1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,320 On this episode of Destination Truth, 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:03,920 So you saw three bigfoot. 3 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:04,640 Three bigfoot, ah. 4 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:07,240 Josh responds to reports of bigfoot sightings 5 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:08,560 in the jungles of Malaysia. 6 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,080 That looks like a bigfoot, Fred. 7 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:11,800 Will he discover the missing link 8 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:13,720 or will he become missing in action? 9 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,000 We must go up from this jungle danger. 10 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Move, move. 11 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,840 Then Josh makes a run for way, way south of the border 12 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,240 to track down Argentina's answer to the Loch Ness monster. 13 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:28,320 There is something really big out there. 14 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,320 Something's splashing around out here. 15 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:36,800 I'm Josh Gates. 16 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,200 My travels have taken me to the most exotic 17 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,200 and mysterious places on Earth. 18 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,800 I've seen some unexplainable things 19 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,800 which have raised some strange questions. 20 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,200 Now I've pulled together a crack team 21 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,200 armed with the latest technology to search for answers. 22 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,320 I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me, 23 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,320 but I know what I'm looking for. 24 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:04,320 The truth. 25 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:09,320 While everybody's heard of the bigfoot legend, 26 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:11,320 in Malaysia he's been headline news 27 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:14,320 ever since some fishermen spotted a family of the creatures. 28 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:16,320 Now people from all over the country are coming forward 29 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:18,320 to share their own bigfoot encounters. 30 00:01:18,320 --> 00:01:20,320 Of all the guys in bigfoot suits, 31 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:22,320 this may be the worst right here. 32 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:23,320 This is just rock bottom. 33 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:25,320 Okay, so where exactly is bigfoot? 34 00:01:25,320 --> 00:01:27,320 Well, the bigfoot thing is huge in Malaysia right now. 35 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:29,320 There's been sightings all over the Malaysian Peninsula. 36 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:32,320 Most of them have been here and around the National Park. 37 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:34,320 There's just been a lot of sightings there. 38 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:37,320 We've had eyewitnesses have seen bigfoot all over the Malaysian Peninsula. 39 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:39,320 So Blake, how many infrared cameras do we have? 40 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:41,320 Four. Four right now. 41 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:43,320 Each one has its own area on the screen. 42 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:45,320 And these things can operate in zero light conditions? 43 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:46,320 Absolutely. 44 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:47,320 And we have 50 foot of cable per camera? 45 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:48,320 Per camera. 46 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:49,320 And we've got stands for the cameras as well? 47 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:50,320 Yeah. 48 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:51,320 Where's the laser thermometer? 49 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:52,320 It's right here. 50 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:53,320 And that's all powered and ready to go? 51 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:54,320 Yeah. 52 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:55,320 This is the night shot deals up here. 53 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:56,320 Uh-huh. 54 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:58,320 So we've got the same principles like Blake's cameras. 55 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,320 And his cameras actually emit infrared light. 56 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,320 So you should be able to pick that up with your camera. 57 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,320 You should be able to shoot at will. 58 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,320 We packed up our surveillance equipment and made our way to the airport. 59 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:12,320 Eyewitnesses have spotted the creature crossing roads in Malaysia's Endorompin National Park 60 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,320 and at the river banks of the jungle. 61 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,320 Some even claim to have found footprints. 62 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,320 And if there was anywhere that bigfoot might be hiding out, 63 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:23,320 it would be in one of the oldest and least explored tropical rainforests in the world, 64 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,320 with sections cataloged to be 248 million years old. 65 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:29,320 But with no direct flight to the middle of the rainforest, 66 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,320 we first needed to stop in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. 67 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:38,320 After being stuck 20 hours on a plane where the only in-flight movie was Battlefield Earth, 68 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,320 I was ready for anything Malaysia might throw my way. 69 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,320 What I didn't expect was for them to be throwing a party. 70 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,320 I decided I should do some additional cultural research at once. 71 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,320 Alright, it's not really research, but the bigfoot eyewitnesses would still be available tomorrow 72 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:57,320 and the parade with beautiful Thai women and dragon flybys was one night only. 73 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,320 Since Bigfoot wasn't coming to my room to change my sheets and bring me fresh towels, 74 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,320 I hit the road to find Vincent Chow. 75 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:11,320 Mr. Chow. 76 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:12,320 Yes, how you doing? 77 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,320 I'm Josh Gates, very nice to meet you. 78 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:20,320 A member of the Malaysian Nature Society, Mr. Chow is the country's foremost expert on cryptozoology, 79 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:22,320 the study of unexplained animals. 80 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,320 We've heard there's been a lot of sightings and activity up in Andorampe National Park. 81 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,320 Four days ago, the workers heard howlings at 4am. 82 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:30,320 Okay. 83 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:33,320 It's actually by the side of the river that it's about 35 minutes drive from here. 84 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,320 Could you give us directions to this area? 85 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,320 Go to the western side of the park. 86 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,320 With only 10% of Malaysia's jungles having been explored, 87 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:47,320 Dr. Chow made a persuasive argument for the possibility of a large creature like Bigfoot staying hidden in Andorampe. 88 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,320 Plus, he'd personally spoken to dozens of eyewitnesses. 89 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:55,320 Most of these urbanites are well-educated people, not people like Yva, for example. 90 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,320 Before this sighting, did you believe in this? Did you believe in Bigfoot? 91 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,320 No, because I studied zoology. 92 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:04,320 You studied zoology? 93 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,320 When I came back, I told my friend I saw something close to the road. 94 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:09,320 Right. 95 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:10,320 It was very hairy. 96 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:11,320 Very hairy? 97 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:12,320 Yes. 98 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:13,320 We saw it. 99 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:14,320 We saw it. 100 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:19,320 With a background in zoology, Ava seemed like the last person to mistake an ordinary ape for Bigfoot. 101 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:25,320 Plus, she arranged for us to meet a driver who claimed to have seen a whole family of Sasquatch on the road to Andorampe. 