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A terrifying creature has been stalking

the mountains of British Columbia for almost a century.

This thing was twice the size of a bear, at least.

Dwarfing Bigfoot,

it stands nine feet tall with broad shoulders.

What she described was a gigantic hair-covered man.

With the fangs and strength of a giant ape...

Rock throwing, aggression, the strength to lift boulders.

...and the eyes of a human being.

And it was looking straight at us, nine feet off the ground.

Encounters with the creature

known as the Abominable Snowman continue to rise.

I know that it's out there.

But the beast remains undocumented...

Justin, did you see that?

...in the vast wilderness.

I couldn't tell you what this would be,

but I can tell you that it's large.

Holy crap.

In the mid-20th century,

scientist Ivan Sanderson set out to separate fact from fiction.

He investigated hundreds of frightening encounters

with unexplained creatures around the world.

Our next guest tonight is one of the world's leading naturalists,

accumulating material for something 30 years.

As the founder of cryptozoology,

he built the most extensive archive

of unclassified creatures on earth.

There seem to be a lot of these creatures in our continent,

in South America and Africa, and all over Asia.

But following his death in the 1970s,

that archive disappeared.

Until now.

Armed with modern tech and Sanderson's lost research...

We need to take this and compare it to what's in the archives.

...a team of experts will reinvestigate

his unexplained cases using up to the minute research

and predator expertise.

I've never seen wildlife do this.

There's nothing like that that should be doing that here.

Holy

Can Sanderson's files lead to an incredible new insight

and take another creature from myth...

Did you see that?

...to reality?

Nobody has access to this.

This is all ABSMs. Abominable Snowman.

In the mid-20th century,

the ABSM was reportedly seen

during British expeditions to Mount Everest.

Explorer Eric Shipton and others reported evidence

of a large, white-haired, bipedal creature with strange webbed toes.

So the Ruby Creek one for me is interesting.

It's one of Sanderson's bigger cases.

This is Ivan's file. He was there.

He went there and met with the Chapmans.

Look. That's his own writings.

This is the incident.

I had the peculiar fortune of investigating

an extraordinary event at Ruby Creek, British Columbia.

Jeannie Chapman reported a colossal creature

over seven feet tall emerging from the shadowed tree line.

It then charged onto their farm... -

...with such brute force the children fled in fear.

The imposing specimen ripped the front door off the hinges...

...and ransacked their cabin.

Amidst the destruction, it seized a barrel brimming with salmon,

a prize that seemed to covet above all else.

The creature then vanished,

retreating back into the rugged, untamed wilderness...

...from whence it came.

We actually have a map here from Sanderson's account,

and this is one of the details that makes the Ruby Creek incident special.

According to Sanderson,

the creature descended from Mount Hope

using a game trail,

crossing through the tree line

before entering into the Chapman farm.

Sanderson believes the creature fled

and used caves in the area to remain undetected.

If you look at the map, since 1959,

when Sanderson first investigated the area,

there's a concentration of sightings

right where the Ruby Creek incident occurred.

We have to be looking at over a thousand cases.

But I found something even more fascinating.

I don't read Russian, but these look like

formerly classified documents out of the Soviet Union.

There is a translation of title here.

"Information materials studying issue of snowman."

Snowman being the Abominable Snowman. - That's what I think.

By having these documents analyzed and possessing this map,

we have resources that no one else has had before.

We're going to be able to go into the field

and further Sanderson's work on the Abominable Snowman.

We'll measure the gathered evidence against his classification index.

That will help us determine if this creature is a known animal species,

a Lazarus species,

something formerly thought to be extinct,

or an entirely new species altogether.

We're going to go into the field,

try to locate these creatures

and then fit them into the classification index.

The Abominable is an unfortunate, misinterpreted namesake.

Our British journalist Henry Newman misconstrued the Tibetan name

which meant Man Bear Snowman to Abominable Snowman.

I have adopted the term ABSM to acknowledge

both the correct and incorrect translations.

Oh man.

It is gorgeous up here.

I'm telling you, to be right here above it,

seeing the visual is unbelievable.

Looks like that's the Chapman farm right there.

So we are exactly at the location of the incident.

Sanderson speculated that the Abominable would feed at the waterways

before retreating up through the hills

to get down from higher elevations.

- And I can see that. - That's going to have to be

part of our research to figure that out.

Here they come right here.

To help track down this elusive unclassified species,

Charlie and Brittany team up with wildlife specialist Troy Lillie,

and tracking expert Justin Igualada.

