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In the 1960s...

...a strange corpse encased in ice

was revealed to the public.

Its eyes were absolutely human.

A six foot tall human ape species

billed as the missing link.

He could smell the rotting flesh.

This is just getting weirder and weirder.

Under investigation by Ivan Sanderson and the FBI

the body vanished.

For my money the body is still buried on the farm.

For the next eight decades...

I have heard strange creatures screeching.

...encounters with a similar beast.

I couldn't move. I was like I was made of stone.

With powerful hands,

and razor sharp fangs.

Do you find mutilated deer in the woods?

Continue in the Minnesota wilderness.

Oh, my God.

They ate these ribs.

Could the same undocumented species...

I only see two.

Where's the third one?

...be terrorizing the region to this day?

Did anybody else hear that?

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 some 40 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.

The Minnesota Wildman

might be one of my absolute favorites

because of all the twists and turns

and physical artifacts.

So let's just go over a few of the details.

The wild man is a primate species

with dark fur, large toes

and a distinctive ape like face.

Sightings of this creature

date back centuries to Eastern Asia,

where the Chinese government has documented this creature

collecting eyewitness accounts.

Hair samples, and footprints.

It's believed to be a descendant of Neanderthal,

but some speculate it could, in fact be the missing link

between man and ape.

So we have an uptick in sightings

in a location that was one of Ivan Sanderson's largest cases

he ever got to personally investigate in Minnesota.

Where Frank Hansen killed this alleged hominid.

I visited a man named Frank Hansen

to investigate a frozen Wildman corpse.

Hansen claims to have been walking through the woods

whilst hunting for white tailed deer.

Suddenly he heard a strange gurgling noise through the trees.

He continued his hunt

and in the middle of a small clearing,

came upon three hirsute beasts

tearing at the insides of a freshly killed deer.

In an instant, Hansen realized

they were some type of ape like man.

When one of the creatures charged at him, he pulled the trigger.

He then collected the carcass.

He then encased it in ice.

Showing anyone that wanted to see it.

It was essentially a roadside attraction.

That is when Ivan got involved.

He came and saw it for three whole days

at Hansen's private property.

He mentioned that it had an extremely large toe.

That it has almost like an auburn colored hair,

a reddish orange in tint.

And then you starts taking pictures of it.

You see it sitting?

- Mmm-hmm. - That was a lot when the ice started to melt.

He specifically said that he could smell the rotting flesh,

which is not something that you would get from, like a dummy.

Ivan Sanderson actually believed that the Wildman

was a possible hominid primate within our lineage.

In 1968

one month after visiting the specimen,

Ivan Sanderson went on Johnny Carson,

and proclaimed the missing link as found.

He then notifies the FBI

asking them to retrieve the body

from the Hansen Farm

for further scientific research.

In February 1969,

the FBI descends on the Hansen farm to retrieve the corpse,

but are turned away.

When they arrive again with a warrant

two months later, the body is missing.

Replaced with a plastic replica.

So we actually have correspondence in here

between Frank Hansen and his lawyer,

and the lawyer advised him to get rid of the body.

Wait, that's in there? - Yeah.

Wait. That's never that's never been seen before.

- I know. Yeah. - Can I see that?

Having this information explains

the timeline of the missing body, right?

And Ivan theorized that it was possible that Frank Hansen

disposed of that body somewhere on his farm.

Not only that,

we also have a recording of a witness who claims

he saw digging machinery at Hansen's farm

shortly before the body disappeared.

There's no way back then they had the technology

to comb that large for property for something so small.

But we do.

If there is a burial site on that property, we will find it.

Even after 50 plus years,

there's a chance the remains will contain enough DNA

to solve one of the most bizarre

mysteries Sanderson ever encountered.

But the story gets even bigger.

We have the site of where he supposedly saw the Wildman.

And so this would have been the place where he shot him.

- Yeah. - Okay.

Look, there's been an uptick

in recent sightings in that surrounding area.

That lines up pretty well.

Remember, it was like three of them,

surrounding a group of dead deer on the ground from hunting them?