102 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,320 So you saw three Bigfoot. 103 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:28,320 Three Bigfoot. 104 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,320 And they walked right across the road here. 105 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:31,320 Slowly? 106 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:32,320 Were they moving faster? 107 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:33,320 No, slow. 108 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,320 And were there other cars around? Did anybody else see this? 109 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:36,320 No, no, no. 110 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:37,320 Just you. 111 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:39,320 What do you think? 112 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:40,320 Well, I think it was. 113 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,320 Yeah, what do you think it was? Gorilla? Or Ranganthang? 114 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:44,320 Well, there's nothing. 115 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,320 The weird thing is, there's no Ranganthangs in this part of the peninsula. 116 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,320 So there's no gorillas in this part of the peninsula. 117 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:56,320 These sightings were interesting, but I wanted to head inside Andorampe so we could set up camp, break out our tracking equipment, 118 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,320 and try to find Bigfoot or whatever animal was roaming the rainforest here. 119 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:01,320 We've been outside for four minutes. 120 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:02,320 You're like a lobster. 121 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:03,320 Look at you. 122 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:04,320 That thing is... 123 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:05,320 Oh! 124 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:06,320 Where is it right now? 125 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:07,320 It's in that corner. 126 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:09,320 Oh my God. 127 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,320 Show them the pictures. 128 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:14,320 Look at it! 129 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:15,320 It's bigger than my hand. 130 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:16,320 Look at the... 131 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:17,320 Hold on, look at the fangs in the front of me. 132 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:18,320 I don't even want to get near the picture. 133 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,320 We finally arrived at the park where we met up with a guide named Adon. 134 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,320 One of your friends saw Bigfoot's nest. 135 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:31,320 Is it possible to walk out to that area or to hike into that section of the interior? 136 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:32,320 He couldn't take us into the park. 137 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:33,320 You must take up with me. 138 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,320 But he agreed to take us to another witness. 139 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,320 When they came face to face, what happened? 140 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:38,320 I'm here for the... 141 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:39,320 What is it here? 142 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:45,320 This uncle bring him at night because this Bigfoot have not dressed. 143 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,320 The sex is not human. 144 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,320 You mean the sexual organs? 145 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:50,320 It has a human... 146 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:53,320 So they went at night so that he wouldn't... 147 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,320 They would startle Bigfoot or embarrass him. 148 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:57,320 Okay. 149 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:58,320 You can communicate with Bigfoot. 150 00:05:58,320 --> 00:05:59,320 Communicate with him. 151 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,320 What did he say? 152 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,320 Bigfoot sound is like... 153 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,320 It's like the sound is like... 154 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:05,320 It's like the sound is like... 155 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:06,320 Hello. 156 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:09,320 Hello. 157 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:10,320 Hello. 158 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,320 Presented with this description of a naked, bashful, English speaking Bigfoot, 159 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,320 I did what any good investigator would do. 160 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:17,320 Okay, let's go. 161 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,320 After our quick detour to Crazy Town, 162 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,320 our next stop was the nearby Jungle River, 163 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,320 which was the only way to get into the heart of the park 164 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,320 where the Bigfoot sightings were reported. 165 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,320 But before hitting the bush, we needed some supplies. 166 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,320 This is a mushy curry. 167 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,320 It's a what curry? 168 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:34,320 It's a curry. 169 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:35,320 You call it curry? 170 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:36,320 Yeah, curry is always a good food to have 171 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,320 right before you go into the jungle. 172 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:38,320 This is what it's called. 173 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,320 Going back country with a big bag full of curry strapped to me. 174 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:42,320 Perfect. 175 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:43,320 It's just, it's perfect. 176 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:45,320 Protein bar? 177 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:46,320 No, no, no. 178 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:47,320 Boiling hot curry? 179 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:48,320 Please. 180 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,320 Yes, I'd like to bring that with me into the jungle. 181 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:54,320 Wow. 182 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:55,320 Monkeys. 183 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,320 There's like six monkeys sitting in the hood of our car. 184 00:06:58,320 --> 00:06:59,320 Is that, okay? 185 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:00,320 Can we just leave them there? 186 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,320 Okay, there's 20 monkeys on our car. 187 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,320 Mark, this guy's got, 188 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,320 this guy's got 20 gallons of open fuel. 189 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:09,320 His foot's on the fuel line, 190 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:10,320 covers off to the engine. 191 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:11,320 He's smoking a cigarette, 192 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:12,320 six inches away from it. 193 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:14,320 I don't mind the jungle. 194 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:16,320 I just don't want this guy to hindenburg this engine. 195 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,320 Hey guys, how's the engine? 196 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:19,320 No? 197 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:20,320 Bad? 198 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:22,320 You fix? 199 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:26,320 Yeah, I'm good. 200 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:28,320 What does that mean? 201 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:29,320 Chinya. 202 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,320 Chinya totally busted? 203 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:32,320 In Malaysian? 204 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:33,320 Is that what Chinya means? 205 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,320 After a few repairs and answered prayers, 206 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:39,320 we hit the river and headed for the Bigfoot Sighting Hotspots. 207 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:41,320 The first stop was a river bank, 208 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,320 where a fisherman said he had seen a pack of the creatures. 209 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,320 How big was the footprint? 210 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:46,320 How big was it? 211 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:47,320 What's the big of the yogurt? 212 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:48,320 Is it bigger than my foot? 213 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,320 The other evidence at all? 214 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:51,320 The other evidence at all? 215 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:52,320 The other evidence at all? 216 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:53,320 The other evidence at all? 217 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:54,320 The other evidence at all? 218 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,320 You see the footprint that he drew on the ground? 