving you a call
517
00:35:10,944 --> 00:35:12,529
about a project
that I got going.
518
00:35:14,907 --> 00:35:17,385
The time and place
is Emerald Triangle,
519
00:35:17,409 --> 00:35:19,494
early to mid-1990s like.
520
00:35:20,370 --> 00:35:22,515
Our mutual acquaintance
said that you had
521
00:35:22,539 --> 00:35:25,560
some valuable perspective and
experience in that time and place.
522
00:35:25,584 --> 00:35:29,171
Can you just, tell me a little bit
about your background in that regard.
523
00:35:39,431 --> 00:35:41,099
In Mendo and Humboldt?
524
00:35:43,268 --> 00:35:45,872
Well, listen, man,
let me sorta lay this,
525
00:35:45,896 --> 00:35:47,790
this story out for you, okay.
526
00:35:47,814 --> 00:35:51,878
I heard three individuals
were murdered
527
00:35:51,902 --> 00:35:53,946
on a weed farm
528
00:35:54,780 --> 00:35:58,575
somewhere in northern Mendocino
County, I don't know where.
529
00:35:59,326 --> 00:36:01,662
And that the murders
530
00:36:02,204 --> 00:36:04,998
purportedly were carried
out by a Sasquatch.
531
00:36:05,624 --> 00:36:06,625
Okay?
532
00:36:07,918 --> 00:36:09,211
Yeah?
533
00:36:09,753 --> 00:36:14,341
Does that ring... does that
ring any sort of bell for you?
534
00:36:41,326 --> 00:36:42,971
Without missing a beat, he goes,
535
00:36:42,995 --> 00:36:45,664
three Mexican dudes
in Mendo, fall of '93.
536
00:36:47,374 --> 00:36:48,375
Boom.
537
00:36:49,793 --> 00:36:52,671
You know... okay, tell me more.
538
00:37:07,060 --> 00:37:08,454
He says, yeah,
539
00:37:08,478 --> 00:37:10,498
I remember hearing
that story in bars a lot.
540
00:37:10,522 --> 00:37:13,960
These three Mexican guys
had gotten killed by a Bigfoot
541
00:37:13,984 --> 00:37:16,838
at a, at a, at a farm
on Spy Rock Road.
542
00:37:16,862 --> 00:37:18,280
He said on Spy Rock Road.
543
00:37:20,949 --> 00:37:22,659
So... that's a lead.
544
00:37:23,660 --> 00:37:25,138
That's a lead.
545
00:37:25,162 --> 00:37:26,538
What's the Spy Rock area?
546
00:37:51,855 --> 00:37:54,250
You know, I was up in Spy Rock.
547
00:37:54,274 --> 00:37:56,944
I lived up in Spy
Rock for some time.
548
00:38:00,155 --> 00:38:02,926
There's a stone on
the way up to Spy Rock,
549
00:38:02,950 --> 00:38:06,179
and it's one of the oldest
engraved petroglyphs
550
00:38:06,203 --> 00:38:07,996
in the whole United States.
551
00:38:10,249 --> 00:38:14,461
So... it has a whole
mysticism to Spy Rock.
552
00:38:20,676 --> 00:38:24,364
It is inland enough
and raises high enough
553
00:38:24,388 --> 00:38:26,849
above the cloud
line and the fog line
554
00:38:27,516 --> 00:38:30,829
that if you get up the
mountain a certain height,
555
00:38:30,853 --> 00:38:32,664
you don't deal with
rot in the plants.
556
00:38:32,688 --> 00:38:35,107
In Sonoma County,
everything rots.
557
00:38:37,276 --> 00:38:40,505
The plants on Spy
Rock are far bigger
558
00:38:40,529 --> 00:38:42,215
than any plants
559
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,284
in Sonoma or Mendocino County.
560
00:38:49,496 --> 00:38:53,101
When you start getting thousands
of feet up those mountains,
561
00:38:53,125 --> 00:38:56,312
you get into pretty
rugged and hard terrain.
562
00:38:56,336 --> 00:39:01,276
And I wouldn't suggest
anybody go wandering up there,
563
00:39:01,300 --> 00:39:04,904
um, looking around because
it's not that kind of place.
564
00:39:04,928 --> 00:39:07,181
They don't want
outsiders up there.
565
00:39:12,519 --> 00:39:15,439
How far away was the cabin
you were in from Spy Rock Road?
566
00:39:16,356 --> 00:39:18,459
Let's see. Branscomb to Spy Rock
Road is somewhere in the neighborhood
567
00:39:18,483 --> 00:39:19,776
of an hour, I would guess.
568
00:39:21,153 --> 00:39:23,464
- Let me check it, okay.
- Just... - I believe you.
569
00:39:23,488 --> 00:39:24,656
No, I just want to know.
570
00:39:29,745 --> 00:39:32,206
Wait a minute, it's
only 15 minutes.
571
00:39:33,373 --> 00:39:35,459
- Shit.
- Yeah, it's only 15 minutes.
572
00:39:36,251 --> 00:39:38,521
I wouldn't be able to find
the cabin I was in that night,
573
00:39:38,545 --> 00:39:41,256
but I know that it
was... just outside
574
00:39:42,049 --> 00:39:43,049
of Branscomb.
