1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,620 On this episode of Destination Truth, Josh travels to Asia, trailing an outbreak of recent 2 00:00:06,620 --> 00:00:10,200 sightings of the abominable snowman in the mountains of Nepal. 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:13,480 It's highly possible that that kind of priestess may exist. 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:19,240 High in the Himalayas, Josh's search for what the locals call the Yeti leaves no stone unturned. 5 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:22,160 I'm spraying it in my face, ripped off my bare. 6 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:24,400 The expedition takes a dramatic turn. 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,520 Get over here right now! 8 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:27,600 Oh my God! 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,400 Josh makes a discovery that shocks the world. 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:31,840 Are you kidding? 11 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:33,440 I'm not kidding you! 12 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:38,560 I'm Josh Gates. 13 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:44,040 In my travels, I've seen some unexplainable things which have raised strange questions. 14 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:49,480 Now I've pulled together a team armed with the latest technology in the search for answers. 15 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:53,160 I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me, but I know what I'm looking for. 16 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:54,160 The truth. 17 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:02,240 We all know the stories of Sasquatch, or Bigfoot as he's known among friends. 18 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,360 Part man, part ape, and roaming around in the Pacific Northwest. 19 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:10,040 While some say that Bigfoot has a distant relative of the Asian persuasion, known as 20 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,040 the Yeti. 21 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,640 And while I thought the abominable snowman was a claymation monster that learned the 22 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:18,720 meaning of Christmas from Rudolph, there are a staggering number of people in the Himalayan 23 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:23,600 mountain range who think he's very real and terrorizing small Nepalese villages. 24 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,680 Skeptics claim that the Yeti is nothing more than folklore, fueled on by the misidentification 25 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,920 of animals such as the Himalayan bear, or merely the clever work of hoaxers. 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:36,200 But what makes the story of the Yeti compelling is that sightings have been regularly recorded 27 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,120 for over a thousand years with nearly identical descriptions. 28 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,040 With a rash of recent sightings coming out of the region, this story was begging to be 29 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:45,040 investigated. 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:51,240 Casey would be our lead cameraman, Brad would serve as our field producer, and Araceli 31 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,720 joined us as lead assistant. 32 00:01:53,720 --> 00:02:01,880 My team and I packed up our cameras, investigation equipment, and a lot of warm clothes. 33 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,520 I traveled 22 hours from Los Angeles to Kathmandu, Nepal. 34 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,880 Due to the really cold weather we're going to be facing, we have obviously a lot of 35 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:11,880 gear with us. 36 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:12,880 What's in here? 37 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:14,880 This is what we call a Yeti. 38 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:19,920 There's four airport officials looking over our documents again and again and again, trying 39 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,960 to figure out some way to build a few dollars out of us. 40 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,520 Everything's in order, but they keep going through it, being like, how can we charge 41 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,440 these guys a million dollars to leave this airport? 42 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:30,960 Yeah, no, just regular stuff. 43 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,520 You got some pens, you got some duct tape, you have night vision scopes. 44 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:39,920 If we catch a Yeti, we're going to duct tape them to the tree somewhere over here. 45 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:41,160 Welcome to Nepal. 46 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,080 We were finally able to leave the airport without being charged. 47 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,040 Located more than a mile above sea level, Kathmandu is the gateway to Mount Everest 48 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,760 and has become a shopping mecca for trekkers and climbers. 49 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,320 Do you have any trekking gear here? 50 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:55,520 Here, some over there, some down there. 51 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,640 Oh, I see it now. 52 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:01,040 I purchased some necessary gear and headed straight for a meeting with Dr. Swayam Prakesh 53 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,560 Sreshta, an acclaimed Nepalese primatologist and expert on Himalayan wildlife. 54 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,880 What do you make of these stories that people come forward with? 55 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:13,240 People say that somebody I've seen the Yeti is highly possible that that kind of creature 56 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:14,480 may exist. 57 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,640 Some people say that some animal have extinct, but we are seeing it now. 58 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,640 It's reemerged. 59 00:03:19,640 --> 00:03:26,040 So it's possible that 80-like creatures exist in upper Himalayas where the land is not explored. 60 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,760 So the human population is not there beyond 9,000 feet. 61 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,600 Beyond 15,000, there is always the snow. 62 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,720 The doctor helped narrow our search by eliminating populated low altitudes where the Yeti would 63 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,800 have trouble staying off the radar, and high altitudes where harsh climate and lack of 64 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,320 food supply would make life impossible. 65 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,640 The area in the middle is what I like to call the Goldilocks Zone. 66 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:46,120 Not too hot, not too cold. 67 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,800 We should look between 9,000 and 50,000 feet. 68 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:49,320 Great. 69 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,600 By cross-referencing this zone with recent sighting locations, we were able to pinpoint 70 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,080 a valley high in the Himalayas to set up our investigation. 71 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,440 This valley represented our best possibility for success. 72 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:02,280 The only problem was getting there. 73 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,120 A lot of gear, a lot of people, not a lot of aircraft. 74 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,560 Our journey to the valley where we wanted to set up our investigation required a flight 75 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,080 from Kathmandu to the small mountain village of Lukla, perched at 7,000 feet. 76 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:18,080 So my team and I chartered the next flight. 77 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,960 As beautiful as the scenery was, we found out that landing a 30-year-old prop plane 78 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,080 in the middle of a mountain range is a lot like the backside of a Yeti, a little hairy. 79 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,080 It's really, really narrow in here, not a lot of room for air. 80 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:41,080 Yeah! 81 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:42,080 Yeah! 82 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,080 That's how you do it! 83 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,080 We had arrived in Lukla, a remote village bustling with Sherpas, Everest Hopefuls, 84 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,080 and some of the world's best shopping. 85 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,080 Well, not so much. 86 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:02,080 As though the harrowing flight to 7,000 feet wasn't journey enough, we were still a four-day 87 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,080 uphill trek to the valley where we'd set up our investigation, a small price to pay to 88 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:08,080 get to ground zero of this story. 89 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:10,080 Can we get all the Yeti jokes out right now? 90 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,080 Yeah, the Yeti. 91 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:12,080 Are we there, Yeti? 92 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:13,080 Okay, we got them all. 93 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:14,080 All the Yeti jokes are out. 94 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:15,080 Let's do it. 95 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:17,080 I want to eat some spaghetti. 