219 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,320 It was like Armstrong's moon and boot. 220 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,320 No toes, big prescription pill, 221 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:02,320 they're right in the ground. 222 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:04,320 It was like, no, I thought it was like, 223 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,320 did it have any toes? 224 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,320 I mean, I was like, oh, yes, yes, yes, 225 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:09,320 and he started drawing toes on it. 226 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,320 Taking one small step for man 227 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,320 and one giant leap away from fantasy land, 228 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,320 we headed deeper into Enduroppen 229 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,320 to investigate the grounds of the most recent Bigfoot Sighting Hotspots. 230 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,320 It's really, really dense in here. 231 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,320 There's definitely a lot of depressions 232 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,320 in the ground around here. 233 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:30,320 Leaves are all matted down. 234 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,320 It's hard to see specific kind of toe prints anywhere, 235 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,320 but definitely a lot of depressions in here. 236 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,320 Definitely starting to see what seems like a trail here, 237 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:43,320 all headed in the same direction. 238 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:44,320 Another big one, 239 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,320 and it's a little bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit 240 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,320 of a trail here, all headed in the same direction. 241 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:50,320 Another big impression here, 242 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,320 and another one right on top of it leading up 243 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:53,320 under this large stone area. 244 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,320 All sorts of busted branches all throughout here, 245 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,320 things just like snapped. 246 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,320 A lot of these trees have been falling over. 247 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:01,320 I needed a little more evidence than broken trees 248 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,320 to convince me that the missing link 249 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,320 had pushed its way through the jungle here. 250 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,320 Although there are no giant apes in Malaysia, 251 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,320 there are rhinos that could have made the clearing, 252 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:12,320 and that's when I found something that surprised even me. 253 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:14,320 Dude, look at that! 254 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,320 We must go up from this jungle dangerous. 255 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:19,320 What's that on camera? 256 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,320 Move, move! 257 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,320 Okay, let's double back down and look as we go down 258 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:38,320 and see if we can see any more, 259 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,320 because a lot of this has just been washed out by the rain. 260 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,320 It says a footprintish look to it. 261 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:49,320 Dude, look at that! 262 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,320 Definitely looks like a large foot impression with digits, 263 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:55,320 and the heel would be right here, 264 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:56,320 and you can see these toes. 265 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,320 One, two, three, four, five, right there. 266 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,320 What do you think about that, Mark? 267 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,320 Do you have that casting material with you? 268 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,320 This is footprint casting powder. 269 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:09,320 State crime lab. 270 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,320 Do not breathe or ingest dust. 271 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,320 Somebody else do this. 272 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,320 It didn't look like the type of print that a rhino would make, 273 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:18,320 but I needed to be sure. 274 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:26,320 All right, so we've got a bit of a wait. 275 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,320 Is there, uh, like a denny's around here or something? 276 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,320 So the print's going to be destroyed by doing this, 277 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,320 because we're not, we have to clear all the soil out. 278 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:42,320 What was that? 279 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:43,320 Five. 280 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,320 I was just shocked when I was concerned about it. 281 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,320 Basically, I'm just trying to dig out the surrounding area from the cast. 282 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:58,320 It's not very thick, so I'm trying to do it without snapping off any pieces of it. 283 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,320 All right, here goes nothing. 284 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:04,320 Wow. 285 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:07,320 Was it a print? 286 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,320 I wasn't sure, but it was definitely worth more investigation. 287 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:13,320 I decided we should stay and find whatever made this impression. 288 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,320 Our boat guides, however, had another idea. 289 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:22,320 They agreed to pick us up in the morning if we wanted to stay out here, 290 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:25,320 but they were headed home, because once the sun goes down, 291 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:26,320 the animals come out to feed. 292 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,320 This is going to be at my tent tonight is what I'm really excited about. 293 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,320 This is what you get when you come into the jungle, right? 294 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:34,320 That snake's on the ground. 295 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,320 That snake is on the ground. 296 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:42,320 That's totally going to be on me later tonight. 297 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,320 Having already had one close encounter with a nocturnal creature, 298 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:50,320 it was time to bust out our motion detectors, heat sensors, and infrared cameras 299 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,320 to try to find any conclusive evidence of Bigfoot's existence. 300 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,320 The four motion sensor cameras, we kind of want to sweep out of this direction. 301 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,320 So let's put one in this tree right here, 302 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,320 and then if we can get one that just sweeps straight up this way. 303 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,320 We set up base camp and placed our cameras in prime locations, 304 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,320 so if anything was moving around the jungle, we'd catch it on camera. 305 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:13,320 And with our sensitive audio equipment, we'd hear anything abnormal as well. 306 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:15,320 Keep an eye on the monitors. 307 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,320 I'm going to make a sweep with the perimeter and see what I can find. 308 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:46,320 So right now, I'm using the laser thermometer to read the temperature of the jungle, 309 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,320 which is about 75 degrees. 310 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:54,320 But if the laser hits Neil, it jumps up to about 85 degrees. 311 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,320 So I'm going to continue to sweep the area with the laser. 312 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,320 Watch for any jumps in temperature that could be Bigfoot 313 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,320 or any other large animals in this area. 314 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,320 Alright, it looks like this section is clear, so let's sweep the rest of the perimeter. 315 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,320 What's that on camera one? Yeah, right there, right there. 316 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,320 We got a bat coming through camera one. 317 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:37,320 Hey, we got a bat, right? 318 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:38,320 Got a bat, we know it works. 