So with this particular case,

there could be multiples out there still breathing.

It's possible that if we go out there,

we might be able to get new clues

or a new piece of the evidence

that nobody ever you've got before.

I think we have to go to Minnesota.

This Wildman case is complicated.

So we're splitting the team up based on our strengths

Tracy and I are gonna go try to track down

what may have happened to the Wildman body.

Because if Sanderson's theory was correct, Hansen buried

an actual missing link on his farm.

Justin, Troy and Brittany,

they're going to use Sanderson's map

to locate where Frank Hansen first spotted the Wildman.

Is this the creature who bridges the gap between man and ape?

If so, he's the greatest

anthropological find in history.

The face is his most startling feature,

both to anthropologists and anyone else.

A gruesome appearance,

which is enhanced by a considerable amount of blood.

This forest literally has about 4000,000 acers?

and parts of it have not really been touched or evaluated.

The account location that Frank Hansen did have

his account is in one of those pocketed areas

that most people just commonly don't go to.

Superior National Forest

is located in northeastern Minnesota.

The expansive area includes over 2000 lakes and rivers,

but Brittany, Justin and Troy,

will head to the Whiteface Reservoir area

of the forest, where there's one million acres

of remote territory, that is virtually unexplored.

Ivan Sanderson believed that this could possibly be

a type of missing link to the hominid genus.

However, there was also still speculation on the table

that it might also be a type of ape.

Now there are primates that live in cold environments.

But not in North America.

Japanese macaque

Uh, their body structure is going to be different.

They're built for that cold weather.

But could it could be a type of relic

that people thought went extinct,

like we think everything goes extinct

and then they're like, "Oh we found it."

This thing shouldn't be here anymore.

Yeah, I just can't see a primate living

in this type of environment.

So I want to look at every angle before I believe that there's

a mysterious Neanderthal from the dinosaur age.

That's just my opinion.

Arriving at Whiteface Reservoir,

the team meets with a local hunter

who had a bizarre encounter with this creature.

- Nice to meet you, Troy. - Nice to meet you. Hey, Troy.

Nice to meet you.

I'm Joel Sturgis. I'm a hunting guide.

I've been hunting guts for approximately 30 years.

I've seen just about anything.

Not much surprises me.

Except for the unknown.

My experience happened several years ago.

I had done a hunting trip with some guys.

They had left, and I was making myself some dinner.

And the next thing you know, I smelled a terrible smell.

Like nothing I've ever smelled out here before.

I look up and I saw

the biggest,

nastiest thing I've ever seen in my life.

Its eyes were absolutely human.

A couple of things went through my head.

Number one is I'm going to die.

I couldn't move. It was like I was made of stone.

Are we somewhere in the vicinity?

If you go right down that way,

about two miles.

- So we're really close. - You're very close.

Joel's account happened

literally within this area

and very close in proximity

to the original Frank Hansen kill site.

All right, let's roll these tents.

With the eyewitness accounts and Sanderson's map.

This is a perfect spot to start our investigation.

The Hansen kill site

is reportedly in a cedar swamp

two miles inland from the campground.

An area that's also in the middle

of recently reported sightings.

Guys, if we keep moving and we see a creek

and it starts to move in,

if we follow that,

it should take us up towards the Cedar Swamp.

Based off the map.

250 miles away, Charlie former intelligence Officer Tracy Walder

arrive at the location of Frank Hansen's farm.

That last location where the body was seen.

And some believe it to be buried.

- Hello, there. - Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

I'm Mike Walch I've lived in the area forever.

This farm here my brother bought it in ' 94.

And I bought it from him in 2017.

Before that, Frank Hansen owned it.

Right here in this corner is where I saw the Wildman of Frank Hansen for the first.

I've grown up next door for my entire life.

And we rented the farm. We had cattle here.

What do you know about Frank Hansen?

What kind of guy was he? What was he like?

He was he kept back to himself

a little extravagant with what he did.

And, but he was a great neighbor.

If we think we found something,

would it be okay to maybe dig around a little bit?

