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>> NARRATOR: It's huge...
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(roar)
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...it's hairy,
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and it's been hiding for
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centuries.
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(roar)
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>> KEN STORCH: I could see a
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creature of sorts standing,
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looking back at me.
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It was a dark shaped shadow.
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>> NARRATOR: But is the legend
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known as Bigfoot real?
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>> WILLIAM BARNES: I know
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they're real.
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Nobody can convince me
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differently.
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>> NARRATOR: Or is it a hoax?
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>> JEFF MELDRUM: I think the
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reported sightings are just the
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tip of the iceberg.
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>> NARRATOR: Could the facts be
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so provocative that even the
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government doesn't want you to
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know the truth?
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>> WILLIAM JEVNING: If there's
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any sort of a concerted cover-up
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at higher levels, we simply
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don't know at this point.
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>> NARRATOR: There are those who
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believe in the existence of a
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book.
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A book that contains the most
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highly guarded secrets of the
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United States of America.
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A book... whose very existence
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is known to only a select few.
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But if such a book exists, what
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would it contain?
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Secret locations?
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Secret programs?
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Secret experiments?
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Does there really exist
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America's Book of Secrets?
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>> NARRATOR: Flathead County,
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Montana.
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August 26, 2012.
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At 10:30 p.m., a teenage girl
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drives down U.S. Highway 93.
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Suddenly, she spots a mysterious
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ape-like figure emerging from
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the dark.
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It moves towards her, then
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steps right into the beams of
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her headlights.
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Unable to stop, the girl's car
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strikes the creature and knocks
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it to the ground.
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(shout)
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The vehicle behind her runs
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right over it.
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First responders quickly
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determine that the strange,
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mutilated corpse is a man named
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Randy Lee Tenley, dressed in the
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military issue camouflage-- or
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ghillie suit-- to look like
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Bigfoot.
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But why?
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>> RO SAHEBI: Randy Lee Tenley
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was set on creating convincing
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Bigfoot footage.
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He was determined to create a
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viral video and, when crossing
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the road, was tragically struck
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by a car.
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With the popularity of YouTube
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and viral videos, there has been
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a-a dramatic increase in hoaxing
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in the Bigfoot field.
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It's unfortunate that Randy Lee
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Tenley was killed.
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Some people are willing to go to
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extremes to create viral videos,
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in the quest to have that
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million hits drawn to your
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YouTube channel.
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That kind of traffic is worth
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thousands of dollars to the
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owner of the YouTube channel.
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(growling)
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>> NARRATOR: Could the real
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secret behind the Bigfoot legend
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be not that the beast truly
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exists, but that it's all an
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elaborate hoax perpetuated by a
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multimillion dollar industry?
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>> JEVNING: The Bigfoot business
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has actually grown exponentially
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over the years.
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Everybody's writing books.
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There's all kinds of radio
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shows.
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It's since become quite, um,
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a large business these days.
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The prospect of becoming rich
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and famous has always muddied
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the waters, uh, in terms of
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research, and-and it's
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especially pronounced today.
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>> SAHEBI: One of the biggest
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brands today in America is
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Bigfoot.
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We see it growing everywhere.
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There are entire communities
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built about the Bigfoot
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folklore.
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We have Bigfoot museums.
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We have Bigfoot roadside
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attractions.
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>> NARRATOR: Bigfoot is the
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subject of hundreds of
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television shows, both fiction
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and nonfiction.
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Bigfoot also serves as a popular
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TV pitchman, selling everything
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from monster trucks to sub
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sandwiches.
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>> SAHEBI: Corporate America has
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begun to embrace Bigfoot as a
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brand, and it's free to use.
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So it's not surprising that more
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and more people are putting
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Sasquatch in their product.
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Bigfoot is a big economy.
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>> MAN: The Abominable Snowman--
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or as this creature is known in
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North America, Bigfoot.
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>> NARRATOR: The commercialism
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of the Bigfoot legend began in
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1967...
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(screams)
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...with the publication of the
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so-called Patterson-Gimlin film.
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Even though the creature seen in
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the 60-second clip is believed
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by some to be nothing more than
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a man wearing a costume, it
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commands tens of thousands of
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dollars in licensing fees.
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In the years since, Bigfoot has
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also become a movie star.
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But why does the creature's
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popularity continue to grow?
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>> SAHEBI: There's nothing
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scarier to me than something
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that could be possibly real.
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Jaws made people scared to go
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into the water.
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Bigfoot makes people scared to
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go into their own backyard.
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>> EDUARDO SANCHEZ: My
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fascination with Bigfoot is
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based on the idea that there is
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something out there that we
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don't know and there is this
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semi-intelligent creature that
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has kind of kept out of, um, the
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public eye for so long.
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There's obviously something
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curious about what's been going
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on and all the credible
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eyewitness reports.
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>> NARRATOR: According to a
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recent poll, nearly 30% of all
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Americans believe that Bigfoot
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actually exists, a belief that
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is made stronger by the fact
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that there are over one million
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square miles of federally
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protected wilderness in the
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United States.
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Could this be what drives us to
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continue searching for the
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legendary beast?
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Can thousands of reported
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sightings, dating back more than
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a century, all be dismissed?
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Perhaps the real proof lies in
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eyewitness accounts.
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>> STORCH: I could see about 50
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yards into the woods a creature
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of sorts standing, looking back
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at me.
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It was a dark shaped shadow.
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I could make the outline of a
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humanoid form.
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>> JEVNING: Less than 15 feet in
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front of me was this huge,
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manlike creature covered with
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hair, and I-I had a pretty good
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idea that this was about 800
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pounds and about eight feet
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tall.
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I didn't know what to think.
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I froze.
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>> BARNES: Well, I thought it
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was a bear in the beginning
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until it got about 30 feet
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from the car.
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My heart was beating so hard
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that I could hear it in my ears.
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And actually, it was scary.
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Very strange.
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I mean, I know they're real.
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Nobody can convince me
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differently.
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>> NARRATOR: According to
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Bigfoot researchers, there are
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approximately 200 reported
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sightings of Bigfoot each year.
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But they believe an even greater
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number of encounters go
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unreported, as many are afraid
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to come forward for fear of
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ridicule.
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>> MELDRUM: I think that the
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reported sightings are just the
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tip of the iceberg.
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>> ANNA NEKARIS: I thought if
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people saw Bigfoot, they would
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tell people.
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But I have now had many e-mails
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claiming I was the only person
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they'd ever told because they
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feared being crazy.
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And that's a very large sample
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size of e-mails, so it's clear
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there's a lot of people in the
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world who don't tell.
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(sirens wailing)
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>> PAUL BARTHOLOMEW: Several
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police officers, uh, had to wait
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20 years before they would even
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come forward with their sighting
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because they were afraid it
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would interfere with their work.
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They have everything to lose and
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nothing to gain by coming
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forward with their experience.
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>> DR. MICHAEL SCHERMER: I have
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spoken to many pro-Bigfoot
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people, and I absolutely
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believe that they believe.
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No question about it.
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I think they're just simply
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mistaken about what they believe
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and now we know enough about
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cognitive psychology to know how
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easy it is to self-deceive.
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We just need a body.
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Blurry photographs, grainy
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videos and stories about things
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that go bump in the night at
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3:00 in the morning in your tent
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do not constitute evidence in
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science.
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>> NARRATOR: But proponents of
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Bigfoot argue that the evidence
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goes much further than blurry
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photographs and campfire
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stories.