96 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:18,080 Spaghetti? 97 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,080 Dr. Srescht's enthusiasm for the possibility of the Yeti's existence was intriguing to me, 98 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:29,080 and countless stunning vistas in many miles later are elevation past 10,000 feet, 99 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:32,080 and my crack team, well, they started seeing things. 100 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:34,080 You see it? 101 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:35,080 Right here. 102 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,080 Where's the binocular? 103 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:37,080 Right here. 104 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:39,080 Boom, right there, it's out in the open. 105 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,080 Yeah. 106 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:41,080 See it? 107 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:43,080 It's kind of traversing across this way. 108 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,080 Let's move it quick. 109 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:46,080 Guys, it's a cow. 110 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:54,080 We pressed on, and after getting past the brutal rush hour cow traffic, we hiked another 111 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,080 four hours and arrived at the village of Namche. 112 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:01,080 Any of you guys seen the Yeti? 113 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,080 I talked to numerous believers in the streets. 114 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,080 Yes, you believe? 115 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:05,080 You do believe? 116 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:06,080 Have you seen the Yeti? 117 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:09,080 You know Yeti? 118 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:10,080 No? 119 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:11,080 Okay. 120 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:13,080 I can't win them all. 121 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:17,080 I was eventually led to a village elder who claimed to have had a recent encounter. 122 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,080 He saw a live Yeti. 123 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,080 And what did the Yeti look like? 124 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:27,080 Like a monkey with no tail. 125 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,080 And does he think that this looks like a Yeti? 126 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,080 You mind if I stay down? 127 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:38,080 All joking aside, the man told me that if I hiked three miles west, I'd come to where 128 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:39,080 he spotted the beast. 129 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,080 With darkness upon us, I was here for the night, and since Namche isn't exactly known 130 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:48,080 for its wild nightlife, I decided to make use of my time here and check out the man's 131 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,080 story before setting out for our investigation site the next day. 132 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,080 My plan was to brave the subzero temperatures with Brad and Casey, and together we'd look 133 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,080 for any visual evidence of the creature. 134 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:02,080 Since we'd been told the creature is nocturnal, I used the fleer thermal imager as our eyes 135 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:03,080 in the dark. 136 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:06,080 The nice thing about using the thermal imager out here is that everything in the surrounding 137 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:11,080 area is so cold that anything alive just gives off this really vibrant signature. 138 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,080 Brad kept an eye out for footprints or physical evidence, and Casey used a camera equipped 139 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:20,080 with a night vision astroscope, a military grade unit that intensifies available light, 140 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,080 allowing him to capture on video anything we encountered along the way. 141 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,080 There's something giving off heat at the top, but I think it's just a remnant from the 142 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:28,080 day. 143 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,080 Certain things kind of hold the heat. 144 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,080 Yeah, whatever it is, looks stationary. 145 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:34,080 All right. 146 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:35,080 Whoa! 147 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,080 You okay? 148 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,080 This stuff is slippery. 149 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:41,080 I'm going to head up this way about two, three hundred yards. 150 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:42,080 Yeah, check that out. 151 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:43,080 See what you see over there. 152 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,080 I'm going to go open this ravine a little bit more and see what I see. 153 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:46,080 Okay. 154 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:51,080 What is that? 155 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:52,080 Hey Josh. 156 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:53,080 Josh, you there? 157 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:54,080 This is Josh coming. 158 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:55,080 Josh, you there? 159 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:56,080 Josh, you there? 160 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:57,080 Josh, you there? 161 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:58,080 Josh, you there? 162 00:07:58,080 --> 00:07:59,080 Josh, you there? 163 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,080 Josh, you there? 164 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:01,080 Josh, you there? 165 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,080 Josh, you there? 166 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,080 Josh, come in. 167 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:07,080 I think I found an entrance to a cave. 168 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,080 All right, hang back outside. 169 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,080 I'm going to double back with a thermal imager. 170 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:11,080 We should be able to get a better reading. 171 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:12,080 I'm coming towards you now. 172 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,080 Believe me, I'm not going in there until you get a reading on that thing. 173 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:16,080 Probably a good idea, Brad. 174 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:26,080 A lot of folks around here think, yeah, he's living in caves. 175 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:27,080 That is a cave, yeah? 176 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:28,080 That's a cave. 177 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:30,080 There's droppings right here. 178 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,080 Where? 179 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:33,080 Right outside the door. 180 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,080 I have no droppings expert. 181 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,080 But that's the sh** of the Yeti? 182 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,080 Yeah, but this is some big droppings. 183 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:41,080 Okay. 184 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:44,080 Getting any readings. 185 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:50,080 There is kind of a strong smell. 186 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:55,080 There's droppings outside of it, so slow and steady. 187 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,080 Anybody hears anything? 188 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:57,080 Anybody hears any movement? 189 00:08:57,080 --> 00:08:58,080 Seize anything? 190 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:00,080 You should be super careful. 191 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,080 It's funny stuff. 192 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,080 It isn't a Yeti that lives up in caves here. 193 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,080 Like Himalayan brown bears. 194 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,080 That's not funny. 195 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,080 Well, hold on a second. 196 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:13,080 What's the plan? 197 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,080 It's where I get my face ripped off like a bear. 198 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,080 Jesus. 199 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:18,080 Okay. 200 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:44,080 It's like Charles vorne, 201 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:45,080 his face. 202 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:46,080 Oh, yeah. 203 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,080 like Himalayan brown bears. 