Sure, that's fine.

Hansen when he owned the property

it was a fully functional farm,

just like we're seeing today.

Look at that. So, based on the photographs

of Hansen's original exhibit, that's the original sign.

Oh, wow!

The current owner of this farm has been very generous.

Giving us free access to look for a body

that may or may not be here.

And I have special training that can help us find it.

As a former FBI agent,

Tracy trained at the agency's infamous Body Farm.

It's a research facility, but it's also used by law enforcement.

And you can basically see bodies

in various states of decomposition.

In various atmospheres.

One of the fastest decomposition rates

is when bodies are submerged in water.

This is a farm in Minnesota,

but on this farm there's lots of different microclimates.

There's kind of rolling hills.

There's ponds.

There's tall grass.

And those help me evaluate

where I'd like to look for this body.

There are so many ways

to get rid of a body here.

This is the area where he would burn things and bury things.

It wouldn't be a bad place to dispose

of the original wild man's body.

I think one of the best things to do

and they use them today all the time

in order to find people, is these drones.

I think you could cover a lot more ground a lot more efficiently.

So let me call some colleagues and see what I can do.

Yeah, let's do that.

I don't see any cedar swamps yet.

I mean, we're swampy, but it's not-- - It's gotta be well--

It was 50 years ago. Things changed.

We have to be realistic about the terrain.

Back in Whiteface Reservoir,

Brittany, Troy and Justin trekked through the dense

Cedar swamp noted in Hansen's account.

In search of the kill site marked on Sanderson's map.

And it's real thick back there.

The area that we're in, we're gonna find

vastly different predators.

So I'm gonna be looking for any sign of any wildlife

and try and narrow that down

to kind of get to a suspect, so to speak.

And that could be anything from

what kind of food is available,

what the climate is like.

And then on top of that,

we'll look for scat, fur, tracks, dens.

We have to take all of this information,

and then you have to dial that down

and try and get as close to possible

as what you want to find that needle in the haystack.

Do you want to set up some of your stuff around here?

Yeah. Look at right here, J, look.

You know how animals sometimes watch people on trails?

Do you see these two trees, right here?

Hey, do you guys feel that?

Did anybody else hear that?

Heard what?

It was like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,

boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

You kind of feel it in your chest.

It's almost like a a bass sound,

Hold on, it's doing it again.

I felt it. I was right behind you guys.

Justin. What the

You can feel the sound bouncing around in your body.

It's almost like a bass sound.

Is really weird.

Yeah.

Infrasound is a feeling sometimes,

like if you are face to face

with a big lion or a predator,

you'll feel like this power,

like you're sitting with a God like creature.

That's the best way I can explain it to you.

You kind of feel it in your chest.

Did anybody else and crew

feel that or sense that?

Infrasound is a low frequency sound that some animals can emit

that is below the range of human hearing.

Most animals use infrasound to communicate.

But others use it to scare off things

when they feel threatened.

It's weird, right?

Am I about to have a heart attack?

That was like, what-- It's--

I feel why is my body doing that?

You know, like it was unexplained.

When it comes to Wild men species across the globe.

There have been theorized cases that maybe they do know

how to harness the ability of infrasound.

I have to wonder if the Wild men in Minnesota

might also have the same type

of evolutionary advancement.

And might be able to utilize that sound as well.

Did anybody pick up the microphones?

Can we play back?

What you'll probably hear when you review it truthfully

is you're going to hear a bunch of clicking.

Like a...

That's even--

You did hear that?

Did you hear at that time in your head? - Yeah.

Listen to me. Is like-- that--

There's nothing like that here

that should be doing that.

All three of us felt infrasound at some point,

working with animals.

Immediately we need to know what this is coming from.

It stopped.

All right, let's slowly go up there.

We're just gonna have to be careful.

Whatever we were coming up on, didn't want us there.

And it was either letting a signal out

or it was warning others in the area

that somebody was in its territory.

I'm gonna set this snag up,

and I'd like to see if I can catch anything that might come through.

