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>> NARRATOR: Strange tales of

giant beasts...

half‐ape and half‐human.

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: Sometimes

they have six fingers and double

rows of teeth.

Their strength is tremendous.

>> NARRATOR: Massive footprints

of mysterious creatures found

around the globe.

>> JEFF MELDRUM: An adult male

would stand ten feet in height

and weigh a thousand pounds.

>> NARRATOR: And ancient myths

describing human‐like monsters

who travel between dimensions.

>> SABINA MAGLIOCCO: They have

the ability to appear and

disappear at will.

>> NARRATOR: On every continent

there are legends of Bigfoot and

evidence that might prove the

story is true.

>> CHRIS O'BRIEN: We can't rule

it out as a possibility that

Bigfoot are somehow an

extraterrestrial species.

>> NARRATOR: Millions of people

around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by

extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history?

And if so, might there be a

connection between

extraterrestrials and the legend

of Bigfoot?

♪ ♪

>> NARRATOR: Mount Everest.

November 9, 1951.

On the Menlung Glacier at an

altitude of 18,000 feet, British

explorers Eric Shipton and

Michael Ward came across a

mile‐long trail of unusual

footprints.

Not expecting to find humans in

this remote corner of the

mountain, the climbers examined

the prints to determine what

made them.

To their surprise, the

footprints were in the shape of

a large, human‐like foot‐‐ one

roughly twice the normal size.

>> MELDRUM: The footprints

suggest that we're dealing with

a large primate‐‐ one that

shares with us not only they

have been walking on two legs‐‐

but has some superficial

resemblance in its foot to our

footprints, only much larger

scale, but different from the

other great apes in the lack of

a divergent big toe, suggesting

they're adapted to a wholly

terrestrial environment, living

on the ground.

>> NARRATOR: Photographs brought

back from the expedition

launched a media sensation and

marked the beginning of the

Bigfoot phenomena.

But where do these giant

footprints come from?

Could they be a hoax?

Or is there some mysterious

unknown creature living in the

remote wilderness?

According to the histories and

myths of the Himalayan region,

one such ape‐like creature is

the yeti, more commonly known

as the Abominable Snowman.

>> MELDRUM: The notorious

Himalayan yeti‐‐ it's often

described as being less than six

feet in height, much more

aggressive when encountered.

>> PHILIP COPPENS: All of these

sightings really make for a

creature which seems to be

hiding from us, a creature which

is hiding in plain sight, and

obviously the direct evidence

comes in the form of its

footprint, hence why it's quite

often referred to as Bigfoot.

>> NICK REDFERN: People often

ask: why don't we catch Bigfoot?

Bigfoot could be some sort of

supernatural creature like a

phantom, you know.

If Bigfoot is, however, a flesh

and blood animal, then I would

have to say their numbers would

have to be few and far

in‐between.

>> NARRATOR: Since the Mount

Everest discovery, there have

been numerous sightings of large

ape‐like creatures on every

continent, many clustered in the

Pacific Northwest area of the

United States, including Mount

Shasta, in Northern California.

>> O'BRIEN: In 1979, I was up on

the side of Mount Shasta, on the

foothills, trying to get to the

base of the mountain.

It was so dense and so tough.

As we're standing there,

we heard this crashing sound.

Simultaneously, we smelt this

awful smell‐‐ I mean, it was

foul‐‐ but what was horrifying

was, whatever it was was coming

at us through this impenetrable

hedge, and then we heard the

most bloodcurdling combination

of an elephant trumpeting,

a lion roaring.

(fierce roaring)

And it was so loud, it had

bounced off the foothills two

miles away.

That was probably the most

terrified I've been in my life,

and the next thing I knew, we

were heading down the mountain

almost skidding off corners.

>> LINDA MOULTON HOWE: I had

heard from sheriffs about a

rancher in Montana who had gone

out to go hunting, comes around

a ridge, has an eight‐foot‐tall,

reddish brown, primate‐looking,

long‐haired creature standing

right in front of him.

Picks up a .30‐06 and just

fires.

(gunshot)

And the creature disappeared in

a flash of light.

If the Sasquatch, when a bullet

is shot at it, disappears in a

flash of light, then what in the

world are we dealing with and

what do they want?

>> NARRATOR: Why is the creature

known as Bigfoot so difficult to

capture or kill?