319 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:41,320 Camera two. There it goes again. 320 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:44,320 Maybe it's just the wind. 321 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,320 What the hell was that? 322 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:13,320 Did you hear that? 323 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:15,320 Move, move. 324 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:23,320 Anything pop up yet, Blake? 325 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:24,320 Camera just moved. 326 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:25,320 Which screen? 327 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:26,320 Camera two. 328 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:29,320 There it goes again. 329 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:30,320 Maybe it's just the wind. 330 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:39,320 Two's down. 331 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:40,320 Move, move. 332 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:03,320 Hold on, hold on, hold on. 333 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,320 It's picking up something. 334 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:17,320 Did you hear that? 335 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:26,320 It sounds like a growl. 336 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:40,320 It's a little bit of a growl. 337 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,320 Everyone keep their ears open, let's follow that sound. 338 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:10,320 What's that? 339 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:15,320 Guys, you okay? 340 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:16,320 Yeah. 341 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:17,320 Watch the water through here. 342 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,320 The waterfall's right there, it drops right off. 343 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:23,320 Go ahead. 344 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:28,320 F***. 345 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:31,320 What's the matter? 346 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,320 We went through, you switched up my arm. 347 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:34,320 We went through the huge storm bush. 348 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:35,320 Are you okay? 349 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:37,320 Dude. 350 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:42,320 I think whatever was out here is gone now. 351 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,320 By dawn we had found a river and plenty of thorn bushes, but no bigfoot. 352 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,320 With a strange growl captured on tape and our footprint cast in hand, 353 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,320 we headed back to civilization. 354 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:00,320 You need a car still there? 355 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,320 No, I think I need some money. 356 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,320 Did you see what the guy said to us when we parked the car? 357 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:09,320 He asked me to park it really close to the tree because it makes it harder for the locals to steal it. 358 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:13,320 And then as we got into the boat there was a thousand monkeys on the hood. 359 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:19,320 Dude, the monkeys did a number on the car. 360 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:21,320 All the other cars are fine. 361 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:22,320 Our car? 362 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:23,320 Lucky Poo Town. 363 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:26,320 Isn't this the spot they told us to park in? 364 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:27,320 Exactly. 365 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:29,320 Yeah, I was like, leave the car right here. 366 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:30,320 Pull up to the tree. 367 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,320 This is where monkeys love to just sit, crap and play with it. 368 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:39,320 We left the jungle and headed for the first car wash we could find with some intriguing evidence. 369 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:45,320 But when word of our discovery got out, we learned that we wouldn't be allowed to take the only cast of the footprint out of the country. 370 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:50,320 So we needed to make a copy in order to undertake additional scientific analysis back in the States. 371 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:55,320 And before you could say paparazzi, we found ourselves in the middle of a media storm. 372 00:17:55,320 --> 00:18:00,320 I never would have thought that a piece of plaster shaped like a foot would cause a media frenzy, 373 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,320 but in Malaysia, we were headline news. 374 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:09,320 As to how conclusive this is, I think it's something unexplained. 375 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,320 The most important thing is just that it helps to raise more questions, 376 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:16,320 propels us to investigate the unknown and find the truth. 377 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:23,320 I'd gathered enough evidence to believe that there was something big roaming the jungles of Endorompin National Park. 378 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:29,320 And I was off to take our evidence back to the States to get some scientific insight into the strange noise we captured on tape. 379 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:34,320 And to see if the print we found in Endorompin could actually be attributed to something the likes of Bigfoot. 380 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:40,320 Our first meeting was with Michael D, curator of the Los Angeles Zoo, to go over our audio evidence 381 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:45,320 and see if he could identify the sounds we captured as coming from a familiar creature. 382 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,320 The cricket noises, but there's that noise throughout it. 383 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:57,320 There's a kind of a droney noise. 384 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:00,320 What do you think? 385 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:04,320 It's obviously something, but that certainly doesn't sound like a mammal that I'm familiar with. 386 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:07,320 That noise is something that you can readily identify. 387 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:08,320 No. 388 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:13,320 Unable to get anything definitive from our audio evidence, we hoped that the cast we made would provide some answers. 389 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:17,320 So we flew to Idaho State University where we met with Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, 390 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:23,320 one of the country's foremost primatologists and also the resident Bigfoot expert to see what he made of our footprint. 391 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:27,320 My research involves primate and human evolutionary biology. 392 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:33,320 So that's what brings my interest particularly to footprints, both ape and human and pre-human. 393 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,320 So this is right at my alley. 394 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:42,320 I'm very anxious to take a look at this and see if what you have really suggests are unknown bipedal primate. 395 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,320 Let's take a look at the actual cast and you can tell us what you think. 396 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,320 Well, there are a number of things that are puzzling about this. 397 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:51,320 Primate foot has a tendency for a natural kind of curvature. 398 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:56,320 The point being that the divergent toe is typically on the inside of that curvature. 399 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:03,320 Whereas here we've got the opposite situation where what you might think would be a rudimentary first digit. 400 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,320 It's on the opposite side one might expect. 401 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:10,320 It's sticking off to what would otherwise be interpreted as the outside edge of the foot. 402 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,320 So that is really odd and unusual. 403 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:19,320 And in this situation you're always at the mercy of your own interpretation of what you see as a series of impressions. 404 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:24,320 Considering all the particulars, I think it boils down to essentially three possibilities. 405 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:29,320 One is it's just a series of potholes that have a strong resemblance to the eye resembling a foot. 406 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:36,320 The other possibility would be that it is the superposition of the track of a commonly known animal, say a rhinoceros. 407 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:44,320 The third possibility would be that in fact this may represent a plant-a-grade pentadactyl foot, a flat five-toed foot, 408 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:50,320 which has some resemblances to reports of big foot and footprint evidence from North America. 409 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:55,320 While the indentation in the ground might have been just the pothole as suggested by Dr. Meldrum, 410 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,320 the pronounced digits in the track-like pattern discovered in the area was certainly unusual 411 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:04,320 and were consistent with the eyewitness reports which had sent us to that very location. 