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>> BARTHOLOMEW: This phenomena
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has a lot of tantalizing clues
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and evidence that would lead you
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to believe that it's a physical
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phenomena.
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We not only have eyewitness
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sightings but we also have
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physical things like footprints.
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We have hair samples that have
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been collected and haven't been
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classified.
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>> GARY: All right, I'm gonna
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set a shot.
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Let me know how you make out.
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>> NARRATOR: In recent years,
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Bigfoot hunters have been
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encouraged by new evidence and,
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using newly available GPS and
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night vision technology, they
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have stepped-up their search for
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the creature also known as
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Sasquatch.
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But is the animal they're
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looking for simply rare and
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reclusive?
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U.S. government does not want
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them to find?
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>> NARRATOR: Upstate New York.
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November 3, 2012.
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In a remote location deep in the
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forests of the 6.1 million-acre
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Adirondack State Park, a team of
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six hunters prepares for the
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night's expedition.
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Their prey:
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the legendary creature many
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believe is the most elusive
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animal in America: Bigfoot.
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Led by investigator Steve Kulls,
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their mission is to gather
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evidence to prove that Bigfoot
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really exists.
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>> GARY: From the other previous
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missions that we've done, um,
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this seems to be the area
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that-- of most activity.
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All right, so we have a clear
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shot?
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All right, golden.
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Lock it down right there.
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Thank you.
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>> NARRATOR: The researchers
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quickly set up a sophisticated
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network of recording devices in
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an area they believe is
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inhabited by the creature who
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is also known as Sasquatch.
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>> STEVE KULLS: Time is 7:25
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p.m.
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The date is November 3, 2012.
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We're on the, uh, Sasquatch
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Mission, Research Area 1, and,
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uh, we're good to go.
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>> NARRATOR: Unlike other
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Bigfoot hunters, this team
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believes the secret to catching
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the mysterious man-ape is to
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not chase it but lure it in.
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>> GARY: If we push after them,
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we're gonna scare them away.
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So if we can slowly just get
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them to come to us, then, you
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know, our work's done.
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>> KULLS: We're gonna do a DNA
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trap tonight.
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Primates have two ecstasy taste
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centers: first is salty, second
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one is sweet.
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We always like our candy, as
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primates.
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So if they eat the candy off the
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stick, the stick gets left
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behind-- we'll have a saliva
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sample on these sticks.
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So there you have the marriage
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of the technologies, DNA with
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photographic evidence, video
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evidence and audio evidence.
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>> NARRATOR: Steve Kulls and
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his crew have been conducting
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Sasquatch hunts for over five
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years, and though they've never
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captured irrefutable evidence of
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the creature, he's certain that
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they've had some close
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encounters.
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>> KULLS: Remember I was taking
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a shot and we kept hearing
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something moving and I was
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turning the camera?
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Well, the first shot you see
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the eye.
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I-It was... I think it was
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walking sideways 'cause you got
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one eye.
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>> MIKE: Yeah.
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>> KULLS: And it was back
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between a couple of trees.
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And then when I took the second
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picture, it was closer.
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So it was pretty freaky.
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>> NARRATOR: They attempt to
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bait Bigfoot into their
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"technology trap" by mimicking
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the sounds it is believed to
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make when communicating with
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others of its kind.
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>> KULLS: What we're gonna do
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now is make some noise, knock
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some trees and then wait, listen
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and see if we get anything
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walking around us, making some
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calls back, some tree knocks
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back, whatever.
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(knocking)
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That's a good idea.
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(indistinct chatter)
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We got 'em out there.
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As long as they're out there,
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they've got a chance at filming
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it.
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(distant tree knock)
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(distant tree knock)
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>> KULLS: Go.
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>> GARY (over walkie): We have
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something that's... it's-it's
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almost right in front of us.
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We can... It's going back and
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forth here.
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(distant tree knock)
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>> KULLS: That's what they do.
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(whoop, distant tree knock)
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>> KULLS: Gary, did you just
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make a tree knock?
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>> GARY: No, I heard that.
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Right before I just made a
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whoop, there was another knock.
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>> STACY (over walkie): We got
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it on the parabolic.
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>> KULLS: Are we recording
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the parabolic?
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>> STACY: Yep, yep.
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>> KULLS: Yeah.
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>> NARRATOR: Although the U.S.
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government does not officially
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acknowledge the existence of
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Bigfoot, new laws regarding its
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safety and survival have
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appeared on both the state and
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county level.
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For example, while it is legal
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to shoot a Bigfoot in Texas,
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it's not allowed in Skamania
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County, Washington, or
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Whitehall, New York.
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A curious contradiction?
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Or are these laws evidence of a
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more secret agenda?
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>> KULLS: There's a lot of talk
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about people shooting a
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Sasquatch-- is it legal?
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Is it illegal?
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As an investigator who's had to
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work with laws before, I would
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vent it as kind of a gray area.
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It depends a lot on states.
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It's not necessarily a federal
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law, 'cause in some cases a
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state law could supersede a
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federal law.
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So it's really hard to say what
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would be legal and what wouldn't
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be.
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There's been statements by the
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government in New York recently
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that said that Sasquatch would
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be protected.
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>> NEKARIS: If anyone did prove
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their existence, they would fall
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under the normal laws regulating
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protected species.
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They probably are extremely
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rare, and therefore even more so
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these laws should be instigated
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if one or more species of these
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cryptic hominoids were found.
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>> NARRATOR: On June 10, 1982,
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Paul Freeman, a U.S. Forestry
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Service employee, did what no
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other government employee has
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ever done: he went public with
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his sighting of a Sasquatch.
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(brush crunching)
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>> MELDRUM: Because his
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encounter occurred while on
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official business for the
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National Forest Service, they
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had to address the issue.
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On the one hand, they
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acknowledged that there had been
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other reports of such sightings,
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such encounters in that region
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and footprints found.
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They'd, however, brought a
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Border Patrol tracker in to
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evaluate the evidence, and he
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was very critical of the
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footprint evidence and
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essentially dismissed it as
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being a hoax.
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>> NARRATOR: Dr. Jeff Meldrum is
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a professor of anthropology at
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Idaho State University and is a
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leading expert on foot
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locomotion in apes and hominids.
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>> MELDRUM: Now, I've
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familiarized myself with his
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report, and on every point that
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he took exception, it was some
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point of deviation from the
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expected morphology of a human
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trackway, and deviating in
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exactly the way I would predict,
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given the distinctions of the
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Sasquatch foot.
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I don't doubt Mr. Hardin's skill
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as a man-tracker, but when it
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came to evaluating Sasquatch
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tracks, he did not have the
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wherewithal to evaluate them
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accurately.
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>> NARRATOR: When Dr. Meldrum
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visited the site, he was
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stunned by what he discovered in
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the strange 15-inch footprints.
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>> MELDRUM: It really literally
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set me back on my heels.
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As I knelt down and I could see
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the remarkable detail-- even the
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ridge pattern on the sole of the
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foot preserved in some places--
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I could see the-the slippage
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and-and gripping of the toes.
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Very obvious toe animation.
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These were things that-- given
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my background, my specialized
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training in the evolution of
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human bipedalism-- literally
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jumped out.
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And as the realization set in,
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the hair literally stood up on
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the back of my neck.
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My gosh, this creature walked by
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here.