Could it be, as ancient

astronaut theorists contend,

that the creature's ghost‐like

abilities are the result of its

otherworldly origin?

>> CHILDRESS: Many Sasquatch

researchers have noted that

there's a connection between UFO

activity and Bigfoot activity.

In fact, Bigfoot has been seen

coming out of some UFO flying

saucer craft.

You have to wonder if, somehow,

Bigfoot himself isn't some kind

of extraterrestrial.

>> JASON MARTELL: Many of the

North American Indian tribes

have legends and mythological

tales about these Sasquatch.

The Anasazi and various other

Indian cultures look at these as

a ghost creature or something

that it's impossible to capture,

close to impossible to see.

But they do know

that they exist.

>> NARRATOR: Although mainstream

scientists consider the

mysterious beast as no more than

a modern‐day myth, the number of

Bigfoot sightings reported and

photographed continues to

steadily increase...

but why?

>> COPPENS: Specifically, what

you get is always the big feet,

you get a hairy creature,

you get a very specific smell,

very harsh smell, and it is also

said that the sound which

Bigfoot makes is kind of

whistling.

(loud screeching roar)

So all of these components

really make for a typical

Bigfoot sighting, and they are

concise across the board.

>> JEFF MELDRUM: They seem to be

very elusive, very retiring

and retreating.

Aggressive behaviors are very

rarely reported.

The witness sees the creature,

and both go in opposite

directions with no interaction

whatsoever.

>> REUHL: They range in size

from perhaps six feet

to ten feet tall.

Coloration‐‐ the most common

description is of a dark brown

fur, their names vary from

location, but you have,

of course, in America, Bigfoot,

otherwise known as Sasquatch in

the Pacific Northwest.

Down in Florida, he's known as

the skunk ape.

Down in Australia, we have

the Yowie.

>> NARRATOR: But if a Bigfoot

creature really does exist, how

has it remained so elusive?

Researchers point out that

accounts of giant, humanlike

beasts date back thousands

of years.

>> MAGLIOCCO: Throughout ancient

history, we have a number of

legends about giants, about wild

men, about hairy beasts that

live at the edge

of civilization.

These were humans, you know,

people who were, however, wild,

they were hairy, they didn't

wear clothes, they lived

in the woods.

And yet, in other ways, they had

special powers.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

the supernatural creatures of

Native American myths are in

fact descriptions of encounters

with Bigfoot in the remote past?

And are such creatures

extraterrestrial in nature?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answers can be found

in numerous ancient texts.

>> COPPENS: In the Book of

Enoch, we have a category called

the Nephilim or "The Watchers,"

people who are said to have come

down from heaven to Earth and

basically lived ever after

amongst us.

Now, the Bible gives very little

discussion as to really what

they looked like, except the

fact that they were giants, that

they were big, and clearly they

are deemed to be less worthy.

And I think this is of interest

because when you start looking

on the Bigfoot, you really are

confronted with a creature

which, even we, today, would

classify more as a animal rather

than as a human being.

>> TSOUKALOS: In the Old

Testament, we can read stories

where the gods saw the Earth

women and thought they were

extremely beautiful.

And so they made babies with

them, and upon giving birth,

according to the texts, they

created a race of giants.

What they witnessed had

absolutely nothing to do with

the divine or with the spiritual

because those gods were

not gods at all.

They were misinterpreted flesh‐

and‐blood extraterrestrials.

>> NARRATOR: Might Bigfoot, and

the Himalayan Yeti, really be

creatures of alien origin, as

some ancient astronaut theorists

contend?

(growling)

Perhaps further evidence can be

found in ancient tales of giant

beings with supernatural powers.

>> NARRATOR: Iraq.

Site of ancient Mesopotamia

and the cradle of civilization.

In the remains of the ancient

city of Nineveh, Sumerian

tablets dating back to as early

as 1800 BC tell the story of

King Gilgamesh.

In this epic poem, Gilgamesh has

a companion named Enkidu, who is

described as a hairy wild man

living outside human society.

>> TSOUKALOS: What is

fascinating about the Epic of

Gilgamesh is the fact that it

relates to us the story of

Enkidu, who allegedly was

a giant.

It is possible that Enkidu, this

wild hairy beast, this giant,

could have been of

extraterrestrial origin.

