1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 On this episode of Destination Truth, 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Josh and his team brave the icy frontier of southern Russia 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,000 on their global quest to find evidence of Bigfoot. 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Following new sightings of this Siberian snowman, 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,000 the team races across this frozen wasteland, 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,000 battling extreme temperatures in search of the truth. 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Guys, look at this! Something huge came through here. 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Deep in these unexplored forest, 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000 the team finds intriguing evidence and has a close encounter with an unidentified beast. 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Ho ho ho! I'm gonna hit it in the thermal, guys! I'm gonna hit it in the thermal! 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Hold on! 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 I'm Josh Gates. In my travels, I've seen some unexplainable things, 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 and I've done some things I can't quite explain. 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Now, I've pulled together a team armed with the latest technology 15 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,000 in the search for answers to the world's strangest mysteries. 16 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 I'm not sure what's out there waiting for me, 17 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,000 but I know what I'm looking for. 18 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,000 The truth. 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 At Destination Truth, we've searched for all manner of mysteries, 20 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 from the ghostly to the ghastly, 21 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,000 but no beast garners greater interest from fans than our search for Bigfoot. 22 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Our global hunt for this bipedal ape man 23 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 has taken us from the swamps of Florida 24 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,000 to the blue mountains of Australia, 25 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 from rural China to the high Himalayas, 26 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 yielding sensational footprints in Nepal 27 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,000 and mysterious hair samples in Bhutan. 28 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Now, in a remote corner of Russia, 29 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,000 archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an entirely new species of human ancestor. 30 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 This discovery, along with an explosion of sightings of a massive living creature, 31 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 has put us back on the case of a mystery primate known as the Siberian Snowman. 32 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 The Altai mountain range near the border of Mongolia and Kazakhstan 33 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 has been a long-standing hotspot for eyewitness encounters. 34 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 We combed years of first-hand accounts 35 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,000 and examined recent reports to shape a 3D animation of this elusive creature. 36 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Sightings of the Snowman take place in the chilly frontier of Siberia. 37 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Sometimes known as the Almaz, it is said to walk upright 38 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 and is covered in thick, dark-colored fur. 39 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,000 At up to 9 feet tall, his facial features are characterized by a low protruding brow, 40 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 deep-set eyes, and a broad nose. 41 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,000 The beast has long, thick arms and grabs it prey with powerful hands. 42 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 It also leaves behind 15-inch prints, courtesy of his enormous feet. 43 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Several reports claim the Snowman may be wearing animal skins for warmth, 44 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 an unprecedented sign of the creature's intelligence. 45 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,000 With less than one person per square mile, 46 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Siberia is one of the most isolated regions on the planet. 47 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Exploring this frigid wilderness would be an exercise in survival 48 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 and would surely push our team to the limit. 49 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 From Los Angeles to Russia, we chalked up an impressive 6,000 frequent-flyer miles. 50 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 We arrived in the capital city of Moscow, 51 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,000 where we learned that Russians have a unique way of processing luggage. 52 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,000 It does feel like luggage, it feels like leftovers. 53 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 The plastic wrapping made locating our gear a major headache. 54 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 We should have 23 bags, how are we doing? 55 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,000 You're missing two. 56 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,000 Is Mike looking for the bags right now? 57 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 You told me he was. 58 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Thanks to Mike's tireless hard work, 59 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,000 we tracked down the last of our bags and made our way into Moscow. 60 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Here, in the seventh-largest city in the world and a 1,000-year-old seat of empire, 61 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 we marveled at the ornate architecture of the world-famous Red Square. 62 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,000 This is it, Mother Russia, home of Lenin, home of Tolstoy, home of Stalin. 63 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,000 You know, it did the good with the bad. 64 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,000 The formerly communist country is now embracing good old-fashioned capitalism. 65 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Unbelievable. 66 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,000 You have an Obama's all. 67 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 And there's a George Bush inside of it. 68 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,000 We even discovered a brand-new money-making scheme unique to Red Square. 69 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,000 This is a famous good luck thing here in Moscow. 70 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 You stand in the middle of the square, you throw a coin over your head for good luck, 71 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 and then apparently these people just come and steal it. 72 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 While picking up change off the street is one way to make a buck in Moscow, 73 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 we stumbled upon an even faster way to strike it rich. 74 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 They're literally selling stacks of counterfeit money on the streets. 75 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 What would you do with this? 76 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Strip club. 77 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,000 Allie took the opportunity to hog the camera while I was trying to look good. 78 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Allie, there is a time to be funny and a time for me to look handsome. 79 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,000 And they are not the same time. 80 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 And our cameraman Dan had the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream. 81 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 I used to break dance, believe it or not. 82 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 And I wanted to dance in Red Square. 83 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,000 That was your dream? 84 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Yeah, it was like every B-boys dream when I was like a teenager. 85 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,000 This is your chance. Red Square Break Dance, do it. 86 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,000 It's raining a little and there's a lighting storm, but don't let that stop your dream, Dan. 87 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Gable, will you join me? 88 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 That's bad. 89 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Okay, come on, I'll shoot it. Go dance. 90 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Break dance. 91 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,000 With the dance off to clear the draw, we traveled on to the nearby Darwin Museum, 92 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,000 where we passed through the extensive collections on human ancestors 93 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,000 before an appointment with one of the world's foremost authorities on the Siberian snowman. 94 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,000 How many sets of footprints have been found of the snowman in Russia? 95 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,000 There are hundreds of footprints and thousands of sightings. 