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>> NARRATOR: Dr. Meldrum
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determined that the tracks had
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not only been made by a living
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creature but that they appeared
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to be those of an enormous
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bipedal ape.
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>> MELDRUM: We quickly made some
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casts showing the interaction of
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the foot with the soil, showing
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very dramatic evidence of a
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mid-tarsal break or a mid-foot
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flexibility, which proved to be
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so significant in inferring a
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model of the distinctions of the
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anatomy of the Sasquatch foot.
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So it was a very impressive
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first exposure, and we were able
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to glean a lot of information
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from this extraordinary
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footprint find.
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>> NARRATOR: Could these strange
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footprints be the strongest
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evidence yet that Bigfoot really
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exists?
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>> NEKARIS: There's even a
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science now that you can name a
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species from its prints.
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There are plenty of fakes out
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there, but there are some that
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do seem to be real.
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And the ones that are real are
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very impressive.
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>> NARRATOR: Studying the foot
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structure further, Dr. Meldrum
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theorizes that without a
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mid-tarsal break, the creature
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would walk with a gliding
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motion, similar to that
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reported by eyewitnesses.
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>> MAN: I see this very tall,
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dark-haired creature swiftly,
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quickly walking from one tree to
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the next tree...
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>> MELDRUM: One of the things
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that many eyewitnesses note when
583
00:20:09,342 --> 00:20:11,642
viewing a Sasquatch walking is
584
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the remarkable smoothness of
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their gait.
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They lack that characteristic
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00:20:16,883 --> 00:20:18,853
bobbing of the head that is the
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00:20:18,851 --> 00:20:21,521
result of us literally vaulting
589
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over a relatively stiff extended
590
00:20:23,656 --> 00:20:25,756
leg.
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>> STORCH: It was a very fluid
592
00:20:27,460 --> 00:20:30,000
motion of the muscles.
593
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It was poetry in motion.
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>> BARNES: Fluid.
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I mean, when it walked up the
596
00:20:35,768 --> 00:20:36,868
side of the hill, I mean, it was
597
00:20:36,903 --> 00:20:38,913
just graceful.
598
00:20:38,905 --> 00:20:40,665
It was like nobody could do what
599
00:20:40,673 --> 00:20:42,683
it could do when it walked.
600
00:20:42,675 --> 00:20:43,875
And it didn't walk like an ape
601
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and it didn't walk like a man.
602
00:20:45,545 --> 00:20:47,405
It was like more of...
603
00:20:47,414 --> 00:20:49,554
in-between, I guess you could
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say.
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>> NARRATOR: Are the numerous
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eyewitness accounts of Bigfoot
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further evidence that the
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00:20:57,557 --> 00:20:58,957
legendary beast really does
609
00:20:58,958 --> 00:21:01,488
exist?
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Or could the government be
611
00:21:03,696 --> 00:21:06,826
secretly covering up physical
612
00:21:06,833 --> 00:21:09,303
evidence left behind?
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>> NARRATOR: Steve Kulls, a.k.a.
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00:21:21,848 --> 00:21:23,718
the Squatch Detective,
615
00:21:23,716 --> 00:21:25,516
and his team of investigators
616
00:21:25,518 --> 00:21:27,718
are several hours into their
617
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,090
hunt for Bigfoot in upstate New
618
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York.
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They've heard some tree
620
00:21:33,393 --> 00:21:36,003
knocks and mysterious footsteps,
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00:21:35,995 --> 00:21:38,595
and now believe Bigfoot may be
622
00:21:38,598 --> 00:21:40,728
circling their camp.
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>> KULLS: So they're moving
624
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around us.
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They're walking around.
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So the whole idea is to keep
627
00:21:46,739 --> 00:21:47,739
getting 'em closer and keep
628
00:21:47,740 --> 00:21:48,740
getting 'em to go to the
629
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technology.
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00:21:49,742 --> 00:21:51,482
(walkie beeps)
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Go.
632
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Roger that.
633
00:22:04,757 --> 00:22:07,727
Start making a turn in.
634
00:22:12,632 --> 00:22:15,542
(vehicle passing)
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>> GARY: The car went down the
636
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road.
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>> KULLS: Roger that.
638
00:22:21,441 --> 00:22:24,041
They're spooked.
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>> MIKE: They can't see it.
640
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I don't know where it is.
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>> NARRATOR: Sensing the
642
00:22:32,385 --> 00:22:33,585
mysterious creature in their
643
00:22:33,586 --> 00:22:35,516
midst has been frightened off,
644
00:22:35,522 --> 00:22:37,392
the team gathers to analyze what
645
00:22:37,390 --> 00:22:39,460
they've observed.
646
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>> GARY: We basically had some
647
00:22:40,793 --> 00:22:42,133
activity in front of us.
648
00:22:42,128 --> 00:22:43,798
We had a, uh... a tree knock
649
00:22:43,796 --> 00:22:44,896
while you guys were over there.
650
00:22:44,897 --> 00:22:46,627
We saw what looked like to be
651
00:22:46,633 --> 00:22:47,933
some eye shine, but it was
652
00:22:47,934 --> 00:22:49,144
pretty far off.
653
00:22:49,135 --> 00:22:50,795
With his I.R. in his camera, we
654
00:22:50,803 --> 00:22:51,803
couldn't see that far.
655
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>> MIKE: Which is right outside
656
00:22:52,805 --> 00:22:54,805
of the capability of my light.
657
00:22:54,807 --> 00:22:55,807
>> KULLS: It'd be something to
658
00:22:55,808 --> 00:22:57,038
see a shadow or some eye shine
659
00:22:57,043 --> 00:22:58,413
off the I.R. moving around in
660
00:22:58,411 --> 00:22:59,411
there.
661
00:22:59,412 --> 00:23:00,412
Combine that with the pictures.
662
00:23:00,413 --> 00:23:01,413
>> MIKE: We saw something out
663
00:23:01,414 --> 00:23:02,424
there, yeah.
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>> GARY: Yeah, we don't know
665
00:23:03,416 --> 00:23:04,476
what it was.
666
00:23:04,484 --> 00:23:05,524
When the car started coming down
667
00:23:05,518 --> 00:23:06,818
the road, it seemed like it
668
00:23:06,819 --> 00:23:07,819
pushed it back toward us a
669
00:23:07,820 --> 00:23:09,490
little bit, but then...
670
00:23:09,489 --> 00:23:10,489
>> MIKE: It seemed to have moved
671
00:23:10,490 --> 00:23:11,620
all around us and then it was
672
00:23:11,624 --> 00:23:14,564
shh and then it just got quiet.
673
00:23:14,561 --> 00:23:16,031
>> KULLS: Well, tonight we
674
00:23:16,028 --> 00:23:17,658
started some tree knocking, did
675
00:23:17,664 --> 00:23:18,834
some vocalizations, and we'd
676
00:23:18,831 --> 00:23:20,831
gotten a few knocks in return.
677
00:23:20,833 --> 00:23:22,843
Now, whether it was a deer, we
678
00:23:22,835 --> 00:23:24,495
can't rule out.
679
00:23:24,504 --> 00:23:25,914
Maybe even a bear.
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00:23:25,905 --> 00:23:27,505
We'll go through the audio.
681
00:23:27,507 --> 00:23:29,037
We'll go through the video.
682
00:23:29,041 --> 00:23:30,841
Other than that, that's what we
683
00:23:30,843 --> 00:23:33,983
got.