Because that is what the ancient

Sumerian texts are saying.

>> CHILDRESS: Enkidu is

described in the... the

Epic of Gilgamesh as being

a hairy man‐like monster with

great strength.

And when you read that story,

and you have to think that

Enkidu is some kind of a

Bigfoot Sasquatch.

>> MARTELL: This is the actual

first fashioned being by the

gods, where they put their

genetic marker on it to make

a new being that would be

their slave, and they called

this being the Enkidu.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible, as

ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that the Epic of

Gilgamesh actually describes a

hominid creature created by

extraterrestrial beings?

Sumerian texts also describe

ancient sky gods who came to

Earth, called the Anunnaki.

>> MARTELL: The ancient

astronaut theory explains how

these gods were probably

extraterrestrials.

And put their genetic marker on

this beast.

But that beast would still exist

and probably went on its own

evolutionary path to be the

Bigfoot and the Sasquatch that

we have today.

>> NARRATOR: Do ancient accounts

of such humanlike beasts provide

further evidence that this

otherworldly being may have

really existed throughout our

history?

Some believe the giant in the

Old Testament story of David and

Goliath may also be an early

representation of Bigfoot.

>> MAGLIOCCO: If you think about

the story of David and Goliath

from the Bible, Goliath is huge,

and he's big, and he's hairy,

but he doesn't live on the edge

of civilization or avoid people.

He's being used as a weapon

almost‐‐ a weapon of terror

against the Israelites.

>> COPPENS: When you start

reading the Bible in more detail

and descriptions of these

giants, there were various other

big creatures in our ancestors'

world, which we no longer are

aware of, and Bigfoot might just

be a category, which somehow

has been able to survive.

(creature roaring)

Whether or not Goliath is a

Bigfoot, they definitely sit

within the same category of a

creature which clearly is not

human, but clearly is also

present here and is taller than

our ancestors were.

>> TSOUKALOS: My question is:

What is the truth behind this

particular story?

And it is possible, as some

scholars have suggested, that

Goliath might have been an

extraterrestrial.

That he was a type of giant, a

human abomination, a half‐alien,

half‐human creature that was so

terrifying, so horrendous, that

David took it upon himself to

vanquish that beast.

>> REDFERN: All cultures across

the world, whether it's South

America, Native American

Indians, Europe, Russia, China,

Tibet, Australia... all these

nations have legends and tales

of giant hairy wild men.

Now, you know, people say,

"Well, legends are just

legends."

But when you have cultures and

countries, separated by oceans,

all talking about very similar

things, to me, this does suggest

that in times past these things

were very, very prevalent and

widespread across the world.

>> NARRATOR: Legends of giants

were common in the ancient

world.

But similar stories emerged much

later with Viking explorer Leif

Ericson, who, in the 10th

century AD, wrote of "horrible,

ugly, hairy creatures with dark

eyes."

>> MARTELL: Leif Ericson was

familiar with the different

types of tribes of indigenous

people.

Now, he spoke very specifically

about these large, hairy

creatures with dark eyes

and a very specific scent that

they had.

It stood out from all the other

cultures that they interacted

with on their travels into the

New World.

(creature roars)

Could these have been the

Sasquatch or Yeti that we speak

of today?

Very possibly.

>> NARRATOR: Medieval

mythologies have also described

hairy wild men with strange

magical powers.

According to historians, the

wizard Merlin, found in the

tales of King Arthur, is based

on a legendary Welsh figure

named Myrddin Wyllt, who is

described as a hairy madman...

who wanders in the company of

beasts.

>> MAGLIOCCO: There are

many stories, for example, of

the wild man dating from

medieval times.

There, you have Merlin, our

Merlin who is familiar to us

from the legend of King Arthur.

You have a legend about Merlin

as being a wild man, being

someone who was hairy and

unkempt and lived in the woods

because he communicated so

closely with the spirit world.

That he was untamed.

That he was unable to live in

human society.

And so you have this idea that

these creatures, who are wild

humanoids, also have special

messages for us.

They can prophecy.

They are living close to the

spirit world in some way.

>> NARRATOR: But could all these

similar accounts found

throughout history and around

the world be proof that Bigfoot

is more than just myth?

And is there any evidence that

its origins lie not on Earth,

but in the stars?