412 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:10,320 We did capture a strange growling sound that Michael D. couldn't attribute to any known mammal and something knocked over our camera. 413 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:16,320 Based on our evidence, I feel it's possible that a large unknown creature could have made a home in Endorompin 414 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:23,320 and it's clearly only a matter of time before I end up back in the jungle looking for bigfoot, perhaps next time with a bigger net. 415 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:29,320 In the meantime, however, I read reports of a giant lake monster terrorizing a resort town in southern Argentina. 416 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:34,320 The creature is called the Naulito. The Naulito is the Latin version of the Loch Ness monster 417 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,320 and is reported to share similar features to its Scottish counterpart. 418 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:45,320 It is described as having a large hump, a long neck, and a head that looks kind of like that thing that explodes out of John Hurts' chest and alien. 419 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:49,320 This is a suggested that the Naulito travels in and out of its home in Naulwapi Lake 420 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:54,320 by slithering through a 300-mile underwater tunnel system leading to the Pacific Ocean, 421 00:21:54,320 --> 00:22:01,320 meaning that one, it's not an easy creature to track and two, it apparently has a lung capacity rivaling Lance Armstrong. 422 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:05,320 So we packed up at Hoff the Plain de Buenos Aires, Argentina to meet with Fabian, 423 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,320 a local reporter who claims to have caught the creature on camera. 424 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,320 So we have taken another cab because there's car traffic. 425 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,320 You're saying that you don't worry? 426 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,320 Does this happen often? Car breaking down? 427 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,320 It's too hot today to drive. 428 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,320 Too hot today for the car. 429 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,320 It's okay. Hey, what are you going to do? We need another cab. 430 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,320 Car breaking down. 431 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,320 And here's the tow truck, right on time. 432 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:41,320 It's amazing, it takes 20 minutes to get a cab, 2 minutes to get a tow truck. 433 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,320 Doesn't make any sense. 434 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:49,320 With our taxi out of commission, I took a bus to the Natural History Museum where we met with Fabian. 435 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:55,320 You believe as a journalist that there is enough evidence to support the idea that a creature of this size could be living in this lake? 436 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:56,320 Where did I go? 437 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,320 I think there's something there. I can't say what it is, but there's something. 438 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,320 He says yes, absolutely. There's definitely something there. 439 00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:09,320 While working as a reporter at a local news station, Fabian claimed to have caught the monster on film. 440 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,320 Who actually shot the footage? 441 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:12,320 One of our cameramen. 442 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,320 He came down the mountain. 443 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,320 And he saw it in the lake. 444 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,320 And that's when he turned on the camera. 445 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:24,320 Actual footage of a creature seemingly born out of nightmares and folktales right here on video. 446 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,320 I couldn't wait to see it with my own eyes. 447 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:31,320 Oh my God. 448 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:48,320 So here we were in Buenos Aires watching professionally captured news footage of the Naulito. 449 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:53,320 It seemed as if South America's answer to the Loch Ness monster was ready for its close-up. 450 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,320 Oh yeah. 451 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:01,320 Oh my God. 452 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,320 There is something really big out there. 453 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,320 Or it may be close-up was too strong a word for it. 454 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,320 This was more like nosebleed sea to the Super Bowl. 455 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:16,320 But what I could make out suggested that it wasn't a seagull or a local water skier making waves in the Naulwapi Lake. 456 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,320 Thank you very much for showing us this footage. 457 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,320 I actually find this footage very, very interesting. 458 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:25,320 I certainly wanted to get to the bottom of the sightings and one thing was for sure. 459 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,320 I wasn't going to find a giant lake monster in downtown Buenos Aires. 460 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:30,320 Gracias. 461 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:31,320 Gracias. 462 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:37,320 My team and I caught the next plane to Bariloche, a town nestled high in the Andes and on the edge of the Naulwapi Lake, 463 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,320 the spot where the creature reportedly calls home. 464 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,320 The Naulito is after all named after it. 465 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:51,320 Covering a surface area of about 2,927 square miles and with a depth of over 2,000 feet similar to that of Loch Ness, 466 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:55,320 this was the perfect spot for a giant prehistoric serpent to call home. 467 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,320 Upon arrival in Bariloche, I interviewed another eyewitness, Kohli, 468 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:09,320 a local journalist who had his own experience with this monster in the same section where Fabian's footage was originally shot. 469 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:16,320 We hopped a chairlift to high atop the mountain where Kohli was able to point out the exact spot where he claimed to have seen the Naulito. 470 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,320 You saw two fins coming out of the water, like a double arch. 471 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:20,320 Like a double arch. 472 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,320 And they were moving? 473 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:25,320 Yes, they were moving, I mean walking speed. 474 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:26,320 Okay. 475 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:27,320 We're 6, 7 grams for now. 476 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:28,320 Okay. 477 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,320 So you were able to follow the fins for how long? 478 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:31,320 A minute or two. 479 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:32,320 So quite a long time. 480 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:33,320 Quite a long time, yes. 481 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,320 And all these people were on the shore walking along following this... 482 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:37,320 Everyone was. 483 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,320 But all of those people who were there that day, they all believe. 484 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:41,320 They all believe. 485 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:45,320 That's a common experience where they all believe they saw something big in the water. 486 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,320 Yes. 487 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,320 And so what do you think we're talking about here? 488 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:49,320 Do you think it's a dinosaur? 489 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,320 Do you think we're talking about just a fish that's not supposed to live in these waters? 490 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,320 I don't know. 491 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,320 You don't know? 492 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:56,320 I don't know. 493 00:25:56,320 --> 00:26:01,320 Holy couldn't tell me exactly what the creature he'd seen was or where it came from, but 494 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:06,320 suggested that I speak to a local named Antonio Las Jeras, who besides having impeccably groomed 495 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:11,880 facial hair and a house decorated entirely with portraits of himself, had been studying 496 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,320 the Nauele Tu for decades and had a theory as to the origins of the lake monster. 497 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:17,320 Very good. 498 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:21,320 A German researcher, Ronald Richter. 