This is a hair snare.

I'm not making it to where it's gonna be a fence

where we're gonna hook an animal or hurt an animal.

I'm just here to get a hair sample.

Let's just keep moving, man.

Are these your guys?

Yep. Those are the guys I called.

So our going theory is that in 1969,

Frank Hansen took the original Wildman

and buried it somewhere on this farm.

Tracy and I just took the time

to explore the farm on foot, and it is massive.

There are way too many places

to hide a body disposable body.

We're bringing in drone techs to cover more area

in a shorter amount of time than we could ever hope to do alone.

Ready to get some drones up?

We're ready if you are.

- Okay. Let's go. - Let's go.

- Do it. - Okay.

So today we brought a drone.

That allows us to look for organic gasses,

and we also brought a ground penetrating radar unit

which allows us to look for any sort of underground disturbances.

We'll move the drone on to the pad,

I'll slide the case back a little bit

to just so it's out of the way.

Normally, we would bring out cadaver dogs

to smell for cadaverine, but in my opinion, drones are probably

the most effective and efficient tool

in an investigation like this.

Cadaverine is a chemical compound

produced by decomposing bodies.

It leaves traces for hundreds of years,

and every species has unique scent markers.

Cadaver dogs are trained

to identify the smell of the cadaverine

But it can only detect the specific species they were trained for.

But where they are limited,

modern technology often isn't.

All right. Send the motors.

The detection drone is an incredible tool for us.

It can pick up decomposing bodies.

It can pick up emissions.

And it will signal if it finds cadaverine coming from a body.

What we're mostly looking for here we'll see.

A small spikes in gas readings

along the flight route here,

But once we see those and we kind of covered the area a little closer.

So the places that we're most interested in

are the places just past there.

There's a clearing up over the hill.

So it looks like it's over the pond now, right?

It is a windy day,

so even if w e do get a spike,

it could be hundreds of feet away

from where it actually is.

Nothing.

- Really nothing. - Nope.

With the wind I don't think this is the way to go.

No, I don't think so either.

I think the conditions just aren't right for it.

All right, I'll bring her back.

The downside? No technology is perfect.

Gonna be difficult to determine what's coming from the ground,

especially because it's windy here,

and the cadaverine can be dissipated

by environmental factors.

Or covered by all the gas being produced

by the animals in the farm.

We need a plan B.

As the sun begins to set at Whiteface Reservoir,

Brittany, Troy, and Justin

draw closer to Hansen's reported kill site.

Can you please...

- Jeez... - Let me chop this out of the way.

Please, Louise.

Well, chop it for me, big guy, please.

Hey, guys, I think we got our clearing.

We're sitting in the clearing where Frank Hansen

actually saw the wild men and had his kill.

And when he came into the clearing,

that's where he saw those wild men eating.

This would be the spot.

You want to grab the game caller?

Yep, I got it.

For me to believe in the wild man, I'd have to see him

with my own eyes,

with evidence

to bring back to show everybody else.

Film, sound, samples.

I don't think they're gonna draw anything out with a game call,

but I'm willing to try.

If there's a wild man out here,

let's draw him in. I know I want to see him.

I'd like to see something. - Let's do it.

The plan is to use a game caller

'cause we want to be able to call out whatever's out there.

Or bring it closer to us so we can get some eyes on it.

These things must be eating deer.

So don't you think I use a deer distress call?

- Yeah. - Unless you want to hit Barry Manilow

and do soft and soothing.

Let's keep watching.

Something's calling there. Did you hear it?

It's weird. Do you see anything?

The tree line is super thick.

- Yeah. - You ready?

Yeah.

Okay.

Hold on.

Holy.

Justin, you got any ideas on this?

I mean, I would understand if it was

one deer disemboweled like this here.

But I can't really say much about it being piled up.

That's pretty unique to me.

Poaching. He didn't want to get caught.

I don't see any bullet holes.

Wolves wouldn't just leave these here.

Is there any, like, type of animal

out here that would stack

and kill the way like this is?

- Out here? - Mm-hmm.