>> REDFERN: There are a number

of cases on record where Bigfoot

is being seen in the same

precise time frame as UFO

activities being reported.

For example, there was a big

wave of UFO activity in

conjunction with Bigfoot

sightings in Pennsylvania in the

early 1970s, and people actually

reported seeing strange lights

hovering over the woods.

And then these large, shadowy,

lumbering apelike creatures

would come walking out of

the woods.

In Texas, there's a road known

locally as Ghost Light Road.

And it's Ghost Light Road

because people see these weird

balls of light flying through

the woods.

Coincidentally, people also have

reported huge numbers of Bigfoot

sight reports in these very

same woods.

(roaring)

>> O'BRIEN: Bigfoot are

intelligent, they're very, very

secretive and very, very hidden.

They're able to skirt around

civilization.

Perhaps they do have some sort

of extra abilities that allow

them to do this, and if so,

where did those abilities

come from?

We can't factor out as a

possibility that Bigfoot are

somehow an extraterrestrial

species.

>> HOWE: Back in 1980, I had

been investigating a lot

of animal mutilations, and I get

a letter from a man up in

Snohomish, Washington, famous

for the Sasquatch or Bigfoot

sightings, who said, "I was out

at my father's place, and I hear

"a sound in the trees as if wind

has come in.

"With the trees starting to move

like this comes this silver

disc."

And then he sees a beam that

comes down to the ground.

In the beam is a tall, shaggy

primate‐looking‐‐

he said it looked like a

gorilla.

Comes down to the bottom, and

the tall creature walks by

as if he doesn't exist.

The next thing, animal

mutilations are reported within

a few days.

>> NARRATOR: If Bigfoot

creatures are aligned with

extraterrestrial beings, as

ancient astronaut theorists

believe, what might be the

purpose of their presence on

this planet?

And might the worldwide

sightings be part of a

clandestine program that has

been going on for thousands

of years?

>> REDFERN: Bigfoot could have

been brought here, you know,

to sort of‐‐ let's put it

alongside the natives and see

what happens.

There are stories of the star

people coming down and releasing

these Bigfoot‐type creatures

into the wilderness.

Of course, you have to wonder

what prompted those stories.

And that's why there are

researchers out there who do

believe Bigfoot is, if you like,

an animal born on another world.

>> FRANKLIN RUEHL: One idea is

that these are entities that

have been dropped down here as

part of a research project.

Another idea is that the

Bigfoot creatures, perhaps,

were criminals or some other

type of undesirable from an

alien planet that have been

left on our world.

>> NARRATOR: If

extraterrestrials did create

a race of Bigfoot creatures

thousands of years in the past,

as ancient astronaut theorists

believe, might they have had a

reason for keeping them hidden

from us?

Perhaps further evidence can be

found not in the world we know,

but hidden deep underground.

(creature growling)

>> NARRATOR: The Siskiyou

Mountains.

Southwestern Oregon.

In 1874, hunter Elijah Davidson

discovered a large cave leading

to a 500‐acre network of

underground tunnels and caverns.

Known as the Oregon Caves, the

ancient subterranean structure

is one of the few marble caves

in the world.

Some believe this underground

world is home to the Sasquatch

creatures that have been

reported in this area by Native

Americans for thousands of

years.

(creature growling)

>> REDFERN: There are a number

of sightings of these

creatures in caves.

A number of explorers hearing

very strange animalistic screams

coming from these caves and

seeing sort of shadowy lumbering

creatures within them.

You know, if you're a large

flesh‐and‐blood animal, seven to

eight feet tall, certainly

you're gonna be out hunting all

day to feed.

But at night, potentially, you

know, with Bigfoot hunters out

there, regular hunters, other

wild animals, you need to be

careful.

The ideal location to hide out

would be underground.

So, you know, maybe that's

another reason we haven't found

Bigfoot.

Instead of looking around us,

maybe we should be looking below

us.

>> O'BRIEN: These cavern systems

that exist worldwide have not

been fully explored.

In fact, probably a very small

percentage of them have been

even discovered.

What could exist down there?

Could we have a whole system of

life‐forms that exist down there

that we have yet to identify?

You have fish that never see

light, you have insect species,

there's the possibility of a

complete potential

infrastructure for Bigfoot to

survive on.

Perhaps Bigfoot is one of these

life‐forms.