204 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:52,080 That's not funny. 205 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:56,080 Oh, yeah. 206 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,080 Pretty tight quarters. 207 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,080 I got some fabric of some sort over here. 208 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:14,080 What the hell's an old coat doing in here? 209 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:22,080 Brad, this is Josh over. 210 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,080 Go ahead, Josh. 211 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,080 Cave opens up quite a bit in here. 212 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,080 I see the remains of what looks like a shredded coat. 213 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,080 I'm also getting a lot of leaves and debris. 214 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,080 I think farther back it must open up again to the outside. 215 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,080 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 216 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,080 More cave here. 217 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,080 Brad, this is Josh. Come in. 218 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,080 Go ahead, Josh. 219 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,080 I followed the cave down as far as I can. 220 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,080 It's just dry, dusty and rocky. 221 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:07,080 It's pretty big, though. 222 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,080 There is an opening that goes up to the outside. 223 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:14,080 There doesn't seem to be any evidence of anything living in here. 224 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,080 Some of this debris looks like it maybe is arranged for nesting. 225 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,080 I don't know, but if something was living here, it's gone now. 226 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,080 All right, copy that. 227 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,080 You're going to come out this way. 228 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,080 You're going to go out the other side where it opens up. 229 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,080 I think it's too steep where it opens up. 230 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,080 We're going to track back the way we came. 231 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,080 Try to grab the remains of this coat on the way back out. 232 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,080 God. 233 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,080 Little dusty. 234 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:40,080 Definitely spooky back there. 235 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,080 The pants are pretty solid-wripped. 236 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,080 It's a little weird, though, that there's like... 237 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,080 Oh, there's no human remains in there underneath all this. 238 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:50,080 I mean, I looked around. 239 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,080 It's coat pants and underwear, basically. 240 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:53,080 A bit hard to tell. 241 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,080 What to make of this? 242 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,080 Let's sweep back, see if we see anything else. 243 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:02,080 I mean, the cold and the altitude are already chewing up most of our batteries. 244 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,080 With camera batteries blinking red, 245 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:08,080 our search for the Yeti hadn't exactly turned up what I call compelling evidence. 246 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:12,080 And unless the abominable snowman has a habit of keeping a set of moldy clothes around 247 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,080 for special occasions, I'd say we haven't found squad. 248 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,080 That's it for homeboys. 249 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,080 We're getting here for another day. 250 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,080 Headed even higher. 251 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,080 I'll put it in a Himalayas. 252 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,080 The majority of Yeti sightings come from these trails leading to the base of Everest. 253 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:34,080 My team and I were systematically searching in the promising altitude of around 11,000 feet 254 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,080 on the way to our investigation site. 255 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,080 My plan was to cover as much ground as possible each day 256 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:43,080 and look for an environment that appears to be, well, Yeti-ready. 257 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,080 All right, so, I think we should keep trekking on this path, 258 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,080 get off in the mountains, and start doubling back down. 259 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,080 There's a little thin up here. 260 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:51,080 Whoa. 261 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,080 I think I just stood up too fast. 262 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,080 Yeah, can't stand up too fast at altitude. 263 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:57,080 Good. 264 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:58,080 You all right? 265 00:12:58,080 --> 00:12:59,080 I'm all right. 266 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:00,080 Sit down. 267 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:01,080 Man, I just... 268 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,080 Air is super thin up here, so any sort of like running, standing up quickly, 269 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,080 anything that just does like immediate exertion on your body. 270 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:15,080 All right. 271 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:16,080 That's just to happen more and more. 272 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,080 Everything went boom. 273 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:23,080 My team feeling woozy and Everest only a day's hike away, 274 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,080 I was reminded that nearly 200 people have perished, 275 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,080 summiting the world's tallest peak, 276 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,080 a sobering fact of how unforgiving this region can be. 277 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,080 So, Dower, you are our lead Sherpa. 278 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:35,080 Yes. 279 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,080 How do you feel about the Yeti? Do you believe in it? 280 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:38,080 I believe in Yeti's. 281 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,080 Do you believe in it? 282 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:40,080 Yes. 283 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:41,080 But you've never seen one yourself? 284 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:42,080 I never seen it, but I heard. 285 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,080 Yeti's been a part of the whole world. 286 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:45,080 I've never seen it. 287 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,080 I've never seen it. 288 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:47,080 I've never seen it, but I heard. 289 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,080 Yeti's head is a monastery. 290 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:50,080 The head of a Yeti? 291 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:51,080 Yeah. 292 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:56,080 Several years ago, controversial Yeti remains were mysteriously stolen from local monks. 293 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,080 One monastery still had a sample under lock and key 294 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:02,080 and was only an hour's side trip off our current route. 295 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,080 Two miles and six blisters later, my team and I arrived at the monastery. 296 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:11,080 Though we were told by our Sherpas that we would have no problem getting into the monastery, 297 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:15,080 our cameras were not well received by the normally reclusive monks. 298 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,080 I'm not sure if I can get into the monastery. 299 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:19,080 I'm not sure. 300 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:20,080 I'm not sure. 301 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:21,080 No, no, no. 302 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:22,080 No, no, no. 303 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:23,080 No, no, no. 304 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:24,080 No, no, no. 305 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:25,080 No, no, no. 306 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:26,080 Hey, hey, hey. 307 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:27,080 Easy, easy, easy. 308 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:28,080 I said it's good luck. 309 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,080 I'm not sure. 310 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:30,080 I'm not sure. 311 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,080 Can we talk to him about the possibility of getting around with us? 312 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:34,080 We're not sure. 313 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:35,080 We're not sure. 314 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:36,080 We're not sure. 315 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:37,080 We're not sure. 316 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,080 When he talks to us, this guy seems to be a little crazy. 