499 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:27,320 There was a German investigator named Ronald Richter who investigated an island in the 500 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:29,320 middle of Nauele Wapi. 501 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:38,320 Realized a number of studies on nuclear fusion, atomic fission. 502 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,620 What Las Jeras was saying was that in the 1940s nuclear experiments were being conducted 503 00:26:42,620 --> 00:26:45,320 on an island in the middle of Nauele Wapi Lake. 504 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,320 It was these nuclear experiments and their resulting disposal of toxic waste into the 505 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,320 lake that Las Jeras used to support his theory. 506 00:26:52,320 --> 00:27:01,320 It's very possible that after that, for example, people throwing out trash in Nauele Wapi might 507 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,320 have affected the consistency of the water. 508 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:07,320 And genetically altered things living in the water? 509 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:08,320 Absolutely. 510 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,320 A monster born from the bowels of a nuclear experiment gone wrong? 511 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,320 Did I just step into the pages of a Stan Lee comic or what? 512 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,320 In a very short time, I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 513 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 514 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 515 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 516 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 517 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 518 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 519 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 520 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 521 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 522 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 523 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 524 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 525 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,320 I was in the middle of a nuclear war. 526 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,320 There's an atomic device. He was never successful. 527 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,320 But he did experiment here 528 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,320 and tried to build a primitive atomic facility on the island. 529 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:55,320 According to some legends that atomic material 530 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,320 may have gotten in the lake 531 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,320 created some sort of super creature. 532 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,320 With dilapided structures at every turn, 533 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,320 the island looked like a science fiction movie 534 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,320 where mad scientists from the 40s 535 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,320 had used the island as a testing ground 536 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,320 to perform nuclear experiments 537 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,320 and then just abandon the place when everything had gone wrong. 538 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,320 I kept telling myself that this wasn't a movie. 539 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,320 And the reality was that mad scientists from the 40s 540 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,320 had used this island as a testing ground to perform nuclear experiments 541 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,320 and then just abandoned the place when everything had gone wrong. 542 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,320 But as strange as the place was, 543 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,320 could the Wemble project have created a giant sea-dwelling monster 544 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,320 that still lives here today? 545 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:32,320 Hello! 546 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,320 My team and I scoured the island for any evidence of an abnormal inhabitant, 547 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,320 and while some of the buildings certainly weren't up to code, 548 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,320 there were signs of nuclear testing everywhere. 549 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:46,320 But that's all we found. 550 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,320 This is one of Richter's labs where they claimed they had succeeded 551 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:54,320 in doing thermonuclear experiments. 552 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,320 Most people say that he never achieved the sort of heat 553 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,320 that would be required to actually pull that off, 554 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,320 but this is one of his labs here on the island. 555 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,320 Cookie Nazi scientist. 556 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,320 As desperately as I wanted, 557 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,320 the crazy scientist becomes obsessed with power, 558 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:14,320 tries to develop nuclear fission and ends up creating a giant monster theory to be true, 559 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,320 it just didn't pan out. 560 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,320 That being said, I still felt that the most compelling eyewitness I met 561 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,320 was a local fisherman, Carlos, 562 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,320 who was so sure that he had seen the creature that he never returned to the lake again. 563 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:32,320 This was surprising considering that this was a man who lived with a terrifying beast of his own. 564 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,320 Lovely. Very very friendly. 565 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,320 Man's best friend. 566 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:45,320 It was evident that it would take something seriously scary to spook him. 567 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,320 You are or were a fisherman here? 568 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,320 You're a fisherman. 569 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,320 Do you still fish now? 570 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,320 Every day. 571 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:55,320 Do you fish now? 572 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,320 No. 573 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,320 Why did you stop fishing? 574 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,320 He'd heard about this, but he never believed. 575 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,320 He never believed in Nahuatlito. 576 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,320 Until one time he saw it. 577 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,320 When the creature itself came to the surface, 578 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:18,320 you did not see the head and you did not see any characteristic features. 579 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:19,320 This is all he saw. 580 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,320 You saw a mass come to the surface. 581 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,320 And then it would just disappear. 582 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,320 And so water was just blooming up. 583 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,320 It was very clear what it was. 584 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:39,320 Was it this event, this sighting of this creature that caused him to stop fishing entirely? 585 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,320 Yeah. 586 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,320 And you were known to the town as a fisherman and you fished all the time 587 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,320 and you just gave it up after this event because you're scared to go in the lake? 588 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:48,320 Is that right? 589 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:49,320 Yes. 590 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,320 This guy's life was fishing and mine is truth-seeking. 591 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,320 If something was in the lake, I need to investigate further. 592 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,320 So it was time for swim. 593 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,320 Strange splashes in the water. 594 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,320 Kids see anything though. 595 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,320 It's just so dark. 596 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,320 Okay, that's freaky. 597 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:21,320 We headed to the spot on the giant lake where the sightings of the Nahuatlito lake monster had been most frequent. 598 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:24,320 Mark and I hit the water armed with dive cameras, 599 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,320 sonar and underwater headsets. 600 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:30,320 If there was anything of size in this lake, our gear was going to pick it up. 601 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:34,320 But the locals didn't find any of this cool stuff to be nearly as interesting as I did. 602 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,320 What? 603 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,320 While Eric and Lindsay stood by for contact on the shore, 604 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,320 Mark and I covered head to toe in neoprene, took the plunge. 