>> HOWE: No one sees Sasquatches

going on highways, paths and

forests moving back and forth.

If we're dealing with nonhuman

intelligence and nonhumans made

them to do work on this planet,

maybe there's a tunnel system.

(creature growling)

And that might explain why you

could have them in Georgia,

Michigan, Pennsylvania,

California, all over.

>> O'BRIEN: One thing that's

always intrigued me, as well,

about Bigfoot is this

description of a musky,

sulfur‐ish type smell that's

often associated with the close

encounters.

You know, the Christian version

of the Devil and fire and

brimstone and that sulfur type

smell tends to be associated

with the subterranean world or

Hell.

So, is there a connection,

possibly, between the idea of

subterranean devils, if you

will, or Lucifer, and that

sulfur smell and that sulfur

smell with Bigfoot?

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

a race of subterranean creatures

has been living beneath the

Earth's surface without our

knowledge?

If so, might Bigfoot have been

interacting with us for

thousands of years?

>> TSOUKALOS: In ancient Greek

myths, we find references to the

troglodytes.

These hairy, beastly‐looking

creatures that lived

underground, that sometimes were

extremely terrifying...

but sometimes they also were

very wise and taught mankind in

various disciplines.

Now, according to the ancient

legends, the troglodytes are

believed to have descended from

the sky.

Obviously, they were hiding out

somewhere that was inaccessible

to our ancestors.

They wanted to keep their

presence a secret.

There are multiple stories that

actually talk about explorations

into these tunnels, where

sometimes people never returned.

>> MAGLIOCCO: People who have

done research have found

dens, nests, collections of

brush that are put together

in particular patterns that

suggest very large creatures are

nesting in them.

(creature growling)

And I find that fairly

persuasive evidence.

Something is making those dens

or nests out of brush.

Something is using those,

probably living underground.

>> CHILDRESS: Throughout the

world, there are many extensive

and mysterious cavern systems

that are linked together.

In Tibet and in India, also in

North and South America, some of

them also go throughout the

Pacific Northwest, like areas

like Mount Shasta.

So it's an interesting idea that

Bigfoot is actually traveling

underground, through these

tunnel systems, and those

underground bases and tunnel

systems would have been made by

extraterrestrials.

>> NARRATOR: Might

extraterrestrials really have

built caves and tunnel systems

to hide the legendary creature

known as Bigfoot, as some

ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

And if so, is it possible that

these otherworldly beings still

dwell there today?

>> HOWE: Could Sasquatch,

Bigfoot, be something that lives

here, on Earth, underground?

What is the relationship between

the Sasquatch, the nonhuman

phenomenon and this planet?

>> RUEHL: There's also the

possibility that he is actually

an alien creature.

Now, we don't know how

intelligent he is, but one

theory is that the Bigfoot is

actually a more intelligent

creature, and he's avoiding man,

hiding out in mountainous

regions that are cold, waiting

for man to destroy himself,

at which time, he'll assume

dominance.

And, of course, he also could be

the result of genetic

hybridization, and that aliens

landed on our planet and used

DNA to create a hybrid between

man and the apes.

All bets are on, but the

evidence that he exists

somewhere certainly is strong

based on all of the evidence

we've found, in terms of

eyewitness observations,

footprints, et cetera.

>> NARRATOR: Could the

intermingling of human and alien

beings have resulted in this

strange hybrid creature, as

ancient astronaut theorists

contend?

Perhaps further investigation of

the Bigfoot mystery will reveal

an even more disturbing truth.

>> NARRATOR: Russia.

February 28, 1927.

Noted biologist and geneticist

Illya Ivanov conducts

controversial experiments to

artificially inseminate female

apes with human sperm.

The procedure is unsuccessful.

But three years later, Ivanov

reverses the test using ape

sperm and human female hosts.

Before the experiment can bear

fruit, the Soviet government

arrests Ivanov and exiles him.

But had the scientist already

made an evolutionary

breakthrough?

Might Ivanov have actually

created a hybrid species from

ape and human DNA?

>> COPPENS: Illya Ivanov was

a person who was obsessed with

making this freak, this

creature, which was half‐man,

half‐chimpanzee...

but also is completely

convinced that if

he's able to do this, there will

be interbreeding of these two

species.