Well, we might as well get them loaded up and get them ready to go.

We're going to search the mountain for evidence

that can help us find and document the Abominable Snowman.

We'll be meeting with a guy named Dave

and getting a firsthand account

on a mysterious encounter with an unknown creature.

- We are out there. - We are out here far.

Dave.

- Hi. - Hi, I'm Charlie.

Thanks for being willing to speak with us.

- Yeah. - It's nice to meet you.

My name's Dave, a local fishermen here.

I had an experience that's kind of... Changed my life.

I'm really curious to hear exactly what you remember seeing.

I'm floating on the river.

I'm tied to a snag sticking out of the water.

And then all of a sudden, a boulder came out about that big right there.

35 feet in the air straight up and came right down

at where my rope was tied to the snag.

I was like, what the hell.

I stood up and I'm looking at the shore.

And it was eye shine right away, two eyes.

And I was looking at an outline twice as big as me.

It was-- It was huge.

And it never blinked once.

And I blinked 20 times because I didn't know what I was looking at.

So, do you think it's just being territorial of its hunting area?

Because what you're saying could have killed you then if it wanted to.

You know, that thing was down there to get fish.

That's what I believe.

There's a lot of resources in this river.

It wouldn't be unlikely to find something large along this riverbed.

If you're down in its area when it's hunting, it's going to run you off.

What I'm doing here is trying to figure out

what native predator it could be

to isolate all of that before we jump to the conclusion

of cryptids or Abominable Snowmen,

anything other than a native animal or predator.

The assaults that happen here are almost like primitive primate type stuff

like rock throwing, aggression.

Hominid family, white fur, abnormal feet,

that would leave strange prints

where the mud doesn't come up between the toes.

Does that sound like anything that you have encountered or would know about?

I mean, polar bears have webbed feet,

but they would be not this far up, would they?

We're a little far south for that.

We've had interbreeding where you have polar bears and grizzly bears breeding.

Southern British Columbia is home

to the largest predators in North America,

black and grizzly bears.

However, a new hybrid species has recently been reported,

known as grolar bears,

polar bears and grizzlies interbreeding was first identified in 2006.

The combination produces a large white creature,

capable of surviving more temperate climates.

Let's say out here we have the hybrid grizzly polar bear.

According to decades of reports, this thing has long legs, no neck,

which any bear does.

When they stand up, they have that elongated-- And a broad shoulder.

I personally can't say that that would be a bear.

I believe the same way Ivan Sanderson did

that there is a primate bipedal creature lurking in the woods.

And based merely off of the eyewitness accounts,

the testimonies have been going on for decades,

I believe that it's possible that it is here,

and that is exactly what we're here to find out.

- I'll find it for you. - All right.

- Yep. - Get it.

I will load you up with a pile of my friend. I got you.

I don't need a pile.

You can put it in Brittany's bag.

Armed with evidence from the archive,

the team splits to start their onsite investigation.

Clearly the train's here.

He's mentioned train tracks in his writings.

Troy and Justin head down to the Fraser River

just west of the Chapman farm

where the recent sightings took place.

According to Sanderson's map,

after leaving the Chapman farm,

the creature approached the Fraser River

before fleeing into the dense forest.

The description of the animal in this area baffles me a little bit.

So we're hoping we can track the path

that this creature is using to feed and find evidence

or even find the predator itself.

Come on, Big Daddy.

Don't die.

Four miles away at the foot of Mount Hope

just north of the Chapman farm.

Brittany and Charlie establish a base camp in the forest where the creature fled.

There's a decent looking flat up there.

That might be a good spot.

We should set up tents fast

because we're going to start losing daylight.

This location is a normal natural feeding ground for any large predator...

- Are you done? - Yeah.

This is my last corner.

...which is good and bad.

The good part is, I think we might actually encounter one.

The bad part is we are far away from civilization,

and now we are on their turf.

That's all of them.

So we're setting up a laser perimeter.

It's essentially an electronic tripwire.

If this unknown creature comes into base camp, we'll all know about it.

There's a good set right there.

See it?

Justin?

After talking with Dave, I thought the best place

to start looking for any activity would be down by the river

since that's where his account took place.

Look at all the different lines of tracks.

They're all zigzagged and those look a little deeper.

Some sort of feline.

- So this one is four. - Yep.

I would actually call that four and a half. - Okay.

That's not a coyote, right? No way.

It's bigger than that.

I'm gonna get a granule sample

and I'm gonna get a water sample.