96 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 I personally saw the footprints twice in my life. 97 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 If I'm looking for the snowman, where should I go? 98 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:15,000 The Altai region, we have found many, many signs of their existence there. 99 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,000 We decided to follow his expert advice and took note of the most recent sightings in the Altai Mountains. 100 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:27,000 However, reaching this remote area would require an extraordinary journey by plane, train and automobile. 101 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:34,000 We began by leaving Moscow and flying almost 2,000 miles east to the city of Novosibirsk. 102 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,000 In the pre-dawn hours, our red eye landed in the Russian hinterland. 103 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Good Lord, it is bleak here, and we made our way into downtown Novosibirsk. 104 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:47,000 By the light of day, we stumbled upon a huge celebration of the Allied victory in World War II. 105 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:52,000 The festival featured the most adorable display of military power I'd ever seen. 106 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Pretty exciting, it's for your kids to war day here in Russia. 107 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Look, Timmy, you're a rocket launcher. Put your face in there. 108 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Okay, let's get out of here before one of these kids figures out how to fire one of these things. 109 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Happy that we didn't have to dodge any bullets along the way, we hightailed it out of the festival and headed to the train station. 110 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 It would take a full day to reach our destination. 111 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 The railway's routing map was easy enough to understand. 112 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000 How's your Russian? 113 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Not strong. Not strong at all. 114 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 Hi, do you have a ticket to Barnal? 115 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 And with our tickets purchased, we headed to the platform to board our train. 116 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:34,000 As an experienced traveler, Gabe opted for the convenience of express luggage checking. 117 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,000 What is wrong with you? 118 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:48,000 The Trans-Siberian Railroad is the longest in the world, linking Eastern Europe with the distant sea of Japan. 119 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Once on board, we settled in for the long ride ahead. 120 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Oh, that is firm. 121 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Oh yeah, that'll also be great for the next nine hours. 122 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,000 Come in. 123 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,000 Mr. Gates, I need your papers. 124 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,000 What accent exactly are you doing? 125 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 That's how Russians talk, Josh. 126 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 No, Gabe, that's how Count Shokula talks. 127 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,000 The day-long train ride would carry us to the distant city of Barnal. 128 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,000 From there, we'd press out on a more than 10-hour drive to the foot of the Altai Mountains. 129 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:27,000 The tracks wound our rail car through lonely countryside and farther and farther from civilization. 130 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 As the sun set and day turned to night, we arrived in Barnal 131 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 and hit the road in the morning in our brand new van-like thing. 132 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 All right, gang, here we go. 133 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Magical mystery tour. 134 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,000 This baby's pretty much one of a kind. 135 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Literally, it's basically made from a bunch of other cars that have been bolted together. 136 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:49,000 We were now in the heart of Siberia, spanning nine time zones. 137 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,000 The entire United States would be swallowed in this vast interior. 138 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Bobby, can you look into this seat back there? 139 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 Is there a map of Siberia you can pass me? 140 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Nope, that's a log. 141 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Who packed this car? 142 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 I'm starting to snow a little bit. That's a good sign. 143 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Snowman, snow. 144 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 Halfway there. 145 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,000 I kept the truck pointed due south toward a small community 146 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 where we had learned of a local woman who claimed to have seen the Siberian snowman. 147 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Just before dark, we arrived at her traditional ale where we were greeted by our hostess. 148 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Hello, how are you? 149 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Famished after the long drive, we were pleasantly surprised that she had prepared dinner. 150 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 First of all, this is boiled beef. 151 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:42,000 This is called chuchu. It's the rare part of the house. 152 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 The rear part of the house. 153 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 The best part of the house. 154 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,000 And this appears to be an ashtray from Caesar's Palace in Reno. 155 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Allie, why don't you kick it off? 156 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Ladies first. 157 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Our extreme hunger proved the old adage to be true. 158 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 We were, in fact, hungry enough to eat a horse. 159 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Like sushi. 160 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:03,000 Like sushi. 161 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,000 How is it like sushi? 162 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,000 It's horse's ass wrapped in test. 163 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,000 I was going to a happy place. 164 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Our exotic meal was followed by a rare treat, a traditional song by a tribal throat singer. 165 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:30,000 I am a tribal throat singer. 166 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:38,000 After the song, we had the opportunity to talk to our hostess about the Siberian snowman. 167 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 If I'm looking for this animal, where would you send me? Where do you think I would find it? 168 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,000 If he would look for an animal, where would I send him? 169 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Where only men hunt. 170 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,000 You definitely have to look high up in the mountains and deep in the woods. 171 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,000 And specifically, you have to look at the extra glacier reaches nearby 172 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,000 because there were recent sightings of elements there. 173 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,000 If you look for the elements here, you'll find them definitely. 174 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,000 I will find them definitely. 175 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,000 In the morning, we decided to head to the glacier where she said we could see the creature. 176 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:14,000 The road into the wilderness was too rugged for our truck, so we had to catch a ride from a more industrial vehicle. 177 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,000 It's beautiful out here. I can't feel any part of my face, but it's beautiful. 178 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:27,000 The road up to the mountain was treacherous, but our Russian monster truck was up to the task. 179 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,000 We felt unstoppable as we effortlessly pounded through creeks and across frozen rivers. 180 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,000 That is, until we hit a steep snowy hill. 181 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 Come on girl, come on girl, you can make it. 182 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,000 Come on, come on, come on, come on. 183 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Hey guys, we walked from here. Come on. 184 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:49,000 With the truck at the end of the line, we were forced to strap on our climbing gear and go the rest of the way by foot. 185 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Guys, they say these snowman retreats to these higher altitudes during the warmer months, which I guess we're in. 186 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,000 People have had recent sightings up here. They've seen footprints. 187 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,000 Everybody keep your eyes open. 188 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Look at the thermal limit you're at, the binoculars. 