And, really, if a person like

that, a top scientist, is

convinced that this is possible

then, really, nature might have

done so, or our ancestors might

have done so at one point in the

past as well, and this creature

might indeed be the result of

this offspring.

>> MARTELL: Ivanoff was aware

that combining ape and human is

possible with the idea that

there could be new traits and

things garnered that

scientifically would benefit

humanity in the long run.

>> NARRATOR: If recent modern

science could create hybrid

human and ape creatures, might

similar yet very advanced

technology have been used by

extraterrestrial beings in the

ancient past, as ancient

astronaut theorists contend?

>> GEORGE NOORY: You know, it's

like The Island of Dr. Moreau,

strange creatures that these

mad scientists dabble with.

We know that people are

Chimeras.

They are part‐animal, part‐

human.

There are people wandering this

planet right now with workable

pig valves keeping them alive.

So there's no question, if

science can dabble, it will

dabble, and it could create some

abominations.

I shudder to think of the kinds

of creatures some scientists on

this planet may have tried to

develop and they had to just

dispose of them because they

were too hideous.

>> TSOUKALOS: Is it possible

that offshoots of a certain

species occurred over hundreds

of thousands of years?

The ancient alien theory answers

that exact question.

And the answer is yes.

It was made possible by a direct

artificial intervention of our

genes in the remote past by

flesh‐and‐blood

extraterrestrials who used our

planet as some type of an

experimental platform.

All around the world we can find

carvings or statues of these

hybrid beings.

And some of them are in India,

like the Naga, which is a half‐

man, half‐snake.

In Greece, we have the Medusa

with her hair made of snakes.

In Egypt, the entire god

pantheon consists of these half

man, half animals, with Anubis,

for example, with the head of a

dog, and the body of a human

being.

And to suggest that all of these

creatures were nothing else but

fantasy, in my opinion, doesn't

really hold water.

Because our ancestors depicted

what they saw.

(creature growling)

>> NARRATOR: But if the monster

we know as Bigfoot really

exists, and is an ancient alien

hybrid that has survived to

modern times, what was it

created for?

(creature screeching)

Some ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answer can be found

by taking another look at the

Sumerian stories of the

Anunnaki, and the Bigfoot‐like

creature called Enkidu.

>> MARTELL: The gods originally

came here to mine gold.

But they didn't like to mine the

gold themselves.

So, the Anunnaki created what we

call the Enkidu.

They decided amongst the gods to

fashion a worker being, the

perfect working model.

Not as sophisticated or as

advanced as us.

It was the first working model

that they used as slave labor.

>> NARRATOR: If the creature

known as Bigfoot really was

created by aliens to mine

precious metals thousands of

years ago, why would it

still be around today?

Is it simply what remains of an

ancient race of hybrid beings?

Or might these giant beasts

still be working on behalf of

extraterrestrials?

>> HOWE: Why would they put

a Sasquatch character here that

they made?

And it may be that we're dealing

with intelligences that can

create anything with genetic

material.

And they would make a creature

that would be strong, big enough

to fend for itself, have some

kind of a mission but is not

to interact with Homo sapien at

all, might explain why

Sasquatch has always been so

elusive.

>> RUEHL: It could've been an

experiment out of natural

curiosity by them, or perhaps

they had a purpose in putting

Bigfoot on our planet, perhaps

to test out the environment

before they ultimately land here

and take over.

It could be a long‐term genetic

experiment.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible

that the reason we have not

found hard evidence of Bigfoot's

existence is because it is

hiding out, performing some

secret extraterrestrial mission?

Or might its elusiveness be a

survival instinct... one highly

evolved over thousands of years,

while hiding from a far more

dangerous alien hybrid

species...

human beings?

>> NARRATOR: Hong Kong. 1935.

In a small medicinal shop,

German paleontologist Dr.

Gustav von Koenigswald purchased

a set of giant molars thought to

be the teeth of an

ancient dragon.

After further study,

von Koenigswald determined that

he had stumbled upon the first

fossil evidence of an extinct

species of ape called

Gigantopithecus.

Standing ten feet tall and

weighing up to 1,200 pounds,

this gigantic ape‐‐ believed to

have lived alongside several

early hominid species for tens

of thousands of years‐‐ is the

largest known primate to ever

walk the Earth.

Might the creature known as

Bigfoot be a descendant of this

ancient beast?