Go ahead and take all of this.

But these are awful small compared to these right here.

So something was chasing something.

The amount of resources in this area mean that

there's going to be predators that are going to cohabitate.

Usually when a larger predator or something bigger comes along,

then we see a lot of fleeing.

Something could be scared down here

due to a larger predator that's hiding in the tree line.

Justin.

Right here, we have a game trail.

Look, it's already worn.

So if we can get up in this area here

and put some stuff in the tree line, we should be all right.

Justin and I spotted a game trail.

It's getting dark, so we're just gonna camp out,

wait overnight, get up at daybreak,

and we're gonna start hitting that trail again.

Back at Brittany and Charlie's base camp...

Whatever it is, it's outside of the perimeter.

Oh wow.

That is absolutely massive.

See all these little holes, they stick their nails in?

This is definitely bear activity.

Do you see all the scratches all the way up?

I think it was out here just picking away at this,

trying to get all the bugs out of it.

Let me show you how big this is compared to me.

Can you see how tall that is?

And do you see the peak up there where it was digging the most?

We're talking like, a freaking nine-foot bear.

So there's a large predator in the area.

Could be a large prison bear or even a polar bear hybrid.

But it could also be a primate.

Primates mimic,

and they might be mimicking other animals... -

...and learning from their behavior to apply to their own.

That is absolutely massive.

This is exactly what I was hearing.

This thing is obviously still out here.

Going up the game trail, and we have to be prepared

because we don't know how long this animal is gonna stay on this trail.

It may take days.

The higher up we get, the danger level gets even higher,

and that's even further away from help.

We're gonna look for footprints, tracks, hair,

and really try to isolate exactly what's happening here.

Ghillie.

This is one ghillie here on the top.

- Are you ready, big boy? - I sure am, my friend.

We are trying to find where this creature might have a den.

Right now, evidence points to this being a bear.

Bears can travel up to 40 miles away

from their nesting site to feed,

so we have a lot of ground to cover.

Get on that next ridge line.

Oh, we got a good opening.

We can do it.

That's a good tree.

Troy.

What is that?

That's a pretty good size, huh?

Scat can tell us a lot.

So we can tell whether it's fresh,

obviously, something is closer in the area.

If it's older, maybe something's farther away.

What it can also tell us is what they're eating.

If you have a certain diet, there may be more watery type of scat.

If you have a lot more fibrous material,

a lot of berries and stuff like that,

you're going to see the seeds in those berries,

then, you can kind of take away with the scat.

This would probably be like a lynx.

If you've got scat that's on the trail itself,

this is a pretty active game trail.

Something big moves through here.

As animals travel this, you can see it's a worn down patch.

- Yeah. - So whatever it is is running this line.

A large predator, constantly running

the same path over and over again,

eventually, it's going to start to kill off

some of this moss and tear up into the dirt.

Definitely not human.

Got a lot of debris in there, but that's still a good print right there,

- and that's pretty deep. - Yeah.

I couldn't definitively tell you,

any specific animal that this would be,

but I can tell you that it's large.

Troy and I are on the path of a large animal.

We got plenty of evidence to point in that direction.

What we want to do is stay on that path

and get as far as we can to try and get into this animal's territory.

It'd be a very obvious thing to see.

So if an animal is 800, 900 pounds and it lays down,

I mean, you clearly see, when I put my knee down like this and I sit,

and you stand up, you've got a super indentation.

So an animal with that amount of weight,

you're gonna have big indentations.

I can tell you it's large and it's hungry.

In numerous accounts,

the ABSM appeared and carried off fish.

I believe the diet of the elusive creature consists mostly of salmon.

You found the bait?

- Yeah, I did. - That is pungent.

Following the discovery outside base camp,

Charlie and Brittany devised a new plan to lure the creature in.

And it's all fresh caught by locals.

You want salmon right now?

- No. - Okay.

So tomorrow the plan is to start looking for caves.

But for tonight, we're at base camp.

We're gonna set up what we're referring to as a bait tree.

The goal being by hanging up salmon in this area,

we can hopefully bring it right to us.

So on the lower part of the tree line,

we're going to basically extend this

and we're gonna swing it across over here.

In Asia, Sanderson actually used frogs to string and bait.

And here the common theme is actually salmon.

So we're utilizing the food source that we believe it's eating.

This is actually a perfect spot.

- You like this spot? - I actually do.

I have a pretty good observation of the trail,

and I can just drape the blind on it

to hunker in and have a view.

The most important thing right now is scent and sound.