189 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Definitely look out for tracks, but watch your footing. 190 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 There's crevasses here and deep snow. 191 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Okay everybody, let's get roped in. 192 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,000 We would be hiking in an extremely hazardous area under very dangerous conditions. 193 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,000 We'd have to climb 1500 feet in elevation to reach the edge of the glacier. 194 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Snow gets deep in here. Be real careful. One step at a time. 195 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:38,000 We reach the top of a steep ridge and scan the thick forest below before planning our next step. 196 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Guys, I got nothing on the thermal up here, but snow and ice. 197 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 Let's head down this way. 198 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 We're moving in the tree over that first ridge. 199 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 No felling or what, but a tree just moved. 200 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 You saw an animal or you just saw the trees move? 201 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,000 I just saw the trees move. 202 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Ho ho ho, get a hit on the thermal guys. I got a hit on the thermal. 203 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Right down inside that tree line, right there. Just inside the trees. 204 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Let's head down the ridge line and see if we can catch up to whatever it is. 205 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Come on, here we go. 206 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Come on guys, just inside that tree line. 207 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Guys, I don't see anything down here. I don't see any tracks either. 208 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Let's keep trekking forward. 209 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Having spotted something on the thermal imager, we hiked down into the interior to set up our base camp before nightfall. 210 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:35,000 With temperatures expected to drop well below zero once the sun went down, we built a shelter to keep the temperature low. 211 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,000 We're going to go down the hill and see if we can catch up to the next one. 212 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:46,000 With temperatures expected to drop well below zero once the sun went down, we built a shelter to keep us warm. 213 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,000 We then set up a perimeter around the camp using infrared cameras. 214 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Vanessa would monitor the cameras and alert us to any unusual activity. 215 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:01,000 We also installed four trap cameras that would instantly begin firing photos, if anything passed by their lenses. 216 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,000 Our second trap cam is up and running. 217 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,000 Copy that. 218 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Mike would be manning the parabolic dish, which could record any unexplained sounds even at a great distance. 219 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Okay guys, here's the plan tonight. Obviously we are in the middle of nowhere. 220 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:25,000 We're literally in Siberia and we've come here because this is basically the epicenter of sightings for the Almas or the Siberian snowman. 221 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,000 There's a fresh layer of snow in the ground tonight, which is really prime opportunity for us to look for footprints. 222 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:35,000 We're looking for hair samples, droppings, any evidence that some sort of an unknown primate is living in these mountains. 223 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Sean, let's talk about safety for a second. 224 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:42,000 Alright guys, we have some real dangers out here. We have packs of wild wolves that have been seen and heard by the people out here. 225 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:47,000 We have bears that are just waking up from hibernation and they are very hungry and we would make a perfect meal. 226 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:52,000 So let's keep our eyes and ears open and let me know immediately if anything happens because out here seconds count. 227 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,000 Well, we've got a lot of ground to cover tonight, yeah? 228 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Sweet teams tonight are going to be you, myself, Mike and Dan. 229 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,000 We're going to head south here along the dry river bed and head up into some of the higher altitudes to the south. 230 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:07,000 And the other sweet teams are going to head north through the valley and hopefully they'll get to some of the mountain ranges up in that region. 231 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Ready? Let's go get it. 232 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Boy, there is just so much wilderness up here. 233 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 The snow is getting a bit deeper. 234 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Guys, look at this. I've got some prints here. It's like a deer. 235 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 Yeah, it looks like clothes. 236 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 It looks like the tracks go into the interior a bit. 237 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 With this deer there's wolves. 238 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000 And bears. 239 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,000 Keep your eyes peeled. 240 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,000 If there's bears walking around out here, this thermal imager is going to be a big asset and keeping us in one piece. 241 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Alright guys, let's keep moving. Come on. 242 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Guys, it looks like a dried river bed. 243 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:04,000 It's not a drip of water and a huge rise over here. You see that, Bobby? 244 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Yeah. 245 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 It goes up for like a thousand feet. 246 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Yeah, it's amazing. 247 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Hey guys, check this out. 248 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,000 What do you got? 249 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 A bunch of twigs. Looks like a nest or something. 250 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:21,000 It does. It looks sort of like it's been arranged, but I can't really discount that it was just washed downstream this way and just happened to take on this appearance. 251 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Let's head up this ridge. 252 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,000 So what do you think? Do you think the Siberian snowman exists? 253 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,000 What do you think? 254 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:44,000 There aren't many places that something so large can tross around. You know what I mean? This is huge wilderness. 255 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,000 I think I see some prints over here, Sean. 256 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Oh yeah, definitely. 257 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,000 Yeah, that looks like just about the same size track as a wolf. 258 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,000 They're sometimes a little bit bigger. 259 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,000 I'm not a track expert or anything, but it looks like wolf tracks, right? 260 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,000 That's a fresh track. 261 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Well, it's a lone, so that's a plus for us, I guess. 262 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,000 Do you want to head up in here where it seems to be headed? 263 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Yeah, sure. 264 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Who's that? 265 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Did you hear that? 266 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Yeah. 267 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Rock just moved over there. 268 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 Something just moved over here? Sounded like the bushes. 269 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Oh my god. What is that? What is that? 270 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Something is coming down the mountainside. It's moving all the rocks. 271 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 Alright, well, let's follow it. 272 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Let's do it. 273 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Go! 274 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Go! 275 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Go! 276 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Josh, this is Sean. We've got something big. 277 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,000 I'm even big, moving some big rocks on this mountainside. 278 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,000 See if you can get a visual on it, but definitely stay safe. 279 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 Alright, roger that, Josh. 280 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Alright, well, let's follow it. 281 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Let's do it. 282 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Alright. 