No. There's plenty of animals that'll do it.

You got leopards. You got grizzly bears.

Those can stash and kill, but not here. Nope. Nope.

The gut being ripped open here,

I don't know necessarily what would cause that.

I mean, to be fair to your research,

they did say that they go into campsites.

- And take tools. - And steal tools.

I have no idea what kind of natural predator

would do this to a deer.

But I still haven't seen any evidence

of a wild man running around.

So we're gonna move forward and see what we can come up with.

I'd like to get out of here

before it gets to that dusk area.

Yeah, well, we got a long trek back,

so I'll set you up with some trail cams.

- I got you. - All right.

We've set up the trail cameras on the dead deer to see

if whatever killed them is coming back.

Connected. Got it. We're connected.

The next morning, back at the Hansen Farm,

Charlie and Tracy have a solution

for the failed cadaverine test.

The cadaverine detector hits were inconclusive.

I don't believe that anything that was put in the ground

60-plus years ago is still gonna give us those emissions.

We are flying in Matrice 300.

We've got a ground-penetrating radar unit.

- Awesome. - I like that.

That's exciting.

That's why we decided to switch to

ground-penetrating radar, or GPR.

It will give us data points that are more conclusive

and aren't subject to environmental factors like wind.

And we'll see if anything comes up buried.

This is probably my favorite piece of technology

that we've worked with so far.

Taking off.

GPR, or ground-penetrating radar,

is often used by law enforcement agencies

to locate hidden burial sites.

By sending radar signals into the soil,

it measures the strength and distance

of the signals bounced back to the device

to detect any unusual objects beneath the surface.

What's the depth on it?

Like, how deep into the ground can it go?

So, it's gonna depend on a few different things,

such as the frequency that you're using, uh,

the soil conditions, and things like that.

Um, but typically, we're getting ranges of six, eight, ten feet.

So, if the conditions are right,

this instrument could pick up a body

so long as it's above ten feet? - Yeah.

What about a skeleton? - Yeah.

Okay.

I find it really interesting that

soil quality also impacts GPR.

Water? Bad. Loam?

Bad for decompression.

Good for GPR.

It's so simple and strange, like, how there's this

intersection of soil quality in this case.

Looking around the area, I do have concerns that

it's a wet area.

That's not great.

That will increase decomposition rates.

I don't have super high hopes

that we're gonna find something intact.

Ah.

So, it looks like

we just got a small hit right about here.

If you could just double back over that area, Jared.

Let's see if we get the same hit.

So, that's a strong signal right there.

There's actually

some sort of anomaly down underneath the ground.

You can see how it's different from the rest of the data here.

- Kind of jumps out. - Yeah.

We can't tell you what it is right now.

The only way to know is for you to go ahead and actually dig it up.

But there is something there.

Can you send us the coordinates of where that is?

Uh, yeah. So,

you just go to the location and start digging.

Back at the Whiteface Reservoir,

Brittany, Troy, and Justin are returning to the site

of the dead deer to collect their trail cams.

What the?

- Look at this. - What the...

Come here.

Oh, my God.

That one there has completely been cleaned.

Oh, my God.

I only see two though, Jay.

Where's the third one?

Is it back in the...

Oh, it's back here.

- You found it? - Yeah.

- It's all the way down? - Where is it?

Holy.

This is insane.

Yeah.

So, to me it looks like they were pulled this way.

Um, it stops right here.

You can actually see the drag as it comes here.

Here's an actual piece of flesh right here.

Whatever did this was in a feeding frenzy.

These deer are torn apart.

Now, it's not exactly the same as Frank Hansen's account

of coming across the wild men feasting on the deer,

but it's certainly close.

I'm going to grab some samples.

It's possible we can get some other DNA off of these as well.

These are two really good pieces of bone to use.

- Um... - It's so clean.

- There really isn't any smell. - I might...

I might actually even...

- That's messed up. - ...take this broken rib right here.

- You see this one? - Mm-hmm.

All right. I'm not seeing any worthwhile prints

that can tell me exactly what did this.