605 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:49,320 We had our sonar to detect any large objects that might be moving at the bottom of the lake. 606 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,320 But what we weren't counting on was the utter lack of water. 607 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,320 What we weren't counting on was the utter lack of visibility. 608 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:01,320 With so much silt and debris in the lake, the sonar and our cameras were rendered relatively useless. 609 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:08,320 Unable to collect any evidence from below, we knew our only option was to do a night search from the surface. 610 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:13,320 The fishermen had claimed to have seen the Nahuatlito at sundown when no other boats were on the lake. 611 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:19,320 Underwater predators tend to feed on the surface during dusk, so it was time to lay bait for our monster. 612 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,320 A process known to fishermen as chumming. 613 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:25,320 Eric and Lindsay were monitoring our four night vision cameras from land, 614 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:31,320 while Mark and I scanned the lake with our night vision camera and thermal imager for any disturbances on the surface of the water. 615 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,320 If we had any chance of catching the Nahuatlito, this was our best shot. 616 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:42,320 They get to stay on land instead of cameras and we get to go out in the middle of a rough lake in complete darkness and look for a giant monster. 617 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:48,320 Camera one, black. Camera two, black. Three. 618 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:55,320 That's more of a dark gray and four beautiful, beautiful moonshot actually. Very nice. 619 00:32:55,320 --> 00:33:01,320 Almost all the eyewitnesses have seen it when it's been very quiet, when there hasn't been a lot of activity. 620 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:05,320 And they have a van here in Bariloche for boats coming out here after nightfall. 621 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:11,320 So we're really the only boat on the entire lake right now, which is kind of amazing if you consider how large this lake is. 622 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,320 We're the only boat out here. We're completely alone. 623 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:24,320 The swell is kind of grouped together and for a minute it's like an optical illusion. 624 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:28,320 For a minute it looks like something is traveling through the water, but then it all breaks apart. 625 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:37,320 It's picking up all sorts of strange stuff, but it all just looks like waves and whitecaps, but a lot of activity out here has a lot of water moving around. 626 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,320 Eric, come in. Are you guys there? 627 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:45,320 Yeah. It's really dark out here. We've just switched over to night vision. We're pretty far from shore at this point. 628 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:55,320 It's just pitch black out here. We're imaging the surface of the water with the night vision and with the thermal camera, but it's really difficult to make anything out here. 629 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:56,320 It's a pretty dark night. 630 00:33:56,320 --> 00:34:03,320 We're going to try to cruise out to the center of the lake. It's a bit choppy out there, though, but we really want to get out there and survey that area. 631 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:08,320 Josh, keep an eye on your gas. You only had about a quarter tank when you left. I don't want you swimming back. 632 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,320 Let's go. 633 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:20,320 Let me know if you find anything on the cameras. Okay? 634 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:25,320 We don't have a visual of you guys. You guys are really on your own, so be very careful. 635 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:35,320 Everything looks really promising for a second, and then it kind of reveals itself, just falls apart. You just notice it's a bunch of waves. It's getting rough as hell out here, though. 636 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:39,320 It's so dark out here that our visibility is limited to just about 30 yards. 637 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,320 Eric, we're going to start chumming the water. 638 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:44,320 Okay. 639 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,320 Squid. 640 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,320 It is a big, massive shrimp. 641 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:51,320 Everyone's favorite. 642 00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,320 Big, dead fish heads. 643 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:00,320 Nothing yet. 644 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,320 What was that? 645 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,320 Something splashing around out here. 646 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:16,320 Damn it. 647 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,320 Eric, we got a problem with the motor out here. 648 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:19,320 What? 649 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:20,320 It's a big fish. 650 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:21,320 It's a big fish. 651 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:22,320 It's a big fish. 652 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,320 It's a big fish. 653 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:24,320 It's a big fish. 654 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:25,320 It's a big fish. 655 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:26,320 It's a big fish. 656 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,320 Eric, we got a problem with the motor out here. 657 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,320 Please tell me you didn't just say that. 658 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:32,320 Alright, come on. 659 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:43,320 What was that? 660 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,320 Something splashing around out here. 661 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:52,320 You see anything? 662 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,320 Just a lot of creepy water. 663 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,320 It's all these swells out here. 664 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,320 Some of them get kind of white caps on them, 665 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,320 but just some loud, strange splashes in the water. 666 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,320 Hey Josh, you picking anything up on your infrared binoculars? 667 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:13,320 Right there, right there. 668 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:14,320 You see that? 669 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,320 It looks like something comes close to the surface of the water. 670 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:20,320 It looks like a big fish. 671 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:21,320 It's a big fish. 672 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:22,320 It's a big fish. 673 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:23,320 It's a big fish. 674 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:24,320 It's a big fish. 675 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,320 It looks like a shadow passing below the surface. 676 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:36,320 Okay, that's freaky. 677 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,320 It's just so hard to see because of the lack of... 678 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,320 Right there, right there, this shadow, right there. 679 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,320 Carter, those splashes seem to be coming from over in that direction. 680 00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,320 Hold on, we're going over there now. 681 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:02,320 Come on. 682 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,320 Come on. 683 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:12,320 Let's go. 684 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:17,320 Damn it. 685 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:19,320 Eric, come in, Eric. 686 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:21,320 Yeah. 687 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,320 Eric, we got a problem with the motor out here. 688 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,320 Please tell me you didn't just say that. 689 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,320 I don't even know if I can ask anybody to come get you. 690 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,320 You guys aren't supposed to be out in the lake at this time. 691 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:32,320 Yeah, that's a good point. 692 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:34,320 Give me a couple minutes. 693 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,320 We'll get it started up. 694 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,320 I hope they don't get stuck out there. 695 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,320 Come on, Josh. 696 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,320 Eric, do you have visual on us on any of your cameras? 