283 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 What? 284 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:16,000 No! Go! 285 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Alright, stop, stop, stop. Everybody stop. 286 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Stop, regroup. 287 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000 What? 288 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Regroup. Oh my god. 289 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Something was coming after us. 290 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Are you guys okay? 291 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Yes, yes. 292 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Alright, there was definitely something up there. 293 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000 I have no idea what that was, but I heard it playing its day right beside me. 294 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 That freaked me out. Seriously. 295 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000 That was scary. 296 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Anybody else can occur? 297 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Oh. 298 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Yeah, that's like... 299 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:47,000 I was ready to run, but at the same time, I had this whole feeling come over me where 300 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:52,000 I just felt so alone and I felt just like so much activity all around us. 301 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Yeah. 302 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Alright guys, we're kind of head more into thicker woods here, so let's really, really 303 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,000 be vigilant about any noises. 304 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,000 Wait. 305 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,000 What? 306 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Is that hair? 307 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Oh my gosh. 308 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,000 It's real hair. 309 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,000 Oh my gosh. 310 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,000 Holy crap. 311 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000 That is a lot of fur. 312 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,000 And it's like in a perfect fricking ball. 313 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,000 Sean, do you have the evidence kit? 314 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Yeah, I do. I got it in my pocket. 315 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Yeah, that's huge. It's got skin attached to it's toe. 316 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Yeah, it's got skin and fur. 317 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Stephen Klein here. 318 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 It's really starting to get in here. 319 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:27,000 Oh my gosh. 320 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Oh my gosh. 321 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Stephen Klein here. 322 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:32,000 It's really starting to get in here now. 323 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,000 I said, beer, put some escalators in. 324 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Should be approaching the top of the tree line pretty soon. 325 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,000 It gives us a better vantage point on the valley. 326 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000 Whoa. 327 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 Guys, look at this. 328 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:50,000 What do you got? 329 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 Oh my gosh. 330 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:52,000 What is that? 331 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Way too big to be a canine or a deer. 332 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Too big to be a bear. 333 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,000 Some of these look like they're 14 inches long. 334 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,000 These are some monster size prints. 335 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,000 They definitely left right progression. 336 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,000 They're anthropomorphic. 337 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000 They look like human feet. 338 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,000 And they just peter out in this field when the snow drift ends. 339 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 I've never seen prints this big before. 340 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 These are just monster size. 341 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,000 These are. 342 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Look at my foot in this. 343 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Look at this. 344 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,000 Whoa. 345 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,000 They're too shallow. 346 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 We should definitely photograph them though. 347 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Bring the photos back for analysis. 348 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 These are enormous. 349 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 Josh, do all team members come in? 350 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,000 Josh. 351 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Guys, I just want to let you know we found a run of prints 352 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 out here of something huge. 353 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,000 They look human, but they are way too big. 354 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Some of these are 15 inches long. 355 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,000 I don't know what these things are, 356 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 but there's something huge walking around out here, guys. 357 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,000 So be very, very careful. 358 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 I'm not sure if you can see them. 359 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 I'm not sure if you can see them, guys. 360 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 So be very, very careful and keep your eyes open. 361 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Whatever this is, it was through here recently. 362 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:59,000 And what's your position? 363 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 Maybe half a mile south of base camp, 364 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:02,000 headed up towards one of the ridges. 365 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,000 We're just going to keep in this direction 366 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 and see if we can catch up to whatever made these. 367 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Copy that. 368 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Be careful, okay? 369 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,000 It looks like the end of the snow drift, 370 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 but let's just keep heading in that direction 371 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,000 and see where they go. 372 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 Maybe we'll pick them up again. 373 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Okay. 374 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,000 We've got a big open view of the valley beyond. 375 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Let's break out that parabolic deer steve we can hear anything. 376 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,000 They say this thing makes a lot of noise 377 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,000 when it moves in the forest, so if it's moving 378 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 anywhere around here, we should be able to hear it. 379 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,000 What do you got, anything? 380 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000 You know, not much. 381 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000 I'll just put it quiet down there. 382 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,000 I'm not hearing anything moving around. 383 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 It just sounds like snow falling off trees. 384 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 No movement of the thermal at all. 385 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,000 Keep that parabolic dish out 386 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 and let's start making our way back down inside the tree line, yeah? 387 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Ready? 388 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Okay. 389 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Oh, look at these prints. 390 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Guys, we've got multiple lines of tracks here. 391 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 I think this is a wolf pack, guys. 392 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Yeah. 393 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,000 One, two, three, four. 394 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,000 We can take four wolves. 395 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Yeah? 396 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Oh, freeze. 397 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Freeze! 398 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 I saw set of eyes right there. 399 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Oh, freeze. 400 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Freeze! 401 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,000 I saw set of eyes right there. 402 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,000 I just saw a wolf right there. 