I have a pretty good idea,

but I don't want to spit it out just yet.

Let's pull those SD cards and just check the cams.

Tell us for sure.

Supposing you ran into a creature that was

not just a cross between

a man and an ape,

but a perfectly normal progeny

of a race of beings

that was neither quite man nor quite animal,

what, apart from taking off for the nearest hills,

would you do?

If menaced, would you shoot it?

And if you did,

would you feel you had committed a murder

or had just been out hunting?

What I mean is,

where do you draw the line

and on what criteria?

All right, let me get this loose stuff out.

We have to get reasonably deep here, right?

- Like, we can't... - Right.

The ground-penetrating radar

had a hit here.

It's a data point. We don't know exactly what's down here,

but there was a disturbance in the soil.

So we need to attempt to identify what that disturbance was.

It could just be a rock,

but it's something.

Getting flashbacks to landscaping. -

You know what you can do with a natural resource science major?

This.

You can dig holes.

I think I found something.

- Tracy, come here. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Doesn't look like a rock.

Oh, Charlie, that looks like it could be a bone.

I'm really excited about the possibility.

This could be exactly what we came here for.

This bone could be related to the wild man.

We'll need to get this bone tested for DNA

or place its age.

Anything that can help identify

what this actually is.

We still need to be realistic.

This could be nothing.

There's cows everywhere. We heard coyotes.

My imagination is running wild,

and I really want to know what this is.

Okay, so I went ahead

and went back and grabbed the cards

from the trail cameras we set up.

- Okay. - And we did get some cool shots.

Oh, what'd we get?

Dude, that's a big old black bear right there.

Dude, look at the thickness of that.

Look at that muscle.

We did get other footage.

Look, wolves. See?

Damn. Look at him tear off at that thing.

I think that deer is 140 pounds.

And I can't believe the density of the size

of that wolf compared to that deer carcass.

That's a big wolf.

So clearly we see what the culprit is here. It's wolves.

Wolves and bears, which is exactly what Justin and I were talking about.

So in my belief here,

I think that what people are seeing, they're making up.

Minnesota has a large amount of predators.

Bears, wolves, bobcats, etc.

And all the things people are talking about that they're seeing,

they want to believe in this folklore.

They want to believe there's a monster.

But what they're probably seeing is

a large predator that either has mange

or hair differences, has blood on its face.

It can be confusing. You're scared.

Now you're seeing with fearful eyes and not logical eyes.

But how would you explain then

Frank Hansen's original report

where he stumbled upon these creatures that were

eating off a deer?

- Okay. - And then they got up and ran off.

When Ivan Sanderson got involved,

he started trying to put those pieces together to figure it out.

We need to do further investigation. - Exactly.

Being in these woods,

you almost can feel as though that creature

is around us.

There's just too much evidence to dismiss wild man

based on one trail camera video.

Our witness account happened at night.

So it's possible that what we're looking for is nocturnal.

And by morning, all the evidence

could be disturbed by other animal activity.

And that's what I'm saying, is I agree with you guys.

I can see where the misidentification would come into play.

But what if it comes back to feed at night?

There are parts to the story that I do firmly believe

that there was something there.

And I just want to know what that something is.

Brittany has a reason to believe

that this thing that she's looking for

may be a nocturnal.

If we want to find something, the best way to do it

is to go out when the animal is active.

So we're gonna go out at night.

Uh, some of the largest, uh,

predatory creatures are nocturnal hunters.

With this in mind,

perhaps cryptids are undiscovered for a reason.

They prey under the dark of night.

Yeah, therefore, the best time to see one

is the most difficult time to see one.

God, it's so dark.

Jay's in front because Troy and Justin were

trying to explain about wolves.

They try and separate the little one,

like the weakest. Which,

out of these two, that would be me.

Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Is that... I think that might be...

Justin, Troy, come here. I think I found a print.

Come here. Come look at it. Hold on.

- Do you see it? - That looks like a bunch.

Oh, don't step on it. I need it.

- Just calm down. - Okay.