575
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:45,344
So even if you stretch it out,
576
00:39:46,887 --> 00:39:49,264
you know, that they were north
577
00:39:49,890 --> 00:39:52,392
of Laytonville and I
was south of Branscomb,
578
00:39:52,893 --> 00:39:55,687
maximum they would have
been 30, 35 minutes away.
579
00:39:56,647 --> 00:39:58,291
It's quite possible
that they were closer.
580
00:39:58,315 --> 00:40:01,610
So the geography and the
time frame is pretty good match.
581
00:40:15,541 --> 00:40:17,060
Going to meet a guy named Razor,
582
00:40:17,084 --> 00:40:19,145
in the high desert
outside Joshua Tree.
583
00:40:19,169 --> 00:40:21,648
And I don't know
Razor's real name
584
00:40:21,672 --> 00:40:25,068
but I've asked around about
him, and what I've heard is that
585
00:40:25,092 --> 00:40:27,362
he's, a guy that was raised
586
00:40:27,386 --> 00:40:29,364
by the Hells Angels
in San Bernardino
587
00:40:29,388 --> 00:40:31,056
in the '60s, when he was a kid.
588
00:40:31,849 --> 00:40:35,495
He started growing
cannabis sometime in the '70s
589
00:40:35,519 --> 00:40:37,664
and grew in Humboldt
and Mendocino counties
590
00:40:37,688 --> 00:40:39,374
in the '80s all the
way through the '90s.
591
00:40:39,398 --> 00:40:41,125
He got busted three times,
592
00:40:41,149 --> 00:40:43,711
did three bids in San Quentin,
but he always kept his mouth shut.
593
00:40:43,735 --> 00:40:46,613
He never rolled over on anybody,
never said anything to the cops.
594
00:40:47,531 --> 00:40:49,731
And that's earned him a
lot of respect and credibility,
595
00:40:50,075 --> 00:40:54,037
among other cannabis growers
in Northern California, so...
596
00:40:54,538 --> 00:40:56,933
And I've got plenty
of people on the phone
597
00:40:56,957 --> 00:40:59,144
but whenever I'd
work my way around to,
598
00:40:59,168 --> 00:41:01,688
well, hey, I'm looking
into a triple homicide
599
00:41:01,712 --> 00:41:03,255
from the early '90s,
600
00:41:04,423 --> 00:41:08,051
I was always careful not to
give anybody the, the date,
601
00:41:09,094 --> 00:41:11,698
um, because I didn't want them
to just feed information back to me
602
00:41:11,722 --> 00:41:13,199
and take me for a ride.
603
00:41:13,223 --> 00:41:16,119
But when I finally got Razor on
the phone and I laid that line on him,
604
00:41:16,143 --> 00:41:18,454
he immediately said,
yeah, three Mexican guys
605
00:41:18,478 --> 00:41:22,441
on a backwoods patch in
Mendo County, fall of 1993.
606
00:41:23,108 --> 00:41:24,460
So he nailed the date.
607
00:41:24,484 --> 00:41:27,046
So I think that he
knows something.
608
00:41:27,070 --> 00:41:30,115
I think that he's at least heard
the story or a version of the story.
609
00:41:34,745 --> 00:41:36,306
You've arrived at
your destination.
610
00:41:36,330 --> 00:41:38,040
I have?
611
00:41:55,557 --> 00:41:57,017
That about how you like it?
612
00:41:59,811 --> 00:42:01,789
So the 1993 season,
613
00:42:01,813 --> 00:42:03,941
you heard a crazy
fucking Bigfoot story.
614
00:42:06,235 --> 00:42:07,670
Tell me that story.
615
00:42:07,694 --> 00:42:10,381
You know... I'll say this,
616
00:42:10,405 --> 00:42:14,201
that time period was like...
there was a lot going on.
617
00:42:16,537 --> 00:42:19,057
Every time I stopped for
a second to take a breath
618
00:42:19,081 --> 00:42:21,250
and socialize for a
minute with some people,
619
00:42:21,708 --> 00:42:23,269
I would hear stories.
620
00:42:23,293 --> 00:42:25,563
But this one story stood out
621
00:42:25,587 --> 00:42:29,567
just because I had never
heard anyone, like, say it,
622
00:42:29,591 --> 00:42:30,843
you know, with such conviction.
623
00:42:32,135 --> 00:42:35,055
That was like a
serious call to arms.
624
00:42:35,639 --> 00:42:38,910
This is the biggest threat
we're going to be facing
625
00:42:38,934 --> 00:42:40,853
towards the end of the season,
626
00:42:42,312 --> 00:42:45,166
is we're gonna get
attacked by Sasquatches.
627
00:42:45,190 --> 00:42:48,777
As if the stuff we were up
against already wasn't enough.
628
00:43:10,007 --> 00:43:12,217
Um...
629
00:43:13,385 --> 00:43:16,197
Just got a, kind
of a sketched out
630
00:43:16,221 --> 00:43:18,908
and unsettling text message
631
00:43:18,932 --> 00:43:22,996
from the former Mendocino
County cop turned private investigator
632
00:43:23,020 --> 00:43:25,230
I've been working with
the last couple weeks.
49877
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