403 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 No joke, coming right at us. 404 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Yeah, there's something moving out there in those trees. 405 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 That's one, there's at least four in this pack. 406 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 If not more. 407 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000 Right there, Josh. 408 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Guys, guys, right there. 409 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,000 I got another set of eyes out there. 410 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 All right, we got wolves on two sides of us, guys. 411 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 So let's get out of here. 412 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Josh for Vanessa. 413 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000 We have a little wolf problem going here. 414 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000 We have wolves on two sides of us 415 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,000 and more tracks in the snow than a fresh. 416 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,000 We're on the hills south of Base Camp. 417 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,000 Please let the other team know that there are wolves in the area. 418 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000 We're getting out of here and getting back down to the tree line toward Base Camp. 419 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,000 With the wolves on to our scent, 420 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,000 we made a hasty trip back to Base Camp 421 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 to meet up with the rest of the crew. 422 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 Hey, guys, how are you? 423 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Yeah, we got into kind of a jam. 424 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000 We went back on this exposed mountain over here above the tree line 425 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,000 and we had a whole bunch of intersecting wolf tracks 426 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,000 and then we just had eyes on one side, eyes on the other 427 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000 bearing down on us and we just got out of there as quick as we could 428 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 because there was definitely tracks of a lot more than what we saw. 429 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,000 I mean, it's scary out there. 430 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,000 We were in the middle of nowhere. 431 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 What do you see out there? 432 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,000 We saw lots of wolf tracks and then Gabe spotted a huge piece of evidence. 433 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,000 It was this fur ball just tucked under one of the trees. 434 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,000 It actually had some skins still attached to it. 435 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,000 So we bagged it up and we brought it back to Base Camp. 436 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,000 As the sun approached the horizon, 437 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,000 we left the mountain with intriguing photos 438 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000 and potential physical evidence in hand. 439 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000 In the morning, we took our truck down to the road head 440 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 and transferred back to the van. 441 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,000 We wanted to get to the area with the most eye-witness sightings 442 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,000 so we left remote satellite trap cameras on the glacier 443 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 and drove on toward the village of Karai. 444 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Along the way, we made a pit stop at the only market in the entire region 445 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000 to pick up a few much needed supplies. 446 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000 Hey Josh, look what I just bought. 447 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,000 Hit him. Hit him. 448 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Ow! Ah, no, that actually hurts. That actually hurts. 449 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 It really does hurt? 450 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Yes, it hurts. A whip. 451 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 I didn't know if I was doing it right. 452 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:58,000 Not only were we getting our errands done, 453 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 but I bumped into a local woman 454 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,000 who was doing a little shopping of her own. 455 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Is an entire wolf in your bag? 456 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,000 Man, I might be in love with you. 457 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,000 No one has had a wolf in her bag. 458 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 Meanwhile, the crew decided to snap up some super trendy Siberian fashions. 459 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Which way to Siberia? 460 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Take me to Siberia. 461 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Looking for the snowman. 462 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000 In Siberia. 463 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,000 In Siberia. 464 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,000 Looking for the snowman. 465 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 And Dan acquired a new accessory to round out his look. 466 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,000 Dan, are you shooting or solving a crime right now? 467 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Both. 468 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Once we had stocked up on waterproof boots and additional clothes, 469 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 we continued on our journey. 470 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,000 After several more hours winding through breathtaking mountain passes 471 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 and huge improvised bridge crossings, 472 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,000 we finally made it to the still developing village of Karai. 473 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Can you see a Sheraton or a Holliday Inn 474 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,000 or a building with a roof on it? 475 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,000 At the only lodge in town, we found a few open rooms. 476 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000 That's a nice little spot. 477 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,000 Skylight. 478 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 And Mike really hit it off with the friendly local dogs. 479 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Help me! 480 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,000 Once we settled in, we hit the town to meet a woman 481 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,000 who claimed to have had a sighting of the Siberian snowman 482 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,000 just days earlier while camping in the isolated mountains beyond the town. 483 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 Helen, I understand that you had some sort of experience 484 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,000 where you saw something. Can you tell me what you saw? 485 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Having bent down, I put my hands up to the glass. 486 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,000 My hands were very hairy. 487 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 She was sleeping and in the middle of the night 488 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000 she was walking out by some noise. 489 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,000 And when she opened her eyes, she saw some kind of creature 490 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:36,000 staring at her and it has really hairy hands. 491 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:38,000 What do you think this was? Do you think it was the almas? 492 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 I think it was the almas. 493 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,000 What do you think it was? 494 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,000 I think it was the almas, because people are so tiny. 495 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000 There can't be such tall and hairy humans. 496 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,000 That's why she thinks it was almas. 497 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,000 And where specifically did you have your experience? 498 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000 How far from here? 499 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,000 To the north. 500 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,000 This place is really hard to reach. 501 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000 You won't be able to get there in a car. 502 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 So what will I need? Like a 4x4? 503 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,000 A bus. 504 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 The vehicles which do not use wheels, but they use tracks. 505 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,000 Tanks? 506 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000 Well, something worse. 507 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Yes, a kind of. 508 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,000 I need a tank. OK, I'll try and find a tank. 509 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,000 This is what I call a car! 510 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Thanks to the end of the Cold War, getting a tank 511 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,000 was actually easier than I expected. 