- We can't see. - I know, I know.

I need to find one that I can cast.

Help me find one.

- Okay, yeah. - Get that one.

Look at that one, Troy. Look at that one. - I don't see it.

Oh, my God. Look at the size of the toe.

Whatever it is, it's fresh.

And this print is awesome,

because what Charlie mentioned

in his pamphlets from Ivan Sanderson

in regards to the feet was the toe.

The toe was large.

This footprint is massive,

and it has a large toe.

Before leaving the site,

the team pours a mold into the mysterious footprint

and marks it for retrieval.

Go this way and then in. - Okay.

Are you sure you're in the right spot?

Yep. I got it. I see it.

Back at Whiteface Reservoir,

the team doubles back to where they heard

infrasound the previous day

to check the hair snag for any activity.

Did you get anything? - Um,

- yeah, looks like I did. - There's a little somethin' somethin'.

Looks like something might have crawled under.

It's definitely hair.

You want to grab your kit? - Yeah.

Isn't that a ball of hair?

It's dark.

Back at base, I have, uh, my envelopes

to put it in for testing. So... - Okay. Let's do it.

The evidence just keeps piling up.

But we've got some major key factors here.

We've got the deer kill site

where they were stacked on themselves.

We've got a foot track. We even have my hair snags.

Based off the evidence that we collected,

I'm starting to feel like

something like the wild man may exist out here.

I just got the DNA analysis back.

Oh, awesome.

Full forensic report on our bone.

So it turns out we had a fragment,

not a full bone.

Now remember, bones generally aren't good for DNA.

- Right. - So DNA came back inconclusive.

- Okay. - I was kind of expecting that.

- Yeah. - And what we found out

is that that fragment

has been in the ground

for decades.

- In a way that lines up... - Hmm.

...when Sanderson believed

that the body of the wild man

may have been buried.

But for right now, we have something from the farm

where we believe the wild man corpse

may have been disposed of.

On the hair snag I also had set,

there were hairs on there as well.

The hairs we collected on the snag,

they looked red, but it also could have been blood.

We just don't know yet.

Now, where it begins to get interesting,

we found a footprint.

Look, so I have the original,

and then I also went ahead

and made a surface cast of it as well.

And the reason why I did this

was because all the dirt and inlay

from, like, the pieces of the ground

doesn't allow me to see the massive amount of detail.

The moment you made a surface cast, I could

actually see the detail of ridges in the foot and everything.

Now, what do you see

in this print

that has been continuously

drilled into our head with this case

with Ivan Sanderson?

That absolutely

- bulbous digit of a big toe. - Exactly.

How incredible is this?

- It's huge. - Yeah.

We were able to examine this in the field.

And basically determine that

whatever movement this was doing,

it was chasing and putting all of its weight

more on the frontal part and not so much on the back.

- This is incredible. - I know.

I mean, compared to primitive prints,

this has characteristics to the Denisovans.

Denisovans are primitive human species

discovered in 2010 that existed

during the same period as Neanderthals.

The Denisovans

were actually found in Siberia.

Closest to where we would have made the land bridge over.

There's been no discovery

of the Denisovans yet in America.

But they haven't even determined when they went extinct.

So this all aligns

with the branching evolution theory.

I think we're looking at a relic primate

with really strange feet.

And could very well still exist

in an isolated pocket.

In higher altitude areas

just like the Himalayas.

Or possibly the mountains of Minnesota.

The total sum of the evidence

paints a picture that there is

wild man activity in the region.

Based on our research,

we think there's a chance the Minnesota wild man

could be a novel, previously undiscovered,

brand new species.

But we don't have enough conclusive evidence yet.

We may never know the true fate of Hansen's wild man body.

But there are so many facets of this mystery we've yet to explore.

And the possibility of the existence

of an undiscovered species in Minnesota

is more compelling than ever.

Uh, science is defined in the dictionaries

as the pursuit of the unknown.

Yet there is a very great deal more

to be learned

about everything than is at present known.

And this applies to our Earth

as much as to anything else.