317 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:41,080 So we were lost. 318 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:42,080 What would give you that idea? 319 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,080 That he almost threw rock at my face? 320 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:45,080 No. 321 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,080 We're not sure. 322 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:47,080 Okay, let me go. 323 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,080 So, they're tossing us out. 324 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,080 We've got to figure out a way in there. 325 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:58,080 Don't mind your own. 326 00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:59,080 Get ready. 327 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:00,080 No possible. 328 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:01,080 No, no, no. 329 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:02,080 No, no, no. 330 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:03,080 No, no, no. 331 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:04,080 Hey, hey. 332 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:05,080 Easy. 333 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,080 Easy. 334 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:07,080 Easy. 335 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:08,080 Easy. 336 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:09,080 I said it's good luck. 337 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:10,080 No, no, no. 338 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:11,080 Keep me out of here. 339 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:12,080 We'll talk to him. 340 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:28,080 We learned that several monks who lived in the village comprised a committee that held 341 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:30,860 the power to grant us access to the monastery. 342 00:15:30,860 --> 00:15:34,780 The problem was the committee only meets once a month, and these guys are not exactly 343 00:15:34,780 --> 00:15:39,200 listed in the Yellow Pages. 344 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:43,080 As night fell, it seemed like we'd reached a dead end with the dead Yeti, but out of 345 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,160 nowhere a mysterious girl approached us. 346 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:53,000 I can help you because we are coming for good intentions, but you have to require the permission 347 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 from committee. 348 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:01,560 You want to talk to them and see if you can convince them that our intentions are good. 349 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,920 If you could on our behalf speak to the four committee members that are here, and we'll 350 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:06,800 see if there's any progress. 351 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:07,560 Thank you very much. 352 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,800 Since we were here for the night, all we could do was sit, wait, and hope that our 353 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,200 mystery girl could pull off a miracle. 354 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:22,040 Okay, so maybe it didn't qualify as a real miracle, but the mystery girl did come through 355 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:23,040 for us. 356 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,880 She spoke to the committee and they granted us permission to see what they say is the 357 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,880 scalp of a Yeti. 358 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,440 Where's my buddy with the rock? 359 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,800 Yeah, that's the first guy I want to talk to. 360 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:35,800 Here he comes. 361 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:36,800 Namaste. 362 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:37,800 Hello. 363 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,800 Are you friendly still? 364 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:40,800 Yeah. 365 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:41,800 Not the warmest one. 366 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:47,800 If this scalp is real, that would be huge. 367 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:50,800 An Yeti is here. 368 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,800 It's an idea. 369 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,800 How old is this supposed to be? 370 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:12,800 400 years. 371 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,800 We're using this for the big ceremony here. 372 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:16,800 Very important. 373 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,800 We have to wear this to make it scary of the... 374 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:27,520 So someone from the village actually dons the scalp and wears it in a ceremony to ward 375 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:28,520 off evil. 376 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:30,800 But do you believe today there are still Yetis alive? 377 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:31,800 Yes. 378 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:37,400 One of my auntie is a cow dupati, Yeti, and she threw down the river and she killed 379 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,000 about four Yaks. 380 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,760 I couldn't tell through the glass if this scalp was real or not, let alone if it was 381 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:43,760 from a Yeti. 382 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,400 I needed to convince them to give me a sample so I could test the DNA. 383 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,400 Is it possible for me to touch the scalp? 384 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,360 Well, I'm not allowed to touch. 385 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:54,440 We don't even need to touch it. 386 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:58,040 If you could give us one hair, we'll be on our way. 387 00:17:58,040 --> 00:17:59,880 One hair, that's all we ask. 388 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:00,880 What for? 389 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,000 To prove your story to the world. 390 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,240 Doesn't matter whatever you think. 391 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,000 Because this is our monastery, this is our Yeti scalp. 392 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,720 We don't care where other people, whatever they say. 393 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,480 No matter what anyone says it's real. 394 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:14,480 Yeah. 395 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:15,480 Yes. 396 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,080 We were on difficult ground. 397 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:21,000 This scalp was bordering on being a religious artifact and no amount of pleading was going 398 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,400 to convince them to let me touch their idol. 399 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:24,400 Okay. 400 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:28,520 Luckily, the river where Yeti supposedly attacked the man's aunt was within our investigation 401 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,120 target zone and only a few miles away. 402 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:34,640 Although at this altitude a few miles feels like the Boston Marathon. 403 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,600 We rested and set off at first light to find the river. 404 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,160 We found the exact location of the alleged attack right in the middle of the valley we 405 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,000 have been trekking towards. 406 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,960 Reports say that this seven foot tall half man half ape forages along the riverbank at 407 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,120 night. 408 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:52,480 So my plan was to set up our night vision cameras along the water's edge. 409 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:56,360 Casey and Brad would stay at base camp and monitor the cameras while I combed the forest 410 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:59,320 along the river using the FLIR thermal imager. 411 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,480 Along with our Sherpa tool, Araceli would join me as a second set of eyes, ears and 412 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:04,480 human bait. 413 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:09,280 We were looking for any evidence of the Yeti if a face to face meeting couldn't be arranged. 414 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:10,280 Be real careful here, Araceli. 415 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:12,760 This is a pretty good place to slip. 416 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,720 Araceli and I headed farther down river and farther from our base camp. 417 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,800 The belief is that it hibernates during the day, possibly in caves, and that it comes 418 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,320 out at night to forage and feed. 419 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,320 And so really coming out in darkness is the best way to crack a finding. 