>> MELDRUM: A popular theory for

the origins of Sasquatch is that

it may be descended from a known

great ape, Gigantopithecus,

a giant ape that lived during

the latter part of the

Pleistocene, and achieved, along

with many other animals,

gigantic proportions.

As an ape with a small brain, it

had extra crests and ridges of

bone to provide attachment for

the massive muscles to drive

these very heavy, heavy jaws.

By comparison, the gorilla has

the crests and ridges that are

found on Gigantopithecus, or

Bigfoot, presumably, to support

the muscles attaching to a very

small brain with a small

cranial covering.

>> NARRATOR: The skulls of

Gigantopithecus and the modern‐

day gorilla are typical

of large primates.

But the human skull‐‐ a species

believed to have also descended

from large primates‐‐

is very different.

>> MELDRUM: The human skull is

remarkably smaller, although we

boast a much large cranial

capacity, uh, small jaws,

smaller muscles to drive

these jaws.

>> NARRATOR: What can account

for such significant differences

in related species?

And why are humans relatively

hairless and possess brains

far more advanced than

other primates?

Are we really the result of

evolution, or might the truth be

that the real alien hybrid is

not Bigfoot, but us?

>> TSOUKALOS: What today is

referred to as the

"missing link" is

extraterrestrial intervention.

Because without that

extraterrestrial intervention,

evolution did not take place the

way we're told in school.

Right after we shed our fur,

for millennia, we had to keep

warm by wearing furs.

Yet we used to have fur

all over our body.

So something doesn't make sense.

>> CHILDRESS: Our ancient

ancestors here may well be, in a

sense, aliens from other solar

system, perhaps the Greys.

And what they've done is

manipulate what were already

humanoids on this planet, but

brute humanoids‐‐ hairy, brutish

people, the caveman of

ancient times.

But we're being genetically

manipulated and given the DNA of

these extraterrestrials.

>> MARTELL: The progression of

the Darwinian evolution‐‐

looking at the Neanderthal man,

the australopithecine, all the

way up to Cro‐Magnon‐‐

that missing link is still being

looked into.

Now I don't think they're ever

going to find it, because the

missing link, more than likely,

was a genetic alteration on that

hominid to make us.

>> NARRATOR: Could Homo sapiens

really be a species not

indigenous to planet Earth?

And if humans are the result of

genetic engineering by alien

beings, as ancient astronaut

theorists believe, might

Bigfoot creatures really be the

last surviving examples of

prehistoric hominids?

Creatures who woul

originally dominated

this planet?

>> CHILDRESS: Is it possible

that, during the genetic

manipulation of human beings, we

at one point, started out as

Sasquatch and Bigfoot

and Yetis?

>> MARTELL: One of the stories

in the Sumerian myths is how the

gods came into contact with this

apelike creature here on Earth,

and said, "We can put our

genetic marker on this creature

and make man in our image and

after our likeness."

These apelike hairy creatures

existed here naturally on Earth

and are possibly the origins of

how humanity was spliced by the

Anunnaki into creating us that

still exist today.

>> NARRATOR: Might the legend of

Bigfoot really be the story of

Earth creatures who escaped

experimentation by

ancient aliens?

And could this help explain why

they have been hiding from man

for thousands of years?

(creature bellowing)

>> O'BRIEN: I think that we‐‐

at some point in the not‐too‐

distant future‐‐ are going to

have real, irrefutable evidence

of the existence of

these creatures.

The fact that Bigfoot have been

able to skirt about on the

periphery and remain hidden and

remain secretive and be seldom

seen means that they're

intelligent.

But what happens when

populations keep expanding,

remote areas start getting

settled, and Bigfoot starts to

lose more and more

of its territory?

What's gonna happen?

Where is Bigfoot gonna go?

>> COPPENS: I think this is

extraordinarily powerful

information to suggest that we

were indeed engineered by

ancient extraterrestrial beings,

and Bigfoot might just be the

first intelligent life here

on Earth.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

the legends of Bigfoot

creatures are real?

Could they have been the product

of genetic manipulation by

otherworldly beings?

Or are humans the real alien

creatures, manufactured by using

alien and hominid DNA?

If so, it might help to explain

why Bigfoot is so elusive.

Not because we are afraid of

them, but because they are

afraid of us.

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