512 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,000 We were making excellent time heading to the location 513 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,000 of Helen's recent sighting. 514 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Cruising with the speed of a German Panzer division, 515 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000 setting up base camp in no time. 516 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,000 This is the coolest automobile we've ever been in! 517 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000 I was so blown away by the awesome power of the tank 518 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 that I couldn't help myself from pushing the machine 519 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 to its absolute limits. 520 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Literally. 521 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000 Oh, wow, it's really smoking. 522 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,000 Might have overheated her a little. 523 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Just hang tight back there. 524 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Yours, complaining you'll get enough time off. 525 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Enjoy it, basking the sunshine out here. 526 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,000 It's got to be what, 10, 12 degrees? 527 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,000 Poof! 528 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,000 Worst boss ever. 529 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Ever. Ever. 530 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,000 Stuck on the mountain while we waited for the tank to cool down, 531 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,000 the crew and I tackled a little team building exercise. 532 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,000 Guys, we might be here for a little while. 533 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Why don't we just build a Siberian snowman? 534 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000 With our snowman built and the tank engine cooled off, 535 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000 we were back on the move. 536 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Although it may not have been the stealthiest way to travel, 537 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,000 the tank was vital to getting us and our gear 538 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,000 to the top of the mountain and the remote area 539 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,000 where Helen had been trekking. 540 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Okay, guys, we're here. 541 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Let's put base camp inside the tanks. 542 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,000 It's still snowing pretty hard. 543 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000 We'll get sweep teams out as soon as we can. 544 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,000 With night approaching, we quickly got to work. 545 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:03,000 At first, we cabled four IR cameras, 400 yards, outside of camp. 546 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,000 We also installed four trap cameras, 547 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000 set to snap photos automatically. 548 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Additionally, we established a half-mile perimeter around base camp 549 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 using motion-activated sensors that would set off an alarm if breached. 550 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Our perimeter alarm three is up and active. 551 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,000 That completes the virtual fence around base camp. 552 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,000 Vanessa would monitor all the signals from inside the belly of the tank. 553 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,000 It's quiet. 554 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,000 It's quiet. 555 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Snow kind of softens everything. 556 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,000 It's kind of eerie out here, isn't it? 557 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,000 No, it is. 558 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,000 You're out there. 559 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000 What do you think these people are seeing? 560 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,000 I think it's totally possible that there could be 561 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,000 something like the Siberian snowman living up here. 562 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,000 Yeah? 563 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Why not? There's a huge expanse of wilderness. 564 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000 It is, but there's still people here. That's the thing. 565 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,000 There's farmers here and there's eyewitnesses here. 566 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Part of me feels like we'd have a photograph of it by now. 567 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000 They would have killed one or found a carcass. 568 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,000 At the same time, though, they say it's not a bear. 569 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,000 They say this is something totally unique. 570 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:33,000 I've no signs of life on the thermal, but I get the distinct feeling there's stuff out here. 571 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,000 Are we there yet? 572 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,000 Oh my God, look at you. 573 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,000 You look like Nicholson in the last five minutes of the shining. 574 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000 Daddy! 575 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Where are you? 576 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,000 Okay, let's follow this hill down the other side and check out the valley below. 577 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Over, zone 2. 578 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000 They came for Josh? 579 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,000 Go for Josh. 580 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,000 Josh, something just broke the pay-mater line. 581 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,000 Copy that. What zone? 582 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000 Zone 2. 583 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Okay, we're very close to that. It's just south of us. 584 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,000 We're gonna muscle over there right now. We'll let you know if you find anything. 585 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Alright guys, come on, let's check it out. 586 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000 Wait, something broke out here. 587 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,000 Hold on. 588 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,000 Some other track? 589 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,000 Alright, keep our eyes open. 590 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,000 Listen, listen, keep our distance here. 591 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,000 But by now, we're probably over on about four kilometers. 592 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000 Oh my gosh, gosh! 593 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Josh, are you okay? 594 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,000 Yeah, I'm okay. 595 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000 Oh my god. 596 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Dude, that was a tumble. 597 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000 Are you okay? 598 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000 Yeah, I'm fine. 599 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,000 It's just kept going. 600 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,000 Okay, come on. Let's go. 601 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,000 Good Lord. 602 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,000 I was just trying to clear a path for you guys. 603 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000 Thanks for that. 604 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,000 Yeah, well you. 605 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,000 It's kind of you. 606 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,000 It's kind of you. 607 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Oh Bobby, open to summer in Siberia. 608 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,000 Are you hearing or seeing anything over there? 609 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000 Got nothing, how are you? 610 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,000 It's super quiet. 611 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000 Like we can head up this way, yeah? 612 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,000 It's like the easiest path. 613 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000 Everything else is pretty steep. 614 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,000 Alright. 615 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,000 Bobby, check this out. 616 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000 What do you got? 617 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000 Look at that. 618 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,000 What is that? 619 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000 These tracks are huge. 620 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Big prints. 621 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,000 Bipedal. 622 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,000 Right? 623 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,000 Yeah, absolutely. 