420 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:36,320 Are you okay? 421 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:39,320 Yeah. 422 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:44,320 So this water is running really quickly and it is ice cold so just watch your foot into 423 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:45,320 the rocks. 424 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:50,320 You're now in the Rapids. 425 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:55,320 Is this our track? 426 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:02,320 I think we're up. 427 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,320 I have to do those trees? 428 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:07,320 I don't know. 429 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,320 It's still in the back. 430 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:15,320 Hold that dash. 431 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,320 We lost the trail there for a second. 432 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:19,320 Is this it? 433 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:20,320 Are we good? 434 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,320 Yeah, we lost the trail for a second. 435 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:29,320 Josh, this isn't right. 436 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,320 Is this right? 437 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:39,320 Yeah, this is right. 438 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:40,320 Whoa. 439 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,320 What was that? 440 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,320 Wait a minute. 441 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:47,320 I can't get any further. 442 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:52,320 I don't know. 443 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:54,320 I'll just go back down. 444 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,320 I'm just hanging right there. 445 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,320 I'm just waiting for the rain. 446 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:05,320 It's almost dark but there's no mistake here. 447 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:10,320 It's like something is shuffled down. 448 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,320 Base camp to Josh. 449 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:13,320 Hold up. 450 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,320 Give me a second. 451 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:16,320 Let's do this. 452 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,320 Let's get... 453 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,320 I have nowhere to go down there. 454 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,320 I'm scared to walk. 455 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,320 I mean we're kind of trapped here. 456 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:30,320 The clear's still not picking up anything. 457 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,320 Mobile base camp, command base camp. 458 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,320 Yeah, I'm here Josh. 459 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:34,320 Go ahead. 460 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:35,320 Sorry about that. 461 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,320 We just had something bumping around in the woods. 462 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:38,320 Unmistakably. 463 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:39,320 Something's moving. 464 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,320 I don't know what it is. 465 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,320 It's not like something big or just a small wrestling. 466 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:46,320 Big. 467 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:47,320 I don't know. 468 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,320 A little hard to tell but definitely big, big, 469 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,320 twig crack and some trees moving for a second. 470 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:54,320 I hear you Josh. 471 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,320 I got nothing on the monitor so... 472 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,320 There's a reduce in the sand. 473 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:01,320 We'll put trees in a few. 474 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:02,320 Okay, thanks guys. 475 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:04,320 Let's get up and go to the other side of the bank 476 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,320 and see if we can see anything. 477 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,320 Whoa. 478 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,320 For real, I just saw something. 479 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:19,320 I had something on the clear. 480 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,320 It just vanished but I had something for sure. 481 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,320 It was moving, it moved from left to right 482 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,320 and it was walking upright. 483 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,320 There's a lift drop here. 484 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:37,320 Okay. 485 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:46,320 It must have moved on. 486 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:47,320 What's up, tool? 487 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,320 What? 488 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,320 Selly, get over here right now. 489 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,320 Get a camera over here right now. 490 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:06,320 What's that? 491 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,320 There is a footprint down here. 492 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,320 Oh my God. 493 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,320 What is this? 494 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,320 There's a footprint down here. 495 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:14,320 Okay. 496 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,320 Okay. 497 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,320 Let's see if we can see anything. 498 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:18,320 Okay. 499 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:19,320 Let's see. 500 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:20,320 Okay. 501 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:22,320 Okay. 502 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,320 Let's see if we can see anything. 503 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:25,320 Okay. 504 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,320 Okay. 505 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,320 Okay. 506 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:28,320 Okay. 507 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:29,320 Okay. 508 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:30,320 Okay. 509 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,320 Okay. 510 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,320 I did it. 511 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:33,320 Okay. 512 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:34,320 Okay. 513 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:35,320 Okay. 514 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,320 One, two, three. 515 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,320 Okay. 516 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:43,780 Is that that is a huge footprint tool found it straight up? 517 00:23:43,780 --> 00:23:45,780 I don't even know what to say about that 518 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:58,060 Do we have casting powder with us no DT to base camp come in base camp 519 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:07,140 No joke my friend we need that casting powder down here now 520 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:13,860 We're down if you check down that long trail down that brick bread 521 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:23,700 There's no way to describe it then a giant footprint in fact there's two of them the other ones only partially form 522 00:24:23,940 --> 00:24:26,280 It's sitting here. There's a bunch of mud down here 523 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,080 But it's a giant footprint 524 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:35,320 All right, we're on our way we're on our way evidence kit you got it 525 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,080 Where's the casting powder? 526 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:43,200 I think it's gonna be a long night, but this is kind of what it's all about for us. So we just got to get down there 527 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,700 Josh is this base camp we are on our way to you guys now. It's gonna take us a little while to get there 528 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:50,700 That's like obviously how's that print looking? 