684
00:23:33,980 --> 00:23:35,450
>> NARRATOR: Reports and home
685
00:23:35,448 --> 00:23:37,578
videos of Sasquatch sightings
686
00:23:37,584 --> 00:23:40,124
come from all over America.
687
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,519
And although these reports go
688
00:23:42,522 --> 00:23:44,122
back hundreds of years, the
689
00:23:44,123 --> 00:23:46,133
public didn't pay much attention
690
00:23:46,125 --> 00:23:48,555
to them until a series of events
691
00:23:48,561 --> 00:23:51,831
occurred in 1958 in Bluff Creek,
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00:23:51,864 --> 00:23:54,204
California.
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00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,870
>> JEVNING: That area was
694
00:23:56,869 --> 00:23:58,869
opened up to logging for the
695
00:23:58,871 --> 00:23:59,971
first time.
696
00:23:59,972 --> 00:24:01,472
A bulldozer operator by the
697
00:24:01,474 --> 00:24:02,544
name of Jerry Crew cast some
698
00:24:02,542 --> 00:24:05,142
16-inch footprints that he found
699
00:24:05,144 --> 00:24:07,554
along his equipment one day, and
700
00:24:07,547 --> 00:24:09,717
this got into the Eureka,
701
00:24:09,716 --> 00:24:11,546
California, newspaper.
702
00:24:11,551 --> 00:24:14,751
>> NARRATOR: Bluff Creek locals
703
00:24:14,754 --> 00:24:16,164
had been calling the creatures
704
00:24:16,155 --> 00:24:19,025
"Big Apes" ever since the 1920s,
705
00:24:19,025 --> 00:24:20,885
but when Jerry Crew told The
706
00:24:20,893 --> 00:24:22,733
Humboldt Times that the
707
00:24:22,729 --> 00:24:24,959
footprints he found must have
708
00:24:24,964 --> 00:24:26,704
been made by an animal with a
709
00:24:26,699 --> 00:24:29,999
really "big foot," the term
710
00:24:30,002 --> 00:24:33,012
"Bigfoot" was coined.
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00:24:33,005 --> 00:24:34,505
>> BARTHOLOMEW: The Bigfoot
712
00:24:34,507 --> 00:24:36,037
phenomena can be tracked back to
713
00:24:36,042 --> 00:24:37,912
ancient times from the Algonquin
714
00:24:37,910 --> 00:24:40,010
and the Iroquois legends of the
715
00:24:40,012 --> 00:24:42,252
giant men of the mountains.
716
00:24:42,248 --> 00:24:44,178
And these sightings go right on
717
00:24:44,183 --> 00:24:45,793
through into the 1800s, in which
718
00:24:45,785 --> 00:24:47,515
these creatures were called
719
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,920
"Wild Men" or "Strange Bears."
720
00:24:49,922 --> 00:24:51,722
So we have a very rich history
721
00:24:51,724 --> 00:24:53,634
of the Bigfoot phenomena in the
722
00:24:53,626 --> 00:24:54,986
United States and throughout the
723
00:24:54,994 --> 00:24:56,634
world.
724
00:24:56,629 --> 00:24:58,059
>> NEKARIS: You even see
725
00:24:58,064 --> 00:25:00,134
paintings in Native American
726
00:25:00,132 --> 00:25:02,942
cave art of creatures that look
727
00:25:02,935 --> 00:25:04,065
like a Sasquatch.
728
00:25:04,070 --> 00:25:06,010
There are very nice recordings
729
00:25:06,005 --> 00:25:09,035
of these creatures in settlers'
730
00:25:09,041 --> 00:25:11,141
diaries moving out to the
731
00:25:11,177 --> 00:25:13,177
western United States.
732
00:25:13,179 --> 00:25:14,949
For me, they're so believable
733
00:25:14,947 --> 00:25:16,677
because those people hadn't seen
734
00:25:16,683 --> 00:25:17,683
television.
735
00:25:17,684 --> 00:25:19,054
They didn't have any conception
736
00:25:19,051 --> 00:25:20,221
of what this thing was, and they
737
00:25:20,219 --> 00:25:22,319
all are described in the same
738
00:25:22,321 --> 00:25:24,961
way.
739
00:25:24,957 --> 00:25:26,757
>> NARRATOR: The search for
740
00:25:26,759 --> 00:25:28,189
Sasquatch in America is
741
00:25:28,194 --> 00:25:30,964
primarily a private enterprise.
742
00:25:30,963 --> 00:25:33,703
No U.S. government agency has
743
00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:35,230
ever acknowledged looking for
744
00:25:35,234 --> 00:25:37,674
the mysterious hominid, but
745
00:25:37,670 --> 00:25:39,170
could there be agents inside the
746
00:25:39,171 --> 00:25:42,041
government hiding evidence of
747
00:25:42,041 --> 00:25:43,981
its existence?
748
00:25:43,976 --> 00:25:45,976
The former President of the
749
00:25:45,978 --> 00:25:47,678
Pacific Coast
750
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,720
Investigation Team and the
751
00:25:49,716 --> 00:25:51,646
author of three books on
752
00:25:51,651 --> 00:25:54,121
Bigfoot believes the answer is
753
00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:55,990
yes.
754
00:25:55,988 --> 00:25:56,988
>> JEVNING: There's quite a
755
00:25:56,989 --> 00:25:58,089
range of stories, and-and it
756
00:25:58,090 --> 00:25:59,330
does appear that there's some,
757
00:25:59,325 --> 00:26:01,255
uh, some serious things going
758
00:26:01,260 --> 00:26:03,000
on at high levels.
759
00:26:02,995 --> 00:26:04,725
>> NARRATOR: According to
760
00:26:04,731 --> 00:26:06,201
Jevning, one of the most
761
00:26:06,198 --> 00:26:07,998
suspicious incidents occurred in
762
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,740
1995, when two of Jevning's
763
00:26:10,737 --> 00:26:13,737
fellow investigators came across
764
00:26:13,740 --> 00:26:15,880
some tracks on an access road
765
00:26:15,875 --> 00:26:18,275
near Mount St. Helens in
766
00:26:18,277 --> 00:26:20,607
Washington state.
767
00:26:20,613 --> 00:26:21,713
>> JEVNING: They knew instantly
768
00:26:21,714 --> 00:26:22,884
they weren't bear tracks.
769
00:26:22,882 --> 00:26:24,082
The size obviously was a
770
00:26:24,083 --> 00:26:25,693
giveaway.
771
00:26:25,685 --> 00:26:27,615
On the way out, they encountered
772
00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:29,360
a Forest Service supervisor, and
773
00:26:29,355 --> 00:26:31,215
they told him where to find the
774
00:26:31,223 --> 00:26:33,033
tracks.
775
00:26:33,025 --> 00:26:34,385
Then they went to pick me up.
776
00:26:34,393 --> 00:26:36,133
So from the time they found the
777
00:26:36,128 --> 00:26:37,358
tracks to the time I arrived on
778
00:26:37,363 --> 00:26:39,033
the scene with them spanned
779
00:26:39,031 --> 00:26:40,371
about four hours.
780
00:26:40,366 --> 00:26:43,036
We went into the location,
781
00:26:43,035 --> 00:26:45,635
tracks were gone.
782
00:26:45,638 --> 00:26:47,238
And I could tell the road had
783
00:26:47,239 --> 00:26:49,779
been misted.