624 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,000 That is a big bipedal print. 625 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000 I got nothing else around it, just these. 626 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,000 They look like they're probably made to be. 627 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Yeah, they're pretty big. 628 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000 I'm not sure. 629 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000 They look like they're probably made today. 630 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,000 But the snowshoes are fast. 631 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,000 They're filling in real quick. 632 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000 You know, big these things are, man. 633 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,000 Bobby from base camp? 634 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000 Go ahead, Bobby. 635 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Hey, we found a set of weird tracks up here. 636 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,000 Looks pretty large, bipedal. 637 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,000 We're not exactly sure what it is, 638 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,000 but it's headed up into the forest. 639 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000 So we're going to motor on up and see what we can find 640 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000 at the top of this mountain. 641 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,000 Can you hear any animals or anything? 642 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,000 No, it's actually really quiet. 643 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,000 The snow started to die down a little bit, 644 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,000 but we have not heard a single noise since we got up here. 645 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,000 We'll keep in touch if we hear or see anything. 646 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,000 Yeah, stay in contact. 647 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,000 Shall we see where these tracks are headed? 648 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,000 Yeah, let's go check this out. 649 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,000 Let's move it. 650 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000 Let's go. 651 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000 Come on. 652 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000 Yeah. 653 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000 What's getting thicker in here? 654 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,000 The snow gets deeper too. 655 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,000 Oh, I feel like I'm on Hoth, 656 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,000 and Empire strikes back. 657 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000 Somebody get me a tauntaun to sleep in. 658 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000 Oh, guys, look at this. 659 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,000 Big tracks. 660 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000 See these? 661 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000 Huge. 662 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,000 They're not fresh. 663 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000 They've been snowed over. 664 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000 I'd probably five or six inches. 665 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Let's follow them in this direction 666 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000 and see if we can catch up with what made them. 667 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,000 Whatever left to be done, 668 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,000 we'll see what we can do. 669 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,000 Whatever left these, 670 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000 it was pretty substantial. 671 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000 What was rolling around here? 672 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,000 Look at this. 673 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,000 Huge impressions. 674 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000 You see that? 675 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000 It's probably three or four feet across. 676 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000 It's not registering any heat on the thermal, 677 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,000 not that fresh. 678 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,000 Still, though, something large laid down here. 679 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,000 It might have been a horse or a cow, 680 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000 I suppose, but I haven't 681 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000 seen a lot of wildlife up here. 682 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000 Still, guys, dig around for any hair samples 683 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,000 or anything you might see in here. 684 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Must be six inches of snow 685 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000 over the site, though. 686 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000 I'm not finding any 687 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,000 hair or remains over here. 688 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,000 Guys, I got a urine sample over here. 689 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000 Sure do. 690 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,000 Look at that right there. 691 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,000 I know. 692 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,000 Dig down a little bit to get to it, 693 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,000 but it's there. 694 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,000 I'm going to bag a sample of this. 695 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000 We'll take it back for analysis. 696 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000 Guys, I got a sample of it. Let's keep moving. 697 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,000 Josh, do base camp come in? 698 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000 Go ahead, Josh. 699 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,000 Just want to let you know we found some 700 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000 marked depressions in the ground up here. 701 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000 We're on the ridge south of camp. 702 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,000 Something huge laid down here. 703 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,000 I can't tell exactly what it is. 704 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,000 We looked around, we did find a urine sample, 705 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000 we collected it for analysis later, 706 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000 and we're pressing on up toward the ridge line. 707 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000 My knees in snow. How about you? 708 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Yeah, probably much. 709 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Not easy going. 710 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000 This is the same exact region 711 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000 that the eyewitness said they saw the ulna sin. 712 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,000 Well, there's certainly enough snow. 713 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000 There's no man up here. 714 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000 Absolutely. 715 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000 I mean, these footprints are huge. 716 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Fuck. 717 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000 Let me check that out. 718 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000 It's pretty deep down in there. 719 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000 It's like the only water source I've seen. 720 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000 I mean, obviously he can eat snow, 721 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000 but this is a running water source. 722 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000 And these tracks, they've kind of dead ended. 723 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000 Maybe if we head downstream 724 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,000 and downhill, we'll have better luck. 725 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,000 All right. Let's check it out 726 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,000 and see what this opens up into. 727 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000 Vanessa, I'm in front of the transmitter 728 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000 and I'm in alert zone 2. 729 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000 I don't see anything here now, 730 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000 but we're going to sweep the area just to be sure. 731 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000 All right. Copy that. 732 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,000 I'll let you know if any of the other zones break. 733 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,000 We're going to use the thermal imager 734 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000 and the night vision goggles 735 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000 to see if we can scope it out. 736 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,000 Come on, guys. 737 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,000 Oh, freeze! Freeze! 738 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000 Right there, right there. 739 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,000 There we are. 740 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,000 Okay, let's check it out. 741 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,000 Wow. 742 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,000 There. 