529 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,920 Phenomenal the only problem we got now is that a little bit of mist is starting to come down 530 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,920 So we had a limited amount of time to cast this thing 531 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:04,380 We're on our way right now, man. We're gonna double time it get down there as fast as we can cover it with whatever you have 532 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:08,200 Keep yourselves warm. We're all pretty excited up here 533 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,040 You 534 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,400 Guys be super careful coming down here. There's a lot of drop-offs 535 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,400 It's Christmas morning 536 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:27,060 One two are you kidding I'm not kidding you 537 00:25:27,060 --> 00:25:29,680 Well, I thought I was like I was amazed and I was first all out 538 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,120 This just looks so good. Let me start mixing the cast and powder 539 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:35,720 I 540 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,280 We know that the rain is gonna be here soon 541 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:45,000 Let's take a few people very carefully and start walking this perimeter seeing if they see any other print 542 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,200 step on hard rocks only anything that soil 543 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,240 Avoid it case we need to get that casting powder print 544 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:57,080 These look fresh. Let's get the casting done so we can keep looking for whatever might have made these prints 545 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:02,080 So we want you and I cruise around this perimeter up here. These guys are gonna do the casting pattern. Yeah 546 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:06,320 Let's go look mix it mix it mix it 547 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:11,480 This thing is so big 548 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:20,520 I mean just a couple of observations before we start to cast this thing first of all you can test the fact that this is really hard 549 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,920 Very for something to bear down this deep little on that deep 550 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,280 It's pretty impressive 551 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,040 And it looks to me like in the tops of the tow prints 552 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:35,040 They kind of drag out like they kind of lift it out. It's like lighter lighter sands fits out 553 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,440 Yeah, like it kind of sat and then went up 554 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:51,680 So warm walking through our casting powder 555 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,680 You guys there's a footprint right here 556 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:05,480 No where near as clear as back here, but it does look like something stepped in here maybe back here 557 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,040 Yeah, like that's how you it's gonna be in line with the back 558 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:16,360 Yeah, it is and this ground is a lot harder up here way harder way more and it's drier. It's drier bigger rocks 559 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:21,800 For sure that looks like a problem for him as well. So right foot right foot right here. Yeah 560 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,280 So if you will walk that's a huge 561 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,960 Drive big 562 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:33,400 We got a couple minutes while this thing sets. Let's talk about this skeptic would say one of a couple things 563 00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,240 It's an overlapping print 564 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:40,200 Usually those overlapping prints tend to be squatter because a bear has more of a rounded paw and it kind of steps within it 565 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,440 Twice to elongate it, but it doesn't have this really 566 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,840 characteristically, you know 567 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,680 human looking foot 568 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:52,400 But the other thing that a skeptic would say is that somebody made this maybe the Sherpa made it, but there's no footprints around it 569 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:59,520 Hang an upside down for this giant Yeti print maker his giant Yeti stamp and I'm happy to call something 570 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:06,360 You know bogus if I see it bogus anytime any day of the week, but I legitimately don't have an explanation for it 571 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,760 Guys let's get this casting done so we can continue investigating 572 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:25,360 How's it coming? 573 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,160 It's not every day you get to do that I say something we clean this thing up it's going to be in the box 574 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,760 Now see if I will need this thing 575 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:51,360 Okay, so here's the plan for the first sweep I'm gonna wear the point of view camera 576 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,040 You have on the flare thermal imager. Yep, and we're gonna keep the group small. We're gonna sweep down the opposite ridge 577 00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:58,400 Right 578 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,080 Across the river from where the footprints were we have cameras live on this whole area 579 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:07,840 They're recording like trap cameras. Nobody's near them. So we're gonna leave that area undisturbed cut over the opposite bank and kind of 580 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,240 Scatter around there. Yeah 581 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:12,240 Let's go 582 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,120 Alright, Brad, why don't we split up just keep your eyes open whenever made that print might still be the area 583 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,760 Brad for josh 584 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:36,720 Hey, josh, I peeled off to the right seems to be some sort of opening in the rock formation over here 585 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,280 You might want to come take a look at this. You mean you see a cave? 586 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,760 yeah 587 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,120 Yeah, I'm just holding position here if I'm not completely screwed up 588 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:49,440 It's about parallel to where the imprints that we found on the other side of the river work 589 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,320 Oh, okay 590 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,520 I'm gonna get eaten by a yeti. I'm gonna get eaten by a yeti 591 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,880 It's about parallel to where the imprints that we found on the other side of the river 592 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,920 I'm gonna get eaten by a yeti. I'm gonna get eaten by a yeti 593 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,960 I'm gonna have to get my face ripped off by a yeti. 594 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:24,960 Lot of bugs, lot of bugs. 595 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,500 Lot of bugs. 596 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:29,180 Lot of bugs in there. 597 00:30:29,180 --> 00:30:31,920 All over my face and my mouth. 598 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:33,060 Lot of bugs. 599 00:30:33,060 --> 00:30:37,120 I mean this looks like it could be a shelter. 600 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,620 Yeah, it's definitely a big overhang. 601 00:30:39,620 --> 00:30:41,360 Look at all these snapped. 602 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:42,960 Look at this dude. 603 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,080 Their twigs are all snapped and they're all sort of placed 604 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,720 in a bunch here and a bunch here. 605 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,960 It does look like something snapped this stuff off. 606 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,520 We're almost adjacent to where the footprints were found. 607 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,200 Yeah, I mean at the very least this looks like it could be 608 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,920 kind of a makeshift shelter. 609 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,600 Let's try down here and see what we see. 610 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,600 Yeah, guys, just checking in to an update. 611 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,600 We're just banging around here on the edge of the tree line. 612 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,600 Found some broken twigs in an overhang area. 613 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:13,600 Look at it, it might have been a shelter. 614 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,600 We're kind of pressing on a little bit further down. 615 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:16,600 Okay, copy that. 616 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,600 All quiet, son. 617 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,600 The surveillance camera. 618 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:25,600 Let's start back up the trail and eventually we'll cross back 619 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,600 over to the other side of the river. 620 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,600 Go down to where we found the footprint. 621 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:35,600 See something? 622 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,600 Something hot right there. 623 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:41,600 Can't tell us. 624 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,600 It looks like it's moving right there. 