784
00:26:49,776 --> 00:26:51,306
In other words, they wiped the
785
00:26:51,310 --> 00:26:52,780
tracks out without making it
786
00:26:52,779 --> 00:26:54,109
look like they'd been done, and
787
00:26:54,113 --> 00:26:56,123
I couldn't figure out why in the
788
00:26:56,115 --> 00:26:57,175
world they would want to destroy
789
00:26:57,183 --> 00:26:59,793
the tracks.
790
00:27:02,188 --> 00:27:03,258
>> NARRATOR: But if the
791
00:27:03,255 --> 00:27:04,415
existence of Bigfoot is being
792
00:27:04,423 --> 00:27:05,763
covered up by government
793
00:27:05,758 --> 00:27:08,188
officials, who would be doing
794
00:27:08,194 --> 00:27:10,734
it?
795
00:27:10,730 --> 00:27:12,200
>> JEVNING: In these incidents
796
00:27:12,198 --> 00:27:13,198
with the cover-ups, it was
797
00:27:13,199 --> 00:27:14,799
Forest Service personnel.
798
00:27:14,801 --> 00:27:15,801
At least they were wearing
799
00:27:15,802 --> 00:27:16,872
Forest Service uniforms.
800
00:27:16,869 --> 00:27:18,069
If there's any sort of a
801
00:27:18,070 --> 00:27:19,140
concerted cover-up at higher
802
00:27:19,138 --> 00:27:20,168
levels, we simply don't know at
803
00:27:20,206 --> 00:27:22,206
this point.
804
00:27:22,208 --> 00:27:24,208
>> MELDRUM: One of my closest
805
00:27:24,210 --> 00:27:26,110
colleagues, John Mionczynski, is
806
00:27:26,145 --> 00:27:28,875
a wildlife consultant.
807
00:27:28,881 --> 00:27:30,451
He was working for the Fish &
808
00:27:30,449 --> 00:27:32,889
Game in the state of Wyoming,
809
00:27:32,885 --> 00:27:34,415
and his job was threatened
810
00:27:34,420 --> 00:27:37,760
because of his involvement in an
811
00:27:37,757 --> 00:27:40,287
investigation of footprints
812
00:27:40,292 --> 00:27:43,102
and-and an encounter.
813
00:27:43,095 --> 00:27:45,425
And so for 28 years, he was
814
00:27:45,431 --> 00:27:47,771
silent on the subject.
815
00:27:47,767 --> 00:27:50,767
>> NARRATOR: Are there really
816
00:27:50,770 --> 00:27:53,110
forces within the U.S.
817
00:27:53,105 --> 00:27:54,465
government that are trying to
818
00:27:54,473 --> 00:27:55,983
keep the existence of Bigfoot a
819
00:27:55,975 --> 00:27:59,105
secret?
820
00:27:59,111 --> 00:28:01,711
If so, why?
821
00:28:01,714 --> 00:28:03,124
>> KULLS: I can understand why
822
00:28:03,115 --> 00:28:04,375
the government may not want
823
00:28:04,383 --> 00:28:05,953
these things to come forward
824
00:28:05,952 --> 00:28:07,722
as-as a legitimate, bona fide
825
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,190
creature.
826
00:28:09,188 --> 00:28:11,318
And that's because the
827
00:28:11,323 --> 00:28:13,733
government wants to protect our
828
00:28:13,726 --> 00:28:15,856
logging industry, which-- if
829
00:28:15,862 --> 00:28:17,232
this creature is proven to
830
00:28:17,229 --> 00:28:19,799
exist-- definitely will have an
831
00:28:19,799 --> 00:28:21,399
environmental impact on the
832
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,140
logging industry.
833
00:28:23,135 --> 00:28:24,935
>> JEVNING: You hear it often
834
00:28:24,937 --> 00:28:26,207
said "follow the money."
835
00:28:26,205 --> 00:28:29,135
>> NARRATOR: Could this really
836
00:28:29,141 --> 00:28:30,881
be the answer?
837
00:28:30,877 --> 00:28:32,747
That if Bigfoot was proven to
838
00:28:32,745 --> 00:28:35,405
exist, its classification as an
839
00:28:35,414 --> 00:28:37,884
endangered species would have
840
00:28:37,884 --> 00:28:40,354
devastating consequences for the
841
00:28:40,352 --> 00:28:42,962
American economy?
842
00:28:42,955 --> 00:28:46,425
Consider this: in 1990, when
843
00:28:46,425 --> 00:28:48,355
the spotted owl was put under
844
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,230
the protection of the Endangered
845
00:28:50,229 --> 00:28:52,529
Species Act, the Pacific
846
00:28:52,531 --> 00:28:54,901
Northwest timber industry nearly
847
00:28:54,901 --> 00:28:57,971
went bankrupt overnight.
848
00:28:57,970 --> 00:28:59,240
>> JEVNING: It essentially
849
00:28:59,238 --> 00:29:00,768
killed that industry.
850
00:29:00,773 --> 00:29:02,513
Those communities up and down
851
00:29:02,508 --> 00:29:03,978
the coast have never been the
852
00:29:03,976 --> 00:29:05,276
same since then.
853
00:29:05,277 --> 00:29:06,377
They never recovered from that
854
00:29:06,378 --> 00:29:09,778
financial loss.
855
00:29:09,782 --> 00:29:11,322
>> NARRATOR: But if the
856
00:29:11,317 --> 00:29:12,787
existence of Bigfoot is being
857
00:29:12,785 --> 00:29:14,985
covered up by the government,
858
00:29:14,987 --> 00:29:16,887
could there be an even more
859
00:29:16,889 --> 00:29:19,059
secret motivation?
860
00:29:19,058 --> 00:29:20,928
And what kind of creature might
861
00:29:20,927 --> 00:29:22,857
it actually be?
862
00:29:22,862 --> 00:29:24,302
A missing link?
863
00:29:24,296 --> 00:29:26,266
A hybrid human?
864
00:29:26,265 --> 00:29:29,465
Or could Bigfoot be from a
865
00:29:29,468 --> 00:29:32,268
different world altogether?
866
00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:41,951
Coming up...
867
00:29:41,948 --> 00:29:43,118
>> NARRATOR: Edinburgh,
868
00:29:43,115 --> 00:29:44,175
Scotland.
869
00:29:44,183 --> 00:29:47,853
July 13, 2011.
870
00:29:47,854 --> 00:29:49,824
At the annual TEDGlobal
871
00:29:49,822 --> 00:29:51,822
conference, hundreds of
872
00:29:51,824 --> 00:29:54,134
attendees from over 30 countries
873
00:29:54,126 --> 00:29:56,126
gather to hear evolutionary
874
00:29:56,128 --> 00:29:58,398
geneticist Svante Paabo expand
875
00:29:58,397 --> 00:30:00,527
on his theory that modern man
876
00:30:00,532 --> 00:30:03,142
and Neanderthal interbred
877
00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:05,495
somewhere in the Middle East
878
00:30:05,504 --> 00:30:08,344
between 37,000 and 86,000 years
879
00:30:08,340 --> 00:30:10,340
ago.
880
00:30:10,342 --> 00:30:12,512
His findings indicate that all
881
00:30:12,511 --> 00:30:14,611
non-African humans have about
882
00:30:14,613 --> 00:30:17,023
2.5% of Neanderthal DNA and
883
00:30:17,016 --> 00:30:20,416
concluded that there may be
884
00:30:20,419 --> 00:30:22,349
future discoveries of DNA from
885
00:30:22,354 --> 00:30:25,124
other hominids.