We're a couple hundred meters away from base camp.

I plan to set up a blind out here

while Charlie goes back to base camp,

and monitors all of the night vision cameras that we have set in place.

Yeah, that's good.

I should be able to see back and forward.

The best part about this is the fact

that Ivan Sanderson was doing this research,

and now we might be the first to continue his work

and actually document the species right now, right here.

As night falls,

Justin and Troy have followed the game trail 2,000 feet above sea level.

We're gonna come on this side because we've got a nice,

big flat rock up there that we can kind of look over.

- There you go. - Thank you.

We're gonna hunker down a little bit for the night.

Troy and I'll camp out, and then we'll get back to the hike

and get up to the summit.

What we want to do is we want to set up all the tech first.

- Got it? - Yep.

There's a lot of dangers involved out here.

We have big game here.

We have prey. We have predators.

I don't trust anybody more than I do Justin.

All right. It's time to go dark, bud.

Let's-- Let's turn 'em down.

Okay, give me the big one.

Give me the big one.

Between the Ruby Creek in 1941 and an eyewitness testimony,

there is a common denominator within each of the stories, and that is salmon.

I'm convinced that we can lure it in.

All right. I think that's all of them.

Whatever we couldn't hang is on the ground.

So let's get you up on your blinds. - Okay.

I'm gonna go get set up at base camp.

Mmm. Sounds fun. Smelling like fish. - Yep.

Radio me if you need anything. - Okay.

I'll be watching on the cameras.

I totally feel like I keep hearing something from behind me.

And although I can't get a visual of it,

it just sounds like it's something heavy.

I have no idea what that was.

Do you see a trigger? I don't know what it is.

Oh, I do see something.

Please don't do anything crazy.

Something's down there.

What the hell was that?

Hold on. I think-- I think I have something, guys.

Do you guys see this?

It looks like it might be a footprint.

- Charlie? - Yeah, go ahead.

I think I have a possible track here.

Do you have any way that we can maybe

take a better or closer look at this?

Yeah, I'm grabbing the scanner.

It looks like there might be a large digit right there.

- Hey. - Hey.

Do you see it? If you look right there... - Yeah.

...I have a little bit of a ridge right there. - Yeah.

And it looks like that could be like a digit.

Exactly. Yep.

Like, so one here, like a larger one.

Let me get out of your way.

This is a TriMech scanner,

and this is a really, really sophisticated 3D scanner.

What it can do is it can generate a model of an object.

It's used a lot in archeology.

It's way more accurate than any technology that Sanderson would have had.

Obviously, Sanderson did not have all the tools at his disposal

that we do as far as technology goes,

So we can then essentially have a 3D model of a casting

that could also be 3D-printed.

Traditional plaster casting like Sanderson would have used

making a cast of a cast of a cast of a cast degrades the quality.

But with this, we can just replicate that cast

over and over and over exactly as it existed the way it was taken.

This definitely does not look like a bear footprint.

We need to take this and compare it to what's in the archives.

For sure.

While Charlie and Brittany upload evidence,

they get a call from a former intelligence officer, Tracy Walder,

with an update on the Soviet documents found in Sanderson's archive.

I was able to actually get them to a Russian translator

and she translated all of it.

But I think even more importantly,

I was able to authenticate them.

These are classified documents from the Soviet Union

about the Abominable Snowman.

These were classified research documents.

What the crux of the documents were about

was that the Soviets were hunting this thing.

There were a lot of sightings of the Abominable Snowman

going way back in the Soviet Union.

It seems to be sighted really at high altitudes.

And they were putting money behind researching it.

And I really think that a lot of their efforts

really went to trying to weaponize this thing.

How can we use this on the battlefield?

This is amazing. I love that they were able to be authenticated.

Given the cultural temperature of the time,

how the hell did Sanderson get these documents?

That is an excellent question,

and I am still working on finding the answer to that.

All right.

This whole investigation has taken a major shift.

The fact that the Soviets believed this thing was real is very satisfying for me.

But these are accounts independent of Sanderson's

and independent of the United States.

I know that it's out there.

There's just too many accounts,

too many people and stories all over the world for this thing not to be real.

I'm not satisfied until I get to see it.

At daybreak, Troy and Justin continue on the game trail

following signs of a large predator

that they believe could be a hybrid bear species.

These are big prints, though.

That's looking more like bear. It's straight.

Very straight.

Before it was a little spread out.

Now we got straight end line

and it looks like we got a big ass bear track.