625 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:44,600 Yeah. 626 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,600 That's the direction of Base Camp too, yeah? 627 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,600 It's the direction of Base Camp on the side where the footprints were. 628 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,600 This is Brad to Base. 629 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:52,600 Base, come in. 630 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:54,600 Go ahead. 631 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,600 We think we see something moving around on the thermal. 632 00:31:58,600 --> 00:31:59,600 Kind of up towards your direction. 633 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,600 You guys see anything over there? 634 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:03,600 There are nothing yet. 635 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,600 What side of the river? 636 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:07,600 It's on your side. 637 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,600 We just thought we saw something cruise right past the thermal, 638 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,600 but we can't make out what it is. 639 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,600 I've got nothing as of now. 640 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,600 I've got two cameras on that side of the bank. 641 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,600 It looks a little higher up. 642 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,600 I wonder if it's maybe above the cameras field of view. 643 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:24,600 I don't know. 644 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,600 We're going to track back over towards you. 645 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,600 Check out that side of the river. 646 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:33,600 Got it. 647 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,600 Gosh, it's nothing high. 648 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:49,600 Up right there. 649 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,600 It just cruised right past that. 650 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,600 That was definitely organic and it was definitely moving. 651 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,600 Casey, this is Josh. Come in. 652 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,600 We definitely got something moving. 653 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,600 It's on your side of the river. 654 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,600 I don't know if it's above the field of view of the cameras or not, 655 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,600 but it just walked right past the frame. 656 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,600 We're going to start to get in the bank. 657 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:15,600 Start to flash by. 658 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,600 We're going to come back towards your side of the river. 659 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:19,600 See if we see anything. 660 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,600 Keep a close eye on those cameras though. 661 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:22,600 Got it. 662 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:26,600 Let's get back up there. 663 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:27,600 Yeah. 664 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,600 Whatever it was, it's not there anymore. 665 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,600 The remainder of the evening passed without incident. 666 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,600 Though the crew was exhausted and frozen, 667 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,600 we stayed up all night and took a fresh look at the entire site 668 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,600 under the light of day to look for additional prints and other evidence. 669 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,600 Watch where you step. 670 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,600 Never know what you might find down here. 671 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,600 I'm not sure if it was the cold or the lack of sleep, 672 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,600 but suddenly my crew came down with fear of falling. 673 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,600 The crew came down with footprint feet. 674 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,600 Is this rock here? 675 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:03,600 I don't see... 676 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:04,600 Where? 677 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:05,600 Hey Josh. 678 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:06,600 That's a boot. 679 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:07,600 That's a boot? 680 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:08,600 Yeah. 681 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,600 What about that right there? 682 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,600 We're looking at everything now. 683 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,600 Let's take a look at the spot where the impression was. 684 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:15,600 Yeah, for sure. 685 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,600 We then turned our attention to reconstructing 686 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,600 and explaining the mysterious footfall pattern we discovered the night before. 687 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,600 Downside of doing a casting is you destroy the original print, obviously, 688 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,600 but this is where we found everything last night. 689 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,600 He was here because it was up on these rocks. 690 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:31,600 Oh, why? 691 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:32,600 So that was the heel print. 692 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,600 The big footprint was here, 693 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,600 and we know we saw in the toe prints kind of a lifting. 694 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:38,600 Right. 695 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,600 We saw a bunch of dirt kind of mashed up that way. 696 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:41,600 Right. 697 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,600 And the next print is way up here, 698 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,600 which obviously is an uncomfortably large stride for me, 699 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,600 so whatever did it would have had to have been significantly taller than I am 700 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:52,600 and I'm 6'2". 701 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,600 So I don't know what to make of it. 702 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:56,600 To ensure the safety of the castings, 703 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,600 we called a helicopter crew to fly us back to Cab Man 2. 704 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,600 So do we have to pay for the cabbages? 705 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,600 Because you took out a couple of them coming in. 706 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,600 I don't know. 707 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,600 Eager to avoid the impending mob of cabbage-starved villagers, 708 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,600 we made a discrete exit from the mountains. 709 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,600 Looking down over the endless forest ridges and valleys, 710 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,600 I could tell wondering if we had actually found a needle in this haystack. 711 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,600 Did we see something walking upright in the forest? 712 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:27,600 I couldn't be sure. 713 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,600 What could not be disputed though is that something made that print. 714 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:35,600 My task now was to analyze the evidence to find out exactly what it was. 715 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,600 What I hadn't counted on was a frenzy of international media being tipped off 716 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:40,600 by one of our guides. 717 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,600 They were waiting for me and my footprint back at the hotel. 718 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:48,600 Five digits, the shape of a foot, a heel, a pretty human looking, but also enormous. 719 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,600 My team and I headed back to the states to further analyze all of our evidence. 720 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:01,600 Our first order of business was to carefully scan through the many hours of footage 721 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,600 to see if we missed anything in the field. 722 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,600 Okay, so what do we got on the four infrared cameras? 723 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,600 Well, unfortunately not a whole lot. 724 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,600 We've got at least 30 hours of footage. 725 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,600 And besides the occasional maybe bug that kind of flashed in front, 726 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:15,600 there's really not a whole lot there. 727 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,600 But I did get a hit on the thermal though. 728 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,600 Right, right. Which happened very quickly up in the fields. 729 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:23,600 We've kind of slowed down the sequence here, put it back and forth a couple times. 730 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,600 It's really kind of tough to tell what this is. 731 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,600 I did get a hit on the thermal though. 