743 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000 There. 744 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,000 That's the end of the trailer. 745 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,000 To me, that was a strongāļ—āļģese moment. 746 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000 I'm going to say this a little bit earlier. 747 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000 This would be z recruiting a lava cannon. 748 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,000 Nice one. 749 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,000 Can we go Group B? 750 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:16,840 Freeze, freeze. 751 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:19,480 Right there, right there. 752 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,360 Right there in the flare's hand. 753 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,480 Something just dug right behind those trees. 754 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:27,320 It was big. 755 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,640 Yeah, it was big, whatever it was was sizable. 756 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,560 You think it's hiding? 757 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:34,120 I don't know. 758 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:35,840 There might be a little valley that ducks down there 759 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,680 because it just vanished behind those trees. 760 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:39,520 Where did it go? 761 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,160 It looks like that hill goes up. 762 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:42,000 Yeah. 763 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:42,840 Now you take the thermal, 764 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,240 I'm gonna go to the night vision goggles. 765 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,160 This way, this way. 766 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:57,480 Guys, I don't see it. 767 00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,400 I think anything up on the thermal. 768 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,000 Okay, let's try and get up this hill 769 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000 and see if we can chase it down. 770 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:04,840 You ready? 771 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:05,680 All right, cool. 772 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:06,520 Here we go. 773 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:09,360 Okay, let's go. 774 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:10,200 Okay, let's go. 775 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,040 Okay, let's go. 776 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:11,880 Okay, let's go. 777 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:12,720 Okay, let's go. 778 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:13,560 Okay, let's go. 779 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:14,400 Okay, let's go. 780 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,240 Okay, let's go. 781 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:17,060 Yay. 782 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,640 Man, this is like a maze back here. 783 00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:27,600 Huge field. 784 00:38:28,820 --> 00:38:30,120 No sign of it. 785 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:31,280 The place is just vast. 786 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,240 Every time you go over hill, 787 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:34,500 it just goes on forever. 788 00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:35,340 Ooh. 789 00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:48,240 Whatever we saw is long gone. 790 00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:50,240 No tracks up here or anything. 791 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:52,240 We lost the trail. 792 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:56,240 Let's head back to base camp. 793 00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:58,240 Temperatures dropping. 794 00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:00,240 After trekking through the snowy terrain for hours, 795 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,240 my team was exhausted and frozen from the cold. 796 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:06,240 We trudged back to base camp where we gathered up our evidence 797 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,240 and shot footage, which in the days that followed, 798 00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:11,240 we carefully transported back to Los Angeles for analysis. 799 00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:19,240 Attempts to positively identify the thermal signature 800 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:22,240 we captured on the glacier, as well as the brief hit 801 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:25,240 we got on the mountain, proved impossible due to the great distance 802 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:27,240 between us and the objects. 803 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:30,240 For analysis of the strange tracks we happened upon, 804 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:33,240 we turned to Mike D, former curator at the LA Zoo, 805 00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:35,240 for his expert opinion. 806 00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:37,240 Mike, the first thing I wanted to show you is we came across 807 00:39:37,240 --> 00:39:40,240 this large run of footprints out of the field. 808 00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:42,240 Guys, look at this! 809 00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:44,240 Oh my god. What is that? 810 00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:46,240 What can you make of it off the bat? 811 00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:48,240 Well, the first thing is that whatever it was, 812 00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:52,240 was very heavy because in order to crush the snow down, 813 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:56,240 in order for it to snow to melt away to leave the trail, 814 00:39:56,240 --> 00:40:00,240 where humans walked by, they have left just the footprints 815 00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:02,240 on the surface of the snow. 816 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:06,240 And maybe a half inch deep, if even that. 817 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:09,240 And the characteristic of the print itself, I mean... 818 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:11,240 It looks human-like. 819 00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:15,240 We got a small part to the heel on the bottom, 820 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:19,240 and then the open part where the toes would flare out. 821 00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:22,240 This certainly leads credence to what eye witnesses have seen, 822 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:26,240 some type of a creature walking bipedally in this area. 823 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:29,240 We then turned to the fur we collected in the field. 824 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:31,240 What is this? 825 00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:33,240 Oh my gosh. 826 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:35,240 Any idea what it's from? 827 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:37,240 Oh boy. 828 00:40:37,240 --> 00:40:39,240 That's a good question. 829 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:43,240 Obviously it's fur of an animal that lives in a cold climate. 830 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:45,240 They do have wolves in this part of Siberia. 831 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:47,240 You think it could be a wolf? 832 00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:51,240 It could be, but it doesn't feel like wolf hair. 833 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:54,240 Could this be from a large unknown primate? 834 00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:56,240 Is that even a possibility? 835 00:40:56,240 --> 00:40:58,240 Based on the eye witness accounts, 836 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:02,240 this is far too blonde to be something from a mystery primate. 837 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:04,240 But it is very intriguing, 838 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:07,240 and once you get your DNA analysis done, 839 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:10,240 they'll tell us what this mystery potentially is. 840 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:14,240 Further analysis of the fur revealed it to be from a slaughtered Ibex. 841 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:17,240 Additional DNA from its killer could not be identified. 842 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:22,240 Also, the Ibex could not account for the tracks we encountered in the field. 843 00:41:22,240 --> 00:41:26,240 Our long expedition took us from the streets of the occult Russian capital 844 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:31,240 and displays of military might to the very frontiers of human habitation. 845 00:41:31,240 --> 00:41:36,240 Siberia is a land of exile, one of the last untamed frontiers on earth. 846 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:40,240 There is more than ample room for an unknown animal to roam here. 847 00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:42,240 Across this vast unspoiled wilderness, 848 00:41:42,240 --> 00:41:46,240 entire ranges of mountains have never been seen by human eyes. 849 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:49,240 The tantalizing snow prints we discovered are a reminder 850 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:52,240 that there are questions still to be answered 851 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:56,240 and that the long and winding road to the truth is filled with mystery.