697 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,320 Josh, you're way too far out and you probably only have fumes left in your gas tank. 698 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,320 I'm not going to say I told you so. 699 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,320 Okay, well don't say I told you so. 700 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,320 Come on, come on, come on, come on. 701 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:11,320 Come on, there we go. 702 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,320 Eric, I got the motor up. 703 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:15,320 We're coming in now. 704 00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:17,320 Thank God. 705 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,320 You think whatever you heard out there is still there? 706 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,320 Whatever it was, it's long gone now. 707 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:23,320 Carter, we're headed in. 708 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:28,320 Like our eyewitness, I was confident I'd seen something on the lake that night. 709 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,320 However, with a faulty boat engine, no sonar, 710 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,320 and a good chance of getting arrested for violating the boat curfew, 711 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,320 I felt it was about time that we left the boat. 712 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,320 In the morning, I spoke with Dr. Roger Weewel, 713 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,320 who was not only a highly regarded scientist in the world of seismology, 714 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,320 but also, as he claimed, a nowelito witness. 715 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,320 The good doctor gave us a technical explanation for what he believes 716 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,320 causes the disturbances on the surface of the lake, 717 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,320 viewed by himself and many others. 718 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,320 I saw a...what looks like the wake of a boat. 719 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,320 From where I was, you get quite a wide view of the lake. 720 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,320 The lake at the time was absolutely beautiful. 721 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,320 I was so surprised by the fact that I was able to see the lake. 722 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,320 The lake at the time was absolutely dead-carp. 723 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,320 And this thing went across, and so on the Monday I called Valdivia. 724 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,320 You know, the Tunians have a seismic center in Valdivia. 725 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:21,320 And just about that time, there had been a measurable seismic movement. 726 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:22,320 His theory was this. 727 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,320 There's a known, aggressively violent fault line passing under the lake, 728 00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:29,320 the earthquakes from which have killed 40,000 people over the years. 729 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:33,320 His theory claims that the nowelito sightings were little more than waves 730 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:36,320 caused by the floor of the lake vibrating under the seismic pressure 731 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,320 and then sending turbulence and debris to the surface. 732 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:48,320 If you imagine what I saw on flat water with a normal wind coming this way 733 00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:54,320 and the weight going that way, it will create rises in the water. 734 00:39:54,320 --> 00:40:00,320 You know, this is the first sort of logical explanation that I've heard. 735 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,320 Dr. Weowall's tiny earthquake theory made a lot of sense, 736 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,320 but I wanted to have our video forensics experts back in the States 737 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,320 analyze the footage that Fabian's news crew had shot. 738 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:13,320 So we met with Greg Stuchman of the Stuchman Audio Video Laboratory. 739 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,320 A leader in forensic video investigation, 740 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:19,320 Greg was confident that if there was any way to identify what this image was, 741 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:20,320 he would find it. 742 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,320 So you have this nowelito footage? 743 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:23,320 Yes, that's what we do. 744 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,320 Now, were you able to do anything with this at all? 745 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:27,320 Very little. 746 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:28,320 Yeah. 747 00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:29,320 Very little. 748 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:30,320 How were you able to do so a little bit? 749 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,320 Well, mostly because there's so many copies of it made. 750 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,320 If it was the first generation copy, 751 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,320 we might be able to do something with it. 752 00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,320 Every time it's copied, you lose approximately 10% of the quality. 753 00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,320 So you got down to, say, maybe 5, 6 copies. 754 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:45,320 You lost half the resolution. 755 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,320 And if you didn't have great footage to begin with, it's a waste. 756 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:50,320 Right. 757 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:51,320 We went to this lake. 758 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,320 I can see kind of the area that it's taking place, 759 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:54,320 and we went up this chairlift. 760 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,320 And it's leaving a large area of wake behind. 761 00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,320 So at least in that sense, it does look like it's something that has some mass to it. 762 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,320 You can see some different coloration pattern in the water. 763 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,320 There's definitely something there. 764 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:07,320 But who knows what. 765 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,320 All right. 766 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:09,320 Well, thanks for trying. 767 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,320 You know, this one was a challenging piece of footage. 768 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,320 But we appreciate you guys taking a look at it. 769 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:14,320 You're welcome. 770 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:15,320 Thanks a lot. 771 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:16,320 But I wasn't finished yet. 772 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,320 I met with fisheries biologist Tim Hovey, 773 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,320 who gave us his thoughts on the strange shadow 774 00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,320 moving below the surface of Navel Waping. 775 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:25,320 Does that look characteristic to you of anything or not? 776 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,320 Yeah, that looks... 777 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,320 I mean, the water's surface is really rough. 778 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,320 It looks like you're getting light depth, maybe a foot or two down, 779 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,320 but it doesn't look like anything alive. 780 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:38,320 If it was something large moving through the water right below the surface, 781 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,320 it would display eddies on the surface of the water. 782 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,320 And I don't see anything like that there. 783 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:43,320 All right. 784 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:44,320 Well, thank you very much for your help. 785 00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:45,320 I really appreciate it. 786 00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:50,320 My time searching the Navel Waping for this Argentine lake creature was certainly educational. 787 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,320 While the eyewitness accounts of a large animal surfacing in the Navel Waping were compelling, 788 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:59,320 Fabian's video evidence was too poor quality to hold up to the analysis of the forensics' experts. 789 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,320 According to Dr. Hovey, the shape we saw moving below the water 790 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,320 was probably nothing more than a trick of the light, 791 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:09,320 and the loud splashes we heard may have just been fish feeding on our Navelito bait. 792 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,320 I feel that Roger's theory of earthquakes below the lake, 793 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,320 causing disturbances on its surface, 794 00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,320 could explain many of the eyewitness accounts. 795 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:21,320 Without definitive proof, I have a hard time believing that a giant monster lives under the Navel Waping. 796 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,320 Perhaps in time, more evidence will be found, 797 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:28,320 but until then, I have other sightings to investigate and many more secrets to uncover.