732 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,600 Right, right. Which happened very quickly up in the fields. 733 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,600 We've kind of slowed down the sequence here, put it back and forth a couple times. 734 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,600 It's really kind of tough to tell what this is. 735 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:45,600 Well, the problem is whatever it is is being partially obscured by this tree and this brush here. 736 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:46,600 Right. 737 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,600 So all we get is a small heat signature and then it vanishes into the thick there. 738 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,600 Even the enhanced version where you've pushed in here, it's still really just an orb of heat. 739 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:55,600 Take a peek. 740 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:56,600 Right. 741 00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:00,600 This is what concerns me is that I think this is the ridge that went up to our camp. 742 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:05,600 Looking back at when this was shot, we did send a Sherpa back for batteries. 743 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,600 And what I think we might be seeing here is his path up the hill. 744 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,600 So I think we have to to some extent really discount this piece. 745 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,600 Now I think we're on to the footprint. We see what that yields up for us. 746 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:14,600 That's the key. 747 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:15,600 Great. 748 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:27,600 We took our castings to Dr. Jeff Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University and a renowned footprint specialist. 749 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:32,600 Well, that's really interesting. Five clear digits, dominant hallux or big toe. 750 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,600 A lot of the sand is just coming loose. I think just a little cleaning. 751 00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,600 And just to work with that is not actually your dental toothbrush that you use? 752 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,600 Oh no, no, no. This is an official paleontological tool. 753 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,600 Just as long as you're not taking your work home with you at night, Jeff. 754 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:46,600 We're fine. 755 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,600 That looks like it's the complimentary heel to this one. 756 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,600 That's a good sign too that there is an obvious symmetry between those two heels. 757 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,600 It might be interesting to do a quick scan of this. 758 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,600 And typically what kind of insights might that give you as opposed to just looking at it? 759 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,600 We can take other tracks and superimpose them and measure for the best fit. 760 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,600 We will mount the cast on a turntable. 761 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:13,600 The scanning machine using a laser will make a very detailed surface map 762 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,600 by making repeated passes across this cast at various angles. 763 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,600 Well, here we've got the results of the three-dimensional scan 764 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:34,600 and we've also gotten a scan of the isolated heel of the opposite foot. 765 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,600 Does the heel print line up with the full print? 766 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:44,600 It does by inverting that heel and then allowing the computer to superimpose it. 767 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,600 What I see is a remarkable agreement. 768 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:52,600 So here we have the isolated heel imprint rendered in gold, the full foot print in green. 769 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,600 It really is amazing how well they'll have. 770 00:38:55,600 --> 00:39:01,600 Absolutely. You just had that added wedge of depth where the differential weight on the partial heel 771 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,600 made it a much deeper imprint than in the full foot. 772 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,600 The sides and the contour of the heel actually line up extremely well. 773 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,600 I mean that suggests that we have a right and a left foot that go together. 774 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,600 And that speaks a lot to the credibility of this set of footprints. 775 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,600 Can you extrapolate from that size? 776 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,600 This would be an extremely large individual. 777 00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,600 300, 400 pounds maybe. 778 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,600 Here's one that shows your series. 779 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,600 We do see a relatively conceivable sequence. 780 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,600 This is quite telling too. 781 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,600 Although there's a little bit of a natural kick out of some of the sand in front, 782 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,600 I don't see any indications of claw impression. 783 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,600 What would it take for someone to make this? 784 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,600 It would take someone with a fair amount of knowledge of primate anatomy. 785 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:54,600 The fact that the right and left heels are symmetrical would have required a model. 786 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,600 So there would have had a right and left model, so that would have had to have been carried. 787 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:03,600 I didn't see anyone who had a heavy head with a giant yeti stamp maker. 788 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:04,600 Right. 789 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:10,600 One thing that I find really interesting, this is an example of a footprint attributed to the Bigfoot 790 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,600 or Sasquatch of the Pacific Northwest. 791 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:19,600 And it exhibits a configuration of that big toe that is in many ways remarkably similar. 792 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,600 Its toe is aligned with the other toes, although they're quite splayed. 793 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,600 It's not diverging off from a lower point like in a chimper gorilla. 794 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:28,600 What does that say to you? 795 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,600 It means that this animal probably lives on the ground. 796 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,600 The purpose of that thumb-like toe is to allow the animal to climb in trees. 797 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:40,600 And that's suggested too by the broad heel, which is a characteristic of walking on two legs. 798 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,600 Here's a bear that would be of somewhat comparable dimensions. 799 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,600 And you can see the configuration of the toes. 800 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:52,600 There's these very distinctive little toe paths or large toe paths with little short stems. 801 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,600 And they never show that kind of a splay. 802 00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:00,600 Why do you think people are so quick to dismiss something like the yeti or the Sasquatch? 803 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:04,600 I think that unfortunately there's often a bit of dampening of the spirit of exploration. 804 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:09,600 An attitude that we've basically found everything that there is to be found. 805 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,600 But I think it goes with just the conservatism of science in general. 806 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:13,600 Sure. 807 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:18,600 Would it surprise you or not surprise you if there was some sort of major discovery found in the Himalayas? 808 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:23,600 Well, I have to say that this strikes me as a very significant discovery. 809 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:30,600 I think that this to date represents one of the most intriguing pieces of footprint evidence for the yeti that I've encountered. 810 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:42,600 It certainly should spur further attention, more focused effort to research this question of an unrecognized ape or hominoid in the Epilees Himalayas. 811 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:47,600 The yeti has been attributed to folklore, known wildlife and unscrupulous hoaxes. 812 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:53,600 But with seemingly credible footprint evidence and countless individuals who continue to emerge with eyewitness accounts, 813 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:58,600 there is no doubt in my mind that there is something unknown living in the Himalayas 814 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,600 and much more work to be done in the search for the yeti.