So it's been a real hike,

but Troy and I are definitely getting closer to the summit.

When you're tracking in the snow, it's a little bit different.

On the snow, we get an easier take

on what's going on with the wildlife.

We get a cleaner print. We could definitely tell

which direction it's heading,

and sometimes we can even follow those tracks

all the way to where the animal's at.

These are all tracks, all the way up.

So they kind of curve this way and that one kind of stops.

It goes over that way.

It's hard to tell what it is.

I think it snowed probably earlier

before we got here, so it's covering up a bit.

It's kind of melted over, man.

Hold on a second. Come here.

What do we have here?

Urine, or some sort of fluid.

What do you think it is?

There's only one way to find out.

Smell it.

What do you think?

There are different scents and smells when you get into urine

that you can deduce a couple of things.

If you're in the snow and you pee in the snow,

you're going to put a hole in the snow.

Your pee is hot. The snow is not.

Nasty. Nasty and gross.

So we can say that this animal has been here recently,

just the way the snow is.

But this one is a lot more fresh.

I can taste it on the tip of my tongue.

And at the end of the day, we know that we're hot on the trail of this animal.

5,000 feet below,

Charlie and Brittany ramp up the next stage of their search,

this time taking their hunt to the air.

So we're gonna be using a drone with thermal imagery.

We're going to be scanning the environment to look for hotspots.

We do think that the creature is still likely in this area,

and this will allow us to track it using its body heat.

And it's going up.

And the drone is something

that Ivan didn't have at his disposal.

So to build on his work, I think it makes a lot of sense

to utilize the technology this way.

It doesn't look like there's much activity here.

It's almost like the animals are steering clear of the forest.

What's that right there?

Huh. I don't know.

Look at that.

To be that dark, it's got to be really cold.

Can we get in there a little bit?

And that might be cave breath.

- Get a better view? - I think that's cave breath.

Cave breath is a phenomena

that occurs when caves emanate cold air from within.

And while we were looking for animals

with the thermal drone,

the cold air showed up clear as day.

I am going to mark those GPS coordinates.

Caves are an important component

of this investigation

because a predator or any animal, really,

could seek shelter to eat, to nest.

And Sanderson talks a lot about caves

in his notes and research,

specifically around the Abominable Snowman

That's definitely got to be a cave entrance.

We've got to take a closer look at this.

It's very exciting

because it can potentially tell us

what type of predator

or what type of animal we are dealing with.

Could these encounters here be the abominable snowman?

That's what we're here to find out.

ABSM could just as well hole up in caves

as some bears do.

And caves should be searched most diligently for remains

or other evidence of their occupation.

According to accounts from the Himalayas,

they are said to inhabit remote mountain caves.

In fact, certain large caves have been discovered

with man-made walls of stone inside them,

and specially shaped stones fitted to their mouths

like doors.

Oh, my God, take it in.

It's definitely freezing ass cold up here.

But, 'cause we're seeing a lot more tracks now,

especially from bigger stuff,

let's see if we can get anything to come to us.

What if we stop right there, dude?

Yeah.

I think we're here, Troy.

If we lose tracks of an animal in the snow,

we can deduce a couple of things.

Either A, that animal passed through

a little bit later than we thought.

B, a lot of snowfall happened that we didn't see,

covering up those tracks.

Or C, you're in the area where the animal's at.

In order to live here, it would have to have

a very dense coat.

Obviously less nerve endings in the bottom of their feet,

but basically a heavy calloused foot,

probably a lot like the bottom of a bear foot.

Look at the density of these woods.

We wouldn't see anything.

No, hell no.

We could have one sitting right next to us right now, we wouldn't know.

We could have anything right next to us.

We're too out in the open right now,

and we have no idea what's up here.

So we're going to set up camp amongst the trees,

protect our backs,

and set up our cameras to face the game trail.

I just thought, right there--

I just thought that'd be a good spot,

'cause we can watch this trail on.

We can see both ways.

We've got a lot of direction,

and then we can set backwards

if something comes up behind us.

Hey, where are you guys at?

We are on the track of a large bear right now,

trying to lead that all the way up to the summit,

see where it goes.

Sounds good. Just, if anything happens

or you guys see anything out of the ordinary,

please feel free to radio us.

I feel like we should just stay up here all night.

We might as well.

We're both wide awake and really should be fun.

All right. Sounds good. We'll be in touch.

While Troy and Justin search the summit for the creature,

Charlie and Brittany continue their hunt for the cave.

It's extremely exciting for me.