886
00:30:35,902 --> 00:30:37,442
Could one of these so-called
887
00:30:37,436 --> 00:30:39,266
"other hominids" be the creature
888
00:30:39,305 --> 00:30:42,365
we call Bigfoot?
889
00:30:42,374 --> 00:30:43,884
>> NEKARIS: Maybe modern humans
890
00:30:43,876 --> 00:30:45,976
are fascinated with Bigfoot
891
00:30:45,978 --> 00:30:47,648
because deep within our
892
00:30:47,646 --> 00:30:49,046
evolutionary lineage we always
893
00:30:49,048 --> 00:30:50,548
lived side by side with other
894
00:30:50,549 --> 00:30:52,549
primates and we're just missing
895
00:30:52,551 --> 00:30:54,321
something within our
896
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,190
evolutionary roots and we want
897
00:30:56,188 --> 00:30:57,918
to-to see these creatures
898
00:30:57,924 --> 00:31:00,064
living side by side with us.
899
00:31:00,059 --> 00:31:01,459
I'm not really sure, but it
900
00:31:01,460 --> 00:31:03,060
really touches something deep
901
00:31:03,062 --> 00:31:04,202
within people, and it's hard to
902
00:31:04,196 --> 00:31:05,326
explain why it should be so
903
00:31:05,331 --> 00:31:06,931
deep.
904
00:31:06,933 --> 00:31:07,933
>> BARTHOLOMEW: Even if the
905
00:31:07,934 --> 00:31:08,944
footprint evidence, the hair
906
00:31:08,935 --> 00:31:10,295
samples, the credible
907
00:31:10,302 --> 00:31:11,572
eyewitness-- even if you got rid
908
00:31:11,570 --> 00:31:13,010
of all that, there's still an
909
00:31:13,005 --> 00:31:14,665
interest in why do we see
910
00:31:14,673 --> 00:31:17,043
monsters.
911
00:31:17,043 --> 00:31:18,953
This is a global phenomena.
912
00:31:18,945 --> 00:31:20,005
It seems to be part of our
913
00:31:20,012 --> 00:31:21,012
psyche.
914
00:31:21,013 --> 00:31:22,213
There is sort of an intoxication
915
00:31:22,214 --> 00:31:23,624
with this phenomena and the-the
916
00:31:23,615 --> 00:31:25,345
monster reports.
917
00:31:25,351 --> 00:31:28,091
>> NARRATOR: For others like
918
00:31:28,087 --> 00:31:30,017
Steve Kulls, the search for
919
00:31:30,022 --> 00:31:31,562
Bigfoot is a quest for the
920
00:31:31,557 --> 00:31:33,227
truth.
921
00:31:33,225 --> 00:31:35,485
Kulls used to be a skeptic but
922
00:31:35,494 --> 00:31:37,564
now dedicates his skill as a
923
00:31:37,563 --> 00:31:39,333
private investigator to try and
924
00:31:39,331 --> 00:31:41,501
prove to the world that
925
00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:44,240
Sasquatch exists.
926
00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:46,066
>> KULLS: I really went into
927
00:31:46,072 --> 00:31:47,272
this believing that this was
928
00:31:47,306 --> 00:31:49,306
gonna be a complete flub.
929
00:31:49,308 --> 00:31:50,438
And then when I started
930
00:31:50,442 --> 00:31:51,512
interviewing the witnesses, I
931
00:31:51,510 --> 00:31:52,980
could see physical body
932
00:31:52,979 --> 00:31:54,449
reactions happening that, as a
933
00:31:54,446 --> 00:31:56,116
trained interviewer, I knew
934
00:31:56,115 --> 00:31:57,245
meant they were telling the
935
00:31:57,249 --> 00:31:58,249
truth.
936
00:31:58,250 --> 00:31:59,450
They had seen something.
937
00:31:59,451 --> 00:32:00,591
I mean, when people's jugular
938
00:32:00,586 --> 00:32:02,116
veins distend, they get goose
939
00:32:02,121 --> 00:32:03,661
bumps, they get short of breath,
940
00:32:03,655 --> 00:32:05,585
you can see they actually
941
00:32:05,591 --> 00:32:07,231
encountered something they
942
00:32:07,259 --> 00:32:09,659
believe is real.
943
00:32:09,661 --> 00:32:11,601
>> NARRATOR: In 2012, a
944
00:32:11,597 --> 00:32:13,267
consortium of Bigfoot
945
00:32:13,265 --> 00:32:15,325
researchers, engineers and
946
00:32:15,334 --> 00:32:17,404
scientists announced the Falcon
947
00:32:17,403 --> 00:32:20,373
Project, a revolutionary new
948
00:32:20,372 --> 00:32:24,012
approach to finding Bigfoot.
949
00:32:24,010 --> 00:32:25,540
The Falcon Project is a
950
00:32:25,544 --> 00:32:27,354
high-tech aerial reconnaissance
951
00:32:27,346 --> 00:32:29,476
balloon that will take the
952
00:32:29,481 --> 00:32:32,621
search for Sasquatch 8,000 feet
953
00:32:32,618 --> 00:32:35,088
up into the sky.
954
00:32:35,087 --> 00:32:36,757
>> BARNES: The higher we're
955
00:32:36,755 --> 00:32:38,085
up, the better we can see
956
00:32:38,090 --> 00:32:39,060
straight down in between the
957
00:32:39,091 --> 00:32:41,091
trees.
958
00:32:41,093 --> 00:32:42,093
That's the whole purpose, is
959
00:32:42,094 --> 00:32:43,304
looking down in between the
960
00:32:43,295 --> 00:32:44,425
trees, trying to find these
961
00:32:44,430 --> 00:32:46,300
creatures in the heavy forest.
962
00:32:46,298 --> 00:32:47,698
It can hover, it can spin, it
963
00:32:47,699 --> 00:32:50,169
can do 45 miles an hour, it can
964
00:32:50,169 --> 00:32:51,669
stop on a dime.
965
00:32:51,670 --> 00:32:53,040
We don't even know how close we
966
00:32:53,039 --> 00:32:55,009
can get to these creatures.
967
00:32:57,043 --> 00:32:58,143
>> NARRATOR: The Falcon Project
968
00:32:58,144 --> 00:32:59,584
has commissioned an HD camera
969
00:32:59,578 --> 00:33:01,648
with secret night vision
970
00:33:01,647 --> 00:33:04,117
technology to capture evidence
971
00:33:04,116 --> 00:33:05,776
from afar.
972
00:33:05,784 --> 00:33:07,524
The airship will also be using
973
00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:10,389
CO2 detectors invented by the
974
00:33:10,389 --> 00:33:12,319
military to analyze the forest
975
00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:15,394
air for signs of life.
976
00:33:15,394 --> 00:33:17,434
But could the Falcon Project
977
00:33:17,429 --> 00:33:19,329
finally discover the truth about
978
00:33:19,331 --> 00:33:21,201
Bigfoot?
979
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,600
>> MELDRUM: The Falcon Project
980
00:33:22,601 --> 00:33:24,571
really poses a real prospect at
981
00:33:24,603 --> 00:33:26,613
success.
982
00:33:26,605 --> 00:33:28,205
I mean, we've investigated so
983
00:33:28,207 --> 00:33:29,437
many other different ways of
984
00:33:29,441 --> 00:33:30,581
trying to get after this
985
00:33:30,576 --> 00:33:33,046
question, this challenge, and it
986
00:33:33,045 --> 00:33:35,345
literally is like searching for
987
00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:37,417
the proverbial moving needle in
988
00:33:37,416 --> 00:33:39,586
a haystack.
989
00:33:39,585 --> 00:33:41,145
>> BARNES: Today's technology is
990
00:33:41,153 --> 00:33:42,423
capable of doing this.
991
00:33:42,421 --> 00:33:43,821
We'll keep going, and we won't
992
00:33:43,822 --> 00:33:46,162
stop.
993
00:33:46,158 --> 00:33:47,688
>> NARRATOR: While some continue
994
00:33:47,693 --> 00:33:50,363
to scour the Earth for Bigfoot,
995
00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:51,762
others wonder if we should be
996
00:33:51,763 --> 00:33:54,503
looking for it not in the
997
00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:56,440
forests but in an altogether
998
00:33:56,435 --> 00:33:59,165
different place.
999
00:33:59,171 --> 00:34:00,841
>> LINDA MOULTON HOWE: In the,
1000
00:34:00,839 --> 00:34:02,569
uh, early 1990s, I had one solid
1001
00:34:02,574 --> 00:34:05,784
case in Snohomish, Washington,
1002
00:34:05,777 --> 00:34:08,247
where an eyewitness sees a
1003
00:34:08,247 --> 00:34:11,377
silver disc cause trees to move
1004
00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:13,693
as if there were wind on a
1005
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,219
clear, absolutely sky-blue day.
1006
00:34:17,223 --> 00:34:19,593
And a beam comes down and in the
1007
00:34:19,591 --> 00:34:23,201
beam is a huge eight-foot,
1008
00:34:23,195 --> 00:34:25,395
reddish-brown, hairy primate
1009
00:34:25,397 --> 00:34:27,397
standing in front of him.
1010
00:34:27,399 --> 00:34:28,869
And this creature disappeared in
1011
00:34:28,867 --> 00:34:30,737
a flash of light.
1012
00:34:30,736 --> 00:34:33,266
The fact that they are seen to
1013
00:34:33,272 --> 00:34:35,412
come and appear, that might
1014
00:34:35,407 --> 00:34:38,537
explain why you could have them
1015
00:34:38,544 --> 00:34:40,254
in Georgia, Michigan,
1016
00:34:40,246 --> 00:34:41,746
Pennsylvania, California, all
1017
00:34:41,747 --> 00:34:43,247
over.
1018
00:34:43,249 --> 00:34:46,419
Maybe Sasquatch is a non-human
1019
00:34:46,418 --> 00:34:48,548
genetic construct to do work on
1020
00:34:48,554 --> 00:34:50,424
this planet not comprehensible
1021
00:34:50,422 --> 00:34:53,432
to humans.
1022
00:34:53,425 --> 00:34:54,825
>> NARRATOR: While it's
1023
00:34:54,826 --> 00:34:56,556
uncertain if a living,
1024
00:34:56,562 --> 00:34:58,632
breathing Bigfoot will ever be
1025
00:34:58,630 --> 00:35:01,130
found, it is safe to say the one
1026
00:35:01,133 --> 00:35:03,573
place it really does exist is in
1027
00:35:03,569 --> 00:35:06,509
our popular culture.
1028
00:35:06,505 --> 00:35:08,165
Bigfoot is an industry
1029
00:35:08,174 --> 00:35:09,644
generating millions of dollars
1030
00:35:09,641 --> 00:35:11,641
in revenue each year.
1031
00:35:11,643 --> 00:35:13,653
And perhaps for that reason
1032
00:35:13,645 --> 00:35:16,245
alone, the search and every
1033
00:35:16,248 --> 00:35:18,278
scrap of evidence gathered must
1034
00:35:18,317 --> 00:35:21,187
be taken very seriously.
1035
00:35:21,187 --> 00:35:22,247
>> SAHEBI: This is in our own
1036
00:35:22,254 --> 00:35:23,724
backyards right here in America.
1037
00:35:23,722 --> 00:35:25,562
It's our personal boogeyman, and
1038
00:35:25,591 --> 00:35:27,661
a lot of people have seen it.
1039
00:35:27,659 --> 00:35:29,529
>> NARRATOR: Will the truth
1040
00:35:29,528 --> 00:35:32,828
about Bigfoot forever be hidden?
1041
00:35:32,831 --> 00:35:35,531
Is there too much at stake to
1042
00:35:35,534 --> 00:35:36,944
reveal it to be true?
1043
00:35:36,935 --> 00:35:38,935
Or is the secret part of an even
1044
00:35:38,937 --> 00:35:41,337
bigger conspiracy?
1045
00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:43,540
One that, if exposed, threatens
1046
00:35:43,542 --> 00:35:46,352
to challenge everything we
1047
00:35:46,345 --> 00:35:49,215
believe about mankind's origins?
1048
00:35:49,215 --> 00:35:52,845
Perhaps all will be revealed
1049
00:35:52,851 --> 00:35:56,491
not when we find Bigfoot but
1050
00:35:56,488 --> 00:35:58,888
when it finds us.
1051
00:35:58,890 --> 00:36:01,690
(roar)
1052
00:36:01,693 --> 00:36:11,573
Coming up...
1053
00:36:11,570 --> 00:36:12,900
>> NARRATOR: Montauk, Long
1054
00:36:12,904 --> 00:36:14,514
Island, New York.
1055
00:36:14,506 --> 00:36:17,236
July 12, 2008.
1056
00:36:17,243 --> 00:36:19,383
Summer beachgoers are horrified
1057
00:36:19,378 --> 00:36:21,608
to see a grotesque and
1058
00:36:21,613 --> 00:36:24,253
unrecognizable carcass that has
1059
00:36:24,250 --> 00:36:26,250
washed ashore.
1060
00:36:26,252 --> 00:36:27,852
>> RUEHL: A photograph was
1061
00:36:27,853 --> 00:36:28,853
taken.
1062
00:36:28,854 --> 00:36:30,524
Unfortunately someone grabbed
1063
00:36:30,522 --> 00:36:32,222
the carcass, and then it
1064
00:36:32,258 --> 00:36:34,258
ultimately vanished.
1065
00:36:34,260 --> 00:36:35,590
So the only evidence we have
1066
00:36:35,594 --> 00:36:37,004
of-of this creature is the
1067
00:36:36,995 --> 00:36:38,395
photo.
1068
00:36:38,397 --> 00:36:39,367
It certainly looks like it's
1069
00:36:39,398 --> 00:36:41,398
possibly a hybrid entity.
1070
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:42,930
This could be created by genetic
1071
00:36:42,934 --> 00:36:44,744
technology.
1072
00:36:44,736 --> 00:36:46,806
There's the Plum Island Animal
1073
00:36:46,805 --> 00:36:49,535
Medical Center nearby.
1074
00:36:49,541 --> 00:36:51,541
Perhaps this was an entity that
1075
00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:53,553
had been created there and then
1076
00:36:53,545 --> 00:36:55,505
escaped.
1077
00:36:57,649 --> 00:36:58,749
>> NARRATOR: The Plum Island
1078
00:36:58,750 --> 00:37:00,420
Animal Disease Center is widely
1079
00:37:00,419 --> 00:37:02,549
believed to be a place where
1080
00:37:02,554 --> 00:37:03,894
the U.S. government conducts
1081
00:37:03,889 --> 00:37:06,929
secret experiments on animals.