We could actually be on to possibly a habitat area

within a certain radius

that it might be traveling and coming up into.

This is like really interesting terrain.

Probably easier this way.

I want to point this out, Charlie.

If I'm barefoot

and I'm hitting just the mossy grass area,

I could sneak up on anybody without even...

freaking knowing.

That's true.

What's really incredible is the advantages we have now

because Ivan Sanderson would

have had to do it boots on the ground

for days or weeks

trying to locate these caves.

Now we have the advantages of all these new technologies,

including the thermal imaging drones,

which immediately takes us a whole step further.

Look at that.

Look at this!

These rocks right here.

This is exactly what is described

- in Sanderson's files. - It is. Yeah, you're right.

We have walked right up to the precipice

of Sanderson's research.

He describes with great detail

caves, mountains of stone,

boulders like doors,

It could be a den or shelter

for the creature we've been looking for.

Holy crap!

Hey, we got bones.

Are you serious?

Holy crap.

We got bones.

- Are you serious? - Holy crap.

Right here?

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Vertebrae from a fish.

Now, do you see all this crevice?

- Do you see all this? - Yeah.

And how much climbing we just did? - Mm-hmm.

No bear is going to go all the way through this

to eat this.

Do you see all this? Look at this.

There's a lot.

And the way that this crevice was sat down,

it was like a perfect place to sit.

It really made a lot of sense.

But for me, because of how the large cave started

to get into narrow spots

and you had to climb through,

that's not a bear.

I agree with you.

A bear did not do that.

I mean, like, this is super fresh.

If it was old, you wouldn't have such a smell.

This is like day or two.

I want to go ahead and pull some DNA,

which, honestly, I can catch from any of these bones,

to be quite honest with you.

If something's eating here,

it's going to be drooling a lot.

Yeah.

So we are right up to the edge of Sanderson's research.

We found caves that he speculated about.

And that, to me, is incredible.

We discovered saliva

that we can then collect, which we did, and test.

- This is fantastic. - This is a great find.

It's very exciting

because it can potentially tell us

what type of predator

or what type of animal we are dealing with.

All signs are pointing more towards the possibility

of it being this creature.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put

the IR night-vision infrared camera right here.

All right, I'm going to hop past you then,

and I'm going to set this trip camera up behind that tree,

- catch what's behind us. - Okay.

As darkness falls on Mount Hope,

Troy and Justin set up for one final night watch.

Troy, are you comfortable where you're at?

I'm a...

I'm a little cold.

What the hell was that?

What the hell was that? What is that?

I don't know, but I felt it literally right next to me.

- Like, I could feel it-- - Hold on.

Can we get somebody to follow us?

Yeah, I want to know

what the hell's throwing infrasound at me.

You see anything, Sean?

Do you see anything at all?

I can't...

Whatever's making that sound,

it's either saying that it's scared

or it's trying to intimidate us.

I really don't know.

I'm trying to place my head around it

because I've never experienced anything like that before.

We have a bunch of trail cams.

I'm going to set some up on some trees in this area,

and then we'll be able to come back

maybe six or seven months from now,

and be able to review the footage that we have on there.

Obviously, we know there's something here,

but we really have a huge hike

to get back to Brittany and Charlie.

I don't know what that was up there,

but that was no bear, man.

No bear.

I got the results in

- for the DNA test. - Okay.

We got the scan of the footprint.

So the saliva DNA results,

they came back totally inconclusive.

That specimen doesn't match

any known species.

Let's take a look at the footprint. - Okay.

This is the one that you and I found.

You've probably seen the big bulbous digit. - I do.

Yeah, that is a monster toe.

What I want to do, though, is

compare it to the Sanderson cast.

- Okay, you ready? - Uh-huh.

Yeah, I can see it.

See the similarity there?

In this area?

Okay.

This is something in a similar grouping.

So we can rule out known species at this point.

For me, yes.

Based on all the evidence that we've collected... - Mm-hmm.

...I have to say that, in British Columbia,

specifically where the Ruby Creek incident occurred,

we're likely dealing with a new species

known as the abominable snowman.

We are so close to documenting this creature.

We'll head back into the field soon

to check those cameras Troy and Justin left behind.

There's more to investigate.

I can agree with that.

I just feel like it's still there,

it's still happening.

Whatever this species is,

is in the Fraser River Gorge.

Science is defined in the dictionaries

as the pursuit of the unknown.

Yet science today is coming to insist

that it not be bothered with this.

There is a very great deal more

to be learned.