1082
00:37:06,925 --> 00:37:09,825
Access to the island is highly
1083
00:37:09,828 --> 00:37:11,428
restricted, and armed guards
1084
00:37:11,430 --> 00:37:13,770
monitor the facility 24 hours a
1085
00:37:13,765 --> 00:37:16,565
day.
1086
00:37:16,568 --> 00:37:18,268
But could there really be a
1087
00:37:18,270 --> 00:37:19,910
secret connection between the
1088
00:37:19,905 --> 00:37:23,305
strange creature found on the
1089
00:37:23,309 --> 00:37:26,549
beach at Montauk and Bigfoot?
1090
00:37:31,817 --> 00:37:32,977
>> RUEHL: We are now at that
1091
00:37:32,984 --> 00:37:34,694
stage where we can carry out
1092
00:37:34,686 --> 00:37:36,856
the type of genetic technology
1093
00:37:36,855 --> 00:37:38,385
that could create such a hybrid
1094
00:37:38,390 --> 00:37:39,460
entity.
1095
00:37:39,458 --> 00:37:40,988
Sponsored by private industry,
1096
00:37:40,992 --> 00:37:43,732
perhaps by government agencies
1097
00:37:43,729 --> 00:37:45,659
or the military.
1098
00:37:45,664 --> 00:37:47,074
They can have both a positive
1099
00:37:47,065 --> 00:37:48,725
and negative result.
1100
00:37:48,734 --> 00:37:50,604
They could result in finding
1101
00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:52,942
ways to make humans healthier.
1102
00:37:52,938 --> 00:37:54,868
On the other hand, they might be
1103
00:37:54,873 --> 00:37:57,343
designed to create an entity--
1104
00:37:57,343 --> 00:38:00,413
part human, part wolf-- that
1105
00:38:00,412 --> 00:38:02,082
would be a super soldier.
1106
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,080
(roar)
1107
00:38:04,082 --> 00:38:05,882
It's reported that Joseph Stalin
1108
00:38:05,884 --> 00:38:08,624
authorized experimentation to
1109
00:38:08,620 --> 00:38:10,590
create a hybrid human-ape.
1110
00:38:12,991 --> 00:38:14,431
>> NARRATOR: Could Bigfoot
1111
00:38:14,426 --> 00:38:15,986
actually be an animal that was
1112
00:38:15,994 --> 00:38:19,834
created in a government lab?
1113
00:38:19,831 --> 00:38:22,371
Or is it something even more
1114
00:38:22,368 --> 00:38:25,368
mysterious: a strange, still
1115
00:38:25,371 --> 00:38:27,671
unproven creature known as a
1116
00:38:27,706 --> 00:38:30,436
cryptid?
1117
00:38:30,442 --> 00:38:32,882
>> NEKARIS: A cryptid species
1118
00:38:32,878 --> 00:38:34,478
is defined as something that's
1119
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,650
very well-known in local
1120
00:38:36,648 --> 00:38:38,778
beliefs, something where people
1121
00:38:38,784 --> 00:38:40,994
can describe the-the locomotion,
1122
00:38:40,986 --> 00:38:42,716
the movement patterns, how the
1123
00:38:42,721 --> 00:38:44,661
animal looks, but it just may
1124
00:38:44,656 --> 00:38:46,986
not be seen or it may not be
1125
00:38:46,992 --> 00:38:49,062
captured on film.
1126
00:38:49,060 --> 00:38:51,660
>> KULLS: There has been so many
1127
00:38:51,663 --> 00:38:54,503
animals and creatures that were
1128
00:38:54,500 --> 00:38:57,540
just rumored to exist.
1129
00:38:57,536 --> 00:39:00,136
The giant octopus, the giant
1130
00:39:00,138 --> 00:39:02,908
squid, the panda, the gorilla--
1131
00:39:02,908 --> 00:39:05,478
all these creatures existed as
1132
00:39:05,477 --> 00:39:07,377
cryptids and eventually science
1133
00:39:07,379 --> 00:39:09,079
would find them.
1134
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,920
>> NARRATOR: Could Bigfoot be
1135
00:39:11,917 --> 00:39:13,687
America's biggest and most
1136
00:39:13,685 --> 00:39:16,415
secretive cryptid?
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>> JEVNING: If there was an
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America's Book of Secrets
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regarding Bigfoot, it would say
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monsters are real and they
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inhabit our forests.
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>> NARRATOR: But if Bigfoot is
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proven to be real, what kind of
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creature is it?
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An animal?
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Or perhaps a human ancestor?
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>> MELDRUM: There are actually
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quite a number of
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interpretations of what Bigfoot
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may actually be.
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Personally, from my perspective
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as a physical anthropologist, I
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perceive this as an undiscovered
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species of-of very large ape,
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possibly a prehuman ancestor.
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>> NEKARIS: People really are
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trying to work out what it is.
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They think either it's a large
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ape, or they think it's some
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sort of a human creature.
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Sometimes people believe it's a
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primate mated with a human, so a
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hybrid between primates and
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humans.
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(roar)
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>> NARRATOR: Denisova, Siberia,
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2010.
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Researchers unearth a finger
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bone from deep inside a cave.
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The DNA is analyzed and
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discovered to be a female from a
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member of the human evolutionary
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family previously unknown to
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modern man.
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They name the new primate Homo
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denisova and estimate that it
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roamed the Earth during the
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Stone Age, some 20,000 years
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ago.
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>> NEKARIS: This was really
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revolutionary because it told us
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that we can have populations of
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humans occurring in the same
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area but that were different
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species.
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And so just from a finger bone,
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we can see that Neanderthals
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and another species were living
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side by side with modern humans.
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>> MELDRUM: What was also very
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fascinating is that the only
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other associated skeletal
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element was a-a molar tooth,
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which in its dimensions was
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considerably larger than any
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modern human or even Neanderthal
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tooth, which is exactly what we
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have proposed for the Sasquatch,
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based on eyewitness descriptions
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of the facial proportions.
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The discovery of denisova also
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was startling because it was so
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unexpected, and it came
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literally out of the blue.
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>> NEKARIS: Finding the
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Denisovan woman just shows us
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that just a tiny bone can yield
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a whole new species.
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And so it does give some
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optimism to finding Bigfoot,
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because all it might take is one
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tiny specimen and that can yield
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a whole new species.
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>> MELDRUM: I get a sense that
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the scientific community is
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somewhat warming up to the very
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real possibility that there are
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relic hominoids about.
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Homo floresiensis-- or "the
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Hobbit"-- from Indonesia, when
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that was discovered, it was
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quite interesting that the
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discoverers acknowledged that
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there were native traditions of
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such small, hairy people living
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up in the forest and that in
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fact some European colonists had
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even reported encounters in
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recorded history.
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>> NEKARIS: Unlike Bigfoot being
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very big, the Homo floresiensis
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is very small.
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And so it does just go to show
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that it just takes finding one
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creature in one space in time,
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one serendipitous moment.
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And what the people who doubt
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finding Bigfoot say, "We just
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need one skull.
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We just need one finger bone.
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We just need one specimen, and
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then I will believe."
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And that could happen.
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>> NARRATOR: Could finding just
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one bone turn America into a
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nation of Bigfoot believers?
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Or is it possible that once we
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finally find Bigfoot, mankind
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00:42:54,172 --> 00:42:56,912
will find